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That's some bullshit.
He's definitely going to need to hire a new accountant in 2014 if he moves the business there.
I learned "slut" originally meant:
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A woman of dirty, slovenly, or untidy habits or appearance; a foul slattern.
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A kitchen-maid; a drudge.
Where did a dutiful slut deposit her slut rubbish?
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slut-hole
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n. (also slut's-hole) a place or receptacle for rubbish; also fig.
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1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 298 There are a good many slut-holes in London to rake out.
That implies the slut-fucker is rubbish, and not the other way around. Thanks Obama.
That was nowhere to be found on the first page of google when I searched 'slut hole'. Liar.
Did you add the hyphen?
slut-pup
3. A female dog; a bitch. Also attrib., as slut-pup. ? orig. U.S.
1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. 13 Nov. (1898) 42 A large Slut Which belongs to the Party atacted the Bare.
1845 G. Law in Youatt's Dog (1858) iii. 88 The dog-pup..and the slut-pup.
1845 G. Law in Youatt's Dog (1858) iii. 89 The dog was of a dingy red colour, and the slut black.
1853 W. Irving in Reader No. 57. 131/3 My little terrier slut Ginger..having five little Gingers toddling at her heels.
1894 J. Inglis Oor Ain Folk 10 Sluts were not so frequently used for shepherding purposes as dogs, being less tractable.
I learn what jawn meant the other day because my girlfriend's trashy brother uses the word. Now I just want to punch him in the jawn
I love that phrase! It can be whatever you need it to be.
Today, I learned hippos can run 19 MPH. How the fuck is that even possible?
Hippos are bad mother fuckers. They don't take shit from anyone.
Confirmed for bad mother fuckers.
Nature, son. I used to be able to sprint up to 20 mph. Some bears can run up to 30 mph. Cheetahs hit 60 mph in 3 seconds. Usain Bolt can sprint up to nearly 28 mph.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
In terms of Feats of Strength (tm), humans suck at just about everything, considering our size. We can just out-gun their outrun.
I think the hippos were just hungry hungry.
You and I ran next to my mom's Ford Taurus and got up to around 22mph back in 9th grade. This was NOT for very long, mind you. Some of us used to sprint at those "you're going this fast, fucker" things that used to pop up on the parkway. I won every time. Even when fat. BANG BANGQuote:
Originally Posted by Type Ryan
Long distance running. It's how we used to eat. Stick animal with spear, chase until it dies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tones
True. Ants say, "What's up?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Tones
It's our brains that separate humans from the rest of the animals out there. Although, there are some that are just as intelligent, if not smarter than humans. See cephalopods like Octopi and Cuttle Fish. Also, other mammals like Killer Whales are pretty fucking smart.
Fuck yeah! Didn't realize I was going that fast! Ah, to have that fast-twitch muscle. That fucker's GONE. I'm pretty sure I can still run a sub 5-second 40m dash. My best was 4.6, but I imagine I've lost a step or two in my old age. When I sprinted at a D-I meet in college, I was .5 seconds slower than the fastest guys there (future olympians and professional athletes). I ran a 6.9 in the 60M, while the fastest times were in the 6.4-6.5 range. Felt good knowing I could hang, to some degree, with the big boys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Ants are only strong due to their size.
del·e·te·ri·ous[ dèllə teeree əss ]
harmful: having a harmful or damaging effect on somebody or something
Someone used this on CAG. I've never seen this word before. I like it.
Really? I like that word a lot - glad you came across it!
It's a good one. I prefer to keep my vocabulary to myself on the internet, but it's a fine IRL word.
Josh is one perspicacious dude.
Caballero, imo.
After two and a half decades of calculator use, today I learned the difference between C and CE.
What is it? I've never used CE
I always thought C was Clear and CE was clear everything. Somehow, this is backwards.
