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Baronjutter posted:Jesus christ I thought you left out a word or something, like while you were peeing someone stole your bike or something you put down. But someone... someone actually intercepted your pee in a cup and ran off with it. That's amazing. yeah i really wish i spoke better german so i could have had a chat to him and see what it was about. he looked like a german version of the guy from the "Calvin Harris - Bounce" music video anyway here i basically consider it a rite of passage. you can't consider yourself a true berliner until you've crashed your bike, partied for 3 days straight, and had someone steal your pee e: and gone on hartz iv 
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nerdz posted:Well, my weirdo story then: this dude who was probably a lot more drunk than crazy greeted me like an old friend, asked me when I was going to make that barbeque I promised, gave me $50 to go buy the beer and left. I didn't want the money but I knew better than following a guy like that to give his money back score! you spent that money on friends, right? windfalls like that are for sharing, it's bad karma to keep it for yourself unless you really need it. your story reminds me, i found 20 euros riding my bike a few weeks ago, spent it on beer and currywurst etc for my mates, then the next week i was checking my wallet and discovered i'd lost 25 euros. i was a bit pissed off then kind of went "well, fair enough, what goes around comes around - at least I've made some stranger's day." then 5 minutes later I realise I'd bought magic mushrooms that day and completely forgotten about them sometimes i think it'd be nice to spend some time in a smaller town and go at a slower pace, have time to really think about life and be more conscious of the day to day.. but then i'd miss out on all this amazing insanity
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It also depends on how dangerous they are. There's nothing wrong with getting to know someone acting a bit strange or on the fringes of society (the homeless, mentally ill, etc), so long as you're aware of your poo poo, able to recognise warning signs, and know how to take care of yourself. If they start getting a bit too intense you just smile and shake your head, apologise, and gently, politely, firmly move on. I was outside a club on Saturday and some guy who looked like he'd murdered Cheech and Chong for their gold teeth was trying to flog some drugs (god knows what they would have been like). I smile, say no thanks, he moves on. A bit later on he comes past and asks if I smoke weed, we share a joint, have a chat. He's from Libya and a bit of a space cadet, kind of funny but not dangerous in the least. A week before that me and some mates were walking past a homeless teenager who asks us for change, we say sorry and then go to get water from a corner store, on the way back we come and sit down and have a joint and a chat with him. If you freak out and say "no" to everything you're going to close yourself off from a lot of interesting things in life, which is bad, but if you also have no idea how to recognise threat/danger, you're also going to end up in a bad way. It's about being able to communicate with people outside your immediate socioeconomic and ideological context. e: A big part of it is also not being a maladjusted antisocial archetypal goon Sulla Faex has a new favorite as of 22:22 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Jastiger posted:Hmm there is a city that I should mention here that is both interesting and full of things to do but also not a poo poo hole. Can't think of it, may need some goons to help refresh my memory phoenix
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What's happening in the last gif where the guy picks up something and hands it to someone?
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What does a military engagement in an active war zone have to do with domestic gun control though? I'm not saying the burn wasn't icy but this smacks of "As a single mother of 3, I know what it takes to balance a budget"
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It's not confusing it's just a lovely argument. "I served in the military" is not a trump card (this wicked line works on two levels just fyi)
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I get it, it was a good political ice burn. But the other guy was asking, schadenfreude aside, why he should then vote for him (presumably to bring the circlejerk into context). So I think we're arguing at cross-purposes - I'm not denying that it wasn't a sick "yo mama" comeback, given the target demographics, and you're not denying that it's something according to which a reasonable adult would probably not form a political opinion. And if that isn't enough to drop the topic, remember that I'm a proud mother of 3 and they all served and so did I e: vvvv oh. will your disability ever stop tearing this family apart?? Sulla Faex has a new favorite as of 14:45 on Sep 18, 2016 |
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Jippa posted:Keep watching, it's not just the first bit. First time I've ever seen Jimmy Fallon not laughing
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Since I've only seen cockatoos in Internet videos of them being huge shits, it somehow just never occurred to me that they are real animals that actually exist in the wild and now the way I think of nature has been totally changed. they also exist in captivity, which is often amazingly stupid and cruel because they, like most/all parrots, are really social creatures and require a shitload of stimulation having a cockatoo as a pet means: - your neighbours will hate you (cockatoos basically communicate by screeching and screaming at 5 million decibels) - unless you want to be the proud instigator of animal cruelty/neglect, you as the owner must fulfill the social duties of an entire goddamn flock. which means it needs to be on/near you basically always - anything it touches gets destroyed. even with all the stimulation that nature and a giant flock bring, wild cockatoos have a primal urge to destroy everything they can get their claws on. a pet cockatoo.. well, do IKEA, Apple, and Amazon have frequent flier points? You might need to sign up - the angrier you get, the more excited they get. if they can pinpoint an action that visibly pushes your buttons, they will repeat that either ad nauseam or with the timing of a master psychologist. they loving love riling you up - they have the emotional maturity of little children and will often bite things. and these are not little birds - those beaks are designed to crush nuts and strip the bark from trees Cockatoos are great and I always wanted one as a kid, but thank god I never got one. The only way I'd keep a cockatoo now is if I lived on a farm with an aviary the size of a barn out back and about fifty other birds in there. Which is never going to happen, so I'm stuck with the schadenfreude of watching other people's youtube videos
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Have some cockatoo videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRsfOGJ5lZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35FcCsjwRZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fphSfjShySI The schadenfreude is on the owners who have to take care of a psychotic beaked 3 year old for 30-80 years
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Periphery posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXgjG_noNEU The casual intensity with which cockatoos rampage is amazing. They're like the bird version of Calculon crossed with Roberto.
