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Asherlee10 posted...

Ricemills posted...

wait, i thought advertisers on Daily Fail are the kind of people who support that kind of articles.

Really, I thought they were a typically left-leaning paper?

Dear God, where the hell did you get that notion?! You'd have Daily Mail readers spluttering and frothing with venomous fury if you were to label them "left-leaning".
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KazumaKiryu posted...

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

Are there specific coaches that have done things to warrant investigation?

Have you watched men's figure skating?

No. Are there specific coaches that have done things to warrant investigation?
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Is this something to do with sticking your ass over the timezone line?
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What Gene Wilder couldn't manage, maybe this guy can.
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The extinction-level event that wiped out dinosaur civilization was the climax of the Tyrannosaur-Ceratosaur Wars, when tyrannosaur scientists detonated an antimatter bomb in the centre of what's now the Gobi Desert but its destructive power had been terribly miscalculated.
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KLouD_KoNNeCteD posted...

Do you think they pooped back and forth thousands of years ago?? What's pooping back and forth, I'm glad you asked. Pooping back and forth is when you poop into her butt and then she poops it back into your butt and you both keep passing the poop back and forth forever.

It's called perpetual bowel motion.
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If you were able to accurately predict catastrophic events, it'd be a gift. But to be honest, it'd be tough to screenwrite an edge-of-the-seat thriller that hinges on a prophetic dream about trading in a car.
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frozenshock posted...

Social justice is a great thing.

However, some people who say they advocate for social justice are really advocating for pretty fucking stupid things. Like white people being kicked out of their homes so that blacks can move in. I mean come on.

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I don't find the foot fetish any more weird than the footwear fetish: porn directors insisting that an actress keep her stiletto heels on while she's naked and being boinked.
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MrK3V posted...

fuck feet

That's probably the name of a fetish site.
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Most people don't realise that the area of Heaven with all the virgins is just for tourists.
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Definitely, but...

The23rdMagus posted...

Not that one. And feederism is bizarre.

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You could sense they really wanted to name him O'Connor.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's silly for people to believe that heaven, the place that gives everything to you, wouldn't have 72 virgins if you want it.

"Join our religion instead! We offer 80 virgins! Other religions just can't match our deals!"
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Basically the soldiers on both sides said "fuck this bullshit, it's Christmas" and just stopped fighting.

The truce was far more patchily observed in French-held sectors. The British could afford to feel a little seasonal goodwill towards the Germans because after all, it wasn't part of Britain the Germans were occupying.

And although there remained sectors of the front where both sides observed a 'live and let live' system (which depended on how active the sector was, and which units were holding the line because some were far more aggressive than others), there were no more Christmas truces after that first Christmas in the trenches, because the goodwill drained away after months of misery and killing. The 1914 truce wasn't some kind of grassroots anti-war protest; it was just a welcome day off from work.
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P4wn4g3 posted...

Funkdamental posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

That's pretty much the same.

You badly need to clean your monitor.

Are they sisters?

Forget the screen cleaning wipes. We're talking about a cataract operation!
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P4wn4g3 posted...

That's pretty much the same.

You badly need to clean your monitor.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

The U.S. causes casualties. This is an unfortunate and unavoidable side affect of military action.
The enemy targets civilians specifically.

Just how far it's unavoidable is a matter of controversy.

The IRA used to claim that planting bombs in pubs was a legitimate military tactic because besides the dozens of civilians it inevitably killed or maimed, there was the chance that a few off-duty soldiers would be killed as well and they were the "real" targets, so it was in fact a way of striking back against the British Army. But who the fuck would genuinely believe they were treating civilian casualties as an "unfortunate and unavoidable side effect" instead of "civilians are expendable because we can't be bothered to avoid killing them"?

If you cascade a Niagara of high explosives down into the heart of a city and shrug off civilian deaths with the philosophy that "well, whatever we do, civilians will get killed, so it doesn't really matter what we do", you can't wash your hands of responsibility and you can't really argue that those deaths are accidental. It's like a gang spraying a restaurant with automatic fire in the hope of killing their "real" target inside and not giving a shit about whoever else gets in the way.
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Tadamoto38 posted...

Omg. It's a shame what you guys consider fat.

Anything more than eight pounds above organ failure, apparently.
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Four times. Twice for economic reasons (in a recession, it's not unusual for it to be a case of "last in, first out"), once for "disciplinary" reasons (advising the Sales Director to shove it up his shitter until it fucking choked the piss-worthless life out of him, and then promising to piss in his fucking rat mouth before the paramedics arrived), and once for "we're sorry to hear you're not entirely happy with your move to a different department, so we're sacking you" reasons.
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chill02 posted...

bulls aren't dumb

So few of them graduate, though.
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Isn't it racist to imply that certain groups are domesticated dumb animals?
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Now we know the kind of research they're really doing at CERN.
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Hicks233 posted...