Yeah I never liked that
CE = cancel entry
Yeah. If you're punching in 8 + 125 + 7 and you accidentally hit 6 instead of the last 7, you can hit CE to cancel the 6, then enter the intended number while keeping all the stuff you had done up to that point (8 + 125 +) instead of wiping the slate clean with C.
so clear entry and clean
Just get a TI-30XS like a civilized person.
Chux has a brother?
I've met him! He's an evil genius, iirc.
Cracked article on heroin addiction: http://www.cracked.com/article_21017...in-addict.html
I learned something from it.
Wanna copy-paste it? I go there and some un-closable giant white box covers half of the text.
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5 Unexpected Things I Learned from Being a Heroin Addict
Growing up, my understanding of heroin was limited to "If you use it once, you're screwed" and "Don't let the girl from She's All That borrow your cast iron pan." Well, I was hooked on one of the most addictive drugs in the world for over a year before I was arrested and forced to get clean in jail, and along the way I learned that this kind of habit is nothing like what we've been told.
#5. Addiction Isn't Instant (And That Makes It Worse)
By far the biggest rumor surrounding heroin is that it's an instant addiction -- you take one hit, and you're hooked. Just check out this scene from Breaking Bad:
Jesse asks what it'll feel like, telling us that it's his first journey into the wonderful world of opioids. To be blunt, I have literally never met anyone who was introduced to heroin with a needle. That's roughly the equivalent of taking your first drink of alcohol by butt-chugging moonshine out of a gas can. The reality is a lot less abrupt, and a lot scarier: Most people start by popping and smoking pills. In that stage, it never seems like a problem, because you can use daily for weeks with no withdrawal effects whatsoever. I got totally wasted with my girlfriend Sally* every night and woke up every morning clear as a bell, so it was super easy to think "Hey, why not use again?" I never had cravings, so it didn't feel like a real problem -- but somewhere in that process, a switch got flipped.
*Not her real name, obviously. What is this, Leave It to Beaver?
One day I woke up with what felt like a flu, and it wasn't until I got some more dope to "help my flu" that I realized I was "junk sick" -- the term users have for the early stages of withdrawal. It was after that -- after I was addicted -- that I turned to the needle. Once you're at the stage where you're even considering the needle, you long ago forgot about "squeamishness" right along with "work" and "everything else you ever wanted to accomplish in your life."
You have no trouble remembering where your spoons are, though.
The really bad part of heroin isn't the physical dependency -- it's the addiction, and there's a difference. Telling people heroin will get them "instantly addicted" is a fine scare tactic, but it disguises the real danger. I was using heroin daily not because I had jumped off the swings and accidentally touched a needle discarded on a playground, thus allowing the addiction-gremlins inside my brain, but because my firsthand experience with the drug told me that it was a risk-free way to escape from my problems. So when I realized I needed to kick, that meant facing not only the physical agony of withdrawal, but all the demons I had been running from in the first place. And I don't know if you've ever seen one run in the wild, but demons are fast.
#4. Movies Get the Scary Parts Wrong
Remember that scene in Requiem for a Dream when Jared Leto's arm gets infected and his friend acts like it's the craziest thing he's ever seen? That scene is ridiculous not because it's overhyped and chock-full of Leto-bangs, but because that shit happens all the time. When Sally got an abscess, we drained it with a hot compress and a disinfected razor blade, and that was it -- no hospital, no surgery, no nothing. It's so commonplace, it's practically boring.
A piddling little bit of blackened limb rot would be downright pleasant next to the looming threat of an accidental overdose. In a perfect world where no one ever makes mistakes, the difference between a good shot and a lethal dose would be about $10 -- but we don't live in a perfect world, so we have to deal with purity issues. Since there's not exactly an FDA for hard drugs, heroin purity is less closely monitored than, say, orange juice pulp levels. One person can have dope that is 80 percent pure, while his roommate can be getting high on stuff closer 10 percent, and there's virtually no way of visually distinguishing between the two. What happens over and over again is someone used to the lower-end stuff gets some "fire" dope from his dealer. Even if he's careful and does a tiny shot to test it out, it could still end up being like four of his normal shots. That's like picking up your latte at Starbucks, only when you go to take a sip, it turns out your coffee is made of shotgun blast and your head gets splattered all over the ceiling. Then Llarold, the hipster barista, is all "Psh, casuals."
