Randomness thread, part two.

[Lukie]

Millions of people die every day, completely unnoticed by me, but it's crazy how the death of one person can effect my friends and family so much. I know he doesn't post much around here, but best wishes to mrickett (some of you met him in Vegas) his father passed away yesterday after 56 years of life.

that's scary because my dad is 58. it happens all the time. best wishes to him and his family.

also, millions of people do not die every day.

[givememyleg]

also, millions of people do not die every day.

blah blah meow chow

[flomo]

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

[wufwugy]

about a quarter mil but the number is very slowly decreasing due to slowly decreasing birth rates due to slowly improving women's rights and edumacation

[BooG690]

Just ordered a heartbeat monitor from one of those "special of the day" websites:

http://www.woot.com/

I know there's a bunch of these. Anybody else have other good websites like this one?

[boost]

Just ordered a heartbeat monitor from one of those "special of the day" websites:

http://www.woot.com/

I know there's a bunch of these. Anybody else have other good websites like this one?

[a500lbgorilla]

Woman tresspasses through a guys yard with her child at 5:30 in the morning. Dude is naked in his own home making coffee, tresspassing btch calls the cops. The cops agree this man is an obvious criminal who must be jailed for indecent exposure.

Thank you for your continued diligent service, officers.

As a side note, I know people have been incredibly stupid for a long, long time but what the hell?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57yi3Asgov4

[JKDS]

thx rilla, im on tilt now

[BooG690]

I know. I am a consumer whore, no matter how much I try not to be.

Anywho, I was eating breakfast and noticed that Heinz (the ketchup) is a Canadian product.

Boycott Heinz?

[a500lbgorilla]

Heinz is a Pittsburgh company.

Also, yw. JKDS

[BooG690]

Is it sad that I may watch wrestling again tonight? Bret Hart back in the WWF and Hulk Hogan on TNA. Add Kevin Nash to the TNA lineup...and I'm watching...sadly.

[JKDS]

Boog, search HULU for "South Park", episode titled "W.T.F."...watch it.

Then you will know how sad it is

[wufwugy]

Yes, that is sad

Doubt you saw the recent Strikeforce Evolution (which was awesome), or the K1 2009 GP (also very awesome), or 2009 Dynamite, or recent WECs

Find stream of those online before watching more Fakesies McFakersucks

Watching Aoki break arms, Aldo break faces, Fedor break souls, Hari break gameplans, and Jacare break out a clinic is infinitely better than watching guys audition for Idiocracy 2

[Luco]

After seeing a few mma fights I could never go back to pro wrestling.

Also, day 2 of not smoking ftw. I feel pretty positive right now.

[wufwugy]

It's still real to him dammit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvTNyKIGXiI

[a500lbgorilla]

We once had a backyard wrestling league where we did a bunch of dumb shit to each other while pretending to pretend fight. No one got injured until it evolved into a backyard football league. Full contact, no pads.

Also, braingasm. Evolution IS a blind watchmaker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAq9bmCeR0

[wufwugy]

cdk is pretty cool. was pretty bummed when tf00t's dawkins interview showed up with terrible audio quality

[a500lbgorilla]

And when thunderf00t showed up looking homeless. I just can't watch him make Dawkins sit on a leopard print couch cover.

How do you not shave for Dawkins!

[wufwugy]

hah tf00t is awesome. he sounds like an arrogant prick and looks like a hobo, yet is pretty smart and probably charismatic and docile in person

[BooG690]

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/041...-companies-psa

[KingKeese]

wait for it wait for it BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM HAHAHA 21

[bode]

Also, day 2 of not smoking ftw. I feel pretty positive right now.

day 15 for me and it feels awesome.

[BooG690]

You're both going back to smoking real soon...guaranteed.

[a500lbgorilla]

How long after quitting smoking before you've officially quit?

I haven't had a drink all year. I'm looking to set a record for consecutive times DDing.

[kingnat]

How long after quitting smoking before you've officially quit?

i quit quit 8 years ago... and still have regular cravings to smoke. Usually anything over a month is pretty solid... and 3 months is likely good to go. It requires encountering and subsequently overcoming nearly every situation and instance where you would normally smoke and choosing NOT to smoke. And that takes awhile.

[Ash256]

EX-SMOKERS: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-.../dp/0140277633

[Luco]

You're both going back to smoking real soon...guaranteed.

Thanks for the support

I'm sure that's a +ev bet right there, but on this occasion you've run into the top of the range - I will never, ever, ever take another puff. Not one. My only regret is that I didn't kick that habit sooner (or not start in the first place). I'm gonna have cravings for life because of this shit, it gets hardwired into your brain. Not cool.

[boost]

You're both going back to smoking real soon...guaranteed.

Thanks for the support

I'm sure that's a +ev bet right there, but on this occasion you've run into the top of the range - I will never, ever, ever take another puff. Not one. My only regret is that I didn't kick that habit sooner (or not start in the first place). I'm gonna have cravings for life because of this shit, it gets hardwired into your brain. Not cool.

