id have to start reading good books then
you're the jewel in the crown of American wit m8
I always had a hard time focusing on reading. Traveling this past year has made me realize its not focus, its not allowing time (less games ). Anyway Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me now reading "Neither Here nor There" by Bill Bryson which is a pretty decent comparison to my own travels. Even through the "now" part of it is a bit dated (they don't have the Euro yet) it's interesting to hear the legacy Euro stereotypes. For instance I would never imagined Germans as being reputability fat and arrogant.
bill bryson is good airport literature but i feel like an author who is proximal to him but 100x better is john mcphee.
Careful what you wish for.uziq wrote:
all you fucks should get back on the good reads group.
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I've been reading a rather fantastic history of Prussia titled Iron Kingdom. The focus of the last few chapters has been on the unification of Germany under Prussia and the rise of the liberal class. What I find most interesting about it is the way in which statism came to the fore as adopted Liberal philosophy, much of whose thought was based on the writings of Hegel.
you're catching up to jay's 2006 reading list.
The Suicidal Mind - Edwin S Schneidman
Not bad, its basically an extension of Maslow's Hierachy of Needs and other similar theories with some argument and case studies to back it up.
I thought I had it bad five people I've known having killed themselves.
A woman I work with has known fifteen, some of them family members. No wonder she's 20 stone and crams cakes at every opportunity.
Also, don't think a gun or anything else is an easy way, it often isn't.
Not bad, its basically an extension of Maslow's Hierachy of Needs and other similar theories with some argument and case studies to back it up.
I thought I had it bad five people I've known having killed themselves.
A woman I work with has known fifteen, some of them family members. No wonder she's 20 stone and crams cakes at every opportunity.
Also, don't think a gun or anything else is an easy way, it often isn't.
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Different types of guns have different success/failure rates. Regardless, you'd leave a hell of a mess for Jules and Vincent to clean up.
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from what I have read, the trick is to shoot yourself in the eye.
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Nope.SuperJail Warden wrote:
from what I have read, the trick is to shoot yourself in the eye.
Nape of the neck, with a slightly upward angle.
That way you severe the spinal cord, the medulla and hit the brain stem with the pons.
All of those are responsible for basic body functions.
This has been extensively "tested" by Nazi Germany in concentration camps, where they had a "Genickschussanlage".
A height-adjustable aperture hidden in the ruler on the wall of the "examination" room, where a shooter from the adjacent room could fire a pistol directly into the neck.
Similarly, Stasi executions in Eastern Germany where done by the executor hiding in a room behind a door, with the delinquent getting sent in and getting a "unerwarteter Nahschuss" (unexpected point-blank shot) to the neck.
Shooting yourself in the eye, temple or the stereotypical mouth, could easily leave you alive, but without a cerebrum, thus, a potato.
Pretty hard to do that to yourself.
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There isn't any bone between your eye and your brain. The bullet will travel straight from the front of your brain to the back creating a large channel wound.
Through the cortex innit. Damage to the medulla like globe says will fuck up your breathing n shit, tho.
trust me guys, you don't want to fuck up a massive brain trauma.
One of the case studies is of a guy who failed to kill himself with a full auto .45 cal MAC10.
He did succeed in removing a lot of his face.
He did succeed in removing a lot of his face.
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I was just given a copy of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow by a friend. I've heard mixed reviews, but all of them agree that it is not an easy book to digest. At the rate I find myself with free time these days, expect an update in a month.
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Get a companion book to help you out. Highly recommend.Pocshy2.0 wrote:
I was just given a copy of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow by a friend. I've heard mixed reviews, but all of them agree that it is not an easy book to digest. At the rate I find myself with free time these days, expect an update in a month.
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You think George Martin is ever going to finish the game of thrones books? I never even touched one but am still nervous the series won't properly end.
Nope
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
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at this rate no. the last couple dragged on.
probably be better to let someone else finish the book and get back to helping the tv show
probably be better to let someone else finish the book and get back to helping the tv show
That's the primary reason I haven't read them yet. Kind of tired of reading open-ended book series that are abruptly cut off by their author's demise. But I know others who have, so I just ping them for feedback.SuperJail Warden wrote:
You think George Martin is ever going to finish the game of thrones books? I never even touched one but am still nervous the series won't properly end.
George Martin recently died.SuperJail Warden wrote:
You think George Martin is ever going to finish the game of thrones books? I never even touched one but am still nervous the series won't properly end.
Actually didn't, but I'm sure one of his characters did. Seems pretty contrived the way some of the cleverest of them blunder their way into oblivion, but I've only seen the show.
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George Martin the Beatles prouder died. That's why I brought it up. The internet briefly freaked out when they read the headline.