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Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 9:57 pm
by toivo
to all the f-d up epics, and being successful in going all the way in spite of the impossible, i salute you:


Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:21 pm
by toivo
there's a line from thoreau where he remarks on mt ktaadn that it is basically inhuman to be there. only the gods should go there. and yet we make our inhumanities everyday. pleasure to the people, and the agony of defeat. we need both.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 9:53 pm
by toivo
dino jesus will revenge. thank goodness for the grace of old gods, like dino jesus, now nothing more than oil in the ground. there's a kind of nascent myth there.


Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 3:09 pm
by Lox
Sick.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 6:16 pm
by toivo
life in the pow with the dogs is more than ok. they seem to like the way it feels on their feet, face, body rolling in the powder snow like beasts possessed with joy.


Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 7:11 pm
by toivo
hey thanks! hanging around in the snow in winter. seems to make sense.

i had mixed feeling about dogs, and they are a lot a lot of work, but if they can give me a free ride, they have made their room and board.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 10:39 pm
by toivo
sports science seems to support the "hot weather=dooshbag" hypothesis:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 2815302886

the mammal mind likes the cold.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:32 pm
by toivo
how we made the sauna:



departmental sauna party and supper tomorrow evening. glad i've cooked ahead and have enough firewood to burn. if we get wild we'll cut a hole in the ice on the river.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:21 pm
by toivo
so i spent this last few days in the wax room with a team of 3 others. Ray was a total wizard, producing super fast skis:



we were attuned to the changing temperatures and snow conditions.

we were laughing on snow.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 7:24 pm
by jlane
mountainz wrote:


that guy needs a punch in the face and a haircut.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:16 pm
by jlane
mountainz wrote:spoken like a true talent-less republican piece of shit.

So angry. So delusional. Sad, but you are a great representation of the worst generation in American history. A pathetic choad smoker with little to no sense of reality. Enjoy poverty, avoiding mirrors, smelling like a bum, existential dread, and externalizing blame.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 9:20 pm
by toivo
the marginalized and the generally disenchanted with capitalist fantasies will enjoy the rout of the republican party upcoming. not for any real good political reasons, but just for the enjoyment of the spectacle of it.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 10:39 am
by jlane
mountainz wrote:
jlane wrote:
mountainz wrote:But that doesn't mean you're not an aged piece of shit frat boy.

Someone say shit? Haiku coming up!
Ex-Republican
Once a frat boy, always one
aged and wizened shit

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 11:57 am
by stonefiend
It's the "where's the beef" generation.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 7:08 am
by Cardboard_Dog
toivo wrote:the marginalized and the generally disenchanted with capitalist fantasies will enjoy the rout of the republican party upcoming. not for any real good political reasons, but just for the enjoyment of the spectacle of it.



Totally agree. There are people that still believe ideology is what is driving the Republican party, but that really only exists at its base. The Republican leaders themselves are no more loyal to their ideologies, than the Democrats are loyal to their anti-war stance .. which is to say not at all. There is so much money and vested/protected interests at play anymore, that most sane Republicans either jumped ship, or took a moral stance and were replaced by complete dipshits like Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal. Look at Maine's governor. Seriously?. Fucking seriously America? Republicans at this point will elect almost anyone who still claims to channel that sad and archaic ideology, no matter how stupid, no matter how absolutely ridiculous. This years election is going to be a Retard Rodeo and its going to be entertaining as HELL. Clinton winning the election would ruin the fun. Trump has to take it for the real shit show to begin, but it will be the most ridiculous, insane, and incomprehensible 4 yrs in America's political history. .. (Of course we say that but I'm guessing there were some pretty ridiculous candidates during the civil war era and the years following .. )

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 1:41 pm
by Lox
jlane wrote:Ex-Republican


The most interesting part of this discussion. Socially liberal but fiscally conservative? Libertarian leaning but for some sensible regulations? Can't stand abortion bills and lack of an economic agenda other than TAX CUTZ OMG!!!11 ? Dislike the total disregard for science-driven decisionmaking?

I am super interested because I probably could have voted for a Republican post-Bush but the party jumped the shark bigtime. Care to elaborate?

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 7:59 pm
by toivo
Lox wrote:
jlane wrote:Ex-Republican


The most interesting part of this discussion. Socially liberal but fiscally conservative? Libertarian leaning but for some sensible regulations? Can't stand abortion bills and lack of an economic agenda other than TAX CUTZ OMG!!!11 ? Dislike the total disregard for science-driven decisionmaking?

I am super interested because I probably could have voted for a Republican post-Bush but the party jumped the shark bigtime. Care to elaborate?


it is curious that the so-called age of post ideological, neo-liberal politics has taken on such rabidly nationalistic tropes, bringing people together by stoking fear and hatred of others. beyond supposed claims to economic efficiencies, the corporate elite has latched on to these kinds of divisions to mobilize people even where the people's interests have no direct, positive relation to corporate profits.

conservatism makes sense if it means the conservation of the kinds of ethics that make civil society possible, as in civility, courage, moderation, generosity and wisdom. it is common sense to keep good things from the past in order to make us stronger into the future.so one looks with cautious askance upon the novelties of the present, and knows that all of this too shall pass.

the last bush set the bar pretty low for prudence.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:19 pm
by toivo
there is n o principled consistency in pandering and bragging. self--assured humble is the new proud. may the gods bless america...

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 10:51 pm
by toivo
rough hewing timbers for framing, canadian railroad tie style.

Re: Random YouTube shiz.

PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 9:44 pm
by toivo
let's do with masks on.

party time up here in Candada. civic holiday king weekend for the win.