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Ptolemy_Banana

Journalists take themselves so seriously when most of what they do is inconsequential. You're neither Woodward nor Bernstein, Skip Bayless. This guy actually thinks a post-game press conference is important, and that players should agree? It's nothing but an obligation to them, a bone thrown to the ...

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I should have titled this thread "I woke up this morning in a better country than yours".

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Agreed, and I think anyone who voted yes would agree that the natural rights of the minority should not be at the whim of the majority. But we're dealing with statutory rights here, an amendment to our constitution, and that requires a referendum in this country.

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CashRules wrote:Best quote about this so far:

2014: Michelle Duggar campaigns against rights for transgendered people in Arkansas by claiming they are sexual predators who are after your daughters.

2015: Irony and Karma get married.

As long as they didn't get gay-married.

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Yesterday Ireland became the first country to bring in marriage equality through a popular vote, as opposed to direct legislation or judicial rulings. Almost a century ago Ireland threw off the shackles of British imperialism only to effectively hand power over to the Catholic Church. This genuinely...

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People do need to be reminded of their good fortune from time to time, it's true.

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The thing about the Babadook is not only is it properly scary, it also really brings home the genuine horrors facing an over-stressed single-mother dealing with a disturbed child. Good times!

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I think it shows how broken FPTP is also. It works when you have two main parties, but it's kinda unfair otherwise. I mean, the SNP got 5% of the vote. They have 56 seats. The Lib Dems got 8% of the vote. They currently have 8 seats. This election has convinced me we need a new voting system. Not t...

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Whitey wrote:I'm wondering how it's happened though. I thought the Conservatives/Labour were neck and neck going into it, according to the polls.

There are a lot of people who are too embarassed to tell even a perfect stranger that they're voting Conservative, but who voted Conservative.

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Hey, at least Nigel Farage didn't get elected. Also, Paddy Ashdown said he'd publicly eat his hat if an exit poll turned out to be correct, which it did. Given his history as an SBS officer I think he'll manage it without difficulty, and then be made a duke or something.

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Second best. The best died in 1989.

Still, he will be missed.

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Zack Snyder is the reason I have pretty low expectations of the whole DC attempt to do what Marvel have done. Snyder started off with a pretty good remake of Dawn of the Dead but has been going steadily downhill since then to the point where he is pretty much a watchword for directorial mediocrity, ...

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Good man. If you're a dickhead, it's for reasons other than your vote.

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A friend of mine put it best on facebook yesterday:

"Right, I know everyone's entitled to their political opinions etc. but if you vote Tory or UKIP tomorrow, you are a fucking dickhead. Simple as. "

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Time for a gratuitous dick-pic.

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aels wrote:
Ptolemy_Banana wrote:How big is the python?
Heh.

Heh indeed.

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Very cool. How big is the python?

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sikax wrote:Whitey is the problem.

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Everybody does.

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I got as far as "stereotypes exist for a reason".

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Of all the great things he's done, this is the latest.

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It's fairly off its tits, this is true. Giant rock-monsters.

Also, Ray Winstone.

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Ok, that new theme is awful. It's the same damn colours my company likes to use for its software, so that might be influencing my opinion.

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Gendo wrote:I was board

Now there's a Freudian-slip.

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Couldn't hurt.

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If only we could all be so eloquent during our drunken arrests.

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I'm drunk and wanted to kick a dead horse, but I forgot what I wanted to say here. I know I was gonna apologize to Taboo for misunderstanding his joke. I took exception to him telling me how I should have understood his joke, but I was just being petty. Sorry Taboo. Apology accepted and I in turn a...

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http://www.economist.com/node/15060097

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As for the Greeks, well, they invented gayness.

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Of course, how could I possibly have misunderstood your intent? Why would anyone think you might be implying that the French attitude is something to be ridiculed? I don't know why anyone would think that, unless they ignored the context of the conversation where I was making fun of Azzy and the En...

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Blade Azaezel wrote:Also, Giancarlo_carini. He took every loss Italy's soccer team had as a personal insult.

Actually Italy won, it was the 2006 World Cup. He went nuclear because some people suggested that France had been the better team and were unlucky to lose. Typical Italian really.

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BruceSmith78 wrote:By saying he has a French attitude, which implies a French attitude is a thing to be ridiculed. Maybe that's not what you meant, but it's how I understood it.

You should have understood it as a joke between friends, playing on the traditional English disdain for all things French.

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Now all we need is Jared and we're golden.

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I'm making fun of the English and Azzy in particular.

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I think you're looking for the "somebody say something wrong" thread.

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So rape certainly isn't something I've ever had to deal with personally, but I can imagine that a victim doesn't always know how to react after being raped. Especially given that the two of them were very close prior to the incident - he wasn't some guy she just met the day of the raping. The idea ...

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Remember how we all speculated on what Gendo's wedding night would be like?

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Especially when one of them has already proven himself to be a terrible Prime Minister.

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Only caring about winning when it matters is a shockingly French attitude.

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Never heard of them. Are they good?

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"Consumed by David Cronenberg" would be a good name for a horrifying food-blog.

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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121559/rise-arab-atheists?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email It's long, longer than one of DA's posts, but worth the read, giving a perspective on belief and non-belief in the Middle-East and north Africa that we practically never get to see through western media.

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Blade Azaezel wrote:Yeah we may have spent the first 1,000 years of A.D. getting our asses handed to us by the Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans, but we spend the second 1,000 years ruling the world

Whitewashing of history! You spent the majority of that second thousand years losing wars to the French.

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[quote="Dr_Liszt"]No. Before it was "ok." At least people did something. [quote]

Does it really count as your country before your people arrived?

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Cassius Clay wrote:But It's worse than we thought because she'll need physical therapy on her hand.

I wonder what that will involve.

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I'm almost glad I'm in a safe seat, it means that I don't actually have to make a difficult decision over who to vote for, my vote is useless as it will never be for Labour and I live in a very safe labour seat. I simply won't vote or I'll vote for someone not UKIP/Labour. Why will you never vote f...

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The message I get from that video is that violence towards women, slut-shaming, internalised-misogyny and objectification of women all contribute to rape culture, therefore contributing towards actual instances of rape. I seriously doubt that the narrator's point is to suggest that witnessing rando...

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The message I get from that video is that violence towards women, slut-shaming, internalised-misogyny and objectification of women all contribute to rape culture, therefore contributing towards actual instances of rape. I seriously doubt that the narrator's point is to suggest that witnessing rando...

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