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Reddit, I just started playing Final Fantasy VII for
the first time. Any tips? | I have played Final Fantasy IX, X, X-2, ad XII for hours upon hours, so I know the basics to playing. I have wanted to play FFVII forever and I just saw it in the PSN store, so I bought it. Any tips or suggestions on what to do or how to play would be appreciated!
Edit: By the way, it makes the game 10 times more entertaining when you name a character "Bitch". I named Aeris "Bitch" and now the game constantly says, "Bitch follow me" or after Reno slapped Aeris, Tifa yelled "Bitch!!". Hilarious! | 11 | [
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"body": "* If you don't know anything about the plot then stay the hell away from FF threads on the internet. FFVII has some of the most famous spoilers around.\r\n* Pay lots of attention to materia (summon specifically) as they affect the overall stats of your characters as well as granting summons, magic, and other abilities. \r\n* Grow the really good purple and yellow materia as fast as possible. \r\n* Don't worry about chocobo breeding and Knights of the Round unless you are a completionist. \r\n* When you reach the desert stage don't get frustrated. There is a minor trick to it.\r\n* There are quite a few motifs and allusions going on in this game. See if you can figure them all out.\r\n* All characters are more or less equal once you factor in materia so use the ones you find the most entertaining. \r\n* There are summons hidden everywhere.\r\n* When a certain [spoiler] starts flying around run into it repeatedly to start a fight until it eventually [spoiler] and unlocks a secret garden area.\r\n* The final boss scales to Cloud's level so while grinding will help it will also increase its life total. This isn't an issue if you have grabbed mimic, knights of the round, etc.",
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"body": "I only have one tip (mainly because I got bored and never finished the game). Don't play it around people who are huge fans of the game and know everything about it. Getting them to shut up and stop telling you what to do every step of the way is nearly impossible.",
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wife needs advice about shitty situation at work. | Whattup reddit, longtime listener, firs time caller.
So my wife and I just had our first child, and she's been away from work for three months. She worked as a Clinical Coordinator for a home health care company, and planned on returning to work as such after her maternity leave was over.
Fast-forward 12 weeks later, and she's supposed to be returning to work next week. She was asked out to lunch by her supervisor and the CEO of the company to discuss the changes that had occurred in the workplace. She was told that she would not be going back to her former position, and that she would be doing odds and ends around the office. She was also given the option of signing onto work for a contract company that currently works in the same office.
Here's the thing: if she signs onto work for this contract company, she presumably loses all FMLA privileges. She has asked her employer to provide her with some sort of job security if she were to sign on to work for this contractor, and they have avoided her questions completely.
It comes down to two choices: either stay at the same job doing bullshit gopher work, making herself less valuable to the company, which puts her in the position of being eventually laid off (since this company is hemorrhaging money), OR sign onto work for this new company, giving up her FMLA rights, and stifling all potential for career advancement.
Does she have a legal leg to stand on? Is she protected in any way, or is she just going to have to bite the bullet? | 3 | [
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"body": "Talk to a lawyer...\n\nFMLA Covers all public employers and private employers with 50 or more employees. It requires the employer to maintain health benefits during FMLA leave. It guarantees that employees can return to the same or equivalent position, with equivalent pay, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment following FMLA leave.",
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Reddit, I want to start drawing! | Reddit, I wanna start drawing but I dont know whats the best way to start! I want to be at a level eventually where i can draw like this:
http://media.animegalleries.net/albums/userpics/164468/devil-may-cry-4-concept-art-02.jpg
http://orenji-kun.deviantart.com/art/Wallpaper-Me-Myself-and-FF-55929306
Where should I start? ANY advice would be appreciated! | 7 | [
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"body": "Draw porn. \n\nIf your drawn porn is not good enough to jack off too, practice drawing it better. Never trace, ever.\n\nOnce you get \"good at porn\" then you got some anatomy skills and proportion. Move on to landscapes and still life.\n\nColor theory. You have transcended porn at this point.",
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"body": "OK, first thing, you need to let go of your judgement. That's the main part of drawing.\n\nWhat you're looking to do is be able to visualise what you're wanting to put on the paper. The common mistake when drawing, is to put down a few lines, and then \"see\" something else than what you intended. If you can have a strong sense of visualisation, you can see through the illusions of \"seeing\" things other than your intended drawings.\n\nFor example, the first inclination for a new artist is, if you draw, and you put the mouth in the wrong place, instead of being able to say \"hmm, that mouth is too far up\" instead it looks \"right\" with a different expression or a comically ludicrous proportion... you need to be able to disengage that part of your brain that's trying to find \"rightness\" in what's there, and engage the part of your brain that KNOWS the rightness you're trying to express...\n\nAnother way of looking at it is by thinking about cloudgazing. You look at a cloud, and you can see all kinds of incredible things. Your mind knows anatomy intimately, so of you look at a cloud and you see an eye and a nose, it's automatically going to be trying to create an anatomically correct mouth out of the information there. Use this same principle in your drawing. Place a few strokes on the page and attempt to visualise the correct location for other strokes... if you place some in the wrong spot, try to learn to recognise this and let the visualisation process guide them into the right spot.\n\nThis is a skill you can practice even with out a pencil. Learn this, and you will learn how to draw.",
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"body": "Go to Dick Blick and look around at all the neat stuff. Get a decent set of drawing pencils. You can do things with an HB that you can't do with a 2B and vice versa. Start by drawing stuff around you. Look at the pop can and draw it best you can. Practice a lot. Get to know your paper. Get to know your pencils. Get to know your hand. Get to know your eye. I haven't drawn since high school but back then I had some pieces make it into area art shows. I am not that naturally talented in art but made up for it through effort and liking what I was doing. ",
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"body": "Don't limit yourself to just one style, you seem to be interested in anime styles, but branch out and draw everything. The book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is supposed to be incredible. I picked it up but haven't gotten started on it yet. But here's a gallery of [before and after](http://drawright.com/gallery.htm) with people who used that book to learn.",
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"body": "Start by sketching from real life. Take a sketchbook everywhere and draw everything. \n\n*Don't* make the mistake many Anime lovers to of focusing only on drawing in the Anime style. This will lead to mediocrity. The Japanese Anime artists first focus on drawing real life things absolutely perfectly and then move on to stylized drawings.",
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TIL that Karl Marx loved America and hated Russia | >Hitchens: Karl Marx's best writing is on America. He said it was the great new country for worker's equality. There was free land for the peasants. It was republican, not monarchical, and it was anti-imperialist. If you look at Henry Adams' memoirs, when his father was at the embassy in London, the Times of London was in favor of the Confederacy. Gladstone helped the Confederacy build a navy. Karl Marx, meanwhile, said Lincoln is our man. The United States is our future. That's not what they teach you in school about Marx.
http://www.michaeltotten.com/2010/01/an-interview-with-christopher-hitchens-part-ii.php | 63 | [
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"body": "Another fun fact: Marx barely wrote half the 500 articles he submitted to *The New York Daily Tribune.* They were mostly ghostwritten by Engels.",
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"body": "That was because at the time Russia was worse than a fascist state. Why do you think communism was such a hit? Because Russians were mostly slaves to landlords and the average Russian was treated very poorly and there was no opportunity. Vs the United States which provided much more opportunity, esp. regarding land redistribution, otherwise known as homesteading. Despite the U.S. being capitalist, the U.S. has seen its fair share of land redistribution. Which was great provided you weren't a native american.\n\nMarx also predicted the negative effects of globalization when few considered such effects.",
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"body": "Marx also said that his proposed revolution never had to be violent; he was an ardent advocate for democracy and expanding democracy; he was an active supporter of giving women the vote long before it was fashionable to do so; and he opposed all attempts to deny political rights (including the right to vote) to minority groups including Jewish people (again: before it was fashionable to oppose such things).\n\nThe funny thing is that most people never hear about any of these things and the caricature that is built up of him is so ridiculous that one wonders if the majority of professors have ever even read a small portion of Marx's work.",
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I am an ex-walmart manager AMA | I worked for six months as a manager at a brand new walmart. I can tell you absolutely anything you want to know about walmart as long as it's not too corporate focused. Ask me Anything.
Edit: PROOFS!!
http://imgur.com/wt1jU
Keep in mind I'm not a super sleuth who knows all sides of everything that went on. | 20 | [
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"body": "How did you like your job? Any inside tips for Walmart? I was a greeter for 6 months, but even in that 6 months, a lot of things changed. What level manager were you? Crazy stories? You ought to know the Reddit drill haha.",
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"body": "How is the demeanor among other managers and corporate? Are they drink the Kool-Aid all about Wal-Mart? Happy with their job but not 'fall and we'll catch you' team building excercise happy? Or is it pretty miserable?",
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Nice Redditors: How can I become a nicer, less selfish person? | A little background on why I am asking this question:
I've posted some things here on reddit regarding real life that have gotten me called a jerk or worse. You can look through my history for context, but I'm not really ashamed of it. I do, however, want to improve. I helped an elderly lady put her groceries in her car a while back and I felt really good about it.
What are some things you do to simply be nice?
Thanks. | 8 | [
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"body": "You can't become a less selfish person. Some people care about others, some people don't.\n\nYou can choose not to act on your selfish impulses... but you need to commit to it. If you do a good deed for someone, don't keep score. If you give someone the last slice of pizza even though you wanted it, you keep that to yourself forever. Otherwise, you're just racking up points for your own selfish purposes.",
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"body": "I was in a similar situation where I felt as though I was a lot meaner than the average Joe. I made a simple goal: I want everyone who interacts with me to have an improved (even if just slightly) quality of life. Genuine compliments are easy, and go a long way in turning a shitty day to a much brighter on.e",
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"body": "Practice doing good things. Practice thinking constructive, positive thoughts. Seriously, that's it... but don't kill yourself.\n\nedit: don't kill yourself = don't martyr yourself.",
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"body": "looking for a \"list of good things to do to people\" will not get you where you want to go.\n\nyou need to learn the subtle art of **empathy**\n\nobviously its easier said than done, but try to think about how another person feels, what they want, what their motivations are etc. help people without expecting anything in return, and over time you will see this is one of the most liberating feelings a person can experience.\n\ntrying to file down or null your sense of \"self\" will not be very helpful, you *need* to care more about yourself than others, but at the same time, realize you (and everyone else) has such a disposition and it gives you another point of view, admittedly one that is not yours, but you can use this to take action.\n\nstart out with small things like you just described, helping old people carry stuff, cross the street, making a child happy, even a friendly remark to someone who looks sad will brighten up their day much more than what effort it takes on your part to execute it.\n\nthere will be times when you will be ignored or faced with suspicion, and just dont let these get to you. i consider myself to be a rather helpful person and, you know, sometimes i would offer some person to help with something and they will be like \"who the fuck are you?\" or make a general remark of distrust.\n\nlastly, although im not a religious person myself, i love this quote (i think its a Turkish quote, but im not sure) it goes: do a good deed, and throw it in the sea, if the fish won't acknowledge it, god will.",
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Hey 2X, can I get some make-up advice? | I'm a guy with permanent dark circles under my eyes(genetic) that make me look haggard and 5 years older than I am. I have some job interviews coming up and I want to project an air of youth and energy - which would be easier if I could mask these. Is there any easy-to-use product to accomplish that on medium-dark skin? I'm sort of afraid to just walk up to the woman's counter at a department store and ask. | 7 | [
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"body": "Well, different color concealers do different things. Green concealer covers redness (i.e. acne scars) and yellow concealer helps to combat blue/purple circles around the eyes (that I have too). \n\nSo, get the yellow and use it like a primer, then another skin-colored foundation to cover it. I personally have used Physicians Formula Correct and Cover (Available at Target & Walmart) with some success. \n\nI recommend getting it sooner so you have time to practice. \n\n ",
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"body": "Hire a make up artist for your interview. Make sure you see pics of work they've done on men.\n---\nEither way you would have to go to a make up counter and have them help you pick a shade.\n\nGenerally in advanced make up (film/tele/print) you wouldn't put concealer on men because it could either make them look feminine or as if they were wearing make up.\n\nThe only actor I can think of that has intense dark circles is George Clooney. He is either wearing make up or had his eyes done. I think it is the latter. \n\nIf you still feel you need something, bad news...go to the make up counter and ask to be matched with a **tinted moisturizer**. Concealer on guys is way too much, and tricky to apply. However if you feel the moisturizer is not doing the trick have them show you how to use concealer along with it.\n\nAlso consider that the appearance of looking more distinguished might help you. \n\nWhat do you think they'll say? *That guy was too old*, or *Was that guy wearing make up?*\n\nJust a thought.\n\nYou can actually call ahead of time and make an appointment, explain your situation and be in and out of there in a matter of minutes.",
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"body": "A concealer would work. You don't have to go to the make-up counter though. [Here](http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=164399&catid=9569&cmbProdBrandFilter=49776&trx=CAT-0-PCOLOR&trxp1=9569&trxp2=164399&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-CAT-0-PCOLOR) is what I recommend. It has aloe and green tea in it to help with puffiness. Start with a really small amount and make sure you blend well. ",
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"body": "I know you said you didn't want to go to the makeup counter, but do you have a Sephora in your area? I used to work there and can vouch for how hardcore they are about quality, non-scary and non-judgmental customer service. Not only will they be nice to you, but you may well encounter a male employee wearing *way* more makeup than you'll walk out with. The way I see it, going to Sephora is a good bet because you'll be able to play with stuff, practice, and get advice about what you should get and what to do with it.\n\nBut if you're determined not to go anywhere, I like [this stuff](http://www.maybelline.com/Product/Face/Concealer/instant-age-rewind-double-face-perfector.htm) a ton. The concealer goes on reasonably thick without sitting too obviously on top of your skin, and the highlighter brightens you up without being sparkly.\n\nMy instructions follow. The first two steps are because you want your face to be a clean surface for makeup to go on. You might be fine without them, but you should experiment.\n\n1. Wash your face with an exfoliating face wash of some kind. I like [this stuff](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DD709GN7L._SS500_.jpg).\n2. Moisturize. [This](http://www.womenshealthmag.com/files/images/sensitive-skin-moist.jpg) is my favorite because it won't make your face shiny.\n3. Using the concealer wand, put a row of small dots starting from the inner corner of your eye, close to your nose, out to where your circles start. Dots should be about 1/8 of an inch in diameter and maybe a pinky nail width apart. Use a pinky or a makeup sponge to blend. I usually pat gently to spread it around a bit more, then blend any leftover lines, so I'm not just wiping the concealer back off.\n4. Repeat with the highlighter. Start with a small amount: you can always add more, but it's more of a pain to get it back off again.\n\nIf you can stomach it, have a female friend help you out. Many women have to cope with dark circles, and many of those women have practice covering them up with makeup.\n\nGood luck!",
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"body": "Check out this recent [post](http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/al6ey/ladies_i_have_no_idea_how_to_apply_makeup/).\nThe OP noted that she had dark circles under her eyes in that thread, so you may find some of the suggestions useful.\nGood luck on the interviews!",
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Let multiple users collaborate on self-posts. | Inspired by [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofScience/comments/am2cz/philosophyofscience_subreddit_reaches_1000_users/) submission, it would be great if you guys could figure out a way to let people collaborate on posts. Being able to invite someone to work together on a submission comes to mind as an initial implementation, but I can imagine the idea growing into something like a simpler version of a google wave or wikipedia article. There isn't much demand, obviously, so the simplest implementation would be great to start with. | 4 | [
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"body": "This sort of serves no purpose.\n\nEither:\n\n1) Multiple users log into one account or\n\n2) Just use the comments section",
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Study Austrian Economics at University? | I really want to get m PhD in Economics so I will be more credible when I defend Austrian Economics. However, it seems that most universities teach the institutionalized Keynesian economics. Are there any universities out there (anywhere...but I would prefer somewhere outside the USA for the experience) that are actively teaching Austrian Economics or will I have to study this on my own? | 3 | [
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"body": "> I really want to get m PhD in Economics so I will be more credible when I defend Austrian Economics.\n\nGetting a PhD should be about joining in humanity's effort to expand knowledge and understanding. It should *not* be about learning how to defend an ideology. I really hope you don't get a PhD. The last thing this world needs is more ideological shills with superficial credibility.",
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"body": "All the sane parts of Austrian economics have already been absorbed by the mainstream and are taught in every university program you'll find. The \"ideological nonsense\" parts of Austrian economics won't be found in any university (and for good reasons). Go to school to learn, not to strengthen your ideology.",
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"body": "I think George Mason University has several Austrian school folks on board. Check mises.org too.\n\nEdit: I'd also encourage you to always espose yourself to other schools of thought as well as other scientific and academic fields. Study some science, especially biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. \"Specialization is for Insects\" - Robert Heinlein.\n\nI say that because IMHO one of the problems with economics is that economists tend to mostly just study economics. They also tend to be insular to their own economic schools of thought. The real answers are in biology, physics, complex systems theory, etc., and is trying to understand all the different schools of thought and their strengths, weaknesses, errors, etc.\n\n",
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"body": "Is it just me or do the majority of arm chair Austrians believe that there are only two schools of economic thought: Austrian and Keynesian?",
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"body": "Two things:\n\n* You will never graduate with that attitude.\n* If you somehow manage to do so (likely from a bottom feeder school), you will never be taken seriously.",
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"body": "Austrian is crap. That's why it's not taught at any reputable universities. It is idealogical nonsense, with no empirical basis, masquerading as economics. To quote Milton Friedman, \"there is no Austrian economics - only good economics, and bad economics.\" Which are you want to learn?\n\n",
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"body": "Here's the brutal truth, and I'm sure many people on this thread won't like to hear it and I'll be downvoted.\n\nIf you don't get a phd from a top 10 school, you probably could have had a better career in some other discipline. You're not going to find what you're looking for in a top 10 school. So I wouldn't bother.",
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What's the worst movie that you've seen at least 3 times? | A couple years ago, it seemed like I kept getting stuck in situations where I had to sit through Fool's Gold. It was my personal hell. | 4 | [
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"body": "[This piece of shit.](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/passport_to_paris/) \r\n\r\nWhenever we watched a movie in 7th grade French class, we'd watch this for some reason.",
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"body": "The Brady Bunch Movie. I've seen it seven times. Three of them in theaters. I don't know why, I don't like it very much. It just keeps on happening.",
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"body": "Step Up 2: The Streets\n\nThis was being shown on 8 different channels in continuous loops on my roommate's satellite for a couple of months. Someone would always put it on because we heard just how much the other guy liked it. Then the drinking games occurred. Then the posters were bought as gifts for each other. Every dispute was solved with a dance challenge. This was a lesson in taking a joke too far.\n",
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I just had an RFID chip implanted in my hand. AMA. | Yesterday, I had a hand surgeon implant an EM4102 RFID anode in my right hand, between my thumb and index finger.
Gallery: http://www.null-d3v.com/archives/rfid-implant/#more-22 | 17 | [
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"body": "Why?\n\nDo you want to make sure people can identify you *no matter what*? Do you work for the government? Were you abducted by aliens?",
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"body": "I just really hope this doesn't become a trend, otherwise we'll see corporations offering it with perks.",
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Is it moral to have children? | This may sound like a dumb question, but is it really moral to have children? People argue about the morality of abortion and suicide yet they never stop to think about the fact that a child is forcefully brought into existence. The child is then forced to follow the doctrines of their parents and gain whatever schooling they can.
If it is considered immoral and selfish to forcefully take one's life (i.e. murder or suicide) then why is it considered moral to forcefully give life? There is no permission given to parents, they selfishly bring a child into existence. Not everyone wants to exist. | 39 | [
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"body": "> Not everyone wants to exist.\n\nThat's a correctable problem, but at least you're giving them the choice.",
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"body": "Do you admit that peoples' desires change? I mean, a 30 year old suicidal person might have been a happy 5 year old at one point. While that 30 year old might blame his parents for making him exist, he could just as easily blame his 5 year old self for not taking his life sooner. Show me a suicidal baby, and I'll think the morality of procreation (for the reason stated) is more debatable.\n\nYou might like to read the tangentially related \"existentialism is a humanism\" by Sarte. I'm reminded of it because of the phrase \"man is thrust into existence…\"\n>yet they never stop to think about the fact that a child is forcefully brought into existence.\n\nI assure you this *is* talked about. As a matter of fact, it was on r/philosophy [before.](http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/a7fq3/does_procreation_violate_the_rights_of_the/)",
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"body": "Not everyone wants to exist? One must exist in order to come to this conclusion. That in itself completely blows this interrogatory. You would destroy those who want to exist in order to protect those who don't, but you don't know who doesn't want to exist till they exist...\n\nThen of course is the absurdity that people are forced to exist. The only thing you are forced to do is yes, follow the doctrines of your parents and live at the mercy of the institutions and government etc. The only reason one lives at the mercy of most parents is because most of those parents are weak and use food, shelter, and clothing as leverage. At the end of the day one cannot fully blame those parents(this does not exonerate them either) because they were taught the same thing when they were born and thus perpetuate the cycle because they have never exercised the greatest gift that was given to man. Volition.\n\nVolition and your mind is, believe it or not, operated the same way as your muscles in many, many ways. If you do not exercise and use your mind and your own volition your body simply stops sending it resources and it grows to be decrepit over time.\n\nTrust me, if we didn't all live under the foot of an oppressive and hostile government and weren't surrounded by these automatons that have been robbed of their minds and their volition then life would be far more desirable to these \"non-existent\" people who think they don't want to exist. The automatons feed the parasite, give it strength, and give it ever growing and longer arms to stretch itself right into your life, point a gun at your head(in more ways than one), and tell you to wheel your trashcan to your backyard, among other things. \n\nGenerally, people who argue for abortion and against suicide are merely usurpers, whether they accept that title or not. I often hear of this amorphous, colorless, odorless, virtually non existent, phantom called the social contract that the most poisoned of individuals force on others. Yet, when asked to produce such a \"document\" they cannot answer. Sadly, the only thing such people only realize is that you are their inferior, their slave, and therefore you must be dictated to, bullied, forced, and in instances where you disobey, punished the same way one would their own pets and animals. Once the will of the weaker breeds are broken, their force can be used to leverage the greater minds and bend their will to the furtherance of the parasite and the oligarchy that rules it.\n\nI could elaborate on this further but I think we're just about out of time folks.\n\nps. We could also delve into how to most people, their pets are their slaves, but they would like to believe that they keep them for companionship and they mean more to them and are not slaves. That however is a totally different topic and the vast majority of the plebes would be offended that such thoughts would be brought into their limited reality.",
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"body": "there are clearly circumstances in which it is immoral - for example, procreating willfully in a torture camp, thereby condemning the child to the same fate as the parents. given any system of ethics which is sensitive to harm, the morality of having children will at least partly depend on the extent to which you are exposing them to harm by giving birth to them.",
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"body": "Great discussion question! I have a feeling that, like a child, this topic will go places the OP didn't originally intend or predict!\n\n> forcefully brought into existence\n\nOP, what do you think of the alternate phrasing, \"given the gift of life\"? I am thankful for having the opportunity to live. Do I deserve it? Probably not. Could my parents fully understand the implications of having a child? Certainly not! But I'm trying to leave this planet a better place than it was when I arrived, and generally learning from & enjoying the experience.\n\nAnd how about my children? Although they don't fully comprehend how they got here, they seem to be intensely thankful to be alive.\n\n*My soapbox:* As a species, I think we need to make a transition from viewing children as being for the benefit of their parents to viewing them as an asset to the human race and to the planet.",
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DAE kind of wish they are able to physically help in haiti or other disaster-struck places? | I don't have any money to send, really. Even if I did, being there seems like it would be just as valuable, if not more so.
I don't just mean Haiti, either, it just seems like this particular disaster has gotten a lot of coverage. | 14 | [
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"body": "No, I'd rather just sit here and pray. That way, I can feel as though I'm helping, when in reality, I'm just mumbling nonsense to myself.",
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Advice wanted: The best chicken wings | With my annual Super B--, er, Big Game, party coming up, I'm looking for tips on making the best possible chicken wings.
I make wings every year and every one gets eaten without complaint, but I'm not 100% satisfied and I want to take them to the next level.
For reference, my current method is: Section the wings if they're not already, deep fry in peanut oil @ 360-375°F until desired color or skin texture, remove and toss with sauce, then throw on a baking sheet in hot oven or under broiler for a minute to cook down the sauce - I'm not a fan of "extra wet" wings. If I had one complaint, it's that if I fry until the skin is the way I want it, the wing overall seems shrunken and overcooked, and if I cook until the inside is the way I want it, the skin lacks any crispness or texture.
I know there are a lot of different methods out there so I have decided I will make the effort, for science, to test some of these out between now and Super Sunday. I have some ideas from [this submission](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7jpxx/whats_the_best_way_to_deep_fry_chicken_wings/).
So I'm welcome to any suggestions, such as: marinating, brining, salting, seasoning, breading, par boiling, baking, broiling, grilling, etc.
Also, any suggestions on where to find bigger, meatier wings like you find in some restaurants?
Edit: If you check my submission history you see I also cure & smoke my own bacon... I usually save the grease, so "bacon fat frying" may also be an option here. | 3 | [
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"body": "I love Alton Brown's method of cooking the wings:\nhttp://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/good-eats/buffalo-wings-recipe/index.html \nIt is easy to make for a party instead of frying & you can make a number of different sauces \n",
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"body": " Put the wings on a rack in a 450 degree oven for an hour, turning once.\n\nI use the byfo sauce from CJ's in Columbia, but try different ones for variety. When they come out of the oven, put them in the sauce for about 30 seconds, especially if the sauce is room temp or cooler and it has a fatty component (like butter). Take them out of the oven, let rest on one side for 2 minutes, do not stack, then turn over to new location (read: not laying the newly down side in sauce), unstacked again, at least until they \"dry\" - 2-5 minutes. Serve with more sauce, another sauce or of course something like good blue cheese. \n\nhttp://www.cjs-hotwings.com/\n\nPS: If you don't believe the time and temp, try it with six wings, taking the first two out at 30 mins or so, and the second two at 45, and the last two at 60, turning once for each mini-bunch. \n\nYou can send me a check when you're through...\n\nEdit: You can add some seasoning either before baking and/or during the turn. I do a smidge of salt, pepper and garlic, but you can mix it up. Bonus to this method is some of the fat drips off (but definitely keep the skin on or else they will turn into charcoal!",
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"body": "These [Portuguese-Style Dragon's Chicken Wings](http://www.thedragonskitchen.com/2008/07/dragons-chicken-wings-portuguese-style.html) have been my party go-to for a few years now. They're broiled and not fried, so maybe they're just a bit healthier. :) \n\nEasy to prepare (mash a bunch of ingredients in a processor, toss in bag and marinate for a few hours, then into the over for 20-30m. done) and they don't rely on commericial sauces you can't get. I live in Europe now and I can get the ingredients everywhere. Plus it's cheap - only euro-pennies for the seasonings. \n\nIf you can make a good ranch-style sauce to dip them in, it's even better!",
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Stoned Invention Ideas? | I once thought of an elaborate bong that had a gas mask, fan and was cooled with freon. What "great" invention ideas have you came up with while stoned? | 8 | [
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"body": "[8]My roommate once got really high and took an empty glass coca-cola bottle and turned it into a bong. We named it \"toke-a-cola.\"",
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"body": "I have invented tons of shit when I was high...I just havn't remembered any of them. [5] Now When I get to [10] tonight (fridays ftw) I may invent time travel so then I can travel into the future and tell my sober self how to invent time travel. Thus he can travel back into the past and Tell me how to invent time travel (Because I could never invent something like that when I am high). Wait maybe I am already approaching [10]. fuck.. well atleast I wont remember any of this.",
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"body": "Sliced Butter, individually wrapped like the cheese. It totally fucks up your toast when you have to spread cold butter on it. It just doesn't work. ",
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"body": "A safe that has about 4 removable weights so that you can place it somewhere somewhat permanently, yet it is portable. The weights lock in with the same combo lock that opens the safe. \n\nYour average small portable safe can be stolen as a whole, whereas my weighted safe is basically impossible to lift once you lock in all the weights. ",
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[5] How do you Computer When High? | What sweet things do you do with your computer to make a nice chill or trippy enviorment for when your high.
My Tops:
Milkdrop + Electronic Music or Prog Rock
420Chan Cannabis
Or Both with my dual monitor setup. It makes high computing much better cause I can have milkdrop going in 1 screen and do w/e else in another.
So What are yours?
oh yeah and R/TREES!
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"body": "* Read trees with GirlFriend\n* Eat crackers with cheese on them\n* Think about SCIENCE\n* [http://listen.grooveshark.com/](http://listen.grooveshark.com/)",
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"body": "i go to 420chan a lot too. its funny how much nicer everyone is here. people are real assholes on /weed/, i guess its kinda funny once you get used to it. but, its also childish and annoying at the same time. ",
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"body": "**[0]** We may be twins.\n\nMy setup includes two screens, a 22\" and another a 17\". I use Milkdrop with [foobar20000](http://www.foobar2000.org/) which is possible using a plugin called [shpeck](http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_vis_shpeck). I often turn on music and put Milkdrop playing on my smaller monitor and browse the internet using the other. I use Sennheiser's Audiophile HD 595 headphones. If my ears had pussies, or any other legitimate orifice to fuck, they would have been by my headphones daily.\n\nSites I visit often include mostly /r/trees and 420chan. I visit many others too, but those two occupy most of my time.\n\nGood luck living my life. *Have fun, get high.*",
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"body": "simple, [SPACE STATION SOMA](http://somafm.com/listen/) if you don't instantly understand then check it out... \n \nor at the moment BBC Iplayer Asian channel, some great modern Bangra beats, electro synth, chat and at night some really, really chilled out sounds. \n \nOther stations i love, CoastTalk - south african radio from the shaddow of table mountain, you'll hear all the people on book/speaking tours from an entirely new angle -also the chat is really interesting, a totally unique cultural landscape. Also Israel National News is very interesting, Jamaican Talk FM has wonderful people with great accents and everywhere else if always interesting to discover, when news events happen somewhere the local news is always very interesting too.\n \nhttp://www.live-radio.net/info.shtml - for talk or http://www.shoutcast.com for soma and other random things...\n \nbeside that a browser window with a million tabs.",
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Newb Civ 4 player - should I be playing the Beyond the Sword edition or regular Civ4? | I bought Civ4 + expansions via the Steam holiday sale. I was under the impression I should just play Civ4 and it would roll all of the expansions together.
However, that was an obvious mistake (too many years of MMORPGs). So, my question /r/gaming is whether I should be launching and playing via Civ4 Beyond the Sword or another version.
Thanks! | 4 | [
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"body": "Beyond the sword\n\nFrankly it's an amazing game, but the beyond the sword executable has all the content of Civ4, and all of the additional updates and things that come with the expansion. \n\nOn that note, one you play the main game a bunch, try the mods that come with beyond the sword, there's a superb complete redo where you play as a space colonizer, another which tries to be alpha centauri (though it it;s not so great), and then one whih adds another few decades to the normal game and lets you have things like arcologies and mech walkers (which is now my default mode when playing), my roommate swears by the broken sword mod where you're trying to reunite Russia.",
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"body": "BtS contains everything Warlords and regular Civ 4 do, except the scenarios, but who cares about that, really.",
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Australia, I have a free day ahead of me. What are some numbers I can call to protest various shit going down in this country? | I'm in a "complain about injustice" mood today. Censorship, outrageous search powers, whatever. I particularly want to lambaste someone over [the violation of the Victorian Human Rights Charter](http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/an15m/vic_police_will_stop_at_nothing_to_protect_you/).
