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Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

zen death robot posted:

Passing on the right is dangerous and illegal

I don't know about these guys but I was talking about politics

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ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Tatum Girlparts posted:

is it, because I can't imagine a more insufferable read than ~the inherent violence in driving culture~ or whatever
Never been to Mass have you?

zen death robot posted:

Passing on the right is dangerous and illegal
:agreed:

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

The goon cannot shitpost if you probate his hand!

SirJohnnyMcDonald
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
so you're a masochist

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

Tatum Girlparts posted:

Fastluck reopen the thread please, this is good poo poo
okay.

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit
My Fourth of July was more eventful than I had hoped. I got a 10pm call from my very drunk, 21 year old ex.
She was happy to see me, and pounced on me when I got to the bar she was at. I do still love her, but god drat is she a hot gorgeous mess.
I informed her that I am now very boring, and then bought her a burrito and put her to bed.
I cant think a better way to tank a pre-coitus interview.

Interestingly enough, it was nice to see how much her parents approve of me.

Baloogan posted:

how would you feel if instead of an american gun culture we could have an american katana culture instead?

Swords require skill to use competently. The amount of training it would take to learn to use a sword to do something other than chop your own ear off, is greater than that it would take to keep from shooting yourself in the foot, and a lot of the same psychological benefit of obtaining proper from could be obtained by practicing with a weighted Kendo stick. Seems like that would also be a good way of training the body's fascia, relatively light weight and a zen-like focus on precision movements that flow from one position to the next.

I see how guns can be fun, and I've spent time with rednecks shooting stumps and trees, but it was much more satisfying for me to just hit a paper target with a pellet rifle, than it was to empty a Glock at a piece of corrugated sheet metal.

Not to incite any argument, but it seems to me that the second amendment has more to do with the idea of personal power flowing from the barrel of a gun.
I don't think that this is the case now so much as it was when the American constitution was drafted, but I also think that the problems with mass shootings have to do more with people in America feeling depersonalized and helpless to control their lives for one reason or another than anything to do with gun culture, or gun control. I've known quite a few people who fetishize guns, but were never weaponized by some kind of flawed philosophy to do more than collect and drool over their newest quazi-legal piece. It's all a rather poor outlet anyways, but I try to stay tolerant of that which is not agreeable with my own ideas of good or right.
My current opinion is that power comes from knowledge, discretion and subtlety. None of which are as easy to pick up or use as a gun.


As soon as I have 450$ to blow on something I absolutely don't need:

http://www.zombietools.net/shop/xiphos/

Those ZT swords... I'd take one over a gun any day. They have fun looking videos of their version of a katana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8UrvkPnY8s

And all their blades are insanely durable spring steel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itE3_p7Fxwg

Also:
The book Starship Troopers was much better than the move, and the (first) movie was good.
I want to see a movie version of Stranger in a Strange Land myself. I'm sure that would develop a cult following if done halfway close to the way it was written.

Tatum Girlparts posted:

Fastluck reopen the thread please, this is good poo poo

:agreed:

How come I cant find this to listen to as a podcast? Am I doing it wrong? Is it not in the iTunes store?

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

zen death robot posted:

Passing on the right is dangerous and illegal

wha? passing on the right isn't illegal. unless you mean like on the shoulder or something...

i just spent 4 days driving a boat around lake winnipesaukee. everyone should do this at least once

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Karl Barks posted:

wha? passing on the right isn't illegal. unless you mean like on the shoulder or something...

Depends on which state you're in.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost
https://zippy.gfycat.com/CriminalEveryBluewhale.webm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG6y-5OYc_0

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/parliawint/status/750694670045511682

Classic Comrade
Dec 24, 2012

(hair tousled from head shaking during speeches)
every state claims to have the worst drivers i s2g

i bet everybody is just bad at driving and the rest is confirmation bias



lol

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit
Statistically the state with the most drivers on the road would have the most drivers who are bad.

I think that, and haven driven all over LA county gives me cause to call California the state with the worst drivers.

Seriously, try going anywhere on the 101 between the hours of 6am and 8pm.

NumberLast
Jun 7, 2014
You know, the more time you spend on the road the more likely you are to get into an accident. That means getting to where you're going as soon as possible is the safest thing to do, which means speeding of course.

Makes you think.

Classic Comrade
Dec 24, 2012

(hair tousled from head shaking during speeches)
i saw so many near-accidents and a couple actual-accidents during 4th of july weekend it was pretty :eyepop:

like i know holiday = drunk, but drat, it was really somethin

Cephalocidal
Dec 23, 2005

Classic Comrade posted:

i saw so many near-accidents and a couple actual-accidents during 4th of july weekend it was pretty :eyepop:

like i know holiday = drunk, but drat, it was really somethin

This year was definitely worse than usual for some reason.

