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Ethel mermania
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:27 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:So what does TET think of urban exploration?


*i* for one, am for it.
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:28 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
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Well, I did. I laughed so hard I was left breathless and swooned from lack of air.


not that kinda swooned.


Shush it and hold me.
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Postby Abserdia » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:31 pm

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I use default since my new laptop has a line of pixels that isn't noticeable when the screen is white.

I believe pixels are supposed to be there, Serbi.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:32 pm

Gallade wrote:
The Serbian Empire wrote:So what does TET think of urban exploration?

This city is 2km². I've seen the sights. I've done the do's. I've acclimated the climes. I've drudged through the dredge.

It's small here and I'm not trekking through the sewers, is my point.


when we were digging up a new substation, where the first electric powerplant in the world, which is in the city, we came away with a bunch of the original power cables from location. 120 years old.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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The Holy Empire of the Spaghetti Monster
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Postby The Holy Empire of the Spaghetti Monster » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:32 pm

Abserdia wrote:
The Holy Empire of the Spaghetti Monster wrote:Dark rapes my eyes within about 30 minutes of prolonged usage.

Dark theme is better, you big ol' scrub.

Joke's on you, I know I'm a scrub.
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Postby Gallade » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:33 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Gallade wrote:This city is 2km². I've seen the sights. I've done the do's. I've acclimated the climes. I've drudged through the dredge.

It's small here and I'm not trekking through the sewers, is my point.


when we were digging up a new substation, where the first electric powerplant in the world, which is in the city, we came away with a bunch of the original power cables from location. 120 years old.

I'm sure that was a lovely moment for you, you big history dork.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:37 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
not that kinda swooned.


Shush it and hold me.


oh no, i am on to you, you just want the perfume
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:38 pm

Gallade wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
when we were digging up a new substation, where the first electric powerplant in the world, which is in the city, we came away with a bunch of the original power cables from location. 120 years old.

I'm sure that was a lovely moment for you, you big history dork.


holding edison's working cables in my hands was pretty cool, yes.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Democratic Socialists

Postby Kannap » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:39 pm

Astrolinium wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Wonderful. Speaking of Snowpocalypse, my friend and I were just remembering the big one a few years back because she lives in an area that got hit hard by it.

Meanwhile, snow in the mountains is nothing to worry about here so I feel fine. I am making a trip to some stores tomorrow for things that aren't milk or bread.


This one, you mean?


Yes
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Postby Gallade » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:39 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Gallade wrote:I'm sure that was a lovely moment for you, you big history dork.


holding edison's working cables in my hands was pretty cool, yes.

How much did they go for on eBay, you owe me 27 years of birthday presents.
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Postby Kannap » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:40 pm

So I started another step of cruel adulthood: Establishing credit.

I had to jump on buying this textbook now since it was on sale for 150 dollars and in two days it was going to be 340 dollars.
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Astrolinium
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Postby Astrolinium » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:40 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Gallade wrote:I'm sure that was a lovely moment for you, you big history dork.


holding edison's working cables in my hands was pretty cool, yes.


That is so cool.
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Ex-Nation

Postby Mad hatters in jeans » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:40 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:So what does TET think of urban exploration?

Is that what is happening in Aleppo?

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Farnhamia
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Left-Leaning College State

Postby Farnhamia » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:41 pm

Mad hatters in jeans wrote:
The Serbian Empire wrote:So what does TET think of urban exploration?

Is that what is happening in Aleppo?

That's urban deconstruction. Or explodation, if you will.
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby Arcturus Novus » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:41 pm

Kannap wrote:So I started another step of cruel adulthood: Establishing credit.

I had to jump on buying this textbook now since it was on sale for 150 dollars and in two days it was going to be 340 dollars.

The prospect of a textbook costing more than two weeks' groceries for a family of four terrifies me.
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Postby Valdiu » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:42 pm

Arcturus Novus wrote:
Kannap wrote:So I started another step of cruel adulthood: Establishing credit.

I had to jump on buying this textbook now since it was on sale for 150 dollars and in two days it was going to be 340 dollars.

The prospect of a textbook costing more than two weeks' groceries for a family of four terrifies me.

