BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

uziq wrote:

Jay wrote:

Pochsy wrote:

Jay, correct me if I'm wrong, but the sense I'm getting is that a lot of the worldview presented is being taken from Ayn Rand? Is it correct to say that Atlas Shrugged shaped your personal philosophy significantly?

No, I had my personal philosophy in place before I read it.

you signed up to this forum with the username john_galt. i think it's fair to say it influenced you, not accorded with your pre-existing, pre-formulated philosophy.

you've said here before about how much the book influenced you. why bother?

No, it was one of those times where you read something and you think to yourself "this person put into words everything I feel."

I had read the book shortly before I started playing bf2, so it was fresh in my head when looking for a username.

Macbeth is a better username than Super Jail Warden. But the Warden from Super Jail is my spirit animal.

https://youtu.be/-_CKJ4q5Tu4

A lot.

So many junkie neighbor and his friends are in his garage drinking and probably having a smoke out. And here I am like a chump wishing I could party too

Sharing smoking devices with strangers during a respiratory disease pandemic seems like a bad idea.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Sharing smoking devices with strangers during a respiratory disease pandemic seems like a bad idea.

Go out like a man and hold a 1g bong rip way deep down until you feel the light seeping from your soul.

Jay wrote:

No, I had my personal philosophy in place before I read it.

Ha ha OK.

Didn't you participate in the invasion of two countries which had nothing to do with 9/11, and failed to invade the country which did?
That was a level-headed response by stern emotionless male republicans who thought it through.

This really looks like rational people communicating like grown ups.


The bottom line is an emotional response in men is seen as a good thing, in women its a bad thing.

The one thing I would say is in my experience women can't deal with failure or criticism, so they gravitate to areas where failure isn't a problem, eg accounting, publishing, media etc.

A typo or poor logical argument in a book about the dresses Henry VIII's wives wore doesn't matter.
A typo or poor logical argument in the lines of code which control the tail surfaces of a jetliner does matter.

This is what I've seen numerous times:

Man "You got this wrong, please fix it"
Other man "OK"

Man "You got this wrong, please fix it"
Woman "You're saying I got this wrong? How dare you! Do you know how hard I worked on this? You wouldn't accuse a man of getting something wrong! Did you just look at my tits? You looked at my tits! I'm going to my doctor to get a certificate for a week off for cramps then I'm going to my lawyer"
Man "OK, we're never hiring another woman"

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uziq wrote:

errr, or the way that deaths are tallied and reported in hospitals, dilbert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont … e=emb_logo

if the UK wasn't so fucked and incompetent, as well, i would be having a great time watching america dissolve.

News regarding the U.K. in the U.S. right now is how your leader is no cuck and knocked up a young girl.

Fucking Chinese

China deliberately suppressed or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak in an “assault on international transparency’’ that cost tens of thousands of lives, according to a dossier prepared by concerned Western governments on the COVID-19 contagion.

The 15-page research document, obtained by The Saturday Telegraph, lays the foundation for the case of negligence being mounted against China.

It states that to the “endangerment of other countries” the Chinese government covered-up news of the virus by silencing or “disappearing” doctors who spoke out, destroying evidence of it in laboratories and refusing to provide live samples to international scientists who were working on a vaccine.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/coron … 96ad17da60

jay is super rational and logical but he likes it when the right-wing get indignant and outraged over people wearing pyjamas during the holiday season.

yep, a race of intellectual supermen over there.

Wait, what about pajamas?

It's probably ironic that some of the people in Dilbert's post getting into cops' faces, and people like the ones blockading hospitals, have probably worn a "thin blue line" flag tee or posted the graphic at least once somewhere.

"I stand with our nation's law enforcement!"

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

If you deal with a lot of women in engineering who fulfill that stereotype, perhaps there are other things at play. I've heard some pretty toxic work environments just over a phone line.

Women typically aren't comfortable in male dominated environments, not even when there are rules and procedures in place to prevent anyone offering a woman a coffee from the free coffee machine.
Thats just the way it is and its not going to change.