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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:39 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Shoot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405637) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:41 PM Author: Slap-happy trailer park How many responses did you have at the time that you were frozen? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405651) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:43 PM Author: Ruddy heady property No, I don't have any of those personality disorders; I have been evaluated. I have a mild streak of post-traumatic paranoia; paranoia != PPD, though, nor is paranoia one mental illness, but a trait of several. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405665) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:45 PM Author: Slap-happy trailer park Holy shit, this is for real. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405686) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:46 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe What was the trauma that underlies the post traumatic problems? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405700) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:47 PM Author: Ruddy heady property The conflict could be totally nonviolent, with no human life lost. Yet the basic fact is: there will be massive winners and losers as some major part of our society is about to be destroyed. Will it be the property ideology, the market-fetish exclusivist luxurizers? Or will it be the idealistic, opensource pioneers of new multimedia and transmedia forms of communication and culture? The possibly creative and possibly destructive destruction will be monumental, and must happen as antagonists inexorably collide. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405715) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:15 PM Author: Lake temple puppy The pseudo-intellectualism is remarkably aggressive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407072) |
Date: November 28th, 2005 7:45 PM Author: odious ceo Where'd you get the user file? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405692) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:47 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe He IS the user file, you stupid android. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405709) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:48 PM Author: odious ceo :(
sorry stanlee
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:48 PM Author: Ruddy heady property As for "megalomania" (which is the same thing as NPD) there are several major differences between myself and the Narcissistic profile. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405718) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:05 PM Author: abusive alcoholic bawdyhouse Please expound upon this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405895) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:06 PM Author: Ruddy heady property I already know that 90+% of people are better basketball players than I am. I've learned to deal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405912) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:49 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe What is your favorite cardgame? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405730) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:49 PM Author: Ruddy heady property The standard deviation of relative scores over a game is 21. Therefore, we conclude that hand-luck contributes about (4.3/21)^2 = 4.2% of the variance, among roughly equal, intermediate players.
Which may sound prosaic, but it means that Ambition is 95.8% skill and strategy. Now, "strategy" is sometimes "luck", because the term as I use it refers both to intentional and incidental interactions of players' objectives; there is some "strategic luck" in Ambition but I knew that would be there. A game needs some uncertainty to be fun; in my opinion, strategic elements-- which a la Poker are part skill, part luck-- are a better source of said uncertainty than pure chance.) Aside from Duplicate Bridge (100% skill in theory; probably 95-98 in practice because you might play table X against an opponent who's really good at that type of hand) this may be unprecedented in this genre of card game.
For comparison, one game of Chess, if you randomize the white/black determination, is about 98% skill. Of course, for Chess (as we can't, in Ambition) we can consider the strategic elements to be "pure skill" because it's a 2-agent system. ("Strategy" is pure skill in 1- or 2-agent games, mix of skill & luck in 3+ player games.)
Sure, Poker converges to 100% skill over a lifetime, but very slowly on the micro scale (the variance is just insane; it's skill in the long long run). Besides, any mixed luck/skill game converges to 100% skill if iterated long enough (Rock, Paper, Scissors) but Ambition achieves this 95.8% in one sitting.
