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What REALLY motivates you? | More than just "look good" and "feel good" - I'd love to hear more detail like "beat my fitness freak brother in a pullup contest" or "be the most fit bridesmaid at and upcoming wedding" and things of that nature. | 17 | [
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"body": "To be honest, when I don't work out for a certain amount of time, I just feel shitty. Low motivation to even get off the couch, grumpy, cranky and almost feel like I'm depressed. So, working out is my all-around cure for feeling like shit. \n\nOnce I'm in the gym, though, I set up mini challenges for myself- one more rep on squats than last time, one more pullup than I think I can do, having perfect form for every rep. I work out alone and prefer it that way, but making up little mindgames to keep me going makes me look forward to the next time I go.",
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"body": "To survive the zombie apocalypse when it comes.\n\nedit: more seriously, to get in shape before I start full time work in September. I have no trouble maintaining my weight with diet alone but need to vary my workout and keep a high intensity to actual lose anything. I won't have as much time once I leave grad school so I'm pretty damn motivated to get down another 10 Kg within 8 months. ",
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"body": "Harvard, believe it or not. My academic focus is heightened when I'm physically, cardiovascularly consistent. As an eager undergrad, if I kick ass in the gym, I usually kick ass in the classroom. Every time I consider dropping the weight, I think of my GPA. Strange, I know. ",
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"body": "For that one moment when grandma\ngets her purse jacked and I can run freerun down that asshole. Also cause I was sick of how\nmy body was becoming and the lack of pride I had in myself",
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"body": "The thought of dying makes me want to do what I have to now to make my life last as long as possible.",
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"body": "I want to be able to crush people when I roll with them in bjj.\n\nedit: I should point out that this is really more a matter of technique mastery. Fitness is just a positive externality.",
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"body": "Running is fun, so I actually like doing it, but to get me motivated to the point where running was enjoyable: clothes. \n\nIt's mad vain, but trying on clothes is so much more fun when you feel good about your bod. I want to comfortably wear a bikini (in public!). I want to wear short-shorts all summer long. I want to slum around in sweats and still feel attractive. It helps also to remember how much people *noticed*. A guy I didn't know at all from my gym commented one day on how much weight I'd lost. ",
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"body": "Honestly? So I can comfortably use recreational drugs. In order to enjoy things like cannabis, mushrooms, booze, etc. Its important to keep your blood pressure low, your heart healthy and your mind strong. ",
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"body": "I want to prove people wrong. I was bullied in middle school. I was the youngest kid in a big family and the younger (and less popular) twin. My middle school gym teacher was a dick and basically said I wouldn't amount to anything. So I started running. In the beginning I was shitty at it, but as I got older and grew up I got to be pretty good. By my senior year everyone knew me as a great runner, which was cool. It's true, living well is the best revenge.\n\nI started lifting after high school, but it's basically for the same reason. I want these people to see me a few years down the road and realize how hard I worked.\n\nEDIT- Nowadays I've learned that it's good to motivate yourself with that, but you have to want it for yourself too. And I do, I love working towards being a better me.",
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"body": "My biggest motivation is quality of life, not quantity. Even if I only live to be 60 then I want to be able to hike a mountain, ride my bike, run, swim, snowboard, etc, til the day I die. ",
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A quick story, if I may... | Have you ever looked down to see a twig and mistake it for a blunt? Or some plant as weed? This happens to me all the time (moreso when dry, definitely) and is usually pretty heartbreaking when I see that it's nothing out of the normal... Anyway, a long while ago I saw a bag on the ground out of the corner of my eye and it ended up being filled with a few grams of some dank bud. It made me very happy.
I found the bag again today and decided to put a joint in it and leave it somewhere for someone to find. Hope they enjoy it!
Maximize weed smoked, that's my prerogative... | 16 | [
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"body": "wait till someone calls the police to report \"oh my god i found this joint on the ground!! some kids could have found it!! think of the children!!\"\n -and then they get arrested for possession rofl \n~.^",
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"body": "I was sitting on the train a few days ago and I took my sketchbook out of my bag and put it on my lap. Folded back the cover and found...WEED...on the front page, maybe a bowl's worth. I was pretty excited at first (and adequately confused as to how it got there) but then I remembered my situation and tried to be as covert as possible in dealing with the situation. I casually closed the cover of the book, but not before reaching in and taking out a little bit to sniff. \n\nNope, nothing. The weed didn't smell like weed. \n\nRight around then I remembered putting some clementines into my backpack about four or five months ago. When I took them out they were intact, albeit without their little leaves. \n\nI found the leaves. Unfortunately clementine leaves are not weed. ",
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"body": "I always smell weed randomly when its not around. Trips me out, then I think I'm probably just smelling it on myself, or on my clothes.",
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Poll for Atheists: Do humans have a soul? | Greetings, /r/Atheism. I am asking you if humans have a soul.
I am not asking about God, at all.
I am not asking about Religion, at all.
I am not asking about the Church, at all.
I am merely asking if it is your opinion that humans have a soul. Alternatively, a spark of life beyond the purely biological. This concept has been given many names in many cultures.
I'm just curious. Atheism is fine if it's what you belief, and I see the concept of a soul as a **wildly different** concept from that of the god/religion/church debacle. So conceivably, I believe an Atheist could answer "Yes, humans have souls" without ceding any of their Atheism. What do you think?
Edit: I can't define soul for you, because then this turns into a "how I'm wrong" post. You know what a soul is. I'm just curious at how many atheists consider themselves to have a soul. I figured there would be some. | 3 | [
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"body": "Theoretically an Atheist could answer that yes, humans have a soul. However It occurs to me that in general Atheists (like myself) require actual physical evidence to substantiate the existence of anything.\n\nIf you can show me actual evidence that proves humans have a soul and can then in turn provide me with an overview of what exactly a soul constitutes, then I would reevaluate my current opinions regarding the matter. Which should be relatively obvious.",
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"body": "No, I absolutely *don't* know what you mean when you say \"soul\". \n\nEvery time someone does explain what they mean by it, they explain *something different*. And what's worse, their concept is usually incoherent or self-contradictory. Doutbless you mean something different from them, and *certainly* you mean something different from whatever I will come up with.\n\nIf you can't even tell me what you mean when you say it, what the heck makes you think you're talking about anything at all?\n\nI can't very well take a position on something when I really don't know for sure what you mean. And I bet that if I got to ask you about it for long enough, *you*'ll almost certainly find out you don't know what you mean either.\n ",
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"body": "Actually you should define what's meant by \"soul\". For instance, there's a peculiarity in Christianity (perhaps non-cannonical, but in common-thought on the matter) where a human embryo has an undefined number of souls until it does or does not e.g. divide into identical twins.\n\n\nBeyond that particular weirdness, there's a trickier issue: People here, asking you to define \"soul\", aren't asking for a specific commitment, e.g. to a Casper-the-friendly-ghost-style soul. Rather, they're trying to give a clear response under the looming possibility of [category error](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_error):\n\nSomeone takes you to see the Detroit Tigers play. Since you're unfamiliar with baseball, your friend gives you a primer on the structure of the innings, the roles of the pitcher and catcher, etc., and notes that the Tigers are always fun to watch because of their team spirit.\n\nYou go to the game, and several innings in, you turn to your friend and say, \"This is great and all... the Tigers are winning. I see how well the first baseman can read the shortstop's plays. I even see, when the team returns to the dugout, they pat each other on the back. But at what inning does this famous team spirit come out? I really wanted to see if the team spirit took up the whole infield, was transparent or opaque... You said this would be fun because of the team spirit - a rare sight indeed!\" And after some strange looks and a bit more description from your friend, you indeed find that the team spirit doesn't have any particular shape or size. The Tigers' team spirit cannot be locked inside of a warehouse, though the Tigers themselves certainly can be. Unless done to the finest detail, without error, and with absurd resources for modeling purposes, examining each of the Tigers through dissection would provide little info on the team spirit. Indeed, the team spirit would remain even after some of the present players retire. HOWEVER, all that is meant by \"team spirit\" (whether or not fully considered by someone speaking of it) is JUST things like how well the first baseman works with the shortstop. Nothing spooky is happening: There's no Casper the friendly ghost wearing a Tigers hat, nor a baseball analogue of Christianity's \"holy spirit\" coming down and invigorating the team. However, total annihilation of the physical - e.g. global thermonuclear war destroying all baseball equipment, venues, relics, players, and fans - will indeed eliminate the team spirit: \"Team spirit\" is a shorthand for the subtle and complicated stuff going on that isn't well-captured by the familiar baseball statistics (ERA, RBI, etc.). \"Team spirit\" may even count as an [emergent property](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence) of gameplay... though the vagueness of \"team spirit\" makes it hard to say. Because of the (lack of) physical properties of the team spirit, and is complicated relationship with the players and their actions, it's quite comfortable (if sloppy) to say the \"team spirit\" is \"beyond the purely biological\".\n\n\n...now, to give my personal answer to your question: Do I have a \"soul\", a \"dbissig spirit\", that cannot be locked in a warehouse, though I certainly can be? A soul that persists even if a few brain cells die? A soul that *would* go away if the whole infrastructure were annihilated (explosive brain death)? Yes. Does this imply anything spookier than the Tigers' team spirit? No. \"Soul\" is a shorthand for the subtle and complicated stuff going on that isn't well-captured by the current-best physical descriptions we have of the brain. You can safely regard the \"soul\" as an emergent property of the brain. Could there also be *something else* going on? ...eh... if it's testable (as in a testable hypothesis), tell me the experiment and then I'll think it over. Otherwise, I don't care, and it can't affect me in any consistent/predictable way (if it could, it would be testable).\n\n\nWhen you say \"soul\", without further definition, you mean BOTH the thing I answered 'yes' to, and the thing I answered 'no' to, at the same time. ...casual talk confounds the two, so there's no good answer unless you're more careful with your definitions.\n",
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"body": "Aristotle wrote a work called 'de Anima', 'on Soul', as it is defined as that which 'animates' matter. A definition of what you mean by 'Soul' would be helpful. If you mean something which exists after the body dies, did it exist before the body lived? Where did it come from, where does it go? If Soul is merely that which animates the body means it dies with the body. (And, by the way, Atheists don't 'believe', they either know or don't know. One doesn't 'believe' 2+2=4.)",
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"body": "If you can't define what a soul is, why do you believe it exists? This is the fundamental difference between atheists and the religious. Atheists do not believe things based on \"a feeling,\" or \"common dude, you know what I'm talking about.\" If it is not empirically verifiable, it probably does not exist. ",
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"body": "Soul is a religious word. I think you're looking for \"consciousness\" which mechanisms still haven't been figured out by neurologists and scientists in general.",
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"body": "The soul is a simulacrum: Something that is only an image of something either real or imagined, but is interacted with as if it really is what it represents. \n",
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"body": "It absolutely depends on what is meant by \"soul.\" It does not help to say \"you know what a soul is\" when I don't have any idea what you are *asking* about. Sorry, just gotta be honest with you there.",
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"body": "If you define a soul as the immaterial collection of a person's personality, memories etc, which survives death, then no.\n\nIf you define it as the coherent collection of brain impulses comprising a person's personality, memories etc, then yeah, because that's just a load of electricity in your head.",
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Women of Reddit, What do your orgasms feel like?[Advice also needed] | Apologies in advance for what will probably be a poorly structured question.
So, my girlfriend and are having sex, we're in the missionary position and I'm rubbing her clit, she stops me and tells me it feels like she can't breathe- her lower body starts to shake slightly, and that her fingers, lips and feet are tingling, and she looks a little concerned. So we stop and she explains it felt like she couldn't take it any more, but not in a bad way.
We're 18 and both relatively inexperienced, I'm aware that the clitoris can be quite sensitive and I may be stimulating it too directly (when I try stimulating it through the hood it has a lot less of an effect), but as an outsider (as difficult a situation to comment on without being there) what do you think is happening? Should we press on?
I should also say that we *do* communicate, and it's not as if my substitute for talking through it with her is to ask you guys. But a woman's perspective on this would be brilliant- especially if you've been through anything similar.
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"body": "Can we have pics? I'm not a woman myself but I'm afraid they wont be able to give you good enough advice without knowing more. Pics would definitely help.",
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"body": "This has happened to me in new relationships. I get very excited and I tend to start hyperventilating. Hyperventilation can cause the tingling in the fingers, toes and lips that you're describing. Slow down. Have her take some deep breaths and concentrate on breating at a normal rate. After a while she should be able to relax enough to not have to concentrate on her breathing. THEN, the orgasms will come.",
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"body": "I don't know how to describe it, what do YOUR orgasms feel like?\n\nI guess it feels like a gradual building of pleasure that waxes and wanes until I reach a point of no return and am consumed with cascading waves of pleasure through my whole body and wonderful contractions of my vagina. ",
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"body": "instead of rubbing directly on her clit, if you rub just higher than it or beside it (like, still touching it, but with the side of your finger rather than the tip of your finger - so the pressure is not directly on it, but just next to it), you might be able to mitigate the over stimulated feeling and jump into giving her an orgasm. \n\nyes, press on! it sounds like she is just on the verge of orgasming but the sensations are just a bit too strong.",
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"body": "I've said it before and I'll say it again: all women should learn to give themselves an orgasm. They can figure out what works for them and control the pressure and rhythm.\n\nIt's always shocked me how few women actually masturbate before they became sexually active. I started at age 14 and didn't actually have an orgasm with a partner until I was 20. If I hadn't ever masturbated I would have been very confused as to why sex didn't feel very good.",
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"body": "is she holding her breath or hyperventilating? (sounds like i'm joking, but i'm really not. this happened to me when i first received oral, same position and same symptoms.) maybe try 69 position with her on top so she has something to focus on other than you working your magic down there? helped me...",
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"body": "You could try having sex with her on top. That way she can move her body against yours how she wants/needs to in order to stimulate herself. I actually can't orgasm at all unless I'm on top, but when I do wow is it worth it. Good luck!",
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Which phone works best with OpenSync/Evolution? | I have Sony Ericsson P1i and it pretty much sucks. Can anyone recommend me a phone which could be handled by OpenSync without much fuss? I need contact, calendar and tasks syncing. | 8 | [
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"body": "I just moved from a P1i (which would silently crash 3 times a day and I wouldn't know until I couldn't make a call out) to a HTC Hero with Android. I use Gmail Apps to handle my mail, contacts and calendar which integrate nicely with Evolution and Android syncs the same. It's a really nice combination if you are comfortable with Google having your data.\n\nThe Hero is great but from what I have seen, it seems like Motorola Droid / Nexus One would be a better choice. The Hero sometimes has a bit of lag, which the Droid / Nexus doesn't have because of the hardware specs. Plus they already have the latest Android 2.1 and HTC haven't released that for the Hero yet.\n\nAlso checkout /r/android subreddit if you want to ask people more questions about synching with Evolution without Google.\n\nI haven't researched other alternatives to this setup.",
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"body": "The Palm Centro is a beautiful device using the old Palm OS (not the WebOS the Pre uses). All the Palm OS devices sync beautifully with Evolution (using gpilot).",
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Audiophiles of Reddit! Do you prefer analog or digital? | As I know most of you are tech savvy, I assume the latter. But I know everyone has their own preference. Personally, I can't tell the difference between a 320 kbps recording, and vinyl. And from a standpoint of availability, digital always wins for me. I would like to know who likes what, and for what reasons. Discuss. | 5 | [
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"body": "Sound engineer here: The difference between vinyl and digital is that vinyl has slight harmonic distortion caused by its own defects, medium and mastering process. People sometimes regards this, along with the pops and clicks, to be added warmth unavailable to the digital format. It isn't. \n\nI could superimpose this on a digital recording and in an A-B comparison listening test... you'd never in a million years notice the difference. \n\nAnd that, quite frankly, is that.\n\n\n",
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"body": "I like having a music collection that I can actually hold in my hands besides just an mp3 collection. Vinyl records just have a nice aesthetic to them. I also like how they sound. Sure, there are plug-ins on digital audio editing programs that emulate analog warmth; but if you like that sound, it's easier to just buy something on vinyl.",
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"body": "Digital. For availability, as you said, and practicality.\n\nRE: bitrate, beyond 192kbps it's hard for me to notice a difference in sound quality.",
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"body": "There's a audio shop round the corner from me run by a guy who won't listen to a word about digital, but swears by everything analogue. I was looking for a decent multiroom sound system that I could stream from a network drive, but he wouldn't hear a word of it. (Apparently streaming across a network is subject to interference? wtf).\n\nTo convince me, he played me some music from a CD. I walked out.",
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"body": "Here's the thing. It's not the format. High bitrate mp3, SACD, lossless FLAC or whatever, or analog vinyl.\n\nIt's the way the tracks are mixed and mastered on the recordings that have the greatest effect on what you hear.\n\nI listened to most of my music as a younger person first on mono AM radio, then FM, then vinyl, and then on cassette (third generation cassettes are pretty harsh, but the music comes through just fine). \n\nNever has the format affected my appreciation for a given piece of music, and most audiophiles and gear-jockeys are full of shit.\n\nLeave the gear and mixing to the pros, listen to the final product in any format you want. It'll sound just fine.",
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"body": "when I was in high school minimum wage was a few cents over three dollars an hour. CD's costs $15. Now that I have a job and money I prefer downloading free MP3's from legal sources all over the web because I get to hear music I wouldn't otherwise, and if you listen very carefully you can hear music executives losing money.",
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What traditional music do you like or have learned to appreciate? | It surprises me that I have learned to like [Canon in D Major](http://lala.com/zhHd), [Claro De Luna](http://lala.com/zaBaI) and the likes when usually I listen to Pop, R&B and Rap. | 6 | [
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"body": "I like traditional folk music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkX7Q2J7k48\n\nand some cool African stuff- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwKBShLAgyQ",
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"body": "Classical music (in the broad sense of the term), in my mind, is a kind of Western meditation. To truly appreciate it, you must listen in absolute stillness and focus; make it the whole core of your being for the entire time it's playing.\n\n[Nimrod](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE) is one of my favorites to sit cross legged and closed eyed, and let the raw passion wash over me.\n\nI also present to you a [TED talk](http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html) that shifted my entire perception of music. Check it out, you might like it.",
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Dear Reddit, The current state of Australian politics is really starting to scare me. Energy drink controversy, Religion, Censorship, Invasions of Sexual privacy. What next? | Dear Reddit,
I feel that there is seriously wrong with Australia. Even 4+ years ago, it was not this bad (In regards to privacy and freedom).
Before we get started though, This is the PM of Australia in the background here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8
Yes, he runs the country at the moment.
Here is why the current state of affairs in Australia is destroying my faith in this country:
* "NSW Government aims to ban energy drinks"
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/nsw-bid-to-ban-caffeine-energy-drinks-20090903-f94d.html
Ok, seriously what the fuck. "Five Year 7 students from Quakers Hill, in Sydney's west, reportedly suffered side effects including dizziness and nausea after consuming energy drinks on their way to school yesterday morning".
So just because 5x 14/15 year old kids drank too much energy drink, thats a call to ban them everyone?
I'm sorry, how about the parents teach their kids that energy drinks are dangerous for them.
* "PM announces chaplain funding"
http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2009/11/22/pm-pays-heartfelt-tribute-to-kari-allan/
" The Rudd government announced that it would honour these funding commitments and that the program would be reviewed and expanded to include secular counsellors, but only if a suitable religious chaplain could not be found by the schools. As it currently stands the Commonwealth is committed to funding religious chaplains in around 2600 schools across Australia."
* "Green light for internet filter plans"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/15/2772467.htm
I'm sure everyone here knows about this one. Anything thats 'RC' gets filtered if this goes ahead...
* "Female Ejaculation Films To Be Banned In Australia"
http://www.msnaughty.com/blog/2010/01/16/the-strange-politics-of-obscene-bodily-fluids/
This one is personal for me, I am fortunate enough to have a girlfriend that can 'ejaculate' in the bedroom. This demonstrates perfectly the stupidity of the people in power here. Female Ejaculation had been scientifically documented (as far as i am aware), but the government insists that "its all just piss". This was brought about by a fundamentalist Christian group.
Me and my girlfriend happen to video some of our stuff in the bedroom as well, does this mean that my personal home videos for my personal enjoyment now are against the law?
My girlfriend is pretty upset with this as well, something that naturally happens in the bedroom for her is either 'not real' or 'too obscene' too our government.
I am just becoming more and more concerned with the nanny state they are trying to impose, and all of the above has happened within the last 4 months!
Is there anyone else that has become more and more distant with 'the Australian way of life' because a lot of our freedom seems to be on the line?
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"body": "Australia has serious, serious problems. We're a nation of histrionic, curtain-peeking, irrational \"think-of-the-children\" idealogues being pandered to by unimaginative and devious toadies. There is no correlation between public policy and reason, merely two parties that are willing to satisfy the knee-jerk whims of an uninformed and spoilt populace who wouldn't know deductive reasoning if it hosted the evening sports shows.\n\nAustralia is what happens when you have a cosseted, wealthy population with no real issues to worry about. Inconsequential social issues that have existed since the dawn of time (underage drinking, driving fatalities, whaling) become central issues due to a legislature that is too cowardly and comfortable to actually challenge its constituents with meaningful reform. Mind you, that very constituency is so mired in middle class boredom that any politician with a backbone would probably be shouted down anyway.\n\nThe worst part of it all, however, is that pretty much every Western country is moving in the same direciton, and people are so busy getting defensive and pointing out the flaws in other developed nations that they don't get down and really tackle the problems they face at home.\n\nIt's not a matter of life and death, but it is a gradual slide into the insipid \"safety\" of a life where everything has a fence around it, and I personally find that almost as troubling.",
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"body": "I fucking hate what is happening to Australia. You would have thought that it couldn't get worse than Howard. I guess it goes to show that Labor gives even less of a fuck about Civil Liberties than the Liberals.\n\nThere's going to be no real change of mentality in this country, though. We're effectively still a penal colony because we still have this mentality that the Government will save us from everything.\n\nWe as a society expect the Government to do everything for us, and this is just showing where that mentality will take us. \n\nIt's the same with prescription medications, Rudd has been taking the populist stance on prescription medications (Particularly Desoxyn) to get votes, the suffering of people that need them be damned.\n\nAbbott will be no better, and probably won't win the next election, but at least he actually fucking SAYS THINGS. Gives actual answers, rather than Rudd's newspeak. \n\nI love this country, but it's breaking my heart. What the fuck is wrong with all of us?",
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"body": "you know another thing, I was listening to an interview with one of the chaser guys, he said Kevin Rudd is a real asshole and they can't get anywhere near him",
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"body": "I'm over in New Zealand, and when I hear about what's happening in Australia it hurts. I hope you guys manage to get things sorted out. Have protests! Organize rallies! Talk to people! Start real-world petitions! Encourage and join politics.\n\nNew Zealand tried to implement a guilty-by-default Internet law not long ago. We revolted by turning off NZ websites. Now that law is dead, replaced by a innocent-by-default law. _It can be done._\n\nAlso, don't forget that Australia still can't sell R18 games, and X18+ media can't be legally purchased in most states.",
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"body": ">Even 4+ years ago, it was not this bad (In regards to privacy and freedom)\n\nBack in MY day, we were free to have females ejaculate on us while guzzling Red Bulls and surfing the web for child porn and keeping our money away from religion. Of course, we had to walk 10 miles uphill to school barefoot each day, but it was a much more free time. A much more simple time.",
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"body": "Censorship is an issue, but I don't believe it will get anywhere. We currently have a problem with two conservative leaders in Government and opposition. My prediction is that after the next election Abbott may be tossed out and Hockey gets a go. That would be good. To censor our internet would be political suicide and Ruddy enjoys power all too much to risk it.\n\nUntil then, three of the four points you raise are pretty minor, at least to me. You're welcome to abandon the land of proposed bans on sports drinks and squirting if you'd prefer the proposed health care bill by the US Government Ltd. Pty. Or maybe you would like to live in France or Britain, in the former enjoying increasingly monitored internet in the efforts of thwarting piracy and in the latter a realised set of *1984*.\n\nIn regards to the chaplaincy, you'll find change takes time. Kev is religious, but [Australia is increasingly secular and irreligious.](http://www.smh.com.au/news/world-youth-day/gods-ok-its-just-the-religion-bit-we-dont-like/2008/07/10/1215658037568.html)\n\nIt's good to question what those in power are doing, and I'd encourage you to keep at it. However, it seems to me here that you're just being sensationalist. Too much reddit, perhaps?",
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"body": "The Australians are worse than Americans on freedoms and rights. While it's tough in America to live it must be hell in Australia. ",
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"body": "Time to assert your unalienable rights at common law as one of the People.\n\nThe Government is limited in Australia by Constitution, just like most other countries. The problem is knowing how to hold your public servants accountable when they overstep their granted jurisdiction by filing suit by making claim in a court of record ( - a court proceeding according to common law).\n\nIf you're afraid of your rights or properties being infringed upon or denied you, then Notice them with a lawful \"Claim of Right\" at common law.\n\n",
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"body": "I agree 100%. Can we get some fresh fucking blood in the censorship office PLEASE JESUS ALLAH BUUDA? I'm sick of these 80 year old relics deciding what I can see, and it is especially frustrating to see how out of step we are with the rest of the western world. Our censorship of movies, video games, magazines, and now the internet just marks us as a backward country run by reactionaries.\n\nGod help us if Tony Abbot wins an election. We will be fucked :(",
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"body": "seems we must be living in different countries.. you seriously want to go back to the Howard era? You reckon Tony Abbott would make a better leader... seriously mate.. you need to wake up.. Rudd aint perfect, but he is a million times better than Howard.. ",
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[Requset] I created /r/noobs for the massive influx
of new redditors to learn a thing or two. Help with
content please? | http://www.reddit.com/r/noobs
My next project is writing something to explain the dynamics of downvoting. I could certainly use help with that. There are many other tips which make the 'learning curve' if you will -a little less steep.
It's be nice if some long-time redditors helped out in this subreddit, or be added as mods or whatever.
Thanks! | 12 | [
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"body": "There's already a comprehensive reddiquette and FAQ and unfortunately people don't even read those, and /r/help only has 317 members... \n\nEither way, I joined, and I'll keep an eye out and chip in if anyone has questions there.",
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What is your Guilty Pleasure? Musically that is. | So we've all got one, it's that song you listen to, in private, with the curtains drawn so that nobody knows you like it. The one you are afraid will come up if you set your MP3's to Shuffle.
The Spice Girls, or something from High School Musical or something Glam Hair Metal.
It's alright, you're safe here, you can tell us.
Edit: I realised that I didn't have mine in here, it's got to be 1973 by James Blunt or Total Eclipse of the Heart By Bonnie Tyler. Although to be honest, I'm a little more open about that one. | 10 | [
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"body": "Party in the USA! The production, the simple, clean guitar part, the buzzy keyboard and songwriting totally make my brain buzz. The song is SO good I don't even mind the singer.",
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"body": "I....I like Placebo. *I'm sorry.* \n\nYes I *know* their lyrics are cliche emo trash. *I try not to hear them.*",
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"body": "I have tons. Here are the few I can think of off the top of my head:\n\n\n1. Poison\n2. Old Def Leppard\n3. That hot / cold song by Katy Pery (I try to convince myself she is insanely hot, so it's ok).\n4. Poison by 'Bel Biv Devoe'\n5. Skid Row\n6. Cinderella\n",
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I need to find the motivation to go on, and some way of not being dependent on men for my happiness. | So, I invested a lot of time and effort into a man who I thought was returning my feelings, but it turns out that we where just friends with benefits. He's one of very few close friends and I thought that I'd found something truly amazing and special with him, only to be told that I should keep looking for someone else. He lives in my hometown that I visit twice a year, and I'm there now with no means of leaving the house and I'm extremely depressed with little motivation to do anything but sleep. I am seeing two other guys back in california, but I'm afraid that neither of them make me feel the way this person did, and neither of them is interested in serious relationships. I work very hard at the university I attend and I think I'm dependent on men for my happiness, because they're my closest friendships and the only thing I have time for outside studying. I need to find the motivation to go on, and I want to be a person who's secure and happy being alone, but I don't know where to start. Any advice? | 13 | [
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"body": "Sounds like you're missing a key ingredient of happiness:\n\nSelf-confidence.\n\nYou gotta be proud of who you are. You don't need someone else's help to be awesome. You've got a brain, a heart, and your hands. If you look at it from that perspective, you're no different than the people you admire.\n\nAnd the people you admire weren't defined by the people they dated/married/fucked.\n\nGot something you're good at? Then keep working on it, and become *fucking great* at it. Pick a skill or hobby that\n\n* interests you\n* has clear, measurable progression\n* Kinda sucks while you're doing it, but still pays off\n\nExercise is a personal favorite of mine.",
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"body": "Become the kind of person that you find awesome to be with, let alone be. The same things that you would be drawn to in people - do and become those things.\n\nI understand that with you going to school, you don't have a lot of freedom to do that at the moment. But find a way to start adding facets to your personality and very sense of being.\n\nIt is an awfully large burden to put on another person, for you to be totally dependent on them for your happiness. Also, the same things that keep you from wanting to be alone and not in a relationship is what makes them not want to be in a serious and committed relationship with you.\n\nSo work on you. :)",
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"body": "You might be surprised at how many people have this same issue. Many of them don't even realize it and go from relationship to relationship, or get lost in a long term dysfunctional one. \n\nGive yourself credit for figuring this out and realizing that there might be other options in life. It probably doesn't make you feel better right now, but just by asking for help and starting the process you are on the right path.\n\nOften this sort of pattern starts in your earliest relationships (family), before you can even remember. So when the emotion comes to the surface it seems like it is taking over your life and you are helpless against it. \n\nDon't expect immediate bliss heaven and self confidence, but slow progress with some backslides that will eventually lead you to feeling secure and at peace with yourself. \n\nHere's somewhere to start: Right here right now. There is no other place or time for you to spend time with yourself alone. From the sound of it, you aren't very happy with yourself alone, however for now don't make your goal happiness, just acceptance. \n\nAllow yourself to notice that what your are feeling right now, though very unpleasant, will in all likelihood change. Trust that the emotion itself, though intense, will eventually pass. And also notice how when you feel it, you find yourself looking to do almost anything so as not to feel it. \n\nYou already recognize that you reach out to men as one of the ways to escape into 'happiness'. There may be other ways that you do this too. Can you recognize that you are doing the absolute best with who you are and what you know? You may see room for improvement, thats ok, but your patterns with men are simple and honest attempts to provide for yourself in the best way you know. Take a moment and forgive yourself, let go of a better past and congratulate yourself for taking a step, a start toward something new. \n\n\n\n",
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women, what do you think of when you masturbate? | i'm really only interested in a female perspective and i'm only asking because my sexual fantasies for the last (approximate) 10 years are no longer working for me. (i'm 21 now and got out of my first serious relationship last year)
i know it's a very personal questions but i figure hearing other peoples might give me ideas.
i used to think of sexy strangers abducting me and making me their sex slaves (seriously.. lol) but i only get turned on by an actual person or the fantasy of someone i know and like/want now and it kind of sucks.
(i'm not interested in a relationship right now and theres no one i like but i want to start masturbating because i want to be able to please myself)
tl;dr: i figure hearing other women's fantasies will give me ideas
btw, i'm a girl
**EDIT** :i've never had an orgasm. this is one of the main reasons why i want to start masturbating regularly cause i really want to have one. i know i can't force it but i assume that starting to masturbate will increase my chances 100% :D | 128 | [
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"body": "i think of my bf having sex with me. more to the point, i think of him losing control and cuming inside of me. ",
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"body": "My fantasies are along the lines of yours - the sex slave stuff. According to the [NYTimes](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?fta=y), recent studies have raised the possibility that our fantasies may be inherently part of the female psyche, which is veeeery interesting if your into cutting edge feminist theory (or just interested in sex - that's cool too). \n\nI also have always had a thing for older men (30-50). I think it's because older men seem more ruggedly masculine to me. I come across many of these men as business acquaintances. Some seem to like me, and they may pick up on the fact that I like them, but this is rarely acted upon or even acknowledged - just 'understood'. So when I get off, I fantasize about some parallel universe where I let him have his way with me in a raunchy, consequence-free setting. ",
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"body": "I think about girls. Usually a skinny, smallish girl getting thrown up against a wall and fucked from behind. The fucker, to me, gets much less focus than the fuckee, and is actually rather genderless. I guess I assume male since they come equipped with their own fucking apparatus, but really it could be female.\n\nIt's hard to say whether I imagine that I'm the one fucking this girl, or whether I'm imagining that I'm that girl being fucked. It could be a little of both.\n\nDisclaimer: I am mostly gay. I'm in an LTR with a man, and thinking of him doesn't get me off. I love him, and when I'm with him he gets me off just fine, but when I'm on my own, he doesn't work as an image.",
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"body": "I do have trouble reaching my climax unless I imagine having a man cuming inside me. I do like the forced sex scenerios, even though I can't say for sure how much I would enjoy it IRL.\r\n\r\nI'm sorry it wasn't much different from the OP. If it helps, I'm 2/3rds through 1984 so it's fun to pretend I'm protesting Big Brother by fucking an Outer Party Member!",
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"body": "I can't admit to it yet but I get really turned on by groping in public (Chikan, although I wish I could find some where they aren't all Asian but I don't really know how t look for it) and gangbangs. Too embarrassed to share this with a guy yet. More normal stuff is girls having orgasms, or getting fucked really hard.",
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"body": "I prefer to masturbate to porn (unless I'm in the shower). I just need the real visuals/sounds (I'm female and I normally watch lesbian porn because I can relate to both characters and that's even more stimulation). But I do imagine some MFF play involving my boyfriend if I'm in the shower. \n\nWhat else do you like other than strangers?",
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"body": "When I masturbate, I like to think of really hot past sexual encounters. But I do have a few MAJOR fantasies that I like to think about, sex slave yes, but gangbangs too. I like to use both a butt plug and dildo to help this along. If I'm watching porn while doing it, I like to watch blowjob scenes, especially deep throating where the girl is gagging a bit. Somehow I feel like I know what the guys are feeling, it's almost like having a phantom penis.\n\nIf I'm not feeling especially unimaginative, I'll read Letters to Penthouse. Some of them are terribly written and hilarious, but a lot of them have just what I need to push me over the edge.",
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"body": "I might be the odd one out, but I don't fantasize very often. I just focus on the pleasure I'm feeling. \n\nCheck out asstr.org, maybe? I usually either find a collection that sounds interesting or hit \"random\" until I come up with something I don't find offensive. ",
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"body": "If you are a guy, this is very sneaky and clever. If you are a girl, I hope you found some hot and steamy inspiration.",
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"body": "Past boyfriends, hot men and women, being dominated, and lately anal sex (i've never actually done it, i think that it's novel is the reason why i find it, er, titillating). OP, have you tried watching porn? Or using a vibrator? That usually gets the job done without having to think about anything. ;P ",
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"body": "I think about a range of things. My fantasies are usually pretty hardcore, a lot of bdsm stuff, that I would get off of in reality also. I've been having some amazing orgasms lately, imagining myself with 2 or 3 guys at once, most of the time I am very submissive. Here are a couple of scenarios I've been toying with:\n\n1. Im in a half full bath tub on my back nearly submerged under water, except my face and breasts are above water. One guy is fucking my pussy and fingering my arse and the other one has his dick very deep down my throat and controls whether I breathe or not by holding my nose whilst he is fucking my mouth and putting my head underwater so i can't breathe. The deeper I let him go in my throat the more he lets me breathe.\n\n2. I nearly always think of threesomes, not always with guys. I have had threesomes in reality but never with two guys. I'm bi and love to imagine sitting on a girls face or vice versa, but once again it's usually about dominance and submissiveness except i prefer to be dominant with girls. Other times, depending how I feel, I have softer more romantic scenarios in my head, usually involving some innocent girl having girl on girl sex for the first time. This used to be one of my favourite past times.\n\nSo there you have it.",
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"body": "I personally find I need some help to get off. Porn in the traditional sense has never done it for me, so I usually turn to the sexy stories for help, ie. [literotica](http://www.literotica.com/). The extra bonus to this is that you can get into the more fantastical or extreme stuff without feeling bad for the people acting in them. ",
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"body": "So after reading this thread, basically my girlfriend wants me to be rough with her, bite the shit out of her, and cum inside of her?\n\nGood to know...",
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"body": "Usually think about things I want to have done to me for example, fooling around in the movies, or my partner tying me down and using my hitachi on me. Sometimes it'll be things that I've particularly enjoyed with a partner... one of my favorites is thinking about my boyfriend's orgasms... his turn me on a lot.",
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"body": "Sometimes I just focus on how I feel and close my eyes. Most often, I picture my favorite sexual partner sort of going wild on me and really enjoying my body. If I'm in a place where I can sometimes I 'talk to him' - I say dirty things out loud that I would say during sex, or just explain what I'm feeling out loud.\n\nAnother common fantasy is me making out with my current girl-crush and my favorite partner either watching or participating (sexually) with the two of us.\n\nIt's sort of strange, but all the men I think about are actually men I've had sex with, but I fantasize about women that I think are attractive.",
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"body": "batman! or college girls doing terrible things with the frat :) try reading literotica.com, there are lots of categories and you might find something you didnt know you liked! also you might like a vibrator! :)",
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"body": "Nancy Firday has spent an entire career delving ino what women (and men) fantasise about. Forbidden Flowers, My Secret Garden, Women on Top, Women in Love, Men in Love . . .\n\nhttp://books.google.ca/books?ei=22RTS5DsBYj6sQPvj6X-Bw&ct=title&q=inauthor%3A%22Nancy+Friday%22&btnG=Search+Books",
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Goodbye Louis the hamster. | We have had Louis for a year. A cute and cuddly little hamster beast. He loved strawberries most of all. Today I heard a strange little squeak from his cage and was in fact going to feed him in just a bit. Louis was in his penthouse, the very top of the hamster abode and I knew immediately things were dire. He rolled, then looked at me, then squeaked one last time. I swear to you that his little paws folded over his chest and I heard the last breath of a hamster. Louis was gone. I touched his whiskers and told him we loved him. Goodbye Louis.
(I didn't have anywhere else to post this, hope it's ok). | 11 | [
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"body": "Sorry to hear that. This actually choked me up, in part because I share the same name as your hamster. On behalf of all Louis' everywhere, I'm sure the little guy is in adorable hamster heaven. ",
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On January 16, 2009, at about this same time of day I smoked my last cigarette. I am 59 and started smoking when I was about 8. | I smoked for about 50 years.
What I can tell those of you that might be starting to quit, or thinking about quitting, or wishing someone would quit:
a> Like an alcoholic, I still have the desire to smoke, it's just not as powerful now.
b> I used Chantix for a short while. How much help it was, I'm not sure. I did have severe depression shortly after stopping use of Chantix.
c> I had started to decide I wanted to quit as early as 2006 or 2007. I was generally cutting back a little in the amount I smoked over the last 1-2 years I smoked.
d> When I quit, it was cold turkey and unexpected. (I broke my leg and was hospitalized).
e> I have an unusual situation. I can avoid smokers more than most ex smokers can. I don't "hate the smell of cigarettes" as many ex smokers do. In fact, I still like it when occasionally I get a whiff of one.
f> Do I know that I'll never smoke again? No. I doubt any addict does. But I hope not.
If I can think of anything else that might be useful, I'll add it here.
edit:
I was overweight before quitting. And I gained 20-40 more pounds. I'm trying now to undo that.
At the end I smoked about a pack a day.
Even at the worst I never smoked 2 packs in one day.
I may not have more energy, but I breath easier. Sometimes I would wake up at night unable to breath for a few seconds. Memories of that are a big part of why I'm not smoking.
I had to wait until I wanted to quit. Trying to stop because other people wanted me to never worked. | 65 | [
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"body": "I smoked a pack a day (at least) for thirteen years and my quit date anniversary is coming up on the twentieth. One day, I just simply decided that I wasn't going to buy a pack of smokes. I started a mantra, \"I don't smoke\" and repeated it ten times every time I had a craving. That first day, I must have said it ten thousand times, however, as the days past I was saying it less and less. After about a week, I was having very few cravings and started to believe I was out of the woods. Around the end of the first month, I would get very intense cravings that I would relate to hunger pangs, they made it very difficult to concentrate on anything else. This proved to be my final test. The key I found was to not let your mind indulge the craving and tell yourself that you don't smoke with enough frequency and intensity that the subconcious believes it. Congratulations to all who have quit. My support goes out to all who want to.",
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"body": "Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times!\n\n\nOn a serious note, congratulations. I've been off the fags for a couple of months now. Nicotine gum has really helped me.",
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"body": "I'm in the cutting back phase right now working my way toward finally quitting. I started when I was 19 and am now 27, but it is still quite difficult to quit after only 8 years. I can only imagine how hard it was after 50 so a gigantic congratulations goes out to you for that. I have my goal set to quit by April since I'm getting married in May so wish me luck. My fiance also smokes too, but I've convinced her to cut back significantly too. If all goes well, we'll both be smoke free by the time we're married.\nBy the way, I showed your story to the lady and she also wanted to tell you congratulations on being a year smoke-free.",
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"body": "Congrats from me as well.\n\nI just watch my Granddad waste away and pass from lung cancer, so I'm always glad to hear that another person has quit. ",
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"body": "I quit smoking almost 1 year ago. I'm 25 and had been smoking for 13 years. It feels soooooo fucking good. ",
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women, what do you think of when you masturbate? (serious question) | i originally submitted this on the sex forum but i think people will assume i'm being raunchy and not answer it:
i'm really only interested in a female perspective and i'm only asking because my sexual fantasies for the last (approximate) 10 years are no longer working for me. (i'm 21 now and got out of my first serious relationship last year)
i know it's a very personal questions but i figure hearing other peoples might give me ideas.
i used to think of sexy strangers abducting me and making me their sex slaves (seriously.. lol) but i only get turned on by an actual person or the fantasy of someone i know and like/want now and it kind of sucks.
