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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
1084. Don't care. F
1085. This would have been good without the caption and alt text. B-
1086. Context plz. D-
209 comments:
also as the title indicates i am on vacation so fuck youReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 1:12 AM
You mean "holiday", you fat American infidel.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 6:52 AM
How do you dumb brits distinguish between Boxing Day et al. and a non-work trip out of town?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 7:25 AM
I'm not sure how dumb brits distinguish, but a government-mandated day off tends to be called a "bank holiday", being regulated by the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.Delete
I imagine Americunts dislike "holiday" because its etymology challenges their theatrical rejection of religion, even while they're the most backwardly religious of all Western nations.
HTH, colonial.
"their theatrical rejection of religion"Delete
Which America are you talking about again? The one which has God all over their money and presidential speeches, that one?
The real reason why America doesn't say "on holiday" is because Fuck The Queen, that's why.
From the amount of content you bother to input on your reviews it seems like you are permanently on vacation.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 9:04 AM
u madDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Re religion, that's pretty much the point, Capn.Delete
And the problem with the US aristocracy is that it doesn't have to take its shits in public like our Lilibet. Your checks only serve to increase their balances.
how long were you saving that oneDelete
Don't you mean cheques, you limey, snaggletoothed cuddlefish?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 9:35 AM
I didn't save it. I use it every chance I get.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Just long enough to type it out. A quip relying on a US spelling mistake is almost embarrassing, but you have to tease out your audience.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 9:43 AM
now I don't know which of you is the real Anon@9:11neverforgetohshitDelete
9:35 = more like 911 in substance but 9:41 = more like 911 in style
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 1:24 PM
hey rob, two words: guest review. make it happen.Delete
hey anon, email meDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 6:05 AM
Ron Paul 2012ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 7:53 AM
ib 'rob is fat/lazy', 'blog sucks, stop'ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 7:57 AM
Rob's posts still contain more OC than each new xkcd. When Randy has addressed this problem, the cuddlefish may have a legitimate argument.Delete
Maybe you just address this complaint by creating some sort of game wherin you have a preset amount of content, and you indicate whenever such content has been presented in the blog post or even the comments ... some kind of Bingo ...Delete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM
rob is fat/lazyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 9:57 AM
guys, i need to find out something and you are the only ones who can help me. why is it there's no porn with the shemale ejaculating inside someone's anus? they always pull out and do it on the chest or something, and that's so boring. there's literally not one clip of a tranny giving a creampie.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 10:11 AM
You want the truth?Delete
Every desperate Internet nerd is willing to dress up as a woman and have gay sex so there is no need for porn of it. If you can't even get laid that way then I don't know what to say.
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 10:42 AM
buts there's tons and tons of shemale videos. they just always pull out or use a condom, despite the fact that a lot of people would love to see a happy ending.Delete
Because AIDSDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 1:46 PM
usually on porn they both have AIDS alreadyDelete
AIDS + AIDS = Super AIDSDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 6:24 PM
Yeah Capn but Super AIDS + virgin = HIV negative. God forgot a boundary check so it rolls over.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 9:02 AM
it can't just be aids because plenty of hemales finish inside.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 1:05 PM
1086 was pretty goodReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 3:06 PM
HI RANDALLDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 12:49 PM
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 2:41 PM
rob fatReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 10:20 PM
I feel like randy hijacked this blog and is pretending to be this "rob" figure. His goal is to make this blog as shitty as possible and discredit it from ever being a respectable criticism of his work.ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupJuly 26, 2012 at 10:39 PM
hope you are having a nice holiday rob.ReplyDeleteReplies
I was not aware that July 26 was a holiday. However, upon research it turns out that it is in fact Liberian Independence Day. I didn't know Liberians had such a strong presence on the internet... you learn something new every day!Delete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 4:00 AM
That isn't really a holiday anymore since it caused around 150 years of strife and then outright war between the american-Liberians and the natives.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 4:54 AM
I imagine Randalloids (Randroids? Ayn?) would be all over Libertarian Independence Day.Delete
Oh, wait.
Never mind - close enough.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 4:10 AM
so does anyone actually like xkcd anymore or is it pretty much over at this pointReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 6:42 AM
so does anyone actually like Anon 4:10 anymore or is it pretty much over at this pointDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 7:58 AM
SICK BURN BRAHDelete
- fapderpJuly 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM
So this girl was all like "Hey, wanna hold the baby?" and I was totally like "Ew, I'm not touching that. It came out of your vagina."ReplyDelete
High five? Anyone?
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 11:51 AM
I think the best thing about xkcd at this point is explain xkcd (which should be subtitled "an idiot tries to explain the ever less intellectual references in xkcd and fails miserably).ReplyDelete
Today he couldn't figure out what the syntactical ambiguity was in the alt text.
The explain xkcd for 1072 was particularly hilarious; he thought the problem the seventies dude would have "press 1 to leave a message" was that answering machines hadn't been invented yet (wrong), not the dude's lack of a touch tone phone (which had also been invented by then, but weren't common).
He does manage to explain completely irrelevant crap though. Bellbottoms? I had no idea what those were, thanks.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 12:01 PM
I think the best thing about the comments section of xkcdsucks at this point is anonymous (which should be subtitled "an idiot tries to explain the ever less intellectual references in xkcdsucks andDelete
bored, posting anyway
Trail off much .... ?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 2:43 PM
On behalf of all Britain, can I just apologise for the Olympic opening ceremony.ReplyDelete
Sup haters. I'd like to ask your opinion about a possibly bad webcomic.ReplyDelete
Scenes from a Multiverse is like xkcd, but with about 10 times the lolrandumb factor, a bunch of sci-fi tropes, and (ZOMG) good artwork. And yes, he sells T shirts of it. Today's comic is even dumber than usual. But do tell me what you think.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Capn blurted,ReplyDelete
"......The real reason why America doesn't say "on holiday" is because Fuck The Queen, that's why......"
There are at least two other more pertinent reasons, sir:
(1) One cannot easily generate a humourous, related neologism with the word 'holiday' like one can with the word 'vacation'. To wit: 'Gaycation' - for the gayers, 'Straycation' - for the adulterous fornicators and 'Braycation' - for Rob and his pet donkey.
(2) Simply because of Billie - she was black.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 10:51 AM
just shut the fuck up man, you make no sense and it isn't even funny when you dont. your non sequiturs aren't hilarious and quirky. you're a fucking pain in the ass.Delete
your suffering is exquisiteDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Dearest Anonymous July 28,2012 @ 10:51 AM,Delete
I'm a girl, silly!
Shall I accommodate your anal discomfort with a smaller gauge gomdemiche then?
I'm feeling charitable.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 11:40 AM
I am sure that many of you are wondering why I would have spelt 'godemiché' with an extra 'm' and without the terminal diacritic. To them I say "I pedicate and irrumate with a Americanised Warholian monster that is Mmmm Mmmm Good."Delete
Others, to the contrary, simply believe I am an illiterate cunt who doesn't bother to proofread her dross before she clicks 'publish'.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 11:43 AM
see there you go again! what the fuck are you even trying to say, and can it not be said without you making arbitrary substitutions from a thesaurus?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 11:43 AM
"I'm a girl, silly!"Delete
pics or it didn't happen
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 11:50 AM
i assure you there is not a fucking soul on this godforsaken earth that was wondering why you made an insignificant error when spelling some obscure word.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 11:59 AM
The error was rife with significance, are you thick?Delete
Though the word may be obscure, the sentiment sure ain't!
