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Frownland 06-28-2017 02:56 PM

If our essays weren't about how Burgess was wrong about free will, we failed the class.

The Batlord 06-28-2017 03:50 PM

We did read Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. There is no way to make high school kids give less of a **** about Shakespeare than making them read aloud words they don't understand, broken up by a passionless teacher vaguely and unhelpfully explaining the language while refusing to even acknowledge any sexual content.

Frownland 06-28-2017 03:54 PM

Luckily I had a great teacher for Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet not so much, but I did like me some of the dick jokes on my own.

The Batlord 06-28-2017 04:05 PM

I definitely had a better teacher for Julius Caesar, cause I clearly remember him teaching us all about Caesar's wife offering him a blowjob if he didn't go to the Senate.

Pet_Sounds 06-28-2017 07:26 PM

Julius Caesar is awesome. Best Shakespeare I've read.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1850792)
If our essays weren't about how Burgess was wrong about free will, we failed the class.

:laughing: I thought he was spot on, actually.

OccultHawk 06-30-2017 03:15 PM

Two hospitals treat 51 for heroin overdoses in 48 hours | PennLive.com

OccultHawk 06-30-2017 03:45 PM

https://www.clickorlando.com/health/...third-overdose

djchameleon 07-01-2017 11:18 AM

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/w...ef=todayspaper


Not even surprised. Just find it pretty funny.

Frownland 07-06-2017 05:24 PM

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hobby-l...raq-1499355865

Forget homophobia. If you buy from Hobby Lobby you are indirectly funding ISIS.

OccultHawk 07-07-2017 06:01 AM

Woman sentenced to prison after disfiguring man's penis

Florida man sits on gun, shoots self in penis, police say

Florida Dick News

OccultHawk 07-07-2017 07:12 AM

I doubt he cares. He'll have to sit down to piss lol. That'll get you raped in Florida. Or is he transgendered now? I wonder if he'll get ****ed in the bullet hole.

djchameleon 07-07-2017 07:54 AM

Melania Trump unable to leave Hamburg hotel due to protests - CNNPolitics.com

Melania can't leave her hotel because of the protests. She is used to that though when she was in NYC wasting police resources by staying in Trump Tower.

OccultHawk 07-07-2017 08:42 AM

It's inspiring we things like that are accomplished. Those demonstrators and standing up for it!

The Batlord 07-07-2017 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1853417)

http://www.musicbanter.com/games-lis...man-woman.html

Trollheart 07-08-2017 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1853434)
It's inspiring we things like that are accomplished. Those demonstrators and standing up for it!

Uh, what? :confused:

OccultHawk 07-10-2017 09:03 AM

The Collaborative Concept Album 'Planetarium' Captures Cosmic Grandeur And Desolation : NPR

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Work on Planetarium began in 2011, when composer Nico Muhly was commissioned to create a longform work for a concert hall in Europe. He gathered friends from the rock world — the singer and songwriter Sufjan Stevens and his longtime drummer James McAlister, as well as guitarist and composer Bryce Dessner from The National. They set out to make a sprawling song cycle about the solar system, spending a few days brainstorming, harvesting grooves and song ideas.

OccultHawk 07-11-2017 07:27 AM

Looks like the Russians killed the top ISIS guy.

OccultHawk 07-11-2017 07:33 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...restation-farc

lol'ed

Marxist guerrilla "terrorists" leave the jungle so the capitalists cut it down

Blank. 07-11-2017 01:22 PM

Ax-Wielding INSANE CLOWN POSSE Fan Shows Up To Radio Station Demanding ICP Airplay, Results In Police Standoff - Metal Injection

Lol

The Batlord 07-11-2017 01:30 PM

I'm sure that'll help get juggalos off the FBI gang list.

OccultHawk 07-11-2017 01:40 PM

I just fell in love with Susan Tran.

Respect to the 38 year old Juggalo. Down with the Clown Until He's DEAD in the Ground!!! Fantastic display of loyalty.

Frownland 07-12-2017 12:04 PM

Lawsuit Says It's Unconstitutional For President Trump To Block Critics On Twitter : The Two-Way : NPR

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"The White House is transforming a public forum into an echo chamber," said Katie Fallow, a senior staff attorney at the Knight Institute.
Because who could imagine Twitter being an echo chamber?

