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Do you tip at take-out/bus-your-own-table restaurants? | This was inspired in part by [this thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ap8zu/servers_waiters_waitresses_bartenders_what_is_the/) and reading about customers that don't tip. Let me say that I always tip when I eat at a sit-down restaurant, especially when I'm with a big group and we split the check. However, I literally never leave a tip when I'm at a take-out place, or a sit-down place where the "service" consists of ordering at the till and waiting for your number to be called so you can go and get your food-- and then busing your own table after you're done.
Does this make me a dick? I mean, they leave a line on the credit card receipt for a tip, but I just leave it blank. I consider my gratuity payment for (good) table service, so I don't see any reason to tip if I'm serving myself. | 3 | [
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"body": "If it's a sit-down restaurant that also offers takeout, I tip for takeout. If it's just a \"fast casual\" place where you can either stand in line to order food or get takeout, I only tip if it's brought to my car or they go to some sort of extra trouble for me. \n\nIf it's a regular restaurant that just happens to offer takeout, the person packing my order is probably a waiter/waitress who got taken off the floor where they could make tips in order to pack to-go orders that are less likely to tip. Waiter friends have told me this is a bummer and really annoying, so I try to tip in that situation.",
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"body": "As a general rule: NO.\r\n\r\nThe only exception I make to this is for a select few establishments I frequent where I have any sort of rapport built up with the proprietor. I go there often, so they appreciate my business, and I often get more than asked for. Thus, they get 10% or so for being generous. It's symbiotic.",
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DAE wake up with really obscure songs stuck in their head? | I woke up singing Wild Night by John Mellencamp, but never really liked that song. this happens to me all the time, like every morning a different really obscure song from the recesses of my brain. | 11 | [
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"body": "LOL! I have decided that Billy Ocean's \"Suddenly\" is the worst song to have stuck in your head. BAD.",
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Reddit, what are some of the most interesting, yet misguided, attempts at making money you've ever witnessed? | My favorite would have to be all attempts by the (former) Quizno's owner on the main street in my college town.
The man was notoriously stingy. Nobody could use the bathroom unless they purchased something, and he put up signs everywhere to indicate this. The common peppers and sauces outside of the cooking area were always empty. The ingredients were always sparsely put on, and people eventually just stopped going. For a point of comparison, the Subway down the same street was doing incredibly well, to the point where they had big, brand new flat screens up.
Anyway, the guy decides he needs an additional revenue stream, so he buys some cheap disco lights and speakers and opens "Club Q" at night. I don't know if he actually got a liquor license or anything. I only know one person that ever went, and he said he doesn't remember any drinks, but there was a freestyle battle. I walked by it a ton and it was almost always empty, with him behind the Quizno's oven DJing.
So that failed miserably, and I guess he lost his franchise, because the Quizno's signs were removed from the outside. However, the place never closed, and instead of taking a time to reinvent the place, handwritten signs saying "Inihaw Grill" were placed on the windows and doors and it remained open. There is now a sign on the door that says "NO PUBLIC RESTROOM", bigger than the name of the company itself. My friends and I decided to check it out and we were immediately told that he has the "best rice in the world" and for us to order the special (the only option, handwritten on the sign) with chicken. All the quiznos stuff is still in there, and he is still even wearing the quiznos hat. He proceeds to get a rotisserie chicken and use a meatcleaver to chop the thing into pieces and places those pieces on a plate, gets a premade bowl of rice and turns it upside down on a paper plate, hands us quiznos cups, and starts talking about his best chicken in the world.
I honestly hope the guy is successful because he is just so damn persistent, but I think he's caught in the wrong line of work. | 33 | [
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"body": "> There is now a sign on the door that says \"NO PUBLIC RESTROOM\", bigger than the name of the company itself.\n\nI will be funny if the place becomes known as \"No Public Restroom\" because of the sign's size.",
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"body": "An old guy I know who changed his name to Pagan and is into occulty stuff (and seems to see things that aren't there sometimes) and his wife want to build a 1400's recreation village. They want it to be a self-sustaining village where the people who are actors also live there underground. In there mind there is a camping section and a village section and the village section would be similar to Disneyland (their words) except be centered on 1400's life (no rides though).\n\nThey want a whole village of people who never leave the compound and they have an idea for something called \"Diapers to Diplomas.\" The idea is that this village would have a fully functioning hospital, grade school, high school and college in it's underworkings so that a parent could give birth and their child would never need to leave the compound and still get a college degree.\n\nThey have filing cabinets full of diagrams and a bunch of other weird shit. Pagan is mid-50's and is on disability and his wife is late-50's and works the part time night shift at Walmart. They honestly think this is a brilliant idea that will be realized in their lifetime.\n\nOf course they also believe that when my wife and I visited them for Pagan's birthday that we left a little dragon behind. He probably ran away from us because at the time we played World of Warcraft and he was scared about all the digital dragons we killed.\n\nI seriously wish I was joking about this. We stopped contact when we found out Pagan had \"fits.\" He would just suddenly spaz out violently at whatever was nearby for next to no reason. Never did it to us, but these people were too unhinged for us to be around.",
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"body": "Well, this one actually worked, to some extent.\n\nA guy my dad knows used to buy bulk low-grade maple syrup, then bottle it and relabel it as Grade A Vermont Maple Syrup, and sold it to grocery stores. I have no idea how long the scam went on, but the guy never was punished for it. Now he's a VP of a fairly large tech company.",
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"body": "I work in a bike shop in Brooklyn and these dudes come around with bags of shit they stole from Target and try to sell me dish rags and kitchen towels.",
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"body": "This is probably a bit more literal than expected, but let me tell you about two tweakers I knew....so, I worked in a restaurant with one of the guys, and to summarize how it came about, I was pretty decent fixing computers, and was asked to help 'fix his printer'. After 'fixing it' (Installing the correct drivers, uninstalling the random ones that were in there, he lets me in on his scheme, and offers to print me a couple of sheets of $10 bills. \n\nSo, their plot: Print $10 bills and rub the paper over a sharp edge a couple of hundred times as only a tweaker could do, giving them what they perceived as an 'old but realistic looking $10 dollar bill'. The irony: They were arrested on their first purchase, trying to buy new ink cartridges with phoney $10 bills they printed so that they could print some more. Apparently methamphetimines makes you instantly quite stupid, because he seemed relatively normal when he was (presumabley) not on meth. \n\n*edit also, the quality of prints was ridiculous, as the edge rubbing took away most of the similarities to the scanned $10 bills that they had. ",
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"body": "My son and his friend were about 7, and were hanging out outside the gyms where a basketball league was running games all day. Kids who were not playing ball were running around outside all over the place.\r\n\r\nThey decided to sell rocks. So they gathered up a bunch of them, from quarter sized to the size of basketballs, priced them by size and color, and made a sign and settled down to wait for business. His friend's mom told them it was a silly idea, but they went for it. \r\n\r\nSo 5 minutes later, the kid comes into the gym, slams down a quarter in front of his mother, and says, \"In your FACE, Mom! We made a sale!\"\r\n\r\nThis, of course, started a rash of competing rock stands, and the whole deal was finally broken up by the manager of the place, who for some reason didn't want large piles of rocks taken out of the drainage ditch and scattered all over the place.",
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"body": "A close friend married this guy who's never quite been on it mentally (he's hot physically and a nice guy though). Anyways, he's become convinced he has a genius idea to revolutionize America...Monorails. No, this isn't a Simpsons joke. He honestly wants to find funding to build a monorail system throughout America with each rail leading to each home. He wants people to buy carts that automatically travel on the rails.\n\nWhat's worse is that she buys into also (she was never terribly brilliant either) and no they live in Oklahoma where she babysits and does odd jobs for money and he goes to business school. My understanding is he hasn't mentioned his business plan to his professors yet (at least as of a few months ago when I last talked to him) because he's afraid they will steal his idea.",
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"body": "Well, you may have witnessed it, too. But the epic simultaneous tragedy and comedy of Bulletball is not to be missed.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOw2yWMSfk",
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"body": "I knew a guy a few years ago who decided he was going to get into the lucrative counterfit cigarette market. He made this decision on morning smoke break. Two days later he has a couple cartons of counterfit ciggies which look all right but are absolutely disgusting to smoke. They basically tast like hair, dust, and old. He convinces hself that the product is passable and vowed to smoke them himself because they're so cheap. That night he calls his guy and makes a huuuuuge order. A week later he is in posession of thousands of counterfit cigarettes. Now, I say 1000s of cigarettes instead of hundreds of packs for a reason. The cigarettes were not packaged in the way you would expect. This guy put ALL of the money he had into clear ziplock bags containing loose cigarettes, he's probably still smoking them.",
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"body": "[Kitten Mittons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCaTpFwcC9o)\n\n(couldn't find a better link that wasn't hulu)",
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"body": "Someone tried to sell me an ounce of a plant that grows almost anywhere there's sunlight for like 100 bucks.\n\nIt wasn't even the flowers, it was the dried leaves. All crumbled up and stuff. 100 bucks for an OUNCE of crumbled up leaves. WTF kinda of plan is that?\n\nHe was dressed awful nice, though.",
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"body": "Back in the late 1990's me and a buddy made a decent amount of money on the weekends building computers for people. \nEight out of every 10 people we built one for had some scheme to start a business making greeting cards or t-shirts using the crappy software that came with their printers.",
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"body": "This shady-looking guy bought bracelets and other junk from the 50 cent vending machines at CiCi's and walked around the restaurant trying to sell them for more money.",
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"body": "These fellas I know decided to buy a bunch of gasoline, wait for the prices to go up, and proceed to sell it to customers. Not only would they make bank, but they just might solve the gas crisis!",
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HAE never separated colors from whites in the wash, and NEVER had it cause any sort of issue? | Nice try, mom, but I've never spent the time to separate the colors from the whites, and nothing has ever been ruined or even discolored. I'm starting to believe it's a conspiracy. | 353 | [
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"body": "Physically nothing may happen, but when you die you go straight to hell. Says so in Leviticus somewhere. ",
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"body": "In hot water you'll find that white things in with dark jeans and other dark items tend to get grayish over time. You probably don't realize it because it's gradual, or because you only ever use cold water.\n\n",
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"body": "I had a friend who used to separate ALL his colours. Like, he had a white wash, a black wash, a red wash, a green wash, etc. He was TERRIFIED of the colours running. Eventually we convinced him that nothing bad would happen.\n\n\nHis favourite white shirt is now pink.\n\nWhoops.",
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"body": "Never had a problem with colors running, although when I get bright or dark clothes from another country or from an unknown source I always wash it separately first. (My sister brought a dress from India once in the summer and my sweat turned my bra blue from the dye running).\n\nWhites do get duller when washed with other colors over time but it is not a huge deal to me as I am not in the Navy.",
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"body": "Laundry is inherently racist. Thank you for bringing this to light. Now we must fight the status quo, and combine our colors with our whites, so our wardrobes may live in harmony, and pass this knowledge on to their baby clothes.",
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"body": "I always separated them until I started living on my own and had to use coin-operated loads.\n\nWhy pay twice?",
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"body": "I wash everything together too and never had colors run. I think it depends on the fabric and maybe the water temperature for bleeding to happen. ",
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"body": "For me it's more light/dark instead of white/color. I noticed my black shirts will either fade or get an annoying layer of light fuzz on them if I don't seperate.",
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"body": "Probably 75% of my clothing is bought second-hand, so it's all been washed enough times that the colors won't bleed. I don't wear anything white either, so it's not an issue.",
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"body": "I wash everything together in warm water. Sure, my socks never get white white but my colors never fade either. I don't have enough white things to justify their own loads",
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"body": "I only had to get pink socks and underpants once to learn how to get a girlfriend to do this stuff for me.",
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"body": "Before I moved to Hawaii[1], I wore nothing but white shirts to work. One day my wife was being 'nice' and did the laundry. You can see where that one's going. A whole bunch of pink shirts later, I never let her touch my clothes.\n\nWait, that didn't come out right.\n\n[1] haven't worn one of those in a while. Aloha!",
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"body": "There have been a few times where I've had some disasters of newly-bought, cheap t-shirts running in the wash and ruining other clothes, but I'd say 99% of the time I've done laundry, keeping the whites and colours together have never been a problem. Life is too crazy as it is, I don't have the money or the time to be doing extra loads of laundry.",
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"body": "Same here. But for the same reason I'm paranoid about doing the laundry for anyone else. I think I have an unconscious conviction that my clothing is somehow magic and if I try it with anyone elses terror will drop.",
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"body": "Yeah, but mainly because the only white things I own are socks and a few t-shirts. That is not enough to justify washing on their own.",
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"body": "I wash all of my clothes together all at once, except that one dark pair of jeans that I haven't washed in weeks...\r\n\r\nI don't wear them all that often though...",
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"body": "The only time I separate is when an item of clothing is new and not washed yet. I learned this the hard way when I stuck a new red shirt in with all of my work shirts and everything came out with a pink tint to it. From then on I always wash new clothing that has a dark color by itself the first time or with other darks because they tend to run on the first wash.",
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"body": "yes, for about 20 years. \n\nthe only time it's an issue is when a bleed-able garment is brand new.\n\ni always wash on hot, normal cycle. i never use bleach. i have some white towels which stay plenty white enough for me, but otherwise don't have any white clothing.\n\ni think the whole 'separating' thing is some fifties-era BS propagated by the detergent industry. gullible people still believe it having learned it from the ostensible authorities (yes, usually their moms).",
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"body": "The first couple of times I wash somethings dark coloured I am careful not to put it in with whites, apart from that I wash everythig together on a 40 degree wash. If anything is particularly stained, I put some stain remover on the area before it goes in the machine so I don't need to up the temperature; using this method I've never had a problem with colours running or things not getting properly clean.\n\nThe only exception is if I am staying with my parents, as my dad is a chef, so his whites really do need a boil-wash and starch.",
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"body": "When I lived at home, I separated because Mom would have a fit otherwise. Now, at the laundromat everything gets shoved into one machine. Unless its really nice stuff that has specific instructions. Those go to the dry cleaners. \nWhile my mother does know that I do this, for some reason it doesnt irk her near as much as the fact that I dont use fabric softener. ",
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Hey Reddit, what is the most interesting case of mistaken identity you have ever had? | Mine's not that great, but I just randomly thought of it and wanted to share.
This happened when my friends and I were walking to tailgate before a football game in the Fall. At UNC, we have this thing called the Old Well Walk, where the entire team walks from the Old Well to the Stadium before a football game. Oblivious, two of my friends and I walked down the exact path literally seconds before the football team, and since we were all pretty big guys, everyone just assumed we were on the team. Before we knew it people were taking pictures of us, the *band started playing*, the cheerleaders were yelling "GOOD LUCK GUYS!!!", people were giving us high fives, and we just kept walking, smiling.
Pretty hilarious experience. | 13 | [
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"body": "A girl in a bar once thought she recognized my voice as that of a local DJ, and told me it was the sexiest voice on earth. I didn't tell her I was NOT him and we ended up at her place for a night of steamy sex. To this day she probably still thinks she banged that dude.",
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"body": "My girlfriend mistook me for someone charming and attractive....I've been able to keep up the ruse for over 2 years now.",
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"body": "I've got 2:\r\n\r\ni used to keep my hair fairly short, maybe a #3 or 4. i also used to frequent english-style pubs instead of bars and would regularly get drinks for signing Man. U posters/photos as Wayne Rooney. apparently i looked just like him, without the athleticism. \r\n\r\nsecond isnt quite as funny. \r\n\r\ni was walking home from a bar in town one night to see a police cruiser slow down and coast next to me. officer rolls down the window and asks me where i'm headed. \r\n\"home,\" i tell him. he asks me where i was coming from, mentioned the bar. he stops, asks me to hang on a second because he wanted to ask me if i had seen anything. (now, i didn't really want to hang around, but i figured bolting from him half-drunk and in a small town would be worse, so i stood there and waited for him to get out of the car.)\r\n\r\nhe steps out, pad in hand, proceeds to ask me a few boilerplate questions. he then tells me that i'm under arrest, cuffs me, and leads me into the cruiser. \r\n\r\nonce we got to the police station, i was put into an interrogation room by myself for about 30 minutes (around 1:30 am). around 2 a detective comes in with a folder full of pictures of a guy who looks like me, with *my name* and his SSN differs by 2 digits. turns out that guy who looked like me had murdered several people. i was interrogated until my mother showed up with school photos, my SSN card and my birth certificate and a check in case they required bail. worst mistaken identity ever. \r\n\r\nTL;DR was arrested for someone else's murder spree, and i preferred being wayne rooney",
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"body": "There were a couple of guys who were convinced that I was major league pitcher David Wells.I played along and the free shots were nice. The fact that I was wearing an Indians hat didn't seem to tip them off.\n\n[A comparison.](http://imgur.com/WUsEt.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "I saw my girlfriend of one week coming out of a corner store with an ice cream. I snuck up on her from behind, covered her eyes and took a bite of the ice cream and let go. She turned around and just started screaming at the top of her lungs. My girlfriend had a twin I was unaware of. We ended up dating 3 years later.",
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"body": "In college I was approached by several people on separate occasions that thought I was some guy named Jay. One of these times a cute girl came running up to me and jumped on me to give me a hug thinking that I was this Jay character. It took me several minutes to convince her that I wasn't him. Finally I met this guy at a concert in town when I ran into some of his friends who were there and thought I was him. It was eerie how similar we looked, facial structure, hair style, we were even both wearing dark green sublime shirts. I'll never forget that. It was like a movie.",
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"body": "I was walking into a dorm building with a friend one time, and she saw one of our friends coming into the dorm a few hundred feet behind us. She decided to scare him, so she hid behind a big pillar right near the entrance.\n\nThe guy walked through the door, and she jumped onto his back, grabbed him around the neck, and started smacking his ass, yelling \"Giddyup, Cowboy!\" \n\nThe guy flipped out and got my friend off of his back. It was not our friend, it was just some random, strange guy. My friend turned bright red and ran up the stairs without saying a word.\n\nFrom then on, that guy would see her sometimes in the halls and say \"Hi, Cowgirl\" and she was always too shy to reply.",
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"body": "I've had a few times where I've been mistooken for Jack Black. Which is odd because other then being a short white fat slouching man our hair color and facial features are extremely different. I'll be eating a sandwich at a fast food place and some black guy will walk over and be convinced I'm Jack Black. He won't leave me along about it. What's odd is it's happened over multiple cities/states and it's always black guys who confuse me for him. It kind of sucks having to argue why you aren't famous and really are just a poor guy eating a sandwich.",
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"body": "Not me, but my mate is the absolute spit of Robbie Williams. I tell you what we've had some fun with this fact in London's Nightclubs. Especially when it comes to women + you just walk in, no queuing, no entrance fee and sometimes free drinks. ",
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"body": "I used to look a lot like Tim Robbins. In one week, six people asked me if I was actually him.\n\n* \"No, Tim Robbins doesn't stop at a Wendy's in a Grand AM at two in the morning.\"\n\n* \"No, but I did check out your figure a second ago, so I will let you think I am him.\"\n\n* \"No, Tim Robbins was in 'Howard the Duck'. I opted to piss glass, instead.\"\n\n* \"No, Tim Robbins is four inches taller and talented.\"\n\n* \"No, Tim Robbins doesn't work at a bottling factory, and no, I am not preparing for a role with this uniform.\"\n\n* \"Yes.\"",
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"body": "Before I turned 18 a couple years ago, I was able to buy cigarettes from anywhere in my neighborhood. I never got ID'd since there was apparently someone who I looked identical to in the neighborhood. Of course, I had to vaguely answer a few questions every now and then, like \"how's your sister?\" or \"is the car running better now?\"",
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"body": "My brother told me the story of the time he went to a park and blazed up with some black English guy who looked and sounded exactly like Dizzee Rascal. They then went to a party afterwards and some girl was like \"OMG you're Dizzee Rascal! OMG!\" \n \nHe says, \"Yeh, I be him, calm tha fuck down I don't want anyone else to know.\" He then proceeded to sign her boobs for her with a felt-tip market and was heard to say, \"So, what choo gonna do for me?\" \n \nThey then disappeared to a bedroom for about an hour. \n \nGodspeed, fake Dizzee Rascal. Godspeed.\n",
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"body": "I was once arrested for a double murder, but alas I was not the Hispanic individual they were looking for.... ",
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"body": "Man let me tell you, one day these individuals came into my house and started asking me about some money. I had no idea what they were talking about but apparently it was really important to them because they put my head in the fucking toilet bowl and one of them even had the audacity to pee on my rug. Turned out I had the same name as some rich guy that lived in the same town as me, who's wife set up some scheme to get him to give her more money.\n\nI liked that rug, man, it really tied the room together.",
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"body": "I was once chased down by a walmart employee who was yelling \"anthony\" (not my name). When he caught up with me he explained how much we look alike. He was the 3ed person to tell me of my twin, some day I hope to meet him. ",
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"body": "My boss took me out to dinner. He is the principal of a kindergarten in Japan and I was a new English teacher. While we were in the car heading to the restaurant, he asked what my real name is. I assumed he was talking about my first name, considering I am known as Liz-sensei instead of Elizabeth at the school, so I told him. He bangled up my name pretty bad trying to pronounce it, and then got really excited.\n\n\"That is very famous name in Japan. President. We all know that name, we study World History\"\n\n\"Really? Elizabeth? Are you talking about Queen Elizabeth?\"\n\n\"No, in Second World War. President. Everyone will be excited when I tell them this. Amazing!\"\n\nI sat there confused for a second, and then it hit me. \n\n\"Are you talking about President Roosevelt?\"\n\n\"Yes! You related, amazing!\"\n\nAnd then I had to let him down slowly.",
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"body": "I was picking up a guy Daniel and a girlfriend for a ride share in LA. I drove to the address where they were supposed to be and there was this guy and his girlfriend there sitting on the sidewalk. I say hey are you Daniel and the guy said yes. So I opened up my trunk and said cool I'm Z pop your stuff in the back and lets going. He looks at me weird for a couple of seconds and says I don't know who you are man. Turns out my ride share was still in his house and they were just a random couple on the street.",
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"body": "We were on a school trip, a few states over. We were leaving the bar after a drink or two each (over 1-2 hours), and we pile into a school suburban with municipal plates.\n\nFive minutes into the trip we get pulled over for doing 55 in a 45. We proceed to tell them that the car is owned by the university and they look around at us and give us funny looks wondering why we're in it to begin with i guess. They then ask ask for the driver's license. A few minutes later, they come back after running it through the scanner and ask him to step out of the car.\n\nWe're all left in the car trying to figure out what's going on and are blinded by the cop's flood light so we can't see anything. We sit there for like 10 minutes trying to figure it out, when the driver finally come's back, gets in the car, starts it up and drives away. we all look at him and ask him what that was all about (thinking they had smelled alcohol or something) and he look's back and just says, \"they thought i was a sex offender\".\n\nTurns out there was a guy with the same name that was a sex offender and when they ran the license it was the first profile to come up so they put him in the back of the cruiser until they cleared it all up.",
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"body": "One time, the principal of my high school went up to me and started talking to me, and I had no idea what he was talking about. Turns out he thought I was my twin brother. I'm a girl.",
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Dear Reddit: My grandmother is starting to show signs of dementia, any advice? | My grandmother will be 81 in April. I love her very much, but she has always been a somewhat difficult person. She likes things to be done her way, and tends to get aggressive when someone disagrees with her.
Things have gotten worse in the past few years, and it is very difficult to not lose patience with her. She is imagining things (like that someone is calling her in the middle of the night, even when the phone is disconnected), and she has also become much more bitter and aggressive. My family only makes it worse, because they seem unable to accept that she is sick, and that they shouldn't treat her like a rational person anymore. Our strategy so far has been to explain to her that she is acting irrationally, but it just doesn't work. She can't admit that the phone can't ring when it is disconnected, because it will mean admitting that she is losing her mind, and I don't think she'll ever do that. I really need advice on how to best deal with her, and also on how I can explain to my family that unfortunately things have to change.
I’d appreciate advice from people who work with these issues, and also from those who have experienced something similar with a loved one.
Thank you! | 14 | [
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"body": "Sit down with a tape recorder and get her to tell her life story, genealogy, etc.\n\nType it up as a remembrance for when she is gone.\n\n",
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"body": "Sorry if this hurts to hear but you are gonna have to dissociate yourself from the person your grandmother is to become but not the the person your grandmother was. That is, treat her with the love and respect that you would show your pre-dementia grandmother but also realize you are no longer dealing with your grandmother. She will change. She will do things that do not make sense to any sane person. When my grandmother had dementia, my dad helped her move from her house to one three hours away. Together, they packed the truck and drove it to the new house. When they got there, my dad opened the back of the moving truck at which point my grandmother asked \"Whose things are these?\". Its going to get harder. Never easier. You must allow yourself be okay with dissociating yourself from the pain. Otherwise it will eat you and your family up. Again, I am not suggesting you treat your grandmother poorly or love her any less. Honestly, there is nothing you can truly do to help. We tried everything. Just make her as comfortable and happy as possible. But don't beat yourself up when things don't make her happier. Best to know this now than go through years of hardship and heartbreak. My best to you and your family. Good luck.",
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"body": "Get her to see a doctor ASAP. It could be Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.\n\nIt could also be diabetes.\n\nMake sure that there is at least one family member in the doctor's office with her to ask questions and to write things down.\n\nGood luck.",
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"body": "I read about an African tribe once that carries their old people away from the village to be eaten by predators once they can no longer care for themselves.",
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"body": "For starters, have a regular meetings with family members to discuss what's working, what's not, etc. People in denial about it will realize others are seeing what they don't want to see.",
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"body": "I'm sorry you are going through this. My grandmother suffered from dementia as well. It started when I was around 13. My grandmother came home one day completely shaken because she couldn't remember how to get home, and she had to ask for directions from the gas station. It pretty much went downhill from that moment. She started to live in an assistant living home which went well until she started to see things. She just acted strange. We moved to her Colorado which was a bad idea because the elevation caused her to have another stroke. But upon this trip we decided to start audio recording her stories. We also had all of the family member write out memories they had of her and compile a book for her. It was really sad as the years went on and very difficult. When I was 18 it was at it's all time worst. My mother refused to put her anywhere because my grandmother wishes were to stay at home if she were sick/dying in her old age. It turned into a huge deal because we did take her to the doctor and she was hospitalized. Then hospice acted crazy saying we were neglecting her for not putting her in the hospital even though there was a nurse with her all day in our home. They came and took her when we were out of the house. It was just crazy. But anyways. It was rough. My grandmother passed away when I was 18, about 5-6 years ago in the hospice hospital, pinching the nurses that morning (She did that when you did something bad). I miss her. I suppose all I have to say is cherish her now especially at these beginning stages. I was so young and didn't understand what was happening I missed out with spending quality time her because I was out with friends. Take her to the doctor. And be patient. Maybe have a family sit down. I'm sorry and good luck.",
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"body": "Some people can not accept it when their loved one's start to regress. My grandfather has dementia and had been living with my parents for the last several months. Even though my mom knows that he is no longer rational and has demetia she could not change her behavior/attitude. It's hard for her to see her father in a different light and to treat him differently now instead of the rational functioning adult he has been for the last 60+ years. She gets upset and stressed out when he doesn't grasp what she is telling him or when he repeats things. Some people just can't do it no matter what. The solution for my family was to move my grandfather to an assisted living facility; my mom feels guilty about because she blames herself for not having more patience with him. The best thing for your grandmother is to get her to the doctors and as for your family you can try to educate them all you want but some people just can't handle it....good luck.",
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"body": "I just went through this, and I won't lie to you, it was a very difficult journey.\n\nWhen your grandmother starts acting or speaking about things irrationally, the best you can do is be patient, try to distract them with thoughts of something else. I found my grandmother reacted really well to music from her earlier years.\n\nMy grandmother started calling people in the middle of the night, like 3am, and doing batty shit in that vein. There is little to nothing you can do about things like these except be patient. Doctors will prescribe anti-psychotics, anti-anxiety drugs, and sedatives, and this isn't pretty either. \n\nAnd I wish you the best of luck. Spend as much time with her while she's still somewhat there. And if you have any other questions, please let me know. Or even if you need to talk about it. I'll be honest, dealing with a relative in this condition is extremely difficult. Just love her as much as you can while you can. I sound like a bleeding heart, but please, trust me.",
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"body": "If it is dementia, than the earlier she is moved into an assisted living facility the easier it will be on her. People suffering from dementia will need assisted living eventually and those that are moved into a facility only once they NEED the assistance have a far harder time accepting the change than people who are moved in earlier. Most of the nusring home \"escapes\" are dementia paitiants who were moved in the middle to later stages of the dissease.\n\nAlso can't agree more with dariusfunk who said to \"love her as much as you can while you can.\"",
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"body": "Get her to a doctor pronto. There are different forms of dementia and depending on which one your grandmother is developing there is a good chance there are medications to help her stabilize moods and memory lapses. It may give you more time to help her ease into it. \n\nThis is going to be a hard road but you have to remember that any anger, violence and out of character behavior is directly related to her dementia and the stress that comes with knowing you are going to lose your memories and essentially, who you really are will be lost long before you die.\n\nI've worked with dementia patients for nearly five years now and the people who transition the easiest are those with very supportive families.\n\nI truly hope it's just age and not dementia though. It's a terrible disease that steals your ability to reason. \n\nGood luck. Here's a free hug for being stuck in a hard situation: Hug.",
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"body": "There is a really good book that we referred to while caring for my mother-in-law who suffered from a severe case of dementia....*The 36-Hour Day : A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life*",
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What Are Some Personal Catchphrases You Have (But Weren't Borrowed From Pop Culture)? | What are some catchphrases you've cultivated, either by osmosis or by habit, that weren't borrowed from movies/TV/etc?
I've got the following:
"That is very much a <noun>" : That <noun> is very impressive
"Can you be less specific?" : You're being too general
"Can I steal your <noun>?" : Can I borrow/use/consume/buy (context dependent) your <noun>?
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"body": "*Where the white bitches at?* (when entering a room) & \n*Peace Out Girl Scout* (when exiting a room)...I ooze class",
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"body": "I used to say \"*Shit* on my *face*\" when I was exasperated. Go ahead, say it now, it has a good feeling to it, like when you say \"Fuck!\" Unfortunately it's not really something you want to say in public, so now I just go with \"Shit on a stick...\"",
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How do you pick up someone at the gym? | This has to be one of the hardest locations to make a move. I mean you're surrounded by sweaty people working out, most of them beautiful, and everyone is checking everyone out (some are just more obvious than others).
But I cannot for the life of me think of a good way to approach someone at the gym, get a conversation started, and ask them out. Has anyone done this or knows of a way?
How would you want to be approached at the gym? What would work? | 7 | [
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"body": "Don't pick them up with an arched back, that's a recipe for a back injury. Basically: Crouch, grab and then lift by rising back up with a straight back. Women can be heavy so be careful with this.",
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"body": "I personally think it's a bad idea to try and pick someone up at the gym. If you're going to try it, do it at a time when they aren't actually working out. Wait until they are done with their workout and getting ready to leave. This way you aren't interrupting their flow and they have an easy out if they feel awkward. Most people don't go to the gym to socialize so tread softly. ",
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"body": "Put one hand behind their knees, the other behind their back, raise the hand behind the knees and cradle them in your arms. Always make sure you have a spotter. Be safe out there.",
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"body": "I would avoid doing this.\n\nI go to the gym to do *work*. Yes, I enjoy it. Yes, I am gorgeous. Especially at the gym. However, I have and will continue to ignore people who try to talk to me while I am doing any sort of physical training. Disclaimer: My feelings/mindset do not reflect upon all people who exercise. Best of luck.\n",
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I have a pimple *INSIDE* my nose. Has this ever happened to anyone else? What should I do? | This is kind of gross, but I really do need some advice.
I noticed the part of my nose on the side of the 'tip' was slightly swollen and red. I figured it was probably a pimple, but I couldn't find the center of it. Finally, after some investigation, I located it on the inside of my nostril, way down toward the tip.
Someone want to talk me through this? | 7 | [
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"body": "DO NOT TOUCH IT WITH YOUR FINGER(S). AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE.\n\nswab it with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol 2-3 times a day. it'll be gone before you know it.",
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"body": "My first instinct would be to rape my nostril with a knife. Likeaturbine's more conservative approach would help you avoid what tends to happen to me, which is infection, pain and scarring. \n\nYou could try a middle ground of disinfecting your nose with betadine and trying to lance the bastard. It will require a strong flashlight that you can mount so it's pointed up your nose, a supply of qtips and tissues, the betadine, some needle-like apparatus, and a mirror on a swivel base that you can use to observe the surgical area during the operation.\n\nAll outcomes considered, it's probably better to avoid it and wait for it to go away, but I would never have that kind of patience.",
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"body": "yep, had a few inside my ear as well. ANd inside the edge of my eyelid (called a \"stye\" ... they are the most painful). \n\nWait til it develops a head then pop it. If it doesnt... then let it go away on its own.\n\nNote: a hot compress can make a pimple come to a head. But it only seems to work on pimples near the surface. The ones that are deep just have to go away on their own (hate those)",
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"body": "Just set in on fire for exactly 7 seconds, problem solved. Oh, almost forgot, use one those windproof lighters. ",
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"body": "Just ignore it. I've had this before. Popping it is a fantastic way to get infection, so don't [\"rape your nostril with a knife.\"](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/apnz0/i_have_a_pimple_inside_my_nose_has_this_ever/c0iri0k)\n\nIt will go away on its own.",
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"body": "I've had similar inside my mouth, really close to my lips. It popped like a pimple (BY THE WAY THE GOOP TASTES LIKE HORRORS), but I honestly think it had to be something else, as it was too small\n\nAnd it wasn't a cold sore because I only seem to get those on my gums, and they result in an average 2-3mm wide white spot that hurts like all hell.",
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Continual List of In-Game Names | Hey everyone! Please try to keep this thread specifically for your in-game names so others can come here and add you.
