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by ishidan
Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:24 am
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Police with sub-machine guns
Replies: 70
Views: 13680

As a friend said, "This security theatre isn't meant to make us safer. It's meant to keep us scared." Maybe there's some truth in that. It makes the new Prime Minister look stern and resolute and keeps us all obedient little citizens, passive in the face of the next erosion of civil liber...
by ishidan
Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:10 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Recycled tires for mulch?
Replies: 12
Views: 2750

Several years ago we lost a 100 year old oak tree in our yard in a spring storm. After the chainsaws, we rented a shredder (or whatever they are called) for the branches and it spit out mulch faster than I could feed them. I pictured old used tires going thru the same process. Hoo boy...that would ...
by ishidan
Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:32 am
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Induction (shake) flashlights?
Replies: 16
Views: 2803

Yes, I too have used both shake models and crank models. You have to shop well for the crank models-I had one that had too much resistance, you'd wear your arm out cranking it unless you had the arms of a construction laborer. (Xenon bulb based. Engineers were trying to power that electricity-thirst...
by ishidan
Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:44 am
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Recycled tires for mulch?
Replies: 12
Views: 2750

As for why it is "expensive", keep in mind that you're not just shredding tires and boxing up the shredded goodness. They clean the tires, separate the steel from the rubber, then shred and finally clean/treat. A tree you just shred. "Separate the steel" part is important. You c...
by ishidan
Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:56 am
Forum: Shopping
Topic: QEDusa gave my computer a very nasty virus.
Replies: 26
Views: 6009

4, Never click "ok" on any popup windows without reading and understanding what they say. If it says something like "This site wants to install a program, will you let it?" and you click "ok", you may be getting something bad. It's a jungle out there. Oh, that's not ev...
by ishidan
Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:04 am
Forum: Shopping
Topic: QEDusa gave my computer a very nasty virus.
Replies: 26
Views: 6009

And I do engage in "higher risk" computer play. For example (I blush) I do attend to ahem gentlemen's internet sites on occasion. :oops: The more adult-heavy content is more likely to also be more virus-heavy Just like the real thing, eh? Bit too much realism for me, thanks. A few things,...
by ishidan
Wed May 30, 2007 9:22 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Belief-o-matic
Replies: 43
Views: 8142

Well, that's a cute syllogism. The difference is that "prayer" is generally socially acceptable, as long as it's done within the requirements of certain organized institutions, while "talking to yourself" isn't. The acceptance is based on the general members of society's faith(s...
by ishidan
Tue May 29, 2007 8:39 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: For Our Members in the Armed Forces
Replies: 27
Views: 5018

But gentlemen may wager. So if you deliver to this forum just one example of Colson 's quote actually proving true -- that is, of force directly bringing about not just external compliance but internal emotional commitment -- I will publicly eat crow. Not metaphorical crow; real crow. What's more, ...
by ishidan
Tue May 29, 2007 6:56 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Belief-o-matic
Replies: 43
Views: 8142

Well, that's a cute syllogism. The difference is that "prayer" is generally socially acceptable, as long as it's done within the requirements of certain organized institutions, while "talking to yourself" isn't. The acceptance is based on the general members of society's faith(s...
by ishidan
Mon May 28, 2007 9:35 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Belief-o-matic
Replies: 43
Views: 8142

"You know I was so scared I just started praying my head off to whomever or whatever might be there to help but the really scary thing was I was terrified that nobody was listening". A bit of atheist cynicism: A widely held opinion is that 'talking to yourself' is a clear and present sign...
by ishidan
Sun May 27, 2007 2:05 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Belief-o-matic
Replies: 43
Views: 8142

Oooh. I needed something like this. 1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (94%) 3. Nontheist (78%) 4. Liberal Quakers (76%) 5. Theravada Buddhism (70%) 6. Neo-Pagan (68%) 7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (62%) 8. Taoism (52%) 9. Reform Judaism (50%) 10. New Age (47%) ... 2...
by ishidan
Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:08 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Gun/antigun thread
Replies: 393
Views: 66062

Hi Tom - While I get your points, I take exception to the one about what a person would really do when threatened by a bad guy with a gun. The assumption you're making is that a person loses his/her conscience when threatened. I don't think I could shoot another human being, even if that other huma...
by ishidan
Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:18 am
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Gun/antigun thread
Replies: 393
Views: 66062

Hi, Please take this question as a genuine one: why, if legal and general gun-ownership offers such superior protection to American citizens are the gun-death rates so extraordinarily high in the States? What do those of you in favour of wider gun-ownership think the best solution would be? Even gr...
by ishidan
Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:41 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Gun/antigun thread
Replies: 393
Views: 66062

And, so long as the thread is revived, take a look at the findings for what happens when guns are restricted vs. when guns are not: As the police cleared the bodies from the Virginia Tech engineering building, the cell phones rang, in the eccentric varieties of ring tones, as parents kept trying to...
by ishidan
Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:00 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: TSA = The Stupid A-holes
Replies: 65
Views: 12512

The items she didn't know -- for example, a brand of foot spray -- she ordered in the trash can. That's the core of Moses' question, I think. Basically her sorting logic is: Is it a small enough container to pass regs? [NO] --Confiscate [YES] Do I recognize the brand? [NO] -- Confiscate (you've got...
by ishidan
Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:39 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: Ever been this drunk?
Replies: 9
Views: 2714

...are you watching the same video I'm watching? The one I just saw featured a fat man waking up next to a fat woman and getting the classic 'coyote ugly' expression. (instantly through my head: you aren't Fabio yourself, tubby!) He manages to sneak away, but catches sight of the photo on the mantel...
by ishidan
Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:29 pm
Forum: Shopping
Topic: The Wet Shave is Back in Demand.
Replies: 8
Views: 2206

Um, I know I'm rather new at this whole brush and DE thing, but I HAVE been using the modern canned-goo-and-one-piece-throwaway-razor thing for about the last decade or so. So I ask. http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/9711/goodshavedn9.jpg I gotta say it. My face has stubble that looks like that onl...
by ishidan
Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gillette Fusion Power Phantom
Replies: 9
Views: 2970

Truly an unbelievable video! Check out Lenora-from-Gommorah shaving the clueless guy at the end! I guess it's like the saying goes, what's a 2 at 10 is a 10 at 2! :P You know that was just another marketing trick: put a set of breasts like those in a plunging neckline right in his face (looks like ...
by ishidan
Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:23 pm
Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
Topic: TSA = The Stupid A-holes
Replies: 65
Views: 12512

Now that was a good gov't worker! It's too bad US Customs and the TSA aren't run and staffed by clones of this guy. Wouldn't work. That would require grilling EVERY passenger going ANYWHERE with the two minute drill. With translators for every major language, or you'd have a LOT of lawsuits about h...
by ishidan
Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:46 pm
Forum: ShaveMyFace University
Topic: Cheap shaving tools guide for a newbie.
Replies: 72
Views: 179458

Hi all, newcomer to wet shaving here, just bought a Weishi. Just wanted to say: Major thanks to Cotton Blossom Crafts: they not only shipped it to me via a cheaper method than what their website lists, but when I opened the box, I found not only the razor, the box of Dorcos, and the brush, but two F...