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Topic | $5 million, but your hands turn into chimpanzee hands |
Daremo 04/27/24 10:13:41 PM #15 | Hell yeah. I can use that crazy chimp grip strength for, uh... Things. >_>
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | an image of Mark Zuckerberg photoshopped w/ a beard has gone viral |
Daremo 04/27/24 7:51:04 PM #15 | There are some other upgrades, chin is slightly better, eyebrows are thicker... mostly eye stuff I think.
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | ITT We name characters that are based around speed |
Daremo 04/27/24 4:29:19 PM #22 | The Whizzer (yes, that's a real character)
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | ITT We name characters that are based around speed |
Daremo 04/27/24 4:09:24 PM #12 | Johnny Quick
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | ITT We name characters that are based around speed |
Daremo 04/27/24 4:06:00 PM #10 | Fastback(Timmy Joe Terrapin)
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Why did Bernie lose twice? |
Daremo 04/27/24 3:01:58 PM #101 | Delirious_Beard posted...
embarrassing that there are people in 2024 still parroting this nonsenseHey, remember time there was a plurality of democratic candidates for president, and Bernie started to edge out Hillary, and all the other candidates quit to get behind Hillary? What a coincidence that was, am I right? --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Do you like CJayC, SBAllen or DToast the best? |
Daremo 04/27/24 2:42:49 PM #10 | S_A_S posted...
Wasn't even that much CNet money. Less than 2 million dollars.What a pittance. I would spit on that paupers lot, were it offered to me. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | do u ever look on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and mourn *some spoilers* |
Daremo 04/27/24 1:12:21 PM #2 | I look on JoJo and mourn Baoh. Could have been a much better manga.
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | if you were blind in an eye, but had the money, would you... |
Daremo 04/27/24 12:57:02 PM #17 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqi8FpYaDiw
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | First thing that comes to mind when you see *Pineapple*? |
Daremo 04/26/24 10:29:33 PM #10 | Cemith posted...
PsychNice. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | First thing that comes to mind when you see *Pineapple*? |
Daremo 04/26/24 10:27:30 PM #5 | Pen.
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | If existential fear won't get you to vote against Trump, then nothing will. |
Daremo 04/26/24 6:50:29 PM #241 | So, I've made this point before, this kind of rhetoric is useless at best, and counter productive at worst.
At this point, anyone who would be swayed by this kind of fear based emotional appeal already has been. There is no one who actually believes that Trump being elected president means he personally will be sneaking into you bedroom to shoot you in your sleep and isn't committed to voting against him. That leaves the people who don't believe that. They have already heard this "Trump will kill you" spiel and, for what ever reason, it bounced off. Continuing the same line of provably ineffective argumentation is a waste of everyone's time. Perhaps some more reason based arguments will have a better effect? --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | If existential fear won't get you to vote against Trump, then nothing will. |
Daremo 04/26/24 12:11:20 PM #52 | I just have a negative response to fearmongering.
Someone tells me to be afraid, I go the other way. There are a lot of people like that. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Would you date someone with the same name as your sibling? |
Daremo 04/25/24 5:49:32 PM #16 | I very rarely call my brothers by their actual names, so I'd just have to call the other person by a different nick name.
Don't see an issue. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | anyone else not "get" Dancing? |
Daremo 04/25/24 3:55:07 PM #10 | I do like to see other people dancing (along with gymnastics, martial arts, and other things I'm too dyspraxic to do meself), and I do move to music, but out and out dancing is something I don't do. I have danced(badly) when society required me to do so, and as a form of exercise, but that's it.
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Any of you here get upset when and if you got modded on here? |
Daremo 04/25/24 3:43:39 PM #18 | I'm more surprised than upset.
And more than likely amused that someone marked one of my posts in the first place. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Health and Wellness Social, formerly known as Weight Loss Social |
Daremo 04/25/24 1:40:26 PM #298 | Philosophy video from the Bioneer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaLF8_JPgCA --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Hershey chocolate does not taste like vomit |
Daremo 04/24/24 3:42:19 PM #118 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote]
It does have more butyric acid, but not an amount anyone is going to notice, unless they're specifically looking for it. Isn't it weird that Hershey was selling chocolate for decades and no one ever noticed until they started making inroads to the European markets? People imported chocolate before that, people also traveled between Europe and America, and yet no one detected this apparently unmistakable vomit flavour... Until European confectioners started braying it from the mountaintops. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Hershey chocolate does not taste like vomit |
Daremo 04/24/24 1:42:11 PM #108 | The whole 'tastes like vomit thing' is a lie created by European chocolatiers afraid cheap American chocolates were going to invade their markets.
It's the same trick wine sellers use when tell you their wine tastes of honey, or hickory, or kombucha, or anything that's not bloody grapes. If you go in looking for a flavour, your mind will find the nearest approximation and ascribe it to that. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Stellar Blade reviews dropping in the next hour |
Daremo 04/24/24 10:58:09 AM #41 | I was expecting rave reviews for a new Blade movie.
