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by **Garm** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:27 pm UTC

roband wrote:Wow, they photoshopped Jessica Ennis a lot...

Which is too bad, really. She certainly doesn't need the photoshopping.

by **roband** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:52 pm UTC

I certainly agree. However, they once showed her running the 100m (maybe 60m, they do in the heptathlon?) with one of those super slow-motion cameras. You could see every muscle in her body working. It was an interesting shot, but not the most attractive.

by **philsov** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:58 pm UTC

mm, people have been doing side hugs for a long time. It's called standing next to someone.

Not quite. The Christian Side Hug (now in Rap format!) involves no front hugging until you're married.

When I greet people, I leave room for the Holy Spirit.

by **Роберт** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:59 pm UTC

emceng wrote:
Xeio wrote:Wait wait wait. Christian Side Hugs are a thing?

And... the wikipedia page...
however (as seen on the photo) there is still an risk/threat of the 'breast - to - armpit' touch/engagement that could trigger the mentioned temptation
O.o

I'm confused on a number of levels. 1) umm, people have been doing side hugs for a long time. It's called standing next to someone. 2) What the fuck is wrong with people that they really thought about, and then proceeded to say, 'don't hug people, it leads to temptation'?

The Christian Side Hugs thing was a self-parody that whoever wrote that Wikipedia article didn't get.

by **meridian** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:20 pm UTC

Dunno about parody. I did have to sit (or, well, stand as it was impromptu) through a lecture once about side hugs, A-Frame hugs, and how sitting on someone's lap was a sexual position so it shouldn't be done, let alone in public. Yeah, we youngin's made fun of it as soon as the lecturer was out of ear shot, but I'm rather sure it was meant seriously to start.

by **Menacing Spike** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:50 pm UTC

meridian wrote:Dunno about parody. I did have to sit (or, well, stand as it was impromptu) through a lecture once about side hugs, A-Frame hugs, and how sitting on someone's lap was a sexual position so it shouldn't be done, let alone in public. Yeah, we youngin's made fun of it as soon as the lecturer was out of ear shot, but I'm rather sure it was meant seriously to start.

Huh. The lectures we had were more along the lines of "guys, wear condoms, also don't pressure your girlfriends" and "girls, remember to take the pill and don't do anything you don't want to do". Is this an American thing?

by **philsov** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:08 pm UTC

I hope it's isolated to this country, yes.

by **SecondTalon** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:36 pm UTC

Menacing Spike wrote:
meridian wrote:Dunno about parody. I did have to sit (or, well, stand as it was impromptu) through a lecture once about side hugs, A-Frame hugs, and how sitting on someone's lap was a sexual position so it shouldn't be done, let alone in public. Yeah, we youngin's made fun of it as soon as the lecturer was out of ear shot, but I'm rather sure it was meant seriously to start.

Huh. The lectures we had were more along the lines of "guys, wear condoms, also don't pressure your girlfriends" and "girls, remember to take the pill and don't do anything you don't want to do". Is this an American thing?

It's going to depend on the state where this took place.

Bible Belt? Probably public school health class. The North, the Western Coast, or Florida? Probably a church-related thing.

My school's sex education was "Don't have sex. Just don't. If you have to, use a condom because it stops disease, but don't have sex. Just don't. Now watch this video. *Five minutes later* BAM! Didn't warn you it was a childbirth video, did I? Nope! Don't have sex or that will happen."

This would be during the Clinton Years, mind you. I hear it's done nothing but get worse.

by **emceng** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:02 pm UTC

During the Clinton years, in Illinois, in 8th grade, we got health class. Which included a video with quite graphic images of STDs. Plus, IIRC, we got the "AIDS is going to murder everyone forever" speech 3-4 years in a row in different classes.

by **jawdisorder** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:19 pm UTC

My public high school class (about 4 years ago) went something along the lines of: we have to teach abstinence so there is that, but since we all know that's probably not going to happen, here are a bunch of other options that you should definitely make use of.

by **pseudoidiot** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:27 pm UTC

I just remember watching the male STD video then having hot dogs for lunch.

by **meridian** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:29 pm UTC

Om nom nom. Tasty wieners.

by **ShootTheChicken** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:37 pm UTC

I appreciate being Canadian more and more.

by **PhoenixEnigma** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:31 am UTC

Роберт wrote:The Christian Side Hugs thing was a self-parody that whoever wrote that Wikipedia article didn't get.