96% decisivity in one hour. Wow. That surprised me quite a bit. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:52 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe What's your take on male-female relations in the modern world? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405764) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:54 PM Author: Ruddy heady property So, I'm an attractive guy when I'm just standing still. I should be the envy of other men, right? No way. As soon as I lift a finger, I fuck up, I just utterly fuck up. When I'm just trying to have fun and ignore all that romantic crap, women come into my outer sphere like moths to a flame. I reach into that outer sphere to invite them to the inner sphere, because I know it'll take a long time before they come in on their own right. Bam! I start getting overly aggressive, then when she gets standoffish, I get insecure and needy and stupid and very unattractive. I do this "reach" 4 or 5 or 6 times, no success on any, each time more insecure and angry than the last. On the last "reach", I might even get really stupid/insecure and explode in front of the girl, which doesn't set things up well for the next cycle. After the last "reach", there aren't any girls attracted to me. I survey the wreckage, get angry about my fuckups, and get really depressed and inward for ~5 days. As I undizzy and come back to normal life, then I start being attractive (too much for my own good) again and the cycle renews. I've traced this and it's about a 20 to 40-day cycle, usually close to the 20. With only 5 of those days in the "spring" (above base-level and rising) part, I just don't get much time to be at my best. Fuck this 20-day man-period. Fuck it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405781) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:04 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe After I have my 20 day man period I sometimes have a lingering "not so fresh" feeling. Any suggestions? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405882) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:07 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Part of why I'm squabbling and head-casey right now is because I'm on the outskirts of the most hellish weeks of my life, and I'm overwhelmed beyond description. Overwhelmed by what? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405922) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:53 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe Also, how do you feel about the Honda Element, I'm talking the 4 wheel drive package? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405769) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 7:55 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Sometimes I have those fantasies/daydreams, but who doesn't? That's just called "vision" or (whip out the word again) "ambition". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405786) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:01 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe My girlfriend and I have a pretty good sex life, but sometimes it feels like we have fallen into a rut (no pun intended, lol). Can you suggest some tips that will help us "kick it up a notch" in the bedroom? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405848) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:03 PM Author: Ruddy heady property I don't want to live the player lifestyle, which I find abhorrent and immature, but I want that capability. I'd rather have 1000 women attracted to me per year than 10 because, statistically, I could expect to find my ideal relationship 100 times faster.
Carleton aside, I actually seem to do better than the average male at attracting women, and I still don't attract women with enough frequency to find the type of relationship I want. I wonder how average or below-average people do it. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:05 PM Author: odious ceo "I wonder how average or below-average people do it."
lol |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:03 PM Author: Avocado violent travel guidebook i have absolutely no idea what is going on on this thread... can someone explain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405864) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:04 PM Author: Ruddy heady property At this point, not to divert the conversation so abruptly, but I don't want to discuss this anymore. While I use economic metaphors to describe romantic activity at Carleton, economics really doesn't suffice-- it's not about trade of goods and services or currencies or the menas of production-- it's distributive politics. For whatever reason, I have a bizarre fascination-- academic more than personal-- with said distributive politics. Just as I find it bizarre that another person might be interested in something as specialized as "The Effects of Inflation on Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, circa 1975", I, for whatever reason, have my own unusual academic fixation: I take interest in analysis of the "Distributive Politics of Romantic Activity at Carleton, circa 2004". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405886) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:05 PM Author: Avocado violent travel guidebook are you just reposting old pensive posts? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405894) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:06 PM Author: Ruddy heady property The resulting trick, 6♣-A♠-K♣-K♠, was worth 29 points, the greatest total possible. There are six possible 29-point tricks, but this was the highest-ranking of them, making it the single most prestigious trick possible. I took no others that round, and still struck (the split was 29-26-19-11) because of it, but because I had not yet seen a 29-point trick, and because I'm a prestige whore who wanted to be the one getting the first 29-pointer, it was well worth the strike. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405904) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:04 PM Author: abusive alcoholic bawdyhouse Subject: You have answered my prayers. Please keep it up. How popular do you think Ambition is going to become, and how much money do you think it'll make you? Feel free to estimate, and please explain all of your meticulous reasoning. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405881) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:05 PM Author: Ruddy heady property As the number grows, I have less and less track of it. I would estimate that between 500 and 3,000 people play it regularly, 2,000 to 10,000 have played it, and that around over 150,000 people have heard of it (but probably most of them know nothing other than that a card game with the name "Ambition" exists.)
The doubling time for Ambition's popularity seems to be about 9 months. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:12 PM Author: abusive alcoholic bawdyhouse No, no, I'm looking for much more detail than that. How rich will you soon be? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405958) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:15 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Parts of my life were ruined for reasons not my fault. There's no getting around that, nor the fact that the process made me somewhat of an insecure, irrational person.
