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Saudi police release teenager:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-41027177
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It wasn't a waste of time saving the piglets. The firefighters saved the farmer's property from being destroyed; that's part of the purpose of their job. And like it or not, the piglets were property. That's why they were raised: to end up as bacon on someone's plate.
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15 Days of Night: for those who wanted the movie to be shorter.
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ClarkDuke posted...

I don't believe in condoms, chances I was the person who gave your significant other HPV, ok?

Condoms offer very little protection against HPV. The problem's shedding skin cells, not bodily fluids. Just, y'know, sayin'.
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To the best of my recollection, over the years it's been somewhere in the region of ... I dunno, maybe 30. Possibly more. After my divorce I was basically a born-again singleton and busied myself sowing the wild oats I'd been saving, so I guess I'd have squeezed quite a few of those into my "new-found freedom" years. By that time, despite some hard knocks I'd accumulated experience and confidence, made connections reached through some lucky networking, owned my own place, and all of that stuff does tend to be very helpful. They definitely made my early 30s my golden years.
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What I don't quite understand is the loyalty to a team whose players keep changing -- it's like replacing the handle and the head on a broom over and over, and yet treating it as the same broom. Ultimately, the only thing permanent about a team is its name and, I guess, maybe its location; so is it a territorial thing (even if the players aren't from the team's home town)?
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I know nothing about the topics in the title, but I had to post to show my respect for the TC's use of Roman numerals.
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Wife stayed friends with a fellow student she'd briefly dated in uni, who by this time (years later) was himself married. That was OK with me. I wouldn't have been quite so OK if she'd stayed friends with her ex-fiancé, though.
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Someone learns the hard way the wisdom that family is the most important thing in the world, because your family "always love you", "will always be there for you", "always have your back", and "always support you in your dreams". I've no idea what kind of families these scriptwriters grew up in -- I've a suspicion they were artificially cultured in tissue vats and then educated by a mind control cult.
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acesxhigh posted...

Generations don't really exist, the term was only invented to sell books. thanks adam conover

I don't think you fully understand the crucial importance of labelling and pigeonholing people on the basis of quite arbitrary criteria.
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He directed a movie in which a clown is sent to a Nazi concentration camp to lure children their deaths in the gas chamber?! I really, really hope this wasn't played for laughs...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40998136
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Not now it's a relationship-based rom-com.
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keyblader1985 posted...

lol @ spider face

He's just using a finger of speech.
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Depends what kind of severe personality disorder you have.
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shockthemonkey posted...

Really showing her son Jesus's love right there.

Don't start dragging love into religion. It fits badly with control, coercion and conformity.
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Onepunch-Man posted...

CountessRolab posted...

Plus, why would anyone choose to be part of a minority group that is routinely discriminated against.

Attention? IDK

Gay people obviously just can't resist the fun of being persecuted, arrested, imprisoned, tortured and murdered if it earns them minor celeb status.
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It's a choice in the way that we all sit down and make a conscious, carefully deliberated decision to start liking the flavours of certain foods.
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Allowing Helios the sun god to brand your retinas with his fiery radiance is a testament to the strength of your pagan faith.
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Sahuagin posted...

this is one reason why things like net neutrality are important though. as TV dies and propaganda machines ("mainstream media") become less and less effective...

... they will be replaced by other propaganda machines ("extremist media") that hawk an even bigger gob of contemptuous spittle into the face of factual accuracy, smear opponents not just as wrong but as fundamentally evil people because they're opponents, dumb down complexity into black-and-white simplicity, twist non-issues into existential threats, demand radical solutions, and in general appeal strongly to people whose sole mental exercise consists of jumping to conclusions.
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PKMNsony posted...

I sure hope so, the world could use some thinning out.

Hands up everyone who thinks they're surplus to requirements.
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Star Wars is ... sort of all right as popcorn entertainment, but really: spend two hours sitting in the cinema, talk about it for an hour afterwards, and then forget about it. I've never understood why it inspires near-religious devotion in so many people.
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I used to have a friend who we thought for a while had become loosely connected with some people on the fringes of the far right, but as time passed he stayed stuck in that swamp and kept sinking deeper and deeper into it. We put up with his prejudices because everyone's got an embarrassing friend who says dumb shit but goes way back; but things got serious after I started dating a black girl, and especially after I got engaged to her. I'd hoped that he'd at least have the sense or decency to save his crasser opinions for when my back was turned, but he just kept saying stupid shit in my presence and eventually I realised it didn't matter to him that we were, in some weird way, still supposed to be friends. So belatedly, I cut him out of my life and rightly felt like a fucking idiot that I hadn't done it sooner.
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MetaMajik posted...

