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- Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:37 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
I don't follow his blog or anything, but I've got the impression that Martin knows mostly where it's going, he just has a hard time fitting the pieces in place. Like he has an endpoint for, say, Arya, and one for Jaime, etc. But then those arcs impact the main arc and may need to intersect with each...
- Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:12 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Dark Knight Rises Review (Caution - SPOILERS INSIDE)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 519
So, I finally saw this. I don't know why, but I enjoyed the movie in a very detached way. I could intellectually see the point of most of the scenes, and I thought most of the performances were good at conveying the characters and so on. I just never really found myself feeling involved, though. Ban...
- Sat Aug 04, 2012 4:29 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: [United States] Health Care Reform
- Replies: 63
- Views: 1599
It's the same as most of these free-market things: because the market isn't actually free, we can't tell if it's privatization or partial privatization that's the problem. The market distortion caused by tax incentives for health insurance is definitely highly debated. It's interesting to compare t...
- Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:59 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Refraining from being inappropriate.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 485
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:47 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Wellbutrin
- Replies: 18
- Views: 463
The real question is whether your drug use is going to hold you back more than the potential risks of dealing with the problem. If you avoid going to rehab because your career will take a big hit, is the avoidance of that risk worth the risk that your drug use will get out of control enough for you ...
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:01 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Wellbutrin
- Replies: 18
- Views: 463
Doesn't really mean anything, one way or the other. You can be addicted to something and still give it up for something else. But I think probably it's not marijuana you're addicted to, but escape, little doses of pleasure to distract you from the fact that you're not getting enough pleasure. I thi...
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:17 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
Syrio as Jaqen is a popular theory, but I don't think Ned would knowingly hire a faceless man to protect Arya even if he knew about them beforehand. There's a slight possibility that IF Syrio was a faceless man, he might have become Syrio to fill the Starks' need for a swordmaster to teach a girl fo...
- Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:12 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: So, I think my mom is going to die.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 808
- Wed May 30, 2012 2:27 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
I think the book version was more narrow, because that's what made the chain possible. I kind of understand the removal of the chain, though. Even if the chain made the situation more horrifying for the dying as well as Tyrion. They did do one kind of puzzling thing, though. In the previous episodes...
- Wed May 23, 2012 2:36 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Students to Be Graded on Weight
- Replies: 377
- Views: 6944
- Wed May 23, 2012 2:29 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Rules for Moving
- Replies: 4
- Views: 274
- If you tell me you have a uHaul lined up, I assume that means you have it reserved and will have it ready to load that morning. If you require a pre-weight for claiming DitY move compensation, I expect that to be on your time, not mine. - If I arrange for a crew of volunteers to help your emergenc...
- Tue May 22, 2012 7:14 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
- Sun May 20, 2012 7:01 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
- Wed May 16, 2012 2:18 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
Yeah. I just read an interview with the actor that's playing him in the upcoming season. He's one of the characters I'm really interested in seeing how they pull off. So how are you feeling about him so far? I'm really loving the back and forth with Arya and Tywin, Arya having HaQar in her back poc...
- Tue May 15, 2012 4:44 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Blood IS love.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 263
- Sun May 13, 2012 3:22 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Officially Old...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 421
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:14 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Lost Girl
- Replies: 0
- Views: 242
Lost Girl
For those of you not wasting time watching TV, Lost Girl is a new show capitalizing on the current wave of fairy tale popularity. It's shot beautifully in the way that everything is nowadays, and the basic premise is alright (woman with freaky powers she doesn't understand turns out to be a succubus...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:37 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: All tied-up(Bondage and BDSM)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 513
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:55 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The New What Are You Reading Thread
- Replies: 38
- Views: 814
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 7:03 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: [United States] The 2012 Elections
- Replies: 38
- Views: 752
Cain had me interested slightly with his whole 9-9-9 thing. Not sold completely, but I like the willingness to be bold. And I kind of generally don't mind a President without strong foreign policy credentials/military experience. BUT...he doesn't talk like someone with little experience. He talks li...
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 7:53 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Songs that make you think of Bulldrekers.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 521
- Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:45 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Songs that make you think of Bulldrekers.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 521
Huh, I kind of remember that thread, but I thought I'd gotten a song. Guess mine's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh-0dFvT ... ideo_title.
*flounces off*
*flounces off*
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:30 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: A Day Without Science
- Replies: 18
- Views: 325
- Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:29 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: 11 Minutes Per Hour
- Replies: 9
- Views: 248
- Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:29 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Oxycontin Express
- Replies: 30
- Views: 584
Coincidentally, I am now on Oxycodone. I've only had a couple of doses in the last two days, but I don't see what the big deal is. I hurt, take a pill, then I sleep, then I don't notice the open wound in my groin so much. Can't imagine wanting to get that foggy when I'm healthy. Or maybe caffeine an...