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | im glad they made final fantasy 1-10 and then never made another |
Daremo 04/22/24 9:10:05 PM #10 | FFXI rocked
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Andy Dick trying to grope Ivanka Trump on Jimmy Kimmel show |
Daremo 04/22/24 9:04:28 PM #29 | ForsakenHermit posted...
But what does Andy Dick have to do with Phil Hartmann's death?Dick gave Hartmann's wife cocaine at a party, when she was rehabbing a drug problem, and she fell completely off the wagon, escalating until she murdered Hartmann in his sleep and then killed herself. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | When is Youtube gonna crack down on the see through clothes haul channels? |
Daremo 04/22/24 7:51:02 PM #129 | So, I had a look and I just can't get excited about this.
In many ways. If you want to start a moral panic, find something more interesting. This ain't it. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Do you like Billie Eilish's music? |
Daremo 04/22/24 7:47:05 PM #31 | I like all of the songs I've heard, but not enough to buy anything.
I like her videos more, those were really interesting. If there were some means of buying the videos, I might consider it. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Guy at the bar hit me with a new conspiracy theory I'd never heard before |
Daremo 04/22/24 7:06:12 PM #22 | Touches on the central bank idea, but is mostly about the Olympic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnMgKAqfi4 --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | How Nu Metal Became Pop |
Daremo 04/22/24 7:01:01 PM #7 | That also came up, Freak On A Leash's crazy TRL dominance. But that was more after Nu Metal became pop.
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | How Nu Metal Became Pop |
Daremo 04/22/24 3:43:19 PM #5 | Xenogears15 posted...
But Linkin Park told me that rock and hip hop have been collaboratin' fer yearsWell, they didn't lie... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEgHF2T38aY --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | How Nu Metal Became Pop |
Daremo 04/22/24 12:33:00 PM #3 | philsov posted...
I blame Faith.That comes up. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | How Nu Metal Became Pop |
Daremo 04/22/24 12:30:31 PM #1 | So the Trash Theory youtube channel released a more indepth follow up to their How Nu Metal Became Nu Metal video.
It's a bit long, but the music clips keep it moving. He brought up some things I didn't know about, like Public Enemy sampling Slayer, and some things I forgot about, like the Judgement Night soundtrack, which was pure genre busting fire at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUtQMfrhOeM The earlier video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ltU17V-YXQ It might be helpful to watch the earlier video first, at the least it's much shorter. There's also a playlist with many of the songs mentioned or sampled in both videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooaZ33lSalfYA5iieOyW4czkRSviBYHS --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Remember when Bon Jovi rhymed back with back? |
Daremo 04/21/24 10:20:58 PM #14 | MrResetti posted...
Still would be better than anything released by The KnackDissing the Knack? You're asking for a smack. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | WCW's cruiserweight division was legitimate.. |
Daremo 04/21/24 3:42:39 AM #72 | STEROLIZER posted...
Jim wishes he had those dance moves You think Carrey can't canter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyPc-1QdzSE --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | what would you change about your childhood? |
Daremo 04/21/24 2:27:18 AM #24 | I would have ignored my mom's worries and skipped several grades.
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Can you tell if these 20s are fake? |
Daremo 04/19/24 4:18:55 PM #35 | Order in which I noticed things:
Smirk. Crease. Serial Numbers. Lack of security insert lines. ... Giant ass "FOR MOTION PICTURE PURPOSES" notice. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Did you ever had an imaginary friend? |
Daremo 04/18/24 10:26:27 PM #11 | I tried it for a minute, because is seemed like something kids were supposed to do, but my heart was never really in it.
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Name songs you like with a color in the title |
Daremo 04/18/24 12:32:49 PM #54 | The World is Gray by Bang Gang
Before you click, take a second and think about what you'd expect a band named 'Bang Gang' to sound like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8X89W6yUUg I Never Wear White by Suzanne Vega https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp40y8xbjZw Black Skin Sexuality by Skunk Anansie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E68Xwig2UkQ From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea by The Cure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31C7HFdRcuw --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Bray Wyatt died of a heart attack. The saddest part might be that... |
Daremo 04/18/24 11:53:11 AM #11 | From what I heard, he sat down on the couch and fell asleep, as you do at times. The defib was still relatively new, so it's not like he had a routine for it.
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | That's Not Consent, Charlie Brown |
Daremo 04/16/24 3:50:31 PM #377 | I Told You I'd Shoot, But You Didn't Believe Me. Why Didn't You Believe Me, Charlie Brown
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | No matter how much extra weight you have. YOU ARE NOT FAT. |
Daremo 04/15/24 8:43:15 PM #162 | cuttin_in_farm posted... Bro, what? Well? Are you a yellow mass of triglycerides? You're not, are you? You're a person with muscle, blood, skin, bones, and also some amount of fat. What part of this are you not getting? You're hung up on the adjective form when he was using the noun. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | No matter how much extra weight you have. YOU ARE NOT FAT. |
Daremo 04/15/24 8:32:50 PM #158 | cuttin_in_farm posted...
