Everything posted by warren211
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Paper Bridge
105 kg?!?!?! I'm in the customary system so lets see thats... carry the one... type into google... thats... 220 pounds?!?!?!?!?! Holy crap, that's a tall order! You gotta use a LOT of paper rolled up. I guess it's reasonable, paper rolled well enough is almost as hard as metal. But still... in 8th grade my friend had a project where he has to build a bridge out of toothpicks. The bridge simply had to outlast the other bridges in the class by holding the most weight. I think he managed a few dozen grams, but still... 220 pounds/105 kilos? The weight of a muscular teenager? Bring out the super glue, elmer's won't cut it.
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Drawball - New Recruits Needed!
Repaired the E and covered the Anon mask with the help of another person who I think is y guy :
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Kid Kills Himself Recreating Halo
The kid has access to the gun, he's not educated on gun safety, he doesn't know the gun is loaded, he stupidly tries it on his head for fun... and the VIDEOGAME takes the rap for his and the family's stupidity? The media just loves to find reasons to say videogames are the cause of today's horrors in the world. It gets annoying.
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About coincidences
A coincidence happened to me just a few minutes ago (which in itself is a coincidence, considering that I experienced a coincidence just before viewing a thread on coincidences). I was thinking about a homework problem from back in 6th grade that I never solved and my teacher never gave the answer. As I was thinking, my brother (who is in 6th grade) came to me asking for help on a problem. I glanced at it and was shocked to see it was the same problem I'd been thinking about :shock:
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Drawball - New Recruits Needed!
Would making the thread invisable really do anything? :lol: :shame: :shame: :shame: :shame: :shame: :shame: :shame: I'd like to also say hello, i am new to the community and thought this would be an interesting place to start. \ You do have a point there. And welcome to tipit. Contributing to the ongoing battle against the failures of the Internet is a perfect way to become part of our community :
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Drawball - New Recruits Needed!
What part of the ball is it? Me no sees it. Watch the failures of /b/ trying in vain to erase the mural because they think they're uber terrorists. This will be amusing.
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Drawball - New Recruits Needed!
Meh, some vandal thinks he's cool because he's watching this thread. He wrote it in the logo (I got rid of it). Won't do much, let them think they control the internet because they can scribble. But if it's possible, mods, can you make this thread invisible to non-registered users? These failed death threats are annoying :wall:
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Drawball - New Recruits Needed!
With someone else helping, got rid of a nasty message at the bottom. But I think it's being protected, it came back after it was erased :| I'm gonna wait till they go away before erasing it.
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Atom Smasher
I was checking the news on Comcast this morning and found the article on atom smashing. So it is real. But the article doesn't mention a thing about threatening to end the world. I think the Sun exaggerated a bit here :roll: There have been quite a few atom smashers in the past that didn't turn out so disastrous. http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world-europe/20080907/Big.Bang.Machine/
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Guilty Pleasures
I'm a huge fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I'd never admit it to any of my friends.
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Drawball - New Recruits Needed!
Oh my god, I'm at 5% ink and some one turned the TIPS into a huge nasty message. :ohnoes: EDIT: I found our logo on the front page of /b/. I'd post it here but it has the nasty word not appropriate for here. They're planning to maintain the letters too. Plus, we now have ebaumsworld against us. Freaking wonderful -.-
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Your Greatest Fears?
I'm afraid of bugs and any creepy crawlies. It's rather unfortunate because in Illinois we get massive flying cockroach type things called cicadas (sih-KAY-duhs) every summer. [hide=Cicada][/hide] They freak me out and make incredibly loud buzzing noises that sound like a nasaly kid being strangled combined with a dying canary. :ohnoes: I am also afraid of extremely tight places. Not cars or planes, but being in coffins or air vents or something where I can get stuck. Once I get the thought of being buried or trapped alive in a tight space, I have trouble breathing and sweat more.
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Do They Really Work?
Well just for the heck of it I took a look at some of the reviews for this product (http://www.infomercialratings.com is very useful site that reviews all these infomercials). The reviews seem to have some bad, some good. [hide=reviews]For the Shamwow: A reviewer stated that the instructions (you need INSTRUCTIONS for a cloth?) say you need to wet it and wring it dry before use. Now, if you're trying to DRY something, why would you use a WET cloth? The only use it has is if, as in the commercial, you're trying to absorb a massive amount of liquid. The negative reviewers seem to love the phrase "scam-wow" and "wow-sham" to express their distaste :lol: Here's another billy mays product: Zorbees. A cloth that's basically the same as Sham-Wow. Every review on page 1 of the review list was negative. They just spread the liquid around and shread. If you're using it on a car, it leaves lint like a normal paper towel. Failed product. Billy Mays' Mighty Putty: This one is getting some negative reviews, and some "it's ok" reviews. Few positive. It works like normal putty and when using it for, say, a door hinge, you have to shove it between the cracks of the hinge to make sure it works. Very difficult to make sure each and every slight opening is completely filled and no gap is spared. Buxton Organizer: Basically a normal bag. Seriously, there's nothing special to it. Just has a lot of pockets. The reviews say it's cheap and breaks easily. Not sure if it's true, but sounds liked a product not worth it's price to me.[/hide] Most of these products are not worth buying because you're not sure how it's going to do unless you read the reviews. The infomercials always exaggerate the strength. They'll never show the bad sides, video editing will make it look like it works instantly or requires little effort, and Billy Mays is an annoying, screaming bastard who deserves to die painfully. 8-)
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Your "facepalm" moments?
