"This thread is too long and annoying to scroll through, someone should make a new one."
- Mizal
@Mizal, you happy now?
"Happiness is temporary, death is forever; Have a nice weekend."
"Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it."
- Ian McDonald, River of Gods
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
- Henry Ward Beecher
“Never, never, never give in!”
- Winston S. Churchill
I though it was never, never, never, give up?
EDIT: Actually that may have been someone else, I'm thinking of never, ever, ever, give up.
"Well, I hope you don't end up in the SHAME pit." -My art teacher
She knows about CYS I assume?
No- Well, kinda- I told him about it today, about the contest, and the basics of the SHAME pit. I think he would like CYS though.
Ah. I think my teachers would kill me if they found out about CYS lol.
What? Why, lol?
Oh, it just breaks the rules for chromebook usage, it's filled with foul language, it has inappropriate content, I'm interacting with a bunch of strangers, I'm clicking links without checking it's safe first, I've given the site my birthday, eh... all I can think of off the top of my head.
Why on earth would you give any site your real birthday?? This does not seem like a sound practice. You should be much much more paranoid of things on the internet.
I gave a fake one to start, then got a lashing about it from my mom saying I should give them my real age so they didn't show me anything too adult for me, which was really confusing because they said in the past to never tell strangers your birthday. Can they decide which I'm supposed to do?
Lol, I don't think the age you give affects anything you see. And yeah, it's a strange contradiction that exists: You can't tell strangers your age, but telling companies/websites you don't know is just fine.
Plus only the mods know, and while it's hard to say you can trust someone, they still give me the impression of being trustworthy. But still, you can never be too careful.
"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."
- Leonard Bernstein
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“ 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.' ”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.”
- Captain Jack Sparrow
"Making a all-of-my-points bet that my storygame will be better than Enterpride's." -Rooster
Lol, does it still count? I think we can rest assured that Rooster's not going to beat Enter.
Enter could make a story game with the quality of shit at the bottom of a shoe, and it would still be better than any AI slop that Rooster could make :)
Yeah but I was thinking he was banned and all and couldn't do anything anyway.
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Isaac Asimov
Ah, I see I have finally have some competition!
Edit: Wow, looking through your posts, all of your recent ones are just in the quote threads.
“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie.”
- Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
- Albert Einstein
We've got a long one today, folks! And from one of our own members, no less!
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"The difference between gender and sex can be summed up fairly easily in the form of intrinsic knowledge. Mizal already gave a fairly good example, but I'd like to give one of my own. You wake up on a Monday morning and head to work. You get to work and realize the pants you put on are the really, really itchy ones that drive you half crazy. These are the pants your mother gave you, these are the pants you were born with and forced to wear. But they're itchy. They're uncomfortable. They're pink and covered in sequins and you hate those things. 'Well,' your mother asks, 'how on earth could you KNOW you hate those things? Maybe you just need to get used to them.' All the people at work laugh at you when you don't wear those pants. They ask you if you're some kind of freak who prefers plaid even though you were born with sequins. You resolve to go out after work and buy jeans. You find a pair that fits you perfectly. You love these jeans. They feel so much better. But when you go to work, everyone starts throwing their pencils at you for wearing jeans. 'No,' they say, 'You were born with pink sparkly pants! You can't change that just because you feel like it!' In the spirit of the metaphor, there are so many types of pants, and some of them may not fit you as well as others. It's the same with gender."
"The difference between gender and sex can be summed up fairly easily in the form of intrinsic knowledge. Mizal already gave a fairly good example, but I'd like to give one of my own.
You wake up on a Monday morning and head to work. You get to work and realize the pants you put on are the really, really itchy ones that drive you half crazy. These are the pants your mother gave you, these are the pants you were born with and forced to wear. But they're itchy. They're uncomfortable. They're pink and covered in sequins and you hate those things. 'Well,' your mother asks, 'how on earth could you KNOW you hate those things? Maybe you just need to get used to them.' All the people at work laugh at you when you don't wear those pants. They ask you if you're some kind of freak who prefers plaid even though you were born with sequins. You resolve to go out after work and buy jeans. You find a pair that fits you perfectly. You love these jeans. They feel so much better. But when you go to work, everyone starts throwing their pencils at you for wearing jeans. 'No,' they say, 'You were born with pink sparkly pants! You can't change that just because you feel like it!'
