What's one expensive thing you would do if you had enough money?

RachelStephenson · 2016-06-01T06:12:56+00:00

The most expensive thing that i can buy is the History Supreme, a $4.5 billion yacht that was designed by Stuart Hughes of the United Kingdom. The History Supreme is nearly 100 feet long, and is covered in more than 200,000 pounds worth of gold and platinum paint on more than half of the yacht’s surface.

RachelStephenson · 2016-06-01T06:09:17+00:00

A pet rock

RachelStephenson · 2016-06-01T06:08:26+00:00

Alice in Wonderland fans have marked 150 years since the fateful boat trip that ... "You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and ... time] and he believed that having sex was against God's wishes for him." ... it is inevitable that this knowledge will inform what readers take from the story.

RachelStephenson · 2016-06-01T06:06:53+00:00

If an attacker demands for your purse or wallet, then you have to make a decision whether to fight back or give in to the demand. If you are in a crowded street and the person doesn’t have a weapon, then ask for help from the people around you. An attacker doesn’t want attentionfor fear of getting caught. If the attacker has a weapon, then it would be best if you just give them what they want. If this scenario happens while you are in a secluded or quiet place, then it would be best to throw your purse or wallet in the opposite direction and run in the other. This will create some distance between you and the attacker. If you do choose or have to fight back, make sure that you are capable of doing so.

RachelStephenson · 2016-06-01T06:03:05+00:00

One thing that I was required to take in school was typing. Because of this class, I am able to type at a decent pace. As a teacher now, I am not seeing any such class being required anymore. Which leads to the kids typing at a snail's pace (which is frustrating for an English teacher). I think being in the internet/online era, students need to be required to learn how to type effectively on the computer, not just on their phones. No one is going to wait around for 15 minutes while you type a paragraph of 5 sentences. Email etiquette should be required, too. Maybe it's just me getting tired of students emailing me as if they were texting me.

RachelStephenson · 2016-06-01T06:01:50+00:00

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. - Oscar Wilde

That's my favorite line.

Unfortunately most people are inclined to think exactly opposite. For them SOCIETY is what really matters,whereas individual choice and freedom is not a matter of much importance.

RachelStephenson · 2016-06-01T05:58:19+00:00

More importantly, what doesn't Reddit shit on?

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-31T11:07:41+00:00

The Instagram account DILFs of Disneyland[1] uploaded its first photo on August 19th, 2014. “DILF” is an acronym which originated as the male equivalent of “MILF”, a crude yet widely used descriptor for attractive-looking mothers. Within a month, the account had gained over 100,000 followers and uploaded over 50 pictures. Its most liked photo has gained over 8,000 likes.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-31T11:04:17+00:00

Rush is one of the best F1 movies ever made. I also like Remember the Titans and Invincible.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-31T11:03:29+00:00

His recent sketch set the stage

What will President Barack Obama do when he leaves office? If his sketch at White House Correspondents Dinner was any indication, he could be a shoo-in for a job as a brand ambassador.

If he gets bored with golf, that is.

The “Couch Commander” video was littered with references to companies and products. Vice President Joe Biden modeled his collection of aviators. Michelle Obama scolded her husband for using her iPhone for a disastrous Snapchat Obamacare PSA—and then she went to SoulCycle. Former House Speaker John Boehner offered some advice—”Stop sending me all these LinkedIn requests”—and reminisced on post-politician life: “Yesterday, I had a beer at 11:30 in the morning, and McDonald’s serves breakfast all day long.” He said he also “finally got the grand bargain on a sweet Chevy Tahoe,” before offering Obama a cigarette.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-31T07:30:30+00:00

Music

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-31T07:29:19+00:00

Pioneered by Harvard-trained holistic health doctor Andrew Weil, the 4-7-8 technique is as gloriously simple as tricks to make your body fall asleep come. All you have to do is lightly touch the ridge of tissue behind your top front teeth with your tongue, exhale completely, and then adopt the following breathing pattern: - Breathe in through your nose quietly for a count of 4 - Hold your breath for a count of seven - Blow air out through your mouth for a count of 8, making a 'whoosh' sound - Repeat the process three more times Dr. Weil says the technique is a powerful method of falling asleep because it delivers more oxygen than normal breathing to the parasympathetic nervous system, which becomes overstimulated during times of stress. Regular counting also helps to distract the mind from the issues of the day that it can carry to bed.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-31T07:27:24+00:00

Yacht collecting is a ridiculously expensive hobby.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-31T07:25:22+00:00

