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[Looks like you edited and removed caffeine and "loud thumping music".

There is certainly a chest-thumping habit in the startup world.

I think this was more what was being shared rather than chest-thumping of "oh, I'm at the Conj and you're not" perspective.

How easy is it to put in crazy hydrolics or a good thumping stereo system?

In college, I always hated dealing with chest-thumping groups of males, and I preferred female friends.

Sending an angry email to Google listing all these points would be an example of chest thumping, and your right, Google doesn't care.

Not that the Indian media helps - they are incredible at chest-thumping at the most mediocre things.

The one and only reason to send humans up to space in the foreseeable future is patriotic chest thumping.

This operates quite insidiously too, it's not always a chest thumping, fist pumping, 'I rule the world' kind of behaviour.

Or at least he knows that society expects him to act like that rather than mimic the chest-thumping, endzone-dancing wide receiver.

The problem with chest-thumping-ego-driven-bullshit like this is that it is very fact-adverse and causes more problems than it solves.

So much so that the mere fact that gay marriage is an "issue" in the US serves to perpetuate the bible-thumping moron stereotype of Americans.

The straight comparison to your average bible-thumping US ultra-conservative this might invoke is the reason I "complained" a bit.

Fortunately, even here in Scotland, thumping someone during a wedding lunch is frowned on, you do that at the dance later, where it is practically a tradition].

I'm curious - would you say the same thing if it was a kid in rural, bible-thumping Arkansas with secular, scientifically-educated parents who want him to learn about evolution without interference?It's easy to forget that sometimes whole communities of people - sometimes millions of them - have values different from ours.

The thumping beat and the "run on shift" behavior makes me feel like this is a game that wants to be about zooming down a tunnel at high speed, but it defeats itself - the barriers are way too close to be able to run through them unless you see that an entire path segment has holes in the same places, and it's just too damn hard to see them half the time.