Hanging out in the beautiful weather with a couple friends (for you eemom), so I thought I’d leave you all with an open thread.
Anyone have any good prison rape jokes or a solution for all the illegal immigrants invading our nation from third world countries?
Also, here is a music video I love.
This Glenn Greenwald post is kind of awesome and a must read. Also, I must say, I think Erick Erickson may have made a few good points the last few days.
Obama should use the bully pulpit more, and I am sad he killed the public option.
I can’t decide if I like Apple better than PC. What do you all think?
I thought the Mass Effect 3 ending was superb the way it was. And have I mentioned how much I hate chocolate?
John Cole
Jeff
They see you trollin’, they hatin’…
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
You’re cute when you’re trying to troll us, but your after-a-whloe-pot-of-coffee posts are why I really keep coming back.
scav
clip clop clip clop clip clop . . .
Klaus
Trolololo
wmd
I for one welcome our new third world overlords.
aimai
Trollin’ trollin’ trollin’…keep those dawgies trollin’ –Rawhide!
Mnemosyne
Why are four day workweeks so much longer than five day ones? Inquiring minds want to know.
Three hours to go. Good thing I’ve got some Crispin in the fridge at home.
Ruckus
I don’t think you covered everything. I can only give you a B+ in troll. Please to try harder next time.
different-church-lady
Sammy was so much better than David Lee.
Baud
I was close.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Don’t know but my 3 day workweeks are pretty long. Enjoyable but still.
Spaghetti Lee
Anyone else read the newest David Brooks column? Man, what an incisive and brilliant mind he has. If only those career politicians in Washington would listen to him, all our problems would be solved.
danimal
There is a difference between drunk Cole trolling and sober Cole trolling. This one just wasn’t as much fun.
pokeyblow
Starbucks is banning smoking on the patios outside their cafes.
Absolutely wonderful news!
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
Oh, and how could I forget?—
WORDS MATTER, MAN!!
kindness
14 posts and no flame wars on the Mac/PC front? I blame Obama.
Self-Righteous Little White Guy
Needs more cowbell.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
You forgot “If Obama would just listen to Krugman!”
Walker
@kindness:
Mac/PC wars are so 90s. These days, the ending to ME3 is bigger flamebait.
thoughtcrime
@John Cole:
0:39
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgqzMdBg7ig
Baud
Cole’s final post on Balloon Juice:
different-church-lady
@Baud: It’s still early.
Gin & Tonic
Kewl. Haven’t been Rickrolled in a while.
Southern Beale
I’m getting really tired of the news media’s “ZOMG THERE’S ANOTHER TORNADO IN OKLAHOMA” thing. I mean, it’s pretty common in May in tornado alley. It’s not really news, guys.
pat
I’m so glad to have the NewsMax headlines. Makes BJ my one-stop internet service.
Starfish
You need to continue taking trolling lessons from Doug J.
Randy P
Circumcision.
Vaccination.
Gun control.
That is all.
Southern Beale
@Spaghetti Lee:
Really I find myself longing for the days when Tip O’Neill would share an evening Scotch with Ronnie and let all the troubles of the day melt away. Ah, good times.
Gordon, the Big Express Engine
Creed: the most underrated band of the last 20 years or of all time?
piratedan
I think all of this blog problems could be solved if John simply invited eemom and Ted and Hellen over for dinner to try and find some common ground
Baud
@pat:
Speaking of NewsMax, anyone brave enough to see what this is about:
BGinCHI
Time for some West Virginia jokes…..
Comrade Mary
I was really hoping for a Rush video. Either one.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Ferrets are better pets than cats or dogs.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Guh. I just realized that the textbook and all of the course materials I have are based upon GAAP and the regulatory structure of the SEC. But I’m teaching in China. I have no idea whether my students want a North American perspective or a Chinese perspective. I, of course, don’t know much about the latter.
I also bought myself a Nook so that I’m not trying to haul a month’s worth of reading material to China.
SatanicPanic
The best character in Lord of the Rings is Tom Bombadil.
The Phantom Menace is the best of the Star Wars trilogy.
Gary Cherone was the best singer in Van Halen ever.
cyntax
@Walker:
So nine months ago: if you ever want to get ahead of the curve, better start bitching about DA3 now. Before it comes out.
ETA: If you want to stay on the scifi of things, you could go with Disney hiring EA as the replacement for LucasArts.
The Other Chuck
That Justin Bieber kid sure is talented, I’d love it if you could play some of his music here, Cole.
Not Sure
I am unaware that one can be President of the United States AND a member of Congress at the same time. Obama killed the P.O.? Please. Joe Lieberman killed the P.O. Him and a few others who (thankfully) are no longer serving in the Senate. Get it right.
Anoniminous
About time somebodies stood up against the radical leftist homosexual feminism.