(i'm not interested in a relationship right now and theres no one i like but i want to start masturbating because i want to be able to please myself)
tl;dr: i figure hearing other women's fantasies will give me ideas
btw, i'm a girl
**EDIT** :i've never had an orgasm. this is one of the main reasons why i want to start masturbating regularly cause i really want to have one. i know i can't force it but i assume that starting to masturbate will increase my chances 100% :D | 19 | [
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"body": "Absolutely nothing. Blank mind, just focused on what movements give me pleasure so I can maximize it.",
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"body": "I think about previous sexual experiences I've had with my boyfriend, or parts of porno's I've watched, or sexy scenes from movies or books that I liked, or usually, I just watch porn. I am a very sexually visual person, so it works best if I have something erotic to *look at* while I'm buzzing/schlicking away. But most of the porn and things I read are somewhat on the violent side, or at least involve a lot of dom/sub type of material. I like rape fantasies, but I find that I'm usually an outside observer. Sometimes I'll imagine myself as the victim, or even the rapist, but usually I'm just a third party. ",
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"body": "I can't recommend erotic stories enough. They're so much fun and it's easy to tailor the visuals in your mind to whatever turns you on the most, rather than settling for what's on the screen in front of you as is the case with visual porn.\n\nI don't really feel comfortable sharing my own personal fantasies even though many are similar to what's been expressed here, it's just a bit too personal, but I'd highly recommend [this site](http://www.mcstories.com/index.html). It's centred on a mind control fetish but there's a huge variety there all the same that may give you inspiration.",
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"body": "Coercive situations, gang bangs, and double penetration.\n\nThe only one I actually enjoy in reality is double penetration.",
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"body": "Women (and men for that matter) in this situation have been known to resort to something commonly known as porn. ;) Another thing I used to do a lot when I was your age is sex chatting.",
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"body": "This isn't what I think about but this gets me hot and bothered faster than anything else: [Literotica Audio Stories](http://www.literotica.com/audio/audioindex.shtml) The aussie has a sexy voice. I enjoy him.\n\nAs for fantasies, I'm pretty much the same as you. I imagine rape scenarios or save-me-from-awful-situation scenarios (where I have hot passionate sex with the hero). I also have a fondness for the Harry Potter books and professors. So before I watched the movies, all of them were REALLY hot in my head so I make up stories about that...\n\n*(Just to be clear, all the things I fantasize about... I never do in real life. I find the things I can't do in real life turn me on in my head but I'd never cross that boundary.)*\n\nI've gotta say I watch more porn than I think about fantasies though. I'm not sexually imaginative enough to come up with good stories that please me sexually. ",
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"body": "Often rape or coercion, where I am the one being coerced. Which is weird, because I have been assaulted and in real life find it repulsive to even consider. \n\nAlso, you have just made me realize that I have been far too busy lately to bother masturbating, when I used to do so nearly daily.",
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"body": "So...a long time ago a bi guy friend said to me: \"you know the largest market for gay porn in Japan is women?\". I was intrigued. Heterosexual guys talk about their love of lesbian porn -- twice the vaginas, twice the number of breasts, etc, etc. Why wouldn't twice the number of penises be equally exciting to a heterosexual gal? While I feel awful objectifying homosexual sex as something useful for the heterosexual gaze, I can't help but find it exciting! This goes equally for the erotic stories. It doesn't have to be visual. \n\nIn summary: Gay male porn/erotica may be stimulating for your imagination if you are a heterosexual or bisexual female. May be a source of interesting anthropological study if a lesbian.",
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"body": "I'm in a very similar situation. I've never orgasmed but the closest I've ever gotten was while masturbating and fantasizing about giving my (then) boyfriend a bj. I really got into the idea of giving someone I care about a lot of pleasure. Now that I'm single and not really crushing on anyone special, I can't seem to get very turned on. I try watching porn, but I haven't found anything with that romantic aspect of it that I need to get into it. I sometimes read stories on literotica, but I have a hard time finding well written ones, and that throws me off as well. When I was younger and had less experience, I was so easily turned on by just the idea of anything sexual. I really don't understand what changed!\n\nI'd recommend a book called \"The Elusive Orgasm.\" It has a lot of good information about women who have a hard time with orgasms and/or getting highly turned on. It's the best one I've read so far (I've read \"Sex for One\" and \"I Heart Female Orgasms\" as well).",
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Australian newspaper continues to claim that male college students are rapists and perverts. | These two links are part of a long line of articles by this paper that claim that men at University of Sydney residential colleges are rapists and perverts:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/elite-college-students-proud-of-prorape-facebook-page-20091108-i3js.html
http://www.smh.com.au/national/university-failed-to-act-on-assault-allegations-20091109-i5g3.html
The above two articles claim to be reporting the existance of a 'pro-rape' culture at a residential college. The only evidentiary basis for the article is hearsay, Facebook status updates that were obtained by hearsay and a group with five members from one college that said that were going to 'rape an opposing college's soccer team' in an upcoming tournament. The article of course didn't mention the soccer link. Following the articles a toxic Facebook group popped up at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=175526472031 that again, brought all the man haters out of the wood work.
For a bit of background information, the college environment in Australia isn't as toxic as it is in the United States. Most residences aren't gender segregated, women are treated respectfully and incidences of sexual assault aren't any higher than they are in the wider university community. However, college students seem to be open to attack because colleges are a little expensive (around $200 US a week, so we aren't talking trust fund expensive) and because college kids let loose and have fairly wild parties.
As a college student at a different Australian university I'm really upset about this. What do you guys think? | 23 | [
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"body": "I think it's low on evidence, high on outrage.\n\nDo you know of any alumni high up in public relations or who is a popular celebrity for some reason? Writing them a carefully worded letter asking for help might be a starting point... those articles are clearly aimed at a less discerning readership, hence the idea of a celebrity.",
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Cracked Screen. What are my options? | I recently dropped my iphone 3g and spider webbed the screen pretty good. I am guessing it will not be covered under warranty so does anyone know what my options are? I do have the applecare plan. The guy at ATT said applecare plan will allow accidental damage to be replaced at cost of new 2 year contract. So for me $99. Is there any validity to that or was he just ripping me off?
I also know I can replace the screen myself. Is this difficult. I know it will void my warranty, which I have another 1 year 8 months of.
Any help from anyone on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! | 10 | [
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"body": "Ebay can get you a screen for cheap, just be sure you get the right thing. There is the LCD, The outside glass, and the digitizer. The glass and the digitizer cannot be easily separated (I learned that the hard way) so buy accordingly. If you have had some experience working with electronics, it is a trivial matter. If not, apple will replace it for you for a fee, or you can get somebody else to swap it out. If you are in the northern mass or southern NH area, I will do it for you if you bring me a beer.",
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"body": "If you have a warranty, I guess you should use it, and not void it.\n\nI replaced my cracked screen for like $15 with a kit off of ebay. It was simple. It seemed flakey at first, because the digitizer kept becoming non-responsive while it would recalibrate. That just kind of fixed itself after a few days and it has worked fine ever since.",
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Atheists debating faiths other than Christianity. | Most atheists around here seem rather well equipped to debate with Christians. What about other faiths? Muslim, Jew, etc. | 6 | [
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"body": "The broad similarities seem to indicate that they each grew (stole, plagiarized) from each other - as well as far more ancient mythologies (Egyptian, Sumerian) for the majors. Similar arguments against should hold the same weight against all of them.\n",
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"body": "I am surrounded by Christians, so...\n\nBut the vast majority of points apply to Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Zoroastrians, or whatever, with a whole lot more things added for Muslims. In a sense, if you've debated one faith you've debated them all.",
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"body": ">What about other faiths? Muslim, Jew, etc.\n\nI am better equipped to debate Christianity because I was a Christian for so long, I understand many of the arguments from the believer's side, so I can adjust my presentation based on that, and skip lots of questions.\n\nHowever, I have debated Muslims before.\n\nThe only difference is I don't know as much up front about their traditions and faith so I just ask more questions to begin with... eventually a cycle or loop or contradiction is found. [though that is almost never a \"win\", since it's just waved away with faith, or \"you're an outsider\", \"English doesn't carry the meaning I need\", etc.]\n\nThe process is the same at its core though.\n\nI did debate one Jew, but that wasn't much a debate... they really didn't care that I didn't understand or believe so that conversation stopped very quickly and we talked about college.\n\nI've debated a few Jehovah's Witnesses and those were most annoying because they'd promise to bring me materials to answer my issues (because they couldn't present them properly without help, I guess), and come back weeks later (without the materials). They were finally annoyed enough with me to never come back. [Hey gals, it would have gone much easier if you came prepared, and if you came back when you said you would! Then you would actually have my full attention, and not be interrupting my work.]",
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"body": "Most other religions such as those leave other people alone as far as trying to convert non members. We (I) mostly go against Christianity because they are so quick to force their views on others.",
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"body": "All superstition is bullshit, but on a day to day basis christians are more in my face and trying to fuck with me and my life than any other religious group.",
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Star Wars Pencil-Off | A friend of mine -- and a friend of his -- decided to each take a 5-page Star Wars script and draw up the pencils for it. They're both phenomenal, but I also thought it was neat to compare them side-by-side, not only to see two artists' takes on the same script, but also comparing very western and very eastern drawing styles.
[My friend's results](http://bbates.com/wordpress/?page_id=3&album=1&gallery=27) (Be sure to 'full-size' them)
[His friend's results](http://www.meleeblog.com/2009/11/dio-rules-throw-up-horns.html) (Following the Dio discussion...) | 41 | [
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"body": "I like the framing and poses much better in the first one, but I personally prefer the drawings and in the second one. If there was a team-up then shit would get fantastic.\n\nWhat do these people do for a living, is this just a hobby?",
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Ask Druggit: How much does a gelatin capsule weigh? | I just picked up two capsules of what is supposedly MDMA someone got from Bonnaroo a while back. My scale isn't that sensitive so I had to weigh them both at the same time. The final weight came out to about .3 grams. There is supposed be .125 gram in each capsule. I feel like the capsules weigh much more than .05 grams together. Does anyone know how much a capsule weighs roughly? I would take the powder out and weigh the capsules, but I have to give them to my friend and I don't want to lose any of contents. | 5 | [
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"body": "what size gelcaps?\n\nedit: I have a \"00\" size gelcap here that weighs 0.10 on a scale accurate to +-0.01",
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Dear Pat Robertson: A Letter from Satan | Dear Pat Robertson,
I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I'm all over that action.
But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I'm no welcher. The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished.
Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth -- glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle. Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven't you seen "Crossroads"? Or "Damn Yankees"?
If I had a thing going with Haiti, there'd be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox -- that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it -- I'm just saying: Not how I roll.
You're doing great work, Pat, and I don't want to clip your wings -- just, come on, you're making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That's working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.
Best, Satan
[LILY COYLE, MINNEAPOLIS](http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/81595442.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUqEiaDUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU)
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"body": "Pat Robertson's recent comments are inexcusable. He does not speak for Christians, or for God. The man is not a prophet, rather he is a bitter old man who has lost touch with what it truly means to love your neighbor. This is a time where it is the Job of all Christians, all of the world, to come alongside the people of Haiti, to rebuild and try and heal a great disaster. ",
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"body": "a friend of mine used to work with pat robertson until a hurricane came and missed the area pat's church was in. pat claimed to storm missed because he prayed it away...and into new england instead...apparently according to pat God has something against clam chowder and impoverished islanders...",
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Why not tax every stock market transaction? | The idea is not a tax as a source of revenue, albeit that would help. It is a tax to dissuade multiple stock transactions. Let us digress a moment and think of the origin of the stock market.
The original intent of the stock market was to raise capital for a business. An IPO (initial public offering) was a means for a company with a great business idea, whether a service or a product, to raise vast sums of money for purchasing of equipment and setting up an expansion of the current infrastructure. The Stock market was also a way of supporting the physical business itself, allowing those with even a single stock to speak at shareholders meetings to persuade powers that be in their direction and share in the profits of the company.
Day trading performs no overall value to a business. In fact it hurts a business by ensuring that CEOs performance is based on purely profits, and not aiding society or even performing basic business functions. Numerous business expansions or inefficiency write-offs are post-poned due to "poor quarterly results" instead of doing what is good business sense and biting the bullet when it makes sense to do it. Day trading is the parasite on the system that allows a CEO take the oath "My ultimate duty is to my shareholders wallets" which IMO is the ultimate flaw with the corporatist agenda.
Taxing each stock market trade should curb overall trading and encourage holding onto a stock. This lower volume trading should ensure a less volatile market and allow better business to transpire.
I know it shouldn't be this simple, but does this idea have any possibility or is it too simple? I know more taxing does not solve a problem, but is there another solution to motivating CEOs/shareholders?
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"body": "> Day trading is the parasite on the system that allows a CEO take the oath \"My ultimate duty is to my shareholders wallets\" which IMO is the ultimate flaw with the corporatist agenda.\n\nThe basic argument is absurd. Why would limiting frequency of transactions in corporate shares alter the managers' duty to maximize the value of those shares? The fact that shares trade hands has nothing to do with the duties of corporate managers to share owners. Further, why would reducing volume result in a less volatile market? If anything, lower volume would result in greater volatility, as less transactions mean less opportunities for price discovery. \n\nAnd even assuming it would result in less volatility, why would that be a good thing, and why would a less volatile market make the corporate bad men any less bad? How does a lower average fluctuation of the market lead to \"better business transpiring,\" exactly?\n\nThe honest argument is that a transaction tax is yet another tax, period. And it's always better for politicians to claim to base a tax on a populist idea, like screwing the wall st. bankers. In reality such a tax would only further reduce the standing of US markets and drive trading to other markets.",
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"body": "There is already an [SEC fee](http://www.sec.gov/answers/sec31.htm) imposed on every single sell transaction done on every exchange which \"recover the costs incurred by the government, including the SEC, for supervising and regulating the securities markets and securities professionals.\" Individually it is pretty small but over the course of the year it provides hundreds of millions of $ to the SEC for their activities.",
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"body": "You **DO WANT** people to sell bad companies, and re-invest in good ones. You **DON'T WANT** people to stay invested in bad companies simply to avoid the fees/taxes of investing in better ones.\n\nIn all seriousness, the way to tax efficiently and \"fairly\" is always just to tax *people*, based on whatever criteria one deems \"fair\". E.g., just tax all income (capital gains, wages, interest, inheritance, whatever) as \"income\", and then apply a progressive tax rate to it. As long as nobody can spend the money on personal gain, it doesn't really ever become \"wealth\" in the sense that we should want to tax. If some gajillionaire lives in a box and continually reinvests his earnings, let him-- all of those dollars are creating jobs and wealth and salaries, all of which are being taxed by the people who are spending that wealth on boats and cars and houses and pizza night and so on, all of which is creating more jobs and more spending. Tax him when he decides to cash out and trade his box for a house in the hills, not when he moves his money from a bad company to a good one.",
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"body": "Because it makes the economy less efficient. Day traders and speculators provide liquidity to markets and makes sure that stock prices reach a \"correct\" valuation faster than they otherwise would, allowing any actor in the economy to make more rational decisions when it comes to efficient use of resources.",
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"body": "Dude, we can't even get hedge fund compensation to be taxed as normal wages. The lobbying power of the financial industry is greater than any other industry including healthcare, energy, etc. I think that in theory, the idea of a tax or fee on a per transaction basis is a great idea, but the likelihood that it'd ever be enacted in a meaningful and effective way is slim to nil unfortunately :-( ",
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"body": "Because these are the wealth creators, the great men. We can't tax financial transactions without disrupting the free market, provider of all that is good and holy and right.",
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"body": "Similar things have been suggested many times. My favorite was an elimination of all current taxes and replace them with something like a 0.01% tax on every transaction ever. Take $100 out at the ATM, pay $0.01. Buy something with a credit card, pay the tax. Pay your credit card bill, pay the tax. Trade a stock, pay the tax. Basically, any time money changes hands ever, the government takes a little cut. I forget the estimated numbers, but whoever was proposing it thought that it could provide more revenue than current tax systems, largely because financial systems do many more transactions than people.\n\nI won't claim that it'd work - though it would be easier to understand than the current tax code.",
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"body": "Your argument is based on the assumption that frequent trading adds no value to the underlying business. However, given two equally attractive companies, would you prefer one which you could sell on the spot in case you were wrong or one which you would be stuck with for years? Probably the former, therefore more liquidity means the company can raise capital faster and at a higher valuation.\n\nThe \"lower volume = less volatility\" argument is also a misconception, like turning off the computer screen if your stock is falling in price. The underlying value of a company changes everyday as news come out and investor sentiment changes, regardless of whether the stock trades or not.\n(Edit: spelling)\n\n\n",
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"body": "The stock market is already taxed.\n\nI pay 35% on the profit from every sale of stock that I make. (unless I hold for longer than 1 year, then it's 15% - longer holding usually also means more risk, take that into consideration) If you add in a tax for every transaction, it would have to be very small or it could outweigh any chance for profit.\n\nWhat gets me about complaints on the stock market is that everyone who makes a complaint thinks that this is a playground for the rich and only the rich. In fact, anyone can buys stocks.\n\nI got involved in stocks in 1994 - And I'm *not* rich and have put as much money in as I could since then. I've made a lot of good decisions (because I'm fairly smart and pretty good at seeing an early business trend) and a few bad ones (because I'm not *that* smart, and ideas sometimes fail). Overall, I've come out way ahead.\n\nAnyone can make money with stocks... It only takes a couple thousand dollars to open an account and balls of steel to, as the song goes... \"Know when to hold em and know when to fold em\"\n\nRedditors, as smart as you all proclaim to be, should be very good at stocks. Instead of complaining endlessly about how unfair things are... try to realize that everything in life is unfair and also realize that in reality, stocks are one of the things that are actually \"fair\"\n\nDid you ever lose the girl to someone more handsome? Unfair. \n\nEver lose your job even though you felt you performed it perfectly? Unfair.\n\nMaybe your parents or your friend passed away before their time... Very unfair.\n\nThe stock market is surprisingly fair when compared to everything else in life. Stocks go up when good things happen... Good things might include some big bank buying the stock. Stocks go down when bad things happen. Things such as a financial collapse or some big short seller hating the stock. If you just pay attention and don't get scared, and if you buy things that you know are good when the hysteria makes most sheep sell, you will make money.\n\nOh... and yes... You will finally realize just how much taxes *are* paid by those in the stock market.\n\nOf course, I reserve the right to be downvoted to hell... It usually happens when I talk money on Reddit ;-)\n",
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Anyone ever tried LSD + adderall? | I am planning on tripping tonight and am considering taking a nice dose of adderall. I wouldn't think that there would be any health implications, but has any one else had any experience with this combo? | 8 | [
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"body": "It will actually make the experience a bit less psychedelic, as you will feel much more \"there\". So it might work very well for clubbing, being able to socialice while still being tripping, but you will not get as much a psychedelic experience. My best short description of it is that it \"grounds\" the experience.\r\n\r\nI know of a lot of people who enjoy it, but I really only mix LSD with MDMA and pot. But different people, different preferences.\r\n\r\nYou should not take too much speed though, as both adderall and lsd puts a bit of extra pressure on the blood system and amplify each other somewhat.",
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"body": "I was on the end of/comedown from the adderall and hadn't slept in a day. It was entirely a horrible trip.",
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"body": "Think of it like surfing a big wave.\n\nAs long as you stay on the board, you'll be fine. But if you fall off, it's going to hurt really, really bad. In short, imagine the paranoia you can get on amphetamines sometimes multiplied by the acid.\n\nLSD + amphetamines is a combo I would recommend only for the experienced.",
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"body": "Trip report: Last night I took 5 hits of acid and ate about 50 mg's of instant release adderall at about the same time. Quite a bit of cannabis consumption ensued for the remainder of the trip. About an hour after I took the acid and began tripping pretty hard. At the same time, the adderall started kicking in, because I was in a much more comfortable and euphoric state of mind compared to most trips when I'll occasionally feel a hint of anxiety.\n\nTwo hours after I had dropped, I started \"peaking\" and having one of the most brilliant and intense trips I've ever experienced. Not just visually, but mentally as well. For a while, it seemed as if I were watching Live at Pompeii (an essential tripping movie, btw) from the perspective of the wall and floor. For the three hours at the height of my trip I felt like I was completely socially incapacitated. I really couldn't make sense out of anything but the music that was playing, but the abstract connections and raw emotion that I felt from it was nothing short of amazing. I also took a bit more adderall towards the last half of the trip.\n\nThis being said, if you like adderall and you like LSD, I strongly suggest you combine them sometime. Strangely, the adderall didn't seem to quell my psychedelic experience, but make it stronger possibly due to the adderall increasing my brain's function. Any how, hope this is insightful and happy tripping!",
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Has anyone taken a creative writing class? Was it helpful? | I've always been skeptical of creative writing classes.. not because I think that good writing can't be taught (or, more importantly, learned), but because the discussion-style format seems to be a case of the blind leading the blind. Unless the teacher is a respected author, or your peers are already good writers, I'm not sure what the benefit of it all is. If I knew they were positive experiences, however, I wouldn't be against taking one.
Has anyone had a really good experience in these sorts of classes? Can they, contrary to my deepest darkest suspicions, be in fact worthwhile? Or am I better off just reading books about writing and maybe talking to professors outside of class? | 17 | [
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"body": "The creative writing class I took three years ago changed my life, my focus, and my outlook. You *need* constructive and even destructive criticism. It's not always > a case of the blind leading the blind\n\nbecause everyone from the most well read person in the world to a small child and even someone who has never written anything in their lives is going to have one thing you don't, and that's a new perspective. ",
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"body": "I went through the creative writing program at Florida State University. It had both good and bad aspects. Some of my instructors were fantastic, gave great feedback, and pushed me to try new things. Other instructors didn't give a damn. Same with the students. Some were in there to become better writers, while others thought they could coast through with minimal effort.\n\nIf nothing else, a creative writing class will teach you to accept constructive criticism and how to be a critical reader. \n\nFor what it's worth, one of my instructors was a Pulitzer Prize winner (Robert Olen Butler) and the other a NY Times best selling author (Mark Winegardner). The former was great, the latter was an ass.\n\nMy opinion? Take some classes. It's worth it.",
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"body": "I have a degree in creative writing. Blind leading the blind is dead on in my experience. Maybe a more apt metaphor would be blind leading the deaf leading the mute leading the paraplegic leading the blind. You will have the occasional teacher that is inspiring and smart and worthwhile but they will be few and far between, simply because most of your teachers are just former creative writing students.\n\nYou will probably run into a system called the Liz Lerman method of criticism (I forget the other name) where you aren't allowed to ask leading questions or make judgmental statements about the other person's work. You can only ask questions like: \"Do you plan on expanding this blah blah? Do you want to go in blah direction?\" You can't ask questions like: \"Why is this character so boring?\" Basically you have to assume that everything that's there is there for a reason, and if it's a mistake, only the author can judge that. \n\nOf course, what ends up happening is that since everyone feels like they can't say what they really mean or feel, they just end up making innocuous statements that don't help like: \"I really like how this character is belligerent.\" Or whatever. Basically just a statement designed not to make waves or hurt anyone's feelings. It's infuriating because you never hear anything useful. \n\nThe best way you can get better at creative writing is to be motivated, to write constantly, to read constantly and to hopefully be friends with similar people. \n\nedit: and be very picky and self-critical.",
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"body": ">Unless the teacher is a respected author\n\nSelling more books/getting better reviews doesn't have anything to do with the quality of a course. ",
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"body": "I when i went to a creative writing class it was with mostly people who had never wrote before or wrote very little. The stuff they wrote, poetry and short stories and what not were generally sappy and tragic mostly because if you make something sappy, tragic and personal it suddenly can go above criticism and harsh grading. I of course criticized their works for little technical details and what not but even from thier amatuer stories I gained a tidbit of knowledge about what makes a poor story or rather reconfirmed my beliefs. \n\nThe best part of the creative writing class was giving my work out to others and seeing what they thought. I had obvious flaws which i did not see before of course but it was great getting critique from all sorts of people.\n\nId say go for it, you'll learn a lot and if you don't learn you'll just reconfirmed what you suspected. ",
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"body": "I'm currently taking one. But my comment will be not using that as a reference. Merely to answer your first question.\n\nAnyway, of course a class could be helpful. That does not guarantee that it *will* be, but it could be. It depends on a number of factors: your professor, your state of mind, your classmates, etc. Though, it's also, as you suggest, quite limited in what it *can* deliver to you. Not necessarily due to your state of mind, but rather due to the nature of writing and the beliefs of the professor teaching you.\n\nIf, for example, you have a professor that's heavily into phenomenological examination of things to trigger creative insight, then anything you get in that class will be delivered through that lens. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and that's where your personal state of mind comes in. If you're willing to accept the professor's method as one method of creatively writing, then you can, perhaps, learn a new method of triggering creativity.",
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"body": "My creative writing class gave me all sorts of perspective and drive. Changed my philosophy on work ethic.",
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"body": "I've taken a few and participated and a few writing groups. For me it wasn't a matter of getting excellent critique and instruction so much as learning how to accept critique I didn't immediately agree with, and learning how to self-critique by critiquing others and seeing how things I tried in my writing failed in something I wasn't as close or attached to.\n\nI don't really know if someone can teach someone how to write (beside the basics of grammar), but if it forces you to write regularly and examine things critically, it's worthwhile.",
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"body": "I have taken two creative writing classes (I'm an English major btw). I would say that they were helpful and would recommend it. The thing about creative writing classes is that basically you end up outgrowing them, especially in the context of peer review. Essentially, they're helpful but you can outgrow them.",
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"body": "My first of two degrees is a Creative Writing degree (it says English, but my focus was creative writing). The second degree is a Design degree (I am only just recently getting back into writing). The Creative Writing program I attended was a mixed bag. I came away with rather mixed feelings about the classes.\n\nSome of my teachers were fantastic at encouraging me to explore all sorts of concepts in my writing. Others were too focused on driving us all down the same path of complete and total realism - no deviation, no exploring to find your voice. That never sat well with me as I've never been one to take kindly to being told that I can't write something that I want to write.\n\nSide note: I wrote a fan letter to Chuck Palahniuk in 2004 describing these teachers and their varying attitudes toward student writing. And in response to the teachers who wanted to force us all to write in the same tone over and over he said, \"Hah! Congratulations on getting swept up in the sucky wave of 'New Yorker Realism.' There, you just get to be an anxious camera, recording the mini-blips in a middle class world. In a word: Yawn.\"\n\nThen, there's the workshop-style critiques. We would write something, print out a copy for each person in the class, they would take it home, read it and comment directly on the prints. Then, back in class, we'd discuss that particular student's story/poem/scene/whatever with the student in the room to take notes, respond, etc. This is a good idea in theory, until half the notes you get back say things like \"I like this\" or \"good choice\" or \"insert-positive-non-critique-here\". Most of the rest of the notes were grammar or spelling corrections, which are equally unhelpful when you're trying to develop a story. I would be lucky if there was even 5% of the notes that proved to be actual, honest critiques of my writing.\n\nOne of my favorite classes was my playwriting class. I took it mostly for fun but to also work on dialogue (something that I always struggled with for some time). A good playwriting class, especially one that is designed for beginners, can be quite helpful on this score. First, you're focusing on dialogue (sure, there's a lot more to a script than dialogue - stage directions, actions the actors need to perform, etc.). Second, if your teacher is smart, they'll have you bring several copies of your scene and choose a couple of your fellow students to get up in front of the class and read your script aloud to everyone. Hearing how other people interpret the dialogue I wrote helped me a lot when writing dialogue in stories.\n\nBack to the Chuck Palahniuk letter: I think I may have gotten more out of a one-and-a-half page response to a fan letter to a favorite author of mine regarding writing than I did out of an entire college degree in Creative Writing.\n\nI think I've rambled enough so I'll shut up now.",
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OK law makes it illegal to 'fortify' a private home beyond an alarm system, lock or deadbolt. If police raid your home, you could get 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine | State Rep. Sue Tibbs was one of the sponsors of a bill that makes it unlawful for “any person to willfully fortify an access point into any dwelling, structure, building or other place where a felony offense prohibited by the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act is being committed, or attempted, and the fortification is for the purpose of preventing or delaying entry or access by a law enforcement officer, or to harm or injure a law enforcement officer in the performance of official duties.”
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"body": "> where a felony offense prohibited by the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act is being committed, or attempted\n\nDoesn't that mean if you're not doing drugs, it's fine to barricade the doors as much as you want?",
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"body": "These are not uncommon laws. Many states have similar. For instance, [Illinois](http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=072000050HArt.+19&ActID=1876&ChapAct=720%A0ilcs%A05%2F&ChapterID=53&ChapterName=criminal+offenses&SectionID=60731&SeqStart=47600000&SeqEnd=48200000&ActName=criminal+code+of+1961.).",
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What quirky things that the person or persons you live with do that is kind of funny? | Right now my roommate is singing to some country songs and the words he doesn't know he just mumbles till he knows the next set of words. (If you are reading this JC I don't mind it)
Here is his singing voice! Doesn't know I recorded him. (We face away from each other in the office)
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"body": "M young son (and my wife) comfort themselves to sleep by rubbing my ear lobes. In the middle of the night, my three-year-old comes into my bed and rubs my ears until he falls asleep.",
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"body": "More stories.\n\nI used to live with a tiny gay Muslim guy. He was fucking hilarious. Strange things he would do:\n\n* Use a laptop in the bath.\n* Have gay guys round to hook up with at all hours. Occasionally send them home claiming they were \"too gay\".\n* Use a hair dryer at all hours to warm himself when he was chilly.\n* NEVER fall asleep without an episode of Doctor Who playing far too loud on his laptop (in fact we both got used to me going into his room at 5am and turning his laptop sound off after he fell asleep).\n* When I was working I would often put on music. If it was a song he liked he dance into my room, of course - only wearing his underpants. He would proceed to dance around until I was distracted/annoyed/turned the music off.",
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"body": "My roommate always has a different combination of wearing socks; Depending how comfortable it is. Such as: wearing only one sock or one that is only half on, both on only half way, both on but only one half way. I asked him why he does it and his response was, \"because sometimes I like half of my foot warm and the other half cold.\"",
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"body": "My roommate sometimes records me singing to myself when I think nobody can hear me and posts it online for everybody on the internet to listen to. That's embarrassing. He's an asshole.",
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"body": "My roommate has a tendency to vigorously rub his face in his pillow when he sleeps. It's like he's silently motorboating.",
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"body": "My girlfriend exits the shower,towels off, then turn on the faucet and washes her hands. Everytime.",
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"body": "My roomate has this annoying habit of shaving just to the left of the sink, onto the countertop, and then not cleaning up. I put up with it for two weeks before I told him to either shave into the sink or to clean up the counter when he's done shaving. \r\n\r\nA few days later, I notice there is no more hair to clean up and I'm pleased. Until later that night I walk into my room and find him shaving in the middle of the room, looking into the mirror that is directly above my laundry. His solution to avoiding hair in the sink was to stop shaving in the bathroom. I say to him \"Are you... shaving into my laundry?\" He looks down, picks up the white shirt on top of the pile that is covered in hair, brushes off the hair, tosses it back in the pile, says \"Oh, sorry dude\" and then goes right back to shaving.",
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"body": "My roommate makes up songs while cooking. They are always about the thing that she is cooking,and typically just explain what she is doing with the food. \n\n \" choppin' onions, choppin' onions...grilling tofu...gotta throw in some garlic\" that sort of thing, in a sing-song voice. ",
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"body": "I lived with a guy who had no bed, just fell asleep at his computer every night (face on keyboard). I mean, I was in a hardcore WoW situation at the time and even _I_ managed to make it into bed every night.. ",
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"body": "When my wife gets horny, she never vocalizes it. That's, like, taboo for her. Instead, she just either takes her pants or shirt off, as if that's a lot more subtle than saying \"I want sex now.\"",
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"body": "I had a roomie who would eat his fries down to the nub he was holding, then set the nub aside and wouldn't eat it. He knew it was OCD, but couldn't stop. He could also not be held down and forced to eat one. I got a nice black eye proving that last one.",
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"body": "Lived with the college \"legend\" weird kid by accident. \n\nHe moved in, but didn't unpack anything. There were 5 giant cardboard boxes in his room, and he'd only take stuff out of them when he needed it. He'd watch crime shows every night... not law an order, but more like John Walsh most-wanted-kinda-stuff. weird shit that i'd think would give you nightmares.\n\nHe'd also sleep on the couch rather than his own bedroom. and sleep is a strong word - he'd crouch/curl up on the couch and sort of wedge his head between cushions (essentially i'd come home to find his ass facing the front door and the creepy crime documentaries on)\n\nHe'd eat fish sticks. only fishsticks (our freezer was full of them and he'd bake a tray at a time and eat them... off the tray, without fork, without plate)\n\nHe left after one semester (i have a week's notice from him). The police called me about 3 weeks after - apparently they found him in a different state somewhere and he claimed that he didn't speak any english and gave my contact info to them. \n\nIf you're reading this, thanks for the memories, Billy-1-benzene. you were a nutter. \n\n**EDIT** Forgot - he's favorite show was cops. He'd walk around singing \"bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do\" to himself, but in his broken accent... that was also his \"pickup line\" - he'd go to \"target gal of interest\" and sing the \"bad boys\" while doing some weird wiggle wiggle dance... and then ran away before the girl had a moment to figure out what the heck happened to her...",
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"body": "I had a crazy landlord that lived across the hall from me. I saw him a ton so he was kind of like a roommate. He was terrifying for plenty of reasons - constantly made me very uncomfortable. Upon leaving, we were doing a walk through. I explained there was hole in the window screen because squirrels broke in - which was true. He tangented, waving his crazy arms:\n\n*I hate squirrels! They ruin everything! They break things, they eat things, they ruin my garden, they're nothing but trouble! But oh nooooo - I can't take care of the problem 'cause those fucking nazis will give me a ticket!*\n\nMe: *Nazis? What?*\n\n*Animal control or the state or whoever the fuck they were! It's my property, my problem, my garden, my goddamn squirrels, and when I take care of it it costs me $500 fucking dollars!*\n\nMe: *Take care of it...?*\n\n*I euthanized them! I had one of those humane traps, you know, I caught 9 of the bastards and I euthanized them! It's humane! It's the best fucking way I could have done it and they ticket me $500 dollars!*\n\nMe: *Wait, euthanized?*\n\n*Put them in a box - and my goddamn nosy neighbor saw me do it, that nosy nessy next door - and ran a hose from my trucks exhaust. And after all the time I put into it they have the nerve to call me cruel! Cruel!? They're fucking nazis.*\n\nMe (so glad I'm leaving)",
"score": 42
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"body": "My sister used to go bury rotten vegetables to the forest nearby instead of just throwing them to the compost. She took pictures of pumpkins sitting there under pine trees and potatos piled on top of them, and them buried them.",
"score": 38
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"body": "I had a roommate once that would take showers around midnight with all the lights off in the bathroom (no windows) while eating bowls of ice cream. This was a regular occurrence. ",
"score": 38
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"body": "Many years ago, I had a roommate who, after a shower, put his wet towel in a cardboard box he kept by the head of his bed. He also had a thing where as soon as he'd collected more than a dollar's worth of change, he'd want to go to a store and cash it in for bills. He'd ask me if I wanted to come along.",
"score": 35
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"body": "I had a roommate who used to keep track of my girlfriend's menses and would steal her tampons out of the trash.",
"score": 34
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"body": "My roommate used to have the quietest sex with her boyfriend. I would never know that they even had sex except that she'd always find me afterwords and worriedly ask me if I heard anything. The answer was always \"no\" and the reply was always a bashful, \"Good, because I wouldn't want you to know when we're doing it.\"",
"score": 32
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"body": "I have a roommate who occasionally borrows my car (manual transmission).\n\nHe touches his nose once for each time he shifts, without fail. He didn't know he was doing it.",
"score": 31
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"body": "My roommate keeps his toothbrush in his room after he accused me of using it once because \"it's still wet from the night before.\" Reddit, I did no such thing.",
"score": 26
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"body": "I live with a couple. Both of them like to get drunk a lot, here are some of the things they do:\n\nThe girl will often go to bed, thinking she is hungry and awake enough to eat, with a plate of food - and sometimes a drink. I can't count the number of times we her face down in her food with red wine all over the sheets.\n\nThe guy will go to sleep, wake up still drunk and needing a piss. He'll proceed to \"hide a wee\" in some obscure part of their room, and they both get to spend the next day figuring out just where he hid it.\n\nBut I think overall I'm the most quirky flatmate. Here are some of the things that I do (that they have mentioned):\n\nMy first name is Luke, I regularly wonder around singing, atonally, \"MY name is LUuukkkeee\" in all sorts of wonderful ways.\n\nWonder around mumbling to myslef, and when asked reply with something like \"figuring out how to prove that membership of a grammar decision problem is not recursive...\" or some other mathematical insanity.\n\nI wear a green headband to keep my hair out of my face when I program - also I get less spots if my hair does not touch my face all day long. I look like a jogger form the 70s.\n\nFrequently request either of my flatmates to \"rub my belly\" after eating lots of food. It's not sexual, I just love a good belly rub.",
"score": 23
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"body": "When my younger brother lived with my girlfriend and I, he had a notorious love for chocolate. So occasionally we'd buy a chocolate cake and put a note on it saying \"do not eat\". Then we'd just wait.\n\nUsually about a 5 or 6 days later he'd come to us with a really guilty look, \"I'm sooorrrry...I couldn't help myself.\" Then we'd say, that's fine, we didn't end up needing it anyway. The look would change to that reminiscent of Christmas and he'd go downstairs, grab the remainder of the cake, and disappear into his room. The cake would not be seen again.\n\nAfter a few times of this we would make bets as to how long it would take him to finally slice into it. Sad he never caught on....or maybe he did, but just loved the cake...don't know.",
"score": 22
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"body": "My wife puts ketchup on almost everything. Tonight I grilled garlic, rosemary, thyme potatoes with peppers and red onion (grilled chicken was the main dish). She put ketchup all over the potatoes.",
"score": 20
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"body": "A lot of times, my roommate will go into the bathroom (located between our rooms) in the middle of the night around 5 times in the span of an hour. He is usually in there for about a minute at a time. Not really funny, but very perplexing.",
"score": 18
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"body": "I have a 6 year old cousin staying with me tonight and he just took a shower on my bathroom, the little man just arranged all the bottles I had on the shower by size... and I'm kinda proud haha \n\nAlso, this thread has awesome timing (this happened no more than a minute ago)",
"score": 18
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"body": "Know how most people sing in the shower? My flatmate meows in the shower. Actually, he's almost always making funny noises of some sort.",
"score": 18
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"body": "I live with two roommates, both of whom are frequent cannabis smokers. \n\nA large percent of the time that one of my roommates - the bisexual one - gets high, he talks loudly in a very high pitch voice, speaking complete nonsense, alone on his side of the room. \n\nThe other one will aimlessly rummage through his dorm-room belongings, quietly muttering to himself about things he will only fleetingly be looking for before remembering something else he would rather find and setting out for that instead. \n\nWhen together, they speedily yap about anything and everything that arbitrarily pops into their heads nonstop for as long as they stay awake. This aspect of their stonerdom is obviously the most entertaining. ",
"score": 15
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"body": "- She has sex on our couch on a regular basis, and doesn't seem to care if I see.\n\n- She has never done the dishes. I once (as an experiment) just stopped doing the dishes for a while until the kitchen got absolutely disgusting, but of course, she still did not do the dishes, even after I asked.\n\n- She will leave food out on the counter uncovered for days, sometimes a week, and then eat it.\n\n",
"score": 14
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"body": "My wife is a pretty clean freak but she picks her nose and flicks the boogers all over the place. Most of the time she chants \"picking and flicking, picking and flicking\". Also during her pregnancy she would often say \"Poop on the baby?\" to which she expected me to respond \"NO POOPING ON THE BABY!\". When we are laying in bed with the lights on she will wait until I get out of bed to turn out the lights and will sing \"Turn out the lights! Turn out the lights! ...\" along with the rest of that song.",
"score": 13
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"body": "My girlfriend--also a reddit user--has begun using her versions of reddit/internet memes that I introduced her to at one point or another. Of course, at the moment I can only think of one, but she says it all the time:\n\n\"Let's do this, Leroy!\"\n",
"score": 12
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"body": "For some reason my roommate like to masturbate in the shower with a condom on. He doesn't leave the actual used condom in there, just the wrappers are strewn all over the place. I don't get it.",
"score": 11
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"body": "My one roommate always takes his laptop in the bathroom with him when he poops so he can listen to music. My other roommate wraps his toothbrush in toilet paper because he's afraid airborne poo particles will attach themselves to his toothbrush bristles and make him sick.",
"score": 11
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"body": "My wife sometimes awakes and speaks nonsense but doesn't remember it at all the next morning. One night, she woke up asking me about the penguins in the attic.\n \nIn college, when we were dating, I was sleeping in her dorm room while she was working on some assignment for class. At one point, I sat straight up in her bed and the following conversation ensued:\n \nMe: \"Did Pete call??\" (Pete was my rommate at the time)\n \nHer: \"Um, no - was he supposed to?\"\n \nMe: \"No.\"\n \nHer: \"I'm confused.\"\n \nMe: \"You think you're confused - I'm still trying to figure out why Pete didn't call.\"",
"score": 11
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"body": "My roommate furiously rubs his nose in his sleep. \n\nThe first time I found out was when I walked into his room in the morning and saw blood all over his face, pillow, sheets etc. though the worst thing were the bloody handprints all over the wall where his head was.\n\nSeriously, wtf?",
"score": 10
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"body": "Today my roomate spilled a pot of water all over the kitchen floor before he left for work. I awoke to the kitchen being lined with wet paper towel. \n\n\nHe also never flushes and tells me that if its yellow let it mellow. ",
"score": 9
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"body": "my roommate my sophomore year of college was a bit of a nut. she's still one of my best friends, but she has some...quirks. one of the strangest things i've seen her do was pour some water into a box of brownie mix and eat it with a spoon at her desk.",
"score": 9
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"body": "My mothers eats everything out of measuring cups. I think it started out as a dieting thing, but who doesnt want a bowl with a handle? To say the least it stuck, and for years I have been doing the same. ",
"score": 9
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"body": "I've got this one roommate who got one of the strangest sneezes...honestly, I've never seen anyone else work so hard for their sneeze. There's a very long build up process -- there are about 4 or 5 rounds of quick inhaling and exhaling before the actual sneeze. Now here's the kicker: if you count 1, 2, 3...1, 2, 3 in a rhythm off of his steady inhale/exhale, he loses his ability to sneeze.\n\nway more fun than it should be to mess with him, especially because he gives you a long enough amount of time to realize what's going on and throw him off",
"score": 8
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"body": "One day my roommate drank a 5 hour energy. He needed to stay up late to finish a project. I left to go play Settlers of Catan at a friend's house. I return to find every single thing in our living room turned upside down - couches, television set, tables; insignificant things like mugs, papers, books. The tables had all of their contents that could support weight (largely books) stacked beneath them in reverse order. He then arranged everything he owned in order of largest to smallest on the kitchen floor.",
"score": 8
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"body": "My roommate(couchmate really) has a masters in art, doesn't work, and plays the harmonica. He also always wears a vest with leopard print he sewed on the back, and a shoulder pad with pink fluffy feathers. My other room mate(woman) is a super hot amazonian type, who spends all free time not working watching things like hannah montana and other teen disney cartoons. My other roommates are also strange.",
"score": 7
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"body": "I have lived with a person who, in the middle of the night, when they couldn't be bothered to get up and walk to the bathroom, would urinate out of the (ground floor) window next to their bed.\n\nI'd be woken at 1am by the sound of a window opening and the tinkling of a stream of piss hitting the flyscreen.",
"score": 7
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"body": "His name was Kohei. He was my japanese exchange student in college for half a year. Little did i know when i met this strange fellow how much trouble he would be. Here is a list, in no particular order of his antics. \n\nOn his first day, he went with his classmates to go buy some bedding materials. He selected some old school spiderman bed set. Cool?\n\nHe would sometimes stick his tongue out randomly and make a slurping noise as he pulled it back into his mouth. I asked him why he did this many times, eventually he told me. \"i'm yoshi\"\n\nWhile drunk, He enjoyed sleeping on staircases. \n\nHe referred to my cousin's cat as \"My honey!\"\n\nOne day, i was on my computer, and he came up behind me and started giving me a heartfelt shoulder massage. I told him to cut it out immediately, in less polite terms. \n\nHe liked to play [Kancho](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancho) with random guys. some of his victims were more understanding than others. \n\nSince he had no computer, i let him play my psp. He would play with his face really close to the screen. Problem was, he sneezed directly on the screen from time to time, he made no effort to clean the screen. \n\nI was told that he whipped his little Kohei out while drunk one night. \n\nThe best story:\n\nOne day, after my alarm went off for my 8am class. I was deciding whether or not i should go to class or just sleep in for a couple more hours. I decided to sleep in, and i rolled over . Suddenly, i heard this... *rustling*... i looked over at Kohei's bed, which was right next to mine, and he was full on humping his mattress under his Spiderman blanket. \"KOHEI WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING\" was my response. He froze instantly, butt still hanging in the air ready for another pump. A solid 5 seconds went by before he replied \"nothing\" and he returned to the supine position. \n\nI decided to go to class. \n\n\nIt was pretty strange. I'll post more if i think of more. ",
"score": 7
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"body": "My dad doesn't know what a milkshake is. One time I was drinking a milkshake and he said \"What's that? Ice cream?\" and asked to taste it. He sipped the milkshake, like one would sip a cup of warm tea.",
"score": 6
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"body": "I currently have a roommate that somehow manages to get shit on the toilet seat every single time. This is on top of the area you should be sitting on. Without fail...every single time. The best is when I go in after him and there is not only shit on the back of the seat, but pee on the front of the seat. This means he either shits and gets it on the seat, then stands up to pee, once again missing the target and ignoring the obvious brown streak, or he pees and then sits in his own pee to shit. Gross, but kind of funny in a sick way.",
"score": 5
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"body": "when I was in university, I shared a house with a bunch of people. there was one girl who was a tree-hugging environmental hippie type. anyway, she used to bury her used tampons in the garden around the house...",
"score": 5
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"body": "He ruins his life by playing World of Warcraft instead of functioning like a normal college student that goes to class and does homework.",
"score": 5
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"body": "My one roommate leaves the cabinets in our kitchen open. When I say \"open\", I don't mean kind of open, but WIDE open.\n\nIt started off innocently enough. Whenever he used the cabinet that contained the spices/ cooking oils, he would always leave it open. Seeing as how we cook from scratch quite often, this wasn't a problem. Then he started leaving the cabinet with the dishes/ cups open every now and then. The day I came back from going home for the holidays, every single cabinet in the kitchen was open.\n\nI gotta admit, it made my snack selecting easier.",
"score": 4
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"body": "My girlfriend bites her hand really hard when she's angry. She has a bite callous on the space between her forefinger and thumb.",
"score": 4
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"body": "After we go out drinking, my roommates girlfriend gets in my bed and says we should have a threesome.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Our roommate likes to sidekick the recycling bins and the front door... hard. And he likes to swing random household objects as if they were a sword. While startling, it's usually quite hilarious. Why? Because he meows like a cat, a lot.",
"score": 3
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"body": "My roommate sings in the shower. not unusual. what is unusual is what he sings, usually Mike Patton-esque grumbling, growling, serenading, opera, and crazy talking to himself all intermingled. It's great.\nIf he gets in this thread, he'd probably say that I sleep in bathroom, on the floor, in a sleeping bag when I'm having a hard time getting to sleep.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I used to play D&D at author Steven Brust's house with a guy that rented a room from him. Brust had some strange cooking habits. He would cook a large goulash-like concoction and leave it on the stove for days, reheating it and adding more to it over time. He was always polite enough to offer some, but I couldn't stomach the smell.",
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DAE find FML kind of depressing now? | The site feels more like a place where people rant about random bad things in their life.
