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When eating sushi, there's nothing wrong with using western cutlery, cutting a big piece in half, or drowning the occasional piece in soy sauce.
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

WhinyZach posted...

need to know what ideas are deemed liberal, as the term differs from person to person, and country to country.

This. Besides every ideology has its pros and cons. It wouldn't make sense to say literally the entire ideology is perfect or sucks.
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Paragon Control is objectively the best Mass Effect 3 ending, both morally and rationally.

Being politally centric is ok. In fact, in other stable countries than the US being the centric party that caters to both left and right is a reliable strategy to get the most votes.

Vegy is not that weird or creepy.

Travelling by car for a less-than-5-mile distance is lazy. Get a bicycle.
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Alright, alright, guess you have a point. It's deleted.
It's just that I never get to talk about this stuff since the series has been pretty much forgotten about by the general crowd.
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DoctorVader posted...

Teal'c totally got fucked by the ending. His sacrifice brought tears to my eyes. That last episode is pretty depressing and is the one thing I remember when I watch TLJ, because of the whole "can't escape even after jumping into hyperspace" thing.

I wouldn't exactly say he 'got totally fucked'. In his own reasoning, he was the logical choice, as he had many more years to live. At worst, he is middle-aged by the end.
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When people say: "we should hold off exploring space until we fix the major problems here on Earth", it always comes off to me as "I'll hold off that visit to the doctor when I don't have so much work to do."

Human numbers are exponentially increasing, resources are dwindling and the environment isn't getting any better either. And that's just some of the pressing matters here on Earth. There are tons of other risks, both natural and human-caused that could have disasterous effects on humanity.

Expanding outward, searching for new resources andsetting up new colonies is the sensible thing to do, as this:
- expands the amount of resources and spurs scientific, technological and business developments (hopefully philosophical ones too).
- creates a back-up of human existence if something disasterous were to happen to humans on Earth.
- Let's be honest; exploring discovering new things out there is interesting and exciting in itself. It's a new big unknown.
I believe one of of the reasons humanity is so divided these days is due to a lack of a bigger goal to unify people, pointing them at a common goal. Colonization of Mars and space exploration in general can be such a goal (that doesn't involve world war).

So yeah, I'm pretty excited about space exploration
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Completion posted...

Aressar posted...

More people need to realize they don't HAVE to have a child, let alone multiple children. You can live a perfectly good life without them.

Everyone realizes that

But people do it because they want to, obviously. Why should everyone share your nerdy and uptight way of thinking

Because apparently they don't. Throughout the years I've seen quite a few parents who don't come off as happy at all since they became parents. Some are even neglecting their kids because they didn't realise there is so much more effort involved than just playing with their kid sometimes and teaching it little things.
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

I act weird around women when I am attracted to them, feels or physical. If not, I can flirt with them just fine, even though I don't need to
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

More people need to realize they don't HAVE to have a child, let alone multiple children. You can live a perfectly good life without them.
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inb4JEEZVEGYWHYUSOWEIRD

But yes, I approve.
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I call mine Sergeant Cortez.
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Kitt posted...

Legitimately one of the best action scenes I've seen in a movie in a while.

It was pretty badass. I half-expected her to take out all but one, with the last one fatally injuring her, making for a tragic end of the intro part, but I'm glad it didn't go that way.
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

I swing both ways. Although I don't go announcing it all over, I don't consider it a secret and do bring it up when the subject comes up. Since I 'came out', about 90% of people who found out were cool with it, even if some of my friends didn't see it coming at all.

renasunflash posted...

I think theres a popular misconception that bisexual means liking men and women 50/50, so thats where some of the confusion comes from when someone comes out but appears to have only had opposite-sex partners prior.

This, pretty much. I consider bisexuality to be somewhere between the 25/75 and 75/25 area. I find myself attracted to women more often than men, but am attracted to members of both sexes nonetheless.
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slmcknett posted...

darkmaian23 posted...

Atlantis is fun, but it isn't nearly as good as the original series. They let themselves down in terms of delivering on the premise. It also has fewer good episodes overall.

I'd agree that it's not as good as SG-1 overall, but it was still enjoyable. They didn't deserve to get a rushed/cancelled ending like they did, though.

Atlantis was ok overall. It gets bonus points for introducing us to Jason Momoa's beastly badassery. And McKay was pretty amusing.

Whatever the third show was, was actual trash tho imo. Universe, was it?