Seeing as the in game commentary from people who get placed with newbie players starting out can be highly derogatory (For example: I've played almost 1100 games and will still have a terrible game every once in a while... I still hear people evoke such gems as (listed verbatim as said to me): 'you're the worst player I've ever seen in any game, ever' and 'please alt+f4 warwick, not only from the game, but from life, ur fycking terrible'.. etc..) and rude in a way that only an anonymous character online can be. I want to keep this community of Redditors away from that as much as possible.
Whenever I'm online (and not already in a game) I'm always available to play with any fellow Redditor and, if possible, I'd be more than happy to hop on vent (or alternative voice service) and provide any help or tips I can, if you'd like. If I catch harassment of a fellow Redditor in a game that I'm in and it's towards another Redditor then I will ban you from this Sub-Reddit or in the least make a comment here with their name and a warning about their attitude. Save it for the anon on the other team please. We're all here to learn, get better and just have fun together!
*Everyone plays like shit from time to time. Respect and know that it happens. Do your best to let people know when it does happen, especially when playing with fellow redditors.*
*A simple, 'my apologies guys.. I'm having a terrible round. :(' , goes a very long way.. Fight out the rest of that match and then get another game! I'll fill you all in on a secret.. even the top ELO players have terrible games.. :)*
**Edit: adding criterion for upvotes/downvotes to someone else's IGN**
I see downvotes on some peoples posts without any replies to their in-game name and that should be avoided at all costs.
Two things may be happening here:
1) A user might use shill accounts to upvote themselves (arguably pointless) - There's nothing anyone can do about this, so ignore it.
2) A legitimate downvote was given without reason why - This is what I really don't want to happen.
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**Make it clear why you're downvoting or upvoting someone's name here!**
*Type a reply with the below reasons why you voted either way.
*Downvotes should be explained with greater priority than upvotes.
*However, all replys will help your fellow Redditors understand why you enjoyed or hated playing with that person!
*You MUST play a game with someone to be able to upvote or downvote.
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If you **downvote** someone in this thread it means any of the following:
*You've played with them and this person yelled at you (CAPSSPAM), berated you in anyway, swore at you in a negative manner, etc. Use common sense here people.
*You played with them in ventrillo and they did any of the above things, but via voice chat instead.
*The person deliberately gave up and started committing such heinous acts as; constantly & obviously feeding (running straight into a tower/other champion without using any moves/spells, etc), using champion abilities to teleport into their base/kill themselves (think TF/Pantheon/etc).. and so on..
*Deny friend request. If this occurs please leave a reply on their name here and the reason you're downvoting (eg: denied my friend request) and that gives them the chance to respond to you. It may have been an accident, which I'm guilty of as well from time to time. Give your fellow Redditor the benefit of the doubt at least. Otherwise your downvote can stay and everyone will know.
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If **upvote** someone in this thread it means any of the following:
*They gave you advice in a constructive manner.
*They are a generally nice person (whether it's in-game or in ventrillo) to other Redditors
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**I've added a comment to reply-to if you have any comments/questions/thoughts/suggestions/etc. Please only reply to that so that we keep this thread clean**
Hit Control + F then -searchanchor- to get to that comment. | 36 | [
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"body": "In-game name:Spevling\n\nAlt-Account: Sparvling <--- Will be the Character the Clan will be under.. Keep a look out for Clan release!\n\nAlt-Account: Spev\n\nBetween my accounts I'm at about 1100 games played as of 28-Apr-10.\n\n[Team Reddit's Ventrillo server I purchased](http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/auu6r/team_reddit_ventrilo_server/)\n\nServer Info:\n64.34.250.134:4743 Pass:RedditLoL\n\nAnyone from Reddit is more than welcomed to PM me here on reddit or in game or get me in vent (I jump between a lot of vent servers) to ask me any questions or advice. If I can't answer it, I'll look into it and get back to you. Between 2-3 friends and I we have several thousand games played and I'd be more than happy to ask their advice, for example, on a champ I'm not familiar with.\n\nEdit: added alt-account/extra info/etc",
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"body": "in-game name: jigglettes\nchampion: Sivir\n\nJust made summoner lvl9 and having a blast. PM me if you see me on and I'll kill creeps all day long until Udyr kills me (nerf Udyr!).",
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Welcome to the League of Legends sub-reddit! Share your in game names, tactics, character builds, and anything you can think of! Thanks for stopping by/stay classy! | Hey fellow Redditors!
I just want to say thank you for taking the time to come visit! Please don't hesitate to PM me either here on Reddit or in game (In-Game name:Spevling). Please add your in game name to the [**In Game Name thread**](http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/apnzs/continual_list_of_ingame_names/)! | 4 | [
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"body": "Well, I've just registered, and I have to say, this game had better be damn good, because it's taking *forever* to download. I'll post in the name thread once it's done.",
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What Is the Best Way to Explain to Another Christian that Seeking Medical Help Does Not Show Lack of Faith in God? | So, there are things that I want to improve about myself and my spirituality, and based on a lot of comments on previous posts, one of the things I plan to do is to see a psychologist. I also want to see someone to determine if I have any kind of cognitive disorder/learning disability. (Does anyone know how I can achieve this with no medical insurance in the US/DC area?)
I hope that, upon possible treatment, that things won't be as difficult as they are for me now. The thing is, how can I explain that doing these things do not show lack of faith in God, and that it may actually help me spiritually, if they find out that something is actually wrong? How can I explain that simply rebuking <insert possible physical/behavioral disorder here> in the name of Jesus may not always be effective? (or am I wording this wrong?)
Any of you guys have any thoughts on this? | 15 | [
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"body": "You know that joke about the guy who sits on top of his house waiting for God to save him from the hurricane? Tell them that one. \n\nReference:\n\nSo a guy lives in New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina comes, and he's sitting on top of his roof, saying God's going to save him from the hurricane. His neighbor offers him a ride in his car out of town, but he refuses. \"God will save me from the hurricane,\" he says.\nWell, the rain starts pouring, and the water rose to about a foot under the top of his roof, and a boat comes by and the crew try to get him aboard the boat to take him to safety, and he fights back and gets on his roof, saying all the while, \"God will save me from this.\"\nLater still, the waters had risen to the top of his roof, and he was about to drown, when a FEMA helicopter swoops down to try to rescue him, and he pushes the rope away and with his dying words, he shouts, \"God will save me from the hurricane!\"\nWell, obviously, he died, and as he's standing in heaven, talking to God, he asks Him, \"Why didn't you save me?\" to which God replies, \"I sent you a neighbor with a car, I sent that guy with the boat, hell, I even threw in a helicopter, what the hell else do you want?!\"\n\nPoint being, you've gotta use whatever resources God puts in front of you. ",
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"body": "How is it anybody else's business what medical care you choose? You never have to explain or apologize to nosy busybodies who poke into your private medical business.",
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"body": "I would suggest showing them Colossians 4:14 \"Our dear friend Luke, the doctor, and Demas send greetings.\"\n\nWell la de frickin' da. The guy who wrote more of the NT than anyone else, by length, was a **doctor**.\n\nIt doesn't say, \"Luke, the former doctor (until he met Christ)\".\n\nEdit: Also, most Christians don't see any problem or lack of faith in those things. If you go to a church that doesn't *believe* in psychologists (as opposed to having some suggestions/criticisms for them), then show them Colossians 4:14, and then find a different church.\n\nPoint out to them that James Dobson is a doctor of *psychology*, also.",
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"body": "Does your friend pray that God will fix his pipes, or call a plumber? Does he pray that God will empty his trash cans, or contract a garbage man to remove the trash? The list of examples is long. \n\nYes, we need to trust God in all things. In the case of medical help, it is God who gives the physicians their skill. Trust God to use the visits he makes to those physicians to glorify God.",
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"body": "From an atheist: get yourself whatever help you think will work.\n\nWho cares? If you want to do it, then do it. If you worried about all the people who thought you weren't a \"True Christian\" for doing X you'd be worrying forever.\n",
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"body": "Why do you care about convincing others over this? You're supposed to have your own relationship with God, you think he's going to judge you according to how your friends perceive you? \n\nDon't get me wrong, I realize there are social pressures, but frankly if your friends don't accept you for being you and for making your own decisions, then they aren't really very good friends. \n\nAnyone that thinks that taking a difficult step like this is a flaw, is an asshole imho.",
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"body": "I don't understand that to begin with. If they reason like that when it comes to medical issues, do they also sit at home hoping that God will set them up with a job? Do they not bother to fill out school applications for their kids, \"for surely, God will provide\"? Why do they go through their entire lives trusting no one but themselves to get things done, but when it comes to medicine, God must magically heal them or they shan't be healed at all?",
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"body": "If I was in your position I might go with:\n\nLook at the world, isn't it amazing and complex. God is just super.\n\nLook at how it works, all of these chemicals and stuff. God is really clever.\n\nLook at how crazy and powerful our brains and bodies are. God is really skilled.\n\nLook what we, his creations, are able to do with the gifts he gives us. It glorifies God to learn about his world and use the gifts of intellect he gave us. Medicene is just another way God shows us love.\n\nNow take your damn pills! :)",
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Reddit, whats the best way to reclaim the living room from selfish room mates? | So awhile back I moved out of my parents and got a couple roommates. I decided since my room wasnt that big in the apartment I could put my 32'' HDTV out in the living room, attached to that my PS3 and 360. Now my roommate sits around with his GF watching Netflix constantly and I havent played any video games in months. Anyway I want to reclaim my shit without acting like an ass. I own the TV, Futon, Video Games, and I pay for Netflix... I've made subtle hints that I would like to play some xbox, i've also said something to my roommate a couple weeks ago. I almost considered buying another TV but I can't bring myself to do it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. | 11 | [
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"body": "\"Hey roommate... I think we need to come up with some agreement on sharing the TV. I haven't been able to play Halo 3 or MSG4 in months.\"",
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"body": "My roommate pulled the exact same stunt. In my dorm I have a 50\" 1080p Plasma, 5.1 quality surround sound, and a PS3 hooked up my computer to stream a bazillion movies. It was to the point where he was playing the PS3 for 8 hours a day. I told him to calm down and he got all agitated and told me to fuck off. So I put a password on the TV. He can't even watch TV now.\n\n\nTL;DR: Fuck them it's your shit.",
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"body": "There's a two-step solution that works quite well:\n\nStep 1: Consume large amounts of chili.\n\nStep 2: Blow ass repeatedly in the living room.",
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"body": "Move the shit to your room.\r\n\r\nPassword protect what you can.\r\n\r\nRemove automatic sign in from xbox live so he can't use your netflix acct.\r\n\r\nGet new roomates",
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"body": "If you take your stuff out of there, you will be the asshole and they will resent you even if you're in the right. I've been in this exact situation where I was using the roommates TV , ps3 ,etc. He never came to use the stuff so I figured he didn't want to. All he needed to say was \" Hey, I'm gonna play some [entertainment] now, you can watch it later\". Simple. Stand up for yourself, it's your stuff.",
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DAE clean their ears with a Q-tip just about everyday? | Years ago, before I started using Q-tips regularly, I had a build up of earwax which left me deaf in my right ear. I went to the doctor and he shot water into my ear canal to wash out the wax (basically an ear enema). Ever since I've made sure to clean my ears regularly. | 50 | [
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"body": "The ear/nose/throat doctor I know says to Never clean inside your ears. The wax will become compacted, and your ear canal will become 'rectified'. (straightened) This creates easy access for debris to enter deep into your inner ear.",
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"body": "If I don't use qtips every day my ear feels disgusting. Would you just not clean any part of your ear out before or just get the outer ear?\n\nI have been doing this for at least 20 years now, my hearing is fine. If you jam the thing in there I can understand how it may cause problems, but just gently sticking it in and rubbing it around the edges feels pretty good, and it gets it clean. (I couldn't avoid how that came out, sorry.)",
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What's wrong with my cousin? | My 20 year old cousin has something seriously wrong with her psychologically. She has extreme personality changes very quickly. One minute, she will be giddy and happy, but if you say something that a normal person wouldn't be phased over, she will snap and get very angry. I've never met anybody like her before. If she gets mad, she will threaten you and wish bad things upon you ("I hope you cry yourself to sleep every night for the next month"). Once she gets over it, usually the next day, she will act like nothing ever happened. She is on medication for epilepsy, which also treats bipolar disorder, btw. "Extreme bitch" isn't a disorder, however, so I was wondering if anybody knew a more technical term. | 16 | [
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"body": "[Bipolar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder), maybe?\r\n\r\nYou don't give much to provide the accurate diagnosis for which reddit is renowned!",
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"body": "I'm tired of these \"let's diagnose someone based on a single paragraph so that I can feel better about myself\" threads. Chances are, she's just moody and the fact that she has epilepsy is all the more reason you need to be patient with her. She may not be around forever, you know.",
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"body": "She gets angry easily, gets it out of her system, and then gets over it.\n\nI'm the same way. I have to consciously work on holding my tongue and am getting better at it over the years, but even so I let pure evil slip through now and then. But once I'm over it, I'm over it. Hold no grudges and forget the wrongs. There is nothing psychologically wrong with me. \n\nNot everyone has to have a designer diagnosis, and especially not from people who are not psychiatrists but play one on the internet.",
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"body": "The only person who can say is a doctor. Even then she could be diagnosed, misdiagnosed and/or rediagnosed.\n\nReddit's general knowledge of psychosis has never impressed me. If this was a straight up physical medical problem 'doctor' would be a popular if not the most popular answer. But everyone seems to think they're a qualified psychiatrist.",
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I am an Aviculturist. AMA. | Not sure if anyone is interested in birds or keeping birds. But I've been doing it professionally for awhile now so ask me anything about birds in general or the care of birds! | 6 | [
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"body": "When one bird hears another birds chirping/squaking do they start doing it too? my dog does this... ",
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[Request] Looking for an old SNL Clip | A while ago me and my friend were watching SNL, it must have been around the time the greek olympics were taking place because the sketch was making fun of the fact that they had nearly nothing completed as far as building things for the stadiums etc.
It had horatio sans as the greek guy, offering up the possibility of stadium building being one of the new sports that would be featured. I recall he also said "bro bro" a lot. Maybe the other guy (it was a new type spoof) was jimmy falon.
I wish I knew more about it, that might make it easier to find, but it looks like SNL clips in general are a pain in the ass to find, any help would be appreciated!
tl;dr - horatio sans is a greek guy on SNL with jimmy falon interviewing him about the greek olympics, I want the clip | 3 | [
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"body": "This site could be of help. \n\n[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/)\n\nEDIT: [I found the episode](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/03/03t.phtml). It was a Weekend Update segment.",
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What if universal healthcare isn't the answer? | As I read about healthcare systems in other countires (Canada, UK), I can't help but feel that those systems make a lot of sense and that I'd like to see something similar implemented here in the US. But I also agree with the sentiment that government should only be as large as it absolutely must be, and clearly moving healthcare to the public sector means a large increase in the scope of government.
What are some other ideas that might provide similar benefits, without having to put our lives in the hands of Big Brother? | 8 | [
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"body": "Part of the problem is that health insurance is not really insurance. Insurance is supposed to be for protection against large, unlikely, unexpected occurrences. Yet people want their health insurance to pay for every doctor's visit and routine medicine. \n\nIf it costs $X dollars to go to the doctor, you're going to have to give more than $X to the insurance company for them to make a profit and stay in business. Somehow, people have gotten the idea that they're going to give the insurance company LESS than the what the insurance company has to give the doctor. This only works if there's many people giving the insurance company a little money and only a few going to the doctor. The current system is like having your car insurance pay for every oil change on your car.\n\nWe'd be much better off if routine, predictable care was paid out of pocket and insurance only paid large, unpredictable expenses. Unfortunately, any suggestion of decreasing insurance coverage has people screaming bloody murder about how the insurance companies are leaving them to die.",
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"body": "What about if there were a large non-profit insurance company which was not legally required to maximize profit for shareholders, and whereby, if you dutifully paid your insurance premiums, they would in turn cover all of the costs associated with your health care needs?",
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"body": "Before asking for solutions, define the problem. Here's what I see as the problems (in not particular order).\r\n\r\n* Spiraling healthcare costs\r\n* Being denied insurance because of pre-existing conditions\r\n* (related) Being unable to afford it, even if you could technically buy it\r\n* Recission\r\n\r\nI'm not sure what you do about healthcare costs and anyone who claims that they do is lying. Tort reform might stop some of it, but it's pure speculation as to how much.\r\n\r\nHowever, I think the others can be tackled:\r\n\r\n* Everyone must have health insurance. If you can't afford it, you can have tax credits or whatever to help you buy it. No exceptions.\r\n* Insurance companies may not refuse to cover you and they can't drop you for anything other than the most grotesque fraud.\r\n* Insurance companies can't overcharge high-risk clients. This is the toughest to get right because there are so many ways to tweak it. Everyone pays the same amount? Everyone of the same age/gender pays the same amount? Highest and lowest fees can't differ by more than a certain percentage? I'm not sure what the right approach is.\r\n\r\nThis provides health insurance for everyone without icky, icky socialism and lets the free market (yay!) compete to provide better prices and services. Greenies and Randroids links hands and dance off into the sunset.",
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"body": "A lot of Republicans have pointed to the Singapore model, which actually does offer good value for money:\n\n* life expectancy - 80.0 years\n\n* infant mortality - 3.5/1000\n\n* percent GDP spent on healthcare - 3.8%(!)\n\nBy comparison Sweden spends 8.9% of its GDP for a life expectancy of 80.9 and an infant mortality rate of 3.2/1000.\n\nHowever, what Republicans don't mention is that the Singapore model uses price controls, and if you import the parts the Republicans like (e.g. HSAs) without the part they don't (i.e. price controls), it does nothing to address the problems of the American system.",
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DAE start up their car and surprise themselves with how ridiculously loud the stereo is? | I never realize how loud my music was until the next time I get into my car. In fact, I've recently developed a habit of turning down my stereo volume before I turn off my car. | 27 | [
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"body": "I do the exact same thing. I usually only remember when I'm at home. So it can be kind of embarrassing when I go to pick someone up and I turn my car back on and Paramore is on full blast.",
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Who gives a shit about Leno, Conan, and Stern? It's all the same unfunny, regurgitated format. Let's hope for something better! | From the posts on the front page over the last week, you'd assume that Conan O'Brien was the height of comedy. The fact is that these shows are full of neutered humor, catering to the lowest common denominator (or a flavor thereof), and struggling to fill huge chunks of air-time with anything but vapid banter.
There are *much*, *much* funnier things out there. I know because I heard about them on reddit.
Edit: style | 9 | [
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"body": "Colbert and Stewart are my favorites... but Conan is hilarious too. He doesn't deserve how he's being treated and that is why I give a shit. Leno and Stern are terrible.",
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"body": "Ditto......\r\nStewart and Colbert are funny, hip and current. They are the only ones who get it and resonate with the audience the best today.\r\nThese other guys, the chin, the top ten, the barbarian and furgeson, and kimmel, and that other guy from SNL are just poor place holders for the likes of Steve Allen and Ernie Kovacs. No one could hold a candle to them. They were funny, gut busting funny. That's that....",
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"body": "I've never seen any of them on TV so I'm getting pretty tired of seeing it all over the front page. ",
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"body": "the only way in the world i would watch a late night show would be \n\nif George carlin would get it first, and second if there was NO censoring\n\nNow, that would make for some quality television!!!\n\nRIP Carlin\n\n",
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DAE's parents still insist on letting you know it's them calling when you pick up the phone or they leave a message? | Every message or call I get starts with "Hey twenty_nine it's your mom...". First of all mom it's 2010 and I have caller ID, then there's the fact that I've known you for a few decades and can recognize your voice immediately. | 12 | [
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"body": "Every message I've ever gotten from my dad has been in this format: \"Hey, it's Dad. It's [insert exact time here]. Call me back.\" He never leaves any information as to why he's calling, no matter what.",
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Let's establish the definition of corporatism--some are confused | Many people seem to think "corporatism" has something to do with private corporations. It doesn't. The word comes from the Latin for body, corpus, and refers to public entities that guide the economy for national purposes. Check [wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism) and [Brittanica](http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/138442/corporatism). | 6 | [
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"body": "Language is fluid. The emerging definition of corporatism is like oligarchy, but instead of families or individuals, the power effectively rests with a few large corporations. ",
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10 mistakes to avoid when learning Linux, especially if you're coming from Windows. | 1. **Not learning to use the command line.**
File managers are great, but the console is really your best friend. Get comfortable using it. The most important command is man. That gives you the documentation you'll need to get started on most of the other commands you'll learn about. The very next command to learn and learn well is ls. Then move on to cp, mv, ln, rm and tar. File permissions and ownership, pipes, redirection and grep round out the bare essentials.
2. **Not learning about backing up, package management and upgrading.**
Backing up your files is pretty obvious, and applies to all operating systems, but there it is. Learn it, do it. Package management on variants of Linux can be slightly different. Study those man pages! Eventually you'll probably break something when you try to upgrade a package or do a system upgrade. You'll be glad you learned the command line if and when you break something.
3. **Not looking before you leap.**
Every time you do something major to your system, like upgrading the whole thing or maybe just your favorite, much used software, find out all about it before you act. Use your google-fu. Join your operating system's forums and pay attention to the news and release notes. Submit those questions, it never hurts to ask.
4. **Being too lazy to type.**
Learn to use two text editors. One for the GUI environment, one for the command line. There are many choices for GUI, it doesn't hurt to try a few out until you find your favorite. For beginners, the best choice on the command line is probably Nano. You may want to move up to Vim or Emacs if you're not afraid of a steep learning curve at the very beginning.
5. **Not learning what all those directories mean.**
You don't have to be an expert on everything under your / (root) directory, or even your ~ (home) directory but be curious and find out what they are as time permits. When backup/restore time comes, you'll be glad you did. There is also a wealth of information tucked in there, like running processes (/proc), all kinds of log files (/var) and a myriad of settings in files and directories that start with a dot.
6. **Putting up with the default options on your new installation.**
Linux is infinitely more customizable than Windows. Learn how to make your life easier by creating your own menus, icons and writing your own simple scripts and shortcuts.
7. **Not learning about the shell.**
This usually means bash, the software that runs in your terminal, or command line. It's related to number 1 above, but gets its own entry because if you take the time to drill down just a little, you can make your life a lot easier when fixing annoyances, changing configuration files, capturing program errors or want to automate just about anything on your system.
8. **Neglecting security.**
Most of this is common sense. Don't run a web or ftp server on your machine without knowing what you're doing. Don't neglect upgrades, they are often nothing more than security fixes. Pick a nice long password for your account and memorize it. Change it from time to time. Remember to lock your door, physically and metaphorically!
9. **Expecting it to be as "easy" as windows.**
It doesn't have to be nuclear physics hard, but Linux does require to you think a little more. This is not a bug, it's a feature.
10. **Giving up too easily.**
Don't expect to learn the whole Linux ecosystem in a week, a month or even a year. It's ongoing. If you don't like to learn, go back to Windows. Don't expect it to be the same as Windows either. There is a lot more power granted to the user of a Linux system, use it wisely. The modern Linux desktop seems very similar to Windows at first, and I suppose parts of it are. But give yourself time to learn it and you'll come to love its power and flexibility.
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"body": "Very good list, especially #10\n\nBe persistent! It took about five different installs over a decade for me to finally \"get\" linux an appreciate it for what it is.\n\nIf you're absolutely made of money, OS X is a great starting point - all the glitz and \"ease of use\" of aqua, but the terminal's there waiting for you when you're ready - and is what finally prompted me to take the final dive.",
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A shotgun of fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu in your face | I got sick of having to MANUALLY open all the new rage comics. I thought, "shouldn't my computer do this?" Yes, yes it should. So, I created this bookmarklet. Just create a new bookmark with this code as the "location":
javascript:(function(){var links=document.querySelectorAll("#siteTable>div>div.entry>p.title>a.title");for(var i=0;i<links.length;i++){var link=links.item(i);if(window.getComputedStyle(link,null).getPropertyValue('color')=="rgb(0, 0, 255)"){window.open(link)}}})();
and you will be able to open all new ones (as long as you haven't changed the default style sheet). Only works on firefox 3.5+, haven't tested non-firefox browsers.
Possibly rage-inducing: There is no way to say "open in new tab," just "open in new window" in javascript. Therefore, if you haven't set your browser up to divert new windows to new tabs, you'll get a lot of new windows quickly.
Definitely rage-inducing: New windows count as popups with this thing. So you either have to enable popups for reddit.com (which is probably safe), or not have this. Up to you.
fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu-inducing: sorry, imgur guy.
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"body": "here is a cross browser version i hacked up that leverages jQuery:\n\n javascript: var x = $(\"#siteTable div.entry p.title a.title\").each(function(){window.open($(this).attr(\"href\"));});\n\nI'm not a fan though of all those links popping up at once though. It may be better to just do inline images for the page.\n\nEDIT:\n\nOk here is a version you can do where the images will all be inline on the page below the original link:\n\n javascript: var x= $(\".content\").find(\"#siteTable div.entry p.title a.title\").each(function(){var href=$(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);}});\n",
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If anyone would like to give this a listen, I wanted some feedback on a mix of this concept-comedy song. | I'll probably just leave this up for a little while. I'm having trouble mixing this song to my liking cause a majority of the music for our band is recorded with real instruments, but the concept for this song required a lot of synths, in fact it is all synths except for the vocals. Any feedback is much appreciated.
http://soundcloud.com/commodorjuggles/livin-in-an-auto-world | 12 | [
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"body": "Just bit crush all of the synth sounds, and replace the vocals with completely synthesized vocals, such as the voice to speech feature on Macs, or even better a TI Speak & Spell (keep the Autotune).\n\nThe more silly retro sounding, the better when singing about the futuristic, automatic world we live in.\n\nOR \n\nIf you're not too attached to the arrangement, mix it this way:\n\nLyrics ---> Voice Synth ----> Autotune ----> Microsoft Songsmith ----> Profit\n",
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DAE hate the feeling of having to sneeze, then it just going away? | I hate it. It is one of the worst feelings that happen to me the most. Since I have been sick today, I have had to sneeze alot, but this feeling is ridiculous. Oh shit, its coming as I type this. I personally love the feeling of sneezing, but this is the opposite, so its clear why I hate it. So, does this happen to you guys and if it does, you can't possibly like it...Can you? | 28 | [
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"body": "It's like when your girlfriend is giving you a hand job, and as soon as you're about to cum she stops or her hand gets tired...",
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"body": "I sneeze when I look toward the sun... so if I was on the brink of a sneeze I could easily look toward the sun and force it out. Maybe by some odd chance this might work for you too..",
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Is there a safe way to lower my sex drive? | 26 male, I have the sex drive of a howler monkey in heat. Once every three weeks isn't cutting it. SO is on some drugs that are lowering her sex drive, which is causing resentment. What can I take so that we can both be vegetables?
EDIT: It's the disconnect of the mental intimacy, I can jerk off all day. I still miss HER. | 3 | [
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"body": "Every three weeks is a long time between sessions. You don't have an abnormally high sex drive, she just has an abnormally low one. Even if she does have a low sex drive she could at least try to \"help you out\" once every week. You two need to have a serious discussion about this because a mismatch between your sex drives will drive subconscious wedge between you almost as fast as financial troubles.",
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"body": "corn flakes were designed for that specific reason.\n\n>Kellogg believed that spicy or sweet foods would increase passions. In contrast, cornflakes would have an anaphrodisiac property and lower the sex drive.",
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"body": "I had a relationship for years where I'd have *loved* once every three weeks. I once went six months without us even making out, she may has well of just been a boy. I know exactly what you're talking about when you talk about the \"disconnect\". I know exactly how it makes you feel unattractive and unwanted. Fact is your sex drive isn't too high at all: hers is just way too low. \n\nThrough years of training my ex had literally convinced me I simply wasn't attractive enough, didn't deserve sex, and that I must be crazy because no one would want to do it with me that often. Pathetic thing is all I wanted was once every one to three weeks, I was never asking for daily, I wasn't picky about *what* I got - I just wanted *something*. Some kind of physical closeness to make me feel better.\n\nYou know what's really hilarious is that this story ends with her fucking someone else behind my back. I can't tell you if she stayed that way with him or if she's still to this day ruining that mans self confidence too because I kicked her out of my life, but I can tell you one thing: I've never experienced that kind of relationship ever again. I've slept with multiple different women now and every single one made me feel sexy, manly, and confident. Every single one *wanted* to have sex - they would actually get upset if I wouldn't do it. I even met a couple who wanted it more often than even I did. \n\nI know \"leave her\" isn't the advice you are looking for, but this issue is going to seriously affect your entire relationship and your entire life. You deserve much better, and honestly so does she (this isn't entirely her fault either). You've gotten into this pattern which is bad for both of you. She doesn't want sex *because* of this pattern. That's why she's saying you do not understand her. It's not really your fault at this point and there's probably very little you can do - she is so used to this pattern and views you in such a way that it will be hard to challenge those things. \n\nIf you really want to make it work with this girl I'd suggest doing something drastic to make her question her entire view of you. You have to make it fun and exciting for her, but it's going to be extremely hard for you to do when she'll constantly shoot you down all the time. You have to give tons of positive reinforcement when you get something you want. Imagine it like training a pet - ignore behavior you do not like (do NOT punish it just ignore it) and encourage behavior that gets even remotely close to something you like (even if it's not what you wanted). Show her that you appreciate every kiss. When she does have sex with you go out of your way to show appreciation - find something she always wanted you to do and do it (maybe take a dance class or something totally outside the realm of your ordinary life). Once you do that if you don't get sex in return than pretend like the thought didn't even cross your mind - whatever you do DO NOT get upset with her. Do not tell her you tried so hard blah blah blah. None of that. Ignore any and all behavior you do not like: completely. Only give any response when you get something you wanted. \n\nJust remember that you both deserve better than this. If you can't fix it... you are better off leaving. ",
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"body": "If what you miss is HER then no drugs in the world can help you. If she has no interest in having sex with you more than once every three weeks, then your relationship either needs some serious work, or it might even be doomed. Perhaps she is asexual, perhaps she's just not in love with you, perhaps you're selfish in the sack. I don't know what the problem is, but it certainly can't be solved with lowering your own sex drive.",
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What's the worst injury you've ever received? | Mine's not terrible, but it still sucked...
Was playing indoor soccer in a recreation league, second game of the season. Had the ball close to the goalie, about to take a shot. The goalie came in for a slide tackle at the exact instant I planted my left foot, and collided with my ankle. Incredible pain, but I didn't want to look like a wuss in front of my girlfriend, so I tried to walk it off. Limped really badly back to the bench, but couldn't put any weight on my ankle without severe pain. My friends thought I was being overly dramatic, and hesitantly helped me out of the locker room. Went to the doctor the next day, had x-rays and found out I completely snapped my fibula, and had to get reconstructive surgery. You can actually feel the screws in my ankle, and see them poke through the skin.
