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Started by Cain, September 13, 2009, 03:10:36 PM

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BadBeast

If you come from Somerset, there is no audible distinction between the words "Lawyer" and "Liar". And they have a reputation for being a bit rustic and simple.   :lulz:
(No doubt started as a pre-emptive disclaimer from some old liar)
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

Freeky

Quote from: Luna on August 21, 2011, 01:41:50 AM
Interviewer:  "Governor, why does Texas continue with abstinence education programs when they don't seem to be working?  In fact, I think we have the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the country."

Governor Perry:  "Abstinence works."

Interviewer:  "...  But...  We have the third highest teen pregnancy rate among all the states in the country.  The question's point is, it doesn't seem to be working."

Perry:  "It...  It...  It WORKS..."

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39050_Video-_Rick_Perrys_Abstinence_Problem

To be honest, I thought you were hyperbolising Perry's floundering, but no.  I was so totally wrong.  :lulz:

Luna

Quote from: Jenkem and SPACE/TIME on August 23, 2011, 01:33:53 AM
Quote from: Luna on August 21, 2011, 01:41:50 AM
Interviewer:  "Governor, why does Texas continue with abstinence education programs when they don't seem to be working?  In fact, I think we have the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the country."

Governor Perry:  "Abstinence works."

Interviewer:  "...  But...  We have the third highest teen pregnancy rate among all the states in the country.  The question's point is, it doesn't seem to be working."

Perry:  "It...  It...  It WORKS..."

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39050_Video-_Rick_Perrys_Abstinence_Problem

To be honest, I thought you were hyperbolising Perry's floundering, but no.  I was so totally wrong.  :lulz:

Sadly, no...  If anything, my transcript downplays it.  You don't get the wide-eyed "but... but I'm RIGHT" expression.
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

BadBeast

In a twisted kind of way, he's right. Abstinence *does* work. No-one who abstained from sex, ever did get pregnant. Not ever. (Unless you count IVF, and that doesn't have the appeal to today's youth that good old "fucking like a dog with two dicks" does)
Unfortunately, trying to get kids to abstain from what is, after all, more fun than a box of puppies, is pretty much impossible. Not to mention impracticle, unworkable, and unethical. It might be lulzy to watch people try, but it's a bit of a tired old joke, isn't it? Everyone knows the punchline, it wears nappies, and screams a lot. And it's not even very funny. 

  Sometimes, you just have to accept powerlessness, and stop making everything worse than it has to be. This is our kids we're talking about, not some tribe of aliens who need to learn how to exist on Earth without rocking the leaky old boat we're all sat in. Fuck this mad old cunt, it's about time *he* learned to shut his sorry face flaps, and sit the fuck down somewhere. For the rest of his life. 
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"Hey kids, this thing you're biologically programmed to be driven to do... just don't do it. See? It's that simple!"
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


P3nT4gR4m

Abstinence: 100% effective, 200% improbable

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Cramulus


PopeTom

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on August 23, 2011, 05:53:22 PM
Abstinence: 100% effective, 200% improbable

If God didn't want us to have sex then why did he make us all a bunch of dirty whores?
-PopeTom

I am the result of 13.75 ± 0.13 billion years of random chance. Now that I exist I see no reason to start planning and organizing everything in my life.

Random dumb luck got me here, random dumb luck will get me to where I'm going.

Hail Eris!

Chairman Risus

Quote from: PopeTom on August 23, 2011, 06:02:58 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on August 23, 2011, 05:53:22 PM
Abstinence: 100% effective, 200% improbable

If God didn't want us to have sex then why did he make us all a bunch of dirty whores?
:spit:

Cain

Quote from: IOZCole is a fine example of a liberal, and when I say a liberal, I mean a conservative. Insofar as there is a liberalism in America today, it represents conservatism far more than the brunch-buffet nativism of the ostensible right in this country. It is fidelity to the fixed institutions and authority of the past; its philosophy of progress is a strict diet of revanchism; its lodestar is traditional authority.

Cramulus

 :lulz: I read that this morning. Did you see his rant about Zizek? hilarious

Cain

Yeah, just read it.  I'm more or less in agreement with it, but I've always said Zizek is a very philosophically fluent troll, and that detracts nothing from such a thesis.

Jenne

Quote from: Nigel on August 22, 2011, 06:52:03 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on August 22, 2011, 06:26:37 PM
Neil Degrasse Tyson: The Smartest Man in the Room

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSJFbOfA4SE&feature=youtu.be

a quick quote from him about what's wrong with politicians: they're all lawyers!

Wow, it's so obvious, and he's SO FUCKING RIGHT.

I alluded to this in another thread awhile back--but yes, he's totally right.

Cramulus

Quote from: Cain on August 23, 2011, 08:05:34 PM
Yeah, just read it.  I'm more or less in agreement with it, but I've always said Zizek is a very philosophically fluent troll, and that detracts nothing from such a thesis.

yeah I am amused by Zizek... I have really enjoyed watching his videos, mainly because I find him challenging & thought provoking. Can't agree with a lot of his conclusions ("Love is inherently selfish"? Everybody in the world should be able to vote in American elections?), but I love the path he takes to get there.

here's some unrelated Ioz from this morning

http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2011/08/hegelling-at-market.html
Charles Davis (here's some more traffic, buddy) notes that Radley Balko, who, I agree, is a highly commendable and admirable writer on civil liberties, is also basically nuts when it comes to understanding how taxes work, who pays them, and what they pay for.  But this is only symptomatic of the bigger problem with libertarianism, which ever seeks to return to the foundational principles that led inexorably to the militarized system of state capiral in which we now find ourselves.  Libertarianism looks at the mess we're in and says we need to seek its better beginnings in a constitutionally limited government and constrained social compact and so on, which is sort of like hopping in the time machine in order to relight the fuse on the stick of dynamite that keeps blowing you up.  The problem with the American experiment, as we self-flatteringly call it, is not that it failed to fulfill its promise but rather that it promised us this gaudy empire all along.  The founders, not for nothing, had their eyes on Rome.



and this image is titled

Why I am not Christian Libertarian


Cain

The bit about the US and voting is a jab at it being "the leader of the free world".  If it's gonna claim leadership of the world, it should, uh, actually have a mandate for that.  Other than lots of bombs, which the Russians and Chinese also have.

Since it doesn't, it is vacuous ideological posturing.

Some of his actual philosophizing is quite interesting, once you get past the Hegelian and Lacanian jargon.  And his last book, on the financial crisis, toned down those and made some fairly decent points.  But at the same time, I often feel he is trying to say counterintuitive things merely to shock his left-leaning progressive/socialist readers.

Somewhat like IOZ, in fact.  :lol: