CP3S

Jelly Babies are pro-infanticide candy and they offend me.

negative1 said:

my degree is still in the cardboard tube that the

college sent me, practically unopened. i've checked it once

and never looked at it again. i was an average

student with a 2.5 / 4.0 GPA, and 3.0 in my major.

the DEGREE IS USELESS, except as a checkmark

to get a reference.

I never even picked up the diploma for my bachelors. I hit the road the second after my last final, didn't even stick around for my own graduation. I agree, a bachelor's degree is a cake walk and a joke, apply yourself minimally and you'll walk away with a 3.0 or better. But it isn't entirely useless, a good number of those things on your list would have never even been an option for you if you hadn't had that BS. 

negative1 said:

i've made $15k a year (way under poverty)

That's about what I raked in during my years of trying to live the Bohemian lifestyle. Fun, but kind of rough. I'd have traded it for a solid forty hour workweek, and steady paychecks.

What kind of a degree do you have, -1?

Bingowings said:

 

Picard: [softly, to himself] "And he piled upon the gay's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon he would have shot his heart upon it."

Sloane: What?

Picard: Moby Dick.

Sloane: Actually, I never read it.

Picard: Ahab spent years hunting the gay that crippled him, a quest for vengeance; but in the end, it destroyed him and his ship.

Sloane: I guess he didn't know when to quit.

 

My favorite one yet.

Wow, I had almost forgotten how incredibly ridiculous and stupid Encounter at Far Point was.

No such thing as nothing for nothing.

CP3S said:

It is also interesting to consider that in ancient Jewish law, if someone caused an accident that resulted in the death of another person, they were charged with murder. If someone caused an accident involving a pregnant woman that caused her to miscarry, they were not charged with murder. 

Exodus 21:22, to provide a source.

There is a bit of a debate as to whether Hippocrates was anti-abortion or not. He specifically condemned a particular means of abortion, the debate is whether he meant to condemn all abortion and specifically mention that particular means because it was the common method, or if he was simply condemning that specific method because of the risks it posed for the mother.

It is also interesting to consider that in ancient Jewish law, if someone caused an accident that resulted in the death of another person, they were charged with murder. If someone caused an accident involving a pregnant woman that caused her to miscarry, they were not charged with murder. 

Plato, Aristotle, and Hippocrates all mention abortion in their writings. So yeah, it has been around awhile.

I am willing to bet abortion has been around for just about as long as pregnancy.

Went through a few months of unemployment this year, and it nearly destroyed me. I don't know how people who are unemployed for years manage. I'd shoot myself, rob banks, or something drastic like that.

I refused to apply for unemployment, so finding creative ways to scrounge up money became kind of a fun past time, but sometimes painfully taxing on dignity. I always managed, mostly. And I got my first gray hairs through it all, that was pretty badass.

If I had to do the unemployment gig again, I'd definitely find some places to volunteer at for my sanity's sake; and it would be a good way to keep a social network going.

So far I have had two promising careers get off to a good start, then eventually succumb to a crumbling economy. The first one I gracefully withdrew from when I realized the economy was going to kill it, and kill it it did, so that was a good call. The second one was the rare type of job where the old bastards who suck at it and have been at it for years have their places secured in stone, and the up and comers are SOL with millions just like them waiting around to fill any vacancies that pop up. My latest career path is a bit more ambitious, and so far looks as though it will hold up for me for a good long while.

Bingowings said:

Mice may be easier as there are pest control guys who have less lethal means of scooping up your invaders and putting them in the countryside well away from your home, where they will no doubt become dinner for non-hippy birds of prey.

Where I live I am pretty sure that type of pest control would not exist. I live in a place where hippies are generally afraid to venture. I guesstimate that there are probably more than fifty mice living in this place, given the number of them I can hear scurrying around at night. If there is such an extermination service that sweetly places them in the country side, I imagine the cost for this kind of job would be enough to bankrupt me and my mates.

Bingowings said:

It would be a bit like The Voyage Home but with homosexuals instead of whales.

That whole post was pretty hilarious, but this last part cracked me up.

I clearly missed something that transpired between Bingo and Warbler.

Why "sigh"? I don't get it?

That is really weird they changed one of the jellyfish to pink. There is really no logical sense to it, beyond them responding to the gay jellyfish jokes. Which would be really stupid, why do extra terrestrial jellyfish have to conform to Earth's western culture's view of gender color coding? Changing the color is a dumb and puzzling move. 

Warbler said:

I could start and argument about this, but I won't.  Suffice it to say I that disagree with you about homosexuals and Star Trek.   

You seem to be getting a bit upset by this discussion. Why? If you disagree with Bingo's feelings about Star Trek being a bit homophobic for a show that tried to make itself out to be a liberal wet-dream, why not make your case?

I find it an interesting discussion. I remember reading somewhere that back when the show was still airing, a gay sci-fi fan club called the gaylaxians were a bit irked with the writers who had made all sorts of promises about having a gay full time cast member and being on the forefront of the gay rights movement as they were on the forefront of the civil rights movement before that, but yet all those promises kind of fell flat before all was said and done.

