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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: mr.Curmudgeon on December 08, 2005, 02:51:41 pm
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http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2005/11/the_other_id.php?page=1
Count me in!
mrC
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Read an article like that a while back, it mentioned MANY more items. The one that sticks in my head is our eyes.
Worst design ever. Even the squid does it better. The data pathways are in front of the photosensitive area, gaining vertebrates the 'inverted eye' nomenclature.
Toss in a blind spot where the nerves and blood vessels enter the eye, and you've got a winner.
Of course, you can spin this either way - so it is really meaningless, but it was a neat concept.
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Yeah, our eyes are fairly poor in design compared to several others in the animal kingdom. Outside of that, my favorite quote from the article was this:
"Some guy from Texas listed a number of things with this and he said, "Actually I would write more, but I have to go pee in Morse code, because some idiot designed my aging prostate."
The morse code thing is cracking me up.
mrC
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Best evidence of "incompetent design"? Nipples on males! I mean, wtf?
mrC
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Clearly his prostate is more intelligent than half of Texas, though, if it understands Morse Code.
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:D :D :D
BRILLIANT! That's damn funny!
mrC
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I'm from Texas. We laugh when ya'll make fun of us because we know how insignificant the New England states have become in the U.S. ;D
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I'm from Texas. We laugh when ya'll make fun of us because we know how insignificant the New England states have become in the U.S. ;D
But the New England states still function with 1/4" of snow on the ground.
I swear, I was working over the phone yesterday with a guy in Dallas who was panicking over the 'snow emergency' they were looking at.
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I'm from Texas. We laugh when ya'll make fun of us because we know how insignificant the New England states have become in the U.S. ;D
Let's just assume Texans are smug about all blue coastal states.
Then I'd agree we're insignificant if you don't need any products (port cities), money (Wall street), entertainment (Hollywood), or innovation (M.I.T., etc...) !!!
So.... :P
I'll hit ya'll up in Texas if I need a belt-buckle or something. :D
mrC
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I'm from Texas.
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I'll hit ya'll up in Texas if I need a belt-buckle or something.
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I'm surprised we don't live in the Republic of Texas at this point.
We have been, since Nov. 2000.
mrC
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Dude, you're like a piano with only one key. You spend more time on George Bush's nuts than his pubic hair does. It's not healthy.
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Hey, no need to highlight Mr.C's personal preferences. I also hear he doesn't like the current president. ;D
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Hey, no need to highlight Mr.C's personal preferences. I also hear he doesn't like the current president. ;D
That rumor has been greatly exaggerated. It IS, however, a known fact that he has the hots for Ann Coulter and wants to have her babies. Oh, and he's bicurious and sends Dick Cheney nekkid pics of himself in a net half-shirt every other day.
There's ALL KINDS of stuff wrong with that! ;)
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That rumor has been greatly exaggerated. It IS, however, a known fact that he has the hots for Ann Coulter and wants to have her babies. Oh, and he's bicurious and sends Dick Cheney nekkid pics of himself in a net half-shirt every other day.
There's ALL KINDS of stuff wrong with that!
I hadn't heard these new rumors yet. I better update my blog.
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That rumor has been greatly exaggerated. It IS, however, a known fact that he has the hots for Ann Coulter and wants to have her babies. Oh, and he's bicurious and sends Dick Cheney nekkid pics of himself in a net half-shirt every other day.
There's ALL KINDS of stuff wrong with that!
I hadn't heard these new rumors yet. I better update my blog.
I have forged documents to prove these facts if you need them. I shall forward them on shortly. Start using the correct terminology as well. You're gonna blow our cover otherwise. These are not rumors, they are FACTS!
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"These are not rumors, they are FACTS!"
just like wmd's
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It IS, however, a known fact that he has the hots for Ann Coulter and wants to have her babies. Oh, and he's bicurious and sends Dick Cheney nekkid pics of himself in a net half-shirt every other day.
I send them to Karl Rove. Cheney isn't gay, his daughter is. Btw, Coulter can't have kids, she's a eunich.
mrC
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Dude, you're like a piano with only one key.