I encourage **you** to do your part as well! | 26 | [
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"body": "[Stephen Conroy](http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/contact). Do it. Complain about anything and everything he stands for. You know you want to..",
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"body": "There will be a protest in Australia soon against the Internet Filter. See: http://www.block-the-filter.org/home.html\n\nAlso, from what I've heard, a lot of \"complaints about injustice\" are requested in writing if you were to contact somebody important. I'm not sure how well they deal with individuals on the phone. Good luck man, tell us how any calls go, yeah? \n\nRealistically you are better off starting a small political party to get the word out - more freedom in your actions and contacts this way, since you become a political issue, rather than a concerned individual. \n\nIn fact, we could probably get a party like that together if we apply to the whole Australia sub-reddit....\n\n",
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"body": "You could send a submission for R18+ games.. [Here](http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/Consultationsreformsandreviews_AnR18+ClassificationforComputerGames-PublicConsultation)",
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Hey Reddit! What is a "normal" frequency to wash the dishes? | I live with a roommate since almost 2 months. Everything is going quite good. Except for the dishes. He seems to hate washing the dishes and consider me a tyrant everytime I ask him to wash his dishes.
During the first weeks, I asked him what he tought about a rule stating that we should wash our dishes at maximum the day after we used them. I thought it sounded a little strict but I want to have a better life discipline so I thought it would help me (When I lived alone, it did take me days before doing the dishes, but living with someone, I feel it's a question of respect to wash regularly my dishes). He agreed. The day after he put some dishes in the sink. Days passed by: 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, 5 days, 6 days, 7 days. After a week, I asked him to do his dishes (about one saucepan, two plates and ustensiles). He gave me a look and later, after doing it, tells me that he's pissed that I asked him to clean his dishes, how much he hates cleaning the dishes and that it's the way it is and I should be less strict on that, he should be able to do the dishes when he feels like it. The only problem I see with that is that he never feels like it. After that episode he did left another dishes in the sink for another week before I decided to clean them.
I kinda get pissed when I do much efforts to clean the kitchen and see the same !"/$% crusty saucepan in the sink day after day. I want to stick to my point and have a rule about how many day maximum the dishes should be clean after it's used. But I don't want to feel either like the obsessive-compulsive guy who can't stand dirt and wants everything to be clean at all time.
So please help me Reddit determine what the rule should be. Maybe I'll be able to convince him to clean his dishes more regularly by showing your answer. Or maybe I'll have to understand by your answer that I'm a freak and I should let him leaves his dishes unclean in the sink for weeks (he does keep a couple of plates and bowl in his room since 2 or 3 weeks so he doesn't have to wash them).
**edit**
Thanks to everyone with your suggestions! We had a talk 30 minutes ago. I approached him talking about importance of hygiene, both about the dishes and mentally. Doing the dishes regularly is also a way of keeping a minimum of discipline in your life which is never bad when you miss some (which he does). Anyway, he was more open-minded about speaking about it this time and he told me he would do an effort. But I might go shopping for a bucket to put is dirty dishes if his efforts aren't big enough ಠ_ಠ | 13 | [
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"body": "Wash the fucking dishes while you're fucking cooking. Period. \n\n**Do not** go to bed with a dirty kitchen. \n\n*Follow these rules, and you wont have to go and do a fuckton of dishes...ever.*",
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"body": "My roommates do this too...if he doesn't want to actually wash his every day(which isn't much to ask), maybe try convincing him to at least empty/rinse the dishes off after using them to avoid the dried on disgustingness.\n",
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"body": "A good motivator is to only keep enough dishes in the house for one meal, that way they must be washed if you want to eat again.",
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"body": "This is easily solved by having your own dishes. You won't get anywhere by forcing your expectations on him.",
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"body": "what is the normal frequency to wipe ones ass? when it's dirty. \nthere's no way you should have to put up with that. It's just plain rude. \n \n",
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"body": "He's being an asshole. Leaving stuff in the sink more than a day attracts bugs. If he keeps doing it, get a rubbermaid container, if his stuff is in the sink more than a day put it in the container and either put it in his room or put it outside. My roommates do this shit all the time, pisses me off to no end.",
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Do you watch porn with your boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband, cat, dog, etc? | I am a girl and I watch porn with my boyfriend on a regular basis. It's coming to my attention that this isn't necessarily super common. I find it incredibly attractive. I like seeing what turns him on and I like watching myself. I'm not worried about him thinking negatively about my body or our relationship - if anything, watching porn with him increases our closeness.
So, do you guys watch porn with your significant others? Why, why not? | 44 | [
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"body": "Every time I watch porn with my wife, she claims to be disgusted and somewhat offended by it. But without fail, she bangs me like a screen door in an hurricane an hour later. \n\nSo, apparently her vagina loves porn even if she doesn't care for it.",
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"body": "I am a dog and I watch porn with my owner on a regular basis. It's coming to my attention that this isn't necessarily super common. I find it incredibly attractive. I like seeing what turns him on and I like watching myself. I'm not worried about him thinking negatively about my body or our relationship - if anything, watching porn with him increases our closeness.",
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"body": "I absolutely love watching porn with my SO. We switch off on who gets to pick what we watch. We are able to discover so much about each other's sexual likes/dislikes through porn. Sometimes when we're not fully in the mood and we're watching porn anyways we just make comments about the actors/actresses or what they're doing.",
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"body": "No my girlfriend makes fun of me for it. She does like it when we read erotica together however. \n\nMy dog usually stares at me when I do. Then again my dog is always staring at me.",
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"body": "Nope, my other half watches on her own, and hates me watching anything. It's ok for her, not for me. Something to do with gender, apparently.",
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"body": "Considering that I once dated a woman who burst out crying when I merely put my foot up on the bed for leverage during sex because it was \"too much like fucking\"... Yes, yes it is unusual =/\n\n(Granted, this was at a wedding, thankfully not my own, in the hotel room we got, and she was in the bridal party, and was probably sensitive to the idea of things feeling \"romantic\".)\n\nThe only woman I could watch porn with who I dated was a nymphomaniac with emotional problems. Why the hell does it seem like 100% of the women who are very interesting in bed have some other serious mental issues?? Does society mess women up by desecrating their natural sexuality? I mean, I was just reading yesterday about how female chimps in heat have sex with *every male in the group* (a paper on sperm competition, or something) and all I could think of was \"and these beings share 95%+ of our DNA?\" If a female chimp wants to hang out in a tree full of males, she will *fuck every single male* first in order to reduce the sexual tension... Can you imagine how that might play out if that were accepted in some form in human society? Office politics... lol. Would human women be more naturally inclined to male-equivalent \"sluttiness\" if they weren't brainwashed into compartmentalizing? The same girl I described above said she had two kinds of sex called \"teddybear sex\" and \"slutty sex\"... guess which one satisfied me more... Are we making women have a schizophrenic or [MPD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder) sexual side?",
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"body": "I did. He left for an internship before we could explore more though. I was kind of embarrassed at some of the stuff that turns me on but I know for sure if he was still here we would have opened up more. ",
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"body": "> It's coming to my attention that this isn't necessarily super common. \n\nIt's fucking embarrassing, nobody I know dares to admit they watch porn. Bunch of prudes. If a guy says he doesn't watch porn I know he is lying, but I have no info on how many couples or women watch porn.\n\nI sometimes watch porn with my gf, but the problem is that she always jumps me a couple of minutes in, so when we watch porn we stop watching after 4 minutes. I know it is a good thing, but I am not sure if it counts as watching the porn since the majority of the watching time is spent doing something else.",
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"body": "single now, but used to watch porn with the ex. we used it to get us in the mood or enhance the mood, depending on the situation. it was always used to set the mood and not to emulate. \n\nwe both used it individually as well, with each other's knowledge - she actually encouraged that quite a bit. gotta love kinky girls =)",
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"body": "My fuckin dog comes up and licks... wait for it... hold it... hooold it! He comes up and licks my toes, I guess he dosent understand what a frap is and just thinks I'm shaking myself or something. I gotta bat him away some times while I'm gettin down... \r\n\r\nI've also wanted to do this with the GF but have not gotten around to it, even tho shes receptive to the idea. \r\n\r\n",
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"body": "Male, married for a long time. My wife and I watch porn together as it is a way for her to stoke the fires before sex. I enjoy watching with her but we'd like to find better couples-oriented stuff on the internet.\n\nMost porn on the tubes is too much hard-core, close-up, pumping action to appeal to her. We have a subscription to hotmovies.com and there are some good videos but you have to really hunt to find them. \n\nBeautiful women in sexy situations or at least with a bit of sexy setup works best. Suggestions are always welcome! Finding sexy porn equals a good romp session.\n\ntl;dr: Yes, watching sexy porn together = have good sex",
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"body": "Every porn I've ever watched has been actually pretty gross, and not sexy at all. (Spitting, and anal, and facials, etc.) \n\nI would be totally willing to watch porn with either of my boyfriends, but only if they came up with something good.",
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"body": "I used to watch porn with one of my ex-s. I thought it worked really well to grease the gears so to speak. She was also into all sorts of kinky shit and was the only girl I ever dated who loved having anal sex. Unfortunately she was also bat-shit crazy and a coke addict. My next long term girlfriend wasn't into porn at all and, in fact, threatened to break up with me when she found some on my harddrive. She didn't want me to watch it ever again. Also bat-shit crazy.",
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"body": "I have watched porn with exes before, and it's really not that fun for me. I can see how for other people, it's totally hot, but I'm not huge on it. Sucks, though. ",
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"body": "I don't oppose the idea at all, but it has never been a regular occurrence with someone I am dating. I get very involved in sex and porn is more of a distraction than anything else. I like to feed off mine and my partner's sexual energy and rich fantasies rather than drawing it from porn. However, for masturbatory purposes, porn and I are the best of friends. ",
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"body": "My wife would divorce me. She is a Christian and finds it totally unacceptable.\r\n\r\nIt would be a wonderful thing to have a wife who was more accepting of sexual explicit material.",
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A tachyon asks for a drink... | **...then walks into a bar.**
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*Google informs me that this joke is unique. I... I don't know what to say.*
Shameless plug: I've written [a few other obscure physics jokes](http://blaggleblog.com/?p=1889). | 244 | [
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"body": "I hate to burst your bubble.\n\nI've read this joke 3 or 4 times on reddit. It is definitely not unique.\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9tdb6/i_want_to_hear_your_nerdiest_joke/\n\n>a tachyon says ouch and walks into a bar.\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93t09/what_are_the_nerdiest_jokes_you_know/\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/a7x4e/a_higgsboson_walks_into_a_church_the_priest_says/\n\n>The bartender says what are you having?\n\n>A Tachyon walks into a bar.\n\n-\n\n>A tachyon walks into a bar. The bartender says \"We don't serve your kind here.\" The tachyon replies \"You did tomorrow.\"\n",
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"body": "A Higgs boson walks into a church. The pastor says \"We don't allow Higgs bosons in here \". The Higgs boson then asks \"But without me how can you have mass?\"\n\n\n\nSchrodinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't. ",
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"body": "> EDIT: Google informs me that this joke is unique. I... I came up with a joke... I might need to go sit down now.\n\nHardly. I definitely have made this joke before. \n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ah8br/hey_reddit_lets_share_awful_jokes/c0hl64f",
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"body": "Two atoms strollin along...one suddenly stops and says...whoa..shit...i've just lost an electron!\n\n\nAre you sure?! asked the other atom?\n\nYes, replied the first..I'm positive!",
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"body": "both my brother and his wife have physics PhDs, so they'll like this one. it might be too similar to one I've already told them, though:\n\nQ. Why did the tachyon cross the road?\n\nA. Because it was already on the other side.\n",
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"body": "I tried to invent some just then:\n\n------------------------------------\n\nA graviton walks into a bar, orders a light beer, takes a sip and promptly passes out.\n\nA gluon looks on in disgust, puts down her drink and mutters, \"Fucking hell, that's weak...\"\n\n-----------------------------------------\n\nA neutrino walks into a bar. \n\n\"Youse wanna drink?\" the bartender asks.\n\n\"No thanks,\" the neutrino answers. \"I'm just passing through.\"\n\n",
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"body": "A nice change from the old classic...\n\nA proton and a neutron walk into a bar. The proton says, \"I'll have a scotch on the rocks\". The barman says \"Are you sure?\" and the proton replies, \"Yeah, I'm positive.\" The neutron says \"I'll pay; how much is it?\" and the barman says \"For you, no charge.\"\n\n\n",
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I have an ~2 year old iMac(iMac7,1) with a busted super drive. Should I try to replace the super drive? | Just for the curious, My son who was around 2 at the time decided to shove 3 CD's into it at the same time. I have since removed the drive from the system config so that it doesn't appear to even have a removable media drive. What are the chances of a successful home repair. I have replaced a hard drive in a previous Macbook pro and upgraded the ram in my new macbook pro so I am not totally incapable of not destroying the computer. | 3 | [
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"body": "Here's the repair instructions for your model: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iMac-Intel-20-Inch-EMC-2133-and-2210-Optical-Drive-Replacement/1010/1\n\nThat said, you'd probably be looking at $90 or so to acquire a replacement drive. The replacement looks like it will take a bit of work (you have to unplug a bunch of stuff and remove the LCD)...but I suppose you have the skill to do so if you've replaced a HD in an older Macbook Pro, considering that those are semi-tricky. I remember one time I replaced the HD in my mom's old iMac G4, where you practically have to take the whole thing apart in order to reach the HD. It really wasn't as bad as it seemed to me at first, and everything worked great afterwards.\n\nIt's all up to you...spend the $90-ish and a couple hours to get a working Superdrive again, or just spend less and buy an external USB DVD burner that will probably work just as well.",
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Guys, I am tired of eating. The endless choices kill me. I want a bar or some other concoction/recipe that's 100% natural & healthy. | It is SO oppressive to me to have to eat THREE times a day. Back in college I always weighed 175, but now weigh 215. But it's not just about the weight gain but about the process of eating itself. Just when I get focused on something, I have to interrupt my train of thought to feed myself. At lunch, at work, I don't have time to chill or relax and "enjoyyy" my lunch. Invariably I end up eating alone or at my desk reading Reddit, or maybe with some of my really awesome coworkers, but sometimes, having to make conversation becomes so oppressive when I see these strangers *every* day. Again, don't get me wrong, I love a good wine with a good, sit-down dinner, and man, my GF can cook up a storm, so it's not about food. It's about having to eat healthily all the time. I want something I can just eat and then continue what I was doing, knowing that I ate something healthy. Please don't someone say I should eat "braaains" or kittens or Power Bars (unless... do they warrant consideration?). THANKS. I'm desperate! Has anyone ever "solved" this issue?
PS, I'd also love to find out about something that's good for when the banks collapse and the world ends. ;) | 17 | [
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"body": "Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman's solution: [The 444](http://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/ag10g/jamie_hynemans_444/)\n\nCheaper Solution: [Monkey Food](http://www.jefferspet.com/ssc/product.asp?pf_id=252&id=11620&link=174)",
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"body": "use some time on one of your weekend days to prepare your food. i suggest :\n\n* baked or grilled chicken\n* steamed rice\n* steamed vegetables\n\npre-portion. pre-package. ready-to-go meals. heat-and-eat.",
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What does everyone think about Moxxi's Underdome? | I personally don't like it. I'd rather have a DLC with regular missions and stuff (like Dr. Ned).
Maybe because I dont have enough friends to play it with. Trying to beat it alone sucks.
*that's what she said* | 9 | [
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"body": "Upvoted the OP for beating it alone remarks.\n\nMoxxi served the run & gun crowd, the capture the flag crowd, the jump around spray and pray Halo crowd. It did not however serve any useful purpose for those seeking additional missions, gameplay across wasteland missions, or a proper bank in any meaning of the term Bank.\n\nI bought it for the bank, thinking my GAMERTAG would be able to access this bank with any character and just stash or retrieve guns put there... What is essentially happening now is you still have to create mules with banks to stash your items, because if your character goes corrupt ( which it does OFTEN in splitscreen ) you lose all of what you stashed in the bank.\n\nBUT.... if they had made a bank like in the real world where I ( being the gamertag ) would stash items with a soldier into the bank, then load a hunter to retrieve the soldier items this would have been a bank and if the soldier went CORRUPT, I would still have had access to the bank contents.\n\nI have no desire to sit for 4-8 hours doing 100 round matches, 20 rounds was monotonous enough, especially with worthless gun drops, splash screens that block your attempt to retrieve ammo drops, and poor collision detection with RPG's to name a few weapons that really don't work well within this game.\n\n4 outta 10 for a DLC download, whereas DR. Ned was clearly a 8.\n",
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What would it take to organize a 'Photograph the Police' day? | This is something that I'd like to see happen, but I'm honestly not sure about how to go about doing this.
Edit:
I just want to give a brief update at this point. I'll probably give more info later today. Based on the response I've receive so far, it seems like this is something worth investing energy into. I've been putting a lot of thought towards this based on the responses that you've given me and the objectives that I wish to achieve. If I wish to make this a reality, I have a lot of homework that I need to do, but any help is appreciated. Once I have a better sense of things, I'll present my ideas and go from there.
I live in Vancouver, and I'm going to look at the feasibility of organizing an event for the Olympics. Obviously I'm working in a limited time frame, but I feel I can deal with that. I need to determine what the stance is on photography goes as far as the security is concerned. What is the legal standing and what precedents have been established. Taking a stand for our rights while in the international spotlight would be a major victory. | 84 | [
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"body": "1. Make a very simple call to action, *totally* apolitical.\n2. Spread it by every means possible.\n3. Flash mobs + anonymous + image sharing sites",
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"body": "Everyday should be \"photograph a cop\" day.\n\nIf there's enough people randomly photographing enough officers, maybe they might start to treat people a little better on a normal basis.",
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"body": "1. Start some sort of blog about it.\n\n2. Post it on reddit to \n\n\n * [r/anarchism](http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/)\n\n * [r/bad_cop_no_donut](http://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/)\n\n * [r/libertarian](http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/)\n\n * [r/offbeat](http://www.reddit.com/r/offbeat/)\n\n * [r/pics](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/)\n\n * [r/photography](http://www.reddit.com/r/photography/)\n\n * [r/reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/)\n\n * [r/worldnews](http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/)\n\n * [r/politics](http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/)\n\n * [r/progressive](http://www.reddit.com/r/progressive/)\n\n * [r/democrats](http://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/)\n\n * [r/conservative](http://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/)\n\n * [r/republican](http://www.reddit.com/r/Republican/)\n\n * [r/UnitedKingdom](http://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/)\n\n * [r/news](http://www.reddit.com/r/news/)\n\n\n3. ???\n \n4. PROFIT! ",
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"body": "Most cops don't like having pictures taken of them and will be confrontational, even the hired ones. Interesting that, considering where I am they take pictures of everyone...\n\nBut I agree, I would like to see it happen also.",
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"body": "I don't know. But I would like to organize a 'hang an anarchist flag on a flag pole day'. I always see flag poles and I'm like \"Man, how awesome would it be to hang [an anarchist flag](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Anarchosyndicalist_Flag.jpg) on that bad boy for all the city to see?\"\n\nLike [this pole](http://www.murkyview.com/images/peacetowerflag.jpg), for example.",
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The Movie of The Week is Waltz With Bashir! The
Livestream party watch is Sunday 9pm! | The runners up were Week End, The Hudsucker Proxy, and of course, Primer. :-)
You have all weekend to watch the movie, including the weekend Livestream partywatch. The discussion thread will be up Tuesday.
[Livestream will be at this link](http://subredditfinder.com/misc/livestream.php) on Sunday, 9pm EST. | 27 | [
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"body": "Does anyone know of a good documentary on the 1982 Lebanon war? I saw *Waltz With Bashir* without any real knowledge of the war and had no problem understanding the film, but a little background knowledge wouldn't hurt. ",
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What is your Favorite WESTERN? | There are SO MANY to chose from.
Older, I would HAVE to go with El Dorado or possibly Big Jake with John Wayne.
Newer, I have to go with The Quick and the Dead or Silverado.
What's your favorites? Why? | 34 | [
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"body": "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo\n\nor, for the 'merkins:\n\nThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly\n\nHow is that even a question?\n",
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"body": "Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars, The Proposition, Assassination of Jesse James.\n\nEDIT: Forgot the 'why.' Once Upon a Time is the quintessential cowboy opera and Henry Fonda is flat-out amazing in it (plus Jason Robards being awesome and grizzly). Fistful is a great retelling of Yojimbo and Eastwood is superb. The Proposition is so gritty and dirty and it's great to see an Australian western. Assassination of Jesse James is like an epic poem and the cast is all-around spot-on. The music in all of them is classic, too.",
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"body": "[Johnny Guitar](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047136/)\n\nKind of quirky western from 1954 directed by the beloved Nicholas Ray. Joan Crawford is a pretty mean protagonist as well. ",
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"body": "While it's probably not as good as The Searchers, I think John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is freaking great. His My Darling Clementine is another good telling of the OK Corral story.",
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"body": "Cowboy Beebop: so west, it's east.\r\n\r\nEDIT: just fucking downvote me, that was as dumb as saying that Firefly was my favorite western.\r\n\r\n",
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"body": "Outland. Sci-Fi Western with Sean Connery with just the right amount of 1980s cheesiness to make it endearing.",
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"body": "I don't have just one\n\nHigh Noon, the Magnificent Seven, High Plains Drifter, Seraphim Falls, Unforgiven, and Quigley Down Under are a few of my favorites.\n\nas for why:\n\nHigh Noon is the quintessential showdown movie. \n\nThe Magnificent Seven has several great actors and a strong story. I like how well it captured the Seven Samurai. \n\nI like High Plains Drifter for its amorality and supernatural element. \n \nSeraphim Falls is a great chase flick. I like how Gideon and Carver are shadows of men whose lives are shaped around the one moment; how Gideon is haunted by his mistake and Carver is consumed by revenge. I also really like how things progress as they head down off the mountain to the salt flat.\n\nI don't really need to go into why I have Unforgiven in my list. It is obvious. It's a great film.\n\nQuigley Down Under has its weak points, but Tom Selleck is cool and I love the rifle he uses. It is just an enjoyable film.",
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"body": "High Plains Drifter - \n\nEastwood plays such a morally ambiguous character - he actually rapes a woman. Also, he literally paints the entire town red, how fucking cool is that",
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"body": "Anybody ever see [*The Ballad of Cable Hogue*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065446/)?\n\nIf not I Highly Recommend it.",
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"body": "[Once Upon a Time in the West](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_the_West) is one of the best westerns ive seen. \n\nIt has a very melodic pace but it just drags you in for the ride.",
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"body": "the good the bad the weird. it's a 2008 Korean western. it borrows heavily from it's spiritual successor, but manages to be an original action/comedy/western. ne1 who loves movies has got to see it ",
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Reddit, my older brother is destroying my parents' retirement and I no longer know what to do. Any advice? | Hi reddit,
I've been a user for three years (not under this handle, obviously) and have seen you give excellent advice to a number of other redditors. I'm at my wit's end with family trouble and decided it might be worth asking you guys for your opinion. I'll try to keep this as short as possible. (Edit: not so short...sorry)
My older brother is 26 and has been a challenge to our family, especially my parents, for the last four years. He's always been very intelligent and has a photographic memory, but he has zero drive and that has cost him a lot. It has also cost my parents a lot, emotionally and financially. (It's greatly affected me and my younger siblings, but I'll leave us out of it because it's my parents who are suffering the most.) After everything that's happened, seeing my brother react with complete apathy and continue to make the same mistakes and repeatedly hurt people, I've come to believe he is a sociopath. Nothing fazes him or motivates him.
The problems began when he finished college and came home to live while working for my dad's company. His girlfriend lived nearby, and he'd babysit her 1-year-old during the day because his job was erratic hours (fixing machines in hospitals as needed). After about nine months of this, his girlfriend's apartment is broken into, and everything of value including her car is stolen. Come to find out my brother had been doing heroin and oxycontin for months and had brought his dealer over to do drugs while babysitting. The dealer took stock of the place and came back later to rob it.
In the turmoil that followed this event, we learned that my brother had not actually graduated college. After a summer sober, my parents helped my brother get loans so he could finish his classes and get a degree. About two months into his time back at school, his roommate (whose dad died from a heroin OD) called my parents to say my brother had stolen $2,000 worth of his property and was demonstrating characteristics that reminded him of his father.
My brother came back home and went voluntarily into out-patient rehab (insurance wouldn't pay for in-patient). As far as we know, he has been "sober" since then (a little more than two years). I put sober in quotes because since rehab he's been taking a drug that makes his body think he's getting the "fix" it needs. It's a therapy that patients are supposed to be weened off of after the first year, if not sooner. He purposefully goes to a psychiatrist that writes the Rx and sends him on his way because that's all he wants. He will not open up about the issues that make him act how he does. We're still not sure what they are. He ignores me when I give him any advice (e.g., sharing info on a service that matches you with a therapist based a variety of qualifiers to make you most comfortable).
Throughout everything, my brother has consistently lied, played dumb, and manipulated my parents. In the beginning they were generous, but even now that they are jaded and wary from everything he's put them through, he still knows how to play them so that he gets what he wants (or rather, what's easiest for him).
As an example, he had thousands of dollars worth of overdue parking tickets and so his car (bought by my parents - he was supposed to reimburse them but never day) was towed. Because my parents cosigned for the car, they began received letters from the parking authorities when my brother was unresponsive. They ultimately got a lawyer for my brother to dig him out of this situation because they knew my brother would do nothing if they didn't take action. Similarly, after he received months of calls from collections departments, my parents paid his college loans so he wouldn't ruin his credit or worse.
I almost feel like things have been worse since my brother got off the drugs because there's nothing to point to as a cause of his issues - and no impetus for action. He continues to burden my parents in various ways, and they continue to take it. My mom has wanted for years to keep him out of our lives (or at least our home - changing the locks, etc.), but my dad (out of some strange guilt we don't understand) goes behind her back and offers my brother everything he wants.
Case in point, my brother's lease was up on January 1st, and when he told my dad in December he was struggling to find a new apartment, my dad (without being asked) offered he stay with us until he finds a new place. This was completely against my mom's wishes.
Come to find out today that my brother was fired (supposedly) two weeks ago for a scandal he claims is not his fault. In typical brother fashion, he did nothing to fight the termination nor defend himself in writing to HR nor consult with a lawyer. It could be that he's actually guilty, but it could also be the laziness. Regardless, my parents are in yet another situation where they are supporting my brother financially and feel obligated to give him a place to stay.
Reddit, I don't think my brother will ever be able to keep a stable job. I don't see him ever learning from his mistakes. I think he'll continue to lie, manipulate, and hurt the people around him because he doesn't *feel* anything. I wrote him off years ago, but seeing my parents constantly hurt by him really upsets me. It's the reason I'm moving out tomorrow - despite the guilt I feel knowing they deal with things better when I'm around to distract them.
My questions is: is there anything I can do? Are there services out there that cater to this sort of scenario? Has anyone else been through a similar experience? I really have no idea what else can be done. | 3 | [
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"body": "I hope someone who has some knowledge on these matters can help you. I do not, but can help with an upvote. Good luck to you.",
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So I'm a BYU (Mormon central) student and I've realized that I am also an agnostic atheist. | Contrary to what I was lead to believe, this was the hardest decision I've made up to now. I've "come out" to my parents, I know my mom definitely cries for me. My dad is a bit more aggressive, but we're still "cool" for now, although I'm pretty sure he called me "stupid", "ridiculous", and "arrogant". I also told one of my "friends" who I assumed was an agnostic atheist (he was), but we never got along that well and I used to make fun of him and look down on him growing up (I apologized when I told him). Anyway I'm reluctant to tell any of my other friends, so far I've just been faking about being a good mormon boy because I'm afraid I'll be looked down on if I tell them I'm an atheist. I feel so alone.
I don't have any resentment for the church really. I think that most of the people in it (at least among my friends) genuinely believe in the doctrines. I turn 19 tomorrow so I'm definitely feeling the pressure of going on a mission. I honestly think that a mission would be an amazing experience, with learning a new language and being immersed in another culture and all, but I cannot in good faith lie to people's faces for two years.
I like it here at BYU, but I think I would like it somewhere else. However, I am reluctant to leave because I currently have a full-ride scholarship and an awesome job doing what I love. I also have concerns staying after hearing about things like the Chad Hardy incident. I'm not sure what I want to do after this. I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced any of this, and what they think would be best.
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"body": "Don't tell anyone. They will actually make you leave. Happened to a friend years ago. If you have a full ride, USE THAT. I had to get loans, and they SUCK. Still paying them off... ",
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"body": "If you were 21 and only had a semester or a year left, I would say stick it out. But 19? Buddy, you have a great opportunity to have an awesome college experience outside of the Mormon community. Profiene is right—you can have the study abroad experience through any other university. But aside from that, you might want to just have your life in a more secular setting. As someone who has lived half of his life around and in religion (including the first few years in Roy, Utah), and half out, I can honestly say the fuller life is outside of it. It definitely will keep you grounded.",
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"body": "One thing to possibly consider: BYU, as do many religious schools, offer a great chance to network with people of the same faith. Over the next few years you may build many relationships with people based on the premise that you are a believer. Well, there may come a time when you decide to stop living a lie and either out yourself or just not demonstrably show your allegiance to the Mormon faith anymore. What happens then? All the effort at building a network may be jeopardized.\n\nObviously, many BYU students go on to successful careers apart from their Mormon brethren after they graduate. I'm just trying to dispel the notion that playing along up till then doesn't also have its drawbacks. ",
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"body": "stick with the full ride. don't tell anyone else if you think it might get back to you and hurt that.\n\nfinish school before you do anything else.",
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"body": "I was in your shoes six years ago at BYU, although I realized I was agnostic *while* I was a missionary, and let me tell you, it was NOT a good experience.\nI ended up leaving Provo and moved to Seattle, finishing my degree there. You should consider packing up and transferring to a school where you can meet people who won't judge you no matter what your religious beliefs.\nOh, and stop dating mormons, that will just end up fucking with your head in a very bad way.",
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"body": "I'd have to say jump ship. If you want to learn a new language and travel, find a different school with a great study abroad program, where you won't be forced to lie through your teeth every day. Also, depending upon what you plan to do after school, a diploma from a real university will usually carry more weight. I know this is a difficult decision, and now you know that praying won't give you answers, so it is ultimately up to you to decide what will help you to make the most of your life. Good luck. ",
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[7] Just got an Extreme Vaporizer | I got it in the mail today, which coincided with the release of a new model. Whatever, I don't give a fuck, I'm high as fuck. If you live in a dorm, it is a must have. Even if you don't, it's dope as fuck.
Fuck | 12 | [
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"body": "What kind of vape you get mang?\n\n\nEdit: Just reread the title and noticed you got an \"Extreme Vaporizer\" and not just an extreme vaporizer like I originally read it. Ha.",
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My boyfriend says the most incredibly inconsiderate things... | Tonight, my boyfriend really upset me. The cat that my deceased grandmother owned died very recently, and I just found out about it in an email. Sitting there, reading the email I say aloud, "Oh my god...Brownie died..." and I start to choke up. To which he replies, "What, was that your local black guy?" and chuckles to himself.
