John

Yay, it's back~ My favorite new one so far is "BIG Problem". I don't recall if I've said this before, but the reason I love these comics so much is because... well, they shouldn't be nearly as funny as they are. So many of these jokes seem like they should just be the setups for a better joke, but they're not. And somehow, that actually makes them funny, lol.

I'd heard a small handful of songs (most or all from Throwing Copper) a long time ago, and it eventually led me to pick up Birds of Pray about a year or two ago. Personally, I thought the album was alright at best, but I still yearn to get some of their early stuff. I just always forget whenever I go out CD hunting. >___>;; And, yes, "Lightning Crashes" is probably one of my favorite songs, like, ever.

[quote name='Gavin][size=1']A valid point John, except in the case of the Republic of Ireland we're having gay marriage made legal without consulting the voting population, it's not as if the vast majority of Irish people want gay marriage and we on the religious right are waving the canes in anger, this is a case where people are generally against the idea on religious/moral grounds.[size=2][/quote] Ok then, let me strip down my argument to its real point: you want to take a human right away from a group of people rather than tolerate a belief conradictory to your own. That's not how democracy (or Christianity or any vaguely related religion) works. Which leads me nicely into...[/size] [/size][quote name='Gavin][size=1']As for the theocracy bit, if it works... ;) [/size][/quote] [b]Theocracy never, ever works or has worked. It's a codeword for tyranny.[/b]

[quote name='Gavin][size=1']On a slightly more secular level, I oppose homosexual marriage coming into the Republic of Ireland because it would mean I would be legally obliged to accept that such an custom would be right in the face of my own beliefs.[size=2][/quote] Nuuuuuu, the point isn't to get you to accept homosexuality as [i]ok[/i], but to get you to accept that [i]other people[/i] consider it ok. The point here is that no matter what you think is right or wrong, not everyone else thinks that. Therefore, you're not really voting for or against homosexuality, but for or against whether people should be able to set their own moral and ethical boundaries. Your stance seems to be that people should have their boundaries set for them, against their will. That smacks mightily of a theocracy.[/size][/size]

As a Christian, I think homosexuality and bisexuality are wrong, but I certainly don't have a problem with non-Christians being gay. What reason do they have to believe it's wrong, anyway? And if they're doing it obviously without any ill intent, is it really wrong at all? So, yes, gay rights for all. [QUOTE=Hanabishi Recca]I don't think Men should marry men. Thats just... disgusting.[/QUOTE] And looking upon your fellow man with disgust based on something he doesn't think is wrong is very Christian, isn't it? [QUOTE=Hanabishi Recca]I mean, me being a christian, I don't think that it is good for men, or even women to marry their sex. I don't have any good reason, besides that is the reason that Sodom was destroyed.[/QUOTE] In Sodom, they were rapists. Doesn't that alter the circumstances a bit? [quote name='Hanabishi Recca']I will end on this statement, "Think of the children!.".[/quote] Provide one piece of evidence that a child being raised by two people of the same sex has ever been detrimented by it at all.

[quote name='Amelia][font=Arial]As long as there's money, there won't be an end to rap or MTV.[/font][font=Arial'][/font][/quote] I appreciate your non-elitist, open-minded, and thorough examination of the state of rap music! ^.^ But yes, I ditto what AJeh explained so well, and if you don't actually [i]listen[/i] to rap or at least have balanced knowledge of it, then you shouldn't really have an opinion on it. lol And since the thread's usage of "new rap" seems to have been fleshed out to the uber-mainstream stuff, then, well... why is this genre in particular going to eventually be replaced? [i]All[/i] musical genres and fads are going to be replaced by something new, and all at a pretty equal rate. This newest iteration of mainstream rap won't get replaced any faster than whatever genre of choice you happen to listen to. So no more genre whoring, mmmmkay?

I only know one that hasn't been said already: "*picks up a packet of sugar* Excuse me miss, I believe you dropped your nametag."

