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by Mayabird
2012-02-05 12:45am
Forum: Famous Threads
Topic: [Official Thread] OBAMA WINS RE-ELECTION
Replies: 1432
Views: 449179

Re: Mitt Romney wins Nevada.

I am SO SICK of these caucuses and the delegates and the ads and the neverending debates and all this shit. Seriously, just have all the candidates put their names in a jar, and then whoever pays the most money wins. It's basically the same method and will get the same results but is much faster and...
by Mayabird
2012-01-30 07:25pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Which job should I pick?
Replies: 22
Views: 3537

Re: Which job should I pick?

Ultracoffeeland does have lots of great pizza and bagels too.

And mail-in voting for everyone!
by Mayabird
2012-01-26 08:53am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: GA judge orders Obama to appear in court over birthers suit
Replies: 38
Views: 6520

Re: GA judge orders Obama to appear in court over birthers s

Ladies and gentleman: this level of stupidity is why I consider myself an adopted Washingtonian and refuse to capitalize georgia. I feel I should remind people periodically that the place is a corrupt and racist shithole full of imbeciles who would revert to cannibalism if left to their own devices....
by Mayabird
2012-01-26 08:43am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: High price of gold is child slave labor
Replies: 14
Views: 2668

Re: High price of gold is child slave labor

Diamonds have been that way for decades but that hasn't stopped anyone from buying their shiny useless gems. Yes, diamonds have very good industrial uses, but the vast majority of industrial diamonds are manufactured, not dug out of the ground by slave labor. Gem quality diamonds are kept at artific...
by Mayabird
2012-01-26 08:38am
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: The Deaf Protest Stem Cells to Treat Post Birth Deafness
Replies: 117
Views: 13361

Re: The Deaf Protest Stem Cells to Treat Post Birth Deafness

Shep has a cochleal implant. He was actually one of the first to get one when they were still experimental, IIRC, and has had to get a new one since. He has firsthand instead of secondhand experience with these issues and absolutely loathes the Deaf community. You should ask him why.
by Mayabird
2012-01-25 08:35am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Wash may become 7th to pass Gay Marriage
Replies: 41
Views: 3584

Re: Wash may become 7th to pass Gay Marriage

"GAY MARRIAGE WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING WITH BIG EVIL EVILNESS AND GOD WILL POOP ON YOU WITH FIRE!" "This message paid for by Some Douchebags in Colorado Springs, Colorado." Not surprising. Slippery slope argument had been used by every half-qualified debaters and demagogues since...
by Mayabird
2012-01-24 08:54am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Which job should I pick?
Replies: 22
Views: 3537

Re: Which job should I pick?

It does depend partly on the way you commute. Driving through heavy traffic both ways? Horrible. Riding a train with wireless internet, not nearly so bad. For quite some time in Washington I had a commute that was at least an hour one way, but one hour of it was on a big ferry boat, so I could nap o...
by Mayabird
2012-01-23 10:51pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Wash may become 7th to pass Gay Marriage
Replies: 41
Views: 3584

Re: Wash may become 7th to pass Gay Marriage

Note: the "everything but marriage" law mentioned in the article WAS passed by referendum vote (or rather, there was a referendum to keep the law from passing, and it was shot down by popular vote.) Of course, even when The People decided it in a vote, the usual suspects were crying about ...
by Mayabird
2012-01-22 06:22pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Translation Request Sticky
Replies: 76
Views: 95676

Re: Translation Request Sticky

And a couple more. http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee442/Mayabird1C/Minecraft%20pics/Expeditions/2012-01-22_150919.png I'm guessing "Why are you here?" Maybe more literally "Whatfor are you here?" http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee442/Mayabird1C/Minecraft%20pics/Expeditio...
by Mayabird
2012-01-22 06:06pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ron Paul thinks the Bible dictates Monetary Policy
Replies: 87
Views: 9184

Re: Ron Paul thinks the Bible dictates Monetary Policy

Simon_Jester wrote:Theodore Roosevelt is too socialist for Ron Paul, it seems.
Well yeah. Ron Paul wants to sell off the national parks. Theodore Roosevelt was all about national parks (and national monuments and so forth).
by Mayabird
2012-01-22 06:02pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Which job should I pick?
Replies: 22
Views: 3537

Re: Which job should I pick?

