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To maybe help other threads not devolve into alcohol and music chat every few pages, we're going to try having a general off-topic chat thread here. Notes:
If this doesn't look like it's working out, this thread will go away.
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im gay
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Jun 29, 2014 22:35
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The Michael Hastings book about Newsweek was disappointing in my opinion. It was obviously just a rough draft. If you enjoyed that chapter in his 2012 ebook where he pretended to be Hunter Thompson, you'll like it, but otherwise not so much. Or maybe I'm just too desensitized to that stuff from the internet to the point that none of it was as shocking as he intended it to be.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:37
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Joementum posted:Hunter Thompson Since you mentioned it, let's take a moment to enjoy some Hunter S Thompson quote:It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...
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Jun 29, 2014 22:43
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Since Tricky Dick has come up with some frequency in the USPol thread, and since you mention the good doctor, why not go whole hog with Thompson's eulogy to the man?quote:If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:46
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Carried over from the USpol thread:Jagchosis posted:As long as Auspol isn't allowed to post in it.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:48
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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. gently caress them.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:48
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It's a shame that Thompson became a caricature of himself in his later writing Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 1972 is still the best campaign memoir ever written and you wish that he still had that energy for Better Than Sex, his book about the 1992 campaign, but it's mostly scans of faxes that he sent to Clinton staffers while drunk.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:50
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Joementum posted:It's a shame that Thompson became a caricature of himself in his later writing Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 1972 is still the best campaign memoir ever written and you wish that he still had that energy for Better Than Sex, his book about the 1992 campaign, but it's mostly scans of faxes that he sent to Clinton staffers while drunk. I don't know, "a collection of stuff HST sent to Clinton staffers while drunk" still sounds like it might be worth reading.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:52
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XyloJW posted:Notes: You're supposed to report people for spelling errors and caps stuff normally? The more you know.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:53
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Joementum posted:It's a shame that Thompson became a caricature of himself in his later writing Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 1972 is still the best campaign memoir ever written and you wish that he still had that energy for Better Than Sex, his book about the 1992 campaign, but it's mostly scans of faxes that he sent to Clinton staffers while drunk. Agreed. Not that Better than Sex wasn't a fun read, mind, just not nearly on the same level. Also, I've often wondered what we might have heard from him if he'd lived long enough to see the 2008 campaign.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:54
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Older Hunter S. quotes are best imagined as finishing with him just screaming wordlessly, like in that clip where Conan O'Brien went and visited him to shoot an M60 and drink whiskey.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:55
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Joementum posted:It's a shame that Thompson became a caricature of himself in his later writing Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 1972 is still the best campaign memoir ever written and you wish that he still had that energy for Better Than Sex, his book about the 1992 campaign, but it's mostly scans of faxes that he sent to Clinton staffers while drunk. It kind of annoyed me that what felt like half of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail was excuses for why he hadn't written it yet or for how his publisher was getting mad at him for missing deadlines.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:56
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Cheekio posted:You're supposed to report people for spelling errors and caps stuff normally? The more you know. I'd prefer people didn't, but you know, whatever.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:56
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Cheekio posted:You're supposed to report people for spelling errors and caps stuff normally? The more you know. If you're a square, sure
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Jun 29, 2014 22:58
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I'm prejudiced against Australians e: like really, I think I need to take a vacation there and get over it
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Jun 29, 2014 22:59
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XyloJW posted:It kind of annoyed me that what felt like half of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail was excuses for why he hadn't written it yet or for how his publisher was getting mad at him for missing deadlines. That was all real, by the way. If you ever visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame they have a whole wall of HSTs hand written letters to his boss asking them to mail him more speed.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:02
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Technogeek posted:I don't know, "a collection of stuff HST sent to Clinton staffers while drunk" still sounds like it might be worth reading. You'd think so.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:05
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XyloJW posted:It kind of annoyed me that what felt like half of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail was excuses for why he hadn't written it yet or for how his publisher was getting mad at him for missing deadlines. that was the best part. threatening to shoot the fax machine or whatever it was, creating insane tangents to get the right amount of words
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Jun 29, 2014 23:07
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I demand to know why tbp has a soccer ball next to his name.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:08
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paragon1 posted:I demand to know why tbp has a soccer ball next to his name. I was super about to ask that
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Jun 29, 2014 23:16
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The Finn gave (I think) the top 100 posters in the soccer forum a soccer ball for the World Cup.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:16
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So, what did people think of the guitarchat derail? Suitably metaphorical?