This is why heroin in particular is responsible for such a large portion of all drug overdoses. In the short time I was using, I knew four people who overdosed that exact way. Some users have clarified that you don't die of an overdose of heroin -- you die "from heroin." Again, in an effort to make the drug seem scarier, we've distracted from the far worse reality: Heroin isn't dangerous because you might get an infection. Heroin is dangerous because at best you're not just at Death's door -- you're in Death's living room having a Mario Kart tournament at 2 a.m. and hoping he doesn't wake up, but you're not paying very close attention to the volume, because you're high on heroin.
I got clean from almost sheer luck, and that process is where things got even weirder.
#3. On the Subjects of Heroin, Getting Clean, and My Penis
As I mentioned, my addiction finally came to an end when I was arrested. Sally and I had been couch surfing as hidden homeless for months and shoplifting electronics to pay for food and drugs. We were finally busted while stealing dinner: lamb chops with a side of organic sweet potato and asparagus (hey, a heroin addiction is no excuse for barbarism, plus it's amazing what you can afford when you're stealing it). So I went to jail, and I discovered that a big part of heroin withdrawal involved my penis.
Photodisc/Photodisc/Getty Images
And that's not just because my penis makes up 34 percent of my body mass.
To explain that, let me back up a bit ...
One of the key effects of heroin is a dulling of the senses: Smell is just gone, sounds get muffled, and since your body is numb, you can lose the ability to orgasm. Rather than a downside, this ended up becoming a bonus, because if you can't come, you can just fuck for hours. That was one of our favorite things to do, actually: We'd get high and bone for as long as we felt like. And since both our bodies were mostly numb, things got ... pretty weird. Comic book weird. Japanese comic book weird.
Then, in withdrawal, the exact opposite happened. I was sitting there in my jail cell in the throes of all the worst parts of heroin withdrawal (sweats, chills, vomiting, being in friggin' jail) when all my senses came flooding back like a hyperactive toddler waking up from a forced nap. And they even brought a friend: the supernatural ability to orgasm at the slightest stimulation.
Wake up? Orgasm!
Accidentally brush it with a scratchy jailhouse blanket? What a lovely orgasm!
Shake it off after you pee into an industrial toilet? Bam, orgasm!
This stopped being pleasurable pretty much instantly -- sharing living space with a guy named "Tito the Butcher" isn't the most erotic of all possible atmospheres -- but that didn't matter. I could shoot off three in 30 seconds whether I wanted to or not, and this sensitivity stayed with me for weeks.
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5 Unexpected Things I Learned from Being a Heroin Addict
#2. Methadone Can Be Worse Than Heroin
For the uninitiated, methadone is a cheap, legal alternative to heroin that can be prescribed to help wean users off the drug. But trading a heroin addiction for a methadone addiction isn't exactly the Black Friday deal people make it out to be, because methadone is actually the more addictive substance. While heroin withdrawal by itself can't kill you and has physical withdrawal symptoms lasting anywhere from three days to a few weeks, withdrawing from methadone absolutely can kill you, and has symptoms that can last several months. I wouldn't wish that shit on my worst enemy. Not even you, Llarold the hipster barista.
Another problem is that methadone clinics aren't what you'd call "strict." They let you choose how to "taper off" yourself, and they're happy to keep selling you the drug as long as you want (there's a reason recovering junkies refer to methadone users as "lifers"). Then there are studies that have found that, in terms of cost to society and overall life-span of patients, a more effective strategy for getting clean is to just slowly taper off heroin use. It's probably worth noting at this point that, like methadone, heroin itself was first introduced as a safe, non-addictive cure for morphine addiction -- at least until they started marketing it to children as a cough medication.
