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| Topic | if things don't go my way, it was rigged and a conspiracy |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 1:34:57 PM #5 | BlackScythe0 posted... Alternative factsThey figured out that it sounded punchier than "alternatives to facts". --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Could you date a girl who has a massive insatiable sex drive? |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 1:25:07 PM #31 | UnfairRepresent posted... Having an insatiable sex drive doesn't mean you can't do other thingsIf you're insatiably hungry all the time, probably not. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | I feel like skinny nowadays is just what we call non fat people |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 1:23:23 PM #5 | I feel like 'fat' nowadays means anything more than eight pounds above organ failure. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | C/D: being a father is just as much a social construct as virginity |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 1:21:09 PM #3 | Fatherhood is a job. It's about being more than just a sperm donor. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | What is the right way to state a particularly controversial opinion... |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 1:16:59 PM #11 | Shadowbird_RH posted... To drink of wisdom, one must have intelligence. Only some will have it. Do not be discouraged by those who do not.And on the upside, there's always the hope that at least some stupid people will gulp down your bullshit hook, line and sinker. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Could you date a girl who has a massive insatiable sex drive? |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 1:11:06 PM #23 | UnfairRepresent posted... When she's not working?So now she's trying to sublimate a massive insatiable sex drive by playing video games? Is she a CEman? --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Joe Rogan has a media company, BentPixels, that censors criticism of him on YT |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 1:06:12 PM #4 | MixedRaceBaby posted... Alt-Right: wtf we love censorship nowAlt-Right: "You are free to do anything we want you to." --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Could you date a girl who has a massive insatiable sex drive? |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 1:03:18 PM #15 | UnfairRepresent posted... you have similar tastes in video games.When does she find the time to play video games? --- Incinerate |
| Topic | if things don't go my way, it was rigged and a conspiracy |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 12:58:37 PM #3 | And I'm not about to let facts stand in the way of my opinion. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Do you believe there is a god? |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 12:52:14 PM #13 | BettyWhite posted... I think it's reasonable to believe something much greater than us exists.I think we've got about as much hope of understanding it as goldfish have of understanding the nature and complexity of the human world just beyond the glass walls of their tank. They're vaguely aware there's something that sprinkles food on the surface of the water every morning ... and that's about it. That's all they'll ever know. We're still clinging to Bronze Age superstitions in an attempt to grasp a tiny part of the universe, anthropomorphizing phenomena that we have no hope of comprehending. Imagining a bearded man in the sky who controls everything is a massive simplifier. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Minnesota Approves ALL WHITES CHURCH but ONLY for BLONDES and BLUE EYES!!! |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 12:38:14 PM #12 | mrduckbear posted... He said in the meeting "A hundred thousand years from now, i want there to be only blonde hair and blue eyes in this country. That's what God would have wanted."Sounds like he was pretty quick to chuck the pretence of "pre-Christian Nordic spirituality" out the window once he got what he wanted. Whatever happened to good old-fashioned Old Norse polytheism? --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Is the world too cynical? |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 12:19:12 PM #14 | Too cynical about the wrong stuff and not cynical enough about the right stuff. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Do NOT date her if she's obsessed with Disney. Do NOT date him if he's obsessed |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 12:04:29 PM #8 | UnfairRepresent posted... Don't date anyone who is obsessed with anything --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Do you let your baby boomer parents talk down to you? |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 11:56:44 AM #7 | Veggeta X posted... There's an old saying against old people; You can't teach an old dog new tricks.Idiots who hold moronic opinions for stupid reasons and stubbornly refuse to change them are usually the kind of people who've done it their entire lives. Stupid old people are just stupid young people who got older. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Its amazing how many people in this country believe girls pee out their vaginas. |
| Firewerx 12/28/20 11:52:42 AM #15 | The_Creep_2020 posted... What do you mean they dont?Yeah, that's actually to do with the phases of the Moon. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Wonder Woman 1984 is 151 minutes long. |
| Firewerx 12/26/20 2:37:42 PM #42 | Did it feel like it was actually 1,984 minutes long? --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Is caramel pronounced ca-ruh-mehl or cahr-muhl? |
