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The Flood / Re: Not Watching Super Bowl Thread
« on: February 07, 2016, 08:23:17 PM »
Well I'm in bed so I can't really.
Plus Rugby's better.
Plus Rugby's better.
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| Position | Nation | Wins | Draws | Losses | Point Difference | Tournament Points |
| 1 | England | 5 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 10 |
| 2 | Wales | 3 | 1 | 1 | 62 | 7 |
| 3 | Ireland | 2 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 5 |
| 4 | Scotland | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| 5 | France | 2 | 0 | 3 | -27 | 4 |
| 6 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 5 | -145 | 0 |
Unrelated, but why the fuck are these tables totally unintuitive to use?
England has won the Triple Crown, and by beating all other countries, the Grand Slam, their first in 13 years!
Italy, on the other hand by losing every single game and scoring no points, has "won" the conciliatory prize of the Wooden Spoon.
So, here's to the next one, may it be won by someone else.
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The Flood / Re: The Perfect Size.
« on: February 07, 2016, 10:16:45 AM »
BMW M3 or Porsche 911
Nice cars, too.
Nice cars, too.
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Gaming / Re: Sep7 XCOM Unit: The War Has Begun
« on: February 07, 2016, 07:19:30 AM »
That reminds me, I bought the XCOM expansion ages ago and never played it.
Now I know what to do while I wait for a good time to get XCOM2.
Now I know what to do while I wait for a good time to get XCOM2.
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The Flood / Re: Post your current love interest
« on: February 07, 2016, 07:04:00 AM »
But no, no interest atm.
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The Flood / Re: what are your criteria for liking posts
« on: February 06, 2016, 08:24:55 PM »
-I agree with it and/or puts the same thought process in better wording than I possibly could
-Gives an adequate explanation to something.
-Explores a different perspective to something that I also agree with/can get behind.
-Is reasonably funny.
-Those perfect timings of wit/BTFO's that appear once in every two blue moons.
-A conversational ending if my reply was just going to be "Oh right ok" which is a waste of thread space.
-Gives an adequate explanation to something.
-Explores a different perspective to something that I also agree with/can get behind.
-Is reasonably funny.
-Those perfect timings of wit/BTFO's that appear once in every two blue moons.
-A conversational ending if my reply was just going to be "Oh right ok" which is a waste of thread space.
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Gaming / Re: ITT: Sep7agon is a GTA game with a large sandbox city
« on: February 06, 2016, 08:19:55 PM »YouTube
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Serious / Re: Experiences with drug use
« on: February 06, 2016, 08:16:50 PM »
I've done weed a few times and other than making me feel a bit more relaxed than usual, I don't see the fuss. Also, that "music is better high" shit don't work when you listen to "drug music" already, it's nicer sober. I can really only enjoy weed when I'm already relaxed, doing it stressed with deadlines looming just made me focus more on it and put the fear of failure in me far too much. I prefer the effects of alcohol rather than weed if I'm honest, although I the lack of hangovers after weed is certainly a positive. Hangovers from doing both in the wrong order (alcohol then weed) is hellish.
I might try 'shrooms if they ever happen to come my way, but I've no inclination for the harder drugs. Father's first-hand experience and advice are all I need to know that the synthesised/refined stuff is waaaay above my comfort zone.
I might try 'shrooms if they ever happen to come my way, but I've no inclination for the harder drugs. Father's first-hand experience and advice are all I need to know that the synthesised/refined stuff is waaaay above my comfort zone.
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The Flood / Re: Sep7agon's Official Dubtrack.fm Room
« on: February 06, 2016, 07:52:17 PM »Quote
entice
ɪnˈtʌɪs,ɛn-/Submit
verb
attract or tempt by offering pleasure or the Sep7agonTM Official Dubtrack room.
"a show which should entice a new audience into the theatre"
synonyms: tempt, allure, lure, attract, dangle a carrot in front of;
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Gaming / Re: Sep7 XCOM Unit: The War Has Begun
« on: February 06, 2016, 02:38:54 PM »Lost 6 hours of progress, but SuperIrish is still alive.
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Gaming / Re: Sep7 XCOM Unit: The War Has Begun
« on: February 06, 2016, 01:57:58 PM »Sharpshooter
EDIT: Oh, didn't realise how far in this was.
Doesn't mean you won't get in. I have to go back to an earlier save because of the game not explaining new mechanics.
Could that mean I'm not dead?
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The Flood / Re: Me Anything
« on: February 06, 2016, 01:47:29 PM »Why do you like so many things?Why not?
's why I'm asking
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The Flood / Re: Me Anything
« on: February 06, 2016, 01:31:17 PM »
Why do you like so many things?
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Gaming / Re: Sep7 XCOM Unit: The War Has Begun
« on: February 06, 2016, 01:08:48 PM »
Damn, I was pretty short lived to say the least.
It had to be fucking snakes o'course, not prepared because there aren't any to train on in Ireland.
It had to be fucking snakes o'course, not prepared because there aren't any to train on in Ireland.