I used to hate you so much, but I must admit, I am enjoying the suffering of the cuddlefish.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 9:16 AM
The ALTF's the thing/With which I'll prick the suff'ring of the cuddlefishDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 11:50 AM
"......what the fuck are you even trying to say....."ReplyDelete
No offence, but I am not trying to say anything to you or your ilk.
Best you realise that sooner than later.
I am the one in RED.
I do not want, nor would I relish, reciprocity.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 12:04 PM
but you explicitly addressed me! right there, at the beginning of your post, you said "Dearest Anonymous July 28,2012 @ 10:51 AM" so thats clearly false!Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 12:26 PM
I was mistaken.Delete
Try as I might, and believe me I have tried mightily, it appears I've not the Anglospheric linguistic acumen needed to contrive dross that would accommodate your level of reading comprehension. And for this, I am deeply apologetic.
Click on my 'RED' link above as a consolation 'booby' prize. It is the best I can proffer.
I can see the outline of ping pong balls thru your bikini bottom.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 1:08 PM
1)You're overdoing the ellipsis, but then you're overdoing everything else tooDelete
2)I'm not sure you know what dross means. I have never heard the word before and just looked it up and it makes no sense in the context youre using it in, so yeah, fuck you.
3)To be concise, my point is: there is no inverse relationship between the comprehensibility and quality of text. Stop acting like such a superior cunt and make it less of a chore to decipher what you're saying. Of course this presupposes you're actually saying anything, and not simply spewing from a thesaurus to act like a superior cunt.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 1:10 PM
That is where I store my Go Go Gonads. They were used later that night as part of my act at the 'Jumbo Bar' in Patpong. I have the best antispin of all the girls!Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 1:35 PM
If I appear to you to be acting as a superior cunt, does this not presuppose that you have, at some point in the temporal past, defined a spectrum (at least bimodal) of cunts such that 'superior' and 'inferior' can be delineated and that you consider yourself to wallow in the province of the latter and that I actually belong in the former even though I am acting but I am at least 'acting to type'?
How's that for concatenate of conjunction and comma-rich dross? One must let one's imagination fly with the myriad poetic uses of language if one is to garner any meaning from my word salads. I reckon you should not research the words 'word' and 'salads' as I misuse them here, you'll only frustrate yourself.
And just WTF does that have to do with Groundhog Day?!Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 1:51 PM
Anonymous July 28, 2012 1:08 PM said,Delete
".....and just looked it up and it makes no sense in the context youre using it in, so yeah, fuck you....."
1) Looked it up? Poor phrasal verb made the worse by splitting it with a pronoun.
2) In the context you're using it in? Redundant use of the preposition 'in' AND ending a sentence with one. Sir Winston's spinning in his crypt.
Now your verbiage is indeed closer to your definition of the word 'dross' in the context in which I use it, agreed?
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Leslie, the self-confessed Beta Female 'round these parts said,Delete
".....And just WTF does that have to do with Groundhog Day?!...."
'Cause I can repeatedly shplortle-pop(1) ping pong balls until I become a better person?
(1) Nothing sounds quite like it!
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Now see, all of that meandering bullshit in the first paragraph could have been expressed without redundant adjectives like "temporal past" and a superabundance of clauses.Delete
To answer your "Query?", the claim that someone belies a sense of superiority does not assume that this belief is true. When I say that you are acting superior, I'm not implying I have some sort of dichotomy where people are categorised by their vocabulary, and I have simply decided that superior people are cunts. It's pretty simple; a vocabulary awkwardly employed is worthless currency, but you seem very eager to parade your wealth.
The second paragraph is just you being a superior cunt and gloating about how lowly plebes cannot hope to comprehend your wordsalads without letting their imagination fly or some such bullshit.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 2:37 PM
You have me apprised to within an attoparsec of my true beingDelete
".....and I have simply decided that superior people are cunts......"
Now in this, we are in absolute agreement.
"....redundant adjectives like "temporal past"...."
Only one adjective was used and it was a fucking tautology anyway! No redundancy inferred, implied or 'alluded to(1).'
(1) Nyuck, nyuck!
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 2:37 PM
1)What are you a fucking aspie? I, (the subject) looked up the term "dross", (the object)Delete
2)Again, let me deconstruct this for you. I claimed that the word you are using makes no sense in X. X here is either:
a)"The context you are using it in"
b)"The context you are using it"
Take your pick.
You know, for such a superior cunt, you're not very good at your worthless preoccupation of choice.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 2:45 PM
Testy little bugger, aren't you?
"........for such a superior cunt,....."
Thanks, but that's uncalled for - take it back! I merely mirror my foe.
".....The context you are using it in...."
What you meant to say was, "The context in which you are using it"
You're welcome.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 2:57 PM
A testy bugger indeed am I.Delete
"The context in which you are using it" - Improvement in style maybe, but there is nothing wrong with its structure as it stands.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 12:35 PM
so basically what you're syaing is despite your best efforts, your head is stuck so far up your own ass you cant even have a conversation without it being ridiculously stilted and full of contrived synonyms?ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupJuly 28, 2012 at 2:26 PM
catullus 16, though, a classy enough referenceReplyDelete
'2 channe'
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 5:10 PM
altf trolling is best trollingReplyDeleteReplies
it's been forever since there was a good proper ALTF trolling sessionDelete
shit never gets old
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 4:05 AM
ALTF seems to have found a perfect trolling formula which triggers insecure young chauvinists who want to put the persona of a lettered woman in its place.Delete
If you attack the content, you lose because there is none.
If you attack the style, you lose because it's already as intended.
At best you can take a similar approach and hope for a stalemate. I tried engaging ALTF once and this was as far as I got.
So, I raise my glass to you, ALTF. The proof of the trolling's in the raging.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 4:46 AM
ROTFLMAO @ you being a hot young Asian girl in a red bikini.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 7:00 AM
Regardless of whether ALTF is a "hot young Asian girl in a red bikini", ROTFLMAO @ the angry hate which makes someone incapable of believing that a "hot young Asian girl in a red bikini" can troll effectively on the Internet.Delete
If you studied any history of science, mathematics or engineering you would positively shit yourself at the number of brilliant people who were also sexier and richer than you.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 7:17 AM
lol typical reaction to boobs on the internet. 10% incredulous disbelief, 45% incoherent bitter hostility, 45% ass kissing white knighting.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 7:21 AM
lol typical reaction to anything on the internet. 80% meaningless argument, 20% meta-argument by some dick who thinks that he's above everyone because he can write a commentary.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 7:32 AM
@7:21 ironicDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 7:51 AM
lol altf lives in a 98% white canadian town
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 8:25 AM
@7:32 AmericuntDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 8:35 AM
its really hurtful when you say things like that :(Delete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 9:00 AM
It's my dick that's causing the pain. Your asshole is so loose that you can't tell any more.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 9:12 AM
ok ill try to clench moreDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 9:35 AM
I just don't have the girth of the three combined dicks you're used to.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 9:57 AM
you barely have the girth of one, but you dont hear me complaining.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 10:22 AM
I do hear you moaning, however.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 10:32 AM
oh no that's just my asshole catching the windDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 10:50 AM
8:25 to 10:32 = samefagDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 10:52 AM
8:25 to 10:52 = samefagDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 8:37 AM
i don't care what you losers say, it's boringReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 3:15 PM
- Texas ArcaneJuly 29, 2012 at 9:45 PM
The clerk, who I found out was named Peter, told me to stock up and grab anything I wanted. I was snatching stuff randomly off the shelves when my nose started to really gush. My security guard uniform was ruined, I had blood all down the front of it. I was feeling dizzy and weak, I think from a combination of three days no sleep, getting clocked on the nose and coming down off all the caffeine I was drinking.ReplyDelete
Peter tore open a packet of handiwipes and wet it under the sink and believe it or not managed to find time to come on to me while he was trying to help soak up blood from my nose. I managed to let drop I was married and I could see him wince a bit but he kept dabbing with the handiwipe at my nose for me. Gay or not, he was a relatively good person.