Example: "Today, this huge wasp started flying around me. I freaked out and started running from it. Then I slipped, landed face-first in some dog poo, and got stung by the wasp on my leg. FML" | 5 | [
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"body": "Even though I have all the money in the world, I still have no one that loves me, my parents are dead and the closest thing I have to a friend is my butler. FML",
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[TOMT] [Movie] 80's movie. Family van falls off a cliff into forest. Only little boy survives and has to survive in the forest alone. | I remember a distinct scene right after the accident. The van is upside down in the forest. Wheels turning and smoke coming out. | 3 | [
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"body": "The Earthling\n \nthanks to http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/movies/movie-about-boy-surviving-wilderness-after-parents-killed-rv-accident-243011.html\n \n(just had to Google the keywords)",
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Please help with DeBouvelles number theory proof | hi all,
DeBouvelles was famously wrong in 1509 when he conjectured that either 6n+1 or 6n-1 must be prime for all natural numbers n > 0.
I have been assigned the task of proving that there are infinitely many counter-examples to this. n = 20 and n = 24 work as single examples. (Yeah, the guy really didn't do his homework).
I can prove that the 6n-1 part of the 'or' will always be composite if I choose n = 6m^2 for any natural number m. (causes a difference of squares (6m-1)(6m+1) which must always have a composite product). When I plug n=6m^2 into the 6n+1 side of the 'or', sometimes it produces a prime, sometimes a composite depending on the value of m chosen. I'm looking for some additional constraints so I always get a composite number but I'm not having a lot of success. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT: Thanks so much to all of you who helped out! Upvotes all around. | 3 | [
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"body": "If n is of the form 35k+1, then\n\n 6n-1=6(35k+1)-1=35*6*k+5=5(7*6*k+1)\n\nand\n\n 6n+1=6(35k+1)+1=35*6*k+7=7(5*6*k+1)",
"score": 6
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"body": "The n-1 consecutive numbers n!+2, n!+3,...,n!+n are all composite. In particular, for n>=7, n!+6 is a multiple of 6, and n!+6-1 and n!+6+1 are multiples of 5 and 7 respectively.",
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Ask Reddit: Should I come out of the closet? | So here I am, hung over ego broken down stuck with my true self. And the more I think on days like these, or when I honestly assess myself I realize that I have homosexual urges. I have had them probably for a long time, but didn't ever stop to think about them.
I remember when I was 12-13 thinking "girls are so lucky cuss they get to have boys and they are better to look at", I almost verbalized it as well but decided to not say anything because I thought there was something wrong with that sentence (probably the repression of my first homosexual thought).
In junior high I was the first one to call someone a fag in an argument, I think this was just me masking and trying to protect my unconscious urges.
Now I'm 26, have had girlfriends (never a true love scenario, but a poor excuse for a relationship with sex and mistrust). How could I love a woman if I don't have feelings for her, and how could she be so blind that my love is not there.
I grew up playing basketball, and baseball so I've always had a very masculine demeanor and attitude ingrained in me. Many of my friends are athletes I've played with for most of my life. How do I come out? How can I come out?
It feels as though, if I was to come out I would be giving up so much. I would be giving up connections, friends (even though shallow and based on what is essentially my lie), family love, family friends. Basically I would be giving up my life (which is pretty good, except for the sexual aspect).
I still want kids, I want a family and I want to be happy. I give my sexuality all of my thought, and it really eats away at me for going against my own desires and not being honest with the world. But to be honest it feels like a curse, it feels like I will be signing up for a life of ridicule and exclusion if I follow my heart. At this point if I could do anything to change my orientation I would. Don't recommend conversion or reparative therapy, I've read about it and think its unscientific and damaging.
I feel as though I have been shutting myself off to the world sexually for years, and that I am now shutting off other parts of my life and I am becoming bitter, angry and guilt ridden all the time. How do I come out, how do I get the strength to do it, or do I just shut up keep it in and keep my head down and pretend everything is alright? | 12 | [
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"body": "It sounds like you already realize that you can't go on living a healthy life without acknowledging to your friends and family that you are gay. From this point you have to realize that you can either stay in the closet for the rest of your life, which will probably be very bad for your mental health, or you can just bite the bullet and come out. Dealing with the initial awkwardness with family and friends (which in my experience was not bad at all) will be minor compared to continuing with what you have already been going through. This is very cliche, but if your friends don't like you if you are gay, they aren't real friends.\n\nYou only got one life, might as well be as free as possible.",
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"body": "Yes, you should come out of the closet. I just came out about 4 months ago at the age of 22 and I think we are fairly similar in terms of personality. I am a sports guy, I predominately listen to metal and hard rock music, I don't like dancing or clubs or drag, and I just happen to love guys.\n\nWhat I realized in the closet is that I was living my live for the purpose of others and not going after what I wanted myself. I am still not at a point where I am completely going after things I want because being in the closet ingrained all these behaviors into me that really don't represent who I am deep down. The longer you stay in the closet the more ingrained these feelings will be and the harder it will be on you to rid yourself of them.\n\nBefore I came out, I thought everyone would have such a negative view of me once they learned that I was gay. Luckily this wasn't the case, I took the risk and went for it and barely anyone seems to care. Furthermore, if someone does care, fuck them, you don't have to justify your innate feelings to anyone.\n\nAlso, realize that you aren't alone. There are lots of other gay guys out there just like yourself. When I was a teen I was constantly wondering why there went any gay guys out there who weren't complete flamers. This is just an issue of visibility and observation, if you saw me on the street you wouldn't think for a second that I was gay. You see a flamboyant guy on the street you automatically assume that he is gay based upon a confirmation bias. Just have comfort in knowing that there are a lot of other guys out there just like you and once they all sack up and start coming out it won't be as weird or awkward for the coming generations.\n\nYes, coming out will take a lot of courage and strength and yes it will be awkward but, I couldn't have imagined living my entire life in the closet, it would just be fair to ME and you wouldn't be being fair to yourself if you stayed in the closet too.",
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"body": "It's kind of a ripping off a plaster (bandaid) type thing, you just gotta go for it, and the relief afterwards is fucking great. I, too, had no gay friends. All my friends were guys who called each other 'gay!' quicker than anything, and i was really worried about coming out to them. All really blokey blokes. I didn't lose a single friend, i'm pleased to say. If I had lost some, well that would have been their beef. Easy to say I know, and you really don't want to feel as though you've driven them away but it's just a fact of life that some people won't accept you, and it does hurt. \n\nYour family will almost certainly love you no matter what, they may be weirded out, but if you explain the pressure it has been putting you under they should understand, and want you to be happy. \n\nEach time you tell someone it gets easier. \n\nAs for you not being sure whether when you try it with a guy you might realise you're not gay... well... i can't say for sure but i'm pretty sure straight guys never have those sort of thoughts. You're gay, and you have to admit and embrace that fully before you will be able to start telling people. \n\nI doubt you believe this tired cliche but IT'S NOT A CHOICE.\n\nStop thinking about other people, and start thinking about yourself. You've got a long and amazing road ahead of you, one that many of us have walked down before. You're not alone. Safe. \n\n",
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"body": "A couple of questions so we can perhaps help you out a bit more. Also I'll note this that yes, you should come out, it will be the BIGGEST weight lifted off of your shoulders, and you may be pleasantly surprised with some of the reactions, as was I when I came out. \n\n - Where do you live? \n\n - Are your family/friends religious people?\n\n - Do you have any gay friends/family members or do you know any? \n\nAll of my friends are \"very straight\", ball busting, almost frat-like type guys, and they had absolutely not a care in the world when I came out to them. I too am masculine which probably helps, mainly because I can still talk sports with them, go fishing with them, etc. \n\nI wish you the best of luck, and really do hope that you can be true to yourself and come out to the people you care about. If they don't want to be friends anymore than that means they can't accept you for you *really* are. I was extremely lucky in my situation and it may not turn out the same for you, but you can always make new friends! Granted it's not the same as these are life long friends you have had, sometimes you start over from scratch and it's just another chapter in life :)",
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"body": "Its a very tough decision that you'll have to face. It's never easy for anyone to come out of the closet.\n\nFor me, it was the easiest when I graduated from high school and went to college. I went to a relatively small town, so everyone knew each other one way or another. The one thing that really stopped me from coming out was when my friend at the time and some random girl would repeatedly call me gay constantly during school until eventually i just broke down one day and starting crying in class. It was horrible.\n\nSo I mainly stayed closeted for my highschool life, only telling a few people here and there. I told a few people throughout highschool that I was gay, and it was a huge relief. If anything, It would be easier to tell a female than male in my opinion. Males would probably have a harder time dealing with it due to the fact that they might think you are attracted to them and bla bla bla... but of course, it all depends on the person.\n\nComing out in college has been awesome :). On the first or second day, I was like, fuck it if anyone asks me if i'm gay i'll just say yes. For me, i feel like there is no point in telling people that I'm gay. It's something that I go through that will not affect you (unless i'm attracted to you). When you go out and stuff, the actions you take will relatively reveal to others that you are gay. I went to a very liberal college so... it wasn't that big of a deal :P. (there are at least 4 other gay people just on my floor...) \n\nEnough about me! :P For you, I feel like if you know that you have been having \"urges\" and you know that you are gay, then do it! Like others have been saying, you would be surprised on how people react. The one thing i don't recommend is to come out to people who you are very iffy about their reaction AND if you are financially dependent on them. For instance, i'm financially dependent on my dad, and I have no clue how he would react, so until i'm able to be truly independent, I wouldn't say anything right now.\n\nYou might feel like you will be giving up so much, but truthfully, you are gaining so much more! You gain the freedom of being who you truly are, and not needing to be afraid! \n\nif you do decide to come out, gl. The first time you tell someone, it can feel like the world just crashed on you, but after that one second, it feels like your floating on air for the rest of your life :)",
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"body": "Coming out will be very challenging. It will be rewarding.\r\n\r\nIf you don't, you'll never be really happy. If you force yourself into a hetero family relationship not only will you hurt yourself, but eventually your wife and children when you ultimately fuck it up (you will). You've realized you can't be truly content with the lie.\r\n\r\nIf your friends and family are worth anything, they'll accept you. They won't all understand. \r\n\r\nConsider moving somewhere that'll allow you to have a happy same-sex family. Any children you adopt would have a bit of trouble because of your homosexuality but I think it's far better than having an abusive/absent/uncaring parent or being stuck in foster care.\r\n\r\nI am very sorry. You cannot be cured of your homosexuality but it is possible to cure you of your insanity.\r\n\r\nGood luck",
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"body": "As a gay man, I don't regret coming out one bit because I have been able to live my life openly and honestly. Authentic, loving relationships have arisen from my choice to come out. \r\n\r\nOnce you begin to wonder if it's \"time\" to come out, the time is right to start telling some people. You'll find that you know the right time to tell someone ... the first few will require substantial courage.\r\n\r\nThe closet is an awfully dark place in which to eke out an existence. Overcoming the shame of \"lying\" is the hardest part of coming out for most. You may lose some friends, but you gain full ownership of your life.",
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"body": "Fuck it man. My best friend is gay but he is who he is. I don't understand why it's has to be big deal, I've been on the internet. It's the people who chastise but secretly enjoy being beat up and shit that have some explaining to do, although I can accept it, I'm still like, \"What the fuck?\"",
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"body": "Well, first, you can't pretend everything is alright. If you continue to lie to yourself you're gonna be miserable for the rest of your life. I'm sure you don't want that. Also, true friends ton really care about your sexual orientation. Sure they're gonna be surprise, but that's maybe because you don't act like gays in movies. That said, it might be the best way to know who are your true friends.\n\nAbout you wanting kids an a family I know what you feel. I face the same dilemma. The question is, if you can't love a women but want kids, are you ready to sacrifice a lot just to have the illusion of a solid family ? Do the math, I'm sure you will be more happy with the man of your life.\n\nHomosexuality is not unnatural. You don't have to be ashamed. Walk with your head up. ",
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"body": "First of all <<<BIG HUGS>>> for you. I understand not having anyone to talk about this to. Take a deep breath and remain calm. Eventually things will sort themselves out and you will understand yourself and who you are.\n\nWhen dealing with others, homophobia usually stems from one of several sources: \n\n* many people associate being gay with being feminine, and associate being feminine with being weak (hence the reasoning behind Don't Ask Don't Tell, if you're gay you must be weak and unable to be \"macho\" enough for war and unable to control your homosexual urges being around guys all the time), the weak/feminine association, societal notion has been around for a very long time, even back when women were basically possession in a marriage, before World War II when women weren't \"strong enough\" to work in factories which changed during the war and even as recently as the 1950's and 1960's when women were expected to stay home, be a mother, look pretty, act weak and not speak out of turn.\n\n* people associate being gay with being emotional and being emotional again means being weak (which is utter bullshit in my opinion). Don't, however, let your emotions control you and prevent you from rational thought. Recognize and understand them for what they are.\n\n* people get freaked out because when they find out you're gay, they immediately imagine you having sex with someone who is the same gender as you or as being someone who sleeps around\n\n* and often people get freaked out because being gay goes against what our society has deemed the \"norm\". It challenges the idea of what the nuclear family unit is. When they are challenged with thoughts outside of what they know or the patterns that they have learned, it leads to fear and apprehension because they don't understand it.\n\n* also people have been programmed by religious institutions that homosexuality is wrong. Churches and religions have been creating an enemy or an \"other\" for a long time and have used the Bible as justification from some truly horrendous things throughout history in order to remain controlling and in power. People take passages from the Bible out of context use them to justify their fear of something they don't understand or aren't willing to learn about. Again, it's about people being unable to process or understand ideas that go against the societal systems and patterns they have learned. Check out the documentary called [For The Bible Tells Me So](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912583/) for more about this.\n\nYou should know that Sexuality can be a very fluid thing. You have very straight people and very gay people and everyone in between, even people who are not sexual at all! You don't only have to be at one end or the other. However, I DO NOT recommend staying in the closet if you are in fact gay in any way. There is nothing wrong with you! It is extremely unhealthy mentally always carrying around this \"burden\" or \"secret\". At some point it will reach a boiling point and you ca't do anything but let it out. It will be the most emotional and terrifying thing you have probably ever done but letting that go and admitting you're gay to yourself and to the people around you will be liberating, profound and life changing. It will be a huge weight lifted right off your shoulders. Just know that coming out doesn't all happen at once, it is a process.\n\nLiving in a city of 450,000, there are probably more gay people there than you think. You may even be able to find a community center or support group dealing with LGBT people. Start small and discreet if you must, try going to gay-themed movie, or reading a gay-themed book. You don't have to just dive head first, full body into anything. A lot of your confusion about your situation probably does come from the years of repression from yourself or the world around you. Let it out slowly, baby steps. I have been there and frequently, I still struggle with it in my day-to-day life.\n\nJust because you might happen to be gay doesn't mean you have to give up liking sports or your masculine demeanor. If your friends have a problem with you being gay, they aren't your true friends. There are many different kinds of gay people who like many different things that would be stereotypically classified as \"straight only\" types of interests. There are gay athletes, gay actors, gay politicians, gay entertainers, gay construction workers, gay military soldiers, you name it, there are gay people doing it. I am sort of one of those types of people. I don't like going out to bars or parties or drinking much or being a slut, and I am CERTAINLY not a muscular adonis, as tends to be the image people associate with being gay. I am a very quiet and shy guy who likes reading, watching a lot of movies and works in an office. Not your \"stereotypical\" gay guy. Just because you're gay doesn't mean you have to like certain things, although I do like some dance/techno type of music sometimes... \n\nBeing gay also doesn't have to mean that you can't have a family. I am assuming you live in the United States? I am in Canada so I don't completely fully understand the limitations gay people face from state to state but I do have a pretty good idea. I know that obviously marriage is out of the question in most places and that gay people adopting is also banned in many states but I believe a time will come when that will change. You could adopt a child or even find a surrogate to have a child for you. There are ways to have a family and being gay doesn't have to stop you from achieving that or any of the goals you wish to achieve in life. There are many different types of families in this world.\n\nI understand your apprehension and confusion about your whole situation, I have been there myself. I had gay urges probably as young as about 10 or 11 years old. Of course I had no idea what it meant back then but looking back, they were there. I had an incredibly difficult time growing up and especially going through high school. I used to be a figure skater and by living in a very small hockey-centric town and being the only male figure skater, let's just say things did not go well for me. I was harrassed, bullied, called every possible thing in the book and actually physically beaten up. It caused more mental damage than I ever let on and even now still struggle with the scars. I had to be in deep deep denial and be repressive to literally physically protect myself. This has caused me a great deal of grief. For a long time, I was very confused about my sexuality and didn't officially come out until I was about 21, in college. I put up such a wall of protection that even still today, at 27, I have difficulty accepting being gay to myself and to others.\n\nReferring back to what I wrote about fluid sexuality, I don't believe I am 100% gay, so I still have the odd attraction to females. When I was in high school I was in a serious, 4.5 year relationship with a girl. I don't believe it was sham relationship to hide my being gay, otherwise it wouldn't have lasted so long. The girl ended up becoming my best friend and we became even closer after I came out and we are now in fact roommates! I would be much less inclined to have a relationship like that now with a girl, now that I better understand myself and have come to terms with being (mostly) gay but there is still a tiny sliver of me that is not and every so often it surfaces.\n\nI found that when I was trying to understand what I was going through, it helped more than I could have imagined to just write everything out on paper, just get everything I was feeling out of me. I could see and understand my thoughts and it taught me a lot about myself. This may be something you want to try. You can just shred the papers afterward or something but just get it out of you.\n\nWhile you don't have to decide all at once whether you are gay or not, just one day, quietly look at yourself in the mirror and admit what you are feeling out loud to yourself. It may sound silly but it really does help you accept and understand yourself.\n\nGood luck and know that you are not alone. Find someone you can trust and talk to but also know that the strength and courage we need in life, we can find it within ourselves.\n\nEDIT: Thought I should add this:\n\nWhen I came out to my family, I wasn't living at home with my parents and I didn't really rely on them financially so it was a bit easier. What I did though was wrote individual letters to each of my parents and to my three sisters. I left them at my parents house for them to find when I was in the area one day. I dropped them off and then went and stayed at a friend's place that knew what was going on. I couldn't find the courage to tell them face-to-face so this was the best I could do. My mother called me and asked me to come home and we talked about it. Shortly after, my sisters talked to me a little bit about it and said that just the week before the letters, they had been talking about whether or not I was actually gay. They threw me a barbecue party to celebrate! After that, it was a slow process telling the people around me but it got a bit easier as time went on and I could stop hiding myself.\n",
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"body": "I'm going to say yes, and recommend a website for you too. [www.emptyclosets.com](http://www.emptyclosets.com) is a forum for LGBT and other people to ask for support, advice, questions, or just sit around and chat (about hot guys if you want even :P ) I can guarantee they'll be accepting and able to answer a ton of questions questions. It certainly helped me out.",
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"body": "wow, this is so similar to me. Im almost 24, have no gay friends, sporty, been in the closet for years, etc etc. Im bi though.\r\n\r\nPersonally I think coming out to everyone straight away is a sudden shock for you and for others. If you get a bad reaction it could cause you a lot of grief. I've found the best things to do are:\r\n\r\n- pick 1 or two friends you can trust and think will take it well. Tell them 1st, hopefully you then have someone to talk about it with. You can then feel a bit more confident about telling others and have people to fall back on if and when someone takes it badly. This really has helped me, I think telling everyone in my life all of a sudden would have really screwed me up.\r\n\r\n- Ive started going on a few dates. Like you Ive never been intimate with a guy, but it's been great to go on a few dates, talk to others openly and such. You dont have to go all the way or anything if you dont want to.\r\n\r\nI hope it all goes well for you though, whatever you decide.",
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I am your neighbor. IAMA | Stop stealing my wifi, stop letting your dog shit on my lawn, and yes I can smell you smoking pot in your backyard. | 11 | [
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"body": "stop cooking fish and burning it at 93248324279 degrees and fucking keep your dogs on YOUR side of my unfenced property you asian bastard. ",
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Can 'anyone' learn to play guitar? | I'm 21. My knowledge of music theory is nil. nonexistent.
I've never tried to learn an instrument with any sort of serious intention. (except for a quick relationship with the Tin Whistle which would soon wane...)
However, lately I've discovered a growing interest for the electric guitar! I've always been captivated by it as a listener, who loves music and rock, but now I've realized a burgeoning curiosity about the real thing. It made me want to learn it, play it.
I meant to ask, Reddit, How difficult is it? How do I go about it? How much effort should I expect to put into it if I were to actually get places? What should I know before I can decide on buying an electric guitar?
Would my complete illiteracy in music be such a big impediment?
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"body": "I started playing at 23 having never even touched a guitar. I'm 26 now and I can play pretty much any song out there as well as improvise. For me, it was all about spending any free time that I had playing. This amounted to playing about 4 hours a day, every day. It had to be every day because if I didn't play one day, there was a reduced chance I would play the next day. There are two things that I did that I think worked out really well in my case. \n\nFirst of all I set short-term and long-term targets, and then I would work to achieve them. I had them in my mind all the time. A short-term target would be learning a specific song or a scale, and these would typically last for a month or two. A long term target would be to achieve a certain BPM for a scale, or to be able to improvise in a certain key, or to learn a difficult piece. This would last many months, even a year sometimes. Remember to always be working to that goal.\nThe second thing that I think is important is to always play a piece a little above your current level. It can be very frustrating, but it's worth it because if you are always challenging yourself, you'll always get a little better.\n\nThe third thing (I know I said two things but screw it) is to play different things. Never under any circumstances restrict yourself to one band or one style, or one way to play. If you like rock, learn some classical stuff or flamenco. If you're comfortable using the pick, try fingerpicking. Experiment with different styles and tones. Learn the blues. Learn gypsy, and all that.\n\nThere are some comments on here that address gear, so I'm not going to comment on that. Bottom line is, it does take a lot of dedication, but anything that's worth a damn does. Patience is key. Many times you'll be in a situation where you just can't nail a particular lick or a rhythm piece. Leave it for a while. Gotta be patient. Do that and in 3 years you'll be rockin without any need for a teacher. Some people say that a teacher is important. I don't disagree but there's a ton of free videos on YouTube for just about anything. \n\nAnyway, last thing I want to say is to just enjoy it and have fun. I found that I had to force myself at first, but the more I played, and the better I became, the more fun it became.",
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"body": "Anyone can learn guitar, as long as they have the motivation to succeed. At first you may want to give up because at the end of the day, it will be hard to get to where you want to be, but the feeling you get when you achieve your goal is second to none.",
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"body": "I'd say it's pretty easy to play basic stuff, either barre chord or very simple leads. But you need a mentor, someone who you can trust who knows things guitarry. \n\nI would go to an independent (non-chain) music store, explain you want to take up the instrument (I hope you know if you want an acoustic or electric), and ask them to recommend a starter instrument and gear. If it costs more than 300 USD, walk out and go to another music store, because the guy is a salesman, not a musician. \n\nThe first guy (or gal) who tells you \"Don't spend too much -- this $100 used guitar will be fine for the first year or so\" is someone you can trust. ",
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"body": "There's a lot of good advice here, and I'll avoid reiterating what people have already said and offer some of my own advice, and then answer some of your questions.\n\nMy own bit of advice is, if you do decide to start learning electric guitar and feel like you're going to be committed, get yourself some *decent* equipment to play on. I'm not saying go out and buy a $3000 guitar and a full stack; I'm saying invest some money in a guitar that you can both learn on and get good on, and an amp that you won't mind listening to for a while. It's an investment of both time and money, and unless you've got a lot of money to burn, you're going to be using your first amp and guitar for I would guess a year before buying more gear becomes justifiable. If the guitar you learn on is a piece of crap, it's going to do little to motivate you to keep playing. Set aside a chunk of money to put into some good beginner-intermediate equipment (for example, maybe an Epiphone guitar and a decent - that is, not a Line6 Spider - modeling amp), and down the road you'll be glad you did.\n\nHow much effort you \"need\" to put into it is unique to you, both in terms of how much natural ability you may already possess as well as just where you want to take your guitar playing. Some people simply possess some natural ability, like relative or perfect pitch and things like that, that just inherently helps the learning process; these people may not have to invest as much time to fully understand what's going on in guitar playing as other people do. However, there's no substitute for just straight-up practicing, and if you want to be jamming with friends or joining a band, expect a fair amount of commitment (2-3 hours a day). I will tell you right now that making yourself practice is a lot harder than wanting to practice. Yeah, the beginning stages sort of suck because you want to play all this stuff and you can't yet, but there's got to be some sense of willingness behind it all or practicing will become a chore, and that's a sure path to losing interest.\n\nLastly, I don't think your complete illiteracy in music will be a huge impediment. If you have the desire, learning music theory and just general music knowledge isn't that difficult (applying it is the tricky part).\n\nI hope all that helps. Good luck, let us know what you decide to do!",
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"body": "The real hard part is keeping yourself interested.\nIt's quite an effort to master that particular instrument, everyone I know who plays decently has been playing for 3-4 years, but don't worry about that, you can learn the basics in a few months.\nYou've mentioned you like rock so I think you would like to play with some distortion, therefore I don't think you need to repetitively try to learn chords, since you won't use them on the electric too often.\nInstead, I advise you to practice the techniques (palm mute, bending, vibrato, tremolo picking etc) and try playing different riffs. You don't have to learn whole songs, just select the riffs you like and look them up in the tabs of the song. There are many sites on the web which will teach you the basics and after that it just takes a lot of practice.\n\nI think the best thing you can do is pick up a used electric guitar, therefore you can minimize the investment.On the other hand, a nice guitar with a nice sounding rig will keep you motivated to learn, so choose whatever floats your boat.\n\nI think that the most important thing to see when you are buying a guitar is the pickup. Since you like rock, be sure that your guitar has a humbucker pickup, single coils are better for a clean jazzy sound.\nOther than that, any guitar is fine to learn the basics.\nIf you end up buying a used guitar be sure to try it before you buy it.\n\nOh and don't worry too much about theory, luckily for guitar you have many sites with tabs, you don't even need to know how to read sheet music (at the beginning of course, later on you will see it's useful).\nTheory is needed the most for improvisation (you won't do that as a beginner).\n\nGood luck!",
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Attention Reddit, WTF is happening to me?!?! | So I woke up yesterday with a tiny clear dot on my finger. I didn't think much about it. Later on I felt a tingling sensation under my fingernail and I noticed some goo dripping out of it. ("http://imgur.com/qCpIu.jpg"). It was gross. I tossed and turned all night long and had night terrors (which I never have). When I woke up this morning my finger looked like THIS!! ("http://imgur.com/o60lG.jpg"). WHAT THE FUCK!?
Edit: I am in the waiting room at the doctors office.
Edit2: It appears that Imgur is momentarily down. Sorry you cant see my disfigured finger:(
Edit3: I just got my blood test from the doctor... lets play a little game.
Do I have:
A. Necrotizing Fasciiti
B. Staph
C. Prawnitis (see District 9)
D. Lupus
E. Flesh Eating Bacteria
F: Straight up brown recluse
Edit4: The answer is..... B!!!
I live in SF and I must have contracted this rare version of Staph during my recent bike accident ("http://imgur.com/ClyVN.jpg"). More info can be found here ("http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/13/dangerous-staph-germs-fou_n_284971.html").
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"body": "Whatever you do, do *not* go see a doctor about this. You should continue to take pictures of your wounds, keep us updated, and, possibly, do an IAMA. Your dedication to our entertainment, even when it is at the cost of your finger, is noted and will be reimbursed in the form of karma and lulz.",
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"body": "You are so much more wtf than that spider bite. Why are you taking pics and posting to reddit instead of going to the doctor. It's eating a hole in your finger for fucks sake. It's serious. Go.",
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"body": "GO TO THE HOSPITAL NOW!!!!! THIS IS MOST LIKELY A BACTERIAL INFECTION THAT NEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY!!!\n\nIt's hard to say which one, but it very well could be Staph. ",
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"body": "I'll play your game:\n\nIt's not necrotizing fasciitis or flesh eating bacteria, because those are the same thing. Lupus can be ruled out because it was a joke, and also you misspelled it which makes me think you haven't looked into it. Prawnitis is certainly possible, but you didn't mention spraying yourself in the face with a mystery liquid. \n\nSo we're basically down to recluse and staph. Based on the purulent discharge, I would assume there is *some* kind of infection. In addition, wikipedia says that most brown recluse bites are *not* necrotizing.\n\nI'll go with staph infection.",
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"body": "What the fuck is happening to you? \n\nYou're being stupid by posting about this on Reddit when you should be going to an emergency room.\n\nSeriously, what the fuck is wrong with you!?!",
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"body": "Honestly... The night terrors could be the bacterial infection attacking your brain. No joke, get to a doctor.",
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"body": "White-tail (or something similar) spider bite. They pick up a bacteria from where they live (generally the soil and similar environments) and this bacteria causes ulceration and necrotising of the flesh around the site of the bite. Go to the hospital and get treatment (anti-bacterial/penicilin), before it spreads and you get really sick.",
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"body": "Have you seen the Dreamcatcher (the movie)? Well, that's it.\n\ntd;lr you'll die\n\nEdit: anyway, now for real: I had a similar thing on my thigh. Initially, I assumed it was a zit and, naturally, tried to pop it. However, the next day, it was about 1/3 of an inch wide, maybe slightly more. I don't give a shit about doctors, so I did nothing. The next day it started withdrawing, and it was gone in 4 days.\n\nDISCLAIMER: It's not my fault if you die because you read my text and decided not to go to the hospital.",
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"body": "I just got over a spider bite on my shin - this really looks like one as well. Mine took 7 weeks to finally heal over...and up until the 6th week, it was like a full thickness burn. Then all of a sudden it closed over within a few days.\n\nIf it heals in a similar fashion to mine, you will need to keep it covered pretty much all of the time. Many people are actually slightly allergic to topical antibiotics (Neosporin, etc), so you might get a prescription for silvadene. I basically washed my wound once a day, with a sprayer, some soap and a q-tip to remove the eschar (dead tissue). Then apply a thick layer of silvadene and cover with non-stick guaze and a wrap.\n\nThis thing will definitely piss you off. You will likely have a scar. It will seem like it may never heal, but just stick with the program - there is a light at the end of this tunnel.\n\n",
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"body": "In times like this I do not seek reddits help. I go see somebody who actually knows what the fuck they're talking about. i.e. a doctor.",
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"body": "looks like a flesh eating disease or a fucking horrendous spider bite\n\nHope they get that fixed for ya, amputation is never fun.\n",
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"body": "All I have to say is OMFG. Why would you ask the internet instead of a doctor? YOUR SKIN IS MELTING OFF.",
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"body": "You had a fingernail infection that has spread. I've had them before, but I'm careful to treat them with disinfectant like hydrogen peroxide and they went away. Yours seems to have spread into your finger proper. As such, you're at risk for sepsis and you need to see a doctor right away. You could lose your finger or your life if you ignore it. I'm not being alarmist here. If you know of an open clinic nearby, go to it. Hell, bring the photos. The doctor on staff will know what's going on. ",
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"body": "Man, am I disappointed the pictures don't seem to be working. Reload, reload, reload. \n\nAlso, good job going to the doctor and good luck. If it's as bad as people seem to be commenting it is, especially if it's a recluse bite, you'll be lucky to keep your finger. ",
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"body": "Two bacteria walk into a bar. The bartender says \"Hey, we don't serve your kind in here!\"\n\nOne of the bacteria replies \"You have to serve us, we work here.\"\n\nBartender: \"What is that supposed to mean?\"\n\nGerm: \"We'll... we're *staph*.\"",
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Server Gameplay Demos - 15/01/2010 | I got the date right this time. Ha.
As requested, here are the server gameplay demos from the various events last night:
[PUG 1 - cp_badlands](http://www.redditgaming.com/demos/16jan10/auto-20100116-0020-cp_badlands.dem)
[PUG 2 - cp\_obscure\_b4 - Game 1](http://www.redditgaming.com/demos/16jan10/auto-20100116-0204-cp_obscure_b4.dem)
[PUG 3 - cp\_obscure\_b4 - Game 2](http://www.redditgaming.com/demos/16jan10/auto-20100116-0507-cp_obscure_b4.dem)
[Team Trial](http://www.redditgaming.com/demos/16jan10/auto-20100116-0350-team_trial_v4.dem)
[Manhunt - ctf_turbine](http://www.redditgaming.com/demos/16jan10/auto-20100116-0317-ctf_turbine.dem) | 4 | [
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Suggestions for free fun with kids over the long summer hols? | Let's all please post ideas for free summer fun with kids (mine's a 10 year old girl and we're in oz) we're going to take paper and pencils somewhere nice later and draw what we see, but only halfway through the hols and need more free or cheap ideas!
Hopefully others will find this useful too! | 19 | [
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"body": "Teach your kids how to cook. I enjoyed helping with cooking when I was a kid. Also, valuable frugal life skill.",
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"body": "- Read. Read. Read.\n\n- Write poetry.\n\n- Have a picnic.\n\n- Go birdwatching.\n\n- Visit a free national park.\n\n- Hit the museum on the free days. (A/C to escape the heat.)\n\n- Stargaze or check out the Leonids in late August.\n\n- Drive to a farm that has a strawberry field and pick strawberries. \n\n- Gardening or contact your local P-patch and plant a garden.\n\n- Browse at a farmers market.\n\n- Is there a cheap theater or drive-in close by? There is a movie house close to my town that has tickets for $3.00. It's all sleeper films and classics or films that have been released six months prior. Not current block busters but still good. If you can find a place that has silent films that is usually cheaper too.\n\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "Have fun. Get an egg timer or chess timer and set it for five minutes. You and the kids draw what's in front of you. When the timer goes off, everybody hands the paper to the person on the left and you continue drawing where the other person left off.\n\nLast summer we googled \"how to make a telescope\". The kids decided which of the 1 million instructions they wanted to follow and we built one. Not free, but not expensive either.\n\nRainy days we'd draw Rube Goldberg machines.\n\nBaking.\n\nAnd of course, walking to different playgrounds...lots o'them around here.",
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"body": "Pretty much any physical activity is free. Try studying up on different foliage or wildlife and make it more of a learning experience. As lame as it sounds, it actually makes the walk/hike a lot more interesting for a budding mind, not to mention you'll like a total badass in front of your kid for knowing everything.",
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"body": "Try teaching your kids about nature a bit! Hikes are great and if you don't mind catching a bug or two, nets are cheap and you can start a cool insect collection.",
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"body": "Tell her to go outside. Come back for dinner.\n\nDuring the summer my parents would be upset if they say my brother and I when the sun was up. Outside is free. ",
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DAE hate sitting in a seat which has been warmed by somebody else's butt? | Personally I can't stand it when I sit down somewhere only to find that it's warmed up by somebody else. | 28 | [
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"body": "i especially hate it when its a cushion that someones been farting on.. then when you sit down its like the chair farts on you.",
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"body": "Douglas Adams coined a term for it in [The Meaning of Liff](http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html)\n\nSHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.)\nThe vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.\n",
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a neat electromagnetic phenomenon done @ UCLA | My friend Peter and I were messing around with a high voltage generator and "discovered" this cool phenomenon.