People with the stupidest of responses on OT. And it's no coincidence that I posted right after mlbfan. : I kid, I kid.
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Kids, honestly what do you want from yours?
I like sonerohi's idea. But as for me, I'd rather be the humble but firmly disciplining parent. Teach them to respect authority, not slacking on punishment (but making sure not to be abusive), making them good kids. Loving them equally. You know, the parent that raises a well-mannered child. In reality, I'll probably be one of those parents who raises rather horrible kids but does all he can to fix it but fails anyway, and 30 years later wakes up each morning in a filthy house facepalming wondering where I went wrong.
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Do They Really Work?
I love how in the Sham-wow commerical they stress that it was made in Germany. It's German! It has to work! We all know Germans are the best engineers, and while I don't know what that has to do with cloth weaving, it still has to work! It can absorb liquid without touching it! I'm not sure if any of these products work. I'm sure they work to some extent, but to extremities that you'll never have to deal with? Like towing an 80,000 pound truck? Why pay more for this self proclaimed "ultra strength" product when you can pay the normal amount for as more reasonable product that just gets the job done?
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Government conspiracies
Even if they manage to make their deaths look like an accident, it will not erase suspicion. In fact, it'll add to the suspicion. Nothing hides from the media. Word will get out that the men who died happened to be 9/11 conspiracy investigators. Plus, a video of 9/11 conspiracies being removed would add to the suspicion. Killing them would just make them a martyr to the cause and bring more supporters. And as someone put nicely, if a project has over zero people involved, word will get out eventually. Creating such a major undergoing in total secret with absolutely no clues that anything ever happened is very hard to do, maintaining the secrecy is just as hard.
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Drawball - New Recruits Needed!
Fixed the N entirely (again), someone had gotten rid of the middle of it making it II. Also fixed the top of the E, as Magic said. : Whoever is vandalizing the E is either female or stereotypically gay, or very low on ink. Seriously... Purple dots?
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Abortion
That's a rather ridiculous simile. I could call theft to be a transferring of wealth, and rape to be sex without consent of a partner. It sounds so harmless. As for unnatural, nowadays everything is unnatural. Now, does that make abortion right? No. But it's still not a very valid argument. I'm still pro-life though.
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Government conspiracies
I think most conspiracy theories are baloney made up by bored people or people who want others to distrust the government for whatever reason. I read that Flat Earth theory thing and well... it seems ridiculous to me. Sure, they seemed to have disproved almost every claim against the theory, but still... how is circumnavigation possible, then, if you fall off the side of the world if you continue in a straight line? And what about satellites, which orbit the earth because the rate they fall toward the earth is fast enouch that the world curves away, as Newton theorized? If the world was flat, satellites would just drop down into earth. Oh wait, the government is obviously hiding that secret too, and is somehow secretly refueling satellites frequently without citizens noticing anything flying toward outer space. Chances are if the government was hiding something, it would come out eventually. In fact, no matter what the government does whether it's about the earth's shape or a terrorist attack, there will always be conspiracies. The problem is, the government has seldom managed to keep things hidden for so long besides things that are rumored to be under government control like Area 51. There's no way the governments of the world can keep a secret of a flat earth for centuries. Everything kept secret by a major power or group is eventually leaked by a traitor or slip up or just plain "you can't hide it forever".
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Drawball - New Recruits Needed!
We can redo the S the next time it gets wiped out or scribbled on. The last thing we need is to be in the middle of fixing the S when vandals show up. Then we have 2 projects to fix. I think the logo looks pretty good now besides some scribbles near the P, but I think we can ignore it for now because it's not causing any major damage. We need to conserve our ink for the next /b/ onslaught. By the way I forgot to mention, welcome back War_Junky : we need all the men we can get.
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American Dad! :pleasekillme:
Watched a few AD shows, hated it. They should really stick to Family Guy. All the somewhat funny jokes that would have been funnier are wasted on AD and leaves less for FG. I'd rather have one uber good show than 2 mediocre ones.
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Digital Distribution vs Boxed Products.Your thoughts.
Digital Distribution helps save the trees that are involved with making the cardboard and paper whatever material boxes. Plus, we reduce car emission because we can sit at home instead of driving to the store to buy a game. :mrgreen: I think Digital distribution is a good idea for the next gaming revolution. Already the Wii shop, steam, gametap, and other groups offer products straight through the net.
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Most unethical thoughts that cross your mind
Ah, I remember thinking what it would be like to sleep with Sarah Palin :-# I've also had thoughts of torturing people in the most obscure ways. Like playing Beethoven in the background while using a crazy medieval torture device like that one that stretches your arms and legs until they dislocate, and other methods of torture. Then whenever they hear the song after they survive the ordeal, they'd go insane with memories of the horrific incident. :twisted:
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LOL's & Their Place in Society
I sometimes used lol when I wanted to tone down the harshness of a comment when talking to someone online so we don't start a flame war. "That's the stupidest idea ever lol" "Don't be a moron lol" "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU??? lol" I remember abusing lol this way when I was a newbie to runescape because I was afraid I'd get banned or something if I offended someone. Today I am unafraid to speak my views regardless of how you feel about it. You're all idiots. Lol. And I meant the lol this time.