The Pitters' Place

Thanks. I think maybe you're hung up on simplistic notions of objective "good" and "bad"...instead of notions of power, abuse, and harm. The latter has more "objective" basis. I'd argue that the latter is based on the former, though - those things can only be 'bad' if '...

No UK asylum for cross-dressing Singaporean I mean, I agree that she probably doesn't qualify for asylum, but it's like the writer went specifically out of his way to be obnoxious. This is the national newspaper, too, which means that the article likely went through multiple rounds of approval befo...

Leia: I love you.

Han: I know.

@sikax - Haha yeah, we have a lot of conversations like that. This one was a new post, but I definitely might have posted something similar in the past, though the last time we had a similar conversation it went slightly different. @Cassius - You criticize people for not meeting their own standards(...

Hi! Yes, they are.

You think Poehler's joke was sympathising with Bill Cosby? [gonemad] That was a poorly placed comma. :( Not that I think the joke sympathizes with Cosby at all, but the punchline of the joke does seem to be "lol she got raped." Yeah, good point. But there's something different about the a...

I had a very, very long and intense debate with my younger brother about this a while back. I'm a moral relativist on a micro level, i.e. different cultures/people sometimes have different ideas of morality and what's considered good or evil, but they also believe that 'good' and 'evil' still actual...

Would that be The Room that got 3.5/10 stars on IMDb, or the one that got 3.1, or the one with 3.8?

to jump into traffic...putting other peoples lives at risk It was an empty highway at 2:30 am in the morning. The only other life potentially at risk was that of the truck driver, but in general, when a big truck crashes into a teenage kid, the truck and the driver usually survive. I've seen other ...

You know how people ask why we can't make jokes about rape when we make jokes about other horrible things like murder? I used to wonder about that, and why I thought jokes about murder were awesome but those about rape were sickening, and I realised - it's rape jokes like these that are the actual e...

...I see what you did there.

Gendo sent me this link. I said I probably wouldn't join because I'm really busy with work and things and am already over-distracted by the internet, but then I figured that if I was going to be distracted by the internet anyway, this is one of the better places to do it. I miss all of you and your ...