PNWI Community Thread version 3.0 (KEEP REFRIGERATED AT ALL TIMES)

[Lupus]

Link?

[italic zero]

Let's all go back to the AIDS restaurant thread and neg him.

[Reaganista]

link

[Iskandar]

no link.

[Reaganista]

**** u

[Iskandar]

**** uhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha i win

[Reaganista]

omg i just found a gigantic ****in centipede in my bathroom wtf

edit: apparently they eat other bugs **** i shoulda wiki'd that before i killed it huh

jeez i saw another one but it ran away i think my place is getting invaded by freaky centipedes

[ringworm]

well, you killed his wife probably

anybody ever see one of those BIG red furry ants that squeak if you make them mad?
they are sometimes called cow killers, but they are really wingless wasps

http://www.scenicoregon.com/webanic/pages/cowkilr.JPG

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/wasps/Mutillidae_18.jpg

http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/CowKiller.shtml

[Iskandar]

There are no insects in Canada, just social parasites.

[ringworm]

is there anything in canada? :)

[guitrguy]

Maple Syrup

[Iskandar]

Lots of stuff. Snow, commies, more snow. It's great.

[ringworm]

i know the women rock, at least the ones i've met

i ran into a group in St Maarten and had a blast with them all week :naughty:

all the others i went to school and such with were always cool

[Iskandar]

i know the women rock, at least the ones i've met

i ran into a group in St Maarten and had a blast with them all week :naughty:

all the others i went to school and such with were always coolYes, this is true.

[DBoons Ghost]

Canadians rule. I've never met one I didn't like.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

I am formulating a theory that New Zealand is to Australia what Canada is to America.

[italic zero]

link
http://sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=404776

just out of curiosity, has anyone made more threads than steve?

[DBoons Ghost]

I am formulating a theory that New Zealand is to Australia what Canada is to America.

I thought Aussies hated New Zealanders and vice versa.

I once mistook an Aussie lady I worked with for a New Zealander and she got very upset, so of course that day forward whenever anyone asked me if she was Australian I of course said "Nah she's from New Zealand"..

[guitrguy]

Canadians rule. I've never met one I didn't like.

The impression I get of Canadians is that they are much less neurotic than Americans.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

I thought Aussies hated New Zealanders and vice versa.

I once mistook an Aussie lady I worked with for a New Zealander and she got very upset, so of course that day forward whenever anyone asked me if she was Australian I of course said "Nah she's from New Zealand"..

We don't hate them per se, in the same way as most Americans don't really hate Canadians. Rivalry is a much better term.

[DBoons Ghost]

The impression I get of Canadians is that they are much less neurotic than Americans.

Among the many stereotypes we all suffer being from whatever place we're from, I've never heard the one where all Americans were neurotic. NYers for sure, as I am, but not all.

I've met a few neurotic Canadians in my time. They were all Java developers and drank a lot of coffee though. Either way they were very cool people.

The only Canadian I've ever had any issue with was the one who came here to NYC from Montreal. He worked for Matrox, who make video cards. Now, this kid was brilliant but had no common sense.

Like, the dude who sat in front of me was from Barbados, with an accent and everything, and was black as night. This dumbass canuck sees his last name, which was Coward, and asked if it was his slave name given to him by his slavemaster. He then asked why he never changed it. The dude was baffled, as was I. Luckily it was laughed off.

We still laugh about it.

[DBoons Ghost]

We don't hate them per se, in the same way as most Americans don't really hate Canadians. Rivalry is a much better term.

Rivalry? What do we as citizens ever compete for? Pride? Honestly I never saw it as a rivalry. Do Americans see South America as a rivalry too? Or is it just Canada? Maybe the UK because the US is like the red-headed stepchild England kicked to the side and kept telling to leave.

[Iskandar]

Canada is wary of the US because we're not comfortable with the massive influence you have over us.

Well, the neoconservatives are okay with it, but we don't take kindly to their types 'round these parts.

[spitfirejunky]

I'm constantly told I have a funny accent. Then I laugh at them for having made that point with "eh" at the end.

There're cheaper universities and classier women in Montreal. The occasional drunken poutine is nice.

[guitrguy]

Among the many stereotypes we all suffer being from whatever place we're from, I've never heard the one where all Americans were neurotic. NYers for sure, as I am, but not all.

I meant in extremely general.


Poutine = poontang?

[Reaganista]

http://sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=404776

omg i used so much puncuation back then

[italic zero]

what a waste

[Reaganista]

i no

[Reaganista]

awesome
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6FAuJod1XmY

[Hababi]

http://sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=404776

just out of curiosity, has anyone made more threads than steve?

No way.

[lfantwister]

hey guys i'm concussed

woohoo no drinking for a week :(

[Smokey D]

Haha, girls and rugby.

[lfantwister]

actually got it seeing dropkick murphys

but it might as well have been rugby

[Hababi]

Were you dropkicked?

Teehee.

[Der Übermensch]

So I was watching TV, and there was footage from a race riot...

Bunch of white supremacists are protesting in a black neighborhood. Police are their curtaining them off from the people who lived there, who are pissed off....
The blacks attack the police and then start rioting and destroying their own neighborhood. I dont want to sound racist... but how can I feel sorry for them? The white supremacists must have been pissing themselves with glee! Could that neighborhood have been composed of a stupider group of people?

[Smokey D]

Um, I doubt they were tearing up their own houses.

[dei]

Das Ubermensch, that post is racist because your username is German and all Germans are Nazis.

