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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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I haven't watched any of the episodes of the new season, gots to catch up.
Just started up again yesterday.

I kinda have to nod a little on this one. I love philosophy. It was a minor of mine in college. But when they don't do a very good job at explaining their core premises -- and yet stamp their shorthand names everywhere -- I call "amateur"! :p

Speaking of amateurs... I'm thinking of a new start-up business that supplies Justin Bieber with sizzurp in Miami-Dade prison. :greed:
 

Monco

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Mar 27, 2013
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Anyone has some spare time on their hands and want to write me a speech for English class? I don't really have any money, so I'll pay the kind stranger by blowing him. Don't judge me, I'm in desperate situation. :shifty:
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
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Apr 14, 2005
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Just started up again yesterday.



I kinda have to nod a little on this one. I love philosophy. It was a minor of mine in college. But when they don't do a very good job at explaining their core premises -- and yet stamp their shorthand names everywhere -- I call "amateur"! :p

Speaking of amateurs... I'm thinking of a new start-up business that supplies Justin Bieber with sizzurp in Miami-Dade prison. :greed:

amateur you say http://imgur.com/gallery/pFsZxl8
 

Ragazza

Calciopoli Director
Jul 22, 2013
5,060
Anyone has some spare time on their hands and want to write me a speech for English class? I don't really have any money, so I'll pay the kind stranger by blowing him. Don't judge me, I'm in desperate situation. :shifty:
What's it have to be about? I probably don't have the time, but I'm just curious.
 

Dostoevsky

Tzu
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May 27, 2007
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Strange how time changes everything. Like 30 years ago when they did a study the results showed how 3% of population think it's needed to have second TV, while today that number is around 75%.

People get richer and it just triggers the need of people to have something more, like they see it's missing. Funny enough, most of those things are not needed at all. Kinda strange to see materialism being on the top of the ladders nowadays while at the same time happiness is at the lower rate.
 

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Nov 26, 2006
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Strange how time changes everything. Like 30 years ago when they did a study the results showed how 3% of population think it's needed to have second TV, while today that number is around 75%.

People get richer and it just triggers the need of people to have something more, like they see it's missing. Funny enough, most of those things are not needed at all. Kinda strange to see materialism being on the top of the ladders nowadays while at the same time happiness is at the lower rate.
Yeah, I remember doing one of those surveys years ago.

Turned out my idea of what you need (i.e. the basic essentials to live, plus a little bit) is very different to what the general population thought was needed.
 

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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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:lol: Awesome. Particularly because my mom (in her 70s no less) is a Korean culture fanatic and watches K-Pop all the time. Who knows what she's getting.

Strange how time changes everything. Like 30 years ago when they did a study the results showed how 3% of population think it's needed to have second TV, while today that number is around 75%.
30 years from now, that number might be different ... as in, "Who needs a TV? Isn't everyone getting their entertainment on tablets now?"

I've been listening to a lot of music from the 70s and 80s lately. And you can hear references to many things that no longer exist -- like the love letter, the answering machine, the complete obliviousness to things like social media or texting or the idea of a lack of social privacy among your friends who all have Facebook accounts and mobile phone cameras.

And yet at the same time I've encountered music that has no idea how prescient it was at the time. I was listening to "Ted, Just Admit It" by Jane's Addiction on my hike this morning. The whole idea of ubiquitous imagery and sexual violence and exposure has only gotten 5x worse than they thought back 25 years ago. :lol:
 

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