What's the most degrading thing you've done for money?

theknightwhosays_nee · 2012-05-24T02:34:21.348202+00:00

I'll back this one up. I witnessed it.

AndreaAmazing · 7 days

I remember in college the only times I went to Mqt were for Wendy's and Fazoli's (before it closed), and more recently for Buffalo Wild Wings.

My recommendations will be lacking, and hopefully someone from around Marquette gives better examples, but my experiences consisted of visiting beaches, hearing live music at bars and eating at a few decent restaurants/cafes.

Elizabeth's had really good steaks and, I believe, a decent old fashioned.

MrGestore · 7 days

Do you dip it in anything? Or just eat it plain? In Wisconsin, we always put gravy on our Wiener Schnitzel. I like gravy on my spätzle, too...gives it a little more moisture.

Paxientas · 8 days

I saw the same thing with my dad in the house I grew up in, except I remember the color being more blue-ish.

I'm also interested in knowing if this is still considered Ball Lightning or not. Maybe it was just a weird power surge? There was no fire or anything. Just a bright light moving across the wall that disappeared, followed by my dad coming into my room to make sure I was ok. He saw it and thought I had maybe stuck a fork in the wall outlet or something.

THaysDChi · 13 days

It seems the point here is being missed. This should help clarify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFxrOugLtxE

Edit: I should give more of an explanation as you, a new user, seem to earnestly think I was being racist. The poorest in India are known to be living in very extreme poverty. I am not saying India is a bad country, and in no way am I attempting to claim that Western civilization is more correct. I said nothing of the sort that Westerners live longer or better lives because they have flat screen TV's. Whether a life lived is fulfilling, well, that's largely left up to the person living it.

My argument is that if everyone is on the brink of starvation, and there is absolutely no extra sustenance available for people to do anything but be alive in a very weak, malnourished state, then there is probably less of a chance for that individual to flourish in the sciences. There will likely always be people of highly capable intellect, and prospective geniuses are probably born and die each day.

There are a billion things that would happen before the world I'm describing would ever become reality. But to paint a picture of the scenario, I decided to choose a well-known and well-documented area of the world that is currently poverty stricken. They do not have enough food, and that is one possible result of lacking resources.

To be honest, I agree with a lot of what you said. I just wanted to point out that the intent wasn't particularly racially motivated, nor was I defending Western philosophies or lifestyles.

THaysDChi · 13 days

I once heard the argument that the catholic church said, 'no' to contraceptives and abortion because it would provide more people under their doctrine.

My thought at the time was that it intended to take away the joy of recreational sex, therefore making people more 'responsible' and more likely to do 'constructive' things with their time. Broken logic, I know. But then I remembered...we're all people. We're going to keep screwing when we're horny pretty much no matter what.

THaysDChi · 13 days

A personal thank-you for pointing that out. Good catch.

idiosyncrisia · 13 days

Yep, I wash like a boss. Also, the thing I'm referring to is not so much on my feet, but sticks to the inside of the shoe. I think it was just too much powder being used in my last pair. Now I have cut back on powder and have a couple different pairs so I can switch-up, sometimes I'll even swap Sperrys half-way through the day just for funzies. And because dry feet.

Cedar trees are something I hadn't heard of. I'll try those out.

Thank you.

idiosyncrisia · 13 days

My feet sweat. What do you do about the extra toe-jam that happens in shoes when using foot powder? (I'm mainly referring to wearing Sperrys) The best I can think of is a foot spray, like Tinactin, but I don't know if that has an anti-persperant effect or if it's just anti-fungal.

captainregularr · 13 days

Same boat, brother.

MTUhusky · 13 days

Point taken. I am cautious about my health and careful when it comes to safety. If this was the norm, I wouldn't have posted...it was an extreme circumstance.

My entire focus wasn't to point out that I ran too hard in an electrical storm and emphasize that I threw up because of it. Those were to help aid the story, and apparently it did just that. My actual motivation for posting was that, in the past, I would have simply said 'Fuck it, not worth getting up. Back to bed." and felt like the excuse held water.

That day, however, I was sick of excuses.

