ITT: Inconsequential Crap

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What's the deal with the appendix?

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So, I'm watching the original Superman movie, with Christopher Reeve, and what's the deal with Jor-El wearing the Superman logo in the flashbacks?

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There is no S in -El

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I feel like wearing sandals, but not like taking my socks off before I do so.

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Werner Heisenberg is driving down the freeway, when he gets pulled over by a cop.

"Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"

"No, officer, but I know exactly where I am."

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What, so his assumption was that if he didn't believe he had cancer, then he just didn't have cancer?

I see, the Onion.

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So, I was in the neighborhood where I grew up today. They're closing the library there. That makes me feel sad; I spent a lot of time in that library as a kid.

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happy scumday shaft.ed!

Also, I'm surprised that Sudo remembers I'm a Newfie. I haven't mentioned it in forever.

I can smell it on you.

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happy scumday shaft.ed!

Also, I'm surprised that Sudo remembers I'm a Newfie. I haven't mentioned it in forever.

I can smell it on you.

It must be an old smell. Haven't gone there for quite a while...

Well, you Newfies never bathe.

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Fahrenheit, which was designed by Daniel Fahrenheit, a German physicist who lived in the Netherlands. It was designed such that 100 degrees was the human body temperature, and 0 degrees was the combination of water, ice, salt, and brine. Except the second part is bullshit; according to his logs, he just designed zero so that it'd be colder than it gets in the Netherlands so he wouldn't have to put negative numbers in his temperature log, and he only came up with the water-ice-salt-brine story when he published his paper on the Fahrenheit scale.

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Celsius is interesting, because originally it was backwards. Anders Celsius originally designed it so that 0 was the melting point of water, and 100 the freezing point, and thus lower numbers signified higher temperatures. The scale was then inverted by Carolus Linnaeus after Celsius died.

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Just started watching Eureka

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An open letter to the Transsexual in my study group:
I know we had a bit of a to-do today, but that doesn't mean I have a problem with transsexuals, or even with you specifically. I'm all in favor of a person's right to redefine their own soul, and I'll happily call you a "she", and even "Yummy", if that's the name you've chose for yourself- after all, just because it's not on your birth certificate doesn't mean it's not your real name.
The only reason I'm saying all this, is that I wasn't trying to insist that you're "really" male, or that you should act or dress in any specific way, so as to please me or anyone. I really just wanted you to stuff your penis back into your low-riders.
I regret any embarrassment this may have caused either of us.
Sincerely,
Micheal.

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I would have thought that a Trans Woman would have devised a solution for the penis, honestly. I thought that was kind of a big deal.

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If you count TV and Stage, I have a Kevin Bacon number of 3.

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If you count TV and Stage, I have a Kevin Bacon number of 3.

Oh, do elaborate!

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Sudo was in The Importance of Being Earnest with Preston Wamsley, who was in The Hughleys with Gerry Becker, who was in Trapped with Kevin Bacon

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My birthday is tomorrow. I shall be wearing a hat given to me by my buddy named sudo_nym!

Yay! I didn't mention it, but that hat enables adventures to be had.

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Sudo had a midterm this morning. Sudo has been drinking since noon. Infer at will.

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Wow, you people are just the worst.

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Sudo's new cousins just sprouted hair. To my eternal shame, I am now related to gingers.

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My philosophy syllabus says that Michael Shermer will be giving a guest lecture tomorrow.

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Your art was even more powerful than you thought it was!

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What? Over 9000?

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What's the difference between a Pulitzer prize winner and a Utah Carpenter?

One's Norman Mailer.

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http://seaquence.org/kht2

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I got 11, 10 8, 6, 7, 6, for an overall 8.0

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I got a perfect on Hue.

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Random fact for the day:

Margarine is 1 molecule away from being plastic.

A fact that's completely meaningless, because even a minor change in molecular structure can radically change the properties of that molecule.

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yay!

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Overheard on the train today:

"Jeremy, come to the store with me."

"No, I'm hanging out with my friends today."

"You idiot, I was trying to give you an excuse to ditch your friends and have sex instead."

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Wow. Six years on the site. You people have wasted so much of my time!

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It turns out that if you add a bunch of arbitrary numbers together, you wind up with an arbitrary number.

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I had a dream last night with Barbra Streisand's being on stage singing and whatnot. Does that make me gay?

How many dicks where in your mouth during the dream?

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Really? Could've sworn it was much longer.

heh heh heh

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The eczema fairy.

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A certificate in eczema?

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talking dinosaur soap operas

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I'm actually pleasantly surprised that Dinosaurs was a real show and not a hallucination I had.

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If anybody is wondering whether there is such a thing as Cassandra Cain/Stephanie Brown slash art, rest assured that it exists.

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So, one of my classmates had her daughter with her today, since she couldn't get a babysitter. Professor gave her some chalk and the back chalkboard, and she drew this:

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I"m more impressed with the art, cause damn

how old is the girl?

Didn't ask, but looked around 9-10.

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Just got home from seeing Weird Al live. Awesome show; will have pics eventually. Still buzzing, I was like 10 feet from the stage, and his drummer was really loud.

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OK, this is awesome.

I don't get what's supposed to be happening.

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I mean, I fought hard for a long time to try and get people to recognize the gender-neutrality of the word "man" in that instance. It's linguistically viable, and the etymology is sound; the problem is that the way humans use words does inform how people think.

