Its funny how the tendency to override sensible reasoning with superstitious fear keeps rearing its ugly head, even in the most unlikely of places.

I fear that the "-izzum" looks too much like "-izzle" -- that is to say, a meaningless affix -- which leaves it looking like just "fatal," which is, as you mentioned earlier, not the connotation you were looking for. (For what it's worth, "doom" has suffered ...

Hey, Mr Mon! Did you get my email? Oh, and how about calling the country something like "Fay-Talee" or "Faye-te-Lisme"? :P Though, the word "fatalism" has an unfortunate connection to "Fatality (ie. death)" in English. I know that's probably not what you mean...

Bunny whats ? Harumph! I cannot credit such an apocryphal story. No doubt this is just some fever dream from one of those back-of-beyond lame-brane plenums that's been expanded by standard inflation into a typically hyperbolic spindizzy-urban legend. Surely no such pneumatically-endowed lagomorphs c...

This is so easily fixed. Your whole country simply needs a lot more sunshine. I suggest a system of parabolic collecting mirrors over every house. Or massive vitamin D supplements. Put it into the drinking water system along with the fluoride. Throw in some v_i_a_g_r_a too. (I had to spell it v_i_a_...

Jennifer I think your Muse just tonked me over the head! Or it could have been a different one--perhaps it was Grone, the Muse of Bad Puns. :-) One nagging loose end in my translation was the name of the country. Delta didn't actually give it a name per se, she just used the word "Fatalists&quo...

I just want either a sky burial... A SKY burial? How the hell does that work? You mean, like in orbit ? Or a nice firework ? Not... quite Sky Burial Ah, I see. Well, in Tibet it was something of a practical necessity to do it that way, as there are only a few inches of topsoil over rock or permafro...

Plasman wrote:No , those are real jobs? I need to prepare my resume...

Resist the dark side you must! If ever down the dark path you tread, forever your destiny it will dominate!

He was pretty bad, true, but his worst legacy is of course the man who is currently in office, who came in as a direct consequence of him. I fear this successor is capable of (and in the process of) perpetrating even more damage to this country and the world. My only consolation is that he too will ...

If God had just used union angels this whole fall of man thing would never have happened. You outsource and you get what you pay for! God just had to cut corners with this mickey mouse work and still he comes in over budget. The Angels and Carpenters local 777 guys told him 6 days was too little ti...

I would love to have a spammer check back to see their evil work and find a reason to be made angry and hurt and humiliated. My effort is to that goal. Jennifer your efforts are wasted. Such bottom-feeding scum are already beyond humiliation. I even more appreciate the idea of their wretched boss l...

Mitsukara wrote:Also, I hope I didn't just completely go off topic and sound like a rambly crazy person. If so, I apologize ^^'

Well maybe the you of then did, but not the you of now. So don't worry about it.

Idiot Glee wrote:That or God messed up the coding. Can't disprove it, can you?

Nah. God was just tired after creatin' the Universe, so he decided to outsource the job to his assistant that day. Guy by the name of Lucifer.

You know, it's biological fubars like wisdom teeth that provide evidence against "intelligent design" by an omniscient creator, and in favor of Darwinian natural selection acting on random mutations in a historically-contingent environment. We're stuck with wisdom teeth because our bigger-...

Mitsukara wrote:Kinda interesting to see these happy shots of everyone together after reading through the whole actual story. Hmm.

That's why I think this is a depiction of the Singularity-afterlife that the Min-Yan pledged to give everyone.

Had mine done in two batches (one side then the other) a couple months apart when I was 19. General anesthetic but then I don't particularly remember getting opiates after that, I think it was just big doses of tylenol. They told me to bite down on tea compresses to staunch the bleeding. It's been n...

Volair wrote:"Oh, there you guys are. Is there anywhere to get a good slice of cheesecake out here?"

Cheesecake?

Mouse soufflé. Think: mouse soufflé. With canary sauce.

Well, don't forget all those circles going kachunk-kachunk-kachunk. Happy (belated) birthday to them too!

Cats do have social behaviors but they're different from dogs. The first is that there is a mother-infant bonding behavior that has become hyper-extended in cats. A human owner can play the role of mama cat for their pet's entire lifetime. This is one of those cases of neoteny that is so common in o...

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draque wrote:I loved imagining all of the doggie technology that they would come up with.

How about... the Stick that Fetches Itself?

Yes, that would be the breakthrough that gave them faster-than-light drive.

Plasman wrote:The Tail Catcher?

And that gave them their version of the Spindizzy antigravity field.