Warbler said:

CP3S said:

There are a lot of them in here, I can hear them scuffling around and squeaking at night and running around on the ceiling tiles. It is kind of gross.

ew.  I don't know if I could live in a place that had all that going on.   Set a lot more traps, like 100 more

Beggars can't be choosers. Hopefully I am out of this place soon. Everywhere within 30 minutes of where I work are kind of dumps, at least in comparison to the kinds of places I am used to living. Other than the issues I've mentioned, this place is fairly nice and with my room mates it is costing me almost nothing.

CP3S said:

Ironically, we hadn't seen any sign of them for over a month once the rat moved in,

and set 100 rat traps while you're at it.

There was only one rat, and she was way to smart for the traps we had set for her. The only reasons she is gone now is pure bad luck on her part, and sheer adrenaline on the part of my room mates.

CP3S said:

 

I can just imagine one of the tiles giving away in the middle of the night sending a whole nest of mice tumbling onto my peacefully resting head. 8(

that would scare me to death.

Yeah, if it happens I will probably die.

Sorry, Bingo. I won't mention them again.

Don't know what to do about them. They are over running the place and destroying our dry goods like mad. Just about anything not kept in the fridge or a tightly sealed jar becomes theirs eventually. It is frustrating. And not being able to get a good nights sleep when they are on the prowl is pretty aggravating too.

If I say I might find myself on PETA's most wanted and have my computer hacked or something.

In the double digits at this point. There are a lot of them in here, I can hear them scuffling around and squeaking at night and running around on the ceiling tiles. It is kind of gross. Ironically, we hadn't seen any sign of them for over a month once the rat moved in, but now that she is gone we are catching them like mad and they are consistently waking me up at night again.

I can just imagine one of the tiles giving away in the middle of the night sending a whole nest of mice tumbling onto my peacefully resting head. 8(

Very little appreciation for the hairy chests these days. I remember several years back thinking, "Well, at least James Bond still has a hairy chest and the ladies are nuts about him". Then damn Daniel Craig came along.

Heading into the zone of TMI:

I have an awesomely hairy chest that I refuse to shave or nair (Sean Connery hairy, not Austin Powers hairy), regardless of the fact I have had at least two women tell me it is a bit off putting. :(  But I have had twice that many tell me it is ridiculously sexy. It is like this division among women that rivals the PT vs. OT SW schism. You never know what the reaction is going to be when the shirt comes off.

All that being said... Wooooo, TNG on Blu-ray!

Two more mice have been stricken with death in my household within the last two days.

I wonder if it is an epidemic? Or maybe it has something to do with the mousetraps... hard to say.

TV's Frink said:

Warb, you are very easily bothered.  Just saying.

It's true. Just toss the thing in the trash and go on with your life.

Bingowings said:

Putting my serious face on now when you look at the number of science fiction shows that have included homosexual characters without even making an issue of it and Trek can only do it obliquely in a 'special' cause story involving tri-sexual aliens or Trill symbionts getting back together with former spouses after a host gender swap the show does have a really crappy record for a fictional universe constantly waving a liberal flag.

On the other end of the daisy chain we have bloody Torchwood making out everything in the universe isn't just open to any form of sex but under some kind of contractual obligation to perform at the drop of a hat.

Star Trek leads can only be that wanton in mirror universes and only if they are female and dress in bondage gear. 

So true. Maybe since it was such a high profile show they felt the need to tread lightly. Then again, that was back in the 90's, a lot has changed since then (of course, the later 90's also brought us Will & Grace, and plenty of other mainstream TV that wasn't afraid to portray openly gay characters who were proud to be openly gay). If I remember correctly, the tri-sexual alien episode (which felt really forced, Riker doesn't seem like the type that would be up for it with an androgynous alien, but it wasn't about telling a decent story, it was about proving Star Trek was still on the cutting edge), stirred up a bit of a fuss. Torchwood is just over the top ridiculous! Everybody in that show is bi and is dying for a ride on Capt. Jack.

The original premise for Jack was that in the future was that you have all these different genders and all these different aliens and it no longer mattered, whoever could hook up with whomever. In Doctor Who he would flirt with men, women, and aliens alike, in Torchwood he seems to have evolved into an exclusively homosexual character, completely ignoring the attractive women around him.

I love Tarantino, violence and all (I think wanting to edit out the violence, unless for censorship purposes, is kind of missing the point), but Inglorious Basterds definitely ranks as my least favorite of his films. Just slightly below Kill Bill. Not to say I don't like either of those films, I just don't think they are as good as his other stuff.

Warbler said:

yes I should.   But I'll be merciful.  

CP3s, how would you like it if on the day if after Obama wins the 2012 elect(if he wins),  you get and email advertising all kinds  of "Obama Wins" and 2013 inauguration apparel.

Honestly wouldn't bother me in the least.

Warbler said:

You know, I really hate that I got and email from Majestic Club House advertising New York Giant NFC Champions and Superbowl apparel.  I AM NOT A GIANTS FAN!!! 

Oh my goodness! What a horrible thing to happen! You should sue for undue distressed they caused you.