[Der Übermensch]

Thanks for you deep insight :)

[ringworm]

i think the LA riots had a similar effect on many people

watching people destroy places in their own community that had nothing to do with the screwed up system was bizarre, then to see looting and beating up innocent people made sympathy a hard dish to serve

[Reaganista]

So I was watching TV, and there was footage from a race riot...

Bunch of white supremacists are protesting in a black neighborhood. Police are their curtaining them off from the people who lived there, who are pissed off....
The blacks attack the police and then start rioting and destroying their own neighborhood. I dont want to sound racist... but how can I feel sorry for them? The white supremacists must have been pissing themselves with glee! Could that neighborhood have been composed of a stupider group of people?
so insightful

[RIP Ian Curtis]

i think the LA riots had a similar effect on many people

watching people destroy places in their own community that had nothing to do with the screwed up system was bizarre, then to see looting and beating up innocent people made sympathy a hard dish to serve

Can't blame poor people for getting their pilliage on. Hell, I'm not even poor and I know exactly what I'd be doing, given that oppurtunity. Shi't, I'd have a shopping list. 800 packest of free Marlboros mmmm...

[Iskandar]

Free liquor. It's expensive.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

Free Liquor! He was convicted by a racist jury.

[Der Übermensch]

Not a single Dark Rum on the panel... what a disgrace...

[Iskandar]

I hate dark rum anyway.

[Joe McCarthy]

i think the LA riots had a similar effect on many people

watching people destroy places in their own community that had nothing to do with the screwed up system was bizarre, then to see looting and beating up innocent people made sympathy a hard dish to serve

Actually, a lot of businesses in the area were owned by Koreans.

[ringworm]

Can't blame poor people for getting their pilliage on
looting is different than burning an entire block and pulling people out of cars to hit them in the head with bricks, i think that truck driver still has problems after his beating, what did he do to deserve that?

it was just a sad scene to see people upset at racial issues, but use that frustration to harm people and property, especially when no one they directed the anger at had anything to do with it

Actually, a lot of businesses in the area were owned by Koreans.
and what did they have to do with the horrible problem that caused the riots?

[big80smullet]

Looting just makes stuff really cheap.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

I hate dark rum anyway.

Racist. Wait till I call up Oprah.

As for your sadness over people smashing and burning and looting, it's what people do, we're shi't. When social order breaks down you see the real face of humanity.

[big80smullet]

I love spiced rum. MOrgans spiced or sailor jerrys are pretty sex. A sailor jerrys mojito was my sig drink at my last bar. sooooo good

[RIP Ian Curtis]

Dude, a mojito? I used to think you were cool.

[DBoons Ghost]

Mojito is a woman drink.

I've tasted them though, and they are good, but not what I want in an alchoholic drink.

A pint of guiness and a shot of jager is my love.

I do enjoy some nice bombay sapphire and tonic though, with a twist of lime..

Or a captain and coke with a splash of ginger ale.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

Take a pint of Guiness. Get two shot glasses. Fill one with Baileys, the other with Irish whiskey. Drop both of the shots in at once and skull it, fast. If you time it right it'll taste like a Guiness milkshake. If you time it wrong the Baileys will curdle and you will puke. The Irish Car bomb is a drink to be feared and respected,

[Dave de Sylvia]

It's to be feared because it's ****ing rancid.

[DBoons Ghost]

Rancid to say the least..

I see no purpose in even trying that.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

1. It's called an Irish Car Bomb, it would be an insult to my ancestors if I didn't drink it. Plus it's hilarious

2. A barmaid in my old home town gives them to me and my mates for free if the boss isn't there, and cheap when he is.

[Dave de Sylvia]

I am Irish and it's still the worst drink ever.

[DBoons Ghost]

Yeah I like bomb drinks normally, but that sounds foul.

Honestly I'm too old for that kind of drinking. Now I do wimpy ones like a Dr Pepper.

[lfantwister]

White russians kick ***. especially if youre drinking them while watching the big lebowski

[Joe McCarthy]

and what did they have to do with the horrible problem that caused the riots?

Nothing. It wasn't their loss. It was pointless looting and rioting.

[PerpetualBurn]

Pint of bitter.

Because I'm a man.

[Iscariot]

Woman Says Cops "Fried" Her Stomach

AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN from Southeast Portland plans to sue the city after two police officers burned her stomach on her kitchen's electric stove and badly cut her right eye on a cupboard, then charged her with resisting arrest. Kemisha Samuels, 25, was asleep upstairs in her Powellhurst-Gilbert apartment off SE Division, on June 17 -- she was exhausted after taking her boyfriend Rodney Spain's 11-year-old son Malik to see the Fantastic Four. At 11 pm, East Precinct Police Officers Walker Berg and Jacob Clark came into her bedroom and woke her by shining a flashlight in her eyes, she says.

They had come to the house to conduct a welfare check on Malik, after having received a call from his mother, Tawna Ware -- Spain's former girlfriend -- alleging Samuels had given him alcohol.

"I told them this was some story Tawna had made up," Samuels says. The Mercury has been unable to contact Ware for comment.

Samuels followed the officers downstairs. Officer Berg waved his hand in front of Malik's eyes, a move known as the "Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus" test (HGN), and decided "Malik was slightly intoxicated." Berg took the child outside, where Malik told him that Samuels had forced him to drink alcohol, the officer wrote in his arrest report.

Berg told Officer Clark what Malik had said, and the pair went back in the house to arrest Samuels, who was lighting a cigarette on the kitchen stove.

"They never told me I was under arrest," says Samuels. "The next thing I knew, he was forcing my belly down onto the oven and I could hear it frying, the flesh frying. And I screamed at them that my stomach was burning, but the officer just forced me down even harder."

