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Am I the only one who is reminded distinctly of Goatse by the graphic of the film reel and hands in the bg there?

Must every thread witness that cursed name?

I want examples of both, plz

Pedosmile


Molestache


Both

molestache

Now there's one I've never heard before.

Seriously?  Or are you being sarcastic.

We used to play a game where we would identify all of the molestaches and pedosmiles wandering about the Mall of America.  Bonus points for a person with both.

Because they are both evil.  Duh.  Doesn't matter if he looks swanky as hell in his molestache.

I see.  So, given the size of the sample there's a "sweet spot" where the variation within that sample is prime for unexpected results.  The overweight guy is way outside the mean, but he's still on the graph because the variation of possible wieghts is significantly smaller than the actual number of people in the human race.  Conversely, there are nearly as many salaries as there are people, so the spread is greater.

That sound about right?

Well, it seems to me a good deal of his sacrifice was/will-have-been made in vain.  How else could our world spawn Yanni, a 24-hour drive-thru Starbucks, and Tila Tequila?


I'm telling you, it's the motha'fuckin' 'pocolypse up in this piece.  Final Sign: Goatse gets his own Reality TV show.

You touched yourself and made the baby Jesus cry.

This phrase confuses me.  Of course baby Jesus is crying.  He's a baby.  Babies cry. 

I said that to someone who tried to tell me I was making baby Jesus cry, and they had nothing to say other than, "Well, yeah..."

According to the theory, it can't happen.  All "surprises" in Mediocristan fall within given and predictable range and thus are not very surprising at all.  Because the variables and possible results are known ahead of time, it is by definition impossible for a Black Swan to happen, because it needs to be unpredictable.

Didn't we just get done arguing that everything is essentially unpredictable?  Using the weight analogy, what happens when someone falls drastically outside the norm?  Like the (in)famous John Brower Minnoch, who weighed nearly 1,500 lbs. at one point.

so then do black swans happen in extremistan more often than they would in mediocristan due to the unpredictablitly of the limits? would it be a matter of basing knowledge on the end results rather than the processes?

I think a Black Swan coming out of Mediocristan would be more surprising than from Extremistan.

Vex, that's a pretty good point.

I've been going with Duocratic Aristocracy for some time, but I like Inverted Totalitarianism as a better term to describe where we are.

The year 2012 will be the end of the world, but not in the way we think of the world ending.  During the early months of that ominous year war and strife will come to a frenzied head worldwide as the mad rush for resources escalates.  Of course, all of the resources gathered go directly into fueling the war effort.

During the summer of 2012 the citizens of the world will get fed up with it all and, while all of the soldiers are off in various parts of the world blowing themselves up, they will rise up and displace their respective governments.  With no one left telling them to keep fighting, the soldiers of the world will go home, except for the stubborn ones who will end up killing themselves off anyhow.  The people of the world, free from the opression of government and lacking any major industrial infrastructure, are forced to band together and work towards mutual survival.  Small, self-sufficient anarchistic communities will become the norm.

The society birthed from this ruined world will be free from the trappings that held us back before.  All of the stresses and pains of our fast paced world will cease to exist.  With more time than ever to put toward intellectual persuits, we will eventually awaken the dormant parts of our brains.  With newfound mental powers at our disposal, we will have something new to fight about.  Psychic wars will ravage the land, and only the most powerful minds will survive.  Having transcended normal phisical form, these few will attempt to foster new life on our now ruined world.  Starting at the beginning, these beings of pure thought will guide the lifeless planet through the necessary stages of evolution, eventually producing a race that resembles humankind.  Unfortunately, this new race of humanity will be just as flawed as the original.  

Thinking the former humans that aided in their evolution to be the gods who created their world, the neo-humans will worship their powerful masters.  The proto-humans will get fed up with the hassle of restoring the world to it's glory and simply leave, calling it a failed attempt.  The neo-humans will build many civilizations, all tainted by the worship of absent beings, and eventually they'll start to argue about who is right concerning the matter.  This fight will go on for about 2,000 years.  Resources will be gobbled up to fuel the endless wars, until war and strife come to a frenzied head worldwide as the mad rush for resources escalates.  

Lather, rinse, repeat.

So far, this is the best thing I've read all day.  It's like an Arthur C Clarke novel.

Thanks!  And I do like me some Arthur C. Clarke.  Kinda makes me wanna run through the Rama series again.

The year 2012 will be the end of the world, but not in the way we think of the world ending.  During the early months of that ominous year war and strife will come to a frenzied head worldwide as the mad rush for resources escalates.  Of course, all of the resources gathered go directly into fueling the war effort.

During the summer of 2012 the citizens of the world will get fed up with it all and, while all of the soldiers are off in various parts of the world blowing themselves up, they will rise up and displace their respective governments.  With no one left telling them to keep fighting, the soldiers of the world will go home, except for the stubborn ones who will end up killing themselves off anyhow.  The people of the world, free from the opression of government and lacking any major industrial infrastructure, are forced to band together and work towards mutual survival.  Small, self-sufficient anarchistic communities will become the norm.

The society birthed from this ruined world will be free from the trappings that held us back before.  All of the stresses and pains of our fast paced world will cease to exist.  With more time than ever to put toward intellectual persuits, we will eventually awaken the dormant parts of our brains.  With newfound mental powers at our disposal, we will have something new to fight about.  Psychic wars will ravage the land, and only the most powerful minds will survive.  Having transcended normal phisical form, these few will attempt to foster new life on our now ruined world.  Starting at the beginning, these beings of pure thought will guide the lifeless planet through the necessary stages of evolution, eventually producing a race that resembles humankind.  Unfortunately, this new race of humanity will be just as flawed as the original.  

Thinking the former humans that aided in their evolution to be the gods who created their world, the neo-humans will worship their powerful masters.  The proto-humans will get fed up with the hassle of restoring the world to it's glory and simply leave, calling it a failed attempt.  The neo-humans will build many civilizations, all tainted by the worship of absent beings, and eventually they'll start to argue about who is right concerning the matter.  This fight will go on for about 2,000 years.  Resources will be gobbled up to fuel the endless wars, until war and strife come to a frenzied head worldwide as the mad rush for resources escalates.  

Lather, rinse, repeat.

I am henceforth a Doctor of Spagology (Sp.D.)

Spagatarian?
Spaggite?
Spaggo and Spagga?
Spagmonger?
Spagger?
Spaggist?
Spagguer?
Spaggophile?

да.

That is, it looks Russian but I am too lazy too check. The part that looked Greek was rubbish.

Google has no problem translating most of what's on there, so the words are real, but I can't say anything about the grammar.