You mean the larva that's slowly eating my spleen?

You've been sparsely present today, Takuan no nii-san.

I thought you went to bed.

Tak-kun,

I went to that IRC channel that the younguns are talking about. They're jabberin' away over there in real time. You'll have to check it out.

Weren't you supposed to post some pictures? That might influence your application status favorably.

Does anyone not currently enrolled in an algebra class care whether or not their interests are cool?

I actually created my account so I could join this fray...

Anyone who creates an account just to weigh in on liquor is destined to do well here.

Good save, Tenn.

26 plus 6 equals 32 in my book.

Social life, meat-world or digital, is mostly just the coming together of the undermedicated with the overmedicated.

You wear a merkin? NSFW

Stratojoe,

I think that your behavior is shocking and can best be described by this Wikipedia article.

you people are all clinically insane. i bet you all also voted for this idiot obama.

The pro-torture troll is back to yell at us again.

As far as I reckon, bold, italic, blockquote and links are the only tags that you can use. I could quadruple my snark with strike-out, but it doesn't seem to work. I tried blinking text once, but I think that's been deprecated in pretty much every browser.

Yep.

does this mean I need to start pouring you stiffer drinks?

That would be fattening and probably cause reflux, but thanks.

Agreed. But, occasionally, I wonder if there's an html tag for <hillbilly accent>.

Although I agree, some of the comments have been a little, er, pie-faced.

Can I spit-shine your boots, please?

The answer is the same as it was before I was an assistant moderator.

Gidget?

Outed.

I've used about 30 minutes of airtime since I got it a year ago.

Hmm. Either you don't live in Southern California or you don't drive, or both.

flamingphonebook,

You seem to be expending a lot of effort trying to alienate other commenters. I recommend that you rethink that strategy.

You know, I think that I'll just adopt a nice Guatemalan leather coat.

Yes. They're mentioned in the BBC article to which this links.

If my career was in construction by all means would I get the best stuff

My best friend is a contractor. He probably replaces all of his tools every six months because the workers and subs disappear with them.

Most religions torture and murder their enemies because they hate them. Christians torture and murder their enemies to show them how much Jesus loves them. New and improved inhumanity.

Tenn,

Why aren't you at school?

You can steampunk hot guys? Where are my gears? Where's my glue?

Where's Hassan? We need a sound byte from Auld Nora on this one.

Seriously, what do you want?

For you not to start your posts with "You people." Once we've got that down, we'll see what else we can negotiate.

That guy in the foreground looks suspiciously like Nikolai Cherkasov, who starred in Alexander Nevsky and Ivan Groznyy.

This is the sort of thing that drives perfectly normal people to firebomb businesses. You can only push people so far before they push back. Once you've been branded as unemployable, when your every movement is tracked, what do you have to lose?

Meanwhile, fascist (yes, I said it) Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has instructed the police to harass 'young thugs'. She loves that database.

That car of theirs: is the tax up to date? Is it insured? Let's find out. And have they got a TV licence for that plasma screen? As the advert says, it's all on the database.

BBC article

Bedtime.

How would you translate 'takusan'? Loads? Oodles?

I've seen loads of patients with UC and Crohn's when I worked in the hospital. Living situation and family dynamics are really big co-factors. Don't rush into surgery until you've had the opportunity to live unharassed for a while.

I ♥ lime pickle. I had some last night.

In fact, I'd like to know BB's opinion on this

Flag your own comment and ask. That's the easiest way to get an answer. And I was asking a philosophical question, not picking a fight.

Greg,

Your fight with me is over now.

Thank you, Tenn.

I don't wear a watch, but if your left wrist is for your watch, wouldn't you keep your map on your right?

What are your symptoms?

-san is Mister/Mrs/Miss/Ms.
-kun is something like 'buddy'.
-chan is something like 'cutie-pie' or 'you moron'.
O- means "Look. I'm being polite".
-dono means 'lord'.
-ue means 'above' and you could use it for a parent or older sibling.

I call Takuan Oniiue (honorable older brother) when I'm trying to get him to calm down.

Greg,

Your fight with Skullhunter is over now.

I just want to point out that I told you so.

And -sensei.

You forgot O-, -dono and -ue.

Cube,

Dial it down.

I was poised to copy and paste when I saw your wise preemptive warning. You know me too well.

I'm angry with Agamemnon. I'm disgusted with Menelaus. I'm completely disappointed with Achilles. Three and a half millennia and they still piss me off.

Also- steroids. Injections. IMPOTENCE? Testosterone issues? Does this not matter to these men? Well... beings.