When you say minority - do you mean within a country like the US; so blacks, latinos, south/east asians and how they regard each other or do you mean blacks in general, or latinos in general? As if you went to Nigeria then blacks are certainly not going to be the "minority".

People will hate one another regardless of whether or not they are a minority.

White South Africans (a minority group) were systematically racist towards South Africans of South Asian descent (another minority group). Wherever you have minority rule, the idea that all minorities are powerless is nonsense.
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He has wisdom in his eyes.
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In the UK, you're deemed responsible enough to start a family at the age of 16. (Which begs the question why you're not deemed responsible enough to vote until the age of 18, but there you go.) No, I don't see it as immoral to sleep with a 16 year old if you're 21.
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I scrape the blade of a wet Gillette over the stubble every morning.
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Lokarin posted...

Metalsonic66 posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I also know Tolkien existed, but that doesn't mean that Middle Earth was ever a real place/time period.

Or WAS it...?

Yes, actually - we know Tolkien existed... therefor Middle Earth is MORE supported than most religions

"If we know the liar, that makes his lie more truthful."

We know that the Bible must have had authors who must existed, and compilers, translators and editors who put their own spin on it -- even if we know little or nothing about who they were. Otherwise, there wouldn't even be a fucking Bible in the first place. (Unless you think God writes, prints and distributes it to bookstores himself?) But whether they wrote about the truth is another matter entirely.
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Got to give credit to Nixon and Ford for stopping North Vietnamese tanks from rolling into Saigon, right?
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Lokarin posted...

We at least know Hubbard existed

Hubbard isn't really an object of worship. In religious terms, he'd be a preacher or a prophet. And we know that preachers and people claiming to be prophets exist. The fact of their existence doesn't lend legitimacy to their beliefs, though.
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This is what happens when obsessive-compulsives elevate a fucking movie franchise to near-religious status: you get inquisitions and crusades, squabbles over dogma and accusations of heresy.
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Lokarin posted...

Unfortunately, letting them free to keep going - actually prevents more.

I'm utterly convinced that allowing a violent, abusive husband to continue to stay with his wife and kids, despite beating her up for the umpteenth time, would make her feel safer on those nights when he comes back home drunk yet again. I'm sure "science" will back me up on this.
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I've noticed there's a real tribalism among a lot of people who strongly self-identify as either conservative or liberal: a sheep-like compulsion to trot into the pen along with the rest of the flock. It's as if they feel they need to tick every box on a long checklist of approved positions to feel sure of "belonging".

I'm a Brit. I served my political apprenticeship on the Left -- back before its global vision, internationalist spirit and campaigning energy shrank to complaining about trivial non-PC fluff in Western democracies. Back when protests targeted death squads instead of videogames.

What grew to disillusion me was the cranky contrarianism of the Left in its blind, knee-jerk opposition to any military action, in any context whatsoever, undertaken by any Western government even when it was clearly mandated by humanitarian imperatives. They oppose it apparently for the simple reason that these governments are Western -- and are therefore to be despised and distrusted unconditionally by all properly self-hating Westerners.

The Falklands, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Kosovo: time and again I've read scathing condemnations of British military intervention ("neo-imperialism") even in those cases where there's actually been a clear moral mandate for action. (During the Falklands War my mother-in-law bought Argentinian corned beef to flaunt her support for a junta whose hands were filthy with the blood of thousands of victims of torture and murder, just for the sake of giving Thatcher a poke in the eye. That's the kind of cosy British left-wing hypocrisy that turned my stomach.) People who demanded that "something" be done to stop Saddam gassing Kurds suddenly backflipped when that "something" eventually involved bombing, no-fly zones and sanctions backed by American muscle -- because if there was one thing more important than stopping Saddam from gassing Kurds, it was hating Uncle Sam for doing anything at all.

On GameFAQs, I've read lefties on other boards even argue that it was a good thing that the West, and especially the US, did not intervene in Rwanda in 1994 to stop the genocide -- because, apparently, it would have been "imperialist" for the West to infringe upon the sovereignty of another country, and it would somehow have "made things worse". Seriously: this is what it's come down to.

Western governments are condemned when they do something, and they're condemned when they do nothing. I've read leftists rail against the "imperialist" overthrowing of dictators like Marcos, Cdras, Saddam and Gaddafi -- often the very same leftists who, rightly but with no apparent sense of irony, lambasted Reagan and Thatcher for mollycoddling other dictators. The Left used to attack the CIA for bumping off democrats; now it savages Uncle Sam for deposing autocrats. Someone should tell today's contarian, "plague on both your houses" Left that sitting on the fence is not the same thing as standing on the moral high ground.
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Sonic92e posted...

