NO SERIOUSLY, AT THE VERY END OF THIS VIDEO, IS THAT CAINAD SINGING THE BYE-BYE SONG??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJyvcNmYwr4&list=PL5FF4A359D7985006&index=25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJyvcNmYwr4&list=PL5FF4A359D7985006&index=25
For my part, I've replaced optimism and believing the best of people by default with a grin and the absolute 100% certainty that if they cannot find a pig to fuck, they will buy some bacon and play oinking noises on YouTube.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Dildo Argentino on January 08, 2012, 09:42:40 PM
we all work on what we wish to work on
(those genuinely under coercion not included)
i happen to think that creating the res publica of a people, the establishment (or re-establishment, or restoration) of a country in the sense of a nation state is an outmoded enterprise with little merit
in order to find more timely and glorious work, it is expedient to review the situation that we find ourselves in first from a larger (global), then from a narrower (personal) perspective
none of what i will say is new
global perspective:
one earth, seven billion people
roughly one tenth of that number do not eat their fill every day of the week
at the same time, ten percent of the population dispose over eighty-five percent of all earthly wealth
within that number, the richest one percent control forty percent of the wealth
man does not live by bread alone
over half the population of the earth live in cities, though mostly not cities in the european sense
and well over half the population strive to realise, in their personal lives, the ideals of the welfare consumer society
lots of food, lots of channels, lots of clutter
estimating the size of the autonomous, adult population who hold their lives and their hands and thus purposefully form them is harder
after a small, highly subjective and far from representative opinion survey and a great deal of pondering i have concluded that such people occur in higher proportion in the third world (brutal existential uncertainty is a strong selection pressure at both the individual and the social levels)
the transitional margin between the autonomous and the slave/slaver group is quite wide and gradual along a number of distinct dimensions
globally, the proportion of autonomous, self-governing adults is somewhere between 0.1 percent and 10 percent
as an incorrigible optimist, i would wager around 1 percent
one in a hundred people
*
personal perspective:
i posit that only sovereign, adult people, who know their own lives and hold them in their hands in order to shape them are capable of authentic political action
i posit that in the present situation authentic political action is impossible without first letting go of all sorts of national or racial phantasmagories, imaginings, emotional tangles
i posit that today, authentic political action may be aimed at the following two targets (possibly among others, i am not making an exhaustive claim here):
firstly, moving fellow humans in the transitional stages between being robots and being people (or half-asleep, or what have you) towards sufficient levels of sovereignity
such actions include raising children, clarity of thinking and speech and the exemplary practice of authentic ways of being
secondly, the strengthening, supporting, mobilisation, vitalisation of the networks, the systems of interrelationships of autonomous people
this includes tribal enterprise, active community building and maintenance, trust-based barter trade and the promotion of communication and cooperation between small sovereign communities
thank you for your attention
QuoteWhat do Interstate 5 drivers see as they peel off the freeway and head down the chute that leads to the Morrison Bridge and into downtown?
Yes, the glittering towers of concrete and glass, nestling on a bed of greens. But there's also a guide sign with puckered white lettering that reads 'Washingon Street' on a backboard that instead of the usual green looks like a piece of toast. Why?
About 100 feet farther on there's another, hanging from a rusty support. Next to that is an empty space where another sign used to point to the turnoff to Naito Parkway.
The reason they've been there so long is no one knew who was responsible for it. The 'Washington Street' guide signs are usually the City of Portland Office of Transportation's territory, except when they are on river bridges, which are the responsibility of the county.
Just to confuse things further, the state maintains signs on state highways - and Naito Parkway used to be one. Until five years ago the state also maintained signs pointing to state highways. When the state stopped caring for them it removed the Naito Parkway turnoff sign. But only that one.
Quote- Invitation to submit text -
American artist Jenny Holzer and the office of Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, seek text to be included in a permanent artwork for the new American Embassy in London. Students are invited to submit short, powerful writing on any topic relevant to British-American relations or statecraft. Cultural exchange is crucial, so students from both the US and UK are encouraged to participate. Selected texts will be carved into stone on highly visible walls around the Embassy, and collected on a web platform.
QuoteResearchers may have found the location of sense of humor in the brain, according to their presentation at the 86th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Illinois.
Humor appreciation appears to be based in the lower frontal lobes of the brain, a location associated with social and emotional judgment and planning, according to imaging research. That might explain why people who have suffered strokes involving the lower frontal lobes of the brain may have alterations of personality which include loss of their sense of humor.
"A small part of the frontal lobes appears critical to our ability to recognize a joke," said Dean K. Shibata, MD, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in New York, and principal investigator of a study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to map activity in the brain while it is registering humor. "Although the purpose of humor and laughter is still largely unknown despite 2,000 years of speculation, having a sense of humor is a key part of our personalities and it can play a powerful role in balancing negative emotions, such as fear.