I've posted it on forums and asked some professors, but no one really has come up with an explanation of what is happening here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqgslPPHvDw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9VfAwZdjA&feature=response_watch
The two plates are being charged by a Van de Graaf generator @ around 50kV. The spinning object is a piece of aluminum foil wrapped into a spiral shape. Here is a forum post I made describing it some and speculating on what was going on:
http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/showthread.php?t=11993
Any ideas redditors? Suggestions for modifying the experiment to test/verify ideas are welcome too since I have access to the equipment still. | 38 | [
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"body": "Congratulations! You have solved Step 1 in the Zardicon Mystery. Now perform Step 2 by contacting our ambassador using your communicator. Upon your successful answer to his questions you will be elevated to Prime Noctator status and eligible for a great prize. Please now send your bank account number and PIN to the ambassador and await further instruction. He is currently hovering over a place you call Nigeria.",
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"body": "I feel there are probably 2 phenomenon here.\n\n1. \"can knocker\" - high voltage potential, charging/discharging\n\nhttp://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/electro/electro4.html\n\n2. \"EHD Thruster\" - ion flow inside the parallel plate capacitor.\n\nhttp://www.blazelabs.com/l-intro.asp\n\nI believe these are causing the lift and are the reason for the spin stabilization of the spiral shape.\n\nIf this is correct, the setup will not function \"correctly\" in a vacuum. In a vacuum, it may not function, or it will not be able to spin stabilize.",
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"body": "One idea that will significantly reduce the unknowns is to conduct the experiment in a vacuum. It's tempting to assume that the animated object is transferring charge between the plates partly by way of ionization (and is minimizing its own energy for well-established reasons), and eliminating the air would help sort this out.\n",
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Who was the worst teacher/ professor you ever had? | Freshman college physics. This crazy German guy that would cuss you out for asking questions or asking him to repeat anything. Mumbled and scribbled so going to the lectures was 100% pointless. He changed the time of our final from 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. a week beforehand. Fifteen people failed because of it. I missed the final as well, but ended up passing with a D because I had done well up to that point. Three years later he's still here, the only physics 101 professor in the whole school. | 84 | [
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"body": "10/11/12th grade English. Ignoring the fact that she couldn't spell, she was just useless. We basically spent every year reading books, then doing her version of a book report. It consisted of summarizing the plot and doing a basic commentary on style and such. Nothing else. Naturally, this led to everyone copying and paraphrasing SparkNotes and the Coles Notes for plot summaries, then bullshitting the critical analysis.\n\nAnyway, halfway through grade 11, I noticed a pattern. Grades seemed to be entirely dependant on the student and the length of the report. Some students (including me) would always get good grades, and they were usually better the longer the report (the average was usually around 20-30 pages). Some students always got terrible grades. Also, the reports that came back were in very good condition, with almost no fold creases. So, I tested it. Handed in a cover page, 20 pages of lorem ipsum text, then 20 pages of blank printer paper. Got 97%. That was the last time I ever did an ounce of work in that class.",
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"body": "This lady who supposedly graduated from UPenn wrote me up for plagiarism because the work I handed in was too good to be written by an African. And boy did I wish her dead. ",
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"body": "One I have right now. I have an education theories professor who has set up a rule that forbids students from talking to each other about the class. If it is discovered, we could be reprimanded through grades or even removed from the class. However, she does not make herself available for questions. We can only call if it is an absolute emergency. All other questions have to be sent in the form of an e-mail which may or may not be answered.",
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"body": "On 9-11 I dropped off the class roll to the office. Having heard that \"New York was burning\" on the radio they told me to remain calm and inform the teacher that New York and Washington had been attacked and no matter what was heard to relax and continue classes as normal. I informed the teacher and she called me a liar and a trouble maker, kicked me out of her class that second and even after finding out the truth never allowed me to return. I lost all Algebra credits for my senior year of high school, having to take summer school to graduate. ",
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"body": "7th grade french teacher. he used to stand behind me and look over my shoulder to see down my shirt while was working. i hated that fucker and i didn't learn anything because he made me so nervous. ",
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"body": "My 10th (IIRC) grade Advanced Algebra teacher. He was hired by my shithole podunk hicktown high school for his ability as a volleyball coach. Before, I'd had the luxury of a *real* math teacher who knew his shit. My prior math teacher would give a clear, concise presentation of HOW to do the problems for the day, then sit at his desk and let us work on them in class. If we had trouble, we could go up and he'd show us how to do it properly. \n\nI kind of had a knack for math and he was a good teacher, so I'd get done quick, then sit around and figure out new ways to solve the problems. I'd show the teacher and he'd explain how it worked, and encourage me to keep goofing around with the numbers.\n\nThen, he left for a better job, presumably because he was, you know, qualified and capable, and we got Coach Martinez who didn't know shit. Martinez would stand at the board and make mistake after mistake, then get mad when students would correct him. He'd fumble through the explanation, fucking it up repeatedly, so that everyone was confused, and it would take all hour so we didn't have time to work on our homework in class. \n\nWhen I would do my homework at home, I'd use some of these tricks because they were faster, but Martinez didn't understand them and didn't care to - I wasn't using the method from the book so obviously I was wrong, regardless of the result.\n\nAfter far too many arguments with him, I told the Principal I couldn't get along with him and I would not be returning to that class. I spent the rest of the year in the library. Since he was the only 'math teacher' at the school, I didn't take PreCalc, Calc, or Trig. I was so frustrated with the experience that I avoided taking College Algebra until my Junior year, then was amazed at how well I did. I subsequently took Trig and aced it, then Calc and got a B. \n\nI had to leave school because of my grades, but now I'm back and studying for an Electrical & Computer Engineering degree, and do fine in all my math-related coursework. I honestly blame that one 'teacher' for my wasting nearly five years of my life. ",
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"body": "My worst professor was also one of my favorites. She was asian and had big tits. She couldn't speak any english, I don't think she understood what she was teaching; but damn she was hot.",
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"body": "3rd grade teacher: called my mom in to have a conference to inform her that I am left-handed (and presumably 'of the devil'). My mom's response was basically wtf. ",
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"body": "Took a night course at our state university. 95% of the class was composed of working professionals either working on a second degree or finishing their Bachelor's. The class began at 5:30 and since most of the class was coming straight from work, there would often be people running in a minute or so late. The professor, this evil toad of a self-important freak, would do her very best to shame them and threaten them with failure. It used to infuriate me.",
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"body": "High school science teacher. I suspect that she became a high school teacher because she herself was not cool when she was growing up and was trying for a \"do-over\" \n\nEssentially, if you were one of the chatty, attractive and popular girls, you could do whatever the fuck you wanted in her class with no repercussions. \n\nGod help you if you were anyone else, though. Even muttering under your breath during \"quiet work period\" (fuck those were bullshit, but that's a WHOLE other rant,) she'd enforce the \"quiet\" by screaming at you in front of everyone...then go right back to gossipping with her little group of friends. \n\nShe took great joy in humiliating people in class, say, by calling out people who'd failed a paper but other times it was just to be cruel. \n\nAlthough I was really into science, I stopped taking it once it was no longer a requirement because I wanted to be nowhere near that vile woman. ",
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"body": "I remember this one professor I had and the best way to describe him was that he was just plain evil. He talked like he was sort of retarded, like he had to draw out his words and was constantly pissed off. I think he might have listened to emo music too.\n\nHe was such a control freak. Ever since the first day of class with him, I remember I was taking notes and he got pissed off because I wasn't paying attention and instead writing. He was always very snide to me and condescending, like he had something especially against me.\n\nHe very cleared played favoritism, and this one douchebag was his class pet, probably because he was friends with his dad or something. I really fucking hate that guy too.\n\nI could tell he was psycho, and I was right all along. At the end of one year of school, this fucking asshole decided to go completely nuts and killed the headmaster of the school. :(",
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"body": "8th grade, algebra 1.\n\nI had always been pretty good at math (alg 1 in my school was the \"advanced\" class for 8th grade). This teacher more or less single-handedly ruined any fun that math was for me.\n\nShe didn't have a degree in anything math related nor did she have a teachers license. I went to a private school so that wasn't a requirement. \n\nThe best story I have comes from early in the year, maybe about a month in to classes. We had a quiz and of course had to show all work. I solved a problem, clearly showing each step I took to reach the final answer. When I got the quiz back, I got something like a 3/10 on the question. Despite getting the correct answer, which the teacher actually noted that I did, I apparently didn't use the steps this teacher expected/wanted us to use so that was cause for docking 7 points.",
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"body": "Had a history professor that would constantly update us about playing Final Fantasy in his mother's basement (no judgement, it was just odd to tell an entire class that, including running commentaries)... One day in class he informed us his mentor died but still came to class because he was *dedicated*, as we should all be. Anyways, it was a 3 hour class and about 30 minutes into it someone leaned over and asked me if I had last week's notes (this was a stadium style class with many, many people attending). I quietly leaned over and said \"Yes, I'll give them to you on break\". He abruptly stops his lecture, throws his sharp pencil at me and begins banging on his podium with his closed fist. I was horrified. It got worse. He then began shouting, through his tears, \"YOU WANT TO TALK IN MY LECTURE? I'M HERE AND MY MENTOR IS *DEAD DEAD DEAD*! THE ARMY IS ALWAYS HIRING! THE ARMY IS ALWAYS HIRING!\" He proceeded to keep mumbling about the army, in tears, banging his fists slowly until he crumpled to the floor. He then proceeded to cry in every proceeding lecture after that for the rest of the semester. He scared me. He's still teaching, btw. ",
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"body": "8th grade science teacher. \n\nStory: Throughout middle school and the first half of highschool I did very poorly. I was never disrespectful, always quiet and very reserved. But my mind was not in the class room and I would be absent fairly often. \n\nWhy? My father was battling a terrible illness that he subsequently died of around what would have been my sophomore year in high school. I was experiencing an enormous amount of stress and emotional trauma. This illness robbed me of my childhood.\n\nI only had three friends. He took them aside and told them that I was a bad influence and that they would be better off if they didn't associate with me. \n\nHe never asked me why I felt I was doing so poorly. Or why I was absent so often. But I guess it was easier to peg me as a slacker or stupid. It was a devastating thing to hear from an authority figure. I saw him several years afterward and he didn't recognize me.\n\nI quit school on my sixteenth birthday and spent the last year of my father's life using the internet as a coping mechanism and taking care of him as he slipped away.\n\nShortly after my eighteenth birthday I took my GED test without any prep classes (18 was the earliest you could test for a GED). I received a perfect score in science, near perfect in social studies and writing, good in general English and I received a respectable grade in mathematics. \n\nIt made me feel better about myself. He still probably doesn't remember me. But I'll always remember him.",
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"body": "7th Grade, Pre-Algebra. Our extremely kickass teacher left partway through the first trimester, and we all wanted our long-term sub to take the job. But instead, they hired someone who was married to another teacher on campus, Mrs. Bean.\n\nMrs. Bean was from Czechoslovakia, and had been a teacher over there before moving to the US four months before taking her job. When our Pre-Algebra class came into the room for our first class with her at the start of the second trimester, we were hit by the eye-watering scent of overpowering body odor, before being screamed at to take our seats by a terrifying, nearly incomprehensible woman who seemed to believe that it was appropriate to start us all off with Fs, despite what our previous grades on progress reports said. Protests to the contrary were met with Communist-style screaming rampages.\n\nThe smell got so bad that by the third day with this hatebeast, we all agreed to bring in air fresheners, and ran relays around the edges of the room spraying them in a vain attempt to try and make it smell better. School administration instead punished those students who did so, without sitting in on classes. Finally complaints got so bad from students and parents that a VP decided to sit in on the classroom - what followed was what I assume was the most embarrassing conversation that female VP ever had to have with another woman, regarding hygiene. \n\nAside from having a horrific accent and absolutely no patience, Mrs. Bean also had horrific handwriting. All of her negative signs were indistinguishable from minus signs, her slashes for fractions were always improperly placed, and her letters for variables were unreadable squiggles. If you dared to raise your hand to ask a question, she screamed at you to put it down, and if you did manage to ask a question or approach her after class, she called you stupid and in no certain terms told you that you weren't worth her time and that you shouldn't be in the class.\n\nShe lasted until the end of the year before she quit, in her last class making it no secret that she was blaming all of us for being horrible students and even worse people, and that she hoped we failed in all our future endeavors because we didn't deserve to be treated as human beings after having dared to dispute her.\n\nI still get chills whenever I hear a woman with said-same accent yelling, even on the streets. :( \n\n**EDIT:** Her Husband was a US citizen, with a very mundane last name. Her last name was Bean via marriage, I have no clue what her maiden or first name was. ",
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"body": "My grade 10 Civics/Careers teacher. First of all, the course itself is pretty bullshit. I'm all for the knowledge of governments and how our political system works, but the curriculum was incredibly useless and dull. The guy didn't have much to go on. However, he made it so much worse. I don't know how he even managed to become a teacher, but he could not teach at all.\n\n His approach to the course was always to steal previous teachers' worksheets and lesson plans, not read them at all, copy them and hand them out to the class. I specifically remember him handing out a worksheet to the class that wanted us to go through newspapers and find interesting political news. When someone commented about him not supplying newspapers of any kind, he told us to make it up. Every class, after handing out the day's worksheet, he would take attendance and then sit at his desk and screw around on his MacBook, oblivious to the whole class. \n\nEventually students realized that they would learn nothing in his class, so by the time the bell rang there would usually be about 3 to 5 of his students (of a class of 30) left, most of them having left through the back door which was always open due to the heater always being on no matter what the season. Students would come to class baked, hell, students would roll joints in class, leave, and come back baked. \n\nMy friends and I spent every day playing Hearts at the back of the class or skipping. Towards the end of the year, the teacher wouldn't show up in class. We later learned that he was off pursuing his secret music career. Brilliant examples of this can be found on YouTube - such as [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZO2OOTeMnQ), and [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ytEYP_eiPk).\n\nHe was fired the next year. Every student at that school dodged a bullet with that one.",
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"body": "When I was like 7-8, this fat and nerdy ass hippo of a teacher was so fucking strict with pronouncing the words properly and reading flawlessly, that she would slap you any time during she felt like you hadn't put enough stress on the punctuation or anything else.\n\n One day, she slapped me really hard and made my face turn red, to the point where it left an imprint of her hand 2-3 hours afterschool. But needless to say, when my dad and mom saw it. They fucking went a-p-e shit, he went to principle and made him call out the teacher right there and then. She came in, looked my dad and me. At that point her face just went blank and she knew what the fuck she had done.\n\nMy dad put her in her place, saying that she has no fucking right to even abuse me like that and this is a place where children learn not get fucking knocked out by the teacher.\n\nMy dad basically made an example out of her, to the principle. If this type of shit happened again with any of the teachers, he was gonna make a phone call to his friend in the ministry of education (he was a gov't employee and was a geoloy expert. I.e. land development etc..) and report the school, and have the principal (for allowing abuse) and the teacher put away for this crap.\n\nNext day, she was awfully nice :)\n\nEdit: This was in India, in the ealy 90s",
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"body": "11th grade AP Physics. This cockbite started teaching us Physics by telling us we'll be starting with Thermodynamics. I thought 'hey that's weird' so I open the chapter and realize that half of the material mentions chapters 4/5/8/9 before. So I shit a brick. Come up to the teacher, etc, and ask him wtf is this shit? He bs'es about how he just wants to make this class easier for us at the end of the year by coming back to chapter 1-10 THEN. \n\nI do a double take. Is this guy for real? Wtf? So we begin 'learning' if you can call that bullshit that. His lectures for chapter (I shit you not) were 20 minutes long. 20 minutes and suddenly he ends chapter about Electromagnetism. 20 minutes and we 'learned' Relativity, shit like that.\n\nSo I just assume since he doesn't give a fuck basically the tests would be easy. Fuck me for thinking that. On the first test I got 43%. He curved it up to 87. Then for the rest of the fucking year he curves our tests from 30-60% on average. \n\nI did not learn jack shit from that class. It was the biggest waste of time in my entire life. When I entered Univ Physics and realized I basically knew no Newtonian Physics, it was like starting from 0. Fuck that teacher. ",
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"body": "Probably the one that had me kicked out for getting a few facial piercings in high school and continued to mark me 0's for the entirety of the time I was not enrolled in school.\n\nActually, every single teacher I had in high school was utterly worthless. I'm pretty sure I've ranted about that enough on reddit, though. The school I went to was recently on the front page for being the first school to add the Bible to the curriculum. Luckily my firsthand account of life there was ignored for a pun thread or some other such idiocy.",
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"body": "In seventh grade, my class spent over a week counting grains of rice \"to get a true grasp of a million.\"",
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"body": "My junior year of high school, I was in science class with the \"cool\" teacher. She would swear, talk about drugs and sex, and let us skip out on class early. The only problem was that this lady was an absolute idiot. One of the first weeks of class, she told us how KFC was genetically engineering their chickens to be featherless, beakless blobs of meat which is why they had to change their name. It went downhill from there. ",
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"body": "This reminds me of the biggest issue my mother faces in the education field.\n\nMy mother is a teacher at an Elementary school. She is always on the *verge* of losing her jobs because there are other teachers who want her fired. Why? Because she criticizes and taddles to the Education board of how other teachers are being lazy, irresponsible for students, late for classes, and so fourth. Shit is fucking ridiculous how there are teachers who don't fucking want to teach. All they want is my mother fired so they can go back to getting paid to do the least amount of work required to teach our kids. \n\nJust something I wanted to rant about. ",
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"body": "My english 101 prof was undoubtedly the worst teacher I have ever had.\n\nShe was a feminist to the nth degree, and in the worst way possible. She even made sure to emphasize which writers we studied were feminists as well (and the majority were).\n\nNow that would have been fine, but she let her own personal beliefs get in the way of her teaching. All the girls in the class had free reign to do what they wanted, talk when they wanted, so on and so forth. Not a single girl got under a B in that class. Of course, every single guy got a D, unless they were lucky enough to pull a C. \n\nI'm usually an A-level English student, or at least I was all through grade school (except in one case with the second worst teacher I've ever had... I'll get to that below), so the D I got was definitely not deserved - especially when all 4 essays I had written had been graded at either an A or a B. Of course, the essay I did the worst on was the one in which I decided to use the term \"mankind\" throughout. She scratched off every instance of it and replaced it with \"humanity\", and docked me quite a bit. \n\nThe second worst teacher was again an English teacher, although this one was in eighth grade. She had her own idea of how everything should be written and presented, and neglected to tell the class this. For one assignment we were given a list of \"creative writing\" projects to pick from, and I chose a movie review. Since I had never written one before, I googled how to do it properly and followed the form to a T, not wanting to miss a single mark.\n\nShe handed it back and gave me a zero, saying I \"hadn't summarized the film at all\" amongst other things that I had read were precisely the things a movie review did NOT contain.\n\nThat class taught me that most of the time it's not worth it to do your best, and only deliver exactly what the teacher wants.",
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"body": "Account II @ DeVry\n\nThe teacher, who was typically hungover, had a pretty easy to understand grade structure. The final was 50% of your grade, 3 tests made up the other 50%. Unfortunately, she didn't allow for any make ups in case you missed a test.\n\nSo the morning of the 2nd test, on the way to class, I was the first to a one car wreck where a drunk driver roller her car about 5 times by taking a turn at 100mph on a country road. Once the cops and medics showed up, the lady ran for it and managed to elude them. By the time I got to class, I missed the test and prompted received F, even though I had documentation of what happened and why I missed. No soup for me.\n\nFast forward a few weeks and the night before finals, the county sheriff was in my driveway to hand me a subpoena to be in court at 8am the next day. Apparently they caught the woman and I had to be court to testify against her. It was her 9th DUI. Obviously, I was going to miss my final the next morning, since I was due in court which was over 2 hours away. I left a voice mail for the teacher letting her know.\n\nSo two days later I show up to class, with court documentation in hand, and asked if she wanted me outside the room while they review the final test, since I haven't taken mine yet. She said that it didn't matter because I didn't show and we knew her rules, so I got an F. No excuses, no sympathy.\n\nEven though I was doing my civic duty and was legally required to go to court (or get a bench warrant for my arrest if I took the final instead), this bitch failed me. I protested to the Dean of Students and he stated that the teachers rules were the rules and I should have just followed them. \n",
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"body": "Late, but here we go. \n\nGrade three teacher. I was good with everything except math and that ticked this woman off. She would shout at me, harangue me and humiliate me. This went on until November. Me stressing more and more. I started feeling more and more ill every day when I heard \"Take out your math books\". Until one day, it happened. I vomited over my desk, over the floor, and over my math book. This really pissed her off and she made me clean it and made me apologize to the class.\n\nThe good part was going home and telling my parents and them taking the next day off of work to go in to have a meeting with the teacher and the principal. 5 of us in the principals office and my mother outlines the situation and what happened the previous day. Before the teacher can say anything, my mother (who never swore) looked at her at the end of the summary and asked \"What the fuck is wrong with you?\" It was a productive meeting.\n\nBut I hated math and didn't do well in it until I went to University.\n\nOnly other bad teach I had was in High School, teaching Grade 9 Chemistry (the class was twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays). On the first day of class we are told that there would be a quiz on the periodic table...on Thursday. Now most of us had never seen the periodic table before this and he wasn't even giving us the weekend. Anyways, he gives us this 'quiz'. It's a blank table, and we have to fill in the elements and I think the atomic mass to the nearest round number or some such bullshit. Hydrogen was done, but we had to do the others (although not the lanthanides). So, crap, no one was prepared for that kind of detail. I got most of the elements right but few of the mass' were right (if any).\n\nTuesday comes again, he starts throwing peoples quizzes back at them and starts on this diatribe. I got 46%, and hear \"You people are morons, you shouldn't be here...\" and I called out \"OK\" and walked out and went to the Guidance office to drop the course because the teacher \"didn't think I should be there\". \n\nDownside was the meeting with the VP and the teacher where he explained he gave a really difficult test to 'inspire' the students to study hard for future tests. I nodded and told him that I had more self-respect than to put myself under a teacher who felt it was okay to be verbally abusive towards his students.\n\nHe retired the next year.",
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"body": "I had a professor who took all of her pictures for her slides from the first Google image search result. ",
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"body": "Art teacher, high school:\n\nHe at first wasn't my teacher, instead being the head of the art department. Of course, that didn't stop him being the biggest douche-face-butt of all time.\n\nI'm a pretty good artist. Good enough that this douche-face-butt of a teacher thought I had stolen my art of the internet. (You know, printed it out, claimed as my own, etc.)\n\nSo he approached my current art teacher, (who was one hell of a good teacher), and told her he thought I was ripping my work from the net. She stood up for me, saying she'd seen me do my work infront of her. He refuses to believe her, insisting that I am an art thief.\n\nOkay, so she asks me if I could do a simple portfolio of sorts, just to clear things up. I submit that... nope, not convincing enough.\n\nCome parent teacher night, he approaches my parents, and tells them: 'Mr and Mrs CamelCaseInPoint? I believe I should inform you that your daughter has been plagiarized her work from the internet.' They of course tell him he's mistaken, again, he refuses to believe this is true.\n\nAll this time, I was NEVER talked to. Not once did he ask to talk to me about my art and if it was mine.\n\nSo in senior year, I had him as an art teacher - he was so embarrassed (I think? Maybe he was angry that no one believed I was an art thief...) that he avoided me like a bad smell in class, never offering me any help, skipping me when he was giving homework out, and being a general stuck-up jerk when I tried to talk to him.\n\nAnd then I failed art. Yay!",
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"body": "3rd grade teacher. \n\nI was sent to this small, cold room in the office with nothing but a desk every day for the remainder of the year. I had to do my weeks worth of work up their without any help. If I finished early, I had to write sentences repeatedly. Things such as *I will be a better student.* I filled up stacks of notebooks, cover to cover with these sentences. The only time I could leave was when I was escorted by a staff member to pick up my lunch, and then return to that room where I had a limited time to eat. I got one restroom break a week that was two minutes long. When I tried to tell my mom what it was like she would punish me and make me go write sentences in my notebooks until dinner.",
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"body": "Freshman year in college, Math 151, intro to engineering calculus. It's 9:15 AM class on the very first day of school. My first time sitting in a college classroom. \n\nA heavyset Chinese man gets up in front of the class, clears his throat, and says in heavily accented English:\n\n>My name is doctor Pu. I do not like students. I am here for my research. Do not ask me any questions, I will not answer them.\"\n\nTo my great relief, there was a 4 day grace period on changing class sections. I walked out of that class and found another prof. I know that was probably his aim, but fuck if I care.",
"score": 7
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"body": "My current Tax professor. Fourth year accounting courses, basic income tax and corporate income tax. Your full grade comes from exams(one or two midterms, one final). My basic tax final consisted of one question, I had three hours to write this one question which was literally just preparing a tax return for an individual on a blank piece of paper. No one EVER has to do a frigging tax return on a blank piece of paper!! Even if you don't have tax prep software (seriously, all accountants have tax prep software) you still have the necessary forms and the guide so you don't have to memorize it AND you SHOULDN'T memorize it cause it changes EVERY FRIGGING YEAR! Add to this the fact that she marks really hard, you are not allowed to take notes on a laptop, and you cannot go to the bathroom during her two hour class and its an absolute frigging nightmare! ",
"score": 7
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"body": "10th grade Chemistry teacher. She was terrified of the students and never asserted herself. She was terrible at explaining the material, and we actually learned something during the two weeks she was out after a wrist surgery. Unfortunately, the sub wasn't given her full-time job until the following year.\n\nMy favorite moment with her was when someone drew a double dong (two balls and an arc on top and on bottom) in sharpie on the whiteboard and wrote \"Nick XXXXX was here.\" Being her, she believed that the kid Nick actually drew the penis and gave him detention. The kid who actually drew it came forth and she didn't believe him. That's about the point where we all lost faith in her.\n\nOh, and I had an art teacher in 7th grade who called me a fag.",
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"body": "Dr. Chen, statistics class. He spoke in broken english with a hard chinese accent, used only the examples straight out of the book and explained nothing. He was worthless.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Fucking lame ass Algebra teacher would just write equations and say 'SEE! You just PLUG AND CHUG. PLUG AND CHUG! EASY!'. With no other explanation.",
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"body": "I took Principles of Insurance. The professor wrote the textbook. As if the topic wasn't boring enough, the lectures were merely him reading the book.\nIt was an 8:00 AM class, and I lived off-campus. This class was primed for skipping. I would get to campus in time, but couldn't physically make myself go to class. Instead, I would sit in the building's lobby for an hour.",
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"body": "My College \"Religious Studies\" teacher. I had to take a social behavior elective and this is the only course that was open. I'm not personally big on faith but I thought learning about other cultures religions could be interesting. \n\nFirst off, this teacher was completely racists, stereotypical, and thought much to highly of himself. First day of class he made us raise our hands to figure out our religious status. I thought this was for the benefit of the class to see the different varieties of religion within our group. WRONG! After he realized non of us were muslim, jewish...ect. He proceeded to tell us he \"wrote his own book\" for this class. This should have been my first red light.\n\nWeek 2: After looking over the book I realize it's all about how \"christianity\" is right, and how all the other religions in the world are wrong. He starts talking about his book and about how a Muslim woman a year ago suggested he rewrite it. He goes on to tell us she approached him and told him about the misconceptions in his writings, so she suggest he meet with her Imam to discuss what there religion is really about. Then he says \"I was scared for my life meeting this guy, you know, I was afraid he was going to blow me up at our meeting, because that's just what they do\"\n\nAt that moment, I realized that this class was not worth my time. Which I never returned too. In the 2 weeks I had actually attended class he said more vulgar, ignorant, senseless shit than I ever thought possible of a human being. Not only worst teacher, but one of the worst people I have ever met in my life.",
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"body": "This is my first comment ever around these parts, so greetings everyone! Right to the point, I had a lot of plain bad teachers, but I gotta hand the title to the old hag I had to put up with from 1st through 3rd grade. God, the whole class hated that bitch. If you talked too much, couldn't figure out how to work your way through a math problem, screwed up when you were called to the chalkboard or just generally fucked something up, you shouldn't expect any kind of reasonable, adult reaction from her. Instead, you were up for some loud yelling and possibly getting slapped on the face in front of the whole class! Remember, she was dealing with a bunch of 7 year olds, so we were supposed to do something childlike at one point or another.\r\n\r\nI remember this one girl who was probably picked on the most. One time she was on the chalkboard trying to solve some problem or something and failing miserably. I guess the teacher felt that dumb kid deserved to be pushed, so she did, a little more violently than usual. Now, the girl's mother was a lawyer... after getting herself together from being pushed over her table, the girl started crying and packing her things, saying that her mom had told her to come home the next time something like that happened and that she wouldn't take it anymore. I'm pretty sure the old bitch knew she was a lawyer, so I got to see her face fill up with fear. She started playing nice and telling her to remain in class and it wouldn't happen anymore and that kinda bullshit. I think that was the last time she pulled something like that on that one girl, but hey, there were plenty of other dumb kids (she made sure to voice her opinion on which ones were dumb) to harass, so it's all cool. \r\n\r\nOther highlights include her screaming right on my face for a good 5 minutes because I didn't scrap the homework she had sent the previous day on my notebook, and her braindead, deaf husband who happened to run the fucking school giving me a falcon slap on the back of my head because I was talking to the guy who was next to me on the bus, while we were getting ready to go on a field trip. \r\n\r\nHow the hell people like this get a job teaching kids is beyond me. Luckily she retired or something after 3rd grade, so we had one year of primary school without having to look at her monkey ugly face at least.\r\nHonorable mention to a supposedly pedo gym teacher on 6th grade. ",
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"body": "I had an instructor for an audio class. She would mumble and half ass her way through lectures, pull up software to demo it and it would never work then spend a half hour telling us \"it should just work I don't know what's wrong\", and would pull up lynda.com tutorials for us to watch instead of actually teaching. She never replied to any emails at all, even when I was having the hardest time with a project and needed assistance or an extension because the school computers didn't have the software freaking installed. I decided to drop the class and retake it with the REAL instructor. I had to get special permission to drop it from the dean because it was the day after the deadline, so I went to him with a list of grievances. I went in to have the instructor fill in the drop form the next day and she said something like \"Oh, you couldn't handle it eh?\" She's so lucky this was when I was still a scared freshman, because if she had the nerve to say that to me now, I would have told her what a pathetic cunt of a college professor she was and she has no business attempting to teach anyone anything ever again for the rest of her LIFE. Positive side: a ton of people dropped her class and complained and after that semester, she was never seen again.\n\ntl;dr: Horrible audio instructor who didn't even teach us, got fired. \n\nAlso, my speech teacher in kindergarten. I was apparently doing something I wasn't supposed to and she pulled my hair really hard to get my attention to shut up. It hurt, but I never told anyone because I was afraid I'd get in trouble again. If I ever see that bitch again, I'm going to yank her fucking hair out. ",
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"body": "I won't even hide his name. If you can find him, please do. His name is Jason Feiner. He was one of my teachers for 3D Animation. He was amazing at Maya, but had never taught others his craft before, so he expected us to be close to par with him on our 3D graphics skills after only ten 4 hour classes. He claims he took part in some multi-console 3rd person shooter game that came out for PS2 and XBOX. It had something to do with a robot and you were always in 3rd person. None of the class believed what he said because he would never try and prove it to us. He was negative to us all the time. After one assignment didn't go well during the first few days of class, he would tell us to just give up. So I did. Majoring in Film now partially due to the horrible teaching done at MISSOURI COLLEGE IN KIRKWOOD,MO.",
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"body": "The computer apps teacher in my high school. Had for about 5 classes during high school, she was the only apps teacher. She was a complete idiot. I already knew how to do everything and she taught directly from the book. So I would work ahead a month or two at a time(in the span of a couple classroom periods). The pace of the class was so slow that I stopped going. She always freaked out on me, and tried to get me to come to class and do work. One day during her period I was sitting in the counselors office chatting with a friend when she called down there to have me come to class. I have no idea how she found me there. When I did go to class she made me grade papers, we printed everything off several sheets per class per student a major waste of paper and ink, and enter grades into her computer. I always marked up the grades of people I liked and gave myself full credit on all my work. I eventually had a teacher who liked me sign me out of the class permanently. ",
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"body": "Senior year of High School, A.P. English. The teacher began class by telling us how we were all lucky to have her because she was the best teacher in the school. However, the real problem was that she picked favorites. I was not one of her favorites. Writing is largely subjective, so while I thought she was being a little tough on me, maybe she just didn't like my writing. Until she \"averaged\" vocab test scores and my all A's in vocab became a C average. While my friend who got mostly B's \"averaged\" an A. She also laughed in my face when I told her I got into my school of choice with a large scholarship saying how \"unbelievable\" that was.",
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"body": "Oh god, Mrs Currie-Mills. I had her for English grade 9, 10 and 11 and she made me want to jump off a bridge. First of all, she was ancient. She taught my mother and uncle when they went to the high school. She absolutely despised me. I'm pretty sure it was because I dressed kind of goth in grade nine. She used to always criticize the way I dressed, and when I got out of that phase she actually congratulated me for dressing like a normal human being in front of the class. I never got good grades in her class, no matter how good my work was... but in grade 12 University English with a different teacher I got 95%, which basically proves she was marking me with a bias.\n\nThe worst thing about her though was probably the fact that she refused to let students leave to go to the bathroom, no matter what. I have a severely weak bladder and when I gotta go, I GOTTA GO. I begged her to let me go once or I'd pee my pants, and she looked me straight in the eye and said, \"Well its not like theyre MY pants.\" I started crying and did wet myself a little, and ran out of the class. Once she failed my friend Roger because his written work was so good she said he couldn`t have written it himself. Um.. Oh and if you were talking in class, she'd go to you and flick her fingers and go \"TTTST\", kind of like the dog whisperer. Strrrange woman.",
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"body": "12th grade English teacher. She was a nazi when it came to class control. If one person ended up talking too much, she would hold the entire class for ten minutes before lunch. This happened nearly every day. Our lunch period was thirty minutes long. She would continually lose her shit mid-lesson and go on a long tirade about how we were the \"worst class\". If I tried to ask a question at all she would sigh really loudly and roll her eyes at me, or really at anyone who asked a question. Honestly, I really think she hated being a teacher. Not only that, but she would make an occasional outrageously dumb statement like \"Atheists believe in Satan\" and give arbitrary classwork assignments. It was very common to have a \"drawing assignment\" where we had to draw a character from a play or something equally stupid, and she would take off points if it didn't look good. \n\nOne time we had to write a book report (seriously one of the few honest English assignments) and I ended up writing one about Thomas Harris' book \"Black Sunday\", a novel about terrorists who plot to detonate a bomb over a football stadium. When I got it back, she had taken ten points off, with no explanation. When I asked her about it, she claimed that I was \"making a written threat\". WTF.",
"score": 4
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"body": "My perspective on a teacher changed dramatically in 2 years. As a sophomore, I was a football player and I was into the football player's lifestyle. Got treated pretty good by teachers for not doing much work, during my first year and a half of gym, I never excercized and the teachers justified it with \"He runs for 4 hours everyday after school.\" then I met Mrs. Packard. She threatened to fail me in a gym class for not running during mandated running time, never dressing out, and not doing anything during the class. All I could think was \"Why is she so mean, can't she just leave me alone and I don't have to deal with her.\" I avoided her for another year and a half and I had one last semester left and I needed one more gym class to graduate, I had avoided her for the whole time but she was the only teacher left who was teaching that. \r\nShe saw me walk in and glared at me. I glared at her but when neither one of us knew was that I had changed. (That year before, I got hurt and the coach got fired for things not related to football and I didn't feel like rehabing my knee just so I could lean an entire new system for one year. It wasn't like I was going to get a scholarship or anything.) I went from an asshole kid, to a good \"young man\" as she called me. I ran in class, enjoyed the sports, and changed out everday. At the end of the year, she got to award the \"student that grew the most\" award to the student that came the furthest in there 4 years there, and I won. She told the stories and all and almost broke down when I gave her credit for it. Which she deserved. She taught me that not everyone cares if I play sports. I hope everyone gets a life lesson like I got. ",
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"body": "Barbara (\"Barbie\") Bernstein. Despite the name \"Barbie\", she was short, ugly, and old. She was teaching computer science, and she didn't know what she was doing. I had several classes with her (small school) and almost anyone taking any of those classes could have taught the classes better than she could.",
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"body": "This kinda cute, really short 24 year old girl that was finishing up her doctorate in Communications. The class was one of those required, public speaking, general education courses. The instructor knew her stuff and, at times, wasn't even that bad of a teacher but she had one of the worst attitudes I have ever encountered. I can understand getting a little upset while trying to get some of the kids that shouldn't be at college to do things right but she was downright demeaning and disrespectful to just about everyone about every little thing. I was really never on the receiving end of her snippy, bitchy, better-than-you tirades (she did get upset at everyone a lot though) but I felt miserable just watching the way she treated her students. She did not seem to enjoy teaching whatsoever and had no business doing so. \n\nOh, and this class was one of those summer classes that was only four weeks long but you had to go three hours per a day for four days out of the week. Her class was a miserable way to have to start the day during that long, miserable month. I told someone a couple weeks after the course ended that I felt like a worse, more cynical person just by having to endure her. \n\nI'm looking at her ratemyprofessor.com right now and feeling sorry for the students that have to deal with her shit at the school that hired her as a professor. \n\n**edit**: I remember she was 24 because she bragged about getting her PhD before turning 25 more than a couple times. Ugh.",
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"body": "It was a summer class. On the syllabus, she wrote \"This class is half as long as a normal class but you will still be required to do all the work. Since you're doing work at twice the rate, in half the time, it's actually FOUR times the amount of work.\" Yep. And she was the only prof I had that ever, truly, hated me.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I had a grad school professor with a personal vendetta against me. I always thought that kind of thing was bullshit until I experienced it. ",
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"body": "Probably the elementary school teacher who sat at her desk while four or five kids beat the hell out of me, less than twenty feet away.",
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"body": "11th grade US history. This guy lost assignments all the time. He'd offer extra credit for going to baseball games (cause he was the coach) and every time I went, everyone was there because he'd lost an assignment of theirs and they had to make it up. \n\nThere was one baseball game about 40 miles from our school, so he wrote on the board that he'd give 3x the normal extra credit for going, so of course I went. He then later refused to give that much extra credit, saying afterwards that a student had written it on the board, even though I'd seen him do it.\n\nHe ended up giving me an 89.6% in the class, which was a B+, and by this point I was fed up. I sent him an email asking him to raise it because of the assignment that he'd lost and the extra credit that I was shafted. He responded with basically saying no. \n\nThis being 11th grade, my mom took it upon herself to email him. He responded back with the nastiest email I've ever read from a teacher. He said I always turned in assignments late, and always came to him begging for him to accept them late (Which never once happened). He also said that the work I did hand in on time looked like I had done it in other classes, which makes no sense since it was 1st period that I had his class.\n\nOn one assignment (an outline for an essay), he gave me a 0/20 (which was worth 5% of our grade) because he said it wasn't satisfactory. I then used that outline and proceeded to make a 4 page outline and asked him to give me SOME credit which he refused. He then gave me an A+ on the final paper. If my outline was so bad, how did I get an A+ on the paper? If he always accepted my late work, why not this one?\n\nWe ended up calling a meeting with the school vice principal after this teacher started ignoring emails. The teacher said his email to me \"hadn't meant to offend me,\" which was bullshit.\n\nStill the worst teacher I ever had, and I still got a B+",
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"body": "My AP Physics teacher in high school was a colossal choad. I have dozens of stories about him, but I'll just give you my favorite. Our test on gravity was designed to take 60 minutes to complete, but we were only given 45. Needless to say, everyone did poorly, not because it was hard but because nobody finished. The only people who did well were the kids who were naturally smart and could do all that math at lightning speed and the kids who had ADD and were given extra time. So, he decided to do something \"nice\" and give us a curve, which he has never done before. And this was his idea of a curve: if you got in the 90's you get 7 extra points, 80's you get 5, 70's 3, 60's 1, and below that none. I got above average before the curve and below average after. We called it the \"anti-curve\". It was absolutely ridiculous. When we complained, he got all pissy because we didn't appreciate his generosity and said that he was never going to give another curve again. Fucking bastard.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I've had a handful of bad teachers. However, the worst aspect of any education I have received has always been the other students. ",
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"body": "When I was in English 101 in my first semester of college, just a prereq course, he gave us a 10 page paper every week, and a group project every other week. Keep in mind we met once a week, and most of us were working full time jobs besides. \n\nAt the end of the semester, he assigned us a 100 page paper, due 14 days after he had assigned it. When we told him it was total horseshit, he responded by saying \"I had to do this when I was getting my master's degree, I don't see how this should be any trouble.\"\n\n ...It's English 101 at a community college. Not an English master's course.",
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"body": "Throwaway account time!\nThere was the one who took out her nasty handkerchief to tie my hands together because she thought I was asking too many questions. I was actually trying to tell her that I figured out a more efficient answer.\n\nThere was the stupid-ass english teacher who couldn't keep her spelling straight and thought her age entitled her to respect in and of itself while still treating everyone else like shit.\n\nThere was the racist/classist motherfucker who called all atheists 'demons' or some such.",
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"body": "Third grade. My grandmother had recently died an my mom would come to help another teacher in the mornings. Every day my mom would come say good bye to me and every day I would beg to go with her fearing that something would happen in the three hours until school was over. My teacher saw this and would start to not let me talk to my mom when she would stop by before leaving (despite the fact that we made sure we didn't disturb the class or that I missed anything important being taught). This didn't become a real problem until one morning when I had to use the bathroom and my mom happened to be in the hallway. My teacher, thinking I was running to my mom, physically restrained me in the middle of the hall. Standing there pleading with this woman, explaining that I was about to piss myself and she called me a liar. In a (thankfully) empty hallway, with this giant woman holding me I pissed my pants and started to cry. My mom ran over to help me and I got out of school for the rest of the day! One would think after this my teacher would cut me some slack but no. I somehow became even more of a problem to her and I'm still amazed that she never actually used a ruler against me. \n\ntl;dr Teacher was a bitch, I peed on her. \n\n(Please excuse typos or grammatical errors, typed that using my phone while watching Futurama)",
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"body": "By far my least favorite teacher was my eighth grade history teacher. She always had it out for me, she claimed I constantly \"tapped pencils on the desk\" and that it annoyed the shit out of her. I never got any complaints from any of my other teachers. What pissed me off the most about her was on the last day of eighth grade the teachers did a sort of \"Most Likely to...\" awards that they gave to all the students on my hall. I was awarded the \"Most Likely to Annoy His 9th Grade Teachers by Tapping His Pencils\" award. When I was given this award it was evident by the look on the other teachers faces that they really didn't care for this award but were just like \"whatever\" as this history teacher laughed her ass off at me and exclaimed \"Haha, look at him! He's disappointed because all of his friends got better awards.\" I remember every word she said because it was probably the rudest anyone has ever been to me. I saw her once a few years ago at a grocery store and could only give her the most evil coldest look you can give someone, I wanted to rip her heart out and eat in front of her, though.\n\nAlso, a Cultural Anthropology professor I had last semester ended up coming to the class before mine on the last day of the semester drunk and still drinking (Vodka and orange juice out of a plastic cup). He apparently was bragging to the students how he was \"Swerving real bad\" on the way to the school and asked them if they had any adderall or other drugs he could have. He also was apparently lashing out at students exceptionally hard when they disagreed with him, which led to one of the students going to the administration. His class was really terrible, he never taught much and he would constantly say he hates anthropology because its a \"Godless\" field. Anyway, I ended going to my class only to see him with administrators in the room with all the students from my class and the one before sitting outside. Upon being pulled from the classroom by the liaison officer and administrators his final parting words were \"Alright, which one of you bitches squealed?\"\n\nHe had tenure and was planning on retiring after the next semester anyway. Pretty bad teacher, I thought he was pretty funny though.",
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What should be our first words when we land on Mars? | "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind", clever and profound.
