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Not sure why she didn't swear on the Koran, since Malcolm X seems to have always been a Muslim, though he did leave the Nation of Islam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X#Activity_after_leaving_NOI

Jen0125 posted...

Not for nothing but right now the US is holding children they ripped away from their immigrant parents in internment camps indefinitely and lost over 1000 in the system with no idea who has them. So maybe we should get off our high horse a bit.

Yes, that does look pretty bad. Maybe it's happening more because Trump didn't have a plan for what to do with the kids when he decided to crack down harder on illegal immigrants, not that that's much of an excuse.

I just went to CE for the first time in a while. There are some decent topics about other things there. I may post in a few of them, but I don't want people to respond by saying, "Are you here just because of the chill02 incident?"

It should've been set during World War II so that the movie could've been abbreviated "WWII". >_>

Um, did anybody notice this correspondence yet?

https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1006175599692537857

Think somebody got something past the radar here?

I looked up some pics of her. Her face looks weird.

A Shrek 5 may also be coming:

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1642800/shrek-5-plans-to-totally-change-the-franchise

I'd have thought he was a generic white guy if I saw him on the street.

If you think that it's generally right to refer to a person by their chosen name when it's different from their birth name, I'm not sure what good reason you have not to refer to a trans person by their chosen name. You could say, "But we have to be able to tell from a person's name what their biological sex is!", but I hope nobody thinks that's a good reason. And we already seem to accept that people can go by nicknames like Alex that can apply to either sex.

This one from four years ago:

https://garfield.com/comic/2014/06/07

I hope Garfield, Jon, and Odie are going to be all right!

Just to be clear, I haven't watched Miss America in a long time, so I don't care about this change. But somebody on the radio said that a lot of girls who have been staying in shape for years in the hopes of getting on Miss America are going to be angry that their work was for nothing, so I thought that if Miss America replaced the swimsuit portion with some "fitness test" it would create better will among the contestants.

NightMareBunny posted...

OmegaM posted...

Maybe they could replace it with a real physical fitness test, like running an obstacle course or something? The girls could have a choice of one of several events.

this isn't the Olympics and i don't really think this should be some "whose the strongest and fastest woman alive" contest

It shouldn't count for more than the swimsuit portion did, but the Miss America people did use to say that the swimsuit competition was to measure "physical fitness". Maybe that's a back-fit, but ...

Maybe they could replace it with a real physical fitness test, like running an obstacle course or something? The girls could have a choice of one of several events.

I know someone whose obsessed with bassets (as pets only!). I'm going to have to fight the urge to tell this person about this.

Pics of you in swimsuits?

FYI, I have no problem with Ivanka Trump getting called horrible names; I just thought that feminists hated whenever the c-word was used as an insult because it implied that women's genitalia were awful. I'm surprised Samantha Bee didn't already know that, but to her credit she apologized without making excuses,

I assume that at some point this clip was online unbleeped?

Anyway, she didn't offend me, but I'm surprised that someone like her wouldn't know that lots of women get really offended whenever that word is used as an insult.

dancer62 posted...

I don't feel old, and I'm 71.

Not sure if serious.

Maybe they thought they'd be nice to people from other countries and just give all the countries in alphabetical order?

I also heard a woman say that if you have to choose "Female" or "Male" from a dropdown menu on a website, they should be in that order for alphabetical order, too. >_>

Maybe she meant, "Yes, now that women are being taken more seriously when they accuse men of rape, men technically have a higher chance of getting in trouble due to a false allegation. But I think that, if the usual procedures of the justice system are followed, the danger of false allegations is still so small that it's outweighed by the ability to punish more rapists who deserve it. Obviously a false conviction is always a serious matter, but you can't eliminate them entirely without letting people get away with all crimes." At least I hope she meant something like that.

This former prisoner seems to have a lot of good advice about how to survive in prison:

For a while on another site I was getting ads for Depends underwear until I closed them out a few times. I don't know what I was searching for that made the site think I wanted ads for that.

That dress isn't slutty, but it is hot.

How old is your friend, and how old is the kid he allegedly raped?

Nichtcrawler X posted...

is it a good or a bad thing that I am on his villain list?

Which thing on his villain list are you?

Of the NES games, I found #4 and #6 to not be too bad. I also beat #2 and #5, but they were harder. I never beat #1 or #3 without cheating. I haven't played any of those six games in a long time, though.

Did you know that Jordan Peterson actually believes that twined snakes in ancient art represent DNA?

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/jordan-peterson-believes-ancient-chinese-had-knowledge-of-dna-double-helix

I don't know what to say to that, except that people have had so many wrong ideas about how the human body works that it would be very surprising if we had some unconscious understanding of something as microscopic as DNA. It just doesn't seem evolutionarily necessary for people to have such detailed knowledge of their bodies.

