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fredericksIf you're asked to describe yourself and you say "intelligent", isn't that, in a way, proof to the contrary? Or it shows you're too vain and self-conscious for your own good, and you think little of your fellow man. If you were truly intelligent it'd be easily picked up on through conversation, in the same manner no one ever really says "handsome/beautiful" or "well-dressed" in response to the same question (this holds for face-to-face interactions only, of course). Intelligence, like a bunch of other more noteworthy qualities, is usually self-evident. People should say things like "loves Ben and Jerry Chubby Hubby" or "can do the New York Times Sunday Crossword using ink". See, that last one there? Most people would be like "whoa, you're smart!" Well, except for me. I hate that crossword. Maniacal bastards.
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I'm a little miffed that I haven't watched a lick of the new Battlestar Galactica yet. I'm one of those people that need to see series from Episode 1, Season 1. None of this jumping in during the 8th season of Stargate SG-1 for me. Nope. I'm just going to avoid the whole thing until I can somehow make it through Seasons 1-7. It's a shame, because I hear both of those shows have something going for them. Eh. Hopefully I can BitTorrent the early episodes and watch them before school starts (?).
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My brothers have this new baseball game they keep talking about and, I swear, 4 out of 5 times I spy them playing they're not actually *playing* baseball. They spend most of their time building stadiums, changing ticket prices, regulating food vendors, trading players, setting salary cap, doing everything they can to keep their franchise in the black...and they do all this with expressions of deep concentration on their faces. This from the kids who find it easy to blow whatever money they have on games and sportswear.
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I'm tired of people using the word "organic" to describe anything outside of biological lifeforms and produce so severely overpriced you can only find in posh groceries. To paraphrase one Inigo Montoya - "I don't think it means what they think it means". It's like the word has become popular to bandy around in essays, newspaper articles, and, most annoying, regular correspondence. Just say what you fucking mean. Instead of using the word "organic", say "fuck you, you asshole, I am so much better than you I can shop in Whole Foods and purchase Burt's Bees facial products and Tom of Maine's nasty 'natural' toothpaste and I've been exposed to the word 'organic' while walking up and down the fresh fruit aisle so much I want to use it instead of proclaiming how much more intelligent than you I obviously am".
Or not.
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I'm a little miffed that I haven't watched a lick of the new Battlestar Galactica yet. I'm one of those people that need to see series from Episode 1, Season 1. None of this jumping in during the 8th season of Stargate SG-1 for me. Nope. I'm just going to avoid the whole thing until I can somehow make it through Seasons 1-7. It's a shame, because I hear both of those shows have something going for them. Eh. Hopefully I can BitTorrent the early episodes and watch them before school starts (?).
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My brothers have this new baseball game they keep talking about and, I swear, 4 out of 5 times I spy them playing they're not actually *playing* baseball. They spend most of their time building stadiums, changing ticket prices, regulating food vendors, trading players, setting salary cap, doing everything they can to keep their franchise in the black...and they do all this with expressions of deep concentration on their faces. This from the kids who find it easy to blow whatever money they have on games and sportswear.
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I'm tired of people using the word "organic" to describe anything outside of biological lifeforms and produce so severely overpriced you can only find in posh groceries. To paraphrase one Inigo Montoya - "I don't think it means what they think it means". It's like the word has become popular to bandy around in essays, newspaper articles, and, most annoying, regular correspondence. Just say what you fucking mean. Instead of using the word "organic", say "fuck you, you asshole, I am so much better than you I can shop in Whole Foods and purchase Burt's Bees facial products and Tom of Maine's nasty 'natural' toothpaste and I've been exposed to the word 'organic' while walking up and down the fresh fruit aisle so much I want to use it instead of proclaiming how much more intelligent than you I obviously am".
Or not.