This isn't the first time this has happened...but I won't go into detail. He feels bad about it now and keeps apologizing, but why the hell can he be so insensitive? Can someone please put this in perspective for me? | 17 | [
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"body": "Did he have any idea who Brownie was before he made that comment? Do you think he saw you choking up at the news before commenting? Racism aside, if he didn't know who it was, I could excuse the remark as a poorly timed attempt at a comedic remark. On the other hand, if he either saw how upset you were, or knew who Brownie was [and presumably what the cat meant to you] and still made the remark, then that is unacceptably insensitive. \r\n\r\nAs others have noted, the sincerity of his apologies means something too. If he genuinely realizes that he was insensitive and hurt your feelings, again I’d lean towards letting it go. If he’s merely groveling to pacify you, that’s another story.\r\n\r\nAs a guy, I can tell you that my mouth gets me in trouble like this occasionally too. It isn’t something that I can consciously control most of the time. We [as guys, specifically the ‘class clown’ types] have spent the last twenty years of our lives conditioning ourselves to be able to drop random, hilarious comments within 500 milliseconds of some prompt, and occasionally we misjudge and say incredibly inappropriate things.\r\n\r\nDo you ever find his comments funny, and if so, is it is part of why you are attracted to him? If so, you are going to have to be tolerant towards his occasional insensitivity; it is a part of who he is. If you never appreciate his humor, then that is probably a good reason to move on, because unless the rest of the relationship is earth-shattering, that is a pretty big personality conflict. There are more sensitive and politically correct guys out there for you, and there are plenty of less sensitive girls that find juvenile humor hilarious out there for him. \r\n",
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"body": "Some people express compassion because they're genuinely empathetic and want what is best for you, independent of themselves. Other people express compassion because it's expected of them or because they don't want to deal with your unhappiness.\n\nIf you're in a relationship with someone who tries to smooth things over *only* when it looks like it's causing damage to the relationship, then that's a pretty good indication that the relationship (for whatever reason) means more to them than *you* do.\n\nI don't know if this is a one-time deal or not. If it's is a single slip-up, I wouldn't put much stock in it. These things happen sometimes. But if it's a pattern, I'd proceed very cautiously. \n\nMy guess is that he has a limited capacity for empathy, and while that may not be his fault (current scientific evidence points to the mirror neuron region of the brain; empathy doesn't seem to be a matter of free will, but rather something automatic and nonconscious), you'll probably have a hard time finding fulfillment in such a relationship. You'd probably be more compatible with someone more sensitive and compassionate, and he'd probably be more compatible with someone less sensitive and compassionate.",
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"body": "This is probably completely incorrect, but I'll write in anyway on the off chance I might be on to something.\n\nYou're boyfriend might be a huge douchebag, and you are only now coming to realize it. I notice that a lot of guys who are huge dicks make comments *exactly like* the one you describe, yet still manage to have attractive, interesting, and nice girlfriends who somehow are blind to what's really going on.\n\nMaybe you're just catching on to his true nature, maybe I'm completely wrong. Good luck.",
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"body": "I sometimes say things *almost* this stupid to my gf. The reason I do it is because I am a total fucking complete moron, every once and a while.\n\nBasically it is just a lame ass attempt at a joke. No need to analyze it, no need to look at my history growing up, that's all it is; a stupid joke that failed fucking hard. \n\nI am also sorry after the fact. Why am I sorry? Because I hurt her feelings, that's why. No need to look into it any further than that. Obviously if you love someone you are going to be sorry if you hurt their feelings, so don't buy into the people here trying to claim he doesn't respect or love you, or some BS. If he didn't respect you, he wouldn't be so sorry.\n\nWill I do it again? I might, if I don't learn to censor my thoughts before they get to my mouth, but I sure as hell don't intend to. Since your bf sounds genuinely sorry, I am sure he hates that he hurt your feelings, much like what happened with me. I am sure he'll make an effort to stop doing that. Tell him if you have to, but I am sure he has and will get the message.\n\nBasically, I'd jut give him a break and be clear you want him to cut it out. He knows he made a mistake and is genuinely sorry. That's better than some guys, and it shows that while he can be stupid sometimes, he clearly values your feelings.",
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"body": "Your boyfriend is a real life troll. He thinks that trolling is funny. If you do not share his sense of humor, set him free and allow him to find someone who thinks he's hilarious: a trollette.",
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"body": "Ok, a day later, I've read through all the various comments, and your responses to them so far. This seems to be the consensus:\r\n\r\nThere are multiple interpretations to his behavior. The interpretation that any given person sees as most likely, depends mostly on that person's own experiences. In other words, when I read your story, I'm reminded of my wonderful loving boyfriend, who often cracks inappropriate jokes. I imagine that maybe your boyfriend is the same - rough on the edges but gold inside.\r\n\r\nOthers have had experiences dealing with callous assholes who enjoy the power they get from hurting others, or who just lack the ability to care or empathize with another person's pain. They read about your experience and see that person in what he said.\r\n\r\nOthers know, from personal experience, that often they mask their own insecurities or fearfulness behind crude humor - aka - they don't know the right thing to say or how to deal with your emotions, so they crack a bad joke. They have compassion on his awkwardness because they see their own awkwardness in him, and assume the same benevolent intentions in him that they themselves would have in that situation.\r\n\r\nOthers recall having girlfriends who were \"crazy\" or otherwise high-maintenance or high-drama, where they felt that they had to watch everything they said for fear of triggering her and causing her to become offended and emotional. They hear that you are upset about a joke which could be interpreted in many ways, and they assume that you are also easily offended and overly sensitive.\r\n\r\nBottom line = we need more information. Based on the information given here, there's too many possibilities to definitively say what's really going on.\r\n\r\nBut one thing I notice - the comments in here which seem to have struck a chord with you, are the ones which suggest that your boyfriend is an asshole who isn't capable of empathy or compassion. Now, the one person in this whole thread who really knows this whole situation, is you. And you feel that he's basically a big jerkwad whose intentions towards you are just not that good - that he just doesn't care if he hurts you. \r\n\r\nIf that's the case, then, I think you already have your answer.",
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Ever been dumped for being "too nice"? | I have. It turns out that it's code for "I'm a bitch." She was cheating on me with some guy (not a friend but I knew him).
Vent, Reddit, vent on me. | 4 | [
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"body": "Nah, you've been through enough. \n\nI've been where you are but I eventually learned to just be myself. That's really all there is too it, though that probably seems easier said than done for you right about now.\n\nAnyway, she's the one that cheated. You may be too nice, but she's a liar and bad person. ",
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TIL That OS X keeps what amounts to a list of every disk you've ever mounted, including pirated disk images. | To read this list, simply open a terminal, do:
defaults read com.Apple.Finder > finder.txt && open finder.txt
This are the default screen positions of disks and disk images mounted on the desktop. | 31 | [
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"body": "True! Neat find.\n\n \"Journler_0x1.4fd0d2ap+27\" = {\n AnchorRelativeTo = 2;\n ScreenID = 0;\n xRelative = -78;\n yRelative = -351;\n };\n \"GRC1CULFRER_EN_DVD_0x1.f3e89cp+27\" = {\n AnchorRelativeTo = 2;\n ScreenID = 0;\n xRelative = -78;\n yRelative = -167;\n };\n \"Microsoft Office 2008_0x1.a0298p+27\" = {\n AnchorRelativeTo = 2;\n ScreenID = 0;\n xRelative = -78;\n yRelative = -351;\n };\n \"NTFS-3G 1.913 (catacombae)_0x1.9364978p+27\" = {\n AnchorRelativeTo = 2;\n ScreenID = 0;\n xRelative = -78;\n yRelative = -443;\n };\n\nAs a mini-game, see if you can guess which of these disks was pirated.\n",
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"body": "Or, just find the file `~/Library/Preferences/com.Apple.Finder.plist` and read it. It displays a nice easy list like [this](http://imgur.com/QR3nk.png).",
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"body": "this only remembers the position of disks that are shown on the desktop. If you have your finder preferences set to not show external discs or CDs on the desktop, nothing gets recorded.",
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Dollhouse: Holy crap on muffin [Spoilers] | That was a damn compelling episode. It did have a few logical flaws (why wouldn't Adelle have Topher field-strip Mellie of her combat craziness? Why did they assume everything was located in that one building?) However, it had some great moments. Mellie dying was frankly kind of a relief, but the scene with Doll-Boyd being given the hand grenade was... horrible. And I mean that in the best possible way. Thoughts? | 26 | [
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"body": "Not as good as it has been in past weeks, but it was watchable. Plenty of minor complaints.\n\n- The part where Echo was acting crazy at the beginning of the episode was funny, and I'm pretty sure it was meant not to be.\n\n- The fight between Echo / Whiskey looked horrible. Not sure exactly why they used the effect that made them both look like The Flash. \n\n- Mellie killing herself was cringe inducing, the whole \"assassin with a heart fighting its programming\" just isn't entertaining.\n\n- Paul is just a boring character, which is probably why I had no sympathy for Mellie. \n\n- I knew when Echo was late getting out of the building there would be a scene where she was running away from an explosion. Even for such a standard scene it was poorly executed, since a few seconds after she jumped away from the fire she was standing outside of the building on her feet.\n\n- Whole episode felt rushed, but I suppose that's to be expected for a canceled show trying to tie some loose ends. \n\nThere were plenty of good moments though, including but not limited to Topher 2.0, Topher trying to decide what to call the apocalypse, and Topher shooting Boyd. Which is weird since at the beginning of the series I didn't really like Topher",
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"body": "The whole magic spinal fluid thing was pretty unbelievable, but my partner and I have an epileptic-trees explanation, which is that Boyd is completely crazy, and it doesn't matter whether there's a real cure there or not; he thinks there is, and that was enough for him to come up with this whole insanely complicated plot.\n\nAnd poor Topher, still screwed... makes you almost wish he'd kept his sunny, sociopathic mindset and never grown a conscience.",
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"body": "I think the worst thing about the episode was that the crazy mad scientist/evil genius Rossum founder was right, and a bunch of misguided do-gooders destroyed the world - you can't uninvent anything, and by trying to do so, you just end up fucking *everything* up.\n\nOf course that was also the best part of the episode, and the reason why I enjoyed it. It's true, and it's poignant. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the fastest way to get there is by paving the road at breakneck speed. :)\n\nAnd yeah, the writing sucked, but I don't see how it could have been done any better, given that they were forced to compress a ginormous story arc into like 4 episodes, with the cancellation and all.\n\nOn a related note, does anyone know why Joss keeps going back to Fox? Fuck them and their unmitigated record of cancelling good shows (and every decent SciFi series, ever). Why doesn't he just try to migrate over to the SyFy network? They could certainly use some original programming that doesn't suck, and he'd certainly have an audience there.",
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"body": "Well, I was thinking Whedon had gone soft for a few minutes at the end. The big bad vanquished, no non-expendable good guys dead, and the evil tech destroyed. Yeah, I should know better by now. Wasn't sure if Epitaph Two was going to fit into the \"real\" timeline, or if it'd just be a \"what if\" scenario, but I guess that's all cleared up.\n\nAs for my main plot gripe... why not take inoculate the whole world with Echo's spinal fluid? I mean, sooner or later you'd figure out how to synthesize it, then just make up some flu epidemic (oh noes, H1N2) and get people vaccinated. Seems a lot more likely to work than putting the genie back in the bottle.",
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"body": "Well, when you're forced to conclude the show so quickly (thanks Fox!), some things are bound to suffer. I loved the episode, and I was so shocked that Boyd was behind it all. I loved Boyd, right to his end. The scene in last episode where he shot those three rossum employees in front of dewitt was absolutely amazing.",
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"body": "I somehow missed how Boyd got Adelle to say Mellie's trigger phrase. I remember Boyd telling her to say it, and then didn't she said she would die first? And then a couple scenes later, *somebody* says the trigger phrase over the intercom. Did anybody catch what happened there?",
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Operating system question regarding g4 processors. | The answer to this question has eluded me and my friend Google- What is the newest, most advanced operating system I can run on my Powerbook 1.67 gigahertz G4 smoothly? Ive heard of 10.5.8 running well on lesser machines, but I thought I would ask for your expertise. Thanks in advance.
* edit- Anyone have experience running CS4 with this setup? | 5 | [
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"body": "I've been running 10.5.8 for quite awhile on the same laptop. Hulu doesn't work so well, and Youtube can be hit or miss. Most day to day stuff is fine though.\n\nI'll never go back to 10.4 after using 10.5.",
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Wanted: Witty tongue-in-cheek sign for college hockey game against Liberty University | My college hockey team, Rider University, plays their club team soon. Can anyone suggest a good sign I could make to raise at the game. Presumably something tongue in cheek towards their fanatisim, but not too insulting to christianity since many parents and a few players are religious.
haha I love them, I may need to make more than one | 17 | [
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"body": "You could go with [Jesus saves](http://imgur.com/tHyaR.gif). It's not too offensive but definitely blasphemous and funny.",
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"body": "In the same manner as the old John 3:16 guy, make a sign that says 2 Kings 2:23-24\n\n\"And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them\"\n\nI love the Bible sometimes.",
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Anyone up to make a poster asking for help to Haiti? | I'm not a Graphic Designer, but I'm willing to print a lot of copies and post them at my college and around my neighborhood | 10 | [
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"body": "I'd be happy to do one, though it might take until tomorrow morning. What kind of printing will you be using, b&w or color?\n\nEdit: Actually it might take me a little longer, but I promise I'll do it. PM me with details about size, color, etc and we'll talk.",
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TIL if you press and hold the 'close door' button on an elevator, then press the number of the floor you want to go to, the elevator skips other floors even if people are waiting there. | I guess it's a failsafe built in place to let building maintenance guys get to places without having to wait for hotel goers, etc.
edit: i guess this only works on some elevators, but i know i'm going to try it next time
edit2: a link on engadget about it:http://www.engadget.com/2005/08/02/elevator-hacking/ thanks, likeaturbine | 351 | [
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"body": "As neat as this is, it's one of those things that the general population is better off *not* knowing about. Once everyone knows about this, then everyone starts abusing it and the elevator-riding population on average has to endure longer wait times than when no one knew about this ability.",
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"body": "As an analogy, this is like jumping on a bus and commandeering it so that it doesn't stop at any of the bus stops except yours. Using the elevator this way pretty much ruins it as a vehicle for mass-transit.",
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"body": "This will make for well-planned farts. Execute button sequence, fart on exit, leave a present for everyone else.",
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"body": "pretty cool, huh?\n\ni learned this on [engadget](http://www.engadget.com/2005/08/02/elevator-hacking/) a long time ago and put it into practice while traveling for my job.\n\nin my personal experience, it worked 60-65% of the time.\n\nsuccess! ",
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"body": "As you walk into the elevator, look up. If you see a lever in the elevator shaft, above the door of the elevator, hit it. At least for our elevators, it clears the other floors the elevator has been called to, allowing you to go straight to your floor.",
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"body": "As someone who works for Emergency Medical Services in a city with many decently tall buildings, thank you.",
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"body": "Thanks so much! I didn't know this. \n\nThat being said, I've downvoted you as to ensure less people know about it. I'm selfish. Forgive me. ",
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"body": "Just to clarify: Do you only have to hold the close button down when you press your floor or hold it down the whole time?",
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"body": "I've been using this for years. I am I drunk with power? No of course not, can't you smell the bourbon?",
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"body": "If you get in an elevator wearing a uniform and announce you are their elevator driver for today and you will do your best to give them a smooth and safe journey to the floor of their choice, you could make a lot of money from tips. Especially if you offer them the option of a deluxe express service where they can go straight to the floor they want without stopping.",
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"body": "I learned that from [eeggs.com](http://www.eeggs.com/items/12697.html). \nIt mainly works on Otis elevators.",
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"body": "Only works on Otis elevators (as you enter the elevator, look down to see if it says Otis). I used to live in a building and as I was going up the elevator, an elevator repair man came in. He was holding the close door button and asked him why and he told me it skips floors. I used that everyday and it always worked for me.",
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"Nichol puts Chara down" | I can't find a video link, and missed it from the seats I was in but watching the game today I saw the amazing effort Scotty put in last night... at least something awesome happened yesterday. | 6 | [
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"body": "I also watched this on TV... it was pretty awesome watching a guy who's 5'9 take down the biggest guy in the NHL.",
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A naive question about taxes (USA) | While I see the benefits of my federal and state taxes all around me, I am also frustrated that I cannot trace how my taxes are spent; I don't know what fraction goes toward civil infrastructure, schools, health care, subsidies, private interests, military, etc, etc, etc.
Is anyone familiar with how to trace tax expenditure?
Or...Is anyone familiar with a tax structure (in use or theoretical) that represents the interest of the individual payer? Say, perhaps, where a tax payer can choose to donate a large portion of his taxes to non profit and charity like organizations, as opposed using small donations as tax write offs?
Immediately, it seems that affluent areas may benefit and poor areas may suffer, but doesn't this type of segregation exist now? And if a tax payer was able to see how his taxes contributed to society, may he be more inclined to support higher tax expenditure?
Of course, I probably would not be asking this question if I thought my government (USA) was efficient and incorrupt. | 7 | [
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"body": "Somewhere on the IRS site are a few pie charts of federal government revenue and spending.\n\nCheck your state's secretary of state website for a similar breakdown for your state.\n\nYour homeowner's property tax bill usually breaks down where your property tax goes. If not, check the county clerk's site in your county.\n\nEDIT: and no, allowing people to specify where their tax dollars are spent would be disastrous. This is why we elect representation.",
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"body": "Back in the 1980s, Arthur Laffer and others espoused the idea that people willingly pay taxes in an amount that they feel they are getting services for their money. That's the real meaning of the Laffer Curve, not that lowering taxes always increases revenues.\n\nAnyway, I think you have a good idea. You can easily get budget pies by googling on [\"where do my taxes go\"](http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=where+do+my+taxes+go&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=df82d86320cf60e9), but that doesn't show how much comes from each individual. Also, individual income tax only accounts for around 49% of total government revenues (if memory serves me right), and there are a lot of people in the US who pay more in Social Security than they do in income taxes.",
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3 years ago, my medical school class decided to adopt a hospital in Haiti. Today, it is one of the VERY few hospitals still standing and while it is functional enough to perform life saving surgeries, Reddit, it needs your help. [pic] | Hey Reddit, long time reader, first time submitter.
Roads are closed, water and electricity are scarce, and airplanes and ships loaded with supplies are being turned away, but we were lucky enough to get Dr. Nelson on the ground and operating yesterday. The hospital, Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti, sustained moderate damage but is still in operation.
People are so scared of going indoors that they [set up a tent](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_F5NPgyrsClk/S1Eg5fM5EcI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/Etk6yfWVI9A/s1600-h/SDAhosptent.jpg) outside to perform surgery. [Another pic right before a surgery](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_F5NPgyrsClk/S1EhIcs6YRI/AAAAAAAAAJY/Vm4wG4EYNm0/s1600-h/prayerb4surg.jpg)
Anyways, currently the needs pretty much include any and all medical supplies (we're hoping to airdrop an autoclave by helicopter to replace the old one). This is going to take lots of work and dedication over many years to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti and the needs are going to evolve over time. I know many you have already donated, but please consider this one, and rest assured that your help will go directly to the people who actually need it.
blog: [http://lluinhaiti.blogspot.com/](http://lluinhaiti.blogspot.com/)
and if you feel moved to donate: [http://www.llu.edu/news/articles/2010/haiti.page](http://www.llu.edu/news/articles/2010/haiti.page)
**Edit:** USA Today wrote an article featuring our hospital! [http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-01-16-haiti-hospital_N.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-01-16-haiti-hospital_N.htm)
Thanks, Reddit! | 58 | [
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"body": "I feel like I actually need to go there and lend a hand. It seems there is more money than help going to Haiti. ",
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What To Do On My Year Off After High School? | I am graduating from high school this June and I want to start planning my year off. Any ideas to keep me occupied?
With unlimited funds.
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"body": "If you're interested in traveling, do that. I plan to at least do a little when I graduate. \n\n(With close friends would be even better)",
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Any Redditors going to Haiti to help out first hand? | If so what kind of work will you be doing, and with what organization/affiliation would you be doing this with? Thanks! | 7 | [
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"body": "I'm personally not going, but I'm helping get my family set at home since my pop is shipping off with Air Force reserves to help give aid in this crisis. Here's hoping that we can help Haiti back on its feet, without anymore tragedy.",
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What are you thinking about while you ride the subway? | Whenever I'm on the subway, I always look around and wonder what other people are thinking. So, what are you people thinking? | 3 | [
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"body": "\"I hate the subway, I hate the subway, I hate the subway.\"\nOr, I'm pretending I'm on a roller coaster ride at an amusement park and I'm amazed at how much effort the park put in to making the details look real. \"Wow, they even have flickering lights in the tunnels and graffiti and rats! Cool!\"",
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This is a tough one to ask but someone must have some good advice for me. Help with an anal fissure. | Hello. I'm a long time lurker on this site and I've seen a lot of fantastic advice dispensed, so I thought I would have a go at it with a problem I've been having for a long time.
I've had an anal fissure for six years or so. I am not quite sure how it has been so long. When I first started having the problem, I saw my GP and I didn't really get any good advice, but I did what I was told. That didn't do anything and a while late I went to another, and I was given some cream and cortisone suppositories. That didn't really do anything. This isn't an issue with my diet, as I have been eating very high fiber food consistently since this problem began, and I have no problem using the bathroom in general. The problem is that the sphincter gas become hypertrophied from the trauma. This is a vicious cycle as it has caused the muscle to become tighter, therefore increasing, or at least perpetuating, the damage.
I saw a surgeon last year and he was ready to go at it with a knife, but I wanted to give fixing it myself one more shot. I saw another doctor and he recommended bathing in warm water after defecating to promote healing and what not (something which would have prevented the problem had I been told that in the beginning...never trust doctors fully and do your own research. I was young, but I should have known better). I started this today, but I am not hopeful given that this problem is already so advanced. I am going to do it, though, for a bit because it certainly won't hurt.
Before surgery, there is one other option: botox treatment. Some doctors treat this by injecting the sphincter with botox. This relaxes the muscle and can allow the area to heal. It looks promising as it won't cause incontinence (even temporary, which always happens with surgery) and it has a relatively good success rate. I will certainly try this if nothing else works. My main goal is to avoid surgery.
The question is, has anyone had an experience similar to mine? Can anyone recommend anything here? I am really tired of this problem. It is a pain in the ass (literally) and it causes me grief because I am always worried about it becoming infected and getting dangerous.
Thanks a lot.
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"body": "I've suffered very similarly, and the one thing that did the most good in my case was 0.2% Nitroglycerin ointment, which is a muscle relaxant. Applied directly, it will cause the muscle spasms in the sphincter to subside which will not only almost immediately cause the pain to go away, but it will increase blood flow to the area which speeds up healing. And unlike Botox injections and surgery, there's no chance of damaging the sphincter itself, which is a big worry of mine. The biggest side effect, and something I've personally experienced, is that if you use too much ointment you can get a horrible headache. This was more than worth it for the benefit I received though. \n\nI would suggest talking to your doctor about trying this ointment before going for Botox or surgery. After a certain point though, you may have to go that route. Note that the Nitroglycerin treatment is not mainstream yet -- I had to find out about it myself and suggest the treatment to my doctor. (Google it yourself if you want). But after the doctor looked it up I got a prescription no problem and it has been nothing but awesome for me. From looking at medical papers it seems to have a similar cure rate as Botox treatment, and without the need for sticking needles in your butt.\n\nI'd been given the creams and suppositories and advice for warm baths and so on and so forth and none of them helped even a tenth of what the Nitroglycerin ointment did. And I'll pick an ointment over a shot in the ass any day. \n\nIMPORTANT NOTE: If you do go this route make sure you get a 0.2% ointment instead of the more common 2%. The higher dose will immediately give you the worst headache of your life and you would regret it.",
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"body": "I'll tell ya what they did with my wife after she delivered our son and had severe tearing:\n\n1. high fiber (1/2 cup bran buds 2 times a day, with mixed in yogurt and drink a big glass of water)\n2. stool softeners\n3. squeeze bottle with warm water to rinse/ease pain while poopin\n4. warm baths\n5. no cheese, or large insoluable fiber (seeds, nuts, corn, etc.. if you see it in there, it can drag its way along the way out making things worse)\n6. nothing that makes you gassy\n\nthat's about it, good luck",
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"body": "Dwight: Okay, great. Dermatitis. Thank you Angela. I'll make sure that's covered. Okay, now. Who wrote this, hysterical one? Anal fissures?\n\nKevin: That's a real thing.\n\nDwight: Yeah, but no one here has it.\n\nKevin: (glances at camera) Someone has it.",
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"body": "Get the surgery done. Suffered an anal fissure for 7 months, followed all the recommendations for helping it heal on its own, it never did and the pain was getting worse. Woke up in the recovery room with no pain for the first time in a half-year. Its amazing how you learn to live with misery and how much better the world is when that weight is lifted off your shoulders. \n\nThe surgery cuts one of the muscles that tightens the anus, one of the warned possible side effects is loss of bowel movement control. I've never encountered this problem and its been over 4 years now. Frankly I would have put up with the occasional accident over the pain.\n\nI found on my own that hot baths were the only remedy to temporarily ease the pain but couldn't live in the tub. Was prescribed percocet for a month and it didn't block the pain at all. ",
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"body": "Botox was originally invented and marketed for anal fissures. It's a thought. Don't know if this will be of any help to you but one of my kids had anal fissures almost his whole life. We used to apply bactriban ointment but nothing ever got rid of them. Until he was finally diagnosed with celiac and he went gluten free. After about 3 months he then told me that the anal fissures had completely healed. First time in his life. It's been over 2 years and they've never come back.\n\nGood luck.",
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I'm going to Fry's tomorrow. Someone suggest me a video card under $150. | I'm currently using a GeForce 9600GT. It's about 2 to 3 years old. Please help me and suggest a video card. Thanks. | 6 | [
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"body": "At the very top of your price range, there's the Radeon HD 5770 -- it's a shiny new DX11 card that'll make mincemeat out of any current game. You might have trouble finding one for $150, but if you're willing to spend $20 or so more, that's the card I'd buy.\r\n\r\nAlso, take a look at [this current review of video cards in your price range](http://techreport.com/articles.x/18288).",
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Did you guys hear about the marijuana legalization initiative that was filled on Monday? | So, it was in another subreddit, but I wanted to post it here to make sure locals hear about this too.
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/01/11/pot-initiative-filed-a-tough-task
They won't be collecting signatures until March, but if you wanna keep an eye on it they've got a facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#/pages/Sensible-Washington/250965900741?ref=nf
Because there is a lot of confusion about the difference between this and a bill:
There was a bill that people were talking about last month. There are actually two bills, in addition to this initiative. There is SB 5615 that was actually filled last year, for decriminalizing marijuana, and it is in the last stages of getting passed, currently in the house. There is also HB 2401 which was just filled this year, and is still going through the house. Bills never really end up on ballots, so a lot of legislature would have to stand behind these bills to get them passed. Not to mention they take forever.
That's why the initiative of the people is interesting, and has a good chance. Once they collect the signatures, it ends up on the ballot, and it doesn't get voted on by legislature at all.
If you are still confused on how bills work, watch this.. it helped clear some things up for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ | 35 | [
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"body": "I am signing....I hope Washington becomes the #1 source of weeds in the world! One thing I have never seen....a smoker who wanted war or any other kind of violence. That reason alone, makes me support legalization. Oh, and taxing it instead of spending money to prosecute the mellow, is cool too.",
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So...Who plays Football Manager? | I'm shocked and appalled that there aren't more mentions of Football Manager (also known as Worldwide Soccer Manager in the States) on this subreddit. I play it almost non-stop, to the point where the game even insults me for being so addicted.
It'd be great to have a thread where people can discuss their Football Manager games, like who they're managing, who they've bought and discussing tactics. | 14 | [
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"body": "The one game I have slight addiction once I start playing. I am currently in my fifth year with Arsenal, every season I win all the trophies on offer. My starting eleven is:\r\n\r\n* Van Persie (Trequerista)\r\n* Edin Dzeko (Target man)\r\n* Samir Nasri (Just behind both strikers, he is ridiculously good)\r\n* Fabregas (Main Playmaker and Captain)\r\n* Arshavin (Advanced Playmaker alongside Fabregas)\r\n* Song (Anchor man behind the two midfielders)\r\n* Clichy (Left winger)\r\n* Sagna (Right winger)\r\n* Vermaelen (Central defence)\r\n* Chiellini (Central defence)\r\n* Akinfeev (Awesome goalkeeper/savior)\r\n\r\nIn five seasons the only players I have sold off were: Almunia, Silvestre, Eduardo and Rosicky. And the only players I have brought in are Dzeko, Chiellini and Akinfeev (amazing goalkeeper). I always let the team have as much creative freedom as possible and always start off with all out attacking mode. Only lost 2 games over 5 years:).",
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"body": "I am an avid football supporter, and have never heard of \"Football Manager\". Is it like fantasy football? Can someone please explain...",
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I'm wondering if anyone else has overcome this... | I find it extremely difficult to write male characters. I just can't disassociate them from my own self-image enough to make them compelling. I can do fine in third-person, but as a protagonist they fall flat. Any suggestions? | 9 | [
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"body": "I'm a female and I can't write female characters. My 1st person male characters turn out compelling, interesting, and with a unique voice. My 1st person female characters turn out bland and soulless. It's weird.\n\nNo advice. Sorry!",
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"body": "Do you have a readily-available sample? It might be that the writing is fine, and you're unduly worried. Or it might not. The sample could only help...",
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Am I the only one who thinks posts asking the Reddit folks to behave in a certain way are a sniveling and annoying plea for attention and self-justification (ie can I please stop seeing this or that because I have no interest in it even though its on the front page)? | My reaction is usually "get the fuck over yourself. There are hundreds of thousands of people reviewing and voting. If you don't like something ignore it and move on. Don't take it as a personal affront to your sensibilities." and yes I am aware of the conflict of interests that is inherently present in this very post, which is why I hope I will be ignored completely. Don't let me down reddit. | 9 | [
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"body": "I've never cared. I press the \"Hide\" button on what I don't wish to see and move on. wait... no i don't.",
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"body": "My reaction is just the same. I just downvote and hide these sort of useless spam posts. I don't care what they think of Reddit.",
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"body": "Who the hell is supporting this?\n\nMore to the point if you don't even want to see this rant go anywhere why are you even risking being part of the problem?!",
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Need some help; a male confused with his GF's libido. | !'ve been with this girl nearly 1.5 years now.
So to begin a long story she began the pill around 6 months ago (after ~1 year of dating), and ever since then her libido slowly tapered away, however this isn't just a "hey I've lost interest in you the pill has nothing to do with it!" situation [as you will find out later]. Anyhow, we met at college and meshed really well instantly. We had sex ~2 mo's into the relationship, so for ~10 months we've had stellar sex (Even here her libido fluctuated a ton, though - sometimes we'd have sex once a week, sometimes twice every day for a week with little rhyme or reason).
Then she began taking the pill near the end of the 2nd semester of that year and we slowly had sex less and less.
However she was inconsistent with taking the pill which just complicates my story - she would really only take it about 3 times a week on average during end of the semester.
Then last semester ended and the summer began.
Anyhow, we live in separate states - about 2 hours from each other and at first we'd have sex every time she came over, but then she started getting annoyed (because I pushed for not seeing her in 2 weeks and she had no "drive" to have sex with me anyway [after talking to her, she told me she doesn't like initiating sex anyway, so there's physically no way I would know whether or not she wants to have sex without pushing - at least that was the case then and is becoming so again, and she's also a tease even if she isn't horny]).
To make matters even worse, sex began to hurt her.
And slowly her libido died out, and sex hurt her more, while mine remained consistent. This lack of equilibrium in our sex life slowly took its toll on me - I started feeling less passionate, less driven for her, and each time I brought it up to her she became very exasperated and refused to talk *with* me about it, but rather just kinda stopped talking and appeared to stop listening to - there was no discussion, just:
"Hey I feel like we're not having sex as much as we used to, I want to have more."
"Oh."
All the while I thought the pills were the cause of this RAPID change of heart, which my GF vehemently denied.
Slowly we worked through that, but the pain persisted, and after consulting with a friend (not a doctor, just someone I trust to give me information to the best of his ability), he firmly believed it was the pills causing both the pain and the lack of libido (and transitively, my libido and passion), but my GF wanted to finish her prescriptions which took her through the first semester of this year and ended the week before the semester ended.
Then she visited me one day, and miraculously she felt no more of that "old pain" and more like she just hadn't had sex in a while (gee....), and according to her it was great.
She still denies that her pill affected her as much as I think it did.
We then didn't see each other for ~3 weeks to a month, I go up to her place and learn she has her period, so I don't expect much to happen, but stuff does (not sex mind you, but a lot of "foreplay" type things), for most of the 5 days I there. My passion is still significantly lower than it was a year ago, but I'll take what I can get when I can get it.
Then next week again I go to her place - she's off her period, so I expect SOMETHING to happen.
Nothing does.
Not sex. Not foreplay. Not even making out.
