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BurmesePenguin posted...

You need a fish license

That's only if you and your partner are planning to adopt a fish.

This topic title is lifted directly from The Hackenthorpe Book of Lies. It's on a par with claims that Islam forbids Muslims to eat glass, or that from the roof of the Prudential Assurance Building in Bromley you can see seven continents.

WarfireX posted...

It's part of Texan culture. Why is this confusing you so much?

I suspect people might have been hoping for something more enlightening than "We do it because we do it."

Harry Potter didn't actually smoke pot.

Mind you, whether or not Ron Weasley did anything with weasels, I wouldn't like to say.

BADoglick posted...

Dentistry is a field with a lot of hot people

Spoken like every patient who's ever tried to look up the nurse's skirt while he's lying in the chair.

Memories of 'grab a granny' night at the bar.

MagicalPrincess posted...

But Jesus isn't a religion, He's a relationship.

These polyamorous relationships where there's four of you trying to make it work -- there's you, there's him, there's the dad, there's the holy spirit -- they're just too complicated.

Texidabraska.

UndefeatedGOAT posted...

baby boomers and gen xers had the easiest childhood

When you're young, everyone older than you must have had an easier time than the one you're having; when you're old, everyone younger than you always seems to have it easier than you did.

I'd say the class you were born into, rather than the year you were born in, was a bigger determinant of how easy you had it (or not). Believe me, I sympathize with people who've been hit by a double whammy of being born into modest means and brought up in painful times.

The_shibe posted...

do you have the slightest idea of how much college used to cost 40 years ago? Housing? What about the salary vs cost of those ratio @Vampire_Chicken ?

Very few people I knew personally went on to college after secondary school, because most working-class kids -- like me -- on the estate where I lived had to go straight from school to earning a wage where they could; higher education was out of reach for a lot of us. And for a generation of school leavers in Thatcher's Britain, caught in the middle of one of the worst recessions in living memory, finding and keeping a job wasn't always easy -- and in my experience they didn't pay particularly well, so it was tough to save. So no, I've no idea how much college used to cost 40 years ago. Housing? Dunno about that either, I was born and brought up in rented council housing because my parents couldn't afford to buy; I couldn't afford my first place until I was 30, when I took out a joint mortgage with my wife.

If you think you've got it rough today, trust me: I've been there before. Yes, this is a particularly crappy time for a lot of people, and not just kids either by the way (I was homeless for a spell in 2011), but the 1980s were a lot shittier than any rose-tinted nostalgia might sucker people into believing. There's winners and losers in every generation, every era, sure; but of all the people I knew, a lot of us at that time didn't feel like we were living the lives of winners.

DnDer posted...

But they don't say "Former Hercules actor Kevin Sorbo." And, as famous as he's sometimes taken for, the headline could have just began, "Kevin Sorbo wants to make Hollywood manly again."

The point is that his name isn't in the headline. It's not in the link.

It's this subtle "you were" effect, because he's not even worth naming in the headline to get the click. Because his name doesn't get clicks like it used to.

And I loved it.

Hey, at least they didn't say, "Has-been actor wants..."

LinkPizza posted...

https://i.imgur.com/QH0hQbN.jpg

You can't beat a nitrous oxide & vinaigrette dressing.

The_shibe posted...

its worse in many way: cost of living , lower wages , no jobs, gun violence, climate change, social media

I'd love to have lived in that rose-tinted past where everything was easily affordable, plenty of well-paid and secure jobs were just ripe for the taking, and the streets were violence free; but sadly, in my experience it never existed.

Each of the last five or six generations has had things a bit easier than those that went before. Today's kids will almost certainly be finger-wagging at generations younger than themselves in a few years. But that's not guaranteed, because it feels like there could be some very rough times ahead and this might be the calm before the storm.

I'm an atheist who used to be married to a practising Christian -- the daughter of a Baptist minister. I tagged along to her fellowship group meetings and Bible study groups. I can tell you it feels a little strange and embarrassing when every meeting you attend starts with a prayer for your soul because you're a non-believer. They were nice enough people, but I could never understand how they managed the intellectual somersaults and contortions necessary to submerge themselves in blind faith in tribal myths and superstitions from the Bronze Age Near East.

Aressar posted...

It triggered a sharp rise of conservative right-wing populist movements in a lot of countries.

I wouldn't say 9/11 was the trigger factor for that. I think you're seeing correlation and mistaking it for causation.

Our group used to liberate armchairs from testing labs. Does that count?

Avirosb posted...

The authorities as you call them follow the "might makes right" doctrine which trumps most laws and customs.

Clarification I'm looking for is whether cutting off utilities to an embassy is always considered under international law to constitute an "attack" on sovereign territory, or it could be accepted under some circumstances as simply penalizing a bad customer over unpaid bills!

TonyKojima posted...

Doesn't matter. The embassy is literally no different tha Paris. Its French soil. With that said I doubt it comes to that.

Who normally pays the utility bills for the French embassy? If it's the French government, what would happen if it failed to pay the embassy's bills? Wouldn't the Niger authorities be within their rights to cut off the supply -- sovereign territory or no sovereign territory?

If smart toilets were genuinely smart, they'd get a better job.

Feels like this is the alien planet.

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Don't. You just know that someone will, sooner or later, argue that school shootings have a positive aspect because they train the young in combat survival skills.