Your turn! | 55 | [
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"body": "9 years old and cutting the little plastic feet off the legs of patio furniture with a pocket knife. Stupidly cutting toward myself. Blade cut through the plastic and kept on going - straight into my right eye. No damage to upper or lower eyelid. Have been blind in that eye since then.\n\nAnd no, I would not like to go see Avatar in 3D with you.",
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"body": "Flew a girl into town to go see a concert with me and a bunch of my rowdy friends. Drew straws; im the designated driver. We take my stick shift hotrod to the show. \r\n After the show they're pretty liquored up and want some late night food. As were waiting for the food to arrive my very inebriated friend bets me the tab for the entire table that he can beat me at an arm wrestling match. I accept and we go at it right handed. I end up beating him which, apparently emasculated him in front of his girlfriend. \"LETS GO AGAIN! DOUBLE OR NOTHING!\", he shouts. I suggest we go left handed since i already beat him right handed. What he doesn't know is that i'm a southpaw so i'm thinking that this one is a sure thing. \r\n As were going at it, i'm taunting him, and as soon as i curl my wrist over his to finish him off...SNAP!!!!!!!!\r\n Now i've got bones porturding from my left arm and the whole place is looking at me like a gun jut went off. I throw up instantly from the shock/pain\r\n Compound spiral fracture, arm broken in 16 places, permanent nerve damage, 3 plates 17 screws and the most miserable 6 months of recovery i've ever experienced.\r\n I wouldn't wish that kind of pain on my worst enemy......\r\ntl;dr: arm wrestled, compound spiral fracture, 16 breaks, 3 plates, 17 screws, and the x rays to prove it.\r\n ",
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"body": "Chopping wood while camping when I was about 10. Barefoot. The ax split the wood and when into my foot right next to my big toe. Half of the blade was stuck in my foot and half in the ground. I let go of the ax and it just stood there. I was so shocked by what happened that I didn't make a noise. That is, until I pulled the ax from by foot and blood started gushing everywhere. My dad heard me scream and tried to bandage it up as best as possible. \n\nHe then threw all of our gear in the car and we hit the road. We were a couple of hours from the nearest town and after a little bit it was clear the bandages weren't doing much to stop the blood loss. So we pulled over and on the side of the road my dad then had me pinch the wound closed while he tried to sew it up with fishing line and a hook. It worked and I now have one gnarly scar but full function of my foot/toes.",
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"body": "This one time I was sorting through my mail, and the edge of one of the bills sliced my thumb. It almost bled. It took a solid week before I was back to normal. After that harrowing experience, I live life one day at a time and truly appreciate the little things, and take the time to stop and smell the roses. Life is short, as an ordeal like that will teach you.\n\nEDIT: My wife reminds me that I had a piece of metal removed from my eyeball. They use what is basically the needle of a syringe to scrape it off your conjuntiva. Also, same year, I got sodium hydroxide splashed in my eye. Remember the \"kiss\" scene in fight club? Yeah, that stuff.",
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"body": "Okay, I may actually have a competing story for this one. Paintball to the testicle, age 11. I was a scrawny little kid, sans cup, and in the crouching position, took a direct hit to lefty. No paint on me anywhere. I went into shock before I got indoors. (The whole deal; washed out colors, ringing ears, my limbs felt like numb stumps.) My world was pain. Got into the bathroom and checked my junk. There was a tiny little red and purple mark on my sack... Whatever man, just take me home. Blacked out a few times on bumps during the car ride. After I got home, the motherfucker swelled up to tomato status. I need to stress that I am not exaggerating. \n\nAnyway, about a week till I could get around normally, and two before things were more or less back to normal. All signs point to lefty making it through unscathed, though.",
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"body": "**tl;dr paralysed neck down**\n\nI used to ride downhill mountain bikes and did BMX racing too. Mucking around on some small dirt jumps in '05 a few months after switching to clip shoes, went over the hangers and didn't unclip in time so my head was sling-shot into the ground. Smashed my C4 vertebrae and broke C5 in half and I've been paralysed neck down ever since. \n\nMetal plates front and back fuse C3 - C5, 2 weeks in intensive care with an intubation tube down my throat, then a trachiotomy. Then 8 months in a spinal unit, plus 3 months in a transitional rehab program. About 10 subsequent operations since, mostly to do with kidney/bladder stones, a lot of us get them (fortunately paralysis means none of the pain)\n\nHere's some 3D reconstructions from my CTs.\n\n**Pre-op:**\n\n[spinal column all smashed in at C4](http://imgur.com/eKKZb.png) (looking from the top of my neck down. There should be a nice clear path for the spinal cord)\n\n[C4 smashed up from behind](http://imgur.com/UlaOb.png) (note two breaks in vertebrae)\n\n[C4 all squashed in at the front, can barely see it, above C5 cracked in half](http://imgur.com/DEFj0.png) (looking at the right side of my neck)\n\n**Post-op:**\n\n[spinal column all clear](http://imgur.com/ru5RV.png)\n\n[xray from side](http://imgur.com/lPo8c.png)\n\n[xray from behind](http://imgur.com/TlObl.png)",
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"body": "2 herniated disks and 2 partially herniated disks L2-L5. Happened 2 years ago and my back is still nowhere near the same.",
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"body": "playing outdoor soccer at age 11 (\"travel\" team, not \"chase-the-ball-hey-a-butterfly\"), and i had been the only person to score a goal that game. coach put me back into sweeper position as i was a runt compared to other kids my age and was being manhandled on the offensive line. went to pass the ball to one of our strikers from our back corner. i heard a ***pop***and fell over. the ball landed in front of our striker right outside their 6 yard line. furthest i've ever kicked a ball, i think.\r\n\r\nso, the pop was the sound of my overdeveloped muscles viciously tearing the cartilage from my underdeveloped bones in several places. it also tore some of the ligaments holding it all together. \r\n\r\nonce i was in the hospital, they put me in the \"frog pose\" for my x-rays. they did this by grabbing my ankle and moving my leg to the position they needed. it had the unfortunate side effect of causing me to scream for so long that my throat bled. \r\n\r\n2 months of inability to move, 2 more of limited mobility, 4 months of physical therapy later i was cleared to play sports again because \"i had made a full recovery\". so i went to play kickball at school and got to repeat the whole experience over again. \r\n\r\nit's been 14 years of constant pain, and i'm still unable to stand or sit for longer than an hour without medication.",
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"body": "I tore every tendon away from the right side of my spine. \n\n\nIt started when I was playing summer league soccer. I tore part of one of the tendons. I played all through fall and had some minor pains in my back. \n\n\nWhen I played indoor I tore it more, eventually tearing every single tendon on the one side.\n\n\nBy the time I went to the doctor in the spring, they were hanging on by threads. \n\n\nMy spine ended up getting pulled to the left.\n\n\n\nIt hurt, but I got better.\n\n\n",
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"body": "Cut my finger off\n\n**[THESE ARE VERY GRAPHIC PICTURES OF MY AMPUTATED FINGER](http://imgur.com/G1ox1)** ",
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"body": "Hit a tree in my 1990 Chevy Corsica going ~60mph with no seatbelt. The tree didn't move. My face broke the steering wheel in two. My skull was fractured by the headrest and my brain bled. My pelvis, sacrum and L-5 vertebra were also broken. Oh and my right heel and an ankle bone both shattered. That's more than one injury, but since they all occurred within milliseconds of each other, I think it still counts.\n\nEDIT: I walked away with only two scars, one from my chin that goes up through my lips up to about 2 inches above my top lip (my face was sewn back together) and one on my right lower leg where some metal had punctured the skin. I can still move pretty well though I can't run much anymore, I have most of my mental faculties intact, and I work full time. That was a *very very* lucky day. BTW, I had some very interesting experiences while in a coma.\n\nEDIT: It happened in 2003, I was 20 at the time, and I was being very stupid. I was driving very irresponsibly. I am paying the price for it now.",
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"body": "About 5 years ago I broke my collarbone and shoulderblade in a bicycle accident and never went to the hospital. I have broken my collarbone three times while cycling. Or, rather, failing to cycle.",
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"body": "Broke collar bone during an accident. This wasn't the painful part, it was two weeks later when I was getting used to the mild pain from it that my daughter was acting uncontrollably in my house. Angrily I tried to grab her and restrain her, when I heard a pop. I had re-broken my collar bone. I dropped to the floor in agonizing pain, I think I cried a bit too. I laid in that spot the rest of the day, I couldn't move for crap it was so painful. Took some vicodin, slept on the floor.",
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"body": "This isn't really an injury so much as a freak accident. A few years ago on memorial day my family grilled burgers, and while i was eating one I felt a sharp pain in my throat. I went to the bathroom and started coughing up blood and throat flesh. It was horrible. I made my dad drive me to the hospital, and the whole way there I had to brace my head against the door to stabilize it. It felt like I had a needle in my throat. Anyways after hours of waiting at the hospital, I was finally admitted. It turns out I had a bbq brush wire stuck in the back of my throat. Every time I spoke, the front of my throat jabbed against the back and was pierced by the fucking wire. So painful. Anyways, doctors stick a camera through my nose and pliers through my mouth. They scrape my throat a few times on the way down and finally manage to yank it out (while shredding the wall of my throat), and then they dropped it. This startled them, which caused their tools to scratch me even more. Luckily, the wire re-embedded itself lower down in my throat, and they were able to retrieve it with a new set of curved pliers. Anyways, long day at the hospital. Couldn't stop couching up blood for a few hours afterwards. We called the company that manufactured the brush and apparently they had had this happen a few times...",
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"body": "Well either the time I lost my index finger or the time I took a mortar firework to my right eye. Neither recovered. Handwriting or typing is an issue now as is plain seeing.",
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"body": "There was this bike jump (actually just a mound of dirt about a meter high, pretty steep) on the side of a very steep hill right by my house. I'd seen some people go over it with full pads on and get 2, 2.5 meters off the ground. Not really that fantastic, but I've never really done much extreme biking so it looked cool. But I always told myself I'd never do it because I'd end up in the hospital, and I was an American on exchange in Australia at the time so doing something like that seemed dumb.\n\nThen I woke up one day in the middle of May in the hospital, lip split almost through, broken nose, hands torn open, recovering from a terrible concussion. Turns out I'd been biking home and said to myself \"Nah, man, you can do it!\" I couldn't.\n\nI have no memory of most of that week up until I woke up in the hospital the day after.\n\ntl;dr I crashed my bike and don't remember it.",
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"body": "Not that exciting but its' happened technically three times so far, spontaneous pnuemo thorax. Basically out of no where your lung tears a whole along its lining and starts to leak air into your chest cavity. \n\nFirst time I was at work and it felt like I was having a heart attack, chest pain and the shooting arm pain and everything. I walked around trying to wait for it to go away but it didn't. I was young and stupid though and thought I might get in trouble or something so I didn't tell my boss. Pain went away after about two hours and I didn't tell anyone. Second time was just a reoccurrence a few weeks later since I didn't get it treated. Sitting in my high school english class when the pain hit again. Sucked it up and asked to go the nurse and walked through the school with a hole in my lung. Sucked in the tears cause there was a hot chick getting some aspirin when I walked in and then balled my eyes out to the nurse cause it hurt so bad. Paramedics came, said it was nothing but the school nurse said she though my lung collapsed so we went to the hospital. Two weeks in the hospital, month off from school, surgery and a week with a tube in my chest results.\n\nThird time was about a year later, was standing again at work (different job) when it hit. Was just getting off so drove home trying not to cry and then broke down once I got there. Mom drives me to the hospital where they send me back home because they think there's nothing wrong with me even after some chest xrays. Go back in the morning cause it hurts worse and they call my surgeon from my first pnuemo thorax. She yells at the nurse that sent me home and points right to the hole on the xray. Another week in the hospital, another chest tube, this time on the other lung. Less than a .01% chance of it happening to the same person twice but I got lucky. 4 years later and I still get chest pains from the two.\n\nCreepiest part about it, third time I had a very strange male doctor tickle my stomach in the ER to try and make me feel better. I was 18 at the time and am also male.\n\nTLDR: Had 3 random unexplainable holes in my lungs while in high school",
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"body": "Not mine, but relevant. My dad was once carving up a tree in the front yard with his chainsaw. The chain got caught in a knot on the tree and stuck. He revved it and jerked and the thing ripped out of the tree and happily schlopped its way halfway through his leg.\n\nSo he turns off the chainsaw, clamps his hand over he wound, walks into the garage, puts all his stuff away, gets in the truck, drives himself to the hospital, goes inside, fills out all the forms with the one hand not being used to hold his leg, and then sits down in the waiting room and WAITS TILL SOMEONE ASKS HIM THE REASON HE CAME IN at which point he casually pulled his hand off of the wound and is immediately rushed into surgery.\n\nIt ended up measuring about 2 inches deep and four or five inches across. 13 staples. And because he didn't want to pay the bill to get them taken out when it was healed he had my mom do it in the backyard with a pair of pliers. While he just sat there having a glass of milk.",
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"body": "When I was 5, my brother threw a frisbee across the street and I chased it. So the SUV rounding the corner hit me. Knocked most of my teeth out and broke my femur.\n\nI was in a wheelchair for Halloween and I collected WAAAY more candy than anyone else in the neighborhood. It was worth it. Until I had to get PT to learn to walk again.",
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"body": "I got hit head on at 70. Suffice to say 16 broken bones, (whatever the highest number on their scale) (shit got cut in half pretty much) laceration to liver and spleen, heart was stopped for four seconds past the legal death line, bunch of other injuries.\n\nFour months in a hospital.\n\nAlso, you don't receive injuries, you suffer them, and earn your scars.",
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"body": "I broke my right femur in a motorcycle accident: \r\n- Seven weeks in traction\r\n- 12\" plate with 14 screws installed. \r\n- Bone graft from my left hip to boot. \r\n- In the hospital for 5 months. \r\n- Plate removed after 18 months of persistent pain. \r\n- Over 30 years later, it stills reminds me who's in charge.",
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"body": "hit by head with 12 lb sledgehammer, hit by tractor, tore my shoulder completely out of socket(labrum was torn off), rolled a JD 318 lawnmower over on myself cracking 2 vertabrae in my thoracic and cervical spine and 8 major concussions. You decide.",
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"body": "I got a really bad hangnail once. Well, actually it wasn't that bad. I'm all better now.\n\nEdit: thank you Reddit, for the outpouring of help and support. My PayPal account has shown over $75.000 in the past hour.",
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"body": "My family doesn't have the worst injuries on record, but I think we have the most. My little brother got stuck under our car (face up) when he was two and my dad pulled him out. A few years later, he stuck his finger in a coffee grinder. Some years after that, my older brother hit him in the head with a goblet. I'm pretty sure that my little brother is invincible. \n\nMy older brother once taped his fingers together, then tried to get the tape off with a knife--when we got home from the ER, there was blood all over the ceiling... \n\nPlus, I've had three concussions--on three separate occasions--within the past five years. I guess that's just how we roll.",
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"body": "Soccer ball to the nuts, at full speed. I looked like action man/GI Joe down there for a month. Seriously, where my genitals used to be, was just a large purple mound with no discernible parts.",
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"body": "Dislocated both of my shoulders numerous of times, broke my left collarbone, had a surgery without anesthesia, walked around with a severely pinched nerve in where I could barely move my arms 3+ months.\n\nThe worst pain I've ever experienced? Heartbreak.",
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"body": "(i was 14) My friend rolled a can of gasoline on a small deck with no way down into a fire. I tryied to kick it off thinking it would explode and get over all of us, it spun around and splashed flaming gasoline on my stomach legs and arm. 3rd degree burns over 11 percent of my body, and a good deal of second degree (which is nothing compared to third). 2 weeks in the hospital and skin grafts. to this day, 12 years later I haven't experienced pain even close to what it feels like to be severely burned.\n\nSome may feel the need to remind me that third degree burns kill you nerves so you can't feel. -thanks. I know this. what i can tell you is that i've had second degree burns since then. And they haven't come close to that pain. NOT. EVEN. CLOSE.",
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"body": "Got a vasectomy, somewhat botched. Had some kind of marble sized sphere of intense pain in my sack for about 2 months. Pretty much constant pain for a year. 3 years later, the pain still comes back from time to time. Oh, right after the vasectomy, which I drove myself home from...the pain medication wore off. Felt like having my balls hit by a baseball bat over and over again, like homerun swings. Eventually, my wife got home with the pain medication. So remember kids, think about it before you do it.",
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"body": "I was brushing my teeth while leaning against a towel-holder that was rotten and broke. I fell to the floor and had that funny feeling in my arm that you get when you hit your elbow against something. So I try to stand up, and my hand just slips on a pool of blood. One of the towel-holder supports had held onto the wall and as I was falling it sliced my wirst, artery, tendon and cubital nerve. At the time I was in the Balearic Islands, so I got intervened in ER there, but instead of patching me up and sending me to Barcelona to be operated by a specialist, the surgeon there decided to try and fix me. After a few weeks of abnormal pain and exploratory surgery it was revealed that I had my tendon sown to my nerve. After being operated again I've recovered (4 years since the accident) some movement and sensibility, but my hand looks sort of ape-ish and feels weird.\n\ntl;dr Sliced my wrist while brushing my teeth.\n\n**Edit:** Grammar.\n",
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"body": "When I was eight I was taking a shower. Our bath had a shower nozzle above it and it so it doubled as both but ended up begin very slippery. Being eight I worshipped superman and decided the shower was the best place to practise flying. Unsurprisingly I was wrong and slipped in the bath impaling myself onto some very long bath-tap handles snapping two rips and tearing a muscle on my collar bone. This may not be as bad as some other injuries out there but it took months to heal and hurt like a bitch when I managed to tear the wound open again after it was stitched up. ",
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"body": "One year old and got bit in the face by our family dog...\nEmergency plastic surgery, Christmas Eve, and a ton of stitches in a one year old little girl's face.\nDon't remember it, of course, but couldn't have been pretty.\n\n(My face is fine now...had a damn good baby plastic surgeon fortunately!)",
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"body": "I work at the Univ of Utah. In 2001 I was at our campus gym with a coworker and we were doing chest presses with dumbells on a bench. He finished his set and put his dumbells on the ground one on each side of the bench. (I did not notice this). I did my set with different dumbells and when finished let them fall to the side. I assumed they would just hit the ground. Instead, they hit his dumbells before I could move my fingers and cut/curshed/ripped of my left pinky and right ring finger above the top knuckle. Bones sticking out everywhere, blood everywhere, etc. He scooped up the tips of my fingers, covered my two finger stumps with his shirt and drove me to the hospital which was luckily on our campus. Two hand surgeons, amazingly put my fingers back together. They don't look super pretty, my left pinky is shorter since there was a piece of bone missing, and my ring finger nail is strange, but they work. \n\n*EDIT: added date",
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"body": "I was 19 and playing fearlessly in a rental car. Drifting at about 75 I hit a patch of sand and the car flipped and flipped. I had no seat belt on and blacked out after the car first landed on the roof. When I came to I was halfway hanging out the driver window, couldn't breathe, and throwing up blood.\n\nI tried to sit and it hurt beyond words, I couldnt move. After I cleared my self of blood I was able to take a big gasping breath and asses the situation. \n\nI couldnt help but think \"*This* is one of those moments you never think you will have, and you are having it *right now*.\"\n\nMy legs were bloody and twisted over each other. The car crushed my upper torso during one of the rotations. I broke both legs, detached my medial, tore my lateral and ACL ligaments, broke both hips, and nearly all of my ribs. I got 27 staples, a blood transfusion, and spent 16 days in the hospital.\n\nThe car was totaled with the roof in a V shape. The force snapped the drive shafts, bent the wheels, and twisted the engine block.\n\nI ALWAYS wear my seatbelt now and I recommend that you do too.",
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"body": "I was playing hide and go seek in the dark in an unfamiliar place. I misjudged where I was running and ran straight into a barbwire fence. I was yelling at the time so one wire went into my mouth. It cut my cheeks for two inches on either side. They stitched my mouth closed and I had big Joker scars after which faded slowly over the years. Of course, when I went to the hospital the doctors made jokes that I was happiest kid in the ER because I was smiling from ear to ear.",
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"body": "About a year ago i managed to fall flat on My face whilst dancing in a Berlin club. Unfortunally, My face hit a staircase. One of My front teeth Broke in half, and the other tooth went straight through the area just below My lower lip. I could litteraly see My teeth (behind all the blood) through a 1x1 cm hole in My face. \nNice.\nI did get a bitchin' scar tough, and since i was so drunk i never felt any pain, just fascination. I just grabbed a shitload of paper from the toilet and took a cab to the nearest hospital.",
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Reddit Tuna (new recipe) | Hey, so this is my best breakfast, but also the only way I like my tuna. I've decided to call it reddit tuna.
Fry onions lightly in oil, add green peppers, mushrooms if you like, then tuna. Stir a bit, then add eggs (around 3 to 4 eggs for a can of tuna).
That's it.
Also, if it's evening, i'll place it on mash potatoes, then sprinkle cheddar cheese and in the microwave for 3 minutes.....mmmm
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"body": "That sounds like a fritatta. It is basically the Italian version of an omelette. \n\nYou saute whatever ingredients you want in the pan (except for cheese or herbs which should be mixed with the eggs) for a few minutes. Then pour whisked eggs (with the optional cheese and herbs mixed in) over the ingredients and cook for a couple minutes, taking it out before the eggs have hardened. Finish it in a pre-heated oven under the broiler for a couple minutes to get a crispy browned finish on top. It should slide right out of the pan like a crustless quiche. \n\nEven more versatile than omelette because they can handle more toppings/fillings without disrupting the cooking process (too many fillings in an omellete cause it too cook too slow). It works well with anywhere from 2 to a 10 eggs at a time, which means you can also make a large one for a group, and slice it up a like pizza. Probably the easiest group breakfast I can think of.",
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Are there any good websites to find apartments for rent other than Craigslist? | I'm looking for a site that allows me to find available apartments for rent and I'm tired of using CL. I've tried hotpads.com, but it seems biased towards larger management companies.
I'm also not trying to have to join a site just to see listings. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. | 3 | [
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"body": "Apartments.com\r\n\r\nApartmentguide.com\r\n\r\nApartmentratings.com\r\n\r\nThe third I found very useful. when I see a good price and a great location and read things like \"A meth lab exploded destroying 16 units\" I decide that isn't the place for me.",
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IAmA Hair stylist at a mens cutting salon AMA | I work for a Mens salon that only does hair cuts. The salon is centered around sports. Ask me anything that you always wanted to know from your stylist. | 16 | [
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"body": "If your a girl:\n\nDo you mind it when you are standing in front of me clipping my hair and I have no where else to look except at your amazing tits?",
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"body": "Here's how I get my hair cut:\n\n* 1) retrieve Walmart buzz-clippers from bedroom shelf\n* 2) lock self in bathroom, strip naked\n* 3) number 2 on the sides, 3 on the top\n* 4) kinda sorta square up the back-of-the-head-neck line as best possible since can't actually see back there. And cut off the neck hair\n* 5) brush off/vacuum hair from head & body - vacuum up the floor & sink\n* 6) shower, clean clippers and return them to shelf\n\nNext day..\n\n* 7) notice a bunch of hair that I missed around the ears, cut them with scissors\n* 8) done\n",
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"body": "My hair is my ideal length right now--I am thinking of taking a picture and bringing it to the salon next time I want a haircut. How would you react to that?",
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"body": "I have a horrible time going to get a haircut. The hairdresser always asks me what number guard I want and I never know so they ask me how many inches I want it but I can never visualize a number to a length of hair so I say 'I dunno' and they go 'well alright what do you want it to look like' and I ask for a faux-hawk cause I've had one since forever and since I have glasses I have to take them off and I can't see how they're cutting it and by the end its always either left too long or cut way too short and I know its my own fault so I get embarrassed and don't go back to the same place more than once. Do you have any advice??",
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"body": "I have very thick hair and an ovalish-diamond face. Do you have any recommendations?\n\nEdit: Oh yeah, and it has a bit of curl/waviness if it gets long.",
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"body": "When I walk in and ask for a scissor cut does that annoy the poor stylist who has to spend an extra ten minutes using scissors instead of just buzzing it off with the guards? I always tip extra because I feel bad about it...",
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"body": "Are the expensive salon brand styling products/shampoos really better? Or is the grocery store stuff just as good?",
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"body": "1. Are you gay?\n\n2. Are the men that go on your salon gay?\n\n3. Do they dress well to have their hair cut? I mean, you have to shower after because of all the hair that falls on the skin and it itches and all, and the clothes always have some hair on it. What's the point?\n\n4. What do I do with my curly hair to no longer curl?\n\n5. Differences between cutting with scissors and cutting with machine? For the hair, I mean. Does it damage it? Will it grow slower? Grow coarser? Or nothing at all?\n\n6. Why?",
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"body": "I'm a guy and I like teasing my hair on top to get some volume. My question is this: Is it worse in the long run to get the big hair look by teasing, or by using styling wax/spray? I've heard constant teasing is awful for the roots, but I can't imagine applying layers of chemicals is much better.",
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I made a donation to the Red Cross in Rush Limbaugh's name...and so should you! | As I'm sure many of you seen, some of this country's most popular talking heads - namely Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh - have said some awful, shocking things about the crisis in Haiti.
While Mr. Robertson tickles the funny bone with talk of signing pacts with Satan, Mr. Limbaugh urged his listeners not to give money toward relief efforts, suggesting their tax dollars are more than enough charity - and implying that any other donated funds will probably end up stolen. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/limbaugh-weve-already-don_n_422958.html)
The internet has been ablaze with the fact that you can text message a donation to the Red Cross, but I urge you to go to the Red Cross website, were you can make donation in tribute to someone. I have made a $20 donation in the name of Rush Limbaugh. An e-card will be sent to rush with the following message: "Dear Rush Limbaugh, a $20.00 donation has been made in your honor to the American Red Cross. Your comments today about not giving money to Haiti in the wake of their disaster moved me. In the face of such vile disregard for compassion and the human spirit, I have given all that I can to the Red Cross so that they can continue their relief effort."
If you feel as though you might do the same, Mr. Limabugh's e-mail address is [email protected] and you can donate at https://american.redcross.org. | 7 | [
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"body": "That fat, stupid, self serving douche would probably spin it that HE contributed himself. No thanks.",
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Your experience with glass screens | Was thinking about getting a couple for my bong or bubbler. Seem like they could just be an easily misplaced big hassle though [0] | 7 | [
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"body": "I think they're great. Have used them for spoons and bubblers. I have flower-shaped ones as well as the jacks, I think I prefer jacks. Flowers chip and break, whereas jacks are sturdy. Just tell people before they clean out your bowl and lose it, or just buy 'em in packs of 10, they're easy to replace. Beats a mouthful of ash, and you get the most out of your bowls with no pull-through. Also they're reusable. Go get some.",
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"body": "i had one for about half an hour. that was the amount of time it took us to get home and smoke a bowl...during the smoking session, we all forgot it was in there, and by the time we remembered (maybe two bowls of kush later...?) it was too late.",
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"body": "Totally unnecessary unless you have an incredibly poorly designed bowl with the largest hole ever (wait for the puns).\n\nThe vast majority of bowls do not need them - people smoking them need to learn how to control their breathing.",
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"body": "When you tap out the ash you will forget to take it out and put it to the side. I cannot begin to remember how many I have thrown out.",
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Let me get this straight: We have been ignoring the millions of Haitians rotting and dying in poverty for years, but now that an earthquake has stormed the media we are actually going to pay attention? | I think it is really sick. We should be this passionate all of the time about helping people NOT starve to death and die of disease that is easily treatable. AND NO I'M NOT BEING CONDESCENDING AND SAYING I'M BETTER THAN EVERYONE HERE BECAUSE I'M NOT.
A suggestion: When you donate, make it a recurring donation (I know Red Cross has an automatic option for this). At least when you forget you about this thread, you will still be helping in a sense. | 21 | [
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"body": "\"Help me. I'm in poverty.\"\n\nUh... I'm not sure I know how to fix this.\n\n\"Help me. I have a building on me.\"\n\nI actually understand the cause and solution to this problem.",
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"body": "I completely agree with this and its really unfortunate that it takes a terrible disaster to unite and bring out the good in people but honestly, that will always be the case at least for now. Many people believe in out of sight, out of mind, which is not right but truthfully, there is far to much suffering in the world to fix it all but by raising attention, we can at least help. Many countries and people need our help and if you really want to do something go to www.redcross.com and donate what you can to who you feel needs it. Even the littlest of amounts can greatly help someone in need. ",
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"body": "Five seconds to send a text message versus years of work to actually solve problems.\n\nYeah, sounds about right.",
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"body": "We should all be passionate like yourself, and care about all the human suffering in the world all the time. \n\nIt must be difficult for you being so compassionate for the over 1 billion people who live on a dollar a day, people plagued by war, disease, tyranny, natural disasters, and injustice. \n\nPeople have only so much capacity for compassion and dedication. Don't dare accuse others of being less compassionate than you, unless you have dedicated your entire life to completely noble causes. It is counterproductive and hypocritical to condemn someone's attempt to do good just because you think it's too little, or a knee-jerk reaction to a pressworthy event.",
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"body": "These types of condemnations are absurd. There are degrees of compassion and circumstance with everyone, and you can't blanket categorize people as \"caring\" or \"uncaring,\" especially when a person can have Haiti's poverty out of their radar but focus their charitable attention elsewhere, whatever they may be.\n\nThis is a natural disaster. 1/3 of the country are in need of immediate help or people will die—like, *tomorrow*—in the hundreds of thousands. It's a great thing that people are paying attention because of the media storm. I don't give two shits if they're doing it just to be cool when they never cared before. Please refrain from referring to people contributing help as \"sick.\" That leads to the ranking of issues, judging one as being more compassionate as another, which is heinous.\n\nWhen the emergency passes and relief has been applied, and people go back to focusing their attention elsewhere... so what? You still can't dismiss the fact this was a good show of aid.",
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Workarounds to operating machinery on the Sabbath: Why do Jewish people think these are okay? | I was perusing this [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat), and it seems they have a loophole for every situation. If it's prohibited, shouldn't you just refrain from doing it altogether? | 7 | [
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"body": "What an interesting coincidence this is as I recently purchased a new stove/oven for the house and, while flipping through the manual, noticed it had a \"Shabbat Mode\" that could be entered through a tricksyish combination of key presses. I had never heard of such a thing. \n\nBasically, it turns off all visual and aural feedback (no time/temp, no beeps or bloops) then defaults to 350 degrees. From there, you can increase or decrease the temperature in 25 degree increments but you have to trust yourself that it's right (since there's no beeping or display). Then it goes to \"sleep\" for a random period of time (10-30 minutes, I believe) before turning itself on and heating up to the desired temperature. \n\nI found it curious and had to try it. Then I got bored. Then I had to spend 10 minutes trying to figure out how to exit the mode.",
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"body": "All this stupidity because some goat herder thousands of years ago decided to write down that you can't light a fire on the sabbath.",
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"body": "This was actually on Religulous, I think it was. The reasoning goes something like if God has built in workable loopholes in His Word, then the Jews were obviously supposed to find them and use them, because God doesn't want to make life unliveable, or something. Because there are no flaws in the Word of God, and His Word is perfect, then anything there can be worked around is meant to be worked around. No harm, no foul, no sin on the Sabbath. ",
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"body": "After several years in yeshiva, I understand why religious Jewish people make great lawyers and get a bad rap for being shifty - The laws are so fucking retarded that you have to find loopholes and do mental gymnastics just to function (especially in post 1900s society). I am now an athiest.",
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Why is it accepted as apart of their nature for men to be lustful for attractive women, but when a woman lusts for a wealthy man she's a dumb whore? | I've noticed that there are a lot of comments where men claim that they can't help certain behaviors because "it's just a part of their nature", the way their brain is wired, how men evolved, etc. These comments usually pertain to porn, staring at a woman's body, or wanting to have sex with (almost) any available female.
But, on the flip side, women who are attracted to wealthy men are considered worthless and sometimes even on a level of a prostitute. It seems like though that this could very easily be attributed to evolution too. Women, biologically speaking, are looking for a suitable mate.
I'm not saying it's right that a woman only be attracted to a man for his wealth, nor am I saying that porn or sexual attraction is wrong, I'm just really confused by men defending these actions by claiming they can't help it because it's in their DNA, but turning around and whining that women who want a wealthy man have something fundamentally wrong with their personality. Mostly, I just think it's a humongous cop out for men to blame their actions on their nature.
Is this just one big double standard, or am I missing something? Any honest answers are very welcome, regardless of your view point.
*Edit: I feel I should make something clear. I'm sorry if this post overall seems muddled, I've had a pretty long day and my mind is kind of fried.
I do not think women are uncontrollably inclined to want rich men. I'm just very tired of hearing men who claim they are slaves to their sexuality and they can't control their impulses because nature has progressed them to be that way. To me, that is the same thing as a woman defending chasing after rich men because nature has progressed her to seek security and therefore she can't help it. I think they are both fundamentally weak arguments, but they are no different from one another, and for some reason the former is extremely accepted among society, while the other is completely rejected. | 12 | [
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"body": "I'm a female, and I think this is an absolutely ludicrous post. Are you actually comparing physical attraction to an attraction toward wealth? If a woman is attracted to a man solely for his money, then she isn't actually attracted to *him* she's attracted to *his money*. When a man is attracted to a woman because she's aesthetically pleasing, hes is actually attracted to *her* not how much she is worth. Do you not see the difference?",
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"body": "In my opinion, yes, yes it is one big double standard. If you just break down the common societal difference between men and women regarding sexuality, you obviously see more not-so-nice categories for women than for men that stretches back for a good while. Looking at history, who sets the trends? The rules? Generally men. And lets be fair, with the BS that women buy into from men, they themselves reinforce this behavior on their own part. \n\nBut yeah, I bet a lot of these things will come up for others as man-bashing, I see this as, \"it is what it is\"",
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"body": "In your title I wouldn't say \"dumb whore\" so much as \"gold-digging bitch\". But then, I wouldn't *really* say either of those.\r\n\r\nI agree, though, and think that in each at least part of that striving can be attributed to genetic predisposition. A man wants to ensure his seed is carried on beyond his death, and we are hard-wired to be physically drawn to those women who seem to embody the characteristics that would make them good breeders. When carried to an extreme, we can be seen to lust after anything with a pulse.\r\n\r\nWomen crave a safe environment wherein they can be assured of raising a family without the concern of being preyed upon. When that's taken to an extreme, they're just lazy, selfish broads looking for a sugar-daddy. And yes, it is to this that more social stigma is attached than the other.\r\n\r\nWelcome to social dichotomy!",
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"body": "I've got nothing to add to this topic but this:\n\nThis whole \"gender worship\" thing you guys have going on is mind-alteringly irritating. I happen to have an X and a Y; but I will never feel comfortable having another man say \"Men are slaves to their sex drive.\"\n\n I can only imagine how irritating it is to be a woman hearing other women talk about how they speak for \"All women.\"",
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"body": "Well that was poorly worded and unnecessarially inflammatory.\n\nAttractiveness is determined by whatever qualities are the hardest to obtain in a society. For example, in subsistence-level cultures, body fat is considered attractive, in a calorie-saturated society like ours not becoming fat is attractive, and in just about any society being rich is attractive.\n\nIf the stereotype is that women chase rich men, it's really just because there are more rich (available) men than rich (available) women. If we had more loaded cougars there would be more underwear models eager to sleep with them to get at their money.",
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"body": "Yes its a double standard, Donald Trump for example. He has a hot wife, that he wouldn't have unless he was rich. \n\nOn the flip side, He couldn't get a hot wife, unless he was rich",
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Ladies of Reddit: Your man has a chest piece of his mother's name - you feel...? | Context: My younger brother has decided that in a display of his new-found adulthood (turned 18 yesterday) and parental defiance, he'd like to get a tattoo with our mother's name and roses on either side. I've tried to convince him that such a large tattoo at a young age is something he may grow tired of in the near and far future to no avail.
