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1stGear posted:The r/relationships thread occasionally gets one from a repressed hyper-Christian about to get married and they are both hilarious and sad. There was one from a woman who's identity was so tied up in being a virgin that she was considering breaking off her engagement so she wouldn't have to have sex with her fiancee. I thought the whole point of the virgin thing was to be "pure" for marriage 
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Yeah, but if that's enforced through 'and then you will be broken and dirty', which is often the subtext, and you're personally doubting the God Almighty sanctioned institute of marriage is sufficient to cleanse how dirty you're told that the act is, it can put you off the whole thing altogether. That's how you end up with Shakers and clerical celibacy.
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah, but if that's enforced through 'and then you will be broken and dirty', which is often the subtext, and you're personally doubting the God Almighty sanctioned institute of marriage is sufficient to cleanse how dirty you're told that the act is, it can put you off the whole thing altogether. Yup, sayings like “who wants a used [whatever]?” or “you’ll be stained by sin (and also penis)” and even less subtle sayings, too. There are tons of hang ups about sex and how the act is intrinsically dirty and dirtying, and the misogyny means a lot of the pressure and opprobrium fall on women and young girls
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Reminder. Chowder took a few mins on his wedding night to post an essay about how he's so happy at losing his v-card.
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   sure does, when the thing you don't agree with is the extermination of ethnic and religious minorities   dueling was about people being offended and thus challenging each other to restore their honor  being willfully dumb doesn't make you right  need a safe space from meredith viera?  I'm not mad, are you mad?  they held a trial, my dude.  Anti-DACA. First this country was a house metaphor. Then it's a car metaphor.  There is no worse meme than willy wonka memes
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PhazonLink posted:Reminder. I had to do a double take to make sure you'd actually written Chowder, and I didn't just replace it in my head. And man, that's just sad. What he wrote, that is.
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Defenestration posted:
Poor Gene Wilder. People are going to think he was a smug prick.
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I've inoculated myself from Wonka memes because I read this clickhole article. Every time I see one, I just laugh thinking about the obscene gestures: 6 Hand Gestures Considered Insulting In Foreign Cultures 
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This but unironically. 
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quote:They didn't even manage to properly censor the swear. 
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah, but if that's enforced through 'and then you will be broken and dirty', which is often the subtext, and you're personally doubting the God Almighty sanctioned institute of marriage is sufficient to cleanse how dirty you're told that the act is, it can put you off the whole thing altogether. I love the messianic schizophrenic who found my work email.   
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Man that is some purestrain crazy right there. I read it about five times and I can't even begin to understand it.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Man that is some purestrain crazy right there. I read it about five times and I can't even begin to understand it. Any public facing government email address gets CC'd a lot of these alongside the president and the entire senate. They are quite... fun
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Yeah, I get these from time to time. But the ones who think they're Christ tend to email a lot more around the holidays, go figure. I wonder what happens when you put two of them in a room together. It must happen. Edit: My best pal worked at a law library, and libraries are a magnet for this sort of thing because they attract people who are, for example, living out of a van and researching their lawsuit against, uh, the entire federal government for, uh, putting mind-control surveillance cybernetic implants in their dog. Here's a letter he got that was also copied to the entire government: quote:EVERYBODY SAW HER TRAVEL THE WHOLE WAY BECAUSE I WASN'T MAKING A MOVE TO HER LYING rear end. SHE HAD TO BRING HER LYING rear end PUSSY ALL THE WAY TO THE HOTEL ROOM. If I thought the "truth serum" was anything stronger than grape Nehi, I'd feel obliged to contact the police. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Dec 12, 2017 |
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I'm publicly listed as a member of a university chemistry department, so we'd get the occasional nut wanting us to denounce Einstein and acknowledge they disproved thermodynamics or whatever. Usually more coherent than the straight-up schizophrenics though; they didn't have that tell-tale grammatical style.Halloween Jack posted:Yeah, I get these from time to time. But the ones who think they're Christ tend to email a lot more around the holidays, go figure. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti is what happens.
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Halloween Jack posted:Yeah, I get these from time to time. But the ones who think they're Christ tend to email a lot more around the holidays, go figure. idk why you're posting extracts from philip k. dick books itt
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Goon Danton posted:I'm publicly listed as a member of a university chemistry department, so we'd get the occasional nut wanting us to denounce Einstein and acknowledge they disproved thermodynamics or whatever. Usually more coherent than the straight-up schizophrenics though; they didn't have that tell-tale grammatical style. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5706370/ Gere, Dinklage, Goggins, Whitford. That's a hell of a cast for an awesome sounding movie I've never heard of.
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 Looks like the salt to melt the ice on the roads came just in time.