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:57 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: What good is Wall Street?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 202
What good is Wall Street?
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_cassidy It's an 8 page monster of a read, but the upshot is that banks don't really pursue any of the functions for which they get treated the way they do. Financial manipulation trumps providing services to customers, and we're all suffer...
- Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:28 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:51 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Military Spending
- Replies: 103
- Views: 1300
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 5:20 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Military Spending
- Replies: 103
- Views: 1300
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:10 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Professional Stress
- Replies: 13
- Views: 267
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 2:07 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Do you have a budget?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 213
After watching Dave Ramsey, we have been trying to stay in a budget. Now that we live in Hawaii and the kids are all getting older, the budget is a bit depressing. Three pairs of glasses in the family, soon to be three sets of braces, the school charges $74 per student per marking period to ride the...
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 2:02 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Professional Stress
- Replies: 13
- Views: 267
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:55 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: MATRICULATION: COMPLETE
- Replies: 11
- Views: 206
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:50 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cooking with cast iron
- Replies: 28
- Views: 348
We've been using cast iron for almost a decade to help deal with my wife's anemia. The only issue I have is that I can't be lazy and put the skillets in the dishwasher, and I may not season them enough. Love the things, and if you ever have to stop a ninja attack while you're cooking your eggs, you'...
- Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:02 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
RE RE RE Spoiler: He knew Cat well enough to have knocked her up with Robb before he left and for her to be extremely upset about him having shot one off into some other chick, to the point that she treats Jon like shit. At some point in the subsequent 15 years, you'd think Ned would have trusted h...
- Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:05 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: No. Fucking. Way.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 300
- Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:42 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: No. Fucking. Way.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 300
- Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:58 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: No. Fucking. Way.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 300
Re: No. Fucking. Way.
I'm sorry, I thought we'd had this talk already. Like a week after you linked the Australian ad for the show, I heard about the American version. Haven't watched it yet, but I laugh every time there's another article, and not cause the show's funny.Crazy Elf wrote:Dog suit.
- Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:44 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: I think i found the woman i love.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 309
Re: I think i found the woman i love.
How do you know when you've found the one is the question? You don't. You don't ever know. But that's okay, you don't have to know. And the question itself is probably meaningless, anyway: there's almost certainly no "one" person for everyone. What there are, instead, are people, who fit ...
- Fri Jun 24, 2011 3:06 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Irrationality
- Replies: 13
- Views: 241
I think Ted Nugent counts as a bit irrational. While I'm not keen on letting a lot of violent thugs walk, I don't get how myopic people get when it comes to prisoner rights. You actually don't have to be a violent threat to society at large to end up in prison, and the overcrowding puts the lives o...
- Fri Jun 24, 2011 3:00 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Your Rights Online
- Replies: 99
- Views: 1533
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:44 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:57 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
Everyone is acting with imperfect information and fighting with the army they have instead of the one they want. Which is part of the charm. This. A thousand times. It's taken some getting used to, but I also kind of dig how a lot of things the reader learns about through rumour before going to a c...
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:42 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Agree or Disagree: Cheating
- Replies: 31
- Views: 383
But at the same time: I never prevented her from going out partying with her friends, who are almost universally male. It doesn't work that way, unfortunately. You don't get to give her permission to do things, and then buy permission for you to do things with that. One doesn't effect the other. An...
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:21 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Agree or Disagree: Cheating
- Replies: 31
- Views: 383
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:17 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
Oh, also: http://oi56.tinypic.com/qqvol0.jpg EVERY PAGE. And yes, Daenarys's guard is the son. The book does a better job of explaining her mental state, but that happens with a lot of characters. Everyone is acting with imperfect information and fighting with the army they have instead of the one ...
- Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:11 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:22 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2726
Uh oh. Ned's fucked. Run, Arya! (Syrio's the shit.) Go, Robb! We may be wholly dependent upon the imp for hahas, I think. Ohhhhh Shit. Look out, John Snow. Better figure out how to make matches. Barristan was pretty pissed. He better come back and start stompin' on some asses. Spring Ned and join u...
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:48 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Why should you have the right to remain silent?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 114
I think there are two angles to it - rights and, for lack of a better term, practicality. We started off the assumption that the individual is pretty well sacrosanct in America. To prevent the State from locking people up for bad reasons like political dissent, the onus is placed on law enforcement ...