The Off Topic Topic

[Liep]

If you were forced to pick one of your fingers to be cut off, which would it be? Question arose because some poor sod owed some drug money and the baddies asked him that question. He chose his left pinky.

I think maybe the left ring finger.

[Capetan Mihali]

If you were forced to pick one of your fingers to be cut off, which would it be? Question arose because some poor sod owed some drug money and the baddies asked him that question. He chose his left pinky.

I think maybe the left ring finger.

Not planning on tying the knot?  Or does your sector of Europe do the right ring finger for wedding bands?

I'd probably take left little finger as well.  I need my right one for the zirconium-studded pinky ring that drives 'em crazy in AC.

[Liep]

I failed to mention that it was only the first joint.

[derspiess]

What the hell does this mean?

I was referring to the masochistic OMG HUMANZ ARE SO EVOL guilt trip crap whenever something about pollution, animal extinction, etc. is presented.

[Syt]

The last few days I get spam mail that uses excerpts from ST-DS9 novels to try and get around the spam filters.

[Ed Anger]

I'm gonna go check out some arcade machines. NBA JAM? Would look good in mah basement.

[Josquius]

I'm gonna go check out some arcade machines. NBA JAM? Would look good in mah basement.

Thus you will be the coolest dad evahhh.
Well.
You would be if kids these days appreciated cool shit.

[Ed Anger]

It's for me mostly. 

[Josquius]

There's a new series of Charlie Brooker's weekly wipe. Yey.
Best (cut down as I'm not writing the whole thing) quote: "Showing the world how new years speaches should be done, the star of the North Korean remake of Game of Thrones, Kim  Yong Joffrey, took to the stage to read feelgood stories about executing your uncle"
Kim Yong Joffrey....That is just perfect.

[Zanza]

One of my Indian colleagues has apparently been at work for 72 hours straight already. I wonder when he'll collapse.

[Liep]

What's his Red Bull count?

[crazy canuck]

Having an extinction countdown seems a bit morbid and sensational.

How so? Better just to ignore it and then go "oh well" when the species is extinct for sure?

Because creating an extinction countdown necessitates extinctions to continue to exist as a section on the site. Otherwise it isn't a countdown to anything.

You may be too young to remember but during the cold war we had a countdown to midnight - the metaphor for when the world would end in nuclear destruction.  It was a powerful device to advocate for change.  No sane person would suggest that it was meaningless because the world wasnt actually destroyed.

[Zanza]

Minor mistake on Google Maps:

[Queequeg]

I think my profile pic might be the cutest picture I've ever seen.

[Admiral Yi]

"Famous Agentur fur Live Kommunication??"  What the hell kind of Krautspik is that?