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At 12/11/11 05:40 AM, Shady wrote: MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING

What the fuck?

Hey guys, who is your favorite actor/actress? They could be from a movie, TV show, or a live performer like a comedian. Also, so this isn't a one or two word reply thread, why do you like them? Porn actors and actresses don't count.

I don't watch a lot of movies, but I recently watched In Time. The movie was great, and I thought Cillian Murphey's performance in it was really strong. He stood out as a character, in actions and also because of his looks.

STR-5
AGI-9
INT-10
CHA-8

I wanted INT to be 9 and AGI to be 8, but 7 STR just didn't feel right to me.

Well, I guess my girlfriend is stopping me from getting a girlfriend. Or, at least, I'm pretty sure she would.

Generally, things are better when had in their original tongue. But it really depends. If you want a book that was originally written in Japanese, but also had an English translation, I would suggest the Japanese version. You know what I'm saying?

At my computer, I bundle up in a warm jacket and put a blanket across my lap. That way I'm nice and cozy.

New York. I went there on a trip once and I wish I could live there all the time.

At 12/5/11 07:11 PM, wwwyzzerdd wrote: I understand what it's about (if you can really say it has a purpose). People who feel that the "rich" have gotten away with exploiting us all for their own gain, rigging the system to benefit them, and feeling that the physical 99% of the populace has no defense against it. And I actually agree with that; there's little evidence against that claim. Where I differ from this crowd is at 2 points.

First off, thanks for the holy-shit length reply. It makes me feel important. Also, I'm glad you have a pretty good outline of the things the Occupy movement is trying to call attention to.

First and foremost, ... [snip] ... best of luck to you.

You may not sound a lot like my dad, but you have a lot of the same ideas. He's been telling me all these years how financial stability is one of the best things you could ever possibly do for yourself, and I agree with him. This is coming from a man who has single-handedly housed and fed a family of four with his single same job he's been doing for years, even through the major recession. But I think his past has a lot to do with that.

When he was in college and all through doctorate school when he was getting his Ph.D, he was living the worst time of his life. After having lived a relatively safe, sheltered, and stable lifestyle, he suddenly got cast out into the wind. Because of his pride, he wouldn't ask any more money from his parents, since they were already paying to put him through school. He worked long nights, ate nothing but the cheapest things (ramen, peanut butter sandwiches, etc.), and still tried to keep up some sort of connection with the world (he got engaged to my mom during this time).

He had lived that kind of life for years, a life that many Americans live, although he had the means to get out of it the whole time. I don't know why he did it, but I don't question his sympathy to people who live like that. Now he's a positron-emission-tomographist for Siemen's, a large medical company, but I don't respect him any less. He enjoys his job and his life in the suburbs. Although I can't be sympathetic, the empathy has trickled down from him, and I have a better understanding of what it's like to be destitute.

Second, ... [snip] ... Tea Party.

It doesn't really offer a solution. I remember one Occupier saying something of the sort, "We don't Occupy because it accomplishes something specific, but that's how we get the word out to other people." They aren't pretending to be homeless, but exercising their right to free speech and peaceful protest, then having those rights infringed upon in nearly every protest, certainly gets the word out one way or another. I get most of my Occupy news from the OWS twitter page, and several websites that revolve around Occupy protests. Certainly, it's a tad biased, but it isn't filtered through traditional media until "Infringed Rights of Protesters in California" becomes "Police Officer Suspended for Pepper-Spraying Students" (no joke, I saw a local newspaper that read like this).

Personally, I disagree with the Tea Party. They were a disruptive movement in every sense. They'd storm town halls during meeting en masse, and completely disrupt the proceedings with yelling and angry misunderstandings of politics. They are not very similar movements besides the fact that they are both political. Mega media coverage was big on this movement, because the ideals coincided with the ideals of the mega media outlets. They didn't need to use the dynamic new technologies of social media to organize themselves, they got news stations with huge followings to convert people in the blink of an eye.

Apparently 99% of people don't agree with that, and that's why money rules all. As I said; I don't disagree with that sentiment. How you're going about it or the ignorance of your plight on the other hand...

Do you see any politicians that openly say, "I completely approve of the Occupy movement, and I will do everything I can in order to support it"? I haven't, and I don't think I will. It's much easier to get $5,000,000 of campaign funds from one person than get $5 from 1,000,000 people. Politicians represent the ideals of who pay their bills, and people vote for them on their personal best interest. Nobody has ever voted for a politician that they completely agree with on every subject except for the people that pay them. I'm sure you are aware that politicians are not static human figures of authority.