[quote name='Sara][color=#b0000b][size=1]The teaser trailer before x3 [url="http://youtube.com/watch?v=QgHL18g18v4&search=snakes%20on%20a%20plane"]cracked me up[/url].[/size'][/color][/quote] I was about to say the same thing, lol. The trailer was so incredibly gimmicky, and placed in the middle of so many others that were all so professionally and expensively done, that it seemed so much more like the absurd anomaly that it is. Truly, another theater experience like Snakes on a Plane will not come for many eons. :3

[b]Wolftmother - Dimensions EP:[/b] The only thing to say here is that Wolfmother doesn't not make good songs. They've been described as a combination of a lot of different bands, but I think Kyuss meets Steppenwolf or Led Zeppelin fits the best. if nothing else, listen to whatever song they've got up on their site right now ([url="http://www.wolfmother.com/"]link[/url]).

[quote name='SkyBlu']Internet acronyms are literally tearing the english language apart. People can't spell any more because they are so used to typing things like "u" for "you", and "dnt" for "don't". I try to avoid using them and spell things properly (although I still make errors, but they are unintentional). I normally reserve internet acronyms for when I'm being sarcastic or on rare occations in actual conversations.[/quote] Haha, that's a silly idea. Just b/c typing like tht is easier dsn't mea--o noez its takin over my mind omgomg save urselfs ki11... m3333........

It's a good thing OB has the quality measures it does, because you should know what everyone reading this thread wants to reply with. XD Anyway, you seem unnaturally condescending on "lol". Its definition, you're right, doesn't really mean "laughing out loud" anymore, but that's not because it's become diluted. It's just morphed into something else. That's what language does, even on the internet. And it's not a useless phrase anymore being applied only in situations of indifference. I use "lol" on a very frequent basis, and only in situations that I feel need it. It hasn't really come to mean a sort of spiteful lack of concern as much as just a more mild amusement.

"We got motherfuckin' punks on the motherfuckin' plane!" Someone had to.

Cygnus is... distinct, heh. His posts are fun to read, and you'd have an easy time distinguishing him from other OBers even without any identification. Cool guy, him.

I'd be an angle. A right one, specifically. My hypotenuse would love me, and I it. [center][img]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1/NotAnAardvark06/cestmoi.gif[/img] [/center]

[quote name='Prick Wizard']Yes but clones so that they are not even really real humans.[/quote] Biologically, they're every bit human. If they weren't they wouldn't even be valid clones, lol. And obviously, the physical attributes of the brain determine its functioning, so they're the same mentally too. I don't see how you get off saying that they're not humans, since the only difference in a clone from a normal human is the method of birth, and for that matter, does that make babies that were born through artificial insemination "not even really real humans"? Hell, clones could even look quite different than the person they were cloned from. If you met one, even if they were standing next to their original, chances are you'd never suspect a thing. Since I know you're either not going to read that or you'll simply ignore it, just tell me why you think clones [i]aren't[/i] humans. lol [quote name='Prick Wizard']Dinosaurs are nice and I think that to have a zoo would be nice for everyone. I don't see why there can't be one.[/quote] Then go back and actually read my post, lol. I listed far more reasons than necessary why it won't happen for a long, long, long time.

