The Off Topic Topic

[Ideologue]

My income tax and social security contributions together will be about 43% of my net salary this year. 

And yet it must be nice to live in the last habitable country on Earth, right?

[Neil]

Olbermann fired.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/current-tv-dismisses-keith-olbermann/?src=tp

Ha Ha!

Poor guy just keeps getting fired.

[Josquius]

I become increasingly sure that the new micro-brewery in town sells awful beer. Every time I go there, no matter how little I drink, I end up hung over.

[Tonitrus]

http://maps.google.com/

Check out the "Quest" view mode. 

[Lettow77]

 I normally love sleep, but now I face it with a great uncertainty. My roommate will doubtlessly work some mischief while I sleep my typical 9-11 hours.

Past pranks:

A gory scene with plastic indians standing over a dismembered cowboy covered in hot sauce on my keyboard
everything on my desk inexlicably upside down
individual pages from a gay porn calendar in everything I owned
my internet browsers filtering all instances of "body/person" to pony: somepony, everypony, etc.


I am not a fun enough person to contemplate april fools' retaliation on him.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I have now experienced the ghost pepper.   It's fucking incredible.  I love it.

[Ed Anger]

http://i.imgur.com/XLy71.jpg

[Zoupa]

 

[mongers]

Do people posting this in the facebook pages really think this will work ?

PRIVACY NOTICE***Warning - any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structure including but not limited to the United States Federal Government also using or monitoring/using this website or any of its associated websites, you DO NOT have my permission to utilize any of my profile information nor any of the content contained herein including, but not limited to my photos, and/ or the comments made about my photo's or any other "picture" art posted on my profile. You are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing, disseminating, or taking any other action against me with regard to this profile and the contents herein. The foregoing prohibitions also apply to your employee(s), agent(s), student(s) or any personnel under your direction or control. The contents of this profile are private and legally privileged and confidential information, and the violation of my personal privacy is punishable by law.I absolutely recommended that other fb friends/members post a similar notice to this or you can simply copy and paste this one. Thank you.

[Admiral Yi]

Surprising cover article in today's NYT Sunday Magazine.  The author leans slightly towards Obama in trying to answer the question who's fault was it that the grand budget bargain between Obama and Boehner fell apart.

[Capetan Mihali]

Do people posting this in the facebook pages really think this will work ?

PRIVACY NOTICE***Warning - any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structure including but not limited to the United States Federal Government also using or monitoring/using this website or any of its associated websites, you DO NOT have my permission to utilize any of my profile information nor any of the content contained herein including, but not limited to my photos, and/ or the comments made about my photo's or any other "picture" art posted on my profile. You are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing, disseminating, or taking any other action against me with regard to this profile and the contents herein. The foregoing prohibitions also apply to your employee(s), agent(s), student(s) or any personnel under your direction or control. The contents of this profile are private and legally privileged and confidential information, and the violation of my personal privacy is punishable by law.I absolutely recommended that other fb friends/members post a similar notice to this or you can simply copy and paste this one. Thank you.

   

  I love it.  Just need to tell the cops that they are "strictly prohibited from...taking action against me" and I'm all set.

[mongers]

  I love it.  Just need to tell the cops that they are "strictly prohibited from...taking action against me" and I'm all set.

Yeah, I thought the lawyers here would find that amusing.

What I don't get is why conspiracy theorists, who seem to be the people who paste that into their facebook info, are also the very people who wouldn't believe that legal words/laws/principles would have Any effect in the dark world they imagine we all live in.

edit:
I forgot n't after would, typical

[Eddie Teach]

Fucking colleges that won't let you request transcripts online

Fucking join the 21st Century already, jesus.

[Ideologue]

Fucking colleges that won't let you request transcripts online

Fucking join the 21st Century already, jesus.

No shit, right?  My UG won't even let you walk in and pick it up.  It's mail or nothing.

[Capetan Mihali]

What I don't get is why conspiracy theorists, who seem to be the people who paste that into their facebook info, are also the very people who would believe that legal words/laws/principles would have Any effect in the dark world they imagine we all live in.

My cod-psychoanalysis is that the conspiracy theorist is trying to reclaim a sense of control and personal importance by being the one who possesses the secret knowledge that explains why the world is the way it is.  I think that legal disclaimer is rooted in the same delusion, i.e. that they have discovered the secret fact that government agents can't prosecute you if you tell them not to, that its ignorance/apathy rather than true powerlessness that's keeping people down.