As much as I can afford in cocaine and hooke... oh. Tech stuff.
I guess I bought a Kinect.
I guess I bought a Kinect.
What tech gifts do you plan on buying this Christmas?
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Was going to buy a 40" hi def tv at walmart for $125 but we stayed too long at our thanksgiving dinner from my cousin. They dropped the whole turkey but it stayed on the plate and they carved and served it. Recently have seen meals served by challenged people and they did a better job. At a senior (were where you are and in california señor) bingo before I came they dropped a whole tray of fruit cups and picked them up and served them. There was a funny scene on disney's afv where 2 boys dropped a bowl of fruit serving it to their mother. Laughed too hard.
captaincranky
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Well, "Schizophrenia", when used as a colloquial term, (incorrectly, agreed), is often taken to mean, or confused with, "multiple personality disorder", which is what Mr. Lane was humorously implying is wrong with him.
As for the "voices of God" heard by the ancients, I am familiar with the theory that they couldn't reconcile the existence of their own consciences, and interpreted it as a, "voice from beyond". Hence, in today's terms, they would be considered "raving madmen", or, "schizophrenics", if you prefer.
If you were trying to be funny, I think you may need a comedy writer to consult with, before you launch another massive misfire such as your post I'm quoting.
Moving on to this:
You can either get in line hours before your friendly neighborhood Walmart opens, for the 40" for $125.00 TV, or you can do without.
The moral is, you get a TV, or you get Thanksgiving dinner, you can't have both. :shrug:
BTW, I'll eat stuff off the floor too, as long as it wasn't dropped in the cat litter...
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EClyde
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When I was a kid in the 50's and 60's it seemed more too. That though was a function of being a kid
Multiple personality disorder is not schizophrenia. I have picked up a text book and studied a little psychology, and people who haven't are entitled to their opinions. I'm not being funny, but don't murder the messenger. I'm just showing how they pick out minor little things essentially just to make money which were actually virtues in the bible. Perhaps fate or god is trying to be funny. When it started discussing penis envy, I knew it wasn't for me. That could just be a form of homosexuality (male chauvanism is, I think) and now altho I like trump whether I voted for him or not, these previous "religions/tea partiests" have succeeded in doing exactly what they didn't want. Men hate hillary and thus hate women; women hate trump and thus men; boys against the girls like we always played in catholic school. It seems like it was true for milleniums where women didn't vote, weren't doctors, and are covered in veils as nuns and moslems and are thus not cared to be looked at for what reason by large numbers of men? If jesus came today he'd sure have a hard task. Even waiters here in illinois are so poor they eat off people's plates and ironically today I did that myself.Well, "Schizophrenia", when used as a colloquial term, (incorrectly, agreed), is often taken to mean, or confused with, "multiple personality disorder", which is what Mr. Lane was humorously implying is wrong with him.
As for the "voices of God" heard by the ancients, I am familiar with the theory that they couldn't reconcile the existence of their own consciences, and interpreted it as a, "voice from beyond". Hence, in today's terms, they would be considered "raving madmen", or, "schizophrenics", if you prefer.
If you were trying to be funny, I think you may need a comedy writer to consult with, before you launch another massive misfire such as your post I'm quoting.
Moving on to this:
You can either get in line hours before your friendly neighborhood Walmart opens, for the 40" for $125.00 TV, or you can do without.
The moral is, you get a TV, or you get Thanksgiving dinner, you can't have both. :shrug:
BTW, I'll eat stuff off the floor too, as long as it wasn't dropped in the cat litter...
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davislane1
Let's play a game. It's called, "identify the forum participant smoking synthetic weed."
Now, just to be clear, there is one catch: the person smoking the weed isn't allowed to play. They are, however, permitted to deny the game is being played and deny their guilt.
Betting starts at $5.
Your ego. I never did weed ever, but if it makes me know the truth I might try it. What game are you playing? How do you synthesize synthetic weed? I have a chemistry degree, and three others from uic. Have the "recipe?" You have a point here. Some of this "weed" might not be synthetic, but fake, since I like the truth. Please don't make me guilty of another invented rule because I was just told they have restricted free burgers to five per month, if that's the punishment. If you like the bible, which I might not, it says take the plank out of your eye before you take the speck (spot, techspot) out of mine. Are we guilty of editing the bible, making it modern? I'm great, and all of us might be too, including you. I don't mean to make you angry, but discussing these things so others can see them actually makes changes in this wonderful forum. Altering writings may never happen again, but it's just a "hobby", not paying the rent nor putting food on the table. I hope it's entertaining, but that's not something I set out to ever do.
captaincranky
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Well, I'm fully aware that "schizophrenia" is not "multiple personality disorder". In fact, I've already posted on the topic. To wit:
"Well, "Schizophrenia", when used as a colloquial term, (incorrectly, agreed), is often taken to mean, or confused with, "multiple personality disorder", which is what Mr. Lane was humorously implying is wrong with him".
