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A few weeks ago Charlemagne gave her Donkey of the Day for hating on Jay Z and Kendrick for their albums and lyrics.

She used The Story of OJ's hook and Kendrick's verse on Humble (the taste bloods part) as offensive and sexist. Then said Jay used to sell crack so why should we listen to him.
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pegusus123456 posted...

Kastrada posted...

Krondon acts? Last I heard of him, he was rapping with Xzibit YEARS ago.

Black Lightning is one of two roles he's ever had. I imagine he was considered solely because the comic character he's playing is also an albino black man.

I have to say that he's killing it though.

That's good to hear. He's nice on the mic.

Not sure what kind of white-washing it would be in they had cast Brother Ali over Krondon though. >_>
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southcoast09 posted...

Key posted...

If Poker can be a sport on ESPN so can video games. Also Golf does not take much if any athleticism

No. Thats the attitude that opens the floodgates. Neither of them should be allowed. ESPN started showing card games because our generation is actually more entertained by that than we are traditional sports.

ESPN is literally Entertainment and Sports. It's in the name. Cards and pro-gaming fall under the E.
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pegusus123456 posted...

The main villain in Black Lightning is an albino black man.


I'd still consider him African-American.

Krondon acts? Last I heard of him, he was rapping with Xzibit YEARS ago.
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Doe posted...

Has it ever happened where the media shat on the "alleged" perp only for it to turn out they got the complete wrong guy? Was that person able to seek reparations for libel or something?

Richard Jewell was portrayed as the Atlanta bombing suspect. They raked him over the coals but never really apologized. He got some money I think?
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Sayoria posted...

They had Korean writing and all that on the side and the liquid was like..... orangish.

Did they have a little green plastic top? Those things are crack. Korean schools serve them a ton. I always swipe like five. >_>
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War is their GOAT song.
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Syntheticon posted...

This just in: foreigners disagree with local customs and think their way is the best way. Also, water is wet. News at 11.
Don't knock it till you try it. To you they're pets, to them they're livestock, get over yourselves and just don't eat it.

Not all Koreans view dogs as just livestock. It's more of an older generation thing (50 and up). The younger generations view dogs as pets more and more. It's why the dog-meat industry is doing badly actually.

Rika_Furude posted...

You should respect the culture while there. There is no reason to respect the culture if you arent there though

Yes, a guest in a country should respect their hosts. I'm living in Korea. I will bow to my elders and speak in the formal tone. I will defer to my superiors to not cost them to lose face in public. I will do all of that.

But I will hate on the dog-meat industry here. There's no regulation. There's no rules. Nothing. Like I've mentioned before I've had older co-workers who have lost pet dogs over the years (who've said it wasn't uncommon back in the day for dog restaurants to dog-nap). I've seen conditions the yellow-dogs live in first hand. I've seen an old man take a dog out and hit it over the head with a club to kill it before prepping it for food in plain view of an elementary school.

I'm not against people eating meat. Eat whatever animal you want. But do it properly. Don't hunt animals into extinction. Don't kill massive animals for ONE part of the body and leave the rest to rot. Give your livestock livable conditions. Kill them humanely and safely. Not hitting them with blunt instruments in front of children.

I'll say that about any country for any animal. I do say that about America. Fuck the factory farms and what they do to chickens, pigs, cows, etc.... It's disgusting.

Even on a human-focused argument. The lack of regulations for the dog-meat market here need an overhaul for health and safety issues regardless of "respecting the culture". I'm going out on a limb and saying the skeletal dogs with mangy fur are not good for human consumption.
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There is a point of respecting the culture and I don't hate Korea for having dog restaurants.

I do hate how the places will have a literal chicken coop where the dogs are living on top of one another/can't even move before being taken out to be killed.

I'm not against eating meat but if you are going to do it, give them some form of respect. Cows, goats, chicken, sheep, dogs, etc... Just be as humane as possible.
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wdlp posted...

