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Except for some weird topics on the internet there's nothing religious about Christmas.
Where I live it's two days free (25 and 26) and for most people one or two weeks free. This is to brighten up the darkest winter days. It's a time to see family and friends and do fun things. It makes people more happy (except lonely people who are generally less happy during christmas). For the same reason we put up lights and other decorations. And put a tree with decorations in our house. It's a weird but fun tradition. Some people give presents. some people have a big dinner.
Christmas is celebrated by athiests, christians, sometimes muslims and jews as well except if they're very religious, and most of all by normal (as in not affiliated with a religion) people. They all think it's okay to celebrate because they grew up with it and/or everyone is doing it, having fun and harming nobody.
The only religious thing that's connected is the christmas stable based on the story of baby Jesus. But I don't see a deep religious meaning in that story.
Easter is even less religious. It actually does have a christian backstory with some meaning, but I don't know anyone who connects that with easter. Easter is all about spring, flowers, searching and eating eggs, food and seeing family.

These bakers have religious freedom. And they don't appreciate it.
They live in a great country. They are free to believe what they want. They are free to read what they want, pray how they want to, attend a church of choice, even build their own church. Most people in the world are not so lucky.

If they are ever in danger, police/firemen/paramedics will come to their aid. Without refusing them for their skin colour, gender or political views.
If they are hungry they can buy any food they want wherever they want. Without being rejected based on their hair color or on their choice of partner in life.

I have a really hard time understanding why people who live in a system like that can be hateful and start discriminating other people based on how they were born or on their life choices.
I mean, I don't want to marry a guy, but if some other guy does, then who am I to refuse him his happiness? I don't want to be forced in my choices, so why should I force other people?

These bakers are making a mockery of "religious freedom". They were just asked to bake a cake and not be discriminatory about it. If you start allowing discrimination for simple things (like refusing to sell a cake) then it'll start to turn ugly really quick. First the guy couple is refused a cake, a bit later they're refused food and drinks in lots of shops. And after the gay couple it's other groups turn. No cake and good food for people with the wrong religion etc. That path can only lead to hatred and apartheid.

It's called football everywhere except the US. Because, well, it's about playing with a ball and your feet.
American football is mostly about holding the ball and throwing so it should look for a better name. (Handball is already taken by another sport.) Handegg sounds dumb.

The only fun thing about football (soccer for americans) is the competitiveness between countries every 2 year when there's a continental or world cup. During (semi or quarter) finals nobody goes to work and the streets are empty.
I don't care about club football and the multi millionaires playing their (sometimes fixed) matches.

Sarcasthma posted...

benbeverfaqs posted...

And lastly there is no option for people who are not religious!

(other) please specify

The question was What religion are you? and What do you believe on?
I assumed "other" meant another religion, not in the poll, like Sikhism or Zoroastrianism.
Not religious is a big group, and very different from "other religions".

Why would a girl not like the dirty stuff? I know girls who are into that.

I see the bluray episode 1-6 collection new for ~60.
On DVD it's a lot cheaper. Especially second hand.
Star Wars is a fan favourite. Regular second hand DVD's are 0,50 or 1, Star Wars can be a little bit more.

sounds like spam but you won't know if you don't try.

So this person "bought a house because of the show"?
No, that's not cruel.
I'd love to play in a show like that, and I'd like to buy a house.
Also this person wasn't fired. This person is just not needed in the next season of filming. A very common thing in a series like this. The actors know this. And they know when they'll get to read the script.

10/10

I should extract a point because some species are almost extinct but they're not for sale here anyway.
I've eaten tuna in a michelin star Japanese restaurant. It was crazy delicious. I can't give anything less than a 10.
Average sashimi gets a 7 or 8. Well prepared tuna steaks get a 9.
Frozen tuna is useable in things like oven dishes.

I'm not counting canned tuna since there's never tuna in them. They contain skipjack, a Tuna like fish. Canned "tuna" can be good in sandwiches and salads.

Maybe because controllers are an extension of your body, and thus people find it harder to take criticism? They're also part of an expensive console, and it's no fun hearing you wasted money on the wrong console.

Personally I like to use a lot of different controllers. The only thing I really don't like is the asymmetrical placement of the analog sticks on the xbox controllers, where one is high and one is low, can't really get used to that.
(that, and broken N64 analog sticks)

Resident Evil 4 came to mind because people claim that it did, but it's simply not true.