In the spirit of the metaphor, there are so many types of pants, and some of them may not fit you as well as others. It's the same with gender."
- Liminal
TL;DR:
"[T]here are so many types of pants, and some of them may not fit you as well as others. It's the same with gender."
“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
- Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
“Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”
- Ann Patchett, What Now?
“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
- Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“Everything is hard before it is easy.”
- Goethe J.W.
“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
- Stephen Hawking
“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
- George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
Damn, has it really been four days since I last posted a quote here? Well, I guess now's as good a time as any to start it up again.
Also, Happy International Women's Day!
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“ 'Mom says it's because she has PMS.' 'Do you even know what that means?' 'I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome.' ”
- Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
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“If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — You won.”
- Lalah Delia
"When immigrants live in your land with you, you must not cheat them. Any immigrant who lives with you must be treated as if they were one of your citizens. You must love them as yourself, because you were immigrants in the land of Egypt." -Leviticus 19:33-34 (CEB)
Alright then, this is now one of my favorite quotes from the scriptures.
“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
- Margaret Thatcher
Oh yeah, that's why it sounded familiar. Also, it's nice to see more quotes posted in here by people other than me (and Strings).
That would add a nice mix to this thread! (And also be fun to read; I (almost) always like learning about other cultures.)
Alright, I think I found a quote this site will enjoy.
(Apologies if this offends anyone)
"The strong women told the faggots that there are two important things to remember about the coming revolutions. The first is that we will get our asses kicked. The second is that we will win."
- Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ring the bells that can still ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
-- Leonard Cohen
This seems like a decent quote to put in here, considering some of the topics recently brought up.
Again, apologies if this offends anyone.
"What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up."
- Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
- Jane Austen
“You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.”
- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Why?
Well, presumably Petros thinks it's dumb.
All fair points, and I have no real rebuttal to any of them. Suffice it to say that I quite like it and don't feel like defending it; partly because I've found a new favorite series, and partly because I'm tired.
"When life gives you lemons, you make lemon pound cake."
-Afroman, 2026.
This was after winning the defamation lawsuit filed against him by members of the Adams County Sheriff's Office who couldn't take being made fun of in his music after they raided his house, traumatized his kids, and stole his money (allegedly—although the security camera footage shows a deputy pocketing cash). It's a reference to a fat deputy staring lustfully at his lemon pound cake as he walked by.
There's a whole album of lore about it lol. "Will You Help Me Repair My Door" is the most popular one on YouTube.
"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh."
- Conan O'Brien
Lol what? I haven't seen that post yet
I'm also kinda starting to regret participating in the mod edit thread, but oh well. What's done is done.
also ban mizal
Debatable, but yeah, probably not as much as they are.
Oh yeah, that's true; I suppose I shouldn't be throwing stones then, lol.
Lol, losers, I posted twice, and the most they did was edit one of my posts to make my spelling bad. >:)
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"Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work."
- Adrienne Rich
Two quotes in one day, who would have thought it possible!
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"I remembered the story of the bumblebee. Aerodynamically it is impossible for the bumblebee to fly. The body is too big for the small size of the wings, but apparently no one told the bumblebee that, so he flies! That's pretty much the story of setting goals. Nothing is impossible unless you believe it is."
- Chuck Norris, Against All Odds: My Story
RIP Chuck Norris.
"The quickest way to a man’s heart is with Chuck Norris’s fist."
RIP Chuck Norris
Now that the (totally intended and definitely not accidental) one-day's silence for Chuck Norris has passed, it's time for another quote! And don't worry, this one is long enough to make up for the lack of a quote yesterday.
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“What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past. They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be--by-nature--a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood. I say that there is no role for women--there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither. Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman's role above another. My point is not to stratify our society--we have done that far to well already--my point is to diversify our discourse. A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.”
“What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past.
They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be--by-nature--a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood.
I say that there is no role for women--there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.
Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman's role above another. My point is not to stratify our society--we have done that far to well already--my point is to diversify our discourse.
A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.”
- Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
“A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”
- Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