What breed of dog do they raise as food?
Or do they have, like, wild dogs that they hunt in the woods and on the plains?

'Yellow dog' is the official meat dog but some places will use any dog they have available.

I've had coworkers here who've said they've lost pet dogs to dog-meat owners years ago.

But nowadays with the younger generations, the idea of eating dog is considered taboo. The only time I hear of my students or younger coworkers eating dog is if their grandparents make it and even then the amount is in the single digits. And I work in a pretty rurual area.
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Ah yeah my bad. Misread your post.
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Deganawidah posted...

_BlueMonk posted...

Deganawidah posted...

Know what you are going to do and where it is before you get there rather than waste time figuring those things out or trying to find things.

yeah. i would hate to feel rushed though. hm.

I don't think you would need to rush or even feel rushed if you had a plan. It doesn't need to be down-to-the-minute schedule (unless you really try to see everything the city has to offer in one day), just knowing ahead of time where you intend to go and having a good enough idea where those things are and how to get around. Basically, don't just go to Busan with nothing particular on your agenda. When I went to Mokpo for the day, we moved at a fairly leisurely pace and didn't really even stay all day. We got there by 10:00 am and were leaving by 6:00 pm and we still managed to have lunch, climb a mountain, go to two small museums, and a few other sights. I really think KTX makes day trips feasible even as far from Seoul as Busan.

Yeah but Mokpo is SUPER tiny compared to Busan. You can kinda get away with moving a bit slower there.
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mustang90 posted...

Master_Bass posted...

mustang90 posted...

Anteaterking posted...

(Only have seen the first two seasons)

She's socially stunted due to her experiences, but she doesn't have a learning or mental disability.

Yeah and thats what I like about her. The idea that if I dated her I could basically teach her and have her learn about life the way I want her to.

So you want to groom her?

Idk if thats the right way to say it. Just basically so shed never leave me.

You should get a boat!
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_BlueMonk posted...

TendoDRM posted...

I'm going in April, Busan and Seoul.

i was thinking about going to busan, but i already booked the room lol. i wonder if a day trip to busan is feasible...

You'll be spending most of the time in transit.
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_BlueMonk posted...

Kastrada posted...

What do you enjoy? What have you done in Korea before?

I would suggest Pyeongchang but you will obviously miss that

yeah ima miss it. its okay though.

well when i was there, i did most of the touristy stuff. noraebang, pc bang, bbq, clubs, bars, seoul tower, palaces... but im sure theres most. plus im sure its changed in 8 years.

i never did go to Lotteworld.. i should go there.

There are tour groups that are for foreigners. They go to different provinces. Get you a different perspective.

You might try a food tour depending on your openess to Korean food?
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What do you enjoy? What have you done in Korea before?

I would suggest Pyeongchang but you will obviously miss that
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They should toss HIM into a lake and see how he likes it!
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Combination of A, B, and C.
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Milkman5 posted...

People don't design the kids they adopt... what the fuck?

Your questioning a father's choice of having a daughter a different race than him.

Parents adopt (or for your preferred example artificial instrumentation) children that are different races/mixed race.

It's the same thing. Your argument hinges on why would a parent want a child that is a different race than them when they could have a same-race child.
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Milkman5 posted...

why would someone design their kid to be a different race from themselves?

Do you go up to adopted mixed race families and ask why they didn't adopt same race children?
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LDSer's/Mormons are the best dessert makers to ever walk the Earth.

Ask any LDSer/Mormon you meet how their baking skills are and they will get embarrassed but nod and say "Pretty good".

It's like this.

Step 1: Accept the Word of God.

Step 2: Build his flock on Earth.

Step 3: Make some kick ass lemon squares.

Step 4: ????

Step 5: Prophet
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Havent seen Season 3 but I really liked the FBI agent they introduced in Season 2.
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Capn Circus posted...

Other companies, including American companies (Samsung, LG)

Those are Korean companies.
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TheVipaGTS posted...

chrono625 posted...

