Aramek posted:I think seagulls are cute and I wanna pet one. You can! They're very easy to pick up, and once you do, they're your friend.
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Gripweed posted:You can! They're very easy to pick up, and once you do, they're your friend. I've picked up Tom turkeys like a football because they're dumb as hell and approach you.
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May 16, 2024 14:32
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It sucks that Secret Service guys just wear black suits. They should have some kind of fancy uniform. Some kind of colorful coat with coins worked into it somehow because the SS started as an anti-counterfeiting ring. And they should have some kind of special weapon, like a halberd with a deagle built into the blade.
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May 19, 2024 19:43
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"The Secret Service" is a very funny name for something that exists outside of a comic book or pulp fiction serial.
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May 19, 2024 19:45
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The job of the secret service is to stand in highly public places right next to people who are getting photographed and filmed a lot. It's dumb as hell for a name.
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May 19, 2024 20:22
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:The job of the secret service is to stand in highly public places right next to people who are getting photographed and filmed a lot. It's dumb as hell for a name. To be fair, they were named that when they were a US Treasury task force.
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May 19, 2024 20:34
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:The job of the secret service is to stand in highly public places right next to people who are getting photographed and filmed a lot. It's dumb as hell for a name. They spend a ton of time with the president outside of the public eye too. My dad's cousin was in the Secret Service during the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. Apparently with Bush the public events were practically a vacation for them because he was legendary for pranking the secret service when there was no media around. Apparently the worst was whenever he went to his vacation home, because as soon as they pulled on to the property he'd make a mad dash for his boat and lead them on a low-speed chase around the lake cackling like a loon the whole time.
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May 19, 2024 20:37
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I could never be a secret service agent because I know they kill you when you're too old instead of letting you retire, because of secret nature of the service.
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May 19, 2024 21:20
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Churches should be taxed
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May 19, 2024 21:56
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H Jon Benjamin should play Commissioner Gordon in the next Batman movie.
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May 20, 2024 19:30
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Gripweed posted:H Jon Benjamin should play Commissioner Gordon in the next Batman movie. this would be great, especially with the idea of Danny McBride as the Riddler that I've heard floated. He has the perfect cadence for lines like - Riddle me THAT Batman.
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May 20, 2024 19:34
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Not sure about Riddler, but McBride would make an amazing Professor Pyg.
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May 20, 2024 19:44
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Modal Auxiliary posted:They spend a ton of time with the president outside of the public eye too. My dad's cousin was in the Secret Service during the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. Apparently with Bush the public events were practically a vacation for them because he was legendary for pranking the secret service when there was no media around. I'd say Bush's worst prank on the secret service was when he shot Kennedy
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May 20, 2024 19:55
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Gripweed posted:H Jon Benjamin should play Commissioner Gordon in the next Batman movie. Only if he plays him exactly like coach McGuirk
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May 20, 2024 20:51
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Gripweed posted:It sucks that Secret Service guys just wear black suits. They should have some kind of fancy uniform. Some kind of colorful coat with coins worked into it somehow because the SS started as an anti-counterfeiting ring. I feel there's a pitch for a lovely '90's comic with a team of guys who LOOK like the dudes on US money either pulling some counterfeit shenanigans or fighting the people pulling the shenanigans.
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May 21, 2024 03:27
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Playing pickleball for fun recreation is fine. But to start treating it seriously like a legitimate sport, such as speed running video games, is something I just can’t abide
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May 24, 2024 10:07
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Its up there with serious kickball leagues in the “you’re missing the point” sports categories for me. Other sports that should only be played for silly recreation and not seriously include: Darts Wiffle ball Tether ball Soccer
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May 24, 2024 11:59
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Muscle Tracer posted:Dune is one of those things where the first book is excellent, and pretty much everything beyond that gets worse and worse. I liked the new movie and am looking forward to the sequel but the rest of it seems like a recipe for madness. Dune is great at what it does, but if you're the kind of reader who doesn't give a poo poo about a million proper nouns that you just know the author has pages and pages of notes on, it's torture.
