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TundraGrifter's avatar

"Into the Wild."

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TundraGrifter's avatar

The (r)Money Olympics reminds me of the Upperclass Twit of the Year competition - jump over a matchbox, slam a cardoor at 2pm and wake up the neighbors, stuff like that.

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SullivanSt's avatar

Nope, that's a myth which started to spread with <em>Rain Man</em>. From wikipedia: "Although most students with AS/HFA have average mathematical ability and test slightly worse in mathematics than in general intelligence, some are gifted in mathematics and AS has not prevented some adults from major accomplishments such as winning the Nobel Prize."

Diagnosis with AS is precluded if there's significant delay in cognitive development, so you have to be at least in the normal range of intelligence to be diagnosed. The tendency towards obsessive focus can help those with AS obtain a level of proficiency in a narrow area that others of the same intelligence but with broader interests (and more easily distracted) would not.

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Mayor_Quimby's avatar

You HAVE to swing at a slowball over the plate like that, good eye, slugger!

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I would totally 'summer' with the R-moneys if I could attend all these private family meetings on their futures. Oh, and if I was ALWAYS rip-shit drunk with a camera running in the room. I'd be the voice of the people - like "Tagg, you do know your name makes people want to shit in your gas tank just on GP, right?" Or I get to run a whole week, like Wife Swap - "Looks like tonight's game night activity is Drunken Uno, watch out for those Draw Four cards, you bunch of lightweights will never have a chance"

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Mayor_Quimby's avatar

A joke about football on skis would have been too soon, this one is right on time.

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Vienna Woods's avatar

But dayum that man can <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=sMZwZiU0kKs" target="_blank">dance.</a>

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SullivanSt's avatar

Pre-groceries, too, I'm guessing. Not all "disposable" income is "discretionary", and the less of the former you have, the smaller the proportion the latter makes.

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SullivanSt's avatar

They have some vague comprehension of that.

What they need to understand is that they will never, ever be in the 1%. Ever. And they should vote on that understanding.

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SullivanSt's avatar

Your prize is that you don't get shot by a random cop who only <em>intended</em> to completely unnecessarily tase you, or so he says.

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SullivanSt's avatar

I believe it's mocktail hour. Or maybe just milk hour.

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SullivanSt's avatar

Or maybe Christopher Walken in View To A Kill. Can't wait for the ending.

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SullivanSt's avatar

I'm sure that tl;dr first post this morning explains it, but, well, tl;dr.

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SullivanSt's avatar

David Koresh?

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Vienna Woods's avatar

Yeah, but I thought that most Aspergers have way above-average intelligence.

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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

He changed the events so he could win. But why didn't he just require a player ID. Or maybe allow unlimited <strike>donations</strike> bribes to the judges. He's obviously not a true Repubican.

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