Both officers then grabbed Samuels, and hit her head on the open kitchen cupboard as they were putting cuffs on. The officers later tried to justify their use of force in writing.

"As I stated earlier, Samuels was extremely thin and limber," wrote Officer Berg, in his arrest report. "Being this limber made her extremely difficult to control while she was resisting arrest, despite her small size." (Samuels weighs approximately 120 pounds.)

The officers then took Samuels outside while they waited for an ambulance to take her to Adventist Medical Center.

"They told me to shut the **** up, and they were laughing at me," she says. "When I told them 'this isn't funny,' they laughed again, and when I asked for their business cards they told me, 'We ain't giving you ****.'"

Samuels categorically denies giving her boyfriend's son alcohol, and denies being intoxicated that night, as alleged by both cops in their arrest reports. Officer Berg described Samuels' teeth as "dirty/decaying" in his report, but Samuels, a former model for Meier & Frank clothes, has teeth that appear to be in excellent condition.

Apart from driving without a license, Samuels says she has never been convicted of any crime. She keeps a Bible on her side table and attends the New Song Community Church on Martin Luther King Boulevard every other week. She works nights as a security guard. The officers wrote in their reports that the house was full of beer cans, which Samuels says is not true.

Samuels was never charged by the district attorney's office with furnishing alcohol to a minor, due to insufficient evidence. She now faces trial only for resisting arrest on October 12 -- her court date has been delayed twice.

After complaining about her arrest, Samuels got a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), who tested her for drugs. She says she passed all the tests -- CPS does not disclose details on individual cases -- and doesn't even smoke marijuana.

"I think they were frustrated because they came out here and were expecting a belligerent person and they found me sober and asleep," says Samuels. "They tried to make me sound like this crazy psychopath or a straight-up bum or something, in the reports."

"She thinks what she thinks, and the officers document what they document," says Portland Police Bureau spokesman Brian Schmautz. "This conflict occurs."

"An 11-year old child being intoxicated is pretty much an indefensible position," he adds.

"Malik was sober," says Samuels. "Nobody was drunk. I think they made that up -- he was tired, and about ready to go to bed. If he was drunk, why didn't they take him to the hospital? They only did the finger test, and never gave any of us a breath test or anything. I never gave that boy alcohol. They're lying, and it's hard to be painted as this horrible person."

Officers Berg and Clark did not return calls by press time.

And this is why I hate cops.

[lfantwister]

She says she passed all the tests -- CPS does not disclose details on individual cases -- and doesn't even smoke marijuana.
hahaha

[guitrguy]

I prefer beer to liquor these days. If do drink liquor its either straight or mixed with one other thing like coke or something that compliments the liquor.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

There was a month or two last year where all I drank was vodka and orange. Managed to get sick of beer and bourbon, was a very embarassing month

[Dr Hooch]

And this is why I hate cops.

I also love the way that in this country giving children alcohol isn't illegal; if you're doing that it has to come under 'child abuse' otherwise it's perfectly legal.

[Knifeboy]

Indeed... Here in Denmark, it's not the consumption of alcohol, but the buying of it, that is restricted by age..
I had my first beer at the age of four, and I've loved the golden substance ever since!

[PerpetualBurn]

I was allowed the odd sip of my Dad's beer at a young age, and was given shandy of varying strengths on occasions. I've been drinking like that from a very young age, I'd have thought. I don't really remember.

[DBoons Ghost]

I've been drinking wine since I can remember. My pops used to make it by the barrell.

We used to have grape dances in the backyard growing up.

[dei]

Are you Italian?

[DBoons Ghost]

Are you Italian?

Yes. Very. Like.. two or three generations ago they came, they saw, and they decided to stay.

[Dr Hooch]

One of my friends, his dad is italian. We jib him about it sometime, but only in a "Anton is in fact super mario" and "Anton DeBlasio bake'a tha' pizza!" kinda way. I think when people are proud and comfortable with their heritage, then they can see the funny side of ridiculous stereotypes.

[PerpetualBurn]

then they can see the funny side of ridiculous stereotypes.

Let the record show that I fully endorse Monty Python's Yorkshirmen sketch.

[spitfirejunky]

Q. What's an innuendo?
A. An Italian suppository.

/fail

[DBoons Ghost]

I think when people are proud and comfortable with their heritage, then they can see the funny side of ridiculous stereotypes.

As can I. I enjoy giving them and taking them all the same.

[Reaganista]

I also love the way that in this country giving children alcohol isn't illegal; if you're doing that it has to come under 'child abuse' otherwise it's perfectly legal.

it's legal to give alcohol to your own kids in the us

[Dr Hooch]

it's legal to give alcohol to your own kids in the us

So what were the policemen arresting the woman for then...?

[dei]

One of my friends, his dad is italian. We jib him about it sometime, but only in a "Anton is in fact super mario" and "Anton DeBlasio bake'a tha' pizza!" kinda way. I think when people are proud and comfortable with their heritage, then they can see the funny side of ridiculous stereotypes.

Proud?

[Reaganista]

So what were the policemen arresting the woman for then...?

:confused:

she's black
duh

[Dr Hooch]

Proud?

There isn't a more appropriate word i can think of off the top of my head.

you know what i mean.

[PerpetualBurn]

PerpetualBurn is proud of being Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred.

[Reaganista]

im proud of existing in general

[PerpetualBurn]

High five for existing.

[DBoons Ghost]

Let's all dance the jig of existing.

*dances*

[RIP Ian Curtis]

Meh to existing.

I agree with Plato. Life is no better than death. Death is no better than life.

