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>> ^PlayhousePals:

I was shocked [and chagrined] to discover recently that an old friend I've reconnected with is a big fan of Dr. Phil ... a truly WTF moment =oI


I'm having a WTF moment right now looking at the face of a true jag off. Let's be pals!

>> ^PlayhousePals:

>> ^ant:
>> ^PlayhousePals:
I was shocked [and chagrined] to discover recently that an old friend I've reconnected with is a big fan of Dr. Phil ... a truly WTF moment =oI

So you guys aren't friends anymore? People call me, Dr. Phil at work.

Where did I say THAT? Of course we are still friends ... I just won't be watching Dr. Phil with her should the situation arise =o)


It's called a sarcasm/joke. What about me as Dr. Phil?

>> ^ant:

>> ^PlayhousePals:
I was shocked [and chagrined] to discover recently that an old friend I've reconnected with is a big fan of Dr. Phil ... a truly WTF moment =oI

So you guys aren't friends anymore? People call me, Dr. Phil at work.


Where did I say THAT? Of course we are still friends ... I just won't be watching Dr. Phil with her should the situation arise =o)

Your video, George Carlin truly ahead of his time? Fuck Lance Armstrong, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Thanks!

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>> ^bmacs27:

Lance Armstrong might be able to make it down the block.


This could be like a Rube Goldberg of grocery shopping.

"Need bread from corner store. Must build human powered helicopter to get there."

Lance Armstrong might be able to make it down the block.

@chilaxe I understand your sentiment, but it's just a form of entertainment. You could make the same argument about cinema. Professional sports also bring in a tremendous amount of revenue for the state. It's up to the consumer to decide if their money is worth attendance or not and at that level it's no different than choosing to buy a movie ticket or pay for cable TV.

I'm not defending rabid fans at all, but sport in general as a means of entertainment, particularly if you're involved, isn't any worse than other forms of entertainment. What would you propose as an alternative that wouldn't carry the same generalization of "a more intellectual venture?" We can't spend ALL our time thinking.. How is watching cat or moose videos on videosift a better use of time than watching, or better yet engaging, in some form of sport?

I'm just playing devil's advocate over here, your caveman example is amusing, but why are you assuming that just because you like one team more than another you're unintelligent? I think Chris Sharma (http://youtu.be/ulepAmX2tTw) is incredible and so if I were to watch him in a competition, I want him to do well. I don't see what's wrong with being inspired by an athlete and wanting them to succeed. Watching an athlete overcome adversity like Lance Armstrong can be inspiring too.

"Dutch postman"? Or "Lance Armstrong, formerly of the USPS"?

>> ^L0cky:

He did really skirt around the happy pill issue though.(...) He answered the question with another question: 'When would you take that pill?'; which ultimately breaks down his entire argument. (....) If I was Harris, I would explicitly state that his proposition is exclusively in regards to making real world decisions; and not about engineering happiness at an individual level.


I don't think he skirted around the issue or broke down his argument. Part of his point, which is also embedded in the title in the book, is that a one-shot ultimate happiness pill isnt possible, or even desirable, which is why he describes a moral landscape, as opposed to a moral scale. I think the comparison with health really nails it: you can be fat an eat unhealthy, for instance, and still be "healthy" in the sense that you dont have terminal cancer or a severe depression etc. The definition of health, in other words, is not really a scale, but a landscape, where you can literally be Lance Armstrong with x number of tour de france medals and going strong and still be what doctors would call "terminally ill"

What is sure, in medicine , however, is that if you do have cancer, for instance, the best way to treat your body would probably not be 5 burgers and 40 cigarettes a day.


The same could be said, as Harris puts it, the best advice to a country with high infant and mother mortality, is not to burn down schools designed to teach small girls to read.


This is clearly not "just" a real world descision anymore than our basic concepts of health at an individual level

>> ^grahamslam:

Just like anything in this world people do it as a form of competition. Whether he competes or not is not the point, the point is to have a better system than anyone else you know.

The problem I have with competing in things like this is that it ultimately comes down to who spends the most money and there will always be someone who can afford to spend more than you. If you're competing as an athlete, then at least you have the option of training harder, improving or learning new technique, changing your style, strategy or approach to the sport, focus on being great at one aspect, etc. Of course it's still almost guaranteed you're not the next Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Nolan Ryan, Georges St-Pierre, or Emmitt Smith, but at least you can still compete against yourself... test your own limits. At least if you're building the system you're applying some technical skills and techniques; most of the douche bags that drive around like this just paid for someone else to do all the work. I don't see why they're so proud.

He is probably just suffering the side effects of having his assitants drop shit in his eyes so that he appears to be crying. He has been doing that lame trick for years. There are videos of "behind the scenes" shoots of Glenn being made to cry. It cant be a co-inky dink, Its like Lance Armstrong has nut cancer, or John Candy had a heart attack.... its not really an accident.