I'm not saying that companies intentionally give drugs to addicts to keep them addicted, or even that methadone is a bad thing -- it allows a lot of people to manage their addiction and lead something like a normal life, and I wouldn't take that away from anyone who wants it. But I am saying that trading one opioid for another shouldn't be your only choice, because it can easily end up being just another addiction. You know the stories about how some little island in the Pacific had a rat problem, so they flew in snakes -- then they had a snake problem? Same deal. Except this time the snakes are inside your veins.
#1. Withdrawal Can Last the Rest of Your Life
I told you that heroin withdrawal lasts around three weeks at the most, and that's true, but this shit doesn't end at withdrawal: You can still end up with PAWS.
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PAWS is a deceptively adorable acronym for post-acute withdrawal syndrome, and the symptoms are similar to PTSD: depression, insomnia, restlessness, feelings of guilt and shame, inability to think clearly, and, in my case, very vivid nightmares. In one, I have a bag of dope in my hand and I am looking for a place to shoot up, but every time I find one, I get interrupted. The dream always ends when I have a needle in my arm: I'm about to push off, and right before I can feel the effects, I wake up. PAWS is like my addiction taunting me, every night, and it can last anywhere from a year, to several decades, to forever. But even without PAWS, I know I'm never going back to the way I was before -- I'm "hooked" forever. Even if I don't use for 20 years, one slip-up means I'll get withdrawal symptoms almost immediately. This is why you will see recovering heroin addicts refuse pain medication at the hospital: They'd rather go through surgery without morphine than have to go back to that very first day they tried to kick.
These days, Sally and I are broken up (I dumped her when she rolled over on me in jail, and not in the fun way. Now she's in prison for something unrelated), and I've been clean for 11 months. But my problems aren't over, because the drug itself isn't the problem -- the addiction is. Remember, I was using heroin every day for weeks before I developed a physical dependency, so heroin was just my attempt to fix problems that were already in place. If you know someone who's using or has used, you should know that this isn't as simple as them making bad decisions. They're running from something that, to them, seems a whole lot scarier than a needle.
This article was written before the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and is dedicated to the memory of everything he did outside his illness. Ed Byrne is still taking it day by day and can be reached by email. JF Sargent is a dick-joke journalist at Cracked.
That is a pretty good article. Thanks for the paste.
All of you should watch the Corner now.
I will do that and report in that one thread. Last time I got as far as stealing empty flat plumbing and taking it to recycle.
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Heroin isn't dangerous because you might get an infection. Heroin is dangerous because at best you're not just at Death's door -- you're in Death's living room having a Mario Kart tournament at 2 a.m. and hoping he doesn't wake up, but you're not paying very close attention to the volume, because you're high on heroin.
If you can watch she whole fucker in one sitting I would highly recommend doing so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
In the hood, a sensor bar is an "antenna" and a nunchuk is a "knuckle."
This is what I learned today.
I can watch that all day long.
Now you're brewing with power!
You know when you're reading a book and you see those three asterisks along the same line indicating an omission of time and/or a change in narrative perspective? I was wondering if that had a special name today. I looked it up. It does.
It's called a dinkus.
lol.
I may be REALLY late to the party, but I discovered this:
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/fred.gif
His birthday is on March 20th, btw.
Fuck those twats who want to defund PBS.
so i learned just now today few minutes ago that tnl mainpage hasn't been updated in over a year. You guys dropping the ball or does everyone just say fuck it and go to kotaku now? I'm disappointed. I'm back in #tnl btw, set the damn thing to load whenever i boot up. That's something. And any of the old crew still around? I see josh, but mzo still here? What about... .all you guys, with the names.
Everyone is gone. We are just shadows.
I'm still here! Station!
I want to chat solutions again sometime... Maybe I'll leave chatzilla open tomorrow
post #tnl info I'm on IRC all day.
