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Maw
Feb 18, 2013

Mere minutes after discovering the new technology, it was used to send me a crude ASCII dong.



Holy poo poo. Amazing.

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Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

:drat:

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

Kurtofan posted:

I had forgotten Samuel L Jackson was in Jurassic Park.

how do you forget his greatest role?!?!?!

Yiggy
Sep 12, 2004

"Imagination is not enough. You have to have knowledge too, and an experience of the oddity of life."

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Kids are evil but that doesn't give you an excuse to sink to their level.

bitterandtwisted
Sep 4, 2006




Jagchosis posted:

yes brian, we are a loving and welcoming family here at somethingisawful, please come back. as a gesture of good will i have made you your very own ponytar!



haha awesome

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

Kids are evil but that doesn't give you an excuse to sink to their level.

Maybe Brian Boyko just thinks all kids are actually Damien Thorn? ^:v:^

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013


ThirdPartyView posted:

Maybe Brian Boyko just thinks all kids are actually Damien Thorn? ^:v:^

he hates kids because they give him boners

SteveVizsla
Mar 19, 2009

Why do I always want to sock it to you so hard?

Disabled Hitler posted:

Boyko also wrote for The Daily Texan for awhile, probably some awful/stupid opinions in there.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050311191912/http://www.dailytexanonline.com/main.cfm?include=displaystaffbio&authorid=1076413

Yup.

I hated gym, it's the one class I can remember being teased in, and even I disagree with everything he says in that.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->

Put an SA Grenade on the truck he crashes into and this would be perfect.

Kombotron
Aug 11, 2011

Miltank posted:

how is this real? How can any of this be real?

Bitchkrieg
Mar 10, 2014

Somebody find his Fetlife account.

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6AUifkDkhg

Why I'm running: My Wendy Davis Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpGG4IPeQiA

"Geek for State Rep?" Why call yourself a geek?

his campaign promos

CheesyDog
Jul 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013

gendered hygiene products have biological implications, people :biotruths:

Elotana
Dec 12, 2003

and i'm putting it all on the goddamn expense account
Deodorant cooties are no joking matter, son

lookoutbelow
Mar 3, 2004


What in the world leads people to the conclusion that it's a good idea to ask the internet these kinds of questions?

CheesyDog
Jul 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
r/atheism has arrived
http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/o26w3/fixed_after_seeing_ratheism_i_feel_this_should_be/

Reminder: this is someone hoping to hold political office in Texas

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

CheesyDog posted:

r/atheism has arrived
http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/o26w3/fixed_after_seeing_ratheism_i_feel_this_should_be/

Reminder: this is someone hoping to hold political office in Texas

Hilarious.

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

i laugh, but if every dumbass post and half-baked idiotic opinion I ever shared were going to follow me around for my whole life, I probably wouldn't have a real job either

neither would most normal people i bet Being able to hide from lovely Past You is pretty critical to functioning in daily life

which is why you don't sign your pony-loving, child-punching posts with your real legal name and then pursue a career in politics lol

Dr. Arbitrary
Mar 15, 2006

Bleak Gremlin
I keep getting that South Park Brian Boitano song stuck in my head, but with Boyko lyrics instead.

What would Brian Boyko do, if he was here today? I bet he'd make a blog or two, that's what Brian Boyko'd do.

The whole chicken wings part of the song in the DVDA version works without any changes.

Ponce de Le0n
Jul 6, 2008

Father jailed for beating 3 kids after they wouldn't say who farted in his car
There have been 3 posts made by brianboyko, an average of 1.12 posts per day, since registering on May 15, 2014

:(

He upped and left when he realised he wasnt getting any money, he was just using us :smith:

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
I have a feeling this is probably going to come in handy at some point:

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

CheesyDog posted:

r/atheism has arrived
http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/o26w3/fixed_after_seeing_ratheism_i_feel_this_should_be/

Reminder: this is someone hoping to hold political office in Texas

Thread's deleted, did I miss anything interesting?

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Actually this was a brilliant plan to get us to do oppo research on him so he can delete everything we find.

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

MizPiz posted:

Thread's deleted, did I miss anything interesting?
It's got this. Because calling religious people idiots is a winning strategy in Texas.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Trabisnikof posted:

Actually this was a brilliant plan to get us to do oppo research on him so he can delete everything we find.

You goons just set us up for President Boyko, you fools!

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

hooman posted:

From his Vimeo Account:
http://vimeo.com/2270211
Brian Boyko falls down a hill in a giant plastic ball.

Is that a lovely camera or did he dub in a Masonna track over the original audio?

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Tatum Girlparts posted:

You goons just set us up for President Boyko, you fools!

