WAIT! Don't we need someone to bitch about how the monkey (sorry...Gibbon) probably hurt its feet and how to torment a creature like that is sick and horrible and you all suck?

This, dear Watson, is no monkey. This is a Gibbon, of the Ape family (notice...no tail). They are the fastest and most agile of all tree-dwelling, non-flying mammals. Thus, Acrobatic, and either threatening the guy, or courting him.

>> ^jmzero:

English is a language that is abused and changes over time that's why it has stayed around and why it will keep changing I don't see why people get so offended.

I wasn't offended, I was making a little joke (only partly at your expense). In the future, I think it'd probably be safe for you to assume that people responding to your posts are probably making fun of you.
Anyways, I accept that "literally" is sometimes used as a generic intensifier (usually by idiots) and certainly I understand what you were trying to say, but it's still funny to imagine a brain literally full of shit.


Most people take the piss out of me because I write like a retarded gibbon having a sesure on a keyboard I don't mind.

I study this stuff. It's strange that Mericans have this romanticised view of their Constitution, Bill o rights, Puritans and the founding fathers, but the humans were just human, and the documents were just documents: Imperfect. Not holy writs and prophets. The USA did not get rich and prosperous on its founding father's ideals, but the backs of slave labour, massive natural resources and comparatively few wars at the beginning.

To think that "As one of Jefferson’s favorite books, Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,’ so luminously argued, there is no surer sign of a country’s cultural and political decay than obtuse blindness to its unmistakable beginnings" means one should look at the beginnings and say: "Wow everything was awesome then!" is romanticising history. All that stuff I mentioned above which you ironically called 'obtuse blindness' is deeply ingrained not only in the US' history but also the constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I have read both documents, unfinished drafts, rewritings, documents about the discussions and much more such tedious stuff: It's all deeply political, partisan even then and not! perfection. I know that it's much easier to think that libertarianism is the goto-solution for everything, but it isn't. Nothing is.

Says the guy who doesn't know what a market is.

But I guess those founding fathers and framers of the Bill of Rights were just a bunch lunkheads.

Ironic quote of the day:
"As one of Jefferson’s favorite books, Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,’ so luminously argued, there is no surer sign of a country’s cultural and political decay than obtuse blindness to its unmistakable beginnings." - Simon Schama

thanks for the portishead promote.i heart beth gibbons.
check this teen out..wow..just wow:
http://videosift.com/video/cooler-than-me-mike-posner-cover-by-jayme-dee

>> ^smooman:

it just takes a certain kind of person to appreciate drum solos. some do some dont. i happen to love em. just like it takes a certain kind of person to appreciate lightning fast guitar solos. as a guitarist im not all that into the facemelting, technical, speed solos full of appregios and such. Im more of a "make every note count" solo along the lines of santana, clapton, or billy gibbons (im very partial to "bluesy" soloing).
different strokes for different folks


I often like just raw drum solos I just don't think this particular one was that inspired.

it just takes a certain kind of person to appreciate drum solos. some do some dont. i happen to love em. just like it takes a certain kind of person to appreciate lightning fast guitar solos. as a guitarist im not all that into the facemelting, technical, speed solos full of appregios and such. Im more of a "make every note count" solo along the lines of santana, clapton, or billy gibbons (im very partial to "bluesy" soloing).

different strokes for different folks

Yeah actually I just read about that on wiki. I use to use a penny because I like the metal tinge or twang it made.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
Thank you, sir, again it would seem.

Muchisimas gracias por todo with a side of Rio Grande Mud.

Did you know Billy Gibbons is known for using a Mexican Peso ooin as a guitar pick?

In reply to this comment by ctrlaltbleach:
and I *promote thee

Laughing loudly as I type, I bet they do.

>> ^bmacs27:

My girlfriend's parents used to live next door to the elevators in Austin in the seventies. Needless to say, they've got some stories.

that gibbon is a badass.

Silly cops.

The description is misleading. It wasn't Lt. Gibbons with the taser, it was some deputy.

portishead 'dummy" is my favorite album and i am just amazed by beth gibbons.

>> ^dag:
I didn't recognise all the musicians. Who else was there?


I think the slide guitarist was Ben Harper and the guy beside Billy Gibbons looked like Elvis Costello.