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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Oct 21, 2009 8:22:27 GMT -6
I'm sure that none of you realized how important a thread like this is, or ever considered how much crucial information it out there. But now, your silent pleas have been heard, your unspoken prayers have been answered. I give you... Things You Didn't Know You Needed To Know...Until NOW!!! Semi-local kid sued by big clothing manufacturer. I'd never heard of North Face Apparel, but I'm well aware of the herd mentality that such things can foster. I guess North Face is the new nose gun. How to play drums in a Norwegian death metal band: And the technique in practice: This is why you're fat. In case you were wondering. And finally, a handy guide to identifying several well-known -isms. I hope this helps.  |
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Oct 21, 2009 8:31:44 GMT -6
And I almost forgot, do NOT fuck with Natalie Portman!
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Post by Xombie on Oct 21, 2009 8:41:50 GMT -6
The why you are fat site made me hungry  |
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Oct 21, 2009 8:45:12 GMT -6
The why you are fat site made me hungry Food porn. Should've tagged with NSFW. Hope nobody gets in trouble. |
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 1, 2009 3:10:06 GMT -6
It's this kind of thing that makes me want to learn how to play guitar:
A little classical for ya. (I'm sure you've heard this before, but if you don't like the intermixing, search for Canon Rock on YouTube.)
And some more. This one is especially for rms.
And another for rms. I love the response: "fuck death metal. show me one shredder that can hang with roy. holy christ, that was otherworldly." Heh. I agree. And I love metal.
I can't stop!
Makes it look effortless.
Prolly familiar to Guitar Hero players. I love this.
A little metal for me, and I'm done.
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Post by redshirt on Nov 1, 2009 11:12:59 GMT -6
Wow, Roy Clark is the man. I have a couple I really like, check em out.
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 2, 2009 9:56:21 GMT -6
Wow, that guy's good.
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 5, 2009 8:52:16 GMT -6
Chances of rolling 3 natural 20s in a row: 1 in 8000.
Now you have an answer for when a member of your group goes, "wow, 3 crits! What were the chances?!" (Three natural 20s is easier to get than 3 snake-eyes in a row, btw.)
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 11, 2009 8:46:51 GMT -6
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 25, 2009 1:43:03 GMT -6
(This is about global warming. You've been warned.) This kind of thing really irks me. These people are scientists, for Chrissakes! Whatever happened to integrity? |
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Post by redshirt on Nov 25, 2009 14:19:22 GMT -6
The sad thing is most people and the lame stream media wont admit that global warming is just a scam. Fucking sad.  |
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 26, 2009 0:19:04 GMT -6
Well, according to the article there's an effort to keep that info away from the public/media. Doubly sad that the effort is being led by "scientists."
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Post by redshirt on Nov 26, 2009 10:43:56 GMT -6
Yeah, but even now that the info from the hack is out lots of people wont buy that its not real......... stupid.
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 26, 2009 11:47:50 GMT -6
I wouldn't say that the info is out there exactly. I got the link to that article from the Cato Institute website; how many people check that site out that don't already believe that global warming is a scam? I mean, what does the mainstream media cover? Yahoo's cover story the other day was about Michelle Obama's dress, and the next day their cover story was about the couple that snuck into the state dinner hosted by the Obamas (which is hilarious, imo--I mean, the "most powerful man in the world" throws a party and a couple horse breeders manage to sneak their way in; state dinner at the White House: millions of tax-payer dollars; random uninvited guests get in: priceless). We have a celebrity in the White House, and whatever celebrities say is gospel. It's the propaganda machine, my friends: repeat it often enough, doesn't matter what it is, eventually people believe it. Think about it and make your own decision? Why bother?! Jon Stewart tells me everything I need to know. It only takes half an hour and he makes me laugh. Health care is a right! There are 20 million people in America without health insurance! We need to spend a trillion dollars to force everybody to have health insurance! The government will do this for you! The government knows best! Temperatures were rising at the beginning of this decade--man-made ecological disaster! Make the corporations pay! Evil! Ice caps are melting! Based on our data--which extends back for over 100 years--disaster! The government will save you from global warming! The government will make sure that you have insurance! The government will make those evil corporations pay! The government will punish the evil rich! The government will make sure that your rent is paid! The government will make sure that your tank is topped off! The government will make sure that your belly is full! The government will answer all of your prayers and fulfill your every need! Trust.Obey.Sometimes I get a little carried away. I won't apologize. If I've offended anybody, well, you have the right to be offended. And I have the right to offend you...for now, anyway... If you are offended, I have some suggestions: |
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Post by redshirt on Nov 28, 2009 0:08:30 GMT -6
Everything I know about politics I learned on MTV!!
