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Forum: Off Topic Forum 6th July 2014, 11:16 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,069
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: The intellectual joke thread

A hydrogen atom walks into a bar and asks the bartender, "Can you help me? I've lost my electron."

The bartender asks, "Are you sure?" and the atom replies, "I'm positive."
Forum: Off Topic Forum 1st July 2014, 10:28 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,097
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: The sanity paradox

Would you trust someone who continuously appeared to be quiet and calm? Doesn't it tend to be that kind of person who "snaps" one day?
Forum: Off Topic Forum 30th June 2014, 03:26 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,097
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: The sanity paradox

I'd say that what someone is comfortable doing is "personally normal" - to them - but it may not be "socially normal."

OTOH, a person who is socially normal in every single aspect probably...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 26th June 2014, 12:06 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 1,245
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Economy in freefall? Revised #'s nearly 3 times lower than original estimates.

How about a fair market as well as a 'free' one? Giving U.S. jobs to third world labor will eventually come back to bite the economy, if it's not doing so already.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 24th June 2014, 10:17 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 1,890
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Probably the only time he'll ever be inside one

Had he used a hair dryer in there, he might have been able to bake a huge loaf of bread.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 23rd June 2014, 12:12 PM
Replies: 63
Views: 3,597
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: What Do You Think of Mixed Marriages?

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 18th June 2014, 02:05 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,035
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: 40 things to stop doing

#41: Responding to Riffle.

#42: Responding to Claude.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 17th June 2014, 04:16 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 2,044
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Interesting Observation

Given that another WWII is not a possibility, the U.S. had better come up with another proactive economic plan, instead of the "invisible hand" nonsense that the Cato Institute and other, um,...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 17th June 2014, 03:02 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,151
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: How handicapable are you?

I expect it. Just as I expect it when life sends me some good luck at other times. I'm very zen that way.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 15th June 2014, 10:28 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,249
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Are You In A Smart State Or Dumb State?

Hey, it worked for Luke Wilson in Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/).
Forum: Off Topic Forum 12th June 2014, 12:31 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,716
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Is Getting A Job You Plan To Leave Within 3 Months Unethical?

I'm not sure how your post ties in with the title, but I agree with most of the points you made.

To address the question, I'd say that in a time when employers can and do downsize on a whim, I...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 5th June 2014, 12:44 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,867
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Hello Master or Hello, Master?

Are you sure Uncle Jack had a carrot, or was he just glad to see the horse?
Forum: Off Topic Forum 4th June 2014, 05:10 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,867
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Hello Master or Hello, Master?

It does indeed depend on the meaning. Another worthwhile example is

"He's a Jedi Master." versus "He's a Jedi, Master."
Forum: Off Topic Forum 14th May 2014, 05:11 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,081
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Just for fun: a philosophy/ethics question

"What if the person on the tracks was Riffle?"
Forum: Off Topic Forum 7th May 2014, 06:40 PM
Replies: 292
Views: 11,867
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Swiss to vote on minimum income of $33,000 for all citizens!

When all else fails, you try to get the thread closed, I see.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 7th May 2014, 04:46 PM
Replies: 292
Views: 11,867
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Swiss to vote on minimum income of $33,000 for all citizens!

Nope. "Unfettered" in this context means "unregulated." As a result, the rest of what you said misses the point.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 7th May 2014, 11:34 AM
Replies: 292
Views: 11,867
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Swiss to vote on minimum income of $33,000 for all citizens!

"0.5% is one percent of 50%??!!"

Wow. Just, wow. I'm going to have to save that one. :D
Forum: Off Topic Forum 3rd May 2014, 02:09 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 3,845
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Remember the My Little Pony thread? Well, here come the Bronies!!!

