Kami

This guy kinda proves my point by taking almost two months to...

Mon, 28 May 2012 22:46:31 +0100

This guy kinda proves my point by taking almost two months to respond.

Have just stumbled upon one of the most beautiful, elegant games...

Sun, 13 May 2012 21:02:16 +0100

Have just stumbled upon one of the most beautiful, elegant games I’ve ever seen. It seems dead simple; get your little discs as close to the centre as possible. However, it’s the custom boards you can find over at boardgamegeek.com that are the coolest. Beautiful stuff. Check out this board for instance. Can’t you just imagine this board in a study, next to a sepia-coloured globe that opens to display some fine port, on a big wooden desk next to an entire wall bookshelf filled with hundreds of texts.

nickwild: THERE IS A CHICKEN WEARING THE BLACKBURN FLAG ON THE...

Mon, 07 May 2012 21:00:43 +0100

nickwild:

THERE IS A CHICKEN WEARING THE BLACKBURN FLAG ON THE PITCH.

Blackburn Vs Wigan 07/05/2012

thedailywhat: Kickass Dad of the Day: When Stuart Chaifetz...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:57:56 +0100

thedailywhat:

Kickass Dad of the Day: When Stuart Chaifetz learned that his 10-year-old son, Akian, was being violent and disruptive in class, he was puzzled. He knew Akian, who has autism, to be mild-mannered and sensitive, and had a hunch that something more was going on. But after several meetings with a team of school officials created to help special-needs students, nothing changed. So Chaifetz did what any concerned parent would do.

On the morning of Friday, February 17, 2012, I wired my son and sent him to school. That night, when I listened to the audio my life changed forever. I heard my son being bullied by his teacher and aide. The six and a half hours of audio I had proved that my son wasn’t hitting the teacher because there was something wrong with him — he was lashing out because he was being mocked, mistreated and humiliated. His outbursts were his way of expressing that he was being emotionally hurt at school.

The New Jersey father has since launched a website full of damning evidence and aFacebook page, and he is petitioning the state to change legislation so that teachers who bully children are immediately fired. The aide has been fired, but the rest of the staff have merely been relocated.

“I seek a full and public apology from all those adults who were in my son’s class for what they did to him,” Chaifetz says. “It is also far past time that these issues are allowed to be hidden from public view.”

[vvv]

Had a great time at the Wrestling tonight. Was the only person...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:42:17 +0100

Had a great time at the Wrestling tonight. Was the only person in my section chanting for Daniel Bryan in the main event, but it was awesome. There were some young kids around maybe 12 or so that would get out their seats and scream “LETS GO SHEAMUS” at me as I retorted with “Let’s go Bryan!”

To their credit, they were so loud that it spread like wildfire. I’m proud to say that between me and a group of twelve-year-olds we got the whole Braehead Arena chanting as loud as we could. Was awesome.

Oh and even Debi was chanting for Sheamus. So alone :(

Just found out where my seats are for the Glasgow WWE Smackdown...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:20:18 +0100

Just found out where my seats are for the Glasgow WWE Smackdown show. I am excite :D

Debs and I won tickets for the WWE show in Glasgow. I am excite.

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:20:47 +0100

Debs and I won tickets for the WWE show in Glasgow. I am excite.

Lol St. Andrews

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:18:48 +0100

Lol St. Andrews

Deadpool conquers the his shoes

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:09:32 +0100

Deadpool conquers the his shoes

So it’s official now, the place is ours.

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:52:22 +0000

So it’s official now, the place is ours.

So I’ve only been playing magic for a few months…

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:47:33 +0000

So I’ve only been playing magic for a few months…

thedailywhat: On Kony 2012: I honestly wanted to stay as far...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:36:06 +0000

thedailywhat:

On Kony 2012: I honestly wanted to stay as far away as possible from KONY 2012, the latest fauxtivist fad sweeping the web (remember “change your Facebook profile pic to stop child abuse”?), but you clearly won’t stop sending me that damn video until I say something about it, so here goes:

Stop sending me that video.

The organization behind Kony 2012 — Invisible Children Inc. — is an extremely shady nonprofit that has been called ”misleading,” “naive,” and “dangerous” by a Yale political science professor, and has been accused by Foreign Affairs of “manipulat[ing] facts for strategic purposes.” They have also been criticized by the Better Business Bureau for refusing to provide information necessary to determine if IC meets the Bureau’s standards.

Additionally, IC has a low two-star rating in accountability from Charity Navigator because they won’t let their financials be independently audited. That’s not a good thing. In fact, it’s a very bad thing, and should make you immediately pause and reflect on where the money you’re sending them is going.

By IC’s own admission, only 31% of all the funds they receive go toward actually helping anyone [pdf]. The rest go to line the pockets of the three people in charge of the organization, to pay for their travel expenses (over $1 million in the last year alone) and to fund their filmmaking business (also over a million) — which is quite an effective way to make more money, as clearly illustrated by the fact that so many can’t seem to stop forwarding their well-engineered emotional blackmail to everyone they’ve ever known.

