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Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2017 4:12 pm Ive always wondered why the words chosen as slang for homosexual were picked. I still dont know or get the tie in.

Fag - A cigarette
Faggot - a measure of wood for a pile
Gay - Very happy.

And lastly whats with 'light in the sneakers' ?

Have you seen South Park's episode "The F word" on this topic?

Why is it that every time we try to have a relaxing day," Cartman declares at the top of a much-discussed South Park episode, "a bunch of a******s on their Harley motorcycles show up?"

We've seen plenty of Harley hatin' here on our blog comments, but the show adds a whole new dimension to the anti-H-D stance. The episode depicts a pack of bikers whose disruptively loud Harleys prove too irritating for the truth-blurting, foul-mouthed lead characters.

As the decibel assault escalates, the kids take the matter into their own hands, lobbying to have the dictionary definition of the term "f*g" changed to "annoying, inconsiderate Harley riders."

Every time I see/hear a loud motorcycle go by, it's my first thought.

Went out after dark to check my little dogs grave and found it disturbed. Must be my dogs doing it.
Pour cayenne pepper and bug spray all over it. I can't believe any creature would think that smells good. On the way back up the steps in the dark I missed one and fell down. Dogs thought this was the greatest fun as they barked and licked and jumped all over me.
The endorphins have kicked in so I'll have to wait for morning to find out what I hurt.

This is amazing.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2017 11:01 pmWent out after dark to check my little dogs grave and found it disturbed. Must be my dogs doing it.

'round here, the stones keep out the Fishers and Coyotes fairly well as long as we use hefty ones. Unless you've got Malamutes, a 20+lb rock should be more than a dog or predator wants to move.

WTF paint? Why don't you go where you are supposed to go? What is wrong with you? I HATE YOU, PAINT!

Pixel 2 XL, lg V30.

I can't fucking decide! Dammit.

tjg_marantz wrote:Pixel 2 XL, lg V30.

I can't fucking decide! Dammit.

Headset jack on the v30 makes that a no brainer for me. Note 8 has one too ,so that's my dilemma (I need wired headset and charging at the same time with my car).

Pyperkub wrote:

tjg_marantz wrote:Pixel 2 XL, lg V30.

I can't fucking decide! Dammit.

Headset jack on the v30 makes that a no brainer for me. Note 8 has one too ,so that's my dilemma (I need wired headset and charging at the same time with my car).

I hear you and that's where I was heading but the software is making it difficult. That and front facing speakers are what is stopping me from just going out and getting the V30. I should check if rooting will void warranty with LG. It doesn't with Google.

You'll need to get the carrier unlocked variant from LG or a third party vendor to root according to xda

Yup. I believe we're good up here in Canada for that.

For one very brief moment of time, you were the youngest person on earth.

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:02 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2017 4:12 pm Ive always wondered why the words chosen as slang for homosexual were picked. I still dont know or get the tie in.

Fag - A cigarette
Faggot - a measure of wood for a pile
Gay - Very happy.

And lastly whats with 'light in the sneakers' ?

Wikipedia for "faggot" is a decent source for this.

"Gay" is pretty straightforward. In the 19th/early 20th century its sense of "happy/uninhibited/unencumbered" became a euphemism for "living for pleasure." Sophisticated homosexuality was thought to aspire to a hedonistic lifestyle, and there you go.

I was surprised to learn how long this term has been in use. The one that got me was from Bringing Up Baby (filmed in like 1938), when Cary Grant, in a frilly women's robe, upon being asked why he was wearing it, springs into the air, shouting "I just went GAY all of a sudden!"

AWS260 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2017 10:59 am This is amazing.

Dope stuff. I wish I was a herb

tjg_marantz wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:04 pm Pixel 2 XL, lg V30.

I can't fucking decide! Dammit.

If you go Pixel 2/2XL, you may want to wait a bit for the apparent HW/SW issues to get sorted out:

After dealing with all sorts of screen issues, another problem with Google's flagship smartphone is popping up. This time it's an audio issue: users on Google's official forums and elsewhere are reporting odd sounds coming from the Pixel 2 speakers.

Customers are complaining of "clicking" and a "high-pitched whine" coming from the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. Most reports on the forums say the noises are coming from the top or bottom speaker on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2017 2:27 pm

tjg_marantz wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:04 pm Pixel 2 XL, lg V30.

I can't fucking decide! Dammit.

If you go Pixel 2/2XL, you may want to wait a bit for the apparent HW/SW issues to get sorted out:

After dealing with all sorts of screen issues, another problem with Google's flagship smartphone is popping up. This time it's an audio issue: users on Google's official forums and elsewhere are reporting odd sounds coming from the Pixel 2 speakers.

