"I can't believe Anderson Cooper is gay!" Said no one, ever.
Slow news day. In other news, Obama has promised to focus on the War on Drugs in his second term. Similar to his "evolving views on marriage," I see it as mostly lip-service to get the pro-legalization folks in the Democratic base a bit more excited, but it's at least something to look forward to if he gets reelected. I don't see him as pushing legalization, but perhaps dismantling or cutting the severity of anti-drug laws would be a good first step.
Oh, and Rupert Murdoch has apparently started tweeting about the evil of Scientology. 'Cuz, yeah, why not.
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I was watching Married with Children earlier, and it was the episode where Al falls from the second story window and regains consciousness claiming he saw God's Shoes and spends the rest of the episode obsessing over them. Which isn't that big a deal, though it was amusing. What did get me to start thinking was that now, more than a decade later, we have shoes with toes similar to Al's divine shoe design. That, in turn, makes me wonder how far along we really are for the flying cars we were promised.
Five more years, you lazy scientists.
Five more years, you lazy scientists.
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
lolgaxe wrote:
That, in turn, makes me wonder how far along we really are for the flying cars we were promised.
Terrafugia
In quasi-related news, the Chicago City Council voted 43-3 last week to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana and make it a ticketable offense.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
In Augusta (ME) last week they voted in favor of adding tobacco products to the litter law - $100 fine for dropping your butt.
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
Jefferson Parish (LA) public school teachers are upset because the school board decided rather than just renew the contract they've been working under for years that it was time to review it and rewrite it.
Bigdaddyjug wrote:
Jefferson Parish (LA) public school teachers are upset because the school board decided rather than just renew the contract they've been working under for years that it was time to review it and rewrite it.
How upset are they?
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
Elinda wrote:
In Augusta (ME) last week they voted in favor of adding tobacco products to the litter law - $100 fine for dropping your butt.
I hope that they're providing enough garbage cans on high foot-traffic streets then.
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The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place.
The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place.
Alan Watts wrote:
I am omnipotent insofar as I am the Universe, but I am not an omnipotent in the role of Alan Watts, only cunning
Eske wrote:
I've always read Driftwood as the straight man in varus' double act. It helps if you read all of his posts in the voice of Droopy Dog.
Elinda wrote:
Bigdaddyjug wrote:
Jefferson Parish (LA) public school teachers are upset because the school board decided rather than just renew the contract they've been working under for years that it was time to review it and rewrite it.
How upset are they?
They're staging *gasp* a rally tonight.
Driftwood wrote:
Elinda wrote:
In Augusta (ME) last week they voted in favor of adding tobacco products to the litter law - $100 fine for dropping your butt.
I hope that they're providing enough garbage cans on high foot-traffic streets then.
Seriously? It's a freaking cigarette butt. Only slightly more massive than a gum wrapper. I doubt there will be a sudden overflow of waste receptacles city wide.
Edited, Jul 2nd 2012 4:13pm by BrownDuck
BrownDuck wrote:
Driftwood wrote:
Elinda wrote:
In Augusta (ME) last week they voted in favor of adding tobacco products to the litter law - $100 fine for dropping your butt.
I hope that they're providing enough garbage cans on high foot-traffic streets then.
Seriously? It's a freaking cigarette butt. Only slightly more massive than a gum wrapper. I doubt there will be a sudden overflow of waste receptacles city wide.
I always cringe when ever I see people driving in front of me flip their butts out the window. They smoke in their cars, but heaven forbid they keep a small tray to carry the butts? I don't toss my bottles out the window when I'm done drinking. I don't toss my wrappers out the window when I'm done snacking on the stick of beef jerky I picked up at the gas station. I'm pretty sure those smokers don't do that either. But apparently they have no problems tossing those butts. It's like people don't think of butts as garbage. Before my workplace restricted smoking (now only allowed to in one break area outside) there were butts all over the parking lot and at every entrance. They'd just throw them on the ground, step on them, and walk away.
The thing I'd worry about is people throwing lit butts into a standard garbage can and it catching fire. They used to do that at work all the time, and suddenly there'd be a barrel on fire.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
Jophiel wrote:
In quasi-related news, the Chicago City Council voted 43-3 last week to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana and make it a ticketable offense.
Link?
I have some, uhh, friends that will be very interested in this decision.
Jophiel wrote:
I managed to be both retarded and entertaining.
http://articles.cnn.com/2012-06-27/us/us_illinois-chicago-marijuana-citations_1_marijuana-laws-issue-citations-small-amounts?_s=PM:US
Emanuel already said he supported it.
Emanuel already said he supported it.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
The smoker obviously didn't care about the toxic substance getting in his or her lungs or the lungs of his or her fellow passengers while smoking it. Why care once the burning is complete?
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
The smoker obviously didn't care about the toxic substance getting in his or her lungs or the lungs of his or her fellow passengers while smoking it. Why care once the burning is complete?
