LeviF

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Oh, but remember: all men support a rape culture (whatever the !@#$ that means) because men haven't yet created a world in which women can dress however they want and go wherever they want and not get hurt. Or there's my personal favorite: "If I'm drunk and a man is drunk, he needs to be of stronger constitution, better judgement, and stronger resolve than me and stop sexual relations from occurring between us, otherwise he's a rapist."

This is news? I thought this was one of the "benefits" bicyclists were after.

My father's parents died about 5 months apart. His dad (my grandfather) went in January 1997, lung cancer. Couldn't bury him then so they scheduled the burial/funeral for Memorial Day weekend - he was a WWII vet and would get all the military stuff at the burial. Grandma died three days before grandpa's burial, so they buried them together. My uncle told my dad when they met up the day before the burial, "mom always did want to make things easy for us."

Today marks 4 weeks of being smoke-free. Legitimately do not enjoy the smell of cigarette smoke anymore. My "smoking gloves" don't smell like cigarettes anymore, so I'm assuming none of my stuff does. Noticeably less winded after exercising and I think my circulation is a little better. Reads like a diary entry but I don't care.

Is TYTT a truther? Is that what this is about? Maybe I need to start reading more of the threads here.

Does this surprise anybody? Most cops were high school bullies who couldn't carry their jock status over to college because they weren't good enough to play college sports, and they certainly didn't have the grades to go to a real college without playing a sport. So they pulled some blue-collar connections and became city/town cops so that they could have the "jock" status in real life too. Cops are on a constant power trip. This is why most of them are complete !@#$s.

I'm a heroin chic guy as well, so Beyonce doesn't do it for me either. Don't get me wrong - I definitely would. But I don't start drooling when she's on TV like some of my friends do.

Man, you just can't get over that hatred regarding a guy wanting to see his music on broadway, can you?

Yeah. I rebuked them pretty hard and got called a racist.

This is part of why I started this thread. Every person who claims victim-hood status in the way I mentioned in the OP seems to think they're owed something just because their relative was in Auschwitz (also, I've noticed that everyone claims that their relative was in Auschwitz. What, no love for Buchenwald?) or their relative was a slave. In my example, they think they deserve attention. Another time, a young black man in one of my classes claimed that white people in general were responsible for slavery and should pay some sort of restitution, while in the same breath he denied whites collective achievement for advances in science, culture, etc. Personally, I think collective achievement and collective responsibility are retarded, but if you want to have one can you not have the other as well? Doesn't that sort of dissonant thinking that my classmate displayed lend credibility to those white power/skinhead groups who claim collective achievement for the sake of their race?

This isn't entirely true. I remember when I first started smoking, that first cigarette of the day would just rush to your head immediately and, suddenly, the world was just a little bit more tolerable. But most people do smoke to the point where they never feel that (half a pack+ per day) after a while, and they're just smoking because they're addicted. I almost never smoked so much that that first cigarette wouldn't give me a good kick in the pants in the morning/afternoon/whenever I woke up. I always enjoyed smoking. What I didn't enjoy are the noticeable detrimental results of it: my decreased lung capacity, spending more time with the colds I caught, and the fact that I would smell like an ashtray for a good hour after every cigarette, even though I only smoked outside.

No link here. I'm just trying to pin down the exact date and time at which the most important thing you could possibly do in your life became making known that you've been hurt in some way. Or, better yet, that your distant relatives/relatives two or more generations older than you were hurt in some way, and it's automatically highly relevant to whatever argument you happen to be making, on the internet or in real life. Just look at the comment section of any article about Israel/Jews/whatever; someone is bound to use the fact that their great uncle thrice removed was at Auschwitz to justify some silly argument they're making which has nothing to do with the holocaust. Or the real-life example that I witnessed today, a young black woman telling us how her great-great-grandpappy was a slave and therefore the criminal justice system has no real justification for felony murder statutes. Or when I tell a fat white kid to get a lap band and he tells me that he's a loser because Obama's affirmative action nation is holding him down. I mean really, when the !@#$ did this happen? How did we become a nation full of crybabies? I see things every day that make me think of LA's avatar and it's disgusting. How can it be fixed?

Well I guess I've now officially quit. It was too cold to smoke last week, and I forgot to buy cigarettes this weekend. Woohoo. Smoke-free for six days (counting today).

Oy vey, it's like shoah all ovah again!

On this front, it's been so cold today and the previous two days here in upstate NY that I haven't had a smoke at all (I never smoke in my apartment) since Tuesday afternoon. I just can't imagine standing idle outside for 10 minutes with at least some of my fingers exposed, but I still see people doing it outside here at work.

That's a great story. I've heard of artists doing that loop thing but haven't ever seen it. Mr. Bad Example was just a great album all around. The title track is hilarious, "Things to do in Denver When You're Dead" is excellent (and referenced on ESPN once in a while ), "Searching for a Heart" is a great final track, though my favorite from it is probably "Suzie Lightning." Pure beauty expressed in song. Fantastic melody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BScHmYlLle4

From your article: Regardless, I'm only buying 1-2 packs per month now. When I said cutting down more would mean quitting, I meant it

So I've been told. In any case, I've cut down on my smoking quite a bit, to the point where cutting down more will, for all practical purposes, mean quitting.

My father was at that show (or one in the same place around that time), though he doesn't remember most of the 70's or early 80's Easily one of the greatest musicians and lyricists of all time. Absolutely magnificent all around

Hope I die before I get old.

Well !@#$ you, buddy. In all seriousness, buy the 501 shrink-to-fit. I'm a skinny little ****, so I just buy the 511's and they still hang off my ass, but a lot of my friends buy the 501 STFs and love them. As far as lighters go, you're largely right. Although you can still get high quality zippos that have a big, windproof flame. And I largely agree with gringo regarding popular music. While the pop music of the 80's and 90's wasn't much better than it is today, at least they tried. Others: Pots and pans Dishes Lightbulbs Toilets (those low-flow things are crap [no pun intended])

As far as I'm aware, they didn't do so well because of massive climate change and our ancestors breeding like rabbits. I could be wrong though. Do we have a resident anthropologist?

The 1820's - 1830's. Mill towns on the rise, industrialism expanding rapidly, the Methodist church couldn't keep up with its own growth, the Monroe, Adams, and Jackson presidencies. Hot damn those were good times.

This. And Merry Christmas to you believers. http://www.theonion.com/articles/undecided-voter-pretty-sure-hes-some-kind-of-idiot,30229/