It was a gigantic buzzkill, moreso than anything else so far in the relationship, and ever since then I've been depressed (I've been through depression before, so I have some comparison). I just don't know what to do, I've been on the verge of crying for the past week or so from a mix of frustration and depression (not really like with the whole squished up face and all lol, I just can feel pressure behind my eyes).
It's just that I feel like no matter how much I try to explain to her what I want, she either entirely ignores me, forgets, doesn't care, or has no concept of what I ACTUALLY want (what she hears doesn't necessarily have to be what I say).
And I just don't know what to do, aside from sex our relationship is GREAT - our last argument was about a year ago, so I don't want to lose someone I can get along so well with for such a long time, but I want an active, healthy, sexual relationship, not one where I'm constantly finding corners to masturbate in (cause masturbating with your GF in the same room feels mad pathetic and embarrassing, there's nothing quite as horrible IMHO.)
Thanks for listening to my rant!
TLDR; no sex, need help. | 8 | [
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"body": "Congrats, you've discovered that silent expectations are a good way to be disappointed in a sexual relationship. That's a valuable lesson. \r\n\r\nDid you ask her why she wasn't interested in sex during your second visit? Maybe she felt like she'd been so sexually active with you during the previous week that she wanted to feel valued for more than just sex throughout your second visit. Maybe she--like many women--feels more sexual desire during her period than in the intervening weeks. Maybe her hormones are still settling down from the hell she's put them through by randomly smacking them with inconsistent doses of oral estrogen and then ceasing it completely all of a sudden.\r\n\r\nAs for initiating sex, I might have a solution for you there. There isn't much easy about a relationship with mismatched sex drives, but there is definitely an easy way to handle \"I don't know when she's in the mood but I'm supposed to initiate whenever she is.\" Give her something special--a nice bracelet? Tell her to subtly put it on if she's feeling frisky but feels like voicing that or making it obvious would ruin the fun of being seduced by her man.",
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"body": ">It's just that I feel like no matter how much I try to explain to her what I want, she either entirely ignores me, forgets, doesn't care, or has no concept of what I ACTUALLY want (what she hears doesn't necessarily have to be what I say).\n\nThat's your problem. \n\nYou say the relationship is GREAT, but how is it a GREAT relationship if she doesn't show any interest in how you feel and if there's no real communication happening? Lack of fighting alone does NOT necessarily mean it's a great relationship.\n\nI think the reason you are feeling so emotional about this is because you are starting to sense the truth - your relationship is ending. This ends in a breakup, and you're starting to realize that you've got to start preparing yourself for the long, emotionally draining, painful task of first telling her how you feel and then getting over her.\n\nSex is important, and when two people's sex drives are seriously mismatched, that's a GOOD reason to break up and don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise...however...your problems run deeper than this. The sooner you let it go, the sooner you'll heal, the sooner you'll meet someone who makes all this a distant, disturbing but mostly forgotten memory.",
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"body": "After reading your post and comments, it sounds to me like she feels bad about it so she avoids it because she's not sure if she actually wants sex and she doesn't want to tease you but she knows you want it so she feels guilty and avoids it etc. But that's something that I've experienced, so maybe I'm just seeing what I expect to see.\n\nIf I'm not, though, I offer this: you might ask her if she's feeling pressured about sex. If she closes up again, tell her that you think you two have a great relationship because you can talk about almost anything, but you also need to be able to talk as openly about sex because there's a problem here and it needs to be fixed. Tell her not to worry about hurting or offending you (and mean it -- you can't then get defensive if she says something you don't like); then listen, accept what she says, and start trying to figure out what you both can do about it.\n\nIf she's still reluctant to talk about it, you might also throw in that a healthy relationship absolutely requires two things: open communication and compromise. You're trying to do both -- you *have* done more than your fair share of compromising -- and you need her to afford you the same courtesy.\n\nIf she's not willing to discuss it, there's not much else you can do but move on and try to find somebody who's not so uptight about sex and communication. Tell her something like \"I'm really upset that you won't discuss this with me, because if we can't talk about it, we can't fix it, and it's a dealbreaker for me.\"\n\nJust for the record, here's where I'm coming from: I have a really low sex drive (I could go without sex for months without a second thought), but my husband wants sex a few times a week. He does a lot of things to make me happy, so I do a lot of work to make him happy, and that means getting myself going and initiating when it's been too long.\n\nSo I think that if she's going to change, it's going to need to be a big mental shift in the way she perceives sex and how a sexual relationship should work -- when a man's desire is pretty constant and a woman's is not, both partners will need to compromise sometimes. You've been compromising a lot, and she doesn't seem to be.\n\nEdit: more background theory. I think that the way sex is idealized in US culture is pretty ridiculous. People, especially women, seem to have bought in to the idea that if a woman has sex when she doesn't want to, then either he's raping her or she's playing the slave, or both, or something equally stupid. The fact of the matter is that relationships are compromise and that includes sex. It's not an imbalance of power if both partners do things to make each other happy even if they don't want to.\n\nThat said, I'm not saying that she should give you sex when she's in an anti-sex mood. There's a big difference between \"not wanting to have sex\" and \"wanting not to have sex.\" But a woman can watch porn or read erotica to get herself in the mood when her interest wanes, and then she wouldn't be having sex without wanting to, so what's the big deal about doing a little (or a lot, in my case) mental work to make your partner happy and maintain the closeness in the relationship?",
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"body": "Maybe her sex drive is decreasing partly because she keeps associating the pain with sex? Also, based on what you've described perhaps she feels somewhat pressured for sex, or like she's letting you down with her lower libido, which in turn [because emotions are crazy things] actually lowers her libido even more. It's weird, but when people feel obligated to do something [even sex], it gets a lot less fun and you don't want to do it as much.\r\n\r\nPain during sex-- is this because she isn't getting aroused enough or lubricated enough? If so, you shouldn't just continue with sex those times... use more foreplay and lube til she does get lubed up, then have sex..",
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"body": ">sex began to hurt her.\n>consulting with a friend (not a doctor\n\nGet her to a doctor. I don't understand how in the world you can just ignore this.",
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I asked a girl out, she didn't say no or yes :/ | I've just started to hang out with a girl I knew in high school and ever since day one we've clicked well. It's been about a week now and we've gone out on a date basically everyday.
The other night I told her how I felt, and it seemed the feelings were mutual, so I kissed her. We ended up kissing some more and flirting and what not. The next day, I asked her out. She knew it was coming because we were hinting towards hooking up the previous night. Her response was something I wasn't expecting. Basically she said to give it time.
We still kiss, flirt, and go out, etc. But what are we? We both got betrayed by our exes so I can understand why she wants to be cautious. I'm fine and dandy with giving it time, but how do I know when the time is right? Will the time ever come or do I just need to make my move and show her how serious I am? | 3 | [
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"body": "Yo. Over here. You and I need to talk.\n\n**Option One:**\n\nIf by \"make your move,\" you mean melt her brain with some sexy time and shit, then yeah. I'm down. High five.\n\n(watch the claw, bro)\n\n**Option Two:**\n\nIf by \"make your move\" you mean have a gay-ass conversation about how the both of you feel about one another, your emotional needs, and stupid relationship buzzwords like \"where you stand\" and \"being invested in each other\" then no.\n\nFuck that.\n\nIf you wanna do that, then you might as well whip out your collector's edition DVD of The Notebook and a fresh box of Kleenex. You can use the tissues to blow your nose during the movie while you're crying your girly eyes out. Afterwards, you can use it to clean up after your lonely masturbation session. You'll be cumming dust within the next five years if you keep this kind of shit up.\n\nIf it goes down like that, I want your balls and your badge on my desk in the morning. You're off the force.\n\nLook, if you've got conviction regarding this thing, then it's time to show some balls. Throw down and get busy. If you're not ready to throw down and get busy, then you sure as fuck aren't ready to get into the kind of emasculating relationship that option two entails.\n\nGood chat. Remember to pick up some steak after you get done with this. Either that or some tampons. Whichever is more appropriate.\n\n*(Sexy time does not involve back rubs and scented candles and oil. Definitely not this early. Fag.)*",
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"body": "Why do you need to put a label on your relationship? You're already kissing, flirting and going out together - what more do you want? Sounds like things are going very well. Also, what 'move' are you planning to make that you haven't already made?",
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"body": "Maybe she's not ready to get into anything heavy with you at this time. I'd back off (just a little bit.) Keep hanging out with her but don't push anything on her. Let her figure out what she wants. ",
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Has a woman ever written you a love letter or poem post-high school? Do people even still write love letters and poems? | I know throughout history dudes have written their paramours tons of love letters and poems, me included, but in my life experience only 1 girl out of dozens has ever written me a love poem.
Interestingly enough it was from this super hot native chick with this great sing-song name who went to UVIC on Vancouver Island. I met her while backpacking around Canada and we had this crazy hot fling for like a week in Victoria...I digress.
It was actually very well written and totally sweet and now years later I look at it whenever I need a major pick me up. So dudes, have you ever received a genuine love poem or letter from a real woman? I am also curious as to how old where you/she when the exchange took place. | 16 | [
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"body": "I wrote 20 or 30 love letters to a girl I once dated. I found that writing in present tense sounded cheesy so I wrote them all from the perspective of a WW2 soldier (inspired by my grandfathers letters to my grandmother) I would age the paper in tea and use Department of Defense letterhead and then type them out on my typewriter. \n\nMaybe that's cheesy, but we were in love. So fuck off.",
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"body": "I'm a girl and I've written about 5 love poems about my old boyfriend—he was kind of my greatest muse and I won a poetry contest with a poem I wrote about him. He's never seen them, though, because he broke up with me before I got up the nerve. He still speaks to me occasionally, but I'm afraid he would think \"ahhh, why isn't she over me?\" if I showed them to him... even though I wrote most of them when we were going out. (He was a little strange--had Asperger's syndrome--but then, I tend to find Aspies incredibly sexy. So I guess I am a little strange, too.) :)",
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"body": "If I were ever, ever lucky enough to have someone to write love letter to, again, I'd write them in secret and leave them in places for her to find unexpectedly. Faux-spontaneous reminders of how much I care, ya know?",
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"body": "Yes. I've received and written love poems. And love letters. It's been a long time. I don't think I could write a love poem again- but definitely I will keep writing love letters.\n\nIn the meantime heres a poem I wrote maybe 10 years, called the wingman. It's structurally poor, but I think the message is timeless.\n\n\n---\n\n**THE WINGMAN:**\n\n...\n\nExcuse me ladies,\n\nis my friend bothering you?\n\nAre his enormous biceps\n\nobstructing your view?\n\n...\n\nYou’ll have to excuse\n\nmy good friend Clyde.\n\nHe hasn’t been the same\n\nsince his golden retriever died.\n\n...\n\nYou’ll have to forgive him, ladies,\n\nhe’s hesitant to chat.\n\nhe’s got an English accent\n\nand he thinks you won’t like that.\n\n...\n\nYou’ll have to excuse my friend\n\nits been a while since he left his yacht.\n\nAnd he’s under a lot of stress\n\nsince he became an astronaut.\n\n...\n\nI really shouldn’t say this\n\nbut I think he might be royalty\n\ndid I mention that he might need\n\npenis reduction surgery?\n\n...\n\nSo do you two ladies\n\nneed a ride home from this bar?\n\nMy friend here drives a Jetta\n\nwhile they’re working on his sports car.\n\n,,,\n\n",
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"body": "yes, love letters are still written: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ahom6/hey_reddit_look_what_i_found_in_my_driveway_today/",
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"body": "My husband and I actually keep a love letter journal of sorts. We started it last year. \n\nIt's one of the nice leather-bound journals. Whenever one of us gets the inkling to, we write a couple lines in it then leave it for the other one to find. We don't write in it very often, maybe once a month tops, but the rarity of it makes it very special. Both of us have found ourselves going back to the journal and just reading through bits of it when we're having a rough day. I'd have to say it's one of the most romantic things I've taken part of :)",
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Per request, I am 7'1". AMA. | [Request](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aptcx/as_a_very_tall_male_i_have_trouble_buying_clothes/) I've lived the life of a 7'1" man for the past 12 years. I've also had multiple surgeries (lungs, open heart, bladder), which are related to my height. Ask me anything | 173 | [
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"body": "Go to Asia. Asian women will flock to you and you can grab about six and fall down naked and let them crawl all over you like puppies",
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"body": "Wow, you're really tall! OMG how tall are you? Do you play basketball? \n\nDo any of these sound familiar?",
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"body": "There was a recent post where many girls here said they liked tall guys. When you walk into a room do all the girls collectively orgasm?",
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"body": "My best buddy and his older brother are both about 7' tall. First off, I apologize for all the \"how tall are you\" and \"did you play basketball\" questions. The older of my two friends got a shirt recently that says \"7 ft, no.\"\n\nSo, speaking as one myself, do you have a personal cape to carry around at your whim. It's rather fun for whichever small folk you choose, and you can make them kick people while they swoosh. (apologies, didn't really have much to ask.)",
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"body": "Are you done with most surgeries related to Marfan's? Are there any that you expect you might need in the future? ",
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"body": "How is flying on airplanes for you? I have a friend that's pretty tall too (i think he's slightly less tall then you though), and airplanes are the bane of his life.\n\nHe HAS to get the front eats with extra leg room and he's even had to throw out old ladies and shit so he could get there. It's either that or stand the entire flight.",
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"body": "Do you have to climb a ladder to brush your teeth?\n\n(According to a joke book I had as a child, this was one of Abe Lincoln's favorite jokes. He would also take dirty shoes and make a trail of footprints on the ceiling to confuse people).",
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"body": "Did you play basketball? \n\nIf you didn't, did the coach of your high school team beg you to? (since you were 7'1\" your freshman year of high school)\n\nWhat is the cause of your height? ",
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"body": "Do you think you receive more respect or power just because of your stature? \n\nDo you have a deep voice?\n\nAre you going to be a war general/charismatic politician that resembles all superficial identities of power one day? ",
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"body": "No questions but, I love tall people! Sorry that it's due to Marfan's and has caused you health problems, but you embody my favorite physical quality.",
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"body": "Speaking as a 6'10\" fella, I feel your pain.\n\nDoors don't fit, cars don't fit, pants don't fit, dress shirts don't fit, etc etc, etc.",
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"body": "Have you ever met anyone taller than you? Someone that wasn't a basketball player or in any other tall field?\n\nHow much can you lift?\n\nCan you slam dunk?",
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"body": "I'm 5'1\". You are intimidating and give me neck strain to look at.\n\nDoes it hurt your neck to look so far down to look at me? Do you feel intimidating? ",
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Get a life. What does it mean? | I'm russian living in US for six years and I still wonder what does it mean? I have family, two kids and lots of friends. Does it mean I have life? What is your definition of life? | 10 | [
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"body": "\"Get a life\" is an insult meaning \"Be productive or interesting\". Of course, it could also mean \"back off\" if used in a certain tone. If someone plays video games all day long, one would say that they have no life. \nIt sounds very much like you do have a life.",
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"body": "\"Get a life\" means to stop doing whatever stupid/non-productive thing you're doing and do something useful or meaningful.",
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"body": "People often use the phrase \"get a life\" when someone has insulted them in some way. By saying, \"get a life,\" you are effectively saying: stop it, quit it, leave me alone, that was rude, I'm insulted, shut up, etc. In more literal terms, you are saying, \"Don't you have anything better to do than insult me? Is your life so lame and boring that you have nothing better to be doing? Go away and get a life.\"",
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"body": "Someone, I once cared for, told me, \"You will never do anything with your life.\"\n\nI just thought, \"Like what\"?",
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"body": "If said in a non-angry manner, it means approximately this:\n\n>I do not share your hobbies and interests, and am unable to imagine enjoying myself living life as you do. I can only, therefore, imagine your life to be one of constant tedium. Again, lacking empathy, I can only imagine that you would highly enjoy the activities I pursue, despite the fact that you show no current interest in them whatsoever. In order to improve your (I imagine) boring life, you should become more like me, because I am unable to imagine anyone being different from me in any real way. ",
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Between the ages of 12 and 14 I was deeply involved with the "sanguine vampire" community. These are people who really believe they are vampires. AMA. | **1/17/10 1:34 AM EST: I'm going to bed and will be gone for most of tomorrow. Feel free to ask questions, but don't expect an answer for roughly 16 hours.**
Throw-away account because honestly, I feel like a complete fucking idiot for actually buying into this stuff as a kid.
Anyway, for those that don't know, there are communities out there for people who *actually believe* they are vampires and that they crave blood and feel uncomfortable in the sunlight. They're called "sanguine vampires". There are also "psychic vampires", which is even weirder.
So anyway, as I said, it's pretty dumb but it's exactly the stuff teenagers fall for when they're trying to find an identity. They want to be something different, something extraordinary that separates them from others, and something that's incredibly edgy. In comes vampirism. Drinking blood, being a *real* vampire? Come on, kids would latch the hell onto this shit. And they do. As you'd expect, 90% of the people (that's just a educated guess, by the way, don't hold me to that) who post on the message boards are, you guessed it, either pre-teens or barely into their teenage years.
Just so you don't think I'm a troll, go see for yourself:
http://www.sanguinarius.org/
http://psychicvampire.org/
http://www.vampnews.com/?p=3 (main page was hacked by some script kiddie, but there's a page google brought up)
http://www.sanguinevampire.net
http://therian.wikia.com/wiki/Vampires (This is on therian wikia, which is a whoooole 'nother ball game. Therians are basically super-furries - they really think they're animals on the inside who were accidentally born as humans. That's a whole other post, though. I was into this, as well, but at a slightly older age, roughly 14-15. I basically replaced one crazy delusion with another. If anyone cares, I'll do an AMA on that, too, later.)
If that's not enough, here's a neat little documentary showing how creepy some of these people are. It's called "The Impaler" and is about Jonathan Sharky, who ran for Minnesota Governor in 2006. For real. It's free (legally), [right at this link.](http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_impaler/)
I got into the whole thing when I was younger, I'm 19 now and I did the whole vampire thing when I was between 12 and 14. They really hook you, but I think it's more to convince themselves that they're legit.
I never drank anybodies blood except my own. I'd cut myself on the upper arm (so nobody thought I was a cutter, if it scarred I'd have a shirt on) and lick at the blood that came out, figured that was all I needed to do and was set. I, with help from the people in the various communities, had convinced myself that I was craving blood, when, in fact, I was only *thinking* that was what I wanted, because I *wanted* to fit in with the community. Basically, I wished I was craving blood, so my mind went along with it, and I started feeling cravings. Pretty great how the brain works, huh?
I'd also never go outside without a jacket or long sleeve shirt on, and sunglasses. Even when it was overcast: sunglasses, cover up. I also got into the goth thing around then, as all I would wear was black. The sun never *actually* bothered me, it was a mind over matter thing. The day before I started reading this stuff? I was never bothered by the sun. The day after I learned about these people, and started digging deeper and reading things? Oh no, suddenly, the sun is extremely uncomfortable and I should cover up! Things like that.
My mother went along with it. I never told her "hey mom, I think I'm a vampire!" but I told her about the sun bothering me and for two years she was convinced I had an iron deficiency or something.
Anyway, I wasn't ever a *serious* "sanguine vampire", but I was really deep in the community for a few years. I've heard and read lots of crazy shit, and was close e-friends with some.
Maybe a fail post, maybe not, but if it got your attention, AMA. | 131 | [
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"body": "Hey. I've never met any of these people and I've never even contacted any of them via any forums or online groups. Truth is, there truly is a genetic medical condition that vampirism is based upon. I've generally know to be quiet about it online as the type of people you are referring to actually will try to fish information on the true symptoms out of me in an attempt to try to fake the doctors out, fake test results, try to obtain a diagnosis and even try to induce the illness. Which is in fact impossible as it is a genetic affliction. \n\nIt is not a pleasant disease to have. Yes, if you like narcotics, there is easy access to narcotics because it is an extremely painful disease. My 13 year old son was recently diagnosed as well. The pharmacist freaked out when I went to fill his first prescription for narcotic pain relievers, said, \"Wow! He's 13, this is going to knock him right out!\" No. It won't. And try explaining to a 13 year-old that it's really not considered ok for him to carry around his own narcotics, even though it's his own prescription. I have never *craved* blood that I can recall though I do crave rare meat. My son eats raw beef. Often. I buy very high quality cuts of grass fed organic beef and cut it myself for him. I've discussed with him why it is not safe to eat raw ground beef and that he should not discuss it with other people, that they would not understand. Blood transfusions used to be a treatment, now a treatment has been developed *from* blood donations. It's $1,000 a treatment, our insurance covers 70%. A high glucose/carbohydrate diet also helps. And complete sun avoidance. \n\nI have never met another diagnosed porphyric other than my son. When my son was diagnosed, a whole team of excited doctors came in to look at the mother & son freaks. They were so excited. It's real. It's very, very rare. It's extremely painful but I am so grateful I live in a time of modern medicine when there are narcotics and they are cheap. There is science behind it, we generally know why the folklore developed regarding blood cravings, I can explain it to anyone that is interested. There is no hope for a cure or even a better treatment. There just aren't enough people around with the condition. It's considered an 'orphan' disease. Not enough money for research. You are correct. These people are crazy. Anybody would have to be crazy to desire something as devastating, life altering and painful.",
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"body": "There was this kid that thought he was a vampire. I popped a zit and some blood came out. I got it on my finger and asked him if he knew what it was. He said, \"It's blood.\" \n\nSo I wiped it on a bench and he immediately licked it all up. I laughed my ass off while people around me were pretty much shocked. ",
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"body": "I had a nose injury once which caused me to swallow quite a lot of my own blood, like a cup-full at least. It completely raped my digestive system. My stomach ached for like 3 days, and the next time I had to shit, it was horrific - my stool was jet black, and was to this day one of the foulest smelling things I have ever come across. The moral for me was: DON'T DRINK BLOOD. Any comment on this?",
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"body": "Between the ages of 13 and 17 I regularly trolled the online hangouts of people who thought they were vampires. \n\nThose were the days. Now I'm content to observe vampires, otherkin and therians in a more anthropological way, adopting a stance of non-interference. How we mature with time!",
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"body": "I wonder what would happen if a sanguine vampire met a psycho-killer who sincerely believed in vampires.\n\nA Van Helsing Society?",
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"body": "One of my brother's favorite stories was the time he saw some 'vampires' get into a car that had a \"meat is murder\" bumper sticker.",
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"body": "It makes me happy that that username wasn't already in use.\n\nAnyway, did you ever do anything illegal as a result?",
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"body": "I assume others in the community fed on people other than themselves. Were they fearful of AIDS or other things that can be transferred through blood, and if so, did they take any precautionary measures?",
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"body": "So these people believe they crave blood and are hurt by the sun. Do they believe they have other powers, like super speed or bat-metamorphosis?",
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"body": "so what do you think when all over t.v. is vampire shows or the twilight saga. how does it make you feel when you see people obsess over it and how does the story from the twilight or the t.v. series which i dont remember the name of contrast with what sanguine vampires taught?",
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"body": "Ever encounter 'vampires' with a bunch of vampire-related tall tales?\n\nI had an acquaintance back in high school who claimed that he was a vampire-werewolf-hybrid who had to drink blood on the full moon, always yammering about being declared legally deceased over 26 times (sometimes more; suppose when you die so much, you just lose track), or being dragged through the desert by horses, run completely-through with swords (no scars 'cause he's a vampire y'know), and blah blah blah.\n\nI mean, you mingled with people who were so adamant about this delusion, you've had to have heard some outrageous stories from them, from time to time, huh?",
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"body": "What happens to the people who bring the illusion with them into adulthood? Do they simply hide it from everyone else, or do they find each other and survive in their own community? I'd imagine it's hard to find a job as a vampire that feasts on blood.",
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"body": "1 question: \n\nBesides seeming overtly gay, of which I am almost certain there were many, were their couples that blood drank each other? \n\nOkay 2 questions: Did this seem more of a cohesion thing (blood drinking) or a flamboyant thing? Like we have marriages to make cohesive units, we make blood brother packs to say we are blood brothers as kids, was this how it functioned in this little faction?",
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"body": "To be honest and with all due respect, these people don't seem creepy. They seem silly, immature, and out of touch with reality. \n\nWe used to have some of this people around town at night, except they were college-aged kids.\n\nI groan every time I'm channel-flipping and happen upon some documentary on these \"vampires\". I'm glad to see that you've grown out of it.",
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"body": "[did they write any poetry?](http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/goth.thumbnail.jpg)",
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I'm taking a mental health day! | (Warning: Stream of consciousness post. I have good reason, trust me)
So yeah, I'm bipolar, I work in mental health and I hadn't been watching my stress lately which resulted in collapsing to the ground and punching myself in the head a couple of times in front of coworkers, among other things I can go into detail I guess I pace I scream I played the victim card I don't know why...Coworkers were understanding and helpful, but oddly right after the episode I entered into a stream of consciousness attempt to defrag my brain. I am going to try this throughout my mental health day (1/16/10) and post my random outbursts in here. I was told I had some interesting ideas coming out of my head but my main motivation is to try to gain a better understanding of my brain and what contributed to my mental collapse. I will also be engaging in other therapeutic activities (I might videotape some of them. Bottlefeeding a calf, yum!)
Okay, hitting submit and sleeping maybe I don't know.
11:36 AM - I'm noticeably more stable but not completely stable. I'm mentally exhausted which in this case is a good thing since I'm kept from stressing myself out more.
2:00 PM - How's this for therapeutic soul food? A large plate of Beef Stroganoff (made fresh) with a pint of Ben and Jerry's "Raspberry Peach Cobbler" and a glass of V8. There's still some underlying tension I need to deal with but I'm not sure how to work it out. Eh, I'll figure it out in a bit.
4:05 PM - I know alcohol isn't the healthiest thing to drink but it's been good at taking care of mental knots in the past. I'll probably have a glass or two one night this week. It's been two months since I've had alcohol so it's not like I'm abusing it.
1/17/10 - Final conclusions after a day of reflection/slacking off/eating comfort food...I need to be more careful about the people with whom I interact and how I interact with them. I need to make a firm commitment to healthy living. I can keep at it.
1/3/11 - Yeah, I never got around to regular exercise, did I? Eh, work keeps me physically active but here's hoping I don't continue to procrastinate. | 16 | [
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"body": "For a long time I suffered from severe depression, and I ended up screaming and punching myself hard in front of my 2 best friends.\n\nBut I'm a lot better now. Take it easy, dude.",
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My boyfriend is a bit jealous...What can I do? | Let's just dive right in. My boyfriend and I have been together for about two years. We spend most of our time together laughing, and it has been so great overall. We recently transitioned to a long distance relationships (we are at separate universities) and it went pretty well except for one thing. Many of my friends at college are guys. It isn't that I don't like hanging out with girls, it's just that I like video games and whatnot. I think a main reason I get along with guys better is because I feel so secure in my relationship. I ALWAYS make sure to mention it early on with a guy, so no flirtation occurs. The thing is, as a guy, he doesn't trust guys. He gets squirmy when I talk about a fun time I had with guy friends. I would NEVER cheat on him, and I think he knows that deep down. We have talked about it, and he always says it's just a feeling he can't shake even though he is trying. So, I guess my question is: what can I do? I don't want to upset him, but I like and trust my friends. Can I make it easier for him? | 8 | [
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"body": "Long distance relationships: a brilliant way to secure constant paranoia in exchange for no sex ever.\n\nIt's a shame, but it's true; insecurity is an inevitable result of being apart, and your having a lot of guy friends won't help. The point is, this isn't unusual, or your fault, or his. It's just part of having a long distance relationship. You can make it easier on him by being a wonderful girlfriend: call him, send him stuff, let him know you're thinking of him. But you won't be able to make it go away. If I had a girl worried enough about my feelings to ask the internet about how to make me feel better I'd be shit scared of losing her too.",
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"body": "Sorry, but that just reminded me of this : http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4278586872_c64c620854_o.jpg",
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Regarding GMOs: Some they are safe, some say they aren't. Regardless of their safety, do you think we, as consumers, have a right to know if a product is a GMO or not? | This thread [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/aq3yj/hey_remember_that_story_about_gm_corn_causing/) from the article saying that the previous study about GMOs was bunk got me thinking. Regardless of if they are safe, I feel like we as consumers have a right to know if they are GMOs or not. There may not be anything wrong with a GMO after all, but for hypochondriacs like me a label goes a long way.
TL;DR: Would you agree that regardless of the GMOs safety we should have a right to know if a food has a GMO in it or not?
EDIT: Posted this on reddit because it encompasses two different studies (science, politics). | 6 | [
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"body": "I say it's about the same as knowing country-of-origin or knowing what kind of fertilizer was used. Regardless of whether it's an issue, I think that companies should cave to consumer demand and label their shit.",
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Hey gaming reddit, do you think it would be wise to buy a psp?(not the GO) | I'm thinking about getting the psp 3000, little big planet, and a 2g memory stick.
I was also wondering if anyone has any good or bad experiences buying used consoles. | 5 | [
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"body": "If you buy one used, do not buy a 3000. Grab a slim or one of the 1000 series, they're far easier to mod. ",
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"body": "Buy a PSP 1000 series, one of my greatest moments was spending all afternoon trying to put CFW on that thing =P",
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I'm looking into joining the US Air Force Reserve, but I have a few questions. | My family has been going through some rough times and we are really in need of money. My job search hasn't really turned out great being that I'm only 19 and have no skills. As of now I'm working with my father doing some contracting work, but the past year, work has slowed down considerably. Since then, we haven't paid for our mortgage and are always late on bill payments. Right now my dad and I have only been making about $500-700 a week, but really only $300-500 minus our expenses(gas and equipment for work). We can't live on like this anymore. My father and I are overly stressed from working long hours with little return. My father can't find a regular job being that he doesn't have legal documents allowing him to work in this country and he recently had his driver's license revoked. I'm doing my best to find work too. I almost received a job at a warehouse, but was rejected because the manager already had too many workers. I've applied for countless jobs and only received about two or three replies for interviews and even then I don't land the job. We don't have healthcare, we barely make enough to get us by and we are currently on EBT for food.
I'm tired of this so hopefully you'll understand why I want to join the armed forces. I know that military life is very hard, but I'm not doing any better where I am now. I have a few questions and I want to get a second opinion from you guys before I talk to a recruiter. The last recruiter I talked to was very pushy and I felt he wasn't telling me the whole truth. I just need an honest, unbiased opinion. So here's my main question.
Am I eligble for Basic Allowance for Housing and medical benefits for my two sisters and possibly my mother? If so, what would I have to do? Right now my sisters and I are dependents under my father.
I have a high school Diploma and I love computers. What would be a good job for me to get into if I do well on the MEPS? Apparently back in 2007 when I took the MEPS, a Navy recruiter told me I was eligble for a job as a programmer. What questions should I be asking and what should I be doing to get the best out of joining the armed forces? I don't want to join then find out that my family aren't qualified for certain benefits.
I know the military isn't for some people, but for me it seems like an oppurtunity to finally break out of this life.
**tl;dr**
I'm really lost right now and my family is in a financial crisis they can't get themselves out of. I'm thinking of joining the Air Force Reserve to gain the benefits for my mom and sisters, but I'm not too sure if I qualify. Can you give me some guidance?
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"body": "I'm in the active duty air force. AFAIK, you don't get BAH/BAS for being in the reserves unless you are full time. I know for a fact you don't get benefits for family members unless you are their legal guardian. If you want to join the service, make sure you're doing it for the right reason. Feel free to message me for any of the in/outs of being full time. I'm a computer networks tech so I think I could give you some advice.\r\n\r\n*edit* I just re-read your post and thought of something else. Your BAH (housing rate) is based on the number of dependants you have. If you aren't their legal guardian, you'll get BAH as a single (non married no kids) member. While it's perfectly legal for them to live with you, you won't get any more money unless you show that you are taking care of more than 50% of their overall living expenses. \r\n\r\nI saw you typed military life is hard... Maybe for the other 3 services it is, but I don't know anyone that thinks the Air Force is \"hard\".",
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"body": "As the armed forces go, the Air Force isn't all bad. If you've got no problem with being sent someplace away from home and family for awhile, do it. It'll be a good experience, and when you get out, you'll probably be much better off than when you started.\n\nAs for the benefits thing, talk to a recruiter, but don't let him bullshit you. I don't think they will, but some of them are like used car salesmen. \n\nThat being said, there ARE other options; don't think of the Air Force as a last resort. But if you were somewhat interested in it in the first place, you might find that you will enjoy it.",
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Hey reddit, someone asked for a filter that hides posts which contains certain words, so I made one!(for chrome) | The link for the extension is here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/apdmfhcnmfpmghogkgncbgcahifipgca
>This extension will allow the user to enter words, which if appeared in >topic titles, the post will be hidden. Clicking on the Rf icon will allow >the user to enter words, and by clicking on the words they can >remove them.
