Lurker > Firewerx

I suppose if also depends on whether your hobby serves some kind of social function -- if it's something you do in the company of like-minded people. You might care more about the companionship of fishing than the actual catching of fish, for example.

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I'd describe her as fat, and I'm not one of those idiots who insists that anything more than eight pounds above organ failure counts as morbidly obese.

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In Freudian terms, the Internet is the collective id of humankind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego#Id

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Never met a developer who believed that any solution could be described as "final".

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Don't live in a city. The most interesting feature about our town is that for about two months, there were no fewer than three street lamps with faulty bulbs outside the leisure centre. But then the bulbs got replaced, and we kind of lost a major talking point.

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I work for a medium-to-large company and something approaching 70% of our personnel are female. I'm used to being accountable to female line managers and senior staff. But I guess I can see why men who are used to a workplace with a different makeup and culture would not always find that easy to adjust to.

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This is like Sophie's Choice...

Local H - The Misanthrope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy6JNk17-wA

Interpol - Evil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkpgz3uQ58U


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A richly sourced article indeed.

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All I know is that on my dad's side of the family, my ancestors were Welsh and before that, Norse-Gaelic; and on my mum's side, they were Irish.

Every single human being alive today, and every single human being who has ever lived, had ancestors who walked out of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa roughly 125,000 years ago. Which means I'm very tenuously related to everyone reading this topic.

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It's the shortened form of Optimus Prime Minister.

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argonautweakend posted...

Yeah, no. I went in the toilet, I just got myself prepared a little too soon.

Yeah I am not really worried, but It does have me thinkin like "uhhh, Tim?"

Best to get a tight grip on that kind of absent-mindedness right now. Next thing you know, you go home, you get out the car, and you start unzipping before you've reached the front door.

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Did have, many years ago. It was an amateur site, homemade porn, but I really liked what she was doing and I hadn't found anything else half as good.

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First time I skimmed the OP, I formed the impression that you couldn't be bothered to go to the toilet and just pissed all over the floor. I like to think I was wrong.

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You have to concede the point if you've got a strong feeling that you're right but you can't be sure because you simply don't know enough to prove it. Most people are reluctant to do that, though.

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HornedLion posted...

Whats something I can breed for money?

Black horned rhino, if you're got a big enough garage.

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Have I? Yes. Would I again? No.

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SMAP- posted...

Until moments later when the guy taking the picture is smashed by the oncoming truck behind him, because they don't realise until too late they're not actually on a pedestrian footbridge at all.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Oh come on.

Even the inexperienced man has opinions and misgivings.

If I offered you Scorpions or Reindeer to eat, would you claim you're not qualified to have a preference until you try both?

I'd prefer to visit France; but that's mainly because one day I'd like to go there with my wife to do some more research on her relatives who died there during the First World War, and not really because it's a value judgement about the country.

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Without experience, I'm not qualified to judge.

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Is it feasible that they didn't personally witness the behaviour that Whedon's been accused of, and didn't hear anything about it at the time, so they'd prefer not to comment because they can't be sure of who's telling the truth?

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Because they were so small.

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I immediately lose interest in her because to judge from her text she has a mental age of five.

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I'm impressed that anyone has the facility and the time to take a shower during a toilet break at work. Unless, of course, you don't work.

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LinkPizza posted...

Yeah. Stereotyping is a problem. They just need to write them like every other character. Theyre normally people who just like characters who are the same sex. They have some other problems like sometimes keeping their secret if theyre still in the closet or whatever. But they are still normal people. Like hanging out with friends, and normal people hobbies. People act like they are a totally different species sometimes...

What do you think of Holt in Brooklyn Nine-Nine?

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Veedrock- posted...

1) It's easy to write a stereotypical gay and you can get away with it.
2) If you write a shitty gay character it's immune to criticism because representation.

Win freakin' win baby.

I've read a few gay reviewers criticize scripts over badly written gay characters and roll their eyes over stereotyping.

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thedeerzord posted...

but dont put gays in a show where the time period is where gays were not open.

Example?

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I actually got death threats from "friends". Because she was black and I was white.

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Mead posted...

Nothing is a foregone conclusion in politics.

You mean, not everything is a foregone conclusion in politics. But I've got a feeling this isn't going to be one of those times when everyone says, "I didn't see that coming..."

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Jen0125 posted...

It's very sad.

This is politics. In this game, you don't let facts get in the way of your opinions.

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The arguments are a formality. No one's about to change their mind about anything.

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Joshs Name posted...

hopin he'll come and clarify a few things, lots of people confused. maybe retell some of those parables

Particularly that recipe for cod in breadcrumbs that serves 5,000.

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Well... Thank you for this.

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Me too. Though why I want to make Valentine's Day breakfast for your wife is beyond me.

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And then she lunges at your face with a lock knife to try to prise them from their sockets so she can keep them in a little Tiffany box on her night stand.

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Chicken posted...

This pandemic proves that no, we couldnt. A large population would take to social media and complain that they shouldnt be forced to fight, or say the aliens arent real and that its all a conspiracy.

and then some would fetishize the aliens and would make rallies where they stand out in big groups in the middle of nowhere with the hopes of being abducted by UFOs.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Im not really the leadership type. Im also too lazy to be a follower most of the time too.

