The Off Topic Topic

[Malthus]

A problem easily solved by killing the animal first. 

Dead animals as furniture, I can see hipster getting into that.

It would be better furniture that Ide has currently. 

[Josquius]

My diet has been ordered around rationality and a review of scientific literature.

There is new research that plausibly suggests that shrimp feel pain much like chordates though.  Which is a fucking bummer, because that just leaves me with scallops, clams, and the rare snail.

Spiders and ants and other insects should be okay. Possibly grasshoppers. Maybe sea urchins.

What about regular urchins?

[The Brain]

I know for a fact that they can feel pain.

[Admiral Yi]

The President's illegal immigrant Kenyan uncle got busted for drunk driving.

[11B4V]

They dont do celebrity roasts like this anymore. The new ones are stupid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptcxJ8Wylg4

[Ideologue]

Hey, Money, when you were quitting smoking and on a reduced nicotine regime, did you alternate between bleak depression and anger so severe you started fantasizing about burning down your office?

I mean more than we normally would?

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, Hunter.  Yes, I did.

[lustindarkness]

Hey, Money, when you were quitting smoking and on a reduced nicotine regime, did you alternate between bleak depression and anger so severe you started fantasizing about burning down your office?

I mean more than we normally would?

When I quit smoking cold turkey @20 years ago, I had a splitting headache for two weeks. Someone talking loud was enough for me to want to rip their head off. And ricans are loud, so yeah.

[Ideologue]

I'm really surprised that it's less acutely painful this time.  I credit that to the gum, which I'm using less of each day.

Haven't even tried the patches yet.  I might wear one Monday and see how it goes.  21mg of nicotine over a day (absorbed dermally, no less) is like nothing, though.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm dying to go back to smoking, though.  But I can't, because the bullshit I'd put up with here would simply be unconscionable.

I get far too violent with my nicotine fits, and the nicotine lozenges only take the edge off for a while.

[jimmy olsen]

Lol

"When I get engaged, I want to buy her a blood diamond so when people ask how much it was, I can say 'An arm and a leg.'"

[Ideologue]

My list of "people who need to be sent to reeducation camps" is basically coextensive with "people who buy diamonds."

THEY'RE FOR FACTORIES NOT FOR FINGERS

[garbon]

My list of "people who need to be sent to reeducation camps" is basically coextensive with "people who buy diamonds."

THEY'RE FOR FACTORIES NOT FOR FINGERS

Agreed. The only acceptable people are those who receive them.

[sbr]

http://mentalfloss.com/article/54048/heres-how-crazy-long-german-words-are-made

Here's How Crazy-Long German Words are Made

German is known for its extra long compound words. When Mark Twain complained that some German words were "so long they have a perspective," he was thinking of words like Freundschaftsbezeigungen (demonstrations of friendship) and Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen (general states representatives meetings). Long German words were in the news this year when many sources reported that Germany had "lost its longest word" because the European Union removed a law from its books called (*ahem*): Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (the law for the delegation of monitoring beef labeling).

But Germany had not in fact lost its longest word, because the process for forming these words is an active, productive part of the language, and the potential exists for creating words even longer, if so needed in the moment. How does that process work?

This lively animation takes you, step by step, through what's involved in creating Rhababerbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbierbarbärbel, a completely valid (and probably never before uttered) word.


The video is in German, but that shouldn't deter you. The artwork makes it pretty clear what's happening, meaningwise. Here are a few clues to help you follow the steps:

1. There's a girl named Barbara.

2. She is known for her rhubarb cake.

3. So they call her "Rhubarb Barbara."

4. To sell her cake, she opens a bar.

5. It is frequented by three barbarians.

6. They have beards.

7. When they want to get their beards groomed they go to the barber.

8. He goes to their bar to eat some cake, and then wants to drink a special beer.

9. You can only get his special beer at a special bar that sells it.

10. Where the bartender's name is Barbie.

11. She's the Barbie of the bar where the beer of the beard barber for the barbarians of Rhubarb's Barbara's bar is sold. But all in one word.

12. At the end, the barbarians, the barber, Barbie, and Barbara all go to the bar for a beer. You might need one too after this. Prost!



Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/54048/heres-how-crazy-long-german-words-are-made#ixzz2mtiRdxWZ
--brought to you by mental_floss!

Rhabarberbarbara

[Neil]

England, this England:

A man who emerged naked from a storage cupboard at a Premier Inn with a fire extinguisher hose up his bottom walked free after he told a court: 'I'm truly ashamed of myself.' Joseph Small, 20, threw his clothes off and grabbed the appliance from the fourth floor of the budget Leicester Square hotel. He then rammed the hose between his buttocks and began touching himself, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard. Small also urinated on the carpet and a lift door before having to be escorted down to reception by a member of staff who wrapped him in a towel. He then hurled abuse at the Bangladeshi man, barking at him: "This country has been taken over by Al-Qaeda - go back to Pakistan."

'While in the hotel lobby Small again urinated on the carpet in front of stunned tourists shouting proudly: "I come from Sheffield in England." His lewd acts caused £450 of damage to the lift door, carpet and the extinguisher. Small admitted criminal damage to property under £5,000, racially aggravated harassment, and outraging public decency. Prosecutor Darren Watts said that as well as telling Hassan to "go back to Pakistan", Small also called a special constable "Turkish" and his colleague "Romanian", before referring to another officer as a "paedo"'. Small had travelled down from his home in Sheffield with his uncle to do a deal on a used car. He told the court that he was "truly ashamed" of the October 31 incident and that he has many friends from different backgrounds.

He called a cop a paedo?  Where were the working class Englishmen to beat the cop to death?