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R. Mute posted:where do you think you'll be running to, comrade?
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ReindeerF posted:The post office, for my pre-booked 15 minutes of internet time to respond to your posts, of course!
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Going over my own relatively stable finances, I'm reflecting on the path my parents took in my youth and trying to extract a lesson from it. They both had relatively well-paying and stable jobs, but no health insurance. Faced with this glut of free cash and a new family, they bought an in-ground pool. The moral of the story? gently caress Boomers. :circlejerk:
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Aurubin posted:Going over my own relatively stable finances, I'm reflecting on the path my parents took in my youth and trying to extract a lesson from it. They both had relatively well-paying and stable jobs, but no health insurance. Faced with this glut of free cash and a new family, they bought an in-ground pool. The moral of the story? gently caress Boomers. :circlejerk: All you have to do is look in a BFC thread. Don't get inground pools. Don't get pools. Don't buy houses with inground pools. ...okay sure, this is mostly talking about places that are not warm 90% of the year, but still.
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silvergoose posted:All you have to do is look in a BFC thread. Don't get inground pools. Don't get pools. Don't buy houses with inground pools. BFC Thread?
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silvergoose posted:All you have to do is look in a BFC thread. Don't get inground pools. Don't get pools. Don't buy houses with inground pools. My parents bought a house with an inground pool in a part of the country that it snows 9 months of the year It was like a useless garden that we watered with money.
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I give you the best thing ever posted to Twitter by a sitting member of the US Congress. https://twitter.com/john_dingell/status/491586961392816128
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Technogeek posted:I give you the best thing ever posted to Twitter by a sitting member of the US Congress. I think the context makes it even better. Someone at the EPA is getting yelled at. https://twitter.com/its_tli/status/491436695586226176/photo/1
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Jul 22, 2014 23:06
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I discovered today that Dana Scully is immortal.
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Jul 22, 2014 23:47
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Asian anti-white racism is 100% a source of pleasure to my pleasure-emitting pleasure centers.
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Jul 23, 2014 00:05
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SedanChair posted:Asian anti-white racism is 100% a source of pleasure to my pleasure-emitting pleasure centers. ETA: razorrozar posted:I discovered today that Dana Scully is immortal.
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Jul 23, 2014 00:24
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Remember the camera guy episode, where he could see death come for people. He was like 150 years old because he saw death when it was his time and someone else took his place, making him immortal. Well, when Scully was supposed to die, the camera guy took her place. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithonus_(The_X-Files)
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zoux posted:Remember the camera guy episode, where he could see death come for people. He was like 150 years old because he saw death when it was his time and someone else took his place, making him immortal. Well, when Scully was supposed to die, the camera guy took her place. Oh, I must have missed/not remembered it.
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Jul 23, 2014 00:41
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It's a top tier ep imo.
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Jul 23, 2014 00:48
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zoux posted:It's a top tier ep imo. Smells too much like teen spirit.
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zoux posted:Remember the camera guy episode, where he could see death come for people. He was like 150 years old because he saw death when it was his time and someone else took his place, making him immortal. Well, when Scully was supposed to die, the camera guy took her place. Also Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, with the other guy who could see death. She asked him when she was going to die, and he said "You don't".
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Smells too much like teen spirit. Whatever, nevermind.
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razorrozar posted:Also Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, with the other guy who could see death. She asked him when she was going to die, and he said "You don't". Yeah, Peter Boyle's in that also excellent episode.
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Jul 23, 2014 01:00
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Why am I not surprised? If only you could bomb them until they liked you.
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Jul 23, 2014 01:01
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Whatever, nevermind. Hello, hello, hello, how low? This low: SedanChair posted:If only you could bomb them until they liked you.
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Jul 23, 2014 01:06
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R. Mute posted:yeah, it was all part of a move to be able to appeal to young voters when he eventually ran for president. members of the choom gang have come out to say that 1) they weren't called the choom gang at all, that's something barry made up and forced onto the group 2) barry only took one puff and coughed like a bitch. source this is unironically the obama administrations worst betrayal of the base yet
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SedanChair posted:Asian anti-white racism is 100% a source of pleasure to my pleasure-emitting pleasure centers. where I'm from Asian anti-black and anti-hispanic racism are infinitely more common 
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BrandorKP posted:Nah, took a nice shore-side job where I get to sleep at home. Being out at sea sucks, you don't change but the rest of the world and everybody you care about does. Don't tell me that, I'm about to start a job that'll have me on a ship 2 months a year.  At least I'll have internet access (pretty decent, I'm told) and my own office to sleep in if I need to get away from my bunkmates.
