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VoteTedJameson posted:Grad student: "Using a ruler to measure something is a colonial undertaking." You see measuring makes a thing knowable, which makes a thing controllable. This is "the crux of imperialism." This sounds like it came from the villain's monologue in a JRPG
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The guy who does all my tattoos is utterly loving bonkers but he's a great artist and I already paid him a grand over the past few years so I'm stuck with the rear end in a top hat. Highlights; There are ghosts living in the shop. They know this cause it gets cold sometimes. The government have spaceships capable of housing 150~ people. I think the Navy owns it? The moon landing was fake Bigfoot is real, he once had a huge boulder hurled at his van or something when camping. They're everywhere. There was also a guy at work who would come in looking to have some poo poo installed on his company iPad every few weeks. He said that the flouresent lights in the building was some kind of nano-brain-wave thing that implanted cameras inside your brain. That was p cool.
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Jan 24, 2016 00:49
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Did none of those geography morons go to grade school? I learned geography at least three times and it was required to take US history in high school, which I assume is true in ever state.
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Jan 24, 2016 01:39
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Thin Privilege posted:Did none of those geography morons go to grade school? I learned geography at least three times and it was required to take US history in high school, which I assume is true in ever state. A poor assumption.
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Jan 24, 2016 01:54
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Thin Privilege posted:Did none of those geography morons go to grade school? I learned geography at least three times and it was required to take US history in high school, which I assume is true in ever state.  I was very much against taking the AP test, since clearly I wasn't prepared, but my teacher badgered me into it, called me at home to ask after my results, then seemed surprised when I didn't score well enough to get college credits.This was at a very good private high school in the upper Midwest. The teacher retired a couple years back, about fifteen years late.
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Jan 24, 2016 02:03
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Choco1980 posted:My ex wife was from California, I'm from Michigan. The first time I visited her and her family I was asked if I had needed to get a passport. 
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Jan 24, 2016 07:39
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Guy:"Not only can a dust mite survive at ground zero of a nuclear blast, scientists debate whether they're even biologically alive." Me: Where did you find this out? Guy: "For fun I read biology encyclopedias"
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Jan 24, 2016 09:25
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VoteTedJameson posted:Guy:"Not only can a dust mite survive at ground zero of a nuclear blast, scientists debate whether they're even biologically alive." I'm not even sure what this guy was thinking of because dust mites don't fit either of those facts. Was he thinking of water bears or something? Cause even with those I don't think they can survive a direct nuclear bomb and they're definitely recognized as living animals. The only things I can even think of that have a complicated answer to "are they alive" are viruses, and even with them the growing consensus is that they are in fact living http://www.sciencealert.com/viruses-are-alive-and-they-re-older-than-modern-cells-new-study-suggests
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Jan 24, 2016 11:05
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Choco1980 posted:I thought Traveler was the new un-PC thing to call Romany now that in this day and age nobody knows that Gypsy is a slur. Everything PC eventually becomes a terrible slur after a decade or so.
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Jan 24, 2016 12:08
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:The guy who does all my tattoos is utterly loving bonkers but he's a great artist and I already paid him a grand over the past few years so I'm stuck with the rear end in a top hat. If they're "living" they might just be customers. 
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Jan 24, 2016 12:10
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Mak0rz posted:In Europe there are many shades of white. 50 Shades of White, perhaps? 
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Jan 24, 2016 12:20
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Aesop Poprock posted:I'm not even sure what this guy was thinking of because dust mites don't fit either of those facts. Was he thinking of water bears or something? Cause even with those I don't think they can survive a direct nuclear bomb and they're definitely recognized as living animals. Yeah tardigrades are sturdy as hell, but not invincible, and everyone knows they are alive. I remember someone talking about how fire fulfills a majority of the requirements for being considered "alive", even more than some of the more basic viruses.
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Jan 24, 2016 21:49
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I just remembered another good Catholicism one. One of my coworkers at a previous job not only claimed that Catholics aren't Christian, but that they were a completely separate religion with no common roots. I tried explaining the Protestant Reformation and was told that it didn't happen and that Catholicism and Christianity had always been different things. I wish I could remember his explanation, it was a bizarre alternate history conspiracy theory.Thin Privilege posted:Did none of those geography morons go to grade school? I learned geography at least three times and it was required to take US history in high school, which I assume is true in ever state.
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Jan 24, 2016 22:23
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Fashionable Jorts posted:I remember someone talking about how fire fulfills a majority of the requirements for being considered "alive", even more than some of the more basic viruses. Fitting anecdote for this thread IMO.
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Jan 24, 2016 22:49
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GWBBQ posted:Freshman year of high school, our US history teacher jokingly asked for a volunteer who was really bad at geography. A bunch of people raised their hands and he said "not just bad, really really bad" and picked one of the few people who still had a hand up. She couldn't find Europe on the map. Was your history teacher Ben Carson?
