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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/18/09

    In reply to ViewSonic Is Making a Lap Crushing 22-Inch "Notebook"
    A 22" Penis Panini Maker?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/18/09

    @Lite: is laughing at the Lazytown/Lil Jon remix: Is that anything like a PenisMightier??
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/18/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: If it is, they're sitting on a gold mine!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/18/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: But if the penis is mightier than the pen and the pen is mightier than the sword, then by logical induction, my penis is impervious to knives.


    Hmm... hold on - I need to try something.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/18/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Wait! The penis is NOT mightier than the pen...


    OOhhh.. was I too late?
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/18/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: You forgot that it's a roshambo gig.


    THe penis is mighter than the pen, the pen is mightier than the sword, and the sword is mightier than the penis.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/18/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: @Lite: is laughing at the Lazytown/Lil Jon remix: I knew that. Now excuse me while I go to the hospital on unrelated business.
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    Image of A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake! A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!
    03/18/09

    In reply to ViewSonic Is Making a Lap Crushing 22-Inch "Notebook"
    With the increase in display also comes an increase in keyboard size. They will either have to make the keys bigger or find some other shit to put around the keyboard.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/18/09

    @mushroom_mushroom: Hulk hit giant keys with fist!
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/18/09

    In reply to ViewSonic Is Making a Lap Crushing 22-Inch "Notebook"
    So do we start calling over-sized laptops Nutbooks now??
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    Image of Saad Baig Saad Baig
    03/18/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: No we call them desktops that act like laptops, so they can fry your.......sexual parts.....ending with no way to reproduce, giving computer the ultimate power ending ALL humans. :P
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/18/09

    @Saad Baig: "so they can fry your.......sexual parts...."


    Hence the term, nutbooks...

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/18/09

    In reply to ViewSonic Is Making a Lap Crushing 22-Inch "Notebook"
    It IS ridiculous, overall. However, if you just use it as a desktop replacement, you get all of the display real estate in a thing that can close up into one solid unit, and can be hidden away from drunk ass St. Patty's Day visitors.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/18/09

    @Kaiser 'Club Sammich' Machead: Some guy I know claims that his drunk college roommate opened his laptop and peed in it, thinking it was a toilet.
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    03/18/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: That happened to me in boarding school. He also peed on my bed afterward, and almost on me if I hadn't jumped out in time.


    To top it off, he also was totally naked.


    Then I had another friend who got wasted during a weekend with his gf and pissed in her suitcase full of clothes one other time.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/18/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: Please tell me you toed in his skull with something blunt. I know I sure would've.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/18/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: Yeah, I've never been so drunk as to think pissing randomly in my room is a good idea. Even when I've blacked out for hours I was still a courteous house guest. I even cleaned up my own vomit.
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    Image of raylites raylites
    03/18/09

    @Kaiser 'Club Sammich' Machead:

    Ah fucking hell, not another person calling it 'St Patty's Day'

    It is St. Patrick's Day or Paddy's day, way to go there, thanks for bastizing the name of our patron saint.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/18/09

    @raylites: How about St. Pattie's day, in honor of our unsung hero, the beef patty?
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    Image of JCWhitless JCWhitless
    03/18/09

    In reply to ViewSonic Is Making a Lap Crushing 22-Inch "Notebook"
    Jumbo Shrimp?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    02/12/09

    In reply to Luxury A380 Interior is Just What We Need to Start a Populist Revolt
    Socialism didnt work, so I think the redistribution of wealth is a BS reason for lazy people to not work. I also think trickle down economics is a joke, it didnt work either. What will work? I dont know. Myself, I work for EVERYTHING that I have, nothing was given to me, and it was all from my own itiative and hard work. I have had no help from anyone at any time, certainly not the government. Each adult person should be responsible for their own care, and ideally, care enough about their world to try not to gain for themselves from the loss of others. I realize that is idealism, but thats how I live and hope others attain that level of personal and social responsibility.


    (Never happen.)

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/12/09

    In reply to Luxury A380 Interior is Just What We Need to Start a Populist Revolt
    Eh, aerial house is not my thing.


    I'd rather gut an aircraft carrier and use that. Sure, the innards are a lot of drab gray and piping everywhere, but imagine the kickass BBQ's you can have on the flight deck!

