Re: Nonnihil sub sole novum

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The site itself has some much better ones than are included in that article.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 10-28-15 9:07 PM
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Reminder: hover over links to see the URL before deciding whether to click.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 10-28-15 9:07 PM
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A NSFW warning would have been appreciated. Jesus what you people get up to.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 10-28-15 9:36 PM
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2 to 3.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 10-28-15 9:38 PM
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3: So quick to criticize. This is nosflow's seminal post.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 10-28-15 9:45 PM
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I'm not sure if I agree with 1. I think Bryce Canyon is the best in terms of integrating the nut into the composition, although Apache Peak isn't bad. The penultimate one on the nutscapes site has an interesting nut-framing effect.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 10-28-15 9:46 PM
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No wonder this roadside attraction shut down.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 10-28-15 9:50 PM
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5: Nucleic?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 10-28-15 9:58 PM
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Finally. A social trend that can help explain the unexpected rise and inevitable fall of Donald Trump.


Posted by: Just Plain Jane | Link to this comment | 10-28-15 10:12 PM
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Cut them off and hold them in front of the camera. That way they get a better view.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 2:59 AM
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Wow.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 4:04 AM
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There ought to be a special Instagram filter for this.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 4:22 AM
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There was an NSFW warning by the time I was awake.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 5:37 AM
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There ought to be a special Instagram filter for this.

Presumably "teabag" is already taken.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 5:39 AM
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These photos keep giving me the hairy eyeball.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 5:44 AM
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Technology marches on. This kind of shot would have been very hard to frame before cameras came with lenses on the same side as the screen.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 5:48 AM
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I'm not sure I'm flexible enough to get a good shot of my nuts and a landscape in the background. I'd need an assistant.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 5:54 AM
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You just need a new phone.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 5:55 AM
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Regardless of the intention, this counts as a selfie and thus ought to be discouraged.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 6:41 AM
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OT: I regret interrupting this terribly important discussion, but does anybody know where I can find audio of the debate? I can find the video on YouTube but it's slow and glitchy and harder to skip around.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 6:49 AM
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Because I find the Ben Carson phenomenon fascinating is why.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 6:52 AM
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Given that the topic of this thread is "views of the world from the perspective of the asshole," discussion of last night's debate is not off-topic.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 7:10 AM
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I wouldn't consider these pictures NSFW. To find them inappropriate, someone would have to know what they're looking it.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 7:19 AM
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I guess it's good that nobody at work knows what my balls look like.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 7:23 AM
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I can't believe the moderators don't insist on complete microphone control. You get asked a question, your mic goes on. Your time is up, your mic goes off. If you try and jump in on someone else, no one can hear you. Clearly anything else leads to chaos.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 7:29 AM
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25 to 22.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 7:30 AM
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25: They need to hire that cop just got fired.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 7:30 AM
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Absent any birthmarks, piercings, tattoos, or other distinguishing marks, scrotums are pretty generic looking. I'm not sure I could identify my own balls in a photo lineup.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 7:32 AM
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20, 22 Nuts too, for that matter.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 7:33 AM
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It's clear that going after the moderators will be part of any future GOP debate. It's attacking the biased liberal em ess em, which the base loves. Also generally being kind of a prick is good base fodder.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 7:43 AM
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I'm not sure I could identify my own balls in a photo lineup.

I definitely could, because of the albinic patches where the hair is white and the skin is very pink.


Posted by: Levi P. Morton | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 8:01 AM
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I can't believe they went with the pedestrian "nutscaping" over "scrotobombing".


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 8:25 AM
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Gon-adds?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 8:27 AM
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"scrotobombing"

I'm picturing testicle-shaped grenades, which would probably sell very well, were it legal to sell grenades.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 8:40 AM
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Those NRA assholes with their narrow interpretation of the 2nd Amendment haven't even tried.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 8:42 AM
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Or if the Tsarnaev brothers had a Scrote Tote for their crockpot.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 8:45 AM
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32 is great.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 9:11 AM
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32 needs to become the new word for this.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 9:49 AM
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Marginally on topic; utterly riveting
http://imgur.com/a/WDwyW


Posted by: torque | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 10:03 AM
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"So I had to fuck him calm."

I've gone about my relationships all wrong.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 10:26 AM
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Not sure I believe the story, but it's a great read.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 10:41 AM
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Also: A short story told over a long sequence of tweets is interestingly reminiscent of serialized novels of yesteryear.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 10:43 AM
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The world where JRoth is dating a stripper/Hooters waitress is a weird one to imagine. On the other hand, think about what a viral twitter tale about destroying public parks might accomplish!


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 10:44 AM
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It's not quite a Hooters, but IIRC, BOGF worked at my secondary bar.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 10:47 AM
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41 tl,dr


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 10:50 AM
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They don't have skimpy uniforms or anything.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 10:50 AM
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I can't believe the moderators don't insist on complete microphone control. You get asked a question, your mic goes on. Your time is up, your mic goes off. If you try and jump in on someone else, no one can hear you. Clearly anything else leads to chaos.

The evidence of the GOP debates so far is that chaos is what the moderators (or at least their bosses) want.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 11:21 AM
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44 shows an impressive memory.

a viral twitter tale about destroying public parks

Armsmasher's Pittsburgh-originated colleague is going to write it up for The Atlantic. We actually think the only leverage anyone has over the mayor is his eagerness for good national press, so this is potentially big. And, frankly, even if it doesn't change anything, I'll relish him getting a big, fat black eye over this.