It would have been nice if they paid me, but I simply got curious enough to take in a couple of episodes on Netflix, and I have to admit I liked them. And the documentaries about the fandom.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 2nd May 2014, 07:53 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 2,210
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: English is a tough language to master, even for Facebook

Quelle horreure! Cette langue est totalement sans logique.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 2nd May 2014, 03:44 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 3,845
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Remember the My Little Pony thread? Well, here come the Bronies!!!

I found it very interesting that a lot of guys in the military became fans of the show because their daughters turned them on to it.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 1st May 2014, 11:14 AM
Replies: 292
Views: 11,867
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Swiss to vote on minimum income of $33,000 for all citizens!

So have we. Fraud in the welfare system and a minimum income - which doesn't change based on the number of kids you have - are not the same thing at all.

Outliers like Hasidic Jews and people who...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 30th April 2014, 03:05 PM
Replies: 292
Views: 11,867
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Swiss to vote on minimum income of $33,000 for all citizens!

And you're sure it's all by choice on their parts? :rolleyes:
Forum: Off Topic Forum 30th April 2014, 01:27 PM
Replies: 292
Views: 11,867
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Swiss to vote on minimum income of $33,000 for all citizens!

I'm having a very hard time buying the claim that most people who receive only a basic income will be content to sit around all day doing nothing.

Basic incomes let you survive, but don't offer...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 28th April 2014, 10:02 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 936
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Crap Sandwich: You Made It, You Eat it! or Toyota leaves California for Texas.

Let's see how this really works.

Entitlement minded business spend huge sums of money to elect politicians with similar mindsets.

Those politicians to everything they can to rig the markets...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 25th April 2014, 01:49 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,564
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
New Microsoft Phone Scam

Yep, another one of these is going around right now. :mad:

A woman called me the other day and identified herself as representing Microsoft. She said they had tracked down virus issues with...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 21st April 2014, 06:08 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 709
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Taking The Lead Out Of Gasoline May Have Reduced The Crime Rate.

Not to mention that they used it as a preservative in wine (and they generally drank quite a bit). Some forensic historians now say that's the reason Caligula went so far off the rails.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 18th April 2014, 01:46 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 953
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Ohio teacher: We don't need another black president

That's my opinion also. It's bad enough when political wingnuts on WF make remarks like this, but when a teacher makes them in class, it's totally unacceptable.

Moderated: The more you throw...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 18th April 2014, 09:48 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 953
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Ohio teacher: We don't need another black president

To quote another WF member: "Wow. Just wow."


Source (http://www.weartv.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/30ecedb7-weartv.com.shtml#.U1FH5-ZdW3A)
Forum: Off Topic Forum 17th April 2014, 03:36 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

What conservative-backed programs are in place to train people who don't currently have marketable job skills?

I hear lots of talk about it, but "where's the beef?"
Forum: Off Topic Forum 16th April 2014, 12:15 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Not necessarily - it's just the basic social contract that's been going on for millenia.


As I've just said, I don't support helping (non-disabled) people in exchange for doing nothing. They...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 16th April 2014, 12:12 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Once again - you can't escape giving other people money you've earned. It's the price everyone pays for living in a civilization.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 15th April 2014, 04:11 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 561
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: For Factoid Freaks

El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston. </factoid>
Forum: Off Topic Forum 15th April 2014, 01:03 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

The fact that you made such an oversimplistic, blanket statement is enough to destroy your credibility all by itself.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 11th April 2014, 01:33 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

And again... it's obvious that all you want to do here is mislead.

To be fair, nobody is claiming that the government is blameless in this mess. Clinton's repeal of Glass-Steagall was a linchpin...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 10th April 2014, 01:19 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Come on, Ron, seriously? Anyone who has studied Econ 101 is very much aware that the fed has to raise interest rates every so often to keep inflation in check. Don't you think every fund manager...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 7th April 2014, 03:23 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 427
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Are you waiting for the Game of thrones new season...

I can imagine King Joffrey calling the white walkers a liberal hoax. :D
Forum: Off Topic Forum 7th April 2014, 12:48 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Fine; I'm happy to put it more bluntly (realistically).

