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Denise Crosby.

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Sometimes, opening fire on kids with an assault rifle from an upstairs window is the only language they understand.

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Your real name is Just Too Incognito.

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My thoughts? I think they probably don't feel a need to have a social media presence. It's not actually compulsory, y'know.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

I wasn't aware that mocking American sports fans as a general concept was a thing.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are more Americans who mock American sports fans than there are Brits who mock American sports fans, to be honest.

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That's unfortunate, because I've got no compunction whatsoever about mocking both British and American sports fans.

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I seem to go on coffee binges. I suspect I'm drinking way more than is healthy for me.

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The darkness. It's a silent world of eternal night down there.

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It's just not popular with animals.

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Well, if ever I'm mugged by a pair of pantaloons, my chances of accurately describing them to the police sketch artist would seem to be pretty slim.

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Kaiganeer posted...

england? oh, you mean the guys that pointed a laser pointer at the danish goalie during a free kick

Tell me, do you have this vision in your head of 60,000 people in a stadium trying to work one laser pen?

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unnamedsoldier posted...

The German-Soviet war was just mind blowing honestly.

If I remember rightly, something like 80% of the Wehrmacht's total human and material resources was sucked into the black hole of the Eastern Front. Yet it still took the western Allies nearly a year to push the other 20% back across Europe into the heart of Germany. Is an Allied victory even remotely imaginable without the USSR doing almost all of the heavy work for four long years?

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Please don't judge all Brits by Morrissey's outpourings of dogshit. He's a local eccentric who manages to sound like a national embarrassment only because some nostalgic idiots still give the cranky old has-been much more media space than he deserves (which is to say, any).

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

According to legally binding court order, they're cakes.

Isn't the rough rule of thumb that if they go hard when they're stale, they're cakes; and if they go soft when they're stale, they're biscuits (er, cookies)?

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Just how many fake identities and backstories did Jake come up with?

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metallica846 posted...

Thats my fault. Im very admittedly not as informed on WW1.

I think it'd be fair to say that a lot of people who are thoroughly well-read on the military history of WW1 aren't terribly familiar with aspects of the war such as the fate of civilians and POWs, because there's been far less attention paid to what happened behind the battlefields.

What struck me when I began reading more about the wider aspects of the conflict was the sinister way that it prefigured some of the things that would happen a quarter of a century later in WW2. For example, the way that anti-semitism in German life reared its ugly head during WW1 in the German Army's "Jewish census" (Judenzhlung) of October 1916, and in plans for a "border strip" with Polish lands from which ethnic Poles and Jews would be forcibly deported to make way for colonization by German settlers; or in Russian pogroms in Galicia.

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metallica846 posted...

Are you thinking of WW2 while he said WW1?

No, I'm very specifically drawing what upon historians know of Germany's role in the First World War. You could be forgiven for thinking that I was listing Axis transgressions in WW2 but in fact, they were all crimes of the Kaiserreich during WW1. Youre unlikely to learn about them from reading popular histories of the war, most of which prefer to compartmentalize the conflict into its purely military dimensions: trench life, battles and hardware -- in which suffering and brutality behind the lines are routinely relegated to a mention of hunger in German (but rarely non-German) cities.

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WW1 left a deep, wide footprint on the last hundred years of global history.

Among many other things, it represents the first real global projection of American hard power. In the space of just nineteen months, the United States Army exploded in size from a tiny 127,000-man gendarmerie to a colossus of more than 4,057,000 men, of whom 2,086,000 were shipped thousands of miles across the Atlantic. More American soldiers died in combat in France in 1918 than in the whole of the Pacific campaign in 1941-45.

It had an asteroid-sized impact on big ideas in Western thought -- about things such as what the role and limits of state power ought to be in a capitalist liberal democracy, about the principles of international law, justice and sovereignty, and about the ethics of starting wars and of how we fight them.

In some democracies, this wartime rethink about the role and limits of state power came to permanently alter the relationship between the state and the individual: shifting its boundaries and rewriting its rules, tilting the balance in favour of the state. Now-familiar mechanisms of government control, compulsion and co-option were first normalized during WW1, and their impact has imprinted every generation since.

The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the inrush of Western imperialist powers into the resulting vacuum shaped what we know as the modern Middle East. Generations of Arab-Israeli conflict have their seeds in the British capture of Jerusalem in 1917. And other echoes of WW1 have an eerie resonance in todays world, too: long before the current global generation of militant Islamists took up the Al-Qaeda or IS franchise, German intelligence and propaganda operatives tried to build underground networks of jihadist revolutionaries who would strike Allied targets in Africa and Asia in the name of Islam.


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yutterh posted...

WW1 I honestly was rooting for germany.

Who wouldn't root for massacres and summary executions of civilians, murder and mistreatment of POWs, strategic terror-bombing of cities, police-state repression in occupied territories, ruthless asset-stripping, destruction of cultural treasures, spiteful scorched-earth policies, deportation and forcible relocation of populations, the overworking and starvation of civilians and POWs as slave labourers, the fomenting of jihadist terrorism, and partnering with a genocidal regime?

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NoxObscuras posted...

Plenty of nosy "my way is the best way" people out there that offer unsolicited advice.

And plenty of them reject it because they're convinced they don't need it. So it balances out.

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"What do you know about raising kids?"

Having been a kid, I can tell you a few ways you shouldn't raise them.

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Adrian Pimento.

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armandro posted...

damn was saint augustine drunk on the holy spirit?

Possibly the methylated spirit.

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armandro posted...