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Yesterday, I started a derail over youthful exploration travel in the U.S. compared to Europe in the politics thread and then failed to carry my end of the argument after challenging Nintendo Kid to prove he was right. Anyway, I feel I owe Nintendo Kid a response but it belongs here, if any where, and not in the politics thread. The focus was an argument over which was cheaper; travel in Europe, which would have to include cost of getting there, or the great American road trip. I excluded the great American stoner road trip composed of you and your 3 or 4 best buds, with a bag or weed. Nintendo Kid argued that the Route 66 road trip was cheaper and I challenged him to do the math and prove it and that's where I dropped the ball. As I said over in the politics thread, I apologize to Nintendo Kid for calling him an idiot, that wasn't right. I'll say that if he in fact, in 2011, did an across the country road trip for $1,000, total, then again, he is right and I was wrong and I applaud him for his thrifty travel. In fact, the great American road trip is the unique counterpart to the European backpack, train ride, hostel trip. You can fly to Europe/Great Britain for under $800. You have to be selective about which cities in Europe you fly into, you have to look for deals and be flexible and you have to use services that give discounts to young and student travelers. Once you get there, the cost of lodging is cheaper and more extensive than here in the U.S. and the cost of transportation between cities is cheaper. The difference between the two trips of exploration is in getting to where you're going. As Nintendo Kid pointed out, we don't have rail or bus systems in the U.S. that are worth a poo poo so we grow up relying on our cars and they are the natural mode of getting from here to there. The two trips are unique based on the infrastructure available but Nintendo Kid's trip was cheaper. radical meme fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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radical meme posted:Yesterday, I started a derail over youthful exploration travel in the U.S. compared to Europe in the politics thread and then failed to carry my end of the argument after challenging Nintendo Kid to prove he was right. Anyway, I feel I owe Nintendo Kid a response but it belongs here, if any where, and not in the politics thread. I just finished up a month and a half American road trip from New York to LA for two people that came out to just a bit more than what Nintendo Kid's trip apparently cost. It's pretty easy if your only expense is cheap street food and gas. Lodging is definitely cheaper in Europe, but if you're on a road trip you can forgo paying for lodging and sleep in your car if you want to cut costs to the bone. Use YMCAs, applicable churches and rest and truck stops for showers. This recent road trip came out to quite a bit less than a similarly long trip in Europe I once took since the total price of gas for two came out to about the price of a cheap airline ticket for one and we slept in the car except for the few times we crashed on acquaintances couches. Not to say that the American road trip is better or anything, but as long as you have a decent car going into it you can make it very cheap. Though I guess if you're the type of person who can very easily make friends you could couch surf across Europe and render the difference moot.
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I thought the great American road trip was just walking out to the side of the road with your thumb out. Doesn't cost anything... most of the time. I've never owned a car, though.
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Chantilly Say posted:I thought the great American road trip was just walking out to the side of the road with your thumb out. Doesn't cost anything... most of the time. Yeah, but I hated 'On The Road' so I figured I'd actually go somewhere and cut out the boring early part where I keep running out of money and turning back home.
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That was before those HIPPIES screwed everything up with their drugs and cults and communes and now you can't hitchhike or pick up hitchhikers because you will be MURDERED. It's true. I seen it on the TV.
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I'm too young to remember it and history classes never got anywhere near that recent, what was the deal with Desert Storm?
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It was patriotic as gently caress and we straight rolled up Iraq and our military might looked so good and every second of it was live on CNN and then we got immediately the gently caress out. Invisible planes were dropping robot bombs down chimneys in night vision, it was some scifi poo poo.
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made of bees posted:I'm too young to remember it and history classes never got anywhere near that recent, what was the deal with Desert Storm? It proved that George H.W. Bush was so poo poo that even the most successful and photogenic military campaign in history couldn't save him.
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cafel posted:It proved that George H.W. Bush was so poo poo that even the most successful and photogenic military campaign in history couldn't save him. He lied about taxes bro. E: the loving Patriot missile, motherfuckers
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made of bees posted:I'm too young to remember it and history classes never got anywhere near that recent, what was the deal with Desert Storm? We all were briefly afraid of 70s-era Soviet battlefield rockets until it was shown they basically were "point and pray" when it came to accuracy. Which was good, since our countermeasure pretty much did nothing. Oh, and something something Vietnam syndrome something something.
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fun times all around http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony) e: Also Bush pulled this hilarious practical joke where he implied US support for overthrowing Saddam. Hundreds of thousands died. 
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spoon0042 posted:fun times all around I love that the PR firm responsible, Hill & Knowlton, is basically famous for being comic book villain evil. Fighting the studies saying that smoking causes cancer, defending the CoS (until they started going after prozac), defending BCCI when they were caught laundering drug money, and now spreading the idea of fracking as an unambiguously good thing. Jello Biafra namedrops H&K almost as much as Phyllis Schlafly and for good reason. Edit: Three Kings is the best Iraq War I film. moller fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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I think they also got people to think asbestos was ok.
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I'm not sure if it happened at all prior to Desert Storm pt 1 but military censorship of the media was pretty great and war was sterilized for americans so all they saw was cool explosions, soldiers walking places tanks doing stuff and zero bodies.
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Mauser posted:I'm not sure if it happened at all prior to Desert Storm pt 1 but military censorship of the media was pretty great and war was sterilized for americans so all they saw was cool explosions, soldiers walking places tanks doing stuff and zero bodies. I was ten and it was loving awesome.
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euphronius posted:I think they also got people to think asbestos was ok. Oh yeah, forgot about that one. I guess H&K are one of the largest PR firms in the world, and I was overlooking the idea that PR is inherently a destructive force meant to shield the savages of capital from scrutiny by spreading FUD. Someone light the McDowell symbol so he can come paraphrase Adam Curtis' bit about Edward Bernays using his cousin Siggy's ideas as a blunt instrument to replace observable reality with a corporate-sponsored narrative. euphronius posted:The part where the US blew the gently caress up out of the convey on the road for no real reason was reported widely. "The Highway of Death?" Mauser posted:I'm not sure if it happened at all prior to Desert Storm pt 1 but military censorship of the media was pretty great and war was sterilized for americans so all they saw was cool explosions, soldiers walking places tanks doing stuff and zero bodies. This was, I believe, a direct response to the Vietnam Syndrome. moller fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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