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zoux posted:Tell us horror stories from being in The poo poo. No horror stories, just a lot of reading really boring and (mostly) dumb posts and then deciding that I didn't enjoy doing that. Now I don't have to read people's thoughts on Michael Brown or Israel if I don't want to, which I don't.
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It's usually just the one person's thoughts, and then everyone else calling them a dumbass. Also I have never reported a post in my life. 
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Phone posted:Oh yeah, my last grandparent just died so I get to do 1300 miles in the car in like 2 days. Anyone have suggestions for podcasts? I've heard Night Vale is good--it's sort of like a new Twilight Zone in radio serial format (cue goons telling me how wrong I am). Fplus is a funny podcast as well--it's basically a podcast of that one guy who enthusiastically reads weekend web posts, with some riffing thrown in. As for funny political/news podcasts I recommend This Week in Blackness and Citizen Radio. The former is self-explanatory and the latter often invited improv people so they're more funny with some politics thrown in than the former
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Joementum posted:No horror stories, just a lot of reading really boring and (mostly) dumb posts and then deciding that I didn't enjoy doing that. Now I don't have to read people's thoughts on Michael Brown or Israel if I don't want to, which I don't. I wonder what finally killed Xylo: following the cartoons thread and posting until he got his av, or policing the I/P and Michael Brown threads Below: I don't understand--what are you saying? That the girl didn't want to be there, that the gun range hosed up on the paperwork, and the instructor was unlicensed/uncertified, and the parents knew all this and went along anyway? Range should be shut down and sued for all it's worth IMO and the parents should be charged with reckless endangerment of a minor. visceril fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Sep 3, 2014 16:03
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Eh, there's no where else to talk about it, so gently caress it. More details have come out about the 9 year old who totally domed her instructor with sick nasty wall hacks: the girl complained about how the gun hurt her shoulder and the parents didn't realize the slumped over (former) instructor until staff had come over to apply aid (head on? Apply directly to forehead?), the waivers mysteriously turned into paper airplanes and flew away in the wind, and no charges are going to be filed because it was a clean kill.
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Has this been posted yet because I really feel that it should have been by now.
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Didn't the gun range next door immediately raise its minimum age to 12 following this? Hopefully the kid eventually realizes that at 9 she was already smarter than a whole bunch of adults within a half mile radius of that place when that idiot got killed.
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Impressed someone managed to accomplish what virtually every rule and many features at a gun range are designed to prevent.
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Guns aren't dangerous Guns Aren't Dangerous GUNS AREN'T DANGEROUS
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Didn't the gun range next door immediately raise its minimum age to 12 following this? Lol yep someone who is 33% of their life away from being able to drive a car under adult supervision, 50% of their life away from being smart enough to gently caress or cast a vote, and almost double their entire life away from being trusted with a can of beer is definitely ready to start using a deadly weapon. Yep, nothing wrong here.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:47
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Didn't the gun range next door immediately raise its minimum age to 12 following this? She had an advantage over all the adults around there because exposure over many years to NRA bullshit about how guns are basically toys and not highly dangerous tools/deadly loving weapons is deleterious to your common sense.
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visceril posted:I've heard Night Vale is good--it's sort of like a new Twilight Zone in radio serial format (cue goons telling me how wrong I am). Meant to respond to this earlier, my go-tos are Radiolab and The Moth. Also, I've found the best use of a car ride is to call someone you haven't talked to in a while just to chat. edit: Dreylad posted:Has this been posted yet because I really feel that it should have been by now. A couple pages back, but worth reposting. I want John Oliver to be John Stewart++, but I'll settle for John Stewart- on HBO.
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zoux posted:Guns aren't dangerous Guns Aren't Dangerous GUNS AREN'T DANGEROUS You're just mad she has a better K/D ratio than you now.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:51
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Guns, which were invented, improved and perfected to kill things and have no other purpose, are not dangerous in any way because if they were, hell, it would be pretty irresponsible to treat them like we do.
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night vale is okay but i think it's starting to take itself a little too seriously
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Nightvale is the podcast involved in the Dashcon Drama, fyi.
