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To maybe help other threads not devolve into alcohol and music chat every few pages, we're going to try having a general off-topic chat thread here. Notes:
If this doesn't look like it's working out, this thread will go away.
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Carried over from the USpol thread:Jagchosis posted:As long as Auspol isn't allowed to post in it.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:48
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Joementum posted:It's a shame that Thompson became a caricature of himself in his later writing Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 1972 is still the best campaign memoir ever written and you wish that he still had that energy for Better Than Sex, his book about the 1992 campaign, but it's mostly scans of faxes that he sent to Clinton staffers while drunk. It kind of annoyed me that what felt like half of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail was excuses for why he hadn't written it yet or for how his publisher was getting mad at him for missing deadlines.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:56
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Cheekio posted:You're supposed to report people for spelling errors and caps stuff normally? The more you know. I'd prefer people didn't, but you know, whatever.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:56
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The Finn gave (I think) the top 100 posters in the soccer forum a soccer ball for the World Cup.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:16
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paragon1 posted:So, I have been wondering, are we only allowed to make political threads in Debate Disco, or can we make a thread debating anything? Joementum posted:Posting new threads is against the rules in D&D.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:45
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That actually does sound like a good thread for GWS, but you should PM bartolimue and ask him if it's kosher.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:50
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paragon1 posted:I think it used to be a forum rule but XyloJW appears to have swept that last remnant of the old order away. Woah buddy I can't even pronounce Middle East, I'm not changing any rules there. Talk to Xandu, evilweasel, and Brown Moses about that.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:59
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paragon1 posted:Explain the rules thread being authored by yourself then mister. Oh the rules thread? Yeah but there's still the secret rules thread. It lays it all out pretty well.
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Jun 30, 2014 00:28
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Professor Jared Diamond traced old-man-pants syndrome back to the advent of agriculture and notes that the native tribes of PNG don't suffer from pants at all.
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Jun 30, 2014 00:57
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SedanChair posted:I'm prejudiced against Australians An Australian rules football player just got canned because pictures came out of him pissing in his own mouth.
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Jun 30, 2014 01:17
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Exclamation Marx posted:he's a rugby league player I honestly don't know the difference.
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Jun 30, 2014 02:10
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Speaking of which I need a new avatar. Someone give me a holler if something good shows up in the cartoons thread.
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Jun 30, 2014 03:09
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Nintendo Kid posted:Oh I see, he's not very bright then. I've heard the criticism of Louis because of whatever rape plot or something, evidently the same as Chantilly has. Are you denying that a nebulous number of people on Tumblr might not like Louis CK? Is that really an argument you're trying to have?
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Jun 30, 2014 04:21
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I'm very glad we had this tedious discussion. It was very illuminating. Thank you.
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Jun 30, 2014 04:28
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Pope Guilty posted:You engaged fishmech, you know? 
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Jun 30, 2014 04:33
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I think a lot of comedians can be conservative and just leave it out of their act. It's not like every comedian is outright pushing progressive ideas with every bit. Sometimes it's just goofy slice of life, apolitical poo poo. Whenever people bring up conservative comedians they bring up comedians who make their whole bit about being conservative which of course that's not funny. lothar_ posted:
R mute is a reasonable dude.
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Jun 30, 2014 16:55
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You can't do that on the Internet!
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I only enjoy ideologically correct media.
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Jun 30, 2014 17:06
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Can we just redirect Fishmech's posts to a gaschamber thread again? There's threads here where 1/3 of a page is just JERK DETECTED. Much like embedding music into threads, I believe that's no longer an option.
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Jun 30, 2014 17:08
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R. Mute posted:same. the only show worth watching is the one where a rotating head of stalin reads the scum manifesto *invites beautiful woman back to his apartment, turns down the lights, pours some fine wine, puts on a record of traditional Khmer folk songs as played by the survivors of the Cambodian genocide.*
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Jun 30, 2014 17:50
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forbidden lesbian posted:actually, good comedy is funny Yeah the whole "comedy punches up" thing is a silly trope. Plenty of good comedy is mean spirited or just doesn't punch up or down, it's irrelevant.
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Jun 30, 2014 18:01
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XyloJW posted:Yeah the whole "comedy punches up" thing is a silly trope. Plenty of good comedy is mean spirited or just doesn't punch up or down, it's irrelevant. Assuming by good comedy you mean comedy that accomplished the goal of being comic or funny and not comedy that is ideologically correct. Because if that's your definition of good comedy, boy howdy does Daily Kos have some knee slappers.
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Jun 30, 2014 18:03
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nutranurse posted:Well mod opinions like this sure does provide insight into why GBS is "lol niggers and faggots and kikes". Yes if only we punished for that, repeatedly and often.
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Jun 30, 2014 18:12
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There are a lot of bad SNL sketches, but then there are a lot of really good ones. Victoria Jackson is incredibly crazy and dumb. I think I heard that they thought that was her "character" when they hired her.