I certainly won't be running through any tornadoes or surfing in a hurricane. It was a fantastic way to break through my excuses and prove to myself that shit can still get done even when the situation is less than optimal. I had to do it for myself, as a gut-check and realistic attitude assessment.

Thank you for voicing concern, and it is duly noted. I am not condoning harmful or dangerous activity for the sake of it, especially out of negligence.

MTUhusky · 13 days

Just revisited this post to check in. Thanks for the link. I'm reading it now.

THaysDChi · 13 days

Global population growth is in decline. My main argument is if we aren't responsible or innovative enough in creating new methods and new fuels, we could already be above what our environment can permanently sustain.

Even if the earth's human population is currently in decline, we could still be becoming increasingly overpopulated. From how I understand it, it all depends on rates of decline.

Edit: Population is still increasing; the rate at which it is increasing, growth, is in decline.

THaysDChi · 14 days

Yes, and I believe more than three are referred to as a flock of møøsen. A Møøse once bit my sister ...

fallenangel51294 · 14 days

These remind me of a few years ago, whenever anyone said, "Reganomics" we all drank. We were on a ski trip way up in the Rockies in Colorado. The elevation combined with that debate, and the fact that we were drinking Saki, left me very blacked out. I woke up in the pitch dark, apparently still drunk, with no idea what the fuck had happened. In my vain attempt at finding a light switch, I tried waving my hands in all directions. The next obvious step was standing up...but I immediately toppled the fuck over in the pitch black, landing HARD.

I let out a barely audible, "What the fuck?" It took a minute, but after gathering myself I realized I had passed out on the shitter for a classified amount of time. My legs had completely fallen asleep beyond anything I had ever felt before, and my pants, still around my ankles, had thrown me, my dead legs and my shit-ass into the bathtub.

Noticing that I was now obviously laying on my back sideways in a bathtub, I shuffled around on my hands and knees (legs were still asleep and pants were still down so bad that I couldn't stand) and finally found the door and cracked it open. The light hurt, a lot. But more importantly: I realized I wasn't in my own condo. I recognized absolutely nothing. I hurriedly got my pants pulled up and decided I better go exploring, but my legs were still so asleep that I had to crawl on my hands and knees. There was no way I could stand.

Much to my delight, everyone was still passed out. Masses of beer cans, liquor bottles, a half empty box of Cheez-Its and a couple bongs were strewn about the condo. I eventually found my shoes and shirt next to a girl I had never met, at the foot of what I presume was her fully-made bed we had intended to pass out in...apparently before my brain decided I should take an emergency dump. Brain...what a cock block you are.

I put my shoes on, found my cell phone charging on an end table (+1 for responsibility) with 31 missed calls from my buddies because it was 2 hours past leaving time (-1 for irresponsibility) and got ready to book it out of the condo.

When I opened the front door I realized I had no idea where the fuck I was...or how to get back. All I knew was that my condo (Beaver Lodge - yeah, that was the real name) was at the base of the mountain. I was obviously somewhere way the fuck up higher. I hobbled back in and grabbed 2 fingers of Skyy vodka and the box of cheez-its for breakfast in preparation for my death-march back down the mountain.

Made it back, friends weren't in much better shape and were more worried that I had passed out in the snow than mad that we were late. Better than expected. Except somewhere in Nebraska I realized that, due to the stressful situation, I had never wiped, and I had to deal with terrible dingleberries the entire ~26 hour ride back home.

tl;dr: Reganomics left me high & blacked out on the toilet in someone else's condo in Colorado. Fuck Reganomics.

THaysDChi · 14 days

But...they're sooo easy...

THaysDChi · 14 days

You're welcome...I hope it helped.

THaysDChi · 15 days

extra tl;dr: Nobody knows for sure, but responsible living will probably give us more time to dick around with science and figure out ways to compensate.

THaysDChi · 15 days

If there's such a thing as 'overpopulated', we're definitely headed toward it, unless sustainable technological advancements save us.

Whether humans will actually approach the carrying capacity of our environment (which as of now is Earth), is notably different than whether we will meet our highest population equilibrium. The main difference is where varying degrees of population equilibrium can consist of 'comfortable living' or just 'sustainable life', the carrying capacity is the absolute highest population of an organism/species that its own environment can sustain.