[PerpetualBurn]

With all due respect, how the **** would you know?

[Iscariot]

There are so many pseudo philosophers in the politics forum. Most of them are 15-years old and Google searched 'philosophy' and started posting the first thing they saw. Add in some teenage melodrama and you have a deadly concoction.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

With all due respect, how the **** would you know?

I don't. But it's a nice thought to keep you from killing yourself.

[spitfirejunky]

I figure the notion that life is better than death is more incentive not to kill myself.

[PerpetualBurn]

I don't. But it's a nice thought to keep you from killing yourself.

If I thought that life was equal to death I'd have no reason to live over dying.

Moron.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

No reason to die over living neither.

[telemore]

How long does it take you folks to decide what ****ing socks to wear for the day?

Christ.

[guitrguy]

I avoid socks for that very reason.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

Whatever I find on my floor and doesn't smell too bad. This applies to underwear, shirts, jeans and pretty much everything I wear.

[telemore]

that's gross dude.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

Yeah I know. But I'm lazy and useless.

[dei]

Most of my socks are black.

[lfantwister]

noski anyone?

[spitfirejunky]

Would help if I knew what that is.

[Dave de Sylvia]

Charles Noski is a current member of the board of directors at Microsoft and Morgan Stanley.

[dei]

I avoid socks for that very reason.

Your shoes must smell terrible.

[Reaganista]

i avoid shoes for that very reason

[Knifeboy]

Shoes are for germans

[Mr. Ron]

Vee crush vee jew viss our bootz

[lfantwister]

noski means socks in russian

its spelled like hocku

[lfantwister]

sorry to double post but you all should knowt aht i'm completely wasted

[Iskandar]

noski means socks in russian

its spelled like hockuноски :)

Except the final letter looks like a U when handwritten.

[dei]

Kuka on tuo mies?

[Iskandar]

Kuka on tuo mies?Wha?

I can't even tell what that is. Maybe Finnish?

[guitrguy]

Your shoes must smell terrible.

I quite like the smell.

[lfantwister]

носки

Except the final letter looks like a U when handwritten.

how do you type that? and you know russian!!!! this will be enormously helpful whether you agree to it or not

[Iskandar]

how do you type that? and you know russian!!!! this will be enormously helpful whether you agree to it or notActually, I don't know much Russian, or any other Slavic languages, although it's my heritage.:(

I do know that the user Paul (Saint Peter's Truckstop/Joe McCarthy) knows Russian pretty well and studies it at university. Maybe that helps.

[lfantwister]

thanks that's very helpful!

i have a midterm on thursday. maybe i should just talk in my minimal russian on mx and have people translate the phoenetics

[Iskandar]

thanks that's very helpful!

i have a midterm on thursday. maybe i should just talk in my minimal russian on mx and have people translate the phoeneticsDo you have a thing for Russia?

[lfantwister]

hell yes i do

and russians

[Iskandar]

hell yes i do

and russiansCool.:)

Here's what little I know, but it's useful:

водка vodka
товарищ tovarishch (comrade)
Россия Rossiya (Russia)

That'll get you by.

Also couldn't hurt to know да means yes.

[Smokey D]

Actually, I don't know much Russian, or any other Slavic languages, although it's my heritage.:(

I do know that the user Paul (Saint Peter's Truckstop/Joe McCarthy) knows Russian pretty well and studies it at university. Maybe that helps.

St Peter's Truckstop has pretty much left MX for the time being, I think. His account's under a self-imposed ban to be lifted at his discretion.

[Iskandar]

St Peter's Truckstop has pretty much left MX for the time being, I think. His account's under a self-imposed ban to be lifted at his discretion.No, he's still posting under an alternate account (Joe McCarthy). His main account has a six-month ban or something.

I swear it's impossible to leave this site. I don't know what it is about it.

[lfantwister]

водка vodka
товарищ tovarishch (comrade)
Россия Rossiya (Russia)
hahaha thats helpful you read too many commie books

but how do you type like that!

[Iskandar]

hahaha thats helpful you read too many commie books

but how do you type like that!I don't read commie books, it's just those are the only Russian words anyone ever needs to know.:)

I used Character Map for that, but I imagine there's an easy way to install a Russian font on your computer. Their alphabet is cool-looking.

[lfantwister]

it sure is a cool alphabet

what is character map?

[Iskandar]

it sure is a cool alphabet

what is character map?Um, you have to hunt for it. Let me see ...
Click Start, then All Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools. You should find it there.

It's just a thing that allows you to get letters you couldn't type with a normal keyboard.

[lfantwister]

Хорошо спасѝбо

which means good, thank you

[Iskandar]

Хорошо спасѝбо

which means good, thank youHorosho spasibo.:)

I don't remember why or when I learned to read that, but whatever. It's a life skill.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

I'm looking for anyone who uses or has used Secondlife or other virtual world programs. Need to do some interviews for this piece I'm writing. Responses will be met with rep and my email address in the message. Ta.

[spitfirejunky]

Why not just ask us here?

[DBoons Ghost]

I know a chick who plays that Secondlife madness.

She was convinced she could quit her job and just play this game. I'll have to ask her how that's going.

[spitfirejunky]

What the hell? Does that game have some sort of economy?

[DBoons Ghost]

What the hell? Does that game have some sort of economy?

Yea. You can sell virtual crap for RL cash. Real estate mostly.

Apparently people are making a lot of money for reals playing the game. I dunno time investments versus time spent playing etc..

But yeah. People are making money playing this game.

[Dave de Sylvia]

Maybe they should kill each other playing this game.

[DBoons Ghost]

Maybe they should kill each other playing this game.