Alas, I think if I can show him that the general population of ladies wouldn't like to be reminded of our mom while doing the deed, maybe it will pursuade him to a) not get the tattoo, b) get it in a different spot, or c) at least get a better design (I'll update with a pic as soon as I can get it).
Your thoughts?
EDIT: Behold - the current design: http://imgur.com/AQGIK.jpg
*ugh* Technically, I guess "chest piece" isn't the best classification for it, but it would be emblazoned accross his chest pretty big.
**UPDATE:** I just got home from work, and the kid has two new blingy studs in his ears (I have 8 piercings myself so I can't really dog on him except for the whole "why throw shit like this in our parents' faces when they've always been good to you" kind of thing).
Anywho, I tried to show him this post and pointed out the wisdom that those of you whom have gotten regrettable tattoos have shared, but he simply doesn't want to listen.
Thanks for the advice, perspective, and a few laughs along the way - I love Redditors :)
Maybe in a few years I'll be coming back to ya for some cover-up advice :( | 6 | [
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"body": "As a guy with a bunch of tattoos, my advice is to stop him at all costs. I have 6 pieces ranging in size, and the 2 I got at that age are pretty terrible. If you are gonna get a big piece, you gotta take your time and really think about it. Once you know for certain you got something that you want, then spend another few months tracking down the right artist. Just showing up a random tattoo shop and being like.. \"here, do this on me\" there is a really good chance you will get a piece of shit. I know from experience.",
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"body": "From a guy who has \"Mommy\" tattooed on his chest, do everything you can to stop him from getting this done. I got mine few months after I turned 18, a Christmas present from my parents. The girls find it to be a turnoff, guys find it to be a big joke. I do not regret getting it, but your brother isn't me, so he might. Ask him to think it through, consider the fact that he'll have it for the rest of his life. Tattoos are a big decision, no matter how small it is.",
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"body": "I would be totally grossed out if a guy undressed to reveal that. Trashy, trashy, trashy. A subtle memorial tattoo for a departed parent would be fine, but a huge chest piece, ewww.",
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"body": "Sounds like, if you're a good and loving sister, you should tattoo a brick across the back of his head.\n\nAside from that, always give an idea for a tattoo at least a 1-year waiting period. I always have, and I haven't gotten a tattoo yet.",
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What other words do you want to reclaim? | MojoJosh tried to reclaim [epic](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/apm2a/i_hereby_reclaim_the_word_epic_on_behalf_of/) earlier today, and we were all given a grammar lesson. What trend words/catchphrases are you tired of hearing (mis)used? | 3 | [
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"body": "I'd really like to be able to use the word \"twilight\" again without feeling ill. \r\n\r\nIt was such a nice word before it became a victim of middle school girls and over the hill fat women. *Sigh*",
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Almost 25 and want to get my education... | I am almost 25 years old and have attempted college twice. At that time though I was still very immature, but have significantly grown mentally since then. Is it too late for someone like me to go back to school and actually end up with a degree that could get me a decent job? What options do I have and what would be my best course of action to take to reattempt this? I am interested in math and computers (surprise!). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I need to do something before it's too late. | 6 | [
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"body": "25 is still very young. Jesus.. you're not in your 80's. If you think that you can do well at school and (most importantly) have an idea of what you really want to do in life, then get to it! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If you start your career at 29 instead of 25, it means absolutely nothing in the big scheme of things. I didn't get my act together until I was 32, and I'm doing fine now (I'm 38).\r\n\r\nI wish society would get past this idea that once you're above a certain age, you can no longer do X or Y and have to stay in whatever rut you have carved out for yourself. That's why ageism (sp?) is so rampant and why so many older people are so miserable. Sure, I can't suddenly pursue a dream to play in the NFL, but in terms of mental challenges and careers, I feel that I can, and will, do whatever the fuck I want.\r\n\r\n*edit - I want to add that a 2 year computer degree is worth next to nothing. If you've got less than 4 years then your education is a liability regardless. So if you're not planning to go for a 4 year degree, then you'd be better off doing an assload of self-training in whatever arena interests you, taking one or two college courses to make sure you're on track, then going for a certification or two. Save your money.*",
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The myth that democracy is good because it ensures that the poor and weak are fed, educated, employed, etc, while anarchy is bad because it explicitly ensures no such thing. | From "Everyday Anarchy" - Stefan Molyneux
Democracy. Fewer words have received more reverence in the modern Western world. Democracy is in its essence the idea that we all run society. We choose individuals to represent our wishes, and the majority then gets to impose its wishes upon everyone else, subject ideally to the limitations of certain basic inalienable rights.
The irrational aspect of this is very hard to see, because of the endless amount of propaganda that supports democracy (though only in democracies, which is telling), but it is impossible to ignore once it becomes evident.
Democracy is based on the idea that the majority possesses sufficient wisdom to both know how society should be run, and to stay within the bounds of basic moral rules. The voters are considered to be generally able to judge the economic, foreign policy, educational, charitable, monetary, health care, military et al policies proposed by politicians. These voters then wisely choose between this buffet of various policy proposals, and the majority chooses wisely enough that whatever is then enacted is in fact a wise policy – and their chosen leader then actually enacts what he or she promised in advance, and the leader’s buffet of proposals is entirely wise, and no part of it requires moral compromise. Also, the majority is virtuous enough to respect the rights of the minority, even though they dominate them politically. Few of us would support the idea of a democracy where the majority could vote to put the minority to death, say, or steal all their property.
In addition, for even the idea of a democracy to work, the minority must be considered wise and virtuous enough to accept the decisions of the majority.
In short, democracy is predicated on the premises that:
A. The majority of voters are wise and virtuous enough to judge an incredibly wide variety of complex proposals by politicians.
B. The majority of voters are wise and virtuous enough to refrain from the desire to impose their will arbitrarily upon the minority,
but instead will respect certain universal moral ideals.
C. The minority of voters who are overruled by the majority are wise and virtuous enough to accept being overruled,
and will patiently await the next election in order to try to have their say once more, and will abide by the universal moral ideals of the society.
This, of course, is a complete contradiction. If society is so stuffed to the gills with wise, brilliant, virtuous and patient souls, who all respect universal moral ideals and are willing to put aside their own particular preferences for the sake of the common good, what on earth do we need a government for?
Whenever this question is raised, the shining image of the “noble citizenry” mysteriously vanishes, and all sorts of specters are raised in their place. “Well, without a government, everyone would be at each other’s throats, there would be no roads, the poor would be uneducated, the old and sick would die in the streets etc. etc. etc.”
This is a blatant and massive contradiction, and it is highly informative that it is nowhere part of anyone’s discourse in the modern world.
Democracy is valid because just about everyone is wise and moral, we are told. When we accept this, and question the need for a government, the story suddenly reverses, and we are told that we need a government because just about everyone is amoral and selfish.
Do you see how we have an ambivalent relationship not just with anarchism, but with democracy itself?
In the same way, whenever an anarchist talks about a stateless society, he is immediately expected to produce evidence that every single poor person in the future will be well taken care of by voluntary charity.
Again, this involves a rank contradiction, which involves democracy.
The welfare state, old-age pensions, and “free” education for the poor are all considered in a democracy to be valid reflections of the virtuous will of the people – these government programs were offered up by politicians, and voluntarily accepted by the majority who voted for them, and also voluntarily accepted by the minority who have agreed to obey the will of the majority!
In other words, the majority of society is perfectly willing to give up an enormous chunk of its income in order to help the sick, the old and the poor – and we know this because those programs were voted for and created by democratic governments!
Ah, says the anarchist, then we already know that the majority of people will be perfectly willing to help the sick, the old and the poor in a stateless society – democracy provides empirical and incontrovertible evidence of this simple fact!
Again, when this basic argument is put forward, the myth of the noble citizenry evaporates once more!
“Oh no, without the government forcing people to be charitable, no one would lift a finger to help the poor, people are so selfish, they don’t care etc. etc. etc.”
This paradox cannot be unraveled this side of insanity. If a democratic government must force a selfish and unwilling populace to help the poor, then government programs do not reflect the will of the people, and democracy is a lie, and we must get rid of it – or at least stop pretending to vote.
If democracy is not a lie, then existing government programs accurately represent the will of the majority, and thus the poor, the sick and the old will have nothing to fear from a stateless society – and will, for many reasons, be far better taken care of by private charity than government programs.
Now it is certainly easy to just shrug off the contradictions above and it say that somewhere, somehow, there just must be a good answer to these objections.
Although this can be a pleasant thing to do in the short run, it is not something I have ever had much luck doing in the long term. These contradictions come back and nag at me – and I am actually very glad that they have done so, since I think that the progress of human thought utterly depends upon us taking nothing for granted.
The first virtue is always honesty, and we should be honest enough to admit when we do not have reasonable answers to these reasonable objections. This does not mean that we must immediately come up with new “answers,” but rather just sit with the questions for a while, ponder them, look for weaknesses or contradictions in our objections – and only when we are satisfied that the objections are valid should we begin looking for rational and empirical answers to even some of the oldest and most commonly-accepted “solutions.”
This process of ceasing to believe in non-answers is fundamental to science, to philosophy – and is the first step towards anarchism, or the acceptance that violence is never a valid solution to non-violent problems. | 14 | [
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"body": "Devil's advocate here:\n\nIt may be that the members of the public *are* willing to contribute to social programs, *but only if everyone else does.* Republican democracy, instituting social programs through taxation rather than voluntaryism, is intended to prevent the free-rider problem, the \"Well, *someone* will take care of it, so I shouldn't have to\" problem. Government force is needed not because people individually lack the virtue or desire to help their fellows, but because they are unwilling to help unless everyone else does, too.\n\n(This is why anarchism requires some notion of mutuality, wherein nobody is obligated to help someone who has not also freely agreed to help others.)",
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Bank of America sucks. Share your bank stories. | After Christmas I deposited my Christmas money at an ATM. Two days later, I paid off my credit card online using that money.
I got two emails threatening a $35 overdraft fee in 7 days if I don't bring my checking account positive. I look, and it's positive. Both transactions are pending. I contacted the bank, and am told not to worry, I will not be charged.
7 days later: a $35 overdraft fee brings my account from $20 to -$15. I contact the bank, tell them what happened, I am told I will get a refund, but it won't happen for two days.
2 days later, I check my account. The refund is there, but so is another overdraft fee. Also, there is an extended overdraft fee, putting me at -$45.
**Edit:** I contacted the bank, she said she'd remove 1 of the two charges. I had a long argument about the other, which she refused to remove. I have a check that would bring my account positive, but I don't want to do it because that pays them the $35. | 8 | [
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"body": "Move to a credit union. I'm not saying you won't have OD fees, but you can talk your way out. Most CU reps are sympathetic unlike the drones in Citi and BofA.",
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I have a metric ass load of frozen green beans. Looking for creative suggestions on how to use them. | My parents have a garden and gave me a TON of green beans this summer. I canned dilly green beans with some of them and froze the rest (like 18 quarts). I'm really getting tired of the old microwave with black pepper, salt and butter routine. Please give me some good recommendations for how to use my massive bounty. | 5 | [
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"body": "You could wake up your big sister with them by shoving them down her throat. (I did this. She was 7. I was 4.) I still remember.",
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"body": "Have you tried stir-frying them with black pepper and salt? Butter won't do, but another fat with a higher smoking point will, and you might like the texture better than what you get with the microwave. And of course you can do things other than just salt and pepper -- pine nuts or sunflower seeds work nicely here (put them in before the beans so they get toasted, or just toast them in the oven first). And garlic is delightful. Ooh, and capers.\r\n\r\nPickle some of them, like Spaceman_Spliff said. You can try lots of different kinds of pickling... make some sweet, some garlicky, some hot.\r\n\r\nIf they're still crunchy when they're defrosted, they might be fun in various kinds of salads. Try flavoring them with fresh herbs like thyme or mint.\r\n\r\nActually, just sauteing them with a little salt and pepper and then topping them with rosemary and lemon juice would probably be really good.\r\n\r\nCook some of 'em up Indian style -- get a generous splash of olive oil hot enough to make stuff sizzle and throw in some fennel seeds and cumin seeds. Let them sizzle some and then add a little turmeric and ground fenugreek. Before anything starts to burn, add some diced onions and a little salt. When the onions soften, add minced garlic and shredded ginger. Stir a few minutes and add the beans and a little more salt, stirring it all together.\r\n\r\nAnd then do some Japanese tempura-style. Get some panko bread crumbs. Wash and dry the beans thoroughly, then rub them with salted flour. Then dip them in a mixture of a beaten egg and some water. Then cover them with panko crumbs, and fry them until they're GBD (golden brown and delicious). Green beans would be nice for this because they can be fried in a relatively shallow amount of oil.\r\n\r\nYou can also use them to accent other dishes. Say you're making Mac 'n' Cheese out of the box -- just add some green beans for improved color, flavor, nutrition, and texture.",
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"body": "Saute some slivered almonds in butter. Toss this over the beans after steaming them. I also like stir-fried green beams with beef and black bean sauce. I just use Lee Kum Kee sauce that I get at the grocery.",
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"body": "Dood this is my standby for big parties.\n\nFry as much onion as will make you happy til golden. (add a pinch of sugar and salt to help it), Add slivers of garlic to taste.\n\nThrow in as much canned tomatoes as will accompany the beans- season well with salt and pepper and a glug of good olive oil. \n\nYou stew them and they become sweet (give 'em a slow simmer for 45-60mins, even more depending), you can then eat them as a side, wrap them up etc and you can freeze this. \n\nAn indian version I grew up with involves-\nFry cummin (and black mustard seeds if you like) in ghee til aromatic and slightly browned, throw in onions & fresh ground ginger- fry til brown throw in garlic and chilli and keep going.\n\nThrow in some chopped tomatoes and cook down a little then sliced beans- season quite well (the tomatoes are broken down by the salt and they can suck it up) you can sprinkle some garam masala on the top at the end. Eat with rotis and it's totally comforting and yummy. ",
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What Does Monad Mean | [Slides](http://projects.tmorris.net/public/what-does-monad-mean/artifacts/1.0/chunk-html/index.html)
[Video](http://vimeo.com/8729673) | 3 | [
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"body": "why, oh why have you finished this so early? this could be the best monad tutorial I've seen. please go a bit slower, and add meaningful examples, that do interesting things, hard to achieve without monads.\n\nanyway, great slides.",
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"body": "I read some where that .NET would eventually support higher-kinded polymorphism, is that still the case?",
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Screenshots of OpenTTD with the new 32bit graphics | If you've ever played it, you probably know Transport Tycoon Deluxe is an endlessly replayable addictive transport simulator.
Now, [OpenTTD](http://www.openttd.org/en) is moving to a whole new level with new 32bit graphics. The development is still not complete and you need to compile the binary for Linux but it's worth it because the work so far is beautiful. Here are some screenshots:
[Lorries carrying goods from a factory at Sunhall](http://imgur.com/GpMpD)
[Grain lorries rolling through farmland](http://imgur.com/6wlht)
[Trucks and buses in Sunhall city centre](http://imgur.com/5Hya7)
[Detailed stations, trains and wagons](http://imgur.com/HjoNI)
[Train emerging from tunnel](http://imgur.com/cv5ip)
[A train passes by a quiet country village](http://imgur.com/Kvx4H)
[A Foster Mark II bus passing through a scenic mountain town](http://imgur.com/q5zoC)
[Sun loungers on the roof of a hotel](http://imgur.com/3SNL1)
If you're using Windows, there's a binary available already. You will also need to download the tar files containing the new graphics.
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"body": "Well, it looks a lot more fun than Open Touch Tone Dialling (which was all I could think of when I saw OpenTTD). I'll have to give it a try.",
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"body": "It looks very nice. Can you give more detailed instructions in how to get it to work? Using Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64.",
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"body": "I just tried this on Windows. Pretty awesome, although very incomplete. I really don't like the new toolbar. There are some usability bugs (unable to click on towns), but I'm sure that will catch up eventually.\n\nWe'll probably have to wait for OTTD 2.0.0 before we see 32bpp replace 8bpp completely, heh.",
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"body": "I don't like the new graphics :( I kinda liked the oldschool pixel-graphics, is it possible to play with the old graphics on newer releases in the future?",
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Guy kept going soft during sex -- is it me? | He's a mid twenties male. We're clearly both very attracted to each other and I'm a pretty active lover, but he couldn't keep it hard. Happened the first two times we tried to have sex. This was last two days. Is this more likely something I'm doing wrong or is this a common problem for some people?
*edit*
Thanks Reddit! | 16 | [
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"body": "It's not you! This happens to more guys than are willing to admit it. All it takes is it happening once or twice, then it starts hitting your confidence and you may even start avoiding sex to avoid the soul-crushing disappointment of going soft during sex. If you let it get out of hand it can really start affecting both of your confidence. Just take the pressure off, engage in more foreplay and be patient. And remember - it's not you!",
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"body": "It's never the woman though you can help him.\n\nIt's nearly always nerves. If it was a common problem I doubt the guy would initiate sex at all for fear of it happening all the time.\n\nWhen it happened to me with a girl, twice too, inside I was beating myself up something terrible which only makes the problem worse.\n\nYou just go back to foreplay. He'll be embarrassed but just get off him, give him a quick handjob till it is rock hard, not just kind of hard. ROCK FUCKING HARD and then start up again. If you do it before he is absolutely solid then it just won't go in, he'll lose the sensation and it'll go floppy. \n\nI'll tell you the worst thing to do and that's nothing. When I was trying to get it on with the girl I mentioned above she just lay there next to me watching me trying to stimulate myself.",
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"body": "Almost certainly not. It happens, it's embarrassing because it \"makes you less of a man RWAR!!!\" and then it feeds back into getting in your own head. The best you could do it just make sure that he's comfortable and lower the pressure of the situation.\n\nIf it keeps up, get him a cock ring or Viagra, unfortunate that they're necessary, but whatevs keep up the lovin'",
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"body": "As a male, I have encountered this in the past and it sucks. It's all in his head, he was probably anticipating this for a while and now that the time has come hes nervous or just has too much going on in his head. Which means he likes you a lot. Play it off like its no big deal and let time take its course. Things will come around sooner than you know it. Try not to let this fuck w/ his head. Poor guy :(\n\n",
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"body": "Doesn't have anything to do with you (unless possibly he finds you intimidating in bed). He could be going off early and then getting soft, or it could be ED or something similar. A cock ring or viagra would probably help (and a cock ring would be less damaging to his ego).",
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"body": "This happens sometimes. It can be him being turned off, distracted, dehydrated, over stimulated from very frequent sex, related to medication, etc. \r\n\r\nIt could be you or something you're doing, but don't necessarily assume that's the issue.",
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"body": "\nIt's probably nerves... you just met after all. \nHis mind is swimming with thoughts of if he's being decent and good at it too much to just enjoy it.\n\nJust don't express disappointment. It will make him feel like shit. \nEncourage him with your hands and mouth.\nIf still nothing, take a break.\n\nCome back at him in 30 minutes or so. lick his earlobe and whisper \"Wanna try again?\" \nMake him know you find him desireable even with his poor prior performance. That will make him feel like you're not going to judge him for it and he'll be more comfortable and let go of some of his nervousness.\n",
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"body": "*Don't* make a big deal out of this. I had a similar problem with my last bf, it usually happened when he was tired or stressed out or highly strung that day. He was all \"wtf this *never* happens\" and I could tell it was an issue for him and something he was embarassed about. I just said \"not a big deal lets just go to sleep\". I *honestly* don't think it's a big deal if it just *happens* every so often because of outside causes. I highly doubt that it's you.... not to put a dampner on your attraction with your bf (I'm sure you are a sexy lady who he is attracted to if he's dating you) but most guys would get hard for sex *in general* even if the lady in question wasn't all that attractive. I'm sure it isn't you. Just be understanding and hope the problem works itself out. If it doesn't he might consider seeing a doctor.",
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Quick question on pushups. | Lately i've taken to doing 10 pushups every hour ever day to bring some activity into my mostly sedentary life. Could this possibly have negative effects? I know you're supposed to rest every other day when you lift weights, but this doesn't apply when you're doing bodyweight exercises, does it?
I'm not overweight (6'4, 175) so i'm not really worried about straining my joints or anything. | 19 | [
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"body": "Overtraining the body is no easy task, it takes severe stresses over extended periods, and even then the body will adapt over time. You have nothing to worry about so long as you concentrate on your form and dont get herky jerky with the movements to try and \"knock em out real quick\". I used to do 1000 push-ups 3 times a week... Looked and felt great, no overtraining. Overtraining is a hugely misused term, it happens, but not from moderate or even high intensity work, it takes ABUSE to overtrain. ",
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"body": "10 an hour, assuming you sleep 8hrs a day that's only 160 push-ups a day... I'm no expert but I think if you are giving yourself such a long rest between sets it should be fine...",
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"body": "Someone else suggested knuckle push-ups previously as a great way to relieve some of the stress, especially on the wrists. Since the wrists are weaker in a \"normal\" push-up I would imagine the elbows may overcompensate, perhaps that would lessen some of the stress on elbows and distribute it more evenly.\r\n\r\nI would think that you should treat pushups as any other kind of weight lifting and rest more often. I believe muscle grows through rest so I would think you are better off taking some time off.\r\n\r\nEither way, congrats on the changes, good luck. ",
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"body": "it does put stress on the muscle. you may encounter some over use injuries. If you start to feel pain in your elbow (a version of tennis elbow), called tendinitis, you may want to slow down a little. Continue with what you are doing though. It sounds like a great plan.",
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"body": "It's working to failure that requires rest (as in bodybuilding protocols). If that 10th rep every hour isn't your limit, you should be fine.",
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Anyone else LOVE the movie "Sunshine?" | Seriously, one of my all-time favorites. Any other recommendations along the lines of scifi-psychological-thriller? | 97 | [
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"body": "I love the first 2/3s of the movie. [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAMYudPgQKc) is it best described my feelings.",
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"body": " I LOVED Sunshine! I still enjoy Event Horizon, but I think the love I spawned for Sci-Fi thrillers is when I was a child and we saw Westworld at the drive in....THAT movie made an INDELIBLE impression on me!",
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"body": "I enjoyed the movie, then I read about how it was a criticism of religious fundamentalism, then I said \"Ohhhhh\" and loved it more.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Great acting, excellent soundtrack, visually superb...but ditto to everybody else here...why did it try to turn into a horror film at the end? One would think the environment and situation they were in was terrifying enough without a cheap slasher twist. Ah well. Certainly worth the watch.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I loved it too, people hate on the ending because it doesn't end the way they want it to. I take it for what it is and love the hell out of it.\n",
"score": 5
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"body": "I just watched it for the first time about a month ago. I loved it, despite its sci-fi storyline suddenly turning to more of a horror story near the end which is what most people take issue with.\n\nI thought it was great. I liked that there was a lot of tension throughout. I was kept on the edge of my seat.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I loved it too, but then again, I love most things by Danny Boyle.\n\nHave you seen the original Solaris?",
"score": 3
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"body": "i adore that movie, up until it gets a heavy case of 'third act rickets'. i wish they had just left the chase-y, ticking clock shit out and kept it on a more esoteric road.\n\nthat said, i still really enjoy rewatching it. some amazing cinematography.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I LOVED SUNSHINE! SOOO MUCH!\n\nalso may I recommend all movies bye Richard Kelly, more specifically Donnie Darko, and his most recent The Box. (though I am also in a small minority that enjoyed his middle movie Southland Tales)",
"score": 3
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"body": "Like everyone else said, the ending felt a little bit cheap. But I still liked it better and thought the ending was less cheap than \"Slumdog Millionaire.\"\n\nAlso, the visuals are some of the best Sci-Fi visuals I've seen since 2001. Instead of just trying to create great special effects, Boyle really did a great job creating great framing and cinematography. Way too many sci-fi films make the mistake of focusing solely on effects rather than composition. This film definitely uses composition brilliantly to enhance the story.\n\nEDIT: I was referring to \"2001: A Space Odyssey\" and not the year 2001.",
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Anyone else forget that Mike Myers was in Inglorious Basterds? | I was talking with a friend about I.B. and he mentioned that he thought Myers did a decent job in the flick.
At which point, I struggled to remember what part in I.B. Myers portrayed (my friend reminded me of that as well). | 5 | [
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"body": "The bit where he says \"The bar's in the globe\" spun me out and pulled me out of the movie. Another pissweak Mike Myers impression.\n\n\"The baws in theh gleawbe!\"",
"score": 4
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"body": "After rewatching his scenes, I can't help but feel that Myers was just there, not really contributing much to the movie as a whole...",
"score": 3
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I live in Bozeman, Montana | I'm a [Montana](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana)-native from Billings, MT living in Bozeman, MT for college.
Ask away | 15 | [
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"body": "Sweet. My little brother goes there, too. Beautiful town, and Bridger Bowl is my absolute favorite ski resort.\n\nWhat are you studying?",
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Odd health situation. Ladies, I could use your help and advice. | So it all started on December 28th. I started spotting and had slight diarrhea. I called my gyno on Dec 30 with the concerns. He told me to continue my regular pill regimen and to contact him if my period continued after its normal time.
I am on birth control and my period is normally very regular.
I was due to start my period on January 6th (like clockwork) and it would end January 11th when I started again on my pills.
Here it is January 14th and I am on the 18th day of my period. Ugh.
Yes... 18 days of spotting or full on bleeding. I am also now expieriencing a lot of cramping and back pain along with severe diarrhea. (I have been hydrating and watching how much fluid I take in- some of the cramping could be caused by that, but I have been going nuts with the fluids.)
Some background: I have had an ovarian cyst before. It wasn't diagnosed until late in the game (it was about the size of a softball when they found it). It ruptured when they took me into surgery. The (now ex) gyno cleaned it up, but didn't remove any of the old cyst. I'm not sure any of that matters.
I've been on and off many birth controls in the past due to bad reactions.
So I called the (newer) gyno yesterday morning and explained that it was still happening. The nurse talked to the doctor and called me back. He wanted to change my BC to the one I was on when I had my first cyst and to schedule me an appointment for Feb 22.
I told her that I was concerned about a cyst and that I had been on that BC before. She talked to the doctor again and moved me up to have an appointment on Jan 21 (next thursday).
What the hell?
18 day period?
I feel like hell and I just don't have a clue what is up.
I also regularly go to an acupuncturist (and I love it).
She has been helping me to stay relaxed and more comfortable, but even she is concerned about this situation.
Has anyone been through this before?
Note: I did take a preggo test around New Years and it was negative...
**edit** I am leaving work and do not have the internet at home yet (we just moved). I will respond in the morning. Thanks in advance.
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"body": "I have no help to offer as far as what might be wrong, but would like to suggest that it sounds like you are losing a lot of blood. Be sure to keep up your iron levels with some red meat or a supplement.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I'll second the sentiment of others for leaving official medical advise to professionals, but I'll relay my own experiences.\n\nI spent years in a similar situation, like my cycle was inverted. The doc tried every kind of BC we could think of. Pills, rings, estrogen, progesterone, even depo shots...nothing stopped it.\n\nThree years later I was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries and got a Mirena IUD. 5 years of fool-proof BC (more effective than a vasectomy!) and it finally cleared up! I'm free as a bird! :D\n\n",
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Does anyone else steal WiFi for their primary 'net access? | Well, I do. I live in an apartment complex with at least 15 visible access points. Most are WEP, so it was pretty easy to get through. It just took me a few hours to find the one with the best throughput. After that, I flashed my router with dd-wrt and repeated their signal to my apartment.
I guess my other question is this: Do you feel guilty about it? I can't say I really do. Plus, I'm saving like $50 US a month. | 5 | [
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"body": "You know, if someone has their wireless access point unprotected, I wouldn't feel bad about using it, because they made it accessible to the public, presumably for a reason. But you're purposefully breaking the encryption to use someone's wireless when they clearly don't want you to. That's just a jackass move.",
"score": 7
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"body": "My access point was a wireless antennae that connected directly to my motherboard. I had to bridge my NIC and the Wireless to get this to work, but it wouldn't let me add any kind of encryption this way. So all traffic on the wireless went through my PC first... I could sniff every packet that came through. And msn conversations aren't encrypted so when my neighbour connected I formatted their msn conversation, printed it out, taped it to their door and wrote on the bottom \"Don't use my wireless signal. I can see everything you do\". I've managed to find a work-around to getting encryption on it now, but I have to have an account signed into my pc at all times... it's such a hassel not using a router.",
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Women of Reddit, do you sleep with your bra on or off? its for a..uh...research paper.... |
I've asked this to a few female friends and its been a mixed response. A few have said that they sleep with thier bra on because its supposed to help them not sag and it someone helps thier back not hurt in the morning and the other half slapped me in the face. | 5 | [
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"body": "Definitely off. I don't think it makes a woman's breasts saggy by not wearing it while you sleep, and besides, it's gotta be bad for your skin to keep it covered all the time like that. I feel obligated to wash the sheets more often because of it, but that's why I like sleeping in the buff.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Definitely off. Otherwise my bf might have trouble groping in the middle of the night. Not to mention they are uncomfortable to sleep in.",
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Hi guys, the P-Dub e-mailing list incident has lessened my faith in redditors. | Ever since P-Dub's mother accidentally sent out an email with everybody's email address exposed, the spam has not stopped. Some redditors have been trying to help take people's names off the mailing list, but others actually think it's funny to put them back on. Even on GMail, it's difficult to ignore the spam since the conversation can't be muted unless you're the original recipient (everybody is on the CC list). The email thread has been marked as SPAM, TRASH, and MUTED, and I still get these emails at least 5 times a day. I looked down the list, and a good amount of people aren't using personal email addresses. This is the worst backlash I've seen for donating, and I wish some redditors would grow up and realize that this information isn't a calling to start a reddit club.
How can I get this thread out of my sight once and for all?