"Do you think those guys are coming back?" he asked me, dabbing away.
"Nah, you seen the last of them, guarantee you. Mexicans could not organize a bowel movement. They will go get drunk and forget about it," I said, sniffling to try to make a clot form in there so I could get on with it.
Peter nodded and gave me the cloth, I leaned back against the counter and tilted my head up to try to make the bleeding stop. Peter got a diet coke out of the fridge and accidentally broke another one on the floor. "Who cares," he said,"I ain't coming back here. I could pick up these jobs ten times a week if I wanted 'em. My boss was trying to get me to open the store today, no way, you can feel today is going to be bad, everybody knows it. I'm going home to Burbank and I'm going to drink Jack Daniel's and curl up with a good book. The National Guard will get here eventually."
My nose was starting to clot, I flipped the handiwipe over and was dabbing with the clean side, seemed like it was drying up. I caught motion out of the corner of my eye at the front windows. Peter gasped.
The two dwarves were back. Standing between them was the shortest, ugliest Mexican I have ever seen. That's saying a lot, believe me. I did not have to be Sherlock Holmes to guess this was "Benny." So they were serious. They went and got somebody.
This guy "Benny" was staring at me dead on. One of the dwarves pointed through the glass at me with a crooked finger. Benny had a dead fish stare that I had seen enough in security work to know when you are dealing with the real thing. His two friends might have been wannabes, this guy looked to be the hardest of the hardcore gangbangers. Little trimmed moustache. Dark brown features cut from rock. Although the guy stood about 4'8, he was as thick as a corded tree knot and he exuded bloodcurdling menace. Probably shot a couple of people a week and got away with it, too.
Without taking his eyes off me, he tapped on the window with the butt of a Glock pistol and said something, probably an insult, lips barely moving. Never stopped looking at me. The guy could blister paint off a wall with his eyes.
I almost pissed myself. My wife wanted me to leave the Desert Eagle. Damn, I was going to die because I let her cuckold me again. Ironic. Peter had already ducked down in the dark at the back behind a cheese roll display and gestured for me to "get down." I crouched and slid beside him, tossing aside the groceries I was toting as an encumbrance.
- Texas ArcaneJuly 29, 2012 at 9:48 PM
"Peter," I said, "My wife is expecting me back in five minutes from the Quik Mart. I hope you're going to tell me there is another way out of here. I'm not ready to die over a loaf of bread and some milk."ReplyDelete
Tapping on the glass with the Glock again. Not hard mind you. Really easy. Scary, scary dude. To this day, I can't be sure or not if these Mexicans really expected me to come to the front of the store and unlock the door so they could shoot me between the eyes.
Peter turned out to be a resourceful guy under pressure. He said "I always imagined this, if a psycho came in and started shooting up the place, how would I get out. Follow me, I know a good way." He didn't have to tell me to stay down, we both crawled to the back.
Air flap doors, through the back into their little stock room. Very dark except for an emergency fire exit sign. "Not that way," Peter said, "stay behind me."
A gunshot behind us, heard glass breaking. Was just about ready to piss down my own leg. Heard what sounded like a lot more than three people rushing into the store, yelling and cursing. Another gunshot. I almost bit off my tongue.
I followed Peter into what looked like a trolley corridor that ran behind the storefronts, all cool concrete cinderblocks. The flourescents were on back here. We had both stood up and were running now. Peter motioned me to turn right and go up a flight of stairs.
We ran through a lobby, everything deserted, Peter seemed to magically know a side door that was unlocked - it led into the foyer of a place called La Cienega Realty. He locked the door behind us as soon as I came inside.
I was shaking and in a cold sweat. I stunk from fear, blood all over my shirt, probably looked like hell. We both stood for a long time listening to see if any noises of pursuers following was audible. We didn't talk, didn't say anything, I was holding my breath for a while and when I let it go I was still concentrating on keeping it as narrow and silent as possible.
Peter said "If you go out the side door of the realty, you'll be right around the corner from Sunset. That's on the other side of the Quik Mart a block away."
I didn't move or say anything. I went over and sat down at a realtor's desk. It looked like it had been abandoned in a hurry, a yellow stick-it on the monitor said "EVERYBODY HOME BY 2:30, RIOTS!" I was scared to even turn on the desk light and just sat in the weak light of the sun coming through the front office windows.
Peter sat down and didn't say anything. We sat their very quietly. I closed my eyes and nearly fell asleep, scared witless in spite of it. About 30 minutes went by.
"Pete, I gotta go, buddy, much appreciated," I said and I got up. "I'm going to break for it down Sunset, hoping Benny is not around."
- Texas ArcaneJuly 29, 2012 at 9:50 PM
"I'm calling my sister, she owns a cab company. She'll send a cab out here for me to take me to Burbank," said Peter.ReplyDelete
I gave him a smile that came out more like a sick grimace, waved so long, went for the door crouching.
Peered out into the street cracking the door. Fresh air came in from the outside, cool morning air with woodsmoke. No sign of anybody. Jeez, I thought, it's only 9:15 am in the morning. I thought it was night time after all that.
I ran across to Sunset, no traffic. Quiet enough in the streets you could hear nothing but birds chirping. As soon as I made the end of the alley that led behind the houses to Martin Way I took off running all out, kept expecting Benny to put a bullet in my head at some point.
I got home, my wife was shrieking at the sight of the blood. I locked all the doors, closed all drapes, took a shower and fell asleep on the couch after three days with nothing but catnaps.
I remember drifting off with my wife asking me, "What about the milk?" and I replied "Put a few drops of vanilla into the powdered full cream milk and chill it for a couple of minutes, it's delicious. Can't talk. Too tired. Love you, hon. I should have taken that gun, don't give me any more advice, okay? From now on I'm running the show here. After the riots end you can henpeck me all you want."
It's good I got a nap in because that afternoon was going to be biblical, no kidding. Apocalypse on a grand scale. You never saw CGI special effects in a movie that could hold a candle to what I saw when I woke up.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 5:36 AM
"9:15 am in the morning"Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 6:55 AM
>for me to take me
>came in from the outside
>kept expecting... at some point
>Apocalypse on a grand scale
>CGI special effects in a movie
Should I be surprised that this comes from a [url=http://bonniegadsden.blogspot.co.uk/2012_04_01_archive.html]libertarian[/url]?
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 6:57 AM
Oh fuck, this isn't a phpbb is it.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 7:01 AM
You are shit at posting hyperlinks.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 7:14 AM
Yes, see 6:57. I have failed to memorise the mark-up each particular board requires.Delete
Life was a lot simpler when you downloaded something from Matt's Script Archive for your first attempt and then did everything with mod_perl. Now it's a new fucking framework every couple of years and they're all crippled in some awful way that makes you realise half way through your project that your team should have just started from scratch and documented well like they used to.
Fuck the Internet. It has become so full of shit. IRC, e-mail and Usenet were sufficient for communication. After all the journals and professional publications came online, there was nothing else that needed doing.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 8:00 AM
@7:14 no you just suck ass its plain old htmlDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 8:18 AM
What you mean is that it's some subset of HTML and I'll have to either look around for a list or try stuff out and see what's stripped out.Delete
Anyway, the web is not a suitable discussion board medium. Choose/create a decent open protocol and allow people to use the client/presentation that they want. You know I'm right.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 8:26 AM
You don't have to do that. I didn't. I just looked at the page source to see how hyperlinks were made there and copied it.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 8:34 AM
Implying that output reflects valid input markup. Syntax, elements and attributes could be entirely changed.Delete
I'm bored now so [ego-destroying insult], [implication that you'll want to provide a comeback] and [statement that I am AFK for months now so I'll never hear your response].