TheVipaGTS posted...

i don't see how its any different than an emotional support dog. those exist and no one makes fun of them. why make fun of this?

that said, that thing is huge and wouldn't fit on the plane.

See this. This comment. This is the mind of someone who just wants everyone to be able to do whatever the fuck they want without a bat of an eye.

There is a big difference between a fucking service dog and a full grown peacock.

yea i covered that with the 2nd sentence there. I side with the airline. I just don't think the person should instantly be made fun of and "emotional support" whatever shouldn't develop a negative reaction instantly. *shrug*...do you, though.

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Patchwork posted...

Life Sympathy posted...

KingCrabCake posted...

Its hard to tell a cop not to try and save someone

Not hard at all for a Fire Marshal to dress down an entire PD over enforcement of fire safety.

So, dress him down. Privately. Like professionals.

Have you never seen Reno 911? Cops and firefighters have this long standing rivalry.

>_>
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CanuckCowboy posted...

Ned's not his dad tho

Ned is his dad and Lyanna is his mom.
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xAzNPimP4LiFex posted...

I go home and close the store

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Isn't lacrosse slang for masturbation in Quebec or one of the provinces?
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Junior Soprano was framed!
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This topic is now about how shitty of a DJ and producer Jazzy Jeff is.

Maaaan fuck that dude.
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ROBANN_88 posted...

What was the point of basically going: "by the way, Blake died"

I THINK the original ending was with Blake waving goodbye. After Linville left, the producers did that famous surgery scene without telling the cast so their shock and tears were legit.
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Something similar to this happened when I was in undergrad forever ago.

Guy and girl at this party. The guy is wasted. The girl was sober. She took him somewhere and they had sex apparently. She freaks out because she had a boyfriend. A week later, she accuses the guy of raping her so her bf doesn't find out she cheated on him. There is no investigation. He gets expelled from school for his senior year.

A bunch of us get pissed because we saw them both that night and knew she was sober and the aggressive one. This feminist group we were in (that the rapist girl was in as well) went around with a petition to protest his expulsion and tried to act as witnesses for the guy. Eventually he was able to come to an arrangement where he could finish the rest of his classes by correspondence and he was allowed to graduate. We tried to push for her to be expelled but he told us not to go further with it.

So yeah there are some crazy feminists out there but some of us are rational too. And we ended up kicking that girl out and never acknowledged her again.
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darkjedilink posted...

SGT_Conti posted...

do we ban german sherpards after pit bulls

Most areas with breed-specific legislation also include German Shepherds, Dobermans, and Rotweillers.

The scary breeds.

When did German Shepherds become a scary breed Nazi Germany notwithstanding? They are one of the most docile breeds I've ever met.

smoke_break posted...

I'll still avoid them whenever possible, ban or no. I typically like dogs but pits are another story. They seem volatile which isn't good when they can kill a person with ease.

I have the opposite view with pits. I've always been told they are a family-first dog and pretty standoffish with strangers. So I will just ignore them until they come to me and decide I'm ok. Pits of all varieties become the biggest babies when they decide they like you.

I've never had issues with big dogs though. Small ones I've always been hesitant towards.
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"Never have so many suffered so much so so few could be so happy" - Frank Burns.
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1NfamousACE_2 posted...

green butter posted...

you guys should try reading the book, it gives a lot more insight into WHY the Godfather does what he does, and it gives some interesting backstory on characters like Luca Brasi (who is basically a minor character in the movie)

Fun fact, I plan on naming my son Lucas Albert after Luca Brasi and Al Neri

May your first child be a masculine child.
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pinky0926 posted...

Do you mean initially when Vito was out of action, or permanently? Because I think Tom is too weak a character to fill the bosses shoes. Smart and loyal, but not someone that can scare the shit out of other people with just a look.

Tom is one of the scariest members of the family to me. I mean look at what he did to the movie producer. The movie producer didn't respect him because he was just a "lawyer" but we know what happened next.

