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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...

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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.

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Cassius Clay wrote:Did you see that letter that woman wrote to the NFL? He traumatized her daughter with his dancing.

"He traumatized my daughter" is code for "I was aroused and I find that scary".

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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.

Because Drake is a clown, and not the scary type?

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Whether he did or not, he's a pigfucker. He did though.

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He cost the Russians a bit too.

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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...

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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...

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The girl was listed on a warrant as both the adult perpetrator and the minor victim of two counts of sexual exploitation of minor

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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...

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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 ...

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aels wrote:

Exactly. You see, you can buy class, you just can't tell people you're doing it.

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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.

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How dare you, sir? I've had many excellent impure half-breed drivers.

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How crass. You're supposed to announce your wealth in subtle ways like wearing a crown and a fur coat.

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Can you think of a big-time youtube anybody that isn't a piece of shit?

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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.

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Deanna Troi flew the Enterprise twice and crashed it both times. Checkmate feminazis.

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Blade Azaezel wrote:Men probably shouldn't have rights. I mean, civilisation hasn't gone particularly well so far.

I honestly can't tell if that's a joke or not.

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You both have my sympathies.

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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...

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I hope her whole family get murdered with AK-47s.

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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...

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Dr_Liszt wrote:My point is that those two idiots are selling themselves as marxists when they are not.

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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...

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He's making lots of money selling pseudoscience which encourages cops to shoot people. Talk about living the American Dream.

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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.

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Ptolemy_Banana wrote:uncomfortable twinge in my taint
I'm going to put this on my headstone.

Excellent. People will think that's what killed you.

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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...

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“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."

He sounds like a fairly level-headed chap.

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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...

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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...

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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/

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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

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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...

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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...

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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?

Not if they're right.

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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...

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You know what will happen if animals get rights? They'll be demanding vegetable rights next.

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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.

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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 ...

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