I think I was lucky to quit before the "hardwired for life" point. Ive smoked two cigarettes since quitting about 3 1/2 years ago. Both were on separate occasions with long time friends who both smoke. Both times we were having pretty deep long convos and I was definitely drunk. In my mind I thought me smoking (they know I quit long ago) was kind of like passing the peace pipe with them. I did not inhale and kinda just puffed and exhaled real fast. Blah blah, meow cheow.

[BooG690]

Seriously, FTR doesn't have a mobile site yet? Aren't we in 2010? Wtf can be taking so long!?!?!?!?

[BooG690]

Seriously, FTR doesn't have a mobile site yet? Aren't we in 2010? Wtf can be taking so long!?!?!?!?

[wufwugy]

more unfunny buzzkill

http://twitter.com/Shitmydadsays

[JKDS]

actually that stuff makes me lawl

[Warpe]

more unfunny buzzkill

http://twitter.com/Shitmydadsays

You're not a dad, obv. I'm still laughing.

[wufwugy]

more unfunny buzzkill

http://twitter.com/Shitmydadsays

You're not a dad, obv. I'm still laughing.

That was tongue in cheek. People be calling me buzzkill because I'm beautiful. Those quotes are indeed funny

[Lukie]

Seriously, FTR doesn't have a mobile site yet? Aren't we in 2010? Wtf can be taking so long!?!?!?!?

haha

ahahahaha

half the time ftr doesn't even load, and when it does, it takes like 30 seconds and that's on my desktop with a broadband connection.

let's be realistic here

<3 FTR <3

[wufwugy]

[dranger7070]

lol omg

i love that the recoil smokes the kid in the face and his expression as he falls

[ChrisBCritter]

WTF? I mean really, people are stupid, but WTF. How can you be THAT stupid?

[BooG690]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

[Jack Sawyer]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...year_deal.html

[bikes]

Dear Manchester United,

DONT FUCKING SELL WAYNE ROONEY.

Sincerely,
Bb

[Ash256]

^^echoed

[frosst]

http://www.asylum.com/2010/01/12/eye...rison-fashion/

[Luco]

http://www.mynewpinkbutton.com/

Disturbing on so many levels.

[sil693]

Dear Manchester United,

DONT FUCKING SELL WAYNE ROONEY.

Sincerely,
Bb

qfmft

[bigspenda73]

Getting older is weird, I haven't progressed much but people around me sure have. It's strange seeing girls you used to date now married with kids and I gotta say....

thank fucking god that's not me

[Lukie]

yeah i'm 24 now and a shit ton of girls i used to know are either engaged or married. i guess girls have to strike while the iron is hot, guys can hold off a bit since they hit their primes much later.

[Warpe]

Getting older is weird, I haven't progressed much but people around me sure have. It's strange seeing girls you used to date now married with kids and I gotta say....

thank fucking god that's not me

Double edged sword. While I would never recommend anyone get married before they are 30 without a good education behind them and a career on track, the main benefit of starting a family in your early twenties like I did is that your kids are out of the house while you're still young and healthy enough to enjoy life. I know a number of people my age who are still dealing with daycare and getting kids to soccer practice while the biggest thing I have to negotiate with my sons is who's buying the next round.

[jyms]

That'll be me

[Luco]

http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/

[wufwugy]

Haiti earthquake pics

24 hrs after

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201..._in_haiti.html

48 hrs after

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...urs_later.html

[givememyleg]

geez

[donkbee]

it's so awful ...

If you haven't donated yet to the cause and you haven't done so yet, you can do so on PokerStars. If you go to the special tab of tournaments, you'll be able to register for tournaments of varying buyins, and this money is being donated to the Red Cross. PS is matching all donations.

[bode]

it's so awful ...

If you haven't donated yet to the cause and you haven't done so yet, you can do so on PokerStars. If you go to the special tab of tournaments, you'll be able to register for tournaments of varying buyins, and this money is being donated to the Red Cross. PS is matching all donations.

you can also just make a direct transfer to "Haiti Fund" for whatever amount.

[a500lbgorilla]

90999 text Haiti for the lazy people. Just pops 10 bucks on your next phone-bill.

[BooG690]

I recommend doing it on your poker client rather than on your phone due to the 100% match.

[a500lbgorilla]

Online gambling supports terrorism.

[OP]

I've decided to start crossing my Z's, 0's, and 7's when I write them out. Pretty baller imo.

I start a new contract in Gainesville next week, so it looks like I'll have to start wearing pants and shaving again after a nice 2 month break. :sadface:

[BooG690]

Crossing Z's and 7's is so win. Crossing 0's is kinda gay tho.

[boost]

I cross my 7's always, and my zeros only if they are in combination with letters where they could be confused for O's. I never cross my z's.

[donkbee]

I don't cross my 7s, I only sometimes cross my zeros like boost, and I always cross my Zs. I think I cross my Z because it looks like a 2 otherwise.

[boost]

..I only sometimes cross my zeros like boost,

we should totally copulate.

