This is a thread - that probably will have no replies - dedicated to anything not related to Bush, which has Boomers foaming at the mouth.
How is the weather?
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This is a thread - that probably will have no replies - dedicated to anything not related to Bush, which has Boomers foaming at the mouth.
How is the weather?
Last edited by Matt1989; 07-24-2007 at 05:14 PM.
Its a nice unlike-Bush kinda day!Originally Posted by MichaelEaston
foam, foam, foam
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite
I'll bite. Topic #2 - is the older generation going to the dogs?
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."
"If the shoe fits..." The Grey Badger.
Too fucking hot!
Got close to 100F on Sunday and Monday, got to the low 90s today, are are supposed to get close to 100F tomorrow. We've also went in the last month or two from being so wet that the Red River was flooding big time to now being in near drought conditions.
Last edited by Odin; 07-24-2007 at 09:29 PM.
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
Do they sell sunscreen in MN?Too fucking hot!
Got close to 100F on Sunday and Monday, got to the low 90s today, are are supposed to get close to 100F tomorrow. We've also went in the last month or two from being so wet that the Red River was flooding big time to now being in near drought conditions.
Mild.
But this is what you get for living near large bodies of water.
Right-Wing liberal, slow progressive, and other contradictions straddling both the past and future, but out of touch with the present . . .
"We also know there are known unknowns.
That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know." - Donald Rumsfeld
Off Topic...
As Bush is doing nothing about Global Warming, I don't think the weather is a proper topic for this thread...
Last edited by Bob Butler 54; 07-25-2007 at 12:46 AM. Reason: Thought I'd better add the wink...
I gather you are not in a part of Texas that is newly under large bodies of water?
Hm. Good point. There's gotta be something that doesn't come back to Bush.As Bush is doing nothing about Global Warming, I don't think the weather is a proper topic for this thread...
Right?
We might make a serious attempt to resolve the problem of tooth decay as part of a comprehensive health care reform program...
How about my 12-year-old's pubescent antics. Sometimes I want to strangle the girl.
Nothing serious, BTW -- no drugs or sex or failing grades. Just a lot of attitude and laziness.
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
don't take the bait, people...
I'll try:
Tooth decay is exacerbated by lack of adequate nutrition
Failing to eat raw vegetables will result in inadequate nutrition
Soreness in the maxillaries can cause disinclination to eat crunchy foods such as raw vegetables
Gritting one's teeth excessively can overstrain the maxillaries
People tend to grit their teeth in reaction to embarrassing situations.
The increase in Presidential malapropisms since Bush took office has increased the frequency and intensity of such embarrassing situations.
So Bush Presidency -> increased tooth decay. Q.E.D.
Anyone want to take the next example?
"Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela, la loi ? On peut donc être dehors. Je ne comprends pas. Quant à moi, suis-je dans la loi ? suis-je hors la loi ? Je n'en sais rien. Mourir de faim, est-ce être dans la loi ?" -- Tellmarch
"Человек не может снять с себя ответственности за свои поступки." - L. Tolstoy
"[it] is no doubt obvious, the cult of the experts is both self-serving, for those who propound it, and fraudulent." - Noam Chomsky
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It's going to be a tough few years.How about my 12-year-old's pubescent antics. Sometimes I want to strangle the girl.
Nothing serious, BTW -- no drugs or sex or failing grades. Just a lot of attitude and laziness.
Can anyone blame the President on my daughter's sassy attitude? I would love to see that one!
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
Bad hair day: Here goes:
Bush's budget does not appropriate enough funds for USDA, where I work.
Because funding is tight, vacant spots are not filled.
Because vacant spots are not filled, I have to do more work.
Additional work causes stress and causes my hair to turn gray.
I color my hair to cover gray.
Coloring hair dries my hair out.
Dry hair is hard to style -- hence, bad hair day.
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
poor cell phone reception
1.)corporations are making so much money already, they have no incentive to improve their products (?)
Bush Sucks, as usual...
... even in an anything but Bush thread.
p.s. Hmm, wanna talk about the effect the recent refusal of Senate Democrats to pass the military appropriations bill, that included upgrades for military vehicles to protect from IEDs, will have on our troops?
Last edited by zilch; 07-25-2007 at 09:03 PM.
You know them looney liberals, they gotta keep those casualties numbers going up, up, up!
Not a bad game, but the Russian version I bought (It only cost three dollars, but I'm suuuure it's an official licensed copy) is a memory-hog.
"Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela, la loi ? On peut donc être dehors. Je ne comprends pas. Quant à moi, suis-je dans la loi ? suis-je hors la loi ? Je n'en sais rien. Mourir de faim, est-ce être dans la loi ?" -- Tellmarch
"Человек не может снять с себя ответственности за свои поступки." - L. Tolstoy
"[it] is no doubt obvious, the cult of the experts is both self-serving, for those who propound it, and fraudulent." - Noam Chomsky
I would say that it's the most overrated game/series of all time (Halo comes close), but I'm afraid that I'm missing something in it, which I must be. I'll take my Rome: Total War and Age of Empires II over Civ IV any day of the week. The game is solid, but it offers nothing spectacular or thrilling.
I have all the Civ games except for the first. I swear, they are the computer game version of crack. The Total War games are good, too, as are the Europa Universalis series.
Last edited by Odin; 07-27-2007 at 08:59 AM.
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
Sim City
I used to be a big Sim City 3000 fan. I built maybe 30 cities in all. On the first couple of cities I learned the basics and then sought to build the biggest cities populationwise that I could. Sometimes I would create my own geography and sometimes I would use a real city terrian. My Los Angleles, based on the real city terrian was my largest city at over 1.7 million.
I actually bought Sim City 4 but found it to be a lesser game. The idea of regioal interaction between the cities is a good one, but the game took too long to load and it moved too slow. Also, there wasn't snough flexability in the boundries. IOW, your 'center city' was often no larger in land area than most of the suburbs. If you're looking for realism, that's not an ignorable flaw. In addition to creating your own regions, one should have been given the ability to presize the boundries and, in the case of existing regions, resize them.
It doesn't look like EA will come out with another edition of this game, but if they did one with the flexability of the 3000 and the regionalism of 4 would be good. I suspect that as computer tech has continued to progress, slowness need not be as big an issue in a future edition.
Last edited by herbal tee; 07-26-2007 at 10:29 AM.
Hey Sim City was fun!
