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Nightwatch wrote:My Eyes! GAHHH!
Just finished reading Oedipus Rex. Then saw this thread.
Spoiler:
Hamlet's dad was killed by his uncle.
I don't understand how you've never seen/been told about Oedipus.
There's a whole complex and dysfunction named after it.
I had, of course, but I finally finished reading the actual thing. Actually, a friend of mine tried to describe this er...uh..."complex". I stopped listening.
Night Watch SM
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Manchu wrote: This is simply a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everyone says, "it won't change so why should I bother to try?" and then it doesn't change so people feel validated in their bad behavior.
Yet here I am posting on Dakka and 4chan. Oh well, I'll panic about it tomorrow in German class.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Emperors Faithful wrote:I should be studying. But, clearly, I am not.
Same here!
95% of teens would go into a panic attack if the jonas brothers were about to jump off the empire state building copy and paste this if you are the 5% who would pull up a lawn chair grab some popcorn and yell JUMP BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mekboy wrote:Tzeentch: Full house! Yay!
Deciver: Straight Flush! Yay!
Eldrad: Four of a kind! Awww!
Creed: Warhound titan. Die, xenos scum!
Wondering why people hate walking on snow... for gods sake it is just SNOW! I have probably moved literally tons of snow by now considering i have to shovel by HAND 5 1/2 miles of sidewalk five times over the last two weeks.
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, its just a freight train coming your way! Thousand Sons 10000 Grey knights 3000 Sisters of battle 3000 I have 29 sucessful trades where others recommend me.
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Cheese Elemental wrote:I hate most of my school subjects. I know this seems like the sort of thing a ten-year-old would say, but why do I need advanced math classes when a lot of the careers out there don't need it?
Actually, yes. Yes you do. As much as you will probably never use 99% of what you learn, the simple fact is that there is a terrible lack of general education. In the long term, the ability to switch gears into different modes of thought is useful, and some of the specific ideas you learn will stick with you. The result is a more "intelligent" person.
And FTR I hated high school too, and I was there recently enough to be able to dismantel the experience to see how it worked.
Thing I want off my chest? Advertising. Public Relations. Marketing in all forms. I truly hate it. Any industry built on making people want things that they have no reason to want, or twisting facts into one persons favour is Orwellian and vile. And I can't go 5 feet without seeing another fallacious and insulting ad for some product that isn't really any more useful than the other gak I already own.
I. Hate. Advertising.
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
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Cheese Elemental wrote:I hate most of my school subjects. I know this seems like the sort of thing a ten-year-old would say, but why do I need advanced math classes when a lot of the careers out there don't need it?
Actually, yes. Yes you do. As much as you will probably never use 99% of what you learn, the simple fact is that there is a terrible lack of general education. In the long term, the ability to switch gears into different modes of thought is useful, and some of the specific ideas you learn will stick with you. The result is a more "intelligent" person.
And FTR I hated high school too, and I was there recently enough to be able to dismantel the experience to see how it worked.
Thing I want off my chest? Advertising. Public Relations. Marketing in all forms. I truly hate it. Any industry built on making people want things that they have no reason to want, or twisting facts into one persons favour is Orwellian and vile. And I can't go 5 feet without seeing another fallacious and insulting ad for some product that isn't really any more useful than the other gak I already own.
I. Hate. Advertising.
I couldn't agree more. 99% pf the crap I see advertised is stuff that:
A} I don't want,
or:
B} I couldn't afford.
And most of the ads are targeted to make it seem as if you're a failure if you don't buy their sh*t. It's definitely Orwellian.
It isn't even the advertising that bothers me anymore (well, not as much anyway). Its the fact that it seems to work.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here is a good one. I just saw a protracted advertisement that portrayed a guy doing all of the lifey stuff (getting married, having kids etc). Its shtick was "Be proud of yourself for being a man and doing all of this stuff...buy the line of soap that we are targetting at men!!!!"
Its soap.
SOAP.
S
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One half connects to dirt, the other half connects to water. DONE.
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In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
Social Experiment: if you're pissed like me, copy and paste this into your sig, and add a number after it.
PISSED 8374982374983749873948234
Check out my band Man In A Shed
I like my classes actually. the subjects are good. just not thee english sub.
Automatically Appended Next Post: also i wrote a short story using vocab in english set in the 40k universe. when i get it back ill type it. you guys will find it funny since how i descripd the armies and dudes.
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mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
Golden Eyed Scout wrote:Heavy Rain demo is awesome. I am so going to buy it when it comes out. The QTE's are annoying at times though.
I have downloaded it, but haven't had a chance to play. I can't wait, this is the only game that I'm actually looking forward too. Everything else is just the same old donkey bollocks (fun...but boring...)
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
Social Experiment: if you're pissed like me, copy and paste this into your sig, and add a number after it.
PISSED 8374982374983749873948234
Check out my band Man In A Shed
Happiness. Just managed to get my DVD drive out of reverting to PIO mode, so can now watch DVD's without the audio messing up. celebrating with a Dr. Pepper and about to put on disc 1 of the Firefly boxed set I'm borrowing from a friend.
Im getting tired of my cousinbringing her 3 kids over to the house. All i wanted was a nice quiet day. but no they come in all screamin about one thing or another. I never get a nice quite day anymore. With hear moving closer she will be hear even more often with those 3 little devils. i hate my family.
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mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
Did Battle fo the bands. Went very well. We didn't place, but that was not surprising given that we were 2 indie/new wave/folk/punkers vs. a whole bunch of metal bands...and 3 actually quite good bands...
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
Social Experiment: if you're pissed like me, copy and paste this into your sig, and add a number after it.
PISSED 8374982374983749873948234
Check out my band Man In A Shed
Im going to a winery tommorow for a field trip. it is gonna be awesome.
But other then that same old same old.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also my dad wants me to get a dna test because he thinks im not his son. Im not at all worried i know im his son. But he wants to do it were we mail it in. but im worried if he might cheat and swap someones else cheek.
Before anyone says "but its dna he cant."
I performed the same test they use in biotech. they dont check whos dna it is. Just if the child dna has part of the parents. So ill only do it if they swab us in person.
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mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
tblock1984 wrote:I hope it is a boy, I hope it is a boy, I hope it is a boy... *Crosses fingers*
I love my two little girls, but... DAMMIT I WANT A SON!!!
So are are you gonna go henry VIII if its a girl 'off with her head'
H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Balance, playtesting - a casual gamer craves not these things!" - Yoda, a casual gamer.
Three things matter in marksmanship -
location, location, location
MagickalMemories wrote:How about making another fist?
One can be, "Da Fist uv Mork" and the second can be, "Da Uvver Fist uv Mork."
Make a third, and it can be, "Da Uvver Uvver Fist uv Mork"
Eric
GUESS WHAT. I Just woke up with chapped lips stuffed nose and sore throat. Know im not going to the field trip because it might get worse. It was really my choice but i was encouraged to not go because it might get worse and an houe bus ride(i think) to napa would get worse.
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mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
I got a cold too. It's bad. And it came on really suddenly. I rarely get sick, so when I do, I turn into a miserable, crabby hermit. I mean, more than usual...
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