Any suggestions for when we complete the next step?
Edit: Just for fun, [here's a nice little movie about a *Race to Mars*](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAn1U8DN4OE) which tries to be as realistic and scientifically accurate as possible | 151 | [
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"body": "\"What the hell is tha...AAaauuguhghh hergle blaaah!...........I'm just messing with you guys. Theres nothing up here.\"\r\n",
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"body": "\"People of Earth, we have finally solved the age-old puzzle of whether there is life on Mars. It's us.\"",
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"body": "\"Let us always remember what we are capable of when we work together. We are proud to announce that four minutes ago humans set foot on another world.\"",
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"body": "Hey Neil Armstrong, you're great and imma let you finish, but Mars is the greatest leap for mankind of all time.",
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"body": "Let it now be known that mankind now stands proudly on a foriegn planet for the first time. Let it not be the last.",
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"body": "Facebook status:\n\"[insert astronaut name] is out of this world LOL\"\n\nget it gaize?!\nit's because they are on mars!",
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"body": "\"I claim Mars for Earth.\" And the Martians, they're going, \"You can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of us.\" \"Do you have a flag?\" \"We don't need a flag, this is our planet, you bastard.\"",
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"body": "\"Wait, first words? You guys want profound first words on Mars?\" Torres clicked off the mic dismissively and walked away, announcing to Hanson and Chen that he had to piss.\n\nEight minutes later the curt reply came back, \"Yes commander, one for the history books if you please. Just try to say something, you know, deep?\"\n\nBy that time Torres had returned from the head and been waiting by the scanner, tapping his fingers while watching the elapsed time.\n\nIn disgust, he keyed the mic and sent back the first *official* transmission from Mars.\n\n\"You *pendejos* should've sent a fuckin' poet.\"",
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"body": " “How lucky we are to live in this time—the first moment in human history when we are in fact visiting other worlds.” - C. Sagan\n\nor\n\n“The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. We have waded in and the waters seem inviting” -C. Sagan\n\nWhat a tribute that would be to honor Dr. Sagan in such a way.",
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"body": "Yes. Yes. This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it...\"This Land.\"",
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"body": "We're proud to be here, and our AT&T Space Penetration Vehicle got us here in record time. Gotta go, our McDonalds space-feasts are ready and boy are we hungry. ",
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"body": "We should send Samuel L Jackson so the first words can be something like 'Now THAT is one motherfu--ing gigantic motherfu--ing leap for humanity, motherfu--er.'",
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"body": "We the martians declare independence. \r\n\r\nThen follows reading the martian constitution ... with things like no-one has to follow orders, pay taxes or go to war if they dont want to, followed by impossibility to own land or other natural resources.\r\n\r\nObviously, the martians would instantly be nuked by the old earth governments.",
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"body": "\"Good job, men. Now let's meet the natives, gain their trust, sleep with their women, and then, without warning, kill them.\"",
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"body": "Okay guys let's get a few more shots and that's a rap. Whatever else needs doing we can fix in post production. ",
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"body": "I think we'll get a sentient robot up there first, and it will say: \"Robotto no tame ni hitotsu no chiisana ichi ho, robotto rui nitotte oukina hiyaku.\"",
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"body": "We have landed on Mars. This is what was said:\n\n\"01010110101101010101010110101010110100101001000010101010100\"",
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"body": "\"If there wasn't any religion or patriotism and we would just work together, we would have been here a thousand years earlier.\"",
"score": 4
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"body": "\"Hey....ah guys....are you sure I can get the fuck out of here? It doesn't look like there is enough fuel in this bitch......guys?......hello? Motherfuckers....Ok, I see what this is. Fuck all of yo....wait. Oh shit! Hold up.... there are some peop......\"",
"score": 3
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"body": "being as that it will probably be a combined effort, as the evidence seems to hint with current planning.. something along the lines of\n \"United we thrive, and take the first steps into our universe...\"",
"score": 3
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{
"body": "\"Man will space walk now\". - That's what you hear when you play \"One small step for man\" backwards, so I feel that's appropriate.",
"score": 3
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{
"body": "We come in peace for all mankind. Now put your hands up in the air and come out from behind that rock.",
"score": 3
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Can Reddit help me salvage a keepsake for my boss? | My boss's dad died very recently, and she has these two metal cups of his. She really loves these things, but the last time she washed them, she stacked them together when they were still warm. Once they cooled, the metal constricted and they are seriously stuck together. I'm trying to help her get them apart so she can keep them. I've tried various uses of hot/cold as well as lubrication with oil to try to get them apart, but can't! Any suggestions?
Edit: Thanks for all the help so far! Redditors really do kick butt!
Edit#2: Reddit, it worked!!! They're apart! It was the bartender trick that did it (that's the one I tried first, though - less potential for personal injury!) I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the help! My boss is going to be so excited to see these!
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"body": "I don't know if I can explain this, but I'll try:\n\nHold the top of the top cup in one hand, and the base of the other in your other hand and rotate the bottom cup in a spiral motion. This may be facilitated by gently tapping the junction on a hard surface.\n\nMy best advice is to take them to a bartender and ask them to help you. This is a common problem with cocktail shakers.\n\nIf you absolutely cannot get them apart, send them to me, and I will do it for you.",
"score": 11
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Hey, Reddit - Futurama is coming back this year... what was your favorite episode? | Sometime this summer Fox is supposed to start pushing out another 26 episodes... Seeing the overwhelming response we had for the Simpsons, I reckon at least 2/3 of that audience is Futurama addicts? So... Favorite episode/movie?
I can watch the "What if", "Parasites lost" and "300 big boys" episodes on repeat. your turn?
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"body": "I liked the Farnsworth Parabox. I know it is not a common favorite episode, but it had me laughing the entire time.",
"score": 115
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"body": "\"Parasites lost\" randomness.\n\nDr. Zoidberg: We'll need to have a look inside you with this camera. \n\n[Fry opens his mouth] \n\nDr. Zoidberg: Guess again. \n----\nme, rolling on floor time : 2 minutes",
"score": 86
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"body": "*Time Keeps on Slippin'* is one of my favorites. Also, *The Sting*. Every joke in that episode is awesome.\n\n**Leela**: What's the mission?\n\n**Farnsworth**: Collecting honey. Ordinary honey.\n\n**Leela**: Well that doesn't sound so dangerous.\n\n**Farnsworth**: This is no ordinary honey!",
"score": 74
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"body": "[The Why of Fry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Why_of_Fry): it sets up the subsequent Futurama movies, AND has Scooty-Puff Jr.!",
"score": 19
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"body": "300 Big Boys is excellent, and i always loved the one with Beck where they became hippies. On an unrelated note, [here](http://futurama-stream.com/) is every episode ever.",
"score": 19
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"body": "Would have to be something featuring Zapp Brannigan. I'll have to go with \"A Flight to Remember\".\n\n>Brannigan: \"Prepare to change course!\"\n\n>Kif: \"Sir, this is a leisure cruise. Our path was set by the travel agency.\"\n\n>Brannigan: \"That's for schoolgirls! Now here is a route with some chest hair!\"\n\n>Kif: \"But that course leads directly through a swarm of comets.\"\n\n>Brannigan: \"Yes, comets. The icebergs of the sky. By jackknifing from one to the next at breakneck speed, we might just get some kinda gravity boost. Or something.\"",
"score": 15
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"body": "Oh man, I love them all, but any episode with Calculon cracks me up. \"That was so terrible, I think you gave me cancer!\"\n\nSame with Hermes! \"That's not a cigar... And it's not mine\"",
"score": 11
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"body": "Damn... I just went through this entire topic, and upvoted nearly every episode. They're all just so damn great.",
"score": 10
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"body": "I really liked Parasites Lost. The whole idea behind it was very intriguing :). Did Fry actually love Leela, or were the worms just playing games with his mind? And the ending was great when he created like a cheap version of Leela on the holophonor :D.\n\nThe other one I liked was A Fishful of Dollars where Fry ends up being rich :P.",
"score": 10
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"body": "I really like 'The Honking' because of the Bender dance in the beginning:\n\n♪ B-E-N-D-E-R Beeennnder! B-E-N-D-E-R Beeennnder! Sayin' B...E.. NNNNNNDdd ♪ *Hermes mutes him*\n\nI also like the musical in 'Hell is other robots' \n\n'[Please stop sinning while I'm singing!](http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TEPY1PQWfqvjTU/HU89O99895IPb8)'\n\nAlso 'A Taste of Freedom' with Old Man Waterfall.\n\n\"Do your worst, you sea devils. I'll make my stand with Old Freebie. You can crush me but you can't crush my spirit! Ah! My spirit!\"\n\nEDIT: Linkness\n\n\n\n",
"score": 9
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"body": "**Brannigan Begin Again.** \n \nThose neutrals were amazing. \n \n\"Sir. It's a beige alert!\" \n\"If I don't survive.. tell my wife.. hello.\" \n \n\"Should we trust him, your neutralness?\" \n\"All I know is.. my gut says.. maybe.\" ",
"score": 9
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"body": "Lol, this is like \"Hey Reddit - I would like some karma, please\"\n\nI like the one where Bender played God.",
"score": 8
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"body": "I can't believe nobody mentioned \"Why must I be a crustacean in love?\"\n\nGuy: Is there a doctor in the house?\nZoidberg: I'M A DOCTOR!\n\n*babies being born*\n",
"score": 8
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"body": "The Anthologies of Interest! (Both are equally good.) Also, I love Bicyclops Built for Two. It's like Married With Children, which is an absolute classic show.\n\n[Edit: I can't even begin to tell you how obsessed I am with this show. :D]",
"score": 7
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"body": "300 Big Boys, absolutely. That DING when Fry reaches his 100th cup of coffee cracks me up every single time. The part where Bender inquires about the $10000 cigar and then says \"Oh well, I'll just take that set of thief's tools, then\" isn't bad either.\n\nBender Gets Made is another favorite, especially the part where the Robot Mafia riddles a debtor with bullets. \"Let that be a lesson to you.\"",
"score": 7
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"body": "I couldn't name a favorite episode, but one of my favorite lines from anything ever was from the Robot planet one.\n\n\"Relax, Cindy. It's safe to let our guard down. Even for a second!\"",
"score": 7
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"body": "The Cyber House Rules\n\nLeela: I guess there's nothing wrong with being a little weird. \n\nFry: Leela, there's nothing wrong with anything.",
"score": 6
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"body": "\"Scientists dont exactly know what the first moon landing was like, but our funtologists think it may have been something like this! We're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon! \" brilliant.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Wow, after reading these comments, I really wanted to watch some online. \n\nYou can watch them steaming [here!](http://futurama-stream.com)",
"score": 5
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"body": "I LOVED THEM ALL.\r\n\r\nBought the entire series, then bought it again when the Bender Head came out.\r\n\r\nI consider the director's commentary tracks seperate episodes entirely and love the cast and crew for actually recording one for EACH episode.\r\n\r\nI remember way back when I was a lonely high school nerd with like two friends I watched the director's commentary while playing games online/offline because I liked the phantom company.\r\n\r\nThe movies SUCKED.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Not my favorite because I enjoyed it, but my favorite because I cannot forget it. No matter how hard I try. The one where at the end of the episode it shows a time-lapsed scene of Fry's old Dog is waiting for Fry to return and never leaves no matter what. I was crying like a baby after seeing that for the first time. It probably didn't help that this was around the time my dog died.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I've had the end song from 'Leela's homeworld' stuck in my head forever. \n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hM0wmnlH08",
"score": 4
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"body": "\"Hi! Today some bad things happened. One bad thing was, a train got crashed in New Jersey, wanna see? People won't be late for work, though, because the Governor lady said, 'I'm sending in more trains!''\n\nThe Day the Earth Stood Stupid. Without question.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Tie between \"The Devils Hands are Idle Playthings\" and the one with the dog.. oh god, think I am going to start crying again...",
"score": 3
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"body": "Probably the two-parter about the honey and the bees.\n\nThat show was getting so good in its latter days. The way it got scrapped was a huge shame......\n\nGlad to see it back. I liked the 4 'movies' but I'd rather just see normal episodes again.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Godfellas. I don't even believe in God but I'll be damned if that episode didn't change my life when I was younger with the quote \"Right and wrong are just words, what matters is what you *do*.\"",
"score": 3
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"body": "[The Route of All Evil](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Route_of_All_Evil), this episode is hilarious when they brew beer inside Bender",
"score": 3
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"body": "Hands down, has to be \"Time Keeps on Slippin.\" Insanely quotable, heartfelt ending, but not so sad it made me want to cry like Jurassic Bark.\n\n\"You don't want to end up old and lonely **LIKE ZOIDBERG!** WAHHHHHH!!\n\n...You were saying?",
"score": 3
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"body": "I think I'm the only one who enjoyed \"Less Than Hero\".\n\n*[Citizen Sniiiiiiips!](http://www.citizen-snips.com/images/citizensnips3.jpg)*",
"score": 3
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"body": "Definitely \"I dated a robot\". The scene where they go watch a movie with a vampire AND an explosion gets me everytime.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I'm a fan of Parasites Lost, Problem with Popplers, and Anthology of Interest 2. Out of every episode and movie, my favorite by far is a Beast with a Billion Backs. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "My favourite commentary bit is on the \"Luck of the Fryrish\" track. They're discussing one of Fry's LPs and one of the guys mentions that he's met the artist in question. There's a few moments silence until...\n\nJohn Dimaggio: \"NOBODY CARES!!! NOBOOOODYYYY CAAAAAARES!!!!\" (to the tune of Beethoven's 5th)\n\n\"NOBODY CARES NOBODY CARES NOBODY CAAAAAARES! NOBODY CARES NOBODY CARES NOBODY CAAAAAARES!\"\n\n*laughter*\n\n\"NOOOOOOOBOOOOOOODYYYYYYYYYYY CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARES!!!!\"",
"score": 3
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"body": "A Fishful of Dollars has a great wish fulfillment plot. Fry is a guy so down on his luck, it's awesome to see him achieve some brand of success.",
"score": 3
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Rain in San Diego? Quick redditors, I need your best "cold weather" recipes! | Our asses are getting all El Nino'ed over here. I already have chili and a variety of soups on my list. What are your other favorite foods for cold weather? | 7 | [
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"body": "As someone living in rural Minnesota, where recently we had -50 degree wind chills and roads covered in ice to the point where we saw 60 disabled cars on the interstate in one day (over a dozen of which were on their roofs)...\n\nFuck you and your 51 degrees.",
"score": 15
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"body": "A proper Cajun gumbo, but it would be hard to teach you that not in-person. Other than that, a made from scratch, spicy chili or some good potato soup. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "My low for tonight is about 26 degrees Fahrenheit and I'm eating an ice cream bar right now, haha.\n\nHot drinks and thick / heavy foods keep me the most warm when I'm looking for that though. Thick stews, various creamed soups, and some piping hot tea. Spicy potato soup would be the top of my list. ",
"score": 3
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Men of Reddit...what is your scent? | What cologne do you wear?
If not a cologne, what deodorant or body spray?
If you don't wear anything that smells, what do you normally smell like? | 79 | [
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"body": "I don't know what I smell like. I use whatever soap I find in the shower, and I wear unscented deodorant.",
"score": 41
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"body": "I don't have just one. I am a cologne whore, but a high class whore.\n\nCurrent line up:\n\nBois du Portugal\n\nM7\n\nD & G Pour Homme\n\nBlack Oud\n\nL'Air du Desert Marocain\n\nFumerie Turque\n\nTobacco Vanille\n\nHererra for Men\n\n\nIf you wear cologne, apply it properly. Not like you're on fire and the cologne is an extinguisher. ",
"score": 22
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"body": "Freshly shaved koalas - hardest part of getting ready in the morning is catching those damned fragrant bastards ",
"score": 20
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"body": "Just picked up a bottle of Yves Saint Laurent La Nuit De L'Homme cologne two days ago. As of today, I have 2 different dates lined up for next week. When I met these girls, their first response was \"you smell sooo good\" in a maudlin, overly-sentimental way. ",
"score": 7
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"body": "I'm a bit surprised that nobody's mentioned Obsession (yes, the one from Calvin Klein) yet. I also have a [bay rum](http://www.vintagebladesllc.com/vshop/xcart/product.php?productid=333&cat=119&page=1) aftershave that's outstanding.\n\nFor deodorant, I use Red Zone antiperspirant (Old Spice).\n\nI keep meaning to get some L'Eau d'Issey, Le Male (Jean-Paul Gaultier), and Cerrutti, but I haven't done so, yet.",
"score": 7
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"body": "I wear Usher's cologne because honestly, who doesn't want to smell like a black man who can dance good?",
"score": 7
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"body": "Degree. Gay friend turned me onto it, haven't looked back since.\n\nAt times when i was out I have used the ex's 'Secret'. She has no idea, I made it a point to check for my armpit hair before replacing the cap. \n",
"score": 6
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"body": "Burberry cologne, when I wear it. Although I've always wondered what my natural scent smells like. Dudes always smell terrible to me, but I wonder if we smell different to women. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "Wood.\r\n\r\nI'm serious, there's a scent that makes you smell like a lumber yard, I forget who it's made by and it comes in a square bottle.\r\n\r\nIt's very light. I only got it because my gf thought I needed a cologne for whatever reason. I also have a Givenchy bottle (it's triangle, weird!), both are very subtle and light in scent and not overpowering, so you won't smell like a Jersey Shore cast member.\r\n\r\nEDIT: Bodyspray is for smelly jerks, use deodorant for the love of God. Armpit BO cannot be countered with shit on your clothes.\r\n\r\nFor deodorant I use Gillette (sp?) gel, it feel nice and cool to the touch and lasts all day when I work (I work for Home Depot so lots of lifting and such). For just whatever an Old Spice stick.\r\n\r\n",
"score": 3
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"body": "No cologne, deodorant or body spray. Too lazy to deal with any of that nor do I need them... or at least nobody has every complained.\n\nInstead, I use whatever shampoo and soap is available in the shower (presently a mix of Pert Plus and some sort of thermal girly shampoo my mom and sisters use), and Irish Spring bar soap. Laundry is done with unscented detergent, and \"mountain spring scented\" fabric softener, whatever \"mountain spring\" is supposed to smell like.\n\nHowever, GF #1 has told me that I smell like fresh laundry so she'd get somewhat horny whenever she was doing laundry, and GF #2 (long distance relationship) would prowl the shampoo and conditioner aisle at the supermarket for a whiff whenever she missed me. I'm not sure what to make of being told that I smell like household cleaning formulas.",
"score": 3
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"body": "[Old Spice After Hours](http://www.oldspice.com/products/product/57/Old_Spice_Body_Spray_After_Hours/) \\\n[Axe Phoenix](http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=76320&catid=48145)\nBoth awesome :)",
"score": 3
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"body": "Calvin Klein - Black\n\nBitches be loving it, or at least I assume they will be as soon as I get close enough to one.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I wear two colognes. 212 by Carolina Herrera and Euphoria by CK.\n\n212 is my favorite. It has a limey scent that I think smells good.",
"score": 3
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"body": "[Stetson Black](http://media.well.ca/images/large/products/stetson-black-cologne_1190297267_LRG.png)\n\nIt isn't insanely expensive and still smells fantastic.\n\n\nAs for deodorant... I have family that works for Unilever... so I get free Axe deodorant and body spray. Honest to fucking god, anyone that says Axe smells like shit... well you just haven't found the scent you like. It is just like Old Spice, same shit.\n\nEither way, I use the deodorant to mask my scent, and the body spray to make me smell good. To none believers of Axe, I get compliments all the time about how I smell good. Of course I couldn't justify paying for expensive ass Axe... but the free thing is why I use it.",
"score": 3
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"body": "CK1 is probably my fave everyday scent.\nDior Farenheit is a good manly cologne.\nUnforgivable by Sean John is pretty good but fades quick.\n",
"score": 3
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Novelty Account clearing house. I am releasing
mine into the wild, along with the passwords. | Passwords for all, before people take them, is "123456"
Robert_Paulson
The_Hivemind
Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad
eccothedolphin
IQuoteHanSolo
The_Borg
CorbinDallas
TooDrunkForReddit
Before someone changed the password for karmaball and effectively hilled him, I had that one as well, but whatever.
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"body": "Uh, okay, funny Corbin Dallas story.\n\nLast week I watched The Fifth Element with my boyfriend. I fucking hated the shit out of it. I declared that we would never watch another movie that contained a male character wearing a skin-tight knit orange tank top. I assumed that rule would never need to be enforced.\n\nThe next day we watched Demolition Man. I loved it, for some twisted, unexplainable reason. Halfway through I realized that Wesley Snipes was, in fact, wearing a skin-tight knit orange tank top.\n\nIf you know of any other movies that contain this fashion item, I am now looking to compile a list.",
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Dear AskReddit: How do you keep from getting burnt out from a job? | Every job I'm at, I'm great at what I do. I fit in, make friends, and get lots of promotions.
However, I can figure out the flaws in every job within 3 months. This was an awesome thing at the lower ends of my jobs because it meant that I could get in and fix things, saving the companies time and money.
However, being at a higher job, my input seems now less important, and I feel even *more* used by the system. My want to implement new systems and my spearhead attitude mostly just gets weird looks and completely sidestepped or overlooked.
The thing is, my ideal job would have me working few hours, no clock in time, and getting paid well enough to go on frequent vacations allover. I know that this is impossible and I don't hope for such a thing, but in a perfect world, this is what I'd like.
In the real world, I want a rewarding job that pays well enough for me to be able to afford the fun things I like to do, and make a difference to people, and get recognition for it.
I am not trying to brag here, because I know lots of people would kill to be in my shoes, but, I'm wondering, does this happen to anyone else? Figuring out a job and the perfect and easy ways to fix it? Having this ability makes you *really* dislike those broken aspects of the job because the ignorance of "Oh, it just is what it is" becomes "wow, this could be made a lot easier for everyone, and actually accomplish this company's goals better than the way they're doing things"
So, how do you not get burnt out from a job? Is there such jobs out there that are always rewarding and the grind doesn't take its toll? | 4 | [
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"body": "I work over 300 days a year, haven't been on a vacation in years, gave 100% to my job in every possible way, alienated my family and friends then lost a fiancé... do the exact opposite of that.",
"score": 9
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"body": "Don't work for other people. Start your own company.\n\nAt first, it's scary and a hell of a lot of work, but you call the shots and run the show.\n\nEventually, once you get the right people in place, you can take a vacation whenever you can carve out some time.\n\nIt's a lot more rewarding to know that the hard work you put in benefits you more than just some hourly wage or pre-set salary.",
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Hey Reddit, What boardgames do you play. | I'm looking for some more party games to add to my collection, and wanted to see what you all play. (Adult games are okay, as long as they aren't too fun to have guests over playing them.) | 57 | [
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"body": "Scrabble mostly, my wife and I used to go to Barnes and Noble all the time and break out the board and play while reading books. We would go out into the store and each have a stack of books to thumb through while the other was contemplating their turn... ",
"score": 47
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"body": "Here's my collection:\n\n[Acquire](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5/acquire): Kind of hard to describe... Kind of a stock trading game.\n\n[Apples to Apples](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/74/apples-to-apples): Card game where each player (except a judge) plays a card best-described by another card. The judge decides which wins.\n\n[Munchkin](http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/cardgame/): Parody of Dungeons & Dragons.\n\n[Pandemic](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic): Cooperative board game where you race to eradicate four diseases.\n\n[Red October](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36946/red-november): Cooperative board game where you try to survive a poorly-constructed submarine.\n\n[Settlers of Catan](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13/the-settlers-of-catan): Try to create the most successful civilization before anyone else.\n\n[Who Would Win](http://www.fairplaygames.com/gamedisplay.asp?gameid=6210): Debate game pitching random characters against each other in random events. Who would win in a bicycling race: Cleopatra or Michael Jordan?",
"score": 37
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"body": "Carcassonne & Ticket To Ride. These are card games but, Fluxx and Are You A Werewolf are good party games too.",
"score": 32
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"body": "I play Go ... but that's not really a party game. Or is it?! ... would be my kind of party, that's for sure.",
"score": 25
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"body": "I'm suprised people haven't suggested this:\n\nAxis and Allies\n\nThe game is quite complex, and a typical game will take about 5-7 hours, depending on how speedy your opponents are.. but it's a very good game. I just spent my afternoon playing!",
"score": 25
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"body": "I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned [Dominion](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion) yet!",
"score": 19
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"body": "Just now finished our weekly board games night. This week games played included:\n\n* Apples To Apples\n* Ticket To Ride\n* Power Grid: Factory Manager (if you enjoyed Power Grid and/or Peurto Rico, give this a go - if you've not played either, go buy both)\n* Chocolate Teapot (but you won't find this in shops because we're still playtesting it!)\n* Pandemic: On The Brink\n\nOther common games at our table include:\n\n* Tigris & Euphrates\n* Amun Re\n* Munchkin\n* Fluxx\n* Battlestar Galactica\n* Il Principe\n* Carcassonne\n* Settlers Of Catan\n* Killer Bunnies And The Quest For The Magic Carrot\n* Power Grid\n\nCheck out BoardGameGeek for reviews and all sorts of other good stuff.",
"score": 19
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"body": "Settlers of Catan\n\nPuerto Rico\n\nCarcassonne\n\nChrononauts (sort of a card game, but laid out as a board)\n\nTicket to Ride\n\nApples to Apples\n\nPower Grid\n\nRace for the Galaxy\n\nSt. Petersburg\n\nPretty much all of these are awesome.",
"score": 14
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"body": "[Diplomacy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_%28game%29). I haven't actually played around a physical board since high school, but there's a thriving play-by-email community. [The Diplomatic Pouch](http://diplom.org/) is an awesome resource and probably the best introduction to the online hobby.",
"score": 12
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"body": "[Robo Rally](http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/prod/roborally) is my all time favorite board game. It's like Sorry but for geeks. ",
"score": 9
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"body": "trivial pursuit, pictionary, scrabble & cranium are good party games. I also love backgammon, yahtzee, cribbage, and poker (not quite a board game, though).",
"score": 7
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"body": "Catan, obviously. I just got for Christmas a game called \"Khet\" which is like chess with lasers (!). Like @turtlestack I'd recommend Robo Rally, the game is the closest thing to programming I've come without writing code. And fun too. If you like Catan, try Puerto Rico, it has a similar flavor (well balanced, tight, never bored).",
"score": 6
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"body": "My board game shelf contains the following:\n\nSettlers of Catan (with 5-6 player expansion)\n\nSeafarers of Catan\n\nCarcassone\n\nTraders of Genoa\n\nTorres (one of my faves)\n\nDiplomacy\n\nBohnanza (card game, not a board game, but worth including)\n\nAlso, I have and enjoy the follow games (though they are for two players and thus may not be as great for games nights with a bunch of people):\n\nCathedral\n\nAbalone\n\nBackgammon (!!!!)",
"score": 6
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"body": "Tonight my group played Arkham Horror and won (which we usually don't do) and Dominion, where I got insanely lucky and won.\n\nMost of the other games listed in here we've played too. Settlers, Agricola, Puerto Rico, Amun Re, etc.\n",
"score": 4
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"body": "Although it's a card game: [**Mao**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_(card_game\\))\n\nPretty much one of the funnest card games I've ever played. My friends and I are simply addicted.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Empire Builder by Mayfair Games. It's the best ever, lots of strategy, complex logistics, and highly customizable. I play this all the time with my friends.\n\nAlso Settlers, Carcassonne, Arkham Horror.",
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"body": "Rail Baron is pretty fun...I really don't know how to explain it, but it's kind of like Risk with trains. Carcassone is fun and fits the 'simple to learn, difficult to master' paradigm. Also, you'd probably have better luck in r/gaming, as it encompasses 'non-athletic' games, including board games, and the population of r/gaming seems to be familiar with these sorts of things.",
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"body": "Go & Pente are fun. Also, not quite a board game, but Pass the Pig is a great party game (like Yahtzee, but with pig miniatures instead of dice).",
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"body": "arkham horror - Lovecraft style seven player board game. Your all on a single team versus the board, which is some various ancients one: Cthulhu, etc.\n\n",
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"body": "Settlers of Catan, Risk and Backgammon\n\n(Worked out the best time for risk is 0430.\nWho the hell is going to interrupt you at that\nkinda hour?)",
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"body": "I very much would like to play FIREBALL ISLAND, mostly because it looked so cool when I was a kid and my neighbor friend (who owned it) wouldn't want to learn it. It years later now, and I nostalgia hard for it, but it's too expensive to buy from ebay. So, I'm doing the next best thing, I'm sculpting it out of green floral foam and spackle to make my own epic version. ",
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"body": "Ghost Stories\n\nShadows over Camelot\n\nBattlestar Galactica\n\nPandemic\n\nCarcassonne\n\nRicochet Robots\n\n\nAlso, a few card games that deserve mention:\n\nRace for the Galaxy\n\nDominion, Dominion Intrigue, and Dominion Seaside\n\nThunderstone\n\nMag Blast",
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"body": "Lately - lots of Dominion (with Intrigue and Seaside expansions). \"Small World\" is good too (as is Vinci, on which it's based). Ghost Stories is interesting. Agricola is good if you've got time. Caylus ... hmmm... and a bunch of lighter ones. Mostly I play whatever people bring to board game night.",
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"body": "Caylus, Dominion, Agricola, St petersburg, Power Grid, Settlers of Cattan, carrasconne, Elfenland, Talisma....about 10 others I like games!\n",
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"body": "Quelf. Greatest game ever, especially if you have adventurous friends willing to make asses of themselves.",
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"body": "Apples to apples..very entertaining, pending on the people you play with. Also Monopoly...pending on the people you play with \nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aqktm/so_my_bf_and_i_are_playing_monopoly_in_the_chance/",
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"body": "Heres my list in order of appreciation:\n\nSettlers of Catan\n\nDominion\n\nBlokus\n\nCaylus\n\nPuerto Rico\n\nRace for the Galaxy\n\nCarcassone\n\nScotland Yard\n\n(in their own category for long-ass games that are better than risk:)\n\nAxis and Allies\n\nShogun",
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AskECE: Could anyone tell me the technical reason why the compact fluorescent light bulbs I have seen all warn against using them with a timer? | The following is from the box of my CFL's:
Do not use with dimmers, photocontrols or electronic timers.
What could be the down side to using a CFL with a timer?
In the past I have used a CFL connected to a timer to turn on a light in the morning to wake me, and I had no problems when I did that... | 10 | [
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"body": "Earlier CFLs had magnetic ballasts, which presented a large inductive load instad of an almost purely resistive load for normal bulbs. This could cause misc issues with light duty timers (arcing, etc). While most bulbs on the market today are electronic ballasts, the caution statement still exists (maybe due to the dramatically shorter life you get when frequently starting fluorescents) \n\nDimmers is another kettle of fish. ",
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Hey r/atheism, I was just thinking...I believe it is highly likely that our universe is the unintended consequence of something...or that we are insignificant accidents in something greater. | It may just be the THC, but I just came to the realization that I exist, and you exist, and so does everything else in the entire universe. I have to think something made it, intentional or not (probably not). How did it begin??? Does anyone who studies the subject have a good theory? It makes me think that there are superior beings. Would you be ok with this idea that we might be insignificant things in an unimportant part of something? Am I crazy?
Edit: I dont believe in a god. I am a scientist who does not believe in fairy tales (or intentional creation), I just took "cosmic accident" one step further and I'm asking whether you would think it is possible that we are an accident which was a product of some higher being's existence. If that makes sense | 4 | [
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"body": "> Am I crazy?\n\nJust uneducated.\n\nNow, I'm certainly not calling you stupid, and I'm not saying that you're uneducated in general. I'm just saying that your conclusion or hypothesis is not coming from a rigorous analysis of the real world. If you truly care about the subject, drop the \"answer\" already in your head and start following the evidence and the science and see where it leads you. You don't have to labor away for decades studying theoretical physics, but you can certainly start hitting youtube and wikipedia and seeing what legitimate theories are out there. What you find is that as you go deeper and deeper in your studies, you'll never hit a point where superior beings become the most probable answer, unless of course you still have that answer stuck in your head. Now, that's not to say that we won't discover at some point that we were likely created by intelligence, it's just that we haven't yet, and nothing so far implies that we will ever come to that.\n\nIf you're looking for answers for what is true, don't be led by the answers that you want to be true.",
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"body": "As an amateur scientist, I'd say your idea isn't *totally, completely, absolutely* out of the question; but the last time Stephen Hawking got sufficiently wasted on drugs and alcohol to even consider it, he passed out before he could give it any thought.",
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Dear Reddit, I don't know much about tea other than the fact that I like it. Care to recommend some? | Earl Grey is my favorite, but when I go to buy some I get so overwhelmed by the varieties. I also enjoy English Breakfast. Help me out tea drinkers, lead me to your favorites!
Edit: Thanks for all the great advice. I will have a wonderful time trying out all your recommendations. You guys know your stuff, and this is why I <3 reddit. | 10 | [
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"body": "If you're looking at black teas (which Earl Gray and English Breakfast are varieties of,) I'd also suggest Irish Breakfast, I find it quite enjoyable. Chai is also a spice black tea, very good with a little milk and sugar.\n\nI also enjoy many fruit teas, Honeybush and Mandarine is quite good, as is Peach Oolong. \n\nI'm not a big fan of green teas myself, as I find they can tend to taste very earthy, but some people really like them.\n\nWhite teas are a lot lighter, and imo taste best sweetened. I drink a raspberry white tea quite often, as well as a white chai tea - delicious.\n\nThere is also Jasmine, which is delicious, and Chamomile, which I find to be quite soothing. If you like mint, there are also many mint herbal and green teas, but I cannot stand mint teas personally.\n\nCelestial Seasonings has a seasonal Gingerbread tea which is to die for :)",
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"body": "Milk oolong. Seek until you find it. It will clear your skin, enlighten your mind, and make everyone around you marvel at your tea-fu.",
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"body": "Protip: There is no such thing as \"fruit tea\" or \"herbal tea\". Anything made without the leaves of [Camellia Sinensis](http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/Camellia_sinensis?q=camellia+sinensis) is a herbal infusion, not \"Tea\".\r\n\r\nAll the world's tea varieites (earl gray, english breakfast, orange pekoe, green) are merely the result of different processing / handling of Camellia Sinensis leaves.\r\n\r\nThat said, my favorite are Green Teas from Japan. Goto your local asian grocer, and buy a loose-leaf green tea from Japan (read the label). \r\n\r\nGet a [simple/cheap cast-iron tea pot (enamled interior)](http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cast+iron+teapot) with a stainless strainer.",
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"body": "[Blooming Tea](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blooming_tea) is a blast, although I can't suggest any particular brands.\n\nAlso, poppy tea is very enjoyable, but *extremely* bitter so mix it with something sweet.",
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"body": "I drink a lot of green tea (japanese sencha at the moment) daily and it is probably my favorite drink in the world. It gives me a nice _really_ relaxed feeling, but still focused at the same time. Anyone else notice this?",
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"body": "Filtered water is key. You can't make good tea with funky-tasting tap water. Other than that, I say go nuts and try every tea you come across. They are all good. Seriously.",
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"body": "[yorkshire tea](http://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/) its like english breakfast but better!! im not in the uk, but can usually find it in a local brit import shop. ",
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"body": "High Mountain Green Tea from China Whole Leaf\nSoak them for 30 seconds to clean then brew for three minutes.\nyou will get the Catechin highs you feel foggy then everything gets real sharp.",
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"body": "I recently discovered pu'erh tea, which I vastly prefer to other kinds of tea.\n\nBefore pu'erh I despaired at getting off coffee (I'm a 2-4 cup a day coffee addict) but pu'erh is rapidly replacing coffee.\n\nIt has an earthier, much less astringent taste than green or black tea, and the biggest advantage is that you cannot overbrew it. It tastes as good after sitting for 3 hours in a nissan thermos as it does after 10 minutes. I don't even empty the leaves when making a new batch, until the thermos becomes too full of leaves. And it gets satisfyingly dark, almost as dark as coffee.\n\nStudies have shown it reduces triglyceride & LDL levels (with known mechanisms) and it has antimutagenic properties as well (in vitro, no actual studies showing it reduces cancer). \n\nI have an aged pu'erh, pu'erh infused with coffee & chocolate flavours, and pu'erh ginger and I like all three equally.\n\nBTW, black tea has the least health benefit of all four forms of tea.",
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Do you prefer Submissive or Dominative? | I'm just wondering what the ratio is of people who enjoy ordering their partner and smacking him/her around, to people who enjoy taking that from their partner?
edit // Hetero female, and I mostly enjoy submissive. | 4 | [
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"body": "i'm pretty butch but i'd definitely consider myself a switch. one of my favorite foreplay activities is wrestling for top.",
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"body": "Male, mid-20's\nDominant, for the most part. I would try being submissive but my partner doesn't feel like she can play the dominant role. I think it would help me to be a better dom and her a better sub if we reversed for a bit, so I'm trying to talk her into it.",
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"body": "I like a submissive girl, ideally petite, that I can toss around and tell what to do... but at the same time I like laying back and letting her do whatever she wants with me, really getting into it. I'm not into whips and gag-balls or that kind of kink, but strapping her to the bedposts is always fun.",
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"body": "Hetero female sub, that likes being both willing and unwilling.\n\nAnd I'm active over in [/r/BDSMcommunity](http://www.reddit.com/r/BDSMcommunity), which is a lovely place.",
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"body": "Very dom... Not sure if its because I always get with super sub girls, or if its because I love it =). And I do love it... ",
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"body": "I'm a guy, and I thought I was into being submissive until I dated a girl who really liked being submissive. Then I found out I was definitely dominant.\n\nI think the problem was that I can't stand seeing other guys be dominant.",
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"body": "Gay male, I guess I'd say switch. I enjoy doing the fucking but also being tied up and being the one fucked.",
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I'm in this really bad situation and I don't know what to do | So basically I'm on this tiny boat in the middle of the ocean, and everyone is dead. It's just me and Richard left. It's awful, there no food, no radio, and no land in sight. Also Richard is a tiger and my name is stupid.