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Jan 25, 2016 00:30
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GWBBQ posted:I just remembered another good Catholicism one. One of my coworkers at a previous job not only claimed that Catholics aren't Christian, but that they were a completely separate religion with no common roots. I tried explaining the Protestant Reformation and was told that it didn't happen and that Catholicism and Christianity had always been different things. I wish I could remember his explanation, it was a bizarre alternate history conspiracy theory. Your co-worker wasn't Jack Chick, was he?
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sudont posted:When I was living in California and hadn't gotten a CA driver's license, three times when I was carded I was denied service because the clerk had never heard of Rhode Island. Once was in Gilroy at a liquor store, once was somewhere else around there. The worst was the gas station attendant in San Jose--granted, he was not an American native, but I not only had my RI license but a car with RI plates on it. Yep, I make my own license plates just so I can buy cigarettes! I once stopped to get gas at a station that doesn't require you to prepay. They couldn't see my front license plate from the angle I was parked so I had to go in. 16 year old me was like "yeah gently caress you guys I'm not prepaying" and took my license plate in for them to see and I was still refused because "real license plates have the numbers dented in and that one isn't." Apparently custom plates aren't stamped and no one told them. I took my money across the street at that point.
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Mostly old co-workers again: "6,000 years is a long time. It's longer than anyone can really think. That's why Earth is only that old because that's as much history that a person can remember." [Hey, let me talk to you about a little thing called "The Future" (and you're a loving moron, besides)] (During and after Katrina) "No one should live so close to water. I don't think that humans understand the dangers in the ocean." "My kid faked being sick this morning and I had to yell at him so much before he would get to school. He must have stolen a can of soup or something because the puke on his floor was probably fake." -Award winning single mother of 7 at the age of 25. "Ghosts are absolutely real and I know or else why would there be so many good TV shows about them?" "Nine slash eleven [sic] was faked. I've been there. I've been to ground zero. I've seen the craters and the debris. I've seen all the footage and I know it was faked. Absolutely. You could see shovel marks in the dirt." "Prison was the best part of my divorce." Work in government, meet fancy new people.
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Jan 25, 2016 03:37
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Inzombiac posted:(During and after Katrina) Did this person have jagged scar on one side of their face, a glass eye, a salt and pepper beard, a hook for a hand, a gravelly voice, and a permanent scowl? Because that's all I can imagine and I'd rather not spoil the fantasy.
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Jan 25, 2016 04:21
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Bertrand Hustle posted:America has enough white people, go back to Whitelandia. The immigrant whites are probably better than the natives. ...which means we're hosed.
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Jan 25, 2016 04:31
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Inzombiac posted:Mostly old co-workers again: "Wow!" Just think. In 4000 years people will have completely forgotten about Jesus."
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Did this person have jagged scar on one side of their face, a glass eye, a salt and pepper beard, a hook for a hand, a gravelly voice, and a permanent scowl? I hate to ruin your fantasy but he was a dumpy goblin that has never left the Pacific Northwest. Also racist but would think you're joking if you brought it up.
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Jan 25, 2016 05:23
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Inzombiac posted:I hate to ruin your fantasy but he was a dumpy goblin that has never left the Pacific Northwest. Also racist but would think you're joking if you brought it up. drat, I just wish it was a crusty old sea captain with a far-off distant look in the eyes, forever reliving the day he lost his entire crew to the kraken that lurks in the ocean's dark depths.
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Jan 25, 2016 05:51
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I've had, on at least two occasions, random strangers tell me I'm evil and/or possessed by the Devil because I'm left-handed. Being a southpaw also amazes people, apparently, especially people who have known you for years. Upon seeing me write, "YOU'RE LEFT-HANDED??!?  " It happens more often than you think.
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Jan 25, 2016 06:08
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No, they think you're a devil because of your pointed ears, immortality and command over nature.
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You Are A Elf posted:I've had, on at least two occasions, random strangers tell me I'm evil and/or possessed by the Devil because I'm left-handed. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher told my parents I had a learning disorder because I couldn't trace the dotted lines of letters and numbers. Turned out they didn't think to let me try to do it with my left hand.
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Inzombiac posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEIE1GaMlnA
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Jan 25, 2016 13:18
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bringmyfishback posted:Every loving time when I lived in Montana. I once met a tour guide living on the border with Canada who had never been outside the country.
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Jan 25, 2016 17:27
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ikanreed posted:I once met a tour guide living on the border with Canada who had never been outside the country. My dad, who is British, told me once he had a layover in a relatively remote airport in the Midwest on his way to a conference. When he handed over his ticket, the woman at the front desk was extremely confused; turns out she had never seen a 24hr date code before.
