The Off Topic Topic

[Grey Fox]

That's not how it works.

[merithyn]

Who was it that mentioned the leaked story about NSA surveillance?

Surprised that this story is getting so little coverage.

Pro Obama bias in the media?

Journalists cowed by AP warrants?

Nothing story?

I've been following it in the news, and getting more and more infuriated. This whole thing pissed me off when the Patriot Act was initially passed, and I'm pissed that Obama is using it now to do the same stuff. No warrants. No indication that there was just cause.

[DGuller]

SAME.  FUCKING.  TIRE.

[mongers]

SAME.  FUCKING.  TIRE.

Don't you mean wheel, it's the tyres that you keep having to replace?

[garbon]

SAME.  FUCKING.  TIRE.

Don't you mean wheel, it's the tyres that you keep having to replace?

Touché, though colloquially he has it right.

And I popped the same fucking tire...

[Phillip V]

I think he may have been playing to the convention of the time that powerful men did not want power but instead took it as an obligation. Washington made a lot of comments along those lines, but then he ended up at the center of the fray quite a bit in his life. The same thing happens when every pope says he really didn't want to be pope.

Only because he was needed. After the American Revolution ended, Washington quickly resigned control of the Continental Army in 1783 and did not take any position of power in the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation through to its end in 1789. By the time he became President, all of his teeth had fallen out except for one.

[DGuller]

Well, those were fun 4 hours.  NYC Roads 4 - DGuller 0.

[Malthus]

Get your picture taken with Mr. Balls - a/k/a Senhor Testiculo. 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/senior-testicle-bat-cancer-research-article-1.1367516

[garbon]

That is disgusting.

[Liep]

I get an headache from reading in Swedish. It's kind of like reading this (with the occasional words that aren't similar to Danish):

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

But it's the only source my history teacher chose about the Eastern European Jewry.

[garbon]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/hillary-clinton-starts-tweeting-172204268.html

Glad yahoo could break this down for me:

Hillary Clinton issued her first tweet on Monday, causing a stir in social media as well as in the political world.

The former secretary of state used her maiden tweet, sent from her new @HillaryClinton account, to cheekily capitalize on the 2012 "Texts from Hillary" Tumblr meme, writing to that site's creators:

Thanks for the inspiration @ASmith83 & @Sllambe - I'll take it from here... #tweetsfromhillary

Clinton in 2012 met with the "Texts from Hillary" Tumblr's creators and even issued her own submission.

Clinton's new Twitter account for now offers no direct mention of the 2016 presidential bid she is widely assumed to be considering, but she alludes to it in her profile. "Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US Senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD...," the profile reads.
TBD indeed.

Forty minutes after her tweet, Clinton's account showed she had more than 48,000 followers.

[DGuller]

I don't see anything bad in having Yahoo! writers relay the tweets to us, as long as it keeps them from writing more articles on Yahoo!.

[Malthus]

That is disgusting.

I guess you won't be wanting a Senhor Testiculo doll for Xmas, then. 

[garbon]

I don't see anything bad in having Yahoo! writers relay the tweets to us, as long as it keeps them from writing more articles on Yahoo!.

[garbon]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-get-back-to-fucking-work,32766

Report: Get Back To Fucking Work

An alarming new labor report released just moments ago has concluded that you should stop reading this article right now and get the fuck back to work. "The very latest findings indicate that not one word of what you're currently reading is even tangentially related to your job, and that you certainly weren't hired to sit around browsing the goddamn internet all day," an expert familiar with the report said while your eyes continued to scan this block of text instead of tending to one of the many unopened work-related emails in your inbox. "I don't know how I can make this any clearer: This report is directed specifically at you. You should not be reading this. You should be working, asshole." The report concluded that while there are 12 million unemployed Americans who would be extremely grateful to have your job, you seem to think you are entitled to use company time to read this article to the very last goddamn sentence.