Resident Evil 4 was a great game. The series was in a bad state with games that few people were interested in like Resident Evil Zero or the shooter games. Then Resident Evil 4 came along with a breath of fresh air, great graphics and atmosphere, freedom of movement, fun to explore. It was connected to the main series, but with some side characters and a new twist (fast infected zombies). With that it didn't infringe too much on the old games, but added to them instead.

Resident Evil 4 could have saved the series. If the next game was as good or better than Resident Evil 4, and as -or preferably more- scary.
Instead the next game, Resident Evil 5, was much more action oriented, with a real time inventory, and an annoying coop partner that was always there distracting you.
Resident Evil 5 had two DLC, desperate escape (non stop shooting) and Lost in Nightmares. If only the whole game was as good as Lost in Nightmares. This DLC showed that they could make an atmospheric scary game. But the sales people wanted action and shooting.

The next game, Resident Evil 6, was more action heavy, and tried to be Call of Duty. Meanwhile other horror games took over the genre. Like Dead Space (which ironically went the same road) and Outlast.

Resident Evil 4 was the last great game in the series. But it didn't ruin it. It could've saved it. If only Resident Evil 5 was more like 4.

That one guy had it pretty good.. what's his name again, Kim Yong Un, he looks well fed.

Your poll is flawed;
Catholic is Christian (did you mean non-catholic christian religions with christian?)
Buddhism is not a religion (I know in some places it's used and practiced as a religion, but in most places it's a way of life. And you haven't listed other non religious way of lives so it stands out.)
You spelled Atheist wrong.
And lastly there is no option for people who are not religious!
A lot of people, almost everyone I know, are just not religious. They're not agnostic (they think they know there is no higher being) and they're not atheist (because they're not anti religion.)

99% muslim. Former French colony. Mostly desert. It's in between Morocco and Tunesia, and both are better places. A lot of people try to reach Europe by boat. Then they go to France and live shitty lives in a suburb of Paris. Can't give this higher than a 2/10.

Depends on where you live. Just go to a place where it's not illegal.
It's perfectly legal where I live. In fact I have 2 female friends who used to do that for fun and for some extra money.

It can be illegal for a bunch of different reasons, for example:
-To protect the female from being abused. To protect her from doing things she'll regret later to solve money problems now. Or to protect her from people making her sell herself and keeping the money for themselves.
-To protect males from having to pay for sex. Some women like sex, and like it even more when they're getting 100 per hour.

kislev posted...

I've notice this is only done by Women in the Western world (Usa,Canada,UK,Australia and etc), but when i talk to women in Russia i always get nice and well though out responses and they dont pretend to be "busy" ir play other childish games while texting, so why is it that western women just cant be mature adults?

You list English speaking countries. That's not the whole western world. People in some other western countries are much more direct and will just give you "no" for an answer.

The girls that are "busy" clearly enjoy their cellphone game more than your company. That should be a hint that they're not interested in a conversation. They'd rather not be impolite and say "no" so they pretend to be "busy". That or they play hard to get, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Note that women use a lot more non verbal communication than men, and (if they're young) just don't understand how (a lot of men) just don't understand most non verbal communicaton.

Giving Russian girls as an example is weird. Girls are a russian export product. Ever since WW2 there are more females than males in Russia. And a lot of men are poor and/or addicted. Girls from Russia, or Thailand or The Phillipines are much more inclined to make smalltalk to western (meaning probably rich) people.

OmegaTomHank posted...

When a random dude on the street asks me to use my cell phone, I dont get myself worked up in some hysterical attempt to avoid telling him no
I just politely tell him to fuck off.

I ask him for the reason then lend him my phone? He's probably desperate for a call or something if he asks strangers. I've lended my phone to people on the street to make a short call before. I've even asked someone on the street to use his phone a couple of years ago. Which was no problem.
You must live in a really bad neighbourhood.

Actually it only has a 6/10 on rotten tomatoes and a 5.5/10 on metacritic.

But critics are often dead wrong, copying each others scores, getting paid for scores or rating without seeing a movie or series.

Notable examples are the reboot Star Trek movies, The Ghostbuster remake and the science fiction series The Orville.

