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[ { "body": "Another shortcut that many of you may not know in the Depths.\n\nWhen you meet the butcher cutting the meat on the table, there is a hole somewhere behind him. Fall into the hole and you'll drop into the giant rat area. Go to the most left and slide down to go to the entrance of upper blighttown. Depths in just under 2 mins, but you'll miss the chaneller if you go by this way.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I found this out on my first play through by accident.\n\nWas walking along and got knocked off by a ghost on accident and was like \"fuck, I died.\" NOPE! WHERE AM I?!!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Don't forget that there is an elevator in the area where the ghosts first surround you in New Londo. After the water is down the elevator takes you to the room with 3 darkwraiths and the mass of souls. Very quick way to get back out without using a homeward bone if you're farming chunks. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Obsidian Portal (http://www.obsidianportal.com/) is a pretty good option for this. The basic free website acts as a campaign wiki that the GM and players can edit at will, creating an unlimited number of pages. There's separate sections specifically designed for characters and adventure logs, in addition to the basic anything-you-want-to-put-there wiki pages.\n\nThen, if you're willing to pay for the upgrade, you can get access to all kinds of fancy features, including interactive maps and the use of secret page sections. The secret page sections are probably what you'd find most useful for your specific campaign - any player or GM can specify a block of information that is secret, and list what other members of the game are allowed or blocked from seeing that secret.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I don't know about message, but obsidian portal has forums and a wiki for your setting. Along with spots for characters. Sorry I couldn't help much.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "With your user name, I'm imagining some overly ghetto person saying \"dayum son, dis jazz shit be bumpin.\"", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "An idiot wouldn't learn that they were wrong and then publicly correct themselves. You are not an idiot, you are a mensch.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "It is certainly seems to be easy to understand why you could get confused. Google seems to like to silently (or quietly) add features and make changes.\n\nI don't know it is fair to call yourself an idiot, when the software changes without you knowing it.\n\nSome searching seems to indicate that this feature was added back in [August 2011](http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/08/better-control-in-google-sites-with.html). I have been using sites for many years, and I was not aware they had added this feature either. I am even subscribed to the Enterprise Blog where it was announced, so I might even have seen the headline a year ago.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "A few problems I have with this:\n\n* This is likely going to be far too easy to either game or scam.\n* Barely scraping by, to the point you need a $100 loan every 2 weeks is extremely unhealthy financial behavior. Instead, you should do something productive, and do what you have to to do avoid debt.\n* Not all self-idenfitied \"AnCaps\" are good people. There are a lot of assholes in /r/AnCap. *(some of you probably think I'm one of them)*. To put it in another context, the abolition of slavery is a fantastic moral position, HOWEVER, today every douchebag supports the abolition of slavery, including the ones who would gladly take your money and run.\n\nLastly, I think there are far more productive expenditures of effort that could be done. Perhaps something where you can perform tasks or offer services in exchange for bitcoins. Instead of you being in debt, and another risking losing their property... why not instead do some kind of productive exchange?", "score": 8 }, { "body": "This would definitely interest me... The last two semesters I have come up about $200-300 short when its time to pay for school, and I don't want to take federal student loans (at least not yet). Also I don't have a credit card or really any type if way to establish credit which would make getting a non-student loan nearly impossible.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Sounds good! Maybe a review of which agencies so we can find the best odds, or a list of current specials?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This is a subreddit that I've wanted to see for a while now. I do love a cheeky punt on saturday football. Cant wait to see if we get any big winners on here.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Of course people are going to do that. They're awful and need to be carried, they can't blame themselves because they think they're awesome so the next thing is to just assume the rest of the party is at fault. \"Ugh, if you were a Guardian instead of an elementalist, we'd be fine\".", "score": 128 }, { "body": "breaking old habits is hard sometimes. These people needed a tank and a healer for 7 years, let them cling to their beliefs for a few more months, they will learn or leave (since they think the game was broken since tanking doesn't work)", "score": 22 }, { "body": "I play a Guardian main myself. I do not run a tank build at all. I am yet to even mess with defensive stats. I run 100% DPS all of the time. That being said I have done AC explorable several times without so much as anything resembling a tank. This is not WoW. I don't get why people struggle to understand that. ", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Today I saw someone looking for a tank guardian a healing engi and a hunter (his words not mine) for AC story. I just really hope he is still searching.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "i like the team comp, stuff must have exploded by looking at you.\n\nIMO you can do a explorable as long as you have 5 people in the party. orr let me restate, you need 5 people who wanna havefun and have an idea what going on.\n i personaly wanna try a all charr engineer group. shit would be funny", "score": 12 }, { "body": "As a guardian, I wish people would stop saying our support is needed... It isn't, any group make-up has the tools necessary to beat an encounter. It just takes tweaking of strats, and skills. This will ultimately lead to another misconception, that guardians aren't useful unless they are built a certain way. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Anytime I see someone say something like that, I immediately know they are bad and I don't want them in my group (or to join theirs).", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Yeah, it's not about the class, its about the build. I can swap my ele between area control/tough healer and single target bleeder/glass cannon pretty easily. Just tell me if you need support or DPS. (In a dungeon, it's usually support.)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "That's why I love the fact that dungeons are strictly 5-man. I've got a close group of guildies that I've been gaming with for years, and we all just go in and learn together. I hate PUGs for this very reason. You always seem to get someone who's like: \"OMG L2P YR CLASS!\" just before they rage quit. First time we did AC, we wiped 15+ times, and never finished. This was after we invited one guy into our group who was a non-guildie. This guy complained about how he hated when people raged and quit group. You can guess what happened. Second time, we did it with less wipes, but still had our fair share. Last night was our fourth time doing it, and we only really \"wiped\" once. That was on the last boss, but we were able to keep the party going and rez. These dungeons really make you learn the game mechanics (heal yourself, dodge, etc), and utilize your skills well. We have found that combos are key. As an ele using a staff, I can lay down 5 fields within 10 seconds of each other. Calling out fields, for my group to toss out there finishers? Golden. 16 stacks of vulnerability and chill? Done.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I'm going against the grain here, but hear me out. While every explorable dungeon seems doable with just about every team comp, there's no denying that some comps are better than others, even with a high degree of player skill.\n\nYes, maybe 5 DPS specced warriors can run AC explorable. Doesn't mean that it'll be the easiest run. Some classes/builds lend themselves to faster, easier runs. And that's why someone requesting a specific class isn't such a novice move. There's nothing wrong with wanting to optimize a run. \n\nListen, I'm a veteran MMO player, I played GW1 since launch. I love this game, but this \"OMG this noob thinks you can only beat dungeons with guardians LOL NOOB\" mentality has to stop. It's borderline circlejerking. We're better than that.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Who is playing is way more important than what they're playing; the first time i ran TA explore mode was extremely frustrating. Last night we easily cleared it with 4 people, wiping a couple times only due to mistakes that were quickly corrected.\n\nThat said, having a Guardian made that run *so* much smoother... Guardian with staff is so good at whiacking away all the annoying exploding plants.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "GW2 dungeons take a certain amount of control, support and DPS to pull off. In other games, the tactic is to have a character assigned to a single role. In gw2, the responsibility is shared between everyone.\n\nGuardian happens to bring a LOT of support, something many pick-up-group players don't bring any of. THese people are convinced you need a guardian because they're not doing enough support and control, just balls to the wall DPS. \n\nIn my experience, most dungeons can be done with any 5 classes, so long as there is a good balance of control, dps and support between the 5 of you.\n\ntl;dr: idiots think you need a guardian because they're too busy doing nothing but damage, and not bothering to control or support.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "lmfao, i remember some fool trying to whine about doing CM exp with \"3 warriors with greatswords\" an eng and a thief when i joined the group. so after we rocked the place with no huge fucking commotion(two paths) he messages me every day for dungeons. i always turn him down though.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Yeah, a guardian isn't required, but a couple times my guild has run into instances were we just didn't have the damage to even possibly complete the dungeon. \n\nI'm specifically talking about Tzarks path in AC. If you have condition damage dealers, or melee characters, you will have lots of trouble, and its possible for it to be impossible to complete. Lets say, a team compromised of a thief, a necro, an engineer, a guardian and ranger. This team will really struggle on that path, and it will be nearly impossible. \n\nI would say, if all professions are perfectly specced for what they are attempting, then yeah its possible to complete with any combination. But for a group of average specced players, no way. \n\nIn your case 4 elementalists would dominate the Tzark path, thats massive aoe to take out those burrows in seconds. But I could see 4 eles having some trouble in Detha's path, but nothing too bad, since its still the easiest. \n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My guild just takes whoever's online at the moment. We don't even look at class and do perfectly fine. You just need a group of people you're comfortable playing with. \n\nI think a lot of people don't know how to handle themselves yet and feel that someone else should be worry about them. They'll eventually figure out that they need to be responsible for themselves.\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "There are some famous mathematicians who use speed, not to name names here.\n\nCaffeine is a very popular drug among mathematicians.", "score": 27 }, { "body": "Erdos took amphetamines. Look up the story for details but there is one story...\nHis friend bet him he couldn't be off them for 1 month. Therefore Erdos proved him wrong and stayed off them a month. But he admitted that on the drug, he had so many ideas when he looked at a blank sheet of paper. But during the month, he was off, he could only see a blank sheet of paper. Maybe it's the situational learning Nekka-Lucifer was talking about.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "I've found that, caffeine aside, drugs and alcohol of any kind only make it harder for me to think about maths. I just seem to preform better in a sober state.\n\nI know quite a few guys who function at very high levels mathematically when under the influence, but I can't relate.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I used to use drugs when I was younger, but have stopped everything but drinking once in a blue moon since I've gotten into math. \n\nFor me, to really understand the topic takes a huge amount of focus and repetition. The hardest part for me is not conceptualizing problems, but actually understanding what these textbooks are trying to tell me, committing it to memory, and then getting my basic computation skills up to a level where I don't make stupid errors on exams(obviously not that important in analysis or algebra, but I take a lot of diff eq's classes).\n\nI don't think going back to drug use would help me at all, but that's just my opinion.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "My experience, is that you need a moment of relaxation to solve a hard problem, but only AFTER you have spent an appropriate amount of time banging your head against the problem. \n\nWhether that moment of relaxation is exercise, drugs, sleep, food, sex, etc. None are magic bullets for theorem proving. They are all just the catalyst for a reaction that has been prepped by beating your brain mercilessly with a problem. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "For me, conceptualizing proofs is easier on drugs/alcohol. That said, don't actually write them like that because it looks like any OTHER attempt to write down drunken ideas. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I find that after about two beers, I do my best learning and homeworking. It's just enough to be slightly less stressed and less anxious about it while being able to focus. I also don't think the \"smart\" parts of my brain are going to sleep yet at that point.\n\nBut lot's of math people do drugs. I can't imagine that pot is making you better at math, unless you're like I am with the beer thing where you use just enough to relax but not enough to really have a different mindset.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Since we're on the topic ...\n\nI've heard people in the arts and music complaining that adderall didn't make any good one them because while it did improved their concentration when consumed, they felt that in the long run it of diminished their creativity, and well that's what their professional life will be based on. So the trade off is not very good for them.\n\nArguably mathematicians need lots of creativity on their job too, at least in pure math. So anyone here has any experience with adderall ? Is it convenient for us? Would it make one feel \"less witty\" ?\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "> maybe it gets me zoned in\n\nI think it's this. I, personally, find it easier to concentrate for longer periods of time while on minuscule amounts of codeine, ethylmorphine and the like. That's not to say that they are any kind of magic medicine; the effect is very slight, but noticeable. I do, however, retain stuff better and produce clearer stuff when I'm sober.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "About a quarter of the grad students in my department smoke (green) regularly, about half of those also smoke cigarettes. A couple have said to have taken adderall when studying for qualifying exams or if they need to finish writing a paper by some deadline.\n\nNobody I know has said that they prefer to do their creative thinking while high, I think most think it gets in the way. \n\nI realize drugs affect everybody differently, but anything more than a couple beers or half a joint and I feel dumb as a brick.\n\nI think drug use is relatively common among all graduate students, I think it's more due to the stress of the lifestyle and not the need to do work while high. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "At that time a meeting was held at Sketis about a brother who had sinned. The Fathers spoke, but Abba Pior kept silent. Later, he got up and went out. He took a sack and filled it with sand and carried it on his shoulder; then he put a little sand into a small bag that he carried in front of him. When the Fathers asked him what this meant he said, 'In this sack which contains much sand, are my sins which are many; I have put them behind me so that I might not be troubled about them and so that I might not weep. And behold, here are the little sins of my brother which are in front of me, and I spend my time judging them. This is not right. Rather, I ought to carry my sins in front of me and concern myself with them, begging God to forgive me.' The Fathers stood up and said, 'Verily, this is the way of salvation.'", "score": 17 }, { "body": "I recently converted to Orthodoxy from a heavily conservative non-denom. church. At first I saw nothing but the good and glorious of Orthodoxy, and then I began to see some stuff that scandalized me. My reaction was to judge and criticize but then I realized that if this is indeed the true Church, and Satan is ever on the move and always vigilant precisely in and around Christ's church, then the spiritual warfare surrounding Orthodoxy must be intense. Indeed, this is what I have now discovered, as even I, a recently illumined one, can perceive the turbulent times here in the American Church. The people herein struggle valiantly in light of the ever-constant reminder of the lives of the righteous saints, and how do we measure up to the ancient strugglers? But we poor christians of these latter times struggle on nonetheless, in a world openly perverse, openly hostile, and full of excesses that remind of pagan Rome more than \"civilized\" America.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "As someone who grew up in and was heavily involved with churches like the one you came from, you'd be shocked by the facade of Christianity most evangelicals construct. You'll never see behavior like what you described in a church like you came from because it wouldn't be tolerated. It would be met with judgment and people like that would be told to change or else they would be unwelcome. People are people and some of us are visibly worse than others, but we are all failures. I have my first confession coming up and I'm frightened of what this perfect little Christian is going to reveal. I know he's heard it all before, but I don't know if he's heard what I'm about to share. My advice: worry about yourself. If you're a tenth of the mess I am, there's plenty to focus on.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Not everyone in Orthodoxy is trustworthy. You will have to use your better judgment and discern who is safe and who is not. Try to avoid them and don't become angry, because it's easy to be outraged and lower yourself to that level.\n\nI'm not sure why someone like that is in a teaching position, and if you have a real problem with that you may try a different parish. That reflects a tad poorly on the priest, but he's probably trying to do his best and may be overlooking some things out of either fear or discretion. The priest should be working to limit actual arguing during the liturgy, and if he's not he may not be as trustworthy as most are.\n\nHe may not have known about the arguing, that's what I'd have to assume since I wasn't there.\n\nLastly, if you don't feel safe, don't force yourself. Maybe your time to join Orthodoxy is not now, but later.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I find the video interesting and not necessarily from a prurient interest, personally. Sure, some of the women are scantily clad, and in an intentionally sexual manner. Perhaps he is able to appreciate it as an interesting short film apart from the scantily clad women.