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Nearest hospital with an ER is an hour and a half away by car, 20 minutes by ambulance. (Paramedics took me in one time.) There's a small community hospital about 15 minutes away; I think they've got an x-ray machine and a vending machine and that's about it.

All of mine are dead. I didn't really know my first mother in law, and didn't get to know my first father in law too well: he got shot by Islamists, and wasn't well enough to travel outside Nigeria after that. My second father in law was a great mate and it was a tragedy that he died so early. As for my second mother in law... Eh...Let's just say that we weren't on the best of terms. Like, we really weren't.

I'd suggest stockpiling canned goods, because I've got a feeling it could be the start of a process that'll just drag on and on and on and...

lolife67 posted...

What is the unfair part here to you?

I think it's that none of my female teachers in high school fancied me back.

Female teacher, 28, seduces 14 year old male student: "He's a lucky bastard."
Male teacher, 28, seduces 14 year old female student: "He's a fucking predator."

Christopher Pike: Flash. Flash. Flash. Flash.

catfan2008 posted...

How is she sitting next to me? It looks opposiet to me
Where is her other arm?
Who is this woman?
Is it a woman?
Or a lizard creature in a skin suit?
Can I get some help from the FBI here please

I think she's had it replaced with a prosthetic limb cleverly shaped like a carousel display stand.

There's nothing quite like the smell of an old book that's been in a cardboard box in the attic for years. I'm not saying it's a good smell, just that there's nothing quite like it.

HannibalBarca3 posted...

That's not consistent throught history and is more of a 20th century trope.

What is somewhat consistent throughout history is that a lot of the men who left their homes and families to kill and die in dynastic squabbles between sovereigns did so because their local lord of the manor forced it upon them as their duty, not necessarily because it was "part of their nature".

Has anyone tried dialling 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 for the emergency services?

MaxEffingBemis posted...

This is kinda going over my head.

The island of Ireland has 32 counties. Irish republicans often refer to Northern Ireland as the "Six Counties" to emphasize the artificiality of partition, to stress the natural unity of Ireland, and to reject the legitimacy of Northern Ireland as a separate statelet.

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Y'know, someone who wanted to play Devil's advocate might have this to say to an American:

To hear that kind of talk from someone whose country's very existence is one of the fruits of British imperialism -- settled by British colonists and built, partly by slaves, over the skeletons of murdered indigenous peoples -- would be a little rich in irony. The reason why you're perfectly happy to live on stolen land is because your country did such a thorough job of destroying the people it took it from that today their descendants are almost invisible and easy to ignore, making your own continued occupation feel legitimate. At least the Irish weren't reduced to less than 3% of the population of today's Ireland.

If you're sincere about wanting to undo the historical evils of British imperialism, here's a meaningful way you can do it: hand the keys to your house over to your local branch of the American Indian Movement, and emigrate from the United States. But if you're not prepared to get off your own piece of stolen land, if you're not going to denounce the settlement of British colonies in North America and condemn their presence in the New World -- and therefore your own country's creation -- as illegitimate, how can you complain about British imperialism elsewhere?

It's always easy to jab an accusing finger at someone else; we're all part of the same hypocrisy.

That doesn't mean I necessarily disagree with you, by the way. It just means we need to be brutally honest and ask ourselves if our own country isn't guilty of having done exactly the same thing that we're accusing someone else of.

MaxEffingBemis posted...

Yeah whats the deal with this one

Competing nationalisms. Unionists in Northern Ireland have traditionally tended to prefer the use of the term Ulster instead. And they definitely wouldn't like you calling Northern Ireland the Six Counties!

Heartomaton posted...

This implies the existence of a cursed infant so chewy and spicy.

It's why they're baptised in a dipping sauce.

Patriotism might be defined as respect for, sentimental attachment to, the institutions and laws of your country. You can have patriotism without nationalism, which could be defined as a sense of shared history, language, and culture.

The difference between the two accounts for how immigrants to the United States managed to develop a sense of belonging to it, of feeling that it was their own country, despite not having roots there, having learned English only quite recently, and having a quite different culture to their neighbours. Patriotism is how multi-ethnic states manage to breed loyalty.

MaxEffingBemis posted...

Ok so he was a piece of shit. Even influenced the nazis

In 1656 Cromwell allowed Jews to be readmitted to England (from where they'd been banned since 1290) and practice their faith freely, but I doubt the Nazis found that particularly inspiring.

Pepys_Monster posted...

War is part of human nature.

Is that why the men who usually start them rarely fight in them?

Crazyman93 posted...

That said, we have footage of wars going back to at least WWII. So on those grounds it isn't wrong.

Earliest war footage that still exists was filmed at Orange River in South Africa in November 1899, during the Boer War.

averagejoel posted...

you might find James Q. Whitman's Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law helpful

That sounds like an interesting read, thank you.

averagejoel posted...

they might not have needed to, but they did

I'd feel happier with that if you could cite, say, one of the Nazi jurists who drafted the Nuremberg Laws admitting that they'd not only examined racial laws in the Deep South but actually modelled the Nuremberg Laws upon the American example.

Context matters in this too. Even if Nazi pundits had told the world that "America itself has taught us lessons on how we should go about such things", it doesn't necessarily follow that the Nazis had genuinely lifted their blueprint for society from the Deep South. It may well have been a sly tu quoque argument: throwing America's own history back into its face and implying the democracies had no right to claim moral superiority over the Nazi regime for its treatment of minorities.

Antifar posted...

The Nazis took a lot of inspiration from that pre-60s American South.

Point I made earlier was that the Nazis had sources of inspiration much closer to home: in the record of Germany's own colonial rule in Africa, and in the systematic segregation and marginalization of Jews in central and eastern European society, enshrined in hundreds of years of custom and law. (Anyone who thinks German antisemitism was invented after 1918 is woefully under-educated.) The Nazis didn't need to look as far afield as America's Deep South for lessons on how to build a racially hierarchical state.

Number090684 posted...

Even Jesus was like "wtf, why have you forsaken me God!?" after being crucified.

Even though he was God, and so was his father because he was his own father and at the same time his own son, yet none of them as well as all of them. Hmm...

"I'm gonna make you wish I'd never been born."

Does anyone ever imagine inserting themselves into the game as a mysterious character who contacts John Marston and tries to wake him up to the fact that he's living in an artificial world? You try to open his eyes to the inconsistencies -- such as no vessels ever entering or leaving Blackwater; a ring of cliffs surrounding his world like prison walls through which no people or supplies can ever pass; the fact that no one can swim, etc.

Not sure my culture has traditional music. Although I'm not quite sure what "my culture" is, either.

Gritty posted...

The fuck are you all on about?

That some pundits are claiming the political situation in the USA and the political situation in 1920s/ early 30s Weimar Germany are similar, simply because the militant far right has become more vocal, visible on the streets, and active in terrorism.

But the comparisons are superficial and tenuous. I'd aver that many alt-right talking points -- on immigration, race, sexuality, gender roles -- are really just old-right talking points: the received wisdom of traditional, mainstream conservatism from an epoch before a number of key constitutional amendments and Supreme Court judgements challenged the old order. Today's 'far right' is simply voicing opinions, attitudes, and beliefs that you might have heard from the mouths of quite a few Republicans prior to, say, the mid-1960s. The Republican right is merely reclaiming its legacy and finding its old voice again.

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I was highlighting that the American experience wasn't so unique that European colonial powers had to study it for lessons. Just as the Nazis were hardly revolutionary innovators when they built the "racial state" -- or when they carried out genocide. Germany's first genocide of the 20th century didn't take place under Hitler's rule but under Kaiser Wilhelm II's, in South-West Africa.

I think the monstrosity of the Nazis shocked so many people because what the Nazis did was to import the harshness of customary methods of colonial repression back into Europe, and Europeans were unprepared for its horrors because they were ignorant of the dirty history lurking behind them. Many African and Asian colonial subjects, on the other hand, would have been uncomfortably familiar with the apparatus of repression and racial hierarchy.

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Point of order: there was no need for the Nazis to look across the Atlantic for inspiration, when Germany's own history as a colonial power provided them with blueprints for the Nuremberg Laws -- such as the debates in the Reichstag in 1912 over the legality of interracial marriages and miscegenation in Germany's African and Asian holdings and whether biracial children were entitled to citizenship. There wasn't a great deal that the Americans could teach them.

The similarities are few and comparisons are tenuous.

The US has had pro- or neo-Nazi movements on the fringes of politics since 1931, and at least some of what you characterize as "far-right" standpoints today -- e.g. support for segregation, the criminalization of homosexuality -- were simply the received wisdom of traditional, mainstream conservativism until the 1960s. I'd say that what you're seeing is a resurgence of deep currents with a long history in populist American politics.

No, I think they should come and live with you as a housemate, and you take the risk. Don't forget to leave your bedroom door unlocked at night as a sign of trust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3rQ3328Tok

Most terrifying few seconds are those when you see the water level in the bowl surging relentlessly right up toward the rim and you just think, "Fuck, exactly what do I do if the whole fucking toilet overflows and it goes everywhere?!!!"

Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

https://youtu.be/CKgKPGBa9EQ?t=3

That actually made me properly laugh out loud.

Questionmarktarius posted...

to be fair, kiddieporn does skip the "groomer" step.

Expect his argument to be, "I don't sexually abuse kids, I just pay to watch them being sexually abused! It's totally different!!!"

Was "Groomer" just his tag, then?

Alteres posted...

but most of the people here sound like if some guy made a space ship with anti grav anyone could fly you all would be out there clambering that only the government should have them.

"Most of the people here". That's quite a sweeping judgement to base on maybe 3 posts.

Solid_Sonic posted...

I'm only reciting what I heard on the radio on the way into work this morning. Guy took a girl to a really upscale steakhouse but when she read over the menu she became flustered and just asked to order chicken tenders from the kid's menu. It perturbed him enough not to call her back and forced her to go through the radio station to get his attention.

I think she's making a mistake.

Suggest that she changes her font.

Are they really majestic, or do they just have a haughty air?

A fancy restaurant, with chicken nuggets on a kids' menu. Hmm.

DarthAragorn posted...

Republicans talking about "freedom cities" makes me pretty sure they want straight whites only cities.

Republicans genuinely believe freedom is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

She wasn't British, but her Knee Spears were.

Brit Knee Spears... Was that her Native American name?

One and a half.

God, Trump's not actually going to make flying cars available. He's just going to call all cars "flying cars", and his cultists will insist they can fly because gravity is liberal fake news.

The right wing in 1920s Weimar Germany whipped up a moral panic targeted very specifically against black African soldiers in the French army who were serving on occupation duty in the Rhineland: "Die schwarze Schmach", the "Black Disgrace". The propaganda campaign peaked in 1920-23 and it attracted a lot of support from sections of the English-speaking press, voicing demands for the immediate withdrawal of black soldiers from Germany because they were "savages" and "primitives".

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