- "To start: “I Really Like You” doesn’t “really” do it for me. I’ve considered it with Zapruder-like precision. The first “really” is catchy. The second “really” is endearing. The third—here’s where I’ve slowed the playback by half—”really” is dicey. Right as the candy-coated harmonies set me afloat, the lizard part of my brain goes “Nope” during the chorus and brings everything back to earth. Obviously, a lot of people hear “unaffected ebullience” where I hear “Kidz Bop-ready syntax.” It’s polarizing, and a testament to the visceral, lizard brain reactions that pop inspires." - Jeremy Gordon
- "Even trifles like 'I Really Like You' [an inane pop song] can chip away at the subtle infrastructure that shapes how we think and react." - Jamieson Cox
- You know, if you're that beginner in the Java world, I strongly advice you to use a modern IDE (Eclipse, netBeans, IntelliJ IDEA), with all visual clues activated. This way, that kind of error will litteraly jump from the screen to devour your screaming eyes :-) – Riduidel Nov 29 '10 at 10:17
- I don't want to be simplistic but you sound to me like a healthy normal BDSM fag with bisexual tendency (which is kind of like winning the lottery in terms of interesting experiences that are available to you)
- "When you masturbate, what do you think about? That's your answer" - i heard this advice before, and man, i'm here to tell you that it just muddied the waters. the answer was convoluted at best "well, sometimes i think about a man with a vagina, or a woman with a penis, or sometimes i envision making out with someone and when we pull away they're an entirely different person - sometimes the gender changes, but sometimes it's just the looks stuff - hair, skin, eyes, size - like super sexy people morphing (a la michael jackson's black or white but, you know, nakeder) - uh, what was the question again?" i think for some people with more off/on type of sexualities it is difficult to understand those of us that are incredibly fluid in that regard. -posted by nadawi
- graph of suitor mentions by book in the sookie stackhouse series
- "We are treated to a cast of characters that come and go like homeless people in a subway tunnel; with no real way to keep track of them. While they are interesting and familiar, you begin to realize that you do not have enough grace to care about them enough." - posted by CJ
- "INTPf: Where not being into homoerotic anime makes you a loser." - posted by Absurdity
- "This line inspired me to check to see whether The People Who Run Things still consider introversion a clinical condition. The answer is yes." -posted by MichiganJFrog
- "I just came from a job interview, in the form there was a question: Do you prefer to work alone or in a group. I circled alone and was interrogated as if I was some kind of antisocial psychopath." - posted by Beholder
- "I have held a belief that most of the atoms in my body has been produced in dying stars, for many years, likely since age 14-15 or thereabouts. I am literally a child of the stars, as we all are. I have a profound belief that all we see in the universe is made up of exactly the same materials/particles/whatever, that as far as I can tell only amount to 100 or so, no matter where in the universe you might look. 100 different building blocks can produce everything we see around us. Those are some mighty important and quality materials, so to speak, and they allow for wonderful variations. Some of the atoms in our bodies took millions of years to produce, a sun actually had to live it's whole life and die for there to exist tiny amounts of matter that would be essential to the working mechanics of life on earth. That is quite profound in my world, and something I think of several times a week." --posted by PhantomOfLife
- "Don't judge this movie by the negative thumbs down. The retarded children of incest and paint huffing are hard at work trolling here." - posted by kreyvik
- Statement (in response to early comment): "I mean this with no vitriol and nothing but love: please use "transgender people" rather than "transgenders."" - melissa!
- Response: "I also mean this with no vitriol, but you can't make people use and/or conform to your terminology by reinforcing its "correct" usage. I reject the idea that "transgendered people" and "transgenders" are respectively appropriate and inappropriate, because there is no compelling linguistic and social reason "transgenders" can't be both an adjective and a noun, and the reasoning behind its purported offensiveness is weak and does not sway me. If a change in how we use language become structurally necessary - and this goes for all the relevant transgender terminology - it will linguistically happen organically, as it has for all time." - Annm
- "Thank you!!!!!!!!! Deeming words offensive only transforms them into slurs. Don't give language more power than it should have." - JY
- "Why on earth we cis people think we have the right to debate on this or give our little opinions, I don't know. Transgender folk are some of the most oppressed in society, almost universally. Many are denied their right to exist as they see fit, even to the grave where some have been misgendered at their funerals. I really ask you understand that you and I are not affected by these issues, at all, and denying trans people their humanity by referring to them as "transgenders" even when many have specifically addressed that they do NOT like this, would rather be referred to as transgender people and explained why, is very transphobic and fucked up. Grow up. Using terms/words that dehumanise groups and oppress them/remove their humanity as opposed to words/terms they deem fit is oppressive. Also deeming words offensive turns them into slurs?... what world do you live on? Does this mean words deemed as slurs (think of the ones we all know) today are only seen as such because people once said "hey this is offensive!"? No. These are slurs because they were created and used as a way to dehumanise groups of people as part of systemic oppression. Maybe think about the marginalised instead of your own convenience. Maybe study some history and sociology before you post these basic ass simplistic comments." - Simi
- "Well, that got vitriolic very fast. I have tertiary degrees in sociology. There are serious and harmful issues with conceding the rules of (emerging, shifting) language to only one minority group, and in your case, accusing anyone who does not conform to the finetunings of your terminology as bigoted or transphobic. Your comment is about as far as you could get from a good sociology or history class, though I fear that academia's current allowance for bullish identity politics has permitted this kind of mentality to fester out of control." - Annm
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