>After enabling the plugin, beside the your username on reddit a little >message will tell you how many links are hidden. Clicking on it will >show/hide the hidden links.
>Future updates will include filter by website.
After you install it you'll notice your user panel will look a bit different:
[screenshot](https://chrome.google.com/extensions/img/apdmfhcnmfpmghogkgncbgcahifipgca/1263623789.69/screenshot_big/1) | 11 | [
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reddit is turning me into "that guy" that is awkward to talk to. All I have to talk about now is "doom and gloom". Thanks all. | Ya'll are a bunch of bitchers. Bitching about all kinds of shit all the time. Quit your bitching. **Bitchers**. | 5 | [
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Do you have any traveling abroad tips for me, Reddit? | I'm taking a semester away in France, and after schools out, I plan on traveling around with my boyfriend. We're going to be short on cash, so we're trying to find great hostels for cheap money, and fun local places to eat. We'll be backpacking from June 1st to the 14th or so. Any traveling or European Redditors have tips for us? Or perhaps a couch we could crash on? Or even a safe place to store some stuff? Thanks :)
Edit: directedevolutionist had some great questions that would probably help you guys out. First of all, we are very open to suggestion on places we want to visit. We definitely want to go to Tuscany, and spend some time in Germany. Other than that, we have no plans yet. We're planning to use Europasses, traveling mostly by train to get from city to city. We have also contemplated (but haven't yet researched) renting a scooter. We're looking for any specific things that you guys have done that you think everyone in the world should do too :)I speak French and Portuguese fluently, can muddle through Spanish, and can order a bed and some food in Italian. | 5 | [
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"body": "look into [couchsurfing](http://www.couchsurfing.org/) if you're on a budget - it's a great way to meet locals, get their input on town and possibly find accommodations. \n\nAre you traveling by planes or trains or buses (cheaper)? What countries are you interested in seeing and which languages do you speak? (this may or may not dictate your itenerary\n\nI keep advising friends to go to central/eastern europe as those regions are going to be most \"different\" from your prior life experiences and also are the countries most likely to change during our lifetimes. western europe should be pretty stable and i don't foresee why you wouldn't be able to go see those things 5-10 years from now when you have a stable job and can save up to go there (it's also \"safer\" or less risk/danger)\nEven in the central/eastern european countries (and 90% of europe) if you find people under the age of 30, there's a really good chance that they speak some english. \n\nso that's my opening statement - ask away if you have something specific - my wife and i have lived abroad, visited most of europe and couchsurfed (we used to host a lot also). happy to answer any Qs you may have...",
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What's your favorite skeptical TV show? | I like "The Mentalist" currently, but "Scooby Doo" is the classic, isn't it? It's always some asshole with economic motives in a mask. As a kid I hated that the ghosts were never real, but now as an adult I love it! | 10 | [
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"body": "The shows by [Derren Brown](http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/), they provide a great deal of enjoyment for a skeptic. Especially \"The System\", although I kind of knew how it was played from past experiences.\n\nI like Penn & Teller, but they can really go over the top and go very very political and centred on America. I also love some of the childish curiosity on Mythbusters, but the speaker ruins most of my joy.",
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What is you favourite book dedication? | I came across this today and was particularly moved, "Above all, I thank my long-gone father, unread, unfortunate, who bought his child a microscope with a whole week’s wages." | 10 | [
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"body": "I saw this post and immediately thought of Patrick Rothfuss's [The Name of the Wind](http://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicles-Day/dp/0756405890/) (which, incidentally, is a pretty darn good fantasy book, and I'm eagerly waiting for the sequel).\n\nAnyway, here's the dedication:\n\"And lastly, to Mr. Bohage, my high school history teacher. In 1989 I told him I’d mention him in my first novel. I keep my promises.\"",
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"body": "Easy for me. Tobias Wolff in \"This Boy's Life.\" It says something like: \"My stepfather, Dwight, always said that what I didn't know could fill a book. Well, here it is.\"\n\nThen like four hundred pages about what a good-for-nothing abusive asshole Dwight was.",
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"body": "From \"The Snake Oil Wars\" by Parke Godwin\n\n> To those lucid and courageous minds who gave you the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, Falwell, Robertson and the God-inspired rule of the Righteous. To those intrepid souls who fight with unflagging zeal to remove from libraries dangerous books they have not read and from theaters those spiritually toxic films they have not seen, believing that thought is a controlled substance and secular thinking hazardous to mental health.",
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"body": "Post Office by Charles Bukowski\r\n\"This book is presented as a work of fiction and is dedicated to nobody.\"\r\n\r\nit's only non-generic dedication that I still remember and it captures a bit of book's general mood.",
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Anyone have any late-season rabbit or squirrel hunting advice? | I'm going hunting in the last week this month. I want to find something. Do you think I will? I have a .22. | 9 | [
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"body": "OK, this is long, but you asked, and I happen to know a thing or two about hunting squirrel. I'd rather hunt squirrel than deer. And I'd rather eat squirrel than venison.\n\nWalk quietly. Of the hundreds of squirrels I've shot in my life, I've heard most of them before I shot them. They bark, they chatter, they make something like a squeal, they make sounds climbing, and they make sounds eating. Anytime you hear a sound, stop and wait fifteen seconds. If you hear another sound within that time, it may be a squirrel. Go check it out.\n\nAs far as hunting visually, know that squirrels forage on the ground, so don't just look up.\n\nIf I'm walking a trail and back, I walk slowly and quietly on the way out, then quickly and a little less quietly on the way back. Walking quickly, you can often surprise a squirrel, whereas if you walk slowly, even if you're quiet, he may see you coming and hide without you ever seeing him.\n\nHere in Florida, we have a lot of leaves on the trees even in winter, so I use a shotgun. Also, that makes it more like bird hunting, as the squirrels are going fast through the tops of the trees. You often have only a split second to shoot before the squirrel is gone for good. Contrary to what non-gun folk think, shooting things with a shotgun does not blow them up, at least not at that range. Most of the squirrels I hit only have, on average, 3-4 pellets in them, and those are usually stuck in the membrane under the skin. There are usually no internal injuries and often very little bleeding. I think they die mostly from the shock and the fall.\n\nHunting from a stand is good, too. Look for hardwoods and bottom land. Then, ideally, find an area with chewed nuts and pinecones. Sit at the base of a tree and shoot them with your .22, trying for a head shot. This way of hunting is fun, too, and challenging in a different way than hunting with a shotgun. But you'll see more squirrels walking. But they will be running, then, usually, and shotguns are better for shooting running squirrels. I hunt both ways, but more often with the shotgun because I really love to eat squirrel and I can often get my limit (12) with the shotgun.\n\nThe best time of day for squirrel is the first couple hours after first light. The hour before last light is the next best. Mid-day is slow. The day after a rainy or windy day is usually very good. My theory is that they don't go out to forage much the first rainy or windy day, but they're hungry the next day and go out regardless.\n\nIf you wound a squirrel, kill it quickly by putting the edge of your boot just behind its head and pressing down. I'm not sure if the pressure stops their hearts or keeps them from breathing or both, but that will kill them in very short order.\n\nAs far as cleaning goes, if I'm making stew or squirrel and rice, I'll skin and gut the squirrel and boil the whole thing 'til the meat falls off. Wet the fur before you start skinning. It makes skinning a bit more difficult, but it means less hair sticks to the meat. I start with a very sharp pocket knife and make a slit across the back of the neck. Work the knife in there, holding the blade between thumb and forefinger, with just a half inch sticking out. This helps you control the knife well and not cut anything you don't want to. But be careful, please. Cut a slit down to the tail. Put the knife down, then, and peel the skin and work your fingers around until they meet at the belly, under the skin. Push up on the legs while pushing down on the skin, so that the legs peel themselves out. You should now have the skin joined to the squirrel only at the legs, head, and tail. Get a pair of kitchen shears (I suggest you don't use those that belong to your wife or mother, as they don't appreciate that), and cut off the head and feet. Peel the skin the rest of the way off, down to the tail, and snip off the tail, taking the skin with it. Next, make a cut in the thin tissue on the belly, right below the sternum. Open that down to the crotch, cutting up and from below this tissue, not down towards the guts, and being careful not to cut anything inside. Take the shears and cut through the breast bones, right up the middle, all the way through the neck. Now reach in and scoop everything out. You'll have to poke through the diaphragm to get to the heart and lungs. Wash under running water. Make a couple cuts with the shears just inside the lower legs, and cut the whole pelvis area out to remove the remainder of the stuff that runs through there. Wash again. Cover in a bowl of water for twenty minutes, then drain. Save the tails for your dogs. They will love them.\n\nNow, the very best way to make squirrel, in my humble opinion, is to fry just the legs in bacon grease. Don't listen to anyone who tells you that squirrel is tough. I have had very few that were and I've eaten hundreds. The younger ones are very tender, and the worst you can say about most of the older ones is that they're tougher than chicken, but not as tough as some beef you can buy at the supermarket. Also, if you fry just the legs, you can just skin the squirrel and cut those off with kitchen shears, saving you the mess of gutting the squirrel. Also, the legs make up, by far, the bulk of the meat on a squirrel. The rest of the meat is only accessible by stewing or boiling. Watch out for shot and small bones as you eat. I like the copper plated shot as it's easy to see in the squirrel. And, if you've never had squirrel and you're wondering if it tastes like chicken, no, it doesn't. It tastes like fucking squirrel. Be sure to make some gravy with the bacon grease and brown bits left in the pan.\n\nFinally, many people think squirrel hunting is just for kids. I think it's more challenging than that. Sure, it's nothing to go out there and bag a couple squirrels. But try to go out there and routinely get your bag limit and you'll see that it's more than a sport for kids.\n\nGood luck, be safe, have fun, and remember--walk quietly and listen.",
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"body": "If you look back in /r/Hunting a bit, you'll find both a [getting started with rabbit hunting](http://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/comments/a7uq9/any_rabbit_hunters_here/) and a [getting started with squirrel hunting](http://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/comments/a3rdz/how_does_one_hunt_a_squirrel/) thread.\n\n\nGood luck!",
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I just came back from The Book of Eli, I thought it wasn't bad | The whole Post-Apocalyptic Scifi thing is done to death and you may roll your eyes at the ending being kinda "Preachy" but overall I thought it was badass | 5 | [
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"body": "It basically felt like Fallout 3 the movie at times ( which is not a bad thing)\n\nand I don't care what anyone says that first fight was freaking sweet.",
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Husband's best friend is a woman. We've helped her through hard times and now she's not reciprocating. | My husband works with this girl (we'll call her Alice). She has had multiple boyfriend problems, including abuse, and he's been there for her. He listens, gives advice, a shoulder to cry on, you name it. They were so close for a while that I really worried. He told me it was more of a brother/sister type of relationship, and that he didn't find her attractive. So I let it go. Anyway, this past week my husband has been under an immense amount of stress. Job review, new apartment lease, fighting with his family, and other things. I have been there for him as much as I can, but he vents to his friend about problems and she usually is a good listener. Now he's telling me that Alice has completely shut off. She recently went through *another* breakup and he told her she should not jump into another relationship for a while. She agreed and seemed great, until yesterday. She blew up at him, told him off, and ignored him for the rest of the day. Today was not much better in that she ignored him, accused him of lying to her, and that she was looking for a friend, not someone else that judges her. My husband has(and often I have) been nothing but constantly supportive and helpful to her. I have never, ever(!) seen my husband so depressed. My question is this: Should I be hurt by the fact that he's so bothered by losing this (obvious) loser? Or should I just STFU and be there for him? And, should he continue to try to help this girl, when it's obvious she won't be there for him? | 4 | [
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"body": "This is a great opportunity to steer your husband away from this unhealthy relationship. If she's saying \"leave me alone\" that is best for everyone.",
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So my mom just casually mentioned that the U.S. military and British royal family, both controlled by Freemasons, have built a Nazi gas chamber prison city underneath Denver Airport, where they will put dissenters and the lower classes once the New World Order arrives. | It's not clear how she knows all this. I pressed for details, but she just called me closed-minded and told me to enjoy my "sheeple coma." | 24 | [
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"body": "How does pressing her for details make you close-minded and in a \"sheeple coma?\" It sounds to me like you're looking for her evidence, so that you may examine her theory yourself. \n\nThat's not close minded. That's being as open as you can possibly be. ",
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"body": "She is half right, now you have to work out which half, There is definitely a underground complex there.\n\nThey built the airport and then decided it was in the wrong spot, buried the buildings and started again on top, Do check out the murals in Denver Airport.",
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I'm running out of options, and I need some honest advice... | This could have gone in so many different subreddits, but I think a general /r/self is best choice.
I'm at my wit's end. I feel I've destroyed my life, and I don't have many options left...
I'm 17, and in less than 2 months, I'll be 18. I guess I'm posting this here, not because I need a place to just vent, but, because I need some honest, serious advice. The venting is more secondary.
I guess I should start at the beginning. I've been on and off meds my whole life. At any one time, I've been on ADD meds, and later the diagnosis was changed to bipolar. I've been on different bipolar meds all throughout my life, on different dosages. None have ever really worked. They show a little improvement here and there, but none make a serious difference. I always wind up back in the same spot.
I was an angry child, and since I always had different meds in me, I always ended up differently. I've had various illnesses, from horrible asthma since I was born, and in 4th grade I had a heart condition, and had to have surgery to have it fixed. It was basically a few bad veins, they just slipped some wires in, killed them, and I was fine. No open heart or anything.
I've been seeing psychologists and psychiatrists since I was little about bipolar, and mainly the depression aspect, which has been a huge influence on my life.
As I got older, I mellowed out, and eventually just got bitter. I gave up being so much a problem child, and just lost any passion for life I may have had. It was slow at first, and I'd just sleep all through class, at an increasing rate through the years. the anger subsided, and eventually, I was more just depressed, and getting angry enough to throw silly tantrums quit mattering.
I should also mention, since I was around 12, I'd realized, I was transgender. (So now we're from /r/depression, to /r/lgbt) This has had a tremendous impact on the depression aspect of the bipolar issue. I was ashamed at first, and then for 2 or so years, from around 8th grade junior high, to the end of 9th grade high school, I turned to christianity. Eventually, I realized, it was all a farce. Just a silly spam email, forwarded through the past, and nobody was there. I realized I no longer could believe, and if anything, i would be more angrythan anything, if this world turned out to be made by some perfect, devine being, who let it get so fucked up, and let people in my position come into existence, rather than do things correct, and fairly. I realized none of the theistic arguments could persuade me anymore. I became an atheist.
So, around January of my 10th grade school year, I decided to come out to my mom. I told her how I've felt I was dealt a raw deal, and given the wrong mental and physical match, so to speak. I hated having been born 'male' and I cannot stand it.
I told my doctors, who tried to get it, but I live in a mid-sized town/city in Texas. Even if they wanted to help, there aren't many options. Eventually, around December of my Junior year in high school, I had myself checked in to a mental clinic in Dallas, that had a section that catered to the LGBT community. But because I was underage, I had to be signed in as a mental clinic patient, rather than an lgbt patient. Which meant I was treated as a male juvenile patient, given a room on that side, and made to stay with that side for group therapy, interactions, and dinner. I'm not sure if anyone gets it, but it felt horrible. It was like starving, and being told you could get a hot meal, and then being chained up right beside it, with your limbs bound, and it right out of your reach.
The Director of the LGBT side (Who was trans himself) came over, and promised to help me, and do my individual therapy personally. eventually he talked with me, promised to help me, and when I was released after 2 weeks, I was told he would get the information to me and help me get everything started.
This man told me he would help me get everything started, to help me make this as best as possible, and he never called me. I emailed him one or two times over the following months, and called the clinic a few times, and spoke to him once. He still claimed he was gonna get the info and stuff to me. After month 4, I gave up, and resigned myself to a bitter life of self loathing and depression.
It seemed all too clear nothing would ever work out. things only progressively added up and got worse from here. Physically, socially, mentally, and all inbetwen.
Eventually, my sleeping through class caught up with me, and it would either be drop out and get my GED, or take an extra 2 or so years of high school for a proper diploma. My high school was literally hell to me, so I dropped out. It was November before I got my GED. But I have it now. (I should be in my senior year right now.)
So, I dropped otu last April. It is now the following January.
I don't have my license, nor have I ever had a job.
I went to driving school, and got my Learner's Permit when I was 16. I did it with my cousin, and while she got her license, I had to wait, because I needed my doctor's to sign off on it. I had previously been diagnosed with Sleep Apnea and Narcolepsy, back in my "sleep in school everyday" phase.
They did a sleep study for the Sleep Apnea, and a Nap study for the Narcolepsy. I was given a CPAP machine for the Apnea, which I'd been given (And am still hesitant) to use, and I was given Provigil for the narcolepsy. Eventually, after I'd l3eft school, I'd figured it couldn't have been narcolepsy, because I wasn't falling asleep. It was depression and apathy. I was later moved to a different sleep doctor, who disagrees with the previous doctor I was seeing on many things, and wants to redo the tests, but due to Medicaid, has to wait until she can get it scheduled. So, I can't get my license until we redo these tests, and I get new results.
I told her I didn't want to use the CPAP, and I don't need the Provigil. She said I needed to use them, or it was no license. Well, my dumbass said no dice, and now I have to wait for the tests. I'm currently trying to get an appointment with her, to beg her if I agree to her terms, if she'd sign off on my license, because I need it. Without it, my job choices are limited to:
A.) A small 1 mile or so strip of fast food chains and a wal-mart that goes down the high-way by my house
Or
B.) Find some way to get a ride to work downtown whever I have work, which isnot only inconvenient forme, but for whomever I have to beg to go out of their way and take me to whatever place would hire me.
I have never had a job. Not because I haven't looked. From right before I was 16, to after I dropped out, I was looking for a job. I've never gotten so much as a call back, or had anyone have seen any of my apps yet when I called to check in.
after I dropped out, I never had much reason to go anywhere, seeing as I couldn't find a job, had no license, and no money. My friends from school, whpo I tried to keep contact with, eventually just quit bothering talking to me. My best friend, and the only one who I keep regular contact with (Or, who bothers to keep regular contact with me, as he really isn't obligated to.) moved halfway across the country the month before I finally just dropped out. He's the only friend I've truly connected with, and actually thinks similar to me on many things, and has always been cool about everything. When I came out to him, he was cool. He's taken to using female pronouns, and name when speaking to me, and has always been there. He's truly a great friend.
But, I can only keep contact with him on the phone, and the net.
So, with little reason to do anything, eventually I gave in. Depression beat me.
Over this time period, which is getting close to a year, my social anxiety has grown. I've literally lost most of my social skills, and I get flustered, lose my train of thought, and go stupid when talking to people. I can be completely normal all other times, but when I try talking face-to-face with people, my insecurities start screaming in my head, and I just blank. If I do manage to get a conversation going, I come across as being highly opinionated, or I end up seeming like an asshole. And I just seem like an ass, when I don't mean to be. I'm just not used to it anymore...
Since I have near nothing but free time, I do nothing but think and think and think. this leads to picking everything apart, and it's gotten so bad that I go through small obsessions with music, or books, or comics, or whatever to numb my mind. To stop myself from picking at the mental scabs. It's not working anymore.
I know what I want to do. I want to follow through with my friends plan to move across the country and share an apartment with him and his girlfriend, whom I've also come to be friends with, while we all do college. I want to double major in art and psychology (The fucking irony.). I used to be passionate about art. I've never been any good at it, but I want to feel that passion again. I want to get back into something I love. But every time I try lately, the spark is gone, along with any passion I had in life.
I've considered suicide many times, but I can't do it. I can't even bring myself to be able to harm myself. It's stupid. I want to die, but I want to live. But I'm afraid of both.
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Hi Ladies! How do y'all deal with stretchmarks? | Both the new reddish ones and the older silver colored ones? I'm incredibly self-conscious about my stretchmarks; after a rapid growth spurt, they're all over my thighs and derriere.
I was curious to hear how you handle them as well as the man/men in your life have.
Thanks! | 11 | [
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"body": "Some comic I saw once said something about stretch marks that is totally relevant (I'll paraphrase):\n\n\"If your man gets disgusted by your stretch marks, you need to stop getting with bitch-ass men.\n\nIt doesn't matter if you have stretch marks: it either means that you were big and got small, or you were small and got big; either way, we' fuckin.\"\n\nCome to think of it, I think that the comic was Katt Williams. I am male, and stretch marks on a woman do not matter.",
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"body": "I have 'em all over after three kids. Had a bunch before, too. Don't care much.\n\nYears ago (before kids) I had a fun-buddy who looked at my stretchmarks in stunned silence. When I asked him \"What the hell?\" he told me his prior girlfriend had them too, but had told him they were burn scars from her \"evil ex\" who had \"thrown hot bacon fat\" on her.\n\nIt sucked that I had to tell her she was a big fat liar.\n\n\n",
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"body": "I've had them since puberty when my boobs grew in too damn quickly. They've faded and I try and ignore them, because I can't do anything about them. My boyfriend doesn't mind. Thinks they're kind of fun to trace.",
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"body": "I don't have any stretch marks, but pretty much all the men I've dated have had them, including my current boyfriend.\n\nReally, I don't care a bit. My boyfriend is sexy as hell to me, stretch marks or not.\n\nI'm sure that this is what most men think about stretch marks on ladies. If you want to try and lessen them, there are tonnes of products out there, like Strivectin SD and BioOil. ",
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"body": "I have come to accept most of mine. I mean I've had the damn things since I was 12 and woke up one morning with D's. I swear I went to bed flat chested!\n\nOccasionally I'll colour them in with bright colours (usually non toxic washable...)\n\nOnly one partner has made a comment about noticing them and that was to compliment their texture.\n\nThe only one really I'm sensitive about is one that might actually really be a scar. Even this one no one has commented on. Though I give props to the first person who asks how I got the angry redish gray mark that runs from my inner thigh to my labia. ",
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"body": "I don't think he's noticed cause by the time we get to the point where he can see them, I think all the blood has gone from his head and his vision is fuzzy :)\n\nI think of them as a way to identify my body should I be a Jane Doe. I'm trying to get them to spell my name & blood type.",
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"body": "I knew a guy once who grew so fast as a kid his back looked like he'd been whipped.\n\nAs for mine, I generally don't bother with them, but if one bothers me I've had good luck with two things. When I had wrist surgery, I got told to get Vitamin E caplets, cut them open, and massage across my scar (perpendicular to the scar/mark) to help break up the scar tissue. They also sell some cocoa butter & vitamin E lotion for pregnant women that when I was using it also had the side effect of lessening the marks.",
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Brand new, need a little assistance. | It seems my weapons are terrible, because I can't complete this mission with all of the enemies hitting me. I started playing about 2 hours ago. How do I upgrade my weapons? What are some recommendations? I have about 88k | 6 | [
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"body": "[EVE ship loadouts](http://eve.battleclinic.com/browse_loadouts.php)\n\n[EVE Fitting Tool](http://www.eveonline.com/iNgameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=548883)\n",
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Where can I debate Christians/Creationists? | I'm looking for a website where i can debate one on one with christians and creationists in **real time**. Something like http://omegle.com/
Does anyone know of such a website?
I genuinely enjoy debating this topic for many reasons. I'm not looking to simply punish anyone for their ignorance, i was the same way once (though not creationist).
PS. I am well aware of newsgroups and forums. I'm looking for some real time, or at least one on one discussion. | 4 | [
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"body": "I did this back in the 90s on usenet.\n\nWhat a colossal waste of time.\n\nBack then, I wasn't up on the idea of trolls and also couldn't believe anybody could be that stupid to be a creationist.\n\nI don't know about the trolling but damn if the stupid isn't stuck with the creationists. Better off debating stuff with no known factual basis, like life in the universe or morality or something.",
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"body": "We should set up a site where we do that, with live skype calls which are then later offered as a podcast. Wanna create debateanatheist.com together?",
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"body": "Mormon missionary chat... they're keep discussing if you are civil.\n\nhttp://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/ask-a-question/chat-live\n\nEverything else is just going to be shitty phpBB forums. I debated several creationists on the catholic forums for a while, and frankly it's just a waste of time.",
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So tonight I broke some poor teenagers brains. | So I'm on my way home from work, and am on the SkyTrain (subway) when I notice this group of 4 teenagers changing seats, moving all over the train, and generally acting odd. They end up sitting right beside me, and I overhear one say "man...I took like 3 tabs, and I am really starting to feel it...woah...". Realizing that they are on acid, I decide to have a little fun with them.
So I start whispering odd things: "Red is not the right colour. Red is never the right colour" , "My ears pierce eternity, splendid" , "Life is the muffin" and various other nonsensical oddities, and notice that they are visibly freaked out, and cannot figure out who is saying it.
People leave the train, and soon it's just me and them in the area, and one of them asks me "Dude...are you saying that?", so I look him straight in the eyes and say "The right choice is always hate, unless hate is the choice", and all of them suddenly turn towards me with a look on their face like "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa????". So I say "Four makes two...UNLESS YOU'RE DEAD" and they all visibly lose their shit, and quickly rush to the other side of the train and start excitedly talking and shooting scared looks in my direction.
At this point we're nearly at my stop, and I find out their stop as well, and they rush ahead shooting me weird and frightened looks, and race down the stairs(no doubt assuming I am following them). I take my time getting down, and when I reach the bottom I see them clustered together in front of the stairs, so I walk up to them, and with a wild look in my eyes I repeat it: "Four makes two...UNLESS YOU'RE DEAD!"
At this point they are completely freaking out, and one of them asks "Are you for real man?" while another just keeps repeating "What the hell" over and over. They start walking quickly away, coincidentally in the direction I was headed anyways, so I follow behind them repeating it, and matching pace with them. They start walking faster and faster, and I just keep following, and at this point am shouting "FOUR MAKES TWO UNLESS YOU'RE DEAD!!!!!" and they start SCREAMING and run full speed down the block. By now I'm laughing so hard I can't keep up, and stop to catch my breath as I watch them run 3 more blocks before turning down an alley.
Some guy that was waiting for a bus nearby walks over and asks me what that was all about, so I explain the whole story, and he tells me "Dude...you're a real jerk.........but that was fucking hilarious".