Universe started off pretty shitty, with everyone having meltdowns against each other like it's a soap opera in space (kinda like the Battlestar Galactica series, but even worse).
Still, I forced my way through it, because I enjoyed Robert Carlyle's character (Dr Rush, the lead scientist).
The second season was better and less cringe-worthy, but not enough to save the series.
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I thought Black Manta was pretty badass. Also, Jason Momoa being Jason Momoa always helps, of course
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

"Trump (or whichever populist) will make things better."
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SSJCAT posted...

im not gonna fap today

Oh gods this so much.

"Out of the hundreds of religions in the world, the one I'm involved in is obviously one TRUE religion."
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

All that psycho babble does not apply to me.
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

Oh gods, can't resist, must mock this type of peop--

YEEEEE-HAW, you betcha Billy-Bob!

*has an enormous collection never to be used outside of target range, because "GOTTA PROTECT MUH FAMUHLEY"*
*meanwhile keeps front/back door unlocked*
*can't shut up about Second Amendment rights*
*blames the left/liberals for everything bad, because "MUH GUNS"
*open-carries rifle on the street, just for show*
*is obviously white, otherwise would get KOS'd for previous trait*
*has a parent/child with the same first name*
*has Confederate flag on display*
*obviously voted Trump, and would again*

Hoo boy, that hit the spot!
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MarqueeSeries posted...

Thanks for the advice guys. I ended up throwing it out the bathroom window to make sure she never finds out about it

Next time, put it under her bed. That's the last place she'll find it.
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CADE FOSTER posted...

Russia gains a foothold in the middle east we look weak win win for Putin and his puppet trump

This. Trump being POTUS at all is a win for Putin.
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

I can understand if most people here haven't learned from experience, but at least learn from past poop stories: attempting to stomp it down the drain will bite you in the ass later on, especially if it happens at a girl's house.

Just suck it up (figuratively), scoop it up, flush it down the toilet, make sure all stains are erased and forget it ever happened.
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BeyondWalls posted...

Foppe posted...

BeyondWalls posted...

darkmaian23 posted...

1969

Whats funny is that the very last episode references the 1969 episode in a hilarious way.

You mean episode 200?

No. I believe the throw away line is in Stargate Continuum.

Edit - maybe Im wrong. Maybe that line is in 200. I guess I am remembering that wrong.

The reference in '200' is when the team jokingly pretends that O'Neill is actually Mitchell's father.
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

If she does this so often AND you let her in your bed while you take the couch, it sounds like she's taking advantage of you quite a bit. Even if you'd consider her a friend (which you obviously don't, and that's ok), there's nothing wrong with: "I'm turning in for tonight. You should go home."
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visualboy2003 posted...

kayoticdreamz posted...

visualboy2003 posted...

why, cause you can't arque with me, lol. that's why you can only ask me to stop, lol, cause you cant say anything to prove me wronq.

lol....your trolling skills are top notch. you keep ignoring facts like you're stevie wonder

really, but look like tc is on my side, too.

Yeah, as literally the only two in this debate still hanging on to your stance, despite your arguments being invalidated and voided over and over again by everyone else ITT. Good for you.
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Caution999 posted...

gp1829 posted...

Are people in this topic actually debating the merits of "a really big fire to kill all the rats" damn this is stupid.

They weren't paying attention during the "circle of life" scene in Lion King.

Every creature exists for a reason. Everything is kept in harmony. Disturb that balance, and you'll have issues.

And this is how I know there's a God. The way this world was designed is too precise for all of this to have been random.

Actually the way evolution works is that creatures either adapt to the local flora and fauna, develop a random mutation which helps them survive (and pass that quality on to their offspring), or die out.

And throughout the history of life, a lot of species did die out because they didn't/couldn't adapt.
So the world wasn't designed 'precise'. It was actually quite messy. In the end, all living beings today are the survivors, and we can continue to survive through adaptation.

But if you would like a god to believe in, I suppose you could view nature as such, considering that's quite intricate and all-encompassing.
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visualboy2003 posted...

jumi posted...

visualboy2003 posted...

jumi posted...

600 million cats, or 12000 humans?

eliminate cats is the wiser choice.

No it's not.

yes, it is.

No, it's not. It's nice that you think 'science will find a way to solve that within a few years' but if it were as simple as that, literally all of society's problems would be solved by now. Scientists might indeed look into it, but a permanent and stable solution will definitely take more than a few years, since there are an enormous amount of factors to take into account when interfering with the ecosystem in this manner. During that time, many, many people would be negatively affected by the consequences (i.e. disease), resulting in a lot more human casualties than 12,000.