If it made someone money I'm sure they would.

[Dr Hooch]

Yea. You can sell virtual crap for RL cash. Real estate mostly.

Apparently people are making a lot of money for reals playing the game. I dunno time investments versus time spent playing etc..

But yeah. People are making money playing this game.

a small majority make a lot of money by dedicating a lot of time to it but if your friend couldn't make a living going it alone on the high street there's not a hope in hell she could make a living doing the same on internets.

[spitfirejunky]

Yea. You can sell virtual crap for RL cash. Real estate mostly.

Apparently people are making a lot of money for reals playing the game. I dunno time investments versus time spent playing etc..

But yeah. People are making money playing this game.

I had no idea. I know a couple other games do, though.

[ringworm]

Man, who saw this last night? Great stuff

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/samurai/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_3_novabrsecretsofthesamu raisword_2007-10-10

[Reaganista]

i hate swords and samurias

[Mr. Ron]

Excuse me, but I am a samurai.

[PerpetualBurn]

He hates you.

[Mr. Ron]

Well I'm sure we would be freinds in some other time and place.

I'm off to eat some rice and drank sum tea peez out

[ringworm]

i hate swords and samurias
you have no code of honor, so i can see why :)

[DBoons Ghost]

Man, who saw this last night? Great stuff

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/samurai/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_3_novabrsecretsofthesamu raisword_2007-10-10

I almost watched that but the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire was on History so I watched that instead.

Is it me or is the History channel fascinated with end of the world/universe scenarios lately?

[Mr. Ron]

Yeah I don't get why the History Channel gives air time to those conspiracy theories.

[ringworm]

yeah, they have been a tad loony, I still watch em though :p

anything with suns gobbling up planets and galaxies colliding (even though its trillions of years away) is cool, but the impending doom of planet killing debris and ultimate tsunamis are borderline shock video at best

[Mr. Ron]

LMFAO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-v0VHX2Ghc

[The_Passenger]

haha, that's brilliant

[Knifeboy]

hahahaha... what a gullible bitch

[Reaganista]

yeah but so is everybody else

[ringworm]

what happened to Zero?

[Iskandar]

Zero was the only obstacle to my supremacy on this forum. Now I shall reign supreme, unchallenged.

[Mr. Ron]

NDP=National Dropper Party.

[Iskandar]

NDP=National Dropper Party.It's true.

My entire family voted NDP as far as I know.:)

[ringworm]

Zero was the only obstacle to my supremacy on this forum
I am Zero's 2nd in command, we knew all along you were up to something, hence the trap was set


*pushes trap door button

[Iskandar]

:upset:

[Mr. Ron]

jigglypuff is mad gay bro

[Iskandar]

jigglypuff is mad gay bro:angry::angry::angry:

TAKE THAT BACK

[Mr. Ron]

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Iskandar]

hahaha

[Knifeboy]

yeah but so is everybody else

I am by definition, not a gullible bitch

[Reaganista]

everybody else in that movie
and ur totally a bitch btw

[Mr. Ron]

You're a sassy lass aren't you?

;^*

[Hababi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1iNH7W9SC8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etnr%2Ecom%2Fblog%2Ftheplan k

:D

[Mr. Ron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1iNH7W9SC8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etnr%2Ecom%2Fblog%2Ftheplan k

:D

ew he seemed very Italian.

[ringworm]

she was way to hot for that to ever be funny :p



"now gtfo before i throw your cameras out the window"

[Reaganista]

****in staten island

[Iskandar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1iNH7W9SC8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etnr%2Ecom%2Fblog%2Ftheplan k

:D
Hey, you're back.

I voted today! Nobody cares, though.

I'll spare Tway from replying:


hahahahahahahahahahaha u ****ing **** what are the chances ur vote will ever matter ****in spigot

[Reaganista]

here's a hint the chances are really really low

[Mr. Ron]

"We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do." - Rudy Giuliani.




lawl

[Knifeboy]

How recent is that quote?

[Reaganista]

for some reason i was reading freedom as fascism right there idk y

[Mr. Ron]

How recent is that quote?
does it matter? haha

[Iskandar]

Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you doshould i temporarily suspend rational thought and consider for a moment that this comes anywhere near to making the slightest bit of logical sense

nah.

[Smokey D]

That's a supremely good bit of doublethink.

[Der Übermensch]

How Hobbsian...

[Dr Hooch]

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/101207/political-cartoon-2.gif

[Hababi]

From his interview with PBS tonight:

1) He wants to end the Department of Education. With that, college loan programs, federal funding, federal standards, etc.
2) He wants to abandon Israel.
3) He wants to abandon South Korea.
4) He wants to abolish the Federal Reserve. You know, that thing in place to prevent another economic collapse.
5) He wants to end the CIA
6) He wants to immediately withdraw fully from Iraq and Afghanistan. That'd mean that everyone who allied with us in both countries would be killed.

So, Ron Paul. Smart guy, genuine, and genuinely nuts.

It's a shame because he actually has a few good ideas.

Prepare for a late Huckabee surge in Iowa. And a Hillary Clinton (ugh) nomination.

[Dave de Sylvia]

If you'd just said 2 and 6 half the liberals here would probably vote for him.

[Hababi]

If you'd just said 2 and 6 half the liberals here would probably vote for him.

:lol: True, and a lot of facebook people who support him do only look at those two things, which is why his support is so high.

