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St. Patrick's is a good holiday for low-celebrating with a good meal at home or at someone else's home, terrible in every other setting.

myself, I got the Guinness ready and me mum's making soda bread in the kitchen. listening to The Bothy Band.

Old Hag You Have Killed Me?

ya its usu an irish-american meal with the family

kids will go out to drink and make all kinds of excuses to do it as they are wont

1975 xp, was hoping to find OHYHKM but no dice.

also:

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i'm not actually sure if i've gone out for a night of heavy drinking on SPD since college, when it was either go out or drink alone in your dorm room.

it's best to avoid the pub on amateur nights such as st patrick's day, or the run up to christmas when all the office parties are going on (in the uk at least)

Also on fridays and saturdays

this is true

made the mistake of going to shenanigans once on robson st when i was a kid u kno the one jim

bad idea

biggest hosers brawlin and ruining it for the rest of us

to be young and naive

when you're at the bar and a bachelorette party comes through and requests crown royal and pickle juice shots... it's actually very good

xp. i do indeed know the spot. i have drank on granville at the weekend which is inadvisable for sure

picklebacks

my wife insists on ordering them.

Hi Jim, fellow vancouverite :)

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I love picklebacks. Really just for the pickle juice.

i too enjoy picklebacks

Same here

Judging people for what they do, assuming they can control it and not be a total tool - is dud territory

― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, March 16, 2017 4:07 PM (three hours ago)

my controversial opinion is that you should totally judge people for what they do

It's almost impossible..we're conditioned to judge our whole lives.

And I'm talking specifically about the post upthread calling those who drink and do drugs "idiots" FWIW.

contenderizer otm judgement is awesome and ppl are their actions

my opinion is that ppl who take comfort in fixing others somewhere into their personal moral order are pitiful and sometimes dangerous

the nuances of actual and/vs potential are v thorny but I think it's best not to gloss over them

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/13/18/30/131830b88753142e92e9a1e06ac9739a.jpg

I assume that the soundtrack to drinking picklebacks is Nickelback

Seems to me like the cost/benefit of space exploration/colonization makes a lot of sense since the potential benefit might mean the continued survival of our species.

― Mordy, Thursday, March 16, 2017 3:35 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Controversial opinion: our species should maybe limit ourselves to despoiling just the one planet.

why? what's so special about lifeless rocks in space that we shouldn't despoil them?

I hear if a human touches a planet the universe kicks it out of its nest

If God wanted us to destroy other planets' ecosystems he'd have created us on them.

is the continued survival of our species a cost or a benefit

We are not destroying the planet, we are destroying ourselves.

We can do both! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/science/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff.html

If God wanted us to destroy other planets' ecosystems he'd have created us on them.

Counterpoint: If God didn't want us to destroy other planets' ecosystems he wouldn't have made them so sexy

"Sorry if you're offended" is grand

"I'm sorry I offended you" is not the same as "I'm sorry if you were offended"

i think ogmor is OTM

"I'm sorry if you're offended" is great but only as a backhand when the stakes are low

Mordy otm. The only reason the environmental crisis here on Earth is a crisis is because it threatens human life. I don't care about spoiling the landscape of Jupiter.

You don't know what kind of life is or isn't on Jupiter jesus christ

Unrelated to thread topic but while we're discussing pass-agg communication, I came across this beautiful little number yesterday:

In 1964, when King criticized the FBI for inadequately responding to civil rights complaints, Hoover publicly stated that King was “the most notorious liar in the country.” King responded diplomatically, “I cannot conceive of Mr. Hoover making a statement like this without being under extreme pressure. He has apparently faltered under the awesome burdens, complexities and responsibilities of his office, therefore, I cannot engage in a public debate with him. I have nothing but sympathy for this man who has served his country so well.”

daaaamn

holy shit

Jupiter is a gas giant, don't think it has a landscape as such, don't make me sic caek on you.

You don't know what kind of life is or isn't on Jupiter jesus christ

Giant whales iirc

what do you mean, I had this Nat'l Geographic book as a kid with clear evidence that there are awesome balloon bird things on Jupiter

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fastrobioloblog.files.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2Fjupiter-life.jpg&f=1

OMG I had that book too.

Mordy otm. The only reason the environmental crisis here on Earth is a crisis is because it threatens human life. I don't care about spoiling the landscape of Jupiter.

― Treeship, Friday, March 17, 2017 8:42 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we probably will end up killing basically most flora and fauna on this planet

holy shit that was one of my favorite books as a kid xp

The evening standard will probably improve under george osborne's stewardship

anyone else remember the intro to the 1950s version of War of the Worlds, talking about all the planets the Martians considered but passed on before invading earth? Jupiter looked like Mordor.

Tekken 2 was Way better than Tekken 3.

gtfo, you just couldn't sidestep