And these weak defensive retorts from you are like the harmonic tones.
ie: Quote from: ChadTower on December 01, 2005, 03:53:07 PM
Most of the reason I defend him, when I do, is because I get sick of all of the one note idiots out there screaming "BUSH BAD BUSH BAD".
mrC
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Yes, yes, I fully place you into the one note idiot category, you've caught me with my own statements.
How exactly did you gain something from proving that?
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Yes, yes, I fully place you into the one note idiot category, you've caught me with my own statements.
A statement that is, in itself, your "one note". Duh.
It also happens to be the most pathetic thing I've ever read. That you "mostly" defend someone solely because others criticism him? Hilarious! Thanks for admitting your statements have no foundation in reasoning, logic, and/or sound judgement, that they are nothing more than reactionary diatribes, most likely based on your own personal self-consciousness or percieved victimhood. Not that they had much merit beforehand.
Yeah! You really "got me" by completely invalidating anything you've ever had to say in the political arena. That's how I've gained. Keep 'em coming!
If I'm after "W's" balls (gross thought, but no suprise you've fetishized his tackle)...then you're the "cup", dutifully protecting them from harm, lovingly warming them so he can teabag you 'til your heart's content! And he doesn't even have to pay you!
mrC
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Somebody's panties are in a wad again ::)
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Somebody's panties are in a wad again
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Um, last time I checked, this is a forum for people who build their own control panels and such.
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And mccoy comes out of left field with a solid SLAP to the right cheek.
;D
EDIT: I found the security camera still.
(http://newenglandfootballleague.com/forum/images/avatars/21233457784399c4b0a30e8.jpg)
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I'm building two cabinets that are due by next Friday, so that was a good stress relief.
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Due by?
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They are both for family. One is having a huge CHRISTmas party next Saturday and the other is to be delivered to Boston that Monday.
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Ah... actual Boston, or someplace around Boston?
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Someplace around Boston. I'm in Ohio, so I have no clue as to where he lives. I believe it's about two hours West.
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Ah. I live around Boston myself, could help you figure out where it is.
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Cool. I will be getting the details this weekend. I'll give you the heads up once I hear from them.
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I know I'm being a ---tallywhacker--- about this...
Well, you're a bit late to the party. This "Politics in an arcade forum" thing has been covered before. Hasn't changed a thing. In fact, like yourself, I initially railed against it. Didn't work. So I joined in.
You are, of course, free to ignore it all together. There are a couple of other forums on this site where political discussions don't break out...stay there, this is 'everything else'.
mrC
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That post of mine was more of a stress relief than anything else. :) I've been here for over a year so I'm familiar. Anyways, I enjoy the everything else forum, I just read the wrong post at the wrong time.
Continue on........................................................................
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We've all done it. We will all do it again. Today was your turn.
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I do it about every day. I've got the rash to prove it.
mrC
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He has a rash on his Bush.
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I know I'm being a ---tallywhacker--- about this...
You are, of course, free to ignore it all together. There are a couple of other forums on this site where political discussions don't break out...stay there, this is 'everything else'.
mrC
Your jumpsuit seems like it fits pretty well. Sweet, getting those shoes to match too, hey?
Thirsty? I've got some Kool-Aid!
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Your jumpsuit seems like it fits pretty well. Sweet, getting those shoes to match too, hey?
Thirsty? I've got some Kool-Aid!
Says the man who plans on wrapping his arcade box in an effervescent American flag (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=44196.0)! Ahhhh, taste that Jingo-Juice (TM)!
mrC
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Wow. So what you're saying here is that loving the USA is a negative thing... color me surprised.
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Wow. So what you're saying here is that loving the USA is a negative thing... color me surprised.
He misunderstood me. I remember a time when he wailed, pleaded, begged, and bribed people not to talk about politics. He laid out his transformation, and I was simply welcoming him to the cult. He musta thought I was being derisive, so he tried to reach across the aisle and smack me. Those short leprechaun arms prevent him from doing any damage though, both to others AND himself. ;D
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...arse...
i'm just glad family oriented forums are finally teaching you guys how to spell properly ;D