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Hey! My ego!Delete
I won't want to leave a comeback ACTUALLY. I don't care what you think. I don't care about anything!
I bet you will read (not hear, you fucktard) my response because you're exactly the kind of petty asshat who insists on having the last word always.
Well I'm having the last word because my older brother moderates this blog and will block your IP if you don't apologise.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 10:41 AM
"What you mean is that it's some subset of HTML" Because as we all know, the markup for <a> tags varies based on what "subset" you're using.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 10:48 AM
10:41, see 8:54 below this post.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 11:04 AM
i know i totally foresaw you would use that argument so i left myself wide open just to engage you.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 11:06 AM
oh wait except for the part where i didn't do that all because that would be retarded.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 1:43 PM
11:06, are you saying that 6:57/7:14/8:18/8:34, despite clearly showing technical understanding, somehow "wouldn't know" that "a href" is how u do a link?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 2:34 PM
well fuck now im not even sure he knows how quotes work, and ive just found out he has a problem with referring to himself in the third person.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 3:50 PM
2:34, see 8:54 below this post.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 7:21 AM
i know i totally foresaw you would use that argument so i left myself wide open just to engage you etc.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 7:46 AM
Seriously, ALT-Fuck should write a guest review.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Aside from the expert-linguistics-troll-with-a-smattering-of-elemental-classics persona, I'm not sure ALTF is that creative. There are examples of its work (or something writing very much like it) elsewhere on the interwebs and they're not very inspiring.Delete
It's like Rob's microfiction: looking at the passion he puts into some of his rants here, I'd have expected something less formulaic.
in b4 lets see if you can do better
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 8:54 AM
altf isn't even a good troll. There's no real perceived weakness for the participant to explore. Right away, readers know altf has won. So all the readers get is a boring trolling session which is neither exciting to read or memorable beyond the initial gimmick.Delete
A good troll leaves lots of holes or weaknesses that allow different discussions to travel along different lines. A great troll will have these weaknesses mentally mapped out and an action plan in each case. The result of this is a mentally engaging troll, where both the reader and participant always feel as though they are in a position to respond rationally to a different perceived weakness even as the current weakness is shown to have been baited. It leads to emotional investment in the discussion, and is the only effective way to troll long-term alone.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 9:43 AM
I think ALTF does leave intentional weaknesses, though not usually subtle - its posts often seem to contain several vacuous but coherent remarks plus one or two obvious errors of content or style. I think to myself "oh fuck someone's going to rage about X" and they do. The X="temporal past" example above was embarrassingly trivial.Delete
Maybe this says more about the quality of xkcdsucks commenters than about ALTF.
in b4 some cuddlefish saying that ALTF has succeeded because you talk about it: like xkcd, we are talking about it because it keeps appearing, not necessarily because it's good.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 10:36 AM
9:43 you aloof god among men, you.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 8:03 PM
LOL @ "ALT-FUCK" !Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 10:23 AM
Why is it that some places you say NIGGERS! and no-one cares but other places it loses you like a dozen people's respect?ReplyDelete
I think everyone should be required on their 18th birthday to publish a video of themselves masturbating while taking a shit and repeatedly chanting something like NAKED BABIES! KILL THE RICH! NIGGERS, SPICS AND KIKES!
This would be a great equaliser.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 10:35 AM
wheres your like, video, man.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 4:01 PM
hi robReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 5:51 AM
Anon 9:43 is the funniest cunt on here so fuck ALTF.ReplyDelete
9/11 jokes are hilarious.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 6:21 AM
Anonymous July 30, 2012 9:43 AM said,ReplyDelete
"......Maybe this says more about the quality of xkcdsucks commenters than about ALTF......"
You see?
Now this is funnier than anything I could ever possibly hope to render manifest.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 6:38 AM
Some cunt above, in the not too distant temporal past, inquired after my possible status as an 'aspie' - I was deeply perplexed.ReplyDelete
I had to actually research this word, unlike the above cunt who would have had to 'look it up', to ascertain its meaning in today's temporally present Anglospheric lexicon. After many easily countable hours of research, I have settled on one definition.
Well, dear readers, I have been called many things in my sordid past, including:
Various fruits - banana for instance - you know yellow on the outside and white on the inside?
Various vegetables - cabbage mostly, but even broccoli, though I can't imagine why.
Meats - "Nice piece of meat"!
Even baked goods - "Tart" and "Crumpet"
But never, to my knowledge, have I been likened to the reproductive organs of an Aspidistra.
I quite like it.
If anything, it sure beats being considered a sexually useful imperfection in a Medieval suit of metallic armament.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 7:20 AM
Anonymous July 29, 2012 4:05 AM said,ReplyDelete
".....At best you can take a similar approach and hope for a stalemate. I tried engaging ALTF once and this was as far as I got.
So, I raise my glass to you, ALTF. The proof of the trolling's in the raging......"
Apologies, I couldn't be arsed to duplicate your link, but for the sake of fuck, don't ruin things for me 'round here! This is my ONLY social outlet!
I used to think that one could set numerous cats alight, for fun, and then bury them in the back yard, but as long as you played team sports people would think you okay. Now I know better. I need this on-line life to maintain my façade.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 7:32 AM
And as far as 'hoping for a stalemate'?Delete
Don't fool yourselves.
I never lose(1).
Your ass-whooping only ends when me mam calls me to my vittles and I leave the Internet machine.
(1) Except to Rob and Kittens, but then, they cheat!
Kitten's only way of 'cheating' is being mentally handicapped enough to make you feel bad about it.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 8:53 AM
And that works a treat!Delete
To defeat me through trickery you must never underestimate the level of deep empathy I feel for the less fortunate among us.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 7:47 AM
Anonymous July 30, 2012 8:54 AM said,ReplyDelete
".....A good troll leaves lots of holes or weaknesses that allow different discussions to travel along different lines......"
I do leave lots of 'holes' and reveal many 'weaknesses' - yins is just too thick to perceive them.
Exempli gratia
I once pixellated a wonderful poem by Cicero, in Latin, wherein I 'shifted' to the accusative case from that of the original vocative case - pure fucking error, though not altogether unclever - and what happened?
Where were the different discussions?
Where were the different lines?
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 8:16 AM
Dude. Your hole? Shut it!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 8:24 AM
omg DUDE you totes got trollzored by altf the gratest troller ever!Delete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 8:46 AM
No need to be rude!
Would you be so kind as to specify which hole I am requested to shut?
I mean, you know, my natural state involves retaining the free-flow of air through at least seven of them.
I am willing to accommodate your request, if I can.
he just watched teeth, so probably that oneDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Anonymous July 30, 2012 9:43 AM also said,ReplyDelete
".....we are talking about it because it keeps appearing, not necessarily because it's good......"
By 'it' I suspect you mean me?
Rob can, though whether he would or not, I do not know, provide any and all with the code for a handy Javascript Applet that will render all my dross 'invisible' to those who might be frightened by it.
After all, many fear that which they do not understand and facing this particular fear is probably too much to ask of the dullard.Replies
- weaselsoupJuly 31, 2012 at 8:40 AM
O fortunam, etcDelete
lol @ Javascript AppletDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 8:57 AM
It exists Capn!Delete
It surely does!
