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| Topic | The UK sounds like an actual hellhole right now |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/15/22 12:05:36 PM #78 | Anyway, just because the police lining the route of the hearse are studying the faces of the crowd to see if anyone is failing to express the state-mandated amount of grief, so they can be dragged out of the crowd and beaten with batons, that doesn't mean it's a hellhole. |
| Topic | Your reaction: Your son says he doesn't want to catch 'em all. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/15/22 10:34:17 AM #6 | UnfairRepresent posted... Your son has reached the age of 12 so naturally you're sending him out the house to travel the world by himself so he can talk to strange men and fight dangerous monsters because he gotta catch'em'all.Social Services, here we come. |
| Topic | What is the average life like in the UK? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/15/22 10:10:41 AM #19 | UnfairRepresent posted... I've suggested they turn it into a record-breaking, sponsored conga dance for charity. Might do some good then. |
| Topic | DO you respect women, though? Really? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/15/22 10:06:24 AM #3 | They're as deserving of respect as men are. Trouble is, I'm not sure that's a compliment. |
| Topic | Scientists say 'We can find life outside the solar system in 25 years' |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/15/22 8:37:06 AM #21 | Flauros posted... Would finding life on another planet completely devalue the big 3 religions?Nah, they'd just say, "Oh, that's stuff from the prequel." |
| Topic | Will there be a World War III? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/15/22 8:25:23 AM #20 | RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted... as soon as the treaty of versalies was signed the germans were understandably angry about being left to foot the bill"Understandable" only in the sense that the Germans had conveniently forgotten that they'd already imposed far harsher conditions on France and Russia. Apparently they felt it was absolutely fine for Germany to force France to pay an indemnity of 5 billion francs within five years for the cost of the Franco-Prussian War (which France did) -- but totally unjustifiable for Germany to be presented with a check for the cost of the damage caused by, for example, the German scorched-earth policy in which they systematically destroyed French coalmines and deliberately made the Somme valley region uninhabitable under Operation Alberich. Self-pitying, hypocritical bastards. By now, people really should stop scraping the "poor Germany" violin over Versailles. |
| Topic | Will there be a World War III? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/15/22 8:07:03 AM #17 | Zikten posted... People who voted for never, should know that after ww1, nobody thought ww2 would ever happenUntrue. Plenty of people felt that another major conflict in Europe was was increasingly possible. That's precisely why veterans' associations were so vocal about the need to do whatever it took to avoid it -- and why it was felt important to appease Hitler by trading land (e.g. the Sudetenland) for peace. Anyone who read past the front page of their newspaper between 1918-23 would have been aware that regions of Europe were being torn apart by inter-state and intra-state violence. All the ceasefire of November 1918 meant was that the shooting stopped in western Europe; elsewhere, it continued or was just getting started. |
| Topic | Will there be a World War III? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/15/22 7:58:07 AM #15 | coolguyjimmy posted... War World one was called ... "The War to end all Wars"To be honest, it was really only H.G. Wells (author of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine) who called it that. He wrote a 99-page pamphlet in September 1914 titled "The War That Will End War". https://fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com/war-experiences/h-g-wells/ It's highly debatable how many other people genuinely thought it would be the last one in their lifetime. |
| Topic | Will there be a World War III? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 4:19:08 PM #9 | The first (metaphorical) shots will be fired in cyberspace. (You might say it's happening already.) Clandestine, low-intensity warfare that can cause significant disruption to an enemy with enough containment to prevent things from spiralling into a nuclear exchange. Countries whose only defence is a nuclear deterrent that they're reluctant to use for fear of mutually assured destruction will be at a disadvantage. |
| Topic | Do you believe in not speaking ill of recently deceased celebrities? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 1:36:09 PM #29 | I reckon they left it a bit too long to speak ill of Jimmy Savile after he died. It took almost a year after his death for the news story to break that, shielded by his celebrity status, he'd been Britain's most prolific sexual predator (an estimated 450 victims, including four girls aged under 10). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile |
| Topic | The UK sounds like an actual hellhole right now |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 1:15:37 PM #58 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] Yeah, for a while last year it looked like we were in danger of having "I remember when Prince Philip healed lepers and fed 50,000 people with five loaves and two fishes during a walkabout in High Wycombe" news stories. |
| Topic | The UK sounds like an actual hellhole right now |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 1:01:20 PM #55 | spikethedevil posted... Im the same tbh. Have got a day off work out of it though.Which, obviously, you'll spend deep in sober contemplation while trying to put a black headscarf on the dog. |