[Mr. Ron]

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/101207/political-cartoon-2.gif

I <3 marriedtothesea

[Dr Hooch]

From his interview with PBS tonight:

1) He wants to end the Department of Education. With that, college loan programs, federal funding, federal standards, etc.
2) He wants to abandon Israel.
3) He wants to abandon South Korea.
4) He wants to abolish the Federal Reserve. You know, that thing in place to prevent another economic collapse.
5) He wants to end the CIA
6) He wants to immediately withdraw fully from Iraq and Afghanistan. That'd mean that everyone who allied with us in both countries would be killed.

So, Ron Paul. Smart guy, genuine, and genuinely nuts.

It's a shame because he actually has a few good ideas.

Prepare for a late Huckabee surge in Iowa. And a Hillary Clinton (ugh) nomination.

Not that I'm so totally fond of him, but by 'Abandon israel' do you mean 'not funding their entire military' because y'know

that is kinda america's hobby

I <3 marriedtothesea

<3

[Reaganista]

It's a shame because he actually has a few good ideas.
no he doesn't

[Iskandar]

From his interview with PBS tonight:

1) He wants to end the Department of Education. With that, college loan programs, federal funding, federal standards, etc.
2) He wants to abandon Israel.
3) He wants to abandon South Korea.
4) He wants to abolish the Federal Reserve. You know, that thing in place to prevent another economic collapse.
5) He wants to end the CIA
6) He wants to immediately withdraw fully from Iraq and Afghanistan. That'd mean that everyone who allied with us in both countries would be killed.

So, Ron Paul. Smart guy, genuine, and genuinely nuts.

It's a shame because he actually has a few good ideas.
That's what you get from an ideologue.

His ideas are well-intentioned. He thinks he would minimize evil statist government by policies like that. Thing is, he doesn't bother with the consequences of doing stuff like that.

[nowhesingsnowhesobs]

ron paul is a retard

no coincidence the internets loves him

[RIP Ian Curtis]

He'd be worth voting in, because running ideologues through the system kinda softens their ideas a little, makes them workable, you know?

[Mr. Ron]

I don't know who I should vote for really. Paul is out the window, and Kucinich will never win.

[lfantwister]

I wish I could vote for ron paul but i have too much self respect

(not that fred thompson is much better)

[totah]

From his interview with PBS tonight:

1) He wants to end the Department of Education. With that, college loan programs, federal funding, federal standards, etc.
2) He wants to abandon Israel.
3) He wants to abandon South Korea.
4) He wants to abolish the Federal Reserve. You know, that thing in place to prevent another economic collapse.
5) He wants to end the CIA
6) He wants to immediately withdraw fully from Iraq and Afghanistan. That'd mean that everyone who allied with us in both countries would be killed.

So, Ron Paul. Smart guy, genuine, and genuinely nuts.

It's a shame because he actually has a few good ideas.

Prepare for a late Huckabee surge in Iowa. And a Hillary Clinton (ugh) nomination.

Apart from #1, I can totally see why he wants to do that. It's early so hard to see, but if you follow the economic news of the last ten or fifteen years you'll see that America is in international decline. The independent institutions that America has been using for the better part of the 20th century to take economic control of the world are either fast on their way to bankruptcy or a shell of their former power. The dollar as an international trade currency is becoming less popular, and the euro more popular. Basically what we're seeing is a superpower that had jumped ahead of the game seventy years ago being ****ed in a weakspot that the other would-be bastard superpowers have discovered. So it turned out that instead of taking huge loans from the IMF and then having to pay back through produce and work-hours (thus not leaving any actual food or cocobeans or nike trainers for the actual workers) all these governments had to do was to stop taking loans and stop trading in dollars. You didn't think it would last forever did you Zero? Even Rome had to collapse.

Just teasing.

[Smokey D]

Seriously, America's economy is not in major decline.

Global equilibrium is shifting, yeah, but that's a different proposition.

[lunchforthesky]

From his interview with PBS tonight:

1) He wants to end the Department of Education. With that, college loan programs, federal funding, federal standards, etc.
2) He wants to abandon Israel.
3) He wants to abandon South Korea.
4) He wants to abolish the Federal Reserve. You know, that thing in place to prevent another economic collapse.
5) He wants to end the CIA
6) He wants to immediately withdraw fully from Iraq and Afghanistan. That'd mean that everyone who allied with us in both countries would be killed.

So, Ron Paul. Smart guy, genuine, and genuinely nuts.

It's a shame because he actually has a few good ideas.

Prepare for a late Huckabee surge in Iowa. And a Hillary Clinton (ugh) nomination.

He is probably the smartest, most geniune and honest guy running (Besides Kucinich) but he's completely nuts. Man takes capitalism way too far.

[dei]

Kucinich will never win.

So true. :(

[ringworm]

well, we dont need Pinocchio as our next Pres anyway

[Iskandar]

Seriously, America's economy is not in major decline.

Global equilibrium is shifting, yeah, but that's a different proposition.About time, too.

[Smokey D]

Note that I mean economic equilibrium here.

And it's only a good thing if equilibrium is shifting to something better. Is China better than the US? In some ways, probably, but I think I'd prefer the US.

[Iskandar]

I mean that a global leveling is happening. Isn't it? Other centers of power are emerging besides the US, which was formerly unchallenged (after the Cold War).

[Smokey D]

Was the Cold War good?

[Iskandar]

Was the Cold War good?In most ways, no, but I don't see another Cold War happening. There isn't a superpower as hostile to the US as the Soviet Union was. China and India aren't, and the zeitgeist seems to be that these two will lead the way in the development of the East.

[Smokey D]

Not yet.

I don't really see a full blown Cold War coming, but I do see increased tensions in Asia which the US is ideologically or treaty bound to respond to which could create problems.

