that was a conclusive statement, gr80. YOU WIN
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 February 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.planetseed.com/files/uploadedimages/Science/Features/Health_and_Safety/History_of_Medicine/rome4.jpg
"i love theriac" - man suffering from bubonic plague
― Mordy, Friday, 17 February 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
dont get me wrong, i'm glad you do try!!!!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 17 February 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
try smarter, not harder
Morbs is the greatest
― kvetcher in the rye (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 17 February 2012 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
Morbs is
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 17 February 2012 06:36 (twelve years ago) link
heidegger heideggerwas a bloody beggarwho could drink you right under the table
ahem, BOOZY beggar
― and the answer is: Opinions differ. (stevie), Friday, 17 February 2012 07:52 (twelve years ago) link
it's been 30 years, cut me a little slack
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
I assume the Chris Brown thread suddenly having 250 posts isn't wrestling related, so who was he a dick to this week?
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
lmao i dont even want to say what the chris brown thread is abou tright now
― max, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
its the economy, stupid
― 99x (Lamp), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
statistics and modes of travel, deej v some dude
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
it's an odd combination of Freakonomics and "Moonlighting"
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
teacher leaves family for student?
― toandos, Sunday, 4 March 2012 07:57 (twelve years ago) link
bunch of people agreeing that's nagl, sharing stories of creepy hs teachers
― love in der club of gore (c sharp major), Sunday, 4 March 2012 08:02 (twelve years ago) link
Would you consider this infidelity?
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 22 March 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
i would
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 March 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
Could someone summarize the argument between Aimless and gbx et al?
Are you a vegetarian? (poll)
― beachville, Saturday, 24 March 2012 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
And like, in a non-jokey, point-by-point manner, if possible? I keep trying to read that morass and get totally lost.
― beachville, Saturday, 24 March 2012 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
- aimless claims that if we weren't farming them for food, species of domesticated livestock would disappear (so it is implicit that we're doing them a favour)- he then says that if we didn't have those livestock, we'd just make more humans to fill up that land, so wild species wouldn't benefit anyway (so it is implicit that we might as well just keep farming livestock for food, since other animals wouldn't be better off)- he also claims that the only way to know a cow as an individual is to milk it ("There's nothing like having to milk a herd of cows by hand to let you know they are individuals and to begin to treat them in that way"), so because vegans don't eat dairy and therefore would never milk a cow, they have no way to understand cows as individuals (this clearly disregards the fact that many vegans were not always so, and that some vegans grew up on farms). he follows that up with a guess that somewhat contradicts this, saying that he thinks 98% of vegans have no firsthand experience of farm animals (again, implicit is the fact that only seeing second-hand the abuse of farm animals is somehow not really worth talking about)- he then takes this responding quote from nickb: "I'm not sure of the relevance of this, but it's a pretty obvious logical step to take when you see a piece of meat to assume that an animal has been killed" and somehow extrapolates from it that most vegans think farm workers are monsters, and begins to mount a defense of all farm workers- he then makes a long theoretical post that in sum posits vegans (group a) as judgmental and misinformed, and farmworkers (group b) as victims of this. apparently, unless you personally have witnessed abuse of farm animals or met a farm-factory worker, it's not possible for you to have an informed opinion on the care of farm animals.
- everyone tells him he is not-otm, and multiple people try to point out that a. no one said all farm workers are monsters and b. for most vegans it's irrelevant how good the care is of the animals if they're being treated as possessions and slaughtered.
- of note: most of the people telling aimless he is not-otm are not even vegan.
― just1n3, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
ok, thank you.
― beachville, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
quality, ty
― toandos, Saturday, 24 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
ty, justine. at least now I know what you were reading when you read what I wrote.
― Aimless, Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
this is an important thing to know, tbf
― less of the same (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
aimless summarize us how you saw it
― lag∞n, Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
tl;dw
― Aimless, Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
TOP COMEDY FILMS POLL RESULTS: we are not sure what "top" or "comedy" means
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah its a poll, not a clusterfuck.
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
yet
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
Dr Morbius,
What do you object to in the comedy poll exactly? Just people's ballot choices? My own list was surprisingly Whitebread American, but since my template for comedy was forged by early degraded clamshell VHS tapes from a suburban library, I guess it's kind of bound to be a little blinkered and WASPy. I purposefully didn't want to practice any tokenism or curatoring, so I read through the list and winnowed out the ~ 100ish movies that had given me the most pleasure and humor (and most of these, unsurpisingly, fit an Aristotilian comedic form), and further winnowed, and ended up with 60ish movies that had brought me the most delght. There wasn't any higher level of thought – comedy's essentially a sensory experience for me – and I ranked movies pretty arbitrarily as 'great' 'good' 'worthy' and 'important and amusing but not as good as the rest.' I'm curious to know why you object to the poll so far: it seems okay(ish), if a little perplexing.
― aka vanilla bean (remy bean), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
What do you object to in the comedy poll exactly?
http://www.bestgeekblogever.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/wild-one-brando.jpg"What've you got?"
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, by now it should be obvious Morbius will find fault in any and every movie-related poll/discussion/opinion there is.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
omg that's gold
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
wow
― caek, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
Tuomas wins ILX for the day. ALL HAIL!
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
there's a reason morbz hangs out here, the outshoot of a music board, and not on one of the numerous music buff forums all over the internet. it's bc he gets to be the king of movies here and [almost] no one can call him out on it.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
and (almost) no one can be bothered to call him out on it.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
i meant 'one of the numerous film buff forums' typo*
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's because he secretly likes us and all the terrible movies we enjoy
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
The reason I don't feel bad giving Dr More BS a hard time is bc he obviously lives to be abused.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Just thought about what I posted in the elevator and it's actually correct. Not that I believe he finds the abuse fun, but he craves it and does everything he can to incite it.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
chuckling at you printing out that post on your amazing work printer and carefully taping it up in the elevator
― kinder, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
loool. me too.
the lawyers downstairs put up our building's march madness brackets in the elevator, so i should feel free to stick up important ILX posts.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Feel free to scrawl "yo, FUCK Ohio State" on those brackets
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I went and taped up the Worst SNL Actor brackets.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
Ooo! Almost as good!
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
jezebel ran a bracket on sex positions, you should stealth tape that one up :D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
not on one of the numerous music buff forums all over the internet
don't remotely know what they are
get pissed
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
what on earth did bring you here anyway
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 30 March 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link