| Topic | How many crayons do you usually eat in one sitting? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 12:49:32 PM #18 | VampireCoyote posted... however many are in the boxI've heard there's a new low-calorie brand called I Can't Believe It's Not Crayon. Sounds like you might need to look into it. |
| Topic | Scientists say 'We can find life outside the solar system in 25 years' |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 12:44:44 PM #3 | "25 years if you give us $25 billion to do it. But only 10 years if you give us $50 billion. Give us $100 billion, and we guarantee 5 years." |
| Topic | The UK sounds like an actual hellhole right now |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 12:34:44 PM #51 | Sexypwnstar posted... Can we get someone who's currently in the UK's stance on this matter? @UnfairRepresentTo knowledge, @spikethedevil is from dear old Britland. As am I, but my stance is basically just a lot of eye-rolling, tutting and head-shaking at the daftness of what's starting to resemble some weird necrophiliac cult. |
| Topic | Barron Trump is taller than you. How's that make you feel? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 12:14:50 PM #19 | Superior, because at least I'm not that guy. |
| Topic | How are u gonna feel when May 12th comes around and you cant play the new Zelda? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 12:12:34 PM #17 | I've never been able to play a Zelda game. It's been one continual fight against total indifference and I just keep losing. |
| Topic | UK cancels/delays flights to not disturb the Queen's coffin |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 9:07:39 AM #7 | UnfairRepresent posted... I guess they think it'll wake her up or somethingGiven the general tone of the reporting, I'm a little surprised she didn't rise on the third day. |
| Topic | UK cancels/delays flights to not disturb the Queen's coffin |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 9:06:00 AM #5 | "By the way, we loaded your baggage onto the wrong plane as a mark of respect to Her Majesty." |
| Topic | The UK sounds like an actual hellhole right now |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 9:02:00 AM #36 | Solid_Sonic posted... "Who died and made you king? Doh ho...""Come and see the violence inherent in the system!" |
| Topic | Do you think this restaurant was within their rights to deny service to a.. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 9:00:17 AM #11 | How did they recognise the guy? Did they have a framed portrait hanging on the wall with crosshairs superimposed over his face? |
| Topic | Do you think this restaurant was within their rights to deny service to a.. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 8:50:03 AM #5 | Within their legal right maybe, because wrong and unfair decisions aren't necessarily against the law. |
| Topic | How many crayons do you usually eat in one sitting? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 8:43:43 AM #11 | Eh, it depends. I can't stand blackcurrant or raspberry ones. |
| Topic | What type of spider needs to bite me for me to get spider powers? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 8:37:10 AM #13 | pegusus123456 posted... Not all who wander are lost.I might have gotten its name confused with the Brazilian Totally Aimlessly Wandering Spider. |
| Topic | What type of spider needs to bite me for me to get spider powers? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 8:29:13 AM #11 | gunplagirl posted... Oh right, spiders can grow them back in several molts, huh?Yep. I think the original idea in the comic was that Peter would regrow them on laundry nights, or something. |
| Topic | What type of spider needs to bite me for me to get spider powers? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 8:26:51 AM #9 | pegusus123456 posted... It's not spider powers, but t he Brazilian Wandering Spider gives you the ability to make parts of your body rock hard.Yeah, but judging by the name you lose any sense of where you're going. |
| Topic | What type of spider needs to bite me for me to get spider powers? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 8:24:28 AM #6 | gunplagirl posted... You get the powers of a male Darwin's bark spider.There are still arguments over whether or not Spiderman has detachable genitals. |
| Topic | Wow a lot of people hated the Queen. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/14/22 4:48:26 AM #157 | FunkyCat posted... Yea, but that got us Cromwell so do you really want us to go back to that?Swings and roundabouts, eh? |
| Topic | Historically, would you say religion has caused more harm or good to society? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/13/22 1:31:16 PM #12 | Zikten posted... My take is that it was a required element to human culture in the beginning. I think we had to have religion to get civilization startedI feel it's high time that civilization started to grow out of Middle Eastern tribal myths and superstitions from the Bronze Age. I reckon that on balance, the world would be healthier for it. |
| Topic | The UK sounds like an actual hellhole right now |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/13/22 1:14:41 PM #8 | lilORANG posted... Love Island had its best season in yearsYou've got to dig really, really deep to find that silver lining. |
| Topic | The UK sounds like an actual hellhole right now |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/13/22 1:13:38 PM #7 | Bio1590 posted... People are having appointments and surgeries cancelled because they were scheduled on the 19th.Believe me, if only if it was just the one day, the 19th, that appointments and surgeries are being cancelled for. |
