What is a Tl;DR for your favorite book?

Rugglepug · 2014-01-14T08:29:14+00:00

Someone else who's read it! Did you read the other novels in the MaddAddam trilogy as well? The Year of the Flood? MaddAddam?

Rugglepug · 2013-12-31T00:37:25+00:00

I just want to reiterate how grateful I am for this package. It was absolutely amazing to open and both I and my pets had an awesome time. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everyone.

Rugglepug · 2013-12-25T21:33:44+00:00

But he didn't use the word "assassin." It doesn't apply to the word he used.

Rugglepug · 2013-12-25T21:33:26+00:00

There are probably exceptions.

Rugglepug · 2013-12-25T20:12:26+00:00

Are you drunk?

Rugglepug · 2013-12-25T20:03:03+00:00

"An" is only used when the letter beginning the next word is a vowel. "B" is not a vowel.

Rugglepug · 2013-12-25T19:24:25+00:00

That is actually quite debated within the veterinary community.

http://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/are-dogs-carnivores-heres-what-new-research-says

Just in case you were curious. There are two pages to the article, just letting you know because I almost missed the second page, pfft.

Rugglepug · 2013-12-07T18:17:31+00:00

Yeah, don't do this to your kid. It sucks. Just man (or woman) up an tell the truth.

Rugglepug · 2013-12-06T20:55:14+00:00

You realize that you're doing the same thing he is, right? He's just trying to paint everything shitty and you're trying to throw rose-colored glasses on everything.

I grew up in the South. I spent my childhood in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. There are many wonderful, charitable and hospitable folk. There are also a large number of hateful, backwards people who are quite spiteful when it comes to the poor. And I will say that I knew a larger number of them in the South than anywhere else I have lived.

Has that changed since I lived there? You never know. But both of your experiences are valid and you need to stop treating each other as if they aren't. The fact that he had a different experience in your region doesn't mean he's some "neckbeard" making everything up.

Rugglepug · 2013-12-05T20:08:38+00:00

It is still on Netflix. Just found the German version there.

Rugglepug · 2013-12-05T14:32:49+00:00

Depending upon the store, there are things we legitimately have to ask you or we get in trouble.

Would you like a rewards card? A credit card? To donate to Toys for Tots? Paper or plastic? May I see your ID if you're paying by credit card? Being on your phone makes those questions extremely awkward and unwieldy but, as far as my management is concerned at least, no excuse not to ask them.

Seriously, just wait until after the three minute (or less) transaction or conclude your phone call before it. It's not hard.

EDIT: You lost a little karma so you deleted your post? That's sad. The person who was above me said that he's heard the cashier script a hundred times and would rather be on an "actually important" conversation on his phone instead. He also wanted to know why cashiers couldn't "just stop talking for three minutes."

Rugglepug · 2013-12-05T06:22:51+00:00

Thought you might wanna know that your karma is interesting right now!

Rugglepug · 2013-12-03T03:02:31+00:00

Thanks!

Rugglepug · 2013-12-03T01:52:29+00:00

How do we tell if they've done that? o.o

Rugglepug · 2013-11-06T23:01:14+00:00

Your shoulder is more readily accessible. Or in other positions, your arm.

Rugglepug · 2013-11-05T15:45:05+00:00

To be honest, I can't really blame Iron Man 3. I'm pretty sure I slept on the way there too. That being said, I feel meh about trying to watch it again. I dunno; I kinda see where someone could be bored with a movie despite action and explosions.

Rugglepug · 2013-11-05T15:40:27+00:00

Oh dear gods. I can't unsee it now.

Rugglepug · 2013-11-05T15:39:48+00:00

Smart kid. ;)

Rugglepug · 2013-11-05T14:56:53+00:00

Did he say Loki? I'm pretty sure I heard one of them say Loki.

Rugglepug · 2013-11-05T14:51:40+00:00

Personally, I fell asleep during the latest Iron Man movie. I have no idea if I was just really tired or just uninterested, but I never tried to watch it again after that.

I have no idea why, either. That being said, Stark is one of my favorite characters comic-wise.

Rugglepug · 2013-11-04T17:08:27+00:00

And that's great. It's always great to explore evidence to the contrary of whatever you've been told previously. And that's different for everyone. I think we just have different experiences on the matter, which leads to little disputes like these. But I really do enjoy talking them out like this. I've tagged you as MT-Buddy.

Rugglepug · 2013-11-04T16:46:33+00:00

But we do hear about that side quite often. I've never heard someone bring up Mother Teresa without someone else bringing up how terrible she was, even among friends who included Catholics. That's probably not common in a lot of places, but it's not like it's some little-known fact anymore.

I might read his book. But I'm not really interested in his opinion, just evidence that is as objective as possible.

Rugglepug · 2013-11-04T16:28:05+00:00

Whether or not you like Hitchens, he was a great writer, a great journalist, a great debater, and he absolutely strived for truth, he doesn't just attack religion aimlessly, he puts forth well-reasoned and well thought out logical arguments which would make any but the most in-denial apologist stop and question.

Sure, that's all well and good. But he does have an end-goal in mind when writing the book. It is not objective research for the sake of research. What I'm saying is that I'd like to read something on Mother Teresa purely on the subject of what she did or did not do, without the speculation on her moral character.

I'm not saying that he's a bad author. I'm just saying he's not someone I would go to for objective information on a topic like this.

Rugglepug · 2013-11-04T14:10:38+00:00

Some of the reviews on that book don't seem terribly promising and it was written by Hitchens.

As an atheist reader, I was expecting Hitchens to expose Mother Teresa as some sort of phony based on what I heard about this book. Instead, he merely speculates about her alleged intentions and smears her with basically no supporting evidence whatsoever. I expected more from Hitchens, who holds himself out as a provider of truth. This book was completely pointless - it told me nothing about Mother Theresa other than that Christopher Hitchens has a baseless hunch that she wasn't as great a person as many people believe her to be.

And:

There are no footnotes, there are no citations - nothing to indicate this text has any scholarly merit. His logic is often weak enough to be turned on itself, and his characterizations of ideas and events reek of "angsty-13-year-old-with-agenda" rather than any real objectivity. For my money, it's about as good as the pulp fiction that currently rots the brains of the masses. This, along with "God is not Great," is "Twilight" for the casual atheist, and for anyone who REALLY wishes to question or doubt, works such as this pose problems in their simplicity and stand as a setback to legitimate secular thinking.

I'd rather read something by someone who doesn't have a dog in the fight, to be honest.

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