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[Walsingham]

 

 

Man kills self to avoid another shopping trip

 

What a guy! Tao Hsiao is going on my list of remembered names.

 

 

I'll be honest, I'd probably just get a better girlfriend. Mind you, this sort of under-achieving attitude is exactly why my name will not be remembered after my death.

 

 

Reminds me of this poem by Pablo Neruda (it's a longer poem in full)

 

It so happens I’m tired of being a man.

It so happens I enter clothes shops and theaters,

withered, impenetrable, like a swan made of felt

sailing the water of ashes and origins.

The smell of a hairdresser’s has me crying and wailing.

I only want release from being stone or wool.

I only want not to see gardens and businesses,

merchandise, spectacles, lifts.

It so happens I’m tired of my feet and toenails,

my hair and my shadow.

It so happens I’m tired of being a man.

[ShadySands]

For shigiggles

 

The Best Military Branch to Enlist In

 

 

#5 - Marine Corps - Worst Military Branch 

Of all the military branches, the Marine Corps ranks as the least attractive choice for this author. Technically part of the Navy, the Marine Corps are the elite war fighters of the United States military. The leathernecks of the USMC are truly fearsome fighters, tough as nails and ready and willing to fight all comers. The Marines turn recruits into stone-cold killers and they make no secrets about that fact. Marines live tough lives, sleeping on board Navy ships, charging through the surf and crawling in the sand with one goal in mind: engage the enemy. Unfortunately, when Marines fulfill their obligation and exit the service, they seem to find difficulty in turning this Marine Corps attitude 'off'. Whereas an Army or Navy veteran will likely adjust to civilian life over time and become softer, Marines stay Marines. Visit any neighborhood in the United States and you will find a USMC flag flying high over someone's house. You will rarely, if ever, see a person flying an Army, Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard flag. While veterans of other military branches tend to relax a little bit as they transition into civilian life, any Marine will be quick to remind you of their unofficial motto, "Once a Marine, always a Marine." I don't know what those Marine Corps drill sergeants are doing to their recruits, but whatever it is, it works.

 

Is that a bad thing? Well, that depends on your reasons for considering a military enlistment. If you have a strong desire to kill the enemy, the Marine Corps is for you because that is what the Marines do. Either you want that or you don't, plain and simple. If you simply want a challenge, any other branch of the military will provide you with plenty of opportunities to test yourself. Army Rangers and Green Berets, Air Force Pararescue Jumpers, and the Navy Seals all offer extreme physical and mental challenges outside of the Marine Corps. So if you are considering joining the Marine Corps, think long and hard about what that means before going to a recruiter and signing up.

 

I figured Guard Dog and ManifestedISO would get a kick out of that

[ShadySands]

Ethan Couch Sentenced To Probation In Crash That Killed 4 After Defense Argued He Had 'Affluenza'

 

A Texas judge agreed with defense attorneys’ claims that a 16-year-old who killed four people while driving drunk had been given whatever he wanted by his wealthy parents and had never learned to accept responsibility for his actions.

[Amentep]

So...the answer to a kid whose "family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences" is to...give him no consequences for his behavior?

[Walsingham]

For shigiggles

 

The Best Military Branch to Enlist In

 

 

#5 - Marine Corps - Worst Military Branch 

Of all the military branches, the Marine Corps ranks as the least attractive choice for this author. Technically part of the Navy, the Marine Corps are the elite war fighters of the United States military. The leathernecks of the USMC are truly fearsome fighters, tough as nails and ready and willing to fight all comers. The Marines turn recruits into stone-cold killers and they make no secrets about that fact. Marines live tough lives, sleeping on board Navy ships, charging through the surf and crawling in the sand with one goal in mind: engage the enemy. Unfortunately, when Marines fulfill their obligation and exit the service, they seem to find difficulty in turning this Marine Corps attitude 'off'. Whereas an Army or Navy veteran will likely adjust to civilian life over time and become softer, Marines stay Marines. Visit any neighborhood in the United States and you will find a USMC flag flying high over someone's house. You will rarely, if ever, see a person flying an Army, Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard flag. While veterans of other military branches tend to relax a little bit as they transition into civilian life, any Marine will be quick to remind you of their unofficial motto, "Once a Marine, always a Marine." I don't know what those Marine Corps drill sergeants are doing to their recruits, but whatever it is, it works.

 

Is that a bad thing? Well, that depends on your reasons for considering a military enlistment. If you have a strong desire to kill the enemy, the Marine Corps is for you because that is what the Marines do. Either you want that or you don't, plain and simple. If you simply want a challenge, any other branch of the military will provide you with plenty of opportunities to test yourself. Army Rangers and Green Berets, Air Force Pararescue Jumpers, and the Navy Seals all offer extreme physical and mental challenges outside of the Marine Corps. So if you are considering joining the Marine Corps, think long and hard about what that means before going to a recruiter and signing up.