Maybe Sweden isn't as assholeish about these sorts of things, but "temp work and maybe we'll make you permanent" to me and my experiences basically means "we'll use you as cheap without benefits labor and dump your ass as soon as we don't need you anymore and go fuck yourself." N...
by Mayabird
2012-01-22 05:35pm
Forum: STGOD role-playing games
Topic: SDNW4 Story Thread 2
Replies: 908
Views: 752039

Re: SDNW4 Story Thread 2

“Fire,” said Captain Chmielowiec. And then a miracle happened. Recommended music The lights went out on the bridge. The captain screamed, “What now?” “I don't know!” said several voices. “How could this happen, now at all times?” he wailed. “I had this ship refitted with all the superior technology...
by Mayabird
2012-01-22 09:52am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ron Paul introduces bill to repeal NDAA
Replies: 86
Views: 8225

Re: Ron Paul introduces bill to repeal NDAA

You know what they say about broken clocks. Just because someone is batshit insane and mostly full of crap doesn't mean they can't have some good points in there somewhere.
by Mayabird
2012-01-21 07:34pm
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: Let's play: Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space
Replies: 2577
Views: 423034

Re: Let's play: Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space

The two days later, several millions disappeared from the Olds's accounts. There was a big scene over the coming weeks about what kind of clerical error could do that and where'd the money go? The banks were very apologetic but they never did figure out what happened, and they were eternally gratefu...
by Mayabird
2012-01-21 07:21pm
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: Let's play: Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space
Replies: 2577
Views: 423034

Re: Let's play: Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space

The cheery little astronaut bird on the telescreen followed them with its cartoony little eyes. It listened to their cahooting battle cries and trash-talk about what they would do to the newest Young Astronaut Pioneer. It scowled. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/twitter/20110421/tweetup-640.jpg It w...
by Mayabird
2012-01-21 05:42pm
Forum: STGOD role-playing games
Topic: SDNW4 Story Thread 2
Replies: 908
Views: 752039

Re: SDNW4 Story Thread 2

The previous chapter Somewhat Near Mearth The system did not have a name. It had numbers. No matter who it was that passed it by (and anyone who came near passed it by), it was never worthy of a name. It had orbited the galactic core, ignored by everyone, even as an entire star system appeared in s...
by Mayabird
2012-01-21 05:36pm
Forum: STGOD role-playing games
Topic: SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread VII
Replies: 404
Views: 205965

Re: SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread VII

Alright. Thanks.

I'll see if I can at least finish this one storyline.
by Mayabird
2012-01-21 05:29pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: The Dear Leader is Dead!
Replies: 118
Views: 17854

Re: The Dear Leader is Dead!

Well, they actually say "The Great Kim Jong-Il" when talking about Kim Jong-Il, even when talking to non-North Koreans. He told me that he missed class the day after he heard that Kim Jong-Il died, because he was so upset. Religion is a hard, hard thing to shake off, even if your god-king...
by Mayabird
2012-01-21 05:14pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ron Paul thinks the Bible dictates Monetary Policy
Replies: 87
Views: 9184

Re: Ron Paul thinks the Bible dictates Monetary Policy

As for the Bible thing, in addition to what Grumman said, I think he is friends with Gary North, or at least friends of friends with him. Gary North is a writer at LewRockwell.com who apparently decided to go line-by-line through the whole Bible to make a case for capitalism . Through whatever conv...
by Mayabird
2012-01-21 01:18pm
Forum: STGOD role-playing games
Topic: SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread VII
Replies: 404
Views: 205965

Re: SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread VII

I kept peeking in and then getting scared off. Now that I have more time to look over things...I am too scared to jump back in, with all the anger and bitterness and retcon talk and everything. And this is partly my fault anyway for going silent like I did. I'm sorry I'm such a fuckup. You can kick ...
by Mayabird
2012-01-19 12:30am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: The Dear Leader is Dead!
Replies: 118
Views: 17854

Re: The Dear Leader is Dead!

Could just be jealousy that a younger half brother is getting the throne instead of him, since he had been groomed for the position and been considered the heir until the incident with the fake Dominican passport. But who can really tell with that country? I consider them Exhibit A in my evidence th...
by Mayabird
2012-01-19 12:13am
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Coolio! Darwin's lost fossils.
Replies: 2
Views: 1321

Re: Coolio! Darwin's lost fossils.

Prototaxites are really weird too. The article mentions that they were "tree sized fungi" but doesn't mention that they were, at several meters tall, by far the tallest organisms on land for millions of years. They were several meters tall before plants figured out the trick of being vascu...
by Mayabird
2012-01-16 12:07am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Translation Request Sticky
Replies: 76
Views: 95676

Re: Translation Request Sticky

If this is a sticky and genericified, does that mean any dummy (say, me) could wander in and request a translation for any reason? Like wanting to know
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what this means and if it's good...Norwegian?
by Mayabird
2012-01-15 04:42pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Below The Breadline in Liverpool
Replies: 16
Views: 2398

Re: Below The Breadline in Liverpool

It sounds to me like the real assistance these people would need is whatever would be necessary to get them the hell out of that city and go somewhere that isn't a rotting post-industrial dead-end wasteland, not just keeping them meagerly alive in said dead-end.
by Mayabird
2012-01-13 08:23am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Quotes from Ron Paul's newsletter.
Replies: 113
Views: 8982

Re: Quotes from Ron Paul's newsletter.

Bakustra, "everyone is racist" is a really, really stupid argument for defending a man whose newsletter spent a decade making up fake claims against black people as part of a strategy for pandering to the far right. I have to say that your fragile little brains simply don't cut the mustar...