JTy
@Baud: Survivalist gardens, I’d guess. Selling overpriced seeds to excitable preppers.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Not Sure: Joe Lieberman did not leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left Joe Lieberman.
Amir Khalid
More reason to cheer: the downfall of civilisation continues apace.
Randy P
@SatanicPanic:
The best character in Lord of the Rings is Tom Bombadil.
I’ve got to go with the Ents. Riveting stuff.
Speaking of riveting, I can’t be alone on being unable to stop reading John Galt’s 50-page speech in “Atlas Shrugged”. Man, that just never gets old.
The Phantom Menace is the best of the Star Wars trilogy.
Jar-Jar Binks was clearly the best-written character in any of the Star Wars movies.
SatanicPanic
@Baud: TOP SECRET IS PEOPLE!
Quaker in a Basement
He forgot Benghazi. Heh.
Anoniminous
@kindness:
About as interesting as a return to the Z80 versus 6502 war.
Although I must say:
ZERO PAGE ADDRESSING, B*TCHES!!!!
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
Crap. I’ve been a productive mofo at work, today, but after taking a few minutes to grab a bite while checking in here, all I can do is stare glassily out over Puget Sound from our 20th floor vantage point. But I got shit to do.
Crap.
cyntax
@Comrade Mary:
Close enough?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Mister, we could use a man like David Broder again.
Amir Khalid
@Randy P:
Really? I have experienced all three, and I can’t tell if my life was the better for it.
Xenos
@piratedan:
The problem would be solved in the sense that Ted’s ass would be so thoroughly kicked that τα όρχεις του θα κρέμονται από τα αυτιά του.
pokeyblow
What did Marcus Bachmann say in the moments before being prison-raped?
“Hurry up!”
muddy
@piratedan: That was well appreciated.
muddy
@piratedan: That was well appreciated.
Spaghetti Lee
The Clash were overrated. Bad Company was the best band of the 70’s.
Spaghetti Lee
You should kick out Doug, Mistermix and Tom Levenson and replace them with mclaren, T&H, and eemom.
Grumbles
I forgot to mention, flyover states suck, and anyone who lives in one is clearly a loser who is OK with sucking.
Did I not comment previously? Well, that depends on the definition of ‘is’.
I’m not sure if I have any other troll worthy comments, but I’m certain they will be welcome here, should I find them.
Ted & Hellen
Glad to see you coming around, Cole: Prison rape is hawt.
Grumbles
I forgot to mention, flyover states suck, and anyone who lives in one is clearly a loser who is OK with sucking.
Did I not comment previously? Well, that depends on the definition of ‘is’.
I’m not sure if I have any other troll worthy comments, but I’m certain they will be welcome here, should I find them.
Tonal (visible) Crow
We should clone Jane Hamsher so she could be President, all 9 Supreme Court Justices, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, and captain of this blog.
danimal
@Gordon, the Big Express Engine: Nickelback is certainly in the running.
Randy P
@Amir Khalid: They all seem to be keywords that bring out trolls you’ve never seen before, people who must search the internet for mentions of those terms. I always find that phenomenon very odd.
I admit that as trollbait it was kind of a D- for effort, but it’s the first thing that came to mind.
A similar phenomenon in a very specialized area was the “Monty Hall Problem” guy. Not exactly a troll, but this guy seemed to have only one purpose to his existence, which was to try to convey his idiosyncratic interpretation of the famous probability paradox called the “Monty Hall Problem”. It’s a probability problem that throws even a lot of experts, and has been the subject of a lot of heated debate on math forums over the years. And that guy would show up in every one of them sooner or later.
Joel
You suck at trolling, Cole.
If you were any good at it, you’d have mentioned Andrew Sullivan.
the Conster
The more I read Taylor Marsh, I’m thinking that Obama has been pretty slippery and his Chicago and Wall Street connections clearly prove that he really did threaten the Clintons, and that Hillary was wronged! SHE WUZ ROBBED!
Xenos
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): The Chinese students will be thrilled to learn about GAAP and the SEC. Chinese GAAP is relatively undeveloped and they need to leapfrog to IFRS to get access to European securities markets. They are not at parity yet under the directives, but it will happen soon.
I have a friend who teaches Chinese students economics (at a post-grad program in canada)… they are desperate for the analytical tools to deal with a modern economy.
And congratulations on the job!
SatanicPanic
@Randy P: When I was younger I would have agreed with you, but lately I’ve come to value the experience, grit and hard-nosed bargaining skills of Watto.
Baud
There should be two spaces after the end of a sentence.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
And, please, somebody tell me, if they can put a man on the moon*, why can’t they make Excel so that every time you open a new file, it’s in a different window?
*Yeah, yeah, I know, but you can keep your soundstage conspiracies to yourself.
jayjaybear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: This is actually true. It only took us six more years to bang on his fingers hard enough to make him let go of the rear bumper…
Darkrose
Sorry, John. The bar is set rather high these days:
Ken M., Master Troll
Suzanne
Breast feeding vs. formula? Fluoridated water? Vaccines? Climate change?