I've visited that country. Was a trip from Corfu (Greece)
ok country
only 3 million people. Half of them muslim.
They were f***** over by communism for a long time.
Growing tourism.

I enjoyed the scripts you wrote of these hollywood anime movies ^
(but I'd never want to see them as a movie XD )

I hate it when they (the US) are censoring or editting foreign movies or series. Like anime dubs (where Ash Ketchum eats "donuts" that look exactly like rice balls and nothing else) or censored games or manga. Especially when it makes its way here via the US. Leave your silly censoring in the US please!

As for Franchises getting an American version (also known sometimes as whitewashing).. like Goku or Naruto in New York.. I don't care much. I'll most probably skip it.
The American The Ring movie remake was pretty good though. Not as good as the Japanese Ring movie, but still worth a watch and plenty different.

In most cases I definitely don't need the americanization. There are already a lot of (great) movies, series, games and other media from the US and/or that take place in the US. Culturally it's very over represented.

FatalAccident posted...

benbeverfaqs posted...

We usually call them Americans. We also call people from the continent of America Americans. None of them are offended btw.
If we talk about an American coffee farmer, we'll know he's from Central or South America.

except nobody really does this though
99% of the time if you're referring to somebody from south or central america you'll refer to them as south american or brasilian/chilean/argentinian or whatever before you refer to them as simply "american". as "american" is used for people from the US 99% of the time. the thing is everybody and their dog knows this idk why this needs a topiclet alone people debating it lol

Because talking about things is fun.
What country are you from where american means "from the US" pretty much exclusively?

Where I'm from American tends to mean "from the US" about 90% of the time when talking about people. And even more when talking about typical USA things like military or movies. But less than 90% when it involves items, biology, travel or history. Then american can mean the country or the continent.

Thing is, it's usually clear what people are talking about. American politics means the US, that's country specific. Usually with people it's country specific, and only the USA used the name of the continent in its name.

That's some nice Jello!

Polemon sounds like a disease

Cacciato posted...

benbeverfaqs posted...

In the eyes of people from Europe or Asia, he is from the "new world"; America.

I want all the European posters on this board to tell me what they call people from the USA.

We usually call them Americans. We also call people from the continent of America Americans. None of them are offended btw.
If we talk about an American coffee farmer, we'll know he's from Central or South America.

"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." (Psalm 137:9)

So 1/10 is a horrific hellhole.
Let's see:

99% is muslim.
20% of children die before reaching the age of 5.
10% of girls can go to school. (these girl schools tend to blow up a lot)
40% of girls marry before reaching the age of 18. 33% of them have children by then.
2%-6% of females die during childbirth.
Opium producing country number 1.
Millions of drug addicts (a high percentage)
36% of people can read.
<15% of females can read.

I'll give this poor landlocked country a 3/10. One extra point is for fighting off the russians that tries to take their country. Another point is because it's better nowadays then when it was ruled by taliban not too long ago. At least children can go to school now.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

no, if they are from America it means they are from the USA. if they are from Canada they are Canadians, if Mexico they are Mexicans, if from a country in south america like Brazil they are Brazilians

I'll assume you're trolling now, but it's an interesting topic anyway.

You have it the wrong way around:
If people are from the USA it means they are Americans.
The other way around is not (always) true, Americans can be from the USA, but they can also be from other places. The country The United States of America is not the only place with the name America.

For one, and it's pretty big, there is the continent. People from North, Middle or South America are from the continent America. That means they are American. This includes Canadians, Mexicans and Brazilians.
A guy can be from the city Mexico City, country Mexico, continent America.
In the eyes of people from Europe or Asia, he is from the "new world"; America.

To make it interesting, there are cities called America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America,_Limburg
Over 2000 people live there. They're Americans and also Europeans. They're from the city America, but not from the country or continent America.
There are also cities called Amerika or Amrica. There even used to be cities in America that were named America.

benbever

None. I've fallen but don't break those easily.

Didn't get it at first but you were talking about ice hockey.
I was imagining regular shoes with knives added in regular hockey.

Far-Queue posted...

benbeverfaqs posted...

Nintendo dropped out of the "race" when they released the Wii.
Now they're just selling consoles. not bound by "generations" and minimum technical specs. The wii was up against the PS2, not the PS3. The WiiU was up against people who thought it was a black Wii. And the switch is just trying to sell a lot. It's in competition with the PS4 and the xbox1, but not more so than it is in competition with pc games, and mobile games. And other toys.
I hope it sells a lot. But most people aren't choosing between a PS4 OR a switch. They're different consoles, with different games. I bought both.

