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Samson's Wig

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  1. There was definitely something wrong with him, but how he managed that level of success communicating predominantly online is rather astounding (and sad for all parties involved).
  2. Yeah. I meant simultaneous as in simultaneous as well. The best way to flirt with one woman is to flirt with all the women in the room. I have no doubt there are guys communicating online in the manner you describe, but that's creepy as shit and likely has a success rate barely above zero. Life is for the living, and communion with others (whether sex driven or not) is kind of the point of why we're here. I'm not sure I would count what you're describing as living. Whatever blows their skirt up, I guess, but the thought of anyone doing that makes me feel sad for them.
  3. In person, how else? If you played your cards right, and with a little luck, you might even get more than one of them naked simultaneously as well.
  4. You could do that before the Internet, too.
  5. We had a party line when I was a teenager. Finally got a dedicated line senior year. I think back on those years of basically never using a phone fondly these days. It created zero impediments to hooking up, you just had to get out and go somewhere.
  6. We were at the McCallum Performing Arts Center for the Lamar Middle School band concert when the shit really hit the fan last night. Getting a bunch of grandparents and kids with musical instruments back to vehicles in a torrential downpour was less than pleasant. I felt really sorry for the old folks on blood thinners. They were freezing, and almost nobody dodged getting soaked. Umbrellas were damn near useless. Happy for the rain, though.
  7. How have I never come across this jackass before? Does he typically only slither around in the lounge, smelling his own taco-scented farts? I can understand college kids being drawn into this level of overweening-weisenheimer thinking without the subsequent cognitive dissonance, but it's inexplicable in an adult with a fully developed brain. Maybe I've made the wrong assumption, and he's posting from a college campus, but it's more likely from his mom's basement or a nap pod at Google headquarters. I don't think I've ever put someone on ignore before, but he wins the prize. Based on this thread alone, he's either a propagandist in need of further training or a moron, so:
  8. Twitter was always an echo chamber. It's just a much less civilized echo chamber now. It was never more than a small percentage of the population circle jerking each other in whatever echo chamber they created by curating their feed. Now it's one big echo chamber, solely curated by Robotron Pastebody, instead of the fragmented echo chambers it was before. Let's not pretend like it was ever a genuine source for measured information. It's much worse now, but it was always shit.
  9. While I acknowledge firsthand how easy it is to get sucked in, I humbly suggest that everyone just ignore this shit because it isn't important, it just seems like it should be. It's really just a bunch of dicks, whether the protestors or the cops/elected officals, playing games with no real consequences. It's theater. There are more interesting and more important things to spend your time and energy on. Like getting laid. Or taking a nap. Or taking a nap after you get laid.
  10. This is nothing more than cosplay for all parties involved. What a joke.
  11. It's kind of incredible that the government heard some kids were acting like dipshits and the response was, "They think they know how to act like dipshits? Hold my beer!"
  12. They just want you to think there are more tents, man. Don't fall for it.
  13. That's been students in Texas since, well always.
  14. Simple fix. All new parking lots must have a rooftop covered in low-water requirement plant life. Start a program to retrofit existing lots. Or we could take the easier approach and just eliminate parking requirements altogether, as our Austin council prefers. Who needs to drive when public transport is so readily available? All of those currently existing lots can be replaced with affordable $1,000,000 quadplexes. It won't make it any cooler, but think of the graft!
  15. That's funny, because this post makes it seem like you're exactly the type of driver I was describing. You're not maintaining your speed, you just think you are. And that's the problem. But go with God and all that. Everyone thinks they're a great driver and almost all of us are wrong. I'm certainly doing something regularly and obliviously that is pissing someone off.
  16. Fascinating. So you're one of those guys on the freeway. Every time I get on an open highway it's obvious most people aren't aware cruise control even exists, especially younger drivers. It's infuriating dealing with all the chucklefucks who will drive a couple of miles per hour slower than you would like to, but only speed up after you pass them and then slow right back down after they get in front of you again. I gues they can't handle being behind someone. Anyone who pulls that shit should lose their highway driving privileges. Pick a fucking speed and stick with it.
  17. This reads a lot like how aggies justify how great College Station is, mostly by describing how close it is to other, better places.
  18. Agreed. They're not having babies for some other reason. That's what I was getting at.
  19. I saw that as well, but the 54% number includes industry certifications. Actual degrees, including associates, trade school graduates, and all of the for-profit University of Phoenix type degrees earned add up to somewhere between 40-44%.
  20. Okay. I pulled those numbers quickly from a google search. I don't see any numbers countering them, but I'm willing to listen if you've got anything substantive to add. Those numbers include trade school graduates, for what it's worth, and those are clearly a financial net positive for msot. I don't put much stock in degrees earned from for-profit fly-by-night schools, however, which are also included in those numbers and make up a significant chunk of earned degrees. I was not speaking to the tired debate about liberal arts v. technical degrees. I suspect you and I might agree on that one, as I think there is a great deal of value in liberal arts degrees. I don't put a lot of value in a degree from the University of Phoenix, however, which is what I was referencing. My point is that this entire discussion is ridiculous as it's happening in an echo chamber that doesn't represent the majority of the country. We are not, by and large, a country full of highly educated individuals working in high-paying jobs. Trying to draw broad conclusions based on a small subset of Americans is ridiculous, but that's what is going on in this thread. Most women are not foregoing kids because they're focused on their careers. The insinuation is ridiculous on its face, as most women are not pursuing careers at all. They're trying to survive and working wage earning jobs. As for the happiness factor, I invite you to look up any number of studies conducted on the subject. Almost all will say people are less happy now than they were forty years ago. Social sciences are largely speculative, so you can certainly argue with the data out there, but I don't find it a controversial take when we objectly live in more isolated environment with less upward mobility than we did forty years ago.
  21. Her cover letter reads like it was written by Napolean Dynamite.
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