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If by "involved" you mean "signed up in good faith, pulled out when contractual obligations were not met" Night vale badly needs to retire some storylines, every episode is just small updates on established stuff now and they haven't introduced anything new in a long time. Doesn't mean the earlier episodes aren't still great for new listeners, though
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zoux posted:Guns, which were invented, improved and perfected to kill things and have no other purpose, are not dangerous in any way because if they were, hell, it would be pretty irresponsible to treat them like we do. Don't be ridiculous. What we really need are MORE guns. Someone should get one of the major arms manufacturers to make a gun suitable for tots.
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zoux posted:Nightvale is the podcast involved in the Dashcon Drama, fyi. The what. Cheekio posted:A couple pages back, but worth reposting. I want John Oliver to be John Stewart++, but I'll settle for John Stewart- on HBO. Give him some time, the show's already off to a pretty good start. Dreylad fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Sep 3, 2014 17:11
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Dreylad posted:The what. iirc some dumb nerds tried to have a tumblr convention. when it fell apart they begged for money and then offered people extra time in a kiddy pool with plastic balls to make up for it.
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Sep 3, 2014 17:17
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It's actually super hilarious drama and I made my roommate sit down and read the encyclopedia dramatica article about it so I could show him a Denny's Twitter meme in full context.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:iirc some dumb nerds tried to have a tumblr convention. when it fell apart they begged for money and then offered people extra time in a kiddy pool with plastic balls to make up for it. is the kiddy pool with plastic balls a euphemism for something or are you being literal
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Dreylad posted:is the kiddy pool with plastic balls a euphemism for something or are you being literal 
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Dreylad posted:is the kiddy pool with plastic balls a euphemism for something or are you being literal Sadly, it's the latter.
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there's also pee in it.
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paragon1 posted:Don't be ridiculous. What we really need are MORE guns. Someone should get one of the major arms manufacturers to make a gun suitable for tots. Already been done. Of course, the resulting shooting is "God's will" and "something that you can't prepare for", since no one could possibly predict that giving a five-year-old a .22 rifle would end up in someone getting shot.
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I would rather talk about how it was safer for me to fire a 8 gauge at the age of 8 than this girl to fire a Uzi (Rocksalt, crows, farming, amusement of adults, went rear end over teakettle) than hear about the tumblrcon ball pit. I can't think of a gun worse for a 9 year old to fire. The drat thing is essentially designed to rotate around your hand. Longarms at least have some stability to them. Edit: PLAYING with the Cricket? Oh hell naw.
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Yeah I shot a shotgun as a young lad and bloodied my nose and that was the end of me shooting shotguns.
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Nah, it was my job. Feed the chickens (get chased by the chickens), feed the goats (get bit by the goats), and scare the crows. Bang! (tumble tumble tumble) Reload... Bang! (tumbletumbletumble). An 8 gauge is... er. .87 caliber. Adult supervision was mandatory for so many reasons. (they were all laughing at me.)
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What are some good deep cut threads from other SA subforums that are good to read? My contributions are: the TFR Coldwar thread and the AI Airplane thread.
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Zeitgueist posted:Some Ask/Tell history threads are OK I used to read the milhist thread over there but it became too circlejerky and repetitive.
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zoux posted:I used to read the milhist thread over there but it became too circlejerky and repetitive. I liked the mesoamerican one it's a part of history that i think is understudied
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Roman/ancient history thread is good though it too eventually becomes circlejerky and repetitive. I think it's just kind of the nature of history threads since there's only so many experts (self proclaimed or actual) on a given subject on the forums and they can only make so many effortposts about what they know before they've covered most of it but the thread still lingers on.
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Is there a good Irish history one? I want to see how many lies my parents told me.
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In fact this right here is a great example of why I love the TFR Cold War thread.
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zoux posted:I used to read the milhist thread over there but it became too circlejerky and repetitive. what, don't you want to have another multipage argument about which tank was better?
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Especially when it's clearly the T-34, tovarisch.
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So today I was taking a bus up in Vancouver and there was a half Chinese kid crying This white lady was saying "will you shut that thing up" and when the kid's sad said "excuse me?" The white lady was like "got a problem, chink?"
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