What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Xeogred]

...okay.

[darsparx]

I think my chemistry class will be the death of me. I had one day, and I already feel like I will go nowhere in it. Just have to pass...

Welcome to my world I dropped that class after a week....(in college of course at the first community college i went too). I hated chemistry in high school so what made me think I'd like the college version? I have no clue

I wish I could drop it, I really wish I could. Required for my major.

So glad as a computer guy, that class isn't required for software/game development....


W00t, taking intro to computers(even though I could skip it at least I think i could since I already had some of this stuff at my highschool), and got a 98% on my first exam(missed one question ). Good thing this is 10% of the grade that will bump it up from the 84 I think it's at now hopefully


Edit: also another got my bit box cases for my nes games in(only ordered 10 to start off) man these things look freaking sweet....now I just need to print off covers and find manuals (not to mention my computer parts are coming in from tstr tommorrow and next week should get the ram)

[Ack]

What is this fucking world coming to?

I don't believe the world is going wrong, its just going back to what's natural. There's too much getting in the way of what people want, or causing them to feel like they having no power, or causing them emotional distress. Humanity is tribal at its base, and what does a tribe do when they have a problem? Fix it. I don't have food, but he does. I'll kill him and take his food, or steal some. These guys hurt me. I'll hurt them back. Etc etc.

Actually you're not alone in believing this. The author Robert E. Howard believed that civilization was unnatural, built for the weak, and would inevitably collapse and succumb to barbarism every time, when the strong willed would dominate the weak. He then did us all a favor and created Kull the Conqueror, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and eventually Conan the Barbarian.

[MrPopo]

Smile: Apparently everyone was so excited about the Hawks game that they got to the game 8 hours early, so the roads aren't massively backed up.

[TSTR]

What is this fucking world coming to?

I don't believe the world is going wrong, its just going back to what's natural. There's too much getting in the way of what people want, or causing them to feel like they having no power, or causing them emotional distress. Humanity is tribal at its base, and what does a tribe do when they have a problem? Fix it. I don't have food, but he does. I'll kill him and take his food, or steal some. These guys hurt me. I'll hurt them back. Etc etc.

Actually you're not alone in believing this. The author Robert E. Howard believed that civilization was unnatural, built for the weak, and would inevitably collapse and succumb to barbarism every time, when the strong willed would dominate the weak. He then did us all a favor and created Kull the Conqueror, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and eventually Conan the Barbarian.

These ideas are also similar to Freud's theories on how society forms neuroses.

[Luke]

But changing a well known phrase since you do not partake in what it came from is confusing. Thats like saying "A rolling stone gathers no hotdogs" since I do not roll stones.

But a rolling stone doesn't gather hotdogs.

[dsheinem]

wrong:



details: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/hot_ ... _from_1967

or maybe this is more your speed:

[Luke]

That cover of RS predicted the future.

Sorta kinda.

Edit* Well. What to say.

People flooded the gates when Robin Williams died, and that was a kick in the stomach for me, but losing Joan Rivers was more of a kick in the crotch.

Had friends over last night, and I got dealt a ton of guff for liking Fashion Police, which is a terrible show with some surprisingly nice and grounded people. I'm a little surprised that the death of River's hasn't had the same outpouring...but she wouldn't give two wags.

I get it. Not everyone loved er style of comedy, but boy was she ever consistent. You knew what you were getting, and she always delivered the same product. She made blue funny. A trendsetter who made way for the likes of Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, and every gal with a big mouth and a bright mind.

Taking a note from Blue eyes, she did things her way. Joan always stuck to her guns and had that mystical charm that even when she was a turd, you still had admiration for her.

Now this story may be fact or fiction, but I still enjoy it:

After Joan's first husband committed suicide, Joan and her daughter went out to lunch the following morning. After briefly looking at the menu, Joan said with a grin, "If your Father was around to see these prices, he'd kill himself again".

Sure, she worked blue, pissed many a person off, had a foul mouth, and her jokes weren't "clever". But hell if she didn't make hundreds of thousands of people laugh (even if she was the subject of a joke).

"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."

[TSTR]

Joan Rivers was definitely a comedy legend, RIP.

[fastbilly1]

I think the difference between Joan Rivers and Robin Williams, is that Joan had been sick for some time and in a coma for what two weeks, while Robin was a suicide.

Both were brilliant in their own ways and both will be missed.