Apparently, some people take it seriously. I knew a few people via a friend who were among them. They were also saving their first kiss for marriage. Yeah.

Tying that into Sex Ed, there's three major type of schools here. Public schools, which is what I attended, where it varies a little between teachers but it's pretty practical* and realistic. Catholic schools, which are much like public schools in practice (they have to be, as they get roughly the same government funding) but pay lip service to abstinence only.

And then the private christian schools (which are what the aforementioned people attended), where apparently there's something about Barbie and Ken and if they go too far they go over a waterfall with big sharp rocks at the bottom or something. I only heard it second hand, and I don't think it made much sense to anyone involved.

*Our teacher was also willing to seriously and completely answer any question put to them (and had a system for asking anonymously), so we got a rather good amount of information

by **Magnanimous** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:32 am UTC

My sex ed class wasn't pro-abstinence, but we didn't really go into any detail... I remember going to Wikipedia to learn about the biological aspects, and I had Reddit/etc for the social aspects.

On that note: epididymis is a cool word. I always imagine a Greek myth about a guy who gets hit in the balls a lot.

PhoenixEnigma wrote:
Роберт wrote:The Christian Side Hugs thing was a self-parody that whoever wrote that Wikipedia article didn't get.
Apparently, some people take it seriously. I knew a few people via a friend who were among them. They were also saving their first kiss for marriage. Yeah.

First kisses are usually awkward and rubbish. They could at least practice before the wedding ceremony...

by **emceng** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:00 pm UTC

Magnanimous wrote:My sex ed class wasn't pro-abstinence, but we didn't really go into any detail... I remember going to Wikipedia to learn about the biological aspects, and I had Reddit/etc for the social aspects.

On that note: epididymis is a cool word. I always imagine a Greek myth about a guy who gets hit in the balls a lot.
PhoenixEnigma wrote:
Роберт wrote:The Christian Side Hugs thing was a self-parody that whoever wrote that Wikipedia article didn't get.
Apparently, some people take it seriously. I knew a few people via a friend who were among them. They were also saving their first kiss for marriage. Yeah.

First ~~kisses~~ sexy-times are usually awkward and rubbish. They could at least practice before the wedding ceremony...

by **SecondTalon** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:14 pm UTC

Like, the first ten or so ~~First~~ ~~kisses~~ sexy-times are usually awkward and rubbish. They could at least practice before the wedding ceremony...

by **Роберт** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:46 pm UTC

meridian wrote:Dunno about parody. I did have to sit (or, well, stand as it was impromptu) through a lecture once about side hugs, A-Frame hugs, and how sitting on someone's lap was a sexual position so it shouldn't be done, let alone in public. Yeah, we youngin's made fun of it as soon as the lecturer was out of ear shot, but I'm rather sure it was meant seriously to start.

I'm not saying that some people don't take the side hugs thing seriously, but the Wikipedia citation wasn't pointing to a legit example.

Poe's law what what.

by **gorcee** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:14 pm UTC

emceng wrote:
Magnanimous wrote:My sex ed class wasn't pro-abstinence, but we didn't really go into any detail... I remember going to Wikipedia to learn about the biological aspects, and I had Reddit/etc for the social aspects.

On that note: epididymis is a cool word. I always imagine a Greek myth about a guy who gets hit in the balls a lot.
PhoenixEnigma wrote:
Роберт wrote:The Christian Side Hugs thing was a self-parody that whoever wrote that Wikipedia article didn't get.
Apparently, some people take it seriously. I knew a few people via a friend who were among them. They were also saving their first kiss for marriage. Yeah.

