Man, if there's one thing I've learned growing up, it's that cigarettes do make you look cool, no matter what they tried to tell me in school. [
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Learn it, in the name of Science.
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The abandonment of reasoned discourse in favor of accusatory snark and the whole "you're either with us or oppressing us and if you're white you're oppressing us even if you're with us" are two of the things that have annoyed me in the past... [
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@katherineg:
See, I see something like this and now I don't know if you're purposely trying to parrot one of the derailments in the article or you sincerely feel that way.
I sincerely feel that way. Like, that's just me honestly reporting my... [
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If there is one thing that has never failed to make me unsympathetic towards anti-racism activists (they themselves, not necessarily their goals), it's anti-racism activists.... [
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Mayor Curley, your daughter is like the cute baby equivalent of that Che Guevara icon, looking off into the distance, boldly determined to bring about a proletarian revolution in the daycare.... [
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Is this a new Mike Gravel campaign ad? [
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People actually enjoy Apples to Apples? I guess it's better than Bunco.
The most exciting thing that ever happened during a game of Apples to Apples that I played was my friend's unstable ex-boyfriend cutting a card in half with a knife.... [
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8 months ago
For once, a fine art photographer has a website that doesn't have some atrocious Flash- and/or frames-based navigation scheme. Powerful photos, too. [
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9 months ago
Is this something I'd have to be a horny drunk misogynist to understand? [
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10 months ago
I wish everyone really did love trains this much. Maybe if gas prices hit $6 a gallon and airlines start charging you fees for your pocket contents we'll get some movement on high-speed rail networks in this country.... [
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You know less about Tetris than you think
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The Graphical Underground
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Don't read The Elements of Style. E.B. White's been dead for two decades, Strunk for six. Language and standards of writing change in the meantime, and a lot of their advice was wrong to begin with. The best positive advice I think I can give about... [
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We're allowing n-person conversations where n is in [2..6], so we want this equation, the sum from n=2 to 6 of 6 choose n, which is 15+20+15+6+1 = 57 conversations...which lots of other people have already said by now, but oh well. I agree with them.... [
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Maybe never. Quotative "like" and "all" ("She's like...and then he's all...") and similar constructions are good grammar to me (Male 18). They're marked as "uneducated" by anyone a generation older, and I... [
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I have no idea how people derive any information from clicking through slides people post on the internet. In my experience, reading through someone's slideshow is just an exercise in frustration, making you wish that you were there watching the... [
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As for the neck brace, after a car crash, one of the biggest risks for the victim is traumatic spinal injury, which can occur without the victim being aware of it. I once heard an EMT tell a story about a car accident victim who was getting up and... [
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