Customers are complaining of "clicking" and a "high-pitched whine" coming from the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. Most reports on the forums say the noises are coming from the top or bottom speaker on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.

We've run into an issue with the Pixel 2 at a corporate level, our MDM software isn't properly identifying it as encrypted. So, that's not really an end user issue or anything that should concern you, but yet another reason my hatred for Android runs hot and deep. Thanks for letting me vent.

i finally got to use my bread machine in the last few years. Because of my wife bumping into things in her motorized chair and she'd cause the bread to drop. I would ask her to not go in there at night as that's when I would fix it but she couldn't do it.
Bread is just as good as I remember it.

You doing ok dbt? Did you find out if you hurt yourself when you fell on the stairs coming in from checking your dog's grave? How is it holding up now too?

Speedyway personal pepperoni pizza is AWESOME!

Just read that the Weezer "Buddy Holly" video is now older than Happy Days was when the Weezer video came out.

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2017 4:17 pm Just read that the Weezer "Buddy Holly" video is now older than Happy Days was when the Weezer video came out.

Wow. I love the vid and song. I remember looking it up to see if that was really the AL guy or if they cut it in somehow and it really was him.

Jesus I'm old.

And you just sent me on a 90's binge. Ended with this...

You're olde?

Well not dirt Olde.

When you're looking backwards, 20 years is nothing. When you're looking forwards it seems impossible. I was 40 yesterday, but I can't imagine living to 80.

I didn't pay much attention to music in the '90s but I recognized that song. Never knew who did it and enjoyed the video.

the 90s were the best decade of my life. I was in my 20s then and everything was new. I was free from home and in love and the world was a playground. The entire future was ahead of me. Now Im 48 and feel 98. I dont have as much time in my future as Ive put in my past. I no longer look to the future because theres not that much left so I live for today and remember the past.

Music I heard in the 80s and 90s and didn;t like or even hated I will let play now days because it puts me back there. I can honestly usually say I dont remember yesterday or last week at all but I hear a song from 20 and 30 years ago or more and I can tell you when I heard it, where I was when I heard it, and what year it released.

Power start Phil Ivey loses court case

The British Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that Ivey had used illegitimate means to amass 7.7 million pounds ($10.2 million) in winnings during a stint at the baccarat table in 2012.

He and a colleague were found to have used a technique known as "edge sorting" to gain an unfair advantage while gambling at the Crockfords casino in London's posh Mayfair district.

They did not actually touch the cards being dealt, but convinced the croupier to arrange the cards a certain way that allowed them to determine, in some cases, which cards were being dealt, allowing them to bet accordingly.

Crockfords cried foul and refused to pay his winnings, leading Ivey to pursue his claim in court.

Supreme Court Judge Anthony Hughes said the integrity of Punto Banco baccarat depends on the cards being dealt at random without gamblers knowing their face value.
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"At the time I played at Crockfords, I believed that edge-sorting was a legitimate Advantage Play technique and I believe that more passionately than ever today," he said after the ruling.

He said he pursued the case to Britain's highest court out of a sense of honor.

"As a professional gambler, my integrity is everything to me," said Ivey, who has won a number of World Series of Poker competitions.

Wiki

Edge sorting is a technique used in advantage gambling where a player determines whether a face-down playing card is likely to be low or high at casino table games by observing and exploiting subtle unintentional differences on the backs of some types of card, after persuading a croupier to cooperate by unwittingly sorting the cards into low and high.
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In 2012 poker player Phil Ivey won US$9.6 million playing baccarat at the Borgata casino with partner Cheung Yin Sun. In April 2014 the Borgata filed a lawsuit against Ivey for his winnings. In 2016 a Federal Judge ruled that Ivey and Cheung Yin Sun must repay US$10 million to the Borgata. U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman ruled that they did not commit fraud, but did breach their contract with the casino. He found that they did not abide by a New Jersey Casino Controls Act provision that prohibited marking cards. Although they did not mark the cards, they used tiny imperfections in the cards to gain an advantage.

I've read a lot about that case and I think I come down on the side of Phil. He had very strict requirements for playing in the casino and they agreed to all of them. Just because they found out they had been had is not a reason to go back on the bet. Had he been really bad at edge sorting, he certainly wouldn't have been able to get his money back.

The Guardian wrote:In the court of appeal, Lady Justice Arden said the Gambling Act 2005 provided that someone may cheat “without dishonesty or intention to deceive: depending on the circumstances it may be enough that he simply interferes with the process of the game”.

There was no doubt, she added, that the actions of Ivey and another gambler, Cheung Yin Sun, interfered with the process by which Crockfords played the game of Punto Banco with Ivey.

