Oh Say Can You Seeeee! Weeklong 4th of July Drunk Thread '12

Yeah, that's basically exactly how I imagine it too. Siiiggghhhh.

 

I just flipped the tv to Cruel Intentions on cable. I'm quite enjoying the dubbing, "freaked up scuzz" sounds so much better than "fucked up shit."

 

Baby is asleep. Beer is open. Empire Strikes Back is on tv. Yay Friday night!

 

There are few films I dislike more than that one. Probably because the Lowest Common Denominator created such a buzz for it when it came out, and it turned out to be hilariously awful.

So I guess on page 8 of your Paper you might notice that the people down at the Large Hadron Collider unraveled the secrets of the universe and found the God Particle they've been searching for since the 1960's. Of course, not nearly as important as Katy Perry re-friending Russell on Twitter. Now THAT'S news.

 

I heard absolutely nothing you said.

Aboot the LHC and the Boson findings, imagine how much cooler the international news could frame this piece for the kiddies if they, ahem, gilded the lily. The world's greatest evil geniuses gather in a secret underground lair to unravel the universe with their light speed, explosive death ray." THAT'S f'n news, babe.

In other, more exciting news I am cleaning my bathroom. This is immensely satisfying. No semen stains either. GO ME.

 

Woman. Top down. If you can't use the tags/theme to figure out what's what...I don't know what to tell you.

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I remember really liking it when it came out, the fact that I was in 7th grade my have played a factor though. I also remember liking She's All That and numerous other crappy teen movies.

 

This has been my song of the day. Love me some Bart Crow Band.


We need to liven this place up tonight. Instead of going to bed to make up for the sleep I lost last night, I'm going to cancel it out by losing sleep tonight...that's logical, right? Even if it's not, I'm staying up and drinking with you fine folks! It's been too long.

 

This. This is why I like this place. People on here actually know what the fuck this is, and that is is VERY IMPORTANT. Do you know how many people that I've tried to talk to about this looked at me the way a dog looks at a ceiling fan? This could be the biggest news of the century and it's getting upstaged by discussions of contraception morality and Sharia fucking Law. The FUCK, man?

 

Try living where I do, I can't even convince people around here that Obama was born in the US. Imagine trying to talk to them about something like the God Particle.

 

I'll be honest, it bugs me just a little that these physicists didn't wait to either publish their findings or wait for proper peer review before releasing those findings to the press. It's kinda... sloppy.

 

Well, okay. It's a very important result but it's not even close to the biggest scientific "breakthrough" of the decade, let alone the century. (Besides which, they got some initial results very close to discovering the Higgs as far back as March of 2010)

In fact, I would say that something like the the discovery of Higgs boson suffers from the same "lowest common denominator news reporting" that you complain about in other areas.

The only reason you (and myself, for that matter) have heard about is that the fundamental experiments are easy to explain to the public, and involve the type of "billion-dollar, state-of-the-art physics" most people are familiar with thanks to the popular media.

There are a lot of other really interesting discoveries you and I will never hear about in the mainstream news because they're way more complicated and don't involve really expensive experiments, but difficult theoretical work.

I haven't read it yet, but according to my physicist friends, I believe they already have published their findings? I remember being shocked that it only had 6 authors, too.

 

Well, what IS the scientific breakthrough of this century, then? 2 parts Vodka/Redbull mixed with 1 part ambien? That there MIGHT be water on Mars (yawn)? This is one of few scientific discoveries that shitheels don't try to shoot down by shouting "hoax" whenever a breakthough takes place that might dispell their own beliefs. Such as the belief that the Large Hadron Collider was an armageddon-triggering black hole machine that will end all existance when they turn the key. Then, they will have to wiggle the keys a little, because it can be tricky sometimes.

If I sound weird, take it with a grain of salt. I am ten miles high right now.

 

Do you mean the 6 physicists that published their theories of the Higgs Boson basically one right after the other in the 60s? I'm pretty sure these 'new' guys haven't published their 'proofs' yet.

 

Well, its 8:30pm on Friday night in Vegas, I'm up a few hundred dollars, and I'm getting ready to... finish my Laurel K Hamilton book and go to sleep. Just like last night. I just can't get into the correct sleeping pattern here. I'll be up tomorrow at 8am and then have to kill 8 or so hours. On the upside, I have tickets to Silva v Sonnen 2 and I'm praying that Silva hands Sonnen his ignorant, bragging, jingoistic ass.

Also, I can't believe i am over a third of the way through a LKH book and noone has had group sex yet. This directly follows an Anne Rice book with only 1 homoerotic scene. What on earth is happening in this topsy turvy world?

 

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I'm nowhere near educated or smart enough to answer that.

However, if by "century" you mean the last 100 years, I would say the structure of DNA, game theory, probability theory, topology, electron shells, the group classification theorem, etc. are all bigger deals. (Again, I'm not qualified enough to say which is the biggest one)

If you mean the 21st century, I would say any number of advances in molecular biology and genetics. (Major breakthroughs in chemistry, physics, and math have severely stalled since the early 20th century, a golden age for all three)

Yeah, I might have gotten that confused. Regardless, I trust CERN a hell of a lot more than some random Italians who claimed to have built a teleportation device around a decade ago, (which received a fair amount of press at the time) but who couldn't back their claims up.

 

Don't know who Ed is, but I like that cat.

 

Pretty damn hungover today. Made Micheladas, for the first time. It's both disgusting and delicious at the same time.

Saw a hipster douche wearing an officer's cap last night at a club, and told him off for it, that it was disrespectful. He proceeded to tell me that being in the military was disrespectful to him. Somehow the cap disappears later that night, while me and my friend are leaving the place. Guy calls the bouncers on us (who are "legitimate" guards, so to speak). Guy blames both my friend and I, and the bouncers are getting pissed off that they have to deal with this shit. Guy gets furious that the bouncers aren't doing enough so he.... calls the POLICE! To report us for stealing his cap. The police tell him that they have better things to do on a Friday night in town than deal with his lost cap.

Cue him storming off and the bouncers laughing at him. It's the small victories in life.