I want a cookie. Like, NAOW.
Mr Stagger Lee
Is it bad form me to advocate anyone who is butt-hurt over the Cheerios interracial family ad, to be burned at the stake?
JPL
The duck and cover times were the good old days, when you had civil defense folk helping you. Now they just want to take your guns and leave you defenseless against nukes.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@the Conster: in violation of the spirit of the thread: DOes Marsh really say Obama threatened the Clintons? With what?
SatanicPanic
@Randy P: The Monty Hall Problem is great for real life trolling. I ran it by four of my college friends one evening. One grasped the value of switching once it was explained to him. Another was like “ok, sure, whatever”. The other two were FURIOUS. Hours later at the bar they were still mad that I believed that it made sense to switch.
Joel
@Baud: Courier is the best coding font.
piratedan
a little thread reading music……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3h9p_c5-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs9fjkW70ec
Biscuits
Aaaarrrrr! I Fell for it!
PsiFighter37
Good thing I looked at the rest of your post. I saw your comment about Mass Effect 3 and was about to rip you a new one for saying you liked that POS ending.
Sir Nose'D
IF A COMMENT IS NOT ALL TYPED OUT IN CAPITAL LETTERS, IT IS DEFINITELY NOT WORTH READING!!!!
machine
Kimball vs. Inmon cage match.
Yeah.
ellie
Now you’re just fucking with us. We deserve it! Give us hell!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@SatanicPanic: The Monty Hall Problem is great and it demonstrates how difficult it is for a lot of people to understand the concept of conditional probability.
@Xenos: Yeah, I just heard back from the professor I’m filling in for. My job is to prepare the students for US GAAP. Which is good. I was a member of the last MAcc class here at Minnesota to not study IFRS in depth.
Mezz (fpa Michael2)
I didn’t read the by-line first, so it took a couple of lines for it to sink in that it was a Troll-Post. But, once I got to that last one, I was totally sure – I thought to myself, “Oh, there’s no way anybody is this idiotic.
I know Cole plays at least some serious games – no way anybody who enjoys games doesn’t think that ending is a piece of shit. Totally ruined its replayability.
Redshirt
I was heavily browsing FDL today and read a great summary of a Greenwald article citing an Andrew Sullivan reference to an IQ study done by the EDL. It was all fascinating.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Baud: Sucks to you!
Also, as well, the Oxford comma NEEDS to be the law of the land, and when using a quote within a sentence, the FSMdamn comma or period at the end goes on the *inside* of the closing quotation mark, not on the outside – you don’t wear your Fruit of the Looms on the outside of your pants (nevernudes notwithstanding), so why would you want that comma or period hanging out in the breeze like that?
Karmus
Who are you and what happened to that asshole Cole?
Trollhattan
@Baud:
It’s a cookbook: “To Serve
ManIllegal Aliens”PsiFighter37
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn: Cry me a fucking river. I wish I had that problem…I sit in the middle of the floor that, if I’m standing close enough to a window, I get to look out from my 7th-floor vantage point into another highrise commercial building across the street. Midtown NYC for the win…not…
Rex Everything
@Spaghetti Lee: Mr Sparkly Pants laughed and laughed.
RSA
@Spaghetti Lee:
Not fair replacing three people with just one.
Trollhattan
@Joel:
Only after Comic Sans!
TaMara (BHF)
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): OMG, I miss so much by not sticking around every day, all day. But you’re teaching in CHINA. Congrats! How long?
Death Panel Truck
The Dreadful Grate was the world’s shittiest rock ‘n’ roll band.
the Conster
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oh come on, Jim. It was definitely something bad because Hillary was the smartest, toughest, awesomest.woman.evah. You know how those Chicago thugs act. Obama is worse than that, with his fake charm and his fake perfect family and his fake smarty pants smarts. Why do you think he chose Rahm, huh? HUH?
Baud
@the Conster:
Agreed. Mark Penn is a political genius. No way he would have blown her lead in the polls unless there were some underhanded tricks involved.
Trollhattan
@Death Panel Truck:
Lowell George should have considered losing some weight.
PsiFighter37
So, who’s interested in the following?
a) A potential Seattle meetup in mid-July
b) A hypothetical Los Angeles meetup (again) in early/mid-October
different-church-lady
@Randy P:
Here’s a fun game for your free time: go to any website, BB or blog that has comments. Make an on-topic observation, then add an aside about coffee. Stand back and watch the flame war erupt.