A goon vetting, and thorough.

David Copperfield
Mar 14, 2004


im david copperfield

Trabisnikof posted:

Actually this was a brilliant plan to get us to do oppo research on him so he can delete everything we find.

*Bill Kristol furiously takes notes*

NLJP
Aug 26, 2004


Jagchosis posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6AUifkDkhg

Why I'm running: My Wendy Davis Story


I'm going to point this out as a genuinely correct opinion here. A stopped clock is right twice a day etc. but still.

Having said that, loving lol again about everything else about this dude.

bend it like baked ham
Feb 16, 2009

Fries.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Boyko


quote:

1.
Boyko
1. Bulgarian first name - rare and cool
2. Ukrainian last name - just a surname

Boyko is relaxed and easygoing, loves to have fun, and will do the poo poo that nobody else will. Always finds ways to live his life in the craziest ways possible, and gets noticed all over.
Runs the show, takes it slow, smarter than his peers, loves to pound back beers, respected in the community, it's like he's got diplomatic immunity. Friends always come first.

:respek:

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013
this was the southpark face i made of him if anyone wants a closer look

Yiggy
Sep 12, 2004

"Imagination is not enough. You have to have knowledge too, and an experience of the oddity of life."
Sublime

:golfclap:

discoukulele
Jan 16, 2010

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
I've been laid up in bed since yesterday, and this thread has seriously cheered me up. I love you guys.

Living in Austin, and having friends in the improv, tabletop gaming, and political scenes, I'm praying that I can have my own Boyko encounter soon. :allears:

MasterControl
Jul 28, 2009

Lipstick Apathy

discoukulele posted:

I've been laid up in bed since yesterday, and this thread has seriously cheered me up. I love you guys.

Living in Austin, and having friends in the improv, tabletop gaming, and political scenes, I'm praying that I can have my own Boyko encounter soon. :allears:

Likelyhood of him loving torchys tacos is 100%

Jagchosis posted:

this was the southpark face i made of him if anyone wants a closer look


I laughed out loud. Actually i still am. This picture is so great.

