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Are you hitting on Gypsy? (...or her daughter?)

Reminded me of: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357/ It's a film where an East German man's mother comes out of a coma, but whilst she was in the coma the Berlin Wall comes down and Germany has started the process of re-unifying. The doctors tell him that he can't let her know what's happening as he...

79. Bow to your social better, Azaezel. Some of those questions are silly anyway.... to I buy new clothes at least once a month? Um, no. I could certainly afford to if I really wanted, but why would I waste my money like that? That's got nothing to do with privilege. Why didn't it say "could y...

Can someone explain what the unpaid internship has to do with anything? I actually have no idea if it's saying that not having an unpaid internship is privilege because you actually get paid for the work you do instead, or if it's saying that having an unpaid internship is privilege because those t...

CashRules wrote:I've noticed this a lot lately myself and I deal with it by

LOL!

Here's a link to the thread which explains it (and is quite amusing): http://imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/9621/question For those of you don't/can't go there are really short version of events (and I'm bound to miss bits so don't hold that against me)... Ada (who is going by the name afeena there) ha...

Yeah the thread where she reacts/denies the allegations - and still plays the victim directly to the Admins - is actually quite amusing.

Sorry to disappoint. I did come across something else (which has a little more science behind it too) which is quite interesting: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html Click through to Race IAT (I can't link straight to it unfortunately). It takes a few minutes to do, but it turns out...

Came across this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you?utm_term=.rsw0LD5g9G#.xjvznMoGOV It helps you figure out how privileged you are. It's a bit America-focused so those of not from America will have to use our imagination interpreting a couple of the questions, but I thought as...

That's interesting reading. Some of it's a little dated now and obviously has a bias, but still interesting. BTW - the last link doesn't seem to work. I absolutely agree that there is still the wider issue of people (female/black/whatever) not get offered the same opportunities in the first place, w...

That's very much what I was saying. It bugs the shit out of me when I keep seeing people bandying around stats like "women get paid 82c for every $1 a man gets paid" which sound good for the camera but don't actually mean anything and they don't make any attempt to explain the statistics o...

In developed countries the Pay Gap is largely a myth. There are certainly issues with people not getting selected for roles/promotions/opportunities - but that's a different issue. But once they're in a role, if they have the same experience/qualifications/etc it's fairly uncommon to find a differen...

That's nice love. Now can you go and make us all some sandwiches please?

No they're not. In fact they're called "bangers" because that's the fat spitting out of them and sometimes making the skins split. They should be oozing with porky-fatty-goodness.

They don't talk to me on facebook either.

To be fair - I don't really use facebook (I'm pretty sure I have a facebook account, but I don't remember the details) - but I'm choosing to feel excluded...

There's a thread there now started by the moderators talking about the sheer volume of reporting going on and the petty nature of the majority of it: http://imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/6558/rfs So whilst I've always believed in "light touch" moderation, I also believe that if someone is ca...

Not sure if I am in favour of a parenting license (mostly because I find it hard to implement), but I wouldn't mind child abusers being forcefully sterilized, in severe cases. If people are unfit to raise children, they shouldn't do it. That works for me. Licenses/no licenses - not that bothered ab...

I mean, my feelings on the whole concept of parenting are all messed up and so out-of-line with what 99.9999% of people believe in the first place. But stories like this really IMO show the major problems with the whole idea. I mean, if you step back and really look at it, what is parenting? Basica...

Hi Andrew. We are (mostly) a nice bunch so welcome to the board!

Happy Birthday!

We won! We beat Wales! This could be the start of the renaissance of Scottish Rugby....

Could you give me an example of what would qualify as willful ignorance to you? As the point I was making is that there's no such thing as wilful ignorance... not really. The clearest way to put it as an example would be to ask a devout believer to stop believing in God. No matter how much they mig...

Actually religion is pretty good example. People don't just choose to adopt their parents' religion because they "sanctioned/legitimized/validated life paths" but because they are taught from birth that that religion is the absolute truth and "all good people" have to follow it. ...

I agree. That's why religion gets passed down from generation to generation. People don't choose those beliefs - they're very much taught.

Are you bullying the newbies already?

Gendo wrote:I'm just gonna say that I feel pretty proud of myself for having no clue who Milo Yiannopoulos, Adelaide Kramer, or Larry Wilmore are.