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Years ago I had a summer job working in the archives for my reservation's tribal government. It was during some sort of reorganization so it involved a lot of going through giant folders and seeing what needed to be kept and what could be shredded. A lot of stuff was mail that was saved for whatever reason. And, uh, man people sent us a lot of weird poo poo. One thing that I remember was a big booklet extolling the "Sovran Nation" which was some sort of cult/scam that stated that natives were in fact descendants of the ancient Egyptians and had magic crystal powers. This was a few dozen pages long and written in single spaced times new roman. Then there were several things sent by people who were likely mentally ill. Pages of handwritten letters talking about how it was our destiny to help them open their third eye, complete with illustrations. This is what new age mysticism stereotypes get you.
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Remember though, it's the democRATS who insult rural southerners.
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TinTower posted:
This person seems a little confused about what senators do.
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Maybe they're going by the precedent of previous one, in which case going in girls' bathrooms in AL wouldn't be too far off the mark.
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TinTower posted:
Good. Gooood. Let the salt flow.
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Keeshhound posted:"If women and minorities would just quit demanding we deal with their problems and work on advancing REAL leftist causes, we'd already have full communism and then EVERYONE would be better off." people who think like this are the exact reason we don't have full communism yet fyi
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Hahahaha I got in a net neutrality argument with a libertarian and they brought up power privatization here in Texas as an argument/example against neutrality
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Wasn't that the Enron thing?
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Arglebargle III posted:Wasn't that the Enron thing? That was the unregulated power plant that blew up a few years ago, I think. Edit: a quick Google search shows there's been several that have happened in this millennium, in Texas alone. Whoops!
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seiferguy posted:That was the unregulated power plant that blew up a few years ago, I think. Reminds me of my Wikipedia editing days, where I was have a (polite) argument with someone about an aspect of the Texas City Disaster. We then realised we were talking about two different Texas City Disasters out of the multiple Texas City Disasters that have happened.
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Hobnob posted:Reminds me of my Wikipedia editing days, where I was have a (polite) argument with someone about an aspect of the Texas City Disaster. We then realised we were talking about two different Texas City Disasters out of the multiple Texas City Disasters that have happened. I would call home when I heard something on the news about Texas City. Every time, they would say "it was nothing."
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Power used to be state run in a way with a single provider, but a decade or two ago they privatized it to where there are many different middle men who each have ~equal access~ to the infrastructure. He seriously could not see the irony. And he started the convo with a picture that had a huge strawman doing a herp-de-derp level argument too. I'd link it but he took it down.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Hahahaha I got in a net neutrality argument with a libertarian and they brought up power privatization here in Texas as an argument/example against neutrality Libertarians imagine that after the big revolution. They will be captains of industry as opposed to the ones cleaning the toilets.
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His argument seemed to revolve around net neutrality is not needed because people will go to businesses who practice it voluntarily, and those businesses will happen once crony governments are forbidden from villainously making monopolies and new businesses magically pop up complete with infrastructure.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Hahahaha I got in a net neutrality argument with a libertarian and they brought up power privatization here in Texas as an argument/example against neutrality Glenn Beck actually used electric power as an argument against net neutrality too. His argument was "Remember what we did with electricity? We said it was so necessary that we made it a commodity, because everybody needs equal access. But the problem is that solar power is getting cheaper, and not now but maybe in the next ten years as much as 30% of households will be 'off the grid' because it'll be cheaper to just install solar panels. What do you think that will do to the rest of the people who are still paying for power? If we'd just let the free market take care of the electricity situation then everything would be fine. The same principle should be applied to the internet."
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So in 10 years people will just make their own internet for cheaper than connecting to the internet proper? Like a return to the BBS days?
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In ten years SA will just be an enormous group text. It might make it hard to follow, but we'll be free of government oppression.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Glenn Beck actually used electric power as an argument against net neutrality too. His argument was "Remember what we did with electricity? We said it was so necessary that we made it a commodity, because everybody needs equal access. But the problem is that solar power is getting cheaper, and not now but maybe in the next ten years as much as 30% of households will be 'off the grid' because it'll be cheaper to just install solar panels. What do you think that will do to the rest of the people who are still paying for power? If we'd just let the free market take care of the electricity situation then everything would be fine. The same principle should be applied to the internet." how does anyone argue that's a bad thing? I can't think of a single economic school that would portray that as bad for the consumer. Demand drops by up to 30% so an austrian would argue prices lower as a result, a chicago schooler would say a monopoly would form from major companies buying out minor stakeholders and drive more people to renewables, a marxist just says "well we nationalise the rest and subsidise it". There's no possible scenario prices go up because it's a huge increase in competition and maintenance costs remain the same. That's a dumb take by his low standards.
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Ashcans posted:In ten years SA will just be an enormous group text. It might make it hard to follow, but we'll be free of government oppression. I think you just invented Twitter.
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PerniciousKnid posted:I think you just invented Twitter. Now's our chance to kill it before it spreads.
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PerniciousKnid posted:I think you just invented Twitter. gently caress, better put me out my misery.
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Guavanaut posted:So in 10 years people will just make their own internet for cheaper than connecting to the internet proper? Like a return to the BBS days? No, he's saying that In ten years we'll all transcend our mortal bodies and connect our souls to the natural internet that flows all around us ceaselessly from a natural source just waiting to be tapped into.
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