That passage is from MY post at #28. What term or syntax did I use you didn't understand?
Since I'm already aware, and have already posted that, "schizophrenia is not multiple personality disorder", allow me to toss another common platitude back at ya, "Tony, you're preaching to the choir".
Well, for the first part of this, "penile envy" is a very real condition, which is manifested by the most masculine of lesbians. They want you to know, in no uncertain terms, their imaginary penis, is a whole lot bigger than your real one.
What seems to be your "primary issue", <(political pun intended), is that you attended Catholic school, and you appear to believe in God.
If that weren't the case, the secular world would make a whole lot more sense to you.
In our first awkward attempts at meeting the opposite sex under controlled conditions, (IE a school dance), it always has been, and always will be, "boys on one side of the room, girls on the other". And yes, sexual stereotypes did have a major effect on who voted for who in this past election. God bless you if you desire a carping, nagging, pushy, puta such as Ms. Clinton for a wife. One would almost have to assume if a man did, he would also be a submissive, and relish being tied up and beaten with a cat-o-nine tails.
As far as Trump's appeal to men goes, he comes off as being, "one of the guys". But a very special, standout "one of the guys", indeed. He has the power and the money to cut the female he wants out of the herd, then say, "have her washed and brought to my tent", and the minions to make it happen.
Jesus isn't coming, nor was he ever here in the biblical sense to begin with.
Religion is a fantasy of man, created by of a trick of our conscious mind, which really can't come to grips with the fact that we as individuals end, as do all creatures, and the world does indeed, go on without us.
The simple fact of the matter is, most all societies expand to empire status, even to a small empire, such as tribes conquering other tribes, or to global status. One contemporary example would be, "the sun never sets on the British Empire". Guess what bunky, it sure does now.
The United States is entering that period of decline known as decadence. We are becoming the modern day, "Sodom and Gomorrah". A non existent God though, won't be coming to strike us down. It will more than likely be the Chinese. Civilization has advanced though through the centuries. What they'll most likely do is take us to court, and buy us at sheriff's sale.
Now, can we get back on topic? I can honestly say, this time, I wasn't the one who, "led us into the wilderness". <(Note the biblical reference to Moses and the Israelites).
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delluel
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My sons birthday is end of November. So I had my whole holidays finished a month ago. My tech purchases were a Crucial 512GB SSD, Zotac GTX1070, Dell all-in-one tablet w external dvd burner. Corel's new painter software, The Stronghold series, and I still gotta get somebody to cover the new Warhammer Space Hulk game when it comes out. But most of that goes to my son and I'm just using his hand me downs
Bigtruckseries
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Ever since I started working, Christmas means time off and time with family. I think not about "gifts" and "stuff" to buy.
I don't have children yet and frankly, I see no point in Christmas besides buying stuff to make kids happy. That's NOT the time Jesus was "born"... from a historical perspective.
Today I bought a second snowblower to beat the Black Friday sale at Sears. Price was $399 - and regular price was $700. I made a killing getting two and I may sell one for profit if I don't gift it.
I also took half my Youtube pay and dropped a little over $1000 into my portfolio at Scottrade. Personally, I see spending on my portfolio as a higher return than buying gifts. My BLOZF already shot up and I'm gonna buy 10,000 shares of a number of marijuana companies - which ultimately costs less than $100 each and can easily return well more.
I don't have children yet and frankly, I see no point in Christmas besides buying stuff to make kids happy. That's NOT the time Jesus was "born"... from a historical perspective.
Today I bought a second snowblower to beat the Black Friday sale at Sears. Price was $399 - and regular price was $700. I made a killing getting two and I may sell one for profit if I don't gift it.
I also took half my Youtube pay and dropped a little over $1000 into my portfolio at Scottrade. Personally, I see spending on my portfolio as a higher return than buying gifts. My BLOZF already shot up and I'm gonna buy 10,000 shares of a number of marijuana companies - which ultimately costs less than $100 each and can easily return well more.
Boy did this thread get derailed.
/popcorn
Carry on, gents.
/popcorn
Carry on, gents.
MasterChief86
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A laptop, yeah definitely that. Need to up my game in Dota. A smartphone for my old man because he's been using a crappy Chinese phone for too long now. A few other things, usually all related to tech.
MasterChief86
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Yes, schizophrenia has more to do with hallucinations, voices-in-the-head and stuff
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CelebrityGamer
Either a EVGA - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card or PNY 1050TI OC 4GB card.
Carlos Tevez
Posts: 8 +1
Got my brother a VR Headset, can't wait to use it myself haha
Carlos Tevez
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Asus Zenfone, was quite good value for the price
Gracelyn Ellis
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Me too.
If I start giving tech as gifts, my family's expectation for the next holidays will definitely get bigger.Similar threads
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