\n\nAnyway, one thing that needs consideration is what is actually sin and what is social convention. It is probably not great to swear a lot. And in public on something like facebook. Is it actually *wrong* to be a little coarse? Non-denominational and whatever Christians often have created their own little subculture, and that's okay, but it can sometimes be jarring to come out of it. I mean, if you hang out with Catholics or Orthodox, they swear and drink beer. Perhaps that one individual is a bit iffy for your taste, but it's not your place to judge. I mean, at some points, judgments are necessary. If the guy is teaching children and you're not sure if your own kids would be taught well by him and you're quite sure of that, that's one thing. Or whatever. Anyway. I hope you catch my drift.\n\nAlso, we're all just beggars on the way, none of us are perfect, and I personally would rather see somebody who shows their sleeve rather than showing a whited sepulcher, though neither option is ideal.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I really don't think there is a good explanation for this other than people are people. I would recommend that you don't give up on Orthodoxy though and if need be go to a different parish. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The Church is a hospital for healing our sins. Hospitals are full of sick people, and they often smell bad.\n\nJust something to chew on :-)\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "All of the responses here are pretty solid. It's definitely something I appreciate and respect about the Orthodox mindset (and try to live out in my own life). It's easy to spot the external sins of others while overlooking the deep dark sins no one else may ever see in our own hearts. \n\nI do wonder though if there's a balance? Can we error in going too far along the line of closing our eyes to the sins of our brothers and sisters? If we aren't supposed to turn away from someone with a physical need (food, clothing, shelter) shouldn't we also try to help those with spiritual need? Without question i don't think it should ever be undertaken lightly. We must pray and exam our own hearts first, but surely there's a place for challenging someone? I think of Paul calling out Peter when shying away from the Gentiles when other Jews were around. Or Jesus' instruction to go to a brother who has sinned against you. [Gal. 6:1](http://mobile.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%206:1-2&version=NKJV) is another one that comes to mind. \n\nHaving said that, I think it's important that there be a relationship there when you approach someone. I don't know. I'm just thinking out loud here. This is something I've been thinking about recently. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[They actually have a \"skin\" colour on Amazon.](http://www.amazon.com/Full-Body-Spandex-Suit-Costume/dp/B00354BQE2/ref=pd_sbs_t_1)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The problem is we still got a Monday night game against the Eagles, another possible national embarrassment. After this season it may be a while before we get another primetime game. A loooooooooong while. It hurts real bad when the whole country is hearing nothing but Cruz chants in a Carolina home game. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Not a fan of strikethroughs, purely because we've seen a lot of Redditors here who are only just watching Survivor, starting with the earlier seasons and catching up.\n\nWhat I would like to see though in addition to the standard competitor names are coloured flairs for the tribes (red/blue/yellow, not for the members themselves, but separate flairs for the tribe names).", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "> Would I be able to get a COP comparable to the COP of a single heat pump working a 20°C gradient?\n\nNo. Your efficiency will be worse than the original single heat pump with the large temperature difference.\n\nEfficiency of a given heat pump is analyzed in terms of [thermodynamic cycles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_cycle). A useful aspect of this approach is that all the nuanced details of actual mechanisms can be described as a simple cycle... it's kind of a black box. We don't care about the specifics, so long as overall you end up back where you started. Chaining a hundred small heat pumps can be more easily described as a single large heat pump. In your case, the total temperature difference from beginning to end is still what determines the total efficiency of your system. If you had *perfect* small heat pumps set up this way, the best possible efficiency you could get would still be equal to the single large one. In reality, since each of these small ones have their own efficiency losses (2nd law of thermodynamics), you will have lower overall efficiency.\n\n\n(Pedants, yes I'm ignoring some things!)", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "This was asked about 2 weeks ago and this guy gave such a great answer I saved it for future reference. Here you go:\n\nDude. Okay.\n3,000 years ago there were these people called Jews and they lived in the land of Israel whose capital was Jerusalem. There were pretty different from most of their neighbors because they were monotheists, and they had certain cultural practices which also marked them out.\nSo, I dunno if you ever went to Sunday school or anything, but have you ever heard the phrase \"Render unto Caesar what is Caesars?\" It's a quote from Jesus.\nThat's because, 2,000 years ago when Jesus was alive, there were still Jews and they still lived in the land of Israel, but Israel had been conquered by the Romans and was at that point a Roman colony and payed taxes to Rome (and its head of state, Caesar).\nAbout 70 years after Jesus died, 100 AD or so, the Jews started a rebellion against their Roman rulers because the rulers were trying to enforce Emperor worship and preventing them from practicing certain other aspects of their faith. There was a war. And the Jews lost. Badly. The vast majority of them fled Israel, their main center of worship in Jerusalem was torn down and razed.\nMost of the time, when stuff like that has happened in history, within a couple generations after losing power and becoming refugees a people tend to end up merging with the population of wherever they fled to. This is why you don't hear so much about the Scythians these days. Not so with the Jews. They stuck together, partially because they had a pretty unique culture that helped them do so (monothesism, a written text of their people's history, laws and religious practices) and partially because they were discriminated against a lot. (More on this in a sec.) There ended up being Jewish communities all over the world --- Ethiopia, India, North Africa, and especially Europe --- which retained their unique culture for hundreds and hundreds of years after losing their home land (The Diaspora, the dispersed people).\nWhy were they discriminated against? Because while the Jews were spreading across the globe, Christianity was also on the upswing. And most Christians blamed the Jews for killing Jesus. Around 300 AD, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire and spread through pretty much all of Europe. Cue a continent-wide, pathological hatred of Jewish people. (Blood libel, for example.) This lasted --- well, one is tempted to say \"up to now\" --- but certainly all through the middle ages, when Jews were often forced to lived in segregated neighborhoods (ghettos), had discriminatory laws written against them, were expelled wholesale from a couple countries at one time or another (England in 1290, Spain in 1492) and every once in a while in lots of places there'd be random riots where people would get riled up, invade a Jewish neighborhood, and beat a bunch of Jews to death (pogroms). This was basically the situation for Jews in Europe with minor variations up through the 19th century. Hold on to that for a minute.\nMeanwhile, back in the land formerly known as Israel, there were still some Jews left. But following the Roman expulsion lots of people from other nearby colonies moved in and Jews were a very small minority, with most of the rest being a grab-bag of polytheists and Christians and so forth. Around about 500 AD the Roman empire is in decline, local rulers control little bits of its former territory. And then in 600 or so, along comes a guy you may have heard of named Mohammed, who invents a new religion called Islam, and man, is it a hit. By the year 700 or so, basically all of the area we now call the Middle East has been conquered by Mohammed and his followers and gradually begins to convert to Islam (not 100 percent of everybody, but the vast majority of people) including the territory which had been Israel. Around this time, that area is encompassed by a larger area known as \"Palestine.\"\nSo, while the Jews are scattered all over the world being shat on by whoever's in charge, the land that used to be called Israel spends 1,000+ years forming a small part of various Muslim empires, and being lived in and ruled by Muslims, and mostly being referred to as Palestine. This catches us up to the 19th century.\nDuring the 19th century in Europe, nationalism was a big thing. The countries of Germany and Italy were created --- bascially under the idea that everyone who speaks the same language is a part of one people and each people deserve their own country. Some Jewish leaders noticed this, plus the fact that they were continually being discriminated against, and they said, you know what, fuck it, we're never going to be safe and secure unless the Jewish people have their own country as well. The started a movement called \"Zionism\" which held that Jews from Europe and other place should move back to the area that used to be Israel, start buying land, and work toward creating their own country.\nMore in next comment. Edit: little corrections, and fixed the line about Muslin conversion of Palestine in light of comment below\npermalinkreportreply\n[–]diablevert13 208 points 13 days ago*\nGiven how heavily Jews are disciminated against in Europe, this Zionism thing turns out to be pretty popular. Rich Jews help by buying land, and poor Jews start shipping out to the area to farm it.\nNow, in the late 19th century, Palestine/Israel was a part of the Ottoman Empire, a Muslim empire founded by Turks. Palestine/Israel was basically the boonies for the Ottomans -- not a very important part of their territory. So while there was friction between local Muslims living there when Jews started moving in, the Ottomans didn't really do too much to stop it. And while local people might have resented their new neighbors, they weren't really worried about them actually taking over --- because Sultans would never have allowed that. So from the late 19th century through the begining of the 20th, more and more Jews are moving in, there's friction and some blow ups, but the whole area is still a Muslim-majority province of a Muslim empire.\nThen WWI happens. The Ottoman Empire loses. Badly. In fact, the Ottoman empire ceases to exist, reduced down to just one country (Turkey). The other areas that it uses to rule are divided up among the victors and become colonies of various European countries. (The story of how those areas became colonies instead of their own independent countries is very long and complicated and filled with shadiness, and I'm skipping it.)\n", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "Also interestingly, Salvaging items is now affected by req level instead of item level. So all of those lvl 60 legendaries you may have that are req 59 should be salvaged soon", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "[here](http://imgur.com/7c9b1) is something that might work.\n\ntry checking out [r/declutter](www.reddit.com/r/declutter) to help you out with some of the clutter. if you minimalism some of your items, like clothes and desk stuff, it would be more realistic to get smaller or more functional furniture. then you could have more floor space.\n\nalso consider hanging some hooks on the wall by the bathroom and main door, where you can put jackets, bags, or wet towels to keep your room from looking too messy. with it being so small, it's easy to leave one thing somewhere and BAM, you have a messy room.\n\nhope this helps! post some pictures with what you do with it! ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm with rahjab about flipping the bed placement. However, I'd simply flip it as you have it, keeping the locker in the corner and the bed as close to it as possible, without endangering your life with the radiator. (I know nothing about radiators - they don't really exist in my area of Texas, but I've heard you have to keep furniture away from them. :) )\n\nThen, I would place the bookshelf on the wall to the left of the bathroom door, facing the bed. That way you're not hitting your elbow on it when you wake up and there's enough space there for its height.\n\nI can't quite get a sense of measurement but, if possible, I'd then place the clothing rack behind the bedroom door on that little wall space. I'd center your dresser on the wall where the bed's head is now. I'd put your worktable horizontal to the wall with the window. I think that might give you a nice floor space for patterns.\n\nThen, of course, I'd do what you're probably dying to do - get rid of those long curtains. So lucky you sew clothes. You could probably work up a short set of curtains that fit that space in half an hour! Put a tall working lamp in the corner between the dresser and the work table.\n\nDeclutter, and enjoy!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "First things first: Start a compost heap right now if you don't have one. Just pile cuttings into a heap, it can be moved/beautified later.\n\nI'll concentrate on the roses.\n\nAssuming your climate is similar or a bit milder compared to mine (northern Germany), next month is the time to buy roses (and bushes) for cheap. At the time the roses drop their leaves, they're sold with their bare roots at half the price of roses in containers. Search the internet for a mail order business dealing in roses, read their catalog.\n\nWhat you want to look for is of course flower form, color and smell, bush form, if you want varieties that flower multiple times or only in june, and - this is very important - resistances. \n\nI have black spot in my garden and a rose that isn't resistant will just wither and stand there without any leaves at the end of summer, a sad sight indeed. So when buying roses, I'm looking for maximum resistance against black spot. Check the roses in the neighborhood, black spot and mildew are fairly easy to identify, and order your roses accordingly. Buying quality pays!\n\nThe alternative is to spray them, of course. You need to decide if you want to go the chemical route or not. People had me convinced I need to spray the roses. But I applied the fungicide only once in spring and didn't proceed with the plan, basically because I hated it. I'm back to my old plan: Roses are either fairly resistant, or they need to go.\n\nAnyway, what I meant to say was, this decision needs to be made before placing orders or you'll regret something either way.\n\nFor your existing roses, cut the withered flowers off the roses except those where rose hips grow (good bird food in winter). The idea is to let the roses invest in stem strength to make them more survivable in winter. \n\nTear off any wild rose sprouts that grow out of the wild base/ground of the rose, they just steal energy from the precious rose (can't translate \"Edelreiser\"). They are noticeably different, look around the neighborhood for a wild rose to learn the differences.\n\nAs the first frost nights come, make little mounds of earth (maybe 20-30cm high) around the rose bases to protect the base during winter. Remove these mounds in spring (they'll just rain down here, no need to do that manually :) )\n\nSpring is also the time for cutting roses, before they sprout. So you have all winter to find some videos on youtube on how to do it. The techniques are a bit different, mostly depending on the bush form, but a typical cut for roses in a plot is 2 or 3 nodules above the ground/from the last branching.\n\nIn spring you'll also need to fertilze your roses. Do NOT do that now, it might kill your rose as it invests in new green sprouts that cannot survive winter, instead of turning existing green sprouts into woody ones that can. Just buy a pack of fertilizer and fertilze accoding to instructions, a typical amount is 4 times a table-spoon of fertilzer.\n\nI hope that helps a bit, good luck with your garden!\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Hi experimental_karma \n\nI'm slightly closer to you, though a lot further north in the west of Scotland so used to cooler temperatures than you.\n\nYour lawn - last cut should may already be done. Aerate by getting your fork and sinking in about 6-8 inches and if you can fill the holes with sand to improve drainage. Also look for an autumn fertiliser, high in phosphate and spread over using guidelines, your lawn will benefit next year.\n\nHerb gardens - if you can bring indoors or cover do so as when the frost hits, I woke to a frost this morning, your herbs will bite the dust. Pick them and freeze for the winter.\n\nNot the right time for most trees but look for specialist tree nursery's as they will only supply when the time is right. Garden centres will supply all year and not always at the best time fort each plant.\n\nClimbers, there are a few that can be bought just now but you'd maybe be best waiting until early next year.\n\nPots, like has been said above don't put anything that doesn't like the cold as if it does get cold they will freeze solid and little survives. Bring the pots close in to the house to get a little protection and clump them all together. Get some horti fleece, it doesn't look pretty but will protect whatever is underneath quite well.\n\nThere are some good sales on winter pansies and suchlike at the moment - try http://www.suttons.co.uk/default.aspx - one of the adverts on the banner on the frontpage has 60 plants for £15.\n\nMulch whatever plants you have to help feed over the winter and protect on those colder nights.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "We currently use sftp by bitvise. http://www.bitvise.com/ssh-server\n\nIt isn't free for production use, but the price is fairly cheap for a feature rich app. It is a LOT cheaper than tectia ssh, and a very stable compared to openssh running on cgiwin. ymmv", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Cygwin + OpenSSH\n\nMy Win2k8R2 server has SSH authenticated against AD spawning PowerShells... It's very nice, and provides SFTP support...", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I think the tears are real. She seems like she could have had some unfun things happen to her in her life (talking about how people from the Ukraine had to be tough, in an earlier ep) or maybe she was just raised to not show emotion/fear in general, so it seems natural that a stressful situation like PR would bring out a wide range of emotions, especially if she is the type to repress & put out a strong front.\n\nI actually don't mind it. I feel like it shows they're real. Ven's monotone bothered me...it's like, dude, does this guy have any sort of emotions?", "score": 9 }, { "body": "During one of the parts where she was talking, with her curled hair and bright pink lipstick, she was saying if she went home it would be so sad, but her face was so blank when she said it, I totally didn't buy it. \n\nAnd of course, at the end, where she was crying because she \" felt bad for Ven\", was a load of B.S. She was happy to stay even though she KNEW she deserved to go home. I never believe her emotional range other than when she is harsh with her judgements. Though she was right about Ven's Rockette dress, I think overall she has NO taste. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "As much as she flies off the handle I wouldn't be surprised if she's just being overly emotional due to the stress of the show. And it's not like she has anything to gain competition-wise by pretending to cry. Maybe if she wants more airtime but that seems a bit of a stretch considering how heated a personality she has already. Sure didn't seem like she was faking the tears when she (finally) made it in the top that week she made the puffy plastic lederhosen thing.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Sometimes I think they keep more interesting competitors on the show just for entertainment (ratings) sake. Like Ven, he is boring as hell, talented yes, but he doesn't make for good TV like Elena. I've noticed this pattern on previous seasons, too.