The Pitters' Place

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Haha not many around anymore eh?

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Thanks buddy.

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Yeah, I've been wondering recently where several of our regulars have been... gonna list people, even though I'm gonna look like a jerk because I forgot someone. Aels Dragon Azaezel Mur Salmon phe_de Pope sikax Jerk. I remembered you on Facebook! That's what really counts anyway. Nah I don't blame ...

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Gendo wrote:Yeah, I've been wondering recently where several of our regulars have been... gonna list people, even though I'm gonna look like a jerk because I forgot someone.

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Jerk.

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You all know what you did.

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Save gas and water for the Thunderdome.

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That sounds like a legit freakout. Bale's was because he was trying to go full-method in a freaking McG movie and was weak enough to let a lighting guy distract him. As a guy who's had to stand on stage and deliver Chekhov through people chatting, phones beeping and kids crying without breaking char...

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Yeah I was just posting it to slam them minorities down. And, though I worked there and have offered some direct insight into the environment in that school (i.e. parents who just have no fucks to give and teachers tied down in their allowed responses) that woman being physically threatened is proba...

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Meh, it seems in many of these exchanges we end up with some form of "Now, let's not worry so much about the words used/meaning of words/etc." when that's the freaking basis of the idea being put forward, and the idea is wrong. I find we *do* have moral superiority in that we foster an env...

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The U.S also did horrible things to their own populace during that period. [roll] I know quite a few Russians who'd find the notion that US citizens in any way experienced a level of suffering comparable to those in the USSR pretty humorous. I'm all for owning the US's mistakes, but there's very li...

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Why not simply explain A) the inappropriate nature of the behavior and B) the fact that she's in a relationship? Both can be conveyed in a light-hearted yet firm fashion. Or you could have just dropped a "Look, if you were a 7 year old girl and it was *me* you were flirting with, this would hav...

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While I'd never say the fall of the Berlin wall was the "end of oppression" (who says that?), historically speaking, I think people are generally referring to things the USSR inflicted on its own populace when they compare the country's values.

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It's always easy to blame the teacher, but people forget that kids are cunts, and in this day and age of child safety, teachers can do fuck all to control children. This, and keep in mind that teacher is a substitute. If teachers are hand-tied with some of this stuff, you can consider substitutes h...

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That. Is. Awesome.

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I'm not sure of the background, it's just some poor substitute bearing up under some threatening kids. That school in particular is in a really troubled area with very little to no parental involvement, which is, hands-down, the major cause of this dynamic. The school itself is actually well funded ...

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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/11/open-carry-mass-shooting-colorado-springs Witnesses watched in horror as Harpham picked his victims off. One of them, the bicyclist, pleaded for his life before being killed. "I heard the (young man) say, 'Don't shoot me! Don't shoot me!' " Naomi Be...

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It was not a happy time:

http://kutv.com/news/videos/chicago-tee ... te-teacher

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But the whole "fuck the police forever!" attitude is frankly not helpful in the long term in my opinion. I mostly see this dynamic not from minorities (what kind of death wish would lead to thumbing your nose at a figure already more likely to shoot you for reaching for you wallet too qui...

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There are already too many people here. It should be restricted to people from Tennessee and Cornwall.

I'll still be the awkward third wheel.

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Whatever- my post is correct in spirit if not function.

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EDIT: oh, apparently people are also calling to boycott SW7 because the producers explicitly said they wanted a more diverse cast and made their casting choices influenced by that rather than just the ability of said actors. Which they said was patronising and tokenistic. I'm impressed by how J.J. ...

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Well you people are about as fun as a bag of hammers.

Misandrist hammers who want to steal the white man's rightful place in the lead roles of space operas.

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The answer is "Force Sid Meyer to make a sequel to Alpha Centauri".

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You're the type of people who'd make Mad Max a secondary role in his own movie.
MISANDRY!

