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Ah dude. Have you ever driven to the beach with a surfboard on your roof blaring the beach boys? Only once you have listened to the beach boys in preparation for surfing (preferably while stoned) will you truly understand their genius. Also they make good light, catchy pop music. Mind you I'm...

Wow, that actually sounds quite similar to a lot of my own thought experiences (except not so much on the imagining stepping in dog shit/boss fights from Gradius V bits :)). But still I think the general gist of it seems quite familiar to me. Also, the bit about how its rather involuntary is...

I dunno, i may do it more literally than a lot of other people...i have a tendancy to actually start talking to myself out loud if i'm working on a particularly hard problem and i'm alone in a room. Freaks the hell out of my roommates who think i'm having a conversation with someone and then...

wow, suprised by all the anti-thinking talk 'round these parts. me, i like thinking (i think). i think a lot. though i do agree with backjob on the thinking = insomnia part. but what is thinking? how do you do it? a tuff question. Maybe the simplest answer is just sort of an inner monologue...

so, an interesting conversation with some woman from Turkey the other night in a bar. I ask her why all she's drinking is bottles of Miller Genuine Draft, which wasn't on special or anything, and she says that apparently in Turkey MGD is the big ladies drink. Needless to say I was quite taken...

agreed on both posts above...obviously i was quoting safire to disagree with him. actually i don't know what prompted me to read his piece, but hey, i guess it's good to see what the other side is plotting sometimes. anyway: round 2 please!

Hot diggity, I enjoyed reading that post K-punk! I've been trying to tell Oliver something kinda like that for a while now, but you've done a much better job of it. Anyway, recently reading Safire's editorial (NY times, free registration req'd of course) on Bush's inauguration speech really...

sweet. thanks man. downloading them as i type... :D

Hohoho, only thing better than a beer thread is a controversial beer thread! agreed. we like beer (and music) and enjoy discussing beer (and music). as for why people drink beer, the inebriation factor is definitely important, but as you might have gleaned from this thread, TASTE is also very...

I gotta say I've actually been really fucking enjoying this. some seriously kicking shit. I think i've been listening to way too much grime, dupstep and other breakbeat-y music forms. Damn the influence of this board! bring back techno! i still love you!

oooh! so how about: stage the second coming of christ. have him be a muslim, who renounces his muslim faith and starts converting everyone to Nu-Christianity. Have him perform a whole bunch of miracles (through holograms and the covert filling of various arab cities water supplies with...

HAHAHA omg you are my hero luka. this shit is hilarious. i gotta start thinking, but i don't know if i can beat any of this shit. but anyway, on the "truth is stranger than fiction" tip, how many of you people saw this article saying that the pentagon was at one point in time looking at...

I assume he's refering (at least in part) to Seymour Hersh's new article in the new yorker? This is also quite the disturbing read...a choice quote: A lot of this stuff (though not necessarily the above quote) seems very reminiscent of the articles that were coming out two years ago or so when...

Wow. Some of that stuff is really scary...as in: plus their recommendation to draw the US into Syria...it's just really earie reading this rather dispassionate article recommending some truly terrible things. Though I suppose the pentagon's written their fair share of those type of documents...

luka, i agree definitely that the there are a lot of different factors that determine the morality of someone's consumption, it's always more complicated than I try to describe it as. Anyway, my comment about "jesus, it sucks to be poor" was meant to imply that I think it's perfectly...

agreed. this thread is shifting from "jesus, being broke sucks" to "let's flaunt our massive consumption and fuck the negative consequences." yes i have what might be called a student view of the world, but i would like to think there's a few good reasons behind it. anyway, there's a fine line...

However, i do think canadians can be pretty smug about what a great country this is. not in the american "i'm king of the world!" over-the-top kind of way, but in a much more subtle middle-class kind of superiority (okay, that's not all that subtle, but still...). Which is only somewhat...

i would also big up vancouver. absolutely lovely. and there's snow here right now, which is actually quite unusual, but there you go anyway, mpc.

i kinda feel bad for bringing this up, cuz this jokes been done to death round my parts, but perhaps not on the other side of the pond(s). Q: What does American beer and having sex in a canoe have in common? A: They're both fucking close to water! One of the many "proud to be a canadian"...

Yeah I gotta say I essentially never drink English beers, I'm really not even clear on what a bitter is, and I do drink quite a lot of beer. You never see english beers on tap here, though you do see guiness and kilkenny occaisionally. Selection wise, you can get bass, boddingtons and...i...