| Topic | Wow a lot of people hated the Queen. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/13/22 1:05:49 PM #155 | cjsdowg posted... I just find it so odd, this whole King and Queen stuff.England abolished the monarchy at one point, after executing Charles I during the Civil War. It was a republic between 1649-60, yet the sky didn't fall in and it didn't spell the end of civilization. Men, it can be done! |
| Topic | Wow a lot of people hated the Queen. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/12/22 12:03:57 PM #143 | BiggLaw posted... I'll get back to you later. Just acknowledging your post.Thank you. I might not get around to looking at the topic again until maybe this time tomorrow. I am open to being persuaded - just as everyone ought to be, no matter what side of the fence they're on - but what persuades me is facts. |
| Topic | Having a beard is an undeniable status symbol of manliness |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/12/22 12:02:34 PM #22 | RashodBateman posted... Women also find me much more attractive when I have a beard.That's because it hides part of your face. |
| Topic | Wow a lot of people hated the Queen. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/12/22 10:57:31 AM #141 | BiggLaw posted... She was STRONG with the latter and people with political authority respected her enough to show her favoritism, especially amongst colonized nations. She got her way often, even at other's expense. Making an enemy of Lizzy was making an enemy of the UK. She was a symbol for multiple reasons and she played her role, even if unofficial. Since when does anything ever need to be legitimate when colonists are involved? Write a piece of paper and violate it all they want, lmao.And just how much "cultural influence" did she actually exert upon Colonial Office or Foreign Office policy? What were the issues on which she directly intervened, what policy changes were made in accordance with her expressed wishes, which prime ministers did she successfully bend to her will? And please, let's not have any of this airy-fairy "Oh, but her influence was so all-pervading that it was intangible, the evidence for it is nowhere because it was everywhere, so I'm sorry but I can't actually offer you any specifics" guff, either. I'll tell you what's "intellectually dishonest": feeling convinced that you don't need to persuade anyone with bothersome old facts because your opinions are too self-evidently correct to require corroboration. No doubt she had her own opinions and wishes on a variety of issues -- who doesn't? Your job is to demonstrate when, where and how these were actually translated into concrete action and had an impact on policy. Not only that, but to offer more than one or two examples if you want prop up this notion that she supposedly spent her whole life on the throne plotting how to repress, culturally rape, loot and genocide native populations. |
| Topic | Wow a lot of people hated the Queen. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/12/22 9:49:06 AM #138 | I resent the institution that Liz was part of, I despise all the stupid nonsense that goes with it, and I'll have nothing to do with the necrophiliac cult that seems to want to beatify her. But the people who are gloating over her death seem to be hating Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor rather than Queen Elizabeth II. They're dehumanizing her to nothing more than a symbol, a stereotype - judging her not by anything she actually said, or did, in her life, but instead basing her whole human worth on her stupid job title. And they're inventing bullshit justifications, gulping down and regurgitating any half-baked nonsense they've glanced in some random tweet, to do it. I'll have nothing to do with that either. |
| Topic | Wow a lot of people hated the Queen. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/12/22 9:26:23 AM #136 | MrMallard posted... Elizabeth herself has been on the throne as the British have colonized other countries, her hands are just as bloody as that of her father's and every Windsor before her. She has directly benefitted from the British genocide of dozens of cultures at best. We like to pretend she's this doddering old woman with a nice smile and a couple heckin doggos, but under her rule, people have lost their freedom, their wealth and their history. As the head of the British crown, Queen Elizabeth took on the responsibilities of the monarchy, including the sea's worth of blood it was built on - and she absolutely, 100% partook in the same cultural rape that her forefathers did.When your country's entire fucking existence is one of the poisoned fruits of British colonialism - when it's been built over the skeletons of murdered indigenous peoples, and with the sweat and blood of slaves - then you don't get to pretend that there's some uniquely British, culture-raping evil about dead old Liz. Either hand the keys to your home over to the survivors of the people whose stolen land you've been happily living on for generations, or shut the fuck up because the stench of your hypocritical bullshit is nauseating. Liz (who in fact came to the throne at the very time when Britain began the unstoppable process of decolonizing in Africa and Asia) was no more personally guilty of what long-dead people once did in her great-great-grandfather's and great-great-great-grandmother's name than every single, self-righteous, "anti-colonialist" American who's perfectly happy to keep reaping the rewards of being on the winning side in their own country's dirty, blood-spattered history of brutal colonialism, genocide and slavery. If you're taking the position that the children deserve to have the sins of the (great-great-grand)fathers heaped upon their heads, then at least have the guts to admit that right now you are all complicit in that shameful history, you are all responsible for its consequences today, and you are all part of the same rotten, morally myopic hypocrisy. So don't go jabbing the finger at dead elderly white Englishwomen as if you're somehow squeaky clean. Blame isn't just for comfortably distant, foreign elites with silly job titles. |
