CHRIS BROWN

yeah i mean i heard this by accident and it sounded pretty "eh?? eh????" trolly and nonsensical

in an alternate, better world, freakanomics is economics taught by big booty professors in thongs to a Miami bass beat

we have some down there in our middle schools i think

yeah they started off by using multiple regression in a absurd way and have since just kinda become promoters of counterintuitive bullshit climate change skeptics etc

ha my roommate was listening to the freakonomics podcast last night and they were talking about this. it seems super flimsy to me, also as they pointed out you can't murder one or multiple innocent people if you're drunk walking

― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but if chris brown kills somebody ELSE it doesnt really qualify as 'karma' does it?

in an alternate, better world, freakanomics is economics taught by big booty professors in thongs to a Miami bass beat

― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah was v disappointed when i actually opened it up. superfreakonomics sounded even more promising

off topic guys but freakanomics is utter bullshit dont pay any attention to it plz

― lag∞n, Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are they wrong abt drunk walking being deadlier than drunk driving tho

yes

they must be right, i mean theres no way

when u drunkwalk ur much more likely to bump into someone starting a fight which ends up in a deadly knifeduel

"if we assume" = yeah right

the classic take down of using multiple regression in a freaknomics type manner http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/mythsofmurder.htm - the scary thing is w/super freaknomics they even abandoned this half assed level of scienceing and just found fascinating crazy people to talk to

they must be right, i mean theres no way

― lag∞n, Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not arguing this mr. smarm

freakonomics is about the only text related to economics that i've ever understood

it was readable but didn't seem especially insightful

they must be right, i mean theres no way

― lag∞n, Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not arguing this mr. smarm

― D-40, Friday, February 24, 2012 1:40 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe im not arguing it

if you say so, mr. smarm

Keaton's worst movie IMO

thats mr. smarm to u

thank you for the link on multiple regression, it is a very enjoyable read

so did anyone hear about how chris brown stole a fan's iphone

It would be funny if he ends up in jail for taking an iphone, and not for smashing someone's face in. And by funny I mean infuriating.

Bullseye.

totally infuriating, not that i won't take it

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/02/threatening-chris-brown-is-not-helpful/253541

This information isn't offered to make anyone more lenient on Chris Brown, or to excuse his actions. It's offered to point out that Brown's capacity for abusive violence didn't materialize out of thin air. And when threatening him with more abuse, it's worth thinking about how this all began. When you threaten Chris Brown you aren't fighting abusive violence. You are speaking his language.

I had heard about the CM Punk thing, but didn't hear how horrifyingly racist it was.

http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-02-24/the-soapbox-facts-about-rihanna-and-other-abused-women/

this is a good article, though a bit beginner's 101 wrt domestic abuse psychology and it's assumptive like everyone else is -- are we all just assuming they're back together romantically, now? no one knows that. but still, if they were, the article is helpful reading.

they're obviously making a lot of public gestures of spending time together and people around them seem pretty certain they're at least hooking up, so whether they're once again in a completely monogomous relationship is kind of a moot point (CB still has a girlfriend who is reportedly fine w/ an open relationship)

of course she is!

if only we all had sig others who were fine with having open relationships aka fucking our ex girlfriend rihanna

my wife never lets me even hang out with rihanna just to catch up on old times :(

if they're not actually together again the song is even more distasteful tbh cuz then it really is purely using the abuse narrative to get attention.

zach w/all due respect i think most people itt are v aware of domestic abuse psychology, victim-blaming and so on; rihanna of course has the right to make whatever decision she wants but going out of one's way to defend those (stupid, distasteful) decisions is a different thing. and finding her actions depressing isn't the same as blaming her, much less blaming her instead of CB and the music industry.

if you say so, mr. smarm

― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, February 24, 2012 10:18 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude you post like everything i say is completely straightfaced chillax bro

tbf you post like that as well

^^

I promise that if im calling someone "mr. smarm" i'm not thinking "man I just zinged him but good"

your style is hella jr. high school al

Oh good we haven't had one of these in awhile.

also another thing on rihanna - theoretically i am totally 100% against the idea that pop stars "should" behave like role models. but in practice her actions do have an effect!

In the days following Rihanna's 20/20 interview, calls to the National Domestic Violence Hotline rose by 59% – with the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline seeing a 73% increase.

i mean...that happened. we can handwave away her responsibility as much as we want and we probably shouldn't place any onus on her to behave in any way, but that happened, and as she acknowledged at the time she knew that would happen.

As long as al can still ital posts to imply smug condescension I'm not sure these will ever end

why do they keep returning to this abusive relationship

lol

CM Punk said he was straight edge in that clip, i wonder what sxe bands he likes?

obv Minor Threat

deej i'm obviously just trying to earn my own catchy and cutting nickname like "mr. smarm"

may i suggest "smuggy mcsmuggerson"?

smarm & hammer

lemme smarm it

so my takeaway from this is that if we pull [i] out of the available BBCode, these fights will stop

this is like when jblount would try to son me but didn't realize he didn't disagree w/ me

smarm und drang

the entire subtext of posting mr smarm was that it was obv a lame insult dude