 

I figured Guard Dog and ManifestedISO would get a kick out of that

 

It's not JUST about killing people. Marines also enjoy drinking, farting, screwing, and mud.

[ManifestedISO]

A little bit harsh.  Makes it sound as if drill instructors churn out robots incapable of self-control, when of course only the opposite can be true. The best reason to stand on the yellow footprints of life is that it connects you forever in a meaningful way to those who came before, particularly those who paid with their lives. That is what Once a Marine, Always a Marine, alludes to ... not a magically indelible attitude of superiority. Flying the flag means you're acknowledging the sacrifice of others, and not, simply to show colors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      

[NOK222]

http://www.secretsofthefed.com/wont-believe-happens-black-man-brings-white-girlfriend-harlem-barbershop-watch/

 

This little video is a nice big **** you to all the white supremacists in this site.

Edited December 12, 2013 by NKKKK

[Malcador]

Think you forgot to post on the Codex

[NOK222]

Think you forgot to post on the Codex

 

Are they really bad there? 

[Meshugger]

I am not going to click on something that is linked to to a site called "secretsofthefed"

[Walsingham]

http://www.secretsofthefed.com/wont-believe-happens-black-man-brings-white-girlfriend-harlem-barbershop-watch/

 

This little video is a nice big **** you to all the white supremacists in this site.

 

All one and a half of them.

[Meshugger]

 

Think you forgot to post on the Codex

 

Are they really bad there? 

 

 

Please post the link in the "Politics, God and Wealth of Nations"-subforum at the Codex. I suggest using "Racism is officially over!" as a thread title or "White supremacists: Owned!".

 

It can only end well.

[Malcador]

 

Think you forgot to post on the Codex

 

Are they really bad there? 

 

 

 

Was a jest, the Codex has some racist types that I've seen but hard to tell if it's just to be edgy or if they actually believe it.

[Walsingham]

 

 

Think you forgot to post on the Codex

 

Are they really bad there? 

 

 

 

Was a jest, the Codex has some racist types that I've seen but hard to tell if it's just to be edgy or if they actually believe it.

 

 

How is being an arsehole 'edgy'?

[Malcador]

Beats me, but it is what it is.  I had forgotten about the politics subforum, heh.

[Agiel]

I find the Codex to be an interesting website in that for every one thing from there that's very lucid, well-thought out, and dare I say quite persuasive, there's about ten other things that's overly narcissistic, sociopathic, or plain 'ol bigoted.

 

That one thing however for me makes it worth it to visit it once or twice a month to wade through and try and find it.

[ShadySands]

Good feels for the day

 

[Raithe]

Researchers.. they look at anything..

 

BT News - James Bond is an Impotent Drunk

 

 

 

James Bond's love of "shaken not stirred" martinis may have actually been due to drinking too much, researchers have said.

 

James Bond's love of "shaken not stirred" martinis may have actually been due to drinking too much, researchers have said.

The famous spy often drank more than four times the weekly recommended limit of alcohol - possibly inducing alcohol-related tremor in his hands.

The experts said that although they appreciated the pressures to drink "when working with international terrorists and high stakes gamblers", they would advise Bond seek help for how much he drinks.

 

Patrick Davies, from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and a colleague read 12 of the Ian Fleming novels over a period of six months.

They took detailed notes regarding Bond's alcohol consumption and worked out he was way over the recommended limit for men (currently the NHS says no more than three or four units a day).

 

They said: "We have shown that James Bond's alcohol consumption, while on his various missions for Her Majesty's Secret Service is, on average, between 65 and 92 units a week."

 

The researchers found many examples where Bond drove over the limit and suggested he may have felt the need to drink due to the highly stressful nature of his job.

"In Goldfinger, for example, he drinks 18 units while having drinks and dinner with Auric Goldfinger before then driving home.

"In Casino Royale, he drinks over 39 units before engaging in a high speed car chase, losing control, and spending 14 days in hospital.

"We hope that this was a salutatory lesson.

"Such behaviour is typical of Bond.

"Despite his alcohol consumption, he is still described as being able to carry out highly complicated tasks and function at an extraordinarily high level.

"This is likely to be pure fiction."

 

In all 12 books, 123.5 days were described, though Bond was unable to consume alcohol for 36 days because of "external pressures (admission to hospital, incarceration, rehabilitation)", the authors wrote in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

"His maximum daily consumption was 49.8 units (From Russia with Love day three).

He had 12.5 alcohol free days out of the 87.5 days on which he was able to drink.

"Furthermore, when we plotted Bond's alcohol consumption over time, his intake dropped in the middle of his career but gradually increased towards the end," they said.

"This consistent but variable lifetime drinking pattern has been reported in patients with alcoholic liver disease."

