Hmm... this won't do at all.









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You Won't Believe Town's Obscene Name!

When you think of Austria, no doubt you think of such cities and towns as Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg. But there is another one. And because of its name, tourists steal the signs.

The name? We can't print it here. It's F---ing.

Agence France Presse and Britain's Sunday Telegraph report that the residents of F---ing (pronounced Fooking) are quite perturbed with British tourists who think the name of the town is so hilarious they want to take a piece of it home with them. So they swipe the signs. There are only 32 homes in this charming Austrian village with breathtaking views of lakes and forests and none of its residents understand why their signs are so popular. In fact, sign stealing is the only crime in F---ing.

The good people of F---ing have wised up. They have embedded their signs in concrete. Try stealing one now! We quote. Directly. Exactly. This is what police chief Kommandant Schmidtberger told the Sunday Telegraph: "We will not stand for the F---ing signs being removed. It may be very amusing for you British, but F---ing is simply F---ing to us. What is this big F---ing joke? It is puerile."

Interestingly, it is only the British who seem to have such a fascination with the name of this little town. A local guide told the Telegraph that the Germans want to see the Mozart house in Salzburg, while the Americans only care about the area around which "The Sound of Music" was filmed. The Japanese just want to see Hitler's birthplace in Braunau. The British are different. A woman who runs a guest house told the paper, "Just this morning I had to tell an English lady who stopped by that there were no F---ing postcards."

These Austrians may be on to something about the Brits. The BBC News reports that a Northamptonshire secondary school in Great Britain has had such a problem with its students swearing that they have instituted a five-word swearing limit in each class. When a student swears, the teacher writes a mark on the board. After five marks, no one is allowed to swear for the duration of the class. If the rule is broken? They get a severe talking-to by the teacher. We're thinking there won't be any field trips to F---ing, Austria.

[QUOTE=jon_slaps_bass;13457498]what makes man truly human

There is no distinction in classification of human vs animal.

The only thing that makes human human is our uncanny ability to drastically alter our environment intentionally on a rapid and wide scale.
I think that we have that ability because we evolved out of necessity to address our mulitude of vulnerabilities that became more of a detriment when we came down from the trees and out of our natural element.

We do not have the ability to survive in a wide range of climates, so we had to make clothes and housing.
We do not have an exoskeleton, natural camoflague, built-in weapons, exceptional speed and agility or any number of other traits that make good natural hunters.
We can not survive in many enviroments that other animals can, and without our (whatever you want to call it; intelligence, cleverness, abstract thought, etc) we are a highly specialized species with severly limited adaptability.

Our minds developed to counter all these limiting vulnerabilites intrinsic in being human.
This allowed us to relocate, which caused us to develop further.
The result is a species that is a parasite of nature herself, rather than a particular species or family.
We, who were perhaps the weakest and least threatening animal of the animal kingdom have become the dominant species on earth and a threat to the very survival of nature herself.

Agent Smith had it dead on.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same
pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague.

So, what is "Nature" as opposed to "Human"?
I have heard the argument many times that humans are a part of nature, not seperate from it.
Some people *gives a sideways glance in Erin's general direction* have even argued that there should not even be a distinction between "natural" and "man-made" since man is a part of nature.

I wonder, though...
Is man (modern man, that is) still a part of nature, or have we evolved to a point that we are no longer a part of nature?
Many humans would argue that we aren't "animals" because we are above them.
I don't know about above, but I certainly do lean towards seperate from.

Look at who we are (again, modern man, not tribal cultures that have stood basically unchanged for centuries) and what we have become.
How many people do you know that could truly survive in the wilderness for an extended period of time armed with nothing but their wits?
How many people do you know that could survive for an extended period of time without the majority of modern "conveniences" that would have been viewed as superfluous at best a hundred years ago?
What would you life be without: Hosptals, Medicine, Doctors, Telephones, the Internet, Electricity, Mass produced clothing, Laundry machines, Conveneince stores (stores at all, for that matter) etc etc?
Could YOU survive as a "natural animal"?
The more we indulge in man-made "conveniences" the more reliant we become on them.
Eventually we depend on them on a regular basis, then we take them for granted, then we become addicted, in a sense, finally, we our lives become dependent upon what was once considered a luxury "convenience" and we can't live without it.
We have central air conditioning, central heat, we close our windows, pave our streets and driveways, uproot nature and replace it with symetrical landscape art??
Most people don't spend much more time outdoors than it takes to get from the building door to the car door (and maybe a few hours on the weekend).
We are no longer a part of nature.
We don't live in nature anymore, we live off of nature.