Tom was always intimidating to me. He had the brains, the calm demeanor. People didn't expect much out of him which is a benefit. Plus he was a lawyer. He could see things and oversee operations from a much different perspective.
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boxington posted...

Kastrada posted...

pinky0926 posted...

boxington posted...

each of Vito's sons had their shortcomings - Sonny was too hot-headed/ impulsive, Micheal was too cold-hearted, and Fredo was too weak and had a complex because of that

idk if Mike's army days had anything to do with how he was, but out of the three sons, he was the best possible leader. he just needed Tom or his dad consulting him

I think Michael was basically just the one who took after his father the most and had that natural charisma and clear-headedness. This was hinted at from the very beginning because it's clear that Michael is the don's favourite son.

This. Although the competition was that close anyway. Now if the mafia didn't have the issue of not being blood related, Tom would have been the best choice for leadership.

Shame they couldn't pay Duvall his asking price.

the only mafia stuff that I know is from movies, but even if don wasn't an inheritable title, wouldn't Tom still be passed up because he had Irish descent?

I should have specifically stated the Irish-ness yeah. I'm no expert on organized crime but yeah Tom most likely would have been passed up for leadership in any Italian family outfit. The fact that he was the acting Don when Vito was in the hospital was pretty surprising.
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pinky0926 posted...

boxington posted...

each of Vito's sons had their shortcomings - Sonny was too hot-headed/ impulsive, Micheal was too cold-hearted, and Fredo was too weak and had a complex because of that

idk if Mike's army days had anything to do with how he was, but out of the three sons, he was the best possible leader. he just needed Tom or his dad consulting him

I think Michael was basically just the one who took after his father the most and had that natural charisma and clear-headedness. This was hinted at from the very beginning because it's clear that Michael is the don's favourite son.

This. Although the competition was that close anyway. Now if the mafia didn't have the issue of not being blood related, Tom would have been the best choice for leadership.

Shame they couldn't pay Duvall his asking price.
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Siaperaz posted...

And you are wrong. It's typical for liberals to be ignorant. SK always tried to contact NK and failed but now NK frightened decided to respond

No....? Korea had a corrupt President who wanted nothing to do with NK. Moon Jae-In started up dialogues when he won the election.
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stevethewindow posted...

Webmaster4531 posted...

You're fine with straight people fucking in your house? Sounds like you're some kind of cuck.

No people fuck in my house. Just me and my wife in a loving consensual relationship

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Ok but now here is the thing. You are talking about a disenfranchised people. Leading up to the protests, you have had a string of deaths by police officers with no justice being done. You had a police officer shoot a man in the back, plant evidence, have this recorded in its entirety and it took two years for the office to be found guilty. A child was shot in a playground. A man in Walmart (where they sell guns) was shot. A man was driving, pulled over and shot without any connection to a crime. Another man was shot while telling the police officer that he had a legal firearm and this was recording by his girlfriend. You had a man choked to death on camera.

All of these things have happened and nothing was done or, if they were, after long periods of time. What can they do? Voting? Gerrymandering. Protests? Run over by cars.

I am from the Bible Belt where the recurring opinion is that "these people" should protest peacefully. And then they do something like this and that is the response they get. What is even more shocking is that the response to kneeling for a song is being met with such hate and those same responses of disgust were not there when innocent people were killed.

You say all it does is piss off the multitudes of people who love the flag and what it represents. But I bet good money if they are drunk at a stadium, they aren't totally quiet. They aren't giving their full attention. There are conversations being had.

I guarantee you if you play the National Anthem, in its entirety with no forewarning to the crowd, those people who love and respect the flag would start complaining.

Now I'm obviously not saying this is what you would do or grouping you in with people like this. But to have THIS been an issue of people kneeling in protest of police brutality when none of those offended people have ever brought up a "Kick people out who wear hats/talk during the anthem/not holding their hand over their heart during the anthem/anything else where they are not staring straight at the flag..." is a telling sign.

