batnandu

• "What painting are you?"
• "Which Great Philosopher are you?"
• "Where should you be living?"

Punching someone really, really hard on the balls can potentially flip their breaker switch, ideally resetting their personality to something more manageable.
-- http://tr.im/gCRL

• Dress up in Sarah Palin clothes.
• Put on Joker makeup.
• Talk in a high-pitched, gravelly-voiced Alaskan-nee-Midwestern accent.
• When people ask you who you're supposed to be, answer "I'm 2008's two most over-done Halloween costumes."

The fourth type of introvert in the smallest minority group is the INFP, the Healer. Healers make up just 1% of men and 2% of women on the planet.

Don’t try to change [your introvert] into an extrovert. This is the ultimate stressor. It can lead to long term loss of Spirit, low self esteem, depression and health conditions associated with long term stress. Some of the signs to watch for have been indicated for each type: excessive eating, drinking or exercise, compulsive self criticism and perfectionism, feeling “unreal” or “lost” in time and space, disassociating from the body, speechless paralysis and cries for help such as “get away” or “leave me alone”.

bug-ger the ques-tion

Pronunciation: ˈbu̇-gər thə ˈkwes-chən
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English bougre heretic, from Anglo-French bugre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus, literally, Bulgarian; from the association of Bulgaria with the Bogomils, who were accused of sodomy

To misuse a phrase so prevalently that the incorrect/inaccurate meaning becomes linguistically valid.

"When you say, 'That literally blew my mind,' you're trying to bugger the question."

Merriam-Webster President John Morse said "w00t" reflected the growing use of numeric keyboards to type words.

"People look for self-evident numeral-letter substitutions: 0 for O; 3 for E; 7 for T; and 4 for A," he said. "This is simply a different and more efficient way of representing the alphabetical character."
-- from "w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary

The researchers found that most women speed daters said yes (meaning they’d like to see a man again after the four-minute speed date) less often to men of another race than they did to men of their own race. Here’s how much less interested they were in the other races, as compared with their enthusiasm for men of their own race:

African-American women said yes about 30 percent less often to Hispanic men; about 45 percent less often to white men; about 65 percent less often to Asian men.

White women said yes about 30 percent less often to black or Hispanic men, and about 65 percent less often to Asian men.

Hispanic women said yes about 20 percent less often to black or white men, and 50 percent less often to Asian men.

Asian women didn’t discriminate much by race (except for showing a very slight preference for Asian men over black or Hispanic men).

... The researchers, after controlling for all other attributes (height, weight, attractiveness, etc.), calculated how much extra income (relative to the income of the average online male dater, $62,500) a man would need to overcome the racial barrier. Here are some of the estimates (there weren’t enough data to do all the interracial permutations) of how much each extra income a man would need to be equally appealing to a woman as would a man of her own race:

... For equal success with a white woman, an African-American needs to earn an additional $154,000; a Hispanic man needs $77,000; an Asian needs $247,000.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
--Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Random Redneck Woman at the Georgia Aquarium: I tell you what, foreigners are the rudest people in the whole world.
thepeopleseason: Thank you very much.

Can you come with me sometime to one of these things? My friends all think you're Snuffleupagus.

¹ Incidentally, I was watching the Florida-Tennessee game with batnandu, his wife, and our friend Rob.

Too many times in guest parking - Beyond time allowed

Maturity is knowing when to be mature

1. I need to do more running around to get my place refinanced,
   
2. I'll probably get a higher rate than what I locked in at, and
   
3. Dealing with mortgage companies is about as fun as I'd imagine being the recipient of lubeless fisting would be.

    One minute = 60 seconds
    Average Rate: 7.6 expletives/second

    Estimated expletives spewed = 456

• Various fools turning left off of Ponce without the use of their turn signals;
  
• Another eighteen-wheeler carrying some large construction vehicle trying blocking off all of Scott Blvd. while trying to back into a house;
  
• A Honda CRV whose driver believes that the appropriate on-ramp speed to merge onto I-285 is 35 MPH; and
  
• A taxi (Atlantans will understand).