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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:32 pm

Normal is a term made up by people who want to fit in.
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Valrifell
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Ex-Nation

Postby Valrifell » Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:38 pm

Pax Nerdvana wrote:Normal is a term made up by people who want to fit in.


Normal is a term made up by Big Stats to sell polls.
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Ostroeuropa
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Ostroeuropa » Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:45 pm

*laughs with his hallucinations*
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There is an out of control trolley speeding towards Jeremy Bentham, who is tied to the track. You can pull the lever to cause the trolley to switch tracks, but on the other track is Immanuel Kant. Bentham is clutching the only copy in the universe of The Critique of Pure Reason. Kant is clutching the only copy in the universe of The Principles of Moral Legislation. Both men are shouting at you that they have recently started to reconsider their ethical stances.

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Hammer Britannia
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Postby Hammer Britannia » Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:59 pm

Pfft. I have rejected normalcy years ago.

But, on the topic of OP, I could name every a bunch of dinosaur and had this massive thing for Greco-Roman history (I knew about the politics of Athens than America for awhile). This inspired me to become an archeologist/paleontologist (I wanted to do both at the same time)... That never happened and instead Arch took my job as a resident archeologist.
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Lunatic Goofballs
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Ex-Nation

Postby Lunatic Goofballs » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:05 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:
Way to ruin the metaphor.

You are just insulted I called you normal.


Wouldn't you be? Look at what normal people have done to this world.
Life's Short. Munch Tacos.

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Cannot think of a name
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Cannot think of a name » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:09 pm

I'm so mundane my deviations are mundane. I'm a preppy girl's idea of a social rebel, from the same background but grew a 'rebellious' beard and drive an old car. The safe choice that still upsets dad. I'm boring with a bow.
"...I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." -MLK Jr.

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Cannot think of a name
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:10 pm

Lunatic Goofballs wrote:A friend of mine was over for dinner last night and he was joking about how he had been led to believe as a child that quicksand would be a bigger threat than it turned out to be. I recognized the joke from a John Mulaney comedy routine, but I let that pass and asked him how many times he'd actually been stuck in quicksand. He told me that he has never even seen quicksand.
As I tallied in my mind all the times I have escaped quicksand(about two dozen), I recognized this as just one more piece of evidence that I'm the reason why statisticians need standard deviations. I'm a standard deviation. :)

Give some thought to your personal norms, realize that they are far out of the norm and then share with us your standard deviations.

Also, I thought the mud finally claimed you.
"...I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." -MLK Jr.

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Xmara
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Postby Xmara » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:11 pm

I forgot to mention my weird obsessions I’ve had over the years.

Geography (could name every capital of every country on Earth, plus locate them on maps and identify their flags when I was in elementary school; still kind of obsessed but not as much)
Space (actually that one is still an obsession)
Cats (ditto)
Really anything science related
Crime and forensic science
Various video games
All of the fandoms I have been part of or am currently part of
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Coffin-Breathe
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Coffin-Breathe » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:13 pm

Major-Tom wrote:
Gopnikea wrote:I used to like Legos, well to be more specific, I used to like stepping on them because it felt 'relaxing' to my feet.


Welp, we've found NSG's resident psychopath.


Nothing too weird though, since you can buy cloggs, slippers and other shoes showing exactly this "relaxing feature" for at least thirty years...

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Rost Dreadnorramus
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Ex-Nation

Postby Rost Dreadnorramus » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:13 pm

I'm abnormal enough that I deserve to be shot.
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Nuroblav
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Ex-Nation

Postby Nuroblav » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:14 pm

Normality? Hahahahahahahahaha

Well, some seem to be surprised that I do a lot of acting and seem to have quite a confident stage presence, and yet find it hard to take part in a normal conversation. I'm one of those people that are good at performing on a stage in front of complete strangers, but not in front of friends.

That being said, I guess it helps as on a stage you don't always notice who's watching most of the time. :p
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The Blaatschapen
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:15 pm

Cannot think of a name wrote:I'm so mundane my deviations are mundane. I'm a preppy girl's idea of a social rebel, from the same background but grew a 'rebellious' beard and drive an old car. The safe choice that still upsets dad. I'm boring with a bow.


Would you say that you are the very model of a modern social rebel?
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Ethel mermania
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:27 pm

Lunatic Goofballs wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:You are just insulted I called you normal.


Wouldn't you be? Look at what normal people have done to this world.

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Coffin-Breathe
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Postby Coffin-Breathe » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:30 pm

I´m present in this game for about ten years now; this alone should make me abnormal enough, plus I´m sixty years old and have a definitely "redneck" job I love, but play pen and paper rolegames, miniature games, read comic books and do other "childish" things.