I love you. You give me the best quotes for my signature. [quote name='Prick Wizard']Does anybody else consider that Jurrasic Park may be a real place constructed in some remote region of the earth. I like to think so, and there IS *some* evidence that such a place exists believe you me.[/quote] I'll note right up front that you never produced any of this alleged evidence. What you did produce was only opinions that support the idea that it might be possible to do [i]in the future.[/i] You've said nothing to support that a park like that exists right now, and trust me, I can tell you with some certainty that it doesn't. Something of that magnitude would take an untold fortune to operate, inflicting two problems: one, that kind of money can't be moved silently. Someone would find out about it and it would very, very quickly be all over the news. And two, nobody with that money would ever support the park without it making money in return. In fact, that's the entire [i]point[/i] of a dinosaur zoo: to be open to the public and receive money. lol [QUOTE]It was also proven to be a very easy process inwhich they extracted the DNA out of old frogs and mixed it with a mosquito. For this reason I think there will deffinitely be *a* (take note NOT two everyone) a jurassic park somewhere on the earth.[/QUOTE] My Biology class recently watched a video on the theory of making a real Jurassic Park, coincidentally, but even if they hadn't, I'm sorry, but it's clear that you're quite mistaken about the process, even considering the fact that you obviously gained all your information straight from the movie, heh. Even in the movie, the theory was that you could take DNA out of the blood of ancient mosquitos who had fed off of dinosaurs (thus, they would likely have some dinosaur DNA in them themselves), and replace the inevitable missing chunks of DNA with that of frogs. The problem with this theory is that the DNA you'd find inside the mosquitos would be very scant, and it would take forever to collect enough to create a dinosaur from. You really wouldn't be able to use much DNA from frogs, or you wouldn't get anything near a dinosaur in the final product. You also described the process as "very easy", which is nowhere near true. Even beyond finding all the DNA, there's the problem of actually developing it into a dinosaur. I won't go into the specifics since they're a bit much and I honestly don't remember enough of it, but the cloning process certainly isn't refined yet. To make even one dinosaur would take countless efforts and a hell of a lot of luck. And even once you've got enough for a decent population, keeping them would be a gargantuan task. Besides feeding them, which would probably cost more than twenty zoos combined, you have to keep them healthy. How are you going to rid them from disease? Considering that they may not have immunity to many diseases today, you'd have to learn how to treat those diseases in creatures that are utterly foreign to any veterenarian knowledge, you'd have to do it frequently, and at first, you'd have to find a lot of cures really damn fast. Another example: elephants develop excess calluses on their feet every day. In the wild, they would wear them down by walking them off, but in zoos the keepers have to pick up their feet and chisel them off manually. Brontosauruses could likely have the same problem. You think one of them are going to let you pick up their foot and take a chisel to it? Do you think it could even be [i]done[/i]? lol And that's just going into a few select problems. I'm not saying something like this is impossible. Sometime in the semi-distant future it could be done, though still at great expense. But it's not happening right now. [QUOTE]This also gives a hope of recreating elves in a stable enviroment to revive their species and keep them at mystical lands where only select people such as me were allowed to visit. Cloning could be very beneficial to rare races such as that of the elves.[/QUOTE] Please don't bring elves into this thread. That's an earnest request. ;-; [quote name='Ayokano']I highly doubt it with the way cloning really is. First, you will have to have a somatic cell of the creature. By removing the nucleus of that cell, and placing it into an egg cell with it's nucleus removed, resulting in them dividing (hopefully) and becoming identical to the original.[/quote] Actually, you could just as easily put the fertilized dinosaur egg cell into an animal like an ostrich, who lays similarly sized eggs. Or hell, they've even developed (or are developing) methods where something could be raised in an incubator-like machine, devoid of an egg completely.

[QUOTE=Japan_86][color=DarkRed]In Ancient times there have been those that believe that if you dipped in this pool of water or river, your blindness and/or leporsy will be healed. There has been miracles written down where this is actually the case. What of the aspect of obesity. If you drink a lot of water, you'd be able to shed some pounds more easily. Not only that, but you cannot live three days without water.[/color][/QUOTE] You can't live ten minutes without air. Does that mean air has healing powers? ;)

[QUOTE=SunfallE][color=DarkOliveGreen]Nervous as heck really sums it up well. I?ve been trying really hard to strike a good balance without overdoing it. I certainly wasn?t trying to suck the life out of the thread. ^_~ Well I certainly didn?t explain it as clearly as I thought I had. So I added another post that I hope explains my intent a little better. [/color][/QUOTE] Mhm, I just misread your intent there (story of the internet, lol), so what you were trying to do was a smart move, really. I just hope I didn't offend with the "enjoyment-sucking" comment. I spoke only in jest, but I just noticed it looks harsher in text. >>;; [quote name='Desbreko][color=#4b0082']After looking over the thread, I don't really see anything wrong with SunfallE's post. It's close to what I would've posted--and have posted--in similar situations. I mean, when you get multiple people posting nothing but, "omg thats funny lolz," it isn't something that should just be brushed off. The point about providing your own input when creating a thread is also relevant. It's not something I've cared too much about, so long as the thread spawns some decent conversation, but in this case there was only one decent post in the thread.[color=black][/quote] Yeah, my point wasn't that action shouldn't be taken, just different action than what seemingly was. I say "seemingly", because her intent was different than what I thought at the time, heh. [/color][/color]

