The Simple Truths Silver Mine

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

people who constantly complain about "political correctness" are 100x more annoying than political correctness

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Snowstalker's "serious" posts are some of the most vapid, shallow affected garbage I've had the misfortune to read. He's genuinely turned into one of the worst, certainly one of the most insufferable, regular posters on the forum - to the extent that I'm nostalgic for old racist/sexist "Blue Dog" Snowstalker.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yeah that's worthy of a double post.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If you don't enjoy opebo posts, I'm not really sure what you're doing on this forum.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Do you guys remember when BushOklahoma was a mod?

He's far from the only example of a faulty mod selection process.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Both of these things make me lose faith in humanity.

^^^^

This. The only redeeming factor I found with Atlas Shrugged is that at least it's fiction.

Much of Update is also fiction.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Lulz at talking about the "IPU" in a non ironic/joking context.

Wow, BRTD in the GPG. Never thought I'd see the day.





Even though he's right here.

This isn't the GPG, though by Bacon King's count I've had several entries in that too.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Of course Inks would be giving out 10 points; he seems to have no understanding that there are options to give out less than 10.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I consider 0°C to be "pretty damn cold out", but that's just me.

My scale:

-10°C (14°F) Pretty damn cold
-5°C (23°F) Damn cold
0°C (32°F) Pretty cold
5°C (41°F) Cold
10°C (50°F) Pretty cool
15°C (59°F) Cool
20°C (68°F) Pretty
25°C (77°F) Warm
30°C (86°F) Pretty warm
35°C (95°F) Hot
40°C (104°F) Pretty hot
45°C (113°F) Damn hot
50°C (122°F) Pretty damn hot

Absurd scale.

-30°C (-22°F) Absolutely cold
-25°C (-13°F) Pretty damn cold
-20°C (-4°F) Pretty cold
-15°C (5°F) Cold
-10°C (14°F) Somewhat cold
-5°C (23°F) Mildly cold
0°C (32°F) Pretty cool
5°C (41°F) Cool
10°C (50°F) Fairly Nice
15°C (59°F) Nice
20°C (68°F) Ideal
25°C (77°F) Warm
30°C (86°F) Hot
35°C (95°F) Pretty hot
40°C (104°F) Insanely hot
45°C (113°F) Hotter than I've ever experienced
50°C (122°F) So hot I'm never going anywhere that gets to this.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Wow so edgy bringing up things I said that I've clearly changed my views on wow lol so grown up so edgy wow lol

But when people say things like that now you are like "haha this is so stupid omg how can anyone believe this?"

Yeah. That's usually what happens when people change their views and look back on them.

No. That is you insulting them to prove yourself. I might start to like football in a few years, but after watching one interesting game I'm not going to buy a WVU jersey just because I like them.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Hear hear! Of course you'll have the sycophants who want this forum to be boring polls and endless spam threads shouting you down on this, but the moderators are acting completely unreasonably here. It's good that you're standing up to them, instead of capitulating.

Seriously. Give me opebo over a bunch of "Shirley Chisholm vs. Pete McCloskey 1972" and "opinion of Idaho Democratic Party" threads any day of the week.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Textbook example of someone who should get high and chill out.

I'd say about 60% of the forum needs to do that.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What makes him deeply unpleasant is his need to demonstrate his moral superiority to everyone else.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No. And jmfcst should be brought back, for the same reason.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

John Brown, the greatest American whoever lived.

It's amazing how benconstine is exactly the same moderate hero that he was when he was 14.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Why is he not banned while opebo is banned?

Good question. I've seen far more offensive, thoughtless and crass material from Hifly in his short stint on the forum than I have from opebo in the 10+ years I've been posting here.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

A private company buys ad time from another private company and chooses to prepare some of the ad in a foreign language. That sounds like free enterprise to me.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

in other words (if it wasn't clear already...) anyone trying to be sage by repeating the revisionist talking point that nixon was the last liberal in the whitehouse is shall we say, a bit confused

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I've said this before but I would love for Bushie to figure out a way to get on the government's dole permanently so that he wouldn't have to worry about this job nonsense anymore. It really just isn't going to work. Hopefully if he can do that, he can finally focus on the two things in his life that are in dire need of attention: his mental health and his physical health.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Racist or not racist, nobody can deny that the fraternity system unfailingly generates appalling douchebags.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No. Excluding trolls who have been banned and people with intellectual disabilities, he was probably the worst poster on the forum for most of his time here. Good riddance.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Irritation at the excesses of much of the Western media coverage is fine, but I'm sure you can express that without parroting Russian propaganda.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Mostly, the anti-thinking culture he is a proponent of is a bit of a cancer.

Just because I don't think you're even half as smart as you think you are, doesn't mean I'm anti-thinking.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Could Gully or Kemp explain their bizarre reactions to that thread?

As an aside, it's pretty funny when posters try to show how cool they are by noting how they care nothing for politics. You joined a forum dedicated to discussion about maps and political demographics, for God's sake. Any coolness points were lost years ago.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

A surprising poster to quote here, but nonetheless a correct point:

The problem is tying teacher compensation or tenure to a nominal performance statistic. Teachers aren't allowed to fire their bad students. Doesn't really make sense to give them managerial incentives.