EDIT: For the record, I'm still don't regret getting panhandled for 5 bucks. I just resent spammers. | 184 | [
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"body": "I have tried to be nice about this, like many others I have asked nicely that people NOT use the reply all button. \n\nMy email, like many others, was a hotmail address which can not reply to all which also means that almost every single one of the spam emails I get comes from a gmail address along with a condescending message of: \"If you don't like it you can filter these out\".\n\nNo, no I can't you arrogant fuck, hotmail won't let me. I have tried reporting it as spam, doesn't do shit seeing as though they are coming from many different addresses.\n\nThe people constantly clicking reply all are the problem here and as such I have a solution. Someone on gmail can hopefully send this out to everyone, take head.\n\nIf you want emails, I will give you emails. If this doesn't stop in the next few days I am going to sign up **almost everyone** who is clicking the reply all button to a ton of spam. Not everyone on the list, simply the people who have clicked reply all and have added to the spam. If you clicked reply all to ask people to stop clicking reply all you will not be on the list. I will sign you up for newsletters, porn sites and everything else I can think off. I will be using Tor and Privoxy so it won't be traced back to my IP.\n\nYou can either be mature about this and stop this bullshit or I will come down to your childish level and believe me, I am much better at it than you people.",
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"body": "What could've stopped the entire bullshit episode is if P-Dub didn't set up a PayPal account and taken SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS on x-mas eve...with as many people that have *real* problems, the backlash was predictable. \n\nBefore you downvote me to hell, consider this: P-Dub mom lost a job BUT she has a pension and unemployment, AND only owes $8,000.00 on *her* *house* - - - - - there are redditors that are homeless, hungry, have children and have no way to feed them dinner (like the mother of two that was called a \"beggar\" and downvoted because she asked for help....ringing any bells?)\n\nBut, P-Dub took the money, and there are many redditors that will always think he's full of shit because he used the holiday, reddit and his popularity to *make-off* with a bundle of cash. Fuck P-Dub and his mother.",
"score": 178
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"body": "Unrelated, but I swear I would give another $20 if p-dub posted a picture with him and his new Playstation 3. I just think it would be incredibly hilarious for some reason, especially how angry everyone would get.",
"score": 65
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"body": "The most naive and almost idiotically trusting people on the internet can be found here these days. This place has become a power-user paradise and the polarity on political, economic and other issues has gone out of control.\n\nI don't feel at all sorry for the people that donated to this guy. All the more noble things reddit could have done for the world and they help someone who doesn't have the decency to make sure their identities were secure.\n\nOh well, maybe reddit panhandling will go away. It would be good. However, I don't feel sorry for any of the suckers who donated to this lady; if may as well come from a Nigerian prince.",
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"body": "Oh god,\r\n\r\nThank you, I thought I was the only one. I even tried to post about it, but it got insta-downvoted. I seriously wish I hadn't given money. I figured it would go away after a few days, but it didn't. I have refused to post, figuring that if I responded, I'd just get spammed even more.",
"score": 32
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"body": "I donated a dollar, and the constant \"omg please take me off this list\" emails are totally worth it. ",
"score": 23
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"body": "create a throwaway account with some email provider. then copy all the list of e-mails addresses in the last email in the chain, create a new email using your throwaway account with the same subject line (and copy and paste some text below to make it look like you just replied to all), remove your email from the list. when you send it, people should just start replying to all from that one, and you'll only get responses at your throwaway account. i did this a week ago and it worked (i also removed several people who had since asked to be removed). I've checked the throwaway account to make sure it worked, and that account has in fact been getting emails that I am not.\r\n\r\nproblem is some people will respond to earlier messages, but you can just repeat the process again.\r\n",
"score": 22
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"body": "I didn't donate, so I don't understand this email incident. Anyone patient enough to explain from the beginning?",
"score": 19
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"body": "Reddit got together and gave this guy $7,000 USD *just* because his mom was wronged? I am sort of at a loss for words... can *I* has seven thousand USD because I have a very expensive disease? OH, I have universal health care, forget it.",
"score": 17
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"body": "Redditors giving over $7000 to P-Dub and his family who live more comfortably than most people in the United States let alone the whole world, lessened my faith in redditors.",
"score": 15
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"body": "I've asked several times to get removed from this, and every day when I check my email, I have more. I'm so fed up with it.",
"score": 14
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"body": "Kudos to everyone who helped a family in need, but this just goes on to prove John Gabriels hypothesis even more.\n\nTrusting a redditor with anything internet related is like trusting a dog to watch your steak.",
"score": 12
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"body": "A good reason to have multiple throw away email accounts for stuff where you deal with anonymous people.",
"score": 10
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"body": "That's what you all get. I'm not sure what the hell this guy did to steal your hearts and get you to donate thousands of dollars to him but afaik it was only about his mom losing her job. yeah, it happens, TO EVERYONE, a lot of the time to people in really shitty situations too. Not sure what made that guy's mom so special.",
"score": 9
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"body": "To those who suggest methods to get yourself off this list:\n\nThe people who are making this obnoxious for everyone else are to blame. I know, I know, \"it's easy\" to remove yourself from a list by creating a throwaway account, or setting up filters, or, or, or. But you know what else is easy? **NOT REPLYING GODDAMN ALL.** Let's put the burden of actually doing something about the problem on the people who are creating it. Yes, I'm looking at you,\n\nAndrew Bauer\n\n\"Slappy\" Williams\n\nAngel Heinemann\n\nTravis Fredericks\n\nMichael He\n\nDavid Flaiz\n\nVictor Snesarev\n\nTom Boward\n\nJames Stocks\n\nMike Schweitzer\n\n\"James\" ([email protected])\n\nJoe Reid\n\nToo many to name.\n\nHey, you guys want to chat about recipes and talk with other people who are generous enough to help a teenager out when his family's in trouble? Post on reddit and anonymously solicit the emails of those who contributed and want to continue the thread. Leave the rest of us the FUCK out of it.\n\nSincerely,\n\nA guy who hates spammers even if they have the best of intentions\n\ntl;dr: If you send an email to a bunch of people you don't know, even if you have been talking with a few of them, you're a spammer and you should jump in a pit of molten lava and die a fiery painful death.",
"score": 6
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"body": "There is no \"mailing list\" and nothing to be \"removed\" from, just a hundred people who don't know how to use an email client properly. There's not a damn thing you can do about it. These things usually blow over within a year or three.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Once P-Dub's mother gets back on her feet, she should give the money donated to her back to Reddit, so that we can have better servers, less ads, etc.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Do not worry about the reply all situation. I have harvested the list and am selling it to spammer at 10 cents an email. Welcome to your life.",
"score": 3
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"body": "reddit didn't ban P-Nub's account. It's high time they do. Using an accomplice in the comments section to ask for a donations link was a transparent ploy.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Could someone provide a transcription of the thread so the stingy fuckers like me who didn't donate to P-Dub's mom could lol too?",
"score": 3
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DAE Have coworkers who act incredulous at their inability to lose weight, meanwhile stuff their faces with fast food? | I don't have a problem with anyone being overweight. I think its sad that some people don't have the discipline to be healthy, but that's their business. However, it drives me fucking apeshit when all I hear in the office is very intelligent people be so oblivious to stuff they taught us in junior high health class! | 12 | [
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"body": "It's also annoying when they say they've tried \"everything\" to lose weight when \"everything\" constitutes as going on a treadmill one time about 6 years ago.",
"score": 7
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"body": "The worst is the people that go on crash diets and insist on telling you every piece of food they have managed to NOT eat.",
"score": 3
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I am ALSO a former page. AMAA. | I know I know there's another "former page" on IAmA right now, but I want my own because I'm petty. I just never thought to think of one.
YES I do know all about the page scandal, including the pages involved.
NO I will not give you any more information than what is already in the public sphere.
EDIT: Sorry. A former page for the US House of Representatives.
Trying to get this verified right now. | 5 | [
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"body": "A girl in my school was a page. She came back with two stories:\n\n1. McCain is an asshole to most people, and he gets really pissed if you don't bring him his taller podium to speak from.\n\n2. Strom Thermon liked to give the female pages candy---lollipops in particular---and watch them suck on it.\n\nCan you verify any of that?",
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srs bness question for r/trees: what's the science of a whitey? | I can't find any science on the internet about it. Is there a more technical / medical term for it?
Here's the best I can find but they don't reference any studies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_%28drugs%29
I'm just curious because I got what I believe was the whities in Amsterdam once and I thought I was going to die. The best way I can describe it is a profoundly unpleasant trippy delirium. I only recently found out that there's a thing stoners call the 'whities' and I'm curious to know what the science is.
| 3 | [
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"body": "You might try /r/drugscience and request some info. They have some pretty well educated people there who are willing to help.",
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Hey fellow LoLers! Who's your main character? Who's your secondary? (Not necessarily the two listed in your summoner profile) | Hey guys! In addition to the title, feel free to list any special tactics you have for playing your favorites against others you have a really hard time against, natural disadvantages, etc. Also, any special tips and tricks you might have with your favorite characters. | 3 | [
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"body": "My main character is Gangplank. \n\nHe is pretty easy to play, just focus on using parlay on mobs with very low health for the gold and xp bonus. Use scurvy to buff your teammates when they are slowed for a ganking, not for healing. Use his E move(i forget) to escape pushes when you are outnumbered or to aid a push. His ultimate is best used when an enemy push has gone awry and make them retreat through the cannon barrage. If they have multiple exits it is better to save the cannons. Also it is a global ult, so if your friends are in trouble you can drop it between as a gank deterant. \n\nMy item build usually goes\n\n* Meki Pendant\n* Avarice Blade\n* Avarice Blade\n* Avarice Blade\n* Berserker's Greaves\n* Black Cleaver/Frozen Mallet(depends on how many teammates have slow)\n* Sell Avarice for Infinity Edge\n\nGangplank crits like a champ late game, and the attack speed bonus he gets for his E move brings the pain even harder. I love taking down over confident tanks with him.",
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Hey r/music, what's your favorite movie soundtrack? | My vote goes to Lost in Translation, although any of Sofia Coppola's films would be in the running. | 12 | [
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"body": "Requiem for a Dream's soundtrack is outstanding for instrumentals. Wes Anderson's films always seem to be perfectly scored as well; The Royal Tenenbaums OST was great. Oh yeah- gotta love 500 Days of Summer too...",
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"body": "I've upvoted pretty much everything else in this thread, but I've got to throw in an honorable mention:\n\nFight Club.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I wouldn't listen to it without the film but Pulp Fiction's music is perfect. All of Tarantino's movies have excellent sound tracks.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I'd go with a Kubrik curated one; 2001: A Space Odyssey, or The Shining, with a preference for the former.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Recent: Into the wild. Eddie vedder acoustic. Amazing.\n\nOlder: Les liasions dangeroux. Thelonious Monk did the whole soundtrack and it's awesome. For those of you unfamiliar with the film: this is the original french version of cruel intentions from the 50's.",
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copying multiple files in OSX, can I queue them instead of having them copy simultaneously? | is there a way to copy a bunch of files at once but have them go one at a time so it doesn't slow down? If I copy one movie file it takes about a minute to transfer the data, but if two or three movies are selected and dragged to disk suddenly the time for each one goes up to like 20 minutes. Am I missing something? | 13 | [
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"body": "Do a multiple selection and copy that. Either shift-click (selects a range) or command-click (selects one at a time) in Finder.",
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"body": "Yeah that's really annoying actually, it should queue them for files which are on the same device. On a mechanical disk trying to read multiple files at once is trés slow. Of course on something like an SSD it wouldn't matter at all.",
"score": 5
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"body": "This is a valid problem, however, I'm more annoyed at some of the other effects of the sloppiness with OS X's batch file copy methods.\n\nWhen copying multiple files to a memory stick, the OS does not do proper calculations to see if space is available. After that, the space not available command will cascade individually, leaving you to wonder which files exactly are copied.\n\nPLEASE, if someone can properyly answer the OP I'll be extremely happy, as this is one of the major issues I have with OS X (10.4-10.6)",
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Anyone care to help me understand the techniques of Fourier Analysis? | In particular, what I'd like to know is how one can take a complicated wave/signal, as input, and determine a list of it's component frequencies and the amplitudes of each.
My own math understanding ends at Calculus, but I've been trying to figure this out. I've read through most of the Wikipedia articles with the word "Fourier" in the title. The math get's a bit much for me to follow, but more than that, it doesn't seem relevant to my question of where to get the frequency histogram from. - I even found a Fourier analysis online video lecture series, which I got through four lessons of. That was more about Fourier Series though, and it was theoretical, not practical.
Perhaps what I really want is Harmonic Analysis. Just wondering if someone here might know what I'm talking about well enough to explain roughly how a signal is broken down into its components... I'm guessing it has to do with determining the periodicity of the entire thing, then taking that part out, then determining the periodicity of the new function, and so on. Kind of like prime factors.
Anyway... thanks.
Edit: Thanks to everyone who's contributed something here. I love the internet. Staggering how complex all this stuff is. I feel like I'm stepping into a jungle with new species of trees and snakes. And sharks. | 8 | [
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"body": "A signal A is expressed as a series of samples. \n\nPlace a sine curve B of a certain frequency C alongside it, as a series of samples.\n\nIf you multiply these together for each sample, you get another curve. \n\nIf a signal of that frequency is present, then the product (A\\*B) of these should mainly be positive. \n\nIf you integrate this product, you get a single value that expresses whether frequency C is present in A.\nDo this for all values of C, and you can find what frequencies are present. (Maybe your signal is 2\\*sin(3\\*t)+ 3\\*sin(5\\*t)+sin(19\\*t), and this procedure should allow you to get those frequencies out).\n\nIf you understood this, then you might want to get back into Wikipedia and reread the articles and see if you understand the maths.",
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"body": "The way to think of this is that functions are, in a very real sense, vectors. You can add scalar multiples together to get new functions. The obvious basis is \"what value does it have at each point\". The Fourier decomposition is just a change to a new basis. You can get the components in this basis by just computing inner products. The coefficient for a basis vector a is the inner product of a and f. For sampled (discrete) functions, this is just the sum of the products\\[\\*\\] at each point. For continuous functions, this sum becomes an integral.\r\n\r\n\\[\\*\\] Well, complex conjugate one of them.",
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Should Google publicly release the list of terms and
sites that China said to censor? | I for one would be facinated to look through the list of things the Chinese government doesn't want it's people to read about.
It would go a long way to appeasing those of us that thought it was wrong to give in to their demands as well. | 73 | [
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"body": "Probably not, unless they want to hurt their relationship with other nations into censorship:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship\n\nAs you can see, the list of nations which censor content goes on and on.\n\nCensorship is in demand. There's child porn to block, blasphemy to quell, dissidence to silence, intellectual property to protect, and facts and knowledge that are too dangerous to trust the public with (wikileaks, explosives, etc.)",
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"body": "Do you really want to read through a big list of Chinese porn-related words?\n\nSeriously though, there are two big reasons this won't happen: 1. The list is constantly changing. 2. Google doesn't know the whole list.",
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It's a lonely world! | I see other subreddits having meet-ups or outings for cities. Why not here? Let's gather data on who's where? Hopefully we can at least fill up each time zone, and keep a constant rotation going on the surface of the earth.
Post your city and comment on others. Also if you have any stories to regale of the legality of pot in your neighborhood, please do tell!
I'll be getting [5-7] tonight if there's any justice in the world, and when I come back I expect to see some comments! | 13 | [
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"body": "Toronto here. It's been uncharacteristically warm for mid-january, and I've had a few relaxing strolls and furtive tokes in public parks recently. Please let there be at least 1 person!",
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"body": "[0] Los Angeles. 70 degrees and gorgeous. More pot shops than Starbucks. More variety than Amsterdam. ",
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"body": "Salt Lake City, UT. New to the area, been having some bad luck so far. Maybe if Joseph Smith endorsed mj I'd be in a better position.",
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"body": "[Good place to start](http://www.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/amtfw/0_hey_trees_why_dont_we_take_a_census_of_sorts/)\n\nIf anyone ever finds themselves in Copenhagen, DK I'll definitely smoke you out! \n\nLaws are pretty lax about weed over here. We've even got an area of the city called Christiana that openly sells a variety of different strains and it's got a great atmosphere to boot.",
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"body": "Chicago, IL\n\n\nI'm specifically from Schaumburg. The town is a giant strip mall. Shit sucks here, but I try to put up with it....",
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Dear Reddit: Can you recommend some almost-porn movies? Ie. regular movies with so much sex, it's almost porn. | Even if there's not a tooooon of sex... just more graphic and sexual than you'd expect from a regular movie. | 13 | [
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"body": "apparently Original Sin (unrated). The sex scene is all people talk about on the IMDB message board. ",
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"body": "\"Lie with Me\"\nIn one scene the lead actress (Lauren Lee Smith aka Riley Adams on CSI) actually has a dick on her chin. But all in all the movie is mostly sex.\n\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418832/",
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"body": "Pirates. Which is porn porn, but you could always play it off as a mistake when trying to rent pirates of the carabean. Though the women in it are so filled with silicone it's not very sexy in my opinion.",
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Dear /r/gaming, I want to play EVE. I never have before. What do I need to know? | Well after hearing about this game quite a bit here on reddit, I figured I'd check it out. However, I do understand that the game has a bit of a learning curve (I hear it's been approximated as more of a wall than a curve, but that's why I'm here). Anyway, to get to the point, is there any advice/hints that any redditors have for me before I jump into a chin-high pit of dialogue boxes? Thanks! | 28 | [
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"body": "Join Eve University as soon as you can. Seriously. You will learn more and much more efficiently with their help than you're ever likely to manage on your own. \n\nEven better, they will give you free stuff (specifically skillbooks) in addition to all the free training and exercises, and if you stay in for any length of time you'll get the chance to fight in a war against some of the endless supply of poor bastards who underestimate the ferocity of bloodthirsty n00bs.\n\nhttp://www.eve-ivy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Applying_to_EVE_University",
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"body": "First and foremost, lemme reiterate what people have said: don't go in expecting a large goal oriented, everything-spelled-out experience: that is not EVE. It is a sandbox game, you can do _anything_ you want, nothing in game demands you do certain things (IE, level up or acquire etc items). Primary goal: have fun, meet people, enjoy yourself.\n\nAs MaxQ said, join EVE University. It'll teach you what ya need and they are really helpful. Outside of that, my advice would be: get a friend to play with you or join up with an actual corp asap after EVE U. Find what you like, be it mining, industry manufacturing, trading, pirating, whatever: find what you like and DO IT. Have fun and don't worry about anything else.\n\nAlso, disregard [opposite (or same?) sex]; acquire currency.\n\nOh, and have you clone up to date: always.",
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"body": "The learning curve has somewhat smoothed out with the tutorial and beginner missions. If you're serious, join the corp EVE University and troll their forums and podcasts. \r\n\r\nI think the reason why I stopped playing Eve is because its a little too much for me in terms of researching, and travelling is really tedious. I have a job that keeps me at a pretty high stress level, and I play games to relax and unwind. Eve wasn't one of those games for me. ",
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"body": "Shameless self-quote: \n\n* Do not use what you can't afford to lose.\n* [Insure](http://support.eve-online.com/Pages/KB/Article.aspx?id=148) your ships. Go for the platinum insurance.\n* Don't forget to renew your clone after you got killed and upgrade it as soon as you hit the maximum covered skillpoints. Nothing hurts more than losing days or weeks worth of skilltraining.\n* Never trust anyone you don't know personally. Even then be careful.\n* Empire is not a safe place. Concord will **not** protect you, they'll only punish the guy who shot you.\n* You should try to avoid travelling by autopilot. Yeah, it may me much more convenient, but it may be quite dangerous. The autopilot will warp you several kilometers away from the next gate and continues by sub-warp, which leaves you very vulnerable to gate-camping pirates. Manual warping lets you jump immediately on arrival.\n* Low-sec (0.4-0.1) can be much more dangerous than 0.0\n* Find a nice corp. Eve will most certainly get boring without one.\n* You may only shoot rats (NPC enemies) and red-blinking player targets in empire (0.5-1.0). Everything else will get you concorded (read: killed with a 100% propability). Self-defense is allowed, but the aggressor will be blinking in red. Don't shoot first. They often try to get you to shoot first, then watch you get killed by Concord and loot your wreck. Targeting is not an act of aggression. Everything else is (weapons, scanners, target painters, scramblers etc.).\n* Most importantly: *Have fun and don't take the game too seriously.* You will get killed anyway, live with it, learn from it and get your revenge later on :)",
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"body": "It is **much** friendlier to new players now. Just do the training missions at the beginning. Train all the \"learning\" skills first, it will make other skills level much faster.",
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"body": "I played Eve for a while, but left because I realized I wasn't having any fun after I finished the intro quests. Eve is a game of thuggery; you either become a thug, or you are victimized by thugs. If you have a basically anti-thug personality, this game isn't for you.",
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"body": "Ignore 90% of what everyone tells you. If it seems fun, do it. \n\nDo not avoid death. Death is your friend. You must bring others to meet him. If you cannot have fun in an executioner now, then you will not have fun in an avatar later. Talk to other people, even if you have nothing to say.",
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"body": "Get your learning skills up early. You'll want to get yourself skilled for a good destroyer or crusier, yes, but your long-term goal should be:\n\n Instant Recall -> Analytical Mind -> Learning -> Instant Recall -> Analytical Mind -> Learning\n\nGet each to level 4 in leapfrog fashion. Then raise the other learning skills to level 4. \n\nI can't stress enough the value of using salvagers/tractor beams. I've heard players say you can salvage a Level 3 mission and make more money on it than a Level 4.\n\nDon't pick up canisters that don't belong to you. You WILL get popped. High-sec is NOT safe. If I scan your cargo, and your cargo's worth more than the insurance value of my ship, I could try killing you quickly, logging on my alt account, and loot your wreck. Null-sec is NEVER safe. Anyone can be a scammer.",
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"body": "It's too bad that his computer is failing to properly run EVE...\n\n(I am his roommate (your reddit user-maps, prepare them!))",
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DAE feel completely non-obligated to help Haiti? | Of course, it's terrible what's happening there.
Huge amounts of aid are being directed towards Haiti, and that's wonderful that the world is helping. But **what I don't understand is the blatant obligation (at least on reddit) that everyone *needs* to be sending their money to Haiti.**
This goes for every other thing the US does for the rest of the world. What do we owe these countries? What good really comes from what we give? Are we trying to aide with rescue, or completely rebuild Haiti from the ground up? | 14 | [
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"body": "> What do we owe these countries?\n\nNothing, but some people believe in helping other people regardless of obligation or owing.",
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"body": "Is this your poor attempt to rationalize, this blatant attempt at amassing support from reddit notwithstanding? \n\nWhat has happened in Haiti was a disaster that you probably cannot even begin to comprehend. In the course of a few minutes, 50,000 people died. To get a sense of this figure, this is 9/11 *15 times over*. Not to mention, the homes and hospitals destroyed. Corpses in the rubble. Weeping in the streets. And yet, there you are, on your comfortable little chair leading your sheltered little life, reading reddit, complaining about your petty constitution hurt by a few strongly worded comments, in your own words\n\n>people are being lambasted for NOT donating.\n\nNo, you obviously don't *need* to donate to Haiti, there is no obligation, never was, this is but an appeal to the best in you to help some fellow human beings who've happened to have a stroke of bad luck. \n\nIf you want to know what happens to the money you give, there are proper authorities to forward the question to. You say you cannot measure compassion using money. Well, I'm sure it's all well and good if you're *feeling it really deep inside*. Why this post then? Well, My point is this. If you don't want to donate, just shut the hell up. It should be a dark spot in your soul. You deserve all the insults you get, you cold fucker.",
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"body": "I felt that way about Conan not Haiti. I can't speak for the owe part, I just feel better about myself knowing that I can at least do something for them. If you don't feel that way, do what did with the Conan posts. Hit hide. ",
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"body": "Of course we owe them nothing. We're not obligated in any way to help them, but it's that innate human instinct that makes us want to anyway. It makes me want to help my fellow human beings, despite knowing that I don't owe them anything at all. ",
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[6]Reading "A Confederacy of Dunces" | If you've never read this book, I highly recommend it. People either love or hate this book.
I'm reading it for the third time and I just finished reading the chapter where Ignatius gets a job in the Levi factory and stirs up a revolt. I can't stop laughing. Holy shit. A bowl with Ignatius J. Reilly is the best. | 10 | [
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"body": "[8] Whoah. That book looks mighty funny. I have to read it after I'm finished with Stranger in a Strange Land. A trip to the magic book-store I shall go. ",
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A question to any bad santa who would like to answer.... | So some of us are obviously going to get the shaft here. While some gifts are still trickling in (especially from the round two folks) there are, around 700 folks who still haven't received as of today. I am one of those 700. Honestly, I don't much care. It would have been nice, but I started with the attitude that my fun level would be achieved from the whole giving side of the equation. That being said, something has been bugging me...
What I'd really like to know from someone who actually did this is, why mark a gift sent when you weren't going to send one? I can understand the people who want to "game the system", even if I don't agree with it. You want to do that, fine, but if you weren't going to send something anyways, why not just leave it marked unsent so your giftee could be taken care of in the round two rematch? It seems like you would have to go out of your way to mark sent and then send nothing. You know you're eventually gonna get put on the naughty list anyways so why bother? The only three answers I can think of are:
* They really intended on sending something, and, out of fear marked it sent on the 10th to make sure they didn't get put on the naughty list. They then never got around to sending.
* They really sent something and the mail got screwed up.
* They were being malicious trolls who went out of their way to make sure their santee got screwed.
I am willing to believe options 1 and 2 for a small percentage of the cases, but I refuse to believe that 700+ people made the same mistake or got screwed by the post office, which means there are a large percentage in category 3 (or some other thing that I didn't think of, help me out here).
Please understand, I'm not whining about not getting anything. A simple PM from my secret santa with a little note explaining the situation would've been enough for me. I am more concerned for reddit as a community. I think most of the people I've run into here are pretty cool and it doesn't make sense that such a large percentage would go out of their way to screw up an honor-based system.
Thoughts?
Edit/Update: Just as a clarification and thanks to kickme444, 5days and all the rest of the crew. Considering what was undertaken here, it was amazing how *WELL* things went. Online communities are often looked on as the dregs of society by the media, older folks, etc. We knew, going into this, that there would be some trolls, and the vast majority of people came through with flying colors. Honestly, I went back and forth for a few days on whether to say anything or not because I didn't want to detract from all the work the team put into this. I didn't want to be the guy who was all butthurt cause he didn't get a gift. I finally decided that I wasn't, I really got my enjoyment out of sending, and this really was a concern about the folks here at reddit.com and their attitudes. I think some of the replies here have made me think more and more that it's a case of procrastination gone wrong and not done to be particularly malicious. | 24 | [
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"body": "As a nearly bad santa myself (I broke down and newegg'd a gift to my santee at the end of December), I think the biggest issue came down to a lack of follow-through. I had ordered some hot sauce from that one guy, and it arrived *just* in time for me to make the Dec. 10th deadline, but by that time I had gotten swamped with work, and couldn't really deviate from my daily schedule very much, out of pure lethargy.\n\nThe guilt really drove me up a wall once my gift came. I hadn't expected anything, because my SS was overseas, and although the package had lit up, it was only around the 22nd that I got my gift. Until then, I had been using that as my excuse (I didn't get anything, so why should I send something? Selfish, I know), but once I lost that excuse, I started to feel pretty bad.\n\nI really didn't want to be kicked out of a community of people I've started to get more involved with, and it was that desire to remain included that drove me to eventually send my gift (I tried to compensate for lateness with a bigger gift, like my dad always did :-P).\n\nIf I had to guess, I would say that at least some of the people who didn't ever send a gift simply had no reason to; there really isn't a large consequence for not gifting if you're not tied to this community at all. Even the naughty list isn't going to stop all the trolls (mom's address instead of college, for example). It's not kickme's fault, but not everyone will get a gift, and that's just a fact of doing things like this.",
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"body": "When they marked \"gift sent\" they didn't think far enough ahead to realize they'd eventually get caught in that lie?\n\n\"What? I can click 'gift sent' without providing any proof I actually sent? Well, sweet. I'll just do that then!\"\n\nPS: It is perhaps worth noting that I was not a bad Santa. I sent gifts in rounds 1 and 2, and both arrived before Christmas. I'm merely guessing here.",
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"body": "I was just about to post my story about how I swore I sent mine but I hadn't heard back from my reciever, etc. \n\nI just went to check my throw away account and he finally replied saying it arrived :D That was yesterday... and I sent it Dec 10th. It had to go from Texas to Estonia, so long trip.",
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"body": "It's also possible that throwaway accounts people made up before the user created deadline were used to get many gifts from people. \n\nI'm sure there are a handful of people that got caught with too little time to do anything, missed the deadline, checked it as sent so no one would worry, and feel very guilty and embarrassed about it and are avoiding it now. (The post stamp would prove it wasn't sent on the day redditgifts said.) But i agree, 700 people is a bit much.\n\nI was a good santa, albeit a few days late. i hope you get at least a message from your santa explaining.",
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"body": "Possible mistaken bad Santa here with a question of my own. Why did my giftee never post the receipt (or not) of the gift I sent. I sent all 3 of my gifts the same day. Even my international recipient got theirs. I also wrote a friendly pm asking if they got it, whether they liked it or not. Why do you hate me so, giftee? Why would you impugne my Reddit credibility. Are you just lazy? Or did you hate my gift that much?",
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"body": "Honestly, in the other secret santas / CD exchanges / etc. I've been involved in, the success rate was 50-75% at best. It's best not to get too hung up on overanalyzing it -- it's just easier to sign up than it it so send something out. Reddit SecretSanta was just unusual because of the excessive amounts of tracking. A typical swap of this sort will have no tracking of any kind, just a name draw.",
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"body": "I think I'm a bad santa :( I come under option 2, I sent my gift on the 10th but it just hasn't arrived. Ive messaged my santee to try and get him to accept a gift certificate or something but he wouldn't accept. Now I'm just left praying it will get to Arizona eventually (I'm in New Zealand)",
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"body": "Never forget the lad who had his gifts **stolen off his own porch**.\r\n\r\nI wonder what happened to him. He had the entire event filmed.",
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"body": "I am a bad gift receiver. My gift was at the local fed ex facility (I missed the delivery guy three times) and I kept forgetting to go get it. It got sent back to the shipper yesterday. I tried to get it stopped and returned to my town - but someone from fed ex was supposed to contact me today if that was possible, guess not. I feel like a total asshole because someone spent time and money to get me something and I'm the one who dropped the ball. Sorry secret santa guy : (\r\n\r\nI DID send something to the person I got though. ",
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"body": "I sent my gift on Dec. 10th from Canada, and it's still sitting in a US post office. They've just sent out a notice to my giftee that it's there in the last few days.\n\nSad thing? Their state/my province are adjacent. Had I a car and were it not totally creepy, I could have driven the gift to them in a couple of hours.",
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I am someone who takes the bus. AMA | It's a scary world out there, filled with asians who can't speak english and crackheads peeing on the seats. | 36 | [
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"body": "Do you ever get annoyed when you're sitting on the outer seat and you're going to get out at the next stop but the person who is sitting beside you is _also_ going to get out of the next stop but gets up way too early for it? And, therefore, they also make *you* move too early? And what do you do then _DO YOU SIT BACK DOWN OR STAY STANDING UP OR SIT DOWN JESUS I_",
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Reddit, if you only had one... | ...food to eat for the rest of your life, what would it be?
...drink to drink for the rest of your life, what would it be?
...sound that you could listen to, what would it be?
...dollar left to spend, how would you spend it?
...minute left to live, how would you live it?
I'll start.
1) Nutella. Or potatoes.
2) Milo
3) Wind through the trees.
4) I would probably save it in the hope it learnt how to reproduce autogenously.
5) Laugh. | 8 | [
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"body": "1) Bacon \n2) Iced Tea \n3) Rain \n4) A Mr. Big chocolate bar mmmm \n5) Jumping off a building so I can feel what it's like to fly. I'm dying anyways might as well go out with a bang.",
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"body": "> food to eat for the rest of your life, what would it be? \n\nbread\n\n> drink to drink for the rest of your life, what would it be?\n\nbeer\n\n> sound that you could listen to, what would it be?\n\nthe gentle sound of my wife's breathing while she is asleep\n\n> dollar left to spend, how would you spend it?\n\ngas for my m/c\n\n> minute left to live, how would you live it?\n\nin the saddle",
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"body": "1. Pomegranites.\n2. Limeade.\n3. This is really fucking cheesy, but my boyfriend's voice. I will now go submit myself to /b to get the taste out of my mouth.\n4. Food?\n5. Snuggles! But honestly, probably screaming.",
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"body": "1) banana\n\n2) water\n\n3) my wife's voice\n\n4) lottery ticket\n\n5) saying \"thank you\" to my friends and family",
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"body": "1) Pizza, the food of infinite variety\n\n2) Beer, preferably a dark porter like Deschuttes' Black Butte\n\n3) Slowly breaking ocean waves\n\n4) $1 lottery scratcher - can't buy much else, and it has a chance...\n\n5) Hollywood-style liplock with a gorgeous girl until the end of the world hits.",
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"body": "1) Pizza\r\n\r\n2) Mountain Dew Throwback\r\n\r\n3) Ocean waves\r\n\r\n4) Handful of Bit of Honeys\r\n\r\n5) Snuggling with my dogs in bed. \r\n",
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"body": "1. Sushi \n2. Orangina\n3. Leaves rustling in the trees from the wind.\n4. I would give it to the first person I meet that seems to need it because I don't.\n5. I would snuggle up to the love of my life, close my eyes, and listen to his heart beat.",
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Just had my Bike stolen in NE Portland. | To top off the worst winter I've ever had, (lost job, lost girlfriend) Last night my bike was stolen in front of the Co-op on Alberta. Does anybody have any advise? Similar stories? What do you think my chances of getting it back? | 16 | [
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"body": "Wow. I live like 2 blocks from the co-op. Sorry to hear that. My roommate's bike was stolen from the backyard (different house than I'm at now) and he hopped on Craigslist looking for a new one. He ended up finding his bike. Called the guy, asked to look at it, then on the way there, called the cops to describe the bike. He gave it a test ride and chatted with dude awhile. Then the cops showed up, verified it was the bike he described and told him it was his choice whether or not to press charges. He told the guy if he could take the bike without a hassle, he'd leave it at that.\n\nHe also brought a few friends along so he wasn't alone. I don't want to tell you this is necessarily a safe idea, but I would cruise Craigslist. You never know what you'll find.\n\nAlso, if you have a serial number, make a police report and make sure it's noted. Local bike shops clear all bikes they've bought from private parties with the police first. If someone illegally tries to sell your bike and it's on file, you could get it back.\n\nEdited: Typos due to mobile typing.",
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"body": "I don't know how much it'll help, but bikeportland.org has a [bike theft form](http://bikeportland.org/biketheft/) that I would suggest posting to. And if you haven't already, file a police report -- 503-823-3333.",
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"body": "Do you happen to have a picture of your bike, or is there some recognizable feature so I can keep an eye out? ",
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"body": "Feel your pain. as stated already, bikeportland.org forum and police report is about all you can do. I am a custom frame builder and I had 20,000$ worth of bikes stolen out of my garage in NE, 3 months ago. mine was obviously done professionally so there was pretty much chance i'll get anything back. In your case, Id watch craigslist and with a police report/bike forum post your chances are petty good. what kind of bike was it?",
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"body": "Do you mind me asking what security measures were in place? Did you use a lock? If so what kind, U-lock or cable? So the rest of us can use this to keep our bikes safe(r).",
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Is it actually *possible* to boycott Monsanto? | We've seen a few articles this week about the evil deeds of Monsanto. Actually, we probably see them most weeks -- they do evil things. We can probably argue about exactly *how* evil they are (a debate about which I'm agnostic), and whether they should be boycotted, etc. etc... But before we bother, I'd like to hear from informed redditors on the *plausibility* of doing so.