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "OK, I watched the judging portion of E10 again and that seed of doubt that you planted is taking root. If you're looking for it I think you could make a case for it though it didn't stand out as obvious to me. Hmmm.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I think sometimes they are real freaking out stress tears, but I can see how sometimes it might be more of an act. She seems like she gets stressed out really easily and then she gets angry and cries. I am having a hard time really getting a read on her personality. Sometimes she seems really goofy and fun and some of the designers seem to really like her (especially Gunnar), but then most of the time she is angry, bitter, upset, stressed... It's hard to say what she is really like from the footage we've seen of her. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Define 'ownership'.\n\nDefine 'possession'.\n\nDefine 'use/occupancy'.\n\nI've seen you use a lot of concrete examples of these concepts, but I haven't really seen any attempt to create an abstract definition. Doing so would greatly strengthen any points you have to make.\n\n___\nYou are right that self-ownership and the mixing labor with object form of property are not compatible. I think most libertarian arguments involving self-ownership are rather flawed.\n\nHowever, I still think that there are good arguments for private property and non-aggression against persons that don't rely on an argument for self-ownership. I'd be happy to share if you like.\n\n>Possession gets its legitimacy from it being factual and irreplaceable.\n\nThis is one of the big weaknesses in your argument actually. Yes, possession seems to be defined factually by you, but that means it has no moral implications. It doesn't say anything about whether one *should* respect someone's possession claim. Of course when I'm using my coffee cup, I'm possessing it, but if someone else comes along and starts using it instead, he's now possessing it. The factual matter of possession says nothing about who *should be allowed* to possess it.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm not SRS, but i've been accosted too many times for feminist views here that I don't take chances anymore. It seems that most of the belligerent MRAs have been inactive since the moderation change, but i'm not going to get excited, yet. \n\nAntiSRS is a great middle ground, but the last month has been less than encouraging when it comes to discussion. We've been less focused on intelligent discourse and more focused on improper rhetoric. It's been less than encouraging, to the point that I really don't want to argue with people here for fear of getting in a needless flame war.\n\nDon't get me wrong, i'm more than willing to stand up for my beliefs, but arguing with some people that simply will not allow any other viewpoint to exist is far too tiring for a very low reward. Like i've said multiple times before, I am a feminist and I agree with SRS on many things. What I don't agree with is the way they go about it hence why i'm here.\n\nAnd, unlike them, I've seen when this community can be at it's worst, hence my apprehension, but i've seen it at its best and i'll continue to work my best to see it move well. ", "score": 15 }, { "body": "But there's a propaganda war against Iran in progress, so she's obviously on the side of the good guys.\n\nAlthough I think your point is really nice, it probably wasn't the best example to pick", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I was about to suggest the GTX670, but then I realised it cost 300 pounds, not dollar. Try looking at the 7870 or 7950, since nVidia is currently more competitive at higher price points, and AMD is ruling the middle market segment. If you can save up for a little bit more, I recommend springing for a 670, but if that's the absolute maximum you can afford, go with AMD", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If you don't like it, just downvote it. Obviously these pictures are being upvoted for a reason. No need to be a Debbie Downer.", "score": 44 } ]

[ { "body": "Learn databases and some languages. Start in VB, javascript, move to C...\n\nYou'll never not have a job.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This seems to work fairly decent. Saw it on another post.\nhttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/jasmine-youtube-client/id554937050?mt=8", "score": 27 }, { "body": "Check out \"jasmine\", for some reason it only showed up under iPhone apps for me, but it is an iPad app as well. It works great and the guy who created alien blue made it. ", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "Tous ces trucs coûtent de l'argent. Next step, balancer le budget avec des taxes et impôts progressifs. Si c'est pas fait dans le futur proche on va être dans la marde.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "> On peut pas metre 15 000 carrotes nuclearie sur ebay, ya pas personne qui va vouloir acheter ca !", "score": 8 }, { "body": "J'ai voté CAQ, mais je suis content que Mme Marois fonce comme elle le fait. Moi j'ai toujours eu comme principe: que ça soit dans une direction ou dans l'autre, tant que ça bouge on avance. Avec Charest c'était ça le problème, 0 vision.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Pauline fait bien d'embrayer pendant que le PLQ a pas de chef .... ca va staller quand ils vont avoir un nouveau chef.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "C'est un peu comme le gouvernement conservateur, tu fais un paquet de gros changements en début de mandat, pis comme ça, les gens s'en rappelleront plus rendu à la prochaine élection, qu'ils soient d'accord ou non avec les décisions.\n\nPolitique 101\n", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "A lot of these responses are missing the point. When someone like you is doing an exercise incorrectly, there is usually a good reason for it. 'Just do x differently and then you'll feel it,' is not a viable solution. Once a movement pattern is sufficiently ingrained in your brain, it takes a lot of reconditioning to effectively rewire it.\n\nI need to stress especially that increasing the weight on the bar is NEVER a solution to a problem like this, unless you have zero or no weight to start with.\n\nFor most people, these sorts of issues are the result of deficiencies in their posture. It was for me.\n\nDo you have writer's posture? You could call it reddit posture also. This means your shoulder girdle tends to be tensed upward, your neck downward, and your shoulders forward. Basically, imagine what you look like when typing on your phone or on a laptop with a tiny screen.\n\nThere are a few ways you can test for this. Stand up, normally, and take a picture from the side. At which angle does you neck (or cranial spine) rise from torso? If it is not straight up or close to it, you have an issue.\n\nStand up and swing your arms freely. Are they swinging parallel to each other, or are they coming across your body? Do you ever notice that you have trouble getting a bowling ball to go straight? Ever have that problem in Wii bowling? If so, your shoulders are likely rotated forward. This is especially troublesome for runners, who are at risk of developing stress injuries if it is not corrected.\n\nWhen your shoulders are rotated forward like this, it moves the load away from your pecs and onto your shoulders/triceps. This is why your pecs never feel sore.\n\nA lot of people say 'pin your shoulders back' as a cue for good posture. This is not quite right. When most people pin their shoulders back, they are really just squeezing their shoulder blades closer together, which in turn drastically reduces your mobility. Really, you should be moving your shoulders DOWN away from your ears, and OUT, as far away from each other as possible, while keeping the neck BACK (a great cue a friend gave me for this motion is to pretend you 'smell something funny.'). Try each position at home so you can see the difference in mobility yourself (just shrug your shoulders up and down and see how far they can go).\n\nSo, no matter what you do on the bench, you're not going to see any improvements in your pecs until you fix your other issues. A combination of deep tissue massage and active release therapy would help, but are expensive. They could also be pretty uncomfortable, because some of the muscles that need relaxing are in your neck.\n\nIf you're interested, I can try to describe some of the exercises I've been doing to correct this same issue. You can do some of the massage/ART stuff at home, by yourself. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "What kind of weights are you lifting? Are you a beginner?\n\nThis is typical for people starting out. Your entire body is a weak link, so your arms give up long before your chest has to work hard. You should do bench presses and keep upping the weight until your arms are strong enough to make your chest do some real work.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I used to feel like that as well. When I benched, I would feel it in my shoulders and triceps, and my chest didn't feel like it was worked. I've gone about this two ways.\n\nYou could change your style of bench - adopting a more bodybuilder type form rather than the arched back of a powerlifter. \n\nAlso, where are your arms? I used to have my arms straight out to my sides perpendicular to my body and just lower them and press. \n\nNow, I have a slightly narrower grip, and I tuck my elbows to my sides when I bench. This seems to hit the pecs much better.\n\nCheck out this picture: http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/6/1660828419-orig.jpg", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Ah for feck sake. Let's be honest lads, there's only one actual city in the country. Even Cork is just a large town with a few airs and graces.\n\nIf anyone else in Cork finds out I've just said that though, I'll be finished. Strung up on the shaky bridge and left there as a warning to others like.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Waterford is not Ireland's oldest city. It became a city in [1206](http://books.google.com/books?id=rgA-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false), after Dublin, Cork, and Limerick. \n\nIt is possible that it was an older settlement than the other cities, but I don't have any data on that.\n\nI get why people would be upset at losing city status - but I don't understand what practical difference it would make in terms of local government etc. Would losing city status save the country money? If so. how much?\n\nAll may be explained on the facebook page, but I'm damned if I'm signing up to that spybot to read it.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Bit rich from a Kilkenny man, I think city like mountain is a relative term. Compared to Nepal or Tibet all our mountains are little more than hillocks.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Rock Climber reporting in: I have some very sweaty hands, and it is a major issue when I am climbing (Chalk is obviously the main solution) but getting to the source, there is a method that takes time but is efficient: Tea bagging. \nHere is one method: http://www.ehow.com/how_5274780_prevent-sweaty-hands-tea.html\nBut another is too simply clench some tea bags regularly for a period of time, there was a great article written by a climbing magazine but I can't find it :(", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/wk6dl/during_my_final_year_in_school_i_turned_the/c5e6oa2\n\nFYI you probably saw it due to it being featured in r/bestof", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "Perhaps theyre just realizing theyll never be able to 'make a life' with you.\n\nKids is a huge part of that, not sure why you only mentioned them in passing...", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I'm guessing it has a lot more to do with factors other than your things, which are a strange thing to decide is the problem in your maturing relationships (which in turn makes me wonder if, in spite of your protestations, they are something which get thrown in people's faces and THAT could be the problem). But lets put the things aside. I wonder, with jamphat, why the kids seem an afterthought. And your response (\"if you have a child, why would it matter if I do?\") lacks some insight into parenting at the very least. Do they meet your kids? Do they not meet your kids? Do they see that your living space is either too child-centric or too not-enough-child-centric for them so it makes them wonder about how you would relate to their children? Have children and their roles in your lives ever been discussed? The more I think about your comments, the creepier it seems that you focus only on your things and not relationship issues. Which doesn't matter at all, unless it reflects something that your romantic interests begin to wonder about as well. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Guys do like to feel needed. As different as it is now a days, guys still like to feel like they are the provider and they are taking care of you in some way. You project someone that doesn't need taking care of at all. So that's why these guys might be running away. Try this, next time you are with a guy you like and you bring him over, ask him to fix something or take a look at something so he feels needed. If he can't fix anything then you don't need to be with him anyway :p This is nothing that you do wrong or bad, it just seems like you are dating the wrongs guys and they are too insecure. Maybe you need a guy that is as independent as you. It sounds like you have a cool house and a very nice life, you just need to find the right person to share it with.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Mine does the same thing so I'm assuming its natural. I've been doing the Greg Irwin finger exercises for a while and even though I have decent independence with it, it won't go all the way up. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "My first boyfriend cheated on me big time. Well, what he actually did was pressure me into an open relationship and then violated all the rule, which, to me, is worse than cheating. I then continued to date a similar type of guy. The kind who would lie by omission. Put a very certain kind of spin on things (\"I *was* doing nothing. The guy was riding my cock and I was just sitting there. So I didn't lie...\"). It took me a while to get over this and start dating good guys. I got a few good ones in too, before another liar slipped in and totally pulled one over one me. After we broke up, I felt pretty much like 'all hope is lost, all people are scum, every person lies and only lies.' \n\nThis is a terrible place to be, but in some ways it was good. When I finally wanted to learned to trust again, it was because I had found a reason to: my husband. Honestly, I wish I'd been strong enough, motivated enough to do it on my own, for my own reasons, but I just wasn't and didn't. Meeting this person who I thought was exceptional, and to whom I so wanted to give my heart, meant figuring out a way to trust again. So I did.\n\nI could probably spend hours and many pages detailing how I went about these, but one thing that was a huge help was reading Buddhist texts and scholarly works. From the Four Knoble Truths, I learned that a lot of my problems relating to trust were of my own making. I was clinging to everything. Not willing to accept that every person, place and thing is impermanent. I didn't want to trust again, until I was absolutely certain I wouldn't get burned. But that's what trust is, it's NOT being certain you're not going to get burned, but still going for it! So rather than looking for ways to not get hurt, I started spending time learning how to not worry about getting hurt and how to accept that pain is one state and it can happen for any reason, including getting lied to, and without severely limiting your life, it can't be prevented. So I just had to learn to accept the pain and move on from it. Which took a while to do, but I learn and get better every day.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "We must not judge those outside the church (1 Corinthians 5:12), however we must strive to bring these outsiders into the church by helping them turn from sin and repent (Matthew 4:19). We need to make it a goal to bring others to Christ. The moral integrity of the Bible must also be kept intact. \n\nIf homosexual marriage becomes legal, then more and more churches will turn toward acceptance of the sin and denial of the Bible in order to \"get with the times.\" Churches that turn away from teaching that the Bible can be wrong will lose their flock. It's already happening with a number of churches today, even before homosexual marriage has been legalized.\n\nMoreover, if you are a Christian, you have to be a Christian in every aspect of your life. You can't smile upon the sins of another person just because you want them to have equal rights. If a thief wants the same rights as a person who does not steal, then he or she needs to give up thievery. It isn't your place to go around trying to promote equality for every different lifestyle - some lifestyles come with a distinctly different set of rights, and that's a fact for many people, not just homosexuals.\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The borders with the West were heavily guarded, as was the long borders with China, Iran, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. A branch of the military, border security was provided by the Border Troops of the USSR, which was actually under the control of the KGB, even though they were conscripted with the rest of the armed forces. I don't have the various statistics about strength and manpower of these forces, but they were quite large. \n\nWhile the borders are huge, you have to keep in mind that the terrain along the borders isn't exactly hospitable. It would be difficult for individuals to walk across the border to, say Iran, and live simply due to the difficulty of terrain and lack of food/water availability. Larger groups would be detected. Borders in more heavily populated areas had man-made physical barriers like fencing. Longer borders did not have man made physical barriers, but were guarded/monitored/patrolled, and the vastness of the terrain itself was enough to keep people in/out. \n\nI may be reading into it, but I think part of your question is 'why didn't more people just leave?'. You have to remember that movement within the USSR was also quite restrictive. You couldn't just hop on a train in Moscow and get out in Vladivostok without being questioned and your documents examined. ", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "I used to stump for PFCU, but over the past year I've had some incredibly frustrating experiences with delays and mistakes on their part. I'm currently engaged in a final possibility of solution - success or failure here will determine whether or not I keep my various instruments at PFCU.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Just FYI, there is a section on CU's in the FAQ. That was a lot of acronyms. Whew! You can also use the side bar to search, this question has come up quite a few times. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "We don't know if the Atlantis disaster and the Interdict occurred in the same time period, insofar as 'time period' can be applied to the Wizarding Time War.\n\nBased on muggle mythology, we have reason to believe that Atlantis, and its' destruction, predates Merlin.\n\nThat said, the Interdict may very well be a disarmament agreement even in this case - drawing from muggle mythology again, Merlin had a tendency to not get along with his apprentices, and a Merlin/Morgan wizarding war may well provide a reason for such a drastic measure.", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "The other day I was walking down my street smoking a cigarette and some guys were playing catch with a football in their yard. I wasn't paying attention when I heard a \"look out!\" call. I looked up just in time to see the ball heading right at me. I attempted to jump out of the way, but ended up hacky-sac style kicking the ball and it popped up right in front of me. I caught it one handed, threw it back and kept walking, all while taking a drag of my cigarette with the other hand. It prompted a bunch of cheers and claps from the dudes. Little do they know I totally suck at sports.