@Hazy DAvy

"I realize that only a small fraction of the population would return it...but...well, I would. And the fact that so many of you think that's weird makes me sad."

I think you'd be surprised, really, at just how many people would return it. I'd peg it somewhere around 30-40%.

@Frau

Agreed, although I think it would be ok if it was just a giant hot dog (or multiple hot dogs) and bacon. The ground beef is what breaks the deal for me (although, really, what is a (kosher) hotdog but ground beef?)

hmmm, a student with exactly enough cash to buy one pound of weed, who is foolhardy and forgetful enough to misplace that kind of scratch...

hmmmm....

I happen to have a Jayne hat (thanks, ETSY!) and just the other day acquired a Blue Sun Corp Logo t-shirt.

all that's left is to shave my beard into a goat and use the word "ruttin' " regularly.

where were you guys when my pops sold his 4 months ago?

coulda really used the press.

went for $60k i think.

@MadMolecule

i was skeptical but not at all incredulous at the idea. smacking the bottom of a snapple makes the top pop; that energy has to go SOMEWHERE. anyways, i've tried it and was pleased to find it works like a charm (though sometimes it's necessary to break the cork free from the walls of the neck with a small knife, or push it in a bit just to get things moving.

I prefer the shoe method when I haven't got a proper cork screw.

Actually, I prefer it even if I have got one, as it's a much more fun way to open a bottle. Snobs will advise against this based on claims of 'bruising' the wine. To that I say meh.

video if you haven't seen this method:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAx2TXt1v_I

Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it's impossible. Texting while driving was a de facto part of driving up until a year or so ago, and now everyone has jumped on the demonizing bandwagon. Why? Why all the vitriol? Ooooh, someone's breaking a rule!

Unless performance is affected, it is not a Big Deal. It astounds me to no end how frigging concerned everyone is with what other people are doing.

Now, the assholes who do it when they clearly shouldn't - those who lag behind or swerve - fine, criticize the slow down or the swerving. But those people aren't "distracted" drivers, they're simply BAD drivers. a GOOD driver can drive well in a variety of adverse conditions, including in-car distraction.

I used to be able to text while driving without even looking at the screen, but since i do it so infrequently now, it actually IS a distraction, when before it wasn't because it was something I'd practiced and done a million times.

I feel the same way about drunk driving laws, in that they keep mostly honest people from ever drinking and driving, and then the one time that they do, of course they're horrible at it - they haven't had any practice.

It's symptomatic of the flaws of prohibition as the answer to anything - especially things that normal, decent people already do. We'd see less drunk driving accidents and deaths if people were compelled to take the time to get sloshed and re-learn how to drive.

It's the difference between two diametrically opposed philosophies: X is bad, so make anyone who does X a criminal, OR X is bad, so how can we reduce the impact of X, given that people are going to do it no matter what the law says? Laws never stopped anyone from doing anything, but education helps people do whatever it is they're going to do well.

@Randi

"The men with the political powers are the real ones to blame"

As a man, I can assure that any contempt I have for the female gender is a direct result of my interactions with members of the female gender, and the magnification of the impact of those interactions caused by my biological drive to have sex with them, and not, in fact, a result of indoctrination by male politicians.

"They are still slabs of meat for men to drool over."

Halloween is coming up, I suggest you take a look outside at what women are naturally inclined to wear, and how they are inclined to act, when social constraints promoting prudence and modesty are removed for a single 24 hour period. Last year I wore a skin tight body suit and had at least 4 incidences where my genitals were groped without my consent by giggling, drunk 20 something women dressed as "sexy [fill in the blank]'s".

Feminists are to Misandrists what All-White Country clubs are to Klansmen - sure, y'all aren't burning effigies on mens lawns, but it's clear that you've got misplaced contempt and fear of men as a concept. Which is known as bigotry, by the way.

...How about this deal: One testicle to buy back 7 of the years I'll lose to smoking.

Actually, you know what? Screw it. I'd consider it if it would somehow inject 14 more years into my 20's and 30's, but those 14 you're talking about are tacked onto the end.

That's like paying extra for a version of a movie with longer credits.

No thanks.

"Obama could totally do it! I heard he has like, 12 Gibsons!"

"Sixty-one percent of Americans said the President should have the ability to shut down portions of the Internet in the event of a coordinated malicious cyber attack"

In other words, 61% of Americans have no fucking clue how the internet works. Wonderful. Presumably these people vote and have 'opinions' as well. Awesome. God bless America, because obviously we're in need of divine assistance.

Sometimes I wish i too were dumb enough to be both happy and confident, but I'd have to be so far gone that I wouldn't even realize that people like me were constantly groaning at the intellectually bankrupt nonsense I'd be vomiting in perpetuity.

@Splint

yeah the mac vs pc thing is really stale at this point, especially so because they're using standard intel architecture, and have been for years.

long ago it was well known that a 200mhz G3 would outperform almost any competitors processor at the same clock speed, making the hardware arguments somewhat valid.

i was raised on apples, and we had apples at my elementary school, and then in high school we had PCs, and somewhere in there apple made the jump to OSX. i missed the boat on that, and i never cared for the feel of it. then i got a job working on a windows machine and i've been with windows ever since. i used to be a whiz kid on macs but im so out of practice that i wouldn't claim to be able to fix any of them, while with windows im positive i can fix all of them regardless of the problem or if i've even encountered it before.

i hate the single button mouse. it bugs me the same way automatic transmissions bug me - do not dumb my stuff down, please. I hate itunes and ipod lockdown.

in response to the lady with carpal tunnel... does ANY manufacturer offer curved keyboards on laptops??

pft, we got climbable 250 foot redwoods around these parts. i define 'tall' as being up so high you can no longer see the ground, just tree stuff all the way down.

@Kaviani

What's racist about a cartoon mouse running fast?