What do I do SA? | 13 | [
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"body": "Jump overboard be before you find out it's a all metaphor and that you are actually the tiger, the hyena was a French cook, the orangutan was your mum, and the zebra was a wounded sailor.\n\n**DID I SPOIL THE BOOK FOR YOU, WHOEVER'S READING THIS? GOOD. YOU HAD IT COMING MOTHERFUCKER.**",
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"body": "Well, since you can post here, I assume you can search google. Find star charts for navigation. Figure out where you are in the ocean. Navigate to the nearest Boarders/Barnes & Noble. There's a book there that will tell you what to do. I would, but I never finished reading it.",
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"body": "You're pretty much guaranteed to die anyway, so why not lose your catginity while you're still conscious? ",
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"body": "There's a giant sea plug on the ocean floor. Swim down there and twist it until you see the ocean start to drain. ",
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"body": "You're going to want to assert your dominance over the tiger know, so he knows who's boss. Yell at it, get in it's face, try to bother it as much as possible.\n\nAfter he comes to respect you, drink as much seawater as possible to keep from dehydrating.",
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I'm a UK Redditor Staying in New Jersey. Am I right that the more pro-America stickers on the rear of your car, the worse you are at driving? | Undertaking on the break-down lane, driving around a foot behind my car on the highway (at high speed), hooting the horn when nothing even remotely hoot-worthy is going on, not indicating for shit, ignoring any traffic law relating to pedestrians. What the fuck is wrong with you people‽ | 28 | [
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"body": "Welcome to Jersey. If you aren't driving 10 miles over the speed limit, you aren't driving fast enough. \n\nIf you need some pointers to help you out during your stay, ask away. ",
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"body": "If you are driving at the speed limit or less and obeying all traffic laws, you are obstructing traffic. You need to swear a lot while you're driving too.\n\nAs others have indicated, multiple bumper stickered cars usually indicate someone hoping for a spot in the special olympics road rally.",
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"body": "yes. add a new jersey plate to the equation and the worseness goes up exponentially. new york should really collapse the tunnels.",
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"body": "Dude, its Jersey. But I gotta tell ya, its worse in other places; New York and Massachusetts (Boston) traffic is hell on earth. I don't know where in NJ you are staying, but if its central-to-southern Jersey...you ain't seen nothin' yet. I wouldn't advise going above exit 10 on the turnpike and you probably should avoid both the expressway and the parkway. Forget about 95 through Philly if you're squeamish. Bumper stickers be damned, if its a car and its on that roadway, its either doing 80mph or completely stalled (sometimes in the passing lane...bonus); both will test the power of your sphincter if you're not used to it.\r\n\r\nNow, having spent the majority of my learning-to-drive youth in the 609 area code, I can tell you this: get over it. Horns were made to honk and pedestrians were made to be screamed at, run over, or both. The only thing being undertaken in NJ are corpses. \r\n\r\nWelcome to the Garden State. Come, see the sights, get in a nice lungful of that fresh factory smog...then get the fuck out. And don't call us - we'll call you. ;-)\r\n\r\nps.....mind the puddle, people!",
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Grab the nearest book to you right now. Not your favorite or most intellectual book but the closest one to you right now. | Now goto page 67. Now goto the 3rd sentence and type it in with no explanation. People can reply and try to guess what book it is. Mine is ....... A few radio transmissions were received -- and then silence. | 133 | [
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"body": "Ugh, this is going to sound much worse than it is:\n\n\"The count stood up, unbuttoned his vest, and opened his shirt.\"",
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"body": "\"C har utformats för att göra funktioner effektiva och lättanvända.\"\r\n\r\nE: My guess on the OP is Secret History of the CIA",
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"body": "\"Navidson keeps his attention focused on the floor ahead of him, and no doubt because he keeps looking down, the floor begins to assume a new meaning.\"",
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"body": "For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials;then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive-you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers;now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope.",
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"body": "Cook the onions and butter over low heat for 10 minutes without allowing the onions to color.\n\nI feel like having another, so:\n\nYou can burn most any organic matter.\n\n(For those playing at home, it is also page 100000)",
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"body": "He was a universal genius -- on that point I agreed with the old chap, who thereupon blew his nose noisily into a large cotten hankerchief and withdrew in senile agitation, bearing off some family letters and memoranda without importance. ",
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"body": "It seemed like it was right by my head.\n\nIf anyone else on reddit even so much as owns this book I might lose faith in the whole site, it's an awful awful book by an awful awful man. It's been hiding in my nightstand because I'm ashamed anyone will know I have it. I only got it in a garage sale box.",
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"body": "``\"He got a brother in Uberwald. We've sent word,\" the troll added.''\n\nThis book was close too. Its far far easier.\n\n",
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"body": "> \"Is anyone going to bother telling me what the Order of the Phoenix—?\"\n\nI *dare* you to figure that one out.",
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"body": "\"One clue is to be found in the fact that irony is still around, bigger than ever after 30 years as the dominent mode of hip expression.\"",
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"body": "\"If you attract the attention of the police for running a red light, your pursuer will most likely leave the scene.\"\n\nedit: eyepennies got it, well done.",
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"body": "\"Dr. Yueh, he knew, would find something to read and remain in the other room.\"\n\nShould be pretty easy. :P",
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"body": "**Do not stand out from the crowd.**\n\nThis is bolded within my book. There aren't many bolded sentences within this book whatsoever... good times.",
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"body": ".\"The others are tales of fantasy; one of them - \"The Lottery of Babylon\" - is not wholly innocent of symbolism.\"\n\nI rolled a natural twenty on the \"Have an impressive book lying around\" check and a one on the \"Randomly open to a mysterious and enigmatic sentence\" check.",
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"body": "Ecosystems in the regions of the earth where early and historically important agricultural societies first developed were all intrinsically less resistant to human alteration than in tropical Africa.\n\nI've realized that I have slowly whittled out fiction from my reading list.",
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"body": "\"One day when I was in the Alacana market in Toledo, a boy came by to sell some notebooks and old papers to a silk merchant; as I am very fond of reading, even torn papers in the streets, I was moved by my natural inclinations to pick up one of the volumes the boy was selling, and I was that it was written in characters I knew to be Arabic.\"",
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"body": "At least I lucked in on a good sentence.\n\n\"As near as I can tell I'm no loony, or never knew it if I was.\"",
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"body": "\"The Hobbits of Bree obtained permission from the high king at Fornost in 1601 to settle the lands between the Brandywine River and the Far Downs.\"",
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"body": "The closest book is also currently my most intellectual book\n\"In Asia, the Europeans saw few easy pathways into the continent and instead set up trading posts and offices and contented themselves with the scraps ignored by the Chinese.\"\n\nThe second closest book is a little bit more interesting. \n\n\"You slide your sex back and forth along the wooden pole, leaving a glistening smear of sweat.\"",
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"body": "\"But the colonel imagined that he was addressing his beloved troops for the last time, and he told them that they had nothing to be ashamed of, that there were dead Germans all over the battlefield who wished to God that they had never heard of the Four-Fifty-First.\"",
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"body": "...C'était ça le truc relou avec Jennifer.\n(..why am I doing this.. I think this is a harder game than Grim fandango)",
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"body": "Two books sitting next to me in a stack, so two quotes. I'm thinking the second one won't be too hard.\n\n- He tried to talk about film, music, recent theater production, without getting any help even from Espinoza, who seemed to vie with Pritchard in his muteness, although Pritchard's muteness was at least that of the observer, equal parts distracted and engaged, and Espinoza's muteness was that of the observed, sunk in misery and shame.\n\n- But when Sister Ursula stooped to kiss her, Francie saw that she had a fine fringe of hair on her upper lip and chin.",
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"body": "since he doesn't understand a word of english, i made it a point to conduct the whole transaction in english.",
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"body": "It has often been assumed that man has chosen for domestication animals and plants having an extraordinary inherent tendency to vary, and likewise to withstand diverse climates.",
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"body": "Perhaps roused by the sound of Fred and their father's arrival, George stirred.\n\nDon't think I'll ever get to reading this book due to disinterest. Is it worth it?",
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"body": "So, the book is not in English, but I tried to do a translation (it's a hard guess as it is):\n\n\"Behold the woman which is not woman, but sex, breasts, abdomen, thighs, voice or figure: one or the other, according to preference.\"\n\nHere is the original, for reference:\n\n\"Iată femeia care nu e femeie, ci sex, sâni, pântec, pulpe, voce sau figură: una sau alta, după preferințe.\"",
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"body": "more prayer flags had been strung between the myrtle trees, whose branches held feathered serpents and corn dollies and colored eggs and bull skulls and balloons.",
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"body": "\"She had made a vow that she would take no man for a husband who did not promise that if she should die, he would allow himself to be buried alive with her in the grave.\"\n\nMini-hint: My desk is right next to my biggest bookshelf, and the only reason I deemed this book to be \"closest\" to me was because it's a fat ass volume that sticks out more than the rest.",
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"body": "But the colonel imagined that he was addressing his beloved troops for the last time, and he hold them that hey had nothing to be ashamed of, that there were dead Germans all over the battlefield who wished to God that they had never heard of the Four-fifty-first.",
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"body": " 10001 17\n\nThat sucks though. I'll try an equidistant book:\n\n\"No matter what this patient accomplished, she stubbornly insisted that it wasn't good enough and claimed that she was a totally worthless human being.\"\n\nBoth of these are from books which have been mentioned on reddit quite frequently, and highly praised. The first one is not a technical manual.",
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"body": "\"You will be amazed at what this compliance to nature's laws can do for you; it will renew your energies and benefit your eyesight at the same time.\"\n",
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"body": "\"Gone away upstream, bas-relief Dumpster lost in the gray light as now Slothrop is going past the sign of Will Stonybloke, of J Peter Pitt, of Jack Kennedy, the ambassador's son--say, where the heck is that *Jack* tonight, anyway?\"",
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"body": "These phagocytes (big eaters) help to clear the cellular debris and secrete a range of molecules that, while contributing to the level of physical discomfort sensed via nerve endings, act to promote tissue repair.",
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"body": "\"By the time Ship entered the unnamed system and a silver nugget of rock appeared in the vacuum ahead, every instinct in her body was screaming at her to close her eyes, to slam shut all perception of the brutal, sickening vastness of the galaxy.\"\n\nThis was the first book I've read in one sitting in ages, and it wasn't even that good!",
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"body": "Mr. Wickham's attention was caught; and after observing Mr. Collins for a few moments, he asked Elizabeth in a low voice whether her relation was very intimately acquainted with the family of de Bourgh.",
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"body": "\"In keeping with the simplicity of the room, pressed flowers are displayed in natural-wood frames with a precut mat from a discount store.\"\n\n-Garden Style Projects\n\n\nYeah so I'm at my parents' place...",
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"body": "okay, I have 3 books that are equidistant (3 books stacked next to my computer, within reaching distance), so I'm going to put all three (to be fair, two of them are textbooks): \r\n\r\n\"Haben Sie genug Geld?\"\r\n\r\n\"Vous etes en retard de cinq minutes.\r\n\r\n\"The experience has made me afraid almost to be alone, and I have found myself unconsciously and uneasily glancing at my face in mirrors, in the plate-glass of show-windows on the shopping streets of the city, fearful lest I shoud find some of those evil traits which I have struggled to keep under, and have kept under so far, copping out there where all the world, all *my* world, can see and wonder at, having known me always as a man of right doing right and right feeling.\"\r\n\r\ndamn.. that's quite a sentence. in fact, that whole first paragraph on page 67 is made up of 3 similiarly structured sentences.",
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Americans in the EPL, a question. | In [this interview](http://www.arsenal.com/usa/news/news-archive/ars-ne-wenger-on-landon-donovan), Wenger states, "To get [players] from the States they need to be international and to have played 75 per cent of the games [for their countries]. It is a work-permit issue..."
Could anyone explain this further please? | 6 | [
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"body": "The Brits don't like unskilled labour entering their country?\n\nBasically, if your country of origin is outside the EU-area, or not one of the colonies who, you know, didn't go to war against England, then you need to get a residence- and work-permit.\n\nYou can apply as either a [Tier Five](http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier5/creativeandsporting/) or [Tier Two](http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier2/sportspeople/) person working in sports, depending on whether it is short term or long term, but you have to be \"internationally established at the highest level\", and apparently there's a numeric definition for that standard.",
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Is there a good deodorant that doesn't turn into flakes/powder while it's on you? | I use Gillette clear gel, and some of it turns to powder during the day while it's on me. When I take off my shirt, if I breathe in at the wrong time, I'm inhaling aluminum zirconium chlorowhateverthefuck.
I've also used stick-type deodorants before, and some of them (I forget which) made my skin burn like hell for a few minutes after applying. (No I don't shave my armpits.)
Anyone know of a good type that doesn't do either of those things? | 17 | [
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"body": "For years I've used a combination of a deodorant stone (clear crystal, available at healthfood stores) and some sort of lightly scented bathpowder. The combo works great, no nasty chemicals, no pitflakes.",
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"body": "I use Mitchum unscented and it has never powdered-up on me. And I don't know if it will work on your body chemistry but I can go two days without a shower and not a whiff of under-arm odor, I love the stuff; aside from the fact that it'll probably give me cancer in the end. ",
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"body": "Avon deodorants, cheap and good. a buck each instead of 3-4.\n\nmy girlfriend loves the baby powder one on me.",
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"body": "Old Spice Red Zone High Performance Solid \n\nShave (or trim down) your armpit hairs. \nApply the deodorant and then rub it in with the stick thing (until you cant see it) \n\nThe majority of the flakes and dusty shit you're getting is the stuff that is in the HAIR of your armpit and not on your skin where it should be. \n\nPlus your armpits will smell better if you shave them or trim them. I've never had a girl tell me they enjoyed a man with armpit hair...",
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Marijuana and the Law | I recently have had the pleasure of joining the many who have been arrested for marijuana. Ive soon realized the cop lied on my police report claiming that I told him where it was only after a K9 unit had arrived, which is untrue a K9 unit never was brought in and I have a witness to account for this. He also took my cigarettes! that aside He claimed he would arrest me on a felony if I didnt tell him where the "drugs" were located. I was wondering if anyone else has gone through this same situation cause Im sure someone out there has and was looking for some advice.
also if we could get a post with links helping others out in this situation of what they should or shouldn't do in these type of situations.
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"body": "Sorry to hear that man. I know it really blows but hang in there. Get a good lawyer and don't say anything to anybody.\n\nThe golden rule of dealing with law enforcement is to just not say ANYTHING without your lawyer. They will lie and try to intimidate you but you have the right to remain silent. Cops are not required to tell the truth and will say anything to try and bust you. \n\n[Find a Lawyer](http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3445)\n\n[How to handle police](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3AenUS%3Aofficial&hs=WI4&q=how+to+handle+police&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g4)\n\n[Never talk to the police](http://boingboing.net/2008/07/28/law-prof-and-cop-agr.html)\n\n\nGood luck!\n\n\n",
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So does anyone remember the "memes" you had as a child amongst your group of friends? | For instance in the sixth grade we had this whiteboard in class that we'd draw on throughout the day, and all the girls took control and drew hearts and ponies and such.. so my friends and I one day erased all the girly crap and wrote in bold letters "I LIKE RICE". The girls hated us for it and we would always erase their stupid drawing a replace them with that phrase. It pissed our old, cranky teacher off because she never understood what it meant (neither did we, really) and would scold us every time someone wrote "I LIKE RICE" on the whiteboard. | 38 | [
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"body": "In maths we were studying pythagoras's theorem and it got to a particularly difficult question. For some reason I had a real talent for it, so did it fairly simply and got the answer. The girl who sat next to me was confused as to how I got that answer and asked me to explain. When I was done explaining, she just stared at me with a blank expression and said \"I had toast for breakfast this morning...\", at which point we both burst out laughing. Since then, we became good friends and whenever we're confused at something, we repeat that line.",
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"body": "My friend killed a deer and cut off the ball sack. It was kind of furry and he put it on a long string. He then brought it to school for the next few months (so it seems) and would smack unsuspecting people in the face with it. It was really light so it wasn't hurting any body, but as he hit them he would yell \"Balls in your jaw!!!\"\n",
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"body": "When that news story broke of Iranian speed boats harassing US navy ships my friend and I were thinking of how a speed boat would exactly harass a war ship (with out reading the article). It developed into us shouting taunts at each other in school with the same format every time.\nHeres how you do it.\n\nHEY AMERICANS!!! (in a vaguely foreign accent, not necessarily Iranian)\nHow is your (insert aspect of American life)\nIs it still (insert a quality of that aspect)\n\nExamples\n\n\"Hey Americans! How is your John Lennon? Still imagining?\"\n\"Hey Americans! How is your Jesus? Still hanging around?\"\n\"Hey Americans! How is your Skynnard? Still landing airplanes successfully?\"\n\nand so on for topics such as womens rights, homosexuals, voting. It still goes on to this day.\n\nAnother one we still have which is fairly new is to shout the name of a southern rock band and punch someone in the arm.\n\nI also like to call musicians and celebrities the wrong names, and reference them incorrectly.",
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"body": "If you were my age (22) I said \"I like Rice\" because of the show \"Ah! Real Monsters\" when the monster catcher guy went crazy (I believe at the end of the first season) he said \"I like Rice, Rice is nice.\" So I said that a lot as a kid.",
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"body": "I can think of three that stand out:\n\n1) Pits - We would sneak up behind a victim and forcefully jam one or two fingers into their arm pits while yelling \"PIIIIIIIITTTTTTS\" in a deep voice. The goal of this game was to lift the victim into the air via their arm pits.\n\n2) I Believe - We would jump off of this particularly high hill on the school ground and sing the lyrics to \"I believe I can fly\" while tumbling down\n\n3) Epilepsy On Ice - Being a Canadian school, large portions of the school yard would often turn into a natural skating rink in the winter. One day after an assembly about epilepsy we invented a game where we would pretend to have a seizure while standing on the school yard ice. Naturally the participants would have dramatic falls. This resulted in a number of injuries.\n\nYah, we were retarded…\n",
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"body": "I remember in about grade four, the first Wayne's World had just came out and saying 'NOT' became an instant Meme. I have actually caught myself saying it in my adult life, I cringe when I slip it out. ",
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"body": "My best friend and I referred to all the hateful people of the world as Biffs, and all the cool people Roy. We called each other Roy, or would let each other know someone was okay by saying, \"nah, he's a Roy. for sure.\" \n\nRetrospect, we got this from Roy G. Biv.",
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"body": "In junior high school a couple in my friend group named Ashley and Rick broke up. It caused a massive battle where everyone was forced to take a side and eventually split the group into three separate mini groups. Ashley's friends, Rick's friends, and the people who hated both of them for splitting everyone up. I was in the later. Whenever we would get into fights someone would say, \"Don't pull a Rick and Ashley\" which would calm things down. It lasted from 6-8th grade.",
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"body": "This is vulgar and immature, but I was a boy in seventh grade, so what do you expect.\n\nMy friends and I used to discuss *Highlander* and the merits of Queen's theme to the film, *Princes of the Universe*, particularly whether or not the over-the-top nature of the song made it just a little too gay and ridiculous for us as 7th grade boys to ever openly admit to each other that we kinda liked it. But it would get brought up, and so the conversation went amongst adolescent little thugs:\n\n>\"You really don't like it?\"\n\n>\"Dude, it's g-a-a-a-a-y...\"\n\n>\"No, it's just Freddie Mercury that is gay. If you listen to the instruments, it's really HEAVY.\"\n\n>\"Yeah, until you get to that third part, then it get REALLY gay.\" \n\nBut the thing we really liked was to loudly, suddenly spring the song on each other, doing insulting, impromptu, screaming revisions of the lyrics at times that would completely disrupt whatever the victim was doing, causing him to instantly fuck up the task at hand. So instead of suddenly breaking into Freddie Mercury's screaming presentation of the lyrics *\"I am immortal/I have inside me blood of Kings/yeah, YEAH!\"* One of us would wait until it was silent at lunch and somebody, maybe Ian, was drinking some milk, and then quickly start beating on a flat surface a drumbeat with our palm while loudly singing \"I-an's a douchebag!/He likes to suck a moose's cock!/yeah, YEAH!\" Invariably causing Ian to start choking on his drink while trying to keep from dying of laughter/asphyxiation. \n\nP.S. LGBT folks are awesome and Queen rules.",
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"body": "Whenever a hot girl would walk by in art class or science class, or, well, any class, someone would hit the bottom of the desk with their knee, and everyone else who thought the girl was hot would do the same thing. We did this to pretend like we had just gotten an instant erection that had thumped the bottom of the desk. If a particularly ugly girl walked by, someone would say \"buried missile\" or \"ostrich\" implying that she was so ugly that she caused an anti-erection, where one's penis would seek refuge by trying to hide in the dirt.",
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"body": "Prepare for a list.\n\nGrade 7 gym. Friend just randomly sang \"Donkey, Donkey, have nice teeth. For eating pies, filled with BEEF.\" Cue my circle of friends singing that non-stop the rest of the year.\n\nAnother song was when we took the song that goes \"signs, signs, everywhere there's signs. Can't even escape 'em when I close my eyes.\" And replaced every instance of \"sign\" with \"pie\". By the end of the year, that and the other song were polymerized into an ultra-meme.\n\nSince grade nine, when I started making more friends, people noticed my all encompassing nerd knowledge of everything. A concept with which most of you are familiar, I'm sure. Anyways, every time I whipped out some useful knowledge or random fact it was called a \"wiki-scan\", because I'd claimed I just spent a lot of time on Wikipedia. Every time somebody wants to know something they turn and shout \"WIKI-SCAN!\" to see if I can help.\n\nI had one real dick friend in grade 9-10 who would always respond to situations where something went wrong with: \"Mur-raaaaaaaaaaaaaaay\". My English class used this all year and my response (if I was present) was \"I'm soooooooooorry\". It got to a point where in grade eleven, when that friend left the school, my English teacher convinced my French teacher to start doing it too.\n\nSo...in physics this one time, I fell asleep. One of my friends said \"wake up Murray\", and then another one said it in a completely harmonic tone. The latter then broke out into song, and nobody will ever let me forget it. Now it's a bit of a joke to say \"Wake up [person's_name]\" in a sing song voice. They guy that sang it originally actually plays guitar and wrote a song to go with it, developing more lyrics etc.\n\nGrad retreat, basically a 2 day trip to a camp to plan our grad at the end of the year in grade 12. Anyways, a few friends and I decide to not sleep that night, and spend all night sneaking away from teachers, exploring the facilities (a fucking maze) and playing ping pong. By the time ~5:00 am rolls around we go back to our room (6 of us) and force each other to stay up for breakfast at 9:00. Anyways, one guy was having trouble in particular, and I caught him asleep at one point. I yell at him to wake up and his sleepy response was: \"...not asleep, just tickling my arm...\" and he then reached up and tickled his arm. Whenever we need an excuse for anything, that's the one we use.\n\nEDIT: Tl;Dr: I just chronicled my transition between friends from grade seven until now, halfway through grade 12. ",
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"body": "This is an excellent idea for a post. Tip o' the cap to the **OP**!\n\n\n\nIf you said something at the same time as someone else, the first one of the two to finish saying the phrase \"Owe me a Coke, P.O.E\" was the \"winner\".\n\nThe first part of the phrase is self explanatory. The second actually evolved over a summer. POE stands for Power Over Everything.\n\nThe need for the \"power over everything\" was because guys were saying things like \"no I don't\" or \"you owe me two\" while you were saying the \"correct\" phrase. \n\nSo it became a fixed rule that if you got the \"P.O.E\". out first, you had \"won\", and were \"owed\" one Coca Cola. Which, of course, no one ever paid or collected.\n\n",
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"body": "In 6th grade ('91-'92) it was popular to take a White Sox hat and black out part of the logo with a Sharpie so it would say \"Sex\" instead of Sox.\n\nI don't know how widespread this was - if it was a nationwide thing or a local trend. I tried googling it a while back but found no reference to it.",
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"body": "\nNot exactly a meme, OK, but \"Douchbag\" was a popular insult in the later 1960s... it's funny that it's returned 40 years later.",
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"body": "it was a lot before my time, but look up \"kilroy was here\" sometime on the intertubes. international viral meme-age from the way-back!",
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"body": "We played a variation of \"tiggy\" or \"tag\" where the person who was \"it\" (let's say it was Greg) was said to have \"Greg's disease\" and would run around trying to infect someone by touching them. Everyone would run around screaming \"Ahhhhhh, Greg's disease\" until someone was tagged (say Mary) then it would become \"Mary's disease\" and so on until \"Big lunch\" was over.",
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"body": "I remember we once saw some skateboarder on the a Disney channel commercial interview say \"Are you for serious?\" and we thought it was hilariously stupid, so whenever someone said something mildly unexpected we'd say in a heavy skater-accent \"Dude, *are you for serious*?\" It went on way too long. ",
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Montreal protest against subversive use of proroguing Government. Come out, lets show the numbers of Canadians who care about our elected officials abusing the system for irresponsible political games. | Protest against prorogation of Government in Montreal
Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Parc Émilie-Gamelin (métro Berri-UQAM) vers le Carré Philips
More information can be found at http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/event.php?eid=250104291754 and http://noprorogue.ca/montreal/
Help spread the word, apathy is only going to give Harper more power!
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"body": "I really, really love the Quebecois sometimes. By far the least apathetic amongst us Canadians.\n\nwish I could be there.\n\n\n",
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"body": "There is also going to be a protest on Parliament Hill on the 23rd in Ottawa if anyone is interested and from there.",
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"body": "It should be noted that proroguing parliament numerous times during any given parliament is not exactly unprecedented.\n\n[Trudeau](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30th_Canadian_Parliament), [Mackenzie King](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Canadian_Parliament), and [Diefenbaker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th_Canadian_Parliament).\n\nWhat is a little more unique is the combination of the lengths of time for which parliament is being prorogued, as well as the reason for which it is being done.\n",
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"body": "I will be joining in on the one in Toronto :D Yay Quebecois! lets show parliament they can't tool with us!",
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Defining a Man's right to choose. | Clearly, pregnancy is much more life-altering for a woman. However, if sexual intercourse results in an unplanned pregnancy, then why should only the woman have a say in how the fetus should be handled?
For instance, from what I understand, the current situation is as follows:
1. If a man wants the baby, but the woman doesn't, then the woman can abort.
2. If a man doesn't want the baby, but the woman does, then the man has to pay child support.
This doesn't seem fair at all. **Of course, some might say that reproductive duties aren't fair to begin with.** However, what about the beginning of the pregnancy when a woman might not be able to claim that she has been affected any worse than the man?
What about finding a suitable definition for 'early pregnancy', keeping the woman's right to abort, but changing the second scenario to:
* If a man doesn't want the baby, but the woman does, then the man can petition within early pregnancy to be absolved of child support. Also, if the woman hides the fact that she's pregnant, then a man should be able to sue for fraud (or some more proper term) to be absolved of child support.
What do you think?
**EDIT:**
Clarifications [from this thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/Feminism/comments/aqj1j/honest_question_what_do_you_think_about_a_mans/c0ivxem):
> **On what grounds can he be absolved?**
The same grounds on which a woman can choose to be absolved of the baby: Reproductive freedom.
> **In what situations can't he be absolved?**
I suppose after he has already agreed to have officially 'adopted' the child, or if the woman can show that the man made no attempt to absolve himself some sufficient time before 'late pregnancy' (whatever that means, as determined by law).
An interesting corner case is when the man and woman might plan to conceive and then the man gets cold feet. In this case, it seems that the woman should be able to sue for fraud (or some more appropriate term) in order to force child support for an already conceived child.
Another interesting (and perhaps exactly analogous) corner case is when the woman tells the man that she's on birth control but actually is not (or she uses his semen later). In this case, the man could sue for fraud (or some more appropriate term) in order to absolve himself of child support.
I guess the point is this: If you want a clear legal situation, it's important to declare beforehand that you choose to have a child together (in fact, *I* would call that 'marriage'). Then, along these lines, the 'early pregnancy' would serve as a 'grace period' for couples that conceive by mistake without fraud. | 38 | [
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"body": "Never fails.\n\nNobody here has addressed the issue of reproductive fraud. Cases exist where men have been lied to and tricked by fraudulent and larcenous women are not even being considered. \n\nWe all know that there are men who also trick or force women into pregnancy. Those men who engage in the careless and irresponsible impregnation of multiple women are already held responsible for their actions by law provided that the victimized women report the man to their local CSA and can prove his paternity. As for men who force or trick women into pregnancy as a means of control, the feminist lobby has been working to find ways to deal with men like this with significant results in re-securing protection and the rights for these women. \n\nHowever, and whether you all deny it or not, there are cases where a man's right to not be a father is stolen from him and his conscientious actions to avoid fathering a child are actively voided despite his best efforts. The facts remains that condoms get robbed or sabotaged and lies are told regarding birth control and paternity. What about these men? What justice do they deserve? Why should they pay for a child that they were either forced to sire due to trickery or a child that they did not sire at all? \n\nThe courts have ruled that once sperm leaves a man's body, it is no longer his to control, but he is still responsible for the fruits of its issue. So a woman can take sperm from a used condom, impregnate herself with it and the man who created it will still be legally liable for the child. Also, while we all understand that birth control is not totally effective in preventing contraception, what is there to prevent the system from being further gamed by somebody (male or female) trying to force the issue of pregnancy? When this happens, either gender can be put in an unfortunate situation.\n\nIn cases where a man is fraudulently named the child's father, why is it in the child's best interest that this man be forced to continue paying for it when he discovers the truth? Wouldn't it be in the child's best interest that it know who its true father is and that this man be found and made to support the child he sired? In addition, while if a woman encounters an untrustworthy man, she has the weight of the law to fall back upon to protect her interests. What recourse does a man have against the machinations of a unscrupulous woman seeking to use the family courts/child support system to defraud him?\n\nAnswer these questions, if you dare. And please do not attempt to use the morally-fraudulent argument claiming that any of these things do not happen.",
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"body": "I think the issue here is that it's as much about the woman's body as it is the fetus. The man may want the child/fetus, but he shouldn't be able to force her to carry it, with all the expenses and physical effects that come with it. Things might be different if we ever get to the point where men can choose to carry the fetus to term instead, but we're not there yet. Likewise, abortion is something that involves the female's body, and so if the man decides that he doesn't want the child, I don't think he has the right to insist the woman undergo the procedure. \n\nHowever, men do have control of their own bodies and can choose to have sex or not. They can choose to wear condoms and they can choose to have vasectomies. \n\nIn short, men decide what they do with their bodies, women decide what to do with theirs. That's about as fair as I think we can get. \n\nAs far as the child support thing... it takes two to make a child and regardless of any thing the woman may or may not have done, child support is the right of *the child*. And each child is due support, in one form or another, from both of their parents unless that child is put into foster care (a whole other issue). Also, while it is less common, this is just as true if the father has custody and the mother pays child support. Child support is not just an issue for men. \n\nI know some people don't want to hear this, and I know it's not a perfect or always fun system, but if you do not want to have children then you need to think long and hard about the risks before having sex - especially with someone you do not absolutely trust, and especially if you are not using some pretty fool-proof birth control measures (at least one that you can verify yourself). Unless we're talking rape, no one is forcing you to get pregnant or get someone else pregnant. ",
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"body": "Reproductive freedom does not give the woman the right to abortion. Rather, that right comes from her privacy right over her body. Reproductive freedom does not include the right to abandon a child. Adoption is allowed but it is not a right. It is allowed because it is sometimes in the best interests of the child.",
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"body": "Okay, a few issues here. As far as a man being able to force abortions or force pregnancy, that shouldn't be an issue. No, fuck you, and have a nice day, and take care of your own body because mine is off limits.\n\n\n\nI posted this in a thread regarding the \"male abortion\" awhile back. \n\n\n\nI am female and I really do believe in this. It looks like I am in the minority here :(\nIn my opinion, a man should be able to abort custody rights, but only within the first 2 months of pregnancy. Obviously, it would be a legal process.\n\n\nNeither a woman or man should be forced to become a parent, whether that means carrying a child, or carrying a child financially. They can both deeply hurt and impact people in different ways. I remember one of my ex boyfriends used to talk about his \"deadbeat dad\" who never paid child support. As he got older, he realized that his poor \"deadbeat dad\" could hardly afford to keep his apartment, let alone pay for a child. Paying up is hard. It's even harder when it's a child that you didn't even want, but now you need to get involved with. For some guys, it hurts knowing that they can't always afford it. It becomes a self esteem issue. It makes a guy feel trapped. It makes a guy feel distant and ashamed that he isn't a \"better dad\" by being there. I'v even heard stories about guys that have had to drop out of college or pick up second jobs so they don't get sued for it. Sure, it's not the same as carrying around a baby for 9 months, but I don't understand how people can have such a pathetic lack of empathy.\n\nHonestly, if a woman decides that she wants to have a kid despite objection from her SO, she should be making the decision to raise it alone. Accidental pregnancy is the mistake and responsibility of both people, but I don't think it's fair that one person has the choice to bare responsibility and another doesn't.\nIf a guy chooses to abort his custody, women have several options.\n\n1- Not have the child, and wait for a good man who wants to be a father to have a child with.\n\n2- Put the child up for adoption.\n\n3- Ask friends/family to help raise it.\n\n4. Raise it herself assuming she can afford to do so. \n\nIf a man aborts his custody rights, it's not like a woman lacks options. If she chooses to foolishly and selfishly raise a child without the proper funding...that isn't a man's fault, but she does have enough options to make an adult decision based on what she believes is best for her future child. \n \nSome people say that this is unfair to the child, but let's get real here. There are a lot of couples that can not afford kids but choose to have them anyway. That is also unfair to those children. Unfortunately, some parents are just not meant to be parents..but that doesn't mean we should toss the burden on someone who had nothing to do with that parents poor decision making.\n\nBoth people deserve a choice. Whether they make a choice that is best for the child is on *both* of them. Both are allowed to choose whether they want the responsibility of a child instead of one person being forced to deal with the consequences of the other's poor choices. If a woman can choose to terminate her child and avoid the responsibility of raising it whether her partner has a desire to or not, It only seems right and fair that the man in question can terminate his relationship with it as well. You can't just go and claim that both parents have an equal responsibility when one doesn't even need to accept that responsibility but the other does. ",
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"body": "You're focused on a small, small portion of the overall picture that's dominated by differences in biology.\n\nHow about:\n\nthe right to know that you have children.\n\nthe right to verify that the kid you think is yours is your biological kid\n\nthe right to not care for a kid who is not biologically yours or yours via voluntary process such as adoption.\n\nthe right to spend time with your kid - without government supervision\n\nthe right to take your kid to a doctor - requires legal custody. now summarily stripped at birth in Michigan from unmarried fathers.\n\nthe right to see your kid's school records or get information about school events - e.g. by default most unmarried dads don't have custody, have no notice of or awareness of parent teacher conferences, so they are unable to attend.\n\nthe right to cook your kid a meal and feed him/her - e.g. feed him/her a hamburger even if mom is a vegetarian and doesn't approve.\n\nthe right to take your kid across state lines - e.g. to Disney World\n\nthe right to take your kid across international lines - e.g. to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics\n\nAll of these rights are being denied men much more frequently than women.",
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"body": "I think you have a point... it would really suck to have to pay for an unwanted child. However, this framework assumes that the woman has a full ability to choose to not have the kid, and this is not always the case. There are a lot of situations where a woman ends up with an unwanted child due to religious reasons or restricted access to abortion. In these cases, the woman would be further in a bind having to be the sole supporter of the unwanted child... also the argument \"women can choose, so men should also be able to\" no longer applies. I think the law is an interesting idea, but is there any way it could be modified to account for these types of situations (thoughts)?\n",
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"body": "In Bergen County, NJ I was victimize via both Paternity and Immigration Fraud. An immigrant woman had an unauthorized Artificial Insemination for the purpose of creating an anchor baby. While in court the woman claimed that my semen was used in order to obtain Child Support. But during a NYS Department of Health investigation her and the doctor claimed to have used another person's semen. \n\nBergen County banned me from all motions, all courts and all judges once she admitted that she had an unauthorized IVF. So there is no such thing as Reproductive Rights for Men. The ACLU is completely a NO SHOW when it comes to Reproductive RIghts for Men. A quick Google Search with the exact phrase \"Father's RIghts\" followed by the word ACLU will show that the ACLU does not care at all about Father's Rights.",
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"body": "The issue is that a woman has the right to abort because it is her body, while the responsibility to support a child has nothing to do with the mother. That obligation exists between each parents and the child, separately.\n\nThe bottom line (as I and others have stated before) is this: any time you have sex it should be assumed that the act may result in an obligation to a child.\n\nThe only way that the law could possibly account for a child being born without one or both of the parents being held responsible would be if the legal work were completed *prior to* the act of conception (as is the case in surrogate parenting arrangements such as sperm donation and surrogate mothers implanted with a foreign zygote).\n\n**Even then**, courts have been known to nullify such arrangements. Again, this is because these arrangements are made between the adult parties, where the obligation is not between them. **The obligation is to the child from each parent.** As such, the court may find that the mother or father, attempting to act in a guardianship capacity, erred in judgment. The court will not honor a contract made on behalf of the child that they see as unfair to the child that had no say in the matter.\n\nThe long view is that unless a universal support system is instituted, those around a child may be attached and detached, both financially and socially, with little or no recourse.",
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"body": "I agree completely with the OP, men need the ability to choose somehow. This would hopefully result in a lot less kids who are not cared for properly.\n\nA little off topic but one of the things that is going to need to change in the 21st century is rewarding people financially for having children.\n\nA pretty good argument can be made that most if not all of the big problems we face are related to overpopulation. Have to wonder about the logic of giving people incentives for something we need them to do less of.\n\nI get that this is politically unfeasible right now but in 50 years when there are 10-15 billion people on the planet and starvation and disease is rampant i am thinking this might become the norm.",
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"body": "I agree completely, Lord Voldemort. We've had multiple discussions on this subreddit centered around the concept of a \"sex contract\". Should two partners come together, they could each sign a document stating their intent should the female become pregnant. If the document states that the male chooses not to pay child support should she become pregnant, and she signs the document, we feel the contract should stand. As it is, these sorts of arrangement are overruled, citing the welfare of the child as grounds for nullifying the contract. Legally, such a contract is \"contracting out\" of a parent's responsibility to take care of their child. What is legal, though, is adoption. Why, then, can both parents absolve responsibility for a child, but one cannot? Further, since the female signed the contract, shouldn't she be expected to maintain the welfare of the child since she accepted the terms of the contract?\r\n\r\nIt's by no means an easy topic to navigate, but it's clear that there remains a terrible bias. I strongly disagree with the sentiment I see here so often that the only safe option is no sex. I feel that in this day and age, if the only plausible solution to not being indefinitely indebted is abstinence, we've done something terribly wrong.",
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Does anyone have any good 'classy' date ideas? | I've been with my fiance for the better part of 3 years now, and we both really enjoy getting dressed up, her in a nice dress, me in a suit. The only problem, though, is that once we get all dressed up, what is there to do that matches our attire? Fancy dinners, sure, but I feel overdressed in a movie theater. What else can you do when so attired?
tl;dr: Good dates to go on when in a suit / classy dress? | 24 | [
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"body": "It sounds like you two are in a rut... You should try wearing her dress- and her in your suit, then just head to McDonald's it will be loads of fun.",
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"body": "Am I the only one who's a fan of getting dressed up and then going to dive bars? \n\nHave fun with it. Talk between yourselves about briefcases and drop spots and see if you can convince eavesdroppers that you two are spies.",
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"body": "Go to the theatre. Not the movie theatre, the theatre where people stand on a stage and act. No clue where you are, but they do have social clubs and stuff where you can dress up. Check google.",
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"body": "Supper club w/dancing. The Theatre. Several cities have amazing orchestras New York, Chicago, Boston, many others.\n\nThere *are* a few movie theaters with waiters and drinks and dinner (possibly the weak spot, but a steak is a steak.",
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"body": "If you live in a big city ... you could take one of those classy boat rides around the city. Or, go to the top of a skyscraper. ",
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"body": "You're kind of stuck between a rock an a hard place. Because of the change in dress code expectations over the past few decades, there are very few activities that require semiformal attire. Even if you go out to the fanciest restaurant in town, you'll be rubbing elbows with folks who didn't bother to put on a jacket or a tie -- they'll just be in their casual work attire. The same goes for the theater and other traditionally \"classy\" activities. \n\nThat said, if you just want to dress up and haven't been invited to a formal function, I say have at it and dress however you want wherever you want. Just don't kid yourself that you're engaging in a \"classy\" activity.",
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"body": "You can invite friends over for \"a night of elegance\" and basically just have a normal party, only with everyone dressed up and only serve wine and nice drinks. It's a really good time, actually.",
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"body": "Look at craigslist under tickets. If there is something \"fancy\" going on someone will be selling tickets. You will be suprised at the different shows/events/tastings etc ",
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Ever look at a design for so long that it becomes repulsive to you? | I dunno, sometimes I'll work on a design for a while and a bit more than halfway through finishing it'll become repulsive to me. I'll hate it and hate looking at it, but if I do something else for a while and come back later I'll think "Oh, it isn't so bad." | 55 | [
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"body": "A trick my art teacher at school showed me to solve this problem was to hold a piece of art I'd been working on up to a mirror to get a new perspective. It always worked - it made my artwork seem fresh, like I was seeing it for the first time.\n\nI still do this to this day (although now I just flip the image in photoshop.)",
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"body": "happens to me sometimes if im like through my 5th iteration through a design.\r\n\r\nsometimes you just have to put it away and finish it tomorrow.",
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"body": "I sometimes end up with \"design blindness\". Eventually I'll be looking at something and have *no idea* whether it's any good or not. I can see the colours, the layout, the images etc, but my ability to assess its quality just goes right out the window.\n\nProbably like an Aspergers person trying to deciper human emotions. They can see the shape of the face, but can't determine what it *means*.\n",
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"body": "Especially when I'm working on a personal project or a redesign for my website. I have so many great-looking, fully working portfolio designs which I scrapped simply because I was staring at it for too long :(",
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"body": "Well, there is something wrong with your working rhythm then. Never work on the same design for longer then a few hours in a row without a break. During the break, don't think about the design at all. Clear your mind. Some designers go smoke a cigarette. I like to go to the bathroom and make goofy faces in the mirror. It'll make you notice the obvious mistakes that were right in your face the whole time.",
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"body": "I find design is a lot like writing: there's no absolute standard of perfection you can ever reach. Often, there are many possible choices that are all acceptable, and none is \"better\" than any other, they are just different. However, if you get stuck in a rut, swapping between these details because you're always wondering if another version is better, you never finish anything.\n\nI often find that something I've worked on for a while starts to look inadequate, particularly if I open some particularly well designed site and then start comparing them and thinking my design looks really unprofessional. I think at that point you have to find some external point of reference. Of the last three web-based projects I've released, the first one (which was only meant to be a placeholder for a few weeks but has wound up lasting much longer) did attract a couple of negative comments but also some positive ones and the analytics show the site is working well, the second one made my clients happy as it was better than what they had before, and the third one has received only a little feedback but almost all of it was compliments on the design. All three of those jobs look a bit inadequate and underpowered to me, though, as they guy who spent hours staring at them and had lots of little ideas that didn't make it in.",
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"body": "Like everything I work on gets to this point. I just switch projects and come back to it later. \n\nEven more so, when I look through fonts, eventually even 4 letter words seem to be misspelled, once I have seen it in 500 different fonts. ",
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"body": "Yeah, that happens to me. It usually means I need a break, but sometimes it means it's actually a crappy design :P",
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"body": "I design in short bursts, and try to jump around to different projects as often as possible. When I have a deadline or have to design for long hours, I get irritated by little parts of the design later in the day. On Friday I spent probably 3 hours changing around the positioning and colors of a header bar and never ended up happy with it.\n\nIf you're the only designer at work like I am, try to find someone who has some sense of good web design. Show them what you have and what you think is wrong with it. If they can't give any criticism, it's probably good enough, even if they are just trying to be nice.",
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"body": "It's the other way around for me. I'll be working on it and pretty content with the result but looking at it the next day I feel the familiar gut punch of pain and confusion is back. \"Hello old friend!\"\n\nAnd people keep asking me why I'm so cranky in the mornings, fuck.",
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"body": "I get that all the time too. Not only when I'm making website designs but also just normal/everyday pieces. What happens quite a lot with me when making web designs is I'll have this great idea (or it would seem that way) but as soon as I start it, it begins to look horrible.\n\nNote, I don't code websites yet, I'm still learning but I practice with designs on Photoshop a lot...",
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IAMA daughter of a Baptist pastor and spent a
decade in missionary training camps across the
country. AMA. | So, we spent the first decade of my life moving from one missionary "boot camp" to the next to complete the training program for New Tribes Mission, which was going to send us to Papua New Guinea to start up a tribal church. Fortunately, though my parents tried really hard, we never got quite enough funding to do it.
