Re: New moderator
(in Libertarianism)
I'll do it!
discussion post on Thu, November 5, 2009 - 7:45 PM
Re: replies
(in Playa Del Fuego)
* Now THOSE were raves *
I guess you have not been going to the right parties!
discussion post on Thu, November 5, 2009 - 5:18 PM
Re: Funny or creepy?
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
For me, neither, but then I've been looking at porn lately, which is both almost by definition.
discussion post on Fri, October 30, 2009 - 3:43 PM
Re: Don't steal bikes, bro!
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
What?
You want to fight, don't you.
discussion post on Fri, October 30, 2009 - 3:02 PM
Re: Don't steal bikes, bro!
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
yes. Wait, wha?
shortattentionspan.tribe.net/thr...7189
We've been saying all along how this was a relatively non-violent beating.
discussion post on Thu, October 29, 2009 - 8:48 PM
Re: Don't steal bikes, bro!
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
I just noticed where that is. I assumed it was a neighborhood in Brooklyn, but that's right down the street! Here's a google street view:
maps.google.com/maps
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discussion post on Thu, October 29, 2009 - 5:38 PM
Re: Don't steal bikes, bro!
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
He deserved a far worse beating. One that would make him get another job.
discussion post on Wed, October 28, 2009 - 9:56 PM
Re: The Box
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
I would start to feel the willies around $2 or 3 quadrillion. At that point I would own around 500 times the 2008 GDP of the entire planet and half of humanity would be gone.
discussion post on Mon, October 26, 2009 - 2:29 PM
Re: The Box
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
Likely not, if I only stop at $1 trillion. Which is a mere million souls. The chances of its including Cameron Diaz is 1 in 6000 or so, and that's assuming all famous people are not exempt by the definition of 'knowing'.
discussion post on Mon, October 26, 2009 - 2:11 PM
Re: Don't steal bikes, bro!
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
I blame Roe v. Wade. Without all those aborted fetuses growing up to run around and fuck shit up there's no one to keep us on our toes.
discussion post on Mon, October 26, 2009 - 1:51 PM
Re: Handerpants
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
It was funny in the way that Saturday Night Live is funny: a sketch with dubious promise is wrung dry for way too long. I would not be surprised if there are more 'handerpants' sketches in our future.
discussion post on Mon, October 26, 2009 - 1:17 PM
Re: Don't steal bikes, bro!
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
>>I thought NY was hard? <<
The dirty little secret of NY is that we've gone soft. Life is good here, and we have such a rep from the bad old days and the media that we basically just have to give someone a hard look and they back off. But wh...
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discussion post on Mon, October 26, 2009 - 1:13 PM
Re: The Box
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
Pfft. I'd settle for a mere billion. That's 1,000 people, or 2% of the yearly total dying in traffic accidents in the US alone. 1,000 fewer people on the planet, moreover people I do not know, in exchange for vastly increasing my wealth and pow...
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discussion post on Mon, October 26, 2009 - 11:56 AM
Don't steal bikes, bro!
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
Don't do it again!
vimeo.com/6475675
discussion post on Mon, October 26, 2009 - 8:30 AM
Re: The Box
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
I'd be the richest man on the planet!
discussion post on Sun, October 25, 2009 - 7:38 PM
Re: Handerpants
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
>> It's funny in an ironic way. <<
This is funny in an ironic way:
www.youtube.com/watch
discussion post on Sun, October 25, 2009 - 6:39 PM
Re: The Box
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
I'd be pushing that button, like, every minute.
discussion post on Sun, October 25, 2009 - 5:56 AM
Re: Handerpants
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
Agreed: it wasn't funny. But Geo has brought the funny so often that he gets a pass.
discussion post on Sun, October 25, 2009 - 4:01 AM
Re: Anyone know this guy??
