And Then, I find Mark F is at it again. This time, by posting videos from the kind of Libertarian think tank that takes Ayn Rand entirely seriously, and has an agenda against any government that isn't them. Or at one point Ayn Rand, but she's dead now. But the moment they invent technology to bring people back from the dead, she's on their presidential ticket.
He's decent enough in his writing form, and normally he's pretty decent, but Jesus Christ, when he fails out, he fails out HARD. He's clocking up so many massive rationality and wannabe-journalist fails that he damn near deserves his own thread dedicated to it.
"Cultural Orientation" for my year in the UK is today. For it, I have to write a one page paper about Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island and what it taught me about the country, and then sit through a two hour meeting from 5pm-7pm on a fucking Friday night.
I wish there was an anglophile waiver so that I could prove that I had sufficient knowledge and UK-related resources in order to not waste my time writing book reports and sitting through meetings. As if I don't have enough other work.
Cultural Orientation for Britain? And it's taking two hours? How long can it take to tell you about pubs, football and complaining about the weather?
HEY! Complaining about the weather is serious business! My father was a weather complainer and his father was a weather complainer! Why you can look at generations of my family and see people who complain about the weather! I will not have such a noble past time trivialized! No Sa'h!
How can I feel so bad about a day where I'm going to watch anime films for nine hours straight? Whatever dopamine inhibiting shenanigans are happening in my brain, they'd better stop.
How can I feel so bad about a day where I'm going to watch anime films for nine hours straight? Whatever dopamine inhibiting shenanigans are happening in my brain, they'd better stop.
Because there's no geordies, obviously. They make everything better like.
I remember being a kid and watching Ant and Dec. They were magnificent and terrifying in one motion. Like geoordi heralds.
My First Geordie(who wasn't blind and got around in a unitard) was James Bolam, in some old Biderbecke reruns and TV movies.
The stupid thing is that it actually took me about three months of living in Leeds to figure out why so many bits of it were so fucking familiar. Felt like an idiot when it finally clicked.
I remember being a kid and watching Ant and Dec. They were magnificent and terrifying in one motion. Like geoordi heralds.
My First Geordie(who wasn't blind and got around in a unitard) was James Bolam, in some old Biderbecke reruns and TV movies.
The stupid thing is that it actually took me about three months of living in Leeds to figure out why so many bits of it were so fucking familiar. Felt like an idiot when it finally clicked.
I'm just now looking up some of these names on YouTube.
I'm just now looking up some of these names on YouTube.
This is English?
Don't look up Bix Biderbecke as being a Geordie, he's actually a jazz musician whose playing sounded like bullets shot from a bell. But yes, that's english, and what you'll be surrounded by. I don't see why you're having a problem.
Edit - I'm also going to have a word to my old housemate Nuz, from when I lived at raven road - She's a geordie, and I'm reasonably sure she lives with her lass up in either newcastle or teeside.
In news that isn't about Geordies, Look at this photo.
Now, Tell me, what do you think that is?
If you Said "An 81 MM mortar-fired Illumination flare with Parachute", You'd be correct. I've never been an artilleryman, but I've seen french troops lugging about shells that looked extremely similar, so I'm inclined to think they're of french manufacture. I do certainly know that the crescent looking thing above the six pointed star like on this round is the near universal symbol for "Parachute Flare" - at least when you're talking ammo markings.
If you said that it's "An unexploded mortar shell, and the star of david on it means that it's manufactured in Israel, so Israel is against Libya" then you're entirely wrong, and probably also the Al Manara News service.
Double Fail - The much more experienced, intelligent, and well-funded Al Jazeera ran the same story on their Arabic service, with the same conclusion, for the same reason.
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I'm going to apply to Microsoft's NERD internship program. Unfortunately:
We especially encourage applications from minorities (African American, Native American, Hispanic), young women, individuals with disabilities, and students from economically disadvantaged families.
I'm going to apply to Microsoft's NERD internship program. Unfortunately:
We especially encourage applications from minorities (African American, Native American, Hispanic), young women, individuals with disabilities, and students from economically disadvantaged families.
I'm going to apply to Microsoft's NERD internship program. Unfortunately:
We especially encourage applications from minorities (African American, Native American, Hispanic), young women, individuals with disabilities, and students from economically disadvantaged families.
I'm allergic to another fucking class of antibiotics. Going into a benadryl-induced coma now. Double fail because I can't focus or stay awake long enough to finish my article for my thesis.
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He's decent enough in his writing form, and normally he's pretty decent, but Jesus Christ, when he fails out, he fails out HARD. He's clocking up so many massive rationality and wannabe-journalist fails that he damn near deserves his own thread dedicated to it.
I wish there was an anglophile waiver so that I could prove that I had sufficient knowledge and UK-related resources in order to not waste my time writing book reports and sitting through meetings. As if I don't have enough other work.
Whatever dopamine inhibiting shenanigans are happening in my brain, they'd better stop.
The stupid thing is that it actually took me about three months of living in Leeds to figure out why so many bits of it were so fucking familiar. Felt like an idiot when it finally clicked.
This is English?
Edit - I'm also going to have a word to my old housemate Nuz, from when I lived at raven road - She's a geordie, and I'm reasonably sure she lives with her lass up in either newcastle or teeside.
Speaking of Teeside-
Now, Tell me, what do you think that is?
If you Said "An 81 MM mortar-fired Illumination flare with Parachute", You'd be correct. I've never been an artilleryman, but I've seen french troops lugging about shells that looked extremely similar, so I'm inclined to think they're of french manufacture. I do certainly know that the crescent looking thing above the six pointed star like on this round is the near universal symbol for "Parachute Flare" - at least when you're talking ammo markings.
If you said that it's "An unexploded mortar shell, and the star of david on it means that it's manufactured in Israel, so Israel is against Libya" then you're entirely wrong, and probably also the Al Manara News service.
Double Fail - The much more experienced, intelligent, and well-funded Al Jazeera ran the same story on their Arabic service, with the same conclusion, for the same reason.