For the lols

[tamaness]

I tried to hit this command. Almost got it before the prompt went away.

Yes, Deadpool game is highly recommended.

[Darkobra]

Aaaand no escape from it even on a new page. Quoted. Unspoilered.

See you all next week.

[Deedles]

[Geoff_B]

Deadpool is insane. Both the game and the character like the bit where nope comes in and completely Nuh-uh no way the negatory into still no! It's awesome!

[Deedles]

[empath]

...her medicine IS BIGGER THAN HER.

Adorables, tho.

[empath]

We don't really have a "thread of What The FUCK?!?", so I'm putting this here:



Good to see Yummies, Inc. is still trying new things.

[General Michi]

See now I'm conceptualizing "Yummies Tampons" . . . hey, do theoretical products belong in "the reasons I won't sleep again" thread?

[Merrymaker_Mortalis]

We don't really have a "thread of What The FUCK?!?", so I'm putting this here:

-Om nom nom Tampnom.-

Good to see Yummies, Inc. is still trying new things.

I was like to begin with: What?! Smuggled in their vaginas?!

Then I saw the wrappers and I realised 'Ah... they're not inserted...'

If anyone ever needs to be smuggling Alcohol in that manner, deserves ridicule. Is alcohol that important?

[JustAName]

"Tell me, do you know why villains exist? Everybody has wants, desires, necessities, aspirations, goals, dreams. But the world only has room for so many of those to be fulfilled. The fact of the matter is that not everybody can have what they want. Some people are going to have to compromise.

You know what the problem with compromise is? It's the only solution in which nobody walks away happy. Compromise is where everybody goes hungry so that nobody has to starve to death. Compromise is where everybody makes clear what they want and then everybody decides to do something else entirely. Compromise is a pathetic relic of a naïve utilitarian worldview. The world doesn't run on good feelings. It runs on survival of the fittest.

But you know exactly what I'm saying. You're the hero, after all. You'll never compromise your values. You'd never divide up the world between every warlord and politician who wants his piece, nor should you. You fight for truth and justice, freedom and liberty, and all those other feel-good buzzwords everybody throws around. But whose truth? Whose justice, whose freedom, whose liberty? Because every single person you fight for has a different idea of what those words mean. And they conflict.

When children play Cowboys and Indians, they embrace their roles wholeheartedly, because they know that at the end of the game, everybody switches places and the whole thing starts over again. The world is not a children's game. How many old men have died with hearts filled with regret, how many pathetic drunkards have drowned their regrets in ethanol and one-night-stands? Regret. That is the enemy. Regret is the only villain in this world. Men like me are not villains. We're pragmatists.

Not everybody can have what they want. So rather than compromise, we take. From a utilitarian standpoint, we have increased net happiness: instead of nobody being happy, we are happy. We reject hunger, but we also reject starvation. We reject compromise, but we also reject concession. We refuse to embrace blissful ignorance and naïve idealism. We refuse to embrace regret. We choose to make the most of our lives, and those who would put us down become stepping stones.

The strong do not take from the weak because it is their right, but because it is their duty. Because happiness belongs to those who are willing to take it. To those who refuse to compromise.

So tell me, do you know why villains exist? They exist because YOLO."

[Merrymaker_Mortalis]

On a none-funny note. Christianity acknowledges that everyone has "The Beast" within them.
If you look at the world, you can see that this philosophy is very true.

[empath]

Faili...that was a MAGNIFICENT shaggy dog! THANK YOU!!!

[Geoff_B]

I've never understood the whole "YOLO" thing, and yes I know it means "You Only Live Once".

[Merrymaker_Mortalis]

I've never understood the whole "YOLO" thing, and yes I know it means "You Only Live Once".

It means you only have one life, so live it (by getting liver disease and contracting sexual infections).
I prefer The Lonely Island's approach

[Geoff_B]

Ah, I see... you only have one life, so try to end it as soon as possible?

[My pseudonym is Ix]

I had a discussion with my teacher a while ago on the subject of 'YOLO ambiguity'. For example:

"I'm kinda scared about this skydive. Should I do it?"
"Well, YOLO"

What advice is being offered?

[Geoff_B]

You should do the skydive because you only live once. Whether you continue to do so afterwards is a different subject for discussion.

[empath]

That's a very telling point, Pseudonym!

The 'hip and with it' interpretation of "you only live once" is do not avoid taking chances are regretting it for years to come (which is very interesting as most of its proponents haven't had TIME to pass up any opportunities to live in regret later - unless you count choosing the steak instead of the chicken at the junior prom dinner? )

There is an argument for that - regret over thing you didn't do can be really crippling to someone - but ultimately this whole 'movement' overlooks a very important element of human nature:

Regardless of which choice is made, the chooser will still have 'second thoughts' and regret about the other choice NOT taken.

If you live a safe, cautious youth, you WILL have moments later in life where you will wonder if it would have been better to have been more reckless and carefree...

...but if you WERE reckless and carefree, you'll still wonder if your life would have been better if you'd been more cautious.

So this whole 'no regrets' argument is so much dishwater since BOTH SIDES OF THE COIN still hold regrets later.

tl;dr? "YOLO works both ways."

Being well out of my youth, I *will* say that while the desire to create exciting memories for later life can be appealing, having been to more funerals than I'd like, it's better to be cautious and meek and LIVE to have the regret about not taking risks than the alternative.


Ultimately, I'm just waiting for the chance to say "Ubi sunt?" at all these 'YOLO-ists' in another twenty years; I'm confident I won't have to take much time to do so.



ANYWAY, as fascinating as this discussion has been, I'm gonna get us back to some lols:

[Deedles]

[gcninja]

(A la Sean Connery) Suck it Canada. (Albeit this is a pretty good statement on Americas NSA right now)

[Merrymaker_Mortalis]

I wonder how you'd do an English version for a Welsh cake...
Have 4 cakes? The 'core' cake would be red. And the middle layer would be red.

[Dominic Appleguard]

That only works if you cut diametrically though.

I would start with two white cakes. Then, cut a ring out to leave a "core" piece and an outer piece, fill the ring with red frosting or marzipan or something. Cut the second cake the same way, top the first cake with the same red stuff, add the second cake on top with the same red ring. Then frost it with the Welsh cross or a dragon or something appropriate.

That way, any radial slice is St. George's cross. Obviously a diametric slice would be more like a Lorraine cross.

[Merrymaker_Mortalis]

...Then frost it with the Welsh cross...

There is no Welsh cross, aside from:

And it's St David's cross. Hey, at least our Saint is more Welsh than the English's Saint George who is Israeli/Arabic. And black icing never tastes nice.

I think the reason it is never used is that it looks like an optical illusion illustration that's been cropped heavily.

[Fezzul]

I think it's never used because Wales has a dragon on its regular flag, and dragons are awesome. The Welsh flag is unquestionably the coolest flag ever designed. For all the faults the country where I was born has, the flag is not one of them.

[Deedles]