Think about it. Sticking your finger down your throat. Bulimia. No breasts. Estrogen issues. It's just the flip side of anorexia.

The Yale thing was almost immediately outed as a hoax. So, attention whore.

We are of one mind.

Thank you.

I was obsessing on Homeric characters at first, which is, by the way, a long term psychological issue for me.

Bundercup's playing devil's advocate.

And who says that playing Devil's Advocate is acceptable behavior. Wouldn't pushing an opinion that you don't believe be prima facie trolling?

I set a guest on fire once with a flaming cocktail.

There's always this for Christ redux.

No. That's it. It's sweet, but study not too deeply the arts of the enemy lest you become depressed by them.

Skullhunter, Greg,

Get a room. Lengthy comments detailing each others' faults are not really that interesting to the rest of us.

No, no. This is absurd. I strongly recommend that you not have a mouthful of liquid when you click the link.

The funny part? He's only eleven years old.

Life expectancy is still going up.

Study Shows Decline in Life Expectancy for American Women. Among the causes are increased diabetes and heart disease.

As for organics versus factory farming, there is no proof that nutrients are more plentiful in organic produce.

I'm not talking about organic versus inorganic. The point is that agri-produce has selectively bred for shelf-life, not for nutrients. If you actually read Pollan, you'll see, for example, that the ratio between types of Omega fatty acids has reversed in the negative direction due to the types of produce that have been selected. Have you even bothered to read what he's written?

markmarkmark,

You're the only one here who's screaming.

What a bunch of tools.

Given current climate trends, antediluvian only means 2006 in the UK.

What an awesome new way for me to gouge the shit out of me ankles when I walk past a book-case.

Just put them at eye level.

ya can like both if ya wanna

You must live somewhere with average rainfall greater than our 5.8 inches per year. Lawns are rapidly becoming illegal in the Western US.

arguing from a 3-year-old status quo is just silly

So I shouldn't bother to reclaim any of the Constitutionally guaranteed rights that I've lost since Bush took office? Loss of habeas corpus is over three years old as is wire-tapping without judicial oversight. I don't know which side of this issue you're arguing, but that's a bizarre argument either way.

So if I had my 86 year-old Aunt fellate my poodle and post it on the web, am I too a genius?

Hell, yeah!

Am I alone here?

Hell, yeah!

Yeah, but you can swim in the air and walk on the water there. How cool is that?

He's framing the world in simplistic black and white

I thought that Skullhunter was being perfectly reasonable.

Funny how that can be applied equally to groups like "voting public" as much as it can be applied to "people in the military".

Equating ballots with bullets is a cheap argument.

But it's probably easier to blame some group you don't identify with

Ultimately, the person with their finger on the trigger has to take responsibility for firing it or not.

When I pass one of those things that tells me how fast I'm driving, I always speed up. Wouldn't this make people want to honk and rev their engines? I guess Europeans aren't quite as obstreperous as Americans.

Yeah, I get bulging package complaints all the time. It's a curse, but what are you going to do? Amputate?

Xopher,

You're a rescuer, aren't you?

Tenn,

This?

Henk Hofstra has some big huevos.

postings like this are just blog-filler crap

Hey, you forgot to link to your blog on your profile page. We all want to see some examples of really great blog posts.

I don't quite understand what the whole brouhaha is with this. Isn't this pretty much the way the internet already works?

No. Here's the analogy. You slip the maitre d' a hundred. Your waiter knows that you always tip 30%. Your food still comes out late and cold. Why? Because the cook didn't tip the waiter to bring it out hot and fast. Get it? Nothing that you do, no amount of money that you pay has any impact on the service that you get unless the person on the other end of the transaction pays a bribe.

The General Cho's chickens are coming home to roost.

The tubes are already clogged. My download speeds are noticeably slower than two years ago. Has anyone else noticed that regulatory authorities are starting to talk about bandwidth like it's a rare blood type that's in short supply?

Wow. A trifecta of negative commenters: dick, double dick and begging to suck dick. But none of them in a fun way.

Ah. I just looked in the mirror and realized who the murder victim was. So it must be this.

I, too, go to dream of murder and mayhem.

I've tried that and I now have a bunch of great ideas to pitch to the studios, but nothing on your entry.

I'm boiling in the blood of mortals and the ichor of Titans. You bastard. This one may take a while.

Tak-kun,

Is a daughter's sister not a daughter?

Yours gives me a headache every time that I try to think about it. Also, you've referred to literature, which is not my strong suit. But I'm working on it.

Correct, and what a creepy poster.

Correct. And the horror film?