Is it even conceivable to boycott Monsanto? Will you starve without them? When I buy some veggies at the farmer's market, are such goods actually 'untouched', so to say? How would I find out?
EDIT: Maybe I should make this point more explicit: I'm not anti-GMO, and I'm not even necessarily anti-Monsanto (though I'm tending to lean that way). I'm asking if the calls to action and threats to boycott made by certain people have any weight whatsoever; if Monsanto could possibly see this as any sort of threat, and if it would actually be possible to bring down Monsanto without starving a large part of the world population. | 41 | [
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"body": "It'd be like trying to blockade a planet by putting a ring of ships in orbit around the equator, ignoring access via the poles. Who would be stupid enough to do *that*?",
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"body": "Yes. I eat local, organic food, that is inspected for authenticity. I drink water from a spring that is within view of my house. I also get a lot of vegetables from a couple that grows organic food, and they sometimes have extra.",
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"body": "yes it is possible. Most farmers markets will have non-Monsanto round up ready crops because they don't want to pay for the licensing, seeds, etc and their seeds have been in the family for generations of plants, so their crops are always \"new\" and they are very prideful of the fact that they are untainted and homegrown. This has been a problem in Canada though where Monsanto seeds have turned up on local farms altering the seeds from that point on. Also, Monsanto GMO's are mostly soy and corn so avoid processed products that use those ingredients. In the US it isn't required that foods be explicitly labeled GMO or non GMO, but their barcodes will tell you what is GMO or not, avoid produce with a 5 digit code starting with 8 or always buy organic. I don't know if people would be able to do this on a large scale, it takes a little bit of effort and education on the part of the consumer and is probably more expensive. Past attempts by people to even force Monsanto to label their products have failed pretty miserably because of their political and lobbying power, but it can't hurt for people who want to to learn more and be a smarter consumer.",
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"body": "My suggestion is to shop and eat from co-op market places, farmers markets, and permanent markets set up from local farmers to sell their goods. A lot of times you can ask these farmers questions, or someone at the store will know more about the food or what its made with. There is a very large group of people out there (or at least in Portland) that care about what they are eating and making sure what they are eating is actually good for their body and not wreaking chaos inside. Do some research, keep a calender of markets coming in around your city. At least with Portland, Or we have tons of markets, all on different days at different times. It gives the farmer better range to sell their product and it gives you flexibility to pick up good stuff.",
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"body": "One of the problems with Monsanto is that even the farmers who aren't using GM crops are still having problems with Monsanto seeds cross pollinating with non-GM crops. It's almost inescapable.",
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Hey buds! I just got myself a grinder | Nothing fancy, just a regular 5 piece 2" grinder. Any of you buds have recommendations for using it, cleaning it or whatever? I'm gonna grind a full ouce when I get home to see how much kief I can get out of it, and try pressing some hash later, even if it's a small piece.
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"body": "don't grind an ounce at a time; when you grind, the bud starts losing potency. instead, grind what you will need for the day, and play with it again tomorrow.\n\noh, and come over here with a bowl pack, i'm out.",
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My g/f took a look at my Magic Mouse which arrived today... | ..."it looks more like a beetle and is an unpleasing shape" she said, "and I don't like it".
For reasons not properly explained she doesn't like Apple products and thinks they're "overblown and over expensive."
What do you guys and gals other halves think about Macs?
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"body": "After experiencing the most advanced operating system ever devised by human minds on my Macbook Pro my girlfriend was smitten and got a MBP herself. \n\nKinda funny story, her mac was a graduation present and her mother initially ordered her a dell (big, bulky, ran vista) and when my girlfriend found out she asked her mom to cancel the order so that she could get a mac instead. \n\nThat may seem kinda bitchy or snobbish but the computer you're going to be using for college is pretty important and you really want it to be something you will like, especially if its a gift.",
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"body": "I like the look of the Magic Mouse a lot, and I've absolutely hated previous Mac mice. It's sleek and shiny and has a nice weight to it. It's shaped like a piece carved out of a sphere, what's unpleasing about that? With that said, it's not the most practical mouse and I find myself using my Logitech Revolution MX when I need to do real work. \n\nMy girlfriend is actually the one who turned me on to Macs and she's totally envious of my Magic Mouse.",
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"body": "She likes macs, but it doesnt even matter. As VP of Tech in my house, my word is golden. \n\nThat being said, I am not actually a huge fan of the magic mouse myself. ",
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Help me, Reddit! My best friend is a creationist. | We've known each other since we were small children. We were both born into extremely religious families. Since I recently found out what a total load of crap it all was, we've been talking about religion a lot. It was all civil discourse, he made a couple of points and improved my argument, I did the same for him.
And then it happened. He invited me into a "science contest" in which I had to explain why ancient tetrapod footprints are a "threat" to the "**hypothesis** of evolution".
I then had a talk with him and learned that he was indeed a young-earth creationist.
Help me Reddit. :( | 6 | [
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"body": "1) If you're friends, then it shouldn't matter what you both believe. Be friends.\n\n2) If you're trying to prove who's right, ask yourself, how much is your friendship worth to you?\n\n3) If you get to an impasse, what's the best result you can get?\n\n4) Ask your friend if this is a problem with your friendship.",
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"body": "I have friends I don't talk politics with, I don't talk sexist jokes around women etc. Sometimes you just avoid touchy subjects with people you like if it's going to hurt the friendship. Watch [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIpRRZvnJg) to understand what I mean better. \n\nThat said, if you want to be able to debate without having all the answers you need a solid foundation of understanding. Watch [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRsWAjvQSg) and [this series](http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=126AFB53A6F002CC) and [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIpRRZvnJg), [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqznURlEWI0) and [these](http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=QualiaSoup#grid/uploads) and go [here](http://talkorigins.org). Buy a book on evolution (Greatest show in earth, why evolution is true, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea , etc) for yourself. I also recommend reading [this](http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/0767908171) and [this](http://www.amazon.com/Genome-Autobiography-Species-23-Chapters/dp/0060194979).\n\nIf you want a book to buy him, there is one written by a Roman Catholic Biologist that talks about evolution from a religious standpoint (the author is in the first video I gave above):\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Finding-Darwins-God-Scientists-Evolution/dp/0060930497\n\n\n\n",
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Is there any difference in oral and insufflated consumption of MDMA? | Where I'm from, we usually take it orally, but I read on Erowid how people are sniffing it. Is there a difference in the effects? | 6 | [
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"body": "Of course, insufflated is a waste done by idiots who have watched Scarface too many times. Take it orally, take one decent sized dose (125-150mg), and follow up with an optional 50mg booster at the 1.5hr mark. No more repeated dosing, no rails, no bullshit.",
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"body": "Railing it greatly increases the intensity but severely shortens it, I'm told. Also told that MDMA burns like fuck (or is that 2C-B)? when railed and that it's usually only railed when you're low on pills or money, and want to get the most bang for your buck.",
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Double sexism: This is seriously dating advice? (MSN) | Most people who use MSN have probably seen their dating advice pages pop up in the log-on screen. Bother to read them, and you'll find that they've been consistently really, really bad. The latest one is just ridiculous: [10 Things Every Single Girl Must Own](http://dating.uk.msn.com/matchscene/article.aspx?articleid=3996&lid=0)
The sexism goes both ways in this. Some people do behave like this, so some of the tips do barely have (extremely) tenuous merit. Overall, though, they're vapid and gendered. I'm assuming this is written for the absolute lowest-common denominator. Here's a quick run-through:
* A fabulous photo of yourself - "Daa-aamn, girl, you're hotter than I realised!"
MALE: Shit, now I really want to fuck this bitch! I was like "yeah I'd hit it" before but damn!
FEMALE: I am fundamentally UGLY. I must go to great lengths to look beautiful and manufacture illusion to ensnare a lay.
* An Eminem CD
MALE: Haha, did she think I was going to actually like her for who she is? Hot fuck, this CD means she's just like one of the guys! I admire taste in music, and Eminem is an epicurean delight!
FEMALE: I cannot hope to have a relationship based on my true identity and tastes. I should get used to creating a home full of artifice and pretend to like things I don't.
* A great pickup line…and a way to blow 'em off - "In this post-chivalrous period, we can't always depend on guys to initiate contact"
MALE: Men should be chivalrous, even if it's severely patronizing and reinforces gender roles. After all, she's totally a bitch if you hold the door open for her, but she doesn't put out later in thanks.
FEMALE: LIE! For god's sake, lie, lest you seem like a BITCH for *gasp* rejecting someone you don't want!
(Admittedly, lying is more than justified in getting rid of overbearing jerks or creeps.)
* A six-pack of good bottled beer
MALE: BEEEEEEEEEER, UGG WANT BEER, GIVE BEEEEEEEEER
FEMALE: Buy and drink shit you don't like, or be involuntarily celibate.
* Bathroom reading - "Or, just buy a book that's made for the bathroom, like Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott so he can learn a few things about shoelace lengths and sign language while he passes the, uh, time."
MALE: Nevermind that I'm already up to shitting in her bathroom despite the fact that we just started seeing each other. I want entertainment, goddamnit, and I'm incapable of appreciating any female-marketed literature.
FEMALE: I am so willing to please and desperate to serve my man to keep him that I must find ways to impress him, even when he's relieving himself.
* Earplugs
MALE: I'm a stupid fuck who doesn't realize that snoring can be indicative of a serious medical problem, and I'm an inconsiderate asshole for not acknowledging its disrupting effect on those I sleep with.
FEMALE: God forbid I actually tell someone I'm seeing to go to the doctor for something or, you know, seek help for a condition that could totally blow my sleep for the entire duration of our relationship, or the rest of my life. No, that'd offend him, and he'd leave me. I must tolerate his insensitivity and ignorance or be lonely.
* A straight male friend on your speed-dial
MALE: LOL @ empathy.
FEMALE: Despite being human, having a brain, and sharing the same earth and experiences with them, I am helpless to understand or comprehend men.
* A condom
MALE: I LUV BANGIN' WITHOUT RUBBERS
FEMALE: I have so little dignity that I am willing to date men who are completely irresponsible about their personal health, *my* personal health, and family planning/contraception. Oh yeah, this one's a keeper. | 20 | [
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"body": ">Hot fuck, this CD means she's just like one of the guys! I admire taste in music, and Eminem is an epicurean delight!\n\nI loved this.\n\nYou wrote an excellent piece here, Alvaspiral, and it's an excellent and comical reminder of how such things stereotype both men and women in a brutally unfair fashion. These 'advice columns' often trade on the idea that dating is entirely about manipulation, and totally coincidentally *consumption*!\n\nWomen are often portrayed as vain, weak, or desperate; men often get it in the face as knuckle dragging idiots who are easily led by beer tied to a string.\n\nIt's all classic sexism.\n\nI also agree with Hellborus that a random self portrait in the form of a photograph around my house would be rather weird. A picture of something like a graduation or a family event, or an award I received, sure. But just a portrait of me looking out onto my house? Well that'd be a bit strange.",
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"body": "This is a dumb article, patronzing to both sexes, but FWIW, a lot of dating advice aimed at men suggest similar things (dress to impress, pretend to be interested in what she's interested in, etc). \n\nAs for the beer thing, here's one guy who suggests that guys have an elaborate array of drinks in stock [to make your crib female-friendly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBRL7D0wcXM). ",
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"body": "Most of that is bullshit, but having condoms on hand is not bad advice at all. Sometimes the unexpected happens, and it's best to be prepared.",
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"body": "I love your analysis, this is a winner. That's an unbelievably vapid article, but if everything in my life turns to shit, at least I know there's writing work available that I could do while solving a rubik's cube and talking to friends.",
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Dear atheism I need some opinions on how I handled this situation. | I am leaving for army boot camp to Ft. Leonardwood, Missouri on the 20th and my family threw me a going away party. They all know, but don't accept, that I'm an atheist. I've told them all but I don't try to convert them away from their religion, so I expect the same from them. Anyway at the party my cousin gets me a bible, and I was pretty pissed.
Everyone said that I should just be happy that they were thinking about me and got me a gift regardless of if I agree with it. I couldn't accept that and said it would be like if I gave you," The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins.
My question to you is should I just be happy about the gift, or should I give her my copy of the god delusion to be even? | 6 | [
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"body": "Actually, a copy of the Bible is probably a good prop for an atheist in the armed forces, especially in a camp in the Bible Belt. It guards against discriminatory evangelicals who happen to rank higher than you and despise your beliefs. A good answer to the question, \"What is your religion\n?\" can be, \"I study religion independently. I even have a Bible with me.\"\n\nNot that I don't support your freedom to express your beliefs, but in the military that sometimes results in sanctioned physical abuse.\n\nhttp://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/4/16/12377/3097",
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"body": "Not much you can do about it. Your cousin feels perfectly justified in demonstrating concern for your mortal soul, and nothing you say or do is going to change that. I recommend that you don't speak of it unless asked, and if asked mention that you did the morally responsible thing: you gave it to the recyclers.",
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Should I be taking off my pants when I shoot this heroin? | [FYI](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/apmsw/by_request_iama_tesla_owner_ama/c0irjwk?context=2). | 28 | [
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"body": "The bigger question is why are you wearing pants in the first place.\r\n\r\nFEEL ULTIMATE FREEDOM! Go out Donald Ducking.",
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"body": "Since the proper way of injecting heroin is by inserting the needle up your urethra...then yes, taking off your pants would be wise.",
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How should I punish my child? | He wrote on the wall with pencil. He is five years old. I tried holding his hand in a shallow pan of boiling water till he recited the alphabet but i don't think he learned his lesson. Any suggestions? | 11 | [
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"body": "Buy him a puppy or kitten. Let him pet it and love it for maybe a minute or two. Then stab it with the pencil he wrote on the wall with. ",
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"body": "Buy him a puppy or kitten. Lock him in an unfurnished room he can't escape from with it and the pencil. Tell him in order to get out he has to kill it. ",
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Unemployed Redditor seeks job advice within | I just graduated from college with a degree in Interdisciplinary Art, Philosophy, and Classical Humanities. For some reason the only job I have been able to get is working 2-3 days a week at an antique store.
How do I get a better job? I don't care what as long as it is interesting. | 6 | [
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"body": "AIDS charities will be more likely to hire you if you actually have AIDS. You should contract it and apply with them.",
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What's a good annotated version of the bible to read? (Hear me out...) | When I was growing up our primary school (grade 1 through 6) school had something called RE (religious education, although only Christianity was offered) - because my parents were not religious I was able to not attend this class and instead play with blocks and do math sheets.
Because of this I know very little about the bible and religion in general. I'm hoping to change this but reading the bible and other major religious texts (the koran namely) but I think i would miss out on a lot of the symbolism and don't want to spend hours re reading passages. I also don't want to read a version that is annotated with stuff like "God is pretty swell, isn't he?"
So I'm hoping somebody could suggest a non biased (well as non biased as possible) annotated version of the bible. Please also suggest other religious texts I should read and any decent annotated versions you know of.
You may also suggest some atheist texts (that sounds weird) for me to read as I currently consider myself agnostic.
Thanks in advance! | 9 | [
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"body": "http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/\r\n\r\nRead the bible with skepticism. That's the most impartial non biased way possible",
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Can the free market self-regulate cell phones? | I've been arguing and debating this with my friends and in various chat rooms for about three days and we are trying to find a practical (ie. realistic) answer to the following question:
In the absence of the FCC granting undisputed 'rights' to certain chunks of the radio spectrum and then using the force of law to enforce those rights, what other mechanism can create a cell phone network as reliable as the one we enjoy today. | 8 | [
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"body": "First of all, Somalia, has NO EM spectrum laws, yet has the most highly developed cell phone network in Africa.\n\n\"Telecoms thriving in lawless Somalia\"\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4020259.stm\n\nhttp://mises.org/daily/2815\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "I figure that in the absence of some bureaucracy (like the FCC) cutting up the slices of airwaves and handing them out the most politically-connected/lobbied companies (you just *know* that's what happens), these companies would be forced to discuss among themselves and bargain to divvy up the frequencies so as not to interfere with each other's freqs. \r\nBy extension; these same companies wouldn't get the benefit of having their market share being \"protected\" by said bureaucracy so you'd get many more companies, thereby ensuring no one company gets so big as today's telcos are. \r\nConceivably, the early situation would've created lots of small companies all over the map, instead of being the split-up descendants of Ma Bell. Remember that \"playing nice\" with the competition is beneficial to both companies because their customers need to be able to communicate with each other regardless of location, provider and tech.\r\n\r\nBut frankly, this should have been the situation from the start. I don't see how today's situation could ever be forced into a true free market paradigm like this.",
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Call Pat Robertson's "700 Club" @ 1 (800) 759-0700 to give them your opinion of his comments about Haiti. It costs them about $1 to pick up each 800 call. | One of my FB friends just posted this. I haven't done any background checking on this (finishing homework right now) but feel free to check it out and report here with your info.
Edit: Apparently (757) 226-7000 gets you a live receptionist; and the above number is just a 'prayer line'. | 88 | [
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"body": "The number shown is the prayer line. If you want to contact the main switchboard it's (757) 226-7000.\n\nOr you can stop reacting to the CBN Troll.",
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"body": "I'm sure all these angry phone calls will cause him to immediately change his whole outlook on everything!",
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So my boss and I found this in a box of donated computer parts a couple months ago... | And after speaking with every other person in the building noone has any clue as to what it is or what it's for, maybe you guys know. It's just a plastic circular plate with two motors with rubber disks and four feet.
http://i.imgur.com/Tgjyb.jpg - The device
http://i.imgur.com/TClZS.jpg - The plug
http://i.imgur.com/sT6zh.jpg - The underside
Any ideas?
Edit: http://i.imgur.com/h0RkE.jpg - For size comparison
Edit2: It turns out it's a ping pong ball launcher. Thanks for the help Reddit! | 15 | [
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"body": "high speed ping pong ball launcher\n\nhttp://www.mutr.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=8_134&products_id=691\n\nhere's one in action...\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRNMrh7cmTA#t=04m40s",
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Shortage of supplies for the Red Cross in Haiti -- people in the DC area can help -- details are inside | I've posted this on reddit.com and figure it should probably be in this section as well. I got this info from a friend:
There is a shortage of supplies for the Red Cross in Haiti as per their representative on CNN. They are awaiting planes with supplies today and tomorrow. A friend, was contacted today (her dad is working with them in Haiti) and was asked to provide supplies. The Red Cross is organizing a plane to leave the DC area tomorrow. They want supplies...not cash!
Here's a a list of supplies they may need: http://bit.ly/90i1fp
Take the supplies to the local chapter of the Red Cross by the end of the day. I would strongly suggest calling first to see if they are in need of a certain supply first. Here is the list of chapters in DC/MD: http://www.redcross.org/cgi-bin/chapts-new.asp#MD
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"body": "This makes no sense to me, how can the Red Cross be unable to procure these basic supplies themselves?",
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HELP - Am I Catching Anarchy? | As a 'New Atheist' I've recently been indulging in Secular humanist philosophy and metaphysical naturalism.
If I can reject the divine authority of Religion, on the basis that it has no rational authority to draw from, then surely I am bound to apply the same standards to other institutions of assumed authority.
I think I'm showing signs of anarchy!
I don't see how I can accept a universal morality, while we are herded into Nations, States and their Laws.
Is this inevitable? What can I do? how can I profit? | 22 | [
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"body": "Hey, you might be interested [r/Anarchism.](http://www.reddit.com/r/anarchism/) It has quite a good community!\n",
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"body": "I've been leaning towards that view for some time. The only thing that has kept me away from full-blown anarchistic thoughts is the fact that I have little to no faith in humanity, and without an externally imposed social structure I am certain most people would be unable to set their own limits and live respectfully next to other people.",
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"body": "My suggestion is to ride this train as far as it will go. In fact, if you stop in anarchy town because you like the scenery and free food, you might forget that the train still has more stops. Classical anarchism can be just as binding because of it's fixed ideology and moralisms.\n\nThe fact of the matter is [Nothing is true, and everything is permitted](http://everything2.com/title/Nothing+is+true%252C+everything+is+permitted)",
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"body": "> What can I do? how can I profit?\r\n\r\nI was going to make a joke like [thomas_anderson](http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/apr2c/help_am_i_catching_anarchy/c0it0vv) did, but I guess I can't be unoriginal now, can I? =(\r\n\r\n> If I can reject the divine authority of Religion, on the basis that it has no rational authority to draw from\r\n\r\nWhat's wrong with \"irrational\" authority? You don't consider your genes to be rational or irrational - it's not like your chromosomes are thinking to themselves, hmm, how should I best arrange my genes this time? Even though there is no rational thought involved, your DNA still turns out to work pretty well.\r\n\r\nNow take genes and apply the same concept to memes. Take DNA and apply the same concept to ideologies.\r\n\r\nAnyway, here's an example of someone who went from atheist to anarcho-capitalist, to anarchist-without-adjectives, anti-capitalist anarchist: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhbvr2gz_45hq9crw3z",
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"body": "Just wanted to drop off my two cents (in addition to my wink-wink about Crowley in another thread).\n\nIf you're ready to blow some philosophical walls open, then I can recommend a place to start; for a mental re-framing that will make you question almost everything you know, (which is what you seem to be going for) try reading a novel entitled [The Story of B](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_B), by Daniel Quinn. It's a little history, a little paleoanthropology, a little philosophy, and a little religion (which can be safely ignored if you're not into it) all bundled up into an easy-to-absorb fictional story. Of course, if you want to save time, you can just read the last 100 or so pages, which are in easy-to-digest essay format, and hit on all the key points. I should say that I think that some of Quinn's premises are flawed or lacking depth, and he's a bit off on quite a few little details. That said, it's still an incredible read.\n\nI'm sure you've heard people say, \"This book changed my life,\" and it'll sound trite of me to say it, but holy shit, you seem to be in a very similar 'place' that I was about 8 years ago. If you get just 10% as much out of this book that I did, it will irrevocably change how you see human history, philosophy, and our place in the Universe. This book is so important, I am actually willing to buy a copy and personally send it to you, if that will increase the chances of you reading it.\n\nI like your writing style, so I hope you don't mind that I've friended you. Drop by r/Anarchism if you're interested. There are definitely some live-for-debate types over there, but there are some really laid back guys like me. Check it out.",
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From best to worst, what order would you put the Trek movies in? | Mine is:
2, 6, 4, First Contact, Generations, Reboot, 5, Insurrection, 3, 1, Nemesis
Yes, I put Generations before Reboot. J.J. Abrams can go suck on some red matter. | 3 | [
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"body": "I think we'll get near consensus on Wrath of Khan as the best one, with everyone putting it near the top. I'm curious what people do with Reboot, though. I'd kind of like to rated it both high and low, I haven't made up my mind.",
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What are the funniest rap lyrics you have ever heard? | I always crack up when I hear Will Smith's Gettin Jiggy With It:
> you gotta Prada bag with a lot a stuff in it /
give it to your friend let's spin | 34 | [
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"body": "> She got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson\n\n> She got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson\n\n[Slo Jamz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrMrqBcv6Mk#t=54s)",
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"body": "I can't have sex with your personality,\n\nAnd I can't put my penis in your college degree,\n\nAnd I can't shove my fist in your childhood dreams,\n\n-[Show me your genitals...](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXi8WmQ_WM) Your GenitaLIA!",
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"body": "\"I've got blood on my hands and there's no remorse, I've got blood on my dick cuz I fucked a corpse. I'm a nasty nigga.\" -DMX.",
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"body": "Pretty much everything that comes out of lil'wayne's mouth makes me crack up. It just doesn't make sense.",
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"body": "the the humpty dance is insane. my favorite part is: \n\"and just like Humpty Dumpty\nyou're gonna fall when the stereos pump me.\nI like to rhyme,\nI like my beats funky,\nI'm spunky. I like my oatmeal lumpy.\"",
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"body": "\"I'm a venereal disease like a menstrual bleed\" -- Lil Wayne in A Milli. Getting those words into a song is a feat, plus it's just hysterical.",
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"body": "\"Don't push me nigga, cause I'm close to the edge, and I'll jump off with a rope that's wrapped around your head. Send a dead fetus to my ex on valentines day, the safety's off nigga, so get the fuck out my way.\"\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LUkErRmHTc",
"score": 13
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"body": "\"You can call me dirty, and then lift up your skirt, and you want some of this dirty, god made dirt and dirt bust yo ass\"\n-O.D.B. Got Your Money",
"score": 12
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"body": "\"Go to a vagina orchard, count 1-2-3,\nspin that plant around, and you've got a *third world country*\"\n\n- Bo Burnham",
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"body": "> Watch out for the medallion my diamonds are wreckless\nFeels like a MIDGET is hanging from my neckless\n\n[Ludacris - Stand Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZG7IK99OvI)",
"score": 9
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"body": "Sir Mixalot: So I say \"ooblee-goo, ooblee-googoo-doo!\"\n\n\nGirl: What'd you say?!?\n\n\nSir Mixalot: I ain't tellin' you! See the Mix game is laced with riddles....",
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"body": "\"I love skinny women, I love thick broads. All the bitches love me, I need a dick guard. But if she don't give head she's a nimrod, and bitch I'd never put your number on my sim-card.\" \n\n-Lil Wayne",
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"body": ">You look so good, \nI suck on your daddy's dick.\n\nThe Notorious B.I.G - Me and My Bitch \nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1oPDNBKOqE\n\nNothing more can be said about this.\n\n",
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"body": "I like the verse in Rapper's Delight about going to your friend's to eat, but the food just ain't no good!\n\nAlso in the song Slam by Onyx, it says something like \"you better back off, or your head'll get ruptured!\"",
"score": 5
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"body": "\"I'll be your boyfriend\nSmooch on your pooper hole\nall through the Super Bowl\"\n\nMC Paul Barman - Get MTV off the air Pt2\n\nI lololol every time that line rolls around.",
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"body": "If you're looking for some nostalgia factor, check out Afro Man. I remember my friends an I thought it was the funniest shit back in middle school. ",
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"body": "GZA: \"I'm on a mission that niggas say is impossible/ But when I swing my swords, they all choppable\"\n\nYou can *hear* him grinning at how ridiculous the line is",
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"body": "..Nibble on my dick, like a rat does cheese\n\n2 Live Crew - [Hey, we want some pussy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dbKIh5SSAQ)",
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"body": "I've always enjoyed the part of Notorious B.I.G.'s \"hypnotize\" where he rhymes \"escargot\" with \"my car go.\"",
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"body": "Never lied to ma when we said we found the moolah\n\nFive-hundred something dollars laying right there in the street\n\nHuh, now let's try and get something to eat\n\nMadvillain",
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"body": "All of Big L's Da Graveyard. \"A tec-nine is my utensil/fillin niggas with so much lead they can use they dick for a pencil/ Im known for snatchin purses, and bombin churches/ I get more pussy on accident than most niggas get on purpose/ I got drug spots from New York to Canada, cuz Big L be fuckin with more keys than a janitor.\"",
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"body": "Pass me an ice cold glass of wine\nSo I can get mellow\nLay back and let my girl play the cello. \nHello\nI hate Jello\n-Nice & Smooth - Funky For You",
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"body": "The first verse of Side To Side by Blackalicious:\n\nWhen you first walked in and I saw you at the bar or somethin'\n\nI ain't really wanna holler or nothin'\n\nI just pegged you as the type for frontin'\n\nSteady chucklin' with your girlfriends actin' contrary and cluckin'\n\nBut ya song came on, and somethin' changed in the way she was movin' along\n\nEyelashes caught flashes of the possibilities, maybe this one is the one for me\n\nShe's movin' to the dance floor, we'll see\n\nWhat I seen was inspirational, highly motivational\n\nHad to maneuver the set, up to confrontationals\n\nEven though it was my chance to mack\n\nI already did my dance, had the reservoir tapped\n\nHit me like a thunder clap, though\n\nCan't let somethin' that fat pass BY, why asks why?\n\nMade my way through the crowd with the side to side\n\nThen I pushed up on the tush 'cause, uh, I ain't shy!\n\nSaid, \"Excuse me Miss, but I liked what I saw\"\n\nWhen she spoke, I damn near dropped my jaw!\n\nHELL NAW! I can't believe she SAID that shit!\n\nI need to call my sister, \"Come up through and check this chick!\n\nAnd put some sense in her, cause her IQ 'bout six\"\n\nBein' that, stu-pid in pub-lic there should be a law against\n\nI mean, she didn't have a CLUE, tell you what to do\n\nJust SHUT UP, ride the groove, and let's move now",
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"body": "You know me I smoke a blunt while I'm gettin brain\r\n\r\nStick my finger in her butt while I'm gettin brain.\r\n\r\n-Lil Wayne",
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Does any one else get ulcers in your mouth after large amounts of cocaine usage? | It seems every time I use coke (which is maybe 2-3 times a year, in doses of 4-6 grams) I get ulcers. I don't know if the people i know on coke just are either too used to it or have large egos and don't want to admit they might have negative effects from coke.
I do have a nasty habit of rubbing the odd un-snarfed left overs in my mouth.