(in Burning Man)
>> Random violence against women. <<
Hmm... without more specifics, I'll go with what multiple women have said, that he's entertaining and harmless.
discussion post on Thu, October 22, 2009 - 1:45 PM
Re: Tooth Fairy
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
It's all for the lulz.
discussion post on Wed, October 21, 2009 - 11:10 AM
Re: Tooth Fairy
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
Don't prop up your arguments with the straw man of the Bush administration. Look at you all rhetorically "if you agree with Rendall, you agree with BUSH!" Sly, but not sly enough, guy.
FAIL
Address the issue, please.
discussion post on Tue, October 20, 2009 - 11:50 AM
Re: Anyone know this guy??
(in Burning Man)
It is the Boooop guy, and a friend assures me that he is on the side of good. and since I don't have any real evidence otherwise, I'll take her word for it.
'cept... evil Stefan, would you go into details, please? There's a whole lotta range ...
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discussion post on Tue, October 20, 2009 - 11:46 AM
Re: Email From the Vets (x-posted from Balt/Wash List)
(in Playa Del Fuego)
>> Oh well... I hate the sound restrictions & the ticket cap. <<
LOL. Let's just ignore them! Fuck the vets and everyone else.
discussion post on Tue, October 20, 2009 - 5:44 AM
Re: Tooth Fairy
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
You're angry, so something struck a cord, otherwise you wouldn't care so much. I understand, it sucks to be called out for not thinking clearly. You parroted that blog and got called out for it, and it wounded your pride. Next time, take a step...
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discussion post on Mon, October 19, 2009 - 11:58 PM
Re: Ticket Hoarding Brainstorming and Resources
(in Playa Del Fuego)
>> If you want to be there, really, really want to be there, will do anything to be there, you'll get there. <<
That's the traditional response any time someone addresses the problem of hoarding, and I appreciate that. The scarcity of tickets ...
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discussion post on Mon, October 19, 2009 - 8:25 PM
Re: new age frauds and plastic shamans
(in Rehearsals for Extinct Anomalies)
And of course, there are the 2012 doomsday fetishists:
"The year 2012 will not bring the end of the world, a Mayan elder has insisted, despite claims that a Mayan calendar shows that time will "run out" on December 21 of that year.
"Mr Pixt...
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discussion post on Mon, October 19, 2009 - 6:55 PM
Re: Email From the Vets (x-posted from Balt/Wash List)
(in Playa Del Fuego)
Two words: moop map
As for sound, the solution is simple but no one wants to do it:
decibel meter + enforcement: starting with unplugging, up to and including eviction. Until someone is willing to step up and be the hard ass, there will alw...
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discussion post on Mon, October 19, 2009 - 6:38 PM
* use paperless tickets
(in Playa Del Fuego)
At least two ways that paperless tickets would increase participation:
* people who forget or lose their paper tickets can still get in!
* people who decide at the last minute that they cannot attend, can notify the gate and those who are wait...
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discussion post on Mon, October 19, 2009 - 6:31 PM
* name and shame those who hoard.
(in Playa Del Fuego)
>> ticket hoarding pillary <<
I had in mind something less punitive :)
If we can reward not-hoarding and shame hoarding, that would discourage the practice.
It could work like the Burning Man moop map, where you list names tickets bought ...
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discussion post on Mon, October 19, 2009 - 6:12 PM
* people hoard tickets to increase their social capital
(in Playa Del Fuego)
Something about the structure of how tickets are sold causes the frenzy.
The Wikipedia entry on hoarding is pretty sparse, and doesn't seem at first look to apply to PDF:
"In economics, hoarding is the unfair practice of buying up resources...
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discussion post on Mon, October 19, 2009 - 6:07 PM
Ticket Hoarding Brainstorming and Resources
(in Playa Del Fuego)
"Ticket hoarding" is the practice of people buying more tickets than they need. This results in (and is caused by) tickets quickly selling-out, so that naive late-comers cannot plan to attend.
Ticket hoarding hurts the event: attendees are ...
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discussion post on Mon, October 19, 2009 - 5:49 PM
Re: MEMBERSHIPS and permanent reserved tickets
(in Playa Del Fuego)
>> people actively involved in the PDF community should receive some sort of priority when tickets go on sale, especially people who are critical in the planning and infrastructure of the event. <<
I agree that people who participate should be ...