Now we just have to hope that the article reflects our POV. So far all the press has been on our side.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 1:26 PM
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I'm very good at remembering bar-related things.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 1:27 PM
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WHAT A WASTE.


Posted by: OPINIONATED ATTORNEY | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 1:30 PM
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Like I haven't heard that before. My whole family is lawyers.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-15 1:30 PM
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The level of sheer incompetence within the larger organization here is astounding. Or maybe it's indifference or even malice? Did I piss in someone's cornflakes and not know it? I'm always unfailingly polite and nice to everyone here. So I've been trying to get this vendor registered with us for 3 months now. This is not some fucking seller of office supplies or whatever but a private seller of totally rare and sometimes unique items that we really want and need to have for the collection and for a major exhibit (like stuff in Arrakisian script that you don't ordinarily ever see) and he's sold similar items to other major institutions including the one I worked at before which is how I know about him and I've seen his stuff no where else. The dude has been super frustrated and I don't blame him but how do I write that even my emails don't get returned from that section. I mean WTF!? And now some of the stuff I've been interested in is sold and of course I couldn't ask him to hold on to it because that would mean I was committing my org personally to buy stuff without him being registered.

I've only been here 5 months. When do I stop giving a shit? I'm thinking maybe after my first years' review if I don't get either the fullest possible pay raise within their bizarre pay scale structure or get the jump up to the grade that I'm thinking I should have been slotted in to begin with. I really do love the section I'm in and the people I work with, including the Fremen in the unit, are all wonderful, easy to get along with and generally good at their jobs. But this fucking stuff up the organizational ladder and all over the rest of the sections? It's fucking absurd.

And while I'm complaining - and I thank god my boss is not like this and he actually protects us from a lot of this BS - but almost all the other units are and this is endemic to the larger org but every little initiative has to be run up the ladder and approved by the head of the section, everyone is afraid to say yes to anything no matter how minor it is or how much it would make sense or to cooperate cross-organizationally without running it past the boss in charge of the whole section. You should see the cc fields of these emails they get. Then the same bosses who are always insisting that they know and approve of every single thing complain that they're up half the night responding to emails and won't you pity them, their job is so very hard? Really?

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Posted by: Paul Atreides | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 5:06 AM
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Probably should have gone presidential with that (maybe change it to Paul Atreides?)*

But man, I just got an email from that seller and it's been 3 fucking months and I send an email to the dude at procurement in charge of registering for us and I get no fucking replies no matter how fucking polite I am. I'm very sorry Mr. Vendor I want to buy cool shit from that serves our mission but they don't even reply to my emails and I fucking work here. Arghhhh.

(I think maybe part of the problem is I'm not cc'ing my own boss on all of thse emails because he doesn't need to have another flurry of fucking emails in his inbox about this when he's got enough to do and he knows it and is grateful for me leaving him out of this level of stuff but then the dude in charge of registering sellers for us isn't taking them seriously enough. Just do your fucking job dude or at least reply to my fucking email in a timely manner. It's not fucking hard).
Holy shit it's my fucking weekend here too and I need to finish this other thing I'm working on. /Rant

*Yes please to change these to Paul Atreides if you will.


Posted by: Paul Atreides | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 5:19 AM
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Ring kissing personal visit?


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 5:59 AM
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Me.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 5:59 AM
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Yeah, 54 sounds like a good option - I would have gone for it a lot earlier, as in after the first couple of emails went unanswered.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 6:20 AM
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If I don't answer emails, people might come visit me?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 6:22 AM
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My window isn't big enough for two people to share the view.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 6:24 AM
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54, 56 I suppose it's better to kiss the ring than send Luca Brasi over to put a camel's head in the dude's bed.

I actually would have earlier but his section is such a PITA to get to from where I work it would take half my day to deal with and at the last all employee meeting I was going to talk to him but someone I relied on foradvice discouraged me though in retrospect I suppose I should have. I'm afraid that now I'm so flustered and pissed off by this it may make a personal approach on my part difficult to pull off.

*52, 53 Will someone with the requisite privileges please change those to "Paul Atreides"?


Posted by: Paul Atreides | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 6:34 AM
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In fact, anybody looking out across Shadyside and East Liberty, knock it off. You can have your local views from street level or second story windows, but that's it.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 6:37 AM
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Nobody in charge is here. We can do whatever we want.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 6:42 AM
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52 sounds a lot like my organization.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 6:51 AM
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Hollywood is already bidding on the story linked to in 39.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 9:10 AM
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I don't have those issues with senior staff above me, but I do have those sort of issues with sys admins.

I'm in pretty good graces with most of our sys admin team. I'm super helpful to them, even down to driving the van at work once, to move a cluster of servers, when one of the sys admins had to move some kit, and had no driving license.* But, I still fairly regularly have to walk along and literally stand over them, to get some shit done if it's shit that's in the purview of one particular guy, as emails go into a BOFH hole.

He also sometimes gives me the 'I'm tech-ier than you' sigh, that tech people reserve for management idiots. He fucking KNOWS that on almost everything, I know more than he does.

* I am literally 6 pay grades above the van drivers.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10-30-15 9:20 AM
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