MasterControl fucked around with this message at 03:59 on May 18, 2014

goatse.cx
Nov 21, 2013
On paper, I think progressives - the rank and file at least - have better ideas about how to move the country forward than the rank-and-file conservatives. But what's interesting is that while I'm a progressive, almost no elected Democrats are actually working to solve the country's problems. (Granted, I feel almost no elected Republicans are either.)
I also have come to the realization that at the rank-and-file level, progressives and conservatives agree far more often than we think we do. And I'm on Reddit to test out this theory.
Progressives - at least from what I have experienced - tend to believe that they have good ideas and that conservatives' primary goals are to block those good ideas. I'm not so sure this is the case. I think that conservatives believe they have good ideas and that progressives' primary goals are to block those ideas as well.
But when I think about it, when I think: "What do Conservatives want?" I have to think to myself: Well, hell, I can't think of any progressive that would be opposed to 95% of that...
One of the big issues of conservatives is a balanced budget and lowered national debt. Heck, progressives want that too.
Conservatives want less governmental regulation in starting up small businesses, progressives wouldn't mind getting rid of some of the cruft if we made sure not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Conservatives want free markets, not crony capitalism... which is something that took me by surprise, because most progressives think that conservatives want crony capitalism, not free markets! We thought we were the free market people!
What if we both are?
And, on the other side, I don't think that conservatives necessarily want to block environmental regulation because they don't like the environment or they don't want clean air or preservation of wildlife. They just want to also make sure that they have jobs as well. I don't think conservatives are necessarily against solar power or alternative energy sources so long as they're cost effective. (And solar has a lot of military uses that conservatives love - getting batteries/fuel shipped in might give away the position of soldiers in the field, but being able to recharge electronics through solar can help keep them safe.)
I also think that conservatives are necessarily opposed to even basic social services - they just "are tired of paying for other people," as my Dad put it.
This is my theory: That if conservatives actually pointed out what they actually wanted - that progressives would have no opposition to 90% of it, and if progressives pointed out what they actually wanted, conservatives would have no objection to 90% of it.
That's the first part of the theory I want to test: In this thread, can you please point out what you feel you want?
But if I'm right... then why does it seem like we're 100% opposed to each other?
For that, I have a second part of the theory.
And that is that we're both being played for chumps.
See, I think that there are two problems: right now, money is very important to running for political office. 95% of house races were won by the candidate who spent the most money. And due to gerrymandering, (and both sides do it) and "natural" safe-seats, we don't have a very strong ability to hold elected officials accountable on either side of the aisle.
In short, this has created a strong incentive to keep the significant funders of campaigns happy. And those funders are not from a broad cross-section of America. There are only about 150,000 of them, or 0.05% of America - the special interests, corporate and union concerns that fund elections.
So neither of us are going to get the things we think this country needs, let alone what we want - if the funders can effectively use their influence to block reform. The same system of corruption that blocks reforms that the left wants also blocks reforms that the right wants.
When we ask why Washington is so screwed up, I think it's simply because the Legislature was designed (as stated in Federalist #52) to be "dependent upon the people alone." But members of congress are far more dependent upon the funders of their campaigns than on the people/the voters. This creates a mis-aligned incentive, where politicians have to do what's best for the funders first.
This is a "systemic corruption" - a corruption that can't be solved simply by replacing the people in power with someone of an opposing party.
To be sure, rank and file progressives don't like elected Republicans; but you'd be surprised how little the rank and file progressives like the Democrats as well. Look at Nancy Pelosi's extended interview on the Daily Show. She's completely oblivious to the fact that most progressives believe, rightly, that politicians are beholden to the money and not to the voter. And she believes that the Democratic Party isn't beholden to special interests the way that Republicans are! She clearly does not represent the progressives I know!
She doesn't get it, and she's never going to get it. And she was until recently our party leader in the legislature!
I think that Red and Blue have been fighting each other because we've been played one against the other by "green". That we have more in common with each other than we do with the deep-pocketed interests who wield undue influence over our elected officials in this country. That our political dysfunction is being bred because crony capitalists are feeding upon that dysfunction.
And I know that there are some great reformers on both sides of the aisle working towards it: Jim Ruebens (R Sen. Candidate, NH), Fmr. Gov. Buddy Roemer (R-Louisiana), but also Jeff Kurzon (D Cong. Candidate, NY)... and I think that we should find some sort of way to point out the real reformers on both sides of the aisle. I think that most progressives would vote for a Republican who seeks to reform the system over a Democrat who doesn't, and vice versa. We just need a way to identify them quickly - call 'em "mavericks" (like John McCain) or "rebels" or something. I'd vote for a "Rebel Republican" over a "Democrat" any day. Because while I might not agree with them on issues #2-#1000, the first issue is this systemic corruption. Until we fix that issue, we're not going anywhere.
I actually was talking to a friend of mine who actually works for the Democratic Party, and led with this line: "We will have more success advancing an agenda that progressives want in the medium to long term by supporting Republican candidates who work to end systemic corruption than by supporting Democratic candidates who do not." He was flabbergasted by this statement (which stood against everything he "knew" to be "true" in politics), but after convincing him of the need for real reform in how our candidates raise money to run for office, he ended up agreeing with me.
Cause that's really what's blocking both of us. We can't get what either of us want until we start addressing this problem.
We can argue about what form reform can take later, but I believe that we need to first agree that we need reform.
I'd like to start what I'd like to call a "cross-partisan" movement. Not bi-partisan, because we don't agree on anything else. But cross-partisan. I'm going to do my best to push for reform on the progressive end, but I'd like to lend aid and support where I can to conservatives pushing for reform on the conservative end. We do not have to work together, but we should be working concurrently towards the same goal.
Is this possible?
I'd really, really like your genuine thoughts on this.
-- Brian Boyko -- Disgruntled Democrat

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


MasterControl posted:

Likelyhood of him loving torchys tacos is 100%

no loving joke he has a photo essay of torchys on flickr

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bend it like baked ham
Feb 16, 2009

Fries.
Dude's linkedin is amazing:

quote:

Creator of digital marketing collateral, whether blog posts, YouTube viral videos, or powerful animations and presentations.
...

Deputy Chief Technical Officer
Mayday PAC

April 2014 – Present (2 months) Cambridge, MA (Telecommute)

Deputy CTO of the Mayday PAC, a super PAC crowd-funded by citizens working to reduce the influence of money in politics.

* Built MayOne.US website in two weeks using existing technologies
-* Raised $250k within the first 24 hours - 1/4 of the goal.
-* Hit $1M in pledges in 13 days from an average pledge size of $85.82
* Made tough technological and strategic decisions based on incomplete information.
* Recruited volunteers with specialist knowledge
* Delegated authority appropriately when necessary to qualified, passionate, and brilliant people.
* CTO during Phase 1 of project. Before second phase launch, recruited Aaron Lifshin as new CTO.

Here's his company website showcasing his mad photoshop skillz:

http://www.blogphilo.com/main/b2c-wholesaleretail/

Oh, and he's also got an IMDB entry. Guy gets around.

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