 

The researchers said Bond was at "considerable risk of developing alcoholic liver disease, cirrhosis, impotence, and other alcohol-related health problems, together with being at serious risk of injury or death because of his drinking.

"We conclude that James Bond was unlikely to be able to stir his drinks, even if he would have wanted to, because of likely alcohol-induced tremor."

The researchers looked at 14 books originally but excluded two either because Bond barely appeared or they were a collection of short stories.

 

 

[Kroney]

"This is likely to be pure fiction."

 

Work of fiction in "not true" shocker!

 

Those charlatans were getting paid to do that. Mind-boggling.

[Malcador]

I find the Codex to be an interesting website in that for every one thing from there that's very lucid, well-thought out, and dare I say quite persuasive, there's about ten other things that's overly narcissistic, sociopathic, or plain 'ol bigoted.

 

That one thing however for me makes it worth it to visit it once or twice a month to wade through and try and find it.

 

I'd say 1 in 5, myself.  GD is just good for the boobs thread.

[Azdeus]

 

Researchers.. they look at anything..

 

BT News - James Bond is an Impotent Drunk

 

 

I wonder if that was pulled from the December issue of the Brittish Medical Journal? My favourite was; 

"Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials"

Edited December 13, 2013 by Azdeus

[ShadySands]

8 Photos You Didn't See From Obama's Trip to South Africa

 

On Tuesday, conservative news outlets in the United States decided that the best way to commemorate the life of Nelson Mandela, and to report on the memorial services in his honor, was to manufacture a controversy about an AFP photo of President Barack Obama shooting a selfie with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. According to Fox News, the “international incident” was so bad that, “The tsk-tisk-ing could be heard across continents.”

 

Liberal news outlets countered with a photograph from former President George W. Bush’s Instagram feed, taken at the same memorial, in which he’s seen posing with pop star Bono.

 

Two things were lost amid the nonsensical partisan wrangling. First, the furor shamefully overshadowed the memorial service itself, and the heartfelt messages that were delivered by Mandela’s family and colleagues. Second, such outcries overlook the close quarters in which our Democratic and Republican politicians actually live and work.

 

Candid images from White House photographer Pete Souza tell another story.

[Malau]

Kid signs Holiday Concert so that her deaf parents could see what she was singing.

Terribly adorable.

 

[Walsingham]

 

 

Researchers.. they look at anything..

 

BT News - James Bond is an Impotent Drunk

 

 

I wonder if that was pulled from the December issue of the Brittish Medical Journal? My favourite was; 

"Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials"

 

 

I think the purpose is to challenge the drinks all the time 'message' of Bond. Although personally I'm more concerned about his pushing golf on people.

 

They should study Philip Marlowe.

[Raithe]

io9 - Yellowstone's Megavolcano is more than twice the beast it was thought to be

 

 

 

Beneath Yellowstone National Park lurks a vast caldera – a high-pressure volcanic cauldron brimming with enough gas and magma to make Mount St. Helens' 1980-eruption look like a middle school science project by comparison. Now, newly reported findings suggest this megavolcanic reservoir is even bigger than previously believed. Much, much bigger.

 

The report, presented earlier this week at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, is the second of its kind to emerge from the University of Utah this year. The first, delivered back in April, estimated that Yellowstone's magma reservoirs were "at least 50 percent larger than previously imagined." Now, seismologists have upped that estimate to a staggering 250%.

 

"We've been working [in Yellowstone] for a long time, and we've always thought it would be bigger," said seismologist and research team member Bob Smith in an interview with the BBC, "but this finding is astounding."

 

Measurements made by Smith and his colleagues led them to conclude that the caldera measures 55 miles long by 20 miles wide, and ranges anywhere between 1 to 9 miles deep along its length. With those dimensions, the researchers say the magma chamber is likely to contain upwards of 150 cubic miles of molten rock.

"To our knowledge there has been nothing mapped of that size before," said researcher Jamie Farrell, who presented the team's 50% estimate back in April.

 

The good news, say the researchers, is that a larger reservoir does not necessary increase the odds of the caldera erupting. As for when Yellowstone's mega volcano will blow, the last three major eruptions took place 640,000, 1.3-million, and 2.1 million years ago – so some say we're about due for another cataclysmic eruption.

Farrell, for one, doubts a blast will occur in the immediate future. For one thing, he says, "we have a whole system of monitoring equipment [at Yellowstone]... and we believe if there was going to be an eruption we would have advance warning that magma was moving beneath the surface."

 

One thing, Farrell says, is for certain: a large-scale eruption of the Yellowstone caldera would be cataclysmic on an unprecedented scale. "Nobody's ever witnessed one of these large supervolcanic eruptions," he said, noting that previous examples are believed to have been 2,000-times the size of Mount St. Helens' 1980 eruption.

"It would affect the world," said Farrell. "All the material that is shot up into the atmosphere [during an eruption] would eventually circle the Earth and affect the climate throughout the world."