First ~~kisses~~ sexy-times are usually awkward and rubbish. They could at least practice before the wedding ceremony...

Yes but you don't have sexy times on the altar in front of all your wedding guests.

by **Menacing Spike** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:33 pm UTC

gorcee wrote:Yes but you don't have sexy times on the altar in front of all your wedding guests.

I wonder how that custom will evolve in the distant future.

"The bulgroz may now multisodomize the herkns in order."

by **semicharmed** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:34 pm UTC

If you refer to a web host as an ISP, tell me that you can 'export the site in whatever format is necessary' from your software, and then say that you'd just like a sub-domain, maybe like 'site.org/SUB' and then tell me all you need from me is the password and username for my web host: I am not letting you into the CP of our web host.

I can make you a page, and will throw your content up on that page, but you are not getting access to our server. Especially not when the website is running mostly Joomla, with some legacy tools that are still heavily used/easy to screw up. I will not just hand over the keys and say 'okay, have fun!'.

... now I just have to figure out how to say all that, politely. Without calling anyone an idiot.

by **Faithful** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:08 pm UTC

semicharmed wrote:If you refer to a web host as an ISP, tell me that you can 'export the site in whatever format is necessary' from your software, and then say that you'd just like a sub-domain, maybe like 'site.org/SUB' and then tell me all you need from me is the password and username for my web host: I am not letting you into the CP of our web host.

I can make you a page, and will throw your content up on that page, but you are not getting access to our server. Especially not when the website is running mostly Joomla, with some legacy tools that are still heavily used/easy to screw up. I will not just hand over the keys and say 'okay, have fun!'.

... now I just have to figure out how to say all that, politely. Without calling anyone an idiot.

Say "Unfortunately we do not allow clients to get access to our servers. We have no problem helping you out with whatever you needs are but our company policy is to not give out our username and passwords to our clients. It is to protect us and to protect you from unwanted / unauthorized access"

Threaten them with a hacking risk and most people freak out and agree with you.

by **Amie** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:03 pm UTC

"Okay guys don't stretch each player profile for over 250 words"
Okay.
"Oh but... this player has done so much! How did you think 250 words would be enough?! Make it 500!"
Okay.
"Hmm actually we're going to downsize everything to 100 words and then you can upload it"
...FINE.
"Oh you finished uploading everything? We decided that 100 was too little so now we're going to make everything standard 250 words and you have to reupload it TROLOLOLOL haha"
...fuck you guys.

by **Jave D** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:09 pm UTC

1. Obama expresses sympathy for Trayvon's family.
2. Trayvon's killer tells Fox News that there is "so much hate coming from" Obama.
3. God I hate right-wingers so much.

1. Rush Limbaugh says outrageous disgusting bigoted things on his show.
2. Companies stop advertising on his show.
3. Right-wingers spam the internet about how Rush's freedom of speech and 1st amendment rights are under attack and how Fluke was a government plant and it's all Obama's fault because liberals fear the massive amounts of truth that flow gently from Rush's lips and want to silence it so they can destroy America.
4. God I hate right-wingers so much.

by **I Am Raven** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:42 pm UTC

Jave D wrote:1. Obama expresses sympathy for Trayvon's family.
2. Trayvon's killer tells Fox News that there is "so much hate coming from" Obama.
3. God I hate some right-wingers so much.

1. Rush Limbaugh says outrageous disgusting bigoted things on his show.
2. Companies stop advertising on his show.
3. Right-wingers spam the internet about how Rush's freedom of speech and 1st amendment rights are under attack and how Fluke was a government plant and it's all Obama's fault because liberals fear the massive amounts of truth that flow gently from Rush's lips and want to silence it so they can destroy America.
4. God I hate some right-wingers so much.