I don't want to be an insecure headcase, a belligerent argumentative prick, or a noxious self-destructive attention-whore. I don't want any of that. I know sometimes my conduct here makes it seem like I do, though. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:16 PM Author: abusive alcoholic bawdyhouse How about some equations with dollar signs in them? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405980) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:18 PM Author: Ruddy heady property I would like to impose a 125 percent tax on those high-society shit artists who make thousands of dollars by selling offensive, decadent "art" (if it can be called that) to wealthy people with worse tastes in consumption than a toilet. $33,000 for a dead ladybug in a styrofoam cup? (This actually happened.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405993) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:24 PM Author: Slap-happy trailer park Is this when that slutty girl got really upset and started talking about how you didn't know anything about art? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406042) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:29 PM Author: Ruddy heady property So, the overarching theme of this long and surgical self-analysis is that I had something powerful, but for a long time was way too immature to know how to use it. In fact, I didn't even believe that it existed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406107) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:18 PM Author: Slap-happy trailer park I know there was one post where he tried to calcuate this, based on (I think) advertising he could sell on a site where people played Ambition, but I don't remember. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405996) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:07 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe Dear User File,
I'm a pretty good street style skater. I can pull off ollie kick flips, and sick rail slides. But when it comes to vert, its a totally different story. When I stand on that ramp, ready to drop in, my whole body tenses up, and I just cant do it. What can I do?
---Too Shy to Shred |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:09 PM Author: Ruddy heady property To support the endurance contest claim: At least at Carleton, the people I've seen struggle have normally done so because of primarily emotional rather than intellectual issues... or just bad choices or bad luck. It's not that these people are stupid or lazy, just that they weren't positioned to handle the things that came against them at the times they did; not knowing specifics, I'm not sure if I could have either.
You're absolutely right that there is more to the word student than just what I've read in the word. When I said "I'm a mediocre student", I didn't mean I'm lacking curiosity or earnestness, but that I'm pretty bad at the endurance-contest thing. I've had many terms where my guts were hanging out by the end.
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:10 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace i vote a very big thumbs up to the new pensive. and i'm inclined to concede that the old pensive was, where it matters, basically schtick.
excellent work. i lay down arms. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:10 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Take the Wikipedia controversy. I made some mistakes, but overall there's no question that I was right in that thing, but I eventually lost the fight-- I retreated from Wikipedia (may return, but probably won't) and thus my detractors won. Where'd I mess up? My first gaffe was to go into a very volatile forum and begin working with no understanding of how it worked. Worst move one can make. I should have lurked on Wikipedia for 3 months minimum before even thinking about an Ambition article, and definitely not written under my own name (as I would have known if I'd lurked for long enough). By being way too impulsive, I got myself into a pissing war where only I was accountable (my detractors, a band of cowards, were all psuedonymous) for my actions and lost badly. For a contrast, consider the Ambition article on the French Wikipedia. I wrote it in April (w/ 4 mo. familiarity with Wikipedia culture) and it has been attacked not once.
The Wikipedia thing is pretty amusing. It was my impulsive grab at a higher k-constant and a lower exponent for my differential equation... but it didn't work out well.
The good, successful promotion example is the Usenet work I've done, the strategic essays (I just wish I had time to write more of them) and such. This is because they give me a high profile while performing a generous action-- teaching people how to play a strategically-complicated game-- and it's not intrusive at all.
At any rate... how'd I get to this tangent? I don't know. The good news is that I survived 5th week. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:13 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe I for one would love to hear more about your differential equation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405963) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:19 PM Author: Ruddy heady property I don't know how this happiness is determined-- unlikeliness of depression, maybe? Brain scans? I would measure happiness by this equation: actual intellectual function divided by potential intellectual function, but then again I'm a person who cares more about freedom to accomplish/experience than material comforts.
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:22 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace maybe this is what you've been saying all along. but there's an inexplicable clarity now.
and maybe it isn't for everyone, but i particularly enjoyed the post about ambition above. the aspiration of maximizing the skill/strategy component in a card game really intrigues me. talk up the game like that, and the self-promotion takes care of itself. high-grade girls like guys who are are good at things -- and confident enough that someone else will spread the word. you're probably not far off from that happening. and someday you'll see what a guy who wishes that he, too, had invented a card game looks like when you walk away with the girl.
welcome back. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:29 PM Author: Slap-happy trailer park You realize that these are actual posts from his userfile, right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406104) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:12 PM Author: odious ceo I'm confused.
Is this shtick pensive, or do you mean something else?