OccultHawk 07-12-2017 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1853619)
Uh, what? :confused:

I said I drank a 12 pack, took a Xanax bar, and smoked a joint.

Trollheart 07-13-2017 03:16 PM

Holy ****! 116???
Salvadorean man with 39 children may be oldest living man - BBC News

LoathsomePete 07-13-2017 03:44 PM

I don't believe him, lets cut off a leg and count the rings in the femur bone.

Trollheart 07-13-2017 05:49 PM

He certainly doesn't look like a walking corpse! I didn't think it was possible to live to that age.

Zhanteimi 07-13-2017 05:51 PM

The oldest verified person on record is French woman Jeanne Calment (1875–1997), who lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days.

Pet_Sounds 07-13-2017 06:55 PM

One of my relatives just died at age 108.

OccultHawk 07-13-2017 07:00 PM

RIP

I hope there wasn't much suffering.

Blank. 07-13-2017 10:17 PM

SoundCloud Only Has Enough Funding For 50 More Days, Time To Back Up Your Data - Metal Injection

This article doesn't give much reason to be like, "oh no! Not my precious soundcloud." Though everyone might want to back up their stuff if you don't have it backed up.

Cuthbert 07-14-2017 04:08 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ks-east-london

What goes through people's minds when they do something like this? Wanting to inflict physical and psychological pain that will last a lifetime for the victims. This needs nipping in the bud immediately. Life imprisonment.

The lowest of the low.

OccultHawk 07-14-2017 04:13 AM

That's actually a pretty big deal about SoundCloud. There's an ocean full of treasure in there. I hope it doesn't go under.

Meanwhile the world gets drunker and funnier

Trump's personal lawyer: 'Watch your back, bitch' - CNNPolitics.com

OccultHawk 07-14-2017 04:26 AM

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In 2016 there were 455 crimes in London where a corrosive substance was used or threatened to be used. A quarter of these were street robberies.
Jesus Christ. I'm glad people in my neighborhood just pack regular guns and not super soakers full of sulphuric acid.

Trollheart 07-14-2017 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds (Post 1855377)
One of my relatives just died at age 108.

Sorry to hear that, man. No matter the age, it still hurts when someone close passes. RIP.

OccultHawk 07-14-2017 05:19 AM

Eels


Truck full of eels overturns on U.S. 101, dousing sedan with slithering sea creatures | OregonLive.com

It looks like they're just spraying those things to the side of the road. Imagine the insects and the stink.

OccultHawk 07-14-2017 05:33 AM

Frog

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.2188877440f4


OccultHawk 07-14-2017 06:01 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.de809d053379



DMX

djchameleon 07-14-2017 06:25 AM



I love that they had his case file listed as this song lol.

Lisnaholic 07-14-2017 08:43 AM

A news story which features an eleven-year-old girl crying on camera is likely to tug at the heartstrings and make you wonder if things couldn't've been done differently:

Why are Iraqi Christians facing deportation from US? - BBC News

The eleven-year-old is an innocent victim, and although it's not told that way, imo she is a victim of the folly of her father, her priest and her community.

The father: International rule number one for any immigrant anywhere is, "Don't break the laws of your host country or they might throw you out." There are no details of his conviction in the report, but it looks like the girl's father forgot that while commiting a crime.

The priest: A Catholic priest was advising his flock to vote for Trump? I thought that the Catholic church usually tried to remain aloof from politics, what with rendering unto Caesar and all that, but if a priest does start doling out political advice, he should do better than recommend Trump. After all, Trump's campaign promises of walls, travel bans and reduced healthcare were obviously contrary to the teaching of Jesus Christ, who is reputed to have said, "Love thy neighbour as thyself." As a supposed expert on morals, you might expect a priest to've spotted that distinction.

The community: I was going to say that taking political advice from a priest and voting for Trump are both errors of judgement, but perhaps they better illustrate an absence of judgement; the kind of problems you generate when you abdicate rational analysis in favour of faith.

Children naturally trust that the adults around them will protect them from harm. What a shame that this girl's trust was ill-founded and now she is suffering the consequences, not of their malice, but of their folly.

OccultHawk 07-17-2017 06:23 PM

Police killed a white Australian woman in Minneapolis. The cop has some kind of Muslim sounding name. Probably an Al-Qaeda operative. Trump might make a statement. He's going to be very presidential.


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