But yeah, what the fuck?!
(Sorry for cursing, but I felt like this needed that little bit extra.)

by **raike** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:56 am UTC

Just lost my integration-bee title from last year... I hate losing! Gaaa! The worst part is that I lost because I was too slow.

by **cephalopod9** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:48 am UTC

Computers are still designed with a severe lack of anticipation for basic, and predictable, psychological trajectories. My internet access is just noticeably less functional than usual, and I am incomprehensible with rage. This is avoidable with a reasonable amount of consideration for cause and effect in typical human reactions. Microsoft, you are pretty much the worst at this.
I could throw up I'm so angry about this recurring minor inconvenience.

by **gorcee** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:36 pm UTC

Seriously, everyone, stop using Flash. It fucking sucks. Just stop.

I love having to refresh this streaming feed every 2 minutes because your player eats shit.

by **Menacing Spike** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:15 pm UTC

Maaaaybe it's the player and not flash that's the problem?

by **gorcee** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:22 pm UTC

Menacing Spike wrote:Maaaaybe it's the player and not flash that's the problem?

If the environment is such that Very Good Engineers can't develop something that works properly, then the environment must take some of the blame.

by **Ptolom** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:10 pm UTC

raike wrote:integration-bee

Is that what it sounds like? Because I am intrigued.

by **SlyReaper** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:33 pm UTC

Ptolom wrote:
raike wrote:integration-bee

Is that what it sounds like? Because I am intrigued.

An insect that's very good at working out the area under curves?

by **raike** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:02 pm UTC

SlyReaper wrote:
Ptolom wrote:
raike wrote:integration-bee

Is that what it sounds like? Because I am intrigued.

An insect that's very good at working out the area under curves?

I think that I ought not to have hyphenated that... :wink:

But an insect that's good at working out areas does sound a fair bit more interesting than what's essentially a spelling bee with integrals replacing words

by **Deva** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:49 pm UTC

"Please solve the integral of (x³ + 2x² + 5) from four to seven with respect to x."
- "Can you show it in the form of a graph?"

by **Menacing Spike** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:56 pm UTC

Deva wrote:"Please solve the integral of (x³ + 2x² + 5) from four to seven with respect to x."
- "Can you show it in the form of a graph?"

Clearly he's going to train an AI to recognize graphs, estimate integral area, correct for board tilting, and give out a result for resolution, thereby solving all problems of the kind!

by **SecondTalon** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:08 pm UTC

gorcee wrote:
Menacing Spike wrote:Maaaaybe it's the player and not flash that's the problem?

If the environment is such that Very Good Engineers can't develop something that works properly, then the environment must take some of the blame.

You're implying that Very Good Engineers developed the player. Are you certain of this?

by **nehpest** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:36 am UTC

My cat is missing. He's been gone for two days, now. Aside from two lizards in the past week or so, he has virtually no experience hunting anything larger than a moth. It rained heavily yesterday.

I live in an area rife with coyotes, possums, and other critters who would love to come across a fat, friendly house cat. I also live in an area where people apparently think it's legit to just take animals they find around, on the assumption that they're stray (so say a number of long-time residents of my neighborhood). There are two major streets within half a mile of my house, with lots and lots of car traffic.

My baby is either a) lost, scared, and hungry, b) absconded with, or c) dead somewhere. In any case, the odds of me ever seeing my best friend again are negligible.

God, this sucks; I could cry.

by **Deva** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:06 am UTC

Sadness. Could you put up fliers? Found a cat’s owners through Craigslist before also. Loitered around for nearly a week. Only provided water (and petting) for most of their stay. Never saw it hunt. Persisted through hail too.

by **Ashlah** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:20 pm UTC

My cat once went missing for six months near a busy freeway, and then returned. There's still hope. Best wishes for you, I know how hard that can be.

by **Dobblesworth** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:17 am UTC

The system of "only successful applicants will be contacted" seems to be rampantly applied to the point of assume so unless otherwise stated. And it's almost heartbreaking. I took the time to do the reconnaissance, prepare an application and deliver it personally. I know I'm not a great candidate and you probably found someone better, but at least be polite enough to send a short message so I can stop pondering about you.

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