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Post by e0 on May 16, 2011 16:44:49 GMT -5
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Post by e0 on May 16, 2011 16:50:06 GMT -5
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Post by e0 on May 16, 2011 16:51:39 GMT -5
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Post by e0 on May 16, 2011 16:58:37 GMT -5
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Post by Orenthal on May 16, 2011 17:23:32 GMT -5
One nut and hick already bowing out. Might as well get used to, well, the status quo.
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Post by Orenthal on May 16, 2011 17:24:41 GMT -5
HanKKK would vote for Palin's youngest sister.
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Post by Orenthal on May 16, 2011 17:25:50 GMT -5
HanKKKing for symmetry, but did you hapen to notice that Avatar no longer holds the opening $$$ record in Hong Kong?
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Post by Orenthal on May 16, 2011 17:26:39 GMT -5
Disney should stick to being racist. Bay's a hack. /symmetry
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Post by blowme on May 16, 2011 17:31:31 GMT -5
HanKKKing for symmetry, but did you hapen to notice that Avatar no longer holds the opening $$$ record in Hong Kong? Would you really want to see a porn with THIS PHOTO as the promotion?  Of course, I think 3-D porn itself would give me nightmares. You just know the money shot is going right into the camera, and that is an image or visual that I never need to experience. |
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Post by Orenthal on May 16, 2011 17:44:27 GMT -5
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha^
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Post by suzi on May 16, 2011 19:43:50 GMT -5
HanKKKing for symmetry, but did you hapen to notice that Avatar no longer holds the opening $$$ record in Hong Kong? Would you really want to see a porn with THIS PHOTO as the promotion? Of course, I think 3-D porn itself would give me nightmares. You just know the money shot is going right into the camera, and that is an image or visual that I never need to experience. You'll have eye protection on. That's the biggest thing you have to worry about. Quit being such a puss. |
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Post by blowme on May 16, 2011 22:22:11 GMT -5
Can you really call a man a "puss" if he is averse to being ejaculated upon?
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Post by bwwyyyy on May 17, 2011 11:41:34 GMT -5
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Post by blowme on May 17, 2011 11:59:30 GMT -5
If Taco B M Monster doesn't win this, it will be an outrage |
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Post by bwwyyyy on May 17, 2011 12:09:06 GMT -5
^exalted for commitment to screen name fluidity.
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Post by ned on May 17, 2011 12:15:48 GMT -5
Yu Arafuka going down is quite an upset.
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Post by blowme on May 17, 2011 12:36:59 GMT -5
Yu Arafuka going down is quite an upset. Too juvenile to pick asian names that sound dirty. Neptune Pringle III? Sweet fancy Moses, that's an awesome name. |
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Post by e0 on May 17, 2011 19:42:11 GMT -5
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Post by bwwyyyy on May 22, 2011 15:04:36 GMT -5
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Post by bwwyyyy on Aug 23, 2011 0:41:33 GMT -5
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Post by Orenthal on Aug 23, 2011 8:25:40 GMT -5
That is how you do it...
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Post by bwwyyyy on Dec 13, 2011 18:23:23 GMT -5
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Post by ned on Dec 13, 2011 18:44:39 GMT -5
Was that when Carl Lewis raced the giraffe?
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Post by bwwyyyy on Dec 13, 2011 19:57:20 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure Carl was the sideline reporter.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Apr 12, 2012 19:53:02 GMT -5
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/8930/?google_editors_picks=true^TL;S(till)R Gisty: FACEBOOK ARRIVED IN THE MIDDLE of a dramatic increase in the quantity and intensity of human loneliness, a rise that initially made the site’s promise of greater connection seem deeply attractive. Americans are more solitary than ever before. In 1950, less than 10 percent of American households contained only one person. By 2010, nearly 27 percent of households had just one person.
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Measuring the condition in these terms, various studies have shown loneliness rising drastically over a very short period of recent history. A 2010 AARP survey found that 35 percent of adults older than 45 were chronically lonely, as opposed to 20 percent of a similar group only a decade earlier.
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Similarly, in 1985, only 10 percent of Americans said they had no one with whom to discuss important matters, and 15 percent said they had only one such good friend. By 2004, 25 percent had nobody to talk to, and 20 percent had only one confidant.
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The problem, then, is that we invite loneliness, even though it makes us miserable. The history of our use of technology is a history of isolation desired and achieved. When the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company opened its A&P stores, giving Americans self-service access to groceries, customers stopped having relationships with their grocers. When the telephone arrived, people stopped knocking on their neighbors’ doors. Social media bring this process to a much wider set of relationships. Researchers at the HP Social Computing Lab who studied the nature of people’s connections on Twitter came to a depressing, if not surprising, conclusion: “Most of the links declared within Twitter were meaningless from an interaction point of view.” I have to wonder: What other point of view is meaningful?
LONELINESS IS CERTAINLY not something that Facebook or Twitter or any of the lesser forms of social media is doing to us. We are doing it to ourselves. Casting technology as some vague, impersonal spirit of history forcing our actions is a weak excuse.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, then, the Australian study “Who Uses Facebook?” found a significant correlation between Facebook use and narcissism: “Facebook users have higher levels of total narcissism, exhibitionism, and leadership than Facebook nonusers,” the study’s authors wrote. “In fact, it could be argued that Facebook specifically gratifies the narcissistic individual’s need to engage in self-promoting and superficial behavior.”
Rising narcissism isn’t so much a trend as the trend behind all other trends. In preparation for the 2013 edition of its diagnostic manual, the psychiatric profession is currently struggling to update its definition of narcissistic personality disorder. Still, generally speaking, practitioners agree that narcissism manifests in patterns of fantastic grandiosity, craving for attention, and lack of empathy. In a 2008 survey, 35,000 American respondents were asked if they had ever had certain symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder. Among people older than 65, 3 percent reported symptoms. Among people in their 20s, the proportion was nearly 10 percent. Across all age groups, one in 16 Americans has experienced some symptoms of NPD. And loneliness and narcissism are intimately connected: a longitudinal study of Swedish women demonstrated a strong link between levels of narcissism in youth and levels of loneliness in old age. The connection is fundamental. Narcissism is the flip side of loneliness, and either condition is a fighting retreat from the messy reality of other people.Damn you, Technology! Stop enabling our misanthropy!It does seem a little strange that the pursuit of something as apparently unhealthy as isolation comes so naturally. I wonder if, at some point, we'll start talking about moderation of isolation in the same way we talk about moderation of junk food consumption.
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Post by Orenthal on Apr 13, 2012 10:14:20 GMT -5
As long as we can keep some modicum of economic stability we'll have plenty of time to discover and analyze such stupidity.
The history of our use of technology is a history of isolation desired and achieved.
Totally agree, but it seems prima facie.
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Post by MMM on Apr 13, 2012 10:48:00 GMT -5
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Apr 13, 2012 12:21:18 GMT -5
Whether or not serious books are the kind of serious things you're talking about, I think that's essentially one major reason why serious books will survive ebooks, the internets, etc.
I'm not sure where you'll buy them. I'm not sure how much more they'll cost (no longer subsidized in part by disposable pop culture in book form), but they're not going away.
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Post by MMM on Apr 13, 2012 13:34:44 GMT -5
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips;— not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. The symbol of an ancient man's thought becomes a modern man's speech.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Apr 13, 2012 15:41:32 GMT -5
Thanks, Henry.
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