Or are you being funny |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:14 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe I think he's confused. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405968) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:26 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace it appears that he's pretty fucking funny (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406070) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:32 PM Author: Charcoal Church Building this is someone else posting excerpts taken out-of-context from mike's "user file" (a non-anonymous internal carleton version of xoxo). it's not really mike responding. it's his words, but it's not him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406135) |
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Date: February 26th, 2008 8:54 AM Author: big chocolate set God, you're a moron (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#9389153) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:11 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe Do you have any insight into the intelligence or moral character of the types of people who hassled on Mike Church during his first year at Carelton college? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405949) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:13 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Here's what's really at the heart of Carleton's long-running "Mike Church war", and has been for 3.5 years: There's a divisive split on this campus between two types of people. (1) Those who are going places, who have futures because they are smart and curious, and who tend to be individualist in nature. (2) Those who want to make Carleton into extended high school, who tend to be conformist and gossipy, who have mediocre futures at best. Almost certainly, these two types of people exist on every college campus, and I won't claim to know what the proportions are here... but I'd guess that at least 50%, probably many more, are in the first, better group. Though not often discussed, the split is palpable and extremely divisive.
So, where do I fit into this? Well, for whatever reason, I became a "marker", an emblem, if you will, for the first group, at least from the perspective of the second. Which has made me, to them, an enemy. That's what all this gossip about me being "sketchy" has been about, and it's nothing other than pure, bald envy.
In fact, if I were even a bit better known on campus I'd probably qualify as a litmus test in measuring this division. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:16 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe Lets hear more about these claims of "sketchy" behavior. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405981) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:14 PM Author: Hairraiser Balding Station is tubgirl up to your lofty standards? if not, why? do you drink alcohol? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405967) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:16 PM Author: Ruddy heady property I told that story because, then, I didn't have the confidence that I could articulate what actually happened to me, much less that people would believe me. Freshman year was a large-scale he-said/she-said battle, and often people believed my enemies over me-- I was outnumbered. So, yes, I fabricated a story that, first off, I thought people were more likely to believe than what had actually transpired, and, secondly, could be used to make my enemies look bad. Thirdly, I didn't want my enemies to have the satisfaction of knowing that THEY were responsible for mindfucking me.
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:18 PM Author: Charcoal Church Building fyi to those for context, this post refers to how pensive made up a head injury to explain his antisocial behavior his freshman year. after his freshman year, he admitted that the head injury had never happened, but for some reason the antisocial behavior stayed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405995) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 11:45 PM Author: brindle curious shrine This is a technicality where he suspected a mild injury (no more severe than a soccer concussion) had caused his psychological weirdness freshman and soph. year, not the PT effects of being stalked. It wasn't so much dishonesty as utter befuddledness.
Does anyone have the file? katrinabush2005 at yahoo dot com |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:15 PM Author: Slimy federal candlestick maker What are your thoughts on anal sex among elementary school boys? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405971) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:20 PM Author: Ruddy heady property If we make the humanistic (and normative) assumption that each human life has the same worth-- 1.0 human lives-- and subdivide a life into different quality elements (leisure, health, economic security, autonomy, consumption) we can compare utility functions. It's true that utility is technically merely ordinal-- there's no such thing as "I got 69 utility points from that lollypop" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406011) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:17 PM Author: odious ceo What exactly was the Mike Church fiasco? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405986) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:19 PM Author: Charcoal Church Building when his parents conceived and his mom chose not to abort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406005) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:22 PM Author: Fuchsia locale Oh god, I'm going to hell for laughing at that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406032) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:22 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Okay, if a woman doesn't want to date me, I have one data point. I can't judge her tastes because maybe she doesn't want to date anyone. Maybe she's a lesbian. Maybe she has a boyfriend and isn't comfortable bringing it up. In that regard, no I can't say-- and I don't-- "she's not interested, ergo she has bad tastes." There are plenty of reasons she might not be interested. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406027) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:23 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace exactly. it's almost never an assessment of you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406040) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:26 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe Do you not get the format here? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406066) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:27 PM Author: odious ceo I'm pretty sure he does (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406083) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:28 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace pretty sure i don't. i was assuming it's all on the level. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406099) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:31 PM Author: odious ceo Someone got a hold of his "user file" from carleton. Basically OP is posting excerpts of mike's musings and rants over four years in reply to questions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406122) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:34 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace am i crazy to find them far more appealing than what he does here? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406158) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:35 PM Author: odious ceo I'm a bit turned on myself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406169) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:38 PM Author: Charcoal Church Building no. but they're being taken out of context. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406191) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 9:57 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace i'll give him the benefit of the doubt for once. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406874) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:04 PM Author: Talented resort no, the entire file actually sounds very interesting and there's a distinct sense of self-deprecation that differentiates them from his posts here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406958) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:28 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace seemingly not. i was mainly making amends for yesterday. what's the pattern? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406090) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:29 PM Author: apoplectic doobsian weed whacker This isn't pensive. This is someone else reposting things pensive wrote a long time ago in a different forum. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406109) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:30 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe Exactly, its based on the Onions "Ask a...." column (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406120) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:49 PM Author: Slap-happy trailer park Also, I think Shomer did something similar with an "Ask valen2" thread way back. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406267) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:32 PM Author: Ruddy heady property There's one thing I do find unjust with the Magic scenario. I can't fault Richard Garfield (who would've probably never believed in 1993 that one of the cards in his game would top $500) or Wizards of the Coast (WotC) for the state of their game. WotC is, after all, behaving rationally and using their game to make the maximum profit possible. Fine, they have the right to do that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406136) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:34 PM Author: Charcoal Church Building "behaving rationally and using their game to make the maximum profit possible. Fine, they have the right to do that."
tell us some more how this fits in with your joe/prepme hate. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:33 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace is "user file" just a way of saying shit someone previously posted?
whatever it is, it's a far more interesting and likeable person in these posts. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:34 PM Author: apoplectic doobsian weed whacker Yeah, it refers to some bulletin board type thing pensive used when he was in college. Someone got access to the archives and reposted the stuff.
It's certainly very entertaining. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:35 PM Author: Charcoal Church Building it's shit he previously posted on a non-anonymous carleton forum.
and the more incendiary stuff hasn't been posted, yet. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:44 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace if it's meant to denigrate him, i'd say it does exactly the opposite. if not, it works for both the poster and pensive/mike. the few things i've read in any detail all cause me to revise prior assumptions and want to hear more -- but this time in a good way. i think the guy just needs to be cut a break, and maybe given a second chance occasionally. he concedes that he handles precisely the situation that arose yesterday poorly, and it's not the fake self-awareness he's sometimes shown. i, at least, am willing to cut him that break. not as charity: i'm truly interested in things like what he was aiming for with the card game. i'll enjoy watching someone self-immolate any day. but, all else equal, it's a better story if he turns into one of the most well-liked people here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406220) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:09 PM Author: Trip love of her life this cant be happening... i thought you finally realized what a nutjob pensive is, and now these excerpts from his carleton file are persuading you otherwise? no im sorry, i cant accept this. pensive must have blackmailed you; this is the only reasonable explanation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407018) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:15 PM Author: Talented resort Deshada has a knack for taking a contrarian stance, but I agree with him here; the posts in the userfile tend to illustrate a profile of someone who freely discloses flaws and directs the blame at himself, instead of at the outside world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407070) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:17 PM Author: Domesticated mother piazza Read the thread "Pensive is WAY more fucked up than we thought" He basically blames "the Carleton women" for everything and thinks they are trying to kill him "by sunset on June 12, 4:56 am." Or some such shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407105) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:19 PM Author: Talented resort that's a rather selective and strangely literal interpretation of the posts-- are you saying that this is his only post? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407131) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:23 PM Author: Shimmering Orchestra Pit that's a much more accurate interpretation than the one Renada is offering. through thousands of posts on the user files (and elsewhere on the caucus system), pensive's hallmark was his absolute refusal to accept any responsibility for his actions or predicament. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407179) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:18 PM Author: Charcoal Church Building see:
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307840&forum_id=2#4406983
and:
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307834&forum_id=2#4406955
hth. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:20 PM Author: Talented resort i'm assuming that you didn't vote for howard dean either? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407142) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:23 PM Author: Charcoal Church Building YYYEEEAAAAAAAEEEEEEEAAAAAAEAAAARRRGHHHHHH! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407182) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:35 PM Author: Slap-happy trailer park It's not inconceivable that it's still him. I mean, only Carleton people would have access to it, so unless he gave the entire file to someone else, or if it's that girl from the college board who goes to Carleton, I don't know who it would be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406165) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:35 PM Author: Charcoal Church Building there was that other carleton guy (no, not the one defending him, the one debunking him) posting on some of the pensive threads.
