posts very much in character

Interestingly, ancient Athens filled many government positions by lottery, but even they elected the most crucial ones. Plus it had only 30,000 or so eligible citizens instead of hundreds of millions. Socially speaking, everyone was so closely linked by clan and patronage that pressure could be applied in very direct ways. For example, they used ostracism as a formal component of government.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, April 1, 2016 6:24 PM

Let's Go Giants!

― Bee OK, Friday, April 15, 2016 10:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it worked :-)

― Bee OK, Friday, April 15, 2016 10:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you have to fucking kidding me

― Bee OK, Friday, April 15, 2016 10:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

turning off

― Bee OK, Friday, April 15, 2016 11:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are 162 of these

― Bee OK, Friday, April 15, 2016 11:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Let's Go Giants!

― Bee OK, Saturday, April 16, 2016 8:55 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry for ILB pasting but regardless of context etc

I hope all of your teams lose

I wrote my gender studies thesis on masculinity in Finnish rap music, and I had to think a lot about all this stuff, about how masculinity is performed, particularly with all the sex stories that are as common in the local rap music here as they are in its American counterpart.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, April 13, 2016 7:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg

Sex rap is Finnished

Pretty great grandiloquent James Horner score even though he blatantly lifts his main theme from Schumann's 3rd symphony

― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon)

<3

would be cool if Kevin Smith had died instead of Prince imo

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, April 26, 2016 10:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the huge jorts industry would fall into decline

from the 'john major - classic or dud?' thread

his cricket book 'more than a game' is surprisingly thorough and well-written, based on the preface and first chapter

― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:04 (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what's in character about that?

forming a judgement based on dilettantish microexposure?

what's in character about that?

― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:39 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

forming a judgement based on dilettantish microexposure?

― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:40 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you're trying to imply i'm a tory then you'll surely appreciate my prudence and thrift in spending precisely 33 1/3 pence at the devizes corn exchange in order to obtain aforesaid literature

^^^that one's vmic btw m8

http://img0.joyreactor.com/pics/post/infinite-loop-pizza-food-1167252.gif

aforesaid

ok this is not even a word is it? if it is i'm gonna have prez trump ban it

i think it's because you like cricket?

a4skins

what's in character about that?

― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, May 4, 2016 7:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imagotm

idaos, imago

what's in character about that?

cricket, no?

you'd think, but he gave the thread title too

Pro Tip: MTP repeats on MSNBC mid-afternoon (2:30, I think).

― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, May 15, 2016 11:09 AM

i assure you

pookie

oh I was going to go with this one

And while I'll let questions about his general intelligence fly with only a side-eye, I assure you that Todd, who I've been following since his medium was the fax machine (two decades ago), knows more about politics than you do

― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, May 15, 2016

omg lol

wait, the fax machine knows more than the general intelligence fly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMI7HIhKdIo

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/05/article-2082640-0F58B8A300000578-613_224x354.jpg

hitler

― nakhchivan, Monday, May 16, 2016 1:12 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And while I'll let questions about his general intelligence fly with only a side-eye, I assure you that Todd, who I've been following since his medium was the fax machine (two decades ago), knows more about politics than you do
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, May 15, 2016

― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Sunday, May 15, 2016 2:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol nice

3 weeks pass...

man this site has really gone hard on the rape denialism in the past few weeks.

― goole, Thursday, 14 April 2016 21:53 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is an old bloke around the corner from me who has two sibling pitbulls called Buddy and Holly. They are both absolutely adorable, despite the threatening sign he has put on his gate - they are harmless and lovely.

Just round the next bend on the estate there is this fucker with a horrible teeth on legs thing that almost ripped my Labrador's ear off. I got so mad that I had a few drinks later and put a few inch and half 8" screws into the cunt's tyres - just for thinking it was amusing rather than a seriously dangerous incident.

― calzino, Monday, May 23, 2016 9:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

was just coming here to post treeship's "i've always owned golden retrievers"

the discussion of dogs will bring out a man's true character

- Lassie

i need to get some good beans. i was trying to rough it with bustelo to save money but i just ended up getting coffee out.

― Treeship, Monday, 23 May 2016 17:29 (Yesterday)

on Madonna:

I find her musically totally inconsequential so I can see that. Her impact seems more along the lines of glass-ceiling-shattered for women in pop, and doesn't have much to do with her actual material, ability, musicianship, songwriting etc., she's more like a media figure than a musician and as such is the template for where pop music went

― Οὖτις, Monday, May 23, 2016 5:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not to me. they sound like music by and for 7yo girls.

― Οὖτις, Monday, May 23, 2016 5:27 PM (2 hours ago)

What I loved about this was how they managed to craft an interesting backstory around an app. I love that Red, the angry bird, wasn't born angry - he just had big eyebrows, so everyone assumed he was angry, and that's how he became the angry bird. The world made him angry. Similar to Zootopia in that way. I didn't see the Lego Movie but I heard it was great, that they managed to make an emotionally compelling movie based on Legos. Same deal here.

― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 May 2016 16:11 (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right down to the username

i wish you were a walking monument off a cliff.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Saturday, May 28, 2016 3:30 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Who the fuck is Lil B and what the fuck is a "basedgod"?

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, May 31, 2016 2:31 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

last 2 are magnafique

mine needs the preceding post

lol had no idea he was back

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

i think a lot of people have a finer set of antennae for 'character' than i do