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- Sat Jun 04, 2016 4:35 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: There won't be any good people left by the end of the year.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4008
Re: There won't be any good people left by the end of the year.
Ali was more controversial and received way more hatred than any of those guys in his time. But the world moves on, most of the people who hated Ali in the 60s are dead and his greatness lasts while the criticism and abuse fades out of memory. Ali was brash, unapologetically black and politically ou...
- Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:07 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Question for those who saw Star Wars VII (spoilers)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2740
Re: Question for those who saw Star Wars VII (spoilers)
Yes, Luke had formed a jedi school. Kylo was one of them but turned to the dark side and killed the others, at which point Luke went into hiding, in grief/despair/some other reason.
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:23 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: Cam Newton controversy is hilarious
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3309
Re: Cam Newton controversy is hilarious
"He traumatized my daughter" is code for "I was aroused and I find that scary".Cassius Clay wrote:Did you see that letter that woman wrote to the NFL? He traumatized her daughter with his dancing.
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:15 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: I guess Abby Wambach is a Trump supporter.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1593
Re: I guess Abby Wambach is a Trump supporter.
I've see that attitude often enough here, where a lot of our international players over the years have been born and raised in England or Scotland to Irish parents, and so viewed in some quarters as 'not Irish enough'. If she wanted to make a point that Jurgen Klinsmann was not focused enough on dev...
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 5:49 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: So this Conor McGregor guy is a beast huh?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2089
Re: So this Conor McGregor guy is a beast huh?
I didn't like him at first 'cause he plays up the Irish thing too much and he's a less charismatic Ali wannabe. True, but the persona he plays up to has probably brought him opportunities faster than he would have got them if he was just quietly going about his business. And it's almost certainly e...
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 4:30 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Martin Shkreli
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5706
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:24 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: PSA: The USSR was just as brutal as the USA
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6452
Re: PSA: The USSR was just as brutal as the USA
Let's not get lost in comparing who killed more people etc... It's rather difficult to do that when the thread title literally says the two countries were equally brutal and then the follow-up posts go on to assign full responsibility to "the evil capitalists" for conflicts in which both ...
- Sun Oct 25, 2015 9:18 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Is this how they boogie in Guatemala?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3245
Re: Is this how they boogie in Guatemala?
Because Drake is a clown, and not the scary type?Cassius Clay wrote:[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lg3pv1DeqCU[/youtube]
I don't know why Drake dancing to latin music is so damn funny.
- Wed Oct 07, 2015 7:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: So question: This is important to me
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2880
Re: So question: This is important to me
Whether he did or not, he's a pigfucker. He did though.
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:47 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Matt Damon trying to be slick
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3731
Re: Matt Damon trying to be slick
He cost the Russians a bit too.
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:39 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Relationships you find weird
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6100
Re: Relationships you find weird
One thing that I have noted at an anecdotal level is that huge age gaps are fine until you find yourself at some other critical life juncture. Lets say I'm 40 and I am dating a 20 year old .. things truck along fine while we are both effectively doing the same thing - going to work, raising a famil...
- Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:57 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Good cities to move to in the U.S.?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7617
Re: Good cities to move to in the U.S.?
A hipster is basically someone who does things that are subversive or a part of a counterculture or are strange/unorthodox for the sake of being strange/unorthodox and think it's super cool. What's interesting is that these seemingly subversive things become trendy among the community of hipsters a...
- Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:50 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Nobody has ever experienced pain like this man
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1770
- Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:27 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Black/White lookalikes part 2
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3449
- Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:14 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Teen girl charged with sex crimes for taking nude selfies of herself
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2954
Re: Teen girl charged with sex crimes for taking nude selfies of herself
The girl was listed on a warrant as both the adult perpetrator and the minor victim of two counts of sexual exploitation of minor
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 12:42 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy birthday Brandon!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3434
- Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:51 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Modern songs with an 80s sound
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8481
- Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:46 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: (Mostly Christian) students objecting to 'Fun Home' book in reading programme
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1742
Re: (Mostly Christian) students objecting to 'Fun Home' book in reading programme
He is refusing to look at sexually explicit graphic material, because it's a form of pornography, and he believes it is a sin to look at pornography. If a school were requiring students to read through an issue of Playboy magazine would people be more understanding of a student who refused the assi...
- Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:43 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Classist Fuck
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3689
Re: Classist Fuck
Anakin, in my work world "pegging" is a function we use. It is the official terminology for our software program xRM. Outside of work I've never heard anyone use the term in a sexual way. Pegging is when a woman fucks a man in the ass with a strap-on. I really hope your boss doesn't know ...
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Classist Fuck
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3689
Re: Classist Fuck
Exactly. You see, you can buy class, you just can't tell people you're doing it.aels wrote:
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:14 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: MRAs are freaking weird. also virtual reality
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5957
Re: MRAs are freaking weird. also virtual reality
Though now that I think about it, I have a friend whose father is English and he's crashed loads of cars. But to be fair to him, it's only because he drives really fast.
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:12 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: MRAs are freaking weird. also virtual reality
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5957
Re: MRAs are freaking weird. also virtual reality
How dare you, sir? I've had many excellent impure half-breed drivers.
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:09 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Classist Fuck
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3689
Re: Classist Fuck
How crass. You're supposed to announce your wealth in subtle ways like wearing a crown and a fur coat.
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:01 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: More evidence the "new atheism" is racist
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2387
Re: More evidence the "new atheism" is racist
Can you think of a big-time youtube anybody that isn't a piece of shit?
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:00 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Classist Fuck
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3689
Re: Classist Fuck
No, we publicly hanged all those people after they wrecked the global economy in 2008.
Hah, if only. We can but dream. They're still in power and they say it to us from the television, all the while warning us of the dire consequences of not voting for their ilk.
Hah, if only. We can but dream. They're still in power and they say it to us from the television, all the while warning us of the dire consequences of not voting for their ilk.
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 8:56 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: MRAs are freaking weird. also virtual reality
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5957
Re: MRAs are freaking weird. also virtual reality
Deanna Troi flew the Enterprise twice and crashed it both times. Checkmate feminazis.
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 8:55 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: MRAs are freaking weird. also virtual reality
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5957
Re: MRAs are freaking weird. also virtual reality
I honestly can't tell if that's a joke or not.Blade Azaezel wrote:Men probably shouldn't have rights. I mean, civilisation hasn't gone particularly well so far.
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 12:17 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: What song do you have stuck in your head?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2225
Re: What song do you have stuck in your head?
You both have my sympathies.
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:37 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Article on trigger warnings and mental health
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4404
Re: Article on trigger warnings and mental health
http://i.imgur.com/3MdC2vA.jpg Lots of people were naturally being assholes about that one, but I think there's definite cause for alarm when people are legitimately getting triggered by photographs of delicious squishy fruit because it reminds them of gore. That's hilarious. It doesn't take much e...
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:48 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: This woman pisses me off.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1708
Re: This woman pisses me off.
I hope her whole family get murdered with AK-47s.
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:46 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Just passing by to annoy some first worlidsts: Jeremy Corbyn
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4089
Re: Just passing by to annoy some first worlidsts: Jeremy Corbyn
Labour are unlikely to win another election by being red-Tories. They tried that and look what happened, they managed to lose an election to an unpopular government. They've already lost those middle-of-the-road-little-englanders. They need to change the public view of themselves and bring new voter...
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:36 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Just passing by to annoy some first worlidsts: Jeremy Corbyn
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4089
Re: Just passing by to annoy some first worlidsts: Jeremy Corbyn
Dr_Liszt wrote:My point is that those two idiots are selling themselves as marxists when they are not.
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:32 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The backlash to Target's gender-neutral kids section makes no sense
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5640
Re: The backlash to Target's gender-neutral kids section makes no sense
I know it was a joke but... The interesting thing about the throwing issue is I remember the Mythbusters episode testing "Throw like a girl" insult. They found untrained girls to be more accurate but not as powerful, untrained boys having more power but less accuracy. Trained athletes fro...
- Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: WHAT....THE..FUCK??
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2318
Re: WHAT....THE..FUCK??
He's making lots of money selling pseudoscience which encourages cops to shoot people. Talk about living the American Dream.
- Sat Aug 08, 2015 1:26 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: What song do you have stuck in your head?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2225
Re: What song do you have stuck in your head?
You know when you've had a few drinks in the afternoon but have to stop for some reason and then for the rest of the evening you've got this kind of low level not-quite-hangover? That's what Uptown Funk sounds like.
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:23 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Is this a superpower or a curse?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3477
Re: Is this a superpower or a curse?
