Randomness

[Chinorlz]

right now i live in nyc. im not exactly sure if or when im going to move to berlin - but i am reallllly thinking about it. obviously living there i will learn more but i would like to learn as much as i can beforehand.

So uh... how can you then only speak German all day short of work?

Taking a course may be of some use... and/or joining one of those language conversation groups. My friend learned a fair amount of Japanese with 1 semester at NYU and dating a Japanese girl . I'd say he's good enough now to hold a regular conversation and order things at restaurants. Pretty solid.

[magic]

Thinking to go to a shooting range and learn how to fire a gun. For no specific reason, just want to learn how to do something new.

it reminds me of arms cleaning when i was in the army after marksman range.. arms cleaning till the sunrise is no joke.

[Faust]

Anyone have any good articles about symbolic consumption, conspicuous consumption, status symbols and identity expression? Mainly looking for scientific literature, but anything will be good. Fashion related or not. I've found some but not really happy with what I've found to this point.

In addition to Marx (if you don't want to read Das Kapital - at least read The Communist Manifesto and Alienated Labor):

No Logo - Naomi Klein
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Theorsten Veblen (wordy and contrived to the point of , but essential)

[Farkhanyassin]

Someone's a new daddy ;)

[laughed]

So uh... how can you then only speak German all day short of work?

Taking a course may be of some use... and/or joining one of those language conversation groups. My friend learned a fair amount of Japanese with 1 semester at NYU and dating a Japanese girl . I'd say he's good enough now to hold a regular conversation and order things at restaurants. Pretty solid.

well i don't do much besides work so it'll be pretty easy to just speak german in my spare time - like when i talk to my dogs and myself i guess.
hey, that's it, maybe i'll just find a hot german number, make her fall in love with me, teach me german, then in a year or so dump her and tell her thanks for the free lessons!

[jogu]

i broke my arm tonite , got a dumbass cast buttttt they gave me some oxycontin im eatin corndogs rite now and sleepy

[Faust]

i broke my arm tonite , got a dumbass cast buttttt they gave me some oxycontin im eatin corndogs rite now and sleepy

WAYWT with cast, please!

[sam_tem]

trump for president, man oh man the end times must be near. at least we'll get to play marvel vs capcom 3 before it's all over

And Trump laid claim to the mantle of conservatism. "I am pro-life. Against gun control... I will fight to end Obamacare and replace it with something that makes sense to people in business and not bankrupt the country. If I decide to run, I will not be raising taxes. We will be taking in hundreds of billions of dollars from other countries that are screwing us ... and we'll rebuild our country so that we can be proud. Our country will be great again," he said.

[Faust]

Awesome. Why not, sam_tem, we had a B-movie actor who almost ran the country into the ground already, and all current Republican presidential candidates are Fox news employees.

[Farkhanyassin]

Well done, Egypt.

[theetruscan]

I think Trump's 5 or 6 (depending on how you count) bankruptcies in the last 20 years will be a problem. Also, he has a dead animal on his head. That doesn't go over well. He seems no more destructive than the rest of the CPAC crazy show.

Michelle Bachmann is my current favorite. There's a woman who wakes up every day, brushes her teeth, gargles with LSD, and goes about entertaining the phantoms. What a champion.

Egypt is fascinating. Hell, that whole area is going to be interesting to watch. I mean, Tunisia's government fell. Egypt's "president" stepped down. Jordan replaced the entire parliament already. Yemen's president has stated that he will not run again, and it is unclear whether that was sufficient. Syria got so nervous they started making concessions (such as turning back on the internet). I am excited to see what happens, though my guess is "things won't go well."

[thehouseofdis]

And Trump laid claim to the mantle of conservatism. "I am pro-life. Against gun control... I will fight to end Obamacare and replace it with something that makes sense to people in business...

Yeah, that sounds like it's going to be very good for the people of this country. The vast majority of which do not own businesses. Unless he's talking about making the people that run the businesses pay 300-400% more for their health care than the workers, which would coincide with the wage discrepancy.

[marco-von]

Yeah the whole story with the arabic countries is going to be very interesting.

Due to obama and other european leaders showing poor form with egypt it only shows again how they rather have stability than human rights in these countries when they have much to gain and lose.

Joe Biden's U-Turn was a comical political blunder!

[sam_tem]

the one good thing i could see about Trump running for pres. is that that boy has to have enough skeletons in his closet to make his house look like a genocide. there's would be tons of dirt throwing and much fun to be had. i can't imagine he would poll well with the rural america / bible belt crowd though. being that his agenda is a copy and past of the current GOP primary views (and unintelligible ones at that) one wonders what his true motives are. you know he would just pull 4 years and then make a fortune off the whole deal like it was one big reality show. he could get his casino's out of bankruptcy at least then.

EDIT: now that i think of it it would be just like the Berlusconi sideshow/nightmare which makes Italy look a complete joke right now. not good.


as for Obama and Egypt, there's certainly a huge failure there especially considering the efforts he put forth in '08 on energizing the middle east and promising big changes (i won't even mention the abyssmal road Israel has been heading down with full complacency from our gov't). in the end though, i'm sure the success rate for a full regime change is much higher when handled internally than with the guiding hands of the big world powers. the hard part is still to come of course, but i'd be happier if Egypt could do it and stand on their own two legs.

[endersgame]

i think i want to get a restraining order against my neighbor. i have a problem with their dog..

can i navigate the court system myself for something like this or do i need a legal counselor?