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    Image of frigg frigg
    02/12/09

    In reply to Luxury A380 Interior is Just What We Need to Start a Populist Revolt
    The design looks anatomical, like a giant flying worm.
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    Image of Maksimir Maksimir
    02/12/09

    In reply to Luxury A380 Interior is Just What We Need to Start a Populist Revolt
    I'd like to see one belly flop in the Hudson.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    02/12/09

    @Maksimir: Think of all the damage that would cause to the environment. You really are a jerk!
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    Image of Curves Curves
    02/12/09

    In reply to Luxury A380 Interior is Just What We Need to Start a Populist Revolt
    I dont begrudge this (or any) luxury from anyone who can afford it, as it certainly contributes jobs to the economy to make it. I do, however, feel sorry for them (not really) when they lose all their money and need to offload this white elephant. Who else is going to buy it? EBay anyone?
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    02/12/09

    @Curves: John Travolta? He can hold airborne Scientology meetings so no government can control him!!!!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/12/09

    @Curves: Well, it depends on what your views are on equality. People generally believe that income should be redistributed downwards to a certain extent. That's why the US has a progressive tax system. In many other countries, the wealth disparity is far more dramatic. In the same country in which somebody owns this jumbo jet, there are scores of migrant workers who are basically slaves. It's the opposite of capitalism; rather than providing free economic opportunities, there are structures in place that maintain the economic status quo.


    Of course you are right to not blame the people who have the opportunity to live in luxury - if I could own a plane, I would. However, it is reasonable to question if this is the best way for a society to be structured. While making luxury planes provides laborers with job opportunities, the same economic system has necessitated that they be laborers in the first place. At the same time, restricting social mobility creates far more inefficiencies in the economy.

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    Image of Grahmo Grahmo
    02/12/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: "While making luxury planes provides laborers with job opportunities, the same economic system has necessitated that they be laborers in the first place."


    Not everyone can be doctors, lawyers, IT pro's, etc. We need labourers/tradespeople/garbagemen etc to get things done.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/12/09

    @ChinaDeathBus_GitEmSteveDave: Nah, he's saving up for the aircraft carrier so that he can start the Raft.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/12/09

    @Grahmo: @William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire: In America, anyone can be a doctor, lawyer, etc. as long as they work hard enough and are talented enough. The school system is not spectacular, but it is generations ahead of that of many other countries (in my elementary school in country XXX did not have enough chairs, so kids had to sit on the floor). Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford gives you a free ride if your family makes less than $100k a year, and almost every college makes an effort to recruit kids who are minorities or come from poor school districts. That's what the difference is between the US and many other countries - the potential for social mobility.


    In many other parts of the world, if your parents are laborers, it's game over for you. While it is important to have people to do menial jobs, everyone should have the opportunity for advancement.

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    Image of Lee Millar Lee Millar
    02/12/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus:


    "but it's generation's ahead of that of many other countries"


    You've got to be joking right. U.S education is falling farther and farther behind and its infrastructure is crumbling. Within accomplishment, it doesn't even make it into the top 25 in world ranking for maths, reading and science so while it is still ahead of third world countries it's so far away from where it should be and where it once was.


    [www.telegraph.co.uk]

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/12/09

    @Lee Millar: That has more to do with culture than with the amount of resources available for education. "Macao-China" is on all three of the lists in your article. Do you really think that Macao has more $$$ to spend on education than America? Of course not. What they do have is a population of academically-driven people. In contrast, lots of people in America are lazy asses. They don't need to do well in school - they're not going to starve working at 7-Eleven. That's why they don't do well in school, not because of the lack of infrastructure.


    I know Taiwanese people who came to the US for high school because the schools here are better for people who take advantage of them. They finish in the top 2% of their classes and go to Ivy League schools. Americans need to get it into their heads that some things, like low academic achievement in America's schools are due to students putting American Idol before homework. Whining about how bad it is here seems to be the only thing that people put effort into.

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    Image of BsideStarchild BsideStarchild
    02/12/09

    In reply to Luxury A380 Interior is Just What We Need to Start a Populist Revolt
    I particularly enjoy the 43 coach seats for those people you just barely like enough to let fly with you.
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    02/12/09

    @BsideStarchild: I was thinking the exact same thing. It doesn't look like they even get business class seats. Nice.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/12/09

    In reply to Luxury A380 Interior is Just What We Need to Start a Populist Revolt
    I like how there is all the crazy furniture throughout the plane, but normal airline seats in the back.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    02/12/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Well, every luxury liner needs a "steerage" section for publicity sake.
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    02/12/09

    In reply to Luxury A380 Interior is Just What We Need to Start a Populist Revolt
    Shame dudes w/Cessnii? It looks like you could fit the Dude AND his Cessna in there, and have room for Dan Cortez on his piano.
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    02/12/09

    @3.5 B: disk_GitEmSteveDave: Nothin' like a little Jolly Green giant tunage.
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    02/12/09

    @qbrad: I wonder if the bathroom has seashells in it. I finally got the users guide to them, and can't wait to try it out. [www.i-mockery.com]
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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    11/16/08

    In reply to Wonderfully 80s Boombox Wristwatch Doesn't Play Music
    Does this play 8-track?
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    Image of General Halfshaftery General Halfshaftery
    11/16/08

    In reply to Wonderfully 80s Boombox Wristwatch Doesn't Play Music
    Not terribly related but


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    11/17/08

    @General Halfshaftery: OH, ha-ha. I get it. They're both 'radio fail'....
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