Amir Khalid
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
How many times must I say it? This American style is WRONG. Punctuation only belongs inside the quote marks if it is part of the quoted material. (Rubs hands with glee, in anticipation of flame war over punctuation.)
patroclus
Dear Leader Greenwald’s column is actually kind of funny – Comey is getting all sorts of credit for the midnight ride to John Ashcroft’s hospital bed in order for Alberto Gonzalez and Dick Cheney to get approval for the warrantless eavesdropping of computer and phone activity in violation of FISA because Comey drew a line and was going to lead mass resignations if the program went forward as approved by Cheney. But the Dear Leader spins it completely opposite – stating that Comey was the one that was responsible for approving the warrantless eavesdropping.
It’s all classified but what I think happened is that Cheney/Gonzalez had approved a program that authorized eavesdropping without recourse to the specially set-up FISA court for, more or less, an unlimited period of time despite the statute setting up the FISA court to oversee such behavior. They argued that going to the FISA court would unnecessarily delay things. What Comey instead wanted was a limited authorization that would have okayed such warrantless eavesdropping for a short period but would then have to be approved by the FISA court – i.e., in accordance with the statute, which doesn’t require traditional warrants but special FISA warrants instead. So, Dear Leader Greenwald is right that Comey approved the ultimate program (but he barely mentions that the ultimate program varied significantly from the originally-approved program which Comey opposed even to the point of threatened resignation).
This is highly misleading. At worst, Comey occupies a middle ground by which the NSA et. al. can do the eavesdropping but still have to comply with FISA. Comey explicitly did not approve, as implied by the Dear Leader, the worst forms of abuse of the Bush administration – he instead ultimately approved a FISA-complicit program.
As we all should know, the Bush administration (to the extent that it was not there already) put the software in place to monitor all forms of electronic and satellite communication. Thus, the capability exists and this is obviously a potential infringement on everyone’s privacy. But FISA attempts to strike a balance between national security and privacy by imposing extra approval requirements and by setting time limits which are supposed to limit the NSA from abusing their power. Comey stood (and presumably still stands) for the statutory scheme – Greenwald implies that the scheme itself is unconstitutional.
All I can say is good luck with that analysis and spin Glenn…
muddy
Catching up on old episodes recently, I have to say the ending of Lost was just brilliant! Answered everything. I especially loved it because Jack was my favorite, and it was perfect to have the whole universe inside his eyeball where it belongs.
different-church-lady
@Joel:
Oh hell, he could do a post that consisted of nothing other than the words “Andrew Sullivan” and it would be 300 comments long.
PopeRatzo
So I was driving South on 55 towards Springfield, about 4am, back in March. Not a soul on the road but an occasional trucker headed the opposite direction, toward Chicago. Going through a cornfield, south of Rantoul, and suddenly a bright light comes out of the sky and stops right in front of my car. I could feel myself being lifted, right through the car roof, and into a saucer-shaped craft, where two extraterrestrials gave me a thorough examination.
I was put into stasis and after what seemed like hours, I found myself sitting face to face with one of the ETs. He told me, without actually saying any words, that for their research, he was going to have to take me to a detention camp where extraterrestrials who had broken the law were taken so I could be studied. It couldn’t be helped, but it would only be for a day until I would be returned to my home.
However, because of the earthly bacteria on my skin, I would have to be processed through the facility the same way ETs from various planets who had broken the law were. I would have to lay on a floating table and pass through a decontamination unit with others who were headed to the detention facility.
And that, friends, is how I came to shower in prison with illegal aliens.
muddy
@PsiFighter37: Too soon, settle down.
Mart
Thanks for the Greenwald link. His third update after one thousand one hundred and fifteen pages really put everything into context for me on the true evil of Obama’s FBI nominee. Glen is our only true Patriot.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@PsiFighter37: “So, who’s interested in the following?
a) A potential Seattle meetup in mid-July”
I can do dives and local hangouts, but I don’t do tableclothes or really anyplace downtown (though Belltown has a few OK places).
eemom
Someday Cole shall grant me both an “of” after “couple” AND my lower case identity in the same post, so that I may die a happy woman.
Whatev. It is indeed a glorious summer evening…..I just saw my most beautiful and brilliant daughter off to The Prom looking perfectly gorgeous in her red dress…..and now I’z chillaxin at the house with the doggies and a glass of Prosecco. All is cool.
different-church-lady
@RSA:
Considering that the last 3 are Doug, it wouldn’t qualify as a replacement at all.
In fact Doug J is probably Ken M. as well.
Yatsuno
@Mr Stagger Lee: Too good for them. I’m thinking fire ants and honey. So kinda fire.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Amir Khalid: You’ll get no flame war from me. Cordiality is my middle name!