We are all bots.Quote:
Originally Posted by station82o
Please take a look at our weblog.
irc.chat-solutions.org
Look out for Darth.
irc.chat-solutions.org CHANNEL #tnl oh dog$ already posted it. I'm back on it everyone come on. Butts.
I learned today that most people are clowns are simply don't care
I learned today Joust smokes out at 2:19.
can't join. I'm on freenode all day, but chat-solutions won't work for me.
Sorry for the cross-post
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1395345540
David Alan Grier is straight?!
People thought he was gay?!
People care?
When he and Damon Wayans did "men on film", I thought Damon was the only one acting.
... this is going to change the way I look at my childhood.
Interesting video on work ethic from one of the myth buster guys
http://www.tested.com/art/makers/452...-ethic-252013/
Mostly accurate.
http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/05...grads-fungible
This is also true. New employees are fungible. It doesn't matter how smart you are or how good your grades were. You are fungible the newer you are, and in some ways, always fungible.
I constantly have to remind others of this.
Complain about someone at work? "Oh you should speak to someone about that. You should do something" Uh, I'm more fungible. They've been here longer. If work picked between us, I'd be gone.
People are always suggesting I should take on more debt. Buy a house. Buy a car. Uh, what if I lose my job? I have a $650 student loan payment. and $600 rent. Then utilities and other various bills. I can't just load up with debt. The job might not be there tomorrow.
But ip, spending money you don't have on shit you don't need is the American way!
Using Coursera to teach myself intro to thermodynamics, kinetics, and quantum chemistry. It's fun but I feel so rusty on math.
Part of what I learned today is that there are symbols for "because" ∵ and "therefore" ∴ which I now wish were more common.
I wish the sciences, maths and engineering were more unified in the symbols they used and how the wrote them in text.
cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Sounds pretentiousQuote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
I'm actually doing this too. The truth is, I wanted to learn Python, and so I stumbled upon MIT Opencourseware Intro to Programming, which uses Python. They don't screw around at MIT. They're doing 3rd quarter stuff by week 5.
kind of pointless if they give it away for free though
You can pay if you want to be graded and get a certificate, though I'm doing this stuff to prepare for future classes.
Dealing with both Chem and Bio at the same time was made tougher because of this. Also the fact that they use entirely different names for the same things made it tough to remember which science used which.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Shine is back?
Did we all of a sudden get an influx of underage boys?
I just started this same course and then I read this. Now we're steppin' into the twighlight zone!Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
Boredom brought me back for a short time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
Today I learned that Gotham City is in NJ, and that Metropolis is in Delaware.
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2..._Coast_Map.png
http://batmangothamcity.net/wp-conte...New_Jersey.jpg
how to sit in a chair
Like a boss
The get up at 0:16 reveals that he is trolling.
I just learned willy-nilly use of the word "fascism" is not the new problem I thought it was. This sentence might have easily had "Diff-Chan" and "October 23, 2014" next to it:
"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" - George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1945
I try to use fascism within its original context, but its a losing battle.
I am reading a book called Command & Control, which is about the development of the nuclear weapons program in the USA. It's pretty incredible. I've learned so much. The deadliest weapons ever concocted were controlled by lunatics, warmongers, and idiots. The fact that we are still here as a species is a miracle.
You get to the part where they dropped one on Baltimore and it didn't go off because one of the triggers was made poorly?
Don't think so. I got to the part where one without a core fell off a plane onto a farm in South Carolina. And how one with a core was part of a smoldering heap after a plane failed take-off.
And how later the SAC wanted these fucking planes with the weapons armed on board to be flying around the country at all times.
aka the federal governmentQuote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
The military, specifically.
That book was scary as hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Sounds like a good time!
They should have tried again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Eric Schlosser, right? The Fast Food Nation guy? I've been meaning to check out this book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
He's also been working on a book about the prison system for, like, a decade.
Does that mean he's serving time? Because that's how I'd refer to serving time, researching a prison book.