After that, we wound up moving from church to church for a while until my dad found a permanent preaching gig. He preached there for five or six years, until in-church-drama ended that. He now works road construction, because he's done with church drama (though he's still very much a fundamentalist Christian). My mom is now going to college for music. They play in a bluegrass band together on the weekends.
My brother and I were homeschooled until our final year, when we were sent to a Baptist school to get our diploma. My sister was homeschooled until 8th grade, then went to the Baptist school for a few years, then went to public school for her junior and senior years. My brother works road construction with my dad. My sister is currently in her junior year of college. I'm in grad school.
I am also currently an atheist. AMA. | 17 | [
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"body": "What is your opinion of Catholicism? Do you believe that converting Catholics is as important as converting non-Christians?",
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Possible to use cooked chicken scraps to make broth? | I made a beer butt chicken today and after cleaning up, I realized I had about 2 pounds of scraps left - bones, a bit of meat stuck to the bone, neck, guts. I am reluctant to throw that out so I was wondering if it's possible to make broth out of it.
Every recipe I've seen calls for raw chicken so I'm not sure if cooked scraps will work well enough to bother. Also, if it can be done, how much can I expect to get out of it? | 10 | [
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"body": "Absolutely you can use your scraps for stock. I always freeze the remnants of rotisserie chickens because they make the best chicken stock ever -- it's like liquid essence of roast chicken.\n\nYou won't get a whole lot of stock out of the leftovers from one chicken, but you can either a) freeze the scraps until you've accumulated a pound or two; or b) you can supplement what you have with fresh chicken parts. Wings make the best stock because they're all bone and connective tissue (which contains collagen for flavor and texture), but anything you can find cheap will work as well. \n\nTo use a combination of fresh and cooked chicken for stock, sear your raw chicken, then add the liquid and the cooked chicken. If you're only using cooked chicken, you can just proceed straight to the simmering stage. But for the most part, there's not any significant difference in the process whether you're using cooked or raw chicken for stock.\n\nPS: I'm assuming by \"guts\" you mean gizzard and heart and liver; those are fine to include. But it's the bones you want most of all.",
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"body": "The best stock I make each year is after Thanksgiving, when I take my turkey carcass and my neighbor's turkey carcass, as well as the plethora of left over raw vegetables, and boil them down. ",
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I'm buying a PS3 soon. Should I get MW2 or Killzone 2? | For some background:
* This will be my first console since the original PlayStation, although my roommate had a 360 so I've played that a lot in the last couple of years.
* I only played the single player campaign of CoD4 on the 360, so I don't know firsthand what all the hoopla was about regarding the multiplayer aspect of that game so any comparisons won't be that helpful.
* I've played a ton of Halo 3 since it was released so that's my main point of reference in terms of shooters. I had fun with it for a long time but it got a little old for me so I'm looking for something new.
These are, I think, the two biggest shooters on the PS3 right now. Obviously MW2 is the big name out there right now, but I've heard some good things about Killzone 2 as well, and a lot of people prefer KZ2 to MW2. I'm not sure which one I'd prefer without playing both so anyone that's played both, your thoughts would be especially helpful, but I'd also like to hear what everyone else has to say about just one or the other.
Cheers!
EDIT: I don't think I made it clear before but I do plan on playing online, so I am looking for good online replay value and I hear both games have quite addictive online multiplayer components.
EDIT 2: Thanks to everyone for the feedback. I'm gonna check out the KZ2 demo and play a little MW2 on my friend's 360 to get a feel for the games. Glad to officially be a part of this subreddit! | 16 | [
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"body": "MW2. And then you can play with us! Our callsign is /r/ on multiplayer.\n\nPSN: squidboots\n\nedit: it's called \"Clan Tag\" in the game if you want to change yours and be badass like us.",
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"body": "I've played both and both have pros and cons. \n\nKillzone 2 - This game has a better, longer single player. No co-op mode, which is disappointing but, the multi-player is really good. Ever since they put in the precision controls, I haven't a problem with the weighted gun feeling. It has a great server browser and still has a large community. You can get some really epic matches on it that are a ton of fun. Also, there is some DLC but, it's not played much. \n\nMW2 - A very average, ungodly short, single player. The only reason I beat it was for trophies. Spec Ops is fun for doing co-op missions, when it works. All versions on all platforms have a bug in the code that will at times cause frame rate issues. The multi-player is really fun. There is a bit of a learning curve, every map has certain locations everyone goes for, etc but, it is the same CoD multi-player as always, which is not a bad thing. This has the larger community obviously. \n\nThey both have great ranking systems, weapon upgrades, classes, and I found the multi-player on both to be fantastic. You can't go wrong either way. \n\nWith all that being said, I didn't enjoy either game as much as I did Uncharted 2 and I LOVE FPS. Go with Uncharted and Uncharted 2 first but, don't be sad if every game you play after it just doesn't measure up...lol. ",
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"body": "To be brutally honest I haven't played MW2.. I played the hell out of the first one and left with such a bad taste I really have no desire to play the sequel.\n\nThe problem I had was the lack of balanced online and it just got too frustrating to play. When I saw that instead of fixing things like knives being hugely overpowered they put perks in place to have the ability to block it if it come's from the front.\n\nI can't tell you how many times I've unloaded an entire clip into a guy only for him to have juggernaut, run across the fucking room and one hit knife me.\n\nI've been tempted but even people who I knew were hyped for it have basically confirmed that to me.\n\nOn the other hand, KZ2 can be a very fun game and it's much more balanced online. The classes are all fun to play, they all have their ups and downs and not a single one really dominates (Well the RPGs are lame but whatever).. my biggest issues is the game modes could be a lot better.. I really want an elimination game of Search and destroy, since it just always just turns into a cluster fuck.\n\nBut that being said, I've probably played KZ2 more then any other game on my PS3 library, it's just very fun, balanced, and really it's a lot more unique then a lot give credit for. The controls are something not seen in any FPS.. the guns have much more real weight to them and you can really feel the difference in each gun. The graphics are of course amazing and the single player campaign is intense throughout.. the only real downside to the single player campaign is some of the writing and characters (basically annoying jocks).\n\nAnyway.. I'd highly suggest KZ2. ",
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"body": "Im having lots more fun currently with MW2 than I ever had with KZ2. Sick of all the campers though.",
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"body": "I loved KZ2 and I am loving MW2. I don't think you can go wrong either way. KZ2 has a more methodical feel to it. The game mechanics are slow and deliberate when compared to the twitchy MW2 controls. It can take a while to get used to the KZ2 controls.\n\nThe *only* downside of KZ2 is that since you always spawn in the same location (unless you have a good Tactician on your team) some games devolve into brutal spawn camping. If you have a really good team going against a poor to mediocre team, you might not make it out of your home base before getting blasted. But that doesn't happen too often.",
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How do I get women to 'hit' on me? | I am shy, I'd rather have women approach me rather than the other way around, but they never really have that I can think of. How do I get them to say hello? And where? How do I best let them know I am available? | 33 | [
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"body": "What.\n\nThe.\n\n*Hell* do you think you're doing? I thought we were a *team,* man.\n\nListen, this isn't you trying to be more attractive. This is you trying to be **lazy** and **scared.** You better start taking responsibility for your actions and your circumstances. It makes all the good things that much better, and all the bad things that much more fixable.\n\nA poster already told you. Girls dig *confidence.* That means acting like you've got a pair. Which means the ball is in YOUR court. You let them know you are available by making her yours.\n\nWhat are you scared of? Rejection? Listen, you think your caveman ancestor was scared if Urha or whatever the fuck your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother's name would say \"no Thok, I don't think you would be a good mate for me\"?\n\nNo. He hit her over the head with a goddamn club, dragged her fine ass back to his cave, then fucked her till her belly swelled up.\n\nNow, that's highly inadvisable for you or anyone else reading this, because these days that's called rape. We've come a long way as far as women's rights go since then, and yeah. They do deserve respect and they do deserve to be treated like fellow human beings. Still, the underlying principle is the same:\n\nGo out there and *get your woman.* She ain't gonna go out and get *you.* That's a man's job. That's a man-*raptor's* job. Got it?\n\nGood.\n\n**Let's fucking do this.**",
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"body": "I once read about a study where subjects of both genders were photographed and then shown photos of faces of the opposite gender. They were then asked whether they'd consider dating the people in the photos they were shown. Being told that the pictured people had responded positively to the subject's own photo significantly increased the likelihood that the subject would respond positively themselves. (My source is some magazine in a waiting room five yeas ago.)\n\ntl;dr - If a girl thinks you dig her, she's more likely to like you. Look friendly and smile.",
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"body": "Here's what I know: If you want women to approach YOU, you have to be either famously rich, a movie star, a member of a (good) band, or have starred in one of those Twilight movies. Otherwise, you'll have to make do with the old fashioned way of finding women. ",
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"body": "I am an introverted guy who has managed to get hit on, or at least approached, by girls I have been interested in. \n\nThe best advice I can give to anyone is to work hard for something they are crazy about, and not just work on \"talking to girls.\" \n\nA lot of it involves finding some domain you can rock the shit out of, and then rock the shit out of that domain while there are girls around. \n\nIt is easy for the creative-types and the athletic types to get girls for this reason alone. It is harder if you're into things that tend to exclusively attract men. But hell, I knew guys who met great girls playing D+D. They just had to play it in a social setting where girls could theoretically show up. \n\n",
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"body": "Son, women are approaching you. You just don't know it. You see, 'approach' is defined in the man's dictionary as walking up to a woman, looking her in the eye, and saying something to her -- what you say being more or less irrelevant.\n\nHowever, 'approach' is defined in the woman's dictionary as something completely different.\n\nYou don't believe me? Find a female friend -- wait. You have those, right? If not, get one now. A platonic female friend. And yes, if *she* tries, you can do her. But otherwise it's platonic, OK? She's going to get you more tail from other women than you could ever get from her personally.\n\nAnyways, ask your female friend about the 'walk-by'. This is about as forward as a woman will get. She will identify the man of her desires from across a crowded room and move confidently towards him, growing closer and closer, and... walking past. If she stops to say something to her friends in front of you, boy, hold on! If she looks at you as she does it, start unrolling the condom.\n\nYou see, a woman's 'approach' is all about creating an opportunity for a man she is interested in to make the first move. She will stop and adjust her shoe or dress. She will stand in line near you for something she has no interest in. She will order her drink next to you -- or she may even be so forward as to 'accidentally' step on your foot when she does it. You can pretty much bet that if a woman is within three feet of you, she intended to be there because of you. They're wily creatures, and things like that don't happen by accident. At that point, all you have to do is say 'hello'. ",
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"body": "Even if a woman asked you out, your lack of confidence could ultimately be such a turn off they wouldn't want to be in a relationship with you anyway. Time to man up.",
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"body": "Ha ha ha -- are you new to this planet? Women hit on men more often on TV than in real life, but even then it's rare. Perhaps if you're ridiculously handsome or waving cash around you'll get lucky with your expectations; otherwise, you're in a losing game, more so than other men who at least try.",
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"body": "Bring a sign with you everywhere you go that reads you have a chocolate penis that ejaculates money.",
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"body": "The one who's looking for a shy guy will talk to you. Just wait. Or, make some friends who are \"popular\" and talkative. When you go out with them they will draw attention and some females will strike a conversation with you.",
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"body": "The best thing to do is to make eye contact (just a catch of the eye) and then smile confidently. It has to be a real smile, and a confident smile, not a \"please don't reject me smile,\" which will come across as clingy and will result in rejection.\n\nIf she smiles back, you've hooked her. Now she'll either approach you or you'll approach her, but the point is, you've established mutual interest in at least a conversation. ",
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"body": "Besides echoing everything that InnerManRaptor says, I'll add that the only way to gain confidence is by not giving a shit if you get rejected.\n\nThing is, **you're going to get rejected at least some of the time**. Nobody has a 100% batting average. Sometimes you'll say hi to a girl, and she won't be interested, for whatever reason. George Clooney/Robert Pattinson/whoever strikes out sometimes. **Rejection will happen.**\n\nRejection sucks. So does cold yucky rain, but we don't stay inside because it might rain. We don't worry about how to make it rain less. We don't post to /r/ra saying \"How do I get it to only be sunny out.\" We accept that sometimes it rains, instead of dreading the rain.\n\nAlso, stop thinking about how you can get into romantic relationships. **You're looking for a friend, not to get laid.** Never forget that there are two parts to the word \"girlfriend\", and if you forget the \"friend\" part, you'll wind up with someone you have sex with and don't like, and that sucks big time.\n\nFind a friend. Having a female friend, even if she's not a girlfriend, can do wonders for your self-esteem, which you need. You might find that having a woman who is Just A Friend can be pretty awesome as well. And if she becomes a girlfriend, so much the better.\n\nRecapping:\n\n* **Stop dreading the rejection. It will happen sometimes.**\n* **Think about finding a friend, not a girlfriend.**\n* **Embrace your InnerManRaptor.**",
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DAE not care if the airport scanners allow a couple of people to basically see you naked? | I'm not a huge supporter of civil liberties being curbed in the name of paranoia, but this particular civil liberty I really couldn't care less about. | 5 | [
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"body": "I feel sorry for the scanner person, having to watch all those lumpy mishapen people of both genders.",
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"body": "It's just your nude body. The person screening the images isn't masturbating to the images. They are doing their job. Americans are so uptight about their bodies. Get over it, it's nothing special.",
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"body": "I don't care either ... but I completely understand how other people would feel very uncomfortable (even violated).\n\nI have nothing to hide and I'm not a criminal so on that level, the loss of civil liberties does not affect me, but it's the principle of the thing that bothers me. Just because I have nothing to hide does it mean an agency has the right to treat me like I do and expect me to like it.\n\nEdited : (because I said \"I, personally\" like an idiot.)",
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"body": "I don't care either. But then again I'd walk around naked if it wasn't for the social stigma behind it... and laws... \n\nI don't understand the evilness put behind nudity. The human body itself is probably the only thing we all have in common, shape, color nor size should matter.",
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"body": "This particular civil liberty you couldn't care less about is the right to privacy. It's the thing that keeps the government from monitoring what you read, it's the thing that allows people to have a relationship as they see fit. It's kind of an important civil liberty.",
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"body": "i just want to be able to keep sneaking weed through the airport, scanners kind of put the kaibosh on that....",
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How is it I can still understand what Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf are saying when they both have Peyton Manning's dick in their mouth? | More importantly, how is it Peyton Manning can be playing so well on the field *and* be getting fellated in the booth at the same time? | 55 | [
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"body": "\"Look how smart he is, dumping the ball to the space voided by the blitzer.\"\n\n...\n\n\"Look how smart he is, taking the fall instead of taking the hit from the blitzer.\"\n\n...\n\n\"He's so smart, he knows how close that was to a huge play.\"\n\n...\n\n\"He's so smart, he buys himself so much time. Can't find fault in that.\"\n\n---\n\nThat really was the play-by-play from Dan Dierdorf for the one first down + 3 and out that just occurred.",
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"body": "Because they're selling a product. A 'superstar' in the NFL. \n\nIt's an easy sell, but they're paying him a 1/10th or less of what he means to the league. When you think of Colts or NFL QBs, who do you think of?",
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"body": "Deirdork is paid to do this. I'm a colts fan but it's a bit much. \n\nWhat he didn't point out is that the Ravens defense can be counted on to hand you a penalty>TD>game when you need it. Saw a few of their games this year and it's just mind boggling. ",
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What Do You Think Stephen Colbert's Reasons Are For Being Catholic? | Colbert strikes me as intelligent and generally skeptical. I can't figure out might be his reasons for being a practicing Catholic. Speculate: | 4 | [
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"body": "Children believe their parents. It's an evolved survival trait. If your parents tell you it's essential that you wear polka dotted leotards, then you'll wear polka dotted leotards.\n\nBy the time you develop enough intellect to question this, you've got nothing but leotards in your wardrobe, so you keep wearing them out of habit.\n\nOne reason why Dawkins gets so tight-faced about religion and kids.",
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LGBT Reddit, I just thought of the great thought experiment to show that gay marriage should be legal, even though it's different than "traditional marriage". Anyone willing to give feedback? | I am a gay man. So, naturally, I have no interest in marrying women. But I could, and I do have that right. However, I would much prefer to marry a man.
As a parallel, a hearing-impaired person has a right to free *speech* under the first amendment. He can exercise that right, but he may not want to exercise that right as speech. He could, however, do something extremely similar--sign language, which is not speech, but it serves the same purpose.
I'd imagine that it's pretty obvious that sign language speech is still speech, even though it's not traditionally "speech."
Gay marriage isn't quite the same as traditional marriage, but it's pretty similar, just like sign language isn't the same as speech, but pretty similar.
Anyone disagree with this line of logic?
(obviously, this isn't the only reason I agree with gay marriage) | 3 | [
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"body": "*To play devil's advocate*: this doesn't quite work out. Freedom of speech has always implied other freedoms- freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom to gather, etc... while 'marriage' is just a legal definition of a tradition. Freedom of speech is in the bill of rights, the unchangeable foundation of the country, while marriage is a very specific law.\n\nThere are many reasons for marriage equality, but I don't think this argument would really fly.",
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Worried about the Ex | Without going into details I left my girlfriend nearly 3 weeks ago. I think in the long run it was a positive move things been becoming more difficult anyway...
... She has no friends and a family that she doesn't like they don't respect or listen to her (which infuriates me). I want to make sure she is ok considering she has nobody to talk to. From day one my friends were there for me.
I want to make sure she is ok, but I don't want to give in to her. I have to look after myself too! Shall I text her? I hope I don't sound like a dick, hard to feel sorry for me without the details, I just hate hurting people. | 8 | [
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"body": "What do you hope to gain by contacting her? Are you going to do it once? Once a week? Once a month? You'll just build up expectations on her part where you will find you'll eventually have to \"dump\" her again. \nIt's also a little condescending. She is not your responsibility anymore.\nYou sound like a thoughtful guy just leave her alone. It will make it easier for her to get over you. ",
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"body": "Unless you're a social worker it's not your job to fix people. She'll be fine, it'll take awhile, but she'll be stronger when she learns to take are of herself.",
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"body": "Nope, texting her is a bad idea. At least right now. You could text her something like \"Hey, I want to cut contact until any lingering feelings go away\" and check in on her in a few months.\n\nIs she at all close to any of your friends? Or do any of them like her? If so, give them the okay to be there for her or check in on her or whatever.",
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"body": "If your friends are there for her, trust them to do the right thing.\n\nYour concern for her is noble, but she will only misinterpret it. You must crush your instincts, and stay away.",
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Who was the *best* teacher/professor you ever had? | From here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aqiok/who_was_the_worst_teacher_professor_you_ever_had/
For me, it was my high school AP physics teacher. He fueled my passion for science and somehow managed to convey information better than any teacher had before. | 8 | [
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"body": "For me it was my social studies teacher, Gerry Brewster. He's was also heavily involved in politics and actually ran against Governor Ehrlich in Maryland. More info about him [here](http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=7455)\n\nOn the first day of his class he gave everyone his personal home phone and cell phone numbers and said that if any of us was in a situation where we needed help, and didn't want our parents knowing, we could call him and he'd provide a ride home with no questions asked. Every Friday he would bring us Dunkin Donuts and soda. He also would have intense debates and often wouldn't care if you used vulgar language as long as it wasn't just for attention. During some of the debates he'd take a really unusual and controversial stance which would end up getting every single student actively debating and stating their opinion on whatever it was we were debating. One thing he did that a lot of people despised was if you didn't do your homework he'd call your parents in front of the class. You can be sure I ALWAYS did my homework because of it and so did everyone else. I'm fairly certain nearly everyone aced his class and if you didn't there really was no reason for it because he gave you every opportunity to succeed within reason. Unfortunately a couple years after I had his class I learned that a classmate of his stole his car due to him calling her parents and rumor had it he eventually got \"burnt out\" from teaching and quit. Whether that's true I'll never know but I have my doubts. However, If every teacher was as good as him I probably would have had a scholarship to Harvard.",
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"body": "High school English/newspaper/yearbook teacher. \n\nShe put up with me through a couple of very immature years -- I basically stalked her and called her at home the summer before starting high school to announce that I was going to be the new school photographer -- and gave me tremendous advice and direction during my last two years of school.\n\nNearly three decades later, and I still try to visit her whenever I go to California.\n\n* Edit: typo",
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"body": "My 9th grade English teacher gave me a copy of Cat's Cradle and a pack of rolling papers. He was the only teacher who ever figured out how to motivate me.",
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"body": "From klienbl00 from before he deleted 90% of his good posts:\n\nHe was a graduate from the University of Zagreb or something and he had an awesome accent. And he was beanpole tall and twitched around. He was like a cross between Cosmo Kramer and The Count from Sesame Street.\n\nHe was incredibly passionate about what he tought. He would bang on the chalkboard, breaking the chalk, and say \"DoyounderstandTHIS? DoyouGETthis?\" and look at us all intense. And then he'd roll on with what he was going.\n\nThe dude fucking loved math. He was teaching ordinary diff EQ and you'd think he was Beethoven explaining crescendos. And he really didn't give a shit about homework. He'd sit there and drill us through stuff as if our life depended on us understanding. I saw that guy tear up a couple times. More than once, the professor next door would step in and ask him to keep it down. He spent maybe an hour explaining Euler's identity - and I shit you not, he got us to tear up, too.\n\nWe had one homework assignment. It was given about halfway through the class. We had a week to do it. And it took that entire week, in groups of two or three, five to six hours a day to do it. And we handed it in, and he didn't even grade it for like three more weeks.\n\nWhen we got it back, there was a pallor over the class (what was left of it - a third of the class had dropped out). I had a 23%. I'm sure I turned gray. I went to see him - what the hell could I do? I mean, I needed to pass -\n\n\"DoNotWorryaboudit. AveragewaseighTEEEN. Yooodooverygooood.\"\n\nWhen it came down to the final, it was one, simple, benign sheet of paper. It had one problem on it. There were absolutely no numbers on it other than (1). It started with \"imagine a function...\"\n\nWe had two hours. At 1:15, nobody had handed in a thing. I was just sitting there stunned, grinding through the first half. At 1:30, nobody had handed in a thing. At 1:45, he said\n\n\"Eeef...youtakezeetest choam wityou and feenishit, I veel passyou.\"\n\nNobody got up. We sat there and cranked through the fucking test. The survivors, anyway. We started with 30 people in the class. We finished with twelve.",
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DAE occasionally wake up convinced a passed loved one is still alive? For several seconds anyway? | This happens to me quite often. I lost my Mom in 2004, and to this day wake up once in a while thinking "I gotta call Mom", or "boy she's gonna be mad about such and such". After about 5 seconds I realize she's gone... and damn the pain of loss comes back like a punch in the gut.
I thought I was a bit nutty but tonight I ran into a friend from school, and as we spoke I mentioned this to him... and damn if he didn't get tears in his eyes (he lost his Mom 2 years ago). Same thing for him.
How about you folks? | 23 | [
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"body": "My infant son passed in '93--heck, his ashes are on a shelf near my kitchen--but to this day I sometimes dream that he's alive and we've been *neglecting and forgetting to feed* him all these years.",
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"body": "After a friend committed suicide a long time ago, all the time. Then, as time passed, less and less frequently...and now, not at all.",
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"body": "I did this for a while when I was around 11 years old when my neighbor's dog disappeared. The dog would always get loose and come back around sundown, and he'd always come back to my house, and I'd take him back to his home. \n\nFor about a year, I always looked for the dog in front of my house at sundown. I was sad. It was my first time dealing with the loss of something/someone until my Grandma died when I was 13.",
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"body": "Mine's not really as bad as the other responses, but when my dog died when I was around 8 years old, I had a dream that night that he was still alive. In the dream, I still knew he had just died, so it freaked me out and I was so happy that he had come back to life. When I woke up in the morning I just cried.",
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I was subletting, and the people I was renting from moved out. What do I do? (I live in Vancouver BC) | It gets worse, a lot worse—but let me start at the beginning.
Two months ago, my girlfriend had her mind set to move in with me. At the time, I was living in a shabby little room in a basement suite with low ceilings and no ventilation. She didn't want to live *there* with me, but she did want to live with me, so we looked on Craigslist for a room to share together.
Normally, when you rent a room, you're concerned first of all with the place itself, and only secondarily with the tenants. We wanted to do things the other way around: we would find some good people to live with, and then any flaws in the place itself, we would just fix.
So, on this basis, we set out looking. Note that both my girlfriend and I are living on student loans; a student loan budget in BC allocates $500 a month for rent, so that's what we each were, at most, willing to pay. We went through several ordeals in this process—from the people that told us that we were perfect for the place and then gave it to someone else while we were wandering around the neighborhood looking at the location, to the creepy, unkempt place owned by a used-car salesman type who talked us into signing for a damage deposit before we had even had a chance to think about it (thus putting us out $300 for nothing at all.) Finally, though, we found it.
The place itself looked great when I first came to look at it. The people were nice—an older, valley-girl-who-lost-the-popularity-contest type of girl, and a huge, well-built guy with tattoos, who was quiet at first, but turned out to be a geek. We signed for it immediately. I asked if there would be a damage deposit. She said there would be no need, but that they would lower the rent from $950 to $850 if we would take the place immediately. So, we took it, on the 28th of November.
My girlfriend was living with her parents at the time, so she couldn't move out until at least the month after, but she gave me her half of the rent for the place anyway. (She figured she'd be over enough that it was worth it.) Also, being students (we were both 20), we didn't own any furniture, but the place was completely furnished, so that was alright—they even provided a bed with one of those memory-foam things. We unpacked everything on December 1st, and thus did I have a room.
December was uneventful. Two important things happened, though: first, I met the landlord around December 13th, when he came to deliver a heater (as apparently the central heating just wasn't strong enough.) He asked me who I was, and I told him my name, and that I was living at the place. He seemed to pay it no mind. Second, I found out that the guy and girl I was subletting from had only lived at the place themselves for a month.
Come January, all sorts of things started to go wrong with the place. The (owner-provided) dryer broke; there was a water leak that flooded my room (it got fixed); the fireplace turned out to not be up to code, and was disallowed from being used. And the guy and girl complained about the place even more than that: apparently, the floor in the living room wasn't level, and when a vacuum cleaner was plugged into the wall in their bedroom, the circuit breaker would flip. The seemed unhappy.
On January 5th, they came to me with this: "We have bad news, and even worse news. The bad news is that the water leak may have been even worse than we thought, according to the plumber, and so we have to move everything out of your room and the living room. That brings us to the worse news—er, well, worse for you: we were bidding on a house in Surrey, and we gave a really low bid that we completely didn't expect to get, but we got it anyway. So, instead of just shifting all our stuff to one side of the house, we're moving out. Tomorrow."
At this point, I could have, myself, moved out. I should have. However, my girlfriend and I had just spent a month looking for a place, and we didn't want to do it again. We wanted to stay. I asked them how they paid their rent—they said "it's automatically withdrawn from our account at the beginning of the month." Since it was the 5th, this would mean that they had already paid for this month, so I gave them *my* rent for the month—in cash...—and watched them move out, knowing that I would have this place for another month.
Just then, school started. In the rush to get all of *my* stuff out of *their* furniture, I hadn't even registered for courses, so it took me the next two weeks to get everything straightened out. I lived in the place, alone, sleeping on the floor for two weeks, with my parents intending to bring furniture from their house—a few hundred miles out—in the following month. The place was damned dirty; the guy and girl hadn't cleaned up after themselves after moving out. My girlfriend and I bought cleaning supplies and did as best we could to make everything livable, but we didn't have the time, really. I was going to try to get it done this weekend. So that brings me to yesterday.
I came home yesterday (Friday) to find a notice on my door, apparently posted at noon, that "your last cheque has bounced, and we have been unable to get in contact with you for two weeks. If you do not vacate the premises by noon tomorrow, we will be forced to enter your house by force. -Mgmt."
My girlfriend called the number posted on the door (it was the first contact information we had found for the landlord; until then, we had no idea how we were going to get into contact with him) and told him that we wanted to begin renting the place in February, but this only made him angrier. He then gave us these facts:
* The guy and girl had signed a lease with him, promising to stay for a year. They didn't, so their contract was nullified, whether or not they payed this last debt.
* Even if they had stayed, apparently their contract with him *disallowed them from subletting the place*. So they had been in breach of contract from the moment I moved in, on December 1st.
* When he had asked the guy who I was, he had said I was his brother, and was just staying for a few days.
I also went to a neighbour (who was renting from the same landlord—they owned more than one property in the area) and asked her about them. Apparently she had heard that they weren't living in Surrey, now, but in North Vancouver with the girl's parents, because the guy had lost his job. They've taken my money and disappeared; I never even got their phone number. I also don't have any proof that I was paying them to live there (although I do have plenty of people that visited and witnessed me living in a room there.)
What do I do? I don't know anyone in this city. I need to keep going to school. And I need to be out by tomorrow. | 3 | [
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"body": "604-660-1020 or 604.255.0546 call them now! In British Columbia renters have a huge amount of rights (even for subletting), I don't know all your details those numbers are for the Residential Tenancy Branch of the BC Government.\n\nAs far as I'm away they can't give you one days notice, it has to be at least 1-month. Even if you are illegally subletting. Make sure the landlord knows your contacting the RTB if nothing but to give yourself more time to get out.\n\nhttp://www.rto.gov.bc.ca is their official website.",
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"body": "I have known a woman who acted exactly like you - and she was 34 then.\n\nWorse - she did it again, several times (for renting houses or buying cars).\n\nYou are naive a lot or you trust people too easily.\n\nWhen dealing with real estate - rent or buy - you need **written** agreements.\n\nAt least, try not to get tricked once more. Never ever again. Good luck.",
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"body": "This is why you need a rock solid contract. If you don't have everything in writing, I'm afraid your best option is to move out and count it as a learning experience, unless the landlord lets you take over their contract.",
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IAMA Jew from an Orthodox background. AMA | I've been a reddit user for more than two years, but I'd like this to be an AMA and not an AMAA, so I'm using a new account.
Here's some other relevant information (I'll post more if I can think of it):
- I attended Orthodox day schools until I graduated high school. After that, I spent a year studying in an Israeli yeshiva.
- I have spent a considerable amount of time, both in and out of academic/religious educational settings, with the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), the Talmud, their commentaries, Jewish philosophy, and academic Jewish studies.
- I am fluent in Modern Hebrew, but I have also studied Greek seriously and I am studying Classical Arabic in earnest.
- I do not consider myself Orthodox, mainly because of my egalitarian legal views. Other than a few modifications, however, I abide by a halakhic standard.
EDIT: Since there are questions about God's existence, I should also add that I am fully aware of counter-arguments. Actually, I just finished slogging through marking 40 essays on Descartes' thoughts on the matter :-( | 11 | [
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"body": "I personally can't believe that the people whom suffered the Holocaust are subjegating an entire people and denying them basic rights. \n\nWhat are your thoughts of this and of the State of Israel?\n\nI'd love to get your honest opinions on the entire Israel vs. Palestinian issue?\n\nEDIT: fixed spelling mistake",
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If a 12 year old you looked at you now, would he/she be disappointed? | He would be throughly disappointed that I haven't gotten anywhere in life. He would also be angry that I grew up to be one of those people I wished I would never grow up to be. He would also say that I should have done better in school, rather than mess around the way I did. I remember wanting to become a cartoonist and making my own comics. BUT on the otherhand, he'd be happy that I went to Japan twice and Korea once. He'd also be happy that he has great friends.
So reddit, where are you now and do you remember what who you wanted to be back then? | 279 | [
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"body": "She would be horrified, because she was a pretentious, pious little bitch. She'd probably be disappointed in me, but I'm embarrassed by her. ",
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"body": "12 year old me would look at my now current 14 year old self and say \"Cool, mom let you dye your hair black!\"",
"score": 223
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"body": "12 year old me thought he was going to be a wealthy industrialist playboy ninja by the age 24. Basically I thought I would be Batman. So yeah, he would be disappointed. ",
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"body": "21 now, and my girlfriend is the girl who I had a crush on when I was 12 (with 8 years in between of not seeing her). So yeah, he'd be pretty happy.",
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"body": "12-year-old me: :( \"I don't get big boobs?\"\nMe: \"Shut up. They're nice boobs and that's all that matters.\"",
"score": 34
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"body": "Drunk with no pants on --- sitting in front of a magic box... Looks like there is no sense in finishing my algebra homework- nice going! ! !",
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"body": "Probably ask me why I haven't finished the LEGO city yet.\n\nFuck it, I'd probably argue subcontractor woes, lack of funds to pay off inspectors, and bureaucracy with the permits. ",
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"body": "Man, this is so weird I just saw this post. Earlier tonight, I just had a some moments going through the same thought process.\n\nSo this'll sound pretty cheesy, but whatever. \n\nI had a bought of deja-vu. I remembered being 12 years old, and in the basement putting together a plastic model of my favorite car of all time, a 1968 Chevy Camaro. I also remembered thinking and imagining at that time how awesome it would be to be putting together the real thing.\n\nSo I was in the garage, under my 1968 Chevy Camaro tonight running some wiring when it happened. I completely had a flashback to that workbench in the basement. I'd totally forgotten about it. I then realized the 12-yo version me would've thought how f'ing awesome the old-fart version was. :)\n\n",
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"body": "I suppose my 12 yr old self would asked me why I'm in a wheel chair. I would not have to heart to tell him that I was involved in a vicious accident and would explain to him that in the future humans don't need to walk. Hopefully, he would find that cool. =/",
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"body": "Pot smoking, acid dropping, needles in my arm stay inside for months on end addict. Yes I am. Yes I wanted. What a turn I have taken. I feel like I could be nothing more than this.",
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"body": "He'd think I was fat, but he'd also be surprised I managed to score such a hot wife. =)\n\nEDIT: I'm not obese or anything, I was just a skinny kid and I'm 31 now, these things happen.",
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"body": "I think my 12 year old self would be amazed that I'm still here and kicking, that (compared to him; not really) I'm a badass, that I'm artistic when I never did anything like that before. He'd be sad that I'm so sad, and probably not understand why. I think, as much as I bitch about everything in my life, he'd be a little bit proud of me. \n\nAnd just writing that kinda shocks me.",
"score": 15
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"body": "The same personal demons I had as a kid are with me today. I'd look at them, and they'd look at me and understand and accept that wherever we/I got to and become were largely influenced by those forces. I think if I die one day (old age hopefully) and still have those demons, I'll be a little dissapointed.\n\nI personally wouldn't envy the journey the kid would have ahead of them, but eh, that's life eh? It helps that I'm pretty successful and still enjoy Calvin and Hobbes. But meh, sometimes growing up feeling a bit isolated can be a bit of a long journey.",
"score": 15
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"body": "I became exactly who she wanted me to be, a flirtatious little athlete/writer/humour enthusiast with a closet full of expensive clothing.\n\n...and now I kind of regret it.",
"score": 12
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"body": "12-year-old me would be so proud of me for how I managed to get through all my hardships and come out this strong.\n\nI would tell her to start fighting back a little sooner though. She deserves so much better.",
"score": 12
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"body": "12-year-old me would be disappointed with how I interact with women. He's really into feelings and patience and getting married.\n\nI would tell him that he has another 8 years of being the kind, caring, just-a-friend type before he gets frustrated, snaps out of it, and starts getting girls.",
"score": 11
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"body": "I'm a firefighter... so I think the 12 year old me would think that was pretty cool.\n\nHowever, along the same vein in how it makes me a little sad when my son says he wants to be a firefighter, I'd try to describe to my 12 year old self that my job is not Who I Am. A calling is so much more fulfilling than a career. (Guess who has the mid-30's regrets?) ",
"score": 10
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"body": "My 12 year old self would be amazed that I actually accomplished one of my dreams that, at that age, seemed nearly impossible. Whenever I would tell my parents about it, they would respond with the cliche \"You can be whatever you want to be.\"",
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"body": "12 year old me was a fucking bitch. 12 year old me would stand in awe at the giant i have become. 12 year old me would shit his pants when he learned of the awesome things he will one day do and the awesome places he will one day visit. 12 year old me would be happy to know that i eventually did learn how to beat the shit out of people who piss me off. 12 year old me would be disappointed that i dont play video games anymore. 12 year old me would like the fact that strippers love me. 12 year old me would give me a high five when he realised that in 3 years he would be graced with a mullet",
"score": 8
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"body": "12 year old me would be sad I haven't taken over the world yet. No worries though it's just taking a little longer than expected.",
"score": 8
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"body": "As a 12 year old the first thing would be, \"you're fat?\". I'm not overweight (slight beer gut) but I was giving Skeletor a run for his money up until I started working out in high school.\n\nThen he would be proud that I'm still doing art.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Are you kidding? When I traveled back in time he thought it was awesome. I just hope he figures out what to do with those stock tips. ",
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"body": "On some levels (eg. from a general \"who I am\" perspective,) I think he'd be happy... impressed, even. \n\nFrom a \"What I've done/accomplished/created/learned\" angle, I'm fairly certain he'd be kinda miffed.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Married, kids, doctorate, and volunteering at church with high school kids because I enjoy it....shocked, certainly. Maybe a little disappointed. ",
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"body": "12 year old me used to get spit on on the bus for refusing to say the word \"hell,\" so she might wonder why now I find it difficult to articulate myself clearly without using at least one conjugation of the word fuck.",
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"body": "In a way, yes. My priorities and goals have shifted tremendously over the past six years. I would call myself a success in many ways, but my ideal car is a $2000 Trabant instead of a $200.000 Ferrari and I've yet to do cocaine off of a hooker's tit while choking her to death. Twelve year old me would have wanted both of those things by eighteen. \n\n",
"score": 5
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"body": "Wow. I guess he would and he wouldn't. I'm still a big kid and I got to make video games like I dreamed about as a kid. Time for a new dream and to lose some weight.",
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"body": "12 Year old me would be pretty understanding. 12 year old me would be glad I'm pursuing web design. 12 year old me would not be glad I moved to Utah. 12 year old me would be extremely relieved that I grew into my face and am handsome. 12 year old me would be envious of my dress style and man, if I heard the music I listen to when I was 12, I would have shat my pants. It's exactly what I was looking for then... I just couldn't put my finger on it. 12 year old me would be disappointed that I'm still shy and awkward despite the previous facts.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Probably a mixed bag. \n\nDisappointed: \"Wha... What? You're bald? And you don't play video games anymore?\"\n\nNot disappointed: \"Dude, you get to sit around and draw all day? And they pay you for it? And you live with a hot girl that lets you touch her boobies?\"",
"score": 5
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"body": "I've learned Kung Fu, though I don't know the extent to which 12-year-old me would consider that a saving grace; if I remember right I was about to start my lefty pacifist teens.",
"score": 4
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"body": "12 year old me would think present-day me was AWESOME! I may have disappointed everyone else, but all the previous versions of me cheer me on every day. The only real point of contention would be between 20 year old me and present-day me, but that's just because he'd be jealous that I'm a fucking rainmaker and he's still afraid of girls :-)",
"score": 4
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"body": "\"Holy crap.. you've had SEX with a girl? More than once? WHAT? With more than ONE GIRL?\"\n\nJust for that he'd be impressed.",
"score": 4
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"body": "The 12 year old me would be jealous of the college life (I always wanted to skip over high school), but fucking shocked at the things I say/do. Then she'd be perplexed at the beliefs I still hold despite my actions. She'd probably cry, I'd tell her to grow up and don't trust those damn boys farther than she can throw them.\nedit: spelling",
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"body": "The 12 year old Yiddish_Policeman was an awkward kid, unsure of his place in the world and so afraid of social hierarchy that he didn't experience the things that he wanted to. I like to think that he would look at me today and be a little bit impressed, a little bit awed, but mostly relieved that everything worked out pretty well. He'd frown at some of my later decisions, sure, but he'd be a lot less scared. Wish I could go back and tell him how well he'd turn out, it took him a lot of years to figure it out for himself.",
"score": 4
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"body": "He would be horrified at my language, the fact that I don't go to church, that I drink regularly and smoke on occasion. He would be amazed that I am married and would assumed that I have sex all the time, although he would be far to embarrassed to ask about it. He would be so suggestible, though, that all it would take is a 20 minute conversation to convince him that I'm doing well, and am who I want to be (with room for improvement). \n\nIt think he'd be alright with me. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "Well, I have a shitty job and about 50k in student debt, but I am engaged to the girl that I had a hopeless crush on back then, so I think I'd break even.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Nope. Engaged to a geeky lady, making $400 a month (which is shit for a grad student, but big bank to a 12-year-old), got a shit-ton of awesome futuristic video games, and my own living area!\n\n12-year-old me would shit himself the second I showed him Pokemon Diamond.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Man, my 12-year old self would be sad as hell. I'm working a shitty job, I didn't go to MIT, and I use a Mac.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Hell yeah. When I was about that age, I wanted to be a baker. I wanted to have a small shop in a small village where people came to buy my bread and pastries. It was going to be an awesome little shop, I'd be regarded as the best baker ever, I'd be happy, I'd be near family and be married to the cute girl from my 6th grade class.\n\nLife turned out differently. I completed a college degree in IT and worked jobs that I didn't really like for 6 years before deciding to go back to university to complete a B.Sc. (and possibly, eventually, a masters) in computer science at the advanced age of 26.\n\nIf I had one wish, I'd want to take my actual mind and go back to grade school and make different choices throughout.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Both my house and elementary school were way out in the country, so I didn't go to into town that often. When I did, it was usually during the day, so I was only in town at night about 10 times a year. \r\n\r\nI would be stoked that I could go driving through the city by myself at night, just going wherever I wanted, looking at all the cars and lights and people-watching from behind the steering wheel.",
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"body": "My 12 year old self would be\n\nHappy that I'm not extremly overweight (still got like 10 pounds to go to not be classified as overweight)\n\nAmazed with my gaming set up and, oh! The Internet.\n\nSad about my sex life. That's something he has in common with his 20 year old self.",
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"body": "I'm 40 so 12 year old me lived in 1981. I own an upright Defender arcade game and I'm pretty sure my 12 year old wouldn't be into having much of a conversation once he got a look at it. Wait'll I show him the iPhone. ",
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"body": "She would probably be somewhat disappointed, because:\n\n* I'm not at MIT\n* I'm not looking to be an engineer or computer scientist anymore\n* I'm not Catholic anymore\n* I drink sometimes\n* I'm not a virgin\n* I don't play enough video games (no, really - 12 year old me fucking loved Starcraft)\n\nand, as someone else mentioned - I use a Mac.\n\n\nShe would probably be kind of pumped that I'm pseudo dating (long story..) my first big crush from back then, though, and that I'm still optimistic.",
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"body": "12 year old me would be surprised at how much I've been through and probably fairly impressed with how I turned out, and maybe feel bad for me a little.",
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"body": "yep, at 12 i was taking honors classes and at the top of my class with dreams of doing something great. Had been heavily thinking about going into medicine. \n\nI am 24 years old and i still dont have my associates degree. On the flipside i have done some pretty good things in the military ",
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"body": "I think he'd be happy generally, but as you said he'd also wish he did better in school. He would be pretty pissed at me for losing a lot of his friends, but he'd be proud he's not a fat virgin anymore, and has a girlfriend. Overall, I think he'd be satisfied but still wished for more out of himself. ",
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"body": "My 12 year old self would be happy... I always wanted to go to law school (and follow in the footsteps of my Dad), but both of my Parents were deceased when I graduated law school, but my Grandparents both saw me get sworn in. My younger self would be pissed I have not somehow gotten a 1998 Supra TT, but I think he would be happy with third choice, Toyota Prius, because he was a science/ technology nut. My 12 year old self would be amazed by the video game collection (just about every system since the Fairchild) but pissed that 13 year old self sold all his nintendo games at funcoland... But, alas, it is all good...",
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"body": " 12 year old me: You're not gay? \n 21 year old me: No, not at all. \n *12 year old me hands 21 year old me five dollars*",
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"body": "12 year old me would be pretty impressed that I actually did turn into a scientist and have lots of cool gadgets, but he'd be disappointed that I never married Buffy. ",
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"body": "12 year old me was a wimp. I think the fact that I got railed on so hard because I was a nerd made me even more of a nerd, until finally I taught myself to be an extroverted nerd. Now, (since I'm naturally quite handsome), all the girls that would make fun of me when I was up in kickball are mysteriously wanting to \"hang out\" after losing touch for 10 years. Eat grass girls, I'm looking for my nerdy hot companion still. She's out there somewhere! ",
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"body": "When I turned 12, only one person who was not directly related to me showed up to my birthday party because she \"had nothing better to do.\" She gave me a broken disco light that used to be in her room because she \"always thought it was kind of lame anyway.\" No one in my family could stand to be in the same room as me, and I felt the same way about them. I was not religious, but I judged people (including myself) as if I was because I already felt ostracized enough by the kids at school and the church I was being dragged to every weekend. I think at this point I wanted to be a supermodel or host a nature show, but I also figured I'd never get married or get divorced several times. Either way, I was sure I'd die alone, miserable and still pretending to like the color pink, pop music, make-up, Jesus and football in order to fit in.\n\nI think my 12 year-old self would be in shock at the current state of my life, living \"in sin\" with my boyfriend of three years as an unemployed, starving artist, but I don't really care. I'm happy, people actually remember my birthday, I've seen and done a lot of cool stuff, and for the first time ever (and to my great joy, I do believe this situation is permanent) I am neither alone nor miserable. : )",
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"body": "He would say \"I leave you alone for two years and already you've gone nuts...whats with the toothpaste?\"",
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"body": "When I was 12 I had no friends whatsoever, was emotionally unstable enough to cry at the drop of a hat, had a terrible procrastination habit, and was socially retarded. I thought little of the future, save that my life would still be pointless.\n\nShe'd probably be elated at the fact that I have friends, enjoy the fact that I graduated from high school a year early, find my taste in music odd and undesirable, be confused as to why I abandoned asexuality, think that I take things too seriously, and amuse herself with my small collection of spiffy hats.",
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"body": "12-year-old me would be glad that I finally found a school that fits and that I actually have friends. He'd be sad that I'm not taller, though. He'd also be fucking *pissed* that I have the same computer.",
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"body": "If he could have seen the woman I grew up to be, I think he would be both freaked out and pleased.\n\nI think we'd both have a lot of questions. He was really hungry for specifics on how someone could change their sex, but didn't dare ask.\n\nI'd have a lot of questions for him. He was naïve about a lot of things, and pretty mixed up about the whole concept of gender, but I'd love to be able to find out just where he was at, back then. For good or bad, I don't remember that well.",
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Redditors, are you a late blossom-er...Of life? | How were you before? What changes transitioned you from a caterpillar to butterfly? An ugly duckling to a swan? A roadie to a rock-star? A Digger to a Redditor?