College is about 7.5% overrated and 750% overpriced.
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Postby Astrolinium » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:43 pm

Arcturus Novus wrote:
Kannap wrote:So I started another step of cruel adulthood: Establishing credit.

I had to jump on buying this textbook now since it was on sale for 150 dollars and in two days it was going to be 340 dollars.

The prospect of a textbook costing more than two weeks' groceries for a family of four terrifies me.


The system is so fucking broken it's not even funny.
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Postby Farnhamia » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:44 pm

Astrolinium wrote:
Arcturus Novus wrote:The prospect of a textbook costing more than two weeks' groceries for a family of four terrifies me.


The system is so fucking broken it's not even funny.

Which system? There is more than one, you know.
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<Sigh> NSG...where even the atheists are Augustinians. ~ The Archregimancy
Now the foot is on the other hand ~ Kannap
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Postby Valdiu » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:45 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:
The system is so fucking broken it's not even funny.

Which system? There is more than one, you know.

The Windows Vista operating system.
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[Mobilization Underway]
Population: 32,263,671
Military size: ~350,000, T3R: 2.7/1
The Republic of Valdiu
16-year old and social democrat
Jazz trombonist, cynic and student journalist
I enjoy CS:GO.
I hate the idea that someone out there hates me. I even hate that Al-Qaeda hates me. I think if they got to know me they wouldn’t hate me.

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Ethel mermania
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:46 pm

Gallade wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
holding edison's working cables in my hands was pretty cool, yes.

How much did they go for on eBay, you owe me 27 years of birthday presents.


and think of the valentines day to your mother, unfortunately i had to give them back
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Farnhamia
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Left-Leaning College State

Postby Farnhamia » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:46 pm

Valdiu wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Which system? There is more than one, you know.

The Windows Vista operating system.

That's absolutely true.
Make Earth Great Again: Stop Continental Drift!
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water ...
"Make yourself at home, Frank. Hit somebody." RIP Don Rickles
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. ~ Carl Schurz
<Sigh> NSG...where even the atheists are Augustinians. ~ The Archregimancy
Now the foot is on the other hand ~ Kannap
RIP Dyakovo ... Ashmoria (Freedom ... or cake)
This is the eighth line. If your signature is longer, it's too long.

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Ex-Nation

Postby Gallade » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:46 pm

Astrolinium wrote:
Arcturus Novus wrote:The prospect of a textbook costing more than two weeks' groceries for a family of four terrifies me.


The system is so fucking broken it's not even funny.

I know.

They actually keep free copies in these things called libraries. Anti-author monstrosities. Fight Big Communism, support your Thespians, playwrights, writers. Buy my treatise, 288.95€ in all good retailers.
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Arcturus Novus
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby Arcturus Novus » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:49 pm

Gallade wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:
The system is so fucking broken it's not even funny.

I know.

They actually keep free copies in these things called libraries. Anti-author monstrosities. Fight Big Communism, support your Thespians, playwrights, writers. Buy my treatise, 288.95€ in all good retailers.

Except keeping a public copy of a textbook indefinitely is a dick move.
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Postby Farnhamia » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:50 pm

Arcturus Novus wrote:
Gallade wrote:I know.

They actually keep free copies in these things called libraries. Anti-author monstrosities. Fight Big Communism, support your Thespians, playwrights, writers. Buy my treatise, 288.95€ in all good retailers.

Except keeping a public copy of a textbook indefinitely is a dick move.

Definitely. Textbook prices are set by the publisher, of course. Torches and pitchforks, we're off to storm McGraw-Hill!
Make Earth Great Again: Stop Continental Drift!
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water ...
"Make yourself at home, Frank. Hit somebody." RIP Don Rickles
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. ~ Carl Schurz
<Sigh> NSG...where even the atheists are Augustinians. ~ The Archregimancy
Now the foot is on the other hand ~ Kannap
RIP Dyakovo ... Ashmoria (Freedom ... or cake)
This is the eighth line. If your signature is longer, it's too long.

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Astrolinium
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Ex-Nation

Postby Astrolinium » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:51 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Arcturus Novus wrote:Except keeping a public copy of a textbook indefinitely is a dick move.

Definitely. Textbook prices are set by the publisher, of course. Torches and pitchforks, we're off to storm McGraw-Hill!


Let's not forget Pearson and Prentice Hall.
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