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| Topic | Obama signs into law the NDAA allowing indefinite detention of citizens |
Julian_Caesar
12/31/11 6:50:00 PM
#47 |
It amazes me that people argue and complain about this so much. Guess what...we live in a country where every single law is created and voted upon AND executed by members of government without ANY REQUIRED CONSENT from the population itself. The only voice we have in government is to elect those officials as we best see fit. So what do you expect? A popular vote every time a controversial law is passed?
Also, ask yourself if this law is an acceptable price to pay for the benefit of nationalized healthcare. Because like it or not, both are the result of the same process: government expansion. The "loss of personal freedom" is the phrase we use when criticizing expansion; the "gain of government regulation" is what we say when supporting it. Nationalized healthcare is just as much a loss of personal freedom as this law, and this law is just as much a gain of government regulation as is nationalized healthcare. Whether it's right or wrong is up to you, but don't lose sight of the bigger picture.
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| Topic | Project Luster [bro] |
Julian_Caesar
12/29/11 11:55:00 AM
#10 |
Brojo :D
...tag
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Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 9:18:00 PM
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| Topic | Mother attacks children with butcher knife over playing video games |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 6:43:00 PM
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The girl told officers that her mother had been drinking alcohol all night
Well there ya go. She might as well have attacked them over watching movies, or playing board games.
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| Topic | Am I losing my mind or was there lemon Coke once? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 5:33:00 PM
#44 |
From: Black Pot | #042
definitely losing your mind, if anything the difference now isn't whether a post like PMD's is made, it's the oversensitive reaction to it. it's reflective of how this Black Kettle is self entitled and can't tolerate being told they're wrong
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| Topic | Am I losing my mind or was there lemon Coke once? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 4:00:00 PM
#37 |
From: SlymDayspring | #036
not that i am offended by this topic or anything, but if someone is just asking a question and you respond with "google it" you aren't necessarily some anti-social jerkoff. Maybe not, but the response in this case was of the anti-social jerkoff variety.
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| Topic | Top 3 athletes of the 20th century? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 3:58:00 PM
#57 |
:D
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| Topic | Am I losing my mind or was there lemon Coke once? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 3:57:00 PM
#35 |
From: 3DSRage | #032
Some people are so messed up.
Of course this INCEPTION dude knew it would take 2 seconds to look it up, but instead chose to approach it in another manner where perhaps more could come out of it than simply the knowledge of its existence.
It is neither ignorant nor lazy to ask it in such a manner, but it is definitely butthurt to at all weaselly.
gg losers This guy gets it.
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| Topic | Top 3 athletes of the 20th century? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 3:56:00 PM
#55 |
Your mom's facial lacked "subtlety"
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| Topic | Top 3 athletes of the 20th century? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 3:36:00 PM
#53 |
Your mom lacks "subtlety"
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| Topic | Am I losing my mind or was there lemon Coke once? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 3:34:00 PM
#29 |
From: Liquid Wind | #023
the fact that it has become socially preferable to be ignorant and lazy should not be reinforced, people are better than this and should be expected to act as such You mean so ignorant and lazy that they can't be bothered to actually search their memory for a real answer, even if the answer is "I don't remember?" So ignorant and lazy that they berate the question asker for not avoiding all social interaction whatsoever in order to find the correct answer? I hope that's what you meant.
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| Topic | Top 3 athletes of the 20th century? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 3:09:00 PM
#43 |
From: voltch | #038fine how many team sports!
Can't really think of a World Cup/Champions League winning side that relied on just the one megastar.
You'll have to fill me in on your american titles.
The closest you can get is American basketball (NBA). And even then, the only players i can think of who fit that bill were guys like George Mikan who played in the 50's/60's. Not even Michael Jordan could win the NBA title by himself when the rest of the Bulls sucked, even though he tore up some really good teams in the playoffs. Interestingly enough, you could say that this previous year's NBA champs (Mavericks) had just one megastar (Nowitzki), but they didn't win by relying just on him; they played super-smart team defense and had a deep, veteran roster.
Actually, the closest I can think of right now is Peyton Manning for the Colts. They won the NFL title just a few years ago, and this year he had season-ending surgery before the season started and the Colts went 2-14. I know plenty of other things happened in between, but I think the argument could be made that Manning is the most "indispensable" player in American team sports.
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| Topic | Top 3 athletes of the 20th century? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 3:08:00 PM
#42 |
From: XIII_rocks | #040
Can't really think of a World Cup/Champions League winning side that relied on just the one megastar.
Like I said, Maradona 86 would probably be the key example of this. Beyond him it's one of the worst WC-winning sides.