I've seen it with my own epicanthic fold enlivened eyes!
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 9:58 AM
<code>javascript:var ss='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.4.5/mootools-yui-compressed.js';var s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss;document.body.appendChild(s);window.filth = $$('a:contains("Aquarians Love To Fuck")');for (i=0;i<filth.length;i++){filth[i].parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.children[1].innerHTML="*Censored*";}alert('Huzzah, the foul and unholy ALTF is vanquished!');</code>Delete
just bookmark the shit in the code tags. you're welcome.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 10:02 AM
might have to click it twice if the library takes too long to load.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 11:30 AM
".....Huzzah, the foul and unholy ALTF is vanquished....."Delete
This little addition is what makes it sublime I reckon.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 2:31 PM
haha ive improved it now it replaces altf with recent tweets about breastmilk. makes the site more cuddlefish friendly. <code>javascript:var ss='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js';var s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss;document.body.appendChild(s);window.filth = $('a:contains("Aquarians Love To Fuck")');jQuery.getJSON("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?callback=?",{q: "breast milk",rpp: filth.length},function(tweets) {for (i=0;i<tweets.results.length;i++){window.e=filth[i].parentElement.parentElement.parentElement;e.previousSibling.children[0].src = tweets.results[i].profile_image_url;filth[i].innerHTML="Cuddlefish "+tweets.results[i].from_user_name;e.children[1].innerHTML=tweets.results[i].text;}alert('Huzzah, the foul and unholy ALTF is vanquished!');});void(0);</code>Delete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 2:49 PM
It's not fucking sublime any more now.Delete
Why do the cuddlefish keep replying to her? If you just ignore her, she'll go away.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 6:49 PM
Capn, you are always ignored yet never go away.Delete
Cuddlefish, you are always replying to my obvious doppelganger. Yet you never get a clue.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:08 AM
but i worked so hard on this :(Delete
I was wondering how long it would take for a quick and dirty BOOKMARKLET to appear.ReplyDelete
Still lolling @ javascript applet though.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 10:10 AM
you dont understand capn. by being a complete dumbass, altf was actually trolling you, which you promptly fell for.Delete
oh contrail mon-non-capitan,Delete
I was trolling for cuddlefish, and all I got was a Anon 10:10. What a pity.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 10:18 AM
oh no no no, you see, i was meta trolling for cuddlefish hunters and you completely fell for itDelete
troll troll troll troll trolling meta troll trollDelete
(nope, still doesn't make my post anymore insightful. Maybe I don't have enough meta commentary)
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 11:39 AM
"....altf was actually trolling you, which you promptly fell for....."ReplyDelete
The Capn does not 'fall for' anything. There are occasions, reasons and deceits for which he might fall though but I am not one of them.
I take it the phrase 'Javascript Applet' is humourous? The better nominative being 'Bookmarlet'?
Live and learn I say!
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 1:35 PM
I was reading a blog post, elsewhere on the Internet, about some policeman in New Orleans during Katrina who, upon discovering an abandoned animal shelter, decided to use the poor remaining dogs and cats for target practice. Apparently, many rounds were expended, many puppies and kitties met a gruesome end.ReplyDelete
Understandably, the blog administrator/author of the piece was not at all amused.
I placed the following comment in her handy comments facility:
And with an entire city full of perfectly good African Americans?
What a cunt!"
I was deleted and banned. Apparently, she took offence to me calling New Orleans a 'city'.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 2:46 PM
It seems, after some research, the event took place in a school where the animal owners were told their pets would be watched by a volunteer and be kept safe!Delete
I really hate it when people prevaricate on blogs!
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 7:20 PM
A:TF, we all know what you do for a living. You have a heart of gold and not even your irreverent Internet persona can break it.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 6:53 PM
I really hate your prolapsed uterus.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 1:35 AM
Aquarians Love To Fuck 2012ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 2:42 AM
I think the worst/best thing about ALTF is that it implements Summer Glau in xkcd #406.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 3:34 AM
today randell explores the problems associated with smoking marijuana at social gatherings.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 3:40 AM
what randall wants you to think: i respect and recognise the homosexual members of my audience.ReplyDelete
what randall is actually thinking: cor! i wouldn't 'alf like to see those two lezzers in the background have a good snog.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 6:00 AM
Capn July 31, 2012 3:16 PM drooled,ReplyDelete
".....Why do the cuddlefish keep replying to her? If you just ignore her, she'll go away......"
It's true!
And not only is my uterus prolapsed, it is also thrush festooned!
Anonymous July 31, 2012 7:20 PM said,
".....A:TF, we all know what you do for a living....."
No you don't!
What you think I do, I probably do for no remuneration. I thrive without engaging in activities normally considered aspects of filthy commerce.Replies
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 6:04 AM
Sugar daddy notwithstanding, re "for a living" - man shall not live by bread alone, innit?Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 6:29 AM
Sugar Daddy is right!Delete
He's aged though. He actually remembers watching the events of 9/11 live on TV!
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 6:53 AM
Anonymous August 1, 2012 3:40 AM slurred,ReplyDelete
"......cor! i wouldn't 'alf like to see those two lezzers in the background have a good snog......"
Very good!
Though you forgot the 'blimey' to complete the minced oath and ''alf' would be more correctly rendered ''arf'.
You know, in keeping with the 'Punch' lexical 'canon' of that dialect.
Now say it in Geordie and Scouser!
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:12 AM
I don't care what anybody says, the 2012 London Olympics Logo looks like a cubist interpretation of Lisa Simpson fellating a robot - and a headless one at that!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:16 AM
your mom looks like a cubist interpretation of Lisa Simpson fellating a robotDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:19 AM
The head is there but, completing the Olympic-cubist-feminist hat trick, is shrunk in favour of the male genitalia.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 8:11 AM
Is not everything in the wretched Caucasoid world shrunk in favour of the male genitalia?Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 8:23 AM
While Asian penis so small, your country makes up for it somewhat with feral macroorchid A. reticulata.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Research the origin of the word 'orchid'Delete
Interesting it is.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 8:57 AM
wasn't that his entire point?Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Yes it was.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 9:13 AM
Well then.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:28 AM
Dear oh dear.ReplyDelete
Dear oh dear oh dear.
This just goes to show the utter folly of teaching the pedestrian how to read and write.
Me mam is more a Pointillist: like Seurat, Signac and Cross, actually.Replies
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:36 AM
"...It is a technique with few serious practitioners today, and is notably seen in the works of Seurat, Signac and Cross..." actually.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:42 AM
your propensity for referring to wikipedia articles commands my awed veneration, great altf. I would go so far as to say it approaches randallian proportions.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:46 AM
that's ok, take your time. I know you'll be back.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:53 AM
i'll just wait here patiently.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:56 AM
It is not so much 'reference' as liberation.Delete
EVERYTHING I might post here has its origins in Wikipedia because I haven't a keyboard.
ALL my lexical daisy cutting relies on my ability to 'copy' and 'paste', even periods and commas, with only an aged pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 8:19 AM
"....It's OK. I'll just wait here patiently....." Actually.Delete
Your propensity for referring to Lesbians and the Living Dead posts commands my awed veneration.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 8:29 AM
In this post, ALTF indicates that any sufficiently short sequence of words could have been lifted from another page. The relative obscurities of the sequence and the source are irrelevant.Delete
Dammit, ALTF you are fast becoming my new xkcd. Not nearly as stale.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 8:34 AM
"....It's OK. I'll just wait here patiently....." but those are not even the words that were used, my dearest altfDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 8:43 AM
Lesbians and their ardent trysts with the Living Dead are many things, but obscure? I think not!Delete
Actually, my truly vapid friend, in this post I am indicating that you are a cunt.
