Dude...Don't you have a grocery nearby with MORE than 400 sq ft of floor space?? Thrift store kitchen gear and more than one bag 'o groceries!!

Spam + Baked beans = Spleens

Spam and baked beans, mmmmmmm.

That is the crux, indeed. The cry from the "Generation of Entitlement" during Occupy just doesn't resonate with the masses of people employed in slave-like manufacturing conditions, penniless coffee growers that grow the beans that help the hipsters get out of bed every morning, or the astounding number living through absolute poverty, genocide or civil war.

The problem only grows worse. Occupy, although out of proportion with the global scope of inequality, brought much needed attention to the issue. I think the garment factory collapse in Bangladesh was another eye-opener for the west. Now, what to do about it all before the nukes get launched....

Nope - doesn't seem I lose any star points for that - see http://videosift.com/video/If-love-and-sex-were-taught-on-Sesame-Street-Whose-Line
I'll let the baked bean canister do the backup in the future, then.

Got a pocket full of funky with a peppermint twist
She’s a cool, shifty mama blastin’ off on the flip
iridescent pork belly galactic super train
mama sister playground with a straw daddy cane
(Uh-Huh)

Gotta get it up
(Hey)
Gotta get it on
(Ah)
Gotta get it down
(Hey)
Gotta make it strong

Got that quick dip crayon earthquake jet pack on a bun
Locomotive supernova Spanish Harlem sun (yeah)
Slick crawfish solar blast with a phosphorescent brain
Who’s that mama squat town? Deep fried Detroit soda train


Gotta shake it up
Gotta move it in
Gotta put it down
Gotta make it swim

Nebulatic comets sanitation disease
quick play tornado rip and tickle beef sneeze
Ships planets justice cannons, cables and trees
Doctor’s office penguin shillings, railroads and peas
I said crippled donkey mel brooks book train bats on my knees

penicillin trapdoor laser currency beans

He say penicillin trapdoor laser currency beans

Well, they're low cholesterol and high protein,
hotter than a Mexican jumping bean-
Have em low-strung or vacuum packed,
Them mammies come alive when you bumpin' that rack-
Round like GONG, they hold me like a lanyard,
two eye-level ladies, exceedin' all ya standards-
Def enough to knock you, to your knees,
and even when they make it, gotta get some PLEASE
them, TITTIES!
(feat. "My Peanuts"-Niggas With Hats)

:50
/kills self
why has my breakfast always been so horrible?
wtf bacon is this? and, there's a little tomato there?
Are there french fries under that egg?
fuck me. and beans and sausage and the bacon is off the plate
HOW IS THAT BACON?!

oh wait, it's ham right? nevermind.

Apple's strategy appears to be progressive in releasing new products and conservative in making iterations.

It's particularly obvious on the iPhone. (1) On screen size they've barely budged while competitors have offered options varying widely from 3-7 inches. While some would argue phones larger than 5 inches are ungainly, it's very much a personal preference and where there's clearly demand say for Samsung's Note series, the option should be available. (2) The UI may have also been revamped but compared to the customisability of Android, it's still immensely basic and locked down, (3) File access continues to be restricted through iTunes which keeps transferring files, and sharing them between apps a massive pain. Apple's bandaid solution to this is to stick a 'share' button everywhere, but this is hardly a real solution.

The problem is Apple's slow pace of change means they're losing their competitive advantage. I'd argue the big change that has kept the iPhone successful even as Android was beginning to catch up several years after the first iPhone was the (1) all metal design that came with the iPhone 4 & (2) the smoothness of their UI. Now with phones like the HTC One, the durable/water resistant series from Sony and the rumor that Samsung is going all metal with its next generation, the first advantage is going. The second went with Android Jelly Bean which mostly fixed Android's laginess. I just don't see anything coming along that will significantly differentiate them in the future, both the iPhone 5 and 5S really didn't offer anything as compelling as the build quality of the 4.