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discussion post on Mon, October 19, 2009 - 5:13 PM
Re: Tooth Fairy
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
>> Also, how any of us came to our opinions in this case is not measurable by you or anyone else. <<
What 'measurable'? You echo the precise opinions of someone else.
Don't be mad at me for pointing it out!
discussion post on Mon, October 19, 2009 - 4:56 PM
Re: Soul Mates
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
I was going to do that, but decided that Hjiørst gets a pass.
discussion post on Sun, October 18, 2009 - 10:58 PM
Re: Tooth Fairy
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
>> Thanks, Язηdall, for assuming that our opinions are not our own! <<
Pretty much. Sorry if it pisses you off, but your opinion is likely not your own.
www.experiment-resources.com/asc...html
Try being the 1 in 40 who wo...
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discussion post on Sun, October 18, 2009 - 7:48 PM
Re: MEMBERSHIPS and permanent reserved tickets
(in Playa Del Fuego)
Artificial ticket scarcity is the main issue.
There are enough tickets for everyone who wants to go.
Unfortunately, people hoard tickets, and then sell them in the last days leading up to the event. That is the behavior that needs to be...
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discussion post on Sun, October 18, 2009 - 7:32 PM
Re: Fat Kids Falling
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
>> At a primal level, we resent the amount of resources they use. Also, we see in them ourselves.
Therefore we point the finger and laugh as a way to diffuse our primitive resentment, and personal insecurities. <<
I think that's giving human ...
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discussion post on Sun, October 18, 2009 - 6:33 PM
Soak the kids
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
Talk about mean-spirited... still made me LOL.
www.youtube.com/watch
discussion post on Tue, October 13, 2009 - 8:03 PM
Re: Tooth Fairy
(in a movie a day keeps the demons at bay)
What, some blog tells you to react a certain way and then you react precisely that way? I wanted something awful. That was a standard kid's movie, no worse than most.
discussion post on Tue, October 13, 2009 - 7:48 PM
Re: Fat Kids Falling
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
Someday, the guy sitting at the desk kissing that girl will be buried under an avalanche of other falling fat kid videos.
I have to say, even as the OP, that site is kinda mean-spirited. What's up with the focus on the fat?
discussion post on Tue, October 13, 2009 - 5:02 PM
Fat Kids Falling
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
Yup, pretty much:
www.fatkidsfalling.com/
discussion post on Tue, October 13, 2009 - 12:32 PM
Re: Show me what democracy looks like!
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
I'm not sold on it either.
discussion post on Mon, October 12, 2009 - 8:57 PM
Too much pie, fatty.
(in WaMu Dunkin Pupperoni La-Z-Boy)
That's your problem.
discussion post on Mon, October 12, 2009 - 7:32 PM
Re: The Meaningfulness of a Nobel Peace Prize
(in Cripple Fight)
"I made one great mistake in my life... when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them."
- Einstein
discussion post on Mon, October 12, 2009 - 5:59 PM
Re: all things horror
(in Rehearsals for Extinct Anomalies)
You're welcome. "Enjoy."
discussion post on Mon, October 12, 2009 - 5:25 AM
Re: Show me what democracy looks like!
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
>> One on one, they are absolutely the most promiscuous, adventurous polemics you can tussle with~<<
One might think so, because they talk a good game, but in practice, not so much.
abcnews.go.com/Primetime/News/story
discussion post on Mon, October 12, 2009 - 4:19 AM
Show me what democracy looks like!
(in Short Attention Span Theater™)
If it looks like this, we're fucked!
www.youtube.com/watch
discussion post on Sun, October 11, 2009 - 8:02 PM
Re: Anyone know this guy??
(in Burning Man)
I would too. One of the most anti-social, annoying individuals I've ever met. I suspect him of thieving cash and my phone from my tent. Maybe I'm being unfair, but he is so anti-charismatic that I frankly don't care.
discussion post on Sun, October 11, 2009 - 6:55 PM
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