Mind you, my medications are contra-indicating all over the fucking place as I do so.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 8:48 AM
now now altf, dont work yourself into a lather. mean words are for cunts.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 9:01 AM
If I am not allowed to lather, do you mind if I spritz myself senseless with a Waterpik instead?Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 9:11 AM
I would much prefer if you bludgeoned yourself skinteyed with a kanabo, but it is entirely your prerogative.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 7:55 AM
quietly talking to the diverse tortured fragments of my collective consciousness.ReplyDelete


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Gas rose as much as 2.2 percent as forecasters including Commodity Weather Group LLC predicted below-normal temperatures for most of the lower 48 states over the next six to 10 days. An Energy Department report today may show supplies declined by 72 billion cubic feet last week, based on the median of 20 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The five-year average drop for the period is 140 billion, department data show.
"It is getting a little chilly," said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago. "There is probably a little bit of short-covering ahead of today's inventory report. It's difficult to sell into the report going into the coldest part of the year, January and February."
Natural gas for February delivery advanced 6.5 cents, or 1.9 percent, to $3.477 per million British thermal units at 10:01 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gas is up 16 percent this year, heading for the first annual gain since 2007. Futures trading volume was 45 percent below the 100-day average.
The Energy Department is scheduled to release its weekly gas storage report at 10:30 a.m., delayed by a day because of Christmas.
The forecast over the next 10 days became colder for the Midwest, East and South, according to Commodity Weather. While above-normal temperatures may replace the cold blast in the eastern half of the U.S. from Jan. 7 through Jan. 11, the "warm-up seems temporary," the Bethesda, Maryland-based company said.
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U.S. inventories in the lower 48 states totaled 3.724 trillion cubic feet in the week ended Dec. 14, 10.2 percent above the five-year average for the week, the department said last week. The surplus expanded from 4.6 percent at the end of November.
While the supply surplus probably expanded again last week given mild weather, "it becomes harder to be short psychologically" heading into the coldest part of the year, Flynn said. "Up until now it was warmer than normal and we kind of priced that in."
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A 26-year-old Middletown man wanted for allegedly committing several burglaries was apprehended after fleeing from police Friday night.
A 26-year-old Middletown man wanted for allegedly committing several burglaries was apprehended after fleeing from police Friday night.
Three state police vehicles were damaged as Andrew Long, 26 of Middletown, and Ashley Jones, 26 of Wilmington, attempted to elude capture.
According to Delaware State Police, the incident began Friday night as detectives conducted surveillance in the Kimberton development in Newark. The detectives were looking for Long and Jones, who were wanted for committing a residential burglary in the 400 block of Maryland Line Road in Townsend on Jan. 17, a residential burglary in the 1600 block of St. Augustine Road in Middletown on Jan. 18, and an attempted residential burglary in the 1900 block of Harvey Straughn Road in Townsend on Wednesday.
Shortly before midnight, detectives spotted Long and Jones entering a 1996 Honda Civic parked on Greenbridge Drive. In an attempt to prevent the vehicle from fleeing, detectives parked in front of and behind the Honda. The detectives' vehicles had their blue and red emergency lights activated. Long, who was driving the Honda, immediately backed into one of the detective's vehicles, a 2009 Chevrolet Impala, and then drove forward, into a detective's 2005 Pontiac Gram Am. The Honda then fled from the development with troopers in pursuit, said Cpl. John Day, public information officer for the Delaware State Police.
The Honda fled into Pennsylvania, where Pennsylvania State Police troopers pursued the vehicle. The vehicle then returned to Delaware via Lancaster Pike (State Route 41) southbound, and then continued south on Lancaster Pike (State Route 48), until it struck a fully marked State Police 2006 Crown Victoria, which was not involved in the pursuit and had been traveling southbound on the shoulder of Lancaster Pike, immediately north of the intersection with Centerville Road. Troopers then apprehended Long and Jones without further incident, Day said.
The detectives involved in the collisions on Greenbridge Drive did not require medical treatment at the scene, he added. The trooper involved in the collision on Lancaster Pike was transported to Christiana Hospital, where he was treated for a leg injury and released.
Long was charged with two counts of second-degree burglary, attempted second-degree burglary, theft over $1,500, three counts of second-degree conspiracy, two counts of theft under $1,500, three counts of criminal mischief under $1,000, two counts of second-degree reckless endangering, criminal mischief over $1,000, and disregarding a police officer's signal. He was committed to Howard R. Young Correctional Institute after failing to post $28,000 secured bail.
Jones was charged with two counts of second-degree burglary, second-degree attempted burglary, theft over $1,500, three counts of second-degree conspiracy, two counts of theft under $1,500, three counts of criminal mischief under $1,000, falsifying business records, theft by false pretense under $1,500, and selling stolen property under $1,500. She was committed to Baylor Women's Correctional Institute after failing to post $17,250 secured bail.


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Let your religion . . . .
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:48 am
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Buddhist forum about the Dhamma of Theravāda Buddhism
...he wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion.
-- John Le Carre
From an article by Francis Spufford in the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/au ... e-of-faithIf I say that, from inside, it makes much more sense to talk about belief as a characteristic set of feelings, or even as a habit, you will conclude that I am trying to wriggle out, or just possibly that I am not even interested in whether the crap I talk is true. I do, as a matter of fact, think that it is. I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary. I assent to the ideas because I have the feelings; I don't have the feelings because I've assented to the ideas.
He has a book out on the subject http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unapologetic-ev ... 0571225217 which I might buy, as I like his style and sentiments.That's what I think. But it's all secondary. It all comes limping along behind my emotional assurance that there was mercy, and I felt it. And so the argument about whether the ideas are true or not, which is the argument that people mostly expect to have about religion, is also secondary for me. No, I can't prove it. I don't know that any of it is true. I don't know if there's a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither does anybody. It isn't the kind of thing you can know. It isn't a knowable item.) But then, like every human being, I am not in the habit of entertaining only those emotions I can prove. I'd be an unrecognisable oddity if I did. Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe. We dream, hope, wonder, sorrow, rage, grieve, delight, surmise, joke, detest; we form such unprovable conjectures as novels or clarinet concertos; we imagine. And religion is just a part of that, in one sense. It's just one form of imagining, absolutely functional, absolutely human-normal. It would seem perverse, on the face of it, to propose that this one particular manifestation of imagining should be treated as outrageous, should be excised if (which is doubtful) we can manage it.
But it ain't.imagemarie wrote:"Go forth, on your journey, for the welfare of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world, for the good, the benefit, the bliss of gods and men.."
Sounds like love to me
Hi, Chris,cooran wrote:Hello all,
Love is an unusual word.
What do we mean by ''love''? Do we mean romance, lust, desire, lovingkindness, admiration, fascination – or something else?
There are many Pali words for various aspects of 'love'.
love : (nt.) pema. (m.) sineha; sneha; anurāga. (f.) mettā. (v.t.) piyāyati; pemaṃ bandhati; mettāyati. (pp.) piyāyita; baddhapema.
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I wonder if there is any love that does.Ben wrote:For the sake of setting the cat amongst the pidgeons...
...he wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion.
-- John Le Carre
kirk5a wrote:I wonder if there is any love that does.Ben wrote:For the sake of setting the cat amongst the pidgeons...
...he wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion.
-- John Le Carre
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Eh? Hah? Ho? Hm?The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Says who?imagemarie wrote:There is something completely self-less in the love expressed by a dying person, that opens one's heart and makes it utterly vulnerable.
