Topic: What I learned today! (Read 194948 times)

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1560 on:** January 29, 2011, 03:07:52 PM »

I know someone who has "Every man dies, not every man really lives" tattooed over half his ribs.

Except his tattoo reads "everyman dies not everyman truely lives".

my friends.

Büge · « **Reply #1561 on:** January 30, 2011, 12:40:30 PM »

I learned that I really, really, want to learn how to play the Wakfu TCG. Several reasons:

It includes characters from the show,

puns and references,

innuendo* and fanservice,

and straight rips from MTG.

*many of which are only coherent to francophones

TA · « **Reply #1562 on:** January 30, 2011, 01:27:08 PM »

... Sphincter Cell.

Büge · « **Reply #1563 on:** February 06, 2011, 12:13:49 AM »

Episode 3 Review is now up...

Right around 1:05, Palpatine mentions a 108-page response to the Phantom Menace review.

It's real.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1564 on:** February 06, 2011, 12:43:58 AM »

You know, I still haven't watched the Red Letter reviews, because no matter how funny they are, I'd still be spending hours to watch a video whose ultimate purpose is to tell me that the Star Wars Prequels were bad.

I mean, there's Waldorf & Stadtler and there's Waldorf & Stadtler's merciless rule o'er a world without end.

Büge · « **Reply #1565 on:** February 06, 2011, 01:17:26 AM »

It must boggle your mind that someone not only watched the review all the way through, but went over it with a fine-toothed comb to rebut it point-by-point.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1566 on:** February 06, 2011, 02:49:08 AM »

Not really.

Hello internets!

Classic · « **Reply #1567 on:** February 06, 2011, 03:28:29 AM »

I did kind of like the idiot's guide to filmmaking: why episode 1 was not very good, but this is because I am the kind of dude who needs an Idiot's Guide to things he will never actually need.

EDIT:
That said, I thought I'd watch the eps 2 & 3 reviews and immediately decided that I didn't need to see 2+ videos with 30 minute run times for each. It is enough to do that once.

Brentai · « **Reply #1568 on:** February 06, 2011, 06:27:32 AM »

The thing is RLM actually bothers to give us some valuable information and insight into what went wrong and how things could have been improved, rather than just saying that he would rather eat a dead skunk's asshole repeatedly for 20 minutes straight.

It's honestly quite rare and valuable constructive criticism interlaced with jokes about torturing women.

Brentai · « **Reply #1569 on:** February 06, 2011, 11:03:53 AM »

Doritos can recombobulate a living person from his very ashes.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1570 on:** February 06, 2011, 11:10:58 AM »

That there must have been some awesome Doritos commercial during the Super Bowl because everyone is referencing them.

sei · « **Reply #1571 on:** February 07, 2011, 01:17:22 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on June 02, 2010, 10:00:06 PM

We're on html standard sizes now. 6 is actually really big.

Brentai left out "pt" in the distant past.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1572 on:** February 07, 2011, 03:06:31 PM »

That there's parkour sitting.

SALZIG - Sporthocker -- ispo BrandNew Awards

Büge · « **Reply #1573 on:** February 14, 2011, 12:05:02 PM »

Steve Winwood - Higher Love

All this time, I thought he was singing "bring me a PIE of love."

Happy

Day, everybody!

Mongrel · « **Reply #1574 on:** February 14, 2011, 12:09:03 PM »

Quote from: Büge on February 14, 2011, 12:05:02 PM

Happy Day, everybody!

It's my wedding anniversary today.

We replaced a crappy holiday with a good one!

Lottel · « **Reply #1575 on:** February 17, 2011, 03:51:08 PM »

And now for something a little different. My dad's 50th is tomorrow and to celebrate, my grandparents made a book of pictures of my dad from the day he was born to now and printed off a few copies. Now, I've always known that I get my looks from my dad but I never knew how much we looked a like. We looked nearly identical until both our junior years.

Here's a picture of my dad. If I actually had any pictures of me from when I was a kid, I'd post one.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1576 on:** February 21, 2011, 07:24:08 AM »

Today I learned about an interesting quote in Lincoln's first inaugural address:

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"It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions, but there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor... Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

Classic · « **Reply #1577 on:** February 21, 2011, 08:43:37 AM »

I wonder why more "Lincoln-style" Illinois republicans don't use that line more! Thanks.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1578 on:** February 24, 2011, 11:09:35 AM »

Elsewhere (I forget where) the Bay of Pigs invasion came up in discussion.

I discovered this interesting Kennedy quote that lay half-buried in the aftermath.

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Kennedy commented to his journalist friend Ben Bradlee, "The first advice I'm going to give my successor is to watch the generals and to avoid feeling that because they were military men their opinions on military matters were worth a damn."

Büge · « **Reply #1579 on:** February 27, 2011, 01:18:58 AM »

I just learned that my roommate has a case for her chopsticks.

With Pokemon on it.

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