Hah! This reminds me of a friend who had one of those little pickup trucks -- and a very expensive boomin' bass tube system. Once you got over the temporary deafness, it was like having a nice back massage. While being deaf, of course.
If students were trained earlier to get comfy with reading huge small-print texts with no pictures, no easy to read list of bullet points and lots of footnotes, we'd be a much smarter country. That's what serious research data looks like. It doesn't look like Wikipedia or Cracked.com's Top 10 list.
I can see these machines doing well in dive bars and on college campuses, but still...I frequently make pizza from scratch, and that machine's pizza has got to be a nasty crust.
I'm not seeing talent here. Now if it was "how many letters of the alphabet", "how many octaves can you hit (ala Mariah Carey)" or "what's the longest word you can say" while burping... That stuff takes talent.
From the photo, it appears this "baby hatch" is outside on the wall, so anybody nearby can watch someone drop off a baby. If a man or an older woman (obviously past childbearing years) drops off an infant, it's obviously not the mother doing the dumping.
It's sad that these exist, but unwanted children will probably grow up much happier in a home where they're actually wanted.
"The Art of War" is really a great guide for dealing with just about any kind of conflict. It's not about how to crush your opponent as much as it is how to win with honor (doing it right may turn an opponent into an ally).
As for Thomas Paine and the works of our other founding fathers, it just slays me to hear idiots claim that they wanted the US to be a "Christian Nation." It proves they don't know their idols very well at all. I think if they could have gotten away with it socially (and Paine didn't), quite a few of them would have declared themselves atheists or agnostics.
Anybody ever think the the head might look like G Dubya only when viewed in profile - and that it might not look anything like him when viewed from the front? Probably why nobody noticed it until somebody showed them a still from the show.
Another difference between 82 and today: There weren't nearly as many processed and/or frozen foods available for sale in 82. A well-stocked grocery store might have had 2 different types of pizza by 2 different brands, but that was it. And I don't recall "snack food" being a real category, either. Now it's an enormous business.
It's sad that these exist, but unwanted children will probably grow up much happier in a home where they're actually wanted.
As for Thomas Paine and the works of our other founding fathers, it just slays me to hear idiots claim that they wanted the US to be a "Christian Nation." It proves they don't know their idols very well at all. I think if they could have gotten away with it socially (and Paine didn't), quite a few of them would have declared themselves atheists or agnostics.