The Off Topic Topic

[Josephus]

 

http://www.myfoxla.com/story/20028900/porn-actors-now-required-to-wear-condoms-as-local-measure-b-passes

[mongers]

So yesterday was a celebration of all things Argentine: steak, wine, beer, empanadas, chorizo. 

Today I'm getting annoyed by how damned small everything is.

Well, stop looking at your wheener all of the time.

[garbon]

Ugh snowing here too now.

[Tonitrus]

US friends, can you help fact-check something for an article, please. Would it be correct to say that states with a strong military presence are generally Republican voters?

It depends on the state.  Most of them (California, etc) are far too diluted for the military presence to matter.  Washington has a good amount of bases, but the state is pretty strongly overwhelmingly Democratic.

States with better percentages, Hawaii and Alaska, and other Republican-leaning states, such as Georgia and Texas, would likely vote the way they went regardless.

And a significant number of my colleagues tend towards Democrat/athiest, though the Intelligence(especially Air Force) field probably attracts more of that type than any other segment of the military (we have a much larger percentage of women also, for example).

But my overall, simple answer to your question would be "No".

Congressional districts might be another matter.

[Ed Anger]

Cramer seems a bit shaky this evening.

[Ed Anger]

Seedy's avatar is making me all nostalgic and shit.

[CountDeMoney]

Isn't it, though.

I miss that man.  The only campaign I ever sweat for.  For all, oh, 4 months of it or so. 

[mongers]

How hard can it be to buy some slippers.

It's not like I'm looking for a pipe at the same time.

[Lettow77]

 Venice must be cured of its industriousness- I worry that it may have too much a sense of perverse purpose when contrasted with the yukkuri of occitania. What I don't understand, however, is why the same idyll is so poorly handled when italians, more specifically south italians, indulge in it. I assume it is owing to bad faith and the worst traditions of treachery and opportunism, rather than the resistance to hard work in general.

(For resistance to hard work is of course an exalted virtue)

For this reason, venice of the eighteenth century catches my imagination most of all; to have gained and lost glory and be steeped in a gentle, reassuring failure as everything quietly deteriorates seems a more beautiful lassitude than someone who had never known any sort of greatness derived from thrift, hard work and adventure.

[Brazen]

Overheard in phone shop: "If I get the black iPhone now, can I change the colour later?"

[Count]

Car alarm on my street has been going off every minute for an hour.

[Grey Fox]

Car alarm on my street has been going off every minute for an hour.

Time to whip out the .50 cal and have wonderfull time.

[lustindarkness]

Overheard in phone shop: "If I get the black iPhone now, can I change the colour later?"

Once you go black...

[Phillip V]

Marine arrested after attacking a paralyzed Army veteran he thought was using uniform and wheelchair as a Halloween costume.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/03/marine-in-tutu-allegedly-knocks-wheelchair-bound-veteran-unconscious/

[jimmy olsen]

For those who don't know, this is the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.