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May 24, 2024 12:35
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Dune is very good but most of what’s good about it has been done better in Warhammer 40,000
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Also 40K is a game which is fun and cool. Dune is a book, which all feel like work to interact with.
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I first heard of pickleball a few months ago and frankly don't believe it's a real thing. I think you're all just trolling me.
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I’ve been reading the 40k lore thread in GBS and I gotta say, I’ll never play the actual game but there’s a non-zero chance I’ll get high and wind up buying one of the ork books some day. There’s just something fun and strangely adorable about violent psychic mushroom people that love nothing but fighting and talking funny.
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May 24, 2024 15:00
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Orks being a bio weapon that grows from spores and has psychic powers is a delightful way to explain their silliness.
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docbeard posted:I first heard of pickleball a few months ago and frankly don't believe it's a real thing. I think you're all just trolling me. I played pickleball in PE in the 90s, it's hardly new
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Robobot posted:There’s just something fun and strangely adorable about violent psychic mushroom people that love nothing but fighting and talking funny. I'm glad you find find our Australian culture so loving amusing.
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May 25, 2024 11:07
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"Marathon" is a really hosed up name for distance running competitions. The guy in the original story crosses the finish line and instantly dies. Why would anybody want to participate in that?
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Nameless Pete posted:"Marathon" is a really hosed up name for distance running competitions. The guy in the original story crosses the finish line and instantly dies. Why would anybody want to participate in that? To prove that you're harder than that ancient piece of poo poo. gently caress you, stuff of legend
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:To prove that you're harder than that ancient piece of poo poo. gently caress you, stuff of legend Yeah, tens of thousands of people run marathons every year. Elderly people, children, people who just beat cancer, women, and it's incredibly rare for any of them to die from it. That Greek guy must've had a pussy heart or something.
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May 27, 2024 13:05
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It was clogged with Greece.
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Gripweed posted:Yeah, tens of thousands of people run marathons every year. Elderly people, children, people who just beat cancer, women, and it's incredibly rare for any of them to die from it. That Greek guy must've had a pussy heart or something. Comparing women to the elderly and children in terms of physical ability is very offensive, just FYI.
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May 27, 2024 14:50
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The guy in the story was an Athenian soldier with the army fighting the Persians at Marathon. He had been running messages on the battlefield and fighting in homoerotic combat all day in full armor, and then took off to report their victory to Athens.
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I'm not saying I want to pit the olds and the survivors against each other in phalanx combat before they run a marathon, but for accuracy's sake...
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Just keep em running until they drop like that King story.
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Gaius Marius posted:Just keep em running until they drop like that King story. The Long Run?
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Sure, I've never read it so why not.
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Chicken Run, I think
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To be fair to Pheidippides, the version of the origin of the marathon I've heard has marathon-athens as just the final stretch. He had previously carried a message to Sparta and back, a distance six times that of Marathon-Athens, for a total of seven modern marathons.
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Phosphine posted:To be fair to Pheidippides, the version of the origin of the marathon I've heard has marathon-athens as just the final stretch. He had previously carried a message to Sparta and back, a distance six times that of Marathon-Athens, for a total of seven modern marathons. Piss weak. Cliff Young did 875kms in an Australian ultramarathon at age 61 in gumboots. He didn't realise you could stop to sleep so he ran continuously for five days, eventually finishing first by 10 hours. loving euro-wankers.
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Elissimpark posted:Piss weak. Cliff Young did 875kms in an Australian ultramarathon at age 61 in gumboots. He didn't realise you could stop to sleep so he ran continuously for five days, eventually finishing first by 10 hours. This sounds impressive, but how many gumboots are in a mile? This metric stuff always throws me off.
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The military should let each troop decide what kind of camo to wear. They should be able to unlock more camo styles by accomplishing specific achievements in their military career.
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