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Jun 29, 2014 23:17
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we should get little burning ballots during election season
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Jun 29, 2014 23:18
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Aliquid posted:we should get little burning ballots during election season No, little shot glasses or liquor bottles. Far more appropriate for the DnD crowd.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:21
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XyloJW posted:LF is never coming back. Aw. I got excited when I saw the other FYAD-lites coming back. 
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Jun 29, 2014 23:22
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XyloJW posted:The Finn gave (I think) the top 100 posters in the soccer forum a soccer ball for the World Cup. That's not quite how it happened.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:22
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also, bring back lf
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Jun 29, 2014 23:25
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Skinos Mastiha is sort of a honey sweetened gin, very floral, but not piney. 30 proof and proud, $40ish at your liqour store. Laphroaig we all know and love already. You want to use the Skinos the same way you'd use water, just a few drops to open up your scotch. You get a peaty-sweet flavor that makes both the scotch and the liquor taste better than they would separately.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:27
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PSA to pre-order Perlstein's upcoming Reagan book, if you like hating politicians with the fiery passion of the thousand suns. Because Christ, so far into my reading of Nixonland, Nixon is repeatedly eclipsed by Governor Reagan's horribleness. Also, don't order from Amazon, because they're subhuman mongrels.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:35
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ufarn posted:PSA to pre-order Perlstein's upcoming Reagan book, if you like hating politicians with the fiery passion of the thousand suns. There was a lot of interplay between the Nixon White House and Reagan at the time, with considerable back and forth between Washington and Sacramento during the early 70s. I seem to recall seeing a note from Nixon to Kissinger or Haldeman telling them to send Reagan a copy of Irving Kristol's then-new book on how to "reform" higher education, and of course there's that letter I posted recently where Reagan jokingly threatens to self-immolate if Kissinger won't approve defense contacts in CA.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:39
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So, I have been wondering, are we only allowed to make political threads in Debate Disco, or can we make a thread debating anything? I'm envisioning some kind of booze/burger argument thunderdome.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:40
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I didn't see anything on the recent IP issues. Can we just not handle iP threads anymore.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:42
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paragon1 posted:So, I have been wondering, are we only allowed to make political threads in Debate Disco, or can we make a thread debating anything? Posting new threads is against the rules in D&D.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:43
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euphronius posted:I didn't see anything on the recent IP issues. Can we just not handle iP threads anymore. They always turn to poo poo. It's not even a slow progression, it's basically OP ---> poo poo.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:43
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Chantilly Say posted:Older Hunter S. quotes are best imagined as finishing with him just screaming wordlessly, like in that clip where Conan O'Brien went and visited him to shoot an M60 and drink whiskey. In case anyone hasn't seen this masterpiece it's here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNEImAIM4L4
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Jun 29, 2014 23:44
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euphronius posted:I didn't see anything on the recent IP issues. Can we just not handle iP threads anymore. Dunno. But I heard today that Netanyahu is supporting an independent Kurdish state, which is pretty hilarious, all things considered.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:45
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paragon1 posted:So, I have been wondering, are we only allowed to make political threads in Debate Disco, or can we make a thread debating anything? Joementum posted:Posting new threads is against the rules in D&D.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:45
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Surely that would just be a GWS thread tho?
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Jun 29, 2014 23:47
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GWS is for talking about food, not debating it. There would have been a panel of judges and everything. Zeroisanumber posted:They always turn to poo poo. It's not even a slow progression, it's basically OP ---> poo poo. It's like someone throws up some kind of shitposter bat signal.
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