Rebdragon

Quick question: what high school did you go to/what city are you from? Like fifty guys from my high school went to OSU, they're going to be sophmores this year. The schools gigantic, but hey, they'res a chance you might know a St. X guy. Oh, and if you answer those questions PM it. I don't need the mods banhammering me again for a personal information request >_>.

An Ohio man. High five. I went to school out of state. Stupid Ohio and it's non Ivyleagueness. [broadcast]

Damnit. I typed that word, looked at it, thought "is the verb the one with the -e, or the noun?", said "screw it", and went and ate a fish taco. I hate fish tacos.

Dude, I already told you, I own Vatican City, and thus the Pope is within my domain. The Pope decrees that it is the best interest of all who believe in Jesus to donate at least $10 USD to the cause of helping those of Italy who have suffered greatly from this horrid act of God. Also, he decrees that condoms are evil. MAKE BABIES. And thanks to the newly developed Metal Storm space station (thanks to greatly appreciated donations from around the world), the sin of using condoms can and will be enforced by religious law. So don't wrap your willy or you'll get a metal rod up your [bleep]. A big one.

Mostly just curiosity. Are you people really just sitting behind a computer, making up meaningless stuff while keeping up to date on fifty pages of other peoples' meaningless stuff? I get other threads, in that they have a topic of interest to discuss such as a new scientific discovery of a piece of news, or even just simply a general topic of discussion (such as the Weightlifting thread), but this? Don't you guys have a soccer ball to kick around or some friends to text?

Are you guys playing the internet equivalent of kids playing House...? Seriously, what the [bleep] is this? "Hey guys, I own Vatican City. Oh, and hey, we've just developed Metal Storm! So in spite of the fact that I just made up how awesome my country is in developing something that even the most powerful modern military nations never build for another few decades, if ever, you must all bow to my every whim lest I rain torrents of destruction upon your major cities!" ... ...seriously?

No, apart from the bodyguard busines, it doesn't. Thanks for pointing that out. Beating on the weak is for scum. But fighting with other men, under terms agreed upon by both parties, is not. It's just part of being a guy. As primitive as it may seem, everyone one of us males has testerone flooding the entirety of our bodies, testerone that is constantly screaming at us, screaming, "FIGHT, FIGHT!". It's why we find so much enjoyment in wrestling, in football, in just having fun grappling with our buds. It's why Fight Club is such an iconic male movie- we all love the thrill of battle, of fighting 'til our last breathe. So don't act like your better than other guys because you for some odd reason don't have this base instinct. I don't think I'm alone in saying this: get off your high horse.

:thumbup:. Right Wingers annoy me. Like my dad. "Lets go crash the environmental parade and vote conservative." Uhh. Left wingers annoy me. Ya, I said it. Tough cookies, wanna fight about it? I kid. But not really.

Do you have any idea how many centuries late you are in making that joke?

Honestly? I don't think I'd be much in a fight. I took some Judo this past year, and I'm at least athletic and well-built, but I really don't have any true fighting experience or training. If there's anything I'd go for though, it'd be Muay Thai, Krav Maga, or some kind of wrestling (heh, maybe Judo). Most other styles seem like they'd be hard to use in an actual fight, at least for the first few years of learning them. ... Give me a detailed analysis of all fights you've been in and how your style of pressure point pin pointing has aided you in your victories. Scientifically and martially speaking, I'm interested.

You have a round face, and you're still growing. Hit the gym (mebe), eat your veggies, and in time you'll grow into that hairstyle; in my honest opinion, it suits you. Going short with your hair is a nice safe way to have a simple and easy cut, but your head shape is more suited for a longer style. No need to change, especially if you actually want to go for those examples. Ack. Everyone, you aren't funny. Two choices: either help the lad or make a funny joke. Otherwise, please, stop.

Or, you know, zero. All ya'll, please, look up your superstitions' backings before you post them.

Without even realizing this anime was the buzz a few pages ago, I just finished Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (HD torrent, although I did catch the last episode on SciFi channel). Damn was that a fun ride. This review summarizes my thoughts pretty well. [hide=] [/hide] Highly recommend :) .

If someone asked you the OP's question in real life, would you answer as such? That's the question ya'll need to ask yourselves before you post.

As a fraternity man, and as such a person with the educational equivalent of a doctorate in alcohol studies, I agree with Barihawk. If you've ever indulged in drinking and feel you can honestly say that you've never done something you regret while intoxicated, well, either you've never gotten truly drunk or you're quite the rarity.