[quote name='indifference][color=Indigo]I don?t agree, it may seem like over moderation but the rules are there for a reason. I?ve read: [url="http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?t=52331"]Otaku Lounge Rules[/url'] and overall the thread didn't get off to a good start. The first response was fine, but the following responses were just short and spammy re-posting of the picture and saying it was funny. Seems to me that it isn't all that hard to say that's funny and then proceed to state how you thought platypus came to be or even post your own funny picture combination.[color=black][/quote] Mhm, the first few posts did leave much to be desired, but I think Sunfall's reply should've been directed more towards the post quality specifically.[/color] [color=black][quote name='indifference][/color]There are plenty of threads that don't have super high post quality and yet fit the guidelines well enough that they are not closed. Just take a look at these threads: [url="http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?p=721773#post721773"]Choose......[/url] and [url="http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?p=722464#post722464"]Be careful what you wish for.[/url'] They are silly and yet fit in just fine since people put in the effort to put in their response instead of just commenting on what was said before.[color=black][/quote] Actually, both of those threads are [i]based[/i] around commenting on what was said before. :P Sorry, I couldn't resist! X) But more seriously, those are forum games, where high discussion isn't an expectation and silliness is basically a necessity anyway. [/color] [color=Black][QUOTE=indifference][/color]I think you missed the most important part of SunfallE's post, the " So I?m changing the basis of this thread to a general discussion on Duckbill Platypus and not just stories on how they came to be." Instead of closing the thread they left it open to either post your own story, your own picture version or just to discuss Platypus's in general. [/color][/QUOTE] Actually, that's the part that caught my attention the most. Because of how it was worded, I simply mistook her intent to be to take the thread in a different direction, rather than to open it up to more varied discussion because of the posts it had spawned so far. That was definitely my error, though I still think a simple reminder of quality would've sufficed. And Dagger, I agree with what you said. I wasn't worried about it, though, and I think it had had a prescence long enough to at least warrant an address (though not enough for an actual complaint, of course).

I'm certainly one for decent post quality, but I think that the O. Lounge, and other forums to a lesser degree, has gotten a bit too strict with its rules concerning such. For example, a recent post by SunfallE in the Platypus thread: [QUOTE=SunfallE][color=DarkOliveGreen]My story is that so far this thread is [u]spam[/u]. I suggest that people start putting a little more effort into their replies. Also [b]tanukioh[/b], when starting a thread try to put a little more effort into it. If you really want to discuss stories on how the Duckbill Platypus came to be you could have put in your own story of how you think it happened. Or even some information on it?s origins for example: [i] When first seen in 1797 by early white settlers near the Hawkesbury River, outside Sydney, it triggered a search and controversy that lasted almost a century. Nicknamed the 'watermole', it was said to be a combination reptile, bird, fish and furred animal. The perplexed local governor sent specimens back to mother England for study. But the English found it equally unbelievable. One zoologist suggested it was 'freak imposture' sold to gullible seamen by Chinese taxidermists. Another, suspecting fraud, tried to pry the 'duck's bill' off the pelt; the marks of his scissors can still be seen today on the original, now preserved in the British Museum of Natural History in London.[/i] So I?m changing the basis of this thread to a general discussion on Duckbill Platypus and not just stories on how they came to be.[/color][/QUOTE] I'm sorry, Ms. Sunfall, but you sucked any potential enjoyment out of that thread like a vampiric sponge. I think to a high degree, anything silly in the Lounge is quickly being labeled as spam, when, with some creative replies from some creative members, this thread could've provided more originality and entertainment than anything else you can find in there right now. Granted, the posts in there so far could've been fleshed out more (but I think that would've come with time anyway), and it might've been better suited as a creative writing exercise in the Anthology, but changing the basis of the thread to a general discussion about platypi (platypodes, according to Wikipedia, I guess >_>) has done nothing for it but make it entirely mundane. It's been a general trend recently that paragraphs-long posts, even if they say nothing (as I've seen happen) will never garner any warnings, while many picture or one-line posts which honestly say volumes more get chastised. This "big = good" thinking has made me really apathetic about OB as a whole. I'm not saying that you should let go of the reigns and let threads about people's preference of slushies at a school that only the OP goes to get by freely, but I think it'd be a lot better for everyone if you loosened said reigns a bit, and let people make threads and posts without wondering if the mods will get onto them about it. I think there's a little too much worry about the forum going to shambles, and it's not having great effects on it. I'm not trying to criticize the mods nearly as much as I'm sure it looks like, I just think it's something to consider in the future. *hugs the moderation*

