[QUOTE=Swog;45277591]Just finished watching Free to Play, a Valve documentary. Best documentary I've seen this year.
[sp]I haven't watched any other documentaries[/sp][/QUOTE]
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My favorite documentary this year is one called Helvetica, it was on youtube but they took it down. Here's a preview:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDLPAE9wLEU[/media]
It was really really good.
[editline]2nd July 2014[/editline]
P.S. helvetica is a typeface if you didn't know.
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[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45278551]How come flag burning is illegal in many "free" countries such as Germany, Norway, Japan etc.?[/QUOTE]
Because flag burning is an atrocity and a sign of the utmost disrespect? Imagine having like a toy. A toy that you put everything in to. Your heart and soul, you get beaten every day and suffer so much but that toy gets you through. Now imagine someone walking in to your house, setting it on fire, saying "fuck you" and kicking you in the face.
I'm not even patriotic but the very idea of burning any countries flag is abhorrent to me.
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[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45278663]Hurt feelings are more important than the freedom to commit a victimless crime[/QUOTE]
If the feelings are hurt, it's not really victimless, now is it. Besides, why would you even want to, it's just kind of a dick move one way or the other.
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[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45278698]Should it should be illegal to call someone an insult because it hurts their feelings?[/QUOTE]
There's a difference between insulting someone and burning a symbol the entire country stands for.
fish sticks are cool
uuuuuu my stomach is upset and the idea of food disgusts me right now
[QUOTE=azure 505;45278729]uuuuuu my stomach is upset and the idea of food disgusts me right now[/QUOTE]
So if i brought up the fact that i'm eating some delicious, meaty, cheesy lasagna goodness, what would that do you for you?
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45278551]How come flag burning is illegal in many "free" countries such as Germany, Norway, Japan etc.?[/QUOTE]
In my opinion, it's because people who burn flags are typically protesters, and governments historically have wanted to squish potential protests. "Oh you're burning the flag? Arrest all of them." If you say your national pride is being hurt by people burning flags then it demonizes the protestors in the eyes of the public. They basically create a legal trap in which they can contain protests easily while still having the public opinion on their side.
I mean you'll never find any written evidence backing me up, but everytime there is an anti-burning legislation passed it's generally in response to protests.
[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;45278738]So if i brought up the fact that i'm eating some delicious, meaty, cheesy lasagna goodness, what would that do you for you?[/QUOTE]
I wrinkled my nose irl while reading this
[QUOTE=azure 505;45278749]I wrinkled my nose irl while reading this[/QUOTE]
So good, gargling dat ricotta, hnng.
Banananyway, tea time.
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[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45278756]I really wouldn't give two shits if anyone burned the Canadian flag and other people shouldn't either, it's just fabric and it's just a symbol. The thing that really matters is how well the countries themselves are doing.[/QUOTE]
that's the problem though
regardless of whether or not people [i]should[/i] give a shit about it, they still do give a shit, so in their eyes you're just saying "fuck you, country!"
[editline]2nd July 2014[/editline]
the only thing that makes it fucked up in my eyes is that you'd be knowingly doing something that the majority of a country would be pissed about
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45278756]I really wouldn't give two shits if anyone burned the Canadian flag and other people shouldn't either, it's just fabric and it's just a symbol. The thing that really matters is how well the countries themselves are doing.[/QUOTE]
Then i don't really think you know how people and symbols work. Besides, weren't you the one a few weeks back talking about how he has no friends, is a shitty friend and is depressed? No offense brother, but i don't think you're the right person to be commenting on how people feel.
[editline] July 2 2014 [/editline]
Which reading over that again sounds really douchey and i'm sorry. We should probably move on from this.
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[QUOTE=azure 505;45278729]uuuuuu my stomach is upset and the idea of food disgusts me right now[/QUOTE]
ducks are cool too
Fuck ducks, geese are where its at. I sometimes get a flock of geese in my backyard where they like to lounge in the puddles that form in my laneway.
sorry that was a typo i hate ducks
[QUOTE=Kurahk;45278803]Fuck ducks, geese are where its at. I sometimes get a flock of geese in my backyard where they like to lounge in the puddles that form in my laneway.[/QUOTE]
Geese aren't cool when you see a flock of like 15 flying at you in spearhead formation and miss shitting on you by about a foot.
CRANES, however, are the shit. When i lived in Florida, there was a Crane that'd come chill on my grandmas car and we'd feed it bologna at the same time every day.
All I can do is just close my eyes and hope that my mind can make out the edge of her face again.
That perfect moment when we laid parallel to one another that humid summer night. As my cheap fan blew warm air over our exposed bodies I felt right in the world. No longer was I caring of my dismal place in my career or if I would ever go back to school. In that moment I had something people always strive for, serenity. As my hand drew circles around her belly button and we talked of our past lives we both were trying to grow out of, all I wanted was the moment to last a lifetime. That the world would stop turning, that cheap plastic fan would keep blowing, and our conversation would go on forever.
I remember such distinct moments. I remember as the night was winding down she said she had to go in 10 minutes, but ended up falling asleep in my arms for another 50. I remember not even falling asleep with her. Just being so ecstatic that she was there I couldn't let a moment pass me by.
When she left I waited to go to sleep until she let me know she was home safe. I then closed my eyes and fell asleep.
Im waking up now 6 days later.
All I could want is to have her back in that night again. That possibility seems to be slipping with every single passing second, and it was all my fault.
There has been only 2 other times this phenomenon has happened in my life. The situation where I fall so madly for a woman, and push her away with the amount of attention I throw at her. Hell, I even despise it when its done the same to me.
But never the less I couldn't help myself. I saw with each text I would send, or phone call, that it was to much. She already liked me, but I just couldn't wrap my head around it. I just continued. I could see her distancing herself from me, but I pressed on. Hoping that something might change... maybe this time, itll be different. Ill say something shell want to respond to.
She didnt last night.
It all kind of hit me at once, what I did, and why I did it. I just sunk. I had no one to blame but myself. Just like with XXXXX and XXXXXX, I pushed them away. When all there is but amazing potential, I squander it, never to be had again.
So I went out and grabbed 30 dollars from my wallet, found my ID and marched my way to the bar down the street. A small new england style bar in the heart of Los Angeles. The air was a bit muggy, but a light breeze kept the room crisp. Only a few patrons littered the tables and bar stools.
I sat down and ordered the cheapest beer i could have that was on special. I browsed websites on my phone and the time just passed. I kept thinking of her. Hoping that maybe she would text, maybe i was just being delusional.
I wasnt.
By the time the alcohol had its grasp I had made a few acquaintances in the bar. A man who could barely put a coherent sentence sober and had a deep affiliation for his bike gave me courage in the form of 2 shots of wiskey. A small young asain man who seemed to want to let the whole bar know he was gay bought me 3 beers (all of which were terrible). Finally a group of 2 couples who sympathized and offered me their beers and some kind words of "Just let her be, if she does like you, shell come back"
I stumbled home. I had tried to quit smoking the weeks previous but it didnt stop me from bumming a cigarette off of a highly intoxicated yuppie on my walk home.
The city lights guided me back. Every step I felt like I could handle myself through this.
When my face hit my pillow and I closed my eyes. The first thing I saw was a blurry outline of her face.
I couldn't take it. I broke down. It wasn't so much her, it was that I had let myself do this again. I had let myself down.
As the morning sun broke through the clouds on my way to work this morning I thought about the inevitable. I would never get a response back, and I can never text her again. It all sort of sunk in.
Through out the day I just zoned out. Looking out to the clouds through the walls of windows. Following small little cotton ball shaped white slowly fade away to nothing.
At noon I checked my phone.
It was her.
A single text.
I texted back.
Its now 8 pm and I haven't received anything back, and nor have I texted again.
I wont tell you what the two texts were between us, but I can say I have hope.
Im grounded for now and I know, if ever I want to have her in my arms again, if I ever want to see her smile while I rub her stomach, I'll have to learn the one trait that always seems to escape me.
Patience.
So I wait. Not because I want to, but because I will for her.
Tomorrow will be the mark of the night we met 2 weeks ago. Its funny how fast you can fall for someone, and its funny how fast you can fuck it up. I never use to be like this, but god damn this is a rollercoaster ride worth every moment.
Where ever it goes, I'll always have that night, that perfect night with a perfect woman.
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No gurlz alowd
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I have no idea if what I'm hearing is thunder or fireworks.
Nope that is thunder.
Cool, the cottage I'm at loses power really easily and I have a phobia of power outages.
Awesome.
This is a good time.
Yes.
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I've been thinking. There have been entire species that have gone extinct within my lifetime. I mean, I don't know of any off the top of my head, but I'm sure there must be at least one species. But I wonder, have there been any species that sprang into existence during my lifetime? When was the last time a new species happened? And I'm not talking about newly discovered, I'm talking about new specieseses spontaneously existing. I mean, life is not static and unchanging, organisms are adapting every day, certainly there still must be new species being formed through the same mechanic that the current specesiesiseses came to be?
your not fune dargon
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