Awful lot of wrong in this post.

Actually nothing was wrong with that post. And you sure went out of your way making a list of things you thought were wrong...

I like hot. 30-40 degrees, which it's never here.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

if someone says they are from America it means they are from the USA.

Yes, it could mean that, or it could mean that they are from another country in America. (Please read the topic before posting)

dainkinkaide posted...

The original Thirteen Colonies were actually called Columbia for awhile. This was a perfectly good name that nobody else was using. They could have gone with the United States of Columbia, called themselves Columbians, and everything would have been hunky dory.

Isn't Columbia a city or a state in the US? anyway I agree that'd be a pretty good name.

But the United Kingdom isn't the "United Kingdom of Eurasia". It's the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". That country is quite specific about where the kingdom is. The people of this country call themselves British, English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish. They don't take their demonym from the name of an entire continental landmass.

European Union might be a better example.
28 countries united and named their unison after their continent.
16 European countries are on the continent but not in the union.

Nintendo dropped out of the "race" when they released the Wii.
Now they're just selling consoles. not bound by "generations" and minimum technical specs. The wii was up against the PS2, not the PS3. The WiiU was up against people who thought it was a black Wii. And the switch is just trying to sell a lot. It's in competition with the PS4 and the xbox1, but not more so than it is in competition with pc games, and mobile games. And other toys.
I hope it sells a lot. But most people aren't choosing between a PS4 OR a switch. They're different consoles, with different games. I bought both.

Suicide is always sad, especially at that age.

Your article is written so messy and one sided that I have no idea who to vote for. Please stop making polls like this.

American has two meanings:
1. From the continent(s) of America.
2. From the country United States of America.

I don't see the huge problem. If unclear then just specify.

American coffee beans -> From the continent, they don't grow coffee large scale in the US.
American aircraft carrier -> Military is country specific and I don't think other American countries even have those.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Afroeurasia, Americas, Australia, Antarctica. That's it.

That's just landmasses. And America pretty recently connected north and south. Landmasses =/= continents. Your list arbitrarily leaves out Greenland and Madagascar.
Continents are arbitrary too, but they're based on landmass, tectonics, history (a big part), culture, biology etc. That's why sometimes America is split in two, Eurasia is sometimes counted as one, and Antarctica is sometimes left out (big landmass but no people).

dainkinkaide posted...

Mexico, or more properly, Estados Unidos Mexicanos, the United Mexican States. Likewise, Brazil is a federated republic of an inseparable union of states. Granted, at the time the United States of America chose its name, neither of these countries had yet united their states, but it was still mighty arrogant to assume that no other countries in America would form a union of states.

I meant to say that no other unison of nations had taken on the name of the continent yet. Since they were a unison of american nations, and the name was free, I think it was fair, and not arrogant. Though it might not have been the best choice. I don't think they prohibited other new nations from picking the same name, though none did. They were called united colonies before. Even though there were other colonies around. There's also a United Kingdom (UK) even though there are a lot of other kingdoms.

To be honest I thought of Mexico and Brazil as just two countries. But it makes sense that it's a unison of smaller countries/states/provinces/districts. Most countries are.
The Netherlands was originally the Seven Provinces.
Spain was made up of a lot of smaller countries (some want out).
Same with Italy and Germany; lots of small kingdoms united.

This is absurd nonsense and you should be ashamed posting it.
I feel sorry for the kid, whatever's going on.

A 9 year old is not a porn addict, that's just utter nonsense.

"he went from playing with his sisters to BERATING them. He started to disrespect his sisters AND his mom and women in general!! He spent hours looking at hardcore and violent porn and graphic images of women while pretending he did school work as he tried to "mimick" what he saw and his sisters were scared to be alone with him"
Sounds like some b******t anti-porn anti-freedom christian propaganda.

"The recovering porn addict said he kept his porn habit a secret and watched 24/7, non stop in the middle of the night"
I wonder how his parents could not have noticed their child watching porn 24 hours a day, not even taking a break to eat or sleep. Maybe the parents were in church 24 hours a day?