\n\nEdit: Wow, I just reread that and can't belive how many typos there were. Think I fixed most of them.", "score": 63 }, { "body": "One night in my dorm's communal bathroom I was washing my hands and I pressed the button on the hand dryer and it literally fell of the wall by itself. I heard for weeks that I ripped that motherfucker off the wall in a fit of rage", "score": 42 }, { "body": "I removed the lid to a pickle jar in one motion without even flinching. Someone saw me and noted how impressive it was.", "score": 40 }, { "body": "I am not a heavy drinker, but I have taste-buds of steel. So, when I do drink, it's the darkest of beers and I never take a chaser after a shot.\n\nThis is not badassery. Lots of people can do this. However, I'm a chick. Not just any chick, but one that's all wide-eyed like a Disney Princess and says \"Gee Golly!\" when excited. \n\nSo when I do grab a beer, or a shot, most people mistakenly assume it's my first time. And then they mistakenly think I'm awesome.", "score": 33 }, { "body": "One time I was coming out of a bar which was next to a Burger King. There were some dicks standing around outside and as I walked past one of them said \"fucking faggot.\" I said \"fucking homophobe\", which was the best I could do off the top of my head.\n\nAnyway, he started swearing, I kept moving and out of the corner of my eye I saw him throw something at me. I turned around and put my hand up to stop whatever he had thrown from hitting me in the face.\n\nIt was his burger, still wrapped in the foil thing completely unopened. It hit my hand and just stopped. I'd accidentally caught it. There was a moment of silence (I think we were both like \"holy shit he/I caught it\") and then I unwrapped the burger, took a bite and walked around the corner.\n\nI was fully expecting to then get punched in the back of the head, but nothing happened.\n\n**tl;dr:** I battled the flying hamburger of intolerance and won.", "score": 32 }, { "body": "We have some pretty dry winters where I live, so every winter my knuckles get all cracked and broken. Most of the time they'll bleed a bit. Anyway, when I was in high school no one messed with me because they'd see my knuckles and think I was in a lot of fights.", "score": 31 }, { "body": "This summer I went all the way to Texas to visit this girl I was friends with. Well we are cleaning off her back porch for this barbeque they were having that night, and there were these huge spiders. I'm talking about these four inch suckers. Everywhere. So this girl is picking up this box and it has a spider on it, and she jumps and drops the box, throwing the spider on me. I didn't even flinch at it because I thought it flew past me. Everyone sees and is impressed with me.\n\n**TL;DR Caught a spider-bro and impressed a girl.**", "score": 22 }, { "body": "I save skunks. This has happened *twice*:\n\n**First time :** It's 4am and I'm driving my bro home. We spot something in the middle of the road; it's a skunk. I stop the car and we get out. That skunk has no idea wtf is going on because it's head is stuck inside a McFlurry cup. It's frightened; clearly ready to piss on any motherfucker who approches it. Being scared of that piss, we find sticks to try to pry off the McFlurry cup from the skunks head. No success. After *easing-ever-so-close-and-ultimately-retreating* for thirty minutes, I decide to just take the situation by the balls. I inch slowly towards the trapped skunk and deftly remove the cardboard cup, releasing the creatures head from darkness. Still had that plastic thing around its neck, poor skunk. She immediately felt relief *(i hope)* and promptly ran away from my bro and I.\n\n**Second time :** About two years later, a similar scenario presents itself. I'm coming back from a bar with a few buddies; it's around 2am. We spot a creature in the middle of the road. I flashback to that faithful night where I sav--*OH SHIT IT'S A SKUNK! OH SHIT ITS HEAD IS STUCK IN A MCFLURRY CUP* The driver parks the car and we all get out. My friends were in *Wtf-do-we-do?* mode. Fearless from experience, I casually walk up to the skunk and gently remove the cardboard cup, without hesitation. The skunk, now free, ran away. I look back at my buddies and there's this expression in their eyes. It was awe. I felt like a million bucks.\n\n**TL;DR: I save skunks.**\n\n*PS: Remove that plastic thing from McFlurries when you throw them out, you might save a critter.*", "score": 19 }, { "body": "So a few weeks ago I was in Vegas at a strip club that apparently was having a BDSM night. I am sitting by the stage and I get fake blood spit on me. Needless to say I am pissed. I talk to the club manager to tell him how fucked up it was. He gives me all my money back a bottle of grey goose, a cigar and a limo ride back to the strip. (good service) Since I was drunk I kinda forgot about the whole blood splatter pattern across my shirt and face. So I was a 6' 240 lbs guy in a blood splattered white collared shirt smoking a cigar and holding a bottle of gray goose. Everybody seemed to be scared of me. I kept trying to talk to girls and they looked scared. Guy would by me drinks saying they wanted to party like me. I would go to tables and people would stare at me. I would drunkenly ask “why the fuck are you looking at me this aint poker.” My friends found me later as the token white guy in an all-black entourage. I have no recollection of how that last part happened.\nEdit: Grammer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "I work at an apartment complex where there are quite a few rowdy and ignorant residents. One of them came in and proceeded to cuss me out and threaten to whip my ass because I asked her when she was going to pay her rent. I evicted her, and it appears to have had a very calming effect on the other residents because now everyone comes into my office like I'm the apartment-nazi.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I recently got promoted to Manager of the IT team, after they fired the worthless piece of shit that never did anything got fired.\n\nA \"higher up the food chain type\" had been giving my team direction/tasks, and even though the team knoew it was wrong, they had to do it becasue he was pretty high up. Some of the things he was demanding they do contradicted our contract.\n\nAfter they told me about this (on my 2nd day as Manager), I set up a meeting with him, and my boss, and very calmly explained that \"this is MY team, I give them direction and tasks, and I am very protective of my team, and wil not stand for him trying to run the IT dept\" and \"if you need something from one of my guys, you come to ME, and I will decide if it is something that they can do for you.\"\n\nAfter I got out of the meeting with him, I went back to my team and told them that if that guy attempts to asssign to any work or tasks, that they are to refer him to me, and I will let the team know if it is something we can accomodate him on.\n\nYou would have thought I was handing out free money and gadgets!\n\nFunny, he doesn't come around much, and when he does, he's polite and respectful. ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "i stand up to assholes that i work with in defense of other people. i'm not a badass, i just think everyone should be treated fairly. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I learned to snowboard in the 7th grade. I was a slow learner. One run, I left the ski lift and accidentally went down a black diamond. I bombed it straight down and made it through only to cut over to a huge ramp. I go off the ramp and get major air. Long enough for me to realize what I've done and how I'm about to die. I start flailing and freaking out, causing me to twist and turn (I grabbed my board to try to keep it straight) - all while suddenly becoming religious again and praying that I won't die. Then plop! I landed it.\n\nAs I'm making my way inside to retire my snowboard for life, a few guys came up to me and said I did a 180-fakie-something-mctwist-with-extra-pickles, who knows what. They thought I was a child prodigy and asked me to join them. My second trip down a black diamond cleared up that confusion pretty quickly.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "one time, i was playing uno with a bunch of the cool kids in my art class. As I set down my last card to win the game, i cracked all my fingers, spun my hat around and leaned back against the wall. all the cool.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I normally work remotely, but I had flown in to the head office for a meeting. We're an IT company so dress is always casual. I came into the office to find that the sales team had scheduled me to go to a prospective client's site for a security evaluation. I arrived at the client site late because my GPS wasn't working right, wearing cutoff camo shorts, a scruffy t-shirt, nose ring and a mohawk (down at least). Because I wasn't ready for this task, I ended up using old command line tools to gather their information rather than the fancy new tools that are normally available. Apparently everyone there thought I must be a hacker and the client asked me to put up my mohawk the next time I came out to really impress his boss. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "In high school, a friend of mine got the shit kicked out of him at a party. Hearing about this, my ex-step-brother decided to come down to the school with his friend and terrorise the kids that they thought were responsible. I should mention that both of these guys (on my side) were absolute psychos, by far the easiest people to anger into violence I've ever met, so much so that it made me very anxious to be around them. Long story short, they came down to the school with weapons and were ridiculously intimidating/physical with the guys who they thought were responsible. These kids weren't the right ones, but they were my bullies/rivals all the same. As I wasn't sure what to do, I walked up to my bro and friend (they were ~50m away at this point, after chasing some kids), told them that they were the wrong kids and motioned for them to leave with me. The next day everyone thought I had hired goons with weapons at my disposal, due to my calm demeanor and instructions given. I have never been in a real fight, get horrible anxiety around shouting and weigh 65k (143lb.)", "score": 8 }, { "body": "My senior year of high school. After first period, I went up to a girl, pulled a ring pop out of my pocket, got down on one knee and asked her to homecoming. She said yes. I got legitimate applause from a few kids. \n\nIn a matter of an hour, pretty much everyone in the whole school thought I was ballsy as fuck for going up to a random chick and pulling that off. \n\nIn reality, I asked her the day before. She said yes, but she wanted me to do something more creative than just verbally asking her. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Asshole in college (English not American) decides it will be funny to throw a Frisbee at me and my friends, who are sitting on the bank of a field. It's going to hit my friend, I catch it one handed, returning it to hit him right between the eyes, all without moving from my sitting position. \n\n(mine appear to be about throwing)\n\nAt a festival, dick head is crowd surfing around and kicking people in the head, there aren't enough people to do it safely and he's not just going to the front he's going up and down repeatedly. Talk to the guy next to me and next time he goes over us, we throw him over the front, to the security guards. Whilst he's going over, I take his shoe and turn to throw it over the crowd to the not populated bit of field. Unfortunately, I suck at throwing, so I launched it directly into the face of the guy who was helping him get up! I'd already asked them to stop twice, so he thought I meant to do it and left the crowd immediately! ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I was on a class trip a few years back and the loudspeaker directly above my head on the bus broke, causing it to hiss and crackle extremely loudly. After it aggravated us all for a few moments, I stood up and hit the ceiling in an attempt to jar the wiring back together. The bus jarred a bit as I threw my punch, so I ended up punching directly into the speaker with much more force than intended. The noise stopped immediately and everybody clapped. \n\ntl;dnr fixed a speaker by punching it into submission", "score": 7 }, { "body": "In 8th grade there was a group of guys that would make fun of my - hardly noticeable - lisp. (Now you can only hear it when I'm nervous or drunk) I'm sitting on the bus next to my friend one day and this guy got his hands on a can of spray axe. The first generation kind that smelled like aerosol cancer.\n\nSo he's on the bus relentlessly filling the air with axe, and open windows could not relieve the awful that it was. I turn around and I shout something along the lines of \"Oh my god, cut it out- no one can breathe!\" I turn in my seat and was expecting some verbal harassment in retaliation, but maybe that would distract him from spraying axe for a bit. Next thing I know there's cold, liquid axe dripping down the back of my scalp. The fucker put the can right next to my head and unleashed liquid stankitude upon my hair and I flip.\n\nI stood up and starting cussing him out with shit like \"Don't ever fucking do that again.\" \"Don't ever fucking touch me with that shit\" I would have gone with the \"I'll kick your ass so hard into the ground you'll be numb for three days\" but he was the tallest middle-schooler-asian-bully I've ever seen in my life.\n\nI might note that this was also the first time I seriously cursed anyone out. I was one of the last ones in my friend group to start cursing, so you can imagine how raged I was. I sit down and put my hoodie up to prevent future hair-harassment and my friend just stares at me.\n\nNot a moment later, the kid's friend turns around in his seat in front of me. He had broken his finger a few days/weeks beforehand and pulls the classic \"HEY SMELL MY FINGER\" line. I suppose it was some odd backup for his axe-wielding friend.\n\nTo get his finger out of my face I slam his hand into the back of the seat and pin him. He's in pain and flailing, and I let go when I realize he's not just being over-dramatic. The kid tried to call me out on it to the security guy that walked onto the bus that very second, but he was ignored for being a known trouble maker, and I was, well, the quiet nerd girl.\n\nI was never really bothered again after that, the rest of the year's teasing felt more like \"bro\" humor than anything.\n\n[I've posted this before, but I like this story]", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I went clubbing with a couple of friends and we were having a blast and all of a sudden there was a fight between the group I was with and then another. I stepped in and tried to hold my group back and I noticed that the other group were my friends also, in the heat of the moment I was ordering the initial group to \"back the fuck up\" and then the one of the guys from the other group swung at us but I knew he wouldn't hit me and it barely grazed me looking like I dodged it, and then I told them to chill and go somewhere else, under the fear of being kicked out they left. As the heat of the moment died down I decided to check up on those other friends who left and then I felt hands over my chest, stomach, and arms which all belonged to all the chicks in my initial group. One of them held my hand tightly informing me \"not to go after those guys\" and I looked her straight in the eyes and I told her she shouldn't worry and that I got it handled. I guess that inflamed their loins about how bad ass I was and they dragged me over to the bar and started buying me shots. The guys in the group were giving me props and telling me how dope I was, I eventually took the girl that was holding my hand home.\nThe next day I called my friend who threw the punch and told him what happened and he laughed and asked me to buy him lunch. I did.\n\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "When I was in high school my mom was on ski patrol at the mountain nearby so I usually spent my weekends boarding while she was at work. I saw this kicker ramp on the side of one of the runs and I wanted to try it out because I figured I'd get some good air. There was this group of 4 or 5 boarders hanging by the ramp and I kept thinking to myself, \"Don't fuck this up, they're going to laugh at you.\" So I head straight for the ramp with some speed and right when I get to the top I caught my front edge. Everyone that ever snowboarded knows that catching your edge means ouchtime. This launched me into a front flip which I miraculously landed, right in front of the group of guys. They all jumped up and started congratulating me. The one guy high fived me and said it was the sickest front flip he'd ever seen. \n\nI thanked them and continued down the mountain shaking uncontrollably because I thought I was going to die.\n\ntl;dr I pulled off sickest front flip ever completely on accident.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I ride my bicycle to commute. My coworker tells people a story about one day when I should have been killed, which is really an everyday occurance. I was riding home and a few feet from me a parked car door swings wide open. I'm going pretty fast and a few feet is barely a few seconds.\n\nI'm an avid cyclist and slant my bike to 35 degree angle while balancing most of my body to avoid the door then throw my body weight so that the bike jumps back to regular riding position. She was in disbelief but these things happen everyday. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Whenever i play cards, I do so quietly and calmly so that if I win the game, it takes the other players a while to notice. Nothing like going through another round only to realize the grinning guy in the corner won the game 2 minutes ago. Gets 'em every time", "score": 4 }, { "body": "During my test for my second degree black belt I broke a board while holding an egg without breaking the egg then broke and drank the egg to prove it wasn't hard boiled. A guy from my HS was there and told a whole bunch of people how great it was. I have technique but am far from a BA", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I was walking on this crosswalk on my college campus and this car comes out of nowhere and almost hit's me. I get out of the way just in time and he slams on his breaks. He rolls down his window and says \"Watch where you're going, bitch!\" I spit out my gum which hits his face, turn around like nothing happened, and proceed to walk into the building. I never encountered him after that.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I was riding my mountain bike home after drinks in downtown Seattle. I was listening to Nirvana and drunk, so I thought it would be a good idea to do a jump off some raised pavement in a parking lot. I got a lot of air, twisted my handlebars in an awesome mid-flight pose, landed like that and ate pavement. I jumped up, and screamed MOTHERFUCKER at my bike, and someone across the street who had seen me screamed YAAAAAHOOOOOOOO!! ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "my ex-roomate had a 14 year old shar-pei named Ruffles that would push open the door to my room to piss in my closet.\n\nWhile I was sleeping soundly in my loft bed (and having a night full of kung-fu dreams), Ruffles decided to start nosing my door open to have a pee. I go from full asleep to flying off my bed, executing a vertical 360 twist and lying a flying kick on the door before my eyes even open. The door slams shut, causing Ruffles to skitter back to my roomates room, I land on my feet and open my eyes. My girlfriend is looking at me like I'm an alien. But a very sexy kung-fu alien.\n\nI didn't even realize I didn't know kung-fu until after I'd landed on the floor.\n**TL;DR I used sleep kung fu to prevent a dog pissing in my closet.**", "score": 3 }, { "body": "i went to visit a friend of mine at a bar where he worked as a bouncer. he and his buddies are all into martial arts of all kinds and known for being completely calm and collected until the time busting heads is needed. i was coming across the parking lot and two guys are giving me looks and making snide ass comments. i brush it off. come into the bar and find my friend sitting with his fellow bouncers. the guys from the parking lot see me sitting with them and start to sweat pretty bad. i went to go to the bathroom when i bump into one of the guys from the parking lot and spill his beer. totally my fault. he looks at me and can't buy me and rest of the guys a drink fast enough to keep from getting an ass kicking. he had no idea i wasn't like them. sure was fun pretending for awhile! ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "When I'm in public I have a face that looks like its about to smack you. I was told that I walk very confident of myself and that I always look like I have somewhere to go... In reality I suffer from severe anxiety and am freaking out inside. I guess I just know how to hide it very well. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Growing a beard.\n\n[\"Oh he looks shy.\"](http://i.imgur.com/tIEUX.jpg)\n\n[\"Whoa, don't fuck with that guy.\"](http://i.imgur.com/8FCqH.jpg)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think of rain when I listen to Fiona Apple, I guess I got hooked on her in the winter and it stuck. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I guess the \"wrong\" reason to be childfree would be the inverse of the \"wrong\" reason to have children. The wrong reason to be childfree (and to do most things, really) is as the result of a decision you didn't make fully on your own. So being childfree to please a partner would be a good example of a \"bad\" reason to be CF. ", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Yeah pretty much the only reason I can think of is to stay childless in order to please someone when you know you will be extremely unhappy without children or when you stay in an abusive relationship with someone who \"forces\" you not to have them. Family forcing someone to have an abortion when they feel it will make them unhappy might be another one. Then again somebody who stays in an abusive relationship or lets his life be dictated by relatives should be maybe not reproduce either way...", "score": 14 }, { "body": "I don't think there can be a wrong reason to be childfree.\n\nParenthood should be - has to be - a 100% commitment for decades of your life (or arguably, the remainder of it). Therefore, by definition, anyone unwilling to have kids is unsuitable as a parent.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I don't think there are wrong reasons to be CF. \nIf there was a wrong reason and regret, at least a child's life wouldn't be affected by it. \n\nPart of my reasons are vanity, love for my spouse, and wanting all my money which may seem wrong to some people. I more often say for my health, aspirations and freedom which sound better and are reasons too. \nSome people view them as selfish reasons and I don't think selfish people should have kids. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Leave behind a legacy. A good one.\n\n>A man dies twice. First, we he takes his last breath, and second, when his name is spoken for the last time.\n\nI don't want my second death to come as long as humanity exists.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "My single greatest desire is to die painlessly at the conclusion of a meaningful life, during which I improved the world for those I care about.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I want to make people happy. I want so much money that I can open shelters, soup kitchens, youth centers, etc. Honestly, the only thing that really makes *me* happy is knowing I made others happy. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Silly question: have you tried asking them directly (by email)? \n\nYou bring back memories of a very intimist show in their own living room at their loft on Van Horn street where the pictures of the insert of the album F♯A♯∞ were in fact pictures of the decorations on their walls... \n\nSuch a magical night!", "score": 16 }, { "body": "a decent rip of one of those tapes would be so incredible i can't even begin to wrap my mind around it. godspeed, OP.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "You could always ask Constellation. I sent them a drunk, lonely email once asking if they were ever going to get back together because they ment so much to me...\n\n...and then they reformed 9 months later(!).\n\nI don't actually think this cassette may exist anymore, though. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I heard (correct me if I'm wrong) that some members of GY!BE might be involved with Sala Rossa / Casa del Popolo up in St Laurent.\n\nMaybe you could ask someone there to get in touch with the band?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Cheapest way is to make an anti-islam video and in it let the middle east folks know the moon is where the racist muhammed cartoons come from. They will take care of things..", "score": 12 }, { "body": "OK, the easiest and by far cheapest way to do this is to buy a harpoon gun, and the a LOT of rope for it. Once you got that tie the rope to something that isnt going anywhere, or hold on tight, the moons a pretty heavy fucker! Shoot the harpoon into the moon, and then pull it down towards earth, and then let go, it should slingshot directly into the sun, destroying it permanently. Though they look about the same size, so winter might some early. Or you could pull it down to earth and keep it. Imagine the look in peoples eyes when they come over for cocktails and see the moon on your mantle!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "All you need is a few dozen laser pens. Point them all at a mirror angled so it will reflect the lasers to the moon. In this case, the mirror exponentially increases the energy in the lasers because, obviously, it is a MIRROR (Magnifying Item laseR Reflecting Object Rdevice).", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Throughout the galaxy, the preferred method of satellite removal has been mice, just release a few while standing on your phonebooks.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "> A little about me first. Now, as a Christian, I know I'm an auto target for most of you.\n\nWell, the silly things you believe are an auto-target. If you act on them, then you might be also.\n\n> But let me say, I'm not your Bible bashing, fire and brimstone, holy roller.\n\nYes, yes, good.\n\n> I am also very open minded and have learned about other religions and atheism but the denomination I am, Baptist, and the church I unregularly attend, preach loving everyone regardless of race, religion, gender, creed, ect... Yes, that includes gay people.\n\nIt's nice to know that some sects of Christianity don't obey the Bible. We're glad you have let your innate secular human morality overcome the immorality commanded by that god, when you choose which verses are good to follow and which are not.\n\n> I don't believe anyone knows 100% for sure which religion or god is right.\n\nI think I have a pretty good idea. ;)\n\nI'm going to assume you meant to include in this that you don't believe anybody knows 100% that there even is any kind of god.\n\n> Many religions are parallel stories of the same events.\n\nThey're not, actually. Most events from religious stories are natural disasters happening at different times in different places. They are not parallel stories of the same single event, but different stories of different parallel events. The few times when religions tell stories about the same event, the plagiarism and contradictions are obvious.\n\n> Describing my view, I sound like an agnostic, but I still believe there is a God...\n\nThis makes you an agnostic theist.\n\n> and that the Bible is true (to interpretation), and that is what I'm wanting to discuss with an intelligent opposing view.\n\nWhen you get to make up your own interpretation, you are no longer saying the Bible is true. You are saying your interpretation is true, and your interpretation is something you made up. You can with exactly the same ease interpret it in the exact opposite way. That is how you know that what you have done cannot be a path to truth. It is only a path to how you feel. You are praying to yourself.\n\n> There is no proof to support Christianity, that is a fact.\n\nThere's proof to disprove Christianity.\n\n> You can say that the earth has been around for 2,000 years or 2 billion years.\n\nOr 4.54 billion years, with an error of ±1%. But you'll only be right if you say this last one.\n\n> The only thing I am certain of, is it's been around at least 29 years in my life. But trying to remain open minded to outside views and faithful to my religion is somewhat of a hypocritical way of thinking to some. So I ask, how can A=B and B=C.\n\nIt doesn't. C is right. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old, and not 2 billion, nor 2 thousand, nor 29.\n\n> Age of the earth. Scientist have carbon dating which is very accurate.\n\nRadiometric dating. Not carbon dating. Carbon dating is one form of radiometric dating, which works best on land plants, and animals that eat land plants, and animals which eat land-plant-eating animals, and so on. We use other forms of radiometric dating on rocks to date the age of the Earth, because rocks don't eat land plants.\n\n> Christians have the Bible, which is... un-provable.\n\n\"Wrong.\" The word you're looking for there is \"wrong\".\n\n> But I'd like to take both views and say that they're both right and get /Athiesm opinion.\n\nOur opinion is irrelevant. Facts are not decided by opinion. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. It is that old regardless of how you feel about it. It is that old regardless of if a god exists or not. It is that old regardless of what you would rather be true. Reality is the arbiter of truth. When you disagree with reality, you are wrong.\n\n> In Genesis, we all have heard the story, \"In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth...\". In science, we hear the big bang to be the most believed theory. So how can they both be correct?\n\nThey aren't. The Bible is wrong. The events it gives, even taken metaphorically, and with generous stretching of the timeline, are still in the wrong order. Genesis 1 has the earth and sky made first. Then light. Then grass. Then the sun. Then the stars. In reality, light was first, then stars, then the sun, then the earth, and then grass. The Bible is wrong.\n\n> In my rationalization, they can be. Because in the Bible, God didn't create light until later on. Verse 5, states that the first 'day and night' day was on 'day 2' of Gods creation. So technically, while 'day 1' is considered a day, it could have been a million years of earth rock floating in space\n\nNo, it could not. The light came first, not after the earth.\n\n> since there was no light or dark to seperate day from night.\n\nUntil there was a sun, there was no planetary accretion. The sun came before the earth. There would always have been a day and night. And the Bible says grass came before the sun.\n\n> We can discuss every word in every chapter, \n\n[And we have.](http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com)", "score": 97 }, { "body": "It's not difficult to get the Bible to fit with ANY set of facts. You just have to fudge it up until it's not inconsistent.\n\nExample: Evolution. Interpret the first four (or twelve) chapters of Genesis as a metaphor/parable/what-have-you, and you're suddenly in the clear. Evolution works. Never mind that you just jettisoned original sin; you'll have to fix that up and justify it somehow, but it works.\n\nChristians have been doing this for centuries, and accordingly, Biblical interpretation has changed drastically over time. I can't think of a single set of verifiable facts that would throw a wrench in this process. That makes me, and others, exceedingly suspicious of Biblical interpretation.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "In respose to your TL;DR the Bible has been edited and re-edited by self-absored nutcases for hundreds of years. All true meaning, if any, is lost. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Just to nitpick for a second, carbon dating doesn't actually tell us much about anything more than ~50,000 years ago, because of the half-life of carbon-14. Other dating techniques are what have given us our 4.6 billion year estimate. \n\nAlso, in science, theories aren't believed or disbelieved, but rather tentative or embedded (moving along a scale). Tentative theories explain what we see, but have only a small amount of sufficient evidence. Embedded theories explain what we see, and have multitudes of convergent evidence. Hence, embedded theories are essentially assumed to be correct, for practical purposes. The big bang theory is an embedded theory.\n\nStepping aside from the misconceptions, this is essentially the same rationalization that I made when transitioning from a religiously driven worldview to a scientifically driven one. I personally realized at some point that only one of the two origin explanations was necessary, and that the other was extraneous. I had to ask myself why I still wanted to believe in God, despite his being unnecessary, and I found that the only reason was that it offered a sense of comfort. I eventually came to realize that the relationships with important people in my life were more than sufficient to comfort me when I needed it, and far more salient at that.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "> There is no proof to support Christianity, that is a fact.\n\nYour honesty is refreshing.\n\n> In my rationalization, they can be. \n\nYou could take any random piece of fiction, including the holy books from other religions, and perform similar rationalizations. \n\nThe real failure of the bible and other holy texts is that this sort of thing has to be done *after the fact*. Science pushes ever forward, while religion pretends that it had the answers all along - retroactively.\n\nAlso, have you perchance read the FAQ?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "There is evidence that the Earth has been around billions of years. There is no evidence that it has only been around 6,000 years.\n\nNot sure how you can determine the bible based belief system is \"right\" when there simply is no evidence to support it.\n\nAs for light, the fact that we're receiving light from distant stars millions of light-years away rather throws a monkey wrench into the YEC ideas too.\n\nI think it is great that you don't hate minorities. Nor do I. I just don't happen to need a religion to guide that morality. Indeed one could argue that your support of a system from which the extremists stem is tacit support and encouragement for the extremists in your midst. So moderate theism like yours is in a very real way a part of the overall problem IMO.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You said a few things that **do not** indicate [open mindedness](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI&feature=relmfu).\nFor example:\n>I don't believe anyone knows 100% for sure which religion or god is right.\n\nYou're begging the question. The way that you worded it shows that you've already assumed that one of them is right, leaving only the matter of determining which one it is.\n\n>I'd like to take both views and say that they're both right... Genesis... the big bang... how can they both be correct?\nIn my rationalization, they can be.\n\nOkay, let's assume that they can both be correct. So what? The fact that something is possible doesn't mean that it's true.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "> Science says earth has been around billions of years. The Bible says otherwise. The bible says a 'DAY' wasn't created until 'day 2' of the creation, meaning 'day 1' could have been millions/billions of years and science and the Bible could be correct hypothetically\n\nSure. So what?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "> I don't believe anyone knows 100% for sure which religion or god is right.\n\nThis would be correct except the word \"which\" implies that there is a god or religion that is right. Most atheists are of the opinion that they're all wrong.\n\n> but I still believe there is a God and that the Bible is true (to interpretation)\n\nThe problem with using the word \"true\" with the description \"to interpretation\" is that the terms aren't really compatible. It implies that the truth is somehow subjective. While many things in life are subjective, we don't typically describe them as abstract truths but rather as opinions. So whether you like cilantro is an opinion, likely influenced by your genetics, we can't say that your interpretation of the flavor of cilantro is enough to truthfully say that cilantro tastes good or bad.\n\n> Age of the earth. Scientist have carbon dating which is very accurate.\n\nI'd urge you to read up on [radiometric dating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating). The reason I believe you need to do so is because you specifically mention carbon (presumably carbon-14) dating which is only accurate on preserved samples up to about 60k years, and then only on samples of things that were once alive.\n\n> Christians have the Bible, which is... un-provable. But I'd like to take both views and say that they're both right and get /Athiesm opinion.\n\nHmm, 6k years from Biblical accounts vs. 2 billion years. Sure, that sounds close enough that you could say that they're both right. Why not, we can also claim up is down and in is out while we're at it.\n\nHonestly, I'm having trouble thinking of how we're going to evaluate that request for opinion as anything other than \"The bible is provably wrong.'\n\n> In my rationalization, they can be. Because in the Bible, God didn't create light until later on. Verse 5, states that the first 'day and night' day was on 'day 2' of Gods creation. So technically, while 'day 1' is considered a day, it could have been a million years of earth rock floating in space.\n\nThe primary issue that you're going to see from us here is that we would actually prefer you used Harry Potter as a reference for your scientific evaluations, because at least that fiction is more current. The notion that the bible accounts should even be considered is ridiculous when you understand what science is, and how we evaluate claims through the lens of the scientific method. We don't care what your rationalization of the bible is. That you'd even try to rationalize a fairy tale is the issue we'd run up against first.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I refuse to pick and choose things in a book that preaches murder and intolerance. Do you also believe gay people should be stoned to death? Because that's what your book says, as well as god creating the heavens and the earth. \"...They shall surely be put to death...\" (Lev. 20:13)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think I saw someone who made a screensaver that will run a command from the command line and then kill the process when the screensaver is supposed to stop. You could also use windows task scheduler to just set up the miner to run when idle. I don't know of any polished products that do this though. Good luck!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "makes sense- they didn't want to be at fault for accidentally delivering any phones a day too early.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "the site says it was suppose to come out on the 21st not the 20th, so yeah they had them there but they aren't suppose to release them until the company releases them", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Just continue the story. Trust me, it will make sense. You just can't complete it due to \"what happened\". ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I had a blocked quest that later became unblocked, so I imagine you'll be able to get to it eventually.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "One movie that fits your description almost exactly is [Bröderna Lejonhjärta \\(1977\\)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075790/), a swedish movie based on the book by Astrid Lindgren.\n\nThere's a little boy and his older brother, they are riding horses in a medieval-style 'afterlife'. Then they go hiding and dragon-spotting and dragon-fleeing in caves. The only detail missing is the pan pipe.\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "No i was serious; this is Mio in the Land of Faraway. \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mio_in_the_Land_of_Faraway ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Name: Dawnstrike \nPosition desired: GM Emeritus in Absentia (I'll be back when I beat BL2!) \nFavorite Firefly Character: the shuttle (but not Inara's, the other one is sexier) \nFavorite Pony: Butt Stallion \nAge: Venerable (+2 Wisdom, +2 Intelligence, -1 Strength, -1 Dex) \nDSM-IV Code: 305.00\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Make sure to vote everyone, your informed choosing between these two people is sooo vital to the nation. Gosh, I mean if you don't choose one of the two pre-selected guys to be the new overlord then how are we going to find the best person for the job?