Good idea

Follow Dorothy At tea-time

Genre: black comedy

Ar.

Herb's Pet project

Genre: horror

Some of us are using metaphors and some of us are using wordplay.

That which is dumped in response to an internal error

The Phantom

I read yesterday that the number of US soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who commit suicide will probably outnumber those killed in conflict.

#1,

Because one is usually the focus of one's own obituary.

I'm not saying this to pick a fight, but since you know the subject, you might as well address the Haditha killings.

Tip pooling is legal. The owners or managers dipping into the tip pool is illegal.

I see your point and it's true, except that I think you reach a point where the unhealthy food starts to gross you out and the healthy food starts to be really appealing. I love eating lots of fruit and vegetables. Part of the reason is that I don't buy corporate styrofoam produce. Real strawberries and tomatoes are as tasty as candy. Agri-business ones? You can't even tell the difference between a strawberry and a tomato. They're bred for shelf-life rather than flavor.

Does she side with the Campbells or the MacDonalds?

My local baker is staffed by the most ill-tempered and foul mouthed old woman in Scotland

I can haz YouTube?

maybe they are in cahoots

Heh.

Normative recommendations for diet should be done through boring, peer reviewed journal papers.

The same ones that put us on the path to national morbid obesity. Food science is the biggest public health disaster since the influenza outbreak of 1917. He's done the detective work that shows how agri-business has leaned on Congress to twist the results of scientific research. Food science is paid for by the food industry. It's the kind of science which will inevitably come to conclusions that support nutritionally valueless products that put more money in the pockets of the ultra-rich. Unsaturated fats? The carb revolution?

For the first time in decades, average life expectancy in the US is beginning to decline. The crap that we are fed is counteracting all the benefits of better medical care. When the eighty year olds who grew up eating real food are gone, the next few generations are likely to see life expectancy rolled back by a decade. And that's laid at the doorstep of agri-business funded food science which gave us the nutritional advice which has larded an extra thirty pounds of fat onto us.

Speaking of which, if there is such an event, I'd be very offended if I weren't at least invited.

That photo from the top of the post looks like a subsection of my closet.

I was thinking more the crisper drawer of my fridge.

They've announced there are no rules

That's an interesting extrapolation. They've set prices and left instructions on how to pay. How is that 'no rules'?

I don't just eat a snickers bar because I'm a stupid American who's been duped by industry, I really and truly like that shit.

But....you like it because you've been trained to like it and to be addicted to the sugar rush. I've lived on Haagen Dazs and it tasted good at the time. But now that I eat really well, I do feel much better than I used to. Of course, I still eat a pint of Haagen Dazs every night before bed, but it's in context of three cooked meals and fifteen portions of fruits and vegetables. I think that age makes a big difference, too. At twenty, you can get shitfaced every night and feel fine. At fifty, heavy drinking makes you feel horrible. Your diet will catch up with you as well.

Has anyone else realized that this school is NOT a military school?

The military part doesn't really alarm me. If they're going into the military, they'll get military training which will be either good or bad. Whatever they did in high school will be largely irrelevant. I'm more concerned with the 'security' track. Private Security has been a euphemism for Paid Bully since the time of the pharaohs. Taking potential bullies away from a school that might impress some humanity on them and putting them into paid bully training at such a young age is asking for trouble.

I live in California. Our lives revolve around potential litigation.

Head. Wall. Bashing.

if morality is not legislated then the world would be much much worse then it is.

I think the opposite is true as regards sexual 'morality'. Forcing people into closets of various shapes and sizes guarantees that they'll find alternative and sometimes unsavory ways of taking up the slack. One of the reasons that prostitution exists is that consensual sex between adults is still, even now, frowned on outside of certain, very limited situations.

Sex through history has rarely been fully consensual. The argument against boffing a willing fourteen year old holds true for an employed husband and his wife who depends on him for financial support. If you're not truly independent, how can you fully consent? How many people are fully independent and able to exercise perfect and complete free will? Not that many. Prostitution, like most sexual activity, is no better than quasi-consensual.

God, I'm just an incurable romantic!

Good vendors will do anything to make you happy, but they can't help you if you don't contact them directly!

I would go with a vendor who had a rating above 90%. The relationship between service and review is non-linear. You can give the best service imaginable, but if your customer is in a crappy mood, you might not get positive feedback. That's life. I look for realistic trends, not perfection.

Is it possible that this is illegal? Commercial pepper spray is regulated as a weapon in some jurisdictions.

How can they be "unemployed" if the aren't even looking!!