Yeah, the bill to turn illegal immigration into a felony is awful. That's not a decision that men in thousand-dollar suits who work in marble-lined buildings should be able to make. What I want to know, though, is why [i]is[/i] it so hard to immigrate legally? Obviously, if the people who needed to come into America were actually allowed to do so, the problem would be solved much easier than the uphill battle of trying to simply keep them out. So does anyone here know exactly why immigration is so difficult?

So you see, Chikara? Everyone here is simply either a sneaky bastard or a lucky one. :p I'm lucky, myself. My school issues its students laptops during the schoolyear, and I'm in two or three classes this year that require Photoshop (among most of the other major Adobe programs), so it was custom installed for me. Before I had it installed, though, I tried a few programs like GIMP and Inkscape, but they wouldn't run for me because of strict restrictions by the tech guys on the laptops. I'd try a free copy of PSP, but I've obviously got no strong incentive, lol. [spoiler]This sentence is surrounded by spoiler tags. ...I didn't want to be left out. ;w;[/spoiler]

1. Something I heard in a joke was always having the correct amount of money in your pocket for whatever you buy. That's a great idea, heh. 2. I want a kitty cat. :< 3. No more problems with anything ever. I don't care if it's a copout. If I had three wishes, that's what I'd wish for, dangit. >:O

[QUOTE=Amelia][font=Arial]I don't mean to revive a debate that should've died long before it did, but I spent the weekend with my church youth group (Disciple Now), and I happened upon a verse in the bible that settles my thoughts on the cussing question. I've forgotten why else I reopened this discussion, but probably for the better. I'm willing to leave it at this if need be.[/font][/QUOTE] Yes, a valid point, but that, were it true, wouldn't make any sense at all to me to be included as a sin for reasons I think I've already gone into (and I'm of the opinion that nothing's written in the Bible without any reason). So I went to the site Sara linked to a while ago to compare translations ([url="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/"]link[/url]), and most of the translations of that verse say nothing about "profane" talk, or anything that would lead you to believe they're talking about anything other than "idle chatter". You can check that yourself, if you wish. I don't mean to sound so persistent in my arguments, but this is something I really believe isn't wrong in any way, lol. [b]EDIT: [/b][quote name='"SunfallE"][color=DarkOliveGreen']Actually I don?t really believe that cussing is wrong. Whether or not a word is considered a swear word depends upon your social surroundings. So why would God send you to hell for saying a word that until someone actually told you about it, you had no idea was even a cuss word?[color=black][/quote] Ah, I forgot to mention that, also. If I had a kid, and the first thing I taught him to say was "hot damn", he'd be sinning, then? Really, like SunfallE said, it's more than a black-and-white thing. By actually thinking about and interpreting what the Bible says, you're [b]not[/b] defying it, you're obeying it. And you're doing yourself a favor in the process. [/color][/color]

[QUOTE=Hanabishi Recca]CUSSING IS WRONG. Okay, you commit one of the sins you commit the ALL. (Sorry to say, but you should really read the Bible) And the meaning of VAIN is: Without a cause, deceit (-full), false (-ly), vain (thing), liar, lie, wrongfully. That if from the Hebrew (which is what the old testament was written with. So if you wanted the true meaning of what they where saying, you would have to go to the language they where speaking.). Vain isn't only one thing. It isn't only gossip. It is everything that is without a cause, deceitfull, false, vain, a lie, wrongfully.[/QUOTE] You are quite correct there. All of those things are vain, and therefore wrong (although I doubt they were using the "without a cause" definition for the purposes of the Bible, heh). Furthermore, [b]none[/b] of those things have the least thing to do with cussing. Saying "damn" instead of "shucks" hasn't even the remotest thing to do with being "deceitful, false, vain, a lie, wrongfully" at all. I'm not asking you to necessarily believe cussing isn't wrong if you don't want to, but at least give thought to what I'm saying.