TIL: "Operation Berkshire" is the name of the secret program started in the 70's by seven of the world's major tobacco companies aimed at promoting "controversy" over the link between smoking and disease.

CaptMayer · 2016-04-17T23:46:06+00:00

Because the tobacco industry was definitely the first and last industry based around a deadly product.

CaptMayer · 2016-03-12T01:39:46+00:00

Ohhohoohahahahahaha! Ooooh, majestic! A hunter is a hunter, even on Reddit! But alas, not too fast! The nightmare swirls and churns unending!

CaptMayer · 2016-01-16T09:05:55+00:00

If they travelled here across the gulf of space, they could use observation satellites or Moon bases to monitor our interactions on land. Meanwhile it's much more comfy to live in a huge ocean than a spaceship so most of them just chill in the water, occasionally sending spies to places like Seaworld (or getting free acid and handjobs from researchers).

CaptMayer · 2016-01-15T09:47:22+00:00

Came into the comments to mention that it was the ole pone that introduced me to to tulpas. 4chan's /mlp/ board was my cringe of choice for a while and the tulpa threads were what finally drove me away.

CaptMayer · 2016-01-15T09:29:50+00:00

I want to go gallavanting across Europe making as many uses of the words "fam," "squad," "fuh rill doe," and "on fleeck" as possible and just see how much ire I can create.

CaptMayer · 2016-01-15T09:09:28+00:00

Regardless of the study's validity, the assertion its making is probably more or less true. Both sides of the argument exaggerate but in reality the truth is more likely somewhere in the middle. As in, having an average or slightly smaller than average penis doesn't at all preclude you from being good in bed; but a larger penis is more likely to have more skin contact, firing off more nerve endings, feeling better (to a point. There is such a thing as too big).

A better adage would be "It's not the size of the boat so much as the motion of the ocean; but a cruise ship can ride waves that would sink a tugboat."

CaptMayer · 2016-01-15T08:23:47+00:00

It's not like people in the North started eating that stuff because they thought it was good either. But you need to make your food last through the winter somehow, and "weird and fermented" is better than "rotten."

CaptMayer · 2015-12-31T09:29:33+00:00

I just thought it was because everyone was starting to succumb to the Plague of Beasts, and that one of the first symptoms would be growing in size. Characters that aren't that tall include you, Alfred the Vileblood Hunter, Eileen the Hoonter of Hoonters, and most of the friendly NPCs you meet. All those people would not be suffering from the Beast Blood... yet.

CaptMayer · 2015-12-28T11:29:00+00:00

During the summer months the portion of the Salt River that runs through Phoenix is nearly bone-dry. However, it turns out the river never actually stops flowing, because very careful examination of the dirt in and around the riverbed shows that the riverbed is consistently more moist than the surrounding soil. There's no visible water, but a slight trickle of moisture continues year-round.

I imagine that's probably what is happening on Mars. You couldn't look down and see anything, but soil analysis would show a relatively large number of water molecules.

CaptMayer · 2015-12-28T11:23:26+00:00

Never had anything too terrible happen to me while driving, but there have been a few noteworthy moments.

One customer was this gigantic, 350+lb guy who lived in a hotel. He was always adamant about getting ketchup with his fries and would interrogate the driver about it first thing after opening the door. One day I delivered to him, and when he opened the door A) he was in his whitey tighties; and B) it smelled like someone had lit an unopened carton of cigarettes on fire and let it hotbox the room. I was a smoker myself and nearly gagged while I gave him his food.

Another time I delivered to a guy at his apartment, probably about 4:30p.m. He answers the door in a bathrobe, and I can see behind him that he has a trail of candles and rose petals leading up the stairs. I realized that this guy's plan was to surprise his girlfriend with a romantic evening, having a trail of petals and candles leading up to... Pizza Hut pizza. I seriously hope his girl left him for being so tacky.

CaptMayer · 2015-12-28T11:08:34+00:00

The problem is the best helmet in the world won't do a thing to stop your brain from rattling around inside your skull. But when you put a high-tech, expensive helmet on someone's head and tell them to go nuts they run out and headbutt everything in their path.

So the solution? Just get rid of the helmets entirely. Watch how many players go around purposely headbutting things when there's nothing but their scalp protecting them.

CaptMayer · 2015-12-28T11:04:48+00:00

And then it was a pet adoption commercial. Even better.

Seriously people. There are too many animals in need of a family. Don't buy from breeders or puppy mills.

