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I've used similar phrases as insults and undoubtedly will again. The more the extreme left keeps looking for a reason to be insulted the more we are going to see things like Brexit and the election of orange-tinted idiots with tiny hands. We're stuck with four years of Trump. I'd much prefer that d...

Following Brexit, Trump's win and the rise of nationalist parties in Europe (like FN in France) it strikes me that the civilised world is becoming more and more polarised with the liberal/left-leaning side of the debate losing. For decades now they have cried "racist" or "sexist"...

"That's a shame"

That's about as far as I got with any of them.

I've recently watched all three seasons and I think they (broadly) got better each season. The third season was making some reasonably thought provoking points about technology and society in their episodes (not Orson Wells, but more than you get in most TV nowadays) - I particularly liked the final...

Happy New Year! Geo-politically 2017 isn't going to be a good year but I suspect it isn't going to be as bad as many fear. So keep positive and we'll get there.

Happy pagan festival!

I get that he's really unpopular (and I understand why - I don't like him either), but it's happened and people just need to accept it and move on with their lives. Trying to find ways to "unseat" him and obsessing over it isn't healthy/helpful. Just be ready for the next election and do a...

You know it's sad but true...

Brain tests predict children's futures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38281663

A fascinating news story and if it's accurate there will be more extreme politicians wanting to capitalise on this in the not too distant future...

I thought it was a good advert - if only to get people to think a bit more about these sorts of things and to keep the conversation alive and at another level rather than just "ban guns"/"don't ban guns" which is never going to go anywhere.

Congrats! Hope the new role is everything you want it to be!

Happy birthday! 21 at last!

CashRules wrote:upset his special snowflake parents

I'd almost forgotten about the term "snowflake generation"! Thanks for reminding me about it. It's a great way of describing so many people...

I've been watching the debates with the wife (who is far less interested in American politics than I am) and when Trump kept having a go at her for having not achieved a huge amount up to now the wife asked how she was meant to have "achieved" a huge amount when for the bulk of that time s...

Condolences. We have four cats and I know how upset we'll be when one of them dies. Hell - I know how upset we got when we thought one of them had disappeared/when another one of them was taken very ill and we didn't think was going to live. So people can get all weird with you saying "it's onl...

And voting to actually make it so that in the future, we don't continue to end up having worse and worse candidates to choose from every 4 years is hardly a wasted vote. You really think that'll happen? Apparently the whole thing is rigged anyway. And the media is in on the game too. So it doesn't ...

Well if everyone's okay that's really all you can ask for - everything else is life is secondary.

As far as I'm aware there's a lot of weather in her part of the world at the moment, so it'd be nice to know that she and her loved ones are okay.

I'm possibly tired, but I'm not really getting this thread. Where would you draw the line with this line of reasoning? If you slept with someone cos you thought they were really rich (and they had openly given the impression they were really rich to try to impress people) but you later discovered th...

We all saw you.

And camp apparently?

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

I wouldn't worry about it. I've had that for years. We'll be out shopping and some random woman will start talking to me asking how we're getting on and be (frankly) overly familiar. I grunt back answers and afterwards I get told off by the wife for being rude to our neighbour. How the hell am I mea...

Unless you're the Queen.

Thanks!

I believe you. I have the same problem when I submit my tax returns.

Thanks!

Although I am a little puzzled by the car comment...

I'm not making any comment on the validity of their protest - I have no issue with anyone peacefully protesting about anything whether or not I agree with it and in this particular case I do agree with what they're protesting for. The point is that their protest (and for that matter this is true of ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36985740/why-has-black-lives-matter-come-to-the-uk-your-questions-answered There have been a series of (admittedly fairly small, but still disruptive) Black Lives Matter protests across the UK today. I have absolutely no issue with black and minority groups pro...

Sounds suspiciously like gentrification to me.

If you're talking first Celebrity Crush (as opposed to a girl called Anne in my class when I was about 10) it has to be Alyson Hannigan. Her appearances the whole way through Buffy really "perked" up my teenage years. And when she started lezzing it up that really worked for me... Hmmm... ...

Boomer wrote:Just out of curiosity what massive cuts do you think will happen?

Privatisation of air.

There appears to be a military coup going on in Turkey at the moment if anyone's interested. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36809083 The cynic in me thinks this might not be all bad. Military governments tend to be less religious and will probably stop/reverse a lot of the religious laws the...

I dunno. It is a bit strong. I don't think you're ever really meant to use the N-word. But then I suppose black people sometimes use it, so maybe it is alright...?

Carry on. As you were.

Thanks! It's only a short term contract so I still need to find a permanent position but in the interim the money's good and there's no real responsibility....

I got made redundant a month or so ago and I started a new job last week. So I spent the weekend reading up on Tableau cos that's what they use there and I've never actually used it before so I thought I should probably try and learn a little bit about it now rather than just trying to blag it (like...

That - and older women (which a professor is likely to be) don't often wear t-shirts with slogans on them, but an older man is probably going to feel less concerned about wearing a t-shirt.

I'm not saying that's right, just the way things seem to be,

Correlation does not mean causation. [One of my favourite sayings!] There may well be higher crime rates amongst black people, but that's not because they're black and for someone to leap to that conclusion at the kindest they're really stupid but more likely they're choosing to ignore the real unde...

Every time I turn on the news I see something else that makes me think America has got that bit worse - and that's not from a great starting place. I used to live in America and I still travel there from time to time. I love what America can be , but then I only really see a small section of it - th...

I've never been accused of being a SJW before. I don't know whether to feel touched or not...

I just posted this on one of the RFS threads about Brexit which was dealing more about the economy, but it's relevant to this because it's about how the Tories are likely to be able to screw over more of England and Wales now... (sorry aels) Playing Devil's Advocate for a bit, the nation's economy m...

When was America white? Is he forgetting the original Americans?

And as Tennessee was a slave state, I'm guessing it has a "proud" history of deliberately making itself "not-white"...

Gendo wrote:My piece on Orlando, from a Christian perspective: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-cr ... 48534.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.

Good article.

I don't think there is an "appropriate" response. There are certainly inappropriate responses, but the only appropriate ones are whatever helps you and helps others. There's enough shit going on without adding to it by having to worry over the details as to how you should or shouldn't beha...

If you get to point of being "so drunk that you can't remember anything" you're also being at the point of being so drunk that it's basically impossible to get an erection for most men. So that excuse really doesn't cut it - it's difficult to rape someone when you can't get it up.

This does raise some problems... The wife is constantly wearing my tops - especially when it's "that time of the month". I sometime wear her underwear (but that's another issue and she complains cos apparently I stretch it)... But I don't see how any of that relates to me peeing on the toi...

The loyalwhiteknights link comes up with an error for me - it says it can't find the DNS. I don't know if that's a temporary thing or a geographical thing.

But I wouldn't be surprised if they get their sites attacked quite a lot. Shame.

I'd seen things like 50 First Dates and The Wedding Singer and thought he wasn't too bad but I later realised he is and it was only Drew Barrymore's presence that made the films passable.

On his on he's terrible.

I would give her the flowers and say that "someone told you" (sounds a lot better than saying you cyber-stalked her) that she liked red. That explains the colour choice and makes it reasonably clear that there isn't meant to be any underlying symbolism behind it.

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