I mean the other players did things, but that team is practically nothing without him Argentina only allowed 5 goals the entire tournament, 2 of them coming in the final match against West Germany. While Maradona is an exceptional player, it's hardly fair to call his team one of the "worst" WC-winning sides when they only allowed 5 goals in 7 matches (3 in 6, prior to the final game). So unless Maradona tracked back on every play to a central defending position, it would be more fair to say that Maradona was the most important contributor to Argentina's offense. 5 goals allowed in the entire WC tournament is probably not the record, but it's a very good defensive showing nonetheless. That being said, I think it's reasonable to put him above Pele on the grounds that Maradona was more important to his team, because that is absolutely true.
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| Topic | Top 3 athletes of the 20th century? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 3:01:00 PM
#41 |
From: voltch | #038
fine how many team sports!
Can't really think of a World Cup/Champions League winning side that relied on just the one megastar.
You'll have to fill me in on your american titles. The closest you can get is American basketball (NBA). And even then, the only players i can think of who fit that bill were guys like George Mikan who played in the 50's/60's. Not even Michael Jordan could win the NBA title by himself when the rest of the Bulls sucked, even though he tore up some really good teams in the playoffs. Interestingly enough, you could say that this previous year's NBA champs (Mavericks) had just one megastar (Nowitzki), but they didn't win by relying just on him; they played super-smart team defense and had a deep, veteran roster. Actually, the closest I can think of right now is Peyton Manning for the Colts. They won the NFL title just a few years ago, and this year he had season-ending surgery before the season started and the Colts went 2-14. I know plenty of other things happened in between, but I think the argument could be made that Manning is the most "indispensable" player in American team sports. That said...no, there aren't any sports anymore where a single megastar
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| Topic | Am I losing my mind or was there lemon Coke once? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 2:53:00 PM
#22 |
From: BlackMageJawa | #016
This is how civilization ends.
Me: Hi Bob, how are you?
Bob: Ugh, just look up my Facebook status you lazy bastard! Yep.
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| Topic | Am I losing my mind or was there lemon Coke once? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 11:49:00 AM
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From: PurpleMonkDish | #003
A 5 second google search of "lemon coke" revealed this in the first link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_with_Lemon
You're on the goddamn internet. It's not difficult. If this thread was a conversation at a party, you'd be "that guy." You know, the one that everyone eventually avoids because he responds to conversation starters with "stop wasting my time and look it up on your goddamn cellphone."
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| Topic | Top 3 athletes of the 20th century? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 11:44:00 AM
#7 |
My opinion is that if you include Ali, you have to include Joe Frazier too. No matter how much the popular media has tried to slant the rivalry in Ali's favor because he was such a selling point, anyone who thinks Ali was a significantly better boxer than Frazier has had the wool pulled over their eyes. There's a reason it's considered the most compelling individual-sports rivalry in American history; if Ali was that much better, it wouldn't have been so compelling.
And honestly, if any boxer is going to be included, it has to be either Rocky Marciano or Manny Pacquiao (which might actually happen if he gets to fight Floyd Mayweather in the next 2 years).
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| Topic | Drew Brees: Hero or Dick? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 11:18:00 AM
#38 |
From: Mershaaay | #032
Who runs up the score for his own glory Last I checked, the only QB in the NFL whose playcalling selection supersedes that of the HC or OC is Peyton Manning. In fact, the Saints coach went on record as basically saying that he specifically tried to get the record this week because he didn't want the team thinking about it next week. All the "dick" people who base it off of "LOL RUNNING UP SCORE" are therefore incorrect. Sorry.
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| Topic | Top 3 athletes of the 20th century? |
Julian_Caesar
12/28/11 11:14:00 AM
#1 |
That topic about best gamer of all time got me thinking about athletes.
Jim Thorpe
Michael Jordan
Pele
As many other great athletes as there are, I can't think of any arguments against any of these three guys. Each one dominated their own era in their own way, with the only exception being that Jordan kinda sucked at baseball...but made up for it by being complete god-mode in basketball.
And yes I know, this doesn't include the last 10 years...but let's face it, we'll need a few years of perspective before trying to consider guys like Peyton Manning, Lionel Messi, etc.
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| Topic | SMW2: Yoshi's Island > Super Mario World |
Julian_Caesar
12/26/11 8:26:00 PM
#32 |
From: EndOfDiscOne | #030
Julian_Caesar posted...
From: greatone10 | #021
Yoshi's Island is the second-best platformer ever, much less best Mario game.
After what?
DKC2 imo. These are the top 2 platformers Ahhhh ok, that's quite reasonable. But now I miss my SNES :(
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| Topic | Man, my (female) friend's ass is so ****ing nice. |
Julian_Caesar
12/26/11 3:38:00 PM
#124 |
From: UltimaterializerX | #121
Maybe I am lucky, I dunno.
Unless you're counting the morbidly obese, which I don't because they're ugly as hell without saying so. Fair enough. And yeah...even some girls who could be very pretty in the face and just mildly overweight, ruin it if they become obese.
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| Topic | SMW2: Yoshi's Island > Super Mario World |
Julian_Caesar
12/26/11 3:36:00 PM
#23 |
From: greatone10 | #021
Yoshi's Island is the second-best platformer ever, much less best Mario game. After what?