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I hate the use of the word "their" for a gender neutral singular. Personally, I'm fine with using "his" as gender neutral when gender is unknown. Similarly, I'm fine with using "her" as gender neutral as well- in fact, when I'm writing papers, I'll usually alternate between the two. I would vastly prefer that something better would gain sufficient popularity, though.

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Do y'all believe languages permit exact synonyms?

It permitted an exact Sudonym. Does that count?

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Synonym's my cousin. He's better at physics, but I can probably replace him if you just need a low-level tutor.

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I need a high class Tudor, can you help?

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You just don't know anything about fashion.

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So now my cousin is trying to convince me that my life is worthless because I don't have the Jesus.

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Your cousin PMed me. WTH?

Seriously? That's amusing. He's also going to be uploading a sermon he gave on John 3:16, in case you're interested in following this train all the way to the crash.

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So, Flay, my cousin try to pm you some more?

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Really? That's surprisingly out of character for him. Although now I'm dying to know what it is that he said that he's content to drop the subject.

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Yep, that's definitely him. If nothing else, I think this informs the debate style I tend to adopt when I've gotten into arguments about religion on the site- you see the level that I come prepared for. I do feel a bit regretful to have projected that upon the mostly reasonable user base here, though.

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Spoiler: Mostly I just declined his kind offer

I'd like you to follow this conversation. If you agree with his point I am able to share some facts that you maybe are not aware of. At least it would educate you better to what us stupid Chriatians believe so you could mock us better, right?=^ ) But i intend to make your boy my cousin a better man be schooling him a bit here cause he doesn't know what he is talking about. Please feel free to wiegh in on the issue as well. I welcome the intellectual challenge and bet you can't neither of you can best me here. =^ )

Spoiler: I would have replied

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I really don't want to get involved in an "intellectual challenge" with someone who has a limited grasp of English grammar and spelling. It's not fair to either of us.

I could give you his contact info, if you like. I've been having this conversation with him for 10 years, so having a pinch hitter may be the way forward.

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I was born blonde, but my hair has gotten darker with age, to a chocolate brown now. My beard was also blonde for years, but is now a light brown with a blonde mustache. Genetics is weird.

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Also, furry lobsters are a thing as well.

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It kinda freaks me out a little when people have eyebrows that are a different color than their hair.

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Rollerskating is just like riding a bicycle, expect with different numbers of wheels and also the wheels are on your feet and also doing it correctly requires different motions and balance.

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Why should that stop you?

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rather not get run over

Pedestrians have right-of-way. Cars are legally obligated to not run you over.

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rather not get run over

Pedestrians have right-of-way. Cars are legally obligated to not run you over.

Laws won't help once you get smushed by a car.

Laws are inviolate. That's why they are laws. Otherwise, they are just theories and hypotheses.

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Well, the man is well-marinated.

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I've played so much Blood Bowl lately that I thought that was a reference to that.

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#getoffmylawn

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I dyed my hair pink. The stylist told me that dying your eyebrows is a stupid and dangerous idea. So I'm just gonna put pink eyeshadow on them instead.

pics or it didn't happen

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Why not just saw the top of your head off, and wear wigs?

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Dad is getting remarried. Asked me to be his best man. This is a great deal to process at once.

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Whenever I talk to people with blue eyes, they kinda freak me out
Then I remember I have blue eyes and I wonder if everyone that talks to me is similarly freaked out

Do I freak you out, shaft?

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They do have cherries in Asia.

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Finally got around to watching How to Train Your Dragon. It's pretty alright.

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So I had an interview today. Went on for 2 hours. That's a good sign, right? The job sounds like it would be more interesting, more fun, and more money than my current job. It's odd that I spent months trying to get an interview with anyone, and now that I have a job, jobs are approaching me.

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Today, I got to listen to my cousin explain to me that hair color is determined by the phase of the sun during your birth.

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yeah please don't I don't actually want to play any games

Your move rate in Shadows proves this to be true.

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I go as soon as I'm aware it's my turn and online, soooo

Your admitted unwillingness to abuse time travel in order to move preemptively proves my point.

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I bought a new pillow and it's softer than I'm used to and it's like I'm using a giant marshmallow to support my head

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I got the audiobook of A Game of Thrones to listen to at work. It's read by an elderly British actor, who narrates everything in the same even tone. It's making the after-wedding scene with Dany/Drogo sound really awkward.

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So I was just having a discussion with my uncle about the Baltimore riots, and he concluded with "If they didn't want to get beat up by police, they shouldn't have broken the law. Criminals deserve to get the shit kicked out of them."

I have no idea how to respond to that.

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I object to gender-normativity. I've known many women who where better at leading backwards than I was forwards.

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One of the interesting things about going to religious all-girls schools and camps throughout my youth was that despite plenty of enforced gender-normative standards (I guess), a lot of things that are heavily gendered in wider society just weren't. If you wanted to waltz, you waltzed with a girl. The school play had male characters? Girls played all the characters.

I always thought that was weird. "This is a catholic school, no gay stuff. Now put on this dress, we're doing Bye Bye Birdie this month."

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My childhood nursery rhymes made me think that Muffin Men would be a bigger deal than they turned out to be.

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I hope they're microwavable wines.

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Vi backwards looks a lot like 4

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Usually, when I feel this way, I try to cheer myself up with a laugh. But nothing seems very funny anymore.

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From a statistical standpoint, it's basically guaranteed that at least one Hogwarts student has shoved a wand up their ass. This much is known.