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You still have a warranty on it. All iPhones have a 1 year warranty no matter where you bought it from. This is definitely a defective phone Go to the apple store and tell a genius person and they will replace it for you. Just explain to them what you just explained to us. They will wait for the 40 min.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This may be dumb - and might not help - but have you fully discharged the battery? It's more rare than people think, but it's possible that the battery capacity hasn't been correctly calibrated.\n\nTry running down the battery all the way until the phone shuts off.\n\nTo speed the process up, turn up your brightness, turn everything (like bluetooth) on, and then run a CPU/graphics intensive 3D game and let it sit until it dies.\n\nWhen I first got my 4S, I did this, and it stayed on 1% for quite a while before it finally died, indicating that the battery capacity wasn't calibrated.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Which team is constantly competitive, but hated by every other fan? I want to know which team I'll be comfortable cheering for.", "score": 154 }, { "body": "Dear ESPN,\n\nIf you want to fuck over the NHL, but not hockey, please broadcast KHL games on The Ocho.", "score": 47 }, { "body": "Yes I would however I would rather like to see minor leagues(ECHL,AHL,OHL,CHL,NCAA..etc) receive the same amount of coverage that the NHL receives before the KHL. ", "score": 46 }, { "body": "No. I do not support the players first of all. Second of all the hockey I will support outside of the NHL is other North American leagues, specifically the OHL and ECHL", "score": 13 }, { "body": "The chances of it happening are pretty slim. If it did happen I am sure I would watch but also take into consideration I watch the KHL now on and off. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I'd rather see junior as well OHL or WHL, I would rather watch prospects play over watching the KHL. Shitty thing is here in Winnipeg we don't have any WHL teams to watch any live games. Either way I get my fill playing for 2 beer league teams all winter.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'll watch it. We'll have lots of hockey on TV here (Canada) all winter. CHL, AHL, World juniors, World Hockey Championship, Spengler Cup, Memorial Cup... there will be a lot of hockey on Canadian TV even without the NHL.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "i'll watch whatever hockey is in HD.\n\nSportscentre was showing KHL highlights yesterday, and all i could think was \"fucking SDTV, get with the times, KHL!\"", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you look around enough you can find the live streaming feeds of the KHL games. They are fun to watch. Im planning on supporting the AHL and going to some of their games this year as well. As a side note Bettman can lick balls. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Probabaly not because I doubt the games would be shown live, and I have a hard time watching sports that I know isn't live.\n\nI would watched increased AHL and CHL coverage however.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I would watch it! I love international sized rinks. More speed and talent, less hooking and mugging.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'd take a peek at it. Right now I'm just trying to play as much hockey as I can to keep my mind off of the fact I won't be watching it any time soon. I'd much rather see something like the AHL, though.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Televised hockey is televised hockey. It may not be as high a level as the NHL but any port in a storm. I'd be more interested in TSN showing AHL games. Maybe Sportsnet could do the CHL games. Prairies get WHL East, BC gets WHL West, Ontario the OHL and Quebec/Maritimes gets the QMJHL on their respective televisions. If only dreams could become reality.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'd definitely watch KHL and some other leagues if possible. The Swiss league is lookin good, loading up on NHLers. Bottom line, i just want to see good hockey!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "**All other considerations being equal**, perfect looks are more aesthetically pleasing than funny imperfections. You're comparing apples to oranges when you say hot but insecure/flawed vs. imperfect but confident.\n\nThat being said, I'd rather be with a girl who's confident and in touch with their sexuality rather than a woman who relies on her good looks to get her through life (if those two examples are mutually exclusive).", "score": 28 }, { "body": "I feel most people parse this incorrectly. It's not the confidence/ownership is sexy, it's that insecurity is unsexy. Insecurity makes you far less attractive than the effect of an imperfection, at least to a point. Insecurity over an imperfection only acts as a 'force multiplier' to that imperfection. Ownership of that imperfection tends to flatten its effect.\n\nSo perfect looks versus secure imperfections? Perfect looks. Insecure beauty versus secure plain girl? The plain girl. Insecure beauty versus insecure plain girl? Beauty, though I'd much rather pass on this round.\n\n**However** I want to be extra-clear that we're only talking looks. Imperfections often have other affects on someone's personality, which can provide stunning positives or huge negatives that hugely affect which one I'd actually ask out.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Yes, a million times yes. I had an ex who was kind of chubby, not really fat, but she was overweight, but super curvy and awesome and she didn't have a chubby face, which isn't a bad thing I suppose, It's just a personal preference. Anyways she was crazy self conscious about it, to the point where she wouldn't eat in front of people, and I was never able to convince her that the only thing unattractive about her to me was her insecurity, that and she ended up kind of being a distant cold ignoring bitch later on. God I miss her.", "score": 17 }, { "body": "funny imperfections. Hands down. It's yours, it's unlikely to change - so own it.\n\nThat kind of confidence is sexy on most people, guys or girls.", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "[This](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001N07KUE/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00) is the one I have. It's really good!", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm going to all three games. I was able to get two tickets to game one, three tickets to game two, and four tickets to game three. Can't wait!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Side note: why is there [no asterisk next to NLDS game 1](http://i.imgur.com/UuMSP.png)? Isn't that a bit presumptuous? ಠ_ಠ ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Got ripped off on stubhub for some bleeders, but wont care when Im there!\n\nOnly question is Im trying to book a hotel for the night after to not have to worry about getting back home afterwards, I know their Home game 1 could fall on NLDS game 1 or 3, but on the schedule there is 4 possible dates for NLDS games 1/3, Im assuming since there are multiple series'. Is there a way to know which days game 1 or 3 will fall on for the Nats? Id rather book a room for both days and cancel than try to find one after the series' are set. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[They released this set in 2009,](http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=852522-1) it comes with an instruction sheet for all the letters. \n\n[\"LEGO lettering\" search on google images](http://www.google.com/search?q=lego+lettering+set&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ohhdUJzeM86_0QGXyYCoBw&ved=0CCUQsAQ&biw=1237&bih=901#hl=en&safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=lego+lettering&oq=lego+lettering&gs_l=img.3..0j0i24.195406.195406.0.196008.1.1.0.0.0.0.96.96.1.1.0...0.0...1c.1.eRq6ZqVKQbE&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=4ddf6e308573c940&biw=1237&bih=901)\n\n[Another method](http://awesomelegostuff.blogspot.com/2011/07/lettering-technique.html#comments)\n\n[How to build a LEGO alphabet YouTube tutorial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJ_lYJ-CRw)\n\nAnd because it's (just barely) related and I never tire of it, [LEGO alphabet spaceships.](http://www.andertoons.com/cartoon-blog/2011/03/lego-alphabet-spaceships-a-z.html)\n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I am a competitive person and I like MMR rankings. I definitely want them. I think most other stats like KDR should be left out though. ", "score": 33 }, { "body": "It actually really bothers me a lot that I cannot tell how good I am at this game besides having my replays show up as \"medium\" or \"high\".", "score": 21 }, { "body": "I really enjoy ranking, and one of the big reasons I stuck with LoL for so long was because I enjoyed trying to get to my goal ELO (which I did). I really enjoy the trash talking and one upping that happens with my friends with rank system (in LoL I had a friend who I'd queue with, and whomever was lowest elo was called the \"scrub\" for as long he was on the bottom :P)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "They should do what i understand League of Legends does. Have a ranked and unranked queue so that people who enjoy trying to improve their play can do so and people who get RTS anxiety don't have to worry about it. They can't do that now because of queue times but once it's released the player pool should be large enough to support both. I don't see team ladders only being a satisfactory solution because a lot of people prefer to solo queue or queue with 1 or 2 friends rather than a team of 5. Having both a ranked and unranked mode pleases everyone.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Solo mm system needs to be completely internal. I'm fine with team rankings, and I think it would help. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think some of these answers so far are missing OP's point, if I'm understanding it correctly. OP seems to be getting at, what difference does still being inside the mother have at weeks 36-40? If a baby is born at 36 weeks, do the next four weeks have a dramatic impact compared to a baby who is still unborn? What different will the babies have when they are each X (e.g. 50, 100, etc.) weeks past their conception date?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Man, aren't growth spurts fun? I feel for you, my husband is on late nights this week so he doesn't get home till somewhere around 8, last night 9. This means I'm feeding, bathing, and putting to bed both my 3 year old and our baby girl on my own. Luckily only the 3 year old has been testing his limits and just being a monster in general (ah, toddlers) so I've been ok.\n\nLook at it this way, you got some great exercise, lol! And have a blast at that party, I'm a bit jelly belly :P", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "first floor SCE, if you take the elevators down and go to the opposite wall there a microwave and tea/coffee/hot choc machine in the back.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Now if we ask DICE to confirm they're gonna be all \"oh no, not official cos we haven't said so.\" But then it actually turns out it's exactly like that...", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I've probably never even seen 10 enemy EOD bots whilst playing. They should have at least added one involving it to encourage use.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "FML 25 kills with the mortar and 10 eod bot kills? \nNobody fucking uses the eod bot because it's garbage, the only way to effectively finish these assignments would be to boost them with other people.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "When I skimmed over \"PARTIZAN\" I immediately thought DICE lost it by offering players camouflage for the PANTSIR. Although now that I think about it, it would be fun to have assignments that unlock vehicle camo options too... different camo jets, tanks, and even ATV's.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "https://tera-support.enmasse.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/497/kw/name%20appeal\n\nthink that sums up the criteria pretty well", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I think there's nothing wrong with telling a person the reason why they lost their appeal as long as they don't go into specifics.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "The Spine glows due to the fluorescing nerves that were originally engineered into the skin jobs (sj), as a way of debugging their nervous systems. Most of the acitivating genes have been disabled, but under intense stimulation, parts of the sj Cyolns can be induced to fluoresce. The fluorescing materials, being limited to the nervous system is hard to biopsy, and can be considered undetectable in the colonial fleet with they lack the available technology test without fully removing the spine or brain.\n\nSince they were able to test fully organs. It was established that Cylon bones are different from Human bones. One can assume the difficulty the creation of a Cylon detector was not the lack of physiological differences, but the lack of the necessary advanced detection technologies on Galactica and within the fleet. The original Battlestars were old dumb ships, with limited computers and a large compliment of analog systems. In the pilot we learn that Adama is very much against technology the Cylons could use, and Galatica is about to be a museum, so they wouldn't be expected to have a state of the art lab. The SJ were never detected before because no-one knew to look for them. After they were discovered the remaining humans had to look for them with what they had, which was almost nothing.\n\nThe fluorescing genes were not present in the final five, just within the 7 SJ they created. All SJ are aware that this happens, and the stress of being uncovered by and the general hatred of humans was enough to keep the pro-active agents from enjoying themselves so much they got discovered. The sleeper agents, were given mental issues to prevent them from orgasming. The Six with Baltar let her self go (along with all the others) once the plan had moved to the point of no return and the need for secrecy of the SJ was removed.\n\nI figured, if you are going to design a biological robot, with a conciseness that is transferable, odds are you are going to need a way to debug them, and to program the bodies. The reason that you have some glow is that fully disabling the fluoresces, would make it impossible for OMT (Organic Memory Transfer, ie Download) to write the mind of a dead Cylon into a new body. The difference between the 7 and the 5. Is that the 7 have it in there whole nervous system, and the 5 only in their brain. This being the case of having different design teams coming up with slightly different solutions to the same problem. \n\nEdit: Flow, spelling and more from below.", "score": 31 }, { "body": "Is it ever established that a human saw this and commented on it? Perhaps it's only an element used by the storytellers to clue the audience in. I have trouble believing Baltar never did his thing from the rear and failed to notice.\n", "score": 12 }, { "body": "The spinal glow was a system glitch that existed for a short time in a certain series of number eights and number sixes due to a series of faulty neural connections.\n\nApparently the unique combination of emotional and physical events that orgasmic sexual intercourse involved initiated an overload state causing the unit to issue a diffuse red warning glow along the spinal column, where nerves are channeled before diffusing through the entire chassis. \n\nNormally this would be an indicator to other units that this unit had a problem and would initiate a repair sequence. But since this error only occurred during a rare, specific, usually private event, and the affected area was directly opposed to the unit's vision, it likely went undetected for quite a while.\n\nIt also seems that the part of the brain that was responsible for enacting visual warning systems and the part that was responsible for cognizance of a system error either did not confer with one another, or the warning signal was processed as part of the sexual encounter, causing the system to throw the warning signal glow without alerting the consciousness of the system that there was a malfunction.\n\nIt was an interesting glitch, and potentially dangerous, if observant units had not detected the issue during the numerous Human/Cylon breeding experiments and brought it to the council's attention.\n\nIt was briefly considered deactivating all Cylon units' sexual response cycle completely, replacing the event cascade with nothing but a simulated physical response and appropriate false emotional cues designed to enhance the experience for the non-Cylon subject of the sex act, but several models objected, indicating the sex act for all humanoids, was one with the act of sharing love, and as said models reminded us \"God is love\", insisted that the entire system and its effects are holy and should be maintained, except for the correction of the glitch.\n\nAt the next download from the Hub, all sixes and eights affected were given the patch and successfully confirmed software equilibrium shortly thereafter. There have been no complaints, excepting the absence of a warmth running the length of the spinal column which apparently was a mild enhancement to the aforementioned activities. All units inquired reported loss of said sensation was a suitable alternative to possible detection and the varied consequences of such an situation.\n\n\n\n", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "Note to mention: Word Wars are not about winning, they are about motivation through friendly competition.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "UPDATE: Other /r/shutupandwrite dude here. /u/lophyte is out for the evening but I'll be able to take over the wars in 2 hours - 6:00 pm EST.\n\nEDIT: Breaking for dinner.\n\nEDIT: And back.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If someone wants to put the time and money into making a good kit, go for it. Personally I'd rather build a kit car that's intended to be a kit car like a factory five or something, or tackle some unique motorswap and make an unexpected performance monster. I'd rather spend the same time and money making something more unique, than an exact copy of a Ferrari that's never going to look quite \"right\" when compared to the real thing. \n\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "It's weird but a Lamborghini or Ferrari replica just doesn't sit well with me but the Cobra kits I have no problem with. Maybe it's just that I've never seen a well done one. Usually they are butchered Fieros. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "A good quality kit with good quality finishing, sure. However I like kits where it's clear the owner did it to customize or personalize the car where modifying the real car would be sacrilegious. So things like Cobras, Porsche Spiders, things of that nature. A quick glance might tell you it's not real, but you can still admire the workmanship and originality (if that can be used in the same sentence as a kit car).", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Hey Bryan, just FYI, your house party got the official Meetup treatment!\n\nhttp://www.meetup.com/Washington-DC-Metro-area-Redditors/events/83496322/", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I will only attend if people scream \"ANOTHER GIRRRLLLL!\" when I walk in the door.\n\n[I'm a man...](http://i.imgur.com/4aNxT.jpg)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I have some anxiety but I think it would be good to meet new people, so I am definitely coming tonight. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I am 80% sure i am coming.... I am going to the Metric concert tonight and will probably swing by afterwards.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'd come if I could afford it, since I'm new in town and want to meet people. \nI might go still, thing is my paycheck doesn't (finally) clear until midnight.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I might drop by...you're like 5 blocks away from me. Buuuut I'll be on antibiotics/won't be able to drink so there's that. Ha. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Here are a few Irish phrases/sayings involving strength \n \nNíl **neart** gan cur le chéile \nThere is no strength without co-operation \n \nAn té nach bhfuil **láidir** ní folair dó a bheith glic. \nHe who lacks strength must have a sharp wit. \n \nTá Dia **láidir** is máthair mhaith aige \nGod is strong and has a good mother. \n \nNár laga Dia do lámh \nMay God never weaken your hand \n(Meaning: Cause you to lose your strength in general) \n \nNár laga Dia thú \nMay God never weaken you \n(Likely a reference to ill health which makes you weak) \n \n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\"Fan láidir\" is pretty terrible Irish. It ends up meaning something closer to \"Halt strongly\" than \"Stay strong\".\n\nI can't think of a direct way to express the idea but here're some attempts:\n\n\"Bí láidir\" means \"Be strong\".\n\n\"Cloí leis\" - \"Stick with it\".\n\n\"Cothaigh (an) neart\" - \"Nurture (the) strength\".\n\nProbably the best though would be \"Cupán caife\" - \"Get pumped up\".", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Fan láidir does literally mean stay strong but it doesn't have much of a ring to it. It actually sounds a bit silly. \n\nWhat about using cróga instead. Live might be better than stay. It would be Mar cróga then but I'm not sure of the spelling right now (bit drunk). Let me know if you want me to check tomorrow.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Whatever else you pick Creabháin has some good suggestions that are correct and idiomatic. Be very wary of going for certain others as some mischievous to say the least 'cupán tae' and 'cupán caife' being cup of tea and cup of coffee respectively. \n\nMore importantly maybe ask your friend to post on this topic so that we can get a sense of context for the saying. Depending on the context a seanfhocal or saying may be appropriate as well. \n\nAlso for the love of God (or Vishnu or Battlestar Galactica) make sure your friend doesn't get a tattoo without having it verified. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "As always, downvote the posts you don't like. I'm not going to be the thought police and curb criticism. If you feel that a post is subpar (and I'll agree that a ROB LIEFELD IS THE SUXORS post is subpar), downvote it. It's far more effective than asking us mods to try to figure out what's valid criticism and what's not. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I just scrolled through the first 3 pages on the subreddit and no negative posts caught my eye. I admit there is the occasional Liefeld circlejerk (haha, he has a specific style I don't like!!! Pouches lolololol), but then there are also threads like the one that pointed out how ridiculous the art in X-Men #35 was (How can a company justify charging $3.99 for a book that is full of rushed, terrible art). While I believe the latter is more constructive than the former, I wouldn't want either of them being against the rules here.\n\nWe already have enough rules here that aren't enforced. I don't think adding one more to that list is going to help.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Completely agree. It's unbecoming of us fans when we focus more the stuff we hate. This is the most positive board on the web (thanks to the voting system), but the \"hate\" still pops up it's ugly head. I'm all for being critical of art and dropping titles because of it, but there's really no reason for active hate. \n\nWhy let your hobby let you get riled up with so much hate? I read comics because I enjoy them, and I'll seek out and gravitate towards the titles I like, and just drop and forget the stuff I don't. Otherwise, I'll be spending my money and hobby time to get myself upset.\n\nTL;DR: Life is to short to hate your hobbies.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Agreed I'm tired of the Greg Land, JRJR, and Liefeld bitching, it's beyond annoying. Especially since I actually like JRJR..", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "As a person who [sells trees](http://giveagiftofgreen.com/), I am glad to see Aggie Redditors sharing and caring. (And yes, I do actually know what trees means)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Posting your address and phone online for everyone to see is one thing, but mentioning the use of drugs, that's stupid. Kyle, you got much to learn. I pray nothing bad happens tonight. ", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I personally use a mix of both. I'm typically running rock/metal mixes, the master bus usually has some sort of bus compression running. From there I'll add an L1 or similar but leave it bypassed; I'll click it on just to check how things are being handled once they're squashed and limited more.\n\nOnce I'm happy with how the mix is feeling though (attitude, balance, timbre, everything), I'll bounce it down and add it back in, take the time to play with it in a mastering sense", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "ITT assholes who don't care.\n\nSomething handmade, that takes a little time and effort. It can be as simple as breakfast in bed, or something with whatever skills you already have. A photo frame with some good pictures of you/her/friends.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "[Make her a ring from a coin.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atko80Gy2VU)\n\nPretty cheap, but requires a bit of work. Its a pretty thoughful though and I bet she'd really appreciate it.\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Write her a letter telling her what an amazing mom she's been, include some childhood memories and finish up with how much you love her. bound to make he feel all warm and snuggley. ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I think your theory seems pretty much spot on. I spent a good bit of time thinking about it and came to some of the same conclusions.\n\nHowever, there are still some holes. If you fired a portal at a liquid superportalconductor, what would happen? Would you split the portal? would it get blended? and I do think we can make portals on wet surfaces. - you can wash conversion gel off surfaces, meaning it may/could still be wet.", "score": 16 }, { "body": ">moon rocks are expensive\n\nAnother thing the videos and dialog shows us is how little they care about cost efficiency.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "My theory about moon rocks as a portaling surface:\n\n[It makes the ending to Portal 2 funnier.](/spoiler)", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Everyone claiming Fox is \"extremist right\" either A) hasn't watched Fox News for more than an hour or B) doesn't know what the \"extremist right\" really is..", "score": 21 }, { "body": "I would guess a large part it is due to the fact that Fox has already gained the loyalty of a vast majority of this group. I would argue they are a little farther right than how you phrased it. So there is only so much room to go even farther to the right to really take the super conservatives away from fox. Also, Fox has the big names on their channel already. What conservative is a different station really going to get to put up against O'Reilly and Hannity? Anyone you name probably already works for Fox.\n\nTL;DR Hard market to break into, Fox has done a great job of gaining loyalty and employees most of the people that would be huge assets to a competing station.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "The commentators on Fox are far from \"fair and balanced.\" Fox's *actual news* reporting is better than comes from most leftist news outlets, but saying that their commentary is unbiased is ridiculous. Most people seek out news sources that reinforce their political beliefs, whether the source is MSNBC , Fox or whatever. Very few people watch the news to have their views challenged. \n\nThe reason that there aren't more \"conservative\" news outlets is that the type of people who rely on Fox as their sole news source are very unlikely to give a fresh news source a chance. They like Fox and they are going to stick with it. Fox is a hugely popular network, and competing with them would be very difficult. ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Fox labels it's commentators as 'commentators'... the other networks call their commentators, 'New Anchors'.\n\n\n", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Conservatives have been sold a lie wherein if the news isn't conservative then it must be leftist. What they intentionally ignore is that most news sources strive to be **objective**. That is the test of a true professional. FOX news fails this test because it pretends there is no such thing as objectivity, that all sources are either conservative or liberal.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I did think Coppel's last words rang pretty true. Actual news is not on primetime on Fox News. It is all commentary. I guess that is what the viewers want.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "All television is entertainment. Television news is also entertainment. These people are more like comedians than reporters.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "FACT people who watch fox news, are less informed than people who watch no news. These posts prove that", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Wow - TL;DR I've never heard a joke where they have such specifics as Cingular RAZR V3 and all that other stuff..\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "[The same joke](http://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/101h38/how_many_sheep/) but on blondes, three days ago.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "My daughter regularly asks to nurse, [zerberts](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zerbert) my boobs, then keels over laughing. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My 2 month old smacks my boobs when he's hungry and while nursing. Sometimes I wonder if he thinks they are drums.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My son likes to try to push my nipples like they are buttons. The other night he was in bed with us and discovered my husband has nipples too and kept pushing them and laughing. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My 5 month old is babbling away now, and she very often babbles with the nipple in her mouth. results in a lot spluttering and giggling.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My 18 month old will poke my nipple after she's done and say milk! I confirm. She repeats. Ad nauseum until nipple is hidden.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I've taught my son some simple sign language and he will make the \"milk\" symbol if I'm not around but if I'm in the room he walks over and starts trying to strip me :S", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Marris Otter for sure as a base malt. I don't think I would really suggest using anything else for most single malt ales. Cheating with some magnum as suggested below wouldn't hurt. If you want citra to show off it's true colors, you're going to need it on the last half of your brew, and probably closer to the last fifteen minutes. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Honestly, I'd be tempted to cheat and use a little Magnum or Summit at 60 and then load up from 15 - 0 and dry hop with Citra. Not a pure SMaSH, but the results will really highlight the Citra.\n\n4 ounces really isn't that much, you could do 1 oz each at 15, 10, 5 and dry-hop. Or 0.5 oz at 15, 10 5, flame-out and 2 oz dry-hop.\n\nI made a Citra IPA earlier this summer with Summit, 2 row-pale, wheat and C40L. It was a tropical fruit bomb. http://hopville.com/recipe/1324756 (Tasting notes on hopville.)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I've got an Amarillo/Maris Otter SMaSH APA on tap right now and it's fantastic. I have 3 other beers on tap but I can't stop drinking it. A lot of people find that an all pale malt IPA is a bit one dimensional (and in the one I've tried that was the case), but in an APA it's pretty good. All Vienna will be the maltiest of the three you mention of course, and could hide some of the hop character, but would still be very tasty, especially in an IPA. Munich would be another notch up on the maltiness scale from Vienna and would likely need the hop schedule of an IPA to make the hops shine through. Pilsner would likely be lacking in almost any SMaSH I think. All my opinion of course.\nCitra is very high in Alpha (12%) so the 4 ounces could pull off an APA. For reference I put 2 oz of Amarillo (8% alpha) at 60 minutes, 1 oz at 10, and 2 oz at flameout in my APA and it was right where I wanted it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "usually when I do a smash i use 2 row, since the only reason I'm doing it is to highlight the hops and teach my palette. therefore, the cleanest malt is the best. But thats just me. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It really comes down to preference. Getta Pizza is pretty good: http://gettapizza.ca/\nMy real guilty-pleasure is Canadian Pizza Unlimited. There's a location just inside Sundance.\nhttp://www.canadianpizzaunlimited.com/", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Vern's pizza is really good but quite expensive. Same goes for the olive grove in midnapore. Both put a TON of toppings on their pizzas so of you enjoy that style of highly recommend them", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "It's too early I guess...\nI read \"How many of you are cumming?\", and I thought \"I'm not having THAT much fun.\"\n\nTo answer your question though, I'm specing Zer0 mostly into melee. Sniper rifles do great damage and then charging in once you've softened up the group is very rewarding. With a quad-barrel shotgun in one hand and a sword in the other, point blank attacks are devastating. I'm planning on respecting a few times to get a feel for all 3 skill trees though.", "score": 25 }, { "body": "I'll probably give it a go once I have a good mod to boost some of the cunning skills. \n\nI'm currently bloodshed though. My ideal build will be Bloodshed to the ultimate skill, then as much cunning as I can afford.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I've been playing cunning, because I generally play a more run-n-gun style in borderlands. I'm level 19 right now, and I can absolutely attest to how powerful cunning gets later in game.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Sniping Zer0 is REALLY strong. Critical Ascension gives him crazy single target damage, and his buff that gives a crit multiplier the longer you are aiming is added damage. Vel0city makes him an excellent anti-air character too. I can snipe Buzzards and Rakks no problem.\n\nCunning and Melee look like a lot of fun though, so I'm going to be sure to try them out. ", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Having not read the original piece, I was actually going to point out that while there are lots of women who do this for money, there are also a sizeable amount of men who do it for sex. Well played.\n\nThis will sound pretty cynical, but I think those types deserve each other.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "This is a semi-amusing rewrite of the blog post about [women not being puzzle boxes.](http://faerye.net/post/the-puzzle-box)\n\nI actually disagree with both posts. *Everybody* is a puzzle-box. There is some set of external stimuli which will get anyone to do anything.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "The difference between 'man as puzzle' and 'woman as puzzle' is this...\n\nThe 'tasty treat' at the centre of a woman is a mutually beneficial shared experience that affirms both party's humanity. \n\nThe 'tasty treat' at the centre of a man is FORCED LABOR. \n\nAs such the one directed at men is disgusting. It assumes, at its core, that sex is some sort of benefit women bestow upon men rather then a mutually beneficial experience that affirms both party's humanity. Women who believe that they give sex while men take it are sexist pigs.", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "I can say with confidence that you do not need to attend said 'mandatory' engagements. The word mandatory is tossed around in a feeble attempt to have ANY incoming Freshman attend.\n\n\nThat being said, not going isn't necessarily the best option. As a Freshman(?), you know nobody really. The first week / weekend is the time where you will start to find your friends. Attending said events offer the ability to meet people and engage with your peers. After the first week or so, people will find their core friend group and less willing to have those sometimes awkward encounters where people meet. Finding friends will never be this easy, take advantage of that.\n\n\n**Tl;dr** Not mandatory, go fucking meet people.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Induction Ceremony is not mandatory. I wish I never went. BUT you do get a nice dragon pin.\n\nCommuter! You might have trouble making friends... I suggest you come anyway.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Well the app installed takes x amount of space, but it has to download the update (temp space taken up) and extract/merge it with the installed app.", "score": 30 }, { "body": "I'm having this problem too. I have a lot of free space on my phone and when I tried to update the Shazam app it said there wasn't enough space. Restarted my phone and the app was gone! The shortcut it still there but I can't open it because the app \"doesn't exist\". Can't install it because there is no free space however I am able to install a 46mb game.\n\nPhone is Galaxy Nexus, Using 4.1.1 stock image, phone is rooted.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I had a similar problem with my SGS. I had over 1GB free space and the phone said it was nearly full.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The Play Store requires that your free space be equal to your largest app on your internal memory so that it can be updated. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "At 500MB I get the 'Low Memory' warning and it just stops syncing entirely. No idea why low memory would cause it to stop syncing.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's NOT RYBACK. It's THE RYBACK. Also I want to see him win the IC title, never lose it, and then win ht WHC and WWE Championship. Then turn into a full on scary monster heel, like Mark Henry.\n\nBtw this is just what I *want* to happen. Not what I think *should* happen.", "score": 33 }, { "body": "I like Ryback a lot. He's the only current wrestler in WWE whose music hits and makes me say \"Ooooooooh shit\". Despite the monotony of squash matches, I feel like they are very gradually building him into an unstoppable monster and I think he'll be in the main event scene by this time next year, if not sooner. ", "score": 17 }, { "body": "I want Skip Sheffield to reappear and everyone's like \"Wait that's Ryback\" and then we find out Skip Sheffield has a Jekyll/Hyde thing going on when he's hungry and then people struggle to keep him fed at all times", "score": 15 }, { "body": "I thought I was alone, I'm glad I'm not. I hope they start a decent feud with the Miz. That can really work for him and the Miz is really good on the mic so hopefully they can teach Ryback some mic skills. ", "score": 12 }, { "body": "He threw a couch. If you can't get behind someone who THROWS A COUCH, then I don't know what to say. Viva La Ryback!", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I'm not buying into the Ryback character. Maybe this feud will change my mind because it will be more than just the same Ryback match I've seen a hundred times but the simply coming out and looking angry and being strong isn't enough to get me interested and its just lazy. I'm all for big powerful guys but give them some character too.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I love how any imposing character with a power move set in wrestling is instantly compared to Goldberg - as if no strongman existed before him.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I was a big Goldberg fan back in the day, so I want to like Ryback. Two things just seem to be holding me back. He needs a less RVD ring attire and a much better finisher.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Well last week it seems they're giving him the mid-card push. I really like the whole batman storyline everyones been talking about but I wanna see a mulitchamp because that hasn't been seen in quite a while.