Now go home and get your fucking shine box.
different-church-lady
@Trollhattan: http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=07052007
Amir Khalid
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
(Pout.) Killjoy.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@TaMara (BHF): Five weeks, from July 8th to August 8th. Plus travel time I’ll be out of the country for about a month and a half. I’m kind of in panic mode at the moment because, while I’ve done a lot of tutoring, I’ve never taught in a formal classroom setting. I’ve never even been a TA or assistant. Some I’m trying to figure out how to create lesson plans on the fly and I have no idea yet how to build an exam. I have lots and lots of course material from the textbook publisher to play with but I’m still trying to get a handle on it. On top of that, one of the classes is intro to managerial accounting and the *only* experience with managerial accounting I have is taking intro from a shitty teacher. The other class is financial accounting which, so long as it’s GAAP, I could probably do in my sleep. Managerial is going to be trickier.
The pay is good but I’m really hoping I can somehow leverage this into a position at a community college or something once I’m back.
eemom
@RSA:
um, ok…..I’ve heard of strange bedfellows, but that is some weird shit.
Hungry Joe
Car-trashing update #2: Here’s where I shred all credibility, because nobody’s going to believe this. The detective talked to the guy who vandalized my car. Guy said he knows he blew it, will pay for repairs. A bit of info I left out before, because it wasn’t important, was that two weeks ago our teenage daughter was in a fender-bender in the same car. Our insurance co. says it wasn’t her fault, is going after the other driver. Then, Wednesday afternoon, a man lost control of his car in the parking lot of my wife’s workplace. He sideswiped just one car: hers. Then he plowed into a wall. On the other side of that wall was my wife, working at her desk. The car blasted partway through the wall; the desk was rammed into my wife’s abdomen. An ambulance took her to Sharp Mercy Hospital (San Diego), where she underwent almost three hours of surgery. She lost her gall bladder (no big deal) and a snippet of liver (no big deal — it’ll grow back), and the prognosis is for a 100% recovery. The accident (in Mission Valley) made the teevee news, of course, and she’s a Facebook superstar, but I’m careening around on about four hours’ sleep since since Wednesday morning. Heading back to the hospital now — I mean, NOW: in two minutes — to go with her as she’s transferred to Kaiser Zion Hospital, since we’re covered by Kaiser and she no longer needs Mercy’s trauma facilities.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@PsiFighter37: Feh. Who’s interested in a Xi’an meetup sometime in late July?
different-church-lady
@patroclus:
Greenwald would imply air itself is unconstitutional if Obama made a statement in favor of it.
scav
@Amir Khalid:
Damn it I always knew I was a resident alien that only had the misfortune to be born here and correctly long-formed.
YellowJournalism
You covered music and video games, but you have no movie, book, or TV trolling. Here:
Mark Twain is overrated.
The Walking Dead needs to focus more on the characters and less on the zombies.
Roman Polanski.
eemom
@Xenos:
My Greek reading ability is quite poor…..but is that something about his balls coming out of his ears?
Rex Everything
Rush sold out when Rutsey left.
VH sucked until the Wolfgang era.
Mark Twain is OK, but nowhere near as good as Shania Twain.
the Conster
@Mart:
Glenn is also the humblest of our True Patriots, and his acolytes are Paradigms of Intellectual Consistency and Reason, who we should always emulate when it comes to displaying the Proper Way to show fealty to Dear Leader.
Update I: Glenn is also Right About Everything.
different-church-lady
@YellowJournalism:
I don’t see the controversy there.
Amir Khalid
@Hungry Joe:
Oh man, that sucks. Hope Mrs Hungry Joe is mending well, and that you get to catch up on your sleep soon.
ranchandsyrup
@Hungry Joe: Holy Crap Hungry Joe. I saw that on the news the other night. Is there any way we can help?
patroclus
@different-church-lady: Good point – but as “our only true Patriot,” GG is REALLY stretching this one. According to the Dear Leader, Comey is directly responsible for precisely what Comey explicitly opposed – even to the point of mass DOJ resignations.
different-church-lady
@Hungry Joe:
Anything that involves and ambulance and surgery is, at the least, a medium-sized deal.
Violet
The tag for this post made me laugh out loud.
Cassidy
Women. Can’t live with’em, can’t…
Seanly
My favorite part of the ME3 ending was the voice-over with a grainy, dark impressionistic moonscape still-life. That really enlightened me to how the brilliant writers wrapped up the complex story lines & showed how my decisions affected the galaxy. The very definition of a good denouement!
Speaking of games, I’ve been afraid to finish Bioschlock Infinite since I think I sussed out the “surprise” twist at the end. If I’m right, it’s an even lamer use of time travel than JJ Abram’s reset of Star Trek.
Amir Khalid
@Rex Everything:
As soon as Eddie finds a relative who can sing, he’ll be able to push out that Roth guy and then Van Halen will be perfect, I tell you!!
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Amir Khalid: “(Pout.) Killjoy.”
Huh? Per the Gospels According to Goodfellas, I just gave you the biggest diss one man can unleash on another.
You must be new at this playing rough stuff.
Cassidy
@Seanly: I read the wiki. It kept me from buying the game.