Besides, China and India aren't exactly best friends and Japan isn't exactly inconsequential. Things are peaceful now, but the emergence of China and India as full blown superpowers (which will probably occur in the next 30-50 years) surrounded by hostile states and allies of the US and of each other, as well as declining resources might change that. Historically, the prevailing international system does not fare well when new great powers emerge.

[Reaganista]

**** the word zeitgeist
**** it up it's ***

and the cold war was awesome

[Iskandar]

Not yet.

I don't really see a full blown Cold War coming, but I do see increased tensions in Asia which the US is ideologically or treaty bound to respond to which could create problems.To which tensions are you referring, specifically?

[Smokey D]

Japan-South Korea-China.

North Korea-the World.

China-Taiwan.

China in the South China Sea (since it is speculated it is a 'new Persian Gulf).

etc.

[Reaganista]

the tension between people who say zeitgeist and people who hate them

[Iskandar]

Japan-South Korea-China.

North Korea-the World.

China-Taiwan.

China in the South China Sea (since it is speculated it is a 'new Persian Gulf).

etc.I don't see China-Taiwan tensions as particularly significant on a global scale. Might just be me. And North Korea isn't part of the new global economy, it's a freak isolationist state. The best they can do is scare us with rumours of their nuclear program.

[Smokey D]

The US and Japan have both semi-committed to protecting the status quo in Asia-Pacific, so any attempt by China to realise its claims to sovereignty over Taiwan come with the potential for conflict. The US sends a battle carrier group up through the Taiwan strait every time they start sabre rattling, which demonstrates some sort of commitment, I suppose.

North Korea is an issue not really in itself (though there is some fears about what it'd do to Tokyo, Seoul etc if it ever began to come unstuck) but because of how it would change the security environment in the region. Imagine for example if NK nuclearised to a sufficient extent to seriously threaten its neighbours. Japan, as biggest enemy, would be in quite real jeopardy, which could prompt it to end its peace constitution and remilitarise itself properly. Since it already possesses one of the most advanced militaries in the world and has the industrial capacity to upgrade very quickly, Japan could theoretically pose a major threat to China and South Korea (neither of which have forgotten WWII; they both frequently use that rhetoric to drum up domestic support). Accordingly, they could respond with their own military build ups, diminishing the US's conventional arms supremacy and weakening its influence in the region. This could be globalised by prompting India to respond to China's build up, prompting Pakistan to do the same etc. It's also unlikely the US would let its relative strength be eroded.

[Iskandar]

I think you're getting ahead of yourself, honestly. What you're proposing is very possible, but I don't think it's likely.

I don't see China making a move as rash as attempting to reclaim Taiwan any time soon, nor do I see North Korea attempting anything foolish with their nuclear arms. I was in fact under the impression NK was moving towards denuclearization.

[Smokey D]

I think you're getting ahead of yourself, honestly. What you're proposing is very possible, but I don't think it's likely.

Are you familiar with a security dilemma?

These are seriously debated ideas in IR circles.


I don't see China making a move as rash as attempting to reclaim Taiwan any time soon, nor do I see North Korea attempting anything foolish with their nuclear arms. I was in fact under the impression NK was moving towards denuclearization.

China has pretty much promised to invade if Taiwan declares independence, and the current Taiwanese president is desperately trying to mix things up in order to avoid prosecution when he steps down next year. I doubt he'll go as far as to declare independence, but he might swing national debate in that direction which could have long term consequences. And besides, we're not talking about what's going to happen now. We're talking about what'll happen in the medium future.

[Iskandar]

Are you familiar with a security dilemma?

These are seriously debated ideas in IR circles.Seems like a specialized term for a very basic concept.
China has pretty much promised to invade if Taiwan declares independence, and the current Taiwanese president is desperately trying to mix things up in order to avoid prosecution when he steps down next year. I doubt he'll go as far as to declare independence, but he might swing national debate in that direction which could have long term consequences. And besides, we're not talking about what's going to happen now. We're talking about what'll happen in the medium future.I admit I don't know much about Taiwan, but it seems like any Taiwan/China issue is too small to be of anything other than local significance.

Unless the West tried to get involved, which come to think of it they probably would. Kinda like Kuwait.

[Reaganista]

Seems like a specialized term for a very basic concept.
wat

[lfantwister]

A good unrelated story to make you laugh:

the boyfriend went to vegas over the weekend and got married to some chick he met at a motocross

[griftadan]

unless it turns out to be a dude i'm not laughing

and i would definitely prefer cold war deuce to terrorism

[Iskandar]

I just got stopped by the police on my way home. They thought I was some guy called "Dan."

They didn't notice I was high.:)

[ringworm]

They didn't notice I was high.:)
lol, i'da never guessed

have you seen the new (maybe old & I'm just behind) clear rolling papers?

[DBoons Ghost]

Rolling papers suck. Glass pipes 4tw.

[dei]

lol, i'da never guessed

have you seen the new (maybe old & I'm just behind) clear rolling papers?

Saran wrap?

[ringworm]

supposed to be vegetable oil based


Rolling papers suck. Glass pipes 4tw.

i go back and forth, my arsenal is stocked :p


vaporizers ftw, except they are $$$$ and you loose the taste :(

[griftadan]

i've got a pipe with a water chamber, if you keep it in the freezer it's awesome

[Der Übermensch]

A good unrelated story to make you laugh:

the boyfriend went to vegas over the weekend and got married to some chick he met at a motocross

Seriously?

[PerpetualBurn]

It's far more believable than when she told me she new good looking women rugby players.