And for a while, it seems as though the love being shared has no object.


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The interior is rectangular, and originally had three aisles, which were merged into a single nave by F. Tacca between 1649 and 1655. The roof has exposed trellis-beams that are at two different elevations. The church has now been deconsecrated, and hosts the Orchestra Regionale Toscana.
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The old Leavenworth County Jail can be torn down.
That was the decision Tuesday night of the Leavenworth City Commission. City commissioners reversed a decision of the city's Preservation Commission, which had denied a request from the county government to demolish the old jail.
The old Leavenworth County Jail can be torn down.
That was the decision Tuesday night of the Leavenworth City Commission. City commissioners reversed a decision of the city's Preservation Commission, which had denied a request from the county government to demolish the old jail.
County officials had appealed the Preservations Commission's Dec. 5 decision, which is why the matter came before city commissioners Tuesday.
Tuesday's vote to reverse the Preservation Commission's decision was 4-0. City Commissioner Davis Moulden was absent.
The old jail is located at 503 S. Third St. It's next door to the Justice Center, which is the current location of the county jail.
The old jail building is not on the National Register of Historic Places, but it's considered to be within the environs of the Leavenworth County Courthouse, which is on the register. The jail also is located within the environs of a historic industrial district.
When denying the county a permit to demolish the old jail, Preservation commissioners found that the demolition would encroach upon, damage or destroy the historical nature of the 1939 building and the environs of the courthouse and industrial district.
This was the second time the county had sought permission to tear down the old jail. In 2007, both the Preservation Commission and City Commission denied a similar request.
According to County Counselor David Van Parys, county officials want to demolish the old jail and construct a parking lot on the site. The lot would provide additional parking for the Justice Center.
Van Parys said parking can be a problem at the Justice Center during municipal court or a large jury trial.
And according to Van Parys, the additional parking will be needed if the Justice Center is expanded.
The old jail was vacated after the Justice Center opened in 2000. And the old jail building has deteriorated.
"The building is an environmental hazard," Van Parys said.
He said to bring the building to minimal office standards, it would cost an estimated $2.8 million.
"We have looked at various options for it," he said.
He said the most cost effective solution would be tearing down the building, which was constructed as a Works Progress Administration project.
For every dollar the county would put into the building, it would get 30 cents of use out of it, Van Parys said.
Mayor Larry Dedeke asked what would happen if the City Commission went along with the decision of the Preservation Commission.
Van Parys said either he would return in three years with the same request or a fence would be put up around the building to protect people from falling bricks.
Mayor Pro-Tem Laura Janas Gasbarre said the members of the Preservation Commission take their job seriously and do the job based on the regulations and information they have. But in this case, she believes the Preservation Commission was "strapped" in its decision making process.
City Commissioner Mark Preisinger argued that concern about damage to the historic nature of the old jail building should not have been included in the Preservation Commission's decision. He argued the decision only should have looked at the impact to the historic environs of the area because the old jail is not on a historic register.


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Rhonda Snidow, age 55, a resident of Chillicothe, Missouri, died Saturday, March 9, 2013, at her residence.
Rhonda was born the daughter of Jerry Head and Mary Wessing (Howe) on April 29, 1957, in Chillicothe, Mo. She was united in marriage to LeRoy Snidow on April 30, 1973, in Jacksonville, Mo.
Rhonda worked as a cook and dietary aid for Susan Nursing Home and Long Bloom Nursing Home for many years. She attended Souls Harbor Church of God, Chillicothe, Missouri. Rhonda loved collecting.
Survivors include one son, Thomas "Buck" Snidow, of Chillicothe, Missouri; three daughters, Wanona Anderson and husband Mark of Chillicothe, Mo., Bobbie Merrill of Chillicothe, Mo., and Mary Ashlock of Meadville, Mo.; 11 grandchildren; one great grandchild; mother, Mary Wessing of Chillicothe, Mo.; father, Jerry Head of Chillicothe, Mo.; one brother, Bobby Sturgeon of Chillicothe, Mo.; three sisters, Lula Johnson of Meadville, Mo., Loreta Sturgeon of Salisbury, Mo., and Annie Rist-Dinsmore of Hale, Mo.; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her stepfather, Leonard Wessing; and several aunts and uncles.
Funeral services will be held at the Lindley Funeral Home, Chillicothe, Mo., on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at 2 p.m.
A scheduled family visitation will be held at the Lindley Funeral Home, Chillicothe, Missouri, on Monday, March 11, 2013, from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Friends may call at Lindley Funeral Home, Chillicothe, Mo., on Monday, March 11, 2013, from noon until 8 p.m. Burial will be held at Hutchinson Cemetery, Chillicothe, Mo.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Humane Society of the United States and may be left at or mailed to Lindley Funeral Home, P.O. Box 47, Chillicothe, MO 64601.
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Chillicothe resident Rhonda Snidow, 55, died Saturday, March 9, 2013
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Quote:yeah, ok, 'just' a theory...so lets keep burning more of the earth and putting it in the air and see what happens. Then, when the 'theory' becomes a naked eye observable fact, we can attribute it to something else....just like how people develop skill and LATER they attribute it to using 'Chi'.
Quote:jude33, I addressed the ki-has-many-meanings arguement at some length. Perhaps you did not see it. Breifly, I said ki-believers only evoke this arguement when challenged by skeptics. When speaking amongst themselves, ki-believers use the word "ki" freely w/o ever specifying which definition they intend, yet somehow no confusion results. My suspicion: the so-called "silly New Age" definition of ki is THE definition of ki and the ki-has-many-meanings line is a just a smoke screen to throw off critics.And I don't know how the trick with the boiling water was done. But I also don't know how world-famous stage magicians Penn & Teller perfrom a trick where they appear to shoot at each others heads and catch the incoming bullets in their teeth. What I do know--in both cases--is that it MUST be a trick, because such feats are not humanly possible. If you want a short but thorough dissection of the global-warming-is-a-myth hoax, start here: http://www.environmentaldefense.org/page.cfm?tagID=1011
Quote:Maybe somebody should start a global warming thread. So this does not get hijacked. Thanks
Quote:"If I stated that then I think I would be looking for a method that they use otherwise I wouldnt negate some ones statement, but that is your choice."So, jude33, following your logic, since I do not know how Penn and Teller do the bullets-in-the-teeth trick, I should just believe it is a miracle or something?Sorry to be blunt, but I am just not that stupid.
Quote:http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.htmlMaybe mind exercises have some benefit? Like the ability to control one's inner-organs through the use of a relaxed and controlled focus. I have also heard of monks being able to massage and manipulate their organs like you can with your biceps, and why not the heart is nothing more than a muscle that can be controlled. I think these monks clearly prove that by lowering their heart rate and at the same time raising their body temperature. .
Quote:I agree that doing research is a good idea. However, in the case of magic tricks, magicians are careful NOT to make information about how they do tricks available. It is a special case. But please: do you doubt for a moment that the Penn & Teller trick I described is, in fact, a trick?
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When mentoring our pre-service and in-service teachers we need to describe and model both research-based and clinically tested best practices, and demonstrate how these best practices can be applied in the real (i.e. physical) and virtual (i.e. online) classroom for both teaching and teacher training. The combination of face to face instruction in a physical setting and online learning is called blended learning. In this section of the blog we will describe how the internet can serve as a supplemental resource for instruction and the mentoring of pre-service and in-service Jewish educators. In this post we will discuss how Hackpad, a web tool that facilitates student collaboration, can be used to promote Judaic instruction and to mentor/train Jewish educators.
