Fascinating article! With quite a frank and interesting perspective on men. I don't 100% agree, but it's on the right track about how weird gender roles have become. - Nick via Bookmarklet
It is a great article thanks for sharing Nick! - Joe Dawson
I'm as much a fan of men and fathers' rights as anyone, but I don't think returning to tired gender roles is the solution. Women who want to be protected damsels really rub me the wrong way. - Lisa Adams
Well I think perhaps we need a new paradigm for what it means to be a man or a women in a society as increasingly futuristic as ours..... The old doesn't work, but the current seems to be rather poor as well... - Nick
I guess I disagree that we need to have 'paradigms' for gender at all. Let's connect to each other on some other, more genuine basis. My best and happiest relationships have been the least gender role-driven...but maybe that's just me. - Lisa Adams
It depends on the person. Sometimes it is better to laugh or just nod your head and smile. Other times you should explain to them why it's nonsense. Or my preferred response, "I don't know where to begin telling you what's wrong with your argument". - Gabe Schaffer
Paul I would suggest just changing the subject abruptly. :P - Michael J Cohen
When you find out, let me know.... I have a lot of ignorant conservative cousins.... - Nick
True, nonsense is hard to argue against, it's based in fantasy. Kind of like, ohh, I don't know, a few memorable moments in the Bush presidency. - Mo Kargas
Say, "After we both are dead, and in heaven, and have a perfect knowledge of all things, you will look back on this moment, and realize that I was right". - Louis Gray
Most of the time people are just trying to get a rise out of you... they like arguing. There's nothing you can logically say, because logic isn't their motive for continuing the discussion. - Frankie Warren
Ask them how they would use pinkbox testing to prove their assertion. - Kevin Fox
Tip your hat and say you sir are a dumbass, And then walk away :D - Earl E Morningwood
Hey it;s nice seeing you again. Sorry, I have to take off. See you later. Yah - Rodfather
Say something mildly baffling or diverting, like: "Whoever controls the ability to exert veiled mind-control through pontification controls the strategic high-ground of meme distribution. Your thoughts?" - Sean McBride
Fighting nonsense with nonsense: nonsense that is seemingly or almost sensible is more effective (and fun) than nonsense that is plainly nonsense. - Sean McBride
I just stick with: "Goodnight, mother." - dkb via Alert Thingy
Silence is the worst way to respond as I have found out recently! - Joe Dawson
Politely argue your side of things. If the other person is emotional, explain that you would like to continue this conversation, but that you'd like to do so when (s)he's calmed down. Never lower yourself to that level. - Vincent van Wylick
The internet answered this with "Don't feed the trolls". Otherwise, record it, put it on YouTube and see if the nonsense becomes a meme. - Philipp Lenssen
I find it's helpful to figure out if your adversary need to be right or just needs to be heard and proceed accordingly. - Sarah Miller
The correct response is to ask a clarifying question that pinpoints the nonsense, e.g. "I don't want to argue with you without completely understanding what you're saying. Are you saying that the record company's infringement is in doubt because of what planet Chewbacca lives on?" Sometimes they'll recognize their own nonsense. Sometimes they'll help you see that it wasn't nonsense; you simply misunderstood them. - Bruce Lewis via fftogo
Funny, I just posted some of these yesterday. - Jauder Ho
Aw man, that's the first time that happened. The bug where FriendFeed adds a picture to a collection and wipes out all the old comments. I saw the pic of the dog balancing a chip on his muzzle and that's what led me to favorite the others... - J. Phil
Oh wait, no.. the other set is still there.. how odd. http://beta.friendfeed.com/e/a... Well, that's better than blasting the old entry away, I guess. - J. Phil
so that's what happened to my likes/comments on my Watkins Glen State Park photos... i was puzzled by the deletion (bug)...thanks for the info - Susan Beebe
“I'm back to using the old friendfeed layout. With the exception of the groups, the beta style is just the same old thing only more cluttered and ugly.”