Either choice has a chance of affecting your loved ones. The sacrifice-all-cats choice simply brings a significantly higher chance of (many more) loved ones dying. You're killing people either way: either 12,000 or many more. That's what it comes down to.
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It probably depends on the local culture. In the Netherlands, where I live, almost everyone except a few elderly hated pennies ( or rather, cents) so much, our society has actually phased them out completely since the '80s.

Cents made a brief reappearance when we switched our currency from guilders to euros in 2002, but everyone was like "lol no, fuck that", and in less than five years, the cent had fully disappeared again. No store accepts them these days.
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visualboy2003 posted...

Aressar posted...

visualboy2003 posted...

Aressar posted...

visualboy2003 posted...

but you don't wanna kill those 12,000 if one of them is your loved one. think about it. we human lives matter much more than cat lives.

if there is even a way to just save one human, we needa find the best way to save him or her.

There are some cats I like more than most humans I know, but that's my personal sentiment about it. When it comes to logical reasoning, I stand by my earlier post (#59).

then, we woulda have a duel with it. just because some human troubled your life doesn't mean all are bad.

That's why I explicitly mentioned it's my own sentiment why I like some cats more than most humans I know (which doesn't necessarily mean I hate humanity in general. I just like cats a bit better).
But because I acknowledge my personal sentimental preference has little value in a debate like this, I stand by my reasoning in post #59.

but what if one of those 12000 is your loved ones. see, i don't know why people can't think more wisely and unselfishly.

Actually, your reasoning is selfish if you're making the choice primarily based on the possibility a loved one is among those 12,000.
Sacrificing all cats would not only affect cats, but negatively affect humanity as a whole and many other species as well, due to the heavy impact on the ecosystem because an entire species has suddenly been completely removed.

Whether you're doing this for your loved ones, humanity or felinity, more lives are ultimately saved by sacrificing the 12,000 humans instead of all cats. Even with the loved-ones reasoning, chances are more loved ones end up dead/affected if you sacrifice the cats.
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saspa posted...

It doesn't happen with deodorant stick, which I also use, just exclusively with the spray. Years ago I read that it was because of the aluminum in deodorants back in the day.

Stick is my preferred method anyway, even before my allergy. It's just easier and doesn't leave such an asphyxiating odor as a spray does, and thus effectively doesn't bother other people as much.
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"JAFFA! KREE!"

SG-1 was easily my favorite series at the time. While I see some people praising the earlier seaons over the later ones, the later ones always stuck with me so much more. Probably because the background stories became more fully fleshed-out and comprehensive.
Also loved it how the series would parody/mock itself at some points ('member Wormhole X-treme and 200, anyone?).
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

It's possible you have developed a bit of a skin allergy to one of the components. I have the same issue and even get a rash from regular deodorants. All I use now is a dermo sensitive variety. No more itching or rash.
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

Frequent flossing, tooth picks and listerine are preferable well.
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

visualboy2003 posted...

Aressar posted...

visualboy2003 posted...

but you don't wanna kill those 12,000 if one of them is your loved one. think about it. we human lives matter much more than cat lives.

if there is even a way to just save one human, we needa find the best way to save him or her.

There are some cats I like more than most humans I know, but that's my personal sentiment about it. When it comes to logical reasoning, I stand by my earlier post (#59).

then, we woulda have a duel with it. just because some human troubled your life doesn't mean all are bad.

That's why I explicitly mentioned it's my own sentiment why I like some cats more than most humans I know (which doesn't necessarily mean I hate humanity in general. I just like cats a bit better).
But because I acknowledge my personal sentimental preference has little value in a debate like this, I stand by my reasoning in post #59.
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pinky0926 posted...

People celebrate being black/gay/female/other minority because for long periods of time until recent history simply being one of those things was a crime, societal or otherwise.

Being proud to be [marginalised minority] is saying "I am so glad that I can do this now, and will not be oppressed anymore". That doesn't exactly apply to you being white does it? That's never been a problem. It's great to be white, but it's not an achievement, and it's not really something that has ever needed celebrating.

You're basically like a guy who's reflex to hearing a friend say "we're finally having a baby after 3 miscarriages!" is "woah there hunny, I've had a kid too so what's your problem?"