Funkdamental posted...

MetaMajik posted...

I can finally live life enjoyably. It is going to be a awesome 70 years.

Unless you get appendicitis, a dental cavity, a broken limb, etc.

I can still live with all those things.

Yeah, you might survive untreated acute appendicitis. Don't give much for your chances, though. And I'm betting your life -- however much of it you have (it's sweet that you imagine you're guaranteed 70 years) -- would seem a whole lot less enjoyable or awesome when you're in constant pain. Think you can live happily with it? Fine. Then why not save money on medical bills by making the decision right now to never bother seeing a doctor or a hospital again?
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MetaMajik posted...

I can finally live life enjoyably. It is going to be a awesome 70 years.

Unless you get appendicitis, a dental cavity, a broken limb, etc.
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GOATTHlEF posted...

The most likely scenario is that a runaway reaction would cause the fuel to melt through the bottom of its container like a thermite charge, and drop onto the floor slowly sizzling away down into the concrete below. large fires would be set in the immediate vicinity by the intense heat, and localised explosions would throw radioactive debris around, which could be moved several hundred kilometers by the winds to affect a long but thin area with radioactivity. However, this would mostly be unnoticeable apart from in the nearest few km.

What about if it burns through down to the water table and contaminates the groundwater? How much of a risk is that?
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Not only can you beat the bosses by button-mashing on your guns, but you can sometimes beat the bosses without even seeing them for most of the fight. (Those camera angles. Those fucking camera angles!)
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All white people, or some white people? Because I think we all hate some white people. And not for being white.
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I'd finally let myself grow that beard and moustache and not worry about what it looked like during the research and development phase.

Also, it sounds a bit like The Quiet Earth, a 1985 Aussie sci-fi film. (The premise, not my facial hair.)
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To paraphrase a quote from the 1978 Dawn of the Dead: "When there is no more room in Hell, the braindead will walk the Earth."
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PoopPotato posted...

What if he has Steve Jobs's corpse propped up in the corner and has conversations with it? Like during that tweet, Steve Jobs fell over

I just spat coffee all over my keyboard. I hope you're happy.
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JlM posted...

Can I uh....get uhm, a...well, does the Typical Burger have pickles? Yeah? Uhm....okay, well, can I get it without pickles? Yeah? Cool. Okay I'll have uhm....the The Typical Burger, no pickles, no tomato, no onion, no lettuce, no mayo, no ketchup, no cheese. Uhm...then another Typical Burger with uhm.....no pickle, no tomato, no onion, no mayo, no lettuce, cheese on the side. And uhm.....wait can I make the FIRST Typical Burger a meal? Yeah? Okay uhm, I'll have uhm....a side of uhh....I guess the fries. Drink? Uhhhm....coke. How big is the large? Yeah okay I'll take the large. And uh....hold on. Hayden, Brayden, what do you want? BRAYDEN! BRAYDEN BEHAVE WHAT DO YOU WANT. No you're not allowed chicken nuggets. No you're not allowed. No. No. Okay uhm....give me two Typical Kids Meals with uhm....what do you want to drink? Blueberry Kool-Aid? Do you have Blueberry Kool-Aid? No? Brayden they don't have Kool-Aid. BRAYDEN....they don't have Kool-Aid what do you want? Okay uhm....cola with the kids meals. And uhm, extra ketchup. Can you give me a total?

I sense this is taken from experience.
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When they both realise they've been subconsciously trying to work out what next door are watching on TV. When you've reached that point, you know you've had enough.
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Ooh, take me to the burn unit.
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Anyone who laughs out loud at people who don't brush their teeth while they shower is someone who desperately needs entertainment.
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Ilove4chan posted...

Europe is white nationalist

Read Broseph_Stalin's post above yours.
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White-nationalist Europeans tend to be in favour of it because they kid themselves there's such a thing as a "white nation". Nationalist Europeans, on the other hand, tend to be worried about white Europeans of other nationalities (and often non-white Europeans even of their own nationality). White Europeans who are patriots but not nationalists tend to think that provided immigrants respect the institutions and obey the laws of their adopted country, their cultural background doesn't matter so much. Europeans who are neither white nor nationalist tend to be worried about white-nationalist Europeans securing power in parliament or on the streets.

tl;dr version: it's complicated.
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Jen0125 posted...

SmokeMassTree thinking the Nazi party and the German army were the same thing

Anyone who imagines the German Army was apolitical, and ignorant of and uninvolved in the crimes of the Nazi regime is wearing rose-tinted spectacles with specially distorting filter lenses. In the East, it was almost as deeply implicated in crimes against civilians and POWs as the SS or the Police.

