Lurker > Firewerx

nothanks1 posted...

But how can I turn off myself

Try not to work in the living room. If you've got a spare room with not much in there to distract you, try taking your laptop in there and shut yourself in for most of the day.

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trodi_911 posted...

I don't mean to brag but I'm pretty good at procrastinating.

And you waited 11 hours before posting that?!

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GunslingerGunsl posted...

I guess none of these are hidden talents anymore now that you've told me. That was my goal all along, to leave you with 0 hidden talents. muahahaha!

What the... God dammit, did I really fall for that one again?

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JigsawTDC posted...

I know how to levitate, but I'm not supposed to show anyone.

Hate it when you have to sign an NDA.

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Concealing my talents so thoroughly that no one suspects their existence.

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Cacciato posted...

Crikey

Steve Irwin speaks to us from the Afterlife.

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I ... turn the TV off.

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On the brighter side, there probably won't be any more topics like this in a couple of years' time.

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These topics never fail to disappoint.

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There's been a spate of killings by police where the cops claimed they thought the guy was armed with a cucumber. Does that count?

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Have you tried reincarnation?

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I know that when you draw a stick man, you're supposed to put that sort of oval thingy at the top of the stick that goes up. And that's about it.

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What examples are there of good shows that were cancelled after 1 season?

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Philoktetes posted...

no then it wouldnt get IP recognition

How about I'm Coming Again, America?

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Or, um, has there already been a movie with that title?

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Surely Coming to America 2 should be have been titled Returning to America?

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TheLiarParadox posted...

I don't care what he said. You were being hysterical and said something dumb in response.

Sometimes the only way to battle a viral outbreak of stupid is to try treating it with a homeopathic dose.

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Gladius_ posted...

Should people get imprisoned for 20+ years for a burglary? Probably not but some time should be spent. Even in our current system a small theft isn't likely to land you prison time.

Absolutely. I'm not a "lock 'em up and throw away the key" type for non-violent crimes, but I definitely believe that neighbourhoods need a breather for a spell from the selfish bastards who make life shitty for other people.

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TheLiarParadox posted...

Burglary and theft aren't the same thing. I've had my home burglarized as well and understand where you're coming from but there's a wide range of theft that has nothing to do with burglarizing someone or repeat offenders, and equating the two doesn't help anyone.

totalnerdken wrote that: "prison should only be reserved for violent crimes". End of.

Which would mean no custodial sentence for career burglars, conmen who've defrauded elderly people out of their life savings, serial stalkers and habitual harassers, or a whole host of crimes that can impact hugely upon victims' lives without necessarily involving violence. When you definitively remove prison either as a deterrent or as a way of safely quarantining criminals from society, you're not giving them much incentive to stop doing what they're doing; you're handing them the freedom to continue victimizing innocent people.

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I don't understand why anyone blusters about the failure right up until today to prosecute the perpetrators of other mass atrocities before, during and since WW2, but then totally undermines their own position with the argument that "if they've got away with it for this long, it seems kind of unfair to charge them now." A card they pull from the bottom of the deck only for the benefit of former Nazis.

I completely agree that in a sense, elderly Nazis are a soft target because you can safely prosecute them without the need to confront awkward questions about aspects of your own country's foreign policy over the last twenty-odd years. Witnessing how the French authorities allowed genocidaires from the former Hutu Power regime in Rwanda to live comfortably and with virtual impunity in France over the last quarter of a century makes French breast-beating and soul-searching over French complicity in the Holocaust seem like a parody of guilt.

But that's no reason for Germans, or anyone else, to give former SS concentration camp staff a get out of jail free card. We're not in some contest to see who can dish out the most exemptions from justice for the most appalling crimes -- we should be doing the opposite, as Izual said in post #157.

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She's a German citizen who's been charged by a German state prosecutor's office in connection with crimes whose victims included other German citizens. But apparently some fuckwits here think she shouldn't be charged because the state prosecutor's office hasn't charged anyone for Pol Pot's crimes in Cambodia. Jesus Christ.

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totalnerdken posted...

I'd even argue that theft (until a certain dollar value) shouldn't be punished with prison.

Yeah, you wait until you've been burgled a few times. The only way you're going to stop a career burglar is to deprive him of the physical freedom to break into other people's homes. Fuck that dumb pigshit about only violent crimes deserving a custodial sentence, just because you feel sorry for habitual crims who make other people's lives a misery. We're the ones you should be feeling sorry for.

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A fat-bodied chick with a cute face is several degrees hotter, erotically, than a skinny chick with a cute face.

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To all the people who say they see no reason why they should feel guilt over a past during which they weren't even alive, over things that other, long-dead people once did... Can I just ask: Do you ever feel pride in a history that you took no part in, or for achievements that weren't your own? If so, why the difference?

What I'm trying to get at here is that when it comes to your country's past, you've gotta take the rough with the smooth. You can't cherry-pick your country's positive achievements and say, "Yeah, we did that! That was us, the USA!", but skip the bloodstained pages of its history and say, "Nothing to do with me, that was other people long before I was born."

I'm not insisting you should feel guilt; but just let's have a bit of consistency, people.