I am most certain that I am and that I know and delight in this. In respect of these truths, I am not at all afraid of the arguments of the Academicians [i.e., skeptic philosophers], who say, What if you are deceived? For if I am deceived, I am. For he who is not, cannot be deceived; and if I am deceived, by this same token, I am. And since I am if I am deceived, how am I deceived in believing that I am? for it is certain that I am if I am deceived. Since, therefore, I, the person deceived, should be, even if I were deceived, certainly I am not deceived in this knowledge that I am.

I think we've all had arguments just like this when we're drunk.

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VitalGetPrank posted...

Guarantee that every teacher thinks at least one of their students is an idiot on a daily basis.

Statistically, they're probably right.

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Or 100 months.

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It's most likely impossible to create any show without at least one loudmouth dimwit on Twitter pounding the metaphorical table about why it deserves to be banned and for anyone connected with it to be guillotined in a public square. But you can't plonk a martyr's crown on your head just because someone, somewhere, complained or might complain about your show.

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Isn't there a logical fallacy called false equivalence?

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^ Thank you Emmanuel Goldstein!

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Unstartiness.

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So the consensus is: any form of extremism is bad, but one particular brand of extremism is worse than another. Still not invalidating the topic title.

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Jen0125 posted...

And you should accept that no one cares when they didn't ask you

Look, you can rest easy: you've won the contest to see who cares the least. I sense it's pretty important to you. You've been a sheer delight to try to engage with, but I accept it's never going to develop into an actual conversation.

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I really think you need a second opinion. It sounds like there's so much uncertainty surrounding this diagnosis. They think your brain turned into wood? Come on, there's surely got to be proper tests they can do. Like, bore for a core sample or something.

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Jen0125 posted...

But I don't know or care about you

I think you just have to accept that on GameFAQs, sooner or later, a complete stranger you don't know or care about is gonna respond to a post you made even if it wasn't directed to them personally. It's one of the downsides of frequenting a message board.

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weekoldhotdog posted...

You want to reach down to adjust but everyone will stare at you if you do

It just makes the situation a whole lot worse if you're an elementary school teacher.

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In a way. I've still got their ashes.

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Better add creosote to your weekly shop.

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Zareth posted...

Is it fluffy hair, or the hair that actual spiders have? Because that shit is irritating.

Spider hairstyles: annoying.

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Jen0125 posted...

If my comment didn't apply to you why did you write an entire missive

To explain why your comment didn't apply to me.

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Trying to drive when you've got mirror agnosia is a major red flag for insurance companies.

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Tom Clark posted...

They're hiding it behind "personal responsibility"

Which is unfortunate, because as far as I can remember most of our sense of personal responsibility, goodwill, and commonsense was privatized and sold off piece by piece in the 1980s.

More seriously: I genuinely believe that Johnson inhabits a surreal, inverted parallel universe version of Britain inside his own head and he doesn't have a fucking clue what the Brits whom he hasn't been to Eton with are actually like.

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Jen0125 posted...

ITT: Men that think it's still hard for overweight women to get sex and acting like it's still a "favor" they should be appreciative of.

I don't prefer fat girls because they're supposed to be useful as cheap, compliant, disposable sex toys: good for practice or convenient as substitutes, if guys "don't mind lowering their standards", or some such dogshit. I'm not interested in doormats. I want self-confident, sassy, savvy, sexually assertive fat girls.

No, the reason why I prefer fat girls is because I genuinely find them sexy and fun. They turn me on, its really just that simple. The attraction feels so instinctive and natural its like my limbic system is hardwired to find them sexy. I hear men are "supposed" to prefer wiry, gym-sculpted female bodies because of "evolution", but I dont see it that way.

Could be that back in the good old Paleolithic days, besides making chicks cuddlier for a snuggle under the skins at the back of the cave, those extra layers of body fat were welcomed as useful reserves that would help a baby-bearer through a harsh winter or a lean hunting/gathering season. Itd give her a competitive edge over a thinner female, thus making her a more desirable mate for Ugg, son of Ugg. And wouldnt Ugg have found a chick with a wide, child-bearing pelvis raunchier than a skinny-hipped girl who looked like shed have trouble squeezing out anything bigger than an orange? Dont believe those lying Flintstones cartoons!

Or let me try to explain it another way. Any red-blooded male who goes mad for boobs will tell you that bigger is most definitely better -- right? I couldnt agree more. But the way I see it is, why deny yourself pleasures of the flesh by rationing yourself to big boobs only when you can also feast your senses on big butts, big thighs, big bellies?

tl;dr version: I try to steer of lending credence to urban myths that treat fat girls as "easy meat". That's not why I love them.

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Hold on... I've just realised: this topic is labelled "Politics"!

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Trump got 70 million votes near all from Christians

I think there's a case to be made for enclosing Christians in quote marks.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Flies eat by vomiting up digestive juices (including particles from whatever recent pile of excrement they've been eating) and sucking back up the slurry.

No, that's just Jeff Goldblum.

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Marionettes have a kind of quaint 'n' quirky charm that CGI characters never have.

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I wouldn't eat the bit that the fly had settled on, that's for sure. I've had food poisoning before and I'm paranoid about any risk of a repeat performance.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

Surely if there is an advanced society 5000 years from now they'd have perfected the universal translator. Or, more likely, brain implants that allow telepathic communication.

A technological advance that was brutally derailed after violent armed protests that spread like wildfire, on account of "brain implants" being seen as a government conspiracy to control our thoughts.

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ArianaGrandSlam posted...

language has never been THIS unified though and people have never been THIS literate

Surely the very fact that the world is now so interconnected means that linguistic changes can occur far more quickly and far more widely than they ever could in a much more insular era when people would rarely hear a different accent to their own, never mind a different language?

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