And on the subject of being high, this guy is a hero:

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4116/potsmokingnyu5.jpg

[griftadan]

he should have made the air hole actuated by the z-trigger

[RIP Ian Curtis]

Jesus H. Christ, you could find fault with something as perfect as a Kurt Russel movie couldn't you. Just accept how awesome it is.

[PerpetualBurn]

Okay, we get it. You fancy Kurt Russel.

We're a liberal bunch here.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

Shi't yeah i fancy Kurt Russell. But the man just picked on a N64 bong, for a minor fault. Seriously, is nothing good enough?

[DBoons Ghost]

Kurt Russell should have retired after Escape From New York.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

Kurt Russell should have retired after Escape From New York.

Yeah totally, except maybe something like, I dunno, TOMBSTONE?

[DBoons Ghost]

Yeah totally, except maybe something like, I dunno, TOMBSTONE?

How could I forget the awesomeness that is Tombstone.

Shame on me. I watched that movie at least 50 times one summer.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

Sorry to sound rude man, I just watched it again and blew like $250 on cowboy themed clothing off the internets. Aaaah, my tax return, how I love thee.

[DBoons Ghost]

Sorry to sound rude man, I just watched it again and blew like $250 on cowboy themed clothing off the internets. Aaaah, my tax return, how I love thee.

Not rude at all. I'm glad you reminded me cuz now I want to watch it again.

[RIP Ian Curtis]

You seen Big Trouble In Little China? That is truly an epic Kurt Russell adventure. I thought I might be subconsciously gay about 3 weeks ago. I came home from the video shop with 4 out of my 5 rentals starring Kurt Russell...

[DBoons Ghost]

You seen Big Trouble In Little China? That is truly an epic Kurt Russell adventure. I thought I might be subconsciously gay about 3 weeks ago. I came home from the video shop with 4 out of my 5 rentals starring Kurt Russell...


Aww.. another classic I forgot about. I better hit IMDB and retract my previous statement.

I suppose I only think of Tango and Cash.

[ringworm]

The Thing & Soldier too, I know soldier was corny, but I still liked it

for some reason, I liked Wyatt Earp better than Tombstone

[Der Übermensch]

It's far more believable than when she told me she new good looking women rugby players.


I do! My best friends GF is! Of course she is the ONLY non-dyke lesbian on the team... They call her the token straight chick.

[DBoons Ghost]

The Thing & Soldier too, I know soldier was corny, but I still liked it

for some reason, I liked Wyatt Earp better than Tombstone

Tombstone had Val Kilmer playing Doc Holliday, argueably his finest performance ever.

That alone makes Tombstone the win for me. I love Kevin Costner's acting though. I think they were both great movies, but Tombstone was better due to Val Kilmer.

[Der Übermensch]

I love Kevin Costner's acting
Kevin Costner can act?

[DBoons Ghost]

Kevin Costner can act?

Sure he can! Why you dissin?

Field of Dreams, Dances with Wolves, Silverado, JFK..

There's more good ones but that's all I really lilked. Tin Cup was great too. For the Love of the Game was also great.

He's about as American as Tom Hanks!

[ringworm]

yeah, they shoulda put Val in Wyatt Earp


and Costner, heck of a good actor

i even liked Waterworld & The Postman, even though many didnt
Tin Cup was one of the better ones
A Perfect World was great too

[DBoons Ghost]

yeah, they shoulda put Val in Wyatt Earp


and Costner, heck of a good actor

i even liked Waterworld & The Postman, even though many didnt
Tin Cup was one of the better ones
A Perfect World was great too

Aww Postman and Waterworld were truly awful films. Dennis Hopper was great in Waterworld though.

[ringworm]

lol, i know, fsr, i loved them, specially postman

[DBoons Ghost]

Maybe I should rewatch it to be sure. Postman I mean. I would never sit through Waterworld again if I could avoid it.

I just realized how many sports movies Costner was in though.

[DBoons Ghost]

I forgot all about The Untouchables. Classic at the very least for Sean Connery "Leave it to a wop to take a knife to a gunfight"

[ringworm]

Maybe I should rewatch it to be sure. Postman I mean.
its basically Waterworld on land :p

Tom Petty has a cameo, lol

[DBoons Ghost]

its basically Waterworld on land :p

Tom Petty has a cameo, lol

Does he really? I must not have seen the whole movie then. I would recall a Tom Petty cameo. Did he sing a song?

[ringworm]

as soon as i saw him (3/4 through the movie), i just knew a village celebration was around the corner and he was gonna bust a post apocalyptic jam out, but he didnt, lol

[Dave de Sylvia]

Kevin Costner can act?
Nobody who's seen Open Range could be capable of such immense confusitude. The shoot-out scene is the best ever, bar none.

[ringworm]

that movie is one of the best western/cowboy's, bar none

[DBoons Ghost]

I haven't seen it yet. Maybe I'll check it out.

[PerpetualBurn]

To be fair, despite being an absolutely dire movie, I love The Postman.

I enjoy films with absolutely ridiculous heroes like that.

[Reaganista]

dood the good and the bad and the ugly is the best western

[PerpetualBurn]

For A Few Dollars More

[totah]

Nobody who's seen Open Range could be capable of such immense confusitude. The shoot-out scene is the best ever, bar none.

Even better than that one with Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan in High Noon? 'Cos that was pretty well-acted.

[Iskandar]

You mean Shanghai Noon.

I liked that movie.

[spitfirejunky]

Anyone seen 3:10 to Yuma?

[Hababi]

Anyone seen 3:10 to Yuma?

I saw it and reviewed it. Very entertaining movie.

[ringworm]

For A Few Dollars More

Unforgiven might be the best