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I enjoy Ryback. I realise he's probably pretty green so they've been keeping him to short matches so far. Hopefully he has an effective mid-card, short term future. As for a babyface mainevent push? I'd have to say well after 'Mania and he'd have to get pretty good on the mic. I see the WWE having a strong selection of heels in the next few years (Barrett, Dolph, D-Bry, Orton, Punk, Show, R-Truth, Miz, Rhodes, Kane, Y2J, Ambrose, Ohno, Clay, HHH [in a McMahon-esque role] etc. etc.) So the role of leading face could be wide open (forgetting about SuperCena). \n\nI see said heels dominating after 'Mania, especially Punk and Barrett so I think great faces to challenge them will be few and far between - Rocky, Cena, Sheamus, Kofi are the ones that stick out.\n\nIf you had to ask me for a prediction, I'd settle on Ryback vs Heath Slater The One Man Southern Rock Band BABAY for the WHC at Summerslam '13.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I just really hate that stupid stomp/march thing he does as he parades around the ring with one or two people over his shoulders. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I love Ryback too, and I don't often enjoy wrestling, or rather, haven't until relatively recently! (to clarify, my fiancee is obsessed and has dragged me into it!).\nI am unsure what they can do with him though, surely whoever wins needs to be a 'strong ass' character or it will make him look like a pussy?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Given the invasion of \"MizTV\" I'd say that he's on his way to an Intercontinental Championship, probably an extended reign with a lot of solid matches. I hope to see a Miz lead stable push the rematch clause and make a really solid rivalry that results in Ryback staying undefeated, but overcoming the odds each time (ala Goldberg V HHH w/Evolution for the WHC in 2003)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Ryback has definitely grown on me and I like that he's been pushed the the way he has, having him squash jobbers then working his way up the card, instead of being thrown into the main event and hoping he'll stick like some other guys I could mention (I'm looking at you Tensai).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I hated Ryback more than fucking anything.\n\nThen he came out during MizTV and did the obvious Subway gag.\n\nI like him now", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The only time I've marked out for Ryback was when he told Jared from subway feed me more, & took an extra sandwich before walking off screen ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "my vote is save the money with the standard then upgrade it the way you want vs the way someone else wanted", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Patience is a good trait to have in terms of your disposition when it comes to dating. However, from what you stated she seems to be interested in you, but there are certain things that may need to be factored in. Does her hectic schedule pose any sort of problem for the two of you? Does not being able to get a hold of a possible future SO bother or worry you? Do your lifestyles clash? The easier it is to say yes, the more you have to think about.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm not sure on the relationshipadvice subreddit. I think there may be one but I'm unsure if its active. Until someone else replies about it: \n\nIf you're a man feel free to post in [SRSMen](http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSMen) for advice. If you're a woman feel free to post in [SRSWomen](http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSWomen) (Note that ONLY women are allowed to post in SRSwomen, men and women both can post in SRSmen)\n\n\n\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "There is a [SRSRelationshipAdvice](http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSRelationshipAdvice/) but you have to message a mod to get invited I think. I did a long time ago, things might have changed. ", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Seeing as it is a SWAT team, it is one of two things:\n\n* A non-violent occasional drug user\n* A blogger who said some not-so-nice things about the SPD.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Ah, so that's what I was hearing at 5 AM. I heard a loud voice saying \"residents of [x address], we have a warrant for your arrest\" or something like that. I thought it was a bad dream so I tucked in harder.\n\nEDIT: Apparently the police were capturing the road rage shooter from last month.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Jim Murray and Marc Laidlaw\n\njim murray's twitter - https://twitter.com/J1mMurray\n\nmarc laidlaw's wikipedia page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Laidlaw\n\njim was the artist and marc was the guy behind the story (i think). ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Yep, heading back to Ottawa for the thanksgiving weekend as my folks are over there. Send me a pm if you haven't found anyone yet. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "i was thinking \"why does the mt vernon park look so big\" and i realized giant trees that border the park were barely 10 feet tall in that picture. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "This is fabulous. I wonder what the print rights are on these. \n\nSimilarly, if you like this, you might enjoy the [Maryland Historical Society tumblr](http://mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com/).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Thanks for giving me something to do today. \n\n[Charles Street looking South from Penn Station, 03/07/29](http://baltmusindustry.pastperfect-online.com/35171cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=BGE_N_1708A.JPG) \n\n[Area south of Rail Station, 03/07/29](http://baltmusindustry.pastperfect-online.com/35171cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=BGE_N_1708B.JPG) \n\n[North Avenue west of Charles Street, 11/12/29](http://baltmusindustry.pastperfect-online.com/35171cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=BGE_N_1847.JPG)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[This is what the Patterson Theater looks like after a night of heavy drinking](http://baltmusindustry.pastperfect-online.com/35171cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=BGE_4267.JPG)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "you may also be interested in this documentary http://globalharbors.org/# it looks like you can rent it from the library but unfortunately thats the only place i can find it so far. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Awesome find!\n\nI just spent the last 2 hours going through their database and looking at photos of old power stations, factories, and other things I've explored over the years. I've always wanted to know what they were like when they were open, and now I know!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You can check out the Museum of Industry for free next Saturday on Museum Day. I'll be there for the first time.\n\nhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/venues/Baltimore-Museum-of-Industry.html", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Oddly I have had this thought over the last few months. I am a 42 yr old part time coach and full time IT director. I have been involved in Crossfit since late 2009 and have lost a lot of weight and gained a fair amount of muscle. I say this only to give perspective that I am not \"young\" nor a life long athlete. \n\nWhat I find attractive about my fellow athletes is not their shape, its their heart. I will not deny a strong young lady moving weight is a sight to behold (after all, I am still a guy) but I am just as impressed by a slightly pudgy soccer mom doing her best to squat with her back up tall and knees out under load from just the barbell. I have helped and been helped by so many its the heart of the athlete I am attracted to, the body can be made better through application of the 10 skills but your heart .... That is something you have to have in your before you join and it comes out in all of us when we compete together against our own mortality, history and most of all, the clock.\n", "score": 18 }, { "body": "I'm not sure how you meant this to read, because to me it basically says \"I was never really attracted to skinny girls, and now I'm....still not attracted to skinny girls.\"", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I actually thought about this in my women's health issues course while we were talking about the way women are portrayed in advertisements. I was perturbed that not a single woman in any of the muliple examples had an ounce of muscle but instead were magically stick-thin, flat-stomached yet curvy. All photoshopping aside, it became a lot more prominent to me that strength is not something seen as \"attractive\" on a woman to the general public seeing these adverts. Going to my box has completely warped (in the best way possible) my idea of what a woman should look like, and it's made me strive to a completely different ideal of what I can do to be beautiful.\n\n\nThat being said, I'm also a woman and I'm straight. And Crossfit men...yes. About 500 times yes. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Its definitely changed the way I portray just skinny women and fit women. I used to think muscles on women were gross until I started shaping into my own curves (are there's a lot) and discovering that beauty to me was not stick thin, beauty was strong and healthy. I can understand being naturally thin, but you should want to be strong, not just small. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm much more inclined to be attracted to an individual presenting the drive to succeed in physical fitness rather than what they have physically. Before Crossfit I used to think muscle-laden guys were all jerk-off meatheads. I'm sure the case is true for SOME guys, but my perception was way off. Now that I have crossed my own personal threshold and achieved things that I never thought I could I see that muscle as the physical representation of their determination and strength. THAT is so. damn. sexy. Not the muscle, but what it took within them to get themselves there.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I failed several times in the past. Now, I almost reach 30 days of nofap. I will never PM again! If I can do it, so can you.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Suit up! Put on pants with a belt that's hard to get off. Like a chastity belt. Make it hard for your brain to get what it wants.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "~~aim for seven~~ \nCOMMIT to seven. *MAN the fuck up* & take seven days back! Tomorrow you will go to sleep knowing that you own the past 24 hours. There is **NOTHING** you are lacking that can prevent you. You are as strong as any man you have ever admired. Just take it back, once that decision is made you are simply following orders. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "That's a really good point. Although annoying, in the first one, claptrap would let you know where and when you could get new missions", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Rakdos Ringleader. Even with the random discard, first strike and regeneration, six mana is a baffling figure to pay for a 3/1.", "score": 44 }, { "body": "Heroes Reunion I would say. It's not bad like Angel's Mercy bad but I would feel bad if I played it. Also Survery the wreckage and Destroy the Evidence.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "As a reanimator player, the graveyard hate cards, specifically Rest in Peace and Dryad Militant.\n\nRakdos Charm can do it too, but I like the charm cycle, so I don't mind so much. It's also only a 1-time hoser too, unlike the other stupid two stupid cards.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "All of the 6-8 CMC garbage cards. Rakdos Ringleader, Terrus Wurm, Minotaur Aggressor, Axebane Stag, Horncaller's Chant and many more. They're so expensive, and nowhere near big or bomby enough. I can't really see ever being able to justify them, even in Limited, unless this is the slowest Limited format we've ever seen.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "The two rare blue Enchantments are pretty bad.\n\nI think Tavern Swindler's ability is going to get its controller killed a lot. \n\nAnd one more controversial opinion: I'm not a big fan of Growing Ranks in Limited, particularly in Sealed. It seems like it's going to miss 90% of the time and the times it does it, you're going to get a 1/1 Soldier token. In Draft, its a little better, but only if you get it first pick and even then, now you're having to pass better cards to find token generators to combo with one card in your deck. I think a lot of people are high on that card and the Populate mechanic in general, but I think the majority of the time, the stars are not going to align to get you live the dream of putting out a bunch of tokens and that's going to cause many losses for people. \n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "* I don't like the Gates. I realize they're good and I'll be happy to open them in Sealed, don't get me wrong, I just don't like them. They're boring, I don't think mana fixing should be quite *that* easy at common, they're very nearly strictly worse than other duals, only three cards care about the Gate type and they aren't that interesting either... so I don't like them. I wish Wizards had brought back the karoos instead.\n* I don't like Counterflux. I don't mind the \"can't be countered\" cycle in general, but this one is the least interesting and useful of them all. Why couldn't the Izzet one, of all guilds, have been more original? Also, it's the only one with a guild keyword, which kind of weakens the cycle. To top it off, the only use for its overloaded version in Standard and Limited is against Epic Experiment, and it seems dumb to use a spell from one guild against another spell of the same guild. \n* I don't like Rites of Reaping, because it's an interesting, appealing-looking card - sure, not good enough for Constructed, but fine in Limited - but it's strictly worse than a similar card (I forget the name, something from Shadowmoor or Eventide), which makes me feel bad about it. I don't care about all the forgettable vanilla or French-vanilla cards out there that are tiny tweaks on other cards so much, but when I see something like that I feel cheated because I used to get a similar effect but even better and/or for less. See also Common Bond. \n* I don't like Street Sweeper. I hope I don't have to explain why.\n\nThis list is more about what I like - enjoy, expect to find fun, etc. - than what I think is competitive. Nothing really jumps out at me as being unplayable, just only playable in Limited, or only good in a few decks or whatever. I guess opening a pack with rares like Havoc Festival, Firemind's Foresight, or Grave Betrayal would be annoying in Limited - as rares go, those would would be really, really hard to use.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "This may be unpopular, but I don't like Dryad Militant. The rules surrounding this were confusing enough, but limited to only mattering on a few cards that are non-standard. This brings the rules back into the forefront and back into question, and adds another barrier to entry for new players.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The only gripe I have are the cycle of super expensive \"splashable\" creatures. It's like the mana cost for half the creatures are pretty well scaled up until about 4 mana, and then suddenly all the commons cost like 7 or 8 mana. It's weird.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Those five land cards.. Island, Mountain, Plains, Swamp, and Forest. Who thought it was a good idea to reprint them? They are good first pick draft cards though..", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Churchill: GLD, Vents, Rammer.\n\nSpall Liner is almost worthless and I've never met anyone who killed me with HE shells yet. Besides a Church is so slow anyway a Spall won't be wanted.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Figure out how much it costs per hour for your business to go down, and then explain to him how important the storage is on a VM network. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "we have iX systems TrueNAS and have seen it fail several times already. bad dimm, bad motherboard, coupled with improper synching (failovers did not work). during our first outage, both controllers thought they were master and both went down. it's cheap and very fast but i would not consider it enterprise-production ready.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's already easier than Freecycle, because I didn't have to answer any dumb questions about why I want to use the service, and then wait 6 months to be rejected for no good reason.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "OHL: \n**Barrie Colts vs Kingston Frontenacs** 7:00 PM EST \n**Belleville Bulls vs Sarnia Sting** 7:05 PM EST \n**Plymouth Whalers vs. Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds** 7:07 PM EST \n**Erie Otters vs London Knights** 7:30 PM EST \n**Kitchener Rangers vs Mississauga Steelheads** 7:30 PM EST \n**Niagara Ice Dogs vs Brampton Battalion** 7:30 PM EST \n**Saginaw Spirit vs Guelph Storm** 7:30 PM EST \n**Oshawa Generals vs Sudbury Wolves** 7:35 PM EST \n\n[Watch OHL](http://ohl.neulion.com/ohl/) \n\nYou do have to pay to watch though.\n\n*Edited for formatting issues.", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "Hey ya, sorry for your loss. Any adjustments please let me know. \n\nhttp://i.imgur.com/sYHuh.jpg\n\nCheers.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Everyone has problems. If a guy doesn't inquire or even show enough interest in you to get to these issues then I don't see why you would need to disclose them. If the relationship starts getting more serious and for some unknown reason these issues haven't been brought up you might have to sit him down and talk about it. \n\nIt depends on you. Do you like this guy? If you don't and you know it's not serious just lie. If you do like him you can't conceal these things when they come up. You can downplay them as much as want, I wouldn't recommend you answering a casual inquiry with \"I slashed my wrists when I was young\". Just give him enough to know there's something without revealing all the pain underneath", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Crazy, as in \"do not stick your dick in,\" is not the same as actual mental disorders.\n\nYou're not going to like this answer, but I feel that if you have ongoing issues that you cannot get help for, you have an obligation to take yourself off the market. You should not be dating anyone, casual or otherwise. It's going to go poorly. Get yourself together first, for your own well-being. If dating, you're just as likely to do damage to other people as you are to do damage to yourself, or both, and hurt your further recovering.\n\nSource: the past.", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "No, this isn't going to happen. They have been very clear they want veterans to only have a small \"20%\" advantage over a new character, and that certs will mostly be situational. I tend to agree with this. I really DO NOT want to see BR 50s rolling around as one-man armies unless that is primarily through their own natural skill.\n\nAt most, I would only like to see one additional cert slot. At MOST and if even that. Adding even one additional cert slot would represent a lot of balancing headaches as it is. It would be likely easy to combine two different certs that normally had balance tradeoffs on their own, and have the negatives of each cancelled out by the other for example.\n\nRather than all that, I would like to see something like a handful of higher tier vehicles that are only available to those of a higher BR. I know PS1 vets fart upon the BFR (basically a mech for those that didn't play PS1) but I could see it being redone very well in the current engine. Or other ubervehicles (but not invincible) that are not only tied to BR, but have a very high resource cost and very loooong respawn time (even with implants/certs). This would make them situational entirely based on the fact that you couldn't spawn them often, perhaps something best planned ahead as centerpieces for organized assaults.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I think it should have some sort of disadvantage to balance it out, though. Like, if you wanted your scythe to have improved speed and turning, you'd have to sacrifice armor. Or if you wanted your sunderer to have cloaking *and* a shield, you'd have to give up 1 of your turrets.\n\nSo, it's still not a *direct* upgrade, but it does expand your options, and gives you access to some interesting new tactics.", "score": 6 } ]