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The Flood / Re: Post your favourites drinks in here and I'll rate you.
« on: February 06, 2016, 01:03:50 PM »To prove I am a patrician here is my list :
2. Guiness (POURED CORRECTLY AND BREWED IN DUBLIN)
Yes, it tastes so much better the closer you are to St. James. In Wales it tastes at best, a bit "off". Don't even try fucking cans.
Also Cobra beer or Leffe belgian blonde is quite nice.
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Serious / Re: Female journalist hires a male escort and feels "validated"
« on: February 06, 2016, 12:55:48 PM »
You should swap the genders around and post it somewhere, watch them roll up with pitchforks. Better still, maybe leave out the journalist's gender and change the escort to female and watch those who "fight for equality" assume the journalist is a man and then go apeshit.
"Journalist hires female escort to feel 'validated' by family". Bam, instead shitstorm.
"Journalist hires female escort to feel 'validated' by family". Bam, instead shitstorm.
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I wanted to bring a gal with me to spite my cousin, but there was no one in sight: I currently am not dating anyone seriously, and the only female friends I have are lesbian or straight and taken. I live in No Woman’s Land.
[...]
I’m straight-up worn out from hearing, “You’re pretty cool and smart, so why can’t you find a girl?” Society condones asking questions like this without stopping to consider how they feel.
Well, I wanted to f*ck with society. I wanted to change the rules. I reached a point where I was so bored with my love life that I was willing to try anything once.
If I was going to do this, I was going to do this right. So, on my own volition, I dropped $150 on a female escort from Rent A Lady. Yes, you read that correctly. I rented a lady.
[...]
I’d never fallen for a girl like Alice, but I found her lack of complication intriguing. Her confession that she wanted to get married someday (as we sat among many afraid-of-commitment Millennials) was refreshing. I don’t know if it was the alcohol or the fact that she was unavailable, but I fell in love for the night.
“I’m just your project,” she’d joke. She had a point. Though, later on, the thing felt so natural that I forgot I’d hired someone to pretend to love me.
When the party died down, my cousin pulled me aside. “I’m proud of you,” he said. “You found someone who deserves you.”
There it was: the validation I’d always craved. It was ear candy. It was a kind of acceptance I’d never felt before, and its impermanence didn’t detract from my satisfaction.
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The Flood / Re: Most evil/cruel thing you've ever done?
« on: February 06, 2016, 07:26:48 AM »
Used to catch crabs and then shoot them with bb's.
Also me and a group of friends would jump into this construction site and break all the insulation and fight with them inside the buildings until we got bored or we got caught and ran away.
Also me and a group of friends would jump into this construction site and break all the insulation and fight with them inside the buildings until we got bored or we got caught and ran away.
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The Flood / Re: I could shatter the jaw of everyone here boi
« on: February 05, 2016, 07:21:32 AM »
Lol if you can endure the travel over, you can try.
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Serious / Re: Spanking is for the unintelligent
« on: February 04, 2016, 09:36:51 PM »Scenario #1:
You find out your 16 year old son has been going out to parties and getting drunk. You ground him and tell him hes not allowed out. Its 1AM and you catch him sneaking out. You tell him to go back to bed and you'll talk about this in the morning. He says "fuck you dad, I'm going out". What do you do?
Lol what.
I know how you have a higher drinking age at 21, but jesus christ. I'd probably tell him to eat rice and bread before drinking, not to mix drinks, not fuck anyone while he's pissed, drink a shit ton of water before going to bed and to be fucking quiet when he gets back home. If he doesn't heed my advice, the hangover will teach him and if he came home rowdy in the night I'll be banging pots at 9am and getting him to learn the consequences of irresponsible drinking.
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The Flood / Re: If I was dying right now
« on: February 04, 2016, 09:23:37 PM »
Shall I call the ambulance?
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The Flood / Re: Your Friday plans?
« on: February 04, 2016, 05:27:42 PM »
Do a cross-section on some borehole data and then interpret paleoenvironments from sand.
Yep, my weekend is looking prettttty action filled.
Yep, my weekend is looking prettttty action filled.
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Serious / Re: Spanking is for the unintelligent
« on: February 04, 2016, 05:01:20 PM »Also consider a situation like this:
You have a small child, maybe a toddler, and they like to play with the outlet, oven, wires, or whatever dangerous things. Due to their age and inability to understand right from wrong and dangers, they will keep doing these hints. If you sat down and told them to stop, they'll probably still do it due to the fact that they are small child who can't understand much. Sure, maybe taking away their toys or sending them to a corner may work, but do you want to take the chances of your small child accidentally harming himself when you aren't looking? With corporal punishment the child will learn quickly not to do something wrong due to the human's natural fear of pain. It is sad and hard to purposefully harm your child, but sometimes things have to be done for their safety.
Don't agree with this. Curiosity doesn't deserve punishment.