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Jun 30, 2014 18:29
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XyloJW posted:Yeah the whole "comedy punches up" thing is a silly trope. Plenty of good comedy is mean spirited or just doesn't punch up or down, it's irrelevant. SedanChair posted:Oh, okay, load me up with examples of funny comedy that makes fun of poor people and minorities. I'm saying comedy is not dependent on the politics. You're asking for explicitly political comedy that you will subjectively think is funny, which is utterly missing my point. There's no "punching up" with slapstick, which admittedly isn't a very sophisticated form of comedy but it's easy to discuss. It's, as you say, making funny faces. It's bereft of politics, and thus, there probably are plenty of conservative comedians, who have a very good sense of what will make people laugh, who just entirely avoid politics. There's also shock comedy, which again, not terribly sophisticated and more often done poorly than done well, but still proves the point that a joke can be mean spirited and funny. I'm saying the whole "comedy has to punch up to be funny" is not true.
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Jun 30, 2014 19:37
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He looks the right age to have played Jesse Pinkman. Hm.
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Jun 30, 2014 21:43
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Pissflaps posted:Malcolm Somewhere in the Middle Hahaha.
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Jun 30, 2014 22:20
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Joementum posted:The posts people get reported for making are almost always incredibly boring, so it's not really a mark of pride to top that ranking. True.
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Jul 1, 2014 00:28
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Back when the internet was young, I found a website selling exotic meats. It was a plain html website with just the choices of meat, a description, a picture, and "email for price and shipping information." Buffalo steaks and buffalo burgers at the top, then ground emu chuck. Then lion steaks and lion ribs. Hippo steaks and hippo roasts. Ground giraffe meat. And at the bottom, "We have acquired an elephant. Transporting elephant meat is illegal in many countries, so please verify that you have a way to receive it before contacting us. We will cut to specification."
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Jul 1, 2014 06:45
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Warcabbit posted:
I love Batman TAS. If anyone loves Batman and Justice League and other DC Animated Series, you should definitely check out Young Justice on Netlfix. I just found this show a week ago and it's awesome. By the way, Australia has a major city named Batman, with its own representative in their Parliament. Imagine having like Bob Johnson (D-Batman) on CSPAN.
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Jul 1, 2014 17:06
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Lawman 0 posted:Is there a story behind the name? Yeah the (white) guy who explored it was named John Batman, and he declared it Batmania. But then later they changed the name to Melbourne, after the then-Prime Minister of Britain, depriving the world of a great name for the second largest city in Australia. Still they named a suburb Batman so that's something.
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Jul 1, 2014 17:47
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Cheekio posted:Wait, I think people are glossing over the fact that before it was called Melbourne it was BATMANIA. There's still a major suburb called Batman. Here's the best part: the current rep for Batman is the SHADOW MINISTER OF JUSTICE. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Feeney
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Jul 1, 2014 18:48
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Obligatory answer: Red Tornado
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Jul 1, 2014 19:58
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Uh it's not really serious, chaossamus. I mean the jingoism is real, but no one is actually organizing a boycott. If it surprises you, you should look up freedom fries, except I know you already know about that.
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Jul 1, 2014 22:42
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ChaosSamusX posted:Freedom Fries was about something semi-serious (it was still a really dumb move). This would have been about a friendly sporting match, which is why I was so shocked. Freedom Fries also involved actually changing the name of stuff in the House cafeteria and places around the country doing that, whereas this is a few tweets from people that apparently don't even serve/eat Belgian waffles. Plus, I see you in the cartoon thread all the time, absolutely nothing should shock you.
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Jul 1, 2014 22:59
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Probably like thisJoementum posted:NYT review of Belgian men, 1882.
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Jul 2, 2014 00:29
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euphronius posted:Quantity does not matter quality does. The US needs better training and it's best athletes need to play football. They do. 
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Jul 2, 2014 01:02
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I was to understand that the only real danger of asbestos (chrysotile) is that the fibers are small enough to breathe in, but too large to easily breathe out, and they build up in your lungs and cause all kinds of awfulness. I don't know that drinking water with asbestos in it is really as drastic a concern. I mean, obviously fix that poo poo ASAP, but I would think you guys did the right thing by not trying to remove it without proper equipment.
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Jul 2, 2014 06:40
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viscous wolves posted:Apparently it's also bad for you if you ingest it, it can cause various types of cancer all throughout the digestive tract. I double checked after I posted, and the World Health Organization says there's no real evidence of that, at least as of 2002. http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/asbestos.pdf quote:EFFECTS ON HUMANS
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I learned something  My aunt was telling me that her city got several million dollars from the state of California to build a state-of-the-art high school, and they got the whole thing built with plans to add on the gymnasium afterwards. Classes start, and a few weeks later they start preparing the space behind the school to build the gym, when they find there's a seam of serpentinite that runs underneath the whole thing. The whole school is closed down and has to be torn down and rebuilt somewhere else.
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