Seeing all the tragic events in Haiti has made me realize that how I sympathize with these unfortunate people, is very different from how I would feel about something like this if I were just a tad bit younger.
I for one sense something changing, and I feel like a totally different person than when I was 18-22... I feel more at peace with myself and I also feel more on the humantarian side of life. Any experiences to share?
If you can tell me, what was that one "aha" moment where you metaphorically said to yourself: "I know what I am, where I'm heading and what I want to do now." | 3 | [
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"body": "Why do you assume people transition from caterpillars to butterfly's. Why not the other way around? I've seen it.",
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I visited my brother, a redditor, in they psych ward. All he has eaten in the hospital is bacon. Thanks Reddit. | He has only been there a few days. He says they bring in a menu and they ask him to circle something from the menu. Instead, he just writes bacon. He says they only bring him two slices on a plate. (It's possible he could be lying) | 51 | [
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"body": "I can vouch that in a mental hospital they give you a list of stuff and make you circle the food items you want. Of course you can only get so much stuff and I never wrote any items in so I don't know about that. Based on how much it costs to be in one of those places, I would be pretty pissed if they didn't give me the bacon I requested.",
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"body": "That's terrible! 2 slices!? That is outrageous. It should be a crime to have less than 5-7 slices of bacon per serving. How can we send him more bacon?",
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Looking for more comics like Nathan Sorry, or Freak Angels that have a story line that sucks you in wanting more. | I have read Freak Angels and Nathan Sorry from beginning to the latest comic and now I am looking for more comics like these.
I love how the story sucks you in and keeps you wanting more. Kind of like reading a [flossdaily](http://www.reddit.com/r/flossdaily) short.
I have read a couple other comics by Warren Ellis (Freak Angels) and liked them as well. I think it was transmetropolitan.
[Nathan Sorry](http://www.richbarrett.com/nathansorry/2009/02/18/page-1/)
[Freak Angels](http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23)
I know it is not a comic but I still enjoy: [All of flossdaily's Short Stories](http://redct.info/Flossdaily.pdf)
So comic guys and gals, what else out there has a great story and art to go along with it. | 12 | [
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"body": "Riceboy, or perhaps some of Dresden Codak's story arcs. Might be too fantastic for your taste, though.",
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"body": "http://www.kiwisbybeat.com << Minus is great.\n\nhttp://www.erfworld.com << Good storyline but it has a LOT of nerd humor.\n\nhttp://anderslovesmaria.reneengstrom.com/ << Good story\n\nI really recommend riceboy and order of the tales as well.",
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"body": "[Jesus Christ: In the Name of the Gun](http://www.badkarmaproductions.com/jc/) -- Fighting Nazis has never been this awesome.",
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Should I buy Mass Effect for $5? | I've never really played it before. Will be playing it on PC so I don't know if the mouse sensitivity will be an issue in a third person shooter. Mass Effect 2 is a definite buy for me (just don't know when). So, should I old off on Mass Effect for $5, or go ahead and get it?
Btw, the coupon code is: M93SW4PQQ2
EDIT: Whoops! I thought the link would have saved in the title. My bad, here it is: http://eastore.ea.com/store/ea/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/ThemeID.718200/productID.102427200 | 24 | [
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"body": "i would think it is important to play mass effect before mass effect 2 despite bioware insisting it isn't necessary. the first game is pretty good (except for the AWFUL mako driving sections). don't go into it expecting an incredible shooter experience though. it is a party rpg with third person shooter style combat. \n\n5 dollars? it is worth 5 dollars. ",
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"body": "Yes. Gameplay doesn' even matter (Even thought its pretty fun), for those five dollars its like you are buying into a fully immersive and deep Sci-Fi novel that will last for hours. \n\n For comparison they sell shitty books for more than five bucks that are far shorter and far shittier than Mass Effect. They sell goddamn fucking subs for five dollars and that enjoyment will only last you ten minutes at most. \n\nListen don't be thrown off by the price and think its a cheap game and somehow inferior. Its an excellent game and far superior to even some of the new games coming out this month. ",
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"body": "I'd say no; if you need to poll reddit over the decision to spend **five dollars** on a game you must be pretty broke. It's less than the cost of a meal at McDonald's, this isn't a decision you should be agonizing over; if you like RPG's then buy it, if not then don't.",
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"body": "How can you go wrong for $5?\r\n\r\nI remember paying full price for the game, and turn back time, I'd pay even more. It's a very bioware-y kind of game with plenty of talking-but It's done very, very well.\r\n\r\nAlot of things you do in the first Mass Effect will carry on to Mass Effect 2, Romances, ways you handled scenarios etc.\r\n",
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"body": "First, where is that coupon code for?\n\nSecond, YES! I picked up Mass Effect for $5 on Steam a few months ago and it was worth every cent. The controls aren't that bad. ",
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"body": "Why are you even asking this? \n\nIt's $5, less than lunch or a fancy cup of coffee. Sure there are people for whom $5 is meaningful amount of money, but anyone who falls in that category probably doesn't have a PC capable of running Mass Effect and certainly would have no business spending that $5 on games.\n\nDownvote away. These threads are lazy, dumb and pop up everytime there's game sale, usually for games so cheap ($2-$5) that question shouldn't even be asked.",
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"body": "If you're getting Mass Effect 2, then the first game is pretty much necessary for you to appreciate the second. Better yet, Mass Effect was the first game I'd finished in at least a year. And for five dollars? You can get a combo at McDonald's or a solid game that's going to last you for a couple of weeks, depending on whether you rush through the core story.",
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Looking to Learn Algorithms/Optimization | Hey guys, I'm a high school senior aspiring to be a computer science major. I do a lot of coding, but like most amateurs, I don't understand the fundamentals of computing, such as polynomial time and whatnot.
I was wondering if anyone could point me to some good resources on basic algorithms and optimization, preferably some short/quick things to read, just to pass the time. :) Thanks | 8 | [
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"body": "http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT\n\nIf you put in the time and effort to go through them, it'll make you a lot more knowledgeable in college. Just don't get cocky like 99% of all comp sci majors.",
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"body": "http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tutorials&d2=alg_index\n\nI'm just getting started with algorithmic studies as well, but I've been doing higher-level programming for several years. TopCoder seems like a good place to delve into the mysteries and see how others have solved problems as well.",
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I just joined this subreddit, and thought I'd share some DnB mixes that I've done. Link inside | Here's my [site](http://lochnoss.com) with all of my DnB mixes. I thought I'd share them as mixing DnB is a hobby of mine. (I'm not a professional DJ)
Hope you enjoy! | 7 | [
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"body": "Good work! You should drop some track listings for the mixes, there are a few tunes I'd like to cop. ",
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Help me decide on a defensive carry pistol. | Alright. Here's the low down. I'm a big guy, about 250+lbs. I'm familiar with the operation of most types of handguns, but prefer an automatic, and beyond that, would prefer something with an external hammer, but don't really mind if the suggestion is good.
Preferred caliber is one that won't bankrupt me if I go to the range, as I intend to practice with this piece at least once a month, and have the luxury of having a range in a nearby friends backyard.
I don't have any brand preference, but would prefer that the gun be small enough to fit in an IWB holster, or reasonably occupy an empty pocket, but not necessarily so small that it becomes uncomfortable to shoot.
What do you say? | 14 | [
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"body": "The number one most important thing (I've carried for years, have a dozen or so friends who carry) is size of the weapon. Not caliber, but physical size. If it's small and convenient to carry, you'll carry it everywhere you go. If it's large and/or awkward, and/or heavy, you'll find excuses to leave it at home, leave it in your briefcase/backpack, leave it in the trunk of your car or glove box/center console. \r\n\r\nIf you want to carry all the time, get something small and comfortable to carry. No bigger than, say, a Walther PPK. I regularly carry Keltecs, and my Walther. My 1911s, full-sized Glocks, full-sized S&W --- anything that can't be conveniently carried always gets left behind. ",
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"body": "IMO, sub compact glock. You really should go rent some guns and get a feel for what you like, no one gun is good for all operators. Take your time, its a rather big decision. Good Luck!",
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Hey Reddit! What pubs in Edinburgh should I check out? | So I'm going to Scotland in a few months for a trip. I've got a lot of places to see and all, but I want to check out the pub scene in Edinburgh obviously. What do you think? | 7 | [
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"body": "[The Oz Bar!](http://www.theozbar.co.uk/).\n\nMy man Baz runs this place.\n\nTell him drewski from Melbourne sent you and he will sort you out.",
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"body": "brass monkey is a small cozy bar with an entire room that is one entire bed with lots of pillows and a large movie screen. you go to the bar and get a beer, then select a movie for them to show from their awesome movie selection. great for rainy day sunday morning hangover.",
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Customisation Scripts: Is it possible to edit *everything* from bash, or are some things just out of bounds? | G'day Reddit,
I'm trying to write a script to customise my installation of ubuntu. I regularly reinstall the whole thing, as I tend to tinker, and I'm not very good at it, so to save time, I thought I'd make a script.
I don't really know that much code, only a few of the basics. Most of what is in the script so far is clobbered together from what I've read on various sites, and what I understand of it. I've got over half of what I want to do, but I can't find a way of editing the rest of the stuff from bash. Can you help?
This is the script so far: http://pastebin.com/m652ed696
**What it does so far is:**
* Ask how many bits in the system (I have a 32 bit desktop, and 64 bit laptop. I'd like to be able to use this for both)
* Ask the version name (Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic etc)
* wget themes from websites
* edit sources.list *(using version name)*, then apt-get update
* Install stuff I think I use regularly *(Using bits information)*
* apt-get -y upgrade
* customises terminal
* copies across .face profile image
* unpacks themes (Does not set as default... is this possible?)
* Add programs to autostart list
* Enable sudo insults
**What I'd like to add**
* Importing & installing compiz file. I have a file I've exported from compiz, and I'd like to import it, but can't find anything on that.
* Enabling any proprietary drivers on the system
* Editing Keyboard preferences (Compose key position, Key sequence to kill X-server, Alt/Win key behaviour) Under system>prefs>Keyboard
* Add System monitor to top right of pannel, (And loads of other taskbar applet stuff)
* Set Ctrl + Alt + T to launch terminal under System>Prefs>Keyboard shortcuts (etc)
* Rename one of System>prefs>Screensaver to XScreensaver (XScreensaver and Gnome Screensaver have the
same name)
* Enable Time synchronisation (NTP)
* Edit power management settings (Screensaver, sleep time etc)
Thanks in advance! | 6 | [
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"body": "Look into using gconf-tool to change things; I believe most of what you want to do is done there. But the drivers seems hard, unless there's a CLI for it. I mean, just copy your panel folder over, to make things easier.",
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"body": "Put your /home directory on its own filesystem, and don't blow it away when you reinstall. There, anything for your user account is now saved.",
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IAmA proud GameStop SGA. AMA. | I see a lot of hate for GameStop around the internet. I work at the best store in my district (of 20 stores in SE GA) and am ranked 20th of 60. I realize you may get treated badly, but I am here to clear all that up.
EDIT: okay. I'm Back. Let's doi this.
'NOTHER EDIT: for fun and profit, [here's](http://imgur.com/nRZ91.jpg) two games that got traded in by the same customer at the same time. I don't understand people.
EDIT: THE EDITING : Mkay. It's like 2. Any questions posted will get answered in the morning. It's been real! | 9 | [
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"body": "I like vintage video-games, went in to get something like Castlevania for my SNES and there was snickering and 'You do know what century it is don't you?'. FUCK OFF I HAVE A PS3! \n\nThen when they asked if I want anything else they suggest the new 'Nintendo Dogs Pink DS Bundle' and refuse to believe that I do actually wanted to pre-order COD Modern Warfare 2 for myself, because you know, I'm a girl and I weight under 150 pounds. They said I was lying.Sucks that I have to go back there, but thye sell really cheap vintage stuff. \n\nBut the other shop in my town is the same. One of the sellers just stopped and stared at me for about 25 seconds when I asked for Wolfstein. Just stared. He then shouted 'KYLE! COME HERE, THERE IS A GIRL WANTING WOLFSTEIN!' So him and Kyle could stare at me for another 20 seconds before asking if I was sure that's what my bf wanted. FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU\n\nSeriously, why do game shops treat girls like this?!\n\n",
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"body": "So, what do you say to the people who insist that pre-ordering is a scam? Ever had one of those nuts actually in your store spouting that garbage?\r\n\r\nDo you ever wish the shelves in the store could contain the same sets of games in the same order so that every third week you didn't have to move the 360 games over *there* and bring the Wii titles over *here* and then squeeze the PS3 stock in between the PS2 and the DS? I hate that trend both as a customer AND a former game store employee.\r\n\r\nYou guys ever do tournaments? Some of the most fun I've had at my old game store was when they'd hold impromptu tourneys with about four days' notice.",
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Why did you go to college? | I still don't get it. I make as much money as those who did, often more. I see no benefit. Every once in a while someone is surprised I didn't go. They state "You should get a degree!". My next question is always, "Will I make more money?" The answer is always "Ugh...."
Sure I understand you need a degree to be a doctor or maybe some other profession. But in most cases I don't see the value add. Why should I give up 4 years of income? And then add debt on top?
I make about 90K a year (USD). I'm older so I wouldn't have a the typical college "experience". I would love to take some college courses about American or European history. Or maybe a class on writing. But at the end of the day I would have less in the bank. | 5 | [
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"body": "Most people who didn't attend college are not making $90k.\n \nA degree is a good way to get your foot in the door.\n \nLast, education isn't all about getting a job. It's about self-edification and broadening your horizons.",
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"body": "You are the exception. People with degrees tend to get higher paying jobs as 23 year olds. After that employers look at your work experience. I'm aware of the fact people don't need a degree to be successful, however the odds just stack up better for those with college educations. ",
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"body": "I went to college to get a job that I like and which pays well too. So far it has worked out. Not to mention the University experience is invaluable regardless of whether you use your degree afterwards.\n\nRegarding one of your points, I gave up well over 4 years of income to go to school. While I was paying thousands on tuition, my old friends from high school were making bank, buying all sorts or toys, cars etc... however, because they didn't go to school their salaries soon plateaued and what was a ton of money when they were young and single, with no family to provide for, is no longer a whole lot. Not to mention they are working jobs that they don't truly have a passion for. On the contrary, I love my profession and my salary will always be much higher then my friends who didn't go to University (with some exceptions I'm sure).",
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"body": "Well, living in a college town it just made sense... I am being paid to take classes (about 1k a semester after books) thanks to lottery and another scholarship. People claim to meet life long friends in college, and have good times. \nI'm still in school actually, junior year. With my personality type it is hard to make friends cold turkey, but I have met a few people that I still talk to every now and then. \n\nI think the main deal with college is networking. If you become friends with the right professors and even people, you may find yourself in a good job right out of school, or even down the road.",
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"body": "You third from the last sentence might be incentive enough for some people. Some people thirst for knowledge or have a genuine talent or curiosity for a subject. Also, some fields really are inaccessible without a university education. My major, for instance, is mathematics. I suppose one could argue that it is possible to acquire a university level education in mathematics from independent study. However, in my case I find that it's motivational to be in a classroom full of my peers. I also enjoy being graded in that it causes me to work, even when I know I don't feel like it. These are things that without a university setting I might find difficult.\n\ntl;dr Education. \n\nedit: spelling",
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Need Help Locating an old Halloween song | Need yer help friends. My buddy and myself are sitting here reminiscing about our young punk rock days. Well we used to do a punk rock version of an old Halloween song. But we are old now and forgot the lyrics....kinda. We still remember some of it. Basically it goes something like "There's something sitting on the porch out there, There's something grinning on the porch out there, but I'm not scared for I'm safe inside, I'm not scared but I thing I'll hide..." there is more to the song but that is the gist of it. Please impress my friend he has never seen reddit before. (old skool buddy from out of town) | 5 | [
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"body": "There's something sitting on the porch out there\nThere's something grinning on the porch out there\nI'm not afraid cause I'm safe inside\nI'm not afraid, but I think I'll hide. \n\nThere's something flying through the air\nOn a broomstick gliding through the air\nI'm not afraid cause I'm safe inside\nI'm not afraid, but I think I'll hide. \n\nThere's something howling on the fence out there\nThere's something meowing on the fence out there\nI'm not afraid cause I'm safe inside\nI'm not afraid, but I think I'll hide. \n\nThere's something flying through the air\nEating bugs as they fly up high out there\nI'm not afraid cause I'm safe inside\nI'm not afraid, but I think I'll hide. \n\nThere's something sitting in the tree out there\nThere's something hooting in the tree out there\nI'm not afraid cause I'm safe inside\nI'm not afraid, but I think I'll hide. \n\nThere's something floating through the air\nSomething white scaring people everywhere\nI'm not afraid cause I'm safe inside\nI'm not afraid, but I think I'll hide. ",
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Addicted to sex? My best friend admitted to me that he slept with 10 women last year. Oh yeah, he's married w/two kids. | He claims he is extremely addicted to sex, and he can't stop. Obviously, him and his wife are having problems and this is what he's resorted to. I told him he needs to quit AND end his marriage. What would you tell him? Has anyone here been addicted to sex? Share your story?
ps. This really isn't about me- believe it or not.
Edit: 10 women does not equal 10 times. He told me he had 10 secret "relationships." He would have a different story for each one just to keep them separate. | 10 | [
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"body": "He doesn't need to do both, either quit, or end his marriage. If he respects his wife, why lie to her? \n\nI doubt sex is the root of the problem, just the symptom. Maybe his ego needs constant stroking. Maybe he is depressed or just plain unhappy with the monotony of married life. People spend their whole lives looking forward to when they get out of school, get the job, house, wife kids, etc. that once they get there what other hill is there left to climb? \n\nMaybe if you can get him involved with some other type of rush that can stave off some cravings, but I doubt there is anything you can do to stop the path he is on. Just be there ready to assist when the shit hits the fan.\n\nOr you could introduce him to people that have lost everything via a messy divorce - including the respect of their kids. Maybe if you hit him in the right moment that might give him the clarity he needs. ",
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"body": "I dated a guy who was addicted to sex and all I can say is that I would never do that again. The guy that I dated did not even see it as a problem. He just thought he loved having sex and their was nothing wrong with that. I knew he was addicted to sex when I was with him, but I did not find out about all the other women and hookers until after we broke up. Mind blowing, it was. \r\n\r\nAs for your friend, if he wants to try to save his marriage he needs to get some help, and maybe his wife will give him another chance. If she does she would be a better woman then I am. . If he won't go to treatment then he really should end his marriage. Your freind is being pretty selfish, and really disrespecting his wife and marriage. I feel bad for his wife, does she know about any of this or has he just been sneaking around?\r\n\r\nI seriously hope your pal figures this out and gets some help. Maybe 10 women does not seem like a lot, but considering he is married, I would say it is 10 too many. Maybe he is just sick of the same old pussy and wanted to change it up a little, I still feel that isn't right becasue he is married and he should get help and/or leave his wife. ",
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"body": "[Sexaholics Anonymous](http://sa.org). Tell him to find a meeting, introduce himself, and ask for help.",
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"body": "Nice of him to bring home a gift for the little woman. Current estimates are about 1 out of 4 sexually active persons have HSV (herpes). Do his wife a favor and anonymously send her a note to get tested for STDs. ",
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Can anyone help me find the blog about the show that rated episodes out of five polar bears? | The title of it was some variant of Lost Blog (iirc), but nothing I'm seeing in Google seems familiar, though maybe the blog has been redesigned or something. Each episode had an individual write-up/review that were pretty in depth by (I'm assuming) a girl. The author frequently swooned over some of the guys in the show, so I suppose it could be a gay guy but I'm pretty sure its a girl. Either way, the only real defining thing I can remember of it was that each episode was rated by x out of 5 polar bears.
Anyone have any ideas? | 8 | [
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"body": "I don't remember any 'out of five polar bears' thing, but Erika from LLL - Long Live Locke, has been writing great write ups for a few seasons now. \n\nhttp://longlivelocke.blogspot.com/",
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Best homemade Bongs/Bowls/Pipes? | I have about a gram with me at the moment and without bong/bowl/pipe. What are some of the best home made pieces I could use for two people? | 3 | [
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"body": "socket for a socket set, and screen from a faucet creates a slide. You can stick this into the cap of a water bottle and create a waterfall or a gravity bong. You can also make a bowl out of a fresh apple in a pinch. Or you can turn a soda can into a bowl by depressing the side and puncturing it multiple times to create a screen. put a carb in the side and use the mouth of the can for the mouthpiece.",
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Question: Why do so many guys think it's a good idea to be shy? | Because fuck that shit. Seriously.
This question was inspired by [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/aqi5b/why_does_reddit_believe_that_being_nice_is_not_a/) post. Cancon is a cool dude. I am strong within him.
In fact, I think we both ask our respective question to the same people. | 16 | [
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"body": "Whaaaa? Haven't you heard every 3rd guy on Reddit say he wish knew how to approach women?\n\nSome people seem to think shyness is a cute little thing that people choose to do, or that it's a bad habit they need to snap out of. But shyness, no matter how innocent it may seem to the outside observer, can torture its victim. Do you think there are guys out there who *like* going long periods of time without girlfriends?\n\nTo quote Morrissey: \"Shyness is nice, and shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you want to.\"",
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"body": "I hate confident people. Whatever I say, I always consider the possibility that I might be wrong. Even when saying stuff like \"1+1=2\", I consider some set-theoretic possibility that there is an inherent problem with our aximatization of basic math. \n\nI hope there are other people who hate confident people too. \n\nPlus being shy is cute as long as you're not insecure. \n\nStill, I appreciate the work you're doing there, Raptor. ",
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"body": "I'm actually very attracted to shy guys; *I'm* a shy girl, and I like a guy I can relate to, and I like a guy who makes me feel confident and powerful. I get tired of always being the passive one, you know?\n\nBut though I'm attracted to shy guys, that does *not* mean I'm attracted to guys with self-esteem issues or pervasive insecurities. I like guys who genuinely like themselves and have a solid grip on reality—though maybe they blush when we make eye contact.",
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"body": "Shyness is a poison. It comes from a feeling of \"I am less than others\". It's fear, a crippling fear in social interactions that can become a real limitation on one's quality of life. \n\nMany shy people have had some experiences that causes them to emotionally associate social contact with danger and pain. We try to avoid pain, so we come up with shyness as a way to keep people at arms length so we won't get hurt.\n\nShy people need to be drawn out of their shell and into the world. However, for most shy people the sad fact is that they've spent so much time and effort on their fortress of self imposed solitude that the task of doing that is going to be too hard for most potential mates. Try as they might, eventually they move on to better things.\n\nIf you keep telling yourself that you are less than and that there is something wrong with you, and you keep insisting on it even when someone shows interest, eventually they will agree and leave you to frustrate the hell out of the next poor thing that comes along. \n\nOn the flipside, shy people tend to think of themselves so poorly that if there's a potential mate they go; \"Well, I'm fucked up and a waste of space and I this girl seems to actually like me...She must clearly be damaged in some way. I should probably not go forward with her, but spend the next small eternity pining for some other girl that is perfect is all aspects except for the fact that she barely knows I exist.\" After a few rounds on that merry-go-round of futility and sadness, the shy guy becomes a \"nice\" misogynistic porn addict who cultivates a love/hate nice relationship with women while stewing in his own passive-aggressive impotent sexual rage. \n\nIf it gets really bad the loneliness couple with the envy of people around them who seem to be able to establish real connections brings them to the brink of irrational hatred. You know who eventually snaps and kills people in their gym or class? Shy people. \n\nFuck being shy.",
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"body": "Nobody wants to be shy, its just somthing that you end up with.\n\nFor example, after several years of having no girlfriend/boyfriend, you start to wonder why, after all, other people have had plenty of relationships by the point you have, but you have not, you start to wander if there's a reason for that.\n\nThen you go down the road of looking for that reason, whether that be reason being your unattractive, uninteresting etc.. \n\nYou start to feel like no girl/guy would want you with all these issues you have, but the problem is, the issues are caused by no girl/guy wanting you. So its hard to find a solution.",
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I was banned for life from a bar last night! | To be fair I brought four bottles of Pabst into the bar and the owner confronted me while I was urinating upon the bar's back door. I was told they threatened to fight me, but I just can't remember. Kind of proud of myself? | 16 | [
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"body": "After reading your story of last night about peeing on the bar it reminded me of a story from last night. I was quite drunk last night and left the bar at last call. There is a Papa Johns nearby that sells \"Grab and Go\" pizzas for $8 on weekends and they stay open till 3am. I went in to buy a pizza and they could only accept cash. Here I am drunk as shit needing some munchies and only have $5 in my wallet. I tried to get the clerk to just let me have the pizza which didn't work. I walked outside and stared at the door for probably 5 minutes debating whether or not I wanted to piss all over that place. I decided not to, and stumbled home. Im still pissed!!",
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[2] Crazy, high friends and high thoughts! | I find my friends to be funny as hell when we smoke, the things they think of is just funny as shit to me, so I decided to share some of my story's with you /r/trees. So my first story takes place on my back patio we have the bong out and we all get done taking our rips and we just lay back in our chairs and chill listing to the rain (And it was down pouring like a tropical storm). Then out of nowhere we hear a motorcycle start up and blare down the street. My friend turns to me and says "That's fucking crazy." I look over at him and say "What do you mean?" he proceeds to explain how you HAVE TO BE A MURDERER to start up your motorcycle at night and drive into this crazy ass downpour (At 1AM in the morning mind you). I just sit there for a few minutes and think about it. Then I begun to laugh my ass off at how crazy that thought is but at the same time it completely makes sense.
EDIT: When we where on the patio we were all a [10]. | 8 | [
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"body": "that's true. anyone taking rides in a torrential downpour in the middle of the night is up to no good.",
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"It is a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling." Seriously? Help me out reddit - any idea which law I'm breaking when I use my no-pest strip as a rearview mirror ornament? | So I bought a no-pest strip at Target, and this is on the back of the label: "It is a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling." Really? Can anyone identify the law it refers to? Is this complete BS? | 4 | [
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"body": "Essentially, much like [vikashgoel](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aqk4i/it_is_a_violation_of_federal_law_to_use_this/c0iw1ld) noted, it is a federal law to use any pesticide inconsistently with its labeling. Because pesticides can contain dangerous chemicals, and the item you have (although it probably doesn't contain any dangerous chemicals) must still be registered as a pesticide, and it would probably be unlawful to sell in the US if it didn't have such labeling on it. ",
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"body": "I think ordinarily you wouldn't have to worry about this, but if a cop pulls you over, searches your car, and finds no contraband, who knows, there's a chance they *might* decide to at least bag you on this \"federal\" offense, if either they or you are an asshole, or both.",
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Taking photos with a DSLR is di[f]ficult! | Me. First post. Please be nice.
http://imgur.com/EOlPh.jpg
http://imgur.com/BeGLU.jpg
http://imgur.com/zaaNl.jpg
EDIT: Thanks everyone for the positive feedback. I've been waiting around for months trying to get up the courage! Maybe I'll take more in a few days using a tripod, like Xehsu suggested. :) | 176 | [
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"body": "Your hips and collar bones are outstanding.\n\nI think if you lay on you side for a photo this would show them off.\n\nThe second photo is playfully erotic.",
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"body": "It's a pain no matter what :p I stick mine on a tripod and do a timed shot, takes awhile to get it lined up though.\n\nI really love pic 2, it's so naughty and secretive I can almost feel your legs quivering with excitement.\n\nMight I request one with your legs farther apart exposing your breasts? That would be lovely.",
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"body": "New set up! Thanks for all the nice comments so far :)\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/gonewild/comments/aqq75/dslr_self_photos_part_2/",
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Whats up with Rockstar only allowing DLC on the 360? I actually wanted to play The Ballad of Gay Tony. And the first DLC to come out was in Feb '09. | P.S STOP FUCKING OVER PC OWNERS. With all the money I spend building my PC I could have bought 4 or 5 360s! | 6 | [
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"body": "Microsoft paid what, 10 Million US To secure the rights?\r\n\r\nThey were hoping it would sell more 360s, I mean, It's not a true exclusive if it's on the PC",
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"body": "Yell at Microsoft not Rockstar. MS keeps throwing wads of money at developers to keep DLC off other platforms. ",
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"body": ">P.S STOP FUCKING OVER PC OWNERS. With all the money I spend building my PC I could have bought 4 or 5 360s!\r\n\r\nThey're following profits, they don't give a shit how much you spent building your PC.",
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"body": "The dlc wouldn't have existed without ms as they paid rockstar to develop it for the 360 (50 million) that's why it's exclusive. ",
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What's the latest on the battle towards curing herpes? | I've recently been diagnosed with hsv2, I got it although I was using protection and trying to avoid situations like this, the girl "shafted" me by not telling me what she had. I've been looking around to try and see how several of these drug companies are doing with their vaccines and possible "cures" for the virus but most of their information is very outdated or their websites have nothing to state about their current testing level.
I'm just curious because all of the medicines I've been looking at cost a fortune not to mention to try and avoid issues with outbreaks some people say to take it daily. This makes me worried that those pharmaceutical companies are already just making too much money off of everyone who has it and their making us pay ass loads of money to treat our conditions instead of releasing a cure or vaccine to other people.
TL;DR : I'm just wondering what the science community of Reddit knows of the current state of any medicines that aren't out for treatment of any type of herpes. | 17 | [
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"body": "Herpes is notoriously difficult to treat because the virus lives in neural ganglia. Normally, it's not too much of a loss for the immune system to kill a virus-infected cell, but that's not an option in the case of herpes. There are certain enzymes that have been shown to strip herpes from the genome *in vitro*, but they're at a very-far off stage at this point.\r\n\r\nVaccines currently appear to be a much more promising approach than drugs in the case of herpes for the stated reasons; there is a herpes vaccine in trial scheduled to be released sometime this year (last I heard), but it appears to only be effective in women (for some reason).\r\n\r\nThe rumor mill states that lysine supplements and avoiding corn products (not easy) can alleviate and shorten the duration of outbreaks. Also, thanks, Wikipedia:\r\n\r\n>A review of human subjects treated for five days with famciclovir 250 mg three times daily during their first herpes episode found that only 4.2 percent experienced a recurrence within six months after the first outbreak\r\n\r\ntreatment: it's always better sooner than later.",
"score": 12
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"body": "God, I hope they come out with a cure soon. My sex life has totally sucked ever since that unfortunate typo in my application lead to my being accepted into the Legion of Superherpes.",
"score": 6
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"body": "While there *is* progress, you have to see HSV for what it really is: an extremely mild skin disorder. There's a huge stigma associated with it, and a quarter of the population has it - but it's not very destructive. The motivation for a huge push from the drug companies might be less than other diseases.\n\nMost of those who contract it actually have only one outbreak (or in some cases none - which is why 70% of carriers don't know they have it). Those that have repeated outbreaks usually find that those outbreaks decrease in frequency and severity over time - such that it's eventually almost completely gone.\n\nWhile i have no doubt that a cure will come eventually, you certainly can't live your life around that hope. But i assure you that there are lots of people out there in your boat, and lots of people educated about the disease who genuinely won't care that you have it.",
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"body": "although I wish I'd been more promiscuous, I'm glad that a committed relationship has spared me from these kinds of issues.",
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"body": "Same thing happened to me dood. It took me a while to get a handle on it. I can now go a year without outbreak and if there is one it is very mild. I can now sense when it's going to happen and start popping antivirals to head it off at the pass, often stopping it before it starts. So many things can trigger it, for me my main triggers are chocolate, lack of sleep and stress. Lack of sleep can be a big one. Check online for foods high in arginine (spelling?) and avoid them. Taking Lysine never did anything for me. I found for some reason generic meds didn't help much and also found Valtrex 2x a day was better than standard acicyclovir (spelling?) 5 times a day regimen. I went through quite a bit of depression over it, not so much that it wa a terrible sickness but more of the stress of having to tell future partners 'oh btw...'. One thing is for certain you are not alone, is it 6 in 10 now have it? Something like that. I look forward to a vaccine one day so I can get back to gorging on chocolate and peanut butter :P Just hang in there. If you are having a lot of out breaks then you are doing something wrong 'sleep, diet, stress', if you are not having a lot of outbreaks you are doing something right. One thing I often do is if I have a few days of poor sleep or a lot of stress I will take meds knowing it will likely be stopping a potential outbreak. Feel free to ask me anything, I'll check back. Keep your chin up! ;)",
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"body": "I dated someone with H2 and didn't have sex with them. I wanted to so before I did, (and I'm thankful they told me), I found out through the CDC that Herpes is SO rampant that they don't even bother really doing much about it anymore. I was shocked and saddened. ",
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Graph theory question | Given a strongly connected directed graph with weighted edges, what's the best way to calculate the minimum cost of visiting all the nodes and returning back to the starting node, i.e. a cycle consisting of all vertices? Keep in mind that it need not necessarily be a Hamiltonian cycle as we might very well have to revisit already visited nodes/edges multiple times depending on the layout of the graph. Another important thing to keep in mind is that the cost of an edge is counted only once irrespective of how ever many times it's revisited. So in the case where we, let's say, visit an edge thrice, it's counted only once in the total cost of the cycle. | 4 | [
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"body": "This is called the minimum connected subgraph problem or the minimum strong spanning subdigraph problem. [Adrian Vetta gave a 3/2 approximation algorithm](http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=365493). Jørgen Bang-Jensen has some papers on the subject too, and does a lot of work on digraphs. I don't know what kind of mathematician you are -- maybe I'm giving you bad news, maybe good news. But Vetta's paper is only 10 pages, as it is from SODA.",
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Why isn't Pat Robertson trying to smooth over his PR by responding to this backlash? | You'd think it was the logical thing to do. Not that a man like him knows anything about logic, but regardless, you'd think a man such as himself would care about his PR, simply because money and fear are his true gods. | 5 | [
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"body": "Because he figures that anyone who'd criticize such an upstanding 'man of God' must be a tool of Satan. Not realizing, of course, that if anyone's the tool, it's him.",
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"body": "Because he meant every word of it, and sees no need to explain. He had a vision from his \"god\" telling him to say this stuff, I guess.\n\nI have no respect at all for \"mega\" pastors, and the are a blight.",
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Can someone explain the reasoning behind logical implication, because I don't get it. | If you look at the [truth table](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_implication#Discussion) of logical implication, you'll see the following:
T => T: T
T => F: F
F => T: T
F => F: T
I have to admit that this table confuses me. The statements with true as the antecedent are okay; it makes some sort of intuitive sense that the value of a statement is the value of its consequent if the antecedent is true.
However, for false values, I get confused. How can you have a false antecedent (which one could call premise) and have a true (valid) proposition?
The other logical operators (and, or, not) make perfect logical sense, but this one just doesn't. Thanks for the help | 11 | [
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"body": "It's been a while since I looked at this stuff, but maybe it would help if you thought of it like lining up to urinate at some sort of stadium event:\n\nIf p then q.\n\nIf you're gonna pee, you gotta queue.\n\nYou peed, you queued: fine, that's how the system is designed.\n\nPeeing without queuing: impossible! You should be arrested.\n\nDidn't pee, but queued: fine! (waste of time, though)\n\nDidn't pee, didn't bother queuing: no problem! (Maybe you stayed in your seat during the intermission.)\n\nI hope I have this right.\n\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "This is just another way of saying \"if( blah blah blah ) then ( dah dah dah ).\n\nThe third truth value tells you whether this is a valid logical implication. It doesn't mean all logical implications will take on this table. The truth of a logical implication depends on only one condition. If P is true then Q MUST also be true. Another way to think of a logical implication is as \"NOT P OR Q\". Think about it.\n\nTake this statement for example\nP: I am driving\nQ: I am in a vehicle\n\nIf P then it logically follows Q\n\nIsn't it also logically coherent to be in a vehicle( Q ) and not be driving( NOT P )?\n\nBut is it logically coherent to be driving( P ) and not be in a vehicle( NOT Q )?\nNo, that's nonsensical.\n",
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"body": "This implication is most useful with a universal quantifier. You're going to have a sentence like this:\n\n(for all x) if x is a duck, then x is a bird.\n\nWe want that sentence to be true, since it's equivalent to \"anything that's a duck is a bird.\" So it's going to have to be true when you plug in \"my cactus\" for x. And thus, \"if my cactus is a duck, then my cactus is a bird\" must be true.",
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