"If you ruin this moment with existentialism, I'm going to cut through your optic nerve with my molars and bury my pants in your eye sockets."
-- http://blankitcomics.com/2008/06/16/how-to-ruin-the-moment/
"It is scientifically proven that a woman can be satisfied with only 8.5 cm. - and it doesn't matter if it's Visa or MasterCard..."
How many consecutively dangled prepositions can you gracefully end a sentence in for with?
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TheOneLaw
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
History is not equal, and whether we like it or not, strange things happen during wars that don't transpire as often in peace time. We have to nurse the next generation on some knowledge of the collective sacrifice of prior generations, otherwise the society won't understand what it gave up in the past to enjoy in the present.
Victor Davis Hanson, on the study of warfare.
Mon Aug 16 2010 19:49:05 EDT from SigHistory is not equal, and whether we like it or not, strange things happen during wars that don't transpire as often in peace time. We have to nurse the next generation on some knowledge of the collective sacrifice of prior generations, otherwise the society won't understand what it gave up in the past to enjoy in the present.
Victor Davis Hanson, on the study of warfare.
While true, too many seem to think that 'sacrifices' can just go on forever. (When did we start sacrificing collectives?)
As in - we can just go on sacrifing our freedoms one at a time to ensure a better future for the collectives.
I made my choice years ago - life in a collective sounded too much like a prison sentence.
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TheOneLaw
I thought of something by accident th eother day:
In the thounsands of years ago days, people lived in tribes. There was a mutual benefit to live with your famaily, help raise the kids, hunt gather, protect from animals and other tribes and so on.
But you were born into a tribe and that's it.
unless you got married off into another tribe in trade for some land concession or water rights or something.
But nowadays we live alone as individual families, Even the next generation up doesn't live together with you.
so in trade, we've invented the office. The office is a place where you go every day to fill the need of not living with a tribe anymore.
And here's the beauty of it: You Get To Pick Your Tribe.
If you don't like this office tribe, you can quit and go join another one.
So by default you blow off your family. You COULD choose to live with them, but nobody actually does that, so you create a tribe of friends and you create a tribe of coworkers whom you select based on them being tolerable.
Ahhh what a great society we live in.
people make the nitwits at Radio Shack look like
scientists.
--http://www.diybanter.com/home-repair/256815-magic-jack-latency-question-2.ht ml
So by default you blow off your family. You COULD choose to live with
them, but nobody actually does that, so you create a tribe of friends
and you create a tribe of coworkers whom you select based on them being
tolerable.
Ahhh what a great society we live in.
T3h gays learned to do this quite some time ago, since 99% of the time, in days gone by, a known gay would be disowned by their family, anyway. So they adoped a "new" family (this is why t3h gays will oft refer to each other as "family" ... )
Friend of mine asked a girl out and she said "Oh, I don't know if you knew, but I only date girls."
Of course the best response to that is "What a coincidence, SO DO I! See? We have something in common already."
But that aside, I was wondering if anybody has heard this before if it's a more pleasant version of "I'm seeing somebody, sorry" or "No."
Or is she actually gay. I don't know this person and never go where I'd see them so I can't find out in my special little way, so I was just wondering if anybody's ever heard this one before.
It's easy enough to cover if you're not gay, and it's a softer letdown than "NO" or "leave me the fuck alone you loser."
I think it would be a dumb way to get out of a date, which doesn't mean no one does it, just that it's dumb.
Cuz if she ever crosses paths with him again and he finds out she's dating a guy, he'll know she was lying.
Personally, I was always into the "I don't think it would work out" thing.
There's always the "that's great, I have to call my mom and tell her you finally asked me out" move... where the guy thinks you're a total kook and looks for a way to back out...
Dimrub's multi-prepositional sentence ending can be improved as follows:
Posted by: Martin at September 22, 2005 11:32 AMThe story goes that the kid rejected a particular book, downstairs, before dinner. After dinner it's bedtime, and mom comes up the stairs with the same book. So the kid goes, "What did you bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of before up for after?" Which is seven, count'em, consecutive prepositions at the end of a sentence. (And then, if the book is about Australia, you could make it, "What did you bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of before about Down Under up for after?" Ten.