I was reading through this thread thinking "I have no idea who any of these people are". I'm glad it's not just me.

Wait - has something happened to the imdb board?!?

Complicity by Iain Banks.

If you can't imagine why a doctor would ask a patient if they have a gun in the house, then you're seriously lacking in some basic imagination. Suppose a patient mentions having suicidal thoughts to their doctor. Don't you think it would be pertinent to ask if they have a firearm in their home? This.

aels wrote:Ah, Killing The Minds Of Male Babies, the less successful followup of Rage Against The Machine, from their album Masculinity Is Super Fragile.

We're more sensitive than you give us credit for...

I'm going to sit with a hot water bottle and eat chocolate now.

Interesting news story about the main Liberal party in the Netherlands becoming more right-wing/openly less tolerant of immigrants to try to appeal more to populist voters who might otherwise vote for more extreme candidates: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38956740 And given the increasing p...

I'm not sure discussing those values will do any more good than discussing the bad reasoning they rest on Values aren't based on reasining. What I'm trying to stress is - as Anakin mentioned above - that values are not beliefs. Beliefs can be taught with reasoning....values cannot. Values are more ...

Avatar - massively over-rated. I think people just got excited cos it looked a bit pretty in 3D, but the film itself was pretty terrible. The plot was wafer thin, the dialogue was ropey/cheesy and it just kinda sucked. Just watch Pocahontas instead. Lord of the Rings trilogy - fuck me that was borin...

Teaching values opens a very dangerous area. Who decides which values should be taught? Do you want a hard line Republican government in charge of dictating the values that are to be taught?

Well it'd be interesting to see Critical Reasoning/Thinking classes, but they would be massively open to abuse and for the teacher to promote their personal political/theological positions (whether deliberately or not). So teaching them logic and how to achieve that logic (and at the same time in a ...

True, but it's a very good introduction to logical reasoning and (despite what many say) maths has a huge number of practical applications so it's a tremendously useful life skill. You can't teach kids too much maths. But a lot of it is also about how you teach them them subject. If you just get the...

Maths is the answer.

It teaches logic and is useful in so many other disciplines.

Really focus on teaching kids maths.

Hahaha! That made me laugh!

You do owe us for back taxes. And I suspect he owes some of his own too - but that's a different matter...

What position did you play? I used to play second row or occasionally flanker.

This weekend has a couple of great games - Wales v England on Saturday at 4.50 and France v Scotland at 3pm on Sunday.

America's fucked.

Well, it appears the yays have it. Well, some of us might not like it, but this is a democracy, so starting next week it is our official policy that we must punch any nazis on sight. This is going to cause me some issues. I've always been a terrible judge of character when I first meet people. I fe...

We won! And (until Wales beat Italy tomorrow) we're top of the table! How good is that?

Living the dream or what? Make the most of it - it won't last...

It's a cynical birthday grab. You wait and see. Later in the year he'll claim there was another mistake. Or he's the Queen. Or some other shit. Just so he can get more birthday wishes.

Honestly - some people...

There's still time.

The rugby starts tomorrow! Any other rugby fans out there? For the Americans amongst us it's a tiny bit like American Football in that the ball is roughly the same shape, but it's played by real men because it's much more violent and they don't wear all that nancy-boy armour. Hopefully we'll see Sco...

I don't really have an issue with a company saying that it is a disciplinary matter if an employee does X or Y "out of office hours". If they come up with some "evil" policy (e.g. something homophobic) it will become public knowledge quickly enough and if the public find it unacc...

Punching (or harming in any other way) people because of their beliefs is telling them it justifiable to harm others because of their beliefs. It may also re-inforce their position that they are justified in their beliefs because the world has not treated them the way they feel they deserve to be tr...

But when people start making issues out of things that aren't really issues they're just handing ammunition to other side. And until you've won the war (or at least are decidedly winning the war) you can't do that. Because (as Cash says) it motivates people who might otherwise be moderate enough no...

Shooting black people because they're black is a real issue and only the alt-right don't have a problem with that. But burying in a sea of complaints about name calling or other "SJW" type stuff is what I'm talking about - do you really think it's comparable to JKR calling someone a virgin...

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