And as far as what they do with that money:

The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government’s army and various other military forces. Here’s a photo of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Both the Ugandan army and Sudan People’s Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is “better equipped than that of any of the other affected countries”, although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasn’t been since 2006 by their own admission. These books each refer to the rape and sexual assault that are perennial issues with the UPDF, the military group Invisible Children is defending.

Let’s not get our lines crossed: The Lord’s Resistance Army is bad news. And Joseph Kony is a very bad man, and needs to be stopped. But propping up Uganda’s decades-old dictatorship and its military arm, which has been accused by the UN of committing unspeakable atrocities and itself facilitated the recruitment of child soldiers, is not the way to go about it.

The United States is already plenty involved in helping rout Kony and his band of psycho sycophants. Kony is on the run, having been pushed out of Uganda, and it’s likely he will soon be caught, if he isn’t already dead. But killing Kony won’t fix anything, just as killing Osama bin Laden didn’t end terrorism. The LRA might collapse, but, as Foreign Affairs points out, it is “a relatively small player in all of this — as much a symptom as a cause of the endemic violence.”

Myopically placing the blame for all of central Africa’s woes on Kony — even as a starting point — will only imperil many more people than are already in danger.

Sending money to a nonprofit that wants to muck things up by dousing the flames with fuel is not helping. Want to help? Really want to help? Send your money to nonprofits that are putting more than 31% toward rebuilding the region’s medical and educational infrastructure, so that former child soldiers have something worth coming home to.

Here are just a few of those charities. They all have a sparkling four-star rating from Charity Navigator, and, more importantly, no interest in airdropping American troops armed to the teeth into the middle of a multi-nation tribal war to help one madman catch another.

The bottom line is, research your causes thoroughly. Don’t just forward a random video to a stranger because a mass murderer makes a five-year-old “sad.” Learn a little bit about the complexities of the region’s ongoing strife before advocating for direct military intervention.

There is no black and white in the world. And going about solving important problems like there is just serves to make all those equally troubling shades of gray invisible.

[kony2012.]

I feel really sorry for whoever runs TDW, and am glad they are also publishing this take on the matter.

Reddit: Am I the only one who is suspicious about Invisible Children, the organisation behind Kony 2012 movement?

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:23:13 +0000

Reddit: Am I the only one who is suspicious about Invisible Children, the organisation behind Kony 2012 movement?:

This is the first actual thing I’ve read about this whole Kony thing, apart from reading his wikipedia entry and seeing people mass reblog that one video and other people questioning it’s integrity. It’s worth a read, and has me leaning more to the sceptical side.

hoarr: Descendants of Erdrick - Chrono Trigger Medley (Frog’s...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:15:01 +0000

hoarr:

Descendants of Erdrick - Chrono Trigger Medley (Frog’s Theme, Battle, Magus Battle)

These guys have always been spectacular every time I’ve seen them. Austin, TX is lucky to have a band that’s completely devoted to nailing these geeky songs live.

Dat flute.

droptoehold: Poster by Paul Griffin. I love wrestling posters.

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:40:40 +0000

droptoehold:

Poster by Paul Griffin. I love wrestling posters.

afternoonsnoozebutton: finalellipsis: Every time I actually laugh audibly at a picture, that half...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:49:31 +0000

afternoonsnoozebutton:

finalellipsis:

Every time I actually laugh audibly at a picture, that half inch at the bottom that says “Go fuck yourself at 9GAG.COM” completely ruins the moment.

Amen

thedailywhat: Facebook Thread Of The Year of the Day: A girl...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:20:58 +0000

thedailywhat:

Facebook Thread Of The Year of the Day: A girl gets a tattoo of her boyfriend’s face on her arm. He calls her “branded cattle” and breaks up with her.

Yeah, you’re going to want to read the whole thing.

[@doraexploring.]

droptoehold: WWE.com has the CM Punk v. Chris Brown Twitter...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:42:41 +0000

droptoehold:

WWE.com has the CM Punk v. Chris Brown Twitter Feud as their number one story currently. The story itself retells how everything played out and where the feud stands, but I couldn’t help but notice that the WWE left out the “curb stomping” part of CM Punk’s original tweet.

Hmm…

[Via WWE.com]

That video by punk. Goddamn this man man is good.

More /wooo/ Magic cards. Haven’t put it up on /wooo/ yet...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:37:50 +0000

More /wooo/ Magic cards. Haven’t put it up on /wooo/ yet because LOLPOSTINGGLITCH

So over on /wooo/ there’s a guy making wrestling themed...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:13:26 +0000

So over on /wooo/ there’s a guy making wrestling themed Magic cards. I’ve chipped in a few ideas including this one. Check the thread; http://boards.420chan.org/wooo/res/1900542.php