Any one else get this problem? Better yet any one have a solution to this? | 12 | [
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"body": "If, as you claim, you're using 4-6 grams of cocaine per episode, I'd have to say that it's heavily adulterated, and perhaps something in the cut is causing your problem.\n\nYou'd have to be more specific as to the exact type of ulcers in your mouth. ",
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"body": "I find that on stimulants, my mouth and tongue move a lot more. Even when not speaking, just sitting I'll be chewing on my cheeks, lips, and tongue. This often causes small tears or scrapes in various places throughout my mouth. A few of those tears will eventually turn into ulcers.\n\nI've had mouth ulcers pretty much non-stop since I was 10. Because of that, I keep pretty close tabs on my mouth. I tend to notice the ulcer precursors a lot sooner than most.\n\nCoke is the worst for giving me ulcers. Amphetamines are bad too (adderall, ritalin, etc.) I haven't tried meth, but I imagine it would be the worst. Extacy does it, but if I have a lot of gum or pacifiers, I'm fine. I'll get them sometimes on hallucinogens, if it's a more hyperactive trip. Caffeine will do it sometimes, but only if I go off the deep end.\n\nA few tips for dealing with ulcers:\n\n* Eat yogurt. Not only is it soothing, but the bacteria cultures can help clean out the sore so they'll heal faster.\n* Don't waste your time on the over-the-counter canker sore aids. They'll numb the area for about 10 minutes, but the med washes out too quickly.\n* Salt-water gargle will sooth the pain and clean out the sore.\n* I find it can sometimes be helpful to tear a corner off a piece of paper and use it to cover the sore. Depending on where the sore is, it will act as a bandage. If the sore is too close to your lips or teeth, it won't last, though.",
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What's something *unusual* that gives you the heebee jeebees? | I'll go first: That weird feeling around my throat when I've accidentally put a shirt on backwards. Dunno why. | 68 | [
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"body": "I hate cotton balls!! Just thinking about pinching them between my fingers gives me goosebumps. I think it's the squeaky sound they make.\r\n",
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"body": "I don't have anything, but one of my friends has Trypophobia. It's a fascinating phobia of clusters of holes (corrected by LoveCountdown).\n\nActually no wait, [I find this to be weird](http://pics.livejournal.com/maraz_m_moroz/pic/0046d81y).",
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"body": "Looking into an ice cream cone and seeing that [tic-tac-toe like structure](http://thumb1.shutterstock.com.edgesuite.net/display_pic_with_logo/59993/59993,1229608899,1/stock-photo-vanilla-ice-cream-cone-pink-background-22205491.jpg) at the bottom. Don't ask me why, I just hate it. I always destroy it before putting ice cream in.",
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"body": "OK, this is the absolute opposite of heebee jeebees, but who else LOVES the feeling when you pull a long booger out of your nose and there's this snot trail that feels like it goes straight up to your brain? Majestic.",
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"body": "Seeing myself in the mirror when I get out of the shower. I don't like seeing naked men. It just makes me feel funny.",
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"body": "Sloths give me a weird feeling. They've got stubby heads and claw hands; do not like. When my boyfriend told me about how there used to be giant ground sloths, I started screaming-- like for real screaming like one was in the room or something.",
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"body": "Saucepans. \r\n\r\nSpecifically the bottoms of saucepans. I hate when things scrape across them - spoons, fingernails, etc. It's not just the sound, it's the feeling too (in the case of fingernails, for example).",
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"body": "Sand hasn't been mentioned yet. Sand in contact with fingernails is the most horrendous feeling and gives me a spine chill just thinking about it. If you were to bury a tenner under 2 inches of sand for me to dig up, then A. you're a prick, and B. you can go dig it up yourself.\n\n",
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"body": "I guess the fear itself isn't unusual, but the degree to which I'm scared of it is. Schizophrenia. Just typing the word scares the shit out of me. I mean no offense to schizophrenics, it's just a very scary idea to me.",
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"body": "Watching a guy shave. I can't help but cringe when I hear/see a razor against someone's face. I have no problem shaving my own legs, but watching someone else...yegh. \r\n\r\n(Because of this, I have to close my eyes for that part of Dexter intro...)",
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"body": "I am an animal nurse, and have been COVERED in every bodily fluid imaginable. No problem, I can talk about it and eat, everything.\n\nThe ONE thing that gets me? Eye boogers. I love my dog to death, but if she has an eye booger or crusty, I gag. Vomit, feces, blood, puss? No prob. Eye booger? *retch*\n\nMy throat is tightening just typing this... I have no idea where that phobia came from.",
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"body": "my belly button getting poked. It is what my girlfriend does to get me back if I have been teasing her. It freaks the hell out of me.",
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"body": "Certain textures of towel fresh from the dryer. Generally dish towels but sometimes others. It's a dry texture that makes me want to immediately drop it and get my hands wet.",
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"body": "Looking into water from over a bridge or something. I don't get frightened or anything, but I feel like jumping off.\r\n\r\nI'm not afraid of heights or water or anything like that, but everytime I've been fishing or something, the whole time I'm just thinking about leaping into the water. The creepy part is looking back on it, because what is that",
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"body": "Looking into a mirror in the dark, being in a dark room with a mirror.\n\nI look away from mirrors (sometimes eyes closed/shielded) before turing the light on in a room. Also feel like someone is watching me when I turn the light off (to leave) in a room with a mirror.",
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"body": "the thought of chewing on yarn, or wool.\nit actually makes me feel a little sick to my stomach about it, and i get a bunch of saliva in my mouth.\n",
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"body": "The feeling of socks pulled too tight on my feet while I wear shoes. I always have to take my shoes off right then and pull them loose otherwise it annoys the hell out of me.",
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"body": "I can't stand chalk, whether I'm using it or just watching someone else writing on a blackboard; it just gives me chills.",
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"body": "Lotion and chapstick. \n\nI fucking hate lotion and chapstick with a passion.\n\nI hate the feeling of grease on my hands, can't stand it!\n\nI hate the sensation of chapstick grease on my lips, like I just gave a blowjob to a fried chicken.\n ",
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"body": "Even as a man I find pregnancy, child birth and even babies to be repulsive. Luckily for these and many more reasons I do not want kids.",
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"body": "Tennis ball material, specifically scratching against the material. It makes me almost gag. Funny thing is, I was on varsity tennis for all four years. I love tennis. ",
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"body": "I get a weird feeling when I have my bathing suit on under my clothes. I also can't eat the very last bite of meat on a hamburger, I have to remove the last bite of meat and finish the bun. If I try to eat the last bite of meat it makes me gag.",
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"body": "I dunno if I'd call it the heebee jeebees, but whenever I know that someone or something is going to touch me (especially on the nose), but it's taking longer than I thought and/or I can't tell how close they are (eyes are closed, or they're going to touch somewhere I can't see), it freaks me out. I get all tingly around the part of the body in question, and get really intensely focused on it. I've tried to explain this to friends and test it on them, but with mixed results.",
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"body": "cardboard rubbing against more cardboard. corrugated cardboard. or the idea of tearing cardboard. UGH! ",
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"body": "Those stickers or rulers you can get that when you tilt them show different pictures. The little grooves give me the horrors. That and the sound nail files make *shudder*",
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"body": "Spinach - In your mouth!\n\nAfter you eat it, there's a strange consistency in your mouth that's what \"nails on a chalk board\" probably tastes like. Hard to describe.",
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"body": "As a child, I watched a TV show that would \"road test\" different breeds of pets. One episode described a small breed of dog which was of agreeable temperament and easy to care for; the only downside was that it was genetically predisposed to growing hair on its eyeballs.\n\nMakes me cringe to this day.",
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"body": "I have a large amount of titanium plates/screws in my face. I live in a cold climate. If I'm outside for a prolonged amount of time the metal gets cold and makes my face also cold. However when things start to thaw out in the heat I feel like I have a thousand little bugs crawling under the surface of my skin.\n\nSometimes I get the sensation randomly and have to excuse myself when I'm with friends because it almost brings me to tears. I haven't really told anyone except my plastic surgeon.\n\nIt's led to a night terrors where I wake up scratching my face because I fear bugs are eating me alive, or that I have weird things growing out of my skin. It's very unpleasant.\n\nNow seeing things puncture the skin from the inside out or large groups of insects makes me really uncomfortable.",
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"body": "I haven't done this is quite awhile now, but it is definitely shoveling rock. Or shoveleing on somewhat bare cement, they are both as bad. Feel like I am going to hurl when I hear it.",
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"body": "Hearing someone nearby slurp on a cup of coffee, or hearing them chew bucketfuls of food obnoxiously loud while attempting to sputter out sentences of words. ",
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"body": "Pie crusts. even just thinking about biting into it and feeling it crumble into my teeth and soaking up all the spit... yeesh.\nJust typing this is making my suck on my teeth, which sounds weird... but that's the only way I can explain it.\nOoooh and whoppers too. same kind of feeling. like the devil made it just to suck your soul out, but people eat it as candy instead.",
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"body": "Having things around me that I can knock over.\n\nExample: a glass of water on a table. flowers in a vase, lamps, pretty much anything that can spill or smash.\n\nIf I'm withing arms reach of it I feel very uncomfortable, and can vividly picture myself knocking it over.",
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"body": "Well, after reading about all the irrational (but real) fears of other redditors, I'm feeling pretty good about myself.",
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"body": "Girlfriend gets goosebumps when she touches velvet. It's gotten to the point that I just say velvet and she'll shiver and feel extremely uncomfortable.",
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"body": "lol, let me share my story from this morning, cause i'm still freaked out.\r\nI'm scared of spiders, always have been, and this morning I was leaning over the basin brushing my teeth, and I was literally bent over leaning low to get some water.\r\nJust as I stand up this spider falls in front of my face and i just see this black thing go fast in front of my eyes. I look down and i see this huge spider has fallen into the basin. \r\nMy initial eek made me spray toothpaste, which landed on the spider and apparently pissed him off more.\r\n\r\nJust to be clear here, this wasnt a 'come down on a web' type of spider, more like a mini tarantula hunting type spider.\r\nI spent about 30min grimacing every time i thought how close i was to having that thing fall into my hair :(\r\n",
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"body": "The feeling of getting in a shower that is already wet (as in it was just used by someone else). The already moist surfaces freak me out. Just in showers, though.\nAlso, hair on any surface. Absolutely any surface. It gives me chills.",
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"body": "the thought of people making things up, or buying into things made up by other people. Then taking those false, uneducated thoughts and living by them. It says something about the human race, but i hope that there is enough educated people to keep the race from destroying itself over ignorance.",
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What can't you live without? | So you're getting locked into somewhere for a month, What do you think you couldn't live without?
Let's ignore the life sustaining necessities, (Air, Food, Water etc) and think about the rest, unless of course it's a specific food or something.
I'm thinking that I would have a hard time if I had to be locked away without music, If I'm driving, working, just sitting around, there is always music playing.
What's yours?
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"body": "Music again, within the rules of the game. But even if I did have music with me, the idea of being totally alone for a month is utter, utter hell to me. I'd be dead within 10 days.",
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I lost my chance with a girl because the Pokemon Theme Song came on shuffle. | She stopped immediately, looked up and said, "Seriously?!"
She went home shortly after.
shuffle setting = best cockblock ever. Better than a roommate. | 51 | [
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"body": "If she truly cared about you she wouldn't have left. Shuffle is a good way to weed out the superficial ones.",
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"body": "Guess she couldn't handle the pressure of being with someone who wants to be the very best...that no one ever was.",
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"body": "You know she's a keeper if she sings along, or starts telling stories about her epic battle to capture Mesprit. ",
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"body": "haha, I think all you guys hatin on the pokemon theme are acting a little TOO defensive. hmmm...\n\nI have pokemon on my music list too. I'm not really a geeky guy either.\nLook, it won't be a problem unless you let it be a problem. There's nothing wrong with keeping memories of your childhood with you. I think some of the people on here are a little insecure of their manliness.\nhaha.\n\nAnyway, I'm behind ya on the pokemon, but I think you could have handled the situation a little bit better. Chicks swarm to confidence and dominance of the situation. You gotta keep control. ",
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"body": "If she actually recognized the song you wouldn't think she'd have too much of a problem with it. What really sucked was when Mitch Hedberg started playing on shuffle once in the middle of having sex, it was even worse when I started laughing.",
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Linux Distribution for Scientific Python? | (repost from scipy subreddit due to no response)
I'm looking to do a fresh Linux install and would like something that specifically works well with the various popular scientific/numeric Python packages. I need a good balance of up-to-date packages and user-friendly - I use Arch myself, but not everyone here is fully comfortable with Ubuntu yet.
I'm hoping to use PyCUDA, so I'd prefer if the necessary non-free nvidia cuda bits were a no-hassle install (I had to fiddle with the AUR install files last time I tried to do it in Arch because some of the dependencies were incorrect).
Any distros I should try in particular, or ones I should specifically avoid? | 13 | [
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"body": "I can recomment the Enthought Python Distribution (EPD). It is now on Python 2.6 and has the latest numpy/scipy/matplotlib as many other packages VTK, wxPython, ETS, HDF5, pytables, ..., and it is very easy to install. They support RedHat, Ubuntu and OpenSuSE, but it should work on pretty much any standard Linux distribution. The 32-bit version is free for academic use, but they also have a 64-bit Linux version.\n",
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What's your best "what are the odds of that" story? | I once went to see Henry Rollins speak with a buddy of mine while living in Dublin. We'd never been to the venue before but knew that we had balcony seats. We were the first ones up there and chose what we thought would be the best seats. As people started to file in we noticed people looking at their tickets before sitting down. "Shit, we have pre-assigned seats" We looked at our tickets and we were in the correct seats. | 165 | [
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"body": "I have another one. A friend of mine went on a cruise. The neighbor they had on the boat was really friendly, and they got to know each other. After the trip they said goodbye and it was nice to have met them. A couple years later, on a road trip to Canada, their car broke down and they went to the first house they found. Guess who's house that was? ",
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"body": "I got shot in the head while driving down a Nebraska highway. I win. \n\nEdit: No. I don't win. See above.",
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"body": "I was a kid playing football in the street. Somebody threw a shitty pass that was going to land on the neighbor's lawn. I strafed onto the property with my eyes on the ball but tripped on construction tape and slammed my head against. . . the football. I would have smashed my head open on the corner of their stairs that were being redone, but my head landed on the ball. I stopped playing football, went back home, and reevaluated my 12 year old life.",
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"body": "Figured it was time to replace my imaginary boyfriend, Sullivan, that I'd had since I was 13, with a real one. Types a general description of Sully into a dating service computer. One named turned up, Shawn, that caught my eye cuz he had my exact same birthday. When I met that man he was perfect. Just what I wanted. And nickname from high school?...Sully. \r\n\r\nSoul Mates, married. Ten years. Freakishly happy. \r\n\r\nSame birthday? First real boyfriend the winner? Same NAME as my imaginary dream man?\r\n\r\nWhat are the odds?\r\n\r\nHonestly note: ok sometimes your dream man when you're 13 isn't precisely perfect when you're 31. But don't worry, I periodically update his software. ",
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"body": "A girl I had a major crush on went to the same school as one of my relatives, so I went to their exam party hoping she would be there. Turns out she is.\nLater in the night I'm on my way to the bar when I see her down on the floor looking as if she's searching for something. I kneel down and ask her what's up, and she tells me she's lost one of her earrings, which was an heirloom passed down to her from her grand-mother. She's obviously very upset and I can tell she's been crying. Now the place is very dark, filled with smoke and completely crowded, so my initial thought is \"Well, shit, good luck finding that...\" But as I turn my head to simply look around I notice something vaguely shimmering about five meters away.\n\nNot more than ten seconds after she'd told me she lost it, I am holding it up in front of her asking \"Is this the one?\". I could barely believe it. Needless to say, we were both very happy I found it.",
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"body": "A while ago a bunch of elements got struck by lightning, or something. They eventually turned into me. What are the odds?",
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"body": "I was holding a pencil on the sharpened end and a fly landed on my desk. I swung the pencil down like a little bat and hit the fly right on the end of the eraser. It happened so fast that I didn't even realize I got him until I saw him stuck to the eraser. I felt very much like Daniel-san from Karate Kid. ",
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"body": "Interesting subject. One night 30 or so years ago, I was sleeping next to my then wife and had a very odd dream. In it, I wanted to try heroin, but my wife appeared in the dream and told me not to. It was very vivid, and when I awoke I told her of it. Her eyes widened, and she told me she had dreamed that the two of us stood next to a fenced in field of snow, and that I insisted we hop the fence to play in it. In her dream she would not let me because she knew it was somehow dangerous. We had not discussed heroin that evening, or snow, for that matter, and I had no particular desire to try heroin in my waking life. Neither of us were psychic phenomena types, but the coincidence surely rocked us for a period.",
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"body": "Pre-9/11, I boarded a plane. As people were seating themselves, there was a kerfluffle two rows up: it appears two people thought they had seat 39C. Pretty soon a third person joined them, also claiming to hold a boarding pass for seat 39C. All three people produce boarding passes, and lo and behold all three of them *do* have boarding passes for seat 39C. There was confusion until somebody realized that two of passengers were on the wrong flight.\n\nI tried to come up with fancy explanations, but my best guess is that it was simply a coincidence.",
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"body": "Was driving in the desert, offroad. Stopped the car to tie down my bike on the bike rack as it was rattling. Resumed driving. After a few miles, realized my bike keys weren't in my pocket. Must have fallen out while car was stopped.\n\nTurned around, drove back the way I came, looking for familiar landmarks of where I might have stopped.\n\nNothing.\n\nAfter a while I figured I'd gone well past where I stopped, so turned around and resumed driving back my original direction.\n\nAfter a mile or I just got a familiar feeling, there wasn't anything in particular that looked familiar, but I stopped the car. Opened the driver's side door to get out and start searhing the ground nearby, just in case...\n\nMy keys were right outside the door.",
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"body": "I fell off of my skateboard once, going down a major street towards a busy intersection...ON A HILL. As I hit the ground (on my ass), I saw my skateboard fly down the rest of the hill, hit the tire of a car as it went through the intersection, and then watched in horror as the skateboard flew right back at me and smoked me in the side off the ass. ",
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"body": "It was my 21st birthday and I was spending it in Vegas. As soon as I got to the casino, I headed straight for the roulette table. After buying $200 in chips, I placed $10 on 21 as a symbolic bet to celebrate my birthday.\n \nThe wheel hits 21 and pays out 35:1. Needless to say I was pretty freakin excited.\n \nThese days, I only play blackjack.",
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"body": "After struggling financially at 18, I had to move back in with my dad.\nWhile I had a great job, my storage unit cost so much that with that and my phone bill, I barely had enough left over for groceries. Needless to say, I wasn't able to pay him any rent, even though I promised him I would.\n\nOne night I was at work and received an email from him saying he needed me out in two weeks. I was terrified and incredibly stressed since finding an apt. in 2 weeks is difficult enough, but in my financial situation was even more difficult.\n\nSuddenly a friend from the city I previously lived in came strolling into my store not knowing I worked there. Now this alone was insane to me since he NEVER leaves that town. He was coming to check out a building he had a dream about and felt he needed to visit. I told him my situation, looking for some guidance, and he told me had to go and we would talk about it later. He went on his merry way and I closed shop about 20 minutes later.\n\nAs I am locking the door to leave for the night, he comes running back with the BIGGEST smile on his face. He drags me by the arm 4 blocks away, and lo and behold we are standing in front of the building he spoke of. It was a gorgeous 1800's building that until now had been uninhabited. It was now a metaphysical church, complete with a meditation room (my kind of place). He introduced me to a woman I instantly felt close to, and she took me down some stairs showing me around the place. It is absolutely breathtaking, gorgeously built and the details are fantastic. Stone showers, an industrial size kitchen, the works. Then she begins showing me rooms, one for only $400. I said I would need to move in 2 weeks time, and after counting on her fingers, she sprung up with \"That's exactly when we were looking for someone to move in with!\"\n\nI only lived there for a few months (I ended up getting laid off), but in that time I went through so many incredible life changes, met such amazing people including my current boyfriend who I just celebrated my 1 year anniversary with. It was one of the hardest and best times of my life.\nIf it wasn't for my dad telling me through email, my friend randomly wandering into town (and my store), his dream, and the perfect timing, I could very well be homeless or dead right now.\n",
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"body": "This calls for another [Feynman story](http://www.brew-wood.co.uk/physics/feynman.htm#clock).\n\n> The Supernatural Clock\n\n> Once we were talking about the supernatural and the following anecdote involving his first wife Arline came up. Arline had tuberculosis and was confined to a hospital while Feynman was at Los Alamos. Next to her bed was an old clock. Arline told Feynman that the clock was a symbol of the time that they had together and that he should always remember that. Always look at the clock to remember the time we have together, she said. The day that Arline died in the hospital, Feynman was given a note from the nurse that indicated the time of death. Feynman noted that the clock had stopped at exactly that time. It was as the clock, which had been a symbol of their time together, had stopped at the moment of her death. Did you make a connection? I asked NO! NOT FOR A SECOND! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.",
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"body": "Met a girl online my first week of having a PC. She was in Poland, I was in the middle of nowhere in America. She was supposed to be moving to Pittsburgh with her parents who were starting a medical practice there. After a couple months of friendship, she vanished, and I assumed she'd be getting ahold of me once she got settled into her new home in PA.\n\nA month later, I was sitting outside my 1st period class studying for a test. A girl walks up and asked where the nurse's office is, and as it's in another building most of the way across campus, and she's gorgeous, I offer to walk her there. During the walk I ask about her interesting accent, and she tells me she's from Poland. I tell her I once had a friend from Poland named Patricia (Patrycja) and her eyes get wide... she asks 'Bob?' .....\n\nTurns out the medical practice fell through and her parents came to my small town to work at the local hospital. They had bought a house within sight of my front door. We were together from that day forward, for 6 years. I popped the question on New Years Eve 1999. Split when I was 20 and she was 18, just 3 months after getting engaged.\n\nTL:DR: Girl from 3800 miles away that I knew online in my early teens randomly moved to my town and almost married me.",
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"body": "I've told this story countless times. Zero believers. Maybe reddit can change that.\nI was 16 years old. I was by myself at a baseball field, waiting for friends to arrive so we could have a Home-Run Derby. I was very bored. I started hitting balls into the outfield, and running out to the outfield and hitting them back to home plate...\nI had parked my Civic directly behind home plate with the sunroof open. A good 250 feet away. I was in the outfield. I picked up a ball, and crushed it. I instantly made out the trajectory and became petrified. I waited for the shatter. . . Nothing. I could of swore that the ball was going to hit my car. I walk to the scene to make sure everything checks out, and to retrieve the ball. My car was fine, but I couldn't find the ball... Then I noticed I had left my sunroof open. I thought to myself \"Holyyyy... Shit...\"\n... The ball landed in the FUCKING CUPHOLDER IN THE BACKSEAT.\nThe end",
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"body": "Well it all started with a simple google search. Sixteen days ago my girlfriend and I decided it would be a funny thing to google her name since it was fairly popular and find out whatever it was existed about her on the internet-turned out there was nothing. In her attempt to do the same to me I shrugged off the idea as my name is too common too well find nothing all over again. She insists, so I take a look and well nothing. Then she insists I add the city so I do and for some ridiculous reason it seems I had won a TV (not a flash banner) but an actual TV! My heart starts beating rapidly shit shit I think whats the date July 7th... WHAT THE HELL. I run to check one of the old e-mails I signed up with to see if I ever was contacted about it. Four times they sent me an email to redeem it and well there was one sitting there December 29th. I immediately open it and it says this was the LAST day to redeem the prize and I needed to fill out the requirements in three hours so I try to open the pdf file that held the documents needed and well unsurprisingly since I was back from college I did not have the drivers installed on my computer. No big deal I run upstairs to one of my families computers and well lets just say theres seemed to freeze the moment I touched it, so I'm running to yet another computer when I finally find one mind you I am right now hysterically yelling at my girlfriend that I won. I finally am able to print it out and then sign it and go to scan it. I finally am able to do it and really thats all of the story. so I'll do the odds for you. \n\n* Days to redeem prize: ~1/180\n\n\n* Chance of me winning original sweepstakes: ~1/10000\n\n\n* Chance of me googling name: 12/365\n\n\n* Chance of printer working: 1/2\n\n\n* Total chance: .00000091342%\n\n\n* Or: 1 in 1,095,000\n\nTLDR: I have a big ass tv sitting in my room now because i got lucky",
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"body": "Opened a bottle of champaign. Shot the cork up at the ceiling (wooden beams on the underside of the second floor back deck) at an angle about 45 degrees. The cork bounces off a random beam straight back at me and hit me in the nuts. NYE 07.",
"score": 21
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"body": "My sister made friends with a girl 15 years ago. She stayed in my sister's life as a best friend up to, including bridesmaid for her wedding, and then after.\n\nI ran into this girl one night. \n\nI asked her out.\n\nA year later, we were married.\n\n\n(The story is longer and more fun, but that's the gist)",
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"body": "My mate and I went surfing about 3 hours from where we live, in the middle of nowhere (think dirt roads for 2 hours). While we were there my mate decides to go for a walk up the road to check around the point. When he gets back he realizes that he's lost his lucky charm necklace (little metal whale thing - had it since he was a kid). He looks for it while i go surfing. Doesn't find it. We go home.\n\n1 year later: We go back to the same place looking for waves. He decides to go check around the same point (1km-ish away). I tell him not to lose anything on the way. I'm playing around with my bb gun (one with metal balls - quite powerful), shooting things. When he's about 200m away, i take a pot-shot at him, aiming about 30 degrees above him to allow for gravity. 5 seconds later.. Boom Headshot, right in the back of the head, on his hat. He leans forward and his lucky charm is right on the ground in front of him. I shit you not.",
"score": 17
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"body": "i was walking around the block with my sister. i was probably about 12 and she was around 9. we came across a random playing card which was face down on the sidewalk. i have no idea why, but i made a big show of what i was doing for my sister. i walked to the card, focused really hard, said, \"queen of hearts,\" reached down, picked it up, turned it over, and you can guess the rest.",
"score": 16
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"body": "My friend was in the back bowls at Vail. She lost her phone and a stranger found it, answered when we called, and was on the lift behind us on the way up the mountain. Anyone who has been to Vail knows that the back area is massive and coming across a phone that is burred in powder is near impossible.",
"score": 14
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"body": "A few years ago I locked up the recreation centre I was working at to deliver some paperwork to the building my boss' office was located in...about a 25 minute walk away. \n\nThere was a break between programs, so I had about an hour and 15 minutes to make the trek there, get some things signed, and make it back in time to run the \"teen group\". I didn't have a car and we weren't on a bus route, so I had no choice but to walk. It had started snowing earlier, but by the time I reached the office, it was a full on storm. My boss had already gone for the day, so in addition to this now being a wasted trip, I couldn't even beg for a ride. \nI headed back, hood pulled over my head, trudging through what was now approaching a good foot or more of snow.\nMade it back to the centre with 20 mins to spare and realized...I had dropped the only set of keys at some point in my walk.\n\nPanicked, I ran back to her office trying my best in the snow to retrace my steps and sorting out how I would talk myself out of this. Made it all the way to her office, no keys, and by now her building was locked as well. I started to walk back to the centre, convinced I was going to be fired for this, and finally gave up halfway back, in the middle of a parking lot.\nI started crying (totally overreacting, I realize, but I was cold and it was dark and I had also locked my housekeys in the centre), and sat down on a concrete block in the parking lot, head in my hands.\n\n...only to notice my keys sitting there in the snow in front of me.",
"score": 13
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"body": "I live on the east coast. I bought a guitar on ebay from California. When I brought it into my local music store, the guy behind the counter instantly recognized it as his guitar he sold to someone in California.",
"score": 13
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"body": "My professor was testing a simple JavaScript game where you would try to guess a number and it would tell you if you had to go higher or lower. The numbers were between 0-100\n\nHe guessed something like 60, lower, 35, lower, 15, lower, 7, lower, 3, lower.. he was kind of nervous at this point.. 1, lower until he guessed 0 and got it right.\n\nI lightheartedly said \"What are the odds\" because everyone assumed it was going to be a semantic error in the program and without even missing a beat he said \"1 in 100\" and smiled. I suppose he was technically incorrect and the odds were really 1 in 101 but I'll forgive the fencepost error for such a timely response.\n\nFun stuff like this makes me really value getting a 3 person class with a really great and smart guy.",
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"body": "When I was the ripe young age of 15, many a moon ago, I lived in La Jolla California. There I had a girlfriend named Eve. \n\n\nOne afternoon while her parents were at work, I stopped by with two joints to have a bit of fun. We smoked one of the joints and enjoyed our time, until she became paranoid that her parents would suddenly return home, catching us. Her parents would not approve of their 15 year old daughter being alone with a male in the house, much less one with some weed. So, with a most pleasant buzz, home I headed, 5 or so blocks away. \n\n\nUpon reaching my house, since my folks weren't home, I reached into my front pocket to partake of the remaining joint. It was not there. I scoured that pocket. No joint. In my as yet still smoke imbued state, it nevertheless crashed into my head that I had lost the joint at Eve's! Lord, if her parents found it she would never be seen or heard from again. \n\n\nI called Eve and told her the joint was missing. In a panicked voice she told me she would begin searching, but I should retrace my steps, maybe I dropped it on my way home. Her suggestion seemed reasonable, so I set about to retrace my steps.\n\n\nI was perhaps a half block from her house when I saw it! There, in the gutter was the missing joint! I gleefully picked it up and placed it securely in my pocket. \n\n\nInstead of walking all the way home and calling Eve, I thought, since she was half a block away, I would stop by Eve's and say hello. If her parents were there I would find a way to let her know all was well.\n\n\nI knocked politely. Eve's mom answered the door; she did so with that reserved graciousness adults have for the young men who are likely banging their daughters. She called Eve, who approached me with a pleasant smile. Eve followed me outside and took my hand. In it, she surreptitiously deposited a joint. My brain did a stuttering two step. Luckily, I did not blurt out anything that might have incriminated us. Eve and I spoke of other things, and I departed, with genuine wonder piercing the smoke wisps still lingering in my brain.\n\n\nAt home I looked closely at the two joints. One was slightly yellowed, and slightly dimpled, as though it may have been exposed to dew. \n\n\nIt dawned upon me that I had gone searching for one joint, and had found another. It felt as though the gods had heard my pleas, and answered, \"You want a joint that badly? Have a joint.\" My sense of La Jolla shifted, it became the city paved with weed. As I toked upon my gift joint (it would not have been right to delay smoking it) a most profound thought hit me; I still had another joint.",
"score": 12
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"body": "I used to be on a rock climbing team at a climbing gym called earth treks in middle and high school. Fast forward 5 years and i'm at college in boston climbing at metro rock with a group of climbers i met though the school. theres a girl there and we start chatting. normal stuff like where we were from and she said maryland, which was where i'm from.\n\nthat's odd enough in its own right. everyone i meet at school has always been from around the boston area. i ask her where in MD and she says rockville. i comment that they have a great climbing gym there (another branch of earth treks), and she says, yeah, but she really grew up at the one in columbia (where i climbed). so i ask her if she knew anyone on the climbing team and she said she had been on the climbing team in middle school. the only reason we never met was we went to practice on different days. \n",
"score": 11
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"body": "A friend of mine and I once dropped some acid and wandered off around the neighborhood. He had his guitar with him and was playing it as we walked along, but quickly broke a string. He was pretty bummed about it.. A few minutes later I see a familiar looking plastic envelope on the ground and pick it up, and it's a brand new guitar string of the correct type (? sorry, not a musician.. don't know the right term).",
"score": 11
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"body": "This story was passed on to me from my woodworking teacher in college who was a SEAL in Vietnam. He met another vet years later in a support group. They got to chatting and the vet said that he wanted to show him something at his house. They go back and the guy points to his dog tags hanging on an RPG shell on his mantle.\n\nHere's his story: He's out patrolling around the base when they come under fire. He dives into a ditch and a second later an RPG lands right next to his face, but doesn't go off. After the fighting's over, he goes and gets the bomb squad to defuse the RPG. They do and they give it to him as a memento. His tour ends, he goes home puts the dog tags on the RPG on his mantle. Years go by, then he notices that the serial number on the RPG is *his ssn*!\n\nOf all the RPG's made, and all the ones fired, of all the places it could have gone, then to have been a dud, etc, etc.\n\nSince they were right there, my teacher was able to confirm the story.",
"score": 11
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"body": "This has nothing to do with me, but let me remind you of the world's most isolated tree - situated in the Sahara desert, being the only one within over 200 kilometers - which was accidentally hit by a car.\n\nTwice.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbre_du_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9",
"score": 11
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"body": "This is honestly one of the most tragic stories in modern history. My uncle Jacob played the lottery with the same 5 numbers every single day without exception for over a decade and bought from the same local convenience story almost every time. Finally, his numbers won. He looked at his ticket and one of the numbers was off. The convenience story owner felt horrible, but there was nothing anyone could do. This was the 80's. My uncle was depressed for the rest of his life and died of lung cancer 5 years ago.",
"score": 11
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"body": "Apparently the first time my dad smoked pot was with Charlie Manson. As the story goes my dad was about sixteen or so and he was cleaning out his parent's barn when Charlie wandered up and just asked if he felt like smoking.\n\nHe said talking to that man made you feel bigger. Like you were important because he was focusing on you like you were. \n\nThat must have been a crazy afternoon.",
"score": 10
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"body": "Turns out I live in the same dorm room that my college's head assistant dean of something-or-other did when he was a freshman. My roommate and I met him while we were moving in, didn't think much of it. A few days later, when the entire freshman class is gathered for some kind of orientation speech, he's up there talking and starts with this gimmick. First, he has everyone stand up. Then, he tells everyone to sit down except those who live in my hall. Then everyone except those on my floor. Then he tells everyone except me and my roommate to sit down, using our first names. At this point, we're like \"WHAT THE FUCK\" until he tells everyone that we're in his freshman room and we remember meeting him. Later, he made donations to the school in each of our names.\n\nThe odds of that? Wiki says we have 5850 undergrads, which means approximately 1462 freshmen, and all freshmen live in doubles, so 1 in 731. Not bad.",
"score": 9
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"body": "I was slam dancing with about 100 other people during a largish concert. I got smacked in the side of the head and my glasses go flying. People jumping up and down, generally having a good time. Not glasses-on-the-ground friendly, though.\r\n\r\nSo I bend down feeling around for my glasses and someone comes up to me and asks if anything is wrong. I tell him and I hear him yell out something. In unison I watch 100 people in a mosh pit stop, bend over looking for my glasses. On the other side of the circle a guy pops up holding his hand up and walks over to me. There they are, not a single scratch on them.\r\n\r\nWe then went back to beating the crap out of each other.\r\n\r\n",
"score": 9
