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« Reply #105 on: January 03, 2012, 02:11:05 PM »
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Oh and French, thank you very much. Which makes me some kind of French Hobbit, I guess. :)
I want proof of this - The food you mention serving at games bears this up, but next avatar: show your feet! :)
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« Reply #106 on: January 03, 2012, 05:22:39 PM »
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He's probably over 20.

Typically when people put a number in their name like that, it's the year of birth.


I just assumed that he was engaging in the ancient Chinese art of Ly-Ying.

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Born in 1970. Earliest he could join the Marines, 1988. 23 years of scrambling eggs or driving generals around takes us to 2011. Recently retired, then. Perhaps with multiple instances of concussion from that odd pugil-stick thing Marines like to play around with, slight brain damage would explain the odd personality quirks ("It's raining, you say? Citation needed!"), lack of inquisitive intelligence ("what is google?") and poor reading comprehension.


As would, I suppose, a Pervasive Developmental Disorder.

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Gamers under 20 will talk about other gamers wearing black t-shirts and jeans and trenchcoats.


Ah yes, the 90s. Everybody wanted to be The Highlander.


 
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Whereas if he were around 41 he'd encounter different types of gamers, it would explain his odd obsession with blokes turning fat and going bald, tends to happen to us around then. Projection is a powerful thing.


True that. As my grandfather used to say, it's those with the worst problems that spend the most time focusing on other people's problems.
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« Reply #107 on: January 03, 2012, 07:08:59 PM »
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unless he can smell through the internet, which is kind of an interesting super power to have


That's exactly the sort of super-power that could ruin free porn.  I'll pass.
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« Reply #108 on: January 03, 2012, 09:50:55 PM »
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Born in 1970. Earliest he could join the Marines, 1988. 23 years of scrambling eggs or driving generals around takes us to 2011. Recently retired, then. Perhaps with multiple instances of concussion from that odd pugil-stick thing Marines like to play around with, slight brain damage would explain the odd personality quirks ("It's raining, you say? Citation needed!"), lack of inquisitive intelligence ("what is google?") and poor reading comprehension.

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Y'know, I've learned something from this thread. Both B.T. and Koltar are idiots, but whereas B.T. possesses a malign intelligence, Koltar is just a drooling fuckwit.

So, that's something, I guess.

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« Reply #109 on: January 03, 2012, 10:36:34 PM »
It's true. I've never eaten any person's liver.
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« Reply #110 on: January 03, 2012, 10:40:43 PM »
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It's true. I've never eaten any person's liver.


You have no idea what you missed.
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« Reply #111 on: January 03, 2012, 11:30:32 PM »
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It's true. I've never eaten any person's liver.


That is why you gave up being a chef, isn't it?
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« Reply #112 on: January 03, 2012, 11:47:42 PM »
It's true. I just couldn't take the cuisine to that next level.
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« Reply #113 on: January 04, 2012, 02:55:01 AM »
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It's true. I just couldn't take the cuisine to that next level.


Now I wish I never had watched The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
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« Reply #114 on: January 04, 2012, 02:55:44 AM »
It's an awesome movie.
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« Reply #115 on: January 04, 2012, 03:00:06 AM »
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It's an awesome movie.


Helen Mirren. Rawr.
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« Reply #116 on: January 07, 2012, 11:02:23 PM »
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Did they have any friends?
Of the three individuals in question, two of them were actually friends.  Though these two didn't appear to have many other friends, besides themselves and their other hardcore skeptic friends.

The third individual had a wife.  I don't know much about this person, beyond that.


I just ran into one of these individuals earlier today, by chance at a nearby grocery store.

This one particular individual was complaining about how he doesn't get invited anymore to social gatherings, and other people don't return his phone calls and emails anymore.  He was completely clueless as to why hardly anybody wants to be around him.

I didn't bother stating the obvious to him.

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« Reply #117 on: January 08, 2012, 12:42:08 AM »
Just on "proof" and "evidence", one of my acquaintances is a kind of entrepreneur who flies around the world making business deals. Yes he does collect hard data to make decisions, but he also talks to taxi drivers, eavesdrops on conversations in cafes and generally talks to everyone and anyone to get a feel for the zeitgeist when considering, for example, a venture in a new country. And he often flies by the seat of his pants. If he had waited for peer-reviewed evidence that his efforts would make him rich, he'd still be waiting instead of smoking expensive cigars.
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