Stephen Parkinson, head of criminal litigation at Kingsley Napley, the law firm that represented Crockfords, said: “This is one of the most significant decisions in criminal law in a generation. The concept of dishonesty is central to a whole range of offences, including fraud.

“For 35 years, juries have been told that defendants will only be guilty if the conduct complained of was dishonest by the standards of ordinary, reasonable and honest people, and also that they must have realised that ordinary, honest people would regard their behaviour as dishonest.

“The supreme court has now said that this second limb of the test does not represent the law and that directions based upon it ought no longer to be given by the courts.”

Independent wrote:The ruling means that juries in criminal cases in England will no longer have to consider whether defendants realised that what they did would be seen as dishonest by reasonable, honest people. The question will be whether the conduct was dishonest by those standards, regardless of the defendant’s perception...

The case led the Supreme Court to legal conclusions that go far beyond the intricacies of card games and will have a profound impact on criminal cases in England and Wales that revolve around whether someone acted dishonestly.

Since a landmark case in 1982, juries have been asked to apply a two-stage test when tackling the dishonesty question.

Firstly, jurors had to ask whether what a defendant did was dishonest by the standards of ordinary people. Then, they had to ask whether the defendant must have realised that their conduct would be seen as dishonest by those standards.

The answer to both questions had to be yes for a defendant to be convicted.

But in the Ivey ruling, the Supreme Court said the second part of the test had the unintended effect that the more warped a defendant’s standards of honesty, the less likely it was that he would be convicted of dishonest behaviour.

I agree. He never physically did anything. They did not catch him doing anything, And he didn't actually do anything illegal just frowned upon. once he won that was his. Its their job to catch them cheating there. But he didn't in effect cheat. Just used a skill.

Koalas are fucking horrible animals.

They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons.

If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life.

Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end.

Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals.

Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves.

To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher.

This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them.

Tldr; Koalas are stupid, leaky, STI riddled sex offenders. But, hey. They look cute. If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.

Credit to u/Skrad for the original comment.

Humans think of themselves as the most successful animal, but I wonder if any creature on earth spends as much time feeling miserable or inflicting as much intentional pain.

Mr. Bently does.
He's my oldest Yorkie.

Asking whether the accused would have thought a reasonable person would consider them dishonest is a horrible legal precedent. If a person commits murder, does the jury have the same consideration? Is it okay if the accused thought that most people would consider that the victim needed killing?

Was sitting here thinking of my ear piercings. The first one was 1984 and I was 15. Had always wanted one and was sitting at my best friends house. His sister who was 16 and had about 3 in each ear said she'd do it for me. She'd done it before according to her. Before I go on Id like to say RIP Tina.... Bless your crazy free soul.....Anyways the way she did it was I held an ice cube to my earlobe for a bit then she held a small slice of a potato behind it and pushed a needle..sewing I think..hope....through my ear. Then she put in one of her own earrings. I kept it alcoholed and such. I remember being so damn scared my granny or my dad or my mom would KILL me. I dont recall now but Im sure I got some kind of eye roll and talking to. But I got to keep it. I guess it was a week to 3 weeks and it wasn't healing up. It got a small infection and drove me crazy enough to remove the earring and give up. It healed with a small gristle knot in it.

Forward to when I was barely 17 in 1986 and I was at the mall and they had some deal like a free stud with ear piercing. So I got another one..same place. Didn't hurt but it went through my old scar. I wore it for a good month and took better care of it and it turned out fine. I remember me and my friends..like 5 of us...were in the mall arcade gaming and some guy asked us if we were in a gang.. Seems we all had cross earrings in lol .Strange thing. My dad and step mom took me to Florida that year. I had broken up with my girlfriend for cheating on me and went to see her one last time. She asked me to reconsider but that is not me for that. But she traded my stud earring for a earring of her's and I wore it to Florida. Im not sure what happened to that earring. Im pretty sure I traded it down there with a girl I met Kinda wish I still had it. Oh well.

Which brings me to these days. About 7 years ago I was goofing around with one of my wife's earrings and it actually went in and through and fit. I was very surprised because for the last 20 years or so I thought it had grown up and had never wore one. Since then she has made me many earrings..very cool ones. Unique. Still wear one these days. I have to be a bit careful putting one in as I seem to have the same hole in front but theres 2 channels in my ear and if I just try to stick it through then it hurts like hell.

Welp thats my sitting her thinking back story and Im sticking to it.

My wife's been trying to get me to get one for the last 20 years. So far I've put it off.

I pierced a bunch of my friends' ears during the same period of time in the '80's...maybe a little earlier, '83 or '84...I used ice and a potato but I just jammed the stud through, never used a needle.

One time I pierced a kids ear on the playground in grade 8 with no ice and a crinkled up milk carton since we had no potato.

I've pierced more ears than I can count.

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