The iPhones main remaining advantages are its user friendliness and the relative strength of its app store. I'd argue the first is over-exaggerated, and even if it is such a large factor, the sheer fact that it has already seen sizable portions of the older generation being enticed into smartphones makes the next step of moving to a new UI a relative cinch. Effectively Android phone makers/Google can capitalize on the market Apple helped create. With the build quality gap diminishing and Android device prices coming down, while iPhone prices remain largely unchanged I think the incentive to switch will rise.

The App Store's strength is largely a factor of the revenue that it brings in for app creators. Yes, no doubt iOS apps are generally pricier and it's users more willing to pay. But with the dominance in market share for Android in developing markets, even if their consumers are poorer, it's only a matter of time before at the very least app makers move from the iOS first, Android second model to a simultaneous release. From there I think it will be a steady decline for iOS.

Sean Bean could make a vasectomy sound epic.

Comandante a frijoles: Viva El bean Bowl!

For someone who has admitted to being too much of a pansy to kill his own supper, you exhibit an enormous understanding of what goes through the head of someone that enjoys such a hobby.

I've got a story for you. When I was a child, I lived in a rural community full of hunters. Not my family. My parents taught me to love and respect animals. We had a couple of dogs I loved dearly. If stray cats showed up at our door, we fed them and gave them attention. If an animal was injured, we nursed it back to health. In school there were a small group of boys who came from a family of hunters. They were taught to hunt from a very young age and animals had no value to them, other than to be enjoyed as a meal. They would torture animals for the fun of it...throw rocks at the birds and squirrels to score points, stomp on them to finish them off and then skin them so they would have their trophies. They would pull the legs off live frogs. Pour gasoline on defenseless little animals and light them on fire. They got off on making animals squeal and would brag about it to whoever would listen. They also bullied kids at school. They didn't feel any empathy and got a rush from inflicting pain and making children cry and scream. One day I was walking home from school and saw the boys with a gas can. They had cornered a feral cat that I had been feeding and were about to light it on fire. I intervened which led to a violent confrontation and thankfully the cat got away. I hollered for a neighbor to help which scared them off but I still ended up being beaten quite badly. When I got home, one of my dogs was missing. We couldn't find him for days. I later found his charred remains in the adjoining forest to my property.

In case anyone was wondering, my user name "carnivorous" is a long standing pet name given to me by my wife (don't ask). I am not a vegetarian, I eat well balanced meals and have a garden where we grow a lot of our own vegetables and my wife bakes bread and other baked goods on a regular basis. We do make an effort to eat less meat and find other sources of protein such as beans, eggs, nuts and cheese, but when we do eat meat we don't let any of it go to waste and appreciate the animals who lost their lives for our meal. As I stated previously in the thread, I am not opposed to hunting if an animal is killed humanely for the sole purpose of providing food and I would prefer that an animal had a glorious life in the wild, ending in a quick and painless death. The issue I have with shang is not about the hunting, but his enjoyment of the violence associated with hunting and what he is teaching his children about violence and aggression. My children have beautiful innocent little hearts and care about the feelings of people, animals and even insects and I am proud of how I've raised them.

Think me a bully if you will but I have always been the sort that stands up for what I believe in and I will not apologize for that.

My quick summary:
Religion will always tell you that "God" is responsible for anything that science can't currently explain, and then will furiously and shamelessly backpedal when science advances far enough to invalidate something.

Science, on the other hand, will basically spill the beans when it has no answers to some question. But it might obfuscate that truth with some scary big words -- "big bang singularity", for example.

Pick your poison.


As a final note, record my vote for an alternate name as the "Horrendous Space Kablooie".

/thanks Calvin

Dumb argument is dumb. We need to regulate internet comments. I propose a competency test. No more comments until you correctly report the number of jelly beans in this jar.

Jerry Beans? Lainbow Mountain?

It feels like Japan is just fucking with us at this point.

Gotta get me some Jerry Beans!