Hurlshort Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 4 hours ago, Guard Dog said: Yes: https://nypost.com/2019/09/05/american-adults-are-on-the-verge-of-extinction/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 (edited) Edit: Sorry folks, takes a couple of clicks on the image to zoom it out. And I'm fuzzy enough I can't be arsed figuring it out right at this moment... Edited September 7, 2019 by Raithe 2 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Buzzfeed - Amazon's Next Day Delivery Brings Chaos and Carnage "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktchong Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 (edited) Here is a very interesting casualty of the US-China trade war. If you have not heard of the TikTok challenges in China: For these challenges: The challengers do NOT have to be Chinese, BUT they had to be in China, and obviously they have to be TikTok users. The rewards for some of the challenges are really nice, like credits for shopping and/or restaurants in China, paid vacations to the US or Europe, etc. Anyone in China can join the challenge, but I have never seen seen any White people in China (expats/tourists/whatever) participate in this or any other TikTok challenge, even though they could have - and IMO White girls would have a good chance of winning one of the dance challenges if they had just submitted. An important rule for this particular TikTok challenge was the dance had to be performed by a group of at least four people, so solo dancers or a dance group of less than four were not eligible, (so they did not even bother reading the rules.) For this particular challenge, a group of four Chinese girls in Hunan won the user poll, but their clip is not included in this video. IMO users voted for them to be the winner not because they could dance, but because they were the prettiest. So guys did not even stand a chance. Actually, I do not remember ever seeing any guys ever winning a TikTok challenge, (unless it was a couple or mixed-gender challenge.) Even male users overwhelmingly voted for girls to win in every challenge. Then again, I have been checking out these TikTok challenge videos to check out the girls. Here, another challenge - the "Every Color" challenge - this is the currently on-going or the last challenge: Edited September 8, 2019 by ktchong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktchong Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 (edited) Clip collection from various dance challenges: Edited September 8, 2019 by ktchong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktchong Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 (edited) The reason why I mentioned TikTok challenges is because... well, in 2017 TikTok was going to bring these challenges to America, the challenges and rewards would be separate and specific in the US. However, the plan has since been suspended due to the tension and trade war between China and the U.S. The TikTok challenges became a casualty of the US-China trade war. Edited September 8, 2019 by ktchong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-49615461/how-do-you-water-ski-when-you-can-t-use-your-legs Edited September 9, 2019 by Raithe "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49555613 This was well said by Tom Hanks. I think it is a good practice to try and step back from our line of thinking once or twice a day and try to approach our thoughts differently. It's easy to fall into a rhythm of cynicism. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Reprogrammable ink. 2 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 4 hours ago, Gfted1 said: Reprogrammable ink. That's insane. Imagine someone UVing a **** onto your car though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 I cant wait for it to become a household product. I would love to be able to "repaint" the walls of my house at a whim. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 16 minutes ago, Agiel said: vid sacramento is ~35th most populous city and we no longer have a major afb. lucky us? HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 (edited) On 9/12/2019 at 9:49 AM, Gromnir said: sacramento is ~35th most populous city and we no longer have a major afb. lucky us? HA! Good Fun! During the height of the Cold War it was believed that airstrips that ostensibly served civil aviation were nonetheless targeted, the reasoning being that they could be used as divert airfields by bombers that had their original airbases turned into glowing craters. Of course today thanks to arms control treaties neither side can particularly afford to be frivolous as they were then with their deployed warheads, and for this reason on top of warheads being smaller and more accurate the much derided "Duck and Cover" is actually fairly sound civil defence practice today. Even though a vast majority of Americans work in cities, most commute from surrounding suburbs which were not likely to be direct targets even under a countervalue strike (though God help you if you lived a few blocks from, say, the former Rocketdyne plant in Canoga Park). Chances of survival also increase drastically if there is a skyscraper between you and the detonation point. At that point the primary concern is staying indoors and rationing water and food for the two or, ideally, three weeks for fallout to subside, though we then enter the realm of "the living will envy the dead" with violent looters and food riots. Edited September 14, 2019 by Agiel Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Today is Friday the 13th and is also a full moon. That wont happen again until 2049. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 I hate "friday the 13th". People notice and hang up on things that happens every day, but make notice of because of the date... Atleast it's over where I am, but y'all americans can be unlucky for a few hours more Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 For Italians, 17 is unlucky. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 3 hours ago, Azdeus said: I hate "friday the 13th". People notice and hang up on things that happens every day, but make notice of because of the date... Atleast it's over where I am, but y'all americans can be unlucky for a few hours more listened to entire master o' puppets album before, and wore same socks during, every every football game we played our senior year in high school... for luck. would be hypocritical o' us to mock. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Well, for the chinese, number four is unlucky, supposedly. I never bought into superstitions about bad luck, but that might be because I never have any l good luck Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 On 9/13/2019 at 6:19 PM, Azdeus said: I hate "friday the 13th". People notice and hang up on things that happens every day, but make notice of because of the date... Atleast it's over where I am, but y'all americans can be unlucky for a few hours more 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 "Even male users " You sound shocked. Do you really think when men watch dancers they are gonna rate male ones higher? Nah. They're gonna be attracted and drawn to the women dancers making them memorable to them hence voting. DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Navy confirms UFO videos are real. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 They confirm they are real videos from the navy showing unknown aerial phenomenon, as I understand it, rather than confirm the objects in the video are ufos. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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