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Post by redshirt on Dec 1, 2009 16:13:16 GMT -6
Just cuz.
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Dec 2, 2009 10:51:38 GMT -6
Not bad, but if I may...
Rebuttal?
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Post by ig2000 on Dec 2, 2009 11:26:34 GMT -6
All i have is this.
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Post by redshirt on Dec 2, 2009 15:48:25 GMT -6
How 'bout some local boys.
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Post by Xombie on Dec 2, 2009 21:14:52 GMT -6
Thats weird i was searching this song earlier trying to find out who did it, (dragonfly)
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Post by ig2000 on Dec 2, 2009 21:43:39 GMT -6
1928- "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming".
The Call of Cthulhu - H. P. Lovecraft 1956-  Elvis Presley-Elvis Presley 1979-  London Calling-The Clash 2009- |
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Dec 3, 2009 1:22:01 GMT -6
Now that I know it exists, I also want.
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Dec 12, 2009 5:14:08 GMT -6
I don't know what solid potato salad is, but...I don't know what it is!
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Jan 14, 2010 8:58:17 GMT -6
Here ya go, ig. Didn't dl it, and it's missing the last 1:13, but still cool. (there's another version on YouTube if this one sounds kind of funny/off, but I can't promise that the other one is any more or less "accurate.")
Oh, and I found this, too; thought you might like it.
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Jan 14, 2010 9:15:21 GMT -6
A couple of stories from News of the Weird: It's Good to Be a British Criminal (actually, "United Kingdom Criminal") (continued)After pleading guilty in Cardiff Crown Court to forging an uncle's checks worth 41,000 pounds ($65,000), Hayley Price, 42, was fined 5 pounds ($8), given a suspended sentence and ordered to do community service. The judge reasoned that Price was broke, having already spent the 41,000 pounds. [South Wales Argus, 12-2-09]
Brian Wallace was the victim of a severe beating in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2007, stabbed five times and hospitalized with lung and kidney lacerations, and to this day is battling for 7,500 pounds ($12,000) compensation from a government fund. In December 2009, Wallace learned that his attacker, Simon Granhof, who had been mistakenly kept in jail two weeks longer than his sentence, would receive 12,500 pounds ($20,000) from the government for deprivation of rights. (Granhof's sentence had already been cut in half before the mistake.) [Belfast Telegraph, 12-4-09] |
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Jan 15, 2010 0:14:19 GMT -6
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Jan 19, 2010 11:11:14 GMT -6
And now, it's story time here on ThingsYouDidn'tKnowYouNeededToKnow...UntilNow! Tuck yourselves in, young'uns, as I tell you the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper...
OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood..
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
((Some of you may be under the impression that I've gotten a little too politically ranty--dare I say, preachy?--of late. To you, I can only respond...well, you might be right. I was going to paraphrase the almighty theglenn, who paraphrased somebody else, but I will refrain so as to protect the innocent; most of you would be unable to withstand wisdom of that magnitude. I will say only, check out the movie thread; it seems to get lots of action.))
((In other news, I figured my checkbook today, fell asleep during each and every last football game this weekend, and still haven't managed to quit smoking for the third time. Also, work was "interesting" last night, and reminded me that I really need to graduate and get into a different field.))
And, why not, here's the Ant and Grasshopper parable from the point of view of a different kind of bug:
I think XOMBIE posted this, originally. Kudos to you, good sir. Funny video necro, ftw!
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Post by Xombie on Jan 19, 2010 17:32:10 GMT -6
i would like to take the credit for the video, but i think red shirt started the crack spider thread.
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Post by Gir on Jan 19, 2010 21:50:24 GMT -6
Preach on! I couldn't agree more... stupid grasshoppers... |
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Jan 20, 2010 10:00:53 GMT -6
i would like to take the credit for the video, but i think red shirt started the crack spider thread. My apologies, then. Good work, redshirt. Capital. |
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