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Outrail posted:Why the gently caress would you pose for photos for that story unless you work for some sort of sex shop or porn site? It's going to bite you in the rear end later. Wtf. The tabloid would have paid her a bunch of money and there is no end of people willing to 'debase' themselves for money or to get their face in the news. She might also not be as hung up about sex as your average goon.
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I didn't notice that she was a student teacher. Yeah, that's probably going to cost her her job/career. But the UK is famous for having a whole class of people who don't really have the same values and sense of proprietary as the rest of the country. Probably all her mates and even family think it's hilarious, as well as anyone whose opinion she'll ever wind up caring about - it's just her career as a teacher that's on the line, because you can't sexualise yourself so readily and publicly if you work around children.
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Chichevache posted:She's not a member of the gentry.  I supposed I walked into that one
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Basebf555 posted:I assume that's the reason they were able to actually give him significant jail time. Those letters he was sending probably amount to blackmail since the laws he was basing them on are completely made up. ... How is that blackmail? What? Also let's compile a list of all crimes that will, on average, net you less time than this guy got for being a nutjob and sending crazy person letters. I'll go first: rape murder torture extortion racketeering hate crimes terrorism embezzlement insurance fraud tax fraud robbery armed robbery AND all of the above combined, if you're a rich well-connected white guy
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Ak Gara posted:I haven't read the details but what if it's 6 months per offence? With 30 offences, that poo poo'll rack up quickly. I swear I've heard of people serving rape/murder/assault sentences concurrently. If the judge doesn't think 2 years is enough time for this guy to go "hm okay yeah maybe I need to quit being a loving lunatic and stop trying to ruin other people's lives" then either the guy has demonstrated he's incapable of changing, or something very dirty is going on. Probably the former, but I still find it very problematic that you can give someone 20 years in prison - you don't know what sort of person they'll be in 2, or 5, or 10. 20 is five lifetimes away. e: probably this isnt the thread for it
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doverhog posted:Why does being a fat man in red sweater who happens to appear on TV make someone famous anyway, I don't get it. because he reminds us of another fat man who dresses in red and breaks into people's houses while their kids are sleeping. don't ask me to explain cult heroes, the world is a strange place
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quote:We Don’t Need a Cure for WWE Fans – And Pushing One Is Really Messed Up
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Nuebot posted:If I had to guess either he chickened out, or dude in the car had a gun. Or a bigger screwdriver. It looks to be in London, or at least the UK, so no guns involved. The guy's just a piece of poo poo road rager who probably has a raft of hangups over not being "respected" in his every day life as much as he thinks he should. I hope they called the cops and gave this evidence and he got arrested to boot.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Both parties should be arrested. Thanks south park
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Gorilla Salad posted:The guy in the car ran him down after he stopped being a threat. i'm not saying you're wrong, just that you're in the wrong thread
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Grem posted:Man you are salty about a lot of stupid poo poo. It's a quick little example I had to use when explaining the concept to idiots I've arrested (and idiots I've worked with). I remember reading years ago about how the demographic with the highest rate of "misunderstandings of the law" over "confidence in your understanding of the law" was police officers. Still fits today!
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Two Feet From Bread posted:I'm torn between my hatred of online 'pranksters' and the stupidity of literal wrong think laws (paired with a literal thought re alignment camp). I'm just going to say the schadenfreude is on Europe for voluntarily having both. lol
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bows1 posted:I love that the lady who does the splits mutters "that a hot tamale! " i laughed at this clip and went to share the original with a friend who is also italian, but after watching the whole thing it's actually kind of sad. i don't know what she was thinking when she attempted it, but the conversation is basically "i hurt myself, i hurt myself" (mi sono fatta male) "you really hurt yourself?.. okay, well, uh.. let's finish there... can somebody come help" and by that point all the humour is long gone and you just feel bad for her. presumably this is true of 99% of these videos and i should stop reading this thread in that same video, though, where some white guy is asking the black guys for something and they slam him against the wall, what is he saying? he's got gats? they have cats? what?
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Ahh ok, thank you I'd love to read a study on the conditions that conspired to enable this sort of privilege. The particular combination of racism, ego, insecurity, and ignorance, is so weird for it to be occurring so consistently
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