Assumption: The teacher or mentor teacher has an interactive white board (i.e. SMART Board, Promethean, etc.), a Tablet PC (also called a Slate or Blade), a computer presenter or computer with internet access attached to an LCD projector in the classroom. It would be ideal if students or mentees had access to their own laptop computers or Ipads. Given parental and school approval, and the development of specific guidelines, smartphones can be used to enhance instruction as well.
Note: Although Hackpad can be applied in the Judaic Studies blended learning classroom, it can be also be used for training pre-service and in-service Jewish educators for professional or staff development. It is our hope that Jewish educators around the globe will form an online community of practice, a CoP, a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession, to enhance the delivery of instruction and training of Jewish educators. For example, here is a CoP you might want to join.
Note: Hackpad can be used in a face to face and virtual classroom.
What is Hackpad?
Hackpad is a web tool that facilitates student collaboration.
Where is Hackpad located on the internet?
How Hackpad, a free web tool that facilitates student collaboration, can be used to promote Judaic instruction and to mentor/train Jewish educators
Click on the links below to find resources explaining how Hackpad can be used to promote Judaic instruction and to train/mentor pre-service and in-service Jewish educators:
- https://jewish-educationorg.hackpad.com/What-are-your-favorite-web-tools-and-apps-to-enhace-Judaic-instruction-WW05jUX2voh
- https://youtu.be/Mn4mWvt5W4k
- http://www.screencast.com/t/D4KRzido5Vz1
On the next blog post we will begin our exploration of Wizehive, a free web tool that facilitates student collaboration.


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CHICAGO — Sensing a real chance to put one of their own back in the governor's office, Republican primary voters headed to the polls.
CHICAGO — With a hunger to reclaim the governor's office, Republican voters set out Tuesday to shake up Illinois' Democratic-dominated political order, energized by candidates' talk of taking on unions, unseating "career politicians" and righting the state's troubled finances.
The talk at polling stations from the Chicago suburbs in the north to the St. Louis suburbs in the southwest was of reversing the state's indebtedness and keeping businesses and jobs from leaving Illinois. Describing their desire for change, people used phrases like "break the system."
To many, the governor's race was shaping up as a potentially transformative battle over union influence, with some voters saying they want to break an alliance between organized labor and longtime Democratic politicians in control of the governor's mansion and the Legislature.
Organized labor was battling back out of concern that the leading Republican candidate, multimillionaire venture capitalist Bruce Rauner, could seek to weaken unions in the same way GOP governors have in other states across the Midwest.
"It's hard to make true progress when there's a union ... when you have a union rep always in the middle of things," said Veronique Escalante, 40, a consultant from the western Chicago suburb of Glen Ellyn who voted for Rauner.
Rauner, who has never held public office but leads the four-person Republican field after spending millions on his campaign, says he would model his governorship after those of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. Both significantly rolled back union power in their states in what they said were necessary steps to attract businesses and reduce costs. Rauner faces three longtime lawmakers for the nomination: state Sens. Bill Brady and Kirk Dillard, and state Treasurer Dan Rutherford.
"Rauner is going to be a bull in a china shop; we need a bull," said Tom Sommer, a 57-year-old real estate broker from the southwest Chicago suburb of Hinsdale. "It's not going to be more of the same."
Issues such as a public pension overhaul and high taxes "are coming to the fore and the old guard is not going to handle that," Sommer said, adding that he voted for Rauner because of his tough talk against the unions that represent public sector workers. That sentiment persists despite Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn's push to right Illinois' finances by overhauling the heavily underwater public pension systems, which earned him the unions' ire.
Rauner has also won supporters with his call for term limits.
Union leaders, meanwhile, sought Rauner's defeat by encouraging members to pull Republican primary ballots and vote for Dillard, who picked up endorsements by three of the state's largest public-employee unions.
The typically left-leaning unions spent more than $6 million on the GOP primary, both in anti-Rauner and pro-Dillard ads. Rauner raised more than $14 million, including $6 million of his own money - more than any candidate seeking a gubernatorial nomination in state history.
In stops statewide Monday, Rauner warned supporters about the unions' efforts, saying Quinn's "allies" were trying to hijack the election. He also said legislative term limits could break the labor-Democratic alliance.
"We're going to change their world, and they know it," Rauner, of Winnetka, said during in the southern Illinois community of Herrin.
Republicans haven't held the Illinois governor's office since 2003 when Democrat Rod Blagojevich — now in prison for corruption — took office, and Democrats have almost total control of other statewide offices and the Illinois House and Senate.
In the southern Illinois city of Godfrey, voters had another reason to want to upend the state's political order, saying they felt marginalized and neglected by a political balance weighted toward Democrats and the Chicago region, the most populous part of Illinois.
"In the last 10 years, things have gotten really bad (in the state)," said Marty Johns, 48, an accountant from Godfrey. "Throw out all the Democrats in Chicago. All of our money goes up there while southern Illinois gets the crumbs."
Johns said he voted for Dillard with one primary goal: "I'm just trying to remove Quinn."
But others said they liked Quinn, whose administration has avoided major scandals — unlike his two predecessors who went to prison.
"I think he's honest and he does the best he can do with what he's got to work with," said Ed Kline, a 61-year-old LeRoy farmer who voted for Quinn. He called Rauner "the big-money guy from Chicago."
Quinn, who was Blagojevich's lieutenant governor and assumed the office after his boss was booted amid a corruption scandal, was facing lesser-known challenger Tio Hardiman in Tuesday's primary. Quinn, seeking his second full term, was expected to easily win the Democratic nomination.
Brady narrowly won the GOP nomination in 2010, but lost to Quinn in the general election. The Bloomington lawmaker said he built the support and name recognition during that bid to defeat Quinn this time around.
Married couple Carrie O'Rourke, 52, and her husband, farmer Brian O'Rourke, said they wanted Brady to win last time around and didn't like Rauner's television ads.
"I don't like a race that has been bought," Carrie O'Rourke said, adding that the ads "were nasty."
Rutherford, of Chenoa, has done little campaigning recently. He's all but conceded defeat after a former employee filed a federal lawsuit accusing Rutherford of sexually harassing him and political coercion. Rutherford denied the allegations, saying they were politically motivated.
Voters also will choose between two Republicans vying to take on U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate's second-ranking Democrat, in the fall. That primary pits dairy magnate and state Sen. Jim Oberweis, who has lost five of his six bids for public office, against political newcomer and West Point graduate Doug Truax.
Also on the ballot are primary races for the U.S. House, Illinois Legislature, statewide constitutional officers and local offices.


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We joined athletes and media alike at Oakley for the unveiling and introduction of the Airbrake MX goggle, and below you will find photos from the night along with some informational video content that will help explain Oakley's vision (no pun intended). Borrowing much of its design and appearance from its snow goggle cousin, the Airbrake MX shies from conventional motocross goggle concepts and make-up.
A molded Plutonite lens and Switchlock lens interchangeability headline the all-new Oakley Airbrake motocross goggle. Plutonite is Oakley's proprietary polycarbonate material that is said to withstand just about anything you can throw (or shoot) at it, and Oakley made the switch from Lexan for the seemingly obvious reason of better protection. Along with the new, more rigid lens, an entirely new way of interchanging lenses has been introduced. Enter the Switchlock system, which allows the user to simply initiate a locking lever on either side of the frame to disengage the lens from its frame. From there, the lens can just be popped from its mount and replaced in seconds.
We will be testing the Oakley Airbrake over the coming weeks and will have a comprehensive review for you soon. In the meantime, check out some photos and video…
The Oakley Airbrake MX is scheduled to hit stores March 15th, and the roll-off system should follow around May 1st.