QuoteI had a very interesting encounter today. I was sitting in the Malcolm X Lounge, a study room at the University of Texas that's dedicated to African-American studies, but open to anyone. I was on a couch and had my feet up on a small table. When a girl came and sat down on the couch to my left, I jokingly made a big deal about moving my legs. She responded with, "Stop being so lazy, light-skin."
I really wasn't offended by the light-skin reference, but I was totally caught off guard by the way she used the term. See light-skinnededness (no that's not a real word) has been the target of black humor for a while now, but usually people just say...
QuoteI'm on an arbitrary crosswalk on an arbitrary Sunday in Chicago when it happens. He's in his early 40′s, nicely dressed. As we head in opposite directions, elbows almost bumping, he leans into my space, face inches from mine and hisses, "Fuck you, bitch." He keeps walking, and I stop dead in the middle of the street, hoping someone else just saw that.
It's the "bitch" that kept swinging through the revolving door in my brain as I walked the half mile home. Why did he call me that? I didn't do anything to him, I didn't say anything to him, I didn't even look at him. Was I supposed to smile? A random "fuck you" might just be the standard cost of living in a large city where you encounter the occasional unstable citizen, but the "bitch" added insult to injury.
QuoteIn a pilot study funded by the NITC Small Starts program, researchers explored whether drivers behave differently toward pedestrians waiting to use a crosswalk based on the pedestrian's race. The study – the first examining the effects of race on pedestrian crossing experiences – found that black pedestrians were passed by twice as many cars and waited nearly a third longer to cross than white pedestrians.
Minorities are disproportionately represented among pedestrian fatalities in the United States. The Center for Disease Control reported in 2013 that in the first decade of this century, the fatality rates for black and Hispanic men were twice as high as they were for white men.
Researchers Kimberly Barsamian Kahn and Tara Goddard of Portland State University, and Arlie Adkins, of the University of Arizona, hypothesized that if minority pedestrians experience more delay at crosswalks, they might take greater risks when crossing – risks that could contribute to the disparate fatality rates.
QuoteIn 1998, a high school junior named Eric Harris from Colorado wanted to put on a performance, something for the world to remember him by. A little more than a year later, Eric and his best friend Dylan Klebold would place bombs all over their school — bombs large enough to collapse large chunks of the building and to kill the majority of the 2,000 students inside — and then wait outside with semi-automatic weapons to gun down any survivors before ending their own lives.
"It'll be like the LA riots, the Oklahoma bombing, WWII, Vietnam, Duke and Doom all mixed together," Eric wrote in his journal. "Maybe we will even start a little rebellion or revolution to fuck things up as much as we can. I want to leave a lasting impression on the world."
Eric was a psychopath, but he was also smart.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 09, 2014, 08:59:43 PMQuote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 09, 2014, 08:36:10 PM
Common TGRR aphorisms:
IT'S NOT MY FAULT!
It could have happened to anyone, really.
Nobody go in the kitchen for like 10 years, okay?
I'M OKAY WITH THAT! (about something that is clearly not okay)
Underwear is an indication that you aren't really serious about having a good time.
A hornet in the shorts is worth AAAAAAFUCKFUCKFUCK
Forgot:
Sorry, I didn't catch that, I was staring at your tits. ---> Usually said to TGRRW to get out of trouble for the kitchen thing.
I already farted for you, what the hell do you WANT from me?
You People MAKE NO SENSE
SHUT UP
Quote from: Regret on April 28, 2014, 08:50:33 PMQuote from: Nigel on April 28, 2014, 08:46:34 PMBaww I feel rejected now.Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 28, 2014, 04:25:43 PMQuote from: Nigel on April 28, 2014, 02:45:49 PM
Birthday.
I have a whole-weekend hangover.
Happy birthday, merry new hangover!
It's a piquant and lolling hangover. Luckily it doesn't come with any regrets (it almost did, but I pulled my head out of my ass in the nick of time).
QuoteThe post by Maine People's Alliance activist Mike Tipping mined press clippings to unearth several offensive comments. In one, Lockman implied that HIV and AIDS could be spread by bed sheets and mosquitoes. In another, he said that the progressive movement assisted the AIDS epidemic by assuring "the public that the practice of sodomy is a legitimate alternative lifestyle, rather than a perverted and depraved crime against humanity." In a 1995 letter in the Sun Journal in Lewiston, a reader quoted a press statement by Lockman, then part of the Pro Life Education Association, saying, "If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn't a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapist's pursuit of sexual freedom doesn't (in most cases) result in anyone's death."