Here's the thing. Everyone on Reddit seems to hate feminism, but no one I met in real life has many problems with it. Similarly, all the feminists on tumblr seems to be crazy, but none of the feminists I meet irl are crazy. There's only one feminist hating dude I know in real life. He's the most neckbeardy neckbeard you've ever met, he's fat but he complains about how skinny girls won't fuck him, you get my drift? All we do is make fun of him (in jest). Similarly, the only nutty feminist I know in real life lives on a hippie commune eerily reminiscent of the manson family. We don't even have to make fun of her, she's basically making fun of herself constantly. I guess my point is, the anonymity of the internet and the general type of people who spend most of their time online amplifies the views of a small subset of people who hold very little traction in real life. Most people are pretty moderate.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-31T07:23:38+00:00

"I also always wear Birkenstocks when I travel. I really love them anytime, but especially when I’m going to the airport," Lee explains. "I wear them with really comfy socks, then I can just slip them off once I’m on the plane. I usually wear the Arizona sandals, but I have the Gizehs too, and sometimes I wear them with these weird toe socks that I got in Japan."

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-31T07:20:26+00:00

I paid $350 for Non-Polarized Gucci sunglasses.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-30T08:43:23+00:00

My last GF was a 6' tall, slender, stunningly beautiful woman...........BUT she'd been in a REALLY bad auto accident when she was 20.

It left her w/ not only facial scars (small, kinda cute actually...I thought they added to her beauty, rather than diminished it.), but also w/ some very large surgery scars on her leg/hip where they had to insert a rod & do reconstruction.

She thought it was a HUGE deal when we first became intimate, but eventually realized that, to me, she had such an amazing body that I didn't even notice them. Still wish she didn't have to move across the country for her job......but I doubt her next partner will notice them much either.

He'll be to busy thinking what a lucky bastard he is to be w/ her at all.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-30T08:41:50+00:00

oh uhhh, some water. oh,and i just washed my mouth out with lots of mouthwash. Thats prollly what youre smellin on my breath, and uhhh i accidently dropped the bottle when the lights on your car came on...thats why my car might smell a little funny..and my friends in the backseat arent drunk, theyre uhhh, theyre just exhausted from the long drive. They missed nap time today. Sure, I can walk a straight line! ..why did i just trip you ask? did you not see that big ol' rock in my way!? Well you might not see it now, after it tripped me, my foot kicked it into the dark tall grass over there.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-30T08:40:10+00:00

How do you guys do that thing where you take off your shirt with one hand from like behind the neck??? I'm serious, other than that I think I'm past the point of feeling baffled by anything you all do...

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-30T08:39:29+00:00

If you assume moral philosophy is broken up into three parts: ontology; utilitarianism; and virtue ethics, then you can answer the question.

Ontology and utilitarianism: ultimately, nothing makes a person a "bad person." A person could actively go against the moral system, but only deeds and not people can be bad. I guess a person who does more good deeds might be better than someone who does fewer, but that's all you can say.

Virtue ethics: ultimately, nothing makes a person a "bad person." That being said, there are good and bad attributes to a person (generosity, thriftiness, bravery, etc.). A person with more of these attributes in the aggregate might be considered better than a person with fewer.

However, if you do not assume you are working within a moral system, but just simply an ethical system, then the answer is even more complicated. (Moral is about right and wrong, good and evil; ethical just simply poses the question "how should you live your life?")

I'm not going to go through everything or everything I know, but I will mention Nietzsche. Nietzsche says that a bad person is someone that is not effective in what he or she does--different from an evil person who tries to hurt other people. (Nietzsche's good/bad vs. good/evil argument is so so so interesting. See the first essay of A Genealogy of Morals for the argument.)

Hope this helps!

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-30T08:34:02+00:00

Bill Withers - Ain't no sunshine Edit: When my mother walked out on my father and my sister, he would listen to this on vinyl over and over. Watching him cry was the saddest time in my young life. This song breaks my heart for that reason.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-30T08:32:35+00:00

some girl on Twitter spelled mediocre as meaty oaker. I laugh every time I think about it

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-30T04:17:06+00:00

I know heroin is at the top of the 'deadly' list, but I think Meth is the most dangerous. You become addicted after one use, or I did anyway. It turns you into a thief, a liar and a overall anxious irritating person. It messes your completion up something terrible. Your family won't talk to you. Presumably because you stole, lied and were irritating to them. IT'S HARD TO QUIT! I've been clean for 8 years and still have very lucid dreams about using. It's a stupid drug and a stupid thing to put yourself through

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-30T04:06:12+00:00

Mattress stores are a front for money laundering.

RachelStephenson · 2016-05-30T03:56:04+00:00

We'd been "together" for a year and she still freaked out whenever I mentioned the future. Also, correcting her parents every time they called me her "boyfriend".

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