| Firewerx 12/26/20 1:45:25 PM #4 | Cuh-rammell. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Why do people pretend Coronavirus is a big deal? |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 3:56:24 PM #57 | The fewer Covid-19 cases in my country, the better for everyone here who needs healthcare services for any reason. And if it means putting up with the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask in a crowded public place until enough people get vaccinated, fine. That's a cheap price to pay. Why do idiots like TC pretend it's such a big deal? --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Why do people pretend Coronavirus is a big deal? |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 3:46:38 PM #53 | Branded posted... This is what bothers me the most, I think -- the self-appointed "heroes" who think by acting in other's interests they have a right to tell everyone else what to do.If you live in a country governed by the rule of law, you already live in a country where people are expected to conform to "someone else's morals". What bothers me the most, I think, are the amoral sociopaths who say they're actually more "disturbed" by those who want to see the lives of vulnerable people protected than they are by those who don't give a shit about whether or not they kill vulnerable people through their indifference, laziness and selfishness. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Why do people pretend Coronavirus is a big deal? |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 3:11:49 PM #36 | Branded posted... We disagree on the magnitude of it, and on whether our reaction as a society has indeed been proportional to that magnitude (relative to our reaction as a society to other things with much larger magnitude, such as the normal amount of deaths in any year).Where we disagree is that in my country, the minor inconvenience of having to wear a mask in a crowded public place is too high a price to pay compared to the strain thrown on our health system by the knock-on effects of repeated waves of Covid-related demand. And eight months is way too soon to pretend certainty about the longer-term trends. Re-post this topic this time next year, and we'll see. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Why do people pretend Coronavirus is a big deal? |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 2:58:14 PM #32 | Branded posted... It doesn't matter whether they "hit capacity" (which is mostly a made-up term to scare people) if fewer people are dying...."Longer waits to get diagnosed or treated don't increase suffering or risk unless you died in the last five months." I see we're back to the ignorant, uncaring, shortsighted moron again. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Why do people pretend Coronavirus is a big deal? |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 2:50:17 PM #28 | Branded posted... The # of cases has increased 5 fold, and nothing happened. In fact, the rate of death has gone down. (5x increase in cases, but 3x increase in deaths).In England, the number of patients waiting a year or more for treatment was 81 times higher in July this year than in July 2019. The proportion of cancer patients receiving their first treatment within two months dropped to one-third of the previous year's figure, while 4.4 million fewer potentially life-saving scans were carried out between April and September. You would need to be an ignorant, uncaring, shortsighted moron to pretend that Covid has, or will have, no impact on non-coronavirus illnesses and deaths. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Why do people pretend Coronavirus is a big deal? |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 2:38:28 PM #16 | Branded posted... 9/11 was a big deal not because of the # dead, but because of the political ramifications / the fear of future attacks, which would increase the # dead. Coronavirus occurs only once"Future terrorist attacks will kill more people, but more coronavirus cases won't." Pure comedy gold. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Why do people pretend Coronavirus is a big deal? |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 2:34:29 PM #10 | Ignore the fatality rate for a moment. Let's assume that with hospital care, your chances of recovery are good. So what's the hospitalization rate for adults who are infected? Because even if you don't actually die, a constant upward spiral in hospital admissions is going to have the system creaking and groaning and splitting at the seams. Staff will become infected and not be able to work, operations and tests will be cancelled or postponed, beds will run short. Coronavirus is a danger not only to people who catch coronavirus. But hey, who cares about that, because people have always been ill, right? --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Why do people pretend Coronavirus is a big deal? |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 2:27:37 PM #6 | Branded posted... You're a sociopath for not caring about the 2.8 million Americans who die every yearYou don't care about them, either. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | C/D The lowest paying full time job should cover rent, food and essential bills |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 2:24:55 PM #8 | RchHomieQuanChi posted... Yes. What is the point of a full-time job that doesn't cover living expenses? --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Visiting my parents place I feel like there's so many memories in objects. |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 2:22:02 PM #2 | blu posted... I wonder if having everything digital and pretty minimal would cause less memories to be remembered.This is a bit of a tangent, but... Since the last decade, people have been documenting their lives more fully than ever before. It's now possible to have a day-by-day, and almost even hour-by-hour record of your life since birth. In previous generations, memories were bound up in family snapshot albums in which you might find a photo of yourself taken maybe once every couple of years. My late parents took very few photos, and they ones they did take I treasure because they're rare glimpses into my childhood, like an isolated scene frozen in a flash of lightning. Now, there are kids growing up who'll probably have a complete record of their everyday life. I envy them for that. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | I can't believe it. UK is having a new, higher coronavirus tier. |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 2:01:43 PM #8 | Yes, I live in the UK and frankly, I don't give a shit that Christmas "might be spoilt" by tighter regulations at this time. To relax them just because it's Christmas would be as stupid as relaxing the blackout restrictions in London at Christmas 1940. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | New Covid strain found in UK. More transmissible than original. |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 1:54:57 PM #12 | CM_Ponch posted... What's the anti-masker scene look like over thereIt's more to do with laziness and an infantile, stubborn refusal to make even the smallest modifications to everyday behaviour under unusual circumstances than it is to do with politics. But almost everyone where I live has at least finally gotten into the habit of wearing a mask on a bus -- even if some people seem to use them as chin hammocks, as if it's too mentally challenging to figure out how to wear one properly. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | New Covid strain found in UK. More transmissible than original. |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 1:48:59 PM #7 | Edification posted... https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-should-we-be-worried-about-the-new-coronavirus-mutation-12161566What's more concerning is that most Brits will continue to ignore restrictions and behave as if it's just business as usual. And then complain that we're not returning to business as usual fast enough. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Some people take daily *showers*? |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 1:46:28 PM #61 | So, how long do you let crumbs of dried fecal matter cling to your anal hairs? --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Would you ever date a single mom? |