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The Blaatschapen
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:33 pm

Coffin-Breathe wrote:I´m present in this game for about ten years now; this alone should make me abnormal enough, plus I´m sixty years old and have a definitely "redneck" job I love, but play pen and paper rolegames, miniature games, read comic books and do other "childish" things.


I'd rather not say how long I've been in this game.

There's a black van outside...
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Kazarogkai
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Moralistic Democracy

Postby Kazarogkai » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:36 pm

I'm a facist living on the western coastal region of the USA. That a big one.

I'm a virgin in my 20s but have little incentive or much in the way of interest in rectifying the alleged "problem" as one might say.

I've always been particular enamored with the Idea of a City state with a rather strong disdain for empires and federations and other unions of various diverse groups of people. At best I might tolerate the idea of a nation-state(Greece, Serbia, Albania, etc) so long as the people in question are spread over a large enough area in great numbers but otherwise consider a City State to be the ideal organization of mankind.

A couple other things but those are kinda the most notable I guess.
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Ancient weaponry
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History in general
books
military
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Nature
Anthropology
hippys
drugs
criminals
liberals
philosophes(not counting Hobbes)
states rights
anarchist
people who annoy me
robots
1000 12 + 10
1100 18 + 15
1200 24 + 20
1300 24
1400 36 + 10
1500 54 + 20
1600 72 + 30
1700 108 + 40
1800 144 + 50
1900 288 + 60
2000 576 + 80

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Lunatic Goofballs
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Ex-Nation

Postby Lunatic Goofballs » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:44 pm

Cannot think of a name wrote:
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:A friend of mine was over for dinner last night and he was joking about how he had been led to believe as a child that quicksand would be a bigger threat than it turned out to be. I recognized the joke from a John Mulaney comedy routine, but I let that pass and asked him how many times he'd actually been stuck in quicksand. He told me that he has never even seen quicksand.
As I tallied in my mind all the times I have escaped quicksand(about two dozen), I recognized this as just one more piece of evidence that I'm the reason why statisticians need standard deviations. I'm a standard deviation. :)

Give some thought to your personal norms, realize that they are far out of the norm and then share with us your standard deviations.

Also, I thought the mud finally claimed you.


There were a few close calls.
Life's Short. Munch Tacos.

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
Hunter S. Thompson

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Hammer Britannia
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Postby Hammer Britannia » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:57 pm

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Coffin-Breathe wrote:I´m present in this game for about ten years now; this alone should make me abnormal enough, plus I´m sixty years old and have a definitely "redneck" job I love, but play pen and paper rolegames, miniature games, read comic books and do other "childish" things.


I'd rather not say how long I've been in this game.

There's a black van outside...

It's just the ice cream truck
All shall tremble before me

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Coffin-Breathe
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Coffin-Breathe » Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:06 pm

The Blaatschapen wrote:There's a black van outside...

Don´t worry, that´s just your shepherd... ;)

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Coffin-Breathe
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Postby Coffin-Breathe » Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:10 pm

Kazarogkai wrote:I'm a facist

Maybe that´s the reason for this
Kazarogkai wrote:I'm a virgin in my 20s

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Northwest Slobovia
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Anarchy

Postby Northwest Slobovia » Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:18 pm

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Cannot think of a name wrote:I'm so mundane my deviations are mundane. I'm a preppy girl's idea of a social rebel, from the same background but grew a 'rebellious' beard and drive an old car. The safe choice that still upsets dad. I'm boring with a bow.


Would you say that you are the very model of a modern social rebel?

That needs more more syllable to scan. Maybe "modern social rebel man"?
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Ethel mermania
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:21 pm

Northwest Slobovia wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
Would you say that you are the very model of a modern social rebel?

That needs more more syllable to scan. Maybe "modern social rebel man"?

Blaat was referencing the 19th century.
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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United Muscovite Nations
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Ex-Nation

Postby United Muscovite Nations » Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:30 pm

Holy shit, I didn't expect to see you again.
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Crysuko
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Left-Leaning College State

Postby Crysuko » Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:32 pm

Coffin-Breathe wrote:
Kazarogkai wrote:I'm a facist

Maybe that´s the reason for this
Kazarogkai wrote:I'm a virgin in my 20s

BURN
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Ethel mermania wrote:A terrorist attack on a disabled center doesn't make a lot of sense, unless to show no one is safe.

This will take some time to figure out, i am afraid.

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Czechostan
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby Czechostan » Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:35 pm

When I was a kid, I liked to eat potato chips dipped in applesauce. That always freaked people out.

I've also never drunk a sip of coffee.

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