How I see it ... [snip] ... Greedy son of a bitch!

The reason I brought up the point of my local church was because they make absolutely no profit out of it whatsoever. The Salvation Army, an international organization with chapters in over 100 countries, is not getting the money to pay it's employees or to run itself through generous donations. Another reason I brought up the local church, is that I have personal experience in the charity work field. I know from what the church advisers have said, that it helps more people to donate directly to the church than it does to give the food to the Salvation Army. And I have nothing against that one guy who was trying to raise money, it's just that he could have been doing more good had it not been the Salvation Army.

Just take the comparison of OWS and the Sal Army as me showing how spoiled and self-centered that makes them look.

It only makes them look like that because you're looking at it in one-shaded light, red for example. Let's look at it in blue. The Salvation Army is an organization that does not use its power, influence, money, or supporters at all to raise awareness or support politicians who have the people's best interest in mind. Why? Because they simply don't want to; that's not their objective. However, the Occupy movement is trying to save the common man from being abused by the wealthy in political scenarios, simply because the small man lacks the money of the big man. Also, they don't feed homeless or starving people. Why? Because they simply don't want to; that's not their objective. Now the Salvation Army looks bad in comparison to the Occupy movement, because we're looking at it in a different light. Now I hope you'll understand why these comparisons of two unlike things are not valid.

In my town of Knoxville, there are small church organizations that give food to any takers, and they receive absolutely no profit from it. That is something I can guarantee you most Occupiers would support.

SO FUCKING HELP THEM OUT!!! I IMPLORE YOU TO DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO HELP OTHERS RATHER THAN ASSUME THAT WE CAN JUST TAX PEOPLE WITH TAX SHELTERS TO PAY ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS OFF!!!

I do, I swear. And I don't want any rich people paying my students loans or anything, but I want to point something out. Colleges are businesses, too, and they have us by the balls. As you can see in the graph below, (source: http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm) unemployment and weekly earnings are inversely proportional when talking about education. Demonstrated in the graph, you need a fair amount of education to make above average wage (and $40,000 per year is not the most generous salary) while keeping a below average chance for unemployment. While you still have a perfectly good chance of living a happy and successful life without all this education, and plenty of people have done it, do you really want to risk the stability of your income?

At 12/4/11 09:49 PM, Halberd wrote: Seriously though this is a sign that as you grow older you are going to gain lots and lots of weight and your metabolism will change

happens on one side of my family

I made a joke to my friends that one day I'll feel a lot heavier on my right side.

Anyway, I don't think that will be a problem as my metabolism has already changed, and I watch what I eat pretty carefully. When I was a kid, I'd eat pizza er'ryday. Now that I'm older and nutritionally conscious, I can eat one slice of pizza every rare while.

Assuming that I'm talking to God directly, I can already infer that he exists. After that, I can only ask, "What do you think of Christians today?"

When I get too hot, my armpits start to sweat, and causes my shirt to get dark around the pit area. This is a problem I believe most everybody has. I apply deodorant antiperspirant daily to try to fix it, but it only half works...

My right armpit is naturally more sweaty than my left one. Periodically, I'll check the underarm part of my shirt to see that the left side is completely dry while the right side is absolutely fucking soaked.

Does this happen to anyone else? Does anyone have any suggestions on why this happens, or how to manage it?

There should never be a death penalty, because you are condemning a living being to be killed. Death should only be an option if the prisoner in question chooses it, and I think the criminals should have a choice.

I also think life in prison without chance for parole is also a cruel and unusual punishment. Especially because you don't give them the choice to die. Condemning a human person to live in a single establishment for their entire life with no chance for personal growth or fulfillment is worse than condemning them to death. I'd call it torture, because you keep them alive in the same way you'd keep an animal in a cage alive.

If what you're suggesting is that Occupy Wall Street is a movement about helping people, then you have completely misunderstood or never tried to understand what it's about. The comparison between OWS and the Salvation Army is completely invalid because they're not doing the same thing.

OWS, and all the other Occupy protests, are about recreating a government that does not think money is people, and makes laws that benefit the majority of citizens, not big corporations. The wealthy are the ones with the most power. I'm telling you this because obviously you don't know. This is an idea that roughly 99% of America can sympathize with, if you just know what it is.