If I saw a kid trying to stick his finger in an outlet I'd slap his hand out the way or pull them backwards so they couldn't. If they bawl at me because they're not allowed to do what they want, I'll tell them it's dangerous and could kill them. Kid tries again, I'll bat their hand harder and sternly say "NO", then remove them from the area.
Or you could just cattle prod them and explain that's what sticking a finger in the electric outlet does.
I was thinking the hard way could work, but I don't wanna create irrational fears either.
I found out fire is hot the hard way... couldn't look a toaster in the eye for a while.
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The Flood / Re: Post nice things said about you ITT
« on: February 04, 2016, 03:29:30 PM »
"Man you very patient" - Hungarian roommate
"He's very polite" - overheard after I asked to pet some lady's dog when I was 11.
"Baemus" - nickname after helping some dudes with some GIS stuff.
"He's very polite" - overheard after I asked to pet some lady's dog when I was 11.
"Baemus" - nickname after helping some dudes with some GIS stuff.
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Serious / Re: Spanking is for the unintelligent
« on: February 04, 2016, 03:15:06 PM »Also consider a situation like this:
You have a small child, maybe a toddler, and they like to play with the outlet, oven, wires, or whatever dangerous things. Due to their age and inability to understand right from wrong and dangers, they will keep doing these hints. If you sat down and told them to stop, they'll probably still do it due to the fact that they are small child who can't understand much. Sure, maybe taking away their toys or sending them to a corner may work, but do you want to take the chances of your small child accidentally harming himself when you aren't looking? With corporal punishment the child will learn quickly not to do something wrong due to the human's natural fear of pain. It is sad and hard to purposefully harm your child, but sometimes things have to be done for their safety.
Don't agree with this. Curiosity doesn't deserve punishment.
If I saw a kid trying to stick his finger in an outlet I'd slap his hand out the way or pull them backwards so they couldn't. If they bawl at me because they're not allowed to do what they want, I'll tell them it's dangerous and could kill them. Kid tries again, I'll bat their hand harder and sternly say "NO", then remove them from the area.
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Serious / Re: Spanking is for the unintelligent
« on: February 04, 2016, 01:37:26 PM »If you were spanked as a child, do you honestly believe it made you into a better person? If so, why?
Asking nobody in particular, in case someone isn't comfortable with answering.
Can't really refute or support this without bringing up anecdotes, so here goes:
My little story
When I was growing up as a kid with my parents, I was mostly well behaved without the need for punishment. Whenever I did act the maggot, my dad would tell me usually with a "dad disappointed" face and at the very worst "give a clip around the side of the clock", basically a slap to the back of the head and a stern explanation of why I shouldn't do whatever it was I did. Wasn't painful, just the feeling of discomfort made sure I knew not to do it again. I used to talk to my dad about stuff regarding basic morals and behaviour when I was young so I knew what not to do and so I never needed "learning with physical enforcement" more than a couple of times.
Later my parents got divorced and my younger brother and I lived with my mum. He grew up for the majority of his life without the same thing I had because my mum doesn't believe in physical methods, believes that her arbitrary moral and behavioural code is universal and that obviously he should know right and wrong (probably because I do), and instead gets angry and shouts the shit out of him. Not reasoned explanations, just shouting that he shouldn't be doing whatever. As a result, my brother is ridiculously irritable, quick to anger, and when he thinks my mum is wrong, he'll just shout back because there's little repercussions other than more shouting which by now he can handle. Now he uses it to get his own way most of the time because he's older (one example is when I had to take him to school, often he would state "I'm not going" and any effort to get him to move would result in him shouting and screeching and crying until he got his way. He's 15.) The worst my mum can do to discipline him is threaten to call my dad down, and the few times that's happened he gets himself under control so by the time dad comes down he just sulks and behaves himself while my dad just does "the look" again.
Later my parents got divorced and my younger brother and I lived with my mum. He grew up for the majority of his life without the same thing I had because my mum doesn't believe in physical methods, believes that her arbitrary moral and behavioural code is universal and that obviously he should know right and wrong (probably because I do), and instead gets angry and shouts the shit out of him. Not reasoned explanations, just shouting that he shouldn't be doing whatever. As a result, my brother is ridiculously irritable, quick to anger, and when he thinks my mum is wrong, he'll just shout back because there's little repercussions other than more shouting which by now he can handle. Now he uses it to get his own way most of the time because he's older (one example is when I had to take him to school, often he would state "I'm not going" and any effort to get him to move would result in him shouting and screeching and crying until he got his way. He's 15.) The worst my mum can do to discipline him is threaten to call my dad down, and the few times that's happened he gets himself under control so by the time dad comes down he just sulks and behaves himself while my dad just does "the look" again.
TLDR: I don't believe in spanking, actual pain won't solve a behavioural problem and is an archaic method that I don't believe works entirely well, nor will empty threats. Just a *bap* to keep kids straight.
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Gaming / Re: Forget it. I'm not gonna Halo 3 1v1 Challenger again
« on: February 04, 2016, 11:06:59 AM »
So Halo Reach 1v1 is still a go then?