The one positive about being apathetic is that being a zealot or a fhrer seems too much like hard work.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

You are doing a good job trying to polish a piece of **** right now, I'll give you that

I've been trying to polish the shitbucket that you've turned your own topic into. That's my charitable deed for the day, and it's more than you deserved. But this is the point where I stop engaging with you as if you were to be taken seriously.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

Yall are over here trying to argue that the lame-ass dying ottoman empire offering itself as an extra punching bag was an actual ally lol.

You said the Ottoman Empire was a "liability". I've explained why it was actually an asset, and how the Germans got a decent return on a relatively cheap investment in their Ottoman ally.

Your counter-argument rests on two ideas: (1) "But they didn't fight on the Western Front, so whatever they did doesn't count!" (presumably then, the German armies that fought on the Eastern Front were equally a waste of German resources?) and (2) "lol".

Stop twisting the word "liability" around to try to make it mean something different to what it actually means. And if that's not what you're doing, then it's evident that your grasp of English is as weak as your understanding of strategy. You might be bang on target by pointing out that Germany's performance for most of the war was nothing short of astonishing, but that makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to the fact that you made an outright blunder by describing the Ottomans a "liability" simply because they didn't fight on the Western Front.

This started out half-promisingly as an interesting topic; but sadly it's degenerated into nonsense gibberish because you're pathologically incapable of conceding that you chose your words poorly on account of having a limited reading of the war.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

What did the Ottomans even serve to gain by allying with Germany?

Briefly: Ottoman hawks saw an alliance with Germany as a vital counterbalance against the threat of the Russian Empire.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

Where was the Ottoman aid in the Western front?

Yeah, sure. Aiding the German Spring Offensive by tying up fifteen Allied divisions elsewhere at a critical juncture in the entire Western front campaign, in exchange for German combat support that amounted to fewer than a measly seven battalions in the entire Ottoman Empire, made the Ottomans a "liability" for Germany. "If they weren't fighting on the Western Front, it meant they were a net drain on German resources and contributed nothing!" Masterly strategic thinking there.

The way I see it, you've got three alternatives: (a) read a dictionary, (b) read about something in connection with the war other than Germany, or (c) simply admit that you chose your words badly.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

Austria Hungary and the Ottomans were liabilities not assets

That's far more true of the Austrians than of the Ottomans. Germany was never forced to divert substantial resources to shore up a crumbling but vital front in the case of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman collapse in 1918 didn't take place until the final seven weeks of the war: the Hindenburg Line had already cracked two days before Damascus fell to the Allies on October 1, and by the time Germany addressed her proposals for an armistice to the United States on October 4, the advancing Allies who were fighting on the Ottoman fronts were no closer to the "soft underbelly" of the Central Powers than Western Thrace.

Germany enjoyed a fairly decent return on her relatively cheap investment in propping up the Ottoman war effort. The total German ground combat strength on the Ottoman fronts amounted to only around seven battalions, and the bulk of this commitment was not made until June 1918 (when it was made to the Palestine front). Yet during the critical months of March to July 1918, the Ottoman fronts were tying up the equivalent of fifteen Allied divisions: seven infantry and four mounted divisions in Palestine and five infantry divisions in Mesopotamia.

The combat support wasn't all one way, either. The Ottoman army contributed two divisions to the Central Powers' defence of the Galician front for over a year, from June 1916 to August 1917; in his memoirs, Falkenhayn stated that the Turks were an "uncommonly valuable asset to the Southern Army". They also contributed three divisions to Mackensen's Danube Army during the conquest of Romania between September 1916 and February 1917.

Of course, combat manpower wasn't the most significant way in which Germany propped up the Ottoman war effort. The German treasury subsidized it to the tune of a little over five billion marks in financial assistance. Germany spent roughly 136 billion marks on fighting the war between 1914-18, which meant that less than 4% of her war expenditure went on financial assistance to the Ottoman Empire.

So no, the Ottoman Empire wasn't a "liability".

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nothanks1 posted...

what empire

By the end of the 1880s, Germany had the largest colonial empire after Britain and France -- although admittedly, it was largely made up of leftovers. Parts of present-day Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Namibia, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, New Guinea, and sundry other West Pacific and Micronesian islands were colonized under the Second Reich.

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PoundGarden posted...

He'll ask nicely, and if refused, he'll just take them. Sounds like you're not very familiar with Mr Kahn's work

Or the Great Khan seriously overestimates the effectiveness of horsemanship when ranged against AFVs.

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ROBANN_88 posted...

Rome for example didn't fall and we'd have a 2000+ year old Empire in Europe?

I don't know. Just imagine how long serial numbers would be if they were expressed in Roman numerals.

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No ancient civilization ever stood a chance of surviving into today's world without progressing, adapting and changing itself largely beyond all recognition; so surely whatever defining characteristics it had, that made the Aztecs the Aztecs for example, will be no longer there for you to point and say, "See that? That's the Aztecs for you!"?

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What a bitch. Imagine her, daring to have a boyfriend before a week ago! Did she have no consideration whatsoever for the feelings of some guy she hadn't even met?!

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