So why bring up the other things nobody is addressing?Because what you think it said is not what it said. You're insisting on one meaning, which was clarified in the op to not be that one meaning. If TC had said you can watch videos on the net, and you said how can you watch videos on a bunch of ropes used to catch fish, who would be in the wrong? --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | No matter how much extra weight you have. YOU ARE NOT FAT. |
Daremo 04/15/24 7:46:58 PM #154 | LightningThief posted...
By the same token you've gone over my point. You said people can use a word that in itself is not pejorative, but a malicious actor can use said word to be pejorative. That literally applies to literally any sentence and any word you can think of. Literally. Including the 2 examples you gave. Both example sentences you gave can contextually be used maliciously, including the one you implied/think was nicer.I think your premise here is flawed. This isn't mainly in regards to walking randomly up to people and calling them fat, but about being mindful of the casual language used in everyday life. It doesn't work so simply as, "I said this with no intent to cause offense, therefore it does not cause offense, unless the other person deliberately misconstrues my words." The world would be a very different place if that was how it worked. Neither is inherently malicious, but some people, for reasons ranging from depression, negative self esteem/self image, previous experience, other causes, will read a negative connotation into one, and less so the other. This is not because they are 'looking to be offended', but simply because that's how their brains work; if something can be seen in a negative light, it will be. That is the context I'm operating in. More over, this specific topic regards people who are more likely to have body issues. It would seem meet to exercise more care. The proposed adjustment isn't about not making delicate little flowers not feel bad, or that excess weight isn't a problem, but in altering the lens through which people perceive the world. In much the way poor people using opiates purchased illegally off the street is called a 'crime wave', but rich people using opiates purchased illegally from a pill mill is a 'health crisis'. Even if you don't see it that way, there are a lot of people who regard one as a moral failing and the other as an unfortunate circumstance. Cjsdowg wants to move weight problems from the moral failing category to more of the unfortunate circumstance side by de-emphasizing the adjective form and embracing the noun form. By looking past the current state to what circumstances may have brought them to that state, and what might be keeping them there. And I can't find a way to see that as a bad thing. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | No matter how much extra weight you have. YOU ARE NOT FAT. |
Daremo 04/15/24 5:19:13 PM #148 | LightningThief posted...
You can definitely control what you hear in a sense of twisting someone's words to be something that it isn't. Essentially those ignoring context to act like someone was attacked.You've kind of gone around my point there. What is the benefit in saying, "You are fat and unhealthy.", over "You have an excess of fat, and that's unhealthy."? --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Woman demands $1000 tips be returned after her failure to be raptured. |
Daremo 04/15/24 12:58:24 PM #6 | No wonder she wasn't raptured.
--- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | No matter how much extra weight you have. YOU ARE NOT FAT. |
Daremo 04/15/24 12:54:19 PM #136 | pepper2012 posted...
im not advocating any discrimination of any kind, however saying someone is fat when they are fat is an observationBut you do understand that people also use it in the pejorative? And that even if you mean it as a neutral observation that some people are still going to hear it as a pejorative? You can only control what you say, not what they hear. So what is the precise benefit in saying, "You are fat and unhealthy.", over "You have a lot of fat, and that's unhealthy.", when you know there is the possibility the listener may take the first statement as a personal belittlement, and it is more difficult to perceive the second statement the same way? --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | No matter how much extra weight you have. YOU ARE NOT FAT. |
Daremo 04/15/24 12:00:51 PM #130 | So I can't remember if it was a movie or an interview or what, but I heard a story.
A guy is talking about when he was in drug rehab. Another guy comes to him and asks, "So what's your problem?" First guy says, "Well, I'm a drug addict." Other guy goes, "No, that's how you tried to medicate your problem. So what's your problem?" The guy then says reframing addiction from being something he was to an escape from his real problems helped him kick drugs for good. Reframing fat from something you are to a problem you have can potentially help a lot of people. Maybe you're not among those people. Fine. But what good is it to try and stop people from going down that route? --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Japan's PM Kishida to US Congress: You don't have to do it alone. |
Daremo 04/15/24 11:33:00 AM #46 | Chicken posted...
Do americans really believe the hero complex propaganda that their government spoon feeds them? America isnt the worlds peacekeepers, americas meddling in every country ever is the reason we dont have world peace.Have you seen the police? These are not mutually exclusive propositions. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Japan's PM Kishida to US Congress: You don't have to do it alone. |
Daremo 04/15/24 7:49:16 AM #35 | Garioshi posted...
Not a single American is lonely and exhausted because of these thingsSpeak for yourself. The world's policeman's lot is not a happy one. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
Topic | Scenario: You're a manga author, and you killed off the MC of your work. |
Daremo 04/15/24 7:46:57 AM #3 | Time to break out the Mega Ultra Dragon Balls.
I gotta eat. --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
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