| Topic | Scenario: A talking bear is trying to hide from hunters in your home. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/11/22 4:21:44 PM #9 | UnfairRepresent posted... have you seen a really fat ugly stinky bear that nobody likes go past here ... this seems like the kind of place it would goYeah, thanks for the backhanded insult. I've made up my mind: I'm hiding the bear. |
| Topic | Ireland is not a fan of the queen |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/11/22 3:22:37 PM #40 | ScazarMeltex posted... reform of the police force it was over 90% Protestant and criticised for sectarianism and police brutalityThe RUC was disarmed on the recommendations of the Hunt Report of October 1969; it was subsequent IRA violence that led to the police being rearmed. So you can dump the blame squarely in the IRA's lap for overturning that small victory won by the Civil Rights Association. British Military personnel interning people without trial... The IRA grew out of that.Operation Demetrius was in August 1971. The IRA had been bombing and shooting people (often civilians) for well over a year before Long Kesh opened up. You should at least make an effort to get your chronology right. The Falls curfew, Demetrius, Motorman, Bloody Sunday, and dozens of other, smaller incidents might have boosted IRA recruiting; but the IRA's Provisional Army Council had already decided on an urban guerrilla campaign as early as December 1969 and these events were the result of military reaction to that campaign. I'd point out that I've read Arming the Protestants and Northern Ireland: The Orange State by Michael Farrell, and I'm well aware of the background to the situation, thanks. As usual, it's later generations that pay the price of bad decisions made before many of them were even born. |
| Topic | Ireland is not a fan of the queen |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/11/22 2:30:04 PM #37 | Zeeak4444 posted... if someones considered to be terrible, and they are old, it means they had a lot of time to be terrible. Also being feeble doesnt erase your past.That's true, but in this case the reason why some people actively despised a dead, elderly lady and gloated over her death had nothing whatsoever to do with anything she actually did, or said, in her life. Nope, they hated her simply because of the job title she inherited from her father at the age of 27. They dehumanized her to a symbol. |
| Topic | Ireland is not a fan of the queen |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/11/22 2:05:33 PM #36 | ScazarMeltex posted... Obviously bombing civilians isn't a fucking ideal strategy but if it's the only available option you have to get civilians to put pressure on their Government to stop running death squads in your homeland, you do what you gotta do.I guess if the UFF and UVF killed Catholic civilians indiscriminately because they lacked the information to selectively target IRA men, and such reprisals seemed to be the only way to force the IRA to halt its strategy of bombing civilian targets, then the Lenny Murphys and the Michael Stones were only doing what they had to do. |
| Topic | Do you personally find it hard not to think about "the end?" |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/09/22 5:16:04 PM #26 | Zikten posted... Ironic this is said by named named vampireDude, vampire bats last only about 9 years in the wild and maybe 20 in captivity. Vampire chickens don't bother saving for retirement. |
| Topic | I hope they pick someone more diverse to be the next Queen/King of England. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/09/22 5:07:05 PM #19 | iPhone_7 posted... Oh so nepotism, shameIt's just so they don't have to plough through hundreds of LinkedIn profiles. |
| Topic | Wow a lot of people hated the Queen. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/09/22 4:51:43 PM #108 | Blue_Inigo posted... https://twitter.com/Aldanimarki/status/1567861794605043712?s=20&t=7LdNdetyEJQd-_16kUMR_AOh, right. This is one of those things where you read a Twitter comment and you think it's a history lesson. |
| Topic | I hope they pick someone more diverse to be the next Queen/King of England. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/09/22 4:41:29 PM #4 | I reckon they'll keep it within the family. |
| Topic | Do you think "colonizer" has become a slur for white people? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/09/22 4:35:26 PM #88 | AmericaTheBrave posted... This topic was inspired by somebody calling a Slav a colonizer, a people with no history of Western colonialism.Because colonization by Russians went east, not west. Unless you think they won Siberia in a bet. |
| Topic | Your favorite "Are we the bad guys?" moment in media? |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/09/22 4:25:50 PM #4 | Flauros posted... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvpvlT9pJU |
| Topic | Do you personally find it hard not to think about "the end?" |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/08/22 4:31:15 PM #18 | It's the one absolute certainty for every single one of us. It's never an "if", it's a "when". It will happen to you. You can only dodge it for so long. |
| Topic | Wow a lot of people hated the Queen. |
| Vampire_Chicken 09/08/22 4:05:08 PM #63 | Vegito posted... ...I don't think it has to be an either or situation, famIndeed it doesn't, but hating Liz as if she'd personally shoved the Star of Africa into her handbag in 1905 and done a runner with it is ludicrous. |
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