Violet
@Hungry Joe: My goodness. What are the odds? Talk about a crappy week. Glad your side of things is working out and best wishes to your wife for a swift recovery.
the Conster
@Cassidy:
take showers in prison with ’em.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Teaching gig in China? Cool. Details please.
@Hungry Joe: Holy fuck.
Violet
Can’t believe no one has noted that austerity is the solution to the economic crisis. And Game of Thrones is ridiculously overrated. As is Downton Abbey.
different-church-lady
@Amir Khalid:
Never. Gonna. Happen.
PsiFighter37
@muddy: It’s never too soon.
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn: Probably should coordinate with Yatsuno and MikeJ, both of who cussed me out for defaulting last time. I’ll be staying in downtown but may have some flexibility transportation-wise.
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Is this in Asia, or at the tiny food joint in East Village in NYC?
Rex Everything
@Amir Khalid: You dare to suggest that Van Halen hasn’t already achieved perfection?
Rex Everything
Women. Give ’em an inch, they want 9 more…
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ll be teaching Intro to Financial Accounting and Intro to Managerial Accounting at the LION Summer Program in Xi’an from July 8th to August 8th. I’m kind of in a panic at the moment trying to figure out what I’m doing. I don’t have a lot more in the way of details.
different-church-lady
@Randy P: My problem with understanding the problem is that all the years I watched that show it never occurred to me that Monty might have two goats.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@the Conster: And with that, if I had the keys to the internets, I’d hand them over to you.
@PsiFighter37: “I’ll be staying in downtown but may have some flexibility transportation-wise.”
The #10 can whisk you from the Convention Center right up to Capitol Hill’s storied Pike/Pine drinking corridor.
Cassidy
@Rex Everything: Van Halen and perfection do not belong in the same sentence together. Maybe Van Halen and “Ehh, I won’t kill myself”. The best thing about Van Halen left and made his own albums and a pretty rockin’ tequila.
Seanly
@Randy P:
There’s no problem with the Monty Hall problem. You stand a better chance to win if you switch your pick after he opens a door but people are wired to stick with their original pick. What happens if you do Monte Carlo simulations of Monty Hall problems?
Yatsuno
@PsiFighter37: Speaking of which: need your e-mail address again. Just have an FPer drop it to me or let SG know since he and I are friends on FB & he can just message it to me there. I know you’ve been public about it here but that kinda makes me nervous. :)
Amir Khalid
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
I have withstood disses far worse, and far more personal, from m_c than your feeble attempt. (Tosses head pridefully.)
chopper
sooner, if you’re reading, get in the goddamn shelter.
Three-nineteen
@John Cole: How about this video?
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Congratulations. I am sure you will figure everything out. Sounds like a cool gig.
Rex Everything
@Cassidy: You do realize that Edward Van Halen INVENTED arpeggios? And he was the first to SHRED and play scales with finger-taping on guitar……….maybe you should learn about music Theory before you run your mouth schools in session LOL omg pwned
pat
@Baud:
Yessssss!!!! At last someone else who learned typing in the 60s.
(note the absence of the apostrophe)
(hope that’s correct)
ranchandsyrup
@chopper: he’s live tweeting the storm.
machine
Anyone interested in a BJ meetup on Tleilax?
Calouste
@Violet: Not as overrated as Sherlock.
SatanicPanic
@Hungry Joe: Woah that’s crazy, here’s to a speedy recovery. I bought your book btw, my son’s looking forward to reading it
SatanicPanic
@Cassidy: Gary Cherone makes tequila now? The man is a genius!
Tonal (visible) Crow
@Randy P:
I can’t resist this one. What paradox? The possible combinations of choices (arranged as you, Monty, you) are:
1. G0 G1 G0 (you pick G0, Monty shows you G1, you stick with G0)
2. G0 G1 PR (you pick G0, Monty shows you G1, you switch to the prize)
3. G1 G0 G1 (analogous to 1)
4. G1 G0 PR (analogous to 2)
5. PR G0 PR
6. PR G0 G1
7. PR G1 PR
8. PR G1 G0
P (cases 1-4) = 1/3 * 1 (Monty MUST show you G1 or G0, respectively) * 1/2 = 1/6
P (cases 5-8) = 1/3 * 1/2 (Monty can show you either G0 or G1!) * 1/2 = 1/12
There are 4 “switch” cases: 2, 4, 6, and 8. Cases 2 and 4 involve winning, and have total P = 1/6 + 1/6 = 1/3; cases 6 and 8 involve losing, and have total P = 1/12 + 1/12 = 1/6.
So you are twice as likely to win by switching as to lose by switching.
If, however, you choose RANDOMLY, you still have P = 1/6 (case 2) + 1/6 (case 4) + 1/12 (case 5) + 1/12 (case 7) = 1/2 of winning.
So there’s no paradox.