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There's a difference between guilt and shame. Guilt rests upon the knowledge that you were personally culpable for something. Shame rests upon the knowledge that other people did terrible things in your name and let the team down.

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hockeybub89 posted...

Yeah, real liberals are against the concepts of jail, handcuffs, trials, and laws.

Real liberals think you catch someone and immediately, wag your finger at them, and pat them on the back. If you can't do that, then you have to forget it because time-delayed justice is cruel.

Genuine liberals care a good deal about justice. For genuine liberals, injustice is about innocent people being wrongly accused and punished, or the guilty going unpunished for reasons such as their position or their connections.

But fake liberals, on the other hand, who troll topics like this one because they reckon it'll be full of low-hanging fruit (having assumed in the predictably pigshit-ignorant, lazy way of trolls that only a liberal would still support the prosecution of ex-SS members) -- they like to turn this idea upside down and back to front. For them, injustice becomes all about the guilty being punished ... if they're former Nazis. And then they'll affect outraged, liberal horror about this because they'll think that somehow, it trips up the "real libs" and tricks them into exposing some kind of double standard.

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hockeybub89 posted...

I sure hope we don't find any cold case serial killers because apparently even arresting them and taking them to trial is cruel.

"But at the trial, they'll be defenseless!"

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PipeHam posted...

No, there were people responsible. One of them shot himself - the rest were hung during the Nuremburg Trials.

We moved on. It was 100 years ago.

But keep telling me about Liberalism and how cruel and unusual punishment is cool.

Your point is apparently that any kind of punishment is "cruel and unusual" if someone manages to get away with something for this long.

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PipeHam posted...

The entire country were "nazi war criminals" buddy.

Wondered when we'd see the old "everyone was responsible really, therefore no one was" argument trotted out.

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Can't fix shit unless you understand the roots of the problem.

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Krow_Incarnate posted...

Complicity? What was she supposed to do, run to her German government and tell them what they were doing is wrong?

Seeing as service in the SS-Totenkopfverbnde and assignment to a job in a concentration camp was voluntary, it seems a pretty safe bet that's the last thing she would have done.

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Rikiaz posted...

Who cares if its popular?

For some people, it's validation of their taste.

Remember: shit must taste like sugar, because 20 million flies can't be wrong.

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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Aside from the gas chamber stuff, it's one of the few things about Hitler people didn't or might not know.

Chemical Warfare terrified him.

Which didn't stop the Nazis from developing the nerve agents tabun, sarin, and soman under their own chemical warfare program.

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mustachedmystic posted...

they are signatories to the geneva convention, it makes sense they wouldn't risk getting caught violating it by putting chemicals on an unproven delivery platform.

Imperial Japan restraining itself from violating the international laws and customs of war is hard enough to believe (their track record from 1937 hardly shows the Japanese acting as if they were afraid of legal consequences), but it makes little sense that they're quite happy to discard such restraint if the balloon bombs actually reach their targets.


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nothanks1 posted...

I have like 20 work crushes

Is it a strict hierarchy, or do you rotate them in importance?

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GhettoFlip posted...

it's really not that hard dude. you must be doing something wrong

@Firewerx

It's possible it's because I'm the sort of person who'll give a load of random stuff a hearing without knowing anything about it, and judge it on the first ten seconds. Turns out there is so much shit out there than I wouldn't give any longer than ten seconds.

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Shadowbird_RH posted...

Think bigger. Adorn your lair with portraits of yourself painted by the world's finest artists, a collection to be proud of as it grows over the centuries.

I don't know. I'd probably spend the whole night plagued by a suspicion that I've shaved my sideburns to unequal lengths and being tortured by not being able to check. I'm not sure I could handle that for centuries on end.

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It's a morality tale about people who are their jobs and nothing more.

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Finding decent music is like panning for gold. It takes a hell of a lot of work and sifting through 20 tons of shit before you get a few glittering grains. And for God's sake, don't rely on radio stations to find it for you.

Every generation has to go through the same ordeal.

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Conflict posted...

Indeed, you're not gay. You're bi

Or she's straight.

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And a scar.

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They can talk about pleasures of the flesh, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your keys after all.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Is there a Truman Show? Such that anyone traveling to Ireland gets diverted to a place that is set up as Ireland with actors claiming to be from there.

The only reason why it takes nearly 7 hours to fly to "Ireland" from New York is because the plane flies in a gradual semicircle.

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As a narcissist, why would I choose to be a vampire if it means I can never see my own reflection again?

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You drop in a couple of slices of bread, push the switch down, and wait until they jump back up. Do I need to know anything more?

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Taken hostage at gunpoint and tied to a chair in front of a TV.

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MutantJohn posted...

It's inverted. Most QAnon believers are Christian.

A big part of the QAnon thing is that the elites are Satan worshippers. They also want to believe in it because it proves the existence of Christ which means that everything they've believed and worked for is validated.

And your political opponents are, quite literally, enemies of God.

The same kind of people who hanged alleged "witches" at Salem on the basis of rumor, false accusations, and lunatic conspiracy theories. The disease is spreading again.

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Because cats have a natural instinct to perform in front of a camera. Some of those cats have probably been rehearsing for weeks, working through endless rewrites to get that perfect clip.

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