Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE

[Suu]

You don't pay taxes on clothes? WTF? I never heard of such a thing. No wonder your state's finances are fucked. That's 90% of the disposable income of the 14-25 year old demographic not being taxed, is what that is.

Neither does MA or CT last I checked. It's considered a necessity.

Fuck dude, NH doesn't tax a goddamn thing except prepared food, lodging, and property and they're doing pretty damn good for themselves. Granted, they also are something like 75% state park and have a quarter of the population of RI, but I digress.

They prop up their state's finances by selling so much Allens Coffee Brandy to Mainers.

Clearly, I need to try this stuff.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

You don't pay taxes on clothes? WTF? I never heard of such a thing. No wonder your state's finances are fucked. That's 90% of the disposable income of the 14-25 year old demographic not being taxed, is what that is.

Neither does MA or CT last I checked. It's considered a necessity.

Fuck dude, NH doesn't tax a goddamn thing except prepared food, lodging, and property and they're doing pretty damn good for themselves. Granted, they also are something like 75% state park and have a quarter of the population of RI, but I digress.

They prop up their state's finances by selling so much Allens Coffee Brandy to Mainers.

O GAWD I remember when you brought that stuff and I threw up everywhere. Well actually I don't remember because i blacked out. But I found the vomit the next day! 

[East Coast Hustle]

In all fairness, you didn't throw up EVERYWHERE. There was about a 6 square foot patch of floor and a corner of the mirror that escaped unscathed.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

  <- me

Apparently I missed the toilet and displeased my roommate greatly

[East Coast Hustle]

Yeah, when I was leaving the next morning you offered me the use of your shower before I hit the road. I hadn't had one since Maine and probably wasn't going to get another chance at one until San Diego so it was a very welcome offer.

Until I actually looked in the bathroom. Then I decided that the Puerto Rican shower at the Burger King a few miles down the road was a MUCH more hygienic option.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

  I was training for the Olympic Projectile Vomiting Team ok

[Sita]

After 12 years my husband has finally gotten tired of me being a socially awkward person and has arranged for us to hang out with some friends from his work.
He's hoping that since they also like gaming and Doctor Who and things of that nature that it will bring me out of my shell.

Because apparently I need to figure out how to talk to people in the real world and not just online or something.

I was all, damn, sorry Sita, that blows, until I got to the second part.

Ack, probably could've structured that sentence better.
Only bummer bit about it is my needing to socialize, which I suck at and thus avoid whenever possible.

And yet it seems everyone considers me a friend. I'll never understand people.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

I really hope I don't start getting like that when I get my PhD. If I do, I'd like you guys to please take a hit out on me.

I don't think I'd call an engineer a scientist, that's a different kind of beast altogether. Probably a kind that isn't good enough to associate with Kai.

But what do I know? I'm just a lowly Associate of Arts.

new meme - Speaking as a scientist 

Speaking as a mother, I approve of this spaggotry.

I don't know if I can mix with mothers.
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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Tangentially related is this FB update by Stephen King:

"What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle."

Partially true.

We also breed like roaches.

We actually breed really, really slowly compared to most other species of comparable size: only one child every two to three years. We just live way longer, have a much lower infant mortality rate, no predators, and our females are reproductively viable for 20-30 years, as well as continuing to provide food and nurturing to subsequent generations for another 30-40 years after they can no longer breed, which confers a HUGE survival advantage.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

And we're really fucking hard to kill, shrugging off traumas and deprivation that would be fatal to most species.

[Salty]

Humans are stubbornly tenacious. Those thumbs really hook into life and are hard to shake loose.

That is why (real) wrestling has such a high and hideous rate of injury. And why my job is so hard.

Humans have no idea about the mastery they hold over all that...mmmmmeeeeat.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

After 12 years my husband has finally gotten tired of me being a socially awkward person and has arranged for us to hang out with some friends from his work.
He's hoping that since they also like gaming and Doctor Who and things of that nature that it will bring me out of my shell.

Because apparently I need to figure out how to talk to people in the real world and not just online or something.

I was all, damn, sorry Sita, that blows, until I got to the second part.

Ack, probably could've structured that sentence better.
Only bummer bit about it is my needing to socialize, which I suck at and thus avoid whenever possible.

And yet it seems everyone considers me a friend. I'll never understand people.

You probably don't suck as much as you think you suck. Everybody has flaws and makes social gaffes, but most people are perfectly willing to overlook the flaws and focus on the good things, plus nobody spends as much time thinking about other people's social gaffes as they spend thinking about their own.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

As a matter of fact, if other people think of you as a friend, you definitely don't suck as much as you think you suck. Protip: if everyone else thinks you're awesome, they probably aren't all wrong.

[Reginald Ret]

Didn't we have a thread about humans and their awesomeness?
Oh yeah, here it is.

[Left]

Tangentially related is this FB update by Stephen King:

"What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle."

Partially true.

We also breed like roaches.

We actually breed really, really slowly compared to most other species of comparable size: only one child every two to three years. We just live way longer, have a much lower infant mortality rate, no predators, and our females are reproductively viable for 20-30 years, as well as continuing to provide food and nurturing to subsequent generations for another 30-40 years after they can no longer breed, which confers a HUGE survival advantage.

Hunter-gatherers were and are (what few of them are left) barely able to top the replacement rate, because their caloric intake won't support much more than that. 
Agriculture made us explode...well, population-wise.