Couldn't have put it better myself. Ethnically, I am half Dutch/half Indonesian, though I feel neither pride nor shame about that. It's just what I am. If I feel pride or shame about anything, it's mostly about my skills and accomplishments.
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visualboy2003 posted...

but you don't wanna kill those 12,000 if one of them is your loved one. think about it. we human lives matter much more than cat lives.

if there is even a way to just save one human, we needa find the best way to save him or her.

There are some cats I like more than most humans I know, but that's my personal sentiment about it. When it comes to logical reasoning, I stand by my earlier post (#59).
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12,000 humans will be resupplied through continuously increasing procreation anyway, whereas cats going extinct would seriously affect the ecosystem.

Eventually, 'science might fix that' in part, but it would take many, many years to get to the equivalent of the presence of cats, mostly because all factors of the ecosystem would have to be taken into account and whatever solution would be presented needs to balanced just right. Because this would take which means a lot more than 12,000 humans would suffer and die in the end.

Preferences aside, if you had to choose, 12,000 humans would ultimately be a lesser loss for humanity, felinity, and the related ecosystem.

Simply put, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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im not 13 posted...

Pretty sure killing all cats will have more of an effect of 12000 people

This. Too many people in the world anyway, and the average cat is a lot more nice and self-sufficient than the average human.
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DarthWendy posted...

_Lyonidias posted...

feminism is still necessary even in the western world.
Men need to be raised better

Topic said unpopular opinions, not inane idiocies built up by your own personal frustrations.

You should talk to a few women - any women. There is still an alarming amount of men harassing/catcalling women, even more mature or less attractive ones, just for the sake of it. We men barely notice it in daily life, because it doesn't happen to us, but that does not mean it hardly happens to women either.

If you're not in the habit of harassing women, good on you, and there's no need to feel spoken to when people criticize men harassing women.

Flockaveli posted...

Romance is overrated, all you need in a lover is a best friend.

Agreed! And now I can't stop thinking about Queen's song 'You're my best friend' :)

Some unpopular onions of my own:

- Birth control, abortions and euthanasia should be no big deal, if a person chooses to make use of that.

- On a similar note; it should be made more clear to people that it's not an obligation to have (many) children. There are plenty of people in the world and there's no danger of people dying out to lack of procreation anytime soon. If you're looking to 'pass on your legacy', there's plenty of other ways to do that.

- More an unpopular fear than an opinion: I fear that for society to improve as a whole, there'd need to be something that affects most countries globally, like a world war or global disaster.
Despite the recent economic recession, environmental awareness and inequality, the majority of people still barely care about things like this, large corporations only care about maximizing profits and governments are too busy blaming their opponents for things going wrong.
Something that affects every layer of society might be required for society to realize the old ways aren't going to work forever.
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One thing the British (especially the English) fear more than anything is public loss of face/embarrassment. Basically the best thing is if the British government were to become convinced that staying in the EU is less embarrassing than a hard/no-deal brexit.
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Excellent! As a Jason Momoa fan, I was hoping for it to be qualitatively good. It's not in cinema's yet where I live, but it probably will be by the time I finish season 3 of Frontier.
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FF_Redux posted...

we'd have a kiki

I wanna have a kiki!

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Several times, mostly during my job as a security guard.
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One time, CE triggered me so hard with their objectively wrong opinions that I accidentally punched myself in the balls.

Is 0.999~ less than or equal to 1? Why?
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I stopped watching shortly after Ragnar died. I gradually came to the realization that no one except Ragnar and king Ecbert had any idea wtf they were doing. It's like the creators of the series pretend like everyone is plotting their own agenda, but this is actually never the case, except when Ragnar pretends to be dead in order to infiltrate Paris and Ecbert seizes power from and increases influence over the other British monarchs.
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There's a ton of vehicular simulation games. They're just not that popular with the general crowd. Microsoft has a long-running series in that genre. You can find quite a few games like that on Steam
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Vol2tex posted...

Fat redneck wearing a cap holding a shotgun with the confederate flag behind him ?

This, while yelling "YEEEEEE-HAW, you betcha Billy Bob! YOU-ES-EY! YOU-ES-EY!"

The female equivalent quote would be something along the lines of: "AAH'LL PRAAY FER YEW!"
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NeonOctopus posted...

And this!

This is what is known as a Super Saiyan that has ascended past a Super Saiyan!

Or you can just call this a Super Saiyan 2.

*points finger*
Uhm, actually! What they refer to as 'ascended' in DBZ is the bulky muscled Supet Saiyan form, generally known as Ultra Super Saiyan.
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