5,794 Forum Posts by "IllustriousPotentate"
At 8/25/07 02:50 AM, Cuppa-LettuceNog wrote: Personally, I hate him because the moron thinks we shouldn't have Taxes.
What? Where do you get your information?
Hell no, he doesn't deserve a second chance.
If you were indicted, plead guilty to a felony, and ended up serving a jail sentence, do you honestly think that your employer would keep you around? Of course not.
When you're being paid millions of dollars annually for doing nothing but playing a game and using some companies' products, there is no valid reason whatsoever why you shouldn't be on your best behavior.
An idea of how original the site is, Google your username. The first three usernames and mine, when googled, have their user page as the first result.
At 8/21/07 02:11 AM, Xtesh wrote:At 8/20/07 10:24 PM, FlurpMonkey wrote: I have to say that was very long. But the basic idea sounds like a total load. Summary please.Crazy and/or racist Muslim blames USA and Jews for all of his problems.
End summarization.
I have a strange feeling I've heard this somewhere before.
--Things that are appropriate to say in a laboratory, but completely inappropriate to say elsewhere
--Keanu Reeves does Shakespeare
--Rejected Jeopardy categories
Looks can be deceiving. It's actually extremely tasty. It's even better with some fried onions.
I say, old chap! Would you like to come over to my flat? My neighbour is cooking some delicious cod and chips. No? Would you like for me to wrap you up some in alu-min-ium foil for later?
I like my hot dogs like this:
At 8/19/07 03:39 PM, Proteas wrote: And then today, just as I was sitting down to lunch, I heard it.... thunder. I looked out, and it was raining.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!
!!!!!!!!
I could tell this was going to long hot summer, but I didn't expect it to be this hot. Just 90 miles from here, in Athens, they had 11 out of 13 days with 100 degree heat or more, and two days where it got up to 105. Of course, Atlanta is at a deceivingly high altitude, sitting atop the Eastern Continental Divide, so it helps moderate our temperatures a small bit.
It makes it very difficult for someone like me to sleep during the day with just a huge box fan; I wake up sweating. Whenever lying motionless is enough exertion to make you sweat; you know it's hot.
They've had watering restrictions here for years. They even had them in effect during 2005, when there was flooding and plenty of rain from all those hurricanes.
As a result, I've still got a little bit of mud on my car from my little off-road excursion into Deliverance country.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.01 5939,-83.121872&spn=0.024322,0.032959&t=
h&z=15&om=1
I was driving up in the mountains of NC a couple months back, and traffic on US 64 was incredibly bad, and of course, it was raining (always does whenever I go somewhere). So, I decided to bypass the route and took what I thought to be a nice little backroad over to Highlands.
Heh.
The first few miles were all right, nice paved 2 lane country blacktop, then OMG GRAVEL?!?
Let me tell you, driving down a narrow switchbacked gravel road in a pouring rain isn't exactly the place you want to be with a Hyundai Elantra.
After crossing the Chattooga River on a bridge that looked like it could fall down any minute, and a few more miles of winding gravel road, finally got back to pavement and civilization.
At 8/17/07 10:37 PM, Korriken wrote: hmm. I was tormented for years going through school for being the fat kid, I wonder if I could sue the school system... it was awfully stressful to be picked on and bullied. I bet I could get about $50,000 out of it. OF course they would just kill my case by bringing up that I carried out plots of revenge on those that bullied me, including pissing in a bottle and pouring it over the stall on their heads.... good times.
There's a big difference between childhood teasing and bullying and a government agency taking orphans out of a foster home and conducting psychological experiments on them without their knowledge. To even attempt to link the two together is intellectually bankrupt.
At 8/17/07 03:01 PM, Proteas wrote: I got the job.
Congrats, Proteas! I know that must be a big relief.
Since we brought up the political compass, I think this is a good time to bring this back up too, now that it's been updated with 2008 candidates.
http://www.selectsmart.com/president/200 8.html
Unlike the Political Compass, which measures your philosophy and ideology, this test shows how you relate to candidates on the basis of current issues affecting the US.
Of the candidates who have active campaigns, the closest matches were
Ron Paul (R) 64%
Mike Gravel (D) 56%
The worst match was Mike Huckabee, at 24%.