That's mental Twister. Unemployed means not employed. Zuzu's point is that we've used semantics to manipulate statistics to manipulate people to manipulate policy. Plain language gives a bleak picture, but an accurate one. Too bad nobody notice it a decade ago.

And why is Cory advocating against science?

Science is neither good nor bad. Some science improves our lives. Some science screws them up horribly. Food science has mostly done the latter.

"Have some margarine. It's better for your heart!"

have you become the topic-derailing troll?

That's my beat. Back off, buddy.

Method of Exercising a Cat

You should suggest that for the front page. It's brilliant.

Has Hiro Frumentius seen this?

Morons like you are usually the first to go when the crack down comes.

I find that they're usually the first to go over to the dark side and rat out their neighbors in hopes of currying favor.

And criminals have been called hoods since the 1920s, short for hoodlum, which funnily enough has nothing to do with headgear.

Let's see. If participating in armed struggle for liberation is grounds to be banned, I guess it's a good thing that George Washington died before this list went into effect. Liberation generally comes at the point of a gun. We idolize people like Gandhi because we want to think that they did everything peacefully, but the reality is that for every peacemaker, there's an army of guerrillas creating the conditions for negotiation.

Gorman: Look... we can't have any firing in there. I, uh...want you to collect magazines from everybody.
Frost: What the hell are we supposed to use man? Harsh language?

So somebody like Microsoft will win a $500,000,000 settlement and the Treasury will settle up with taxpayer dollars? Oops.

Food good. Unfood bad.

Don't waste your manicure. He's destined for the abyss.

All that thinking for nothing!

I would get trapped in an elevator with him any time.

I like Gabe. Maybe we could bribe the Otis guy and have a 41 hour double date.

She's not going to come. She keeps ignoring my pleas. There is no invisible tsunami. The whole thing is just a cruel joke.

Tenn!

Fake Babies: Invisible Tsunami!

That's fucked up. You should probably flag your current comment so that she can pass it on to tech.

I've worn up to about eight inches. My best friend from high school, who is now a lesbian, married a guy we knew. She was about twenty and he was about forty and very nerdy. Think comb-over. It turns out that he can only get aroused by wearing a schoolgirl uniform, a cast on his arm and fetish shoes that you could never stand in, like fifteen inches. Oddly, they're still married thirty years later. She, he, her lover and their adopted kid all live together.

Tenn,

Can you get over to Fake Babies and tell us if we got invisible tsunami right, PLEASE!

Did you use it before you found the accompanying lubricant?

Off topic. I just got a pop-up ad for the first time ever on BB. Anybody else have this experience?

Avram,

Soon.

Will a mating of Verbithrax loquacius and Trollus disingenuus produce offspring?

That's a disturbing question.

the only way I see that is possible is to take the camera back and send him a new one that's professionally packaged.

That's pretty standard business practice. Just because a purchase seems okay doesn't mean that there isn't sub-acute damage that will cause a failure in a month. Jason accepts liability for the possible hidden damage when he accepts the delivery in that condition. On a $5,000 camera, it would be prudent to return the improperly packed item to be inspected and to send him a new, properly packed one.

Who? Me?

Actually, wrong on the first one:

Ali (The Greatest) en (space in typesetting)

You mean you've just been preening my feathers?

Is that what you kids are calling it these days?

Arkizzle is possible considered one of the finest commenters on BoingBoing.

Peacock terms

Tenn! Hello? Hello? Did you leave without grading our papers?

I simply used asterisks in case there was a filter which might prevent my comment from being posted.

No filter.

Nob,

As an arbiter, there is something to be said for playing nice in your debut post. If you're nasty and you have no posting history, you don't win much respect. Also, if you're going to call someone an asshole, just use the word. If you're rude, asterisks won't make it polite. And if you're polite, typing it out won't make it rude.

Irrational people just resort to violence or ASSUME people will resort to violence.

Oddly, I have no atrocities on my record. Many members of our armed forces do. And you're reaching the point where the use of the word irrational is creating irony.

Not much using pointing the finger at primates after seeing that seal non-consensually sodomizing a penguin the other day. Why can't we all just get along?

It was funny because the caption escaped the anthropomorphic root vegetable paradigm and addressed the Intelligent Design versus Creationism debate.

Go tell someone who is proud to be serve their country how they have been trained to be good little Nazis and see what kind of response you get.

Um, they might beat the crap out of you because they're good little Nazis? Many members of our military have been taught to shoot, but not to think. How much worse would it be if they were indoctrinated at an even younger age?

I, for one, do not welcome our new "never read a book, saw a play or listened to a symphony, but have guns and tasers" overlords.