Suzanne
@Hungry Joe: Oh my God. Your wife is a lucky lady. Keeping you all I’m my thoughts.
Rex Everything
@SatanicPanic: FTW.
pat
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
YEAH!!!!
Um, how old are you actually? 69 here. (sob)
Calouste
@Cassidy:
Accidentally, I read an old interview with David Lee Roth in the Guardian earlier today, and he is a licensed EMT and actually does that part time when he is not making music.
Cassidy
@Rex Everything: EVH is a hack.
Tonal (visible) Crow
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn: Ha! The comma should be inside the quote if it’s actually in the quoted text, and outside if it’s part of the text doing the quoting, just as in sensible languages like C. Computer geeks rule!
Dave C
Alright Cole, I’ve tolerated your bullshit up to this point, but now you’re defending the end of Mass Effect 3. That’s just fucking wrong, man. Have you no decency, sir?
Cassidy
@Calouste: That’s cool. I’ve always liked David Lee Roth. He just produced and acted in a short film as a Tarantino style hitman in Japan and used a line from Sailor Moon (I think). It was pretty cool.
@Rex Everything: Kidding man. I don’t care for them personally, but I’m not a hater. I do think EVH has been phoning it in for 30+ years now.
BethanyAnne
little endian is for losers!
SiubhanDuinne
@pokeyblow: If that happened here, there would be a lot of unhappy barristas. I’ve seen how they spend their breaks.
Shakezula
I heard marijuana is addictive.
A Humble Lurker
@Ted & Hellen:
Yeah, but you like the shit that goes on in juvenile hall better don’t you? Or maybe kindergartens.
Rex Everything
@Cassidy: You may think its’ “cute” and/or “funny” to bad-mouth a musical Genius that way your lucky this is the internet and not real life i would show you what you get for bneing cute…..hey boy you got a pretty mouth?….till it get’s busted by somebodys fist…eddie van Halen is a national treasure he know’s a thing or two how about how to playng the guitar……id like to see you do better your just a hater haters gotta hate…….hes a true innovator, like steve jobs, an john Galt……..your just sitting in your moms basement why dont you do something useful? oh i forgot ur a liberal, u would need the goverment to do it for u…….try to contribute something and not just hate on the true Innovaters….peace, walk with Christ (John 3:16)
pat
watching msnbc and a live update on a tornado on the ground somewhere in OK.
Hope Sooner is outside the path!!
NickT
@eemom:
Of course modern Greek isn’t real Greek. It’s just bastardized Turkish and Italian.
different-church-lady
@Tonal (visible) Crow:
It’s a paradox of cognition, not one of probability. You’re an idiot for not seeing that.
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
A Troll House cookie, I presume.
@Hungry Joe:
Jesus Murphy.
Cassidy
@Rex Everything: Would be pitch perfect if you said Ted Nugent.
PaulW
You know Cole, posting naked pictures of Rush Limbaugh would incite the trollers to their logical extreme.
Omnes Omnibus
@PaulW: The 1st Amendment doesn’t protect obscene content.
Matt McIrvin
I’m sick of all this trolling. All I need is some help with a simple math problem. Can someone tell me what 6÷2(1+2) is? I’ve heard 99% of people won’t get it.
pat
@Matt McIrvin:
Off the top of my head, 1?
Redshirt
I got high on marijuana weed and ate my pit bull.
pat
I read that as 6 divided by 2×3,or six divided by 6.
It’s been a long time….
Josie
I hope you all realize how poorly equipped your kitchens are without a Thermomix and some pink Himalayan salt.
ETA: I got 1 also.
Omnes Omnibus
@Matt McIrvin: 1 or 9.
CT Voter
Scrolled over all the comments. I thought this was a lovely post.
Heliopause
All I can say is, God must have been a Seattle SuperSonics fan
trollhattan
@Hungry Joe:
Cripes, that’s a metric shittonne of bad vehicular luck. I hope your wife comes through this swimmingly and back to better-than new!
Here’s also hoping this indemnifies your family from another random bad event for decades. Just in case, get earthquake insurance.
SiubhanDuinne
@Violet:
That’s as may be. But thank goodness, at least they killed off Lady Sybil, and Matthew Crawley.
trollhattan
@different-church-lady:
Love it! (And a timely reminder to catch up with Achewood, which I’d forgotten about.)
2liberal
bruins will beat the penguins.
gwangung
@Mr Stagger Lee: Yes. You’re being far too kind.
Something dark approaching some orifices with great force would be more appropriate.
srv
This post and the anti-ipad theme supported by Nazi’s like mistermix broke my browser so the only thing I have to say is thata troll thread isn’t any good unless some n00bs like Kris are around and we can make fun of them. BJ is no fun if people I hate and I can’t work together to make angels cry.
+4 le fin du mondes on tap, biotches.
