I thought the argument was that the prosthetics gave him an unfair *advantage*. So much for that crap, hm?
Also, I was tempted to send Ogged this the other day.
2: Well, the prosthetics helped him run faster than all the people he can run faster than. But not faster than the people who can run faster than him.
And if he had prosthetics that helped him run even faster than he does now, they would help him run faster than even more people. so to summarize, there will one day be a prosthetic leg which provides an unfair advantage.
4: How many runners could a double amputee outrun if a double amputee could run?but I can't think
2:There has to be some named logical fallacy this argument illustrates, but I can't come up with it.
6: but I can't think
Comments which contain self-negating ridicule are the bestest.
Today we are all feeling smug. For sport. For America.
I bet Ogged is feeling smug where it counts.
I bet Ogged is feeling smug where it counts.
His whole, sound legs?
11: a) that wasn't the argument, and b) even if it were, the fact that he didn't qualify wouldn't disprove it. (There are plenty of doping losers, after all.)
Why do you think they call it "dope"?
(Now I'm being humorless. But I have lemon sorbet! Homemade!)
Does an amputee thread become a food thread that fast? Well, I have over 20 pounds of blueberries.
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On the occasion of Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday, I offer you this rendition of "Free Nelson Mandela," complete with sort of b-boy plus Riverdance dancing and an awesome mustache about 2 minutes in.
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Yeah, B, that was a pretty bad argument, but you made up for it with a funny card.
It's just because I used the word "crap" isn't it? You people.
OT! Anyone read this David Carr article? Harrowing!
Who determines humorlessness? Some sort of authority figure? HumorLessNessMan? I never though Les Nessman was funny anyway.
Who determines humorlessness?
A subcommittee somewhere, surely.
It was Ogged, but with him gone, all is anarchy.
Can we guiltlessly have sex with our sisters now?
Everything is funny except that New Yorker cartoon.
Oh my god I have been holding on to this comment for SO LONG!!!!
"Well, I guess I'll try again next time" Oscar Pistonius said defeatedly.
TA DA!!!!
Ablebodied people can now watch the Olympics in peaceful satisfaction that they will not have to endure seeing a double-amputee competing as an equal with ablebodied people.
If this is a food thread, I have strawberries that were picked within the last 24 hours and they smell like strawberry heaven.
Everyone should be viewing the photo essay on proper wedding etiquette by Sir Kraab and m/tch m/lls on the unfogged Flickr grpup.
Everyone, that is, except for those of you on the outer fringes of the unfogged community who do not yet enjoy the privilege of flickr group membership. Y'all should be working extra hard on your commenting value-added so that you might garner an invitation to join the select inner circle. (And no, the rumours that you can shortcut to an invitation by giving ogged a BJ are entirely unsubstantiated; Will earned his membership by dint of sheer effort, just like everyone else. And B. was already a member long before...oh, sorry, indiscretion error, there.)
32 was awesome.
Pale imitation: "Tears of disappointment streaming down his face, he decided to go to the hardluck bar and get legless drunk."
Who determines humorlessness?
The Good Humour Man, of course.
34: Thanks! We're rather proud of that series.
It was a bitch to get flickr to put them in the right order, though. If anyone wants to take a look, start here.
i looked at the Fight! Fight! photo and recalled a joke
so a buriad old man tells how he attended the wedding party and a good wedding party is believed to be with some good fight
- so how was it, the wedding? - just so great, there was a big fight, the groom died
(it sounds very funny when is spoken in funny buriad dialect)
Iglesias was right. Ogged's withdrawal led to led to less chaos, not more.
26:Decent article. Harrowing? A lot of it was meant to be funny. I never really know if I should read or watch that kinda shit. My counselors said no, AA says yes?
I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon....David Carr
Anyway, it's Heath Ledger's weekend, and Candy is out there for anyone who wants it. Not so funny.
Wedding parties sometimes involve fights here in Wobegon, especially if the bride and groom come from different towns or great big families.