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by Islandmur
Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Happy birthday Mur!
Replies: 3
Views: 1079

Re: Happy birthday Mur!

Thank you Gendo! so sweet of you!
by Islandmur
Mon Oct 22, 2018 2:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Sad news regarding Cash (AKA Brandon)
Replies: 27
Views: 10218

Re: Sad news regarding Cash (AKA Brandon)

Once again I havent' fully digested this news yet and I still keep thinking about who is going to care for his neices now.
by Islandmur
Sat Apr 07, 2018 3:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: This place is ded
Replies: 23
Views: 9351

Re: This place is ded

Cassius Clay wrote:Lol I saw the last few lines of that poem before I read the rest and thought it was about anal for a second. [none]
Hmm well how about when you read the rest?
by Islandmur
Fri Apr 06, 2018 5:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: This place is ded
Replies: 23
Views: 9351

Re: This place is ded

I don't appreciate poetry at all. I just don't understand it most of the time, kinda like the idea of tone in movies. I'm weird. My Shithole My shithole has a history The first free black country The first slave revolt successfully Blacks raised in dignity My shithole has seen violence But the taki...
by Islandmur
Fri Apr 06, 2018 12:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: This place is ded
Replies: 23
Views: 9351

Re: This place is ded

Ok so here i am yeah I'm on facebook a lot more and I have another writer's group that I belong to very ego boosting since you lot don't really appreciate my poems :)
by Islandmur
Thu Sep 14, 2017 2:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mur
Replies: 1
Views: 1289

Re: Mur

Thanks Opiate,

I only just saw this because I was laid up for almost 2 weeks

I'm good we were spared
by Islandmur
Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Happy Birthday Eva_Yojimbo!
Replies: 3
Views: 1985

Re: Happy Birthday Eva_Yojimbo!

Happy Birthday Eva
by Islandmur
Sun Aug 06, 2017 10:12 pm
Forum: Movies & Television
Topic: Enemy
Replies: 11
Views: 3729

Re: Enemy

The machinist is genius
by Islandmur
Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Today I learned that people don't know what drowning looks like
Replies: 4
Views: 2450

Re: Today I learned that people don't know what drowning looks like

I watched something about drowning a few years back and i was as shocked as you when I learned how people really drowned. I had a little cousin (2 years old) that drowned in a swimming pool with people around her and no one noticed because she didn't scream or shout. She was in the shallow end and h...
by Islandmur
Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:55 am
Forum: General
Topic: Happy birthday Gendo!
Replies: 8
Views: 3614

Re: Happy birthday Gendo!

Happy Birthday Gendo again lol
by Islandmur
Sat Jul 15, 2017 10:17 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hey, blame it on Jendo. Er... I mean, Gendo.
Replies: 12
Views: 4665

Re: Hey, blame it on Jendo. Er... I mean, Gendo.

[cheers] Good to see you, although you probably don't remember me. Sadly, the board is a shell of its former self. Most of the posters had fallouts with each other and left, or lost interest and left. Liszt hooked up with Whitey and moved to England, but neither of them post here anymore. I think t...
by Islandmur
Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:12 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hey, blame it on Jendo. Er... I mean, Gendo.
Replies: 12
Views: 4665

Re: Hey, blame it on Jendo. Er... I mean, Gendo.

Welcome back hope things go better for you from now on
by Islandmur
Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:08 am
Forum: General
Topic: Wearing dresses is a life-altering decision
Replies: 13
Views: 5077

Re: Wearing dresses is a life-altering decision

Weird thing is forums like these have helped me a lot in how I see things, because Haiti is very very macho but reading on rfs and here and other forums online have broadened my mind (ok i was always open minded but I just didn't think about things like kids wearing dresses and stuff like that).
by Islandmur
Fri Jul 14, 2017 3:16 am
Forum: Religion & Spirituality
Topic: Faith
Replies: 8
Views: 3491

Re: Faith

@ampi had similar experiences. when things need to happen they just happen... when i need things they come... it's uncanny at times. yet awesome
by Islandmur
Thu Jul 13, 2017 1:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Wearing dresses is a life-altering decision
Replies: 13
Views: 5077

Re: Wearing dresses is a life-altering decision

ah. ok. *goes to look* "UK: Muslim children walk the streets chanting "Allahu Akbar" -under direction of the teachers(?) chaperoning them." ...so, 'God is great'? There are a lot of churches we need to be concerned about in that case. On the original thread I saw comments on how...
by Islandmur
Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Happy birthday Dragon!
Replies: 5
Views: 2755

Re: Happy birthday Dragon!

Happy Birthday Dragon Girl
by Islandmur
Sun Jun 25, 2017 11:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: In Defense of Political Correctness
Replies: 11
Views: 4153

Re: In Defense of Political Correctness

I liked the article it made me think, because sometimes I do think we are too much PC and wonder what the future will be like will all the limitations on language, but I do also think PC is necessary because there are things that shouldn't be let pass. The thing about the poets didn't phase me becau...
by Islandmur
Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Public Service Announcement
Replies: 2
Views: 1728

Re: Public Service Announcement

I do it rather well too
by Islandmur
Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:50 am
Forum: General
Topic: Richard Spencer booted from my gym
Replies: 109
Views: 23994

Re: Richard Spencer booted from my gym

This is exactly the kind of behavior that creates monsters like this and that gets you a Trump president. Some people are natural monsters but some are created and a lot have been created by these kind of actions There are no Dr Frankensteins running around creating monsters. Monsters create themse...
by Islandmur
Wed Jun 07, 2017 7:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Richard Spencer booted from my gym
Replies: 109
Views: 23994

Re: Richard Spencer booted from my gym

Cassius Clay wrote:I haven't read it yet, but you can be angry at this woman(whatever she did) without making excuses for monsters.
Having compassion/understanding for monsters without accountability is dangerous infantilization.
-Castor Troy, Just now
I have not made any excuses for that man.
by Islandmur
Wed Jun 07, 2017 3:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Richard Spencer booted from my gym
Replies: 109
Views: 23994

Re: Richard Spencer booted from my gym

I don't think it's this type of behaviour that creates those monsters - they manage fine without it, like with the original Nazis - but I agree with the rest of your post. Some people are natural monsters but some are created and a lot have been created by these kind of actions from people that are...
by Islandmur
Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: Richard Spencer booted from my gym
Replies: 109
Views: 23994

Re: Richard Spencer booted from my gym

Sometimes I don't know what to think when I see people condoning this kind of behavior because well the guy is an ass so he deserves it. That story was so wrong it made my teeth hurt. This is exactly the kind of behavior that creates monsters like this and that gets you a Trump president. The woman ...
by Islandmur
Sun May 21, 2017 5:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My Family's Slave
Replies: 57
Views: 12831

Re: My Family's Slave

But the fact of that evil doesn't change the fact that in his exact same circumstances, we would have done the same (given that the only person in those circumstances was Tizon, and that's how he acted). No this is not true, because if it were change would not exist. Slavery would still be alive and...
by Islandmur
Sat May 20, 2017 8:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My Family's Slave
Replies: 57
Views: 12831

Re: My Family's Slave

Kinda wonder what everyone would think if this had been discovered instead of having been written in a story.
by Islandmur
Sat May 20, 2017 3:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My Family's Slave
Replies: 57
Views: 12831

Re: My Family's Slave

It is very hard to believe you were not addressing me since it was my words and my post you replied to. I'm the one who talked about their cruelty, and I'm the one that mentioned they weren't good people (which you put in quotes). I do not get mad often and people tend to take it for granted that I...
by Islandmur
Sat May 20, 2017 2:18 am
Forum: General
Topic: My Family's Slave
Replies: 57
Views: 12831

