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Not sure how many of you are the literary types, or can handle a 12 page short story from the late
1800's even though it's awesome, but if you can you are in for a treat:
An Occurence On Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Serious mindfuck in twelve short, sweet pages.
It's been dyin since you was a little feller
No Fellini fans around here eh?
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Howdy.
I decided to poke my head in, nice to see some familiar faces still around.
At 10/21/10 02:50 AM, Monocrom wrote: *Blank Post*
Wow, I've been gone so long that even the tundra seems empty...
At 10/21/10 02:38 AM, Sir-Hank-Frank wrote: Start acting like a man and go get drunk with his dad.
Damn straight.
You can't handle a kid and yet you think you can take the Vietcong?
If you had a perfect memory and could see into the future perfectly, why would it suddenly become more difficult to differentiate between past, present, and future than it is now?
If you somehow lived conscious of the fifth dimension, then things would start getting fucked.
It's only whoredom if she makes money doing it.
Otherwise slutty is a term to apply to people who you judge as more promiscuous than you are. I won't use it.
At 10/18/10 12:49 AM, Warforger wrote: This is more of a historical hatred, much like how British and Canadian people brag about the War of 1812 or bitch about the American Revolution.
No, it's a much more recent hatred. The Poles only finally were freed from a Russian-influenced totalitarian government 20 years ago. The wounds are still fresh.
At 10/17/10 07:39 PM, Ranger2 wrote:It goes much BEYOND that during the time where there was a confederation with Poland and Lithuania, Poland wasn't much of an enemy for Russia before that but now they were, and so eventually Russia took over Lithuania and Poland, only for it to regain independence. Then Napoleon happened and the Congress Of Vienna instead just split the territories with Russia, Prussia and Austria, Poland was viewed as anarchist and was Russified, it wouldn't be until 1918 when they could gain independence again.
Poland wasn't viewed as Anarchist, it was viewed as weak and unnecessary and tasty to larger powers. But yeah, the partitions themselves are another reason that the Polish resent the Russians.
Why would it do that? It already has enough problems elsewhere already.
I was in Poland not long ago (Warsaw, to be exact), and there is a statue there of 4 Russian soldiers who are representative of the unit that the Soviets sent to aid the Poles in the Warsaw Uprising.
Now, I'm not sure how much you know about the Uprising, but it was the largest-scale uprising by a civilian population against the Nazis to occur during the entire war. The Russians, however, did not want the Poles to become independent (see exhibit A ), but realized that the Uprising would be a powerful propaganda tool, and so they sent a very small unit and a tiny amount of supplies to aid them. This way, they would be able to say they helped if they won the war, and if they didn't, they only would have lost a tiny bit of manpower.
Then the Uprising occurred, and it resulted in the utter destruction of Warsaw as the Nazis systematically burned the city to the ground, weakening the Polish morale and overall infrastructure, and leaving them ripe for communist takeover.
Now, back to the Russian statue that still stands commemorating these "heroes". Many Poles have considered tearing it down, but if they should do that it would severely injure their relations with the Russians (See Exhibit B - Estonians tearing down their Soviet statue), and the Poles are still afraid of Russia, especially considering they control much of their natural gas now.
So yeah.
Yeah, because that worked so well with the Shah in Iran.
Oh wait.
At 10/19/10 01:29 AM, BezFriend wrote: Here's my prediction:
Doubtful.
My guess is very little will happen. Israel is not a theocracy, and will very likely not become one. At most, it will be a nice tourist attraction and many Jews will feel happy for themselves.
At 4/2/10 08:12 PM, Warforger wrote: Well it would make more sense if it was applied to only state law, although the bill is only regulation of the Healthcare industry, which regulating the free market has been in place since the early 1900's
Correction: regulating the free market has taken place since the creation of the country.
If someone could clear it up for me: How could the healthcare bill be considered unconstitutional? The only possible section I could think of that could make it so is the 10th Amendment, which is so insanely vague that only the wildest imaginations could justify that.
At 4/2/10 05:04 PM, StCyril wrote:At 4/2/10 05:01 PM, Alex12345269 wrote: Do you know how much money the government will make if weed is legal.um, none unless they put a high tax on it. Its called free enterprise. Even then not much.
Incorrect. Look at alcohol tax and tobacco tax. You of all people should know this, unless you are simply trolling, since you live in Taxachusetts.
At 3/11/10 11:49 AM, AccountableMasses wrote: Could someone tell me from personal experience what they know about the differences between learning the viola and violin? Also what are the pluses/minuses of each instrument?
One is deeper, the other isn't. Other than that, the strings are tuned the same in relation to each other; i.e. each is a fifth above the other. The viola has one string deeper, that is, compared to the first string the second is a fifth higher, whereas the violin has one higher, a fifth above the final.
If you don't know too much about music theory, that may not make sense, so just figure that they are both quite similar, but the viola has one string lower with the higher removed, and the violin has one higher with the lower removed.
Google tells me that viola is in alto clef and violin is in treble.
Usually sheet music is more available for violin but viola is in much demand, but don't know how to read alto clef.. so I'm pretty undecided on what which one to get..
Reading alto clef is easy enough if you get used to it. Just come up with some mnemonic device or something. Both are nice instruments though, and each serve a purpose.
At 2/20/10 08:26 PM, SashaSexyFur wrote: Video recommendations are always bogus. They never ever get it right, especially youtube.
Yes, but this is a bit far. Taking two old existential movies and recommending Dirty Harry?
Sometimes the movie recommendations that Netflix automates are laughable bordering on absurd.
The two movies that it bases the selection on, if you can't read it, are Woyzeck by Werner Herzog, and The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman.