The moral rot started from the head down: the institutional ethos of the OKW, the Wehrmacht's senior command, could justly be described as essentially Nazi. Some of the most brutal punitive measures carried out by the Army in the East did not originate with orders issued by Hitler, but from within the OKW itself. These included orders for collective reprisals to be taken against civilian populations for partisan attacks (the 'Barbarossa-Erlass' of May 13, 1941); the 'Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia', confirmed on May 19, 1941, which ordered "ruthless action" (rücksichtlos vorzugehen) against "Bolshevik agitators, irregulars, saboteurs and Jews"; and the slashing of rations for Soviet POWs to 10,407 calories per week (orders of the OKH issued to all German divisions in August 1941 -- small wonder that 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in slow death camps run by the German Army).

And that's even before you get into the German Army's activities in support of SS death squads under the April 28, 1941 agreement between the OKW and Heydrich's SD. Yes, the Army knew exactly what the Einsatzgruppen were for: under the agreement, close co-operation between the extermination teams and the army was ensured by seconding an Einsatzkommando liaison officer to the intelligence officer (I c) on the staff of each army, and the military were be kept informed of all instructions from Heydrich to the Einsatzgruppen concerning "executive measures against the civilian population".

Not only did the army provide transport and logistical support to the Einsatzgruppen, it systematically segregated Jewish POWs to make it easier for them to be massacred -- which sometimes happened inside the army's own POW camps; and occasionally it even carried out the mass killings itself without waiting for the SD execution teams to arrive, for example at Stalag XX-C near Danzig.

The German Army was sometimes directly involved in the mass liquidation of Jews in the East. For example, in Belarus (or "White Ruthenia", as the Germans called it), the 6th, 7th and 8th Companies of the 727th Infantry Regiment participated in the massacre of Jews (who'd been herded into hastily erected ghettoes) in the following towns: Niesvicz, October 30, 1941 -- 4,500 Jews killed; Lachovichi, November 2, 1941 -- 1,000 Jews killed; Yaremichi, Svierzna, and Turec -- 1,000 Jews killed; Mir, October 9, 1941 -- 1,500-1,800 Jews killed; Slonim, November 13-14, 1941 -- 9,000 Jews killed; Novogrudok, December 8, 1941 -- 3,000 Jews killed. The Army frequently slaughtered hostages and other civilians in Serbia, among other places; the Army (not the SS) shot more than 9,000 Jews, Gypsies and other civilians throughout Serbia in the last two weeks of October 1941 alone.

So, what am I saying? Am I saying that all twenty million men who served in the Wehrmacht during WW2 must have been died-in-the-wool Nazis and war criminals? No, of course not. But what I am saying is that it's time to take off those rose-tinted spectacles.
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Yeah, there's a difference between stating something as a subjective impression ("I haven't found myself sexually attracted towards any of the black women I've met so far") and stating it as an objective fact ("Black women aren't attractive").

Me, I'm attracted to all shapes, sizes and colours. The way I see it, being able to appreciate a rich diversity of women is a generous dollop of good fortune – it fills your world that much fuller with pleasures, temptations and opportunities.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: even if you are "racist" for not feeling yourself sexually attracted to people of certain races, I feel this isn't an instance of the kind of "racism" that actually matters. So long as you're conscious of the issue and you're careful not to discriminate against anyone in ways that might actually impact them, and you treat them as far as possible with fairness and respect, it won't matter either to them or to you that you're not going to sleep with them. You may not be doing yourself any favours by missing out, but you probably won't be doing them any disservice either.

Some people are obsessed with the idea that everyone has the duty to achieve an ideal, perfect state of mind in which any stray thought, every unconscious impulse, and all feeling can inspected, dissected and rubber-stamped to certify that it's clean and pure and totally racially 'neutral' in conformity with this month's edition of the manual. I'm sure that's a wonderful aspiration. But rather than demand impossible standards, and treat even the most trivial fluff as if it's immensely important and the failure to match such standards as an unforgivable transgression, we should instead just learn to prioritize our concerns: to focus our energies and address those things that genuinely matter.
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13. Tried some gin from my parents' living room cocktail cabinet.
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FatalAccident posted...

^ No offence but I can't see how that would have been the intention :/

Well, I'm pretty sure the actual intention was to do a modern remake of Incident at Owl Creek, which doesn't really serve up a simple rational explanation either.
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I wouldn't be surprised if on a modern battlefield, you'll probably almost never see the man who kills you.
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Bok_Choi posted...

is it true that fat girls have sex different

so grateful
so present

Simply put, the best kind of sex is sex with the kind of women you prefer the most. Whether fat girls are "different" in bed compared to other girls, I don't know if that's true; but for me at least, they're the "best" in bed because they're my favourite.