If your wife is hell-bent on the most extreme example, you can show her the results of exceeding a habitat's carrying capacity by explaining the moose-wolf ecological relationship on Isle Royale in Lake Superior, how it is sustained, and how it can be violated by too many wolves or too many møøsen. They are in a symbiotic relationship with one another. If too many wolves are alive, they hunt all the moose and die of starvation because, as carnivores, they cannot eat vegetation to sustain life. If too many moose are alive, the vegetation is over-grazed, doesn't have a chance to replenish and everything dies off. The island has remained in homeostasis, but you can follow that up with an example of what happens when an imbalance occurs: Easter Island. It was overpopulated beyond its carrying capacity, and is now a barren place that can no longer sustain life.

If you prefer to deal with current real-world examples of humans and population equilibrium, you may wish to explain how India's poor are living: as malnourished vegetarians. Are they alive? Yes. Is their quality of life up to the standards of those concurrent with high human achievement? No. If the world's entire population were living just as the poorest in India live, we would be stuck simply living and dying, and unable to produce things we rely on today, such as controlling sanitation, which maintains a clean water supply and controls disease. Some of these things are paramount in longevity, which can be a factor in higher human achievements, such as advancements in maths and sciences, where shorter life expectancy, poor living conditions and high time commitment spent acquiring the bare essentials (food/water/air/shelter) may affect a person's ability to study, learn and advance knowledge.

So, we could potentially exceed a regulating factor (most notably food) and die of starvation/suffocation/dehydration/the elements. On the other hand, we could live at the highest end of population equilibrium, and essentially spend eternity in starvation mode, surrounded by filth, disease and other terrible conditions. Six or seven outbreaks of incurable disease could potentially wipe out the human species almost entirely. Control would certainly not be on our side.

There is a third dimension to this dichotomy, which provides for varying degrees of humans exceeding its equilibrium because of technological or other advancements. Imagine for a moment that humans were stripped of their technology and medicine. Would we currently be over our carrying capacity? Possibly; we would likely run out of fresh water in some areas where it is piped in or filtered; we may run out of food in areas of high population density where the human footprint in food consumption is not sustainable, and there is no farm equipment or agricultural devices to increase food production. This concept has been acknowledged by Paul Ehrlich in something known as the IPAT Equation, I = P * A * T where: I is the impact on the environment resulting from consumption P is the population number A is the consumption per capita (affluence) T is the technology factor

This technology factor is something that increases the carrying capacity of the world. However, depending on the fuels and methods used, it may not be sustainable. Therefore, our current population could be within its carrying capacity but in a non sustainable way. (If we run out of fossil fuels, our tractors would cease functioning. If we pollute our groundwater with fracking, for instance, it could impact our irrigation systems.) If we don't continue discovering new fuels to power our agriculture, and if those fuels (or our other wastes) impact the ecosystem to a point from which it cannot rebound, we may already be overpopulated from a sustainability standpoint and just not realize it yet. In the best-case scenario, it would lower the earth's carrying capacity for humans to somewhere more equal to all other organisms. Worst-case scenario, at that point we may have permanently damaged or depleted the necessary resources for sustained life, thus lowering Earth's carrying capacity for humans to zero.

tl;dr: Nobody knows for sure.

THaysDChi · 15 days

What was your wife's answer or reasoning in support of her scoffing?

priceisalright · 15 days

I like to have fun with it. If you don't pay attention to what the loud bible guy is saying, he sounds kinda like Swedish Chef.

priceisalright · 15 days

I'm guessing the Oval is a bad place to do what they're doing; most people there take pride in being well-informed and educated in important matters. Even so, my interaction with them could have been unique. Perhaps the activist I spoke with was an inexperienced one.

priceisalright · 15 days

Not a clue. It seems as if they feel successful planting the seed. Perhaps some people would spread that 'newly discovered view' to friends and family. They'd be spreading false information via an incorrect perspective, but nevertheless it supports the anti-abortion cause by making it seem more agreeable to vote against abortion in any circumstance, because the ones you feel are legitimate 'aren't abortion'...they're something else, like 'medical procedures'.

MTUhusky

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