tl;dr: I messed with some teenagers that were on acid, and it was funny
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"body": "their reactions were congruent with those of a sober person, while your actions were not. \n\nI believe a strong argument could be made that you are *completely insane*.",
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"body": "Hey reddit, so me and my friends where doing acid and we decided \"wouldn't it be cool to ride the skytrain\". when we got on the train and it was empty except for this THREE HORSE GOAT LAMA HEADED DEMON, who kept whispering weird shit like \"life is the muffin, round and round the hedge the muffin is\". eventually it just kept repeating \"four makes two unless you're dead\" over and over, while chasing us and breathing fire. I think i met god, and am going to accept rael now.",
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"body": "anyone who has ever been in the situation of those kids would know that what you did was a total dick move. for most everyone, getting into that stuff isn't just like getting high-lets-go-freak-out-for-fun. its a serious experience and they, like most everyone who takes it, were probably in over their head. \n\nif you ever meet kids on acid, say something sincere to them. maybe something a little weird because, hey, they'll probably understand whatever you say more than you do and you have a chance to make a sincere and lasting impact on their lives. or maybe not, maybe they are just trying to look at funny things. but you dont know that and purposefully scaring the shit out of kids, making them experience the thoughts of dying, getting chased, getting caught, etc. in a completely unsupportive way is just irresponsible and fucked up. \n\ntl;dr: fucked up.\n\nEDIT: a lot of people have said \"oh the kids were stupid, they were the irresponsible and dumb ones.\" well, yeah, probably. all i'm trying to say is that people shouldn't be dicks.",
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"body": "I had a tab at a music festival, and was standing alone waiting for my friends to get back from the bathroom. I yawned, and a gorgeous girl wearing a tutu walks past, grabs my chin like you would a childs, and in the most cheerful manner ever, with the most amazing smile says \"no yawning\". Coolest. Shit. Ever.",
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"body": "I've tripped quite a few times...believe me, they've forgot about this guy 15 minutes later, if that.\n\nAnd now they have a fantastic story to tell.\n\nOn my 1st trip we went to the IMAX and watched a movie on the African migrations. My buddy had seen it already and even though he was also high he had the presence of mind to find the seat in the IMAX that was acoustically paired with mine (if you don't know, from certain seats you can communicate to someone in another seat while whispering meaning that while the people on either side of you can't hear you someone sitting in the right place many rows away can).\n\nHe then proceeded to make wildebeest noises, but not when they were on the screen..messed with me pretty good.\n\nOf course I had the last laugh when, as soon as the movie ended, he jumped out of his seat and screamed \"That's Bullshit!!\" because for him the movie had only lasted 2 minutes.\n\nGood times :)",
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"body": "A friend of mine was on acid... this friend and I were also rebuilding a Toyota MR2, and he needed to order a timing belt for the engine...\n\nSo, the night he was all loopy, I said to him,\n\n\"Did you get a new timing belt? Because if you didn't ...... time is going to stop!\" \n\nThat froze him in place for a while, and later on, he said that that paralyzed him with fear.",
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"body": "That reminds me of a little something that happened to me on the train about a year ago. I'd actually forgotten about it till now.\n\nI normally catch the train after work around 5, but this time stayed for a few drinks with the guys and caught the train a few hours later. Not real late... maybe about 8pm or so.\n\nNot many people on the train at that time, except there was a raggedy old drunk sitting directly opposite me. He kept passing out for a few minutes and then jerking awake.\n\nSince I'd had a few drinks, about halfway home I really needed to piss. It was getting uncomfortable, so I started to stand up. At exactly that moment, the drunk had jerked awake and also started to half stand up. His action caught me a little off guard and I halted my standing up procedure and we ended up both crouched over directly in front of each other. Identical poses.\n\nWhen I realised he was just standing up, I continued to stand up, and co-incidentally, he completed standing up at just that moment also. We were surprisingly in sync. He started drooling on himself. We are standing about 12 inches away from each other, face to face. He seemed to be having trouble focusing his eyes on me.\n\nJust then the train slowed for a stop, and we both leaned sideways at the same time, still in sync. I reached my hand up to grab the handhold thing, and just at that moment he put his hand up (although there was no hand-hold there). It suddenly occurred to me, that he thought I might be a reflection, and was testing to see if I did what he did, and I just happened to have done so. He leaned forward, so I did too, and now our faces were only a few inches apart and he was trying to focus his eyes on me. Just as I could tell he finally had me in focus, I said \"Boo!\".\n\nHe pissed his pants, flapped his lips a bit, and then just kind of collapsed back into his seat. I turned and walked down a few seats and sat down again. During the next few stops until I got off, he just stared at me, muttering something to himself, so I just stared back.\n\nWhen I got home, I told me wife about it, but she didn't think it was funny at all... so I kind of forgot about it after that.",
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"body": "Not particularly funny beyond the first nonsensical whispers, mostly just mean. It's cruel and irresponsible to induce a bad trip intentionally. There's no reason you couldn't have had some fun with them in a way that made the world and life seem strange yet awesome. I thought that's where you were headed with \"Life is the muffin.\" But terrifyingly chasing after them shouting about their deaths? That really just makes the world a shittier place. If that's you, well, there you go.",
"score": 163
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"body": "I pity you. You missed a perfect moment. Here is perhaps a better series of statements:\n\nThe mind is hard to check. It is swift and wanders at will. To control it is good. A controlled mind is conducive to happiness. \n\nThe lotus will grow even in rubbish thrown away. It will delight the heart with its sweet smell and beauty. \n\nBetter than a thousand verses, comprising useless words, is one beneficial single line, by hearing which one is pacified. ",
"score": 69
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"body": "The Sky Train is the LAST place i want to be on LSD. UBC rose gardens and Wreck beach FTW. u know what im talking about.",
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"body": "That's awesome. Right after I got out of High School, I was at a party with a bunch of friends that were still in school. One of them was frying pretty hard, I think it was his first time. Some one grabbed the sticker off of a Chaquita banana and stuck it on his forhead. We looked at him and said \"Dude you're a banana.\" He didn't believe us so we pulled the sticker off his head and showed him. He stiffined up in a rough banana shape on the ground and started rolling back and forth crying how his mom was going to be so mad at him for turning into a banana.",
"score": 49
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"body": "I have done a lot of acid, and people like you used to make me incredibly happy.\n\nI'm not the type to freak out at all, I had a mental check that I would go over every time something seemed a little too weird.\n\nI always loved it when someone tried to get a rise out of me, not because they were being dicks, but because they were trying to make my trip more entertaining.\n\nUnfortunately, this rarely happened.\n\nI was that guy that would be tripping balls on acid, but no one ever noticed because I had such great control. ",
"score": 38
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"body": "So, you tried to give some kids, who may very well have been in over their heads, a bad trip. You're cool. And funny. Seriously.",
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"body": "\"Dude...you're a real jerk.........but that was fucking hilarious\" \n\nSimilar thoughts. \n\nAlthough to be honest I think the teens knew they weren't imagining things... they were probably just scared they were going to be stabbed to death... ",
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"body": "Reminds me of a story which may well be urban mythology which was passed on by a promoter friend of mine to me who used to work with the group Phish:\n\nApparently, the members of the group had invited a friend over to Fishman's house to take mushrooms and watch horror movies.\nIt turns out also that the folks from Phish are friends with Courtney Gains, who you may know best as playing the character Malachi from Children of the Corn.\n\nSo the invitee, who had no idea what the true plan was for the evening, sat down with the members of the band and friends and all, and they took the shrooms and began to watch Children of the Corn. One by one, the other people in the room all left on one errand or another, leaving just the one kid alone as the shrooms started to kick in hard.\n\nThey left him alone for a couple of minutes, to make sure he didn't really notice anything but the TV. Then Courtney Gains slipped in and sat down next to him on the couch and just stared at the kid until he turned to look. And saw Malachi sitting next to him grinning fiendishly. Needless to say, he completely freaked and ran out of the house screaming while everyone in the next room who were waiting for the shoe to fall just dissolved in laughter.",
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"body": "I may get downvoted for this, but fuck you. Why would you ruin someone's good time like that? Bad trips can seriously mess people up...",
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"body": "To the people worrying about the kids:\n\nWhile I can see your side of things, I myself am a Darwinian motherfucker when it comes to drugs and booze. I have done pretty much every drug under the sun at one point or another, and always held my shit, even under the most extreme circumstances. In fact I've had some pretty messed up things happen to me while on LSD, and have had not a single \"bad trip\" or \"freakout\". When you take a drug of any kind it's your responsibility to stay together, and if you have a \"bad trip\" it's in a way your own fault, regardless of circumstances.\n\nAlso, it's pretty much a rite of passage to be messed with while on psychadelics, and I've had a quite number of people attempt and occasionally succeed in screwing with me while under the influence, and am no worse for the wear because of their actions.\n\n",
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"body": "Tomorrow in the news: four dead teenage kids and Police on the look out for a social website based Jigsaw type character.",
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"body": "If some stranger started staring at me and talking about death while on the subway, I'd think he was potentially violent. What you did was really weird. You might want to really think over why you did what you did.",
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"body": "With all due respect, If you said that shit to me on a train and then \"followed\" me, I'd fuck you up.",
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"body": "Back in my college days, I had just come home from a fencing meet and walked into my room. I dropped my gear on the floor and saw my roommate was sitting on the floor smoking a cigarette. His buddy was hind of hovering over him.\n\n\"What's going on?\", I said.\n\"Dude, I took some acid and wasn't very good. So don't do anything wierd....how was fencing?\"\n\nI immediately make [THIS](http://www.whoisrockoclark.com/images/picture/hand%20glasses.jpg) face, used a goofy voice and said, \"FINE, THANK YOU!\"\n\nHe was not amused as he raised his cigarette and said, \"I'm gonna BURN you, man.\"\n",
"score": 17
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"body": "I did plenty of acid in my day and this is fucking hilarious.\n\nThis will teach the teenagers not to drop and ride the fucking subway. They're lucky it was just a dude fucking with them for fun and not someone out to genuinely hurt them.\n\nAnd beside the fact that they're going to laugh about it the next day, they'll have a story to tell their friends, \"Dude, we were trippin' on the subway and this dude was chasin' us and sayin' all this fucked-up shit...\"",
"score": 17
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"body": "I have a similar, albeit more accidental, story involving acid users. \n\nI frequent large electronic music festivals that most people refer to as raves, but I like to call them the California Massives. This particular tale was during a massive called EDC. I usually carry with me a bit of Vicks Vapor Rub. Most of the people at these things are on Ecstasy and really enjoy the sensation when rubbed on their face. \n\nI was going around putting the Vicks on people's upper lip without really asking permission but they would immediately start to smile when they felt the sensation. When they would ask me \"what is that? it feels soo good!\" I would tell them it was acid and they just took 20 tabs worth. After giving me a look of total fear I would laugh and show them the container and they would relax. \n\nI went up to a particularly cute female and proceeded to do the same routine. Before I even was able to mention that I was joking, she starting screaming \"THE WHITE BUNNY GAVE ME ACID\" repeatedly and running around in a huge circle around a crowd.\n\nPeople around me asked me what I gave her and I showed them. We shared quite a few chuckles.\n\nHere is what I usually wear:\nhttp://imgur.com/ketlE.jpg",
"score": 15
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"body": "There are funny ways to screw around with people on psychedelics that aren't dangerous and can be something to laugh about later. What you did was not funny, creative, or interesting.\n\nYou also can't be sure they were on LSD and if they were on something like PCP you could have really fucked them up.\n\nYou owe the world some Karma ... go out and do something nice tomorrow.",
"score": 13
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"body": "I still remember tripping (with a buddy; never trip alone) through The Quad (20 years ago) in the middle of campus at 3am, and seeing people in trees whispering to each other, and others chanting 'We're not magic morons' repeatedly while carrying an ornate staff. Another guy rode his bike in a slow circle while whistling The Entertainer, and to top it off the physics department was testing a new laser outside. We were trying to take a break from the madness by walking along one of the covered walkways when some guy screams at us, \"Watch out, we're about to shoot a laser!\". As unbelievable as it all seems, I'm still almost sure it all happened exactly as stated above. I think that was the night we finally had to go home because my friend couldn't take it when the grass started crying.",
"score": 13
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"body": "Wow! You no doubt turned their fun, communal sensory experience into an introspective nightmare.\n\nI hope that, when you next sample hallucinogens, you spend the trip crying in a corner, swatting away imaginary insects intent on injecting their hungry brood under your skin. \n",
"score": 12
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"body": "You should have told them that when they look towards the back of the SkyTrain, they are seeing the past, for that is what has come and gone.\n\nThen you follow it up by telling them that, because of this, if they look towards the front of the train, they can see the future.",
"score": 12
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"body": "Tripping in public is always a bit risky.\n\nMy first trip was on mushrooms, while in college. I picked the night of the annual school group trip to Disneyland, because I wanted a time when there would not be a lot of people around.\n\nThings got weird when I started seeing Chinese people everywhere. They were speaking Chinese, so I could not understand them. This freaked me out a little, because neither the people who got the shrooms for me, nor any of the research I'd done into the effects shrooms should have, had said anything about seeing hordes of Chinese people.\n\nIt turned out I was NOT hallucinating the Chinese people. The Chinese students association at Caltech (my school) had decided they wanted to throw a big party and invite the Chinese students from USC and UCLA. USC and UCLA are much bigger than Caltech, and have a lot more Chinese students, so they wanted a time when Caltech would be relatively empty, and picked the night of the Disneyland trip.",
"score": 11
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"body": "I guess it is funny to hear about but thats not really cool to mess with someone on hardcore psychedelics like that, especially when you have experience with some less intense ones. You could have made one of them lose some serious cash by killing the trip. Doing it in the train was funny but following them and continuing to fuck with them is kinda a dick move, but I guess since they happened to be going the same way as you I can't really blame you for doing it...",
"score": 10
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"body": "Seems to me that you were being a bit of a dick.\n\nMaybe you are not into taking the specific drug, or maybe you are. But to take it upon yourself to try and ruin someone elses trip like that is week. What if you would have sent one of them into a shitty trip? ",
"score": 10
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"body": "I will never forget when I went to the jersey shore with all my friends the night after prom and all the guys took acid. I was the only one awake with them at 4am watching Walking with the Dinosaurs and in the meanwhile my extra large, intoxicated friend was hitting on me and after rejecting him he invited my to take a bath with him, that was a BIG NO. Anyways he goes upstairs and a few minutes pass. My friend taps me on the shoulder and whispers, \"Is that a real waterfall?\". I look over at the air vent which is placed on the wall right next to the ceiling and there was water pouring out of it. All my friends go over and start touching it and playing with the water and I run upstairs and find my 450 pound friend wedged in this tub and he said, \"I think I filled it up too much.\" It ended up he filled up the whole tub then sat in it and all my friends on the 1st floor were having a ball. \"WHOOOAAA where is this coming from dude?\" hahahahahaa",
"score": 10
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"body": "hahah yes.. thats funny...\n\nfunnier to not go for the fear/hate angle... thats a real jerk move... You could easily have been more creative and actually give those guys an interesting experience as opposed to an introspective nightmare...",
"score": 9
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"body": "The \"Four makes two...UNLESS YOU'RE DEAD!\" reminded me of something I learned in philosophy. You see in ancient Greece they counted a bit differently than we do. Lets say we are counting people; 1 person /= the number 1. But instead 2 people = 1. So by that logic four does make two...if you're dead.",
"score": 9
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"body": "I dropped acid once in a public place. It was at a festival actually and right after it hit me we took the bus to my friend's place.\n\nThe entire ordeal stands out as one of the worst experiences of my life. The acid was unrelenting. I was essentially in a state of panic the entire time.\n\nThat being said, I think this is hilarious. Some of you guys need to lighten up, seriously.",
"score": 8
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"body": "asshole! I mean, really man. Where I come from, tabs are e pills, not acid. In any case, no matter what they were on, you had the opportunity to change their lives for the better, especially if they were trippin. You should have been more thoughtful and given them enlightening advice so they would spend their time with good thoughts. Oh well, you must be an asshole.",
"score": 8
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"body": "yeah it was fun for you, but it shows a complete lack of understanding regarding a state of awareness and vulnerability that you toyed with. On LSD, the mind can take a very strong negative imprint that can last years. It's not like poking a drunk or teasing a pothead. You seeded their unconscious mind with freaky stuff where you could have been playful about it. Who knows, you could have sent one or two of them off in a direction you may have regretted.\n\nIt was a very stupid thing you did, and (edit:) possibly a bit sociopathic.",
"score": 8
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"body": "We used to do a few variations on this. One involved going up to people on acid or shrooms, and acting normally except for occasional random outbursts like OH MY GOD STEVE, THE TREES! so and what are you doing on Saturday THE TREES! LOOK! \n\nAnother fun one involves questions like, \"have you ever wondered if, when you're not looking, furniture starts dancing?\" And when they look, say, \"no, no, it stops when you look. Oh, there it goes again. No, you looked, it stopped.\"\n\nOr, the invisible soundproof box. Make like you're holding a box over your head, and as you lower it over your face, fade out your voice until you're just moving your lips. Then, increase volume as you remove the box. \n\nOh, good times. Don't get me started on fun things to do with angry people in rush hour traffic to get them even more pissed off.",
"score": 7
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"body": "I doubt it ruined their trip. Aren't trips supposed to be trippy? You know what else is good? When little kids hit your car with snowballs, slam on the breaks and run after them yelling and waving your arms like a gorilla. Scares the crap out of them but they'll tell that story to their friends and earn major little kid respect.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Let's see, what could make being gratuitously mean to vulnerable people in a predictable and uninteresting way even worse? \n\nOh, right, congratulating yourself for it.\n\nI suppose people have to learn about set and setting somehow, because the punishment for being in public when you're unusually vulnerable can be pretty severe in a world amply populated by dipshits.",
"score": 7
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"body": "I am conflicted. On one hand this is actually a pretty funny story.\n\non the other, not cool to mess with people on hardcore psychedelics.\n\nYou are lucky they were already pretty far out. Were I in that situation, if I still had some sense in me and could tell you were being an outrageous dick, I would have tried to beat you up. and if I had 3 friends with me, I would have succeeded.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Could anyone who's tried acid explain what it's like? Does the world go all tie-dyed, or is it more like doing toad (\"Everything seems so... significant!\")?",
"score": 6
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"body": "I did this once when a bunch of my then gf's mates came over tripping. My pal and I sat there staring at the corner of the room until one of them asked what we were looking at. I turned slowly to her and said in my most doom-laden voice: 'The pig. They have killed it. Can't you see the blood?'\nThat set her off looking at the walls and ceilings, then the couch and, finally, her hands and clothes. Her friends asked her what she was freaking out about and when she explained in a very quiet voice, they started seeing blood and freaking out too. It was fun but sadly destroyed forever my dream of becoming a drug counselor.",
"score": 6
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"body": "That's nasty. When I was that age and on acid in public, my biggest fear was looking around and thinking; 'that guy knows I'm on acid, oh shit!... Oh crap that chick knows I'm wasted!! I'm out of here!' To actually have a stranger that knows you're on acid *and* fuck with you? You bastard. Well played.\r\n",
"score": 6
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"body": "Next time try reciting this little verse:\n\n\"**Rain?** Rain makes me crazy..\n**Crazy?** I was crazy once,\nThey locked me in the corner of a \nround round room..\nI died there, they buried me in the \n**Rain?** Rain makes me crazy...\n**Crazy?** I was crazy once...\netc.\"",
"score": 6
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"body": "Um, You're a fucking asshole dude. I hope you have a huge anxiety/panic attack and shit yourself you cunt.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Totally awesome story, it reminds me of my own. A few years back I was at this restaurant and three teens were sitting at a table throwing french fries at each other. I walked up to the little dude and smiled at him, then took his plate and slapped it in his face. Showed that little fucker not to play with his food. I pushed the other two plates onto their laps before they could get up. They wanted a food fight, now that was a fucking food fight. God I laughed so hard I almost pissed myself, you should have seen their faces. I think I totally ruined the girls shirt with tomato sauce, I think she was crying but I was laughing too hard to care. Then the fucking nazi manager threw me out. Well fuck him, I had a fun time anyway.\n\nIf you are stupid enough to eat in public and not take it seriously you absolutely deserve someone like me messing with you. Maybe next time they will eat their food instead of playing with it.\n\nIf people don't want to get messed with stay at home, coming outside gives me permission to do whatever the fuck I want to em, they didn't even fight back. Only thing I regret is not throwing their drinks at them, next time I will.",
"score": 6
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"body": ">tl;dr: I messed with some teenagers that were on acid, and it was funny\r\n\r\nAnd it was FUNNY, damn you!",
"score": 5
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"body": "I always get excited when I see a self post at the top of the front page, because I always know it's going to be interesting/hilarious.",
"score": 5
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"body": "My mate and I did a trip in Blackpool (tacky English resort) and we'd just come out of the hall of mirrors in the pleasure beach (an amusement park). We'd seen ourselves as giants and, importantly, as dwarfs. As we exited (I had to ask a slightly worried kid to lead us out because we were too confused) a group of young people walked past. One of them was a dwarf. I didn't connect that this dwarf was a 'real person' and dropped to my knees in front of her, pointed at her and shouted \"Pete! It's a dwarf! A fucking dwarf!\" As the whole crowd stopped and stared at me, I realised what I'd done and we hurried away.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I really want to downvote you for terrifying those poor kids, but I can't because it's too damn funny. Upvoted.",
"score": 5
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"body": "A few years ago my friends and I decided to take 'shrooms while camping out in the woods; Insanity ensued. Now I've no camping buddies. :(",
"score": 5
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"body": "You just put three people into an excited state of paranoia and let them run free into the city. As someone who has experienced bad trips, both personally and physically through friends who have lost thier minds, I would say you just lost a lot of karma, bud. ",
"score": 5
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"body": "I kinda want to drop 5 or so tabs in OP's drink and fuck with him for an hour or two, just to show him how much fun it is on the other side of that story.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Why isn't the most important question being asked?\n\nDo you have a SkyTrain underground? Or do you have a subway in the sky?",
"score": 5
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"body": "It's people like you who make it no fun to trip in public... I once was tripping at a music festival, and was extremely annoyed to find that a lot of the people I ran into just wanted to mess with me. Commonly people simply did what you did and started babbling nonsense right behind me (like \"I help myself skip words why sentences\" or they would make animal noises/etc), then laugh and walk away if I turned to look at them. What's the point? Is it trip jealousy? Or do people just not understand what your mind is going through on psychedelics?",
"score": 5
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"body": "How hard would it have been to calm them down after having your fun? You probably fucked up their entire trip.\n\n\"Just fuckin' with ya, guys. Sorry, but it's really obvious you're all tripping balls and I couldn't resist. Might want to avoid being out in public for a few hours.\"\n\nWould it have killed you? Would it have made anything that preceded it any less funny? I admit your story cracked me up, but if you're going to break someone's brain for shits and giggles, at least put it back together when you're done.",
"score": 5
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"body": "You bastard! *I* was one of those teenagers! Tens of thousands of dollars in psychiatry bills, prescription after prescription drug, nightmare experiences with electroshock, all because I thought I was chased by an imaginary man on a subway! Damn you! Damn you to--\n\nWait. This happened today? Not in Honolulu in 1992? \n\nOh, dear...",
"score": 5
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"body": "Ugh, what a douche you are! Nice going. Like there's not enough hateful crap in the world. Congratulations on being a world-class creep.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I did something similar at a party.\n\nA couple guys and a girl were on acid, and whenever they talked to me I turned the back of my head to them instead of my face.\n\nWhen they argued the point that I wasnt facing them I crossed my hands in front of me and popped them over my shoulders to prove I was facing them which worked for some retarded reason.\n\nEveryone caught on and started doing the same thing and they were almost crying by the end because they couldn't figure out how to work the doors.\n\nNext day they swore off acid.",
"score": 4
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"body": "dude mutters nonsensical phrases to himself, chases after kids shouting unintelligible but vaguely threatening phrases, and for some reason, the kids he chased after are the ones with 'broken brains'. haha",
"score": 4
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"body": "What you did to those teens was very shitty. You had no idea how they were going to react. It is possible that they could have responded in a very negative way and done something to hurt themselves, such as running away from you and stumbling into traffic.\n\nWhen you are on a high dose of LSD you really don't want to be fucked with like that, and your emotional and panic reaction would not be pleasant at all. What you did could very well have spun the rest of their trip into a nightmare or a disaster.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Dude don't fuck with people that are tripping, its bad form. You could have seriously fucked them up to a point where they could have hurt themselves.",
"score": 4
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"body": "What an asshole-thing to do. These guys decided to have a party, and you decided to ruin the party for them. It's like going to someone's birthday and stealing the cake. It's like going to the Olympics and extinguishing the fire. Why not just let people have a good time? \nIf you want to have some fun with people dropping acid, do it in a way that is fun for them as well.\nYou give me the impression that you want to punish these kids for doing acid, which is really not productive for anyone. You should be ashamed of yourself.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I can't believe they were actually THAT scared of you. Lol.\n\nThen again, that's really hard core to follow them like that after the train stop. I think even sane people would be scared of you.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Thats hilarious, man you are brave! But I would have kicked your ass if I was sober. \n\nIf I was high (which I never am) I would have start killing my friends so I can be one of the two! If 4 makes 2 and there are four of us, its time to make a decision, right? ",
"score": 4
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"body": ">\"Four makes two...UNLESS YOU'RE DEAD!\" \n \nNew catchphrase material for sure. But if i had to choose, i'd pick \n \n>\"The right choice is always hate, unless hate is the choice\" \n \nYou really can't tell if that's nonsense or deep :D \nIf this story is true, it's the best thing i've read all day. \n \nI remember when i was staring up the sky of a lovely summer evening and debating with a buddy of mine whether that twinkle was a star or a plane. Half an hour later i said \"See, it's a star. It didn't move.\" and he replied \"That's because it's coming straight at us\". We never laughed harder.",
"score": 4
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"body": ">\"Dude...you're a real jerk.........but that was fucking hilarious\".\n\nI have to agree with him. I kind of hate you for doing it, but at the same time I laughed. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "tl;dr some kids took three hits of acid and were out in public for some reason. OP decides it would be funny if he started saying a lot of very negative things to them and generally freaks them out.\r\n\r\nIf kids had any experience as psychonauts they would have brushed this guy off no problem- so obviously he is preying on some first time trippers which makes it even worse on him.",
"score": 4
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"body": "So when I picture this I hear you talking in a really strange voice, and after a few hours of contemplation it came to me...the voice I'm hearing your dialogue in is the raspy-whisper voice from Lonely Island's *Jizz In My Pants*. \n\n\"My ears pierce eternity and I...\"",
"score": 4
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"body": "I dont think one would have to be on acid to be freaked out by what you did. Creepy people on the train. Happens all the time.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Are you the kinda person who lies to children? I think I am too. I told a kid that this skyscraper sized woman walking about a city on a commercial was real, and that they brought her over from Africa in a cage. I might not be able to resist if I knew someone was tripping on LSD. Though in the case of LSD, I'd probably just quote a load of Zen and Zhuangzi, or GEB.",
"score": 3
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"body": "This is why I prefer to trip at home and use acid as a tool for self-discovery and thinking, instead of \"LET'S GET ACID AND TAKE THE TRAIN LULZ.\" Ohhhh teenagers.",
"score": 3
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"body": "It's ok to mess with teenagers when they fuck up and mention in public that they're on LSD.\n\nHowever, picking phrases like \"UNLESS YOUR DEAD\" was kind of mean, assuming they're not very experienced - which they're not if they decided to ride the subway and talk about it where others could hear them.\n\nDon't teenagers know they're not the first generation to dabble in acid?? It was only discoverd *over seventy years ago*...",
"score": 3
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"body": "For my first acid trip we ended up in King's Cross Station to pick up a friend of a friend. It was the middle of the day and we were surrounded by cops. We waited outside on the floor for the dude to arrive and it was completely obvious we were tripping. The police were all laughing with each other, obviously at us, and one comes up with a big grin on his face and asks if we were alright. We just both got really visibly nervous and he just laughed and walked away.\n\nThe point of this story is that if a cop can be cool and understanding to someone on acid, why can't you? Dick move dude, dick move. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "I took a few tabs with some friends and wandered around this abandoned asylum where all these homeless guys live (anyone from Kings Park NY can attest, its the land of the loonys). We were chased around by some nut singing \"Hey Jude\" at the top of his lungs. Freaked us out but it left a funny story.",
"score": 3
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"body": "So you scared the crap out of some teenagers by acting like a schizo. Big deal. It probably would have scared the crap out of them even if they *weren't* tripping. The same thing works on old ladies. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "Wonder how long they sat around trying to figure out what 4 makes 2 meant. Bet they came up with some interesting theories before they sobered up. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "I went to the dallas zoo on acid. We took the dart rail and while on the train this kid in front of me kept singing what he saw outside of the train, I had to jump off after he sang \"man with mcdonalds in his hand man eating mcdonalds!\" I was biting my lip so hard to keep from loling I started to bleed. Also staring down a gorilla on acid is one of the most amazing things I have EVER done. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "Though I have thoughts, I am not my thoughts. Though I have feelings, I am not my feelings. Though I have memories, I am not my memories. [repeat until unable]",
"score": 3
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"body": "I love teens on acid. I got a similar story. I don't know what it's about with acid heads and trees but I was chillin cuttin class in a park across from my high school. There was this guy there that I was familiar with and we decided to hang out together (better than being alone). The whole time there was something a little off about the guy (very skiddish)\nThen suddenly he's like \"WHOA DUDE THAT TREE JUST GOT UP AND STARTED WALKING TOWARDS ME!!\" he was point at a tree across the street. Being the loving person I am I looked at him and in the most horrified look I could muster said, \"You're right it looks PISSED, RUN!!!\"\n\nThe guy bolted fast as I've ever seen anyone run in my life. Good times, good times.",
"score": 3
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"body": "If those kids truly were on acid, you can be assured you were not nearly the strangest thing on that train.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Could've been worse. Could've dosed them up with Creepypasta, or stuff from http://theholders.org/\n\nDamn I'd hate to hear/read Holder stuff on acid.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I would fucking HATE you if I was one of the kids, and I think it is a bit shitty...but I will admit that I was laughing out loud.\n\nBesides, they'll laugh about it tomorrow. =P",
"score": 3
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"body": "Good ol' Friday nights on the ScareTrain. \n\nEveryone seems to be tripping on something on the SkyTrain on a Friday night. Never rode it on a Friday when somebody wasn't trippin'/was extremely drunk/had relationship issues. \n\nSaw the drunkest Native man alive on that train once, with a bottle in a mexican coozie. Was telling everyone on the train F U and someone called security. As soon as the guy stepped off the train he got tackled by the cops. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "Dude, you're a fucking asshole. If you ever do take drugs again, assuming you have (in which case I'd hope you'd have more empathy) karma is gonna come a-knockin' and leave you in a pool of your own spittle. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "As funny as it is, you never really know how someone on lsd is going to react. You could have had a quadruple suicide on your hands. Do you really want to be that guy? I know I would fucking hate it if someone fucked up my acid trip like that.",
"score": 3
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"body": "If I were on acid, I would be like. What the hell is wrong with this man? It wouldn't scare me, I'd only be scared for you.",
"score": 3
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"body": "So the woman pushing a shopping cart that stopped as I passed her on the street to start screaming nonsensically and pointing at me thought I was tripping? I thought she was just a lunatic.\n",
"score": 3
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AskHaskell: C++ for Haskell programmers? | I'm trying to (re)learn C++ (the job market for Haskell programmers being pretty limited). However, 3 years of Haskell completely changed my habits and general view of programming. So my question is, is there a C++ book/text/tutorial/whatever aimed and/or well-suited for Haskell (or just functional) programmers? Lists of pitfalls, and ways to adapt functional designs to C++ are also welcome. | 18 | [
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"body": "I've found the biggest change in my C/C++ habits as a result of learning Haskell is that I've become preternaturally aware of all the possible ways code could go wrong. RAII is a great C++ technique for managing any resource robustly, even in the face of exceptions. I find myself writing tons of RAII classes.\n\nI don't think it's particularly elegant to write functional-style programs at the lowest level in C++. Let your functional insight drive the overall design of your program, but for the actual implementation of a function I find C or C+ is much more elegant when you use a little mutable state and a loop or two. (Alternatively, you'll wander for fourty years in the function template jungle. This might change when C++0x lambdas become more common.)",
"score": 13
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"body": "STL and Boost allow you to write C++ in a functional style, albeit with a lot more syntax. Doing a bit of searching led me to this which may be a good starting point:\n\nhttp://www.keithschwarz.com/cs106l/spring2009/handouts/280_STL_Functional_Library.pdf",
"score": 5
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"body": "Effective C++ is pretty good if you have a basic understanding of the language already. It's essentially a big list of language pitfalls and how to avoid them.",
"score": 5
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The Widdler present: Origin. A concept album. | Hey dubbit,
Been working for quite some time on a concept album and it's finally set for release.
[Here](http://blog.dubsteprecords.com/dubstep005-the-widdler-origin-feb-27th-2010//) is a preview of it!
Hope you enjoy.
Peace and dub from Jersey
Edit: Date may be pushed back a bit as now there is a possibility of vinyl.
Edit: Vinyl is a go!!! so date may be pushed back a bit | 18 | [
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"body": "Excellent. I think you have one of the most interesting sounds in the genre. Thanks for making music.",
"score": 3
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If you can't open MKV files in Quicktime with Perian, this might help | Some people (like me) were having problems opening mkv files with QuicktimeX, probably in Snow Leopard. I didn't even know this was possible until I read [this thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/aq5w6/slowdown_in_vlc_when_playing_mkv_x264_files/c0itx5g).
So, [astrange](http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/aq5w6/slowdown_in_vlc_when_playing_mkv_x264_files/c0iunnh) sort of solved it for me, but with a bit of a twist.
If you're having problems, just search for Perian.prefPane and reveal the file in Finder. Open the package (right-click Show package contents then go to: Contents -> Resources -> Perian - Open in QT Player. Run that App and it should always work now. | 8 | [
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"body": "I didn't even realise it was possible to open MKVs in Quicktime at all. I usually just use VLC or Plex but I might look into this.",
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Where can I get some damn guitar strings in this town, dammit??? | OK, I googled and googled, but I can not seem to find me a strore which will peddle me some damn stings for my guitar. I live near PSU in SW. I understand that there may be a cache of strings for sale accross the river but aside from apple music I am not sure....Help me reddit you are my only......
edit: Hey thanks, everybody. I'm gonna check some of these out this week when I get some free time! | 3 | [
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"body": "I'd recommend [Old Town Music](http://www.yelp.com/biz/old-town-music-portland). People there are friendly, and they have some decent used gear (sometimes at inflated prices, but that's what negotiating is for). I've also heard good things about [Trade Up Music](http://www.tradeupmusic.com/), but that's on the other side of the river. \n\nI avoid Apple Music like the plague. Simply put, the eployees there are dicks.",
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"body": "http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=music+store+south+west+portland&fb=1&gl=us&hq=music+store+south+west&hnear=portland&cid=10208777901433063878&dtab=2&ei=MN5RS9DNI5D-sQP72q2BCA&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBkQnQIwBA\n\nDowntown off of 3rd and the Max.\n\n",
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Fate of the NSW server... outlook not so good | Hi guys.
It looks like we're well past the peak gaming period of the holidays. I've only seen the NSW server really being used once or twice in the past couple of weeks, and often the QLD server is vacant (like as i write this). I was willing to keep the NSW going another month if we needed it but clearly we don't, so i won't renew it. That means it will go away at the end of January.
I'm glad that many of you found it useful and we had a glorious 2 weeks leading up to christmas of both servers being packed out with players, which was great to see. I think it will be worth doing again at the end of this year if everyone's still playing. Thanks for playing there, see you on QLD :) | 5 | [
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"body": "RIP NSW Server. I believe both servers have mainly been dead of late due to the holidays and the massive steam sale which put a lot of people off TF2 for a while. \n\nOh and Qwak what was the company you rented the server through? Got a link?",
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"body": "I have a request, up until the end of January can it be a fun server, that is; pyro dodgeball and stuff like that?",
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What would be the best small dog for hot weather? | I almost adopted a french bulldog but after reading a bit about the race I realized the dog would be miserable here due to it's near incapacity to ventilate properly.
I live in a hot weathered country (low of 20C, high of 55C ~ 70F/130F) and I'm wondering if anyone here could recommend a dog that would survive happily. A small dog that would be comfortable living in an apartment.