Quickly Googling it suggests that twined snakes are just a yin-yang--type symbol. Maybe it's a common symbol because people do seem to have a special ability to notice snakes and snake-like objects, which presumably evolved because prehistoric people had to deal with a lot of dangerous snakes.

http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/2008/10/15/double-snakes-caduceus-symbolic-meaning/
https://www.livescience.com/2348-fear-snakes.html

What are we considering a remaster as opposed to a full-scale remake?

Anyway, if there was a game that I thought was worth playing through several times but that had, say, somewhat fuzzy graphics and some rather common bugs, I might buy the version of it that had those problems fixed even if there were no other upgrades. In fact (for example), I kind of wish that the DS version of Final Fantasy IV had been just that relative to the Game Boy Advance version; the 3D graphics of the former didn't feel as "iconic" to me.

There was even an episode of that Donkey Kong cartoon in which they met Stanley the Bugman, and he had a friendly Piranha Plant--like plant as a pet.

https://www.mariowiki.com/Greenhouse_Gorilla

JOExHIGASHI posted...

GanglyKhan posted...

But really, who are the important characters? Waldo? Or his hordes of unassuming camouflage?

his sister

dog

grandfather

I'm pretty sure that the wizard and the girl dressed like Waldo aren't related to him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_Wally%3F#Characters

I voted no, but I don't think you should treat abortion like clipping your nails. It just seems like the sort of thing that will lead to disrespecting people in other ways.

Note: As a corollary to that, I don't think guys should recklessly have sex thinking, "Well, if she gets pregnant, she'll just get an abortion."

Misty; she's hot.

No.

Ever hear of mayonnaise jello molds?

https://imgix.bustle.com/lovelace/uploads/455/a6e15310-34ca-0133-4787-0a2ca390b447.jpg

I wouldn't mind getting slapped around by her ...

It seems that a little over a month ago, the comic strip "Nancy" got a new artist. I always found that comic rather bland, but now it's pretty funny. It's drawn by a woman for the first time, but she doesn't seem to play up that fact.

So you should check it out.

http://www.comicsbeat.com/this-new-nancy-strip-is-lit-and-its-got-people-on-the-internet-going-crazy/
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/09 (first day of new "Nancy")

It seems not to be huge a faux pas to have that for dessert:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11377277/Yorkshire-puds-arent-just-for-roasts-theyre-a-cracking-dessert-too.html

(via the Wikipedia page for Yorkshire pudding)

Did you know about the final boss and ending before you played Super Metroid?

I voted for Kid Niki for the theme song. >_>

That Israeli girl that won is pretty ugly too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netta_Barzilai

I'm sure they won't let you hang out in the restroom for 15 minutes or anything; they probably just won't stop you if you "sneak" in, use the restroom, and leave right away.

Personally, I sometimes walk into a big store like a Barnes & Noble, look at things for a few minutes, sidle over to the restroom, use it, leave and look at things for a few more minutes, and then leave the store without buying anything. But it just feels rude to me to do that in a smaller place like a McDonald's where the cashiers can clearly see what you're doing; I'd buy something for a dollar in that case.

Lokarin posted...

OmegaM posted...

Jordan Peterson was originally from Alberta. How does that make you feel?

He's a cool guy, I guess?

It just seems that a lot of people who disagree with him really hate him.

lihlih posted...

DrYuya posted...

Why is the previously asexual character getting married considered good writing in any way?

Asexual people can have romantic lives. Some don't, but many do.

I read once* that there's evidence that your sexual orientation can gradually change over time, although trying to do it deliberately with conversion therapy both doesn't work and is torture for the person subjected to it.

I think that on TBBT, Sheldon and Amy have currently been having sex about once a year.

*In a Cracked article for which I didn't follow the link, so who knows?

Why didn't you put Final Fantasy II (i.e., IV) on the list? I suspect more people would vote for it than for Secret of the Stars, at least. I've never played Secret of the Stars, but I thought it was generally considered laughably bad.

Well, it was a good episode, though if you don't generally find TBBT funny, you probably won't find this episode funny.

But on Young Sheldon last night, we learned that Sheldon will have kids at some point in the future (at the end of the show, the adult Sheldon narrator mentions that he has kids). Of course, that may not happen on TBBT before the show ends.

It's unfortunate that The Mick got cancelled, since the last episode ended with the teenage daughter getting struck by lightning and possibly in a coma for the rest of her life. I did want to see what the long-term effect of that was going to be. I also thought it was pretty funny overall, though in a "I can't believe they just did that!" way.

It might just be nostalgia, but I was pretty impressed with the lore that grew up around the Zork games.

https://www.thezorklibrary.com/history/00-encyclopedia.html

Actually, I suspect that the lore might go off the rails if you consider the Zork novels, CYOA books, and games published after Infocom folded. But I thought that those two ZorkQuest "visual novels" were neat, though they probably don't fit in with the lore from the main Infocom games.

Can't wait!

j/k, I'm not particularly rooting for them to either get married or not get married. But I wonder if anything surprising will happen that will affect the show from now on, like how on the season 6 finale Raj got cured of his inability to speak to women while not drunk.

Jordan Peterson was originally from Alberta. How does that make you feel?