The Salvation Army is an international Christian organization (probably part of the 1%) that distributes food to people who are completely destitute. It is completely justified for the Occupy protesters, largely anonymous without a specific religion and absolutely political, to ignore the Salvation Army.

In my town of Knoxville, there are small church organizations that give food to any takers, and they receive absolutely no profit from it. That is something I can guarantee you most Occupiers would support.

Sleep.

There's a guy at my school that wears ties over a dress shirt every day. But he rolls up the sleeves and wears jeans so he doesn't look out of place. Good for you if you want to dress like you're going to a job interview when you're going to school, but there are right ways and there are wrong ways to dress smart.

At 12/4/11 05:09 AM, Lintire wrote: I currently [have] the local highschool 100m dash record, which I did while wearing high heels.

It's because heels work on the same principle of sprinting shoes. If you don't let your heel touch the ground, you can run faster if you sprint. The difference is, sprinting shoes are built for many different kinds of feet, and there is no spike in the back.

There should be a small hole in the map wherever there is a developed city with a few dozen thousand people living in it. Country accents are only prevalent in places where the population is not very dense.

I bathe every day in the morning. Because I'm a fitful sleeper, I have to bathe to get my thick, curly hair to go back into a presentable shape. Otherwise, it looks like a bird's nest.

I thought for sure the Time magazine cover for Osama Bin Laden's death would be in there. Especially because the last few pictures were getting pretty weak.

I like how three of the forty-five photos of from the Occupy protests. That makes me happy.

Sorry, bro. Going for the tits gives you courage, not wisdom. You're gonna be a warrior, now.

What he means to say is that traditionally immoral actions (killing someone, dealing drugs, racism, etc.) being displayed in forms of media is not influential to young children because parents, teachers, and the community they live in teach them morals, which directly contradicts what the media would be "teaching" them. Because it's exactly opposite of what they've learned, they ignore the moral implications for the most part, making playing violent video games or watching violent films not authoritative.

However, when what is broadcasted to young people is not opposite to what they have learned, then they are likely to learn from it. In the case of nonviolent films, many young girls idolize the lead actors that are men if they are handsome. Specifically in the case of Twilight, it appeals to many little ladies because the plot is lead by a very weak and indecisive lead actress, allowing the children to press their own personality onto her, allowing them to live their own fantasy, which does influence their daily life and personality if they let it.

In short, children reject information that is contrary to what they have already learned, but when presented with new information, they adapt. This causes violent media to be taken with a grain of salt because we teach our kids morals. However, when new information that is not contrary to what they've learned is presented, they are more likely to consider the information and change to it.

Explain what they are first, at least.

At 12/3/11 12:59 AM, Pjanoo wrote: indie is the only way to go.

That was utter shit. The other link was also bad, but not quite as fucking horrible as this.

You're assuming that the only way people cope is to distract themselves or otherwise be pitiful. I'd choose choice N) meet another girl and start going out with her.

I see you haven't mastered the art of juggling girls. You can juggle twenty girls if the only thing you're doing is flirting with them on an infrequent basis. However, as the relationship just bigger and heavier, you're going to find out that it gets harder to juggle. If I was in a romantic or sexual relationship, I'd never juggle more than three girls, one for each day of the weekend, and they would sure as Hell not know each other.

At 12/1/11 04:57 PM, Yert wrote: my username is unique as fuck

Not quite.

Still trying to get that name change, though.

That video was hilarious.

At 11/30/11 10:57 PM, WallofYawn wrote: Say Goodbye To Your Rights, America

Obviously you are not aware of the literal daily infringing upon rights. Regarding the Occupy movement, I know of two specific examples of different right being violated. It happens everywhere everyday, but during the UC Davis Occupy Protest, police broke up a peaceful protest (strike one, freedom to assembly) and were not allowing them to respectfully speak their mind with this protest (strike two, right to free speech).

And just as soon as early this morning at around 1:00 AM, police broke up yet another peaceful protest in LA. Right before organizing a raid on the protesters, the LAPD restricted media coverage on the eviction of the protesters, by organizing a meeting on incredibly short term notice allowing only three news stations from each main media to cover the story(strike three, freedom of press). The LAPD also broke the laws in the state of California, which clearly stated that they are not allowed to do that.

This law is nothing special. We will cope with it by ignoring those whose rights are being infringed upon, like we always have.

The hottest black girls are the ones that look and act civilized. Out of more than a dozen black women in my school (small school), I can only vouch for one, which is the only one I've been sexually involved with. You could call those standards.