Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

[The Spartan]

What a relief. The forecast has little to no chance of rain this week.

[The Spartan]

Shadow's back to normal!

[Stofsk]

[RogueIce]

Puppy!

[The Spartan]

Rain, rain, go away. Come again some other day.

[joviwan]

rain, rain, come over here

it's el nino and we have drought and he clearly doesn't need it

[Bounty]

Puppy!

Kitten

Smart bastard too, he figured out the litter box.

[Ralin]

I was watching the Nostalgia Critic's review of Temple of Doom and I noticed for the first time that Indy pronounces the Chinese warlord's name right

[The Spartan]

Can we please fast forward about 5 years so that the most vocal wailing and gnashing of teeth about the "nightmare" of allowing gay marriage can just go the fuck away?

[Oxymoron]

Ah, yes. I suppose living in fucking Texas these days must be an even more cringe-worthy experience than usual.

[The Spartan]

Not as much as you might think. I've not encountered anyone in person expressing an opinion one way or the other.

Still, it's hard to not hear a ton of complaining even when you tend to avoid a lot of news because it's mostly noise. Especially when the governor and state attorney were mouthing off about defying the ruling. I think they backed off later, but still...

Keep in mind, also, that our junior senator is Ted fucking Cruz.

[adr]

i actually complained out loud about the whole anti gay marriage nonsense. like i really don't understand why people even care, if anything, this *protects* 'traditional' marriage by not rendering it obsolete by a larger group of people!

[timmy]

That sounds interesting. Expand, if you will?

[adr]

Marriage is already becoming less common; people don't feel it is necessary or desirable in their lives. If homosexuals couldn't get married at all, they'd surely continue living their lives without it - demonstrating that it isn't that important. So when someone is comtemplating marriage they might say "my gay friends don't do it and they are cool so i won't either".

Now though, that ~10% of the population can get married and likely will, soaring the marriage rate and reinforcing that it is a desirable thing for younger couples. I betcha countries with gay marriage have more marriages than those without, even if you adjust for the rate of homosexuals and other factors. I'm too much of a lazy ignoramus to actually test that hypothesis tho.

[timmy]

Ah, I see what you're getting at.

[Oxymoron]

So, I weighed myself today.

59 kilograms (130 Lbs).

For reference, I'm 170cm tall (5'6").

I was still thinking I was 63-65 kilograms.

This came as a bit of a shock to me.

I'm happy about this.

[Stofsk]

I was going to suggest that you eat a hamburger but then i realised i have a similar height to you and weigh a hell of a lot more than i should

[Oxymoron]

[The Spartan]

Oxy, I mean you no offense when I say this, but you are a tiny dude.

I've got more than 15 cm and over 45 kilos on you. Granted I'm bigger than the average; it's like we're book-ending it.

[adr]

I'm 5'11" and weigh in right now at about 140 lbs....

...and in my own eyes i'm a bit high...

[Oxymoron]

As the internet would say:

I'm smol

[timmy]

Or as they say where you come from, petite.

[Oxymoron]

Yes. Although not that much. For a girl I'm just average sized.

[Dude]

And so the saga of the manure ends with me paying for its removal, a destroyed friendship and a gate being put up at either end of the property with a "GTFO" sign on it.

Shoulda just sued.

[Bounty]

Today I walked up to the register of a Lego store and put down my VIP card. And it felt good.

(€5 discount!)