NumberLast
Jun 7, 2014

Cephalocidal posted:

This year was definitely worse than usual for some reason.

It's got that special "End of the world" feeling

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

NumberLast posted:

It's got that special "End of the world" feeling

#FinalDeletion

Cephalocidal
Dec 23, 2005

NumberLast posted:

It's got that special "End of the world" feeling

https://youtu.be/7qDldRWfyr4

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


Cephalocidal posted:

This year was definitely worse than usual for some reason.

2016.txt

Classic Comrade
Dec 24, 2012

(hair tousled from head shaking during speeches)
and to think back in january i was full of optimism :allears:


o well at least i'll finally be graduating this year so that's one positive thing, in my life, at least

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:


the Algorithm makes weird but accurate connections sometimes

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007
eraser was an excellent movie because it featured arnold schwarzenegger saying "you're luggage" to an alligator before shooting it in the head

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit

Classic Comrade posted:

o well at least i'll finally be graduating this year so that's one positive thing, in my life, at least

Gratz, what's your degree in, and can you tell me something interesting you learned about it?

Learning is fun.

Classic Comrade
Dec 24, 2012

(hair tousled from head shaking during speeches)

Solvent posted:

Gratz, what's your degree in, and can you tell me something interesting you learned about it?

Learning is fun.

bachelor's in psychology

then i'm gonna go onto social work for grad school (god willin')

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

its rad to earn credentials from the relevant institutional bodies

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
I earned mine from an irrelevant one but I've done ok anyway

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

i think its cool how university degrees are a relic of medieval society and its even cooler how lawyers and doctors (and maybe even engineers?) survived the dark ages better than emperors

these ancient european corporate identities have been incorporated into the weft and weave (thats right teh loving weft and weave) of modern global society

i dunno its cool i guess

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

i like watching cycling cause there's weird team strategy and visibly painful athleticism and poo poo but they make sure to show really cool scenery and raditudinal helicopter footage too

once i went out with this girl who kept telling me to stop saying rad. so i did, after a wihle. but then when she was gone i started saying rad again :madmax: my life has no meaning

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

helicposters just caught a wild rear end mountain goat, chilling

im going with the fortuitous typo. helicposters

reminds me of the like fourth best swedish punkish band i can thinko f at the moment the hellacopters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVhF-QSWSs

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

hey remember THIS SONG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udUCjJphE-0

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost
lucha is cool

https://twitter.com/Jocay19/status/751601828157087745
https://twitter.com/Jocay19/status/751599743084658689
https://twitter.com/Jocay19/status/751634341923553280
https://twitter.com/Jocay19/status/751595607752605696

NumberLast
Jun 7, 2014
One time I said rad. It was rad.

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit

oystertoadfish posted:

hey remember THIS SONG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F03gEzdLa2g

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit
That was the first song on the album. They played here in your bedroom for ever.
I hate you now.

Classic Comrade Psychology is a terrible Major and I hope you enjoy flipping burgers.

Come to San Diego and do grad studies at UCSD.

Jesus, I have to learn how to C++ to go there for my own garbage degree. It's that or java this fall, and I'm apparently a masochist so I'm lubing up for an Ubuntu partition.

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

propagandhi is cool

Classic Comrade
Dec 24, 2012

(hair tousled from head shaking during speeches)

Solvent posted:

Classic Comrade Psychology is a terrible Major and I hope you enjoy flipping burgers.

i'm going into social work for grad school.... which also pays nothing lmao

but it's something i wanna to so meh, bite me.

*edit* lol wow that was pretty touchy wasnt it, i bet you didn't even mean what you said in a jerky way

oops

WINNINGHARD
Oct 4, 2014

i say rad, gnarly, radical, and roighteous on a daily basis.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
i say cuck, daily

WINNINGHARD
Oct 4, 2014

Solvent posted:

That was the first song on the album. They played here in your bedroom for ever.
I hate you now.

Classic Comrade Psychology is a terrible Major and I hope you enjoy flipping burgers.

Come to San Diego and do grad studies at UCSD.

Jesus, I have to learn how to C++ to go there for my own garbage degree. It's that or java this fall, and I'm apparently a masochist so I'm lubing up for an Ubuntu partition.

San Diego is extremely my poo poo, i love driving down there and jacking off in public so I can fit in with the locals. Definitely do C++, Java is painfully formalized as a language. Scala is much better.

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WINNINGHARD
Oct 4, 2014

Baloogan posted:

i say cuck, daily

Good.

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