Screw the box live however makes you happy. - Geoff Schultz
ouch, that is harsh! I don't like it. I am all for being candid, but that comes off as rude judgment call. Tacky way to communicate. It's one thing to address an area of improvement, but this is NOT the right approach...sad. Remove the attitude /emotion. Breathe. Relax. Grow... analyze the good out of her statement. Where are you limiting yourself (box)? Grow / trust / expand yourself out of it... at YOUR pace, not hers - Susan Beebe
one persons poison is another persons milk. No one can and should compare themselves to others. You are unique and in that fact, one should understand that people at times need to take the moat of their own eyes before laying judgment on another's. By that virtue alone, do you raise yourself out of the box that most people are into ! . - Peter Dawson
A while back after a buddy graduated, he lounged on my couch for a week straight and only moving to eat, go to the bathroom, or a pack a bowl. Everyday, I asked 'Dude, what are you doing?'. By the end of the week, it turned to 'Duuuude. What. Are. You. Doing???' and just laughed and smoked a bowl with him. - Rodfather
I didn't hear the tone, but the words wouldn't bother me. I have always liked getting into boxes. Coming out of my box makes me strained. Unwanted inspection of my box does the same. Some people are always getting into other people's boxes; I wouldn't want to be like that. - MiniMage
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart put up this cheeky billboard to welcome those "rich, white oligarchs" attending the Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities!" - Victor Ryden via Bookmarklet
This article comes to an interesting possible conclusion. That perhaps the basis of superior human intelligence is founded merely in our capacity for language. I used to have a philosophy prof who essentially agreed. Could it be that this one aspect of the human mind accounts for all our technological and social innovation? - Nick
I talk to my dogs a lot. They clearly understand more than a few individual words. I often wonder why they haven't "evolved" better language capacity. Maybe in another couple hundred thousand years our pets will be having complete conversations with us? - Jason Wehmhoener
I read an interesting article a while back about how dogs top all other animals, including wolves and chimps, in their ability to understand human body language. Of course this makes sense, we artificially selected them for their ability to understand us. But oddly enough dogs don't seem to be particularly smarter than wolves in general (and certainly not chimps), even though smarter dogs would of course be more useful for us.... perhaps they are fundamentally limited. - Nick
As goofy as that seems at first... it's not a bad idea actually. Especially if the upright mode made the car more maneuverable for city driving and parking... - Nick
“So, in FF beta, when you click on someone's name and then the tab "<name> + Friends" you're seeing that person's default friendfeed as they would see it from their own account?”
Hmm, dunno, Harding was pretty wreched too. And the less said about James Buchanan the better. - dkb
You can definitely list some positives from Bush 43's term, including AIDS funding in Africa. I count Afghanistan as a success (note that Kerry would have continued the war there). Agree that Harding and Buchanan were worse. And just to throw a name out, how to Bush 43-haters feel about McKinley? - Ontario Emperor
Good to see I didn't miss much when I fell asleep half-way through. - Steven Perez
Hmmm. Seems that those pages changed position. Should have been this: Christianity, ladies and gentleman: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. - Jed Jorgensen
Because they took the easy way out! It's all bones, blue glow, and wispy shit. Reptile/pebbled skin is a horror to do (particularly well) and rather than bothering they went with a much easier, largely skeletal form. Ditto on the army. Clearly the same people who work on the big, glow-y shoulder brigade had a hand in the trailer - it's all distracting razzle dazzle and now truly awesome content. - Amy Tureen
Japanese people only cook PB&J at home. Then they cut it into little bits and eat with chopsticks. And they only drink sake from big giant porcelain urns. - (Tad => Tad.Nerdity++)
It's also a very rare treat for most Japanese people - Eric Schlissel via twhirl
Unless you're a sushi chef. I lost my first girlfriend in college to a sushi chef. How do you compete with a guy who wakes up at 5 am to search out amazing food? - Mitchell Tsai
it's cheaper in restaurants too. try Sushiland :) although it's not as authentic. - ~C4Chaos
i'm black and my husband's romanian/hungarian, but we used to have nigiri sushi at home and just the rice alone is time consuming. we thought, 'no way in hell are people in japan doing this every night', so now we have sashimi and other regular japanese foods all the time. - faboo mama
but are born with ninja skills. watch out! - Rodfather
wait a min.... i've made sushi and it wasn't all that hard. (but of course it was veggie... no fancy rare fish) - Nick
Sushi at home = Do Not Want! The only thing we make at home are 1. oinari (tofu pocket sushit) 2. temaki (handrolls) 3. battera (saba pressed sushi) NO California rolls! - Mona N.