see: http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=306628&forum_id=2#4391468
my money is on this guy, UNLESS "User File" keeps posting only things that make pensive look not-too-bad, in which case it MIGHT just be pensive. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:42 PM Author: Slap-happy trailer park I wouldn't be shocked if this person and the OP in that thread were both Mike. At this point, I wouldn't even be shocked to find out that *I* was actually Mike the whole time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406211) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:49 PM Author: Mind-boggling Queen Of The Night Electric Furnace 180.
the most brilliant thing god did was make us all believe he doesn't exist.
the most brilliant thing mike has done is make us believe he exists in al of us. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:12 PM Author: Trip love of her life actually, that would be the devil.
and no, mike church is not brilliant. he's insane. |
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Date: August 14th, 2007 10:51 AM Author: Salmon Hyperventilating French Chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#8513779) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:36 PM Author: apoplectic doobsian weed whacker I think it's been passed around. I've heard others mention having access to it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406177) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:21 PM Author: Shimmering Orchestra Pit anyone who went/goes to carleton has access to it. it doesn't get passed beyond carleton b/c it's non-anonymous. dozens of people posted to his user file, and it's signed with our real names. so even if one wanted to put pensive's words out there, you couldn't do the whole thing without posting the words of a lot of other people who haven't consented to beyond-carleton distribution. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407155) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:37 PM Author: odious ceo I'd love a copy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406180) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:18 PM Author: Comical flatulent double fault pocket flask you have a small penis. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4405991) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:21 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Love yourself in all respects. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406017) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:21 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe Dear User File,
My wife has always wanted to visit Morocco for our 20th aniversary (which is coming up this year). However, given the post 9-11 political climate, I'm worried such a trip might be dangerous. Advice?
--- Reluctant Regarding Rabat |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:26 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Dear Reluctant Regarding Rabat,
The unfortunate truth is that, when I was a social suicide bomber, the fact readily advertised itself to the whole campus. As I improved myself and my life, there was no way for me to achieve the same "blast radius" because to wave my hands and shout, "Look at me! I'm not an asshole, I'm a reformed, chill guy!" would prove the precise opposite of what I wanted people to know.
Sincerely,
User File |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:29 PM Author: soul-stirring lemon giraffe One Fucking Eighty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406111) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:31 PM Author: Fuchsia locale That was incredibly salient. I find it hard to believe you didn't set that up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406129) |
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Date: November 11th, 2007 6:26 AM Author: Big-titted range goyim gets me every time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#8881138) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:21 PM Author: sable menage telephone Dear User File,
There's a cute girl in one of my classes that I kind of want to go out with me, but I'm too shy to say anything. How do I know if she likes me? What should I do?
- Scared in Anthropology |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:27 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Dear Scared in Anthropology,
In situation 1, my forcing her out of my life is exactly what she wants. She gets her space, I don't waste my time. Situation 2 is trickier, but I've had more shit blow up on me from falsely assuming a disinterested girl was shy and awkward, than by assuming a shy girl had no interest in me. I'm probably missing out on some really neat women with this strategy, but not having my name used as toilet paper (in the flip case) is worth it.
If a woman wants to pursue me (and being at Carleton pretty much precludes that) she'll just have to watch her subtleties; one hint that I should forget all about her, and I vanish. I'm too old to throw away self-respect for the hell of it.
Best of luck,
User File |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:31 PM Author: sable menage telephone yay!!!!
this is my new favorite schtick.
yay!!! |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:24 PM Author: Fuchsia locale Dear User File,
I have been attacked so many times recently on baseless accusations slandering my character. What should I do to alleviate the inner pain I feel?
- Angry in Anchorage |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:29 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Dear Angry in Anchorage,
Why I failed socially was because, for most of my childhood, I was immature (spent my time on books, math, computers rather than soccer and "hanging out", which I really didn't learn how to do till college) and, being aware of my social deficit, pretty unconfident. A late puberty also added to my low confidence levels with women.
Thanks for writing,
User File |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:31 PM Author: chartreuse masturbator What happens on page 606? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406123) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:32 PM Author: Hairraiser Balding Station dude. user file. i've been accepted to a top-15 math phd program and to HLS. which one should i go to? i need to go somewhere to silence the prestigeless loser-fuckers who seek to discredit me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406134) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 9:03 PM Author: Kink-friendly lay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406387) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:22 PM Author: odious ceo Oh that is tragic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407169) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:34 PM Author: Ruddy heady property Subject: ATTENTION: I MUST GO. THANK YOU ALL, I WILL BUMP THIS LATER See ya then!
User File |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:39 PM Author: Domesticated mother piazza This is absolutely fucking hilarious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406193) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:44 PM Author: Kink-friendly lay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406223) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:45 PM Author: Domesticated mother piazza Dear User File 2.0,
Can you explain why people slandered pensive at Carleton? Also what do you want to do to them?
--Curious about Pensive |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:51 PM Author: Kink-friendly lay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406283) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:46 PM Author: sable menage telephone Dear New, Untested User File:
I have high class tastes but those around me are of much lower class; as a result, they often mock me. It can be frustrating. How can I teach my friends to be more cultured?
- Blue Blooded Boy |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:56 PM Author: Kink-friendly lay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406334) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 9:02 PM Author: Domesticated mother piazza Wow. Just wow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406378) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 8:47 PM Author: Opaque kitchen Subject: Another trainwreck When I first read the User File posts, I thought they were meaningless word salad, like the Hipcrime Usenet posts, if anyone remembers back to 1998. But now that I realize they came from pensive's brain, they are beyond creepily disturbing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4406244) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:25 PM Author: Sadistic macaca school cafeteria You all are pathetic. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Mike took legal action to take care of some of the things going on in this thread. Enjoy yourselves while it lasts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407206) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:28 PM Author: Charcoal Church Building hi pensive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407226) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:28 PM Author: soggy french faggot firefighter library If Mike is listening, I would advise him to seriously look into the option of legal action. The pseudo-anonymity we have here is not an excuse for slander. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407230) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:29 PM Author: Fuchsia locale Doesn't it get tiring - changing your monikers every 3 minutes? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407251) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:31 PM Author: Sadistic macaca school cafeteria Knowing Mike and his connections, he probably already has something in the works as we speak. I think the trash will be taken out sooner than everyone thinks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407275) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:32 PM Author: Costumed burgundy prole lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407278) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:33 PM Author: Racy Parlour 2 subpeona's away, dudz0r! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407282) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:33 PM Author: Fuchsia locale Right, we are all two subpeonas away! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407286) |
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Date: February 26th, 2008 7:41 AM Author: Irradiated jew indian lodge how'd that work out, michael? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#9389032) |
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Date: July 11th, 2008 11:03 AM Author: Hairless Grizzly Heaven lulz, I think that's one of my monikers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#9963684) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:29 PM Author: Fuchsia locale Right, posting Mike's words in a public forum after he, um, posted them in a public forum is legally actionable.
You are ridiculous. |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:33 PM Author: abusive alcoholic bawdyhouse Particularly since, whatever else this spectacle is, it's most definitely "parody." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407279) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:33 PM Author: Racy Parlour mike doesn't know the law. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407288) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:34 PM Author: Trip love of her life you are conversing with pensive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407298) |
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Date: November 28th, 2005 10:36 PM Author: Fuchsia locale I know... I don't know why I even bothered with a reply. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4407316) |
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Date: November 29th, 2005 12:06 AM Author: Buff dingle berry LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#4408237) |
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Date: December 29th, 2006 3:22 PM Author: Vermilion violent brunch degenerate This is the craziest thing I've ever read online. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#7313956) |
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Date: February 26th, 2007 4:42 PM Author: Vivacious chestnut meetinghouse people who are hurt One of my favorite threads of all time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#7672772) |
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Date: November 10th, 2007 11:52 PM Author: twinkling laughsome persian (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#8880341) |
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Date: November 10th, 2007 11:55 PM Author: brass high-end main people spot ty for this bump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=307727&forum_id=2#8880347) |
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Date: February 26th, 2008 9:04 AM Author: big chocolate set Userfile:
I find that due to my being hyper-intelligent, people resent me. What can I do about this? |