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retarded hotdog is obviously too old to type.

my vote goes to "how do you sleep?" by john lennon, directed at paul mccartney, of course.

i saw it and thought it was pretty damn good.

t'was alright... i liked the parts with no singing mostly.

me neither,but at least buckethead is good. he can get away with doing what he does in that case.

i hate awards. they're so unnecessary and a total wank fest when you watch them. the speeches, the people who actually get the awards in the first place. it's all a sham. take the grammys for instance, the judges arent even required to listen to the albums they vote for! the junos are no better. the fact that TWO canadian idols are competing for awards this year makes me sick and proves that the judges weren't listenning in that case either. these things are not about honoring talent, achievement, or even being canadian. i hate them. they just commodify the music you listen to even further and have absolutely no fucking merit.

more like: living in excess comes with a price. it's kind of silly to determine that just because we have all this stuff means that we need a coercive force to make sure our stuff doesn't get stolen. it's also a bit ignorant to assert that gang related property crimes just sort of happen with no rhyme or reason behind them.

alcohol isn't the devil

those songs were horrible. worse than velvet revolver! i didn't even know there could be such a thing.

all i can say is that i didn't move it.

all cops are pigs.

lol when DON'T i say its both? toadman, excellent points. i think this discussion is over. also, thanks for the kind wishes josiegross.

i think in your case, your talent is actually natural, because i assume you naturally came about having a vagina. then again, having an orifice between your legs like the rest of your sex isn't necessarily a skill either. *sigh* genetics play a part. it's called potential. you can have all the potential in the world, the best genetics for the job, but still suck at something. why do you think italy has such a horrible hockey team? are you willing to say that it's because they've bad genetics for hockey? or maybe its because the sport isn't pushed as much in italy as it is in north america, russia, etc.. just because you can't attribute your running/jumping talent to actual events or periods of time does not mean that it didnt work out that way. after birth, everything that happens to you affects who you are and what you become. your genes set up the circumstances, but your environment has more power over them. for instance, your genes might determine that you become a tall person, but if, at a young age, you drink only coffee, avoid milk and start lifting weights, chances are, your growth will be stunted. not to mention something called gravity, which stunts our growth potential as well. it's funny that you're more willing to attribute your ability to run to whimsical explanations and circumstances that you yourself can't actually prove, than actually saying it's learned. "my genes make me a fast runner"... oh really? did you conduct a series of tests looking at your DNA strands for months on end determining this? speaking of determining... after a certain point i feel that it is almost a cop out to attribute what you do and who you've become, to nature and to genetics. are you all biological determinists? or do you believe in free will?

people still care about axl rose?

i think it propigates another form of beauty, like, you need tatoos and piercings in order to be considerred hot. im not sure if its actually offerring up an "alternative" to mainstream centerfolds, specifically because if the market did not exist for such a website, i doubt they would exist. i borrowed a friends account once, and didnt really see the big deal about it. maybe its just me. some were hot. most weren't.

sometimes i lurk otherones if theres something particular im looking for. i also browse forums where they post torrents of bootlegged material, but am not a member. i am what you would call a leech.

jesus!!! well im glad i never bought it. did u check ebay? no but i also had no idea that the s/t kwatsa album goes for insane prices now. i guess it's hard to find these days? that pisses me off because my ex bought it for $13 new at hasting's a couple of years ago and when i left i couldn't take it since he bought it and i haven't replaced it yet and I DO NOT LIKE HAVING ONLY A BURNED COPY OF IT a;skrhfs;ldk goddamn this life. recently they found a bunch of copies of the first print of the s/t in someone's basement, and released them. but after that, they were no more.

i go to the gym 4 days a week. its great fun. i dont just weightlift though, i also play basketball and soccer.

any news in regards to the contract w/ fox?

i'd still do ricci.

again, were talking about the idea of natural talent here. i understand that genetics to play an important part in early childhood development, i'm not arguing that. i do think genetics have a huge effect on how our bodies grow and how we change, and they also have a great deal of influence on what traits we're given in the first place. but with the examples we've been discussing, all we're defining natural talent by here is proficincy at a young age, which entirely relates to whether or not one is exposed to whatever they become good at. look at any child prodigy. whether its wayne gretzky, mozart, etc. they were all exposed to what they were proficient at, at a young age. that's a common theme here we can't ignore. regardless of genetics, had gretzky never been given a chance to skate nor play hockey he would never have been good at it. let's face it, twin studies can only do so much. to perform a twin study, you must first make two critical assumptions which greatly affect the outcome of your findings. those assumptions being: 1) there are only two types of twins, and researchers can reliably distinguish between them 100% of the time 2) the results from twin studies are generalizable to single-born children. like you, i took psychology and learned about those twin studies. most of the time they used the study to discern whether or not psychological disorders are hereditary or environmental, sometimes also looking at personality traits and IQ characteristics. but you have to realize that their definitions for these things varied and as a result, provide room for error. what is intellegence? how can you define it? or even quantify it? it wasn't standardized in any of these tests. nor were their definitions of the disorders that they were looking for in the first place.

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exactly. especially since hockey itself is a social construction. it is a set of rules that the players acknowlege and follow in order for the game to actually work. being good or talented at something compliments your ability to work within the confines of that specific construction. so, we judge what "talent" is through the lens of a social construct, something that isn't a biological thing.

i work at a hospital, making food for the patients.

i dont understand how linkin park's cover of nine inch nails' "wish" makes them any better musicians, especially since its pretty by the numbers. the song is good, and when you cover it without making changes, it's probably going to remain that way. another example would be mariyln manson's version of "personal jesus" or even NIN's version of "dead souls". linkin park arent a bad band or bad musicians, they just lack scope. musically they know what they're doing and write pretty tight songs. they're very good in the studio that way, but they don't say anything, and thats why i choose not to listen to them. i did for awhile, but they seem to be better at flogging the same two albums than they are about breaking out of the mold that they're so comfortable in. at times, they have moments of glory, their song "session" from meteora comes to mind. i'm not saying that they need to make more experimental blip music and isolate a lot of their fans, but they could be doing a lot more than capitalizing on people's enjoyment of mashups, etc. etc. they're in a good place where they can push a lot of boundaries, but they aren't doing it and it dissapoints me.