Let's see yours.
Righty libertarian.
In 2004, I was much closer to the center than I am now; I've grown consistently more libertarian in my viewpoints.
At 8/15/07 01:30 PM, Proteas wrote:At 8/15/07 11:07 AM, IllustriousPotentate wrote: Mike Gravel.From the way you describe him, he'd be the guy I vote for issues-wise... but alas, I don't think he'll make it past the primary.
But hopefully, you will vote your conscience in the primary, I assume...
As someone so dutifully pointed out a few moments ago, Obama has a lot of charisma despite his lack of experience, and that's probably what will win him the nomination.
I think that if the Democrats are smart, they'll avoid Hillary. She may be popular among Democrats, but the Dems need as many crossover votes as they can get this election.
It's a shame that this will probably boil down to a popularity conest more than anything.
What political contest isn't these days?
Mike Gravel.
Unlike some other people, some present company included, I choose my candidates on the basis of his stance on the issues, not his charisma or whatever other watered down reason.
I agree with him on his stances on
Iraq: Both Gravel and I want to see the war ended and our troops home.
Iran: Both Gravel and I want to see diplomacy used to its ends before force is ever considered.
FairTax: I'm an ardent supporter of the FairTax, as is Sen. Gravel.
Prison and drug law reforms:
Our prisons and drug laws need to be changed. There is no valid reason why we should have prison overcrowding caused by locking people up for smoking marijuana. It's nonsense. Gravel thinks the same way.
Net neutrality. Gravel understands the need and necessity for net neutrality, and supports it, unlike some colleague of his from the same state...
Immigration: Pro protecting the borders, anti NAFTA. In lock step with him on this one.
Abortion: I'm a pro-choice pro-lifer. I morally disagree with an abortion, but it isn't the states' nor the federal government's job to legislate morality over abortions. While we may have different reasons why, both Gravel and I are against any sort of illegalization of standard abortions.
Gun rights: His stance makes perfect sense to me. A nice compromise between the NRA crowd and the anti-gun crowd, I think.
Pretty much the only issue I take exception too is his idea for Universal Healthcare Vouchers. While I still think that healthcare can be handled better at a private or state level, the voucher system is a better form of universal health care, as it promotes competition in the medical system.
I'd hardly say that Rove is half the presidency is Karl Rove.
I think George W. Bush's linguistic bumbles lead you to think he's just a puppet, but he's just as scheming and cutthroat as Cheney or Rove. He just hides it under a cover of bumbles.
At 8/13/07 02:32 PM, morefngdbs wrote: At 8/13/07 11:30 AM, IllustriousPotentate wrote
I'm still waiting for a rebuttal, if you care to do so.;
Ummm, I'm not sure which one you mean.
Are you talking about the reference to anally probing an Altar Boy?
LOL
No, I wanted to see if Fergus had any disputes with the explanation of why fire and police services are different than health care.
At 8/13/07 12:52 PM, ObsessedOne wrote:At 8/13/07 12:44 PM, McSqueegee wrote: Do other peoples homework, duhThat's the best idea so far. Simple yet not to hard. Ideas that involve me starting my own school business have a tendency of not working very well unless they involve computers and not merchanting.
Or here's an idea. Why don't you, being the preppie that you are, join up with the school's jock, the school's brainy feminist, the school's dumb cheerleader, the school's sassy black girl, and the school geek, and the six of you can have hilarious hijinks, along with the tall, balding principal?
Then you can make all sorts of profit by playing in a band covered in a Casey Casem documentary, saving the local school-owned hamburger joint, saving the school from an oil spill, purchasing the class rings, creating a new alma mater song, and getting hooked on caffeine pills?
I thought bestiality was between an animal and human, not two anthropomorphic animals.
I haven't seen any bestiality sigs, thank goodness.
I had a friend that would buy a 30 ct. Skittles/Starburst variety pack at Sam's Club for about $10. He'd sell them for a $1, and he'd make about a $20 profit on each box. Of course, our school had many classrooms you were allowed to eat in at the teacher's prerogative, so it may not be an ideal solution for your school. It's probably also against school policy to sell food.