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"body": "I'm better than I used to be, but generally I'm a clutz when I'm doing ANYTHING with cars.\n\nCase in point: my dad gave me a quart of oil to add to the Jeep I had. Or rather, he gave me 2 ~1/2 quarts. With me being the bright guy that I am, I decided to add one bottle to the other. That wasn't so bad, but when I was trying to pour it out it made a mess. I was frantically grabbing paper towels and cleaning as much oil off the body and everything under the hood (don't remember what exactly now, the car is long gone). As I was doing that, and wondering what the hell I was thinking by combining the containers, a guy stopped by my house. He was going door-to-door selling coupons (free oil changes, etc.) for Jiffy Lube.",
"score": 8
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"body": "I was in Vegas with some friends, and I hate gambling. I think it's a cheap way to throw away your money, but I set aside like $25 for the thrill of it. I didn't have my cash on me though, it was back in the hotel room. I asked my friend to borrow a five, just so I don't look like an asshole staring at a slot machine and ordering free drinks. I began gambling with the five and was down to like $3.50. I was just hitting random buttons trying my luck on the nickel slots with my friends, getting our fill of free drinks. A few of my friends started joking about how dumb I looked because I clearly didn't know what I was doing, so I started acting like I was giving lessons.\n\n\"First, you need to hit a few [low risk bets] (I can't remember what the odds were, but it was like a nickel), then you have to hit [high risk bet - Two whole dollars] and some-\"\n\n*DING DING DING* \n\nThe machine started whirring and giving me a shitload of credits on my ticket. Everyone nearby was staring at me. It went for like 4 minutes just spinning and winning more money for me. It stopped at $105.00. It paid for my hotel room that night. \n\nTL;DR: I won $105 dollars on a slot machine while pretending to know how to gamble. \n\n",
"score": 8
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"body": "my wife was on the computer and received an email from a friend of hers that contained a musical ecard. she opened it up, and turned up the volume on the computer, and Vince Guaraldi's song \"linus and lucy\" was playing, but it sounded like there was a slight echo on it. i assumed it was part of the ecard at first, but remembered that my winamp playlist was playing in the background, so i opened it up and sure enough, the song was playing in winamp. i turned off winamp, but the song was still playing... IN THE ECARD (cue dramatic music). **the echo sound was from the songs being almost completely synced up together.** my wife shut the ecard and opened it up again just to make sure, same song again. we looked at each other with a sort of confused look like, *wtf did that really just happen?*",
"score": 8
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"body": "So, my fraternity turns our rather old house into a haunted house every year. I was in the first room, which was rather lame originally, so me and my buddy moved stuff around to make it a bit better. I was squished under a desk next to the door and just falling out from under it when people were walking by. Of all the people I scared that night there was 1 girl that stood out. When I fell over, she freaked and started screaming a whole lot. I never looked up and she never saw my face. Very shortly after I heard her being escorted backwards out of the house because she didn't want to go any further in. My room was the only room she went in.\n\nWe met each other two months later and started dating not long after that. A couple months later the haunted house came up and after a bit of reminiscing it came up she had left early. She remembered me specifically (or at least a pretend dead me without a face) then told me it was all she had in her at the time to restrain from stomping on the thing that fell onto the floor next to her. She had 4\" heels on at the time. I shudder to think of it now.\n\ntl;dr My now girlfriend almost stomped my skull while in heels before I even knew who she was.",
"score": 8
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"body": "Back in high school, I worked at a consignment shop and one night this weirdo woman came in right before we closed, claiming to be an ex-Playboy Bunny. After chatting for a while, she ended up giving signed dollar bills to me and the other girl I was working with as some kind of bizarre gesture. I really don't think she was even a Playboy Bunny. So anyway, the next day at school, I casually told my best friend about it and she suddenly looks stunned and pulls out the same dollar bill. Turns out the other girl I was working with at the shop had immediately spent the dollar bill at Wendy's that night, where it was then passed on to my best friend who also went through the drive-thru. So weird.",
"score": 8
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"body": "Winter weekend hiking trip with a friend. Series of coincidences meant we never had to sleep outside (found an abandoned shack the first night, cottage the second, hostel the third).\n\nWhile 2 kilometers away from the bus stop, I said \"With the good luck we've been having, we'll need to be hit by a car to even things out\".\n\n**beep beep** -black-.\n\n\nEdit: I should add that the lady driving the car was a nurse. Kinda fits in with the thread.",
"score": 8
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"body": "I wish driving home from work, and it was dark and rainy. Our company did contract work and this particular day I'd been working at the building of a company we were doing some work for. I'd been there plenty of times before, but not for a while (maybe a couple of months). Sometime since the last time I'd been there, a divider had been put in the middle of a road that I usually took on my way from that place.\n\nThe road [curves to the left](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=40+Burr+St,+Framingham,+MA+01701&sll=42.307578,-71.388731&sspn=0.008379,0.019183&g=45+Burr+St,+Framingham,+MA+01701&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=40+Burr+St,+Framingham,+Middlesex,+Massachusetts+01701&ll=42.307872,-71.393151&spn=0.004189,0.013679&t=h&z=17) and the divider started right there, where I put the mark on the map, just for the last little bit of the road. It was about curb-height, and in the dark and the rain, I just didn't notice it. I was used to taking that left curve a little inward, rather than making a sharper turn a few feet further out, because it was easier, and because by the time I start turning it's really easy to see whether there are any cars coming up from the other direction.\n\n... so, at 25mph I bumped right over the little curbstone, and could immediately tell from the sound that I'd just popped my front left tire. My immediate thought was, stop by the side of the road to deal with it, and given where I was, going to the side of the road simple meant not turning the car any more to the left, so I straightened the steering wheel...\n\nNow go back and look at that map. Imagine me coming down that curve (from top towards bottom on the map), popping a tire right where that little green strip in the middle starts, and then straightening the wheel so I don't complete the curve, and instead go to left side of the right (right from my point of view, left on the map). Logically, I pull right into that parking lot over there, see? See the name of the business?\n\nYup, Midway Motors had plenty of tires, including the right one for my car, and they could rebalance my wheel too.\n\n\ntl;dr: d'oh, I just popped a tire! Time to pull over... I'll just coast into that parking lot right in front of me. Oooh, I'm at a tire shop!",
"score": 7
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"body": "This past new years eve we were in my friends front yard drinking beers and tossing around some bottle rockets. One of the girls wanted to give it a try, which of course lead to her tossing it early. it whipped back around and shot towards the group and shot directly into and open bottle of beer sitting on the trunk of one of the cars and exploded. Beer, everywhere. Jaws, on the ground.",
"score": 7
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"body": "I started using a coin-flip app on my phone to settle disagreements with people I know. I have won at about 15 times in a row. Even though I let them call it and flip it, I am being accused of cheating. It bothers them even more because I am a programmer.",
"score": 6
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"body": "I watched a friend basically Randy Johnson a bird while playing disc golf. On his first shot he stepped up and chucked the disc right as a bird was flying by about 30 yards away. The disc rotated at an angle and caught the bird right in the neck. A couple feathers floated gently in the somber skies and the bird dropped not so gracefully to the ground and budged not once. It took a few seconds to kick in, but it was a long 10 seconds before we realized what happened.\n\nThen, honestly, right after that my buddy found a Corona bottle, so he hurled it in the air with all his might. When the bottle returned to earth, it hit the sidewalk perfectly upside down, made a weird popped cork noise, and did not break. Weird day that day.",
"score": 6
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"body": "When I was young, a group of friends and I played hockey in an unfinished basement. I guess when they poured the concrete, they left iron studs out (like a nail) to make the wall. We played with a plastic ball, and the ball had a very small hole in it. I think it was left over from the mold that created it. I slap-shotted that ball three times, and the hole in the ball perfectly spun and aligned with these nails and stuck. Three times. ",
"score": 6
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"body": "My grandmothers second husband got married to my grandma on his 63rd birthday and died doing the chicken dance at the reception. He was born, got married, and died on the same date.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Playing a game of Scene It. I was kicking some serious ass that night, and we came to an all play.\n\nThis is where everyone is supposed to shout answers at the TV. This particular challenge had a bunch of spaces that would slowly be filled in with letters an you would have to guess what they were trying to say.\n\nAfter spotting the spaces, I immediately blurted out \"BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID!\"\n\nEveryone was silent until more of the letters were filled in, but then just stopped when they realized that I had it right.\n\nThey were *confident* I was cheating at that point.",
"score": 6
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"body": "I procastinated buying a new pack of cigarettes too long one night and got a few minutes too late to my only option left to get them, the gas station around the corner closing at 10 pm. I really don't know why but instead of going back home I somehow wandered around like half an hour and finally got to this apartment tower complex a couple of blocks away. Still not knowing why I went into one building at random, got into the elevator and pushed the button to the 12th floor. Getting there, the elevator door opend and in front of me in the corridor stood a table and on it - you already guessed it - lay an unopened pack of cigarettes and a lighter. I grabbed both and went home. True story.",
"score": 6
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"body": "One summer when I was really getting into climbing, I decided to randomly search for suitable cliffs. There aren't that many in southern Finland.\n\nI got in the car, and randomly selected crossroads I'd never seen before until I ended up on a tiny dirt road. Suddenly, I got a lucky feeling and stopped the car. I ran straight across a field, then through about a hundred meters of forest (that you couldn't see through), and stopped right in front of a cleaned up rock face with fresh climbing chalk marks on it.",
"score": 6
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"body": "My ex girlfriend and I once got identical pin numbers for our bank cards. We got them from different banks, within a week of each other.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I was playing darts with a friend on New Years Eve. When he made his throw the plastic fins fell out of the dart. \n\nThe dart tumbled through the air and stuck into the bulls eye backwards on the tapered end where you insert the fins.\n\nNot terribly life altering but I always thought the odds of throwing a dart without those little fins and sticking it into the center of the board backwards were quite small.",
"score": 5
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"body": "The girl I had a crush on in college for 3 years and hadn't spoken to for about 6 months, randomly started working for the same company as me, on the same floor, sitting at the desk facing opposite me.\n\nTorture.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I think I've told this one on Reddit before, but: \nWhen I was in middle school, I had a short story published in an anthology for young authors. At the time, I lived in Massachusetts. Years later, I was trying to transfer to a different college and needed to put together a \"creative resume\", which is like an abbreviated portfolio. I remembered the short story, and put it on there. Then, I realized that I needed to own a copy in case they requested to see anything from the resume. I'd lost my copy long before then, so I went on Ebay to look it up. There was one guy selling a bunch of copies, and they were cheap, so I got one. I lived in California, the seller was in Georgia.\n\nSo, I get the book in the mail and open it up, only to see that it was signed. By me, in my middle school handwriting. A teacher had suggested I sign a copy and put it in the school's library. I contacted the seller, he hadn't gotten the books from Massachusetts.\n\ntl;dr - My own signed copy of an anthology I was in went from MA, to ?, to GA and then back to me in CA.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I was plotting a cross country road trip that included stops in Seattle and San Francisco. Portland, OR is en route, and a guy I know (I'll call him T) lived there, so I emailed him and arranged to visit for a day, and crash at his place. I'd met T years earlier, when he went to college in the midwest with a girl I dated and I visited her, and had stayed in touch with him mostly online.\n\nI was hanging out with my local friend C here in Boston and telling her about this trip, and when I mentioned I'd stop in Portland, she said \"Oh! You must meet my best friend from home, R, she lives in Portland!\" C was originally from Colorado where she grew up with R, and they'd ended up on opposite sides of the country. C gave me R's email address, and I wrote to her, to tell her that I was a friend of C's and would be in Portland and C said I should meet her. She wrote back and we exchanged a couple of emails about what date I'd be there and so on.\n\nA week or so later, I was at C's house, and got on IRC. T, the guy in Portland, hangs out on an IRC channel with me, that's the main way we'd kept in touch. So I get on channel, and see him say something like:\n\n\"Cos, you do not need to worry about meeting C's friend R when you're in Portland, because you're already planning to stay at her house.\"\n\nApparently he'd looked over R's shoulder when she was checking email, was surprised to see my name so he asked her about it. There were, as far as we can tell, no pre-existing social connections between any of us except for me knowing C and T (from different places and different years) and C knowing R, and R and T entirely coincidentally happening to meet and move in together with some friends.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I have a few. One I've told before on here. I worked at a bakery summers in college, and it was horribly run so employees were constantly quitting. A woman named Valerie worked with me for about three weeks, I barely knew her. The following summer I was in the old city in Jerusalem, perusing the loud, bustling, packed open air market. Who do I come face to face with? Valerie. We were both speechless.\n\nAnother time, I moved from the east coast to San Francisco. I had lived for a few years in a quiet neighborhood, when one day I'm walking my dog and come face to face with a girl I went to college with back east. She had lived a block away the entire time I lived there!\n\nAfter moving for grad school, I was out in the courtyard of my school one night with friends. I walked inside, realized I had left my phone outside, when my friend's phone rang. Someone had found my phone and called the last number, which was my friend's. I went outside to retrieve it, and the person who had called was someone who I went to high school with! He was getting his PhD had an office in an adjacent building to mine for years.\n\nThis past week, I was at a cabin in Tahoe with some friends I was visiting, and there was a large gathering of people from various social circles. I recognized someone, asked him if he had gone to my high school, and he had...graduated a year before me.\n\ntl;dr: I keep bumping into people I know all over the world",
"score": 3
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"body": "I was visiting a friend from high school (boarding school in upstate NY) in his hometown of Wassenaar, Netherlands. We decided to take a day trip to Amsterdam, visit the Van Gogh Museum, and trip on E. The museum is set up so that you circle a floor, then take a flight of stairs up to the next level, and circle that - and repeat. (awesome side note: the elevator down has no doors, seriously! But a wicked sensitive alarm if you try to touch the walls). Anywho, so there we are, tripping balls, having a great time. As we head up to another level, my friend stops at the landing (please note, he lost like 100 pounds since we had graduated and looked *nothing* like his former self), as I head around him to see what he's looking at, there stands another girl we had gone to high school with. She had graduated a year or two before my friend and I. She lived in NYC, I lived in upstate NY, and he lived in the Netherlands. And there we stood, on the third floor of a museum in Amsterdam, Holland. And no, it was not a drug-induced mirage.",
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"body": "Playing texas hold'em. Hit a royal flush two hands in a row. Flopped the first one and hit it on the turn for the second one.\n\nI think the odds of that happening are astronomical.",
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"body": "Hitting golf balls in the baseball field in my hometown. The field is surrounded by about a 10ft hill on the right, and center field sides. Im down in field with my buddy, and my little brother is up top. We're about 150 yards on the far side of the field, and were hitting them back at my little brother, so we could go and hit off the hill - we sucked at golf, and thought we wouldn't be able to hit that far, so he was safe. Well, turns out, I cranked one, and it curves right to my little brother. He, is swinging and hitting one at us, and in his follow through, hes standing there. The ball arcs around, hits him square in the nuts. We were half laughing half scared as he doubled over and rolled down the hill. We run over, and he's laying there in agony. About 2 minutes later, he's recovered, and takes a deep breath, and says \"Ohh man. Woo. That was funny.\" Ensue what the fuck hilarious moment.",
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"body": "I was 29 years old and went to the VSLive conference by myself. One of the perk that my all-inclusive pass got me was $50 in casino chips. I had never gambled in my life, and planned on just cashing them in. \n\nInstead, I played them on the number 29 on a roulette table. I had no clue what I was doing but as you have guessed, I hit the number. It was an easy $1,750 win. \n\nI've been playing pai-gow poker and roulette ever since (a couple times per year). ",
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"body": "One night I was making deliveries, delivered to the wrong unit and had a 9mm pulled on me by an old guy.....I contemplate life and delivering sandwiches......next delivery happens to be my good friends, one of who just bought a brand new, very badass 9mm glock with a ported barrel at the end. Some guy accidently walked into their place around when I made the previous delivery thinking it was his place since it was one of those super duplexes and opened the door to a glock that happened to be pointed in that direction.\n\n\nIt's not really one of those uncommon/common situations, but pretty fucking odd.",
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"body": "Built an igloo in upstate NY. Solid ice. Slept in it overnight with a friend. We made a huge snowman ball and had his sister roll into into the door to keep out the cold. At midnight the candles started going out. We were running out of oxygen. Spent 45 minutes digging out with plastic cups in the dark, fearing we would die. \n \nMade it out. Still became an atheist.",
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"body": "My cousin got layed over flying from London to Australia, she had a few hours and went out of the airport and found a random cafe to have a drink in.\r\n\r\nAs she walked in, she finds my aunt (and her aunt, not her mum) sitting in the same cafe, having a drink to fill the time while she's layed over flying from New Zealand to London.",
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"body": "I was jobless, and had an phone interview with HR for a job that I discovered I wasn't qualified for. Near the end of the interview, I was informed that the company had one other opening in a group that I might be able to fit, so there was a possibility that I might hear back from them later. (My didn't make much of an impression on them). \n\nThe following week, I decided to go to a free swing dancing lesson at a nearby location. I looked at the website and discovered it was a guys house, and noticed that it was hosted on a wiki. The homeowner kept the living room flexible so that it could be used as a dance floor, or movie theater, so that's where the lesson would be.\n\nSince the owner ran a wiki, he obviously worked in tech (like me). I was jobless, noticed his resume was also posted, so I looked to see where he worked. I noticed that the home owner worked at the company I had just had the phone screen with. In fact he worked in the group that had the opening ... and he had Manager in his job title. \n\nAnyway, I go, attend the lesson and have fun. Later during the night, I walk up to the home owner and ask if he's a linux fan. (Wild guess since there were penguin lights hanging on his wall.) I then mention that I think my resume might have crossed his desk. Before I left, I ended up seeing enter his hot tub with a couple of friends. (Open invitation, but I didn't bring swim trunks.) I found that slightly awkward when I had an interview two days later, and accepted the job that evening. Seeing him in the hot tub was more awkward the next week when I new I would be starting to work for him the following Monday. \n\nGreat boss, and I'm still sorry that his group got split in half several months later, and even more sorry that I was thrown into the other half. I am fairly sure I would have stayed at the company longer if I was still working with him and his team. For better or worse, his team introduced me to reddit too.\n\nTLDR: I met a future boss (who already had my resume on his desk) randomly at his house, and I saw my future boss in a hot tub before I had even had an interview scheduled with him. This was the job that introduced me to reddit.",
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"body": "I was working on the development of 4walled for a few weeks with another random dude who had also decided to pitch in and help. After a \"thank you\" post in 4walled's blog to both of us, a friend of mine recognized both mine and **his cousin's** username. I'd been working with the cousin of one of my best friends for two weeks over the internet without even knowing it.",
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"body": "My dad and I were driving to Yellowstone National Park to do some cutthroat fishing. We had the canoe on top of my parents Corolla on one of those really nice canoe racks. My dad had bought it a few years prior, it had the locking straps, the gel padded feet, fully adjustable and so on. It was fairly expensive. Well we stopped for the night in Billings Montana, and we noticed one of the padded feet had somehow fallen off. My dad was pissed, the thing was expensive. We had to replace it though, the part where the foot attached was scratching the car. From the amount of scratching, it had been off for a couple hundred miles at least. We drove to a sporting good store and they had our model in stock, but the feet don't come separately. So my dad grumbles, and forks over the cash. We go out to the parking lot and just as we are about to start un-tieing everything... we find the foot wedged between the trunk lid and rear window.\n\nSo yeah, at some point on a 650 mile drive at 75mph the foot flew off... and wedged into the back of the car.",
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"body": "Four years ago, during spring break in college, one of my roommates and I drove around Florida for the week, visiting friends and crashing on couches. One of our last days, we planned on visiting a friend's parent's beach condo in Jacksonville, a city which neither of us had either been before. We arrived later on in the evening and went downtown to meet one of my roommate's friends and his wife. While were were out, we kept trying to reach the girl that we were staying with but she wasn't picking up. Once the bars let out and we were certain that we had no place to go or sleep, we decided to drive randomly around Jacksonville, which is huge by the way, one of the largest cities in the U.S. by acre. We drove aimlessly for a couple of hours, eventually it was past 4 AM and we were sure we wouldn't be reaching our host, so we decided to give up and pick a random apartment complex parking lot to crash in for the night.\n\nWe wake up at dawn, after a miserable few hours of trying to sleep in my little Hyundai, and we decide to go grab breakfast somewhere and try to reach our friend with the condo so we can still squeeze in a day at the beach. After breakfast we get directions to her condo and head out her way. It wasn't until we pulled in to the complex when we realized unmistakably, this was the very complex that we slept in the night before. We slept in my car only 25 feet away from her front door, and had we known, there were empty beds waiting for us.",
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"body": "Last month the most crazy coincidence happened. I went with my best friend to her house where shes been living for 2 years. I'd never been there before and on the way I started naming all the friends I knew from her there as a kid. When she stopped and went in I realized that she lived in my old house! She even sleeps in my old room!",
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There should be a show called "Everything Andy Richter is Involved With Gets Canceled". | Andy Richter can go around and become bit players on different shows and then we can see how quickly the show gets canceled. He's kind of like the modern version of Ted McGinley. Actually I think he's funny as hell, but boy his shows sure get shitcanned quickly. | 36 | [
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"body": "EXCEPT for when he came in as a supporting character and ratings shot up on Arrested Dev... nevermind. ",
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"body": "Does that mean... [jeopardy could be canceled](http://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/9luv4/wolf_blitzer_gets_pwned_by_andy_richter_on/)?",
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What's the best MST3K episode to use as an introduction to MST3K? | Greetings!
A friend of mine (female, FWIW) has agreed to check out MST3K. It's now up to me to recommend an episode - which is why I've come to you. I (unfortunately) have not seen most of the episodes and hardly remember the few I've seen (really, only Prince of Space stands out). On top of this, I don't know what a good introduction to the series would be (is Manos too much? is the movie worthwhile?).
I appreciate any and all help.
**Edit (9am Friday)** Thanks for the help - I'm looking forward to putting your advice into action! | 5 | [
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"body": "Space Mutiny gets a thumbs up from me. According to the MST3K crew, the movie (This Island Earth) was riffed with new viewers in mind.",
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"body": "**NEVER START WITH MANOS!** \n\nStart off with a little Space Mutiny or Merlin's Mystical Shop of Wonders, or Werewolf, or even A Touch of Satan, but never Manos.",
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"body": "The Final Sacrifice\n\n\n♫ You got mud on your face ♫ \n\n♫ You big disgrace ♫ \n\n♫ Shovin those sandwiches into your face ♫ \n\n♫ Sing it! ♫ \n\n♫ WE WILL... ♫ \n\n♫ WE WILL... ♫ \n\n♫ ROWSDOWER!!! ♫\n\nEDIT: Also any of the shorts are a great starting point.",
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"body": "Alien From L.A. is the first I remember seeing and got me hooked. The Giant Gila Monster would probably be good too. Save Manos until later -- it's like a really old bottle of wine that you won't fully appreciate until you've trained your taste buds.",
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"body": "A touch of satan, Giant spider invasion (this was my first, at least after it stopped airing and I was old enough to understand the jokes.) Mitchell or another Joe Don Baker one, DANGER!! Death Ray, Diabolik...\n\nThose are all I can think of now. Someone said the earlier the better, and I tend to agree in some cases, but for introducing someone, you might want to start with a Mike episode rather than a Joel. I find it's much more entertaining if someone's eased into Joel's quirkiness.\n\nalso, No Manos. not until later.\n\nPACKERS WIN THE SUPERBOWL.",
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"body": "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, mos definately. One of the best episodes ever, but often overlooked even by hardcore fans.\n\nAlso, it has Raul Julia in it. \n\nWait, let me say that again so it sinks in.\n\nRAUL FUCKING JULIA is in the movie.\n\n[Watch it on Google Video](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-965940053790092213&ei=JNFPS9WJKZm-qQLe5JjyAg&q=overdrawn+at+the+memory+bank#)",
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/r/snowboarding, what do you like to listen to while you ride? | I like a bit of everything, usually more upbeat stuff. Punk and electro are my favorites, specifically NOFX if I'm riding hard. On a nice day when Im feeling a bit lazy I'll put some Boards of Canada on and just cruise around. I find when I'm riding park listening to some hip-hop helps me get into a good flow. | 8 | [
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"body": "The Transplants, 3OH!3, Mindless Self-Indulgence, and Hollywood Undead for Park (especially boxes and rails)\n\nBloc Party, Say Hi to your Mom, Andrew Bird, and Apparat when just riding for the beauty.\n\nJustice, Crystal Method, and Daft Punk when your riding fast with steez.\n\nMGMT, Band of Horses, and Hot Chip thrown in here and there.\n\nAnd of coarse, the worlds best. NOFX. Sprinkled on top.",
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"body": "little bit of everything sounds good to me. I put in some electronic occasionally. Sublime for mellow rides. punk's good - Anti-flag, old school AFI, Thrice, social distortion... \n\nI also listen to a lot of metal, metallica, avenged sevenfold, etc.\n\ni don't really have a favorite track/artist/genre, just depends on the day & what I feel like at the time; I've rocked Beethoven on kickers before :) ",
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I know that we might have teacher/student discipline fantasies, but this is ridiculous... | http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/tn-state-news/79274307.html
I don't know if anyone has seen this on the news, but a substitute teacher was arrested for paddling three of his students during class.
The students asked if they could play card games instead of doing classwork. The teacher then bargained that, if that is what they wanted, they must endure getting hit with a giant paddle on their bottoms. Of course, I know the teacher was wrong in his actions and should not have done what he did, but...
These were big grown 16/17 year old male students. They were not threatened or otherwise forced to present their asses to be beaten. They willingly stood, palms on desk, like a scene right out of the movie Secretary. One particular student then showed the video footage taken by a fellow student on a cell phone to his parents, claiming he was disturbed and concerned by what had happened.
If I had a grown teenager who willingly let a stranger/substitute/teacher beat their ass with a paddle just to get out of doing classwork, I'd known that I raised a schmuck. I'm sorry, but by that age you should have the common sense to know that this is wrong. IMO they don't deserve any pity, and if they were my kids I'd say "too bad, so sad, don't make idiot decisions".
that said... now my head is reeling with thoughts of being bent over desks, wearing knee socks and maryjanes, getting my own version of "classroom discipline". =P | 8 | [
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"body": "> Sanders now faces three counts of assault.\n\nWhat.\n\nWhile what this guy did was wrong, the worst thing that should happen to him is the loss of his job. Three counts of assault for paddling three consenting young adults is ludicrous.",
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Dear Reddit, My Student Loan company just pulled a fast one on me, are there any legal loophole for this situation? | I'm currently a full-time student. I had left college for one semester and transferred to another. I was able to continue to fully defer my federal loans and my private loans as long as I was full time. In August they asked for proof that I was a student, with by sending deferment forms which I filled out and they claimed they received. I asked if my loans were successfully deferred to which they responded they were.
Occasionally, my cosigner (my elderly grandmother) would mention that she got a call or a letter from the loan company. The letters I received never mentioned anything about repayment, had erratic amounts, from month to month (jumped up and down) and when it came down to it, the "Total Amount Due:" read "$0.00" due by "00/00/0000". I assumed it had to do with bad automation, but still frequently rechecked. Upon resubmitting deferment forms and proof of student status, they would tell me that "All my loans were successfully deferred" Note the whole time, they never contacted me directly. I never got a letter or a call.
Today my grandmother gets a letter saying that the loan has defaulted and is in collections. Upon calling them and AGGRESSIVELY pressing them, they finally reveal that the private loan was never deferred and has been bought out by another bank to collect. They never called me or warned me that my loan would be put into default, but state that it's in the contract that they can declare it default whenever the hell they feel like it, but it doesn't matter now because they don't speak for the account anymore.
So I called the new bank that's collecting my loan. They mentioned that they have encountered many students in the same situation but there's nothing that can be done for my particular case because my grandmother has the money to pay the settlement in her account. They are not willing to work out a deal because I "have the means" to pay for the settlement. This amount of money will drain 90% of her bank account. She won't be able to pay rent for the year or even eat. They are giving me 72 hours to get the amount.
Something doesn't feel right about this.
UPDATE: Can you recommend the best type of lawyer for this type of situation?
UPDATE 2: I'm going to my grandmother's bank tomorrow to block all EFT and put the fraud block up.
UPDATE 3: Thanks reddit for all of your Advice so far. I've read all of it and I'm condensing it into a to-do list for tomorrow as my local time is near midnight. I'm hearing unsubstantiated claims from friends of someone actually suing ACS and winning who was in a similar situation. I'm currently trying to find documentation of that case, if it exists, to at least serve as a case reference. | 37 | [
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"body": "Wait a minute?\n\nIs the call coming from a COLLECTION AGENCY? If so, it is very important you make yourself familiar with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. First and foremost, even your grandmother is a co-signer, you are the PRIMARY person responsible for the account and they should be contacting you FIRST. \n\nIf this \"new bank\" is regularly collecting DEBTS, it will be covered by the law, because it is acting like a COLLECTOR. \n\nThe demand for you to settle it in 72 hours, is more than enough for you to COLLECT 1,000 from them for the violation of your rights. \n\nIf you receive any notice from them, or if you call them and notify you that the \"purpose of the call is to collect a debt, and any information gathered will be used for that purpose\" you can rest assure that they are collector and thus subject to the FDCPA.\n\nIf you can give the telephone number of that \"bank\", I can volunteer to research for you. ",
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"body": "When your loan is sold to another bank, it's are required by law for you to be notified of the transaction. Either way, then you'd have to complete the deferment forms with them as those are the terms of the loan. I'd personally call an attorney at this point and tell your grandmother not to pay them anything until your lawyers have met.",
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"body": "72 hours or else what? What exactly do they claim they are going to do if you don't pay up? Destroy your credit? Destroy the credit of an elderly grandmother? They can't put you in jail, they are unlikely to call a hit-man, and it's not possible to repossess your education. \n\nI think it's time to lawyer up. You acted in good faith, you have evidence that your loans were deferred (you did keep all that correspondence, right??). You need somebody to look at every bit of paper and evaluate both where you stand and what they can do to you. If necessary, you may need somebody to go to court and stick up for your rights. In the meantime, contact the credit agencies and say you have reason to believe that a collections case has wrongly been placed on your report and that you want to contest it. If you want to play rough, call whichever local news team likes to do sad stories about big bad corporations roughing up nice local people.",
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What are the health implications for both parties involved if a dog eats a gangrenous toe? | Some explanation: I have a family member who had Diabetes. He is elderly and had quadruple bypass surgery a few years ago. One of his toes has become gangrenous and the docs don't want to put him under anesthesia b/c they don't think his heart can take it. Recently, I was at his house and watched as his pet dog lick his toe with great fervor. WTF? So, what will happen? I think it is a matter of time before the toe falls off, and I also believe that said dog will accelerate the process, as well as have a tasty treat when all is said and done. Will this harm the human? Will this harm the dog? Why on earth should I even have to ask this sort of question?!?! | 135 | [
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"body": "if the doctor is unwilling to remove the toe due to the risks of anesthesia, the dog is the last recourse, and as long as the man isn't in pain, let the dog go at it. perhaps some worcestershire sauce dribbled on his foot would accelerate the procedure. if the dog starts licking the man's crotch, call the doctor again. ",
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"body": "I guess it depends if its dry or wet gangrene. It sounds like it's probably dry gangrene. In which case, it's probably fine.... just really gross. But who knows.\nI once found a gangrenous toe in a patient bed, yuucckk.",
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"body": "My dad, when he was in medical school, amputated the gangrenous tail of our cat and tossed it up on the roof. A short while later it rolled off and the cat and her kittens ate it. She was fine.",
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"body": "\nYou've heard the phrase \"Lick his wounds\"? Dogs do that to their wounds (I don't think people do, but, hey) so maybe that's what the dog is trying to do, make it heal.\n\nAs far as eating it I suspect gangrene is pretty unappetizing.",
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"body": "This is sick and hilarious at the same time.\n\nI'm pretty sure that the dog won't really have any long term health implications, since dogs eat feces and all kinds of weird shit without problems.\n\nBut, damn, this post deserves some kind oddity award.\n",
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"body": "Um... A gangrenous toe isn't going to fall off on its own. It's just going to spread the infection until it hits a major blood vessel and then your family member is going to die, or they're going to have to amputate more than the toe, like the foot or the entire leg. My grandfather lost his leg that way, started with gangrene in the toe because of his diabetic circulation problems and a cut he got while clipping his toenails.\n\n**Edit**: Apparently dry gangrene will indeed pop off on its own. Ew. Unfortunately for my grandfather, he had an active infection that spread up his leg.",
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"body": "This actually happens all the time. [Here is my favorite](http://www.thetelegraph.com/news/toe-15763-floyd-dog.html), it didn't turn out too well for the dog when they put it down.",
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"body": "Before addressing the disturbing issue of dog that seems to be into necro-limbia, I shall ask a few questions:\n1. Has your family member consulted an anesthesiologist/surgeon? They can do really cool stuff nowadays like [ankle blocks](http://www.nda.ox.ac.uk/wfsa/html/u10/u1013_01.htm), which is a form of regional anesthesia. This could minimize the risk of experiencing any complications. If you only consulted a GP, be aware that I have seen them fuck up a lot of times due to outdated/incorrect medical knowledge (like telling parents of an obviously diabetic child that diabetes is all genetic, and since they don't have the disease, the child couldn't possibly).\n2. If so, I take it he has been checked out thoroughly? They should at least do an auscultation, take his blood pressure, do an ECG, stress ECG, chest x-ray, plus other tests if it's not just his heart that isn't healthy anymore. Admittedly, the health risks involved in operating an elderly patient are ridiculously high (generally 5% mortality in big elective operations. However this one is no biggie), but with a thorough examination, the risk can be minimized.\n\nMoving on... the dog issue. Now, the way I see it, dogs can transmit some nasty bugs (e.g. [Pasteurella multocida](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurella_multocida), [Staphylococcus aureus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcus_aureus), [Bacteroides](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteroides), or, heaven forbid [Capnocytophaga canimorsus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capnocytophaga_canimorsus). This holds especially true if the dog decides to bite the affected toe. On the upside, dog saliva is not as infectious as human saliva (which should answer the question you didn’t dare to ask: no you should not bite that toe!).\nShould it happen that the dog eats the toe, he'll probably live. My dog used to eat horse shit daily. They can eat all sorts of shit.",
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"body": "The dog's licking stimulates circulation to the area and, if anything, is going to keep gangrene at bay longer. If the toe isn't removed once it becomes gangrenous your family member will become septic and die from infection. If the toe is removed, this can be avoided. \n\nThe dog removing the toe, while not the optimum choice, is better than leaving it there. The dog eating it is inconsequential. He eats his own shit regularly, right? At least this isn't that.\n\nHave him line up a living will, too. Does he want to be DNR? Most of the old people I take care of are pissed off that they're still alive and once surgeries like this one start occurring, things never seem to improve for them.",
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