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[ArKFallen]

If men only use 10% of their brain, and women use 100%, then why are most top mathematicians and physicists men? Men are only coasting along on 10% after all xD

Because they aren't smart enough to fuck up their natural perfection? Humor Alert!

[pisskop]

The amount of pot Ive been smelling on-campus is increasing dramatically.  Mostly bad stuff, but occasionally I get smacked by good stuff

[Yoink]

Seems more like a poke at the tendency for young American leftists to support radical Islam because Islam is a minority in America.  With no regard for what actual Islamic Americans generally support, or the ideals radical Islamists support.

It's pretty embarrassing as a mostly-liberal.

It happens here in Australia, too. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so horrifying.
You'll see people shouting down anyone who dares say a bad word about Islam because "das raycist", and then going on to pronounce their dislike of Christianity for how "oppressive" it is or whatever. It's funny because it's dumb, but sad because these morons are either the majority or an increasingly vocal minority, and I have to share a country with them.

[Neonivek]

Isn't it more that they support their right to their own religion and that these are more crazy people who have a religion... then people who have been transformed into crazy people by religion-based radiation?

Especially when America can be so hellbent on demonizing Islam at times. Such as the "Islamic Church near the twin towers" thing that hit the news... Something that should have never made the news, made it because racism.

[Eric Blank]

I realized I have no idea what pot smells like. And I possibly never will be able to tell it apart from anything else even if I had experienced it, because my sense of smell is such that poop, propane, and stir-fry vegetables smell the same, if I can smell them at all, and I often cant.

[Bauglir]

I'm a scientist* and I say you shouldn't eat turnips because they elevate your risk of inadvertently consuming live bacteria.

You should also give me your money.

I desperately need to know what text that asterisk is supposed to point to.

[Eric Blank]

Sorry, I forgot what it was supposed to refer to as well...

Oh, right. It was supposed to refer to some statement regarding I am actually a science student, and haven't done any original research whatsoever.

[Teneb]

Sorry, I forgot what it was supposed to refer to as well...

Oh, right. It was supposed to refer to some statement regarding I am actually a science student, and haven't done any original research whatsoever.

I'd like to know what is this incredible, all-encompassing "science" field you study. And how can you exploit it for maximum profit, of course.

[Eric Blank]

It's geology, specifically. I know where the dinosaurs hid the oil. It is mine. All mine.

[pisskop]

I just realised I haven't seen The Merchant of Menace for a while. A look at his profile says he was last on about a month and a third ago, but he hasn't posted in over a YEAR.

Wonder why.

I do that on sites I used to frequent.  I stop because I have no interest in what they say but still want to remenice or something.

[BlackFlyme]

Tattoos that are anti-depressed-people. Apparently it's a choice. Choose Happiness.

I'm still aching from dicking around with boxes yesterday and Monday.

I also started picking at a mole on my leg. It hurts like hell. I thought I managed to dig most of it out, but when I looked at it later it was back.

[Rolan7]

Isn't it more that they support their right to their own religion and that these are more crazy people who have a religion... then people who have been transformed into crazy people by religion-based radiation?

Especially when America can be so hellbent on demonizing Islam at times. Such as the "Islamic Church near the twin towers" thing that hit the news... Something that should have never made the news, made it because racism.

Wow, it was worse than I thought actually:
http://time.com/3672921/charlie-hebdo-prophet-muhammad-muslim-cartoon-poll/

More than 4 in 10 French people believe Charlie Hebdo shouldn’t publish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, given that many Muslims find the images offensive

Any other religion is fair game, but not this one.  No matter that the magazine satirized Christianity as well.

Islamic Americans were almost entirely against the attacks, of course.  Most Islamic nations officially condemned them too... but in their streets, there were parades.  And in America, and France even, an embarrassing number of liberals chimed in "Well maybe they shouldn't have published that".

That's not "demonizing Islam", that's Islamic extremists being terrifying and effective.  Literally winning.  Actual Islamic Americans don't support this shit, and liberals shouldn't be jumping to defend it either.  Oh sorry, not defending it...  Suggesting that the victims were asking for it.

(And I supported that Mosque in New York, because that wasn't a matter of extremists getting their way.  It's kinda obvious why it was news worthy, though.)

[Greiger]

That's no mole it's a distant cousin to the brainslug, the leg slug.   It got annoyed at being poked and kinda borrowed deeper into yer leg and now that yer not poking it anymore it relaxed and went back to gnawing on your delicious leg meats.

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I got told by my supervisor that I do a great job fixing problems at my phone tech support job.  Of all the people I speak to only about 6% of them call back within half a month with the same issue.  That apparently puts me somewhere among the top 10 techs in a company with about 1000.  And he encourages me to keep it up.
And then as the bad news he tells me that I'm taking 5 minutes longer than I should be on average( I average 19.5 mins, expected time is 15), and that I need to get the customer's problem solved faster or I risk a write up.

So... yea I'm told I'm doing a great job taking the time to fix a problem completely instead of just getting it done as quickly as possible.   ...and then I'm told I need to fix problems quicker.   ...yea.   That kinda ruined my mood.

[Neonivek]

but in their streets, there were parades

Ahhh, now this is something you should check the facts for. Because let me tell you... America has created "Fake Parades" for the news SOO many unbelievable times.

A famous one for example is the taking down of Sudam Husain's Statue was 100% fabricated.

Then again parading because pretty much the large titan of villainy got a bloody nose... Though why would people just suddenly parade either way? I didn't think America has been such a super villain in the middle east before this.

[WealthyRadish]

Any other religion is fair game, but not this one.  No matter that the magazine satirized Christianity as well.

It isn't about satirizing (though that doesn't help). Islam has a strong tradition of aniconism (something that was also present in Calvinism and Byzantine Iconoclasm), that used to extend to any depiction of a living creature. If you've ever wondered why geometry and calligraphy are so big in medieval Islamic art, it's because in much of the Islamic world (at least early on) depictions of humans and animals weren't acceptable. Strict aniconism is only practiced today by nutty groups like the Taliban, but never has it been acceptable to depict Allah in Islamic art, and only rarely or in Shiite art is the prophet Muhammad commonly depicted (typically with his face obscured).

This actually reminds me of an awesome movie that was made in the '70s about Muhammad and the beginnings of Islam, that never showed him on screen or speaking (the name of it escapes me). I think you see like one shot of his trousers, while he's holding this gnarly sword with two prongs at the end. The people around him speak directly into the camera when talking to him, with no reply, and you hear this recurring music in the background to know he's around.

Point is, there is more to it than being unable to take criticism, since the image itself may be considered a violation, regardless of intent.