Can I have a pet sloth? Please?

it puts forth the idea that fictions that become so popular and beloved actually become real places.

I didn't know that he wrote about that. I've believed that to be true for some time, or at least the idea that characters become ensouled.

Chimps are not much of a model for sexual etiquette. The males form rape gangs.

Personally, I can't see criminalizing a consensual, private act between adults. If it becomes coercive, than prosecute for harassment, slavery, extortion or whatever is appropriate. Of course, half my friends are ex-hookers or ex-porn actors, so I'm not the most unbiased judge.

I'm still waiting for a mandrake that looks like the shocker.

Jason,

You have my support. Good on you for calling them on their bullshit. If everybody did that, the bullshit would dry up pretty fast.

Yes, I try to capitalize as appropriate.

For those who give up, here is the director. That should make it really easy to figure out the films, but is a last resort and an invitation to scorn and derision.

In good faith, the customer shouldn't bash them with a negative review since the company is offering to fix whatever he's complaining for, right?

Wrong. Re (again) view (look). Another look at what happened. He described his experience. That's all. If I read a review, I want to know what happened, not a revised picture of what happened after money changed hands. Most companies prefer to pay off problems rather than provide adequate service in the first place, on the assumption that most customers are too meek or lazy to do anything. Posting a negative review when you're treated like crap is a public service to other potential customers. He owes the camera store nothing.

I thought Boingboing was all about creativity

The plate of cookies draws both the children and the flies.

Doesn't 'cash for feedback' boot them off Amazon for all eternity?

If DNA tracking becomes widely used, the Russian Mafia will find a way to alter DNA. They're always ahead of the government.

roughly $750 million modern money

You mean the price of five acres of land in downtown LA?

#000000 is hexadecimal code for black.

This is like GTA for Senators.

You must be new to BoingBoing comments. Some people are highly allergic to the creativity or success of others.

This leaves me hoping that white supremacist tee shirt designers aren't familiar with hex-dec, lest we see a counter-argument.

How boring would it be if you just loved everything all the time and only said as much?

How much more boring would it be to spend your day at the Museum of 18th Century Maggots or the Belorussian Enema Gallery and then complain about it. Why not just go to Disneyland or the Opera where you would have a good time? If I just loved everything all the time, I would be perfectly happy. That's a good thing. If I didn't want to be happy all the time, that would rather loudly hint that I wanted to be a victim or a martyr or someone who derives his identity from suffering.

i'm not saying xeni is in on the cover-up campaign

And I'm not saying that Xeni's hair looks a little too much like Marilyn Monroe's. I'm not saying anything. Nothing at all.

getting them into a program that helps teach them some kind of discipline has to be better.

Teach? In a school? I thought that you lived in the US. Who do you think will be teaching them and what do you think the lessons will be? You can teach many things. I wouldn't put any money on them being kind and benevolent things.

She was convinced that she would be murdered. She even said that she would never commit suicide; if it appeared that she had, it meant that someone had gotten to her.

Where is the little tyke, anyway. She's left us a puzzle and then evaporated.

Anyone working on my threefer?

Will,

You're a troll and a time-waster. You only show up in threads related to Tibet and China to support China and trash Tibet. My comment says that there are diplomatic alternatives that lie between intervention and collusion. As usual, you pretend to misunderstand. I have no more to say to you.

Do you know that a rowdy bunch of Tuatha de Danna can party all night long and leave a huge mess to clean up in the morning?

Seriously, dude, go to their place. There's a portal on Glastonbury Tor.

ACX99,

LOL. While simultaneously weeping.

From the Wikipedia article:

The police have used Oyster card data as an investigative tool, and this use is increasing. Between August 2004 and March 2006 TfL's Information Access and Compliance Team received 436 requests from the police for Oyster card information. Of these, 409 requests were granted and the data were released to the police. Additionally, in 2008 news reports indicated that the security services were seeking access to all Oyster card data for the purposes of counter-terrorism. Such access is currently not provided to the security services.

I don't know that you would call it a remix so much as fan-fic, but think of Wicked and The Wizard of Oz. That's the most successful example that I can think of, but other commercial examples exist. Susan Pevensie of the Narnia books is a character in a Neil Gaiman story and in a comic book series that also includes Alice, Dorothy Gale and Wendy Darling. Comic books/graphic novels are a great example of possible remixes of a text only book.

Not my country; not my problem. You start making other countries' problems your own and you end up with Vietnams and Iraqs.