Friends have fights and disagreements on certain topics every once in a while >_>. I'm sorry, I'm just a male with a scientific mind, a mundane thing on this forum I suppose. Why are you comparing animals to computers...? Just because they both "percieve" doesn't mean the word means the same thing for both of them. By that I mean, founding your faith in the possibility of the generation of souls in AI's in biology doesn't seem to make any sense.

Meh, Goddess, I'm not a fan of sifting, nor of necromancy. Nice rebuttal. Still, I am concerned that you say these things without any apparent background in robotics or programming. AI's aren't programmed with human traits and emotions, their programmed with command codes to imitate them. Please don't base a scientific argument in Hollywood, and please don't think that my denial of the likelyhood of one esoteric thing means that I'm contradicting myself when I mention a different esoteric thing. Am I even using the word esoteric right here? I'm not sure. Someone help me here. I mean like spiritual, or unique to the human race, something unknown and/or not understood fully. Like the formentioned soul and "fuzzy logic." Anyways, I'm saying this stuff that can't be replicated is based in our biology, not in our spiritual whatchamacallits. Btw, I never said the soul doesn't exist. I just said there's no reason to believe it does. I seem to recall an argumentative tool, have to look it up though... ah, yes. I remember this one from old debates long passed. Russel's teapot. Bleh, I hate the sound of that almost as much as I hate it when someone mentions the word "straw man." "Alchemists are scientists... we strive to understand the principles of creation in the matter of the world, to pursue truth... It's ironic that we scientists... who don't believe in god... are in a sense the closest things to him."

Wow, I see that your having quite the high here. Common courtesy dictates that I shouldn't speak my mind here, but... Christ. BLEH. Ya, we laughed at the idea that the world was flat. Back when we were barely founding civilization around 400 BC, when we also thought the magma coming out of mountains was caused by some guy named Vulcan drunk off some beer from some other guy named Bacchus. It's not exactly like the discovery of the roundness of the world was a theory that defied heavily backed scientific understanding, so mentioning it to back the possibility of something like the presence of a soul within a pile of carbon matter doesn't really mean much. Maybe mention another discovered truth that defied the scientific world in the past century or two, and then you'll have a point (that being, that the impossibly unlikely is not impossible). The law of the attraction is a pile of [cabbage] in scientific terms. Yes, desiring something with all your will will make it more likely to come to pass than if you don't give two [cabbage]s about it. That's nothing spiritual, that's basic logic. Yes, you're a human, and humans are built to instinctively notice patterns in their environment. But picking and choosing only those few correlations that satisfy your illogical fantasies is a weak-minded and sad way to justify them. That's why people might give you ridiculous looks. Oh, and no, it's impossible for a robot to truly experience emotions, just like they can't understand fuzzy logic. As far as science is concernced, anything to the contrary is merely an illusion. Srry 'bout that :|.

Shadow, would you chill? No one ever said that. No one here is acting like that, so where's the hate coming from?

Let me get this straight. Because Google, a US based company, is limiting the services that it offers to it's customers by eliminating porn from their searches, you feel that you've lost your first amendmant rights. Am I missing something here, or are you just a couple apples short of a batch?

I don't have time to spend two hours of my day watching a video titled "The Obama Deception." Is there, like, a SparkNotes of it or something?

Don't ruin the moment. We kicked Spain's [wagon] >_>.

It's not that strange that US won. US always seem so motivated, and Spain probably underestimated the USA. USA played well, and Spain had bad luck, they had so many chances, but every time there was a leg or something else between the ball and the goal. Honestly, I love my nation and am ecstatic that we not only won, but shut Spain out (read: [bleep] YEAH MOTHER [bleep]ERS), but at least based on the second half Spain should have won. Spain had more shots, more energy and more control. The US by all means deserved the win through their tenacity and willingness to take every chance they had, and no major event of the game occured through anything less than the will of the players, but take one look at the statistics of the game, and you have to admit, it is a little strange that US won. Also, why the hell doe no one in this nation watch soccer. I worked at a restaurant tonight, and you know what was on the TV? Baseball. We, the United States of America, in one of the, if not the, greatest international sports tournament on this here globe, have defeated the number one ranking team in the world and advanced farther on any international sports stage than we ever have before. And [bleep]ing bum[bleep] MLB is on the tele. Only in America, eh?

So.. are your moms hot?

I tore down a sixty foot tree in my backyard. WITH MY BARE HANDS. Nah, really, my brother, my Dad and I cut down this thirty foot walnut tree in our backyard that had for some reason sponaneously died last year, in spite of abundnant sunlight and water. And yet the trunk was still strong as hell. Go figure. Oh ya, then we went to BW3's and then went to the theatre to see The Proposal (highly reccommend). Then we had cake :thumbsup: .