And this is directly to you Skye and you know this is said without any hate or malice. But I guarantee you that you have stood for the Anthem and have been around people doing something other than giving their full attention/etc... to the flag. Now if you have never called them out every time you have witnessed this, but these protests are what really set you off? Then I really question your dedication to this issue.

TLDR: I've known Skye for years and I wrote a shit ton of things. Y'all can just bypass it. >_>
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Skye Reynolds posted...

Kastrada posted...

And Skye, did you get this offended when Tim Tebow kneeled for the anthem? Do you think Nate Boyer (who helped reach a compromise with Kaep about kneeling instead of sitting) is shitting on American even though he is a vet? And can you explain how exactly kneeling is something disrespectful? Kneeling in our Western culture happens in the Church (for communion), when proposing, and praying. And none of those are considered disrespectful. So why in this one instance is kneeling disrespectful? And how is it different than Tebow?

Taking a knee in protest is not the same as taking a knee in reverence. That's like asking why a strike is good in bowling, but bad in baseball. It's about context.

As for the part in bold, it's happened before.

1. Are you saying that you can't protest something you have reverence for?

2. So you are of the opinion that Nate Boyer is disrespecting his country?

3. Also your strike analogy doesn't work. Strikes are both good and bad in baseball depending on the person.
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A_Good_Boy posted...

KingCrabCake posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

008Zulu posted...

Conservatives are the 'new' easily triggered snowflakes now? It's getting harder, and harder to keep up.

Conservatives have always tried silencing or banning things that have hurt their feelings.

Imagine believing this

Conservatives have never tried banning Halloween, Pokemon, or Harry Potter?

Or alcohol. >_>
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TC are there any animal cafes near you? Those can be nice for playing with animals but in a non-depressing environment.

If you and her both bond over a love of animals, then for a much further down the line date, you two could volunteer at a shelter by walking the dogs.
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Skye Reynolds posted...

dave_is_slick posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

Try wearing a swastika and telling everyone that it's just four crooked lines.

See, the Nazis stole the swastika. Nowadays, it actually is the symbol of a Nazi, nothing symbolic about it.

Nice attempt at a dodge, but no.

People see that symbol and they see the hatred which it stood for. You can't get around symbolism as a fact of life. It'd be like a Deaf person saying that there is no such thing as sound.

Anyone who sees hatred in a horizontal swastika is a fucking moron who are ignorant/shitting on the men and women who died fighting the Nazi's. If someone can't tell the difference between a religious symbol and the Nazi swastika, they have no right to argue about respecting WW2 vets.

And Skye, did you get this offended when Tim Tebow kneeled for the anthem? Do you think Nate Boyer (who helped reach a compromise with Kaep about kneeling instead of sitting) is shitting on American even though he is a vet? And can you explain how exactly kneeling is something disrespectful? Kneeling in our Western culture happens in the Church (for communion), when proposing, and praying. And none of those are considered disrespectful. So why in this one instance is kneeling disrespectful? And how is it different than Tebow?

Honestly want to know what you think.
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beechesfreeman posted...

it would have been better if will smith wasn't the only good actor in it

Joel Edgerton is great.
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CiIantro posted...

Zikten posted...

that whole family is fucked in the head

Eh, Kim Jong Un hasnt really ever done anything crazy. He is just a typical dictator. Kim Jong Il though used to kidnap European movie stars and force them to act in movies he wrote lol

That was a South Korean director/actress couple he did that to. Not European. When he needed white people to act in his movies, he used the handful of American GI's who defected to North Korea.

He did kidnap women from all over the world, literally from all types of countries, and put them in private houses/colonies where the only people they could interact with were Kim himself and a few house servants. Some of the girls went years before seeing their fellow kidnapped neighbors.
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StickFigures720 posted...

Seven.

https://media.giphy.com/media/uema5crNU5tHG/giphy-downsized-large.gif
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