And when you don't do anything, you end up with Nazi occupied France, Poland, etc. It is possible to distinguish between right and wrong. China annexed Tibet fifty years ago, is raping its resources and committing genocide against its people. There is, believe it or not, a whole range of alternatives that lie between nuking Beijing and colluding fully with China's totalitarian regime. The US and the EU should not send any dignitaries to the Olympics and should revoke all trade policies that are favorable to China. This is the biggest cultural and ideological war in human history. If we lose it, human rights will vanish for the foreseeable future.

Sounds like it good be a good trade school for a lot of youth.

The things is that the children who go to vocational schools are usually the ones who failed academic subjects and commonly had disciplinary problems. So we're now going to sort out the thugs and give them weapons and training.

I suspect that it would make a person better at dissociating experiences.

Oddly, I learned to dissociate when I threw my parents off a building.

As to Tenn's offering, I propose this, not least because of the leading man, whose specter has been lurking in this game.

Is it this?

Oh, best not to respond unless you have all three.

Yours seems like it's teetering on the tip of my brain, but Tenn's is impenetrable.

Three films, one director, order chronological, genre varies, time frame last thirty years, difficulty easy:

The Greatest space

Vampire Bean

Happy self location choice

Oh. There are rules. How petit bourgeois. You knew that it was a movie. Do you really require genre and time frame? And is SciFi the default genre since you all assumed it?

I linked to the Wikipedia article, not the video, so nobody would have to gouge their own eyes out after clicking the link. The video is nasty. "Too deep?"

You just like the part about wrestling with the devil.

Would this work? Comments are NSFW.

Going Greek with a centaur can be fatal.

Now that you mention it, it looks very hypoallergenic.

Would that include paintings and sculpture as well, since this is essentially an artwork?

And I think that I'll go with Agonistes instead of Antagonistes for reasons which should be obvious.

I had an acquaintance whose daughter used to rip the heads off her dolls and insert the leg of another, larger doll into the neck hole. Apparently they were on the cusp of being arrested every time they went to the mall. On a related note, she made him a grandfather at 38.

Always with the hair-pulling. That was like three months ago.

Can we do it with a real house? Please?

Dating is a great way to build self-confidence because you get to see how much more functional you are than the rest of the local gene pool. And I find it easier to do things in fourteen inch stilettos.

Geeks have passionate interests. That's what makes us geeks. Welcome to BoingBoing. May I take your coat?

And if you had used your verbal instead of your mathematical skills, you would have noticed that it's a big subject-already-provided chat room for me, Takuan, Noen, Jeff, Arkizzle, Tenn, Xopher......and I apologize to everybody that I didn't mention. Also, I have a job that requires me to sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring.

So is that......dollmeat?

Cefeida,

The vast majority of your comment history consists of defending trolls and attacking people who defend the Boingers. And you usually do it in a tone of self-pity and passive aggression. I believe that makes you a troll. You are dead to me.

Yup. Your turn. I'll work on them in the morning. Oyasuminasai.

One down.

One is; the other isn't.

Hello? Hello? Riddles pending over here.

Ah.

I reckon that we should have to take a shot for:

Boing Boing is a directory of wonderful things and how is this wonderful?

I saw this last week on _______. How is this news?

Why are comments being censored? I thought that BoingBoing was opposed to censorship!

Amen, brother.

Is this a news site?

a bit of disagreement is just grist for the mill

Nobody's arguing that point. Do you know that we have a drinking game that centers around commenters making the same tired complaints over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over?

Anyone I know? Did they put up much of a fight?

That's particularly alarming because SFO is usually known as one of the sanest airports.

Tak-kun,

Why are you lounging around here when I've left you two riddles to solve over in Fake Babies?

It ate half my comment again, so:

It's not a question of right or wrong. How would you like to get a stream of e-mails every day saying that you're boring, you're narcissistic, you're out of date? That's why comments were originally shut down and that's why Teresa is here to wrangle those who think, to quote Noen, that their turds are the Gettysburg Address.

Doesn't that rule apply to all known processes and outcomes?

I doubt they do it solely or even mainly for their own amusement

Then you haven't been keeping up, because they have explicitly stated it.

Just because someone says something critical of the site does not mean they're wrong

You do realize that all the quotes that you're addressing are from other sources, not from Mark?

Well, see, DBarak, the thing about BoingBoing is that the Boingers run it for their own amusement. If you also find it amusing, come on in. If not, go read another blog that suits your taste better.

In Soviet Russia, the dates get you confused.

It's like removing the safety from a gun before loading it because you're afraid that the safety might maybe be all defective-like or something. Risk/benefit, benefit/risk. Hmmm.