*(SPOILERS)*
The first one is a surrealist, existential German film from the 70's about a man slowly going insane; there is no action until the end, mostly his crazed philosophizing. It ends with him murdering his wife to euphoric classical music, a la A Clockwork Orange.
The second is a rehashing of an old Nordic fable by the Swedish master Ingmar Bergman, about a daughter of a wealthy Feudal landowner going to deliver candles to the neighboring town, whereupon she is raped and murdered by two brothers in front of their younger brother. They then find shelter, conveniently, at the house of the same Feudal lord, whereupon their are soon found out and murdered. It isn't a satisfying end, though, as the Lord also kills the innocent boy and regrets it.
Both are quite slow-paced, the former quite bizarre, leaving one never sure what is real and what isn't, and the latter mostly disturbing and giving one a sickening sense of injustice. No real action. Some slight suspense, but no "thrills".
*(END SPOILERS)*
And so Netflix naturally saw the most obvious and immediate connection MUST be "Boyz N The Hood".
Other noteworthy selections of films similar to these: Magnum Force, Grilled, Dirty Harry (Deadpool), Cape Fear, and Homegrown.
I, personally, am a geography freak and am very good at naming all of the European countries by heart, although the Baltic countries can be difficult (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia). Asia is pretty easy too, except the island countries, and South America. Africa is quite difficult except the biggies - North African countries, South Africa, the Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia, etc.
Anyway, when I went to Europe it seemed like most Europeans knew much less about America than we Americans knew about Europe. An odd thing considering America has had a very dominant role in the entire world's history for the past 60 years. Perhaps it's denial.
At 11/3/09 03:51 PM, Rokas1337 wrote: you must feel like your a very big boy behind a computer screen, but first you have to grow some pubes before you reply to adult users
Ew I thought those were satanhairs.
At 11/3/09 01:27 AM, Cericon wrote: Well, you know what they say, we always hurt the one we love.
Also, you are a piece of shit and a waste of life.
26 years? That's insane. Here he would be behind bars for ever, or perhaps killed by government-condoned murder.
At 10/29/09 07:22 PM, Yorik wrote: ¿Que?
That's making fraud out of martyr.
At 10/28/09 03:47 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote: I want fox news kicked out because i want conservatives to be angry enough to take EFFECTIVE NON POLITICAL action. The kind of action that actually CHANGES things.
That's a very frightening idea though. It seems that a large part of the people who watch Fox News are the type of people who believe that Obama is a Muslim terrorist and is trying to destroy the country. If he finally shut down their one outlet, they would probably do something very hasty.
At 10/28/09 01:19 AM, daves234 wrote: Well unless you don't count glen beck then it's not really both
Notice that he isn't on CNN anymore, he is on Fox.
At 10/27/09 09:21 PM, Gobblemeister wrote: I'll tell you now why FOX shouldn't be censored
FOX news is the only outlet not mastermined by the liberal agenda
Wow.
AKA it's the only outlet with an obscenely conservative bias.
Every aspect of America nowadays is choked by the left wing
Watch CNN sometime. They are neither liberal, nor conservative. They pan disgustingly to both sides, hoping to be seen as fair, while instead they give neither a side, nor news, nor information. They aren't biased themselves, but they aren't unbiased - instead they present both biases, but none of the information. They are almost a tabloid.
They are not left-wing though.
No other ideas are being communicated to children and soon Americans will degenerate into a close minded group of overly excitable left wing extremeists
FOX is the only network still communicating the right wing, if you have a problem with it, don't watch it but lets not become fucking China and censor everything that disagrees with the left wings
Agreed.
Americans deserve opposing viewpoints so they can decide for themselves
Agreed again. I disagree enormously though with your idea of the liberal majority, though it is true that if someone is extremely conservative anything less conservative (even people like Ron Paul) are going to seem liberal.
At 10/27/09 06:08 AM, MwnciHead wrote: Agreed. The "west" always needs an enemy. Always has, and probably always will.
Everyone does. Putting nation against nation or religion against religion is a beautiful way to control people.
Sorry about the incoherence of my post, it's about 3 AM here.
At 10/27/09 05:41 AM, MwnciHead wrote: Ever been to Turkey? didnt spot much opression out there, other than to Camels. Quite a sweeping statement you have come up with... I would modify it by stating : "In extremist Islamic societies, there is a large degree of opression", like there is in any extremist country, be it North Korea, Cuba, China, Iran, bored of listing them...
I think you missed the point of his message. He was trying to say that "they" are evil and are trying to destroy the world because of "their" beliefs, etc. etc..
It's a classic belief. Islam is just a convenient way to fill "they" right now, as the Muslim world is, in general, among the most unstable. Back in the early Middle Ages, when the Islamic world was far more stable, creative, productive, and overall tolerant than the anarchic, Feudal Europe that only spawned landlords. That is, until the Pope decided that instead of fighting amongst each other (that is, fellow Catholics), let's take the fight to the barbaric Muslims!
I'm sure at this time the Muslims began saying that "they" (Christians) are evil and are trying to destroy the world, etc. etc..
At 10/25/09 02:37 PM, morefngdbs wrote: eroding your rights & your Constitution one little piece at a time.
As citizens of your country you all should be out in the streets demanding the repeal of the 'Patriot Act'
There is nothing patriotic about it... it was just a perfect way for Bush & his cronies to completely circumvent your personal rights , after 9/11.
That more Americans were not outraged , shows they just don't care...or really didn't understand what was done to them !
It is pretty much eroded away now; very little of it still actually stands. It had bits of it chipped off since it was first instated, and had continued to until now.
I was definitely furious and scared by it, though I was just a child at the time.