Prioritising quantity over quality, apparently.

That's an incredible deal!

Speaking as someone who hails from Sarf Lunnun, I can tell you that while "Tooting" sounds delightfully whimsical and conjures up images of sleepy villages, tea shops and frolicking woodland creatures, you'd be seriously mistaken in thinking that's what Tooting's like. Dunno if it's any better these days, but it used to be the sort of place where you could train astronauts to survive in a hostile environment with no atmosphere.

Gamespoht posted...

You mean chasers? Yeah they've always been around

I love me some curves but it's weird if someone strictly dates bigger people if they just fetishize them

For me at least, finding fat girls sexy is about preference rather than about "fetishizing". I'd argue that if, for me, it was a fetish then I'd be attracted only to fat girls, and to all fat girls because -- well, because they're fat. That's because fetishists typically fixate on the object of their fetish, and they're not too interested in the whole package. Me, I'm still very much a "whole package" guy.

Any red-blooded guy who goes bonkers for boobs will tell you that bigger is most definitely better -- right? I couldnt agree more. But the way I see it is, why deny yourself pleasures of the flesh by rationing yourself to big boobs only when you can also feast your senses on big butts, big thighs, big bellies?

But it's true, there are some guys out there who are fat fetishists, plain and simple. Believe me, I'm not one of them. Feederism, for example, creeps the living bejeesus out of me. Planning to make someone a prisoner in their own body by using subterfuge, coercion, manipulation, and emotional blackmail -- that's not love, it's not even lust; it's twisted control freakery. That's not me. I've never tried to dissuade any girl from making necessary changes in her life if she wants to make them; I've encouraged and supported fat girls who've wanted to lose weight. And yeah, that's a delicate balancing act, because you need to reassure her that your relationship won't change just because her body does, and even if your relationship does change, you can't let her feel those changes were responsible.

GiftedACIII posted...

Of course, BBW, chubby chasers, etc. It's personally a huge turn off for me but to each their own.

Thank you. I have absolutely no problem with anyone saying they wouldn't sleep with someone whom they don't find attractive. It's not compulsory (or at least, it shouldn't be) to like or dislike anyone or anything; and it'd be absurd, not to say downright damn unreasonable, to expect everyone else to have the same likes and dislikes as ourselves.

The way I look at it, an ability to appreciate ladies of all shapes and sizes is a generous dollop of good fortune: I know its filled my own world that much fuller with pleasures, temptations and opportunities.

Karovorak posted...

The moderator was trying to cope with it, and was denying reality as good as she could. I will never forget how she said something like "Maybe the second plane tried to help"

Jesus. I'd hate to imagine her behind the wheel of an emergency vehicle.

Did you do it while in the middle of giving a presentation? Because it seems like that would be pretty inappropriate.

At work. My boss phoned me to tell me the WTC had been "blown up". It was a busy day, so I waited until I got home and turned on the TV to watch the reports.

A "silent majoritarian"?

It is what it is.

I'd point out that I don't do much (all right, any) pursuing these days because I'm not so sure my wife would approve, but if I was still flirting, chasing, dating and doinking, you can rest assured I'd be doing it with big girls. It's the way my libido's hardwired and I love it.

Yep, I'm your man. Dunno quite so much about easily getting a bikini model to sleep with me, but I think it'd be honest of me to say that I've dated and bedded girls of all shapes and sizes in my time -- enough to let me make up my own mind about what it is I really want; and it turns out that what I really want happens to be fat chicks.

Compromise: call it recent history.

His breath must absolutely stink of bullshit.

It's almost as if crims won't have any qualms about lying if they think it'll get their sentence reduced. The surprise is that a judge would be so soft-headed as to fall for it.

Turbam posted...

Imagine throwing your life away for Trump

When it's worthless anyway, there's not much to lose.

Master_Kazuya posted...

Who the fuck is Kevin

Isn't history always being made?

History is routinely made up by Kevin Sorbo, but that's not quite the same thing.

Wouldn't there be a suspiciously high number of "friendly fire" incidents where THC chemical bombs detonated "prematurely"?

It's all about who you know.

ai123 posted...

A 26 part history programme, made at huge expense over four years, and broadcast at prime time, by a mainstream commercial channel.

Those were very different times.

And it's narrated by Laurence Olivier.

It's a magnificent achievement.

And there can't be many TV documentary series that have had interviewees such as Albert Speer, Karl_Dnitz, Curtis LeMay, Jimmy Doolittle, Mark Clark, Adolf Galland, Hasso von Manteuffel, Alger Hiss, etc etc.

sfcalimari posted...

My hovercraft is full of eels.

That's just Hungarians.

BewmHedshot posted...

Sounds like a fun time. I mean going to Wales, not the conversation with your mom, obviously.

Well, it typically took me about four hours to get there by rail (I made the trip a few times) and the fares weren't cheap. Also, it always meant an overnight stay in a hotel since none of us had our own place. But it had its compensations for a while. When I told my mother why I was going, she got so upset I never told her again for her own peace of mind.

Oh, and in my dreams it's as if I'm not quite me, exactly, but more someone playing the role of me. It's a weird blurring of identity.

A bit of both. It's often as if I'm having a slight out-of-body experience, standing just behind myself.

Only once. Told my mother I was travelling to Wales to stay overnight with two girls I'd met on holiday a few weeks before. She was horrified.

Tracking the topic.