The Like/Hate Thread

[Kaden]

Apathy is the opposite of all emotions. Not just one.

[Super Buu]

In actual fact I think emotions are too complicated to apply terms like 'opposite' to. The idea of opposites is problematic in general from an objective point of view. But it is fun to to talk about.

[Kaden]

In actual fact I think emotions are too complicated to apply terms like 'opposite' to. The idea of opposites is problematic in general from an objective point of view. But it is fun to to talk about.

In the case of "apathy" I would have to disagree. If you experience an emotion, the opposite of that is, in fact, not experiencing the emotion.

Otherwise, yeah, emotions and semantics don't play well together.

[Jack]

i lik boobies

[Misa Fujiroka]

The opposite of boobies is not-boobies

[Jack]

And I definitely hate not-boobies. I'm not apathetic towards nonexistent man-tits, I don't want them anywhere near me.

The love/apathy philosophy just failed.

[Kaden]

That... doesn't even make sense.

EDIT: More specifically, hating or loving something is the opposite of being apathetic towards something. That's what Greg and I were just talking about.

So what doesn't make sense is that you either can't read (which makes post on an online forum a fairly impressive feat) or that you were addressing an old conversation without making any actual reference to it.

[Vad]

I'm still staring at the words boobies....

[Jonathan Meer]

I like farting in my dog's face. I'll bet he gets a whole new angle on the matter.

[Saz]

The last 24 hours, so many little irritating things have happened to me, it's all built up and now I'm tense and wound up. I just want to punch something.

Oh, and it really annoys me when people say poker is a sport, or that it's 90% skill and 10% luck, or something stupid like that. The fact is you can be the best player in the world, make all the right moves, but if your opponents are always getting better cards, you're gonna lose. Even the biggest winners admit that their edge against other opponents is small, and it takes a hell of a lot of volume to see their advantage clearly shown in their results. I do appreciate the skill and strategy factor though, if it was just purely about luck I'd probable just go bet on sports instead. I like the idea that you can outsmart people, there's also a lot of math involved too that a lot of people don't realise. There's just a lot of different levels to the game.

[Jack]

That... doesn't even make sense.

EDIT: More specifically, hating or loving something is the opposite of being apathetic towards something. That's what Greg and I were just talking about.

So what doesn't make sense is that you either can't read (which makes post on an online forum a fairly impressive feat) or that you were addressing an old conversation without making any actual reference to it.

Apathy/empathy

hate/love

It's a basic law of physics, there can't be more than one opposite to anything.

[Jack]

The last 24 hours, so many little irritating things have happened to me, it's all built up and now I'm tense and wound up. I just want to punch something.

Oh, and it really annoys me when people say poker is a sport, or that it's 90% skill and 10% luck, or something stupid like that. The fact is you can be the best player in the world, make all the right moves, but if your opponents are always getting better cards, you're gonna lose. Even the biggest winners admit that their edge against other opponents is small, and it takes a hell of a lot of volume to see their advantage clearly shown in their results. I do appreciate the skill and strategy factor though, if it was just purely about luck I'd probable just go bet on sports instead. I like the idea that you can outsmart people, there's also a lot of math involved too that a lot of people don't realise. There's just a lot of different levels to the game.

Would you stfu about poker and check your PMs. Or get on AIM.

[Kaden]

It's a basic law of physics, there can't be more than one opposite to anything.

It's semantics, not physics. The opposite of love is hate. The opposite of an emotion is lack of the emotion. Since love is, in fact, an emotion, it has a specific opposite of hate and a broader opposite of apathy.

And thanks a lot, Belle.

[Cain]

The last book totally freaked me out. I mean, it was more about promoting gay pride than Harry Potter. I can remember the line that really made me dislike the book:

"Students of Hogwarts, I have always known that you all were as different as the colors of the rainbow... you were red, blue, yellow, green, anything you wanted to be... but now, Hogwarts will have a new dress code. Rainbow cloaks. Mrs. Minerva McGonagall, in honor of my coming out of the closet, has enchanted all of your robes to turn rainbow and tye-dye. Oh, and there was a reason I put males in a dormitory and females in another... from now, experimentation will be your official homework!"

EDIT:

OWL - Outstanding Womanly Love and its new alternative OML, Outstanding Male Love
NEWT - New Experimenting in Weird Techniques

Lies!

[Kazuya]

I love my Rebby.

[Vad]

I hate that my bed has these corners that stick out from the side. I hate how I know that, and I always forget and end up fucking ramming my thigh into one.

I hate how much falling onto a trash bag with a couple light bulbs in it fucking hurts.

[Super Buu]

I love my Rebby.

No offense Laura, but I think I speak for everyone else who lurks this thread when I say this -- we know. =P

[Ashe]

I like that all the constant poker bitching makes me feel not so badly about when I bitch about something WoW related. I just wish I could find that webcomic about it the other day.

[Piper Juunanagou]

I hate that the legs on my bed frame keep bending.

[Jonathan Meer]

RAD: Alright team, differential diagnosis.
REI: Bent bedrame legs? Could be lupus.
RAD: It's not lupus.
A18: Um, could be an epiphemeral blastoma.
REI: Not enough mucus in the blood.
SAGE: Sounds to me like a simple case of bedtime rough-Housery.
*silence*
REI: I'll run some tests.