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"body": "(Mexican) Chihuahuas are built for the heat -- but I wouldn't expect any creature to survive when it is 130F...not even people. \nHow about a nice cactus -- and an air conditioner. ",
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Jailbreak Source 0.6 - Now with psychedelic Dinosaurs vs Robots gameplay | The last link submitted for this source-based mod* was about a year ago, when it still used the stock Half-Life 2 models and textures. Just yesterday, version 0.6 got released, and it looks like a complete overhaul of the mod, to the point that it's almost unrecognisable. Fast-paced! Stylistically coherent! Cannons that shoot rubber ducks! I could ramble ineffectually about how it looks or I could link to the trailer**:
[HD Trailer](http://www.gametrailers.com/video/launch-trailer-jailbreak-source/60703)
[SD Trailer](http://www.gametrailers.com/video/launch-trailer-jailbreak-source/60702)
The premise, for anyone that hasn't played it, is simple. Two teams. If you die, you respawn inside the other team's jail. You can wait to escape, or you can try to break out yourself. [The gametype itself has been around since Quake](http://jailbreak.beyondunreal.com/features/history/), having been ported to a number of game engines since it first appeared, in what is either a testament either to how fun it can be, or a testament to peoples' bloody-minded determination to recreate a mod in order to recapture an enjoyment that never existed in the first place. I DON'T KNOW! LET'S GO FIND OUT!
Client - [ModDB Exe Download](http://www.moddb.com/mods/jailbreak/downloads/jailbreak-source-06-client-exe) - [Zip Download](http://www.moddb.com/mods/jailbreak/downloads/jailbreak-source-06-client-zip)
Server and other download links - [Jailbreak Download Page](http://www.jailbreaksource.com/download.php)
*You'll need the full version of HL2, as well as HL2 deathmatch.
** With [Thin Lizzy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMFYs3gfgis) soundtrack. It was either that or [10cc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dTnvhGHDGA) I guess | 25 | [
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"body": "Just finished playing a few rounds of this. It looks absolutely amazing on some maps, and others...not so much. It's really fast paced, and brings back memories of Quake 3 Arena, but the learning curve is a tad...high.\n\nWhen I downloaded it, I expected a \"Jailbreak\" scenario, but it's really more on the lines of tag. You die, you get sent to jail, and someone from your team has to flip a switch to let you out. You have the option of \"breaking out\", but it's usually more trouble than it's worth since the person doesn't even need to capture a point, return a flag, or any minor objective. You just run by extremely fast, hit a switch, and run away. We had 4~5 people guarding the switch and someone ran in so fast we didn't have time to stop them before they already let their team out. Also the upgrades are rather ridiculous. Reduced damage makes you near invincible, speed boost makes you faster than the speed of light, increased damage makes any weapon practically 1hko. \n\nOther than the eyecandy in some maps, there's not much to make this game fun for me. Most rounds either lasted 30 minutes due to everyone letting everyone out of jail 5 seconds after we got them in, or 10 seconds because everyone got killed at the spawn. ",
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I am an atheist looking for materials to read so I can kindly and calmly speak to my religious peers and close friends about my choice. | I am an atheist that comes from a deep rooted Mennonite Culture (which I respect) but my choice in faith or the lack there of is hard to debate because well I don't have many materials provided for me to help combat my still religious peers. So I usually stay quiet. I am sick of being quiet so can you please help me find literature or any other kind of form of media that may help me be more grounded in evidence.
Edit: Wrong use of "There" | 14 | [
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"body": "Watch [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIpRRZvnJg), and then I recommend [this](http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Dark/dp/0345409469), [this](http://www.amazon.com/Letter-Christian-Nation-Sam-Harris/dp/0307265773), and [this](http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/0767908171).",
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"body": "[The God Delusion](http://www.amazon.com/God-Delusion-Richard-Dawkins/dp/0618918248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263652292&sr=1-1) is a nice place to start. You'll get an excellent summary of all the basics. And as a bonus, you'll get an introduction to Dawkins who's books on evolution are as good as Hawkins' are on physics.\n\n[Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814474268/ref=yml_dp) is full of anecdotal essays. It will give you a nice, broad range of thinking that isn't exactly academic as much as it is practical.\n\nI'm also a fan of [Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist](http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Faith-Preacher-Atheist/dp/187773313X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263652407&sr=1-1) Given your Mennonite background, you may appreciate Barker's fundamentalist upbringing and his discovery of his atheism.\n\nLastly, the [Atheist Debater's Handbook](http://www.amazon.com/Atheist-Debaters-Handbook-B-Johnson/dp/0879752106/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1263652529&sr=1-1-spell) has proven useful for me when I need to refer to a more classic argument.\n\nGood luck. \n ",
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"body": "Alternate/auxiliary tactic:\n\nTell them you don't believe, and don't find it in you to do so. Tell them it hurt you to lie to them, that they deserve better, and that you decided to deal fairly by them and tell them the truth.\n\nRobotic AIs have a tough time deciding priorities between lofty values like truth and loyalty. While they're spinning their gears, you can make a clean getaway :)",
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"body": "The God Delusion by Dawkins is a good start, if you are trying to reason with people.\n\nIf you are looking for ways to justify your atheism, I would say don't bother, you don't need to.",
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"body": "I'm still fond of Carl Sagan's [the Dragon in my Garage](http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Dragon.htm).",
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I just completed Marine Corps boot camp yesterday
AMA | I arrived on Parris Island around midnight on October the 20th last year. Yesterday myself and nearly 500 Marines graduated from America's longest recruit training program. I'm up for questions! Did I miss anything in the last 3 months? | 117 | [
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"body": "I was a Marine for 5 years. I recommend that you will succeed in your tour as a Marine by following these guides:\n\n#1 Keep your uniform pressed at all times and always shave, hair cut.\n#2 Stay physically fit. Exercise on your own in addition to platoon PT. Don't ever let yourself fall out of a run or a hike.\n#3 Keep your barracks room clean at all times.\n#4 Do the little extra things that help raise your score for promotions, you don't want to be a Lance Corporal for three years while some schmuck gets promoted over you.\n#5 Don't ever argue with someone higher ranked than you, you will never win that argument, and if you get flippant you will be punished. Even if that higher ranked person used to be your friend or someone you didn't like or respect.\n#6 Long periods in the field made me miserable, but looking back are some of my favorite memories.\n#7 Don't ever ever request mast unless someone's health or worse in serious danger. If you do, you will get on the Staff NCO's shitlist.\n#8 My experience is, once Staff NCO's don't like you, they will find ways to get you booted out. Don't get on that list. Don't hang out with the wrong people, don't get yourself in trouble.\n#9 Don't bounce checks.\n#10 Don't drink and drive.\n#11 Don't do drugs, they do random surprise piss tests all the time.\n#12 Don't ever be late, in fact be at least 5 minutes early to everything.\n#13 Walllocker inspections are scary fucking things, it takes months to properly prepare for them, start now, and always keep a separate supply of shirts, clothes, gear etc just for perfectly folded and marked, lint free clothes just for wall locker inspections.\n\nAlso since you're now just recently out of bootcamp, don't call any NCO's sir and there's no such thing as a duty where you wait for helicopters.\n\nI never went to combat, so I can't give you any advice there. \n\nGood luck Marine, you've earned the title. Semper Fi.",
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"body": "I was in the Army, not the Marines, but btipling below says he couldn't help you with advice for combat, so here goes.\n\n1. Use discretion. You don't want innocent blood on your hands, but that said, it's always better to be judged by 12 than carried by six.\n\n2. Always be prepared. People may make fun of you for having excess gear, but here is a list of shit I would never leave the wire without:\n\nTourniquet\n\nTampon (Inserts conveniently into gunshot wounds or impalements. Beware of Toxic Shock Syndrome :p)\n\nA small, LED light, such as an iNova\n\nA moderate sized, tactical knife. These are not commonly used, but, the Ka-Bar TDI knife saved my life once. I had the long one, not the short one, but it was only 3 inches long.\n\nSuper glue to close thin lacerations or seal one butterfly valves during chest decompression. Never completely seal a butterfly valve.\n\nThere are a few others that I forgot, but these are some things people won't normally tell you to carry.\n\n3. Learn to do everything in the dark. This will also help you if you are blinded.\n\n4. Always follow Murphy's law. If something can go wrong, it will.\n\n5. Make friends with your armorer\n\n6. Make friends with your Supply Sgt.\n\nLast, but not least, go to college. Even if you don't want a college career, but want to retire from the Corps, go to college to become an officer. You have about $80,000 between Pell Grants and the G.I. Bill, may as well use it.\n\nUnderstand that college kids can bve stupid and there troubles may seem miniscule to you, but remember that all problems are relative. It may be small to you, but big to them. They may not let on, but many kids will look up to you.\n\nDon't fuck this up, Devil Dog.",
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"body": "Having watched \"Full Metal Jacket\" as recently as yesterday I was wondering if the Island is really like what they showed in the movie. \nIs the personal degradation really like that?",
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"body": "To those that have trolled this thread, and made light of the sacrifices this young man is making in service to his country, I feel sad for you.\nThe role of the warrior is celebrated in almost every human culture, and for good reason. They are still needed. \nCertainly, they may be misused as tools of misguided policy. But more often than not, they serve as a willing deterrent to the most obvious forms of aggression that would be unleashed against us. \nYou will never know the price that is paid by those who are trained to kill for you. You will never carry the weight they will carry for the rest of their lives. You will never understand how that obligation can make life seem even more precious to those who see how easy it can be to take. \nYou are weak-willed, ill-informed, and suffer from some sort of self-image problems with your need to disparage another's service to his country. \nTo grahamja...I am proud of you, son. Every other marine is proud of you. And those of us who have served as you are doing now, are, and will remain your brothers. Semper Fi. ",
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"body": "* How old are you?\n* Why did you join the marines?\n* Did you finish high school/college?\n* What was boot camp like?\n* What is your physical condition now compared to when you entered boot camp in October?\n* Do you know where you are headed next?\n* How do you feel about America's foreign policy and the fact that you are being charged to carry it out?",
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"body": "Why are they called the marines when they're basically infantry?\n\nWhat's the difference between the marines and the army?\n\nWhy did you choose the marines over (army/navy/airforce etc)",
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"body": "What kind of shape were you in before you left for boot camp? I had a few friends do navy and army boot camp. They were in incredible shape before going in and said that having to exercise and train at the level of their peers resulted in them coming out of boot camp in worse shape when they joined.\nAlso, did anyone kill themselves while in boot camp? I heard this is pretty common, sadly.",
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"body": "Glad to see that I'm not the only Redditor from Alpha Co. :) (Or I'm assuming Alpha Company judging by the submission time)\n\nWhat Platoon were you in? I was in 1004.",
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"body": "You may be required to kill individuals deemed dangerous to the American people. Whether or not these people are actual dangers to American freedoms is, in some cases, incredibly questionable. If / when you kill people, will you be doing it:\n\n* Because you believe they are a threat to American Lives\n* Because you believe securing foreign interests is worth the sacrifice of human life\n* Because you are willing to be coerced into killing in exchange for money\n* Something not listed (please explain)\n\nI served in the military and am not trying to be judgmental. I've always found it an interesting fact that in the end, after all the political machinations and psychological conditioning and whatnot, people murder people that they don't know anything about - personally or politically. ",
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"body": "What company? I was in 3rd Bn M Co, graduated last week. The Crucible must have been cold as hell for you guys. ",
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"body": "Congrats, Marine. The six years I've spent in the Marine Corps so far have brought some of the best and worst times of my life. You're in for an interesting experience. I would do it all over again if given the choice.\n\nSo what's your MOS?",
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"body": "This may not come as a surprise to you at this point, but even knowing nothing else about you; You are intensely badass.",
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"body": "I had a friend say that the day he flew out of Parris Island was the best feeling of his life, better than coke (which he had used for a while in HS). Not because he hated boot camp, but because of how much he felt in control of himself. That mean anything to you, or was it just him?",
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"body": "Congrats hard charger. This was a good thread, and brought back a lot of memories since my time at PI in 1991. I'm running a half marathon tomorrow and this brings back a lot of the motivation.",
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"body": "Did a black man keep yelling at you because you wouldn't have been motivated to climb that wall if he hadn't?",
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"body": "You have more guts than me. I would absolutely love to join the Marines (really, it's something I've dreamed of doing), but I'm really not the type of person to be in it. I'm a skinny (although muscular, I work out 3x/week with lifting) college junior, a pacifist (but gun and war enthusiast--I just don't like to fight), and pretty scared of dying. Still, though, all I really want to do is join the Marines. I could watch Full Metal Jacket, or any war movie, and think \"That's what I want to be doing.\" But, in the end, I don't think I could go through with it. \n\nHuge respect on going through with that! Keep safe with wherever you end up in the future :). ",
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"body": "Oorah Warrior congrats. Be extremely proud of yourself your doing a great service for our country.\nI'll be heading off to Marine OCS in June, class 204.\nCatch you in the fleet sometime soon and until then get some for me",
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I was diagnosed with Aspergrs/ADHD at the age of 7. AMA. | I was diagnosed when I was 7 with Aspergers and ADHD, after a bout of trouble at school where I didnt understand (truthfully) what I was doing wrong. I was put Concerta (i remember it being possibly 2x 3 tablets a day at 4 hour periods I think of 30mg each) and 2 Equasym (spelling may be incorrect) tablets at about 3 in the afternoon. I would then take 1 Melatonin tablet just before I went to sleep.
This continued until I was 13 after 3 different schools and 2 years of bullying. During this time, my mother had become very ill with anorexia but I cant say how much this affected me at the time, I remember being quite angry about it but at the same time not really caring, my lack of empathy probably helped there.
At 13, I was in a specialist music school playing the cello (I had been playing since I was 4 and had done grade 6 and was well on the way to grade 7 by the time I was 12) which I hated. After a while I gave up trying to please people and did what I really enjoy during 'practice time', computers, which I've been hooked on since I was 8. This made my time at music school a whole lot more bearable. After a while, my hyperactivity started to subside, whether this my release of my fustration with being made to do music, I'm not sure but it certainly has crossed my mind.
When i was 14, I left the music school after 3 years, I'd made 1 very good friend who I still have, albeit slightly broken, contact with.
I then started attending a school that was just normal, an independant private school in south England, and I felt relaxed. I made about 3 close friends, and I was extremely happy there. My mum at this time is still ill with anorexia and has just also been diagnosed with Aspergers by the Maudsley (sp?) in London. She has in this time also started cheating on my father, claimed he has abused her (total bullshit) in an attempt to get rid of him etc etc. I have grown a hate for her, even though I still have what I think is the base feeling of 'family love' for her. I completed my GCSEs, and started college at 16 (Junior College for USA'ians).
Now up until this point, I'd never really felt like the Aspergers had affected me, probably due to the small numbers of people I interacted with on a general basis. At the music school, there were 65 pupils (7-18) and at the school after that, there were 100 people in the year and I 'hung around' with about 6.
WHen I moved to college, 2 of my close friends moved with me and I hang around with them. The other one I've fallen out with greatly because he was being racist, and I have friends of mixed races/asian backgrounds etc etc etc who he was being specifically racist against, so fuck him (and it wasnt kinda the whole, your mum is black, but 'koreans are all fucking cunts with slit eyes blah blah').
Since moving to college, Ive really noticed the effects of my Aspergers from the social aspect. I dont talk to many people apart from people Im comfortable with, and it's not because I dont want to, Im just scared of talking to people and if I do something wrong how they will judge me. In lessons I only talk to generally the people directly to my left and right and once Im comfortable I dont think Im that bad. I have a bad time empathising with people about their problems and have fallen out with a couple of people because I just cant see anything from their perspective. I find it hard to start conversations with people and if I do build up the courage, I have no idea what to talk about. My life revolves around the computer.
Over the years, I have built up a system of what I do before I go out to make myself feel comfortable. Firstly, Ill make sure that I think I look good, I only wear designer clothes to boost my confidence (Im not arrogant, it's just so I can look people in the eye) and I tell myself that I am awesome. However, going out on my own still makes me very anxious.
Im sure Ive missed a lot out, but this is why I guess it's a `AMA`.
So please, 'AMA'. | 6 | [
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"body": "\n* Could it be that you're using this diagnosis as a get-out-of-jail-free card to justify anti-social/unemphatic/self-centered behavior? \n\n* Do you understand the (lack of) standards for diagnosing a child with ADHD and Asperger's? That the diagnosis is fairly easy to come by once a parent mentions some keywords?\n\n",
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How do you manage stress? | I am 37 years old, single and working full time. I find myself constantly frustrated by conditions at work. I think I am very competent in the micro-perspective, using every minute well, but still feel I don't manage to get expected work done in working hours. I feel I definitely have become more stress sensitive in recent years.
I can add that since I work in IT, the stuff I do has more to do with getting technical things to work than people-stuff. I imagine the stress in jobs dealing mostly with people (service jobs, coordination, management etc) is different. A bug won't budge if I say "please".
This question is less how about how to manage productivity, and more how to deal with stress on a personal level. | 15 | [
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"body": "Let me preface this by saying I know how ridiculous this sounds.\n\nStep 1. Get yourself a big bowl of peeled bananas, berries and grapes\n\nStep 2. Squeeze the ever-loving shit out of it while you verbally let out all of your frustrations.\n\nLaugh all you want but it works. I would be mortified if anyone ever saw me doing this but it is very therapeutic. ",
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"body": "In tough situations, Own It don't let It own you. The fact that you stress about those things shows that you care and have good work ethic. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back for that, then keep a level head and the rest is business as usual.\r\n\r\nThe best advice my former boss ever gave me was (paraphrased): \"Don't stress about it because you didn't break it. Anything you do from here onwards is fixing the problem and making things better.\" I paraphased it to get the point across but he and I had a long chat about it. The idea is, as long as you're working towards a solution, no one can fault you, and allowing stress to overwhelm you is like pouring fuel onto the fire. So for me personally, just knowing that I'm doing something productive (as opposed to counter-productive) eases my stress and clears my conscience.",
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"body": "I change my habits for the day. Usually we all do the same things. But when I'm really stressed out, I'll try to do something out of the ordinary to snap myself out of it. Be spontaneous, do something risky, get your andrenaline flowing, that releases stress for me.",
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"body": "Change your life so that stress is minimized.\n\nOtherwise, remember work will be there tomorrow-don't take it home with you. Exercise. Listen to music. Get plenty of sleep. Get out of the house and be social.",
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Something I was thinking about evolution. | If every generation of a species is a little bit different then the one before it and after if. Can you really call a rabbit a rabbit? If so, how much does the rabbit have to change before it's no longer a rabbit?
Our traditional rules of naming things because of how they look really doesn't fit in with the modern thoughts on evolution.
Is there already a name for this kind of thinking? If so, would someone mind giving me a few good links so I can read up more on this?
Thanks in Advance.
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"body": "Speciation takes a very long time to occur. Just because there may be extremely minor differences in a population does not mean that they are different species. Rabbits are still rabbits until the total number of changes in one set of them makes them not rabbits, or at least not that type of rabbit any longer. This isn't something that happens with each new generation of a thing.",
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"body": "Well Andrew, you are indeed onto something here, and if you would like to read more you should check out [The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancestor%27s_Tale). Specifically in the Salamander's Tale in which Dawkins discusses ring species. That is all I will say however, because the information is not fresh in my brain and I would only mar Dawkins's words.\n\nEdit: Here is a video with the audio version of the Salamander's Tale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEtnyx0Yo9I",
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"body": "This is why cladists only consider new species names to be appropriate in cases of branching. For instance, it is likely that Australopithecus anamensis and Australopithecus afarensis will soon be considered the same species (this view was just rehashed last month in a paper, and the idea seems to be gaining momentum). There doesn't seem to be any branches from the former, so the distinction between the two is one of degree -- drawing arbitrary lines on a continuum. On the other hand, Homo habilis and Paranthropus robustus are valid species names because they both branched from earlier Australopithecus.\n\nThat having been said, the whole reason we give anything names is for convenience during discussion, so the strict cladistic view does not, and perhaps should not, always prevail. Hope that helps.",
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Star Trek Online Unlimited Play Forever Offer. | Just got a email with this in it.
LIMITED TIME PROMOTIONS
Greetings Captain!
Star Trek Online is closing in on its February launch, and we've got some great new subscription offers for you.
Play Forever ... For One Low Price
For a limited time, we're offering players who've pre-ordered Star Trek Online the chance to purchase a lifetime membership for one low price. For just $239.99 USD, you can play in the persistent, compelling universe of Star Trek for the entire life of the product and never be billed again.
I'm thinking they know this game is gonna tank so they are trying bleed as much money out of this right now... | 17 | [
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"body": "Gee, Frank, that sounds like an *amazing* deal!\n\nWell, Nancy, that's because it *is*! And the first 100 buyers will get this *free* set of elegant plastic earrings!",
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"body": "The \"limited time\" thing is why I will never play a Cryptic game. It's basically scamming people into paying for a lifetime sub before they even get to play the finished game.",
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"body": "Clearly, they've found, on average one of two ways to win from this -\n1) The average subscriber plays for so much less than (monthly subscription divided into $240) that it's a net win anyway\nor\n2) Enough lifetime members play enough that they set up the critical mass an MMO needs to get moving, anyone who \"overplays\" (costs more than their subscription) is essentially an advertising cost.\nalthough there is simply\n3) Free press for lifetime memberships. Steam sales boost retail (non discounted) sales, as insane as that seems.\nas a possibility.\n\nEDIT: Or the \"large\" inflow of cash on/before opening helps the accountants stave off the executive's ax - sort of like a down payment on the mortgage. \"Hey, bossman, you've now got 5% down on your loan to us 3 years ago when this project started! Now waiting 2 years to break even isn't so scary a proposition!\"",
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"body": "You don't see WoW selling lifetime memberships, you want to know why? Because WoW is good, and they know you will come back and keep paying, in the end they will make more than what a lifetime membership would cost.",
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"body": "Seems odd that nobody's listed the math for it. You're basically just paying for a bit over a year subscription up front.\n\n$240 = $50 + $15 * ~13\n\nSo adding in the free month you'd get normally, anyone who plays for 14 months has gotten more than their money's worth. Almost no matter how poorly the game does, it will still be around in 14 months, so if you're convinced that you'll keep playing the game, you can't really end up losing money.\n\nCorrect me if I'm wrong, but are there any major MMOs that lasted less than 14 months before shutting down?\n\nNote: In the US at least, Hellgate: London, which was mentioned already, lasted exactly 14 months.",
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"body": "A lot of games do this. Lord of the Rings Online has something like that too, and it's not for a limited time either.",
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I'm having a hard time explaining Martin Luther King Day to my five year old. How and at what age did you start talking about race with your children? | Last week I tried the generic approach and we had a talk about how Martin Luther King was someone who tried to help other people, so we have a holiday to celebrate his life to remind us to try to help other people, too. However, apparently this week her teacher also took a shot at explaining it, because my daughter came home asking about "white people, and how some people can't go to school."
I've been really careful about teaching my daughter about race, because I don't want it to be something she focuses on with her kid-fixation abilities. Like how ever since I first explained the moon to her, she has always pointed it out to me whenever she sees it. Or how she's noticed that I sometimes get upset (which she's very quick to notice) while driving, and she now will be quick to say "get going, doofus" when people don't start moving at a green light -- that kind of thing.
We live in a very multicultural area -- her best friend is Mongolian, and she has friends of every race at her school and church. The one time that she has ever mentioned noticing a difference between people of different races was when she told me that her skin was pink and her friend's skin was brown. We had a short talk about how people can have different hair colors, eye colors and skin colors, and that it depends a lot on what their parents looks like. I have no real desire to try and explain to her how the government and society have used differences in skin color to discriminate and treat people terribly. My concern is that she's not quite old enough to understand very well, and she'll really just be left with the superficial knowledge that having different skin color is IMPORTANT, and it can be BAD.
So how did you handle this with your kids? At what age do you think they're old enough to handle knowledge like this? Are there any kids books that you recommend to help address the topic?
-----------------------------Update
Following the advice I've received so far, I just had a conversation with my daughter about it while we ate lunch. I essentially tried the "people were mean to others when they shouldn't have been" approach recommended below, beginning by showing a picture of Martin Luther King, and then telling her that some people thought that it was ok to be mean to other people because they had different color skin. She picked up on that immediately, and said, "oh, like how [my friend] has brown skin?" I said "Yes, isn't that crazy? That people would be mean to other people just because of the way that they look?" She agreed that it sounded crazy. We talked a bit more about how people can have different color eyes, hair or skin, but that we should never be mean to another person because of the way that they look.
After our conversation, I showed her a few minutes from the [I have a Dream](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk) speech, focusing specifically on the point where King said his dream was that one day the world "will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers." That seemed to make sense to her.
She seemed to take it all well today, but of course the real test will be seeing how she remembers it a week from now, or the next time she interacts with our black neighbors or friends. This is definitely not the end of our discussions on the topic, so I'd still really appreciate any further advice. If you can, please respond with more specifics about how as a parent you have approached your kids about race and racism, or as a child if you remember how your parents handled it, and if there are any good kids books or other ways that you've used to help your kids understand.
Thanks. | 5 | [
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"body": "I'm just honest. You seem to be worried that your daughter is impressionable but don't want to say anything to her that might let her pick up how you feel about the subject.\n\nFor one, if you aren't the one to speak to her on the issue she's more likely to pick up ideas about it from people that could have opposing views. \n\nIf she can pick up \"get going, doofus\" she can pick up that people were mean to others when they shouldn't have been. ",
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"body": "If your daughter has friends of another race, she already knows about it. All you have to really do is explain what you know. People that come from the same place tend to have similar physical traits. We are all made different and variety is the spice of life.\n\nDisplay that same attitude in your daily life and your kids will pick up on it.\n\nEventually tell your kids that some people actually are crazy enough to believe that the color of your skin or shape of your eyes can tell us how good or bad you are, not whether or not you do bad things. Kids will know this is a crazy concept. Just explain that many people were not taught this way by their parents so they don't have the same viewpoint that your family has. Explain that you feel these people are wrong, but they are free to make their own mistakes just as you are.\n",
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I am BRUTE!, the artist that creates the album covers for industrial band KMFDM. AMA | Examples of my work for the band as well as other projects. Currently working on an animation for Monkey Business, the Czech Republic's biggest group.
[http://www.bruteprop.co.uk/](http://www.bruteprop.co.uk/)
[http://blog.bruteprop.co.uk/](http://blog.bruteprop.co.uk/)
[SonofaGun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMuGCaAPcEg)
[A Drug Against War](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4-bUYU3BH8)
[Rocky! MTV ident](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfBs9BpRzuw)
[ZPC: No Flesh Shall Be Spared. Trailer and cut scenes from PC/Mac game](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98vuEmgYm9k)
EDIT: A wave of thanks to all of those who just stopped by to say 'keep up the good work' etc. AVANTI! | 157 | [
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"body": "You're great! I love KMFDM's album covers. How did you get involved with the band? Did they come to you with the ideas for the covers or did they just let you come up with something? What is your process/preferred medium?",
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"body": "No shit man! Thanks for posting, I have owned and worn many pieces of your artwork over the years and I'm a huge fan. I was really into KMFDM in high school, and in addition to owning all of the albums (including an original Naive that I got Sasha to sign at a show on the WWIII tour) I owned the Don't Blow Your Top, Brute, and Xtort shirts...I think I had a few others, too.\n\nAlright, questions:\n\nHow did you first get involved with KMFDM?\n\nDo you have a favorite album, music-wise? How about for your cover? In particular, I really liked the cover for Light.\n\nHow much collaboration or influence occurs between the music and your work? When you worked with KMFDM, did you provide the band with a bunch of stuff to choose from, or did they work with you on thematic content? I've read that Sasha especially is very particular, so I'm curious.\n\nWere you involved in the Beat by Beat video animation sequences?\n\nHow would you describe your style?\n\nThanks again for posting, I'll probably think of more questions later =D",
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"body": "I used to have a t-shirt with the KMFDM album cover GODLIKE. It's by far my favorite piece of album art. \n\nWhat direction were you given for it, if any? Can you elaborate on the process used in its creation?",
"score": 5
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"body": "Thanks for all the great art over the years. I have probably worn your shirts for over 1/30th of my days. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "Main point: I love your work!!! Thanks for creating art.\n\nSecond, my favorite of your works are the album covers for Godlike, Money, Don't Blow Your Top, Nihil, and XTORT. Unfortunately, I don't think any of these are for sale. How can I give you money?",
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"body": "First off, just wanted to say that even though I never really liked KMFDM, I always thought the artwork was powerful. Great work. \n\nSecondly, is it difficult to come up with ideas for bands whose music you don't like? As an artist who works with a lot of music-related projects, I find that it's hard to get inspired if the music isn't good. \n\nLastly, when working with political themes, do you ever worry that your artwork might be misinterpreted by the wrong people, especially when it deals with religion? \n\nThanks you for all the great art. ",
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I work 12 hour shifts without a lunch break and need to find affordable clothing that I can wear to work and exercise in. Any suggestions? | I work nights as a network engineer and need to get some fitness in while I'm at work on my 12 hour shifts.
We have a gym downstairs but I don't get a lunch break and can't change into another outfit, go downstairs to workout, change back, and then return to my desk.
We have a fairly casual dress code at night so I'm leaning towards purchasing a number of warm-up suits that I can wear to work and get some short fitness breaks in (15 minutes max). I need something that isn't restrictive and breathes well so I can cool down without sweating too much. A 12 hour shift tends to require a shower from just working for so long and I don't want to feel totally disgusting every night.
I'm hoping to spend about $40-50 per suit since I want to buy at least four to be my regular attire. I've looked at amazon, zappos, ebay, and tons of other sites but they either have a very poor selection or really high prices.
I know this sounds like a question that should be replied to with lmgtfy.com but I've looked at many sites without much success.
Are there any sites you know of that have a decent selection with reasonable prices? | 8 | [
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"body": "What country are you in? It might be illegal to not allow a break to someone who works that long of a shift.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Target's Champion brand makes some very good looking stuff, and of course it is fairly inexpensive. I have a pair of what look like respectable khaki pants, but they feel like running gear. They have other crossover stuff like breathable polos and what not. This is real workout gear, it just looks nicer. Is that what you're looking for? ",
"score": 3
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Reddit, what is your favorite poster / cheatsheet /
infographic? | What is your favorite infographic worth seeing or cheatsheet that you have on your wall?