Hard to say, but having been a smoker, I'm going to assume it was related to the crippling physical addiction. We can argue about if falling prey to an addiction of some sort is a character flaw or not, but assuming it's really idiotic to try an ascribe some self righteous moral judgement to the in the moment action of an addict.
I'm going to go ahead and assume you never smoked or at least not enough to form a habit. I'm assuming that because it's the only possible way I can imagine anyone being so mind numbingly blind to such obvious factors. I'm glad the marketing campaign worked and you see smoking as "uncool".
Try to imagine yourself making the same post about someone with stomach cancer who became addicted to morphine and is having trouble stopping after beating the disease.
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Smasharoo wrote:
Try to imagine yourself making the same post about someone with stomach cancer who became addicted to morphine and is having trouble stopping after beating the disease.
I'd gladly switch nicotine for morphine, but those a-holes at the hospital keep telling me no.
Jophiel wrote:
I managed to be both retarded and entertaining.
Smasharoo wrote:
The smoker obviously didn't care about the toxic substance getting in his or her lungs or the lungs of his or her fellow passengers while smoking it. Why care once the burning is complete?
Hard to say, but having been a smoker, I'm going to assume it was related to the crippling physical addiction. We can argue about if falling prey to an addiction of some sort is a character flaw or not, but assuming it's really idiotic to try an ascribe some self righteous moral judgement to the in the moment action of an addict.
Regardless of why they feel the need to smoke, they should be able to properly dispose of their butts.
Smasharoo wrote:
I'm going to go ahead and assume you never smoked or at least not enough to form a habit. I'm assuming that because it's the only possible way I can imagine anyone being so mind numbingly blind to such obvious factors. I'm glad the marketing campaign worked and you see smoking as "uncool".
Beyond a few times here and there, never. I don't care if they smoke, or smoke around me. I don't have a problem going to a bar and coming home with my clothes smelling of stale smoke. Ok, I don't like waking up hung over, having not removed the previous nights' shirt and smelling stale smoke that early, but I don't blame the smokers for that. But they can at least clean up after themselves.
Smasharoo wrote:
Try to imagine yourself making the same post about someone with stomach cancer who became addicted to morphine and is having trouble stopping after beating the disease.
If they were throwing their
Edited, Jul 2nd 2012 10:06pm by TirithRR
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
I'd gladly switch nicotine for morphine, but those a-holes at the hospital keep telling me no.
I actually lied, earlier. I still smoke, I'm down to about 3 a day. Not in the car, not in the house, and comically, because I have children, not near them. In addition to that, because I married Nexa, I can't really smoke near the house, because we live in a neighborhood full of children and their parents are the sort of sickening people who jog, wander over and visit and the like. Not only do none of them smoke, but they are basically a sit com rogues gallery of people who would most be offended by smoking. Our two nearest neighbors are literally a family medicine doctor and a firefighter.
So, I have to find opportune times to get in my car and drive 5 miles away to smoke.
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Regardless of why they feel the need to smoke, they should be able to properly dispose of their butts.
Yes, I see your point. If only we could invent some sort of giant machine that would clean the streets of tiny pieces of cotton and paper and plant matter. With some sort of "sweeping" motion perhaps....
You understand there's a metaphorical line that can be crossed where good intentions become hectoring nannyism, right? You're on the other side of it here.
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To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.
This seems like a good thread to mention that I'm still not smoking. Been... five weeks now? Six? When was Memorial Day?
Anyway, yeah. That.
Anyway, yeah. That.
This seems like a good thread to mention that I'm still not smoking. Been... five weeks now? Six? When was Memorial Day?
Anyway, yeah. That.
Good work! I know it's not easy. Or if it is, **** you!
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To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.
Smasharoo wrote:
Yes, I see your point. If only we could invent some sort of giant machine that would clean the streets of tiny pieces of cotton and paper and plant matter. With some sort of "sweeping" motion perhaps..
If only these magical sweeping machines were used everywhere. Too bad for those places without such magical machines.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
Nadenu wrote:
I'm still not smoking
Not smoking, working AND moving to a new place.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Around here the fine is specifically for "ejecting a burning item from your vehicle".
Seeing as the Black Hills tends to burn to the ground with some regularity, that does make sense.
On a side note, I see some new cars these days are not equiped with ashtrays at all. Why is Detroit in the biz of social engineering?
Seeing as the Black Hills tends to burn to the ground with some regularity, that does make sense.
On a side note, I see some new cars these days are not equiped with ashtrays at all. Why is Detroit in the biz of social engineering?
remorajunbao wrote:
One day I'm going to fly to Canada and open the curtains in your office.
Friar Bijou wrote:
On a side note, I see some new cars these days are not equiped with ashtrays at all. Why is Detroit in the biz of social engineering?
GM is owned by Obama.
Jophiel wrote:
I managed to be both retarded and entertaining.
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