My mom likes to make cut rolls. I like to eat sashimi fresh from the grocery store. Sushi is too much work. - Mitchell Tsai
tamaki isn't sushi? (in the broad american sense of the word) - Nick
Temaki or handrolls we do at home, are not the temakis you see at sushi restaurants. We actually have 'temaki' parties, where the neta (sashimi), nori (seaweed), shari (sushi rice), are out on a table and we all make our own :) - Mona N.
I've made some good sushi at home but only because I love "cooking" and I love sushi.. just to try... but yeah, my pathetic efforts have never come remotely close to the great sushi restaurant experience. - Anthony Citrano
This is what I've always thought 'home' sushi was. Inari and futomaki. Has egg, mushroom, cucumber, and other ingredients. Still takes time to make. The brown, scrotum looking thing is inari. Called them footballs as kids. http://www.flickr.com/photos/r... - Rodfather
ah well Mona, i guess that's what i was talking about. I think in general, most americans would consider that (handrolls) as sushi (in the gringo sense of the word) and would love for you to show them how to do just that much... not necessarily "real" sushi - Nick
We do sushi at home. Well, vegetarian sushi. It's often easier than eating out with food-allergic kids. - Cyndy
Not do... did... it's too much work... @Cyndy thought it wasn't too much work because I had to do all the prep and she got to come in and just do the rolling / eating. - Jason Carreira
It is WAY too much effort. And it doesn't taste the same at home - Mona N.
Australian sushi rolls are so simple and easy to make at home - and very cheap when you are on that 'killer' budget - Chris Loft
What in the Sam's Hill are Australian Sushi Rolls, dare I ask - Mona N.
And oddly enough, my caucasian father used to make sushi all the time when I lived there. - Nick Austad via twhirl
Temaki parties sound like a hell of a lot of fun. Hmm... *plans next dinner party* - Stellina
Stellina: They most definitely are! I don't know where you live, but Japanese supermarkets sell a lot of fresh sashimi :) - Mona N.
It doesn't seem like sashimi would be that hard to make.. or nigiri for that matter... sashimi is all about having a good piece of fish and cutting it well, right? We have "sashimi grade" fish at our grocery store... I've been tempted to try it. The first sushi I had that I actually liked was some fresh salmon and tuna that a friend cut into cubes for me. I had had a bad first experience with sushi years before but that made me decide I loved it. - Lindsay Donaghe
Well it takes YEARS to perfect the kniving skills to properly cut the fish, years to learn how to properly cook and flavor the rice, and nigiri making? Takes at least 3-5 years to perfect. It's an art, a profession, a craft, in my culture :) - Mona N.
the japanese heritage in me says trying to make sushi at home would insulting to the chef that trained many years... - Jason Kaneshiro
From having been at various times heavily into temari, kumihimo, seed-bead work and Aikido, I've noticed that almost everything the Japanese do is turned into a craft at least and an Art at most. The attention to detail is astounding and so is the (traditional) amount of repetition and honing needed to consider yourself graduated to any recognized level of expertise. It's an endearing if intimidating quality of the culture. - Lindsay Donaghe
I don't get what the big deal is, everybody knows ramen > sushi anyway... - Raymond
i wouldn't suggest anyone try to make sushi rice at home. that's labor intensive and my husband decided to do it while i pregnant, which meant the mirin smells killed me, ergo i almost had to kill 'him'. thankfully, after a small island's worth of rice he gave up. - faboo mama
Interesting concept, but presented really annoyingly. Air is free, sure, but energy is not. Energy still needs to come from somewhere, generated somehow, no matter how you convey it, or in whatever medium. The whole "generator in the car" constantly refilling itself is complete bullshit... the narrator even says "perpetual motion"... um, yeah, if you want to defy the laws of physics. I could see cars running on compressed air as a viable option, but this video presents it as though it makes energy out of nothing, which is simply not possible and totally misleading. - Nick
(sorry Clay, not trying to dis, it's just this sort of thing really gets in the way of legitimate and reasonable innovation. It's like the car that runs on water, which pops up every now and then... or people claiming to have invented perpetual motion... it's just not true...) - Nick