For example, here are some I found on my harddrive:
[Space Exploration](http://i.imgur.com/UqQdj.jpg)
[Computer Hardware Chart](http://i.imgur.com/Uwu65.jpg)
[Timemachine Cheatsheet](http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/qw-cheatsheet-print-zoom.jpg) ([Source](http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-CHEATSHEET-PRINT&Category_Code=QW))
[Human Types](http://i.imgur.com/y1FDJ.jpg) | 572 | [
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"body": "I have a whole bunch:\n\n[trilogy meter](http://imgur.com/wozMu.jpg) \n[race tracks](http://imgur.com/vV09Q.jpg) \n[ancestry in the US](http://imgur.com/9Cs6B.jpg) \n[fetishes](http://imgur.com/1JHGi.png) \n[population density](http://imgur.com/uu05U.gif) \n[websites](http://imgur.com/xXYJw.gif) \n[should I publish an article on \"Putin is a fascist?](http://imgur.com/BhfAT.gif) \n[odds of dying from various causes](http://imgur.com/qphne.jpg) \n[US military bases around the world](http://imgur.com/Y4ZWY.jpg) \n[Ashby chart of strength/toughness](http://imgur.com/nsBDr.jpg) \n[Top 30 countries' HDI vs. incarceration rates](http://imgur.com/lVSfD.gif) \n[Venn diagram of songs](http://imgur.com/vod9B.jpg) \n[Homicides and suicides in various places](http://imgur.com/hUTLs.png) \n[We're (not) number one!](http://imgur.com/PMLoc.png) \n[Votes for Ahmadinejad and Mousavi on different occasions](http://imgur.com/D06Lz.jpg) \n[Time spent eating per day vs. obesity rates](http://imgur.com/vfwSM.jpg) \n[Average floor space of newly built homes](http://imgur.com/5TL9n.gif) \n[Healthcare comparisons](http://imgur.com/yFXuX.gif) \n[OKCupid chart 1](http://imgur.com/LsmS9.png) \n[OKCupid chart 2](http://imgur.com/sOR4z.png) \n[Left and Right](http://imgur.com/BrbFp.gif) \n[A whole bunch of colours](http://imgur.com/1Wflm.gif) \n[Jesus vs. Jeezus](http://imgur.com/FuTfy.jpg) \n\nedit: I had mixed up the formatting\n\nedit 2: here's some more. A lot of these are from [Information is Beautiful](http://www.informationisbeautiful) and [strange maps](http://strangemaps.wordpress.com).\n\n[H1N1 vaccine advisory](http://imgur.com/6YnAJ.png) \n[Land guzzlers](http://imgur.com/HXfUH.jpg) \n[Racist profiling](http://imgur.com/9CsBA.jpg) \n[More swine flu](http://imgur.com/L0JXF.jpg) \n[Towards a grand unification of cutlery](http://imgur.com/mro9J.jpg) \n[Global firearm deaths vs. % of gun ownership](http://imgur.com/GQLfl.gif) \n[The billion-pound-o-gram](http://imgur.com/MAwI1.gif) \n[Chicks rule!](http://imgur.com/Fwi0G.gif) (I wish they had included reddit) \n[Climate consensus](http://imgur.com/0KOl2.gif) \n[Disease case fatality rates](http://imgur.com/DvMnS.gif) \n[Deadliest drugs](http://imgur.com/iVM7S.png) \n[A map of France's departments, drawn using only the information of whether the departments shared a boundary or not](http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/f1.jpg) \n[The contiguous United States visualised by distance to the nearest McDonald's](http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/mcd_us_high_9_25.jpg) \n[Maps of the Netherlands with different population densities](http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/rem_koolhaas.jpg)",
"score": 452
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"body": "I appreciate that you like [my Time Travel Cheatsheet print](http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-CHEATSHEET-PRINT&Category_Code=QW), but it's a too bad that you cropped the image such that there's no longer any source information at the bottom.\r\n\r\nAlthough maybe someone else edited the image before you got in, in which case, hey I made that picture! Glad you like it.",
"score": 103
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"body": "The mother of all infographics: [How different people spend their day](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html?scp=3&sq=infographic&st=cse)\n\nI'm also fond of that insane metabolic pathways chart, but I can't get one in Canada :(\n\n",
"score": 59
},
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"body": "[Carol didn't wear her safety goggles](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2155/2202556853_a0fd0ac4eb.jpg)",
"score": 42
},
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"body": "Shameless plug: [r/Charts](http://www.reddit.com/r/charts/) could use some love, fellow infographic appreciators!",
"score": 34
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"body": "[Metabolic pathways](http://www.expasy.ch/cgi-bin/show_thumbnails.pl). S'up on my wall to remind me how pathetically insignificant we are.",
"score": 27
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"body": "[histomap of evolution](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3494/3307665413_d5697c4a23_o_d.jpg)\n\n[Graph of distances from the centre of the Earth, outwards](http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~mjuric/universe/all200.gif)\n\n[nuclear proliferation chain reaction](http://i.imgur.com/b3XsB.jpg)\n\n[energy production and consumption of a nuclear power plant](http://i.imgur.com/Howx9.png)\n\n[who has oil](http://i.imgur.com/ORl53.jpg)\n\n[undersea cables](http://imgur.com/MExq4.jpg)\n\n[network communication protocol](http://imgur.com/MZHN3.gif)\n\n[some advanced maths stuff](http://i.imgur.com/4mu3r.gif)\n\n[volume of air and water compared to size of earth](http://imgur.com/6VQjK.jpg)\n\n[cloud types](http://imgur.com/u5JSd.jpg)\n\n[political stance](http://imgur.com/zwvLL.png)\n\n[european languages](http://imgur.com/vLQXG.png)\n\n[influential people in history connected](http://imgur.com/yGe2o.jpg) - i would really love to know where this came from. i got it off 4chan.\n\n[history of cool](http://imgur.com/r2nv2.png)\n\n[music types](http://imgur.com/6w049.jpg)\n\n[us territory](http://imgur.com/5fz82.jpg)\n\n[us religions](http://imgur.com/VWvJ8.gif)\n\n",
"score": 22
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"body": "[Evolution poster](http://www.evogeneao.com/images/Evolution_poster_lg.gif)\n\n[Universe map](http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/maps/wall-maps/space-maps/universe-map%2C-laminated)",
"score": 18
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"body": "Many of my favorites are already listed. You can often find good stuff on [Chart Porn](http://chartporn.org/), [Information is Beautiful](http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/), [Eager Eyes](http://eagereyes.org/), and [Flowing Data](http://flowingdata.com/). I love good data visualization.",
"score": 15
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"body": "> [Human Types](http://i.imgur.com/y1FDJ.jpg)\n\nCan't read the font? [Here's a version that doesn't suck ass.](http://www.cedarseed.com/fire/humantypes2.html)",
"score": 14
},
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"body": "Here are some helpful programming cheat sheets:\n\n[C# Cheat Sheet](http://dotnetperls.com/cheat-sheet)\n\n[Lists for Developers (multiple cheat sheets)](http://www.devlist.com/)\n\n[Added Bytes Cheat Sheets (multiple cheat sheets)](http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/)\n\n[UML Quick Reference](http://www.holub.com/goodies/uml/)\n\n[Practical UML](http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/31863)\n\n[Connection Strings](http://www.connectionstrings.com/)\n\n[Also, this website has a ton of free cheat sheets.](http://refcardz.dzone.com/)",
"score": 12
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"body": "[US frequency allocation chart (pdf)](http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.PDF)\n\n[Electromagnetic radiation spectrum](http://www.unihedron.com/projects/spectrum/downloads/full_spectrum.jpg) -- http://www.unihedron.com/projects/spectrum/downloads/ for other versions",
"score": 10
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"body": "My absolute favourite news map of all time, ever, ever, is [the BBC's CG map of areas - and celebrities - affected by the fires in Malibu](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44190000/gif/_44190784_malibu_fires_sat416.gif)\nIt's weirdly, peculiarly endearing. There’s a definite pathos to the lonely little celebrities singled out for our information. “Sting”. I love it. “Sting”.",
"score": 9
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"body": "Infographic by my brother, deconstructing a [2009 Northern Europe Road Trip](http://www.oostring.com/weblog/?p=181) It's ridiculously detailed, so it's best using a zoomify app or [PDF](http://www.oostring.com/weblog/files/roadtrip09_oostring.pdf) of it.\r\n\r\nThe [xkcd timeline chart](http://xkcd.com/657/) isn't bad either.",
"score": 9
},
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"body": "[Death and taxes](http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/) - a breakdown of the US federal spending budget.",
"score": 9
},
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"body": "Does anyone have a hi-res copy of the hardware chart? The one the OP posted is a really compressed JPEG. I searched tineye but couldn't find a high quality one.",
"score": 8
},
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"body": "That human types chart is like, awesome.\n\nIt's sad to me to think that in our globalized world, the sub-races and traits that took centuries to develop will rapidly blend together and disappear.\n\nNot that I support any sort of eugenic-type ideas about them, but it's just sad in the way disappearing natural things is sad. ",
"score": 7
},
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"body": "For the first time in about ten years, I bought a calender. It's come in quite handy. \nedit: meh. ",
"score": 6
},
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"body": "[Histomap of World History](http://friendfeed.com/tom/b44dd661/histomap-of-world-history)\n\nIt's hard to get a good picture since it's so big, but this thing is really cool.",
"score": 6
},
{
"body": "[The Brunching Shuttlecocks' Geek Hierarchy](http://www.ifanboy.com/images/ifanboy/geekchartbig.gif) ",
"score": 6
},
{
"body": "[Map of city-to-city internet connections](http://imgur.com/tlqGo.jpg)\n\n[The World's Resources by Country](http://www.mint.com/blog/finance-core/mint-map-the-worlds-resources-by-country/?display=wide)",
"score": 5
},
{
"body": "[Regular expression cheat sheet](http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/regular-expressions-cheat-sheet/)",
"score": 4
},
{
"body": "[Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots.](http://www.voidspace.org.uk/gallery/silly/bob%27s_guide_to_the_apostrophe.jpg)",
"score": 4
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"body": "Well, I hate to out myself as such a huge nerd, but my favorite has to be [Charles Joseph Minard's flow map of Napoleon's march into Russia and subsequent retreat](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minard.png). \n\nIt just has so much information in it, and it's still incredibly concise. [See here for more information](http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/229-vital-statistics-of-a-deadly-campaign-the-minard-map/)",
"score": 4
},
{
"body": "* Relative size of [famous monsters](http://imgur.com/iE7Gw). [Source](http://io9.com/5313516/one-size-terrorizes-all-with-new-chart) with link to t-shirt.\n* Concentration of single men and women in the US [by city](http://imgur.com/vlD2A).\n* [Things to say during sex](http://imgur.com/YAwze).\n\nMy favorite pointless graph, from Wikipedia: [Wolfmother Members](http://imgur.com/NNGK8)",
"score": 4
},
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"body": "John Stump\n * [Death Waltz pg1](http://www.haz.ca/docs/stump/waltz.gif)\n * [Death Waltz pg2](http://www.haz.ca/docs/stump/DeathWaltz2.gif)\n * [Prelude](http://www.haz.ca/docs/stump/prelude.jpg)",
"score": 3
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"body": "It's a chart, but this is one of my favorites: http://danmeth.com/post/104169529/early-beach-boys-hit-song-topics-5-in-a-series-of",
"score": 3
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"body": "I'm surprised no one posted this:\n\n[Periodic Table of Condiments!](http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/www/Info/condiments.html)",
"score": 3
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"body": "I forgot where I found the javascript text, but its very useful to use this so that it shows almost all of the images loaded on one page. If anyone remembers the source, I want to attribute it. \n\nPut it in your address bar and press enter or use it as a bookmarklet. \n\n javascript:%20var%20x=%20$(\".content\").find(\"a\").each(function(){var%20href=$(this).attr(\"href\");if((!$(this).hasClass(\"drowsapMorphed\"))%20&&%20($(this).next(\".drowsapMorphed\").length==0)%20&&%20href%20&&%20(href.indexOf('imgur')>=0%20||%20href.indexOf('jpeg')>=0%20||%20href.indexOf('jpg')>=0%20%20||%20href.indexOf('png')>=0)){var%20ext%20=(href.indexOf('imgur')>=0%20&&%20href.indexOf('jpg')<0%20&&%20href.indexOf('png')<0)%20?%20'.jpg'%20:'';%20var%20img%20=%20$(\"<a%20class='drowsapMorphed'%20href='\"+href+\"'%20target='blank'%20style='display:block'><img%20style='display:block;max-width:780px;'%20src='\"+href+%20ext+\"'%20/></a>\");$(this).after(img);}});",
"score": 3
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"body": "[A chart of biochemical pathways inside a typical cell.](http://www.expasy.ch/cgi-bin/show_thumbnails.pl)\n\nRoche will send you one for free, if you ask nicely.",
"score": 3
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Dear reddit, what books do you recommend for a 10 year old? | I saw a 10 year old relative of mine about a year ago reading Twilight and managed to convince her that Harry Potter is much better. A few months later now she's given up Twilight and she's done with all 7 Harry Potters.
What else would you recommend for her?
EDIT: Good suggestions. I still have many of them (maybe a little bit dusty though), and I'll look into the others. Thanks, everyone. | 14 | [
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"body": "I loved the Little House on the prairie series at that age. Also, A Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L'Engle and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.",
"score": 9
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"body": "Moby Dick.\r\n\r\nListen, Moby Dick is an absolute beast of a book. I tried to read it again recently (mid 20's) and It felt like I just fought a bear once I was done. But when I was 10 my parents would take it in turns to read that thing to me every night and I'd fall asleep to graphic stories of whale hunting and crazy old Captain Ahab. At first I didn't realise it but that book drastically changed my life and set me on a path of loving books and stories. Since then I became a voracious reader, consuming all books in my path. \r\n\r\ntl;dr - Moby Dick. Read that shit.",
"score": 9
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"body": "A couple of authors that I enjoyed at that age:\n\nEnid Blyton\n\nRoald Dahl\n\nArtemis Fowl\n\nNancy Drew (maybe)\n\nChronicles of Narnia\n\n\"Frindle\" (great book)\n\nThose are the few that come off the top of my head. You might want to google reading lists for 6 or 7th graders (I always give people books slightly above their supposed reading level).",
"score": 5
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"body": "When I was 10 I loved Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. Also, the Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot. And a lot of Sarah Dessen's books - just don't give her Dreamland, Just Listen, or Lock and Key.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I liked the [Redwall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwall) series when I was that age. And watership down was very good.",
"score": 5
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"body": "The complete Calvin and Hobbes collection. Seriously, ten's about the age I discovered them and it was all for the better.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Diggers trilogy from Terry Pratchett.\n\nCoraline? It might frighten.\n\nI'm hesitant to suggest \"teen books\" to a 10-year-old, even though Harry Potter is sort-of in that genre.\n\n**Edit**: stargirl. Also, if she wants some sap (and I don't blame her), Tamora Pierce has it in bucketloads. Circle of Magic or The Song of the Lioness, maybe.\n\n**Edit again**: Although my score is 2 now, it was -1 before, probably because I suggested some \"sap\". Look, there's nothing wrong with kids reading unashamedly bad books like The Babysitter's Club, or the later Animorphs book. Yes, I know they have little literary value. At that age, it really doesn't matter. If she learns reading is enjoyable, she will carry that into adulthood.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I liked **Island of the Blue Dolphins** at that age, **Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Pippi Longstocking**, I only read one of Madeline L'Engle's books - I forget the name, it was about the twins of a genius family accidentally sending themselves back in time and hanging out with Noah & family just before the flood. Let me see... **The Hobbit**, um... oh there was a book called **[Wise Child](http://www.amazon.com/Wise-Child-Monica-Furlong/dp/0394825985)** and one called **[Shabanu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabanu)** that were a couple of my very favorites - these are all much smaller than the HP books, but quite enjoyable; I go back and re-read them every now and again - I was a big fan of multicultural books too, so collections of world mythology stories and different folk tales are great too.\n\nI also loved **1001 Arabian Knights** but that one (as with say... The Jungle Book) you may want to read yourself first so you'll be prepared to discuss the rampant racist themes that go on in those. You may take a quick read of Shabanu first to see if you feel it's appropriate for your kid - the heroine is an 11-year-old Pakistani girl who's betrothed to be married - I don't remember anything really inappropriate happening in the story, but if you're concerned about the young-girl-already-engaged thing, take a look first. Otherwise it's a great book.\n\nLastly I don't know if they even still print these but I liked the **Encyclopedia Brown** series as well as **The Babysitter's Club** series. Louis Sachar's **Wayside School** series and Bruce Coville's **My Teacher Is An Alien** series are fun as well.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I'm not sure what country you're in, but growing up in the UK something that really helped me academically as well as being awesome reads when I was between 9-12 was the 'Horrible History' and 'Horrible Science' series of books (and to an extent, horrible geography)\n\n[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrible_Histories](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrible_Histories)\n\nI got the first few (horrible histories) and really enjoyed reading them, and they were well enough written that I didn't just flip through the pages, I really learnt what was in them. My family put in for the 'horrible histories club' which got me a new book every fortnight or something, which was amazing. I was seriously crediting the books for helping me pass history tests well into year 10 (age 15), and the science series made high school science a breeze.\n\nI'm curious wether any other redditors discovered the horrible books?",
"score": 3
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"body": "The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende, was my favorite book as a kid. I still reread it on a regular basis.\n\nPiers Anthonys Xanth series was also fun.",
"score": 3
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compiling a list of ex-mormon anti-standards - help wanted | There are a lot of things that we'd been told were "evil" by the great, abominable church, and now that we're past it, many of us have grown to realize that these things just cause guilt in the masses, which help the church to wield control. Anyhow, I'd like to make an ex-mormon anti-standards list. These are the things that I've found to be completely innocuous (and often times joyful), so long as they're done rationally and within moderation. Your thoughts? | 8 | [
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"body": "Watching R-rated movies, wearing whatever underwear I like (no sacred-lingerie), and my favorite one... loud laughter.",
"score": 13
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"body": "Oral sex, masturbation, abstaining from the Mormon Tax, wine & beer, all kinds of music, and lusting. Oh, how I enjoy lusting.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Thou Shalt NOT wear a white shirt and tie on the sabbath day!\n\nHow many of you had people freak out at church when they saw you wearing a, *GASP*, colored shirt! As a teen it was awful.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Sweet, sweet ex-and-non-Mormon literature, confirming all of your innermost twitchings of intellectual dissatisfaction.\n\nAhhh ... almost [but not quite] as good as sex.",
"score": 3
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I have a sock fetish for male and female feet, and I
hate myself because of it. AMA | I've had a sock fetish for as long as I can remember, I believe it started as a young child because I can remember being fixated on and smelling my sister's socked feet. As I got older people would tell me I liked to smell feet as a child. I'm still a virgin, my most erotic experiences have been at the socked feet of sleeping people including my sister. I've been having anxiety attacks for the past few days due to guilt and other things, I know what I do is wrong and I hate myself for my past indescretions. AMA
edit: Thanks for all of the comments, I've never talked to anyone about this before so I don't really know how to feel right now. Haven't slept much in 3 days, gonna take a sleeping pill and check back later.
edit: Thanks again to everyone for the kind comments and understanding, I've never reached out to anyone and I honestly expected negative reactions. I'm beginning to think my main problems are rooted in anxiety/depression which is causing the way I feel. I know I can control myself, I just have to stop worrying so much about every little thing. :)
edit: Nope still feel like shit. | 11 | [
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"body": "Dude, you aren't killing anyone, but if this issue is causing this much discomfort for you, maybe you should see a therapist or something. I just feel that the anxiety and self-loathing needs to be addressed more than the sock sniffing.",
"score": 39
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"body": "Hey dude, Your fetish is not wrong. Sounds like you need to actually embrace this a little more and find some willing and wanting partners to have some fun with. \n\nYour desires arnt wrong mate, You might be going about it a little badly. Once you except it as a part of who you are. You will be fine. \n\nGood luck. \n",
"score": 11
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"body": "Sock sniffing makes you hate yourself? \nA pretty bland fetish in my opinion.\n\nYou need to get out more. \nNobody cares about your fetish, on a scale of 1 to 10 its -1. \n\n\n\n",
"score": 6
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"body": "You are not alone. Foot fetishism is one of the most common fetishes.\n\nThere's tube site dedicated to feet.\n\n[http://www.footfetishtube.com/](http://www.footfetishtube.com/)\n",
"score": 6
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"body": "You're not the only one of your kind.\nIt could be a very much worse fetish. \nSeek those who feel the same, so you can relate. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "It makes me sad to hear such a harmless fetish is causing you so much pain! I can guarantee you that a psychologist would never judge you and would probably be very helpful and supportive in helping you to accept this side of yourself and find out ways to live peacefully with this fetish. I'm sorry you're feeling so traumatized by it-I don't think you've done anything wrong, and hope you'll use this AMA as a chance to get some support and a listening ear. Hope you get some sleep as well ;) ",
"score": 3
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"body": "Next thing you know I'm down to just my socks, and you know when I'm down to just my socks what time it is, it's time for business, it's business time. It's business, it's business time. You know when I'm down to just my socks it's time for business, that's why they call it business socks.",
"score": 3
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Has anybody else had trouble with Wifi on the iPhone 3G since OS 3.1.2? | Nothing I do seems to fix it! Any redditors got any tips? (Other than waiting for the next firmware update). | 12 | [
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"body": "I have had no trouble what so ever.\n\n* What exactly is this trouble you're having? Dropped connection? Slow page loading times? Other?\n\n* What steps have you taken so far? Restore through iTunes?\n\n* Is your iPhone jailbroken or not jailbroken?\n\n* What wireless router are you using? Have you checked online to see if its model has any odd little incompatibilities with the iPhone 3G?\n\nHelp us help you.",
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I wrote a SF story, Weed is smoked in the ultra-distant future -tell me what you think... | It was another dull lecture from antiquity, they were all dull, it dawned on me that I was now tired of this channel. Several hours earlier I had reached the same conclusion but several large bong hits had waylaid the inevitable trawl through the foreboding list of channels; Food, War, War, Food, Sex, War, Clothes, Industry, War, War, War.... I idly wonder why war's so popular considering it's so long since the last one, then again I reason to myself as I watch the endless stream of images flick one after another past my eyes isn't it true that everything is now obsolete? Reaching for the bong I once again satiate my boredom with a sudden rush of chemicals to the brain, another obsolete old habit I muse as finally I select a random channel and disengage the control function from my hand.
It's a war, most likely European back in the days when people had real passion. Some soldiers unarmed in a town, standing on cobble stones and waiting – I know that some things going to happen because that's how these things work – A woman on a bike slowly begins to meander down the street. I flick the screen to program info, full reveal mode -the programs plot cascades out before me, It was indeed Napoleonic era Europe the dreadful tale of misogyny and sexual deviancy... I clicked again this time into histographic mode, the character time lines sprawled out inter-weaving and tangling. I skipped past the secret tryst in a hay loft or whatever romantic drivel was being regurgitated to frame this moral fable and found a climatic sword fight, I selected the winning sword and asked for a dramatic epic with it as the main character.
A few more bong hits and half an hour of sword forging drama, arsenal errors and that final show down upon the Rue de Mar and I was again board, honestly I was board the whole time but at least I'd managed to become a little diverted from the monotony of having nothing to do. I switched the info to projects and as ever everything was perfectly on time and operational, I switched for a second to the list of games in my favourites but I couldn't be bothered and I already knew it. Sometimes I sleep when I get like this, often I drink or smoke and occasionally I'll just turn everything off and do nothing but sit in the dark and wait.
In the darkness my mind slowed to a crawl, vague half dreams bubble upto awareness and fade silently into oblivion. Time passes as it always does meaninglessly edging around the dial, completion times continuing to diminish for whatever it's worth when axillary projects are long completed and only re-indexing remains. Soon, just like every other task it too will by ticked off the list, even the list itself could be closed and then what?
I realized I was here again, trying to block it out my head swam painfully so I leapt to my feet and tried to kick something -nothing existed to kick so I called a chair and let my toe send it tumbling away into the void, the sudden rush of pain never registered so in a rage I disabled sensory limiting and lashed out violently with my fists against a sea of disapproving faces which crumpled satisfyingly under each blow. A few seconds later I was back in my chair and a rush of weed coursed over me, I still needed the ritual though, carefully I loaded my bong as the initial rush passed in a eddy of ripples. Packing flecks of bud loosely into the downpipe I pressed my lips to the neck and inhaled a rich lungful of dense smoke.
As my head filled with thick blue smoke I realized how pathetic I was. I'd known it all along but suddenly it became clear, the dark humour of my situation once again dawned on me and I saw the beauty in the vast dark cloud of banality that hung above me. I flicked on the screen in a sudden moment of inspiration, found the first person to understand the 'existential angst of inevitable success' and diagrammed his life course. As expected it turned out to be someone from the very beginning of the digital revolution, He saw this world of infinite possibility ahead but also understood the finite nature of physical problems in the world and from this simple dichotomy he deduced my situation and it's full horror -how clever. How did he phrase it? 'When life is so easy that no one has to so much as lift a finger to ensure all work is done, When all things are known and no secrets remain or mysteries – then life will be perfect, perfectly horrible.'
It was interesting to dabble in his day dreams, I passed hours listening to his internal dialogue as I watched his life unfold in real time. Real-time, so long since anything had caught my interest enough to slowdown to real time. Long hours working, smoking, always dreaming of the future he could never know -then I chanced on a stoned session upon a bench outside work, he began talking about a quantum tunnel television which would allow the viewer to observe any incident in history. I put down my joint, a habit I had long since forgot but now rediscovered thanks to Michael. His description of my googletube was impressive, although his mechanics were somewhat under awe inspiring and he barely imagined 1% of it's power, he outlined all the things he would use it for, I'd of course seen most his list a hundred times but his passion on a few oddities inspired me to add a few new bookmarks. It was strange but I felt like I was actually starting to like this guy, of course I'd seen the timeline I knew it didn't work out too good but still I couldn't help pointlessly hoping for him when he really tried at something.
My biosystems had been set in synchronism with Michael for a few days now, his internal dialogue registered on a separate stream and I was level 3 submerged in his existence – I felt like I could actually understand his desire, rather than a meaningless shadow moving before my mind I was actually involved. That's when he hit me, a dream so painful I almost winced -'If life becomes too easy and everything is dull, doesn't it stand to reason that they'd come back and collect pets from the past?' my mind raced trying to understand the implications of his revelation and as never before I felt lost. 'If I was lonely in a distant future I would find friends from forgotten times and live through them like crazy old people live through their kids' for the first time I only half understood 'although I doubt they'll remember what compassion is after so long without problems...' he understood me better than I and all my magic could comprehend him -I was devastated but slowly I saw what was ruined was only my boredom.
For the first time in weeks, maybe years, someone spoke in the chat window.
“Whoa, was that a peek?”
“Instrument error nominal”
“Time graphic here” It was over as soon as it began, I knew by now anyone lucid enough to be interested had full reveal mode focus me. Strangely as never before being watched intrigued me, I actually vocalised a statement.
“Hello watchers.” I could have mapped the influence ripple of my statement and known instantly who responded and how, instead I continued “I haven't gone sublucid, I am awake!” I knew that everyone that cared already knew why I was saying this better than I did, it didn't matter.
“I'm worried for you.” was that compassion? Instinctively I switched to prefiltered biolevels, huge areas of society were through the roof – levels not seen since before we'd anchored outside fold4. I started to request a synopsis of the event ripple but closed the window with a burst of speech,
“Worry not people, we have been worrying too long! To hell with sense and good reason and acting only on full information! I AM sublucid...” trailing off in silence my finger hung twitching desperate to magic up an answer to my existential angst but bollocks to it, “I'm going to start acting in ways I know are absurd and I don't care what you think.”
He wanted to see the future? I will bring him to the future..... *[cue gay buddy movie odd couple cliché with hilarious but thought provoking consequences.]*
oh and just so you know, the reason it's a bit wooden is because if i wrote more he would wake up and start developing a more colloquial rebel style to his narration, at the moment he's all robotic and systematised or something. [7] | 13 | [
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"body": "I'm at work, I will read once I get home and have had a smoke.\n\nI only made this comment because you put a lot of effort into that, and after 3 hours, no comments. Have some UK love :).",
"score": 3
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Screener season is upon us! | Incredible amount of dvd screeners are becoming available.
Feels like piracy christmas in a way.
-The Princess And The Frog DVDRSCREENER
-Sherlock Holmes
-The Fourth Kind 2009
-Amelia
-The Fantastic Mr Fox
-The Road
-Its Complicated 2010
-Armored
-The Lovely Bones
-Up In The Air
-Brothers
More to come!
I kinda wish there would be an Iama of the person(s) who take the risk in giving these screeners to groups. | 14 | [
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"body": "- [The Princess And The Frog (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780521/)\n\n- [Sherlock Holmes (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/)\n\n- [The Fourth Kind (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220198/)\n\n- [Amelia (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1129445/)\n\n- [The Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283/)\n\n- [The Road (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/)\n\n- [It's Complicated (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230414/)\n\n- [Armored (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0913354/)\n\n- [The Lovely Bones (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380510/)\n\n- [Up In The Air (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193138/)\n\n- [Brothers (2009)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765010/)\n\nmoar!",
"score": 4
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Please welcome TheTwilightPrince, redditor of the day on January 16, 2010 | Why TheTwilightPrince? Because he's a cool kid and he has a super cool ukulele.
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Male or female?
Male, last time I checked.
Age?
Just turned 18 a few days ago!
Relationship status?
You know, I had a girlfriend once... I wonder what happened to her...
Cats or Dogs?
Cats win aesthetically, (much cuter), but gotta go with dogs overall.
Favorite beverage? Food?
Jones Soda, Sobe Life Water, and Metro Mint Water. And for food, whatever my college budget can afford. So usually, Goldfish crackers and large bags of copycat cereal.
Favorite movie? Music? Book? Game?
Movie: One favorite? No way. But pretty much whatever Reddit likes. Memento, Fight Club, American Psycho, etc. Music: MOST things except for rap, metal, and country. There is some rap I don't mind, but I hate all country. And metal is ok if it's symphonic metal. Book: Fahrenheit 451, & Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Game: Shoot My Roommate With A Nerf Gun. I have the high score.
What is your favorite word or expression?
Bubbly. It's fun to say.
What is your biggest pet peeve?
People who chew with open mouths, and the word irregardless.
What general area of the country you live in? Do you love it?
Utah and not really.
What was the best thing about 2009?
I picked up a ukulele and never looked back...
What are you looking forward to in 2010?
The day after today. I just live life as it comes.
If you were granted one do-over what would it be?
Remember that one girlfriend I mentioned earlier? Well I kinda messed that whole thing up. Might be cool to try to keep it going a little longer.
All things considered what is the most important thing in the world to you?
All things considered? That's a lot of things. First thing that comes to mind is my shiny new uke, an Oscar Schmidt OU6. Her name is Adrianna.
Concerning reddit:
How long did you lurk before signing up?
Not as long as a lot of people I read about. Only about four months.
Total number of reddit identity’s you’ve had?
Six? But three of them lasted about a week, if that.
What are a couple of your favorite subreddits?
Pics, tldr, secretsanta, askreddit, offbeat & eyes. I used to like WTF, but for some reason it got blocked here on campus recently.
What do you do when you’re not on reddit?
I'm not exactly what you would call an outdoors person, but I can't resist mountain biking or rock climbing. And sometimes, a few of us run around and jump on things, then jump off them. It's like parkour, but for people who suck at parkour.
Do you think reddit has changed in the last year or so?
If so, do you think it’s been for the better?
It pulled off the Secret Santa. That seems like an improvement to me.
And if any of you are in the Provo area, and are interested in climbing with me sometime, just send me a pm! | 22 | [
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"body": "The thing I like most about your response, TP, is that I, too, have a huge hate-on for irregardless. Makes me grind my teeth and want to pluck out eyeballs.\n\nVery best of luck with college and your stage acting pursuits.",
"score": 3
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Is rape an evolutionary strategy that has died out in recent times? | Let us consider rape from an evolutionary perspective. Back in the caveman era, did rape evolve as a way to compete or was it simply how the strongest secured that they would produce offspring?
Do successful people rape or is it only losers that do that today? If it's the latter then might it be possible that rape is a strategy that has evolved for losers to compete?
Do animals rape or is it something only humans do?
Also ethics of rape. When did the idea of consent come?
Discuss. | 5 | [
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"body": "Animals \"rape\". Sometimes it isn't rape and a female will sneak off with a younger, lesser male (Chimps). However humans have hidden ovulation which would make rape much less a successful strategy.\n\nRape as we know it isn't about procreation it is about dominance and violence.",
"score": 4
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"body": "This is an interesting albeit unsavory concept. I'm not an anthropologist by any means but evidence would lead me to believe that rape is an evolutionary strategy. Historically mankind has structured civilization primarily to control access to resources, one resource being access to the breeding pool. I attended a symposium on modern gender issues and one point that a much maligned social anthropologist put forth was that the rictor of female orgasm was an evolutionary response to the commonality of non consensual coupling. The concept of consensual coupling being the primary method by which reproduction occurred is not only a modern one though. Rape has been a punishable offense, for the lower class, for as long as humanity has had laws. Historically it seems as if rape was the domain of those who could not otherwise gain breeding access as well those who were of a conquering people establishing their dominion over the resources of the conquered.the idea of females as something other than property pops up sparingly in human history, once again in the common class, and female equality is purely a modern and seemingly western concept. One must consider that very few civilizations have been successful unless females controlled access to reproductive rights. In fact it can be argued that no civilization has Ben successful without reproductive access being at least partially controlled by females. The question of rape in the animal kngdom seems somewhat moot to me. Most animals don't have the myriad social constructs that we have created to govern interaction and sexuality. Dolphins have been said to have a high degree of social conciousness and bottlenoses have been observed kidnapping and keeping females for the purpose of sex, often with no intent on reproduction. I think you raise a valid point but we I'd really like to hear from an anthropologist on the matter. The important thing is that we live in a society where rape is vilified and if we didn't our society would be nowhere near as stable or advanced.",
"score": 3
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