Plus, there's nothing sexier than an assquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale right in front of you while you're busy smacking your belly up against all that meat from behind. Amazing seismic and acoustic effects. :-)
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FatalAccident posted...

Oh wow, wasn't scary at all just a bit creepy at times.

So does that mean The whole NYC part of it is fake? He's in a sort of dream state whilst he's being operated on in Vietnam? And the demons is his consciousness resisting death, then when he finally can't fight anymore they turn to angels who take him to heaven instead? And he dies more at peace?

Because if that's the case does that mean the whole Drug thing is bs? Because it happened in the NYC dream state?

I suppose one theory could be: the drug opens up doors of perception that lets you see visions of an alternative future timeline; and in these visions years seem to pass, even though only a few actual minutes have gone by in real time -- kind of like how your sense of time is distorted in dreams.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

Honestly I didn't feel that, because I had addressed my brainwashing beforehand. The only sacrifice is in continuing to drink, and it took zero strength to stop. It only takes strength if you see yourself as being deprived by your decision to not drink.

It's hard to say whether you were alcohol-dependent or just an habitual drinker. I've never spoken to an alcoholic who found it took zero strength to stop once they'd resolved to do so.

I was lucky in a way, because the main reason I stopped was to prevent myself from completely destroying my marriage (and to try to repair some of the terrible damage I'd already done). Guys who feel they've already lost everything worthwhile in their lives and are at the bottom of the pit, and yet who still manage to return from that -- I have great respect for their finding such strength of spirit.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

Funkdamental posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

Alcohol doesn't smooth life's sharp edges, it makes it so you simply cannot see those sharp edges.

I meant it as a subjective impression; I'm saying, this is what it does to your perception. I'm in no way advocating alcohol as a chemical that can in some way actually make you, or things in your life, any better.

You're portraying it as this huge sacrifice that made you miserable. If alcohol doesn't do anything good for you and only makes your life far worse, then the morose tone of your post makes no sense.

I'm just describing the sensations of being a recovering alcoholic during those crucial first few months when you're at your most vulnerable to relapse -- and I'm trying to explain why that is. Beating alcoholism is the proudest achievement of my life because I know how much strength it took and I never thought I had that much. I'm hugely healthier now than I was back in 2008.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

Alcohol doesn't smooth life's sharp edges, it makes it so you simply cannot see those sharp edges.

I meant it as a subjective impression; I'm saying, this is what it does to your perception. I'm in no way advocating alcohol as a chemical that can in some way actually make you, or things in your life, any better.

Also, the "brainwashing" aspect I'm referring to is the idea that thinking of yourself as the helpless victim of a medical condition lets you perform the moral and mental buck-passing which dissuades you from trying to break your addiction. I doubt that the disease approach to understanding addiction really is supplying most addicts with the excuse to stay addicted.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

No. But it is not a character flaw either. Anyone would keep doing heroin if they were convinced it made their life better. I consider drug use to be a problem of brainwashing more than anything. Sometimes I think the medical theory of disease makes this brainwashing even worse. Because if you believe yourself to be genetically a heroin addict, there's really no option to quit. You can't quit your genetic disorders.

I don't think you've quite understood (which means, experienced) what it takes to break an addiction. It's true, you can tell yourself lies to convince yourself that it's pointless to try. But while I can't draw upon experience of breaking an addiction to opiates, I can at least try to offer hints of what made kicking alcohol so difficult.

It wasn't because I'd persuaded myself I was a helpless victim of genetic destiny; it was because when your kidneys finally purge the last of the alcohol, it feels as if all the colour and flavour and warmth and light have been permanently drained out of life -- everything seems so grey and drab and flat and dull my God. The knowledge that you'll never experience that buzz again, that life really never will get any better than this, is a horribly dispiriting prospect. When being drunk is your normal state of consciousness, the terrifying clarity of sobriety leaves you feeling naked and exposed; the soft-focus blur of booze smooths down life's rough edges, and without it the rawness of life feels like the million tiny razor teeth of a steel cheese grater rasping shreds off your soul.

It's not easy to find the right words to describe it, even if you have been through the tunnel yourself; but being "brainwashed" into a sense of helplessness plays only a minor role in the psychology of it. What locks you into addiction more than anything is the upsetting discovery of just how bad the alternative literally feels. And let me tell you, going cold turkey is no quick fix; it can take months before you start to feel like you can function vaguely normal again.
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Red. Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Done it a few times. Didn't want to waste time with the usual mating dance, didn't want strings attached, and I got to pick my flavour of the month instead of having to hope I'd randomly run into a girl who fitted the bill. No guilt, no regrets, no STD.
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