Nope.

Have fun, dood.

Hope your trip to Israel is enjoyable.

Have fun.

Tell us if you meet the man from Nantucket.

As always is the case, no, I didn't. However, one at least one of the gazillions of cheesy tourist shops, shirts can be found that say "I am the man from Nantucket..." on the front.

It sounds like a pretty tough situation. Sorry to say I've got nothing to contribute here.

I think she's doing a bit better. Certainly slightly awkward having this whole thing gunking up the top of the activity page, but don't delete it...

My stepbrother's in Boston (well, Brighton, technically, I think), but he's only a grad student, and it's his first year living there, so I doubt he has much for connections.

I think that looks pretty interesting and might actually be kind of useful, especially with that "fallacy fallacy" thing. Still, I am not sure that pointing to a logical fallacy someone committed like that is really a good idea. I feel like it is lot better to just explain why you find his or her argument problematic, skipping the whole "you committed W fallacy" step. I might be wrong about this, but I think that labeling logical fallacies when in an argument can make you come off as elitist in the "it's not worth wasting my time explaining it to you" sense.

Well, a laconic explanation is not bad, although there's something impersonal about it, granted.

^^Yeah, IMO, it's probably best to just explain where the flaw in logic is in your own words. Maybe then tack on a "BTW, that's called the X fallacy" with a Wikipedia link if you really want to highlight that there's an official term for the mistake but don't want to sound insulting or whatever.

Yeah, that kind of occurred to me. Then again, the guy who linked to it on Facebook, which is how I found it...well ok, I was going to say that he's a pretty harsh guy and this suits his style. But then I realized he's eloquent enough to be harsh in his own words. He's really tall, doesn't talk much, plays the cello, can do legit parkour, is a math major, and has said that it's a bad idea to sneak up on him and surprise him because he will probably hurt you. Uh yeah. That has nothing to do with any of this.

I won't remind you because I can't even begin to think of what you're talking about.

Also, I prefer to hear the line before "I've got my hash pipe" as "You've got your big cheese".

...You mean that line ISN'T "you've got your big cheese"?

>Fighteer. >Unnecessary thread-locking. This does not come as a total surprise to me.

The problem is that link, discuss tends to be a recipe for flamewar. All too often, it's "toss one bone to the roomful of starving dogs and watch the fight".

Well, that is at least better than running (actually colliding at running speed) into a door length window indoors. In any event, that does not sound like it was too much fun. Another thing that I think you have to be pretty careful to watch out for is when you are on one side of a push door (like the ones in front of public restrooms) and someone on the other side pushes it into you right before you try to push it the other way.

Yeah, it didn't hurt too much. I wasn't moving that fast. Regarding restroom doors, my dad always specifically told to not stand around right inside them lest someone run into me that way. So I try to be mindful of that...

Announcement thread.

-sigh- People really need to read that when we post in it. There are important added rules and such in there.

Why is it such a shock that people haven't read the rules thread? When a thread is stickied people tend to develop a "blindness" for it, since they're always looking past it to see the new posts in other threads.

I'm sorry. Wow, yeah, just made myself look like the exact kind of fool that I sigh at on other forums. CA, I think you're onto something: As much as I like to go on and on about how observant and aware I am, my focus slipped right over the stickied threads at the top.

Ok, I see. Cool. And now it's back anyway!

Ozbourne Lives!

Sometimes, I'm REALLY tempted to propose some ground rules over how many snowclones can happen at once.

I still don't get what these have to do with Ozbourne...

"Thing" was her thing for a while.

Note: This post is not actually as negative as it looks/sounds.

TELL THEM YOU MAKE YOUR KIDS WATCH ICHI THE KILLER N SHIT.

I don't even know what that is. I just left the group without even looking at it again. But I do think there's a sort of Disney snobbery among people my age.

Though to play devil's advocate, it is worthwhile to show kids some more intense movies rather than merely be coddled with so-called "kid-friendly" stuff. Not necessarily Disney, but they certainly had that kind of impact on me.

The point of the group was basically "We must not forget to show our kids most of the traditionally animated Disney movies from roughly Snow White to Mulan, with Pixar being regarded as slightly less important, so that they have the same great childhood experience we did, and don't lose the importance of these movies under a flood of everything else Disney has made since then and will continue to make." To which of course, I will say again...look, I know about all these. I remember when Hercules came out, but never saw it. I got the Pocahontas soundtrack out of the library for some reason but never saw it. I saw the Lion King once on video, I was a huge fan of Mulan at the time but only saw it on video and probably no more than 2-3 times. The first movie I ever saw in a theater was Toy Story 2. But ultimately, I never saw most Disney animated movies. I was a weird kid, and maybe I missed out on something good here, but I was busy having a great childhood without them. So that was a very presumptuous group and therefore stupid to invite someone to it who you haven't spoken to in like 2 years...