| Firewerx 12/19/20 1:37:03 PM #45 | Have done. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Imagine if the entire world could have top of the line internet. |
| Firewerx 12/18/20 5:41:53 PM #2 | By "the entire world", do you mean the whole of the United States? --- Incinerate |
| Topic | there's an estimated 38 million people ahead of me in the covid-19 vaccine queue |
| Firewerx 12/18/20 5:37:42 PM #9 | Poop2 posted... im impressed they can innoculate 1M per weekI'll be surprised if they manage 10% of that. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | My neighbor brought me over chicken noodle soup, what should I give in return? |
| Firewerx 12/18/20 5:30:57 PM #12 | Buy her a can of chicken noodle soup. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Are you understanding and respectful... when other people have different views? |
| Firewerx 12/18/20 5:29:29 PM #25 | You'd have to value respect pretty cheaply to give it away for free to every opinion out there. --- Incinerate |
| Topic | Why is America contained in North America? |
| Firewerx 12/18/20 5:04:15 PM #28 | Supercuaco666 posted... It's also the only country with "United States" in its name, which has the added benefit of not stealing part of the continent's name.An analogy that I feel would work somewhat better if there was actually another country on the continent with "America" in its official name. I suppose you could argue that "the European Union" is a bit of a cheek, seeing as it comprises only 27 out of Europe's 44 countries... --- Incinerate. |
| Topic | Ian McKellen receives COVID-19 vaccine: "I feel euphoric" |
| Firewerx 12/17/20 4:25:02 PM #2 | That'll be the heroin chaser. --- Watching the shadows burn |
| Topic | Why is America contained in North America? |
| Firewerx 12/17/20 4:05:14 PM #11 | The United States of America is "America" because it's the only country in the Americas with "America" in its name. --- Watching the shadows burn |
| Topic | People don't want vaccines because they are afraid of microchips harvesting data |
| Firewerx 12/13/20 5:39:55 PM #105 | You're either being wilfully obtuse, or you win a pointy white paper cap and you're legitimately one the the dumbest and most ignorant "politically aware" posters we've ever had on Current Events. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it's the former, that you're still in a huff because you mistakenly thought you were one of the people I was referring to but like an emotional prepubescent, you refuse to let go. An assumption I'll charitably make because you'd need to be blind, deaf, mad, stupid and forgetful to not know there's an entire right-wing subculture out there that I've described with complete fucking accuracy. Or am I wrong, and it is the latter? --- Watching the shadows burn |
| Topic | People don't want vaccines because they are afraid of microchips harvesting data |
| Firewerx 12/13/20 5:04:52 PM #103 | JoeThe12th posted... Literally no one has said anything about government tracking itt. Its all concerns over fear that the vaccine has been rushed and not fully tested for long term effects. You anf TC are both arguing against a position no one here has professed to holdOK, this is the last time I'll say this, so read carefully. Slowly. Twice. Use your finger to trace the words, if it helps. I'm not necessarily talking about in this topic. Got it yet? --- Watching the shadows burn |
| Topic | People don't want vaccines because they are afraid of microchips harvesting data |
| Firewerx 12/13/20 4:59:55 PM #100 | JoeThe12th posted... Its an empty strawman and you know it. No one itt has said anything egregiously conservative or alt right adjacent. Youre graspingCongratulations on your first day of using the Internet. --- Watching the shadows burn |
| Topic | People don't want vaccines because they are afraid of microchips harvesting data |
| Firewerx 12/13/20 4:57:37 PM #98 | ArchNemo posted... The weird part to me is, what is the vaccine going to do that the government couldn't currently do anyway if they chose to?Oh, "the chips" will hack your email account, trawl your browser history, log your network of contacts, etc. The only realistic way The Government can keep tabs on that kind of thing is if they inject you with teeny-tiny chips that burrow into your eyes and see what you're looking at on your screen. Or something. --- Watching the shadows burn |
| Topic | People don't want vaccines because they are afraid of microchips harvesting data |
| Firewerx 12/13/20 4:51:32 PM #96 | JoeThe12th posted... I am and have always been a Leftist since i became politically aware. Nice strawmanGosh, I must have been talking about just you. --- Watching the shadows burn |
| Topic | WTF I'm running into a dragon every 10 mins in Skyrim |
| Firewerx 12/13/20 2:49:55 PM #27 | Yellow posted... Only if I can document this beautiful behavior rarely witnessed by humans."We were incredibly lucky to be able to film this beathtaking spectacle: wolves that spin in circles like rotor blades when they become agitated." --- Watching the shadows burn |
| Topic | WTF I'm running into a dragon every 10 mins in Skyrim |
| Firewerx 12/13/20 2:28:18 PM #24 | Yellow posted... Skyrim is a great nature documentary.Does it involve aquatic rabbits or deer that run into rivers and swim underwater, by any chance? --- Watching the shadows burn |
| Topic | C/D:Some people are destined to be alone |
| Firewerx 12/13/20 2:23:00 PM #15 | Please don't use the word "destiny" as a codeword for "disadvantages". It's not the universe that's deciding your fate if it's actually you who's sealing it. --- Watching the shadows burn |
| Topic | Is it "bad" to not get married... and not have children? |
| Firewerx 12/13/20 1:58:31 PM #17 | Solid Snake07 posted... It's far worse to do it when you don't want to --- Watching the shadows burn |
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