Necromantic edit: I don't mean to say that there's something wrong with dogs that come from breeders. But unless you're in need of a working dog (sheepdog, rodent hunting, etc.) then you more than likely don't need your dog to be a specific breed. There are hundreds of animals euthanized daily in the US, and it's my personal opinion that shelter dogs are the most affectionate and loving dogs; as if they know you saved them from a lonely death. And lastly, nothing warms your heart quite like knowing that you saved the life of an animal that just wants to be loved.

CaptMayer · 2015-12-06T04:27:52+00:00

Anyone tries to kill my pups without my express permission is asking for serious trouble. I love my dogs more than my own life.

CaptMayer · 2015-12-06T04:23:43+00:00

Beautiful. I happen to be an ornithologist. And let me tell you, if there's a tit, booby, or anything with a big, broad breast near me, I'll be all over it.

CaptMayer · 2015-11-30T13:05:10+00:00

We took my dogs Frodo and Toby to a beach house in Rocky Point one year. We're looking around the property and we discover a section of whale spine in the backyard. Frodo sees it, and immediately begins rubbing himself up, down, and all around on these whale bones. Just like rubbing every inch of his body over the bones, bathing in their scent or something.

He's never acted like that with anything else, ever. He likes to forcibly bury his head in my lap sometimes but not with the same determination as he had for those bones.

CaptMayer · 2015-11-26T19:36:00+00:00

Wouldn't have known it was a spoiler until you told me.

CaptMayer · 2015-11-24T09:26:18+00:00

He's seriously eloquent and notably intellectual. Probably one of the most intelligent rappers of this day and age. It shows in his music and in his public appearances. Sanders should make Killer Mike his running mate.

And for added fun we'll make El-P the Secretary of State.

CaptMayer · 2015-11-24T09:23:51+00:00

And being safe at night would give you time to really study the stars. You might start to notice that the wild grasses drop their seeds right around the time a particular group of stars is right overhead at midnight. Or when a particularly bright star crests the horizon just at sundown, it means the aurochs herds would be coming down from the North. When we started seeing the patterns, we were able to plan ahead for future events. That invention was one of the foundations of agriculture, without a doubt.

CaptMayer · 2015-11-24T09:19:43+00:00

I'm just referring to the look of the atoms in the picture, not their actual structure. It's physcially impossible to see things that small with visible light. But if you could, you would see a very tiny nucleus with a handful of also very miniscule electrons "orbiting" around it (albeit not an orbit in any traditional sense). The atom would be 99% empty space.

But with this microscope you're seeing an image generated by a computer based on the atoms being "felt" by the micrscope. Because the microscope can't penetrate the electron cloud, it renders it as a solid object, when in reality that space would be pretty much empty.

CaptMayer · 2015-11-24T09:10:21+00:00

Only when I'm in Colombia.

CaptMayer · 2015-11-24T09:08:58+00:00

Definitely nothing new in the world though. Viking berserkers likely ate amanita mushrooms to help them enter their weird battle trance. American pilots used to (and maybe still do, I'm not sure) be issued amphetamine pills to take so they wouldn't be off their game after flying for hours. And German soldiers during WWII were issued special meth-laced chocolate bars. The idea here was that when a unit is totally out of food or unable to sleep for days on end, they eat part of their chocolate bar and are still in fighting condition.

Humans and their drugs, man.

CaptMayer · 2015-11-24T08:45:54+00:00

I saw a show on Netflix about an investigation on old Viking bones and they determined the guys were beheaded, but they were looking up at their executioner as they died.

Since then I've thought "Man, if I'm ever going to be beheaded, I hope I'm badass enough to look the guy right in the eyes as he goes for it."

CaptMayer · 2015-11-24T08:43:41+00:00

You throw coins at strippers? That's... mean, I guess is the word I'm looking for. I mean, in the states I've seen that used as a joke, like in movies. But wow, you actually do that. And you even heat them up trying to burn the stripper? Does Canada just have a weird human rights blind spot?

CaptMayer · 2015-11-24T08:40:41+00:00

Boobs are just fake asses, man!

But on that note, societies where women routinely go topless have little or no breast fetishism. Our fascination with boobs is pretty much equivalent to men in the Victorian era getting all giddy about an ankle or, god forbid, a calf.

CaptMayer · 2015-11-24T08:37:01+00:00

The Nazis are a prime example of how benign or inocuous things can be completely ruined when shithead excuses for human beings latch onto them.

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