The PG Social Thread

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notsureifserious @ battlecow

but that's great to hear if it is =P

 

[Battlecow]

I'm 100% dead serious.

 

[global-wolf]

Share with us Battlecow!

 

[Battlecow]

Well, at about 9 in the morning, I was driving north on Highway 51. I thought then that I was going to Rockford to pick up a cousin of mine and bring him back to Champaign for the summer because there was a job for him at the place where I work and he has a hook-up with a guy who supplies the most ridiculously good weed. However, looking back at the google map of my journey, I realize that I was also on the shortest road to another town- Damascus, IL. Make of it what you will. The fact remains that I, tired as a dog and woefully hungover, nodded off for a split second and swerved off the road entirely. I wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and I whacked my head pretty good against the steering wheel when the car bumped its way off the road. At that moment- when I thought myself near death- I was blinded by a head-splitting burst of white light. I stopped the car and stepped out, trying to look and see if I'd hurt anything, but everything was kind of blurry. At this point, a white car of some kind stopped at the side of the road, and someone got out- I couldn't see his face or anything, but he screamed "Man, why you hatin'?!" Or something like that, and then drove off. I am certain- absolutely certain- that that was Jesus Christ, my personal and ultimate redeemer and savior, in the flesh. My head cleared after a little while, no one else stopped, and I turned back onto the road- at which point I headed back to Champaign. I stopped in for the first service at the First Presbyterian Church of Urbana, where they were baptizing this little girl. I cried a little and recognized that I wanted to be baptized as well, and then realized that I'd already been baptized at birth. So I went over to the Mennonite church, where they let you do these things twice, and they re-baptized me pretty happily after hearing my story. Then I promised God that I would never be a hater again, and went home to read my bible.

 

[T-block]

Ohhhh man this guy ._.

 

[Dre89]

This thing should totes be stickied...

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

R.I.P. Borders. Borders requested liquidation starting Friday (today). The closing of the bookstore franchise is expected to result in a net loss of jobs for 10,700 people and freeing up 6.3 million square feet for U.S. rental space. Key mistakes that have been sourced to the bookstore closing is sourcing out online book purchases to Amazon.com and losing out a Starbucks deal to Barnes & Noble.

Apparently Amazon has some government subsidy helping it out? If someone knows a little more about it, then I would appreciate being enlightened.

Other than that, I really don't think that the lack of a Starbuck killed off Borders. But then again I'm the type of person who buys ten books and has half of them unread in my room... before I buy another ten books. I honestly can't live in a completely digital text society. I really couldn't bear the thought. Especially with most official digital text having temporary rights of ownership or expiration dates (especially for textbooks). Honestly I don't understand why those restrictions are present.

 

[Alacion]

I saw this earlier and was saddened just a little.

Borders is one of my favourite stores whenever I visit the USA.

 

[Battlecow]

I pretty much never used Borders except to go and read new comic books but not buy them. I mean, why would I buy books? That's what public libraries are for.