[a500lbgorilla]

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-gui...liberia-1-of-8

I'm like 1 minute in and I can already tell this'll be awesome.

Insaaaanely gory.

[fjuanl]

watched all of the liberia section...pretty hard to believe. just finished the one about north korea and wow was that weird/freaky

[spoonitnow]

I started crossing my 0's when necessary when I was probably 7 or 8 and had started programming enough to need to know the difference when I wrote things down. I started crossing my 7's and Z's around age 23 in a complex analysis class because my instructor told us to. The habit sort of stuck.

[a500lbgorilla]

watched all of the liberia section...pretty hard to believe. just finished the one about north korea and wow was that weird/freaky

Part 5 is up. I think it's the best part yet.

If you wanna see what this little docu series is about, I think part 5 is a good taster.

[wufwugy]

wow, even for me, these are going to be hard to watch

[bikes]

man that was hard to watch.

[a500lbgorilla]

Hard to watch; imagine living it. Part 6 is up.

[wufwugy]

Hard to watch; imagine living it. Part 6 is up.

Few people do, and that's the problem

[givememyleg]

wow, damn...

[wufwugy]

NK one is very good as well. Also guns in Afghan

Keep in mind that they're still not showing/seeing the worst. The worst is so bad that people literally would not stomach it. People like us don't understand exactly how evil humans are, and how much many suffer. It may sound weird when I say that mass extinction of the race would be fantastic, but it's true. It's not a fun thing to think about, but I don't give a shit since it's about a billion times worse to experience actual misery

I don't think that the race will become extinct though. This is sobering and frightening to me since the ability to suffer is going to skyrocket almost infinitely. We like to think that things eventually work out, but reality is that things do not exist because they're good or bad, but because they can. If you think people are suffering now, just wait until science eliminates aging. It's one thing for a woman to be born into enslaved prostitution, but it's another unfathomably terrible thing for that woman to be genetically modified for that purpose and to virtually live forever

If I were given the option to press a button that would explode the Earth, I would do so without an instance of hesitation. No matter how happy I may be with my life, I cannot ignore the reality of the pure horribleness of our highly refined species. It's easy to think something doesn't exist when that something is kept out of sight and has no voice. The story of Omelas has no greater relevance

[wufwugy]

Speaking of people not being able to stomach the truth and doing their damnedest to ignore it, an article I'm reading about NK prison camps put up a video of said prison camp footage on youtube, buuuuuuuuuuut mysteriously that video has been taken down......

[a500lbgorilla]

I don't think the snippets you see of life in Liberia are impossible to understand nor do I think those same snippets demonstrate the "evil" of man. The context of living in that place, of rape, drugs and poverty, a septic environment, would be overwhelming.

I read 'The Tipping Point' by Malcolm Gladwell (Caldwell?) where he talks about NYC cleaning up it's streets by cleaning up graffiti, fixing broken windows and enforcing the small laws. By creating an environment where all the little things are kept in order, it has the affect of keeping the big crimes in order (driving down theft, rape and murder).

Liberia is the opposite end of the coin, an entire populace stands literally in streets of it's own excrement, and children are told that the blood of the innocent protects them from ubiquitous gun-fire. These people aren't evil, rather, they're living in Liberia.

As for pressing the easy button to explode our world, I also read something about the bottlenecking in the human genome; how humans were almost extinct once before. I see a few reasons why it would be a bad thing, but I don't know that I wouldn't secretly welcome it. From the grave, of course, no way am I surviving any hardships.

[wufwugy]

I mean 'evil' as a happenstance. You can make an argument that no human is inherently evil, but the effects of collective actions still result in evil. It's not about one individual's actions (which are unwittingly almost entirely dependent upon others' actions), but about the collection of all actions creating a society with 'necessary' evil.

The NYC clean up is an example that cannot be applied across the board. We have literally zero evidence that the whole of human society doesn't require a bottom rung of suffering populace. NYC is far from this bottom rung. The rule of thumb here is that good reform doesn't happen until those with power feel the pain (which correlates nicely with any NYC clean up), but if society doesn't require that powerful people permeate its entirety, then there will remain unreformed pockets

Honestly, I think that the societies we have are exemplary of what we are as a species and our interactions with our environments. I don't think that Africa is a forgotten continent with mass suffering because we're 'doing things wrong', I think it's because we're doing things the way that comes natural according to our biology and environment (which is the only way possible).

A lot of this can be tied into my comments on agriculture from a while ago. One example is that with a society built upon agriculture, things like prisons become necessary at some point. No one person is at fault, what is at fault is simply the nature of things, and that nature can be pretty horrible

All the bad in the world isn't some kind of anomaly. The simple fact that something happens is in itself evidence that that something is natural and carries with it a statistical probability. Create a perfect model of the Universe, run it an infinite amount of times, and we'll find that we've created an infinite number of North Koreas, an infinite numbers of raped children, an infinite number of tortured prisoners, an infinite number of beaches full of feces, etc

Edit to add: Frighteningly enough, infinity may be how the whole of existence actually works. Scary thought that infinite suffering may just be standard