Excellent. People will think that's what killed you.sikax wrote:I'm going to put this on my headstone.Ptolemy_Banana wrote:uncomfortable twinge in my taint
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Brandon in the news
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4614
Re: Brandon in the news
It used to be the case that a person's property extended upwards into the atmosphere ad infinitum, but that ended with the advent of air travel, when courts started ruling that the space above a person's property was theirs to the extent that it was usable. So how high the drone was flying is a ques...
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:09 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Brandon in the news
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4614
Re: Brandon in the news
He sounds like a fairly level-headed chap.“Our rights are being trampled daily," he said, the station reported. “Not on a local level only — but on a state and federal level. We need to have some laws in place to handle these kind of things."
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:06 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Is this a superpower or a curse?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3477
Re: Is this a superpower or a curse?
Most people are perfectly capable of feeling empathy towards others they can see suffering. It's our ability to ignore the suffering which is not immediately presented to us that's a problem. Mirror-touch synesthesia won't help with that. On a side note, I get an uncomfortable twinge in my taint whe...
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:38 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Debating religious bigots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2525
Re: Debating religious bigots
I'm in a dentist's waiting room and can't watch the video, but a good approach would be to ask them What Would Jesus Do? I think if we can take any lesson from history it's that Jesus and the rest of the Bible's message is so clumsy and open to interpretation that the question "What would Jesu...
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:27 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Time Out New York's 100 Best Movies of All-Time
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6035
Re: Time Out New York's 100 Best Movies of All-Time
Tootsie...
This guy averaged the audience and critic scores from IMDB, Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes and Letterboxd to create a list of the 1001 best films of all time. That's a bit more like it.
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls074674014/
This guy averaged the audience and critic scores from IMDB, Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes and Letterboxd to create a list of the 1001 best films of all time. That's a bit more like it.
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls074674014/
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:54 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Debating religious bigots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2525
Debating religious bigots
It's an important question, what's the best way to respond to religious bigotry? How does one go about confronting a crazy street preacher, for example? I think this guy has it down.
http://solostatsea.tumblr.com/post/1095 ... y-and-this
http://solostatsea.tumblr.com/post/1095 ... y-and-this
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:49 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Why do people wish to destroy entire countries for the failings of a few (even most)?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2567
Re: Why do people wish to destroy entire countries for the failings of a few (even most)?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3175061/Sick-ISIS-crowd-gather-man-thrown-death-high-building-Iraq-allegedly-gay.html Re: the comments, I don't get the logic of "They're killing gay people? LET'S NUKE ALL OF THEM!!!". Because that... would do absolutely nothing to help the gay peo...
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:47 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Why do people wish to destroy entire countries for the failings of a few (even most)?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2567
Re: Why do people wish to destroy entire countries for the failings of a few (even most)?
It's similar to my issue with misanthropists that lament about how badly people treat other people while simultaneously wishing for the death of all people. Like why do you care that people are being treated badly when you want those people to die? [gonemad] These people hate their own mothers whil...
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:43 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Sex-selective abortion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2922
Re: Sex-selective abortion
Not if they're right.Anakin McFly wrote:Next question - isn't that solution colonialist and racist to assume that (white) Westerners know best about these sorts of things and should impose their worldviews on other countries?
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Windows 10
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3425
Re: Windows 10
Anyone upgrade to Windows 10? I just did the other night, and have played around with it. So far, it's pretty damn nice compared to Windows 8/8.1. I haven't bothered as yet, I decided to wait until they iron out any kinks that arise. I really like how the "metro/modern" apps are no longer...
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:48 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The government takes animal rights very seriously
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2333
Re: The government takes animal rights very seriously
You know what will happen if animals get rights? They'll be demanding vegetable rights next.
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:34 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The government takes animal rights very seriously
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2333
Re: The government takes animal rights very seriously
Even if you take a fairly basic definition of terrorism, say "acts extreme violence with the purpose of causing terror", Dylann Roof is clearly a terrorist, while people who free minks from cages are clearly not. Bizarre.
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 4:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: 1 minute time machine
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11630
Re: 1 minute time machine
A different situation... you want to talk to a woman, but want to make sure she thinks you have common interests, so before you talk to her, you have her followed. You have someone follow her around and listen to her conversations and observe the things that she does. This way, when you go to talk ...