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| Topic | What if we're all just a bunch of idiots? |
Julian_Caesar
12/26/11 3:30:00 PM
#27 |
From: Sceptilesolarbeam | #026
I love how you both don't know what irony means (the correct word is hypocrisy), and have to strawman things so hard to draw that conclusion. You're right, hypocrisy is the right word. But I'd love to hear your educated discourse on how, exactly, my analysis had anything to do with a strawman. Fact is, the comic makes a blatant assertion that anyone who takes the movie seriously is a complete moron, unable to think things through for themselves. Now whether or not that is a correct statement is completely irrelevant to the FACT that the method which the author used to present that assertion is no different that the method used by zealots to assert that anyone who fits into modern society is a morally bankrupt hedonist. The point wasn't that people are smart or dumb for thinking that Idiocracy could happen. The point is that the author has the same sweeping, broad, derogatory, smarmy, arrogant vibe that religious zealots have when they look down on people who are "worse" than them. The comic made a point about people being intellectually lazy in the same way that zealots are intellectually lazy; I made a point about the comic being intellectually arrogant in the same way that zealots are intellectually arrogant. So yes...enlighten me on how any of that involves a strawman.
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| Topic | What if we're all just a bunch of idiots? |
Julian_Caesar
12/26/11 10:29:00 AM
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From: Gr8CyberMonkey | #014
http://xkcd.com/603/ I love that the author of the comic goes to great lengths to compare the "idiot movie watcher" to religious zealots, then displays the exact same condescending behavior towards any reader who disagrees. Irony indeed.
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| Topic | What if we're all just a bunch of idiots? |
Julian_Caesar
12/26/11 10:25:00 AM
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From: SlymDayspring | #020
uh wasn't that just the chance to take the SAT or something? Because I did that as well. I don't think you "were able to go to Duke" as in you were admitted or anything. This. Exaggeration confirmed.
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| Topic | SMW2: Yoshi's Island > Super Mario World |
Julian_Caesar
12/26/11 10:23:00 AM
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From: SHINE GET 64 | #008
McMoogle posted...
This is common knowledge I thought
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| Topic | What if we're all just a bunch of idiots? |
Julian_Caesar
12/25/11 8:54:00 PM
#7 |
From: SupremeZero | #004
Even the stupidest modern man isn't as stupid as the general public in Idiocracy. You haven't met enough stupid people, I gather. But I live in Alabama and work at a hospital....so yeah.
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| Topic | Man, my (female) friend's ass is so ****ing nice. |
Julian_Caesar
12/25/11 8:43:00 PM
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And I mean no offense since the girl is your friend and all, but she's ugly as sin.
Um, really? I'm sorry, but this is just proof that you haven't met very many TRULY ugly women. Which might be a good thing for you, I suppose. But regardless, the girl in this topic might be "internet ugly" but she is not even close to "real world ugly.
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| Topic | To those of you who consider soccer a real sport...... |
Julian_Caesar
12/10/11 5:58:00 PM
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Is the 3-point contest a real sport? The dunk contest? The home run derby? The Dr Pepper SEC halftime challenge where the students throw a football through a hole in a cardboard box?
There's your answer.
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| Topic | Reminder: GB's Chrono Trigger Endurance Run begins today |
Julian_Caesar
12/10/11 1:33:00 PM
#168 |
People complain too much. They're not doing a skill run, they're doing an endurance run...the entertainment is in the journey and the mistakes made along the way, not in doing everything perfectly the first time.
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| Topic | Reminder: GB's Chrono Trigger Endurance Run begins today |
Julian_Caesar
12/05/11 8:21:00 PM
#126 |
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
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| Topic | Reminder: GB's Chrono Trigger Endurance Run begins today |
Julian_Caesar
11/30/11 6:16:00 PM
#75 |
From: WazzupGenius00 | #073
"Magus" is an actual word in the English language, pronounced "May-gus." Singular form of the better-know "magi" if I'm not mistaken.
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| Topic | Reminder: GB's Chrono Trigger Endurance Run begins today |
Julian_Caesar
11/30/11 6:15:00 PM
#74 |
From: Some_Character | #069
He even learned Slurp Cut not so long ago so you'd think they would at least check that. You mean Blurp Cut, right?
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| Topic | World of Warcraft on its last legs. |
Julian_Caesar
10/22/11 12:53:00 PM
#125 |
__Smurf__ posted...
The Blizzard community seems to be at a pretty confused juncture right now. Half of them insist Cataclysm was terribad and the series was being driven into the ground by it, and see Pandaria as the series savior. Half of them seem to have enjoyed that and now see Pandaria as the final nail in its coffin.
Such a strange fanbase that seems eternally unhappy with everything.
This could literally be said about every American presidential election since the 80's. It's not that WoW's fanbase is odd compared to most people, it's that WoW has become so big and polarizing that the people playing it are MORE like most people than the average video game fanbase.
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