Heh.

Please assume that the above is a malicious link.

I've reported it for removal.

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TedJohnson,

Why wouldn't someone promote him/herself on his/her own blog?

Here's my favorite pedophile story about a pediatrician whose home was vandalized because the local peasantry couldn't tell the difference between a baby doctor and a baby diddler.

Grand Theft Auto is getting lots of flack from Mothers Against Drunk Driving because of the drunk driving and from New York City's Mayor and Police Department because it features killing. Oddly, none of them seem particular concerned about the fate of the hookers, which in the case of the Mayor and the NYPD, is probably pretty ironic.

And another easy one for vintage film buffs:

ass hole

invisible tsunami

I'm pretty sure that it's not Bunny Lake is Missing, but it would be really funny if it were.

Meanwhile, an easy one:

Doctor Bad

I never said SciFi. Y'all made that up on your own.

Even if you view it as a horse, that posture is still seven kinds of kinky.

In her case, 'ad verbithracium'.

Cory! Have you seen your picture in the Wilford Brimley thread? Arkizzle has felificated you.

This avaricious twerp or the bastards who set up the patent system in the first place?

The system is honor based. If you want the patent office to research claims, expect to pay $10,000 for a patent application. Then only the rich can patent things.

Damien Hirst's art sells for millions and he pretty much admits that it's a scam. They keep buying it. What exactly does one do with one's $100,000,000 diamond encrusted skull?

I sleepwalk, writhe, chew my tongue, talk and a variety of other activities when I'm asleep, probably because of my weird connective tissue disorder and associated neuro-freakiness. I wonder if this is a case of self-molestation. I sometimes wake up with bruises that I didn't have the night before. Oh yeah, I've also clocked two lovers in the middle of the night. Different nights. I'm not that kind of gentleman.

Yeah, but it's a great sex toy.

Why is anyone surprised that Ben Stein has a conservative bias

We're not. We're just kicking him around like a half-deflated football.

Tak-kun,

Have you noticed that 'ad hominem' is the most popular phrase from the glossary section of The Troll's Handbook? Sheesh.

Oy, super-mosquitoes. And I thought that only dementors were breeding down there.

They prevented security from boarding the plane to secure it. Are you an idiot or just a troll?

Jo Rowling is a self-proclaimed (small 's') socialist. I do feel sorry for Brown. Blair was meant to have handed power to him after five years per their original agreement, but instead hung on until the country was in ruins and Brown could come in and be crucified. Tony Blair is one of the most loathsome political opportunists imaginable. As for Charles, he's a socialist too, as is the Queen. The UK might run better if Magna Carta were revoked. It could scarcely be headed in a worse direction.

I was away

Is that a euphemism for 'passed out behind the pub'?

Done, but spirituality is out of fashion at the moment.

Have you read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? The PM is complaining because his opponent blames him for everything including bad weather. I'm sure that she had David Cameron in mind when she wrote that. He never really says anything except that the other side is wrong, wrong, wrong. I always wonder if he has any political positions or if he's just purely reactive.

Bigger than David Cameron?

Yavanna Kementari is the Vala in charge of things that grow. She would be a her.

People have been directing the evolution of domestic animals and plants for millennia

It's not going that well. We've sucked the nutrients out of plants, bred strains of everything that take more resources to grow and bred out resistance to disease and other stressors. All restaurants are now Taco Bell.

I was rooting for the hot gay cop.

There's nothing wrong with a man who gets a lot of beta carotene in his diet.

Crabs and crumpets! I just don't want to be left out if there's a secret club.

Better 9,000 false positives than one false negative.

Did you read the article? The TSA pinheads prevented security personnel from securing the planes. You oppose the US Constitution at the same time that you defend people who thwart actual security efforts. Are you working for Al Qaeda?

I forgot what a dish he was. They just don't make moustaches like that anymore. Unless you count Wilford Brimley.

That is front page material.

I have decided to up the ante by subjecting you to enhanced interrogation techniques.

This is the answer to the riddle.

You can keep trying to solve it or you can give up and click the link. Let your conscience be your guide.

It seems to fail Occam's Razor. We act pretty similarly to other social predatory mammals. On the language note, it turns out that some male spiders induce the females to mate by reflecting UVB off their own bodies in a semantic manner.

So, Xoph, If you live in New Jersey, have you evolved into one of these?

Freud argued that the family model tends to replicate itself socially, so groups will tend to form around a central strong phallic figure.

It just seems likely that we would have evolved to band together with our den-siblings to drive interlopers from the water hole. Are gorillas fascists? Or lions? It's a survival strategy which has become antithetical to survival on the global scale. If aggressive behavior favors the survival of the individual but also favors the extinction of the group, what happens? Do we continue endless internecine warfare, become extinct, or evolve through some heretofore unexamined aspect of evolutionary theory?

Should I dislike these cats..?

Try to imagine the cats eating his face after the diabeetus kills him. That'll cheer you up.

If you ask most people who believe in evolution to describe evolution, they describe something closer to intelligent design. But then, the majority of American college seniors think that you see because your eye sends out a 'ray' to interact with the seen object.

I think that fascism is a predictable outcome of the untrammeled human psyche. Not a good one, but just an extension of the pack mind.

Who let the craiglisters in?

This film had me converted to fascism.

That is an extremely disingenuous response as Tom's ire was clearly aimed at people who have "faith" in the stories in those books as the revealed word of a monotheistic god.

Except that those people pick and choose what's convenient just like everyone else.

Here's a post from Feministing about prostitution. The comments are more substantive than the post, but most commenters take an unbiased approach, along the lines of "it's screwed up as it exists, could it exist in a non-screwed up way?" As to the waitress thing, a recent Supreme Court ruling has made it almost impossible for a woman to sue an employer for being paid less than a man doing the same job. If it looks like a servant and it's paid like a servant...

Mindpowered,

My bad.

I have seen the expression 'sheesh' (occasionally 'scheesh') in eleven comments in the last forty eight hours. Is this some kind of viral meme? Or what?

I'm going with someone purely for the convenience of being able to go to senior Prom as a junior

Is your date named Neville?

Patent examiners get paid on approval of patents.

That's like paying doctors not to diagnose illnesses. Oh, wait, that's exactly how paid healthcare works.

You (and Feministing) want to discuss the symptom instead of looking for the cause.

So what do you have to say about the cause? Or was that just a way of silencing critics. Because, when you say that people should talk about the cause rather than the symptoms, and then you don't talk about the cause...

Or, more primally, because it is a joke.

Tard is clearly short for dastard, anyway.

To say that religion is ok because it hasn't killed as many people as the bloody autocracies of the 20th century is deeply disturbing.

That does rather make it sound like you need to give your permission. I'm of the 'believe whatever you want just don't make me listen to it' school.

In locker rooms across the English speaking world: "Hey! Cashew Dick! Stop hogging the bench!"

we're in a war between smart people and narrow-minded people

Or, to put it another way, between people who are too lazy or have never been taught how to think and those who have the ability and willingness to do so.

Clue: The title is snarky.

How can anyone dare assert that religion is less poisonous to humanity than any other form of fanaticism?

Like the one that you appear to espouse, wherein people aren't allowed to believe what they choose?

It's a sino-japanese colony, ne?

Didn't work.

Wrong Clostridium species. You can immobilize her jaw fashionably with C. botulinum toxin.

which did not figure out the patent violation at the time of granting that patent

I gather that in the last few decades, most patents are bogus. Some are spurious, others have already been patented, some are squatters. They just rubber stamp them to get the fee. And government departments and officials are commonly immune to legal action.

I take it then this is no hindrance to any packaged "food"?

Did you mean food "package"?

Wasn't Darwin describing a phenomenon rather than writing public policy?

I wonder if we will soon see a world where the old are cast down by a flood of children.

Shelley Winters' finest hour

A quarter of the US was stolen from Mexico. The border is an artificial construct which is destined to fail. The southwestern US is a Latin American country. Beat your head against the wall until you're unconscious, but it won't change that fundamental fact of US life. I, for one, am grateful to get away from the Anglo-Teutonic culture that dominates so much of the US.

I call upon the people of the world to find cats that look like Cory.

Is it made from wet Mazdas?

Some people have all the luck.

Mit Rosen bedacht. Me, too. Have my puzzle solved when I wake up, please.

The caraway one? That was a bad drunk! Drank a whole bottle after my best friend's funeral. We had a U-Haul in front of the house because we were moving the next day. We were so hungover, that we had to call a mover to move us. Literally move us. We couldn't even walk. I still can't get near anything with caraway in it.

Xopher,

Now that you've honed your oratory skills, why don't you come back to the world of the living? You've been trapped in this thread for a week. There's a whole world of penis thieves and whorehouses with stuffed polar bears waiting out there.

Everclear is just ethanol. Arak is filtered through greasy old farm equipment. And it's anise flavored. The name actually means 'sweat' in Arabic. Imagine Ouzo's evil twin.

Have you had Arak? Worst. Hangover. Evar.

No.