Yeah true. But i feel the appeal to emotion seems more rapid with young people, social media etc. But i am not saying lack of brain is lacking, but considering how much ravidness of "not discussing issue is"

I think it's what happens when politics gets boiled down to a soundbite, a slogan or a button badge and there's a toxic political culture in which opponents aren't simply opponents, they're enemies, and they're not simply wrong, they're bad. Believe me when I tell you there's nothing uniquely either left- or right-wing about that kind of knee-jerk intolerance, bullying and appeal to crude emotion.
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Not all anti-war protestors are what you'd call "SJWs" (or necessarily even left-wing), in the same way that not all liberals -- or leftists -- are "SJWs". In fact believe it or not, but not everyone who's active in genuine social justice campaigning actually fits the profile of what you'd probably think of as a typical "SJW".
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Has she been keeping these penises stuffed in her cheeks like a hamster?
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Only if they're not the same as mine,
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Pepys Monster posted...

Surely human milk is better for humans than cow's milk, though.

I don't know about the taste of human milk, but I do like the packaging. :-)
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The eco-friendly version will be a really tall hedge.
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Zeus posted...

In general, my likelihood of death should be relatively low

I'd say it's more 100%.
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No. They taste bitter.
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Zeus posted...

The biggest knock against me might be that I don't get the recommended levels of sleep -- I average 3-5 hours weeknights -- although sleeping 7 hours usually leaves me feeling kinda out of it.

Thank God it's not just me. Sleeping for more than 6 hours doesn't make me feel rested and refreshed, it makes me feel like I'm recovering from heavy sedation.
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LinksLiege posted...

Human sexuality is absolutely fascinating.

I've sometimes locked horns with boneheads who lecture me that it's "unnatural" for me to like the kind of women I like instead of the kind of women they like because all men are supposed to prefer wiry, gym-hardened female bodies because of evolution. I dont see it that way.

Could be that back in the good old Paleolithic days, besides making chicks cuddlier for a snuggle under the skins at the back of the cave, extra layers of body fat were welcomed as useful reserves that would help a baby-bearer through a harsh winter or a lean hunting/gathering season. Itd give her a competitive edge over a thinner female, thus making her a more desirable mate for Ugg, son of Ugg. And wouldnt Ugg have found a chick with a wide, child-bearing pelvis raunchier than a skinny-hipped girl who looked like shed have trouble squeezing out anything bigger than an orange? Dont believe those lying Flintstones cartoons!

But anyway, I reject this argument that sexual attraction is programmed by evolutionary instinct. The libidos a tangled mass of knots that cant easily be unpicked with the simple word why? or by theories about the reproductive needs of cavemen. Beyond the primal urge to stuff body parts into someone (or to have someones body parts stuffed into you), there are just too many variables, too many things about sex that dont fit any preconceived pattern of evolutionary purposes.

For instance: If baby-making is all-important, why do we get turned on by oral or anal sex which, lets face it, are pretty inefficient methods of making babies? (For that matter, so is lesbian sex, which surely ought to turn us off.) If proof of fertility is instinctively what were really looking for in a chick, why dont we all have a fetish for heavily pregnant women? If massively milk-filled mammaries matter so much to us because were worried about how well our kids will be fed, why are some of us attracted to smaller-breasted Asian girls? What is there about evolutionary purposes that would attract us to a particular hair colour?!

Sexual attraction is too complex and there too many exceptions to rules to chalk everything down to whatever got our cave-dwelling ancestors horny. Im of the opinion that sociocultural conditioning and knotty, individual psychological factors are more important than primordial instinct when it comes to shaping who and what we like sexually. I think our genes give us some basic programming to go for the nearest available hole, and the rest of it we make up ourselves.
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Well, I've a hunch you're going to judge me a tad less tolerantly when I tell you that if I do have a kink (although I see it as a preference, not a fetish), it's my fondness for fat girls. Yep, I've got a soft spot -- well, more of a massive, throbbing hard spot, really -- for female obesity. But as far as I'm concerned, a capacity to appreciate women of all shapes and sizes is a great big dollop of good fortune; there being more women whom you find attractive, rather than fewer women, fills your life that much fuller with pleasures, temptation and opportunities.
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Skye Reynolds posted...

A kid watches a movie where a teenager has a crush on his teacher. Boom! It clicks in that impressionable young mind that older women are better women.

I got that from having a crush on a teacher, not by watching a movie. And I've never felt it to be some kind of disturbing kink -- more like words of wisdom. ;-)
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Needed a walkthrough for GTAIII back in 2001. (Dear God in heaven! :-O)
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Minute posted...

SuperExcitebike posted...

Lmao grow a beard

I tried, it was pale and splotchy and looked too fuckin neckbeardy. Even after I shaved the neckbeard part.

The important thing is, at least you realised that. There's too many who don't.
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I find it odd that some posters are citing the freedom to sit around naked in the house all day if they feel like it. What the hell kind of relationship would you be in / have you been in if your SO insisted on you being "properly dressed" all the time in the house?! What's next -- black tie at the dinner table? Overalls in the bathroom?

Being happily married is great. Even better is being happily married to someone who understands that no matter how solid the relationship, everyone still needs their own space and their own time to do their own stuff in their own way, and is always ready to give them that. I'm lucky.
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