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bringmyfishback posted:Every loving time when I lived in Montana. Where the hell were you in Montana? I've been to Montana several times and as a Brit my only ID for buying booze and poo poo is a passport, nobody has even batted an eyelid at me using it. Inzombiac posted:No, they think you're a devil because of your pointed ears, immortality and command over nature. We Elves bear our lot with stoicism. e; wait gently caress I didn't even see the goon's username, I thought you were describing Old Scratch in a weird way and jumped on it.
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Jan 25, 2016 23:40
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My dear mother is smart, but we had long arguments about her assertions that dinosaurs were mammals and that India, until very recently, was a primitive and undeveloped area.
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Montana borders another country and from what I hear many people from Alberta and Saskatchewan routinely drive down there and I frequently meet Montanans here in Calgary. I find it really bizarre anyone from that state doesn't know what a passport is.
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Jan 26, 2016 00:35
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"Why would you be a feminist, I thought you were gay?" in a lunch break conversation at university. I mean, she understood when I explained I still care about women's rights but that's such a weird thing to say.
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You Are A Elf posted:I've had, on at least two occasions, random strangers tell me I'm evil and/or possessed by the Devil because I'm left-handed. My sister has one brown eye and one hazel eye and when she meets new people they sometimes will go "DID YOU KNOW YOU'VE GOT TWO DIFFERENT COLORED EYES???" as if maybe she didn't know for the last 34 years.
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DorkusMalorkus posted:My sister has one brown eye and one hazel eye and when she meets new people they sometimes will go "DID YOU KNOW YOU'VE GOT TWO DIFFERENT COLORED EYES???" as if maybe she didn't know for the last 34 years. Unless I am in the right lighting, I have dark brown hair and a red beard (like a freak). More often than I can count, people have accused me of dying my hair because I'm ashamed or something of being a ginger. One a nice lady asked why I dyed my beared.
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Mak0rz posted:Montana borders another country and from what I hear many people from Alberta and Saskatchewan routinely drive down there and I frequently meet Montanans here in Calgary. I find it really bizarre anyone from that state doesn't know what a passport is. Can confirm, Canadians are around all the time. They drive down to get better prices on stuff, go to Target, all kinds of stuff.
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bringmyfishback posted:Every loving time when I lived in Montana. I had this same sort of poo poo happen when I, who lives in central Queensland, was visiting my now ex-girlfriend's family in Melbourne. I wanted to grab a bottle of wine for her parents as a thank you for letting me say with them so I went to a slightly up-market wine place in a shopping center. The clerk was really nice and helped me find a bottle of something interesting; so when I went to pay for it he was like "Hey can I just check your ID for security reasons?" so I pulled out my 18+ Card, which as the name indicates is a form of photo ID given out by the Queensland government if you don't have anything else like a passport or drivers licence (which I didn't have at the time). He looks it at, says he just needs to get the manager who then comes over all friendly like and the clerk goes "Here check this out, he says it's his ID." The manager looks at it looks at me, looks at it and then goes "You're kidding me right? This is obviously fake." My girlfriend and I are a bit confused that he has said so, and I inform him that no it's a 18+ Card from Queensland. Manager tells me that it's fake, he could make a better fake in his garage and that I'm a retard for trying to use it in his shop; and I better get out now or he will call the cops. So rather pissed off and now embarrassed in front of my girlfriend and other customers I tell him to do so so they can tell him he is wrong and is wasting police time; however my girlfriend was now very embarrassed by me wanting to cause a scene over it and ended up telling me to leave with her now and drop the subject or leave alone later so I was forced to relent. That was my first time using that ID outside of Queensland so when the gf wanted to go to a bar the next evening I was a bit worried I'd get the same treatment; but the bouncer looked at it once and waved me in. I was a bit surprised and made a sarcastic "Wait you DON'T think it's a fake? Apparently this state has never heard of Queensland." Turns out the bouncer was from Queensland as well.
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kreyla posted:My dear mother is smart, but we had long arguments about her assertions that dinosaurs were mammals and that India, until very recently, was a primitive and undeveloped area. Well, India kind of is, in a way. Probably not the way she's thinking but still http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/economics/what-are-the-important-features-of-india-as-an-underdeveloped-economy/3052/
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People are stupid as hell about identification. A few years ago I was in a gas station buying beer and the clerk informed me that since my ID was marked "learner's permit" rather than "driver's license" he couldn't sell me alcohol. I was 23, and it was an Arizona permit so it was very clear that I wasn't underage-- not only do people under 21 have their licenses marked "UNDER 21 UNTIL (date)" but they're oriented so they're thin and tall rather than short and long like normal IDs. Sorry I didn't learn to drive when I was younger
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Inzombiac posted:Unless I am in the right lighting, I have dark brown hair and a red beard (like a freak). More often than I can count, people have accused me of dying my hair because I'm ashamed or something of being a ginger. My brother suffers from a similar problem of brown hair/red beard. Wow, my sister has two different colored eyes and I am just a ginger. I didn't realize before now that my siblings and I all suffer from terrible genetic problems.
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