Being "forced" to pay for things is the price we all pay for living in a civilization.

You might as well suck it up, because this...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 5th April 2014, 04:09 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Not me; I put the lackwit on Ignore. The rest of the people you're referring to should do the same.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 4th April 2014, 08:28 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 1,588
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: U.S. Congressmen Are Underpaid

I thought opportunists had always been flocking into politics. The salary can't be the main reason.

Also, term limits have been in place for a while in many state legislatures. They don't seem to...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 4th April 2014, 01:19 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 1,588
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: U.S. Congressmen Are Underpaid

Did you ever learn anything about logic?

It's a logical fallacy to discount an argument just because you can show a counterexample. (Unless the argument is "All X's are Y," which is far from...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 3rd April 2014, 01:01 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Exactly why the national debt is so far out of balance with the GDP. You realize that this is not a good thing, right?
Forum: Off Topic Forum 2nd April 2014, 01:53 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Nobody in the IRS was convicted of any crime connected to this. No organization lost its tax-exempt status. So yes, another fabricated scandal. Game over.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 2nd April 2014, 01:48 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 465
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
More Americans need to behave like this

This variation of the April Fool's prank is nothing short of brilliant.

Enjoy.

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Forum: Off Topic Forum 1st April 2014, 03:23 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Did anyone have their tax-exempt status wrongfully yanked? No. Just another fabricated scandal.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 31st March 2014, 10:25 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Really? Fine. Site the paragraph. Go ahead; I dare you. :p
Forum: Off Topic Forum 31st March 2014, 12:03 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

You know, seasoned, if instead of your endless, half-coherent rants, you directed those energies into developing whatever your business is, you'd be the richest person in this forum. :)
Forum: Off Topic Forum 29th March 2014, 08:21 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 1,601
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: U.S. Students Slide In Global Ranking On Math, Reading, Science

Hm, let's see. We have bogus unions that keep underperforming teachers around for years. We have overmedicated kids in classrooms. We have parents who can't or won't control their children. And we...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 27th March 2014, 04:43 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Perhaps it costs less because it coexists with Australia's state-run single payer system.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 27th March 2014, 01:40 PM
Replies: 287
Views: 6,262
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: Arizona Pizzeria Protests Anti-Gay Bill By Refusing To Serve Lawmakers

Neither one of them has such a right.

There's plenty of legal precedent that religious beliefs are not a valid reason to discriminate.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 26th March 2014, 08:27 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Problem is, too many Americans are happy to see that need go unmet if it doesn't impact them personally. :(
Forum: Off Topic Forum 26th March 2014, 02:23 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Fortunately, it's not impossible. Doctors have tests that can tell the difference between an overeater making excuses and someone who's actually telling the truth.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 25th March 2014, 07:50 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

I don't expect the ACA to be exactly the same in 20 years as it is today. However, the differences are likely to be small ones.

Once there has been enough time to collect data, it will become...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 25th March 2014, 11:49 AM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Our economy runs on 'agreed value'. You go to the store for an item, look at its price, and if you agree that the value received is at least equal to its cost, you put it in your shopping basket. I...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 24th March 2014, 08:33 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

I'm willing to meet you halfway on this, Aaron.

Free market principles can definitely work for insuring elective procedures (e.g., plastic surgery), and routine care. When it comes to...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 24th March 2014, 08:24 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

Unless I missed something, you haven't proposed any solutions for it either. You don't like requiring any care to be non-profit, so how would you control costs?


If they were insurable at all....
Forum: Off Topic Forum 24th March 2014, 05:45 PM
Replies: 888
Views: 18,005
Posted By Hopeless Bromantic
Re: "Single Payer System"-- Educate me?

And that's exactly why a 'normal' free market can't work with health care. No matter how you try to dress it up, you can't escape the fact that you're not a "customer" when you are critically wounded...
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