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... trump.html

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I always considered "control troll" to be someone who pretends to care about some issue while in reality attempting to undermine it through loaded questions and such. Ah, ok. Really, this is more a gripe about millennials than anything else. It wasn't really meant to address a particular ...

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From my perspective, complaints about armchair activism sound quite a bit better coming from people who are actual activists who are legitimately frustrated by it, than from people who are not activists. My opinion is, if you haven't actually done any activist-ing, you have zero right to complain a...

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I'm still trying to figure out how the lack of action following armchair FB arguments relates to "pragmatism".

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But (and this is going to sound really patronising, but it's not intended that way) you're young. And if the young can't be idealistic and want to rail against the machine and change the world then there's no hope for any of us. I'm older and more cynical. I'm allowed to make deals with the Devil… ...

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Last sentence is a double negative. And I get what Liszt is saying anc also get that global perspective is important, but it's complicated. For example, walmart notoriously exploits Third-world labor, and poor people in America take advantage by shopping at walmart. But you can't really judge poor ...

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Cassius Clay wrote:What the bloody hell is going on?

The result of people trying to determine who stands where on the ladder of tiered oppression when zoomed out to a global perspective.

Edit: never mind you already pretty much said that with the "messy" comment.

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But (and this is going to sound really patronising, but it's not intended that way) you're young. And if the young can't be idealistic and want to rail against the machine and change the world then there's no hope for any of us. I'm older and more cynical. I'm allowed to make deals with the Devil… ...

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To achieve her aims we essentially need to abolish private ownership of property and implement a state controlled central market for all goods and services. Which, every single time it's been implemented, ends up with the same "wealth in the hands of the elite, everyone else impoverished' mode...

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Bending laws to favor poor people for once shouldn't be hard to do. Again, I have no idea what sort of intrusive laws would be necessary to keep upper income development from moving into and displacing lower income areas. Yours is an easy sentence to type but the "how to" is just unimagin...

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The overall point being that gentrification may be an issue here, probably more in cheaper outlying area's where you can actually still buy housing to raise to the ground for redevelopment given the houses are generally 60's thru 80's and not covered by heritage protections - from what I have seen ...

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You need to regulate capitalism or it will eat everything in its path. You want less intrusive laws? Well tough shit because what I'm learning from privileged white men posting here is that progress comes at the expense of ethnic cleansing and injustice towards minorities Holy fucking balls I said ...

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I'm usually in line with the "don't divert" thing, but words mean things because definitions.

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As a guy who's had my family priced out of a diverse and affordable neighborhood twice now, (it rings of that Onion article on it where the family says "We'll just have to find another neighborhood terrifying and dangerous enough to be affordable") it sucks arse. However, it's also sort of...

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http://imgur.com/GnrdGU6

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You'd think he's have at least grabbed the edge of the bed of the vehicle and propped his feet along the side.

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On the one hand, I'm an inundated with posts and articles detailing this as a "US mental health" issue.

On the other, I'm buried in "Stop saying it's mental health. It's white people."

I'm becoming numb at this point.

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Chicago is great if you like art, theater, music (especially Irish and Blues), sailing, skiing, swimming, good food, etc. Chicago is not so great if you want good schools, don't like segregated neighborhoods and hate snow. Chicago winter is tough but doable. Layers help. Chicago summer is gorgeous b...

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Happy birthday man!

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Evangelion discussion thread:

http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000108/thr ... #247114233

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Kid and wife, guitar.

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Nah, It's a hate crime. He's a terrorist. Nothing to do with religion beyond its practitioners being a less threatening target.

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Meh. I get what you're saying, but the older I've gotten, as my tastes have changed, I've come more and more to realize that it's a matter of taste - you can point out all day long that bubblegum pop is tripe, or that Mumford and Sons pens lyrics on a third grade reading level, you can use charts, g...

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Meh, I've no issue with transethnicity, but lying liar is a lying liar.

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I've been more caught up in the circus surrounding the "clash" of his coming out vs. current feminist values.

I didn't even know he'd been in an accident, much less that someone died.

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