Lenticular_J

They're probably just aliens that want to make fun of our "Mostly harmless" world. There are paintings from medieval times that show people flying in disks and arrows and shapes. Which means crazy aliens, time travel, or leftover Roman and Greek technological wonders. Definitely.

Haha, I'm jealous about something. It's so cute.

Where is Will Smith? Someone call Will Smith!

Depends on if the article took my fancy. And if I then spent the rest of the day researching one little thing. I know more about empathy now than I thought existed. Or, when Brett and Kate realize I need to write all the articles. Except the guest ones. That would just be silly.

I think the writer had been reading the Hitchhiker's Guide prior to the writing.

Empathy. There is none. The vast, vast majority of the population of our generation (could probably say most folks under 25, although it's commonplace in every age group) are apathetic at best. More often they're cynical, sarcastic and quite cruel. With anonymity, you feel distant from other people and their problems. Empathy is one of the most powerful tools of the human mind for social situations, right up there with passion and flow. But many go without said empathy, even though it is very much a therapeutic tool. For example: someone cuts you off while driving. Most people will assume the guy's a jackass, and he may be. But maybe he's a jackass whose wife just had a heart attack, and all the ambulances are busy? Positive emotions and memories are vastly, vastly more powerful than negative ones. They're what last into your old age, and why confused elders often might think you're their child or brother or sister. So it's really everyone that's the problem. Attitude-wise. Let's fix it.

Indeed. The only time I've seen it work is in the case between me and ... The girl. And that's because neither of us are used to the up-front thing.

Aye. More people speak English than you'd think. A lot just won't speak it to someone they don't think deserves it. I would definitely try to learn some of a local language, or at least a language besides English. Luckily I know a good deal of Spanish and Italian, which are also very common languages.

Man, the east coast gets everything.

I need to find scholarships. Preferably the kind I write essays for, since I'm good at that.

I only learned how to ride a bike last summer. My brother's. He left it here when he moved, tires went flat. I took it out for a ride not too long ago, got about 100 feet, felt like crying because I couldn't get it far and didn't know the tires were flat. I was sad. The only person in a movie I've been compared to is Ryan Gosling in Fracture. Looks and personality. Never seen it, though.

Or the girl interprets it as he's coming for a booty call.

Russia and China both flipped the bird to Iran last year. North Korea probably mumbled something about it, but they're next on the list of nations everyone hates and would willingly beat up. Why does everyone think nuclear weapons are everyone's answer to everything? Iran would be attacked in a last-ditch effort to ensure that nukes aren't used. Iran would probably be more willing to destroy Israel than anyone else, and all that White-Non-Jew guilt would rage into the Middle East if that happened. Of course, when the smoke cleared, there might be a new lake where Pyongyang used to be.

Ah! Contingency. Exactly the word I was going to look for. I find it funny that a lot of you are freaked out by governments being prepared, but willingly talk about how you'll kick someone's ass if they provoke you. I thought that The Guardian was considered a bad source of news in Europe?

I don't have a bicycle. About five miles. I've certainly walked farther, but I'm not really going to walk five miles in 100+ degree heat. Not to mention she works constantly. Every single day, it seems, she's either working or traveling with her family. It is quite annoying. I kind of have to wait until school starts. Which I don't like. Besides, I'm not going to visit her at her house. We haven't even been on a real date. I'm trying to tread the balance between gentleman and cad, socially. Or at least an infuriatingly interesting gentleman. I don't know how to describe it.

I can't drive. I don't have reliable friends with reliable transportation. Twenty-two days, though, and I'll have my license. I hope... (My parents say they'll take care of all the paperwork, but since I had to title my car myself [very complicated when the part-owners moved to Hong Kong], I'm not having much faith)

I'm struggling with my lady. Even though she was straight-forward about how she would be pretty bi-polar at times, it still bugs me sometimes. She just won't give me a straight answer about anything. We both like each other. We're both like little baby birds in the world of relationships. Just bugs me that I can't just drive and see her. Talking over the phone/texting is the bane of my existence.

I would love to see The Black Keys. Went to the Thrash and Burn Tour today (Asking Alexandria). Not really my scene, but I did enjoy it. They put on a pretty good show. Although I might just be enjoying it because I hung out with them at Whataburger afterward. Ben, Danny, Sam, James, and one other one that started with a C or a K - the last three were talking with someone else most of the time. Simple names, I liked it. Pretty cool guys. Kind of [bleep]s, but I expected nothing less. It was cute how some girls that took their shirts off at the concert followed us there and sat right beside our little booth, but didn't say anything.

The hippies.

I would like to get my hands on a copy of The Book of the Wars of the Lord. Since nobody has found it. Or go back to that time and watch the Roaming Jews kick every ass they saw. I can see it now: the battle is going badly. The not-Jews are winning. Then BOOM ARK OF THE COVENANT GOD MODE and the Jews win.

Depends on who you talk to. And how you present yourself.

Ancient Greece for educational reasons, ancient Rome for the donkey-and-goat-filled orgies. I also want to snag the rest of Livy's Histories. Make a cool infinite amount of dollars revealing which dinosaurs the Roman children preferred to clone to ride to school.

Don't worry, I really don't take offence to anything. :P I like to avoid tension/arguements in general It really IS a show targetted at the younger audiences though, you're right, but I meant its so damn good of a show I can't resist watching it. Sigh... yes I realize there can't be anything graphic on a show like that. But I mean, they wouldn't have to show actual blood. Just her falling over, dying, with massive amounts of intestines spewing out from the wound. Just kidding. :P My friends introduced me to Avatar. They're all in college. Some are about to graduate. And most are sexy.

I don't watch much TV any more.

Good with the splitting. The only time she should pay everything is when she offers - not just offers, but insists.