At 8/13/07 11:21 AM, mariobro42 wrote: As it is, I'm not a fan of real porn, but anyone who faps to furry is seriously mentally challenged.
While I'm not a fan of real or furry porn either, I can understand how someone would be. I mean, it's not that far a leap from Michelle Pfeiffer playing Catwoman (which many people would find mainstream attractive) and and anthropomorphism (which many people would not).
At 8/13/07 02:15 AM, Sidorio wrote: I have a better relationship with people on Newgrounds, who I will never meet, than with anybody else I've ever met in real life.
I can't say that, I've had some great friends.
However, I certainly feel more comfortable cracking witticisms here on the BBS. I'm completely 100% shy in real life.
At 8/13/07 11:47 AM, mariobro42 wrote:At 8/13/07 11:38 AM, Joe wrote:Then PM an admin.At 8/13/07 11:36 AM, chocolate-penguin wrote: You could just PM mods, couldn't you?We have nothing to do with moderating userpages.
User pages are only moderated by the user, and the admins.
I mean, that's pretty obvious, but it also seems to lackadaisical and inefficient. Imagine PMing an Admin, rather than blowing the whistle, on unsuitable flash.
Symptoms of AIDS:
* Lack of energy
* Weight loss
* Frequent fevers and sweats
* A thick, whitish coating of the tongue or mouth (thrush) that is caused by a yeast infection and sometimes accompanied by a sore throat
* Severe or recurring vaginal yeast infections
* Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease or severe and frequent infections like herpes zoster
* Periods of extreme and unexplained fatigue that may be combined with headaches, lightheadedness, and/or dizziness
* Rapid loss of more than 10 pounds of weight that is not due to increased physical exercise or dieting
* Long-lasting bouts of diarrhoea
* Swelling or hardening of glands located in the throat, armpit, or groin
* Periods of continued, deep, dry coughing
* Increasing shortness of breath
* The appearance of discoloured or purplish growths on the skin or inside the mouth
* Unexplained bleeding from growths on the skin, from mucous membranes, or from any opening in the body
* Recurring or unusual skin rashes
* Severe numbness or pain in the hands or feet, the loss of muscle control and reflex, paralysis or loss of muscular strength
* An altered state of consciousness, personality change, or mental deterioration
Ask yourself if all of that is worth it just to have your penis in some one else's vagina.
There is always the possibility (12%) of condom failure, and the possibility of false negatives on STD tests.
At 8/13/07 11:36 AM, chocolate-penguin wrote: You could just PM mods, couldn't you?
I'm not sure that any mods have any jurisdiction over user pages. I might be wrong, of course, but it would be nice to know where abuse of this nature can be reported.
At 8/13/07 11:23 AM, FeargusMcDuff wrote: Meh i tried my best but i suppose just mentioning something like healthcare makes people want to ramble without reading the first post :(
I'm still waiting for a rebuttal, if you care to do so.
At 8/13/07 11:26 AM, GoryBlizzard wrote: You must've missed the news post last month in which some ground rules were established for user pages (e.g. no uploading porn).
No, I saw those rules. However, it seemed to me that there wasn't much of a way to report abuse--although judging by the swiftness with which this was deleted, perhaps there is?
At 8/13/07 11:22 AM, Mechabloby wrote: He's deleted it.
What was in the post? >_<
It was a photograph of a person putting one of his more intimate areas into the mouth of an ostensibly live raccoon.
I wonder how it was deleted so rapidly? Hopefully, other similar images that aren't linked directly to the front page are dealt with just as swiftly.
I realize and appreciate our new user post page, I really do. I think it's a great way for flash artists to keep in touch with their fans, cut down on BBS spammy "blog-style" threads, and to let users express their ideas.
WARNING!
LINK IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
LINK IS NOT SAFE FOR SCHOOL.
Especially 1 click away from the front page.
Whenever you give any e-power to a group of horny 13 year olds, there's going to be abuse, of course.
But if stuff like this isn't illegal, then it is on the borderline, and it is only a matter of time before something illegal is posted.
There obviously has to be a limit. Why not have a whistle system in place, like the portal? There needs to be something, because NG has the potential to get into some big trouble allowing it's users to post any image they want, without any sort of review.
Your thoughts?
