The First Church of the Wrath of Baby Jesus and Open Bar™

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I just had to explain how to combat terrorism to a 14 year old girl, for whom English is a third language.  And by "combat terrorism", I mean comforting lies about international cooperation and poverty and stuff.

So, you left the part with the small room and the blowtorch/pliers thing out of it?

Yeah.  Or the part where democracy tends to actually make things worse.  Or the bit about poverty not making a difference.

I thought poverty made all the differences?

Not really.  Relative deprivation is correlated with terrorism, but most terrorists are middle class, usually University educated (with a preference for hard sciences).  Which is not exactly common in, say, Egypt or Saudi Arabia.

The impression that I got was that you have college educated guys who cannot get reasonable jobs that are typically on the organizing end, and hopelessly impoverished folks doing the bulk of the getting blown up.

[Cain]

-

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Okay, so if I'm understanding this correctly economic injustice can be a Cause^TM that middle class, educated men latch on to as a justification for terrorist acts? Or, more appropriately, seeing economic injustice reinforces existing prejudices and is used as an internal excuse to head down an more violent path?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

People get into terrorism because of small group dynamics and reinforcing belief systems, not because of poverty. 

You could see that quite clearly in the IRA, and in the hilarious Basque movement.

Or better yet, the Red Brigade.

[Cain]

-

[Cain]

-

[Suu]

As far as I know, the kidney stone, aka "Barney Rubble" has not passed yet. However, I am no longer in the throws of uncontrollable pain and went to bed last night without the aid of narcotics. I'm still feeling twinges of 'THERE IS SOMETHING FUCKING SHARP MOVING IN THE  VICINITY OF MY BLADDER." But there's nothing I can do about it but keep chugging water. On Saturday, I drank a record breaking 5 liters of water which had me at the bathroom approximately every 7 minutes from 9am to midnight. I feel very clean inside...sans Barney. Talked to RN friend, she said there is no way to know when it's finally going to flush, but to just keep drinking water til it does. This sucks.

In other news though, I dropped another 2lbs and I'm now 2 sizes smaller than I was in May. However, I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that I've basically just given my entire body the cleanse of a lifetime with all this water for a week.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

As far as I know, the kidney stone, aka "Barney Rubble" has not passed yet. However, I am no longer in the throws of uncontrollable pain and went to bed last night without the aid of narcotics. I'm still feeling twinges of 'THERE IS SOMETHING FUCKING SHARP MOVING IN THE  VICINITY OF MY BLADDER." But there's nothing I can do about it but keep chugging water. On Saturday, I drank a record breaking 5 liters of water which had me at the bathroom approximately every 7 minutes from 9am to midnight. I feel very clean inside...sans Barney. Talked to RN friend, she said there is no way to know when it's finally going to flush, but to just keep drinking water til it does. This sucks.

In other news though, I dropped another 2lbs and I'm now 2 sizes smaller than I was in May. However, I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that I've basically just given my entire body the cleanse of a lifetime with all this water for a week.

Did I ever tell you about the time I ate vindaloo and drank Guiness at the same time?

[Suu]

As far as I know, the kidney stone, aka "Barney Rubble" has not passed yet. However, I am no longer in the throws of uncontrollable pain and went to bed last night without the aid of narcotics. I'm still feeling twinges of 'THERE IS SOMETHING FUCKING SHARP MOVING IN THE  VICINITY OF MY BLADDER." But there's nothing I can do about it but keep chugging water. On Saturday, I drank a record breaking 5 liters of water which had me at the bathroom approximately every 7 minutes from 9am to midnight. I feel very clean inside...sans Barney. Talked to RN friend, she said there is no way to know when it's finally going to flush, but to just keep drinking water til it does. This sucks.

In other news though, I dropped another 2lbs and I'm now 2 sizes smaller than I was in May. However, I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that I've basically just given my entire body the cleanse of a lifetime with all this water for a week.

Did I ever tell you about the time I ate vindaloo and drank Guiness at the same time?

How much did you lose? 30lbs and your entire lower intestine?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

How much did you lose?

All of my friends.

[Suu]

How much did you lose?

All of my friends.

Hopefully most of this erupted while at the plant.

[Salty]

TO WERRRRRK with me.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

How much did you lose?

All of my friends.

[Cain]

-

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

One of my Biology teammates is realllllly slow. She's a very sweet girl but OMG. Today she was trying to apply sig figs to statistical calculations and I was like, um, you can't do that. She was like, "why not"?

Also having a really difficult time grasping why the ph number decreases when free hydrogen ions increase.

I think this is going to be a difficult term for her. And possibly for me, by association.