Re: My Family's Slave

Wow. Islandmur, I do not know you, I have nothing against you, and I was actually using 'you' in a generic, impersonal sense there to offer my own 'opinion'. My point remains though. "People" cannot know how they would have fared in Tizon's position if they had his experiences (or if they...
by Islandmur
Sat May 20, 2017 12:16 am
Forum: General
Topic: My Family's Slave
Replies: 57
Views: 12831

Re: My Family's Slave

You do realize I live in Haiti and I'm Haitian? Look up the term restavek. And since I am not poor (nor rich) but I do have servants. And there are people here that do treat their servants as slaves to this day. Don't lecture me about how I might have turned out, because you know absolutely nothing ...
by Islandmur
Fri May 19, 2017 10:30 am
Forum: General
Topic: My Family's Slave
Replies: 57
Views: 12831

Re: My Family's Slave

[quote="Anakin McFly"][quote] The thing here is that I didn't see him as 'falling back' on cultural upbringing as an excuse to justify anything; rather, the idea of not rebelling against one's parent's wishes is something so deeply ingrained that it's not even something he thought to quest...
by Islandmur
Thu May 18, 2017 12:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My Family's Slave
Replies: 57
Views: 12831

Re: My Family's Slave

I get all that, but as Mur said it was the tone of the piece that upset me rather than the actual content. It's less what he was saying, more the way he was saying it. While reading it I kept saying to myself "wow, this guy is a fucking asshole" over and over again. But yeah, there were a...
by Islandmur
Wed May 17, 2017 5:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My Family's Slave
Replies: 57
Views: 12831

Re: My Family's Slave

Seems like Asia is not too different than Haiti and in Haiti we also have servants. However I am talking about the tone of the article rather than its contents, it's dry, impersonal, distant, detached, I am usually a very emotional person, I cry reading articles about 99% of sad things even sad thin...
by Islandmur
Wed May 17, 2017 12:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My Family's Slave
Replies: 57
Views: 12831

Re: My Family's Slave

^Same. The story is heartbreaking. The comments are, too, in a completely different way. See I read this story yesterday and the only thing that struck me was the lack of emotions in the story... I felt nothing besides disgust for the author, because I had the feeling that this is just another way ...
by Islandmur
Mon May 15, 2017 6:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: I built this site!
Replies: 6
Views: 2641

Re: I built this site!

Nice and congrats.

Personally I would use an image that is less dark as a header... but that's a personal preference
by Islandmur
Wed May 10, 2017 10:07 am
Forum: General
Topic: Upon further review...
Replies: 61
Views: 14756

Re: Upon further review...

If you hate Trump's enablers, why vote for his greatest enabler? That was DA's argument that kept me from voting for her. Could you expand on that? As mentioned a few weeks ago; your quote in this post . If Trump wins (which he won't), the responsibility will be solely on two, and only two, groups ...
by Islandmur
Sun Apr 30, 2017 8:58 pm
Forum: Movies & Television
Topic: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
Replies: 342
Views: 49317

Re: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies

31. The Informer - John Ford is mostly known for his wonderful westerns, but that's not all he could do. Back in the mid-30's he did this proto-noir, and boy is it fucking stylish in a way that I did not expect from ol' Pappy. Actually one of my favorite Ford's. It's a solid 9.5 for me and probably...
by Islandmur
Sun Apr 23, 2017 12:32 am
Forum: General
Topic: I do stuff now
Replies: 22
Views: 6441

Re: I do stuff now

BruceSmith78 wrote:Monk hasn't commented here. [confused]

ooops i meant opiate lol
by Islandmur
Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: I do stuff now
Replies: 22
Views: 6441

Re: I do stuff now

ahh but monk, it is because people have accepted this type of actions in the past without much ado, that this company reached a level where it thought it coiuld pretty much get away with anything. Look at the first replies from the CEO... they thought NOTHING of what had happened. It is only ththe d...
by Islandmur
Sat Apr 08, 2017 5:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Pepsi
Replies: 22
Views: 7074

