Deep Thoughts (shower thoughts ok too but no Pit stuff)

[mocat]

I'm sure there is a high % of vamps living in castles, though

[star seed 7]

If you're broke at 300 maybe time to give up the vamp game

[cfbandyman]

If you're broke at 300 maybe time to give up the vamp game

For sure, but to be asked allowed in might be a barrier to entry. I'm sure they are cunning enough and patient enough to figure it out.

[Pete]

Most of the Swiss banking system is run by vampires. It is known.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

I'm sure there is a high % of vamps living in castles, though

I mean sure, given a long enough time frame, one would likely eventually have the opportunity to live in a castle. And I’m sure that would probably be the preferred residence of all the available types of residences that have existed to date so you’re probably going to plant once you get there. But it’s not like oh hello Mr/Ms vampire welcome to being undead here’s your automatic castle

[nicname]

Tom Cruise didn’t live in a castle

[star seed 7]

American vamps live in plantation houses

[CNS]

American vamps live in plantation houses

Or large shitty houses in Staten Island.

[mocat]

American vamps live in plantation houses

plantation houses are american castles

[star seed 7]

American vamps live in plantation houses

plantation houses are american castles

See mocat gets it

[Stevesie60]

Eggs are just chicken periods

I say this a lot. As a pro-choicer I get so rough ridin' annoyed when libs say the "when you eat an egg, do you think you're eating a chicken?!" argument because, no, it's not fertilized, what a dumb thing to say.

[Stupid Fitz]

Eggs are just chicken periods

I say this a lot. As a pro-choicer I get so rough ridin' annoyed when libs say the "when you eat an egg, do you think you're eating a chicken?!" argument because, no, it's not fertilized, what a dumb thing to say.

Damnit Stevesie!!!! This post grosses me out and was sitting at the top of the last page forever and every time I clicked on this thread, I had to see it. It was finally about to be bumped and now you brought it back.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

you know that Smash Mouth song All Star?  turns out none of the words (lyrics?) in that song begin with the letter E.

DEEP THOUGHT SUPER-MEGA-PIVOT 💯:

as I was typing that?? out I was like "is it words or lyrics?" I mean, those seem pretty interchangable as it pertains to the medium of song. But it feels weird to call a single word a lyric.

Dive with me folks...so i just looked up the definition of "lyric" and Webster was like okay actually when you (idiot) say lyric what you are referring to is a lyric composition (re: cheez-its vs cheez-it cracker) so maybe its not okay to say a lyric is to lyrics as a single word is to all the words of a song. I think a lyric has to be an idea, or an expression of emotion. So like, a line from a song, or stanza from a poem, could be considered a lyric, and then the combination of each individual lyric will get you lyrics. And we take it for granted that songs with words by default convey an idea or an emotion, hence why you might conflate a single word of a song as being equivalent to a lyric.

Also last thing lemme just nip this in the bud b/c i'm sure at least one person is going to be like "there are plenty of single words that can convey and idea or an emotion" and to you i say just shut your hell that's not what we're talking about here, Nathan.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

ok wait i need to go back to the vampire thing. So like. Vampire fangs. Those are a vampire's reproductive organs.

[mocat]

you know that Smash Mouth song All Star?  turns out none of the words (lyrics?) in that song begin with the letter E.

how do you spell "L"?

[cfbandyman]

American vamps live in plantation houses

Or large shitty houses in Staten Island.

I was thinking like the Hamptons

[BIG APPLE CAT]

you know that Smash Mouth song All Star?  turns out none of the words (lyrics?) in that song begin with the letter E.

how do you spell "L"?

definitely "L"

[mocat]

you know that Smash Mouth song All Star?  turns out none of the words (lyrics?) in that song begin with the letter E.

how do you spell "L"?

definitely "L"

if this weren't a KSU sports message board, i might feel differently. but i'm old enough to remember posters with nicknames like "E2P", "ERIII", etc.
at the very least i think your original shower thought should have an asterisk.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I'm sure there is a high % of vamps living in castles, though

I mean sure, given a long enough time frame, one would likely eventually have the opportunity to live in a castle. And I’m sure that would probably be the preferred residence of all the available types of residences that have existed to date so you’re probably going to plant once you get there. But it’s not like oh hello Mr/Ms vampire welcome to being undead here’s your automatic castle

Not Alabama vampires. They are still living paycheck to paycheck trying to afford their trailers, biding their time until their next bankruptcy.

[bucket]

[BIG APPLE CAT]

what does it take for an act to be courageous?

Does courage require a right vs wrong, good vs evil component in order to be differentiated from bravery? Is it courageous to free solo El Capitain? Its just an activity to do there is no inherent morality to it, so in that sense i would say its more just brave.

For an act to be courageous, must there be the element of choice? If i accidentally fall into the lion enclosure at the zoo, am i courageous for grabbing the sharpest and biggest stick i can find and doing everything i can to fight off the lion rather than just letting it come kill me to death?

If me and my (non-union) co-workers go on strike to demand fair wages/benefits/working conditions/whatever, that would certainly put us at risk of retaliation from the company. But let's say i'm not really too concerned about whether or not i lose my job. Sure, i absolutely believe in my heart that I'm doing the right thing to fight for better pay or better working conditions or whatever, but maybe i have some money saved up, so if i lose this job i have a little safety net. Maybe i know that the skills i possess are in demand and if i get fired i won't have a hard time finding a new job. Maybe i even hate this job and i'm basically daring them to fire me. Is my choice to protest still courageous if i do not fear the consequences of those actions? (or, more generally, if said consequences just really aren't all that consequential to me)

and then i guess the last part...i think about like soldiers fighting in the vietnam war. No question that it took a tremendous amount of courage for those soldiers to storm those hills, knowing that there was a better than good chance they were going to get blasted to smitherines. but were the VC soldiers not also courageous? were they not also staring down the very same chances of being killed from trying to hold that hill? Choosing vietnam instead of WWII as an example because its very difficult to find any sympathy whatsoever for nazis. But the VC weren't nazis. they were just...on the other team. I guess my point is, is courage in the eye of the beholder?

[Pete]

Courage requires fear.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Courage requires fear.

so then courage is synonymous with bravery?

[CNS]

Courage requires fear.

so then courage is synonymous with bravery?

Courage is the gas in the bravery engine. 

[mocat]

Courage requires fear.

so then courage is synonymous with bravery?

yes. if there is a slight difference, i would say bravery is more spontaneous and courage is more thoughtful. but yes i would use these words interchangeably.