Yatsuno
@Matt McIrvin: 9 cuz order of operations, which I screw up all the time.
Mnemosyne
@Hungry Joe:
Not only is your life turning into a horror movie, it’s turning into a very specific one. Sheesh!
Mnemosyne
@Redshirt:
I TOLD YOU THAT WOULD HAPPEN!!
Gordon, the Big Express Engine
@Tonal (visible) Crow: The best way to get this across to people who refuse to believe switching is the correct option is to recast the experiment with 50 doors instead of 3. You pick one and I open every other door (showing they are empty) except one. Then I offer you the option of switching.
The Other Chuck
@Tonal (visible) Crow: It’s called a paradox because it flies in the face of common intuition — intuitions which happens to be simply wrong. The Birthday Paradox gets its name for the same reason.
Steeplejack
@Three-nineteen:
Linky no work. I
fixchange for better one.Redshirt
@Mnemosyne: Yeah I listened but I didn’t believe. Now I know better. Learn from me, kids: Just say HiYO! to drugs.
Rex Everything
@Cassidy: Shit. You’re right!
YellowJournalism
@Redshirt: You ate Pitbull, the musician? Thank you!
Bonnie
“Also, I must say, I think Erick Erickson may have made a few good points the last few days.”
Is the above a joke????
Redshirt
@YellowJournalism: LOL. Sign of being old – I have no idea who that is. “Pitbull”. Does he play the rap?
bago
The Citidel DLC is mandatory for fans of the characters. You have an end to a narrative, and then you have a settling up with the guys you have taken out for years.
Also, drunk Tali.
cxs
@PsiFighter37: Seattle! July!
Kris Collins
I am actually old enough to remember having to watch that silly bomb movie when I was little, say, late 50’s or very early 60’s. We used to have “duck and cover” drills, too, we had to practice hiding under our desks. We all thought it was perfectly normal.
Redshirt
@Kris Collins: I remember doing “butt to the windows” bomb drills in 3rd grade. I remember thinking back then my butt would not stop a nuclear bomb.
jshooper
Greenwald is shameless in his smearing anyone associated with Pres.Obama.
His anti-Obama agenda rivals Fox News. At this point he reminds me of Michele Bachmann in the segment Rachel Maddow did the other night….Lying, twisting and distorting the truth to fit their agenda
Preaching to ignorant goons who eat up their bullshit. What’s funny / ironic is that Greenwald would likely be hailing Comey as a courageous HERO for standing up to Bush & Cheney if Pres.Obama hadn’t tapped him to be his guy.
Just goes to show what a hate filled / agenda driven fraud Glenn Greenwald is.
Villago Delenda Est
It’s finally happened. Cole is under Doug J’s mental control.
Kris Collins
@Redshirt: yeah, like any of it was going to help. I really, really wanted a bomb shelter, mostly because it seemed like an incredibly cool playhouse. Luckily, parents were eminently sensible people, not to mention Liberal Democrats, so we kids escaped any long- lasting effects from Cold War paranoia.
Ruckus
Had a friend had a bomb shelter in the front yard. It wasn’t the cool playhouse that you might have thought. We went in once, looked around and never went back. Maybe I was a little too old by then(about 14) but it was just an empty concrete bunker that smelled like old socks. Also we may have had more pressing wantabeadult stuff we wanted to think about. Did I say my friend was a girl? OK maybe should have said that up front.
Jamey
@Violet:
Hey, like a broken clock, even an Internet troll is right at least twice a day.
Rex Everything
I think it’s safe to say that all TV shows in this “golden age of television” are ridiculously overrated.
They’re not as utterly crappy and stupid as they were a generation ago, but they’re still not what you would call good.
Bobby Thomson
@Villago Delenda Est: How do we know that Cole actually exists, and is not an elaborate long troll by DougJ?
Bobby Thomson
Back on topic, pi is exactly three.
pat
@Bobby Thomson:
and one divided by zero is one.
pat
@Matt McIrvin:
6÷2(1+2) = 1
(6÷2)(1+2) = 9
That’s how I remember it, but the 60s were a long time ago.
Tonal (visible) Crow
@Gordon, the Big Express Engine: That explanation is fallacious, because it contains a limit that the original problem does not contain or imply.
Tonal (visible) Crow
@Redshirt:
Not your butt maybe, but Rush Limbaugh’s would, and further it’d reflect the blast right back at the aggressor!
Tonal (visible) Crow
@Matt McIrvin:
9. The parentheses prioritize only the expression contained within them, so the problem becomes 6 / 2 * 3, which by the left-to-right rule is 3 * 3. This is why you should always parenthesize subexpressions if you have the least bit of doubt about operator precedence.
pat
@Tonal (visible) Crow:
oops, now I see it. Can we agree that it is written in a way to be confusing?
Thanks.
Tonal (visible) Crow
@pat:
Yep.