Re: Pepsi

aels wrote:
Derived Absurdity wrote:One of the big problems in this world is that there are people who actually like Pepsi.
meet me in the carpark after school, I'll fight u m8
How can you like Pepsi!?!
by Islandmur
Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Undocumented immigrants
Replies: 11
Views: 4523

Re: Undocumented immigrants

What are the arguments in favour of them staying in the US? I know in some cases it's not their fault - they may have been provided false documentation, or lacked the knowledge to apply for all the things they needed to be legal residents, or were brought in as children, and so on, so I'm talking a...
by Islandmur
Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Happy birthday Boomer.
Replies: 9
Views: 3961

Re: Happy birthday Boomer.

happy Birthday Boom!
by Islandmur
Mon Mar 20, 2017 5:00 pm
Forum: Movies & Television
Topic: Unvoiced_Apollo's 2017 Movies
Replies: 31
Views: 7017

Re: Unvoiced_Apollo's 2017 Movies

lol it was just at the end i was like "hu? that's it? where is the rest of it?" it didn't end... it stopped. there was nothing at the end of the movie that I didn't know 10 minutes into the movie.
by Islandmur
Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:05 pm
Forum: Movies & Television
Topic: Unvoiced_Apollo's 2017 Movies
Replies: 31
Views: 7017

Re: Unvoiced_Apollo's 2017 Movies

Unvoiced_Apollo wrote:Split - About as good & ridiculous as The Visit.
First off I like Night's movies even the weird ones like Lady in the water.
I disliked the visit.. did not understand how kids wouldn't know what their grandparents would look like

split which i just saw... was... hUgh?
by Islandmur
Thu Mar 16, 2017 11:00 am
Forum: General
Topic: Privilege
Replies: 32
Views: 8413

Re: Privilege

Can someone explain what the unpaid internship has to do with anything? I actually have no idea if it's saying that not having an unpaid internship is privilege because you actually get paid for the work you do instead, or if it's saying that having an unpaid internship is privilege because those t...
by Islandmur
Tue Mar 14, 2017 6:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Privilege
Replies: 32
Views: 8413

Re: Privilege

You live with 33 out of 100 points of privilege.

Yeah well hmmm ok
by Islandmur
Tue Mar 14, 2017 12:54 am
Forum: General
Topic: Racism in the workplace
Replies: 4
Views: 2218

Re: Racism in the workplace

Oh yeah i got that part. I got the part about blacks having developed thick skin after years of abused... You see it as a joke on whites... I see it as a joke on both. Is the over reaction on the white people in that video supposed to reflect (also) how blacks overreact to anything? there is this wh...
by Islandmur
Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Racism in the workplace
Replies: 4
Views: 2218

Re: Racism in the workplace

Found it offensive as hell
by Islandmur
Fri Mar 10, 2017 5:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Question for those who post on the IMDB2 board.
Replies: 49
Views: 11674

Re: Question for those who post on the IMDB2 board.

vnufeld wrote:
Islandmur wrote:I don't have cash or derived or vnufeld on facebook i don't think lol...
Nope.
wanna be facebook buddies?
by Islandmur
Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Comments on International Women's Day
Replies: 8
Views: 3497

Re: Comments on International Women's Day

eventually there'll be a White History Month, and racism will finally be over. actually i feel that when the need for black history month is over (when black history is incorporated into american history) then will we be on the road to no racism. When there is no need for all the separate things th...
by Islandmur
Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Question for those who post on the IMDB2 board.
Replies: 49
Views: 11674

Re: Question for those who post on the IMDB2 board.

I don't have cash or derived or vnufeld on facebook i don't think lol... hard to know which username goes with which real name.
by Islandmur
Mon Mar 06, 2017 7:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Question for those who post on the IMDB2 board.
Replies: 49
Views: 11674

Re: Question for those who post on the IMDB2 board.

I think if you search someone's username you can find a board, I search my name sometimes and an old french board i use to post on comes up in my searches