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dude who turns down booty because he doesn't like condoms:

a moron	12 votes - 70 %
getting it someplace else	9 votes - 52 %
just gay (not that there's anything wrong with that)	1 vote - 5 %
not long for these parts	3 votes - 17 %

17 Total Votes

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Don't choose by theantix (4.00 / 2) #1 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 01:00:39 AM EST

Go to both.
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Of course by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #2 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 01:53:54 AM EST

But in which order? Right now I'm leaning towards Japan, but that's because it's closer than Israel. See what I'm reduced to, man?

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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why not Japan now by R343L (4.00 / 2) #3 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 02:35:45 AM EST

Israel later? I doubt either are going to disappear in the next 12 months.

And towards your penny-pinching ways, Japan is not as expensive as they say if you don't stay in pricey hotels (capsules or gaijin-hotels or ryokan are the way to go) and don't insist on driving places or going to really fancy restaurants (perfectly wonderful food can be had pretty cheap).

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot
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oh also by R343L (4.00 / 2) #4 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 02:36:53 AM EST

there is at least one husite (lylehaxon) out in Tokyo. If you were inclined to be social.

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot
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That's a mighty big if by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #5 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 03:42:15 AM EST

The same me that I am at home? That's the me that I am when I go on vacation, too. In fact, part of the appeal of both places is that neither will require anything of me, socially, and no one will give me a hard time about it. I can just take shitloads of HD video, and be on my way.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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I also vote japan by joh3n (4.00 / 2) #8 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 07:30:31 AM EST

but buy the HD cam there not here, since it will be smaller, better, and cheap enough to be sold ina vending machine next to the panties.

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Please use TimeMachine.app to go back to yesterday by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #10 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 09:46:29 AM EST

and tell me that before 10:30am, Pacific time, so that I can change my order!

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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I cant! by joh3n (4.00 / 1) #16 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 10:20:59 AM EST

Donut Wheel shipped my copies only yesterday!

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: I was unpleasantly surprised to find that by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #19 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 10:44:43 AM EST

"build to order" actually adds a couple of days to the delivery date. I was all, "just tell me where that thing is, I'll build it to order myself," then I found the thing in southeast Asia.
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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Correction by ucblockhead (4.00 / 2) #18 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 10:30:21 AM EST

*in* the panties.
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Disappearing by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #17 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 10:29:36 AM EST

Presuming Pakistan's nukes stay out of the wrong hands.
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Mother stories by Vulch (4.00 / 2) #6 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 05:48:52 AM EST

Do you get the death list? I've not lived in the town since the mid 80s and was only there intermittently between starting university in 1977 and then, my parents knew a lot of people because dad was a local councillor and prominent local business man, I've no idea who 99% of the people are but still I have to be informed. On the other hand, the father of one of my best friends from school died and they sold off the farm and I didn't find out about that for 2 years...

: I'm starting to get it by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #26 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 09:31:49 PM EST

but it's not in full swing now. There are still moments where my Mom seems to make the connection between "whether Mohammed knows someone or not" and "whether Mohammed gives a shit about them or not", but that threshold is shifting.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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WIPO by anonimouse (4.00 / 3) #7 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 06:07:53 AM EST

There is no such thing as free booty. It always costs you, someway or somehow.....

Your outlook on Match is pessimistic. We all get served with turds until we happen to finally get served with the chateaubriand we have been looking for.

Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL

: In the given situation, it's a year-long relation by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #11 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 09:50:43 AM EST

which, it seems to me, someone is a little squeaky to get out of, but lacks the testicles to just say it. But yes, nothing is free. Ever.

My problem with match.com is that I feel the chateaubriand is a myth, and empirical and statistical analyses serve to reinforce that fact. If I did them, which I did not, though now I'm thinking of a plan...

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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: child support's a bitch by sasquatchan (4.00 / 2) #14 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 09:57:11 AM EST

ain't it ?

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the most disturbing thing about match.com by clock (4.00 / 3) #9 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 08:02:52 AM EST

is lumps people who meet on the internet through some normal means like irc or a collaborative media project into the same pile.

yes, i met my wife on the intarweb...but it wasn't through e*harmony. though we make a lot of jokes about e*hulver around our house.

fuckin' freaks.

_{Clock is right. [nt] --vorheesleatherface}

: Heralded by the dawning of AOL by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #13 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 09:56:57 AM EST

Companies have been ruining the Internet since they first figured out how to accept credit cards. The plan to market to desperate nerds, or, at the very least, people who sit in front of a computer all day, wasn't anything new; the demographics are obvious. The lonelier, the longer the audience is sitting right in front of the ad space. And they're basically selling the audience the audience. "Six months free" feels like a Soylent Green dinner buffet for some reason, and I don't particularly feel like RSVPing.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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the second turd by Merekat (4.00 / 1) #12 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 09:56:27 AM EST

...is probably just the first, reheated and gone mouldy.

: I didn't want to slander the poor little dating by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #15 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 09:58:00 AM EST

company, but it is my understanding that this is the case.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Free by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #20 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 02:12:01 PM EST

You should have seen the queue for people trying to get a free taco.

A taco!

And not even a real taco.
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: That is just sad by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #25 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 09:30:31 PM EST

Unless every one of those people was really, really high, there is just no excuse for that sort of craziness. We've bottomed out as a species again!

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Shit, Photoshop 7 doesn't work in Tiger? by fluffy (4.00 / 1) #21 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 07:32:49 PM EST

Damn, I was really looking forward to upgrading to Tiger, but no way am I spending $lots to upgrade Photoshop. 7 does way more than I need as it is. Unfortunately, none of the cheap drawing apps come even close to doing everything I need. (Pixelmator is a joke, GIMP is horrible on OSX, that one Cocoa port of GIMP I can never remember the name of lacks pretty much all useful functionality, ArtRage is fine for tinkering with natural media but rubbish when it comes to workflow, etc.)

Situations like this tempt me to write my own Photoshop-esque thing but no way do I have that kind of free time.
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Maybe I won't dismiss Seashore so quickly by fluffy (4.00 / 1) #22 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 07:35:14 PM EST

Looks like it's come along rather well since the last time I looked at it.
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: Nope, still sucks for my needs by fluffy (4.00 / 1) #23 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 07:38:56 PM EST

Its text tool is a joke. Considering most of what I do in Photoshop is drawing comics, that's a rather important feature.
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Well, it's possible that it was a particular by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #24 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 09:08:30 PM EST

aspect of my system, but yeah, the fucker won't launch now, citing "an unexpected and unrecoverable problem due to a program error". Mind you, I've not even tried the most rudimentary troubleshooting, but I fear she's dead, Jim. I don't use Photoshop often, but when I need it, I need it, and all the other apps fall way short, where 7.0 (hell, even 4.0 for me) did exactly what I needed it to do, when I needed it to do it. And that was back when it didn't cost an arm and a leg.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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