Survivor
 

Because people want to end up in the final two with a whiny bitch who has alienated everyone so noone on the jury will vote for her. You know how this show works, right? Would you want to go to the final two with someone nice and sweet who everybody loves?

Survivor
 

Yes, precisely the strategy that made teh weakest link an incredibly boring game. Everyone voted to eliminate the strongest link, meaning all the idiots were left in the end unable to make any money for teh winner to take home.

Mmmm(Goodbye)Burger

Demi Moore Accused of Sexual Harassment
 

by her emotionally traumatized ranch hand:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...2p-75218c.html

This concludes my lurid celebrity-gossip-of-the-day update.



:shame:

Survivor/EcoChallenge
 

SPOILER BELOW


I was even more amused when she bragged about how she was the mastermind behind every plan and plot in the game. While I understand that Rob was right to want to go up against Jenna in the final 2, part of me thinks that Jenna will go next and then whoever wins the final immunity will take Rob to the end. I think that the other guys would rather be up against Rob than Jenna. I can't decide whether everyone will be pissed at Rob and vote for the other guy or whether he'll get the you're-an-asshole-but-I-respect-how-you-played-the-game vote.

Shocking News!
 

Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare
By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer

"LONDON - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.
_
Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess.

Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.

"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language." "

Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...monkey_authors

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With such a smart research plan, I'd rather associate with the monkeys than the researchers.

Demi Moore Accused of Sexual Harassment
 

It seems a shame that she would waste her time on this guy when there are so many of us out here who would welcome a little Demi-grope.

Demi Moore Accused of Sexual Harassment
 

That guy must be gay. Who the hell turns down Demi Moore? Granted, she's getting a little older, but I'm sure that dude is no spring chicken, either.

Mother's Day
 

Me too. The guilt alone when my mom realized that the date had passed and she had forgotten was enough for extra presents and sucking up for YEARS.

It was great. Sure I was a little hurt when she forgot, but I got over it pretty quick. She didn't mean any harm. And I have forgotten hers before.

Shocking News!
 

At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.


"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.



Ok, now I have thought of doing the former. The latter just seems a little, well, nasty.


I like that you can buy the results

http://www.vivaria.net/experiments/notes/publication/
http://www.kahve-house.com/society/shop/

Mother's Day
 

Didn't some columnist from the chicago sun times say something like "There is a time when you should stop expecting people to celebrate your birthday. That time is age 13"?

Or something along those lines.

:)

Mother's Day
 

Yes. That columnist was a joyless bastard.

;)

Mother's Day
 

That's one of Dave Berry's Twenty Five Things I've Learned in 50 Years.

My ex- forgot my birthday one year. I can't say that I was happy about it. I can't say he was happy about my reaction to his forgetting my birthday.

Edited to put a better link in.

Mother's Day
 

I don't know, but I agree with him. At least as to concept if not as to age. I'd put it at about 16 or 18.

Edited to say that is a great list.

What was your reaction to his forgetting your birthday? Making him your ex?

Mother's Day
 

Isn't that one of the fucked up things about life? As soon as you hit an age when you need some extra fucking money or a new pair of pants or something everyone suddenly decides that you are too old to get presents anymore. What a load of shit -- it is precisely when a person is in his early twenties that he needs that extra 20 bucks grandma used to slip into a b-day card but now the old bag thinks he is too mature for birthday presents. Thanks bitch, now I can't afford to go out and celebrate my birthday. I have never been big into my birthday anyway, but sheesh that is some twisted shit.

ThrashersFan

Mother's Day
 

He called me at one in the morning, totally ignorant of the fact that it was my birthday. He couldn't understand why I was a bit pissed off. I asked him to look at the calendar, and he still had no clue what I was talking about. It was a particularly bad year to forget, because I had recently moved to a city where I knew no one, so even token celebrations were at a minimum. I wouldn't have made him my ex- over something like that, but even in the years after he became my ex-, he still calls me on my birthday to prove that he remembers.


It looks like most Americans think that 26 is the age where we're grown up:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...fe_adults_dc_1

Are We Grown Up Yet? U.S. Study Says Not 'Till 26
Thu May 8, 6:37 PM ET Add Science - Reuters to My Yahoo!

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Most Americans believe someone isn't grown up until age 26, probably with a completed education, a full-time job, a family to support and financial independence, a survey said on Thursday.

But they also believe that becoming an official grown-up is a process that takes five years from about the age of 20, concluded the report from the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.

The findings were based on a representative sample of 1,398 people over age 18 surveyed in person in 2002. It had an error margin of plus or minus 3 percent.