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JakeG
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28 Apr 2007, 1:50 pm

Quatermass wrote:
Anyone who says they do not have double standards in one way or another is either a hypocrite or a fluke
Well most people aren't perfect in every way but again, many people still attempt to be the best they can.

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Anyone here ever heard of doublethink? From Nineteen Eighty-Four? It's not dissimilar to having double standards. Doublethink is defined as being able to hold two contradictory notions in mind, and accepting them both, sometimes simultaneously....


Yes, I have read the book, it is quite good but not my favourite of the dystopian type novels (I prefer farenheit 451, brave new world and some others). The concept of double think doesn't originate entirely from Orwell, it had been discussed in various forms by Spinoza, Kant and others prior to Orwell.



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28 Apr 2007, 3:45 pm

I hate when pople keep saying ohh if you could obsess on useful things... :roll:
I hate that-it makes me pissed off is what it does



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28 Apr 2007, 4:02 pm

I am running an play-by-email superhero game, sort of like HEROES but set in an alternate timeline in which the USA has been under martial law since the Cuban Missile Crisis 10 years earlier (the game is set in 1972).

The player characters have escaped from a secret government facility and have made tracks to a nearby (4 hours away by car) large city. Their plan: get some breakfast (it was the middle of the night when they made their escape) then find a quiet place like a park so that they can stop and compare notes and decide what to do. So I said that the players find a truck stop or cheap diner or something and can get food "to go", since where they found breakfast wasn't really of any importance.

So one of the players starts obsessing about where the characters should go to get breakfast because the government is after them so they need to be really careful, and starts arguing about the minutae of things such as whether the Egg Muffin existed at that time. I kept saying "Where you get breakfast isn't important, we have more important things to do, let's move on" but that one player just would not give up.

Finally, yesterday, I posted "For the third and last time, WHERE YOU GET BREAKFAST IS OF ABSOLUTELY NO IMPORTANCE TO THE GAME!! !" (with the bits in ALL CAPS typed in 36-point bold) and chastized the player for bringing things to a screeching halt.

So now the player who wouldn't give up on where to get breakfast is all in a snit now, and I am seriously considering saying "the hell with it" because it's been a week since anything has happened (other than breakfast)...


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28 Apr 2007, 8:36 pm

well...


for the first time in a long time I can't find anything to b***h about...
I mean I donno why...I'm just happy :D so I'm gonna enjoy this :mrgreen:



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29 Apr 2007, 3:28 am

I'm sick of people saying that there is no difference between AS and HFA, that they are the same, when I know they are not. I live it, I see it, I know.

Don't argue with me, I am right.



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29 Apr 2007, 12:13 pm

I feel so alone :(



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30 Apr 2007, 1:06 am

i get pissed off at people of authority who abuse their power.



i feel like killing every single girl who made fun of me or treated me wrong (its just a thought).


I feel like spitting in the face of one of my co-workers, and completely going off on her.





i still feel like getting revenge on my father for all the times he was a major prick.




i feel like going off on both my sister and my younger cousin. i get sick of their s**t sometimes. my sister, while nice, fits the perfect definition of an NT. she dont know why i seem so distant sometimes nor does she care to f*****g understand.




my experiences with my family make me want to slit my wrists sometimes. and tattoo my arm with scars the way a certain friend of mine has. and just say "f**k off" if anyone sees my scars and asks about them.


i have a sick feeling that my parents will be silently opposed (if not completely disapproving) of the girl who very likely will be my girlfriend soon.



i want to kill almost every single boss ive ever had in the working world (its just a thought man).



i hate authority. im not spending the rest of my life trying to please some as*hole.



f**k the business owner at my current job, not paying us a respectable wage.



ive only had one african american as a boss, and I'd love to go KKK on his ass, despite the fact that im not racist.



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30 Apr 2007, 2:46 am

Damned PATH on my computer is such a royal
mess, that I can't install things myself. Seriously
causing me problems, as a lot of the languages
that I need to work in this quarter require that
I install directly.



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30 Apr 2007, 2:44 pm

Somedays my computer can go soooooooo slooooooooooooooow.

I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF IT!

DAMN YOU VIRGIN MEDIA!! ! DAMN YOU RICHARD BRANSON MAN!! !! !!



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30 Apr 2007, 2:46 pm

What's the whole situation with eye contact anyway?

I don't HAVE to look at someone ALL the time, I've got ears, I can listen. If I was deaf, then I would have to look to lip-read.

I should be able to bloody well wander my eyeballs where they bloody well should wander!! !



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30 Apr 2007, 2:48 pm

What's the point of the internet on your mobile phone??

If I wanted to surf the internet, I'd use my computer, no my friggin' phone!

Phones are used to call and text! PERIOD!! !



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30 Apr 2007, 2:51 pm

text mine can't even do that :lol:



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30 Apr 2007, 3:43 pm

Why don't I get notifications for this topic? Blast it, I've posted on here several times, and this is one of the ones I'm interested in.


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01 May 2007, 1:16 am

I'm sick of people here calling humans stupid. Do I seem stupid to you?!



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01 May 2007, 9:37 am

I despise the ignorant as*holes at my school. Even the people I talk to. Sorry I can't open up, and act normal.
Nice to know that I'm seen as the 'scary quiet girl'. I hope I scare people and make them grow awkward when I'm around. I hope I make them uncomfortable. They deserve it.
And way to go for picking on an autistic person. Taking advantage over the fact I can't tell when someone's being sarcastic or literal. Wonderful. Great job for making fun of someone who was born different.



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01 May 2007, 9:41 am

I know how you feel-after my class watched the Movie Bowling for Colombine no one went near me for a month :( it was bad-man the normies piss me off so much-but I feel accepted here :P I finally get to meet people like me-that fills me with joy