"The Christian family home schooled their child because they did not trust a public school system for their children and hoped to raise their kids with religious value"
Because letting the kid watch porn 24 hours a day is better and more christian than going to school??
This is not very believable.

Ones that don't censor anime, so viz and funimation are out

Zangulus posted...

Well, basically. However a wedding is usually the ceremony. (Which I inferred from your talk of cheap versus expensive ones) and marriages are the act of being wedded or married.

Ah like that. Then wedding would've been the better choice of words.
In my case a wedding would be expensive (and a cheap one pointless).
A marriage (as in living together married) also has no legal or financial benefits for us. (While not being married has (a small) tax profit.)

dainkinkaide posted...

But hey, this is the kind of thing that happens when you arrogantly name your country like you're the only one in the Americas that matters.

To be honest, they were -states- in -America- that -united- and then called their unison the United States of America. Which became a country.
While there are other states/countries in America, there are no other united states in/of America. The name is fair, and not arrogant.

Compare with European Union. Not a country but the countries in it share some things like military or currency. People in it call themselves Europeans. Just like how people in the United States call themselves Americans.
Doesn't mean that people in Europe but outside of the Union are not Europeans. Or people outside of the United States but in America are not Americans.

I noticed people from The United states of America call the rest of America "The Americas" instead of just America, which they reserve for their own country.

Zangulus posted...

benbeverfaqs posted...

Because a marriage is expensive and won't add anything to our relationship.
A cheap marriage is possible but pointless.

I think youre confusing wedding and marriage.

I thought they were the same.

According to wikipedia they're pretty much the same. Wedded and married. Or wedding and marriage.
(Marriage is a socially or ritually recognized union, or legal contract between spouses.)

Another website tells me that
"wedded is (of a couple) joined in marriage while married is in a state of marriage; having a wife or a husband."

I still fail to see a difference.

Because a marriage is expensive and won't add anything to our relationship.
A cheap marriage is possible but pointless.

More poll options make for a better poll.
They should split the "never" into:
-not yet but I want to
-no I'm not going to play that

Somewhere between the first and second option.
Most people are ok, and actually can be trusted.

Muscles posted...

America isn't the whole 2 continents, there is North America (continent) South America (another continent) and America (country)

Assuming you're trolling I'll answer anyway. And I very much doubt people in south america get offended by Americans calling themselves Americans.

America is the whole continent west of the Atlantic Ocean. It's one continent according to France, Italy, Spain, Latin America, the United Nations and the Olympic games (hence the five rings, one is for America).
Some contintent models separate North and South America. Such as the 7 continent model. Which is used in the US and most of Western Europe. It's the model that makes the most sense in a lot of ways (geographically, historically, biologically).
This splits the (super) continent of America into North America and South America. Like the supercontinent of Eurasia can be split into Europe and Asia.

America is the "new world", named after Amerigo Vespucci, born 1454. the First guy who showed that brazil and the west indies were not the same as the east indies.

If you tell me you're "American" I won't know if you're from the US, or from another country in North or South America.
America (or American) is used a lot as short for United States of America. So I'll probably assume someone who claims to be American is from the US. Especially if they're speaking English. Other countries in America usually refer to their country, not the continent.

Because of dyslexia. Not all brains work the same way.
And some have trouble with words that sound the same being spelled differently.
Spelling, especially in English, is pretty arbitrary.
Think Knight, Night, Nite. They sound the same. But are written differently. Some words that sound the same but mean different things are written the same way. And some words that sound the same have different spelling. That's not very logical, and some brains have trouble with that.

In other cases people just don't care, or are just dumb, or received little education. Mostly one of those four reasons. Or trolling.

It was already the capital for decades. It had all the seats and important stuff. The US just had it's embassy in Tel Aviv, the bigger and more modern city. And now the US moves their embassy and acknowledges the capital, which makes sense.

Of course Jeruzalem is also the capital of the Palestine State, which doesn't get recognized by the US (neither the state nor the capital) despite the palestine people clearly living there.

To acknowledge one (instead of ignoring/postponing it) is good. Ignoring the other is not good. Hence why I choose "indecisive" in this poll.

15 years is a bit much for vandalism but I've probably not heard the whole story

I'd want to protect my family with a gun if I lived in a country where everyone had a gun.
Luckily I don't live in a country like that, meaning nobody needs a gun and everyone is more safe.