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• Commented on It's healthy for kids to get dirty
  i know that personally, the people who are always getting sick are the ones who grew up in sterile environments. i grew up in the middle of nowhere and have never seen my parents house clean, except in pictures from...
• Commented on Anti-energy drinks
  I dont go for this new fangled drink stuff. i'll stick with good old fashioned heroin, thank you very much....
• Commented on Hope is fading
  huge math error on my part - ugh. the number is more like 8 million people. http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/08stus.txt http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/08fedfun.pdf...
• Commented on Hope is fading
  it's sad that anyone ragging on obama is attacked and asked to explain how bush or mccain is better. the two party system serves only to distract and divide us over nothing. democrats and republicans are the same thing. they...
• Commented on Hope is fading
  PS. Navigator I've never voted for a Democrat, and only once voted for a Republican (Ron Paul). I voted L in every other election possible. So don't mistake me for a raving Obamite who's giving you a hard time. I'm...
• Commented on Hope is fading
  @Navigator "But I won’t have to live through it. You brought it upon yourselves." as someone who is 25, and thus WILL have to live through it, I have this to say: thanks, grandpa, for allowing the country to go...
• Commented on Hope is fading
  THIS JUST IN: Politician doesn't keep campaign promises, supporters somehow incredulous. NEXT UP: It's what some are calling the scourge of the kitchen: Fire. Recent studies have shown that fire can cause injuries known as 'burns' in individuals who come...
• Commented on Guy mounts coffee cup on car roof, tweets about peoples' reactions
  listen, commenters, you are obviously not familiar with Mr. GitEmSteveDave. he's out there. you can look inside his house RIGHT NOW by going to gitemstevedave.com he's apparently at his desk at the moment....
• Commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
  it would be trivial to get a home made glass or ceramic knife (or 6) onto an airplane. secondly - you could fuck up the entire airline industry with just *two* semi-simultaneous attacks within the airport itself. getting a handgun...
• Commented on Maricopa deputy steals defender's paperwork during a court case
  "He's been found in contempt of court, and the judge has ordered him to apologize" ahem. not only should he have been found to have been in contempt, there are a couple other charges that any CIVILIAN doing the same...
• Commented on Klingon as a First Language
  holy jesus christ on a stick, boingers - is there anything outside of PC parenting that you all don't immediately label as "abuse"??? i've said it before - calling things abuse that really aren't is a huge disservice to those...
• Commented on Energy Literacy part One: Energy is invisible
  http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html...
• Commented on The Lung Flute: A Sort of Gross (But Important) Medical Innovation
  i always just take a deep breath and push on my chest really hard while i cough. it takes a while and you might throw up, but hey....
• Commented on Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on "W" mag cover, with missing hip-flesh?
  whats more is the models end up looking worse for all the photoshopping as often as they end up looking better....
• Commented on Cannibals reportedly sold body parts to kebab vendor
  @certon +1 for the iguana bob reference....
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  word to everyone who suggested splicing some extra wire in and using shrink tube. it's the best solution for what is one of the most common problems, and it's also extremely cheap and easy to do. i cringed when i...
• Commented on Animation: pitcher Dock Ellis's no-hitter while on LSD
  when i was 16 i was frying HARD and the cops were chasing me (i was getting away from a party that had been raided). I was riding my friends bicycle, and it was about 1 am. i made a...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  "Have you considered contacting child protective services? The environment you've described is abusive." please. his situation is unfair, miserable, and oppressive, but throwing the word 'abuse' around to describe his situation is a disservice to those who are being actively...
• Commented on Antony Gormley - let's all go barefoot
  "With naked feet you can actually feel global warming." Can i sue Boing Boing for causing ocular damage from rolling my eyes too hard?...
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  @blueelm "Perhaps it's a matter of perspective. I didn't see her as lying I saw her as genuinely clueless and desperate." I find drawing a line between 'unethical' and 'incompetent' to be an unnecessary waste of ink....
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  @the r kelly "When you're calling for service on something very complicated you are going to have a HARD time finding someone who knows everything." If you work selling computer parts, you do not need to know 'everything'. You need...
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  @sef "getting fired from a commission only sales job is not being done a favour because having had a commission only sales job kind of suggests that you didn't have a lot of options to begin with and now you...
• Commented on Y2K ten years later
  "The Senate Committee's final report avoids any deep inquiry into whether the money was well-spent" What?! Our government spent billions of dollars and has no interest in finding out whether or not that spending was effective? Surely they've been meaning...
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  @#12 sef "Congratulations - you just got someone fired during the recession by slating Dell's customer service on the basis of your interaction with this individual." First of all, if anyone got fired over this, it's because they were doing...
• Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
  @anonymous #9 "But the argument could rightly be made that it's discriminatory because the car is a necessity to daily life." No, it couldn't. The car is a luxury that 99.9% of all humans who've ever lived haven't been privy...
• Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
  On renters refusing to rent to particular ethnicities: 1. It's their land and they ought to be able to do what they please with it. 2. Why would you want to rent from someone who explicitly does not want you...
• Commented on Please release me: <em>Borderlands</em> and <em>Bomberlands</em>, <em>Hook Champ</em> and <em>Earth Dragon</em>s
  here's why borderlands cannot possibly be the same pile of crap that is fallout 3 (and i say that as someone who waited eagerly for 10 years for a fallout sequel.) Borderlands uses Unreal Engine 3. Fallout used whatever oblivion...
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  ww, wht n sshl. cyclists in my area are, for the most part, complete dicks. first of all, they insist on riding up and down HWY 9 during rush hour, often side by side instead of tandem, and seem like...
• Commented on A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport
  to those crying about it being only for wealthy people: there's no use getting upset over mathematics. also: the profits form these cars will pave the way for a sub $30k sedan in the next few years. thank the rich...
• Commented on A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport
  *jealous*...