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Rimbo

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  1. 17 hours ago, Viper said:

    apparently the professor asked her if she was really going to present her thesis in cutoff jeans. to show him, she left and came back in her underwear. The Title IX office contacted the student but luckily for the professor, "she is not actively pursuing a case at present."

     

    http://cornellsun.com/2018/05/06/student-presents-thesis-in-underwear-after-professor-questions-choice-of-clothing/

    forgot to add the pics

    Chai.jpg?h=338&w=450

    Letitia%20Chai%20delivering%20her%20thes

    Not one word about the content of her thesis.

    If the point of her undressing was to challenge the idea that the wrong clothing choice can interfere with her message, she failed spectacularly.

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  2. I find it more useful to attribute "evil" to actions, instead of to people. People are neither "good" nor "evil," but they do good things and they do evil things, with and without intent.

    Sure, if someone's intentionally doing evil things most of the time, you can probably sum the person up as "evil," but again, this isn't useful, unless you've done step one above first.

    It's tough to make legitimately justifiable sweeping generalizations about people, but easy to do so for acts. For example, it's pretty easy and safe to say that most anti-immigration politics are based on ignorance and fear, and thus -- intentionally or otherwise -- we can describe these laws and actions as evil pretty easily.

  3. 4 hours ago, scottonian said:
    This year, Astros are 21-15 through 36 games with 166RS and 103RA

    Last year, Cubs were 18-18 through 36 games with 172RS and 165RA

    For being as terrible as we have been this year, we're in a pretty good spot compared to the "World Series Hangover" the Cubs experienced last year.

    Edit: Also worth noting the Cubs were 40-40 through the end of June before getting hot (16-8) in July.

    We've beaten shitty teams and we've lost to good ones. Last year, we were beating bad and good in equal amounts.

  4. 11 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    It does. It really does.

    But being in first place doesn't suck.

    Being 20-12 doesn't suck.

    Being the defending world champs doesn't suck.

    But losing sucks.

    Yes.

    Yes.

    Yes.

    Yes, oh God, yes.

    Yes.

  5. 3 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

    Ken Fucking Giles. 7 straight appearances without giving up a hit or walk. 

    Very happy for him. And us. I like it when our players play well. I like winning. I like the Yankees losing. This is nice.

    I love this baseball team.

  6. 38 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    If everyone is your friend, it's because you threaten no one.

    Worry about it when they aren't taking their shots at Texas.

    I was going to write my usual expletive-laden rant expressing this sentiment, but I looked into my box of fucks to give and discovered I was all out.

  7. Actually, also fun was when some dickhead booked Social Distortion for the UCSD Sun God festival. This was late 1990s, right? You'd have to book Chris Rock at a Klan rally to make a worse mismatch of performer to audience. (With the exception of me. It was the only band I liked.)

    Some asshole threw a Birkenstock on-stage. Mike Ness was absolutely disgusted.

    Later on: "All right, who wants to hear a happy song?"

    Crowd cheers

    "WE DON'T PLAY ANY! Here's a song I wrote when I was in jail..."

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  8. All of the following happened at a single concert, Metallica touring to back Reload. I was in the pit. 10/10, would mosh again.

    • Some guys passed around a joint with some bud they'd smuggled in one of those disposable cameras. Well, it didn't get passed around very far. After one puff, they offered it, and this six-foot chick said "Yeah," took it, exhaled, then put the thing in her lips and inhaled... and inhaled... and inhaled... and handed it back to the fella. What he got back wasn't worth holding with a clip. She sucked almost the whole thing in, one breath. The look of stunned cuckoldry on the guy's face when he got it back was the best thing I saw at the show.
    • Some dumbshit puts his girl on his shoulders. In the pit, mind you. Of course, she's not an Einstein either, so she flashes the band. One hand goes up to cop a feel. Then two hands. Then four hands. Then eight. Then sixteen. Sometime around then, the girl regretted her life choices and was scrambling to get off her boyfriend's shoulders.
    • Hetfield got full-on pegged in the center of his forehead, during a song, with an empty beer cup. Stopped the song. Got mad. Chewed out the audience. Went back to performing.
    • The usual near-knife-fight in the mosh pit (they were cool bros after), Newsted dumping beer all over Ulrich and his drums during the last few songs (it was the last stop on the tour, so they were bashin shit), all in all, a grand time.

    Outside of that, I usually go to see guys like Rush and Weird Al, I reckon there are fewer felons per capita at those shows.

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