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Well, maybe, if XKCD wanted to be bizarrely humourless and lacking in observation.

I sort of get it. But I don't think it is one of XKCD's sharper moments. It's missing a 4th picture of the same woman in a club with a drink and a player feeding her some line and her giggling.....

I don't equate objectification with hatred as easily as you, but obviously you have a point. I think you will find that the numbers really aren't used that much anymore. There's an idea in some paradigms that you have to do certain things differently with '9s and 10s', but there is actually more...

Yes....but I remember mentioning going to the club to an older Dutch friend some time on, and although he probably wasn't the sort of person to go, he had certainly heard of the club and found the revelation very non-shocking. With regards to padraig's last comments, I indeed find some pua...

*shrug* Ideas regarding sexuality are different in continental Europe. Your parents probably had sex at some point.....me going to that sex club probably isn't anything like a typical 'community' experience anyway. Calling something or someone weird is the very epitome of a meaningless neg 99%...

First part is untrue. Second point is logically invalid. That's quite the compliment. Thank you!

Yeah I stand by pretty much everything I said too, I just don't buy the mysogyny and aspiration thing. That said, I am quite attracted to the Zizekian critique of new age stuff as well as other critiques of the human potential movement - and I think these critiques can also be applied to the...

http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?9091-Books-with-life-changing-qualities We had quite the thread of death with this one!

My job is Android related, would rather not say more than that. There are quite a lot of apps out there now - I've seen a painstakingly compiled list. I believe the Lonely Planet guides are available on Android.

Michael Douglas' character in Falling Down (1993) has also been pretending to go to work after being fired, effectively committing suicide in the end. That's based in LA. I'm just saying. Although I agree with a lot of what nomad has to say, particularly regarding people studying more science...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/24/boris-johnson-will-hutton-bankers I suppose it would be naive to call it new, but Dave and Boris' handling of 'final vocabulary' is awe-inspiring stuff. Boris seems better at it, because to actually call him on his shit is almost always going...

Beautiful! I still prefer my 'helping women to squirt' quote, but it's good to diversify.

I agree with this, I think. But if it is mainly the middle-classes getting together to do this, and accompanying it with a bunch of extra-curricular activities/networking that may infact somewhat contradict their spuritual practice of 'empathy and reconnection', then I think Zizek's critique is...

Edit:The thread is dead anyway

Hmmm, I've built it up a bit now. No sure how specific I will get yet. As vimothy said earlier, lots of interesting stories in education. Going further into my past, I received an Assisted Place (ie the government paid most of the fees) to go to the local Roman Catholic fee-paying school -...

I would say this is particularly true where I've been working the last 10 months. I finish next Friday - if the thread endures I can say more in 7 days. I'm getting a golden handcuffs payment for seeing out the maternity cover so I'll keep my trap shut for now.

Yes. I think class is an issue in Britain, but I think it's more about money and alienation.

The point is that things have got worse, surely? Isn't that the synthesis of the two papers? That where an increase in managerial and technical workforce is needed, the floodgates will open to the intelligent in the lower classes? When it isn't, the gates are largely closed? Is a corporate...

Tears For Fears? 'Shout' was pretty much immediately what sprang to my mind when I saw this thread. Would probably have to file under guilty pleasure mind - I got the song on a 4 track Weetabix tape when I was kneehigh to a grasshopper. I can't remember all the other tracks, but 'There's A Guy...

I really like the original thread too. And London Fields. :cool: