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I disagree.
In previous years, we've seen the moot of christmas past make attempts to troll and annoy us on the holidays, but the moot of christmas present seems to have genuine interest in keeping us happy.
While the mergers might seem like they were made to pit us against each other in some places (/outsoc/, /mlpol/, and /cock/), all of the mergers seem to be getting along quite nicely.
I think that he'll keep us as long as we're more active than the slowest non-merger board.

>>34708
>/outsoc/
>getting along
"no"

>>34673
desu the board already seems pretty dead which doesn't bode well considering it's hidden

How to be a 3% man - Corey Wayne

>>34751
I imagine it would be dope to lift to the old man and the sea

>>34751

Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac. It's just a series of good pithy sayings. Might be good.

I would suggest something like short essays or aphorisms - like Seneca, or Nietzsche.

>>34514
No.

>>34555
Please help me build a list of great short stories

let this thread, and many after it, compile lists of great short, quick-punch style reads.

help me build my short story list

>>34555
There should be some lists out there of the most anthologized short stories within certain timeframes. That would give you a good handle on critical consensus.

The School is probably up there, Car Crash While Hitchhiking, CommComm, A Good Man is Hard To Find, ect.

I'm also a big fan of the You've Got To Read This collection, now out of print. It's a couple hundred stories introduced by other famous/successful authors, each asked to pick their favorite.

>>34555
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/old#Short_Fiction

>>34589
Less than dead, we never were.

>>34589
it's dying out, the board is too slow.

>>34589
until it becomes inactive enough that nobody will notice that it's gone

I want to have sex with that woman

>>34508
Same desu

Starting Strength.

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>>34648

Also if you're /fit or /lit post anyway and maybe some will give pointers

>we're all gonna make it

>>34628
me too

>>34628
You're still posting here right? You don't have to miss it, along with all the other merge boards.

>>34635
But I fear that numoot may purge us in the coming days...

>>34597
if you can afford the basics and have a friend for spotting if you need it, then fuck yeah do it from home
gym memberships and shitty policy already piss me off where I'm at

>>34608

I guessed so but the only time i hit the gym was when i was 17 y.o. now i'm almost 24 so i wanted some confirmation

Do you think these two are valid equipments?

http://www.electronic-star.it/Klarfit-panca-manubri-latissimus-leg-curler-arm-curler_i25312.htm

http://www.electronic-star.it/Klarfit-KS02-Stazione-Per-L-Allenamento-Distensioni-Su-Panca-Con-Bilanciere-Curl-Pult-Butterfly_i220437.htm

I'm propending for the first since i can work even my back

>tfw lifting in mom's basement

First a history of the English language and how it's changed from Old English (which is like the Norse which Vikings spoke) to English as spoken now across the world.
[If you want another series after this Stephen Fry's Planet Word is fun but not as thorough, and you should really read a book and watch less TV]
The Adventure of English with Melvyn Bragg
ep1 Birth of a Language (Heaney on Beowolf)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihoYL-dUK1g

ep2 English goes Underground (effects of the French Norman invasion)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxf0ANntz64

ep3 Battle for the Language of the Bible
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP7ZErdNTZY

ep4 This Earth This Realm This England (Shakespeare)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsdiLyPUXps

ep5 English in America (Webster's)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeBcHkbf_oI

ep6 Speaking Proper (elocution and the pricks who want it)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb_UdA2NO_E

ep7 Language of Empire (English as spoken in the colonies)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s56lkK6q7p4

ep8 Many Tongues called English, One World Language (future of English as a common language)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vhpiy2C_ck

To give an alternative history of culture, this is from the Greeks to film and the internet in terms of pornography. The Classical section will teach you to laugh at big dicks instead of becoming aroused. It's from 1999, but most of the books in the world were written before then.
ep1 Classical era, being discovered by Victorians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7steSPKtn1s
[For bonus Simon Goldhill, the first interviewee, have talk on ancient sex and modern art www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PpPZbtwTjU]
ep2 Print
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Cqn9DT3KI
ep3 Photography
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6yEaf7652o
ep4 Film
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TDLNKzImps
ep5 Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2f2LgY7QmU
ep6 The burgeoning internet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEyN9f48mmU

To skip back a bit here are two discussing the differing ideas of the word Luxury in the Ancient world and Middle Ages [sorry no youtube]
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ikws3_bbc-guilty-pleasures-1of2-luxury-in-ancient-greece-hdtv-x264_tech
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ig0xw_guilty-pleasures-luxury-in-the-middle-ages-full-documentary_tv
For more on changing attitudes to the flesh, Berkowitz's Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire, does exactly that, and will take you from Babylon through the concept of hubris in Ancient Greek as hinted at in the second last documentary right up to now. For Greek attitudes on the flesh for those planning to become god bodied philosophers: start with Plato's Symposium.
For literary porn from the Ancient world, The Satyricon is hilarious gossip from Roman society; Lysistrata is a play about women not putting out in a vain attempt to get peace, which they don't want any way, and filled with dick jokes; Catullus writes poetry about being cucked by a senator and facefucking your rival poets with your verses.

[A random point of interest on the plebeian/patrician dichotomy: In 62 BC, Publius Clodius Pulcher tried to commit a crime of "incestum", which was any act extreme enough, and usually sexual if not with your sister per se, by disrupting the games which had been dedicated to Julius Caesar. He did this because he was patrician, born upper class, and so could only become tribune of patricians, but if he committed a crime of incest, he would cease to be patrician, and could easily win tribune of the plebes at a plebecite, which was an equally favourable position of power. Sometimes, it literally pays to be pleb to the point of incest]

I don't know about anybody else on this site, but what annoyed me personally about Christopher Hitchens in particular was the way that he used his aggressive atheism as a method of achieving a near stratospheric ascension in societal importance, which he would never have achieved if he were to simply rely on his writing. The moment when he began to become extremely loud about his atheism closely coincided with when he changed from an almost literal champagne socialist, to the Bush administration's ad man to the middle brow. For the final decade of his life he went around campuses and other buildings aggressively proselytizing his non-belief, in the service... of what, exactly?

All he tended to do was walk up to the podium, say a couple zingers, display his fairly light knowledge of anything but the most basic ecumenical matters, and play to the emotions of his audience. I don't believe he was wrong, but I don't think that what he was fighting for was good either: religion has been a positive force in many people's life, and taking away one ideology in the service of another will simply mean that the new ideology will have to be poisoned.

But importantly, his anti-religious activism played hand in hand with his neo-conservative hawkishness, and he was one the worst. Islamic fighters and civilians alike in the increasing quagmire we call the Middle East weren't described in a complex manner, no, they were islamo-fascists: an easy to use portmanteau which brings to mind past events where we were good people fighting against objectively bad people.

Their Islamism is presumably meant to bring to mind the many Christians who made up the reactionary forces of the early 20th century: a truism that ignores the many Christians on both sides, and works both ways by giving comfortable secular people and excuse to distrust their fellow religious colleagues and friends by drawing up a helpful ready-made caricature of all religious people as stupid and freedom hating.

That's part of why I distrust the new atheism movement in general: they use emotional arguments; their conclusions are nonsensical ('if we got rid of religion, all the problems in the world would disappear,' get a fucking grip); and since their ideology is built on such shaky intellectual grounds, it tends to take in the most weakly of society: frustrated young men who see Hitchens as a cool, charismatic guy and want to hate what he hates. Most of them are just as dumb and anti-intellectual, if not worse, than the people they hate.

When I eat corn it gives me explosive shits. I regret!

>>34652

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>>34319

The survey...

Holy tits, it's not allowing me to post the link via ctrl+v - pic is link

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>>34319
>>34322

Previous books on the Top100

>>34322
You could've just typed it out you lazy mong.