Yes, I keep putting "convenience" in quotes because I disagree that they are convenient.
In addition to making us less self-reliant, they actually make our lives much more complicated and difficult.
Computers are an ideal example of this.
People talk of the "conveniences" of communication, although, to be sure, they are a helluva lot more complicated, expensive, tempermental and time-consuming than telephones (which, of course, are less "convenient" than letters.
Oh yeah, they are irreplaceable in medical science, right? Exactly! They are irreplaceable, indispensable even, although they were unheard of 50 years ago.
And don't talk about the medical advancements made due to computers.
Were things really THAT bad 50 years ago 100 years ago?
Sure, people died more often of diseases, but, you know what? They are SUPPOSED TO. That is what diseases are for.
Besides, I really don't think that quality of life has vastly improved over the past 50 years at all, let alone as a result of medical advancements.
With all the stress and loss of personal/family time that inevitably comes along with unchecked industrial development and "progress" I think the quality of life has dropped.
How many times have your heard, or said yourself, "It was a simpler time back then" and meant it as a compliment ot times gone by?
I have heard it countless times from countless people, but people still embrace technology, progress and our seperation justifying it as "conveniences" to make life easier, when as more "conveniences" come out life invaraibly gets more complicated.
I just don't get it.
How many times have you fantasized about living in a "Gilligan's Island" type deserted island paradise far from modern "conveniences" and the stress of living in a modern society?
Maybe you haven't, maybe I am just weird, but I have dreamed about a life like that for as long as I can remember.
If I am not the exception, then why does everyone embrace modern technology like it is mother's tit?
Why do people strive to create entirely new industries that have no real purpose other than its own survival?
The industries we create are a lot like the human race itself, except we design them to feed on us.
It boggles my mind, it really does.
We create industries that survive by and have no purpose other than feeding off us.
Then we create other entire industries that have no purpose other than feeding those OTHER industries!
What the **** am I missing?
Or is it that everyone else is missing something.

The other excuse we tell ourselves is that we are working to make a difference.
We take these jobs because society tells us that everyone has to do their noble part for society to make it productive and efficient.
I don't buy it.
I'd rather live in Walden Woods.

Let me just ask one most important question that I constantly ask myself to keep myself in check.
Would you rather live to 50 years old in a free state of living off the land and your own wits alone (like Gilligan's Island), or live to 70 or 80 in a modern society that is full of crime, danger, stress, false ideals, pollution etc and likely live the last 20 - 30 years of your life in poor health and dependent (to at least some level) on medical care?
I think my answer is pretty clear by now.
What's yours?[/QUOTE]

You should refrain from using the first person when writing an essay, even an opinion piece.

lowsound

[QUOTE=Pinhead13;13458944]:lol:

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You Won't Believe Town's Obscene Name!

When you think of Austria, no doubt you think of such cities and towns as Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg. But there is another one. And because of its name, tourists steal the signs.

The name? We can't print it here. It's F---ing.

Agence France Presse and Britain's Sunday Telegraph report that the residents of F---ing (pronounced Fooking) are quite perturbed with British tourists who think the name of the town is so hilarious they want to take a piece of it home with them. So they swipe the signs. There are only 32 homes in this charming Austrian village with breathtaking views of lakes and forests and none of its residents understand why their signs are so popular. In fact, sign stealing is the only crime in F---ing.

The good people of F---ing have wised up. They have embedded their signs in concrete. Try stealing one now! We quote. Directly. Exactly. This is what police chief Kommandant Schmidtberger told the Sunday Telegraph: "We will not stand for the F---ing signs being removed. It may be very amusing for you British, but F---ing is simply F---ing to us. What is this big F---ing joke? It is puerile."

Interestingly, it is only the British who seem to have such a fascination with the name of this little town. A local guide told the Telegraph that the Germans want to see the Mozart house in Salzburg, while the Americans only care about the area around which "The Sound of Music" was filmed. The Japanese just want to see Hitler's birthplace in Braunau. The British are different. A woman who runs a guest house told the paper, "Just this morning I had to tell an English lady who stopped by that there were no F---ing postcards."

These Austrians may be on to something about the Brits. The BBC News reports that a Northamptonshire secondary school in Great Britain has had such a problem with its students swearing that they have instituted a five-word swearing limit in each class. When a student swears, the teacher writes a mark on the board. After five marks, no one is allowed to swear for the duration of the class. If the rule is broken? They get a severe talking-to by the teacher. We're thinking there won't be any field trips to F---ing, Austria.[/QUOTE]

I think that I laughed throughout that whole article.

lowsoud

I have a band practice tommorow!

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hello everybody

Last night I was watching Married... With Children and the episode with Anthrax was on. It was pretty funny.

Jefferson is the most classic character on that show.

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;13459013]Last night I was watching Married... With Children and the episode with Anthrax was on. It was pretty funny.

Jefferson is the most classic character on that show.[/QUOTE]

That episode was hilarious.


Jefferson's cool, but I hate Marcy.

[QUOTE=User Name;13458979]I have a band practice tommorow![/QUOTE]

Cool, new band?

lowsound

[QUOTE=thelowsoundofbass;13459046]Cool, new band?

lowsound[/QUOTE]

Yeah, an old friend asked me to play rhythm guitar in his metal band. I usually only play acoustic stuff, but they invited me back and told me I was in. I'm excited.

[QUOTE=User Name;13459024]That episode was hilarious.


Jefferson's cool, but I hate Marcy.[/QUOTE]

Marcy was there the whole time anyway, Steve wasn't bad, but Jefferson was just too hilarious.

[QUOTE=User Name;13459063]Yeah, an old friend asked me to play rhythm guitar in his metal band. I usually only play acoustic stuff, but they invited me back and told me I was in. I'm excited.[/QUOTE]

Nice, I might be playing lead guitar in a band. But it is looking like it will fall through, which is ok because I have so much stuff on right now.

lowsound

Im string my acoustic guitar for the first time. I grabbed the first strings i saw so i hope i like them.

:wave:

[QUOTE=HELLonWHEELS;13459107]Im string my acoustic guitar for the first time. I grabbed the first strings i saw so i hope i like them.[/QUOTE]

Nice, what'd you get?

[QUOTE=thelowsoundofbass;13459087]Nice, I might be playing lead guitar in a band. But it is looking like it will fall through, which is ok because I have so much stuff on right now.

lowsound[/QUOTE]

That's cool. Good luck!

Uhh i got Martin SP 80/20 Bronze in light Custom Guage(.011-.052)

Music is so much better when it's played loudly... this is a fact.

Chugga chugga

[QUOTE=Left Shoe;13459117]:wave:[/QUOTE]

:wave:

lowsound

According to MyHeritage.com's face recognition technology, I look 62% like Kevin Zegers.

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;13459148]Music is so much better when it's played loudly... this is a fact.[/QUOTE]

I agree with that.

lowsound

so I'm tuing my guitar and my tuner says that my acoustic's first E was tuned to the 6th E and i don't know if i should go up to until i somehow get to the first E or should i leave it the way it is. It seems really lose. When i tightened it it seemed really tight

[QUOTE=HELLonWHEELS;13459236]so I'm tuing my guitar and my tuner says that my acoustic's first E was tuned to the 6th E and i don't know if i should go up to until i somehow get to the first E or should i leave it the way it is. It seems really lose. When i tightened it it seemed really tight[/QUOTE]

The .11? You are tuning that to an E? Umm, it should go that high, but I wouldn't. I don't usually take anything over a .10 to high E.

lowsound

[QUOTE=HELLonWHEELS;13459236]so I'm tuing my guitar and my tuner says that my acoustic's first E was tuned to the 6th E and i don't know if i should go up to until i somehow get to the first E or should i leave it the way it is. It seems really lose. When i tightened it it seemed really tight[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.tunemybass.com/[/url]

Use that as a reference and tune by ear.

It also has a guitar tuner.

I used it today to tune my bass, and it's the only tuner I ever use because I can't find my other one.

[QUOTE=thelowsoundofbass;13459256]The .11? You are tuning that to an E? Umm, it should go that high, but I wouldn't. I don't usually take anything over a .10 to high E.

lowsound[/QUOTE]

Yah. The .011 but it seems way to lose as the low E.

[QUOTE=HELLonWHEELS;13459288]Yah. The .011 but it seems way to lose as the low E.[/QUOTE]

Did you tune that .52 up to low E? Make sure that your tuner is on guitar. I would say tune it, I use the lightest strings that I can find. Usually a .42-.06.

lowsound

Is there anywhere to buy Stu Hamm's "Radio Free Albemuth" new?

[QUOTE=Radiobass81;13458068]Check out the new song for my band... :)

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Wow, that's neat.

after from the sun?