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platedlizard
Aug 31, 2012

I like plates and lizards.

LogisticEarth posted:

Sadly, it appears like he's got some sort of hose in his hand, so it only looks like he's using the teat. I was wondering how the hell he was getting that much pressure "naturally".



Nope, it's from the teat. I think that's the cow's lead on on the ground.



That's not to say they weren't using hoses, however.



Or dumping milk into fields.



The price of milk began falling in 2007 in Europe, triggering the protests when the price of milk dropped below the cost of production. The protests are still continuing as late as Nov. 2012.



2009 protest
2012 protest

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casa de mi padre
Sep 3, 2012
Black people are the real racists!

bpower posted:

Have these idiots ever been to a dairy farm? First thing you notice? There's poo poo everywhere. Its hard to find a representative picture on the net because all the pictures are from show farms. Heres a normal one. Remember this has never looked better than it does in the picture.


Please, those random specks of feces mixed in with cow's milk only strengthen the immune system. It's natures way of keeping you healthy!

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Bill Clinton was the best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ypwjeF9psg

az
Dec 2, 2005

casa de mi padre posted:

Please, those random specks of feces mixed in with cow's milk only strengthen the immune system. It's natures way of keeping you healthy!



So what do they want to talk about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS0W99z2kfI

AlternateAccount
Apr 25, 2005
FYGM


A few of apparently several photos deleted from Trayvon Martin's phone, along with text messages by Fourth Judicial Circuit Information Technology Director Ben Kruidbos. That's not ideal.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/29/3422519/lawyer-zimmerman-prosecutor-withheld.html

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS


Today in history: May 30, 1937 - In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators and beat and injured many more at the Republic Steel plant in Chicago. The incident took place during the "Little Steel Strike" organized by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). No police were ever prosecuted.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

JaggerMcDagger
Feb 13, 2012

Bringing you Barry from the sordid depths of the Internet
Hey guys, did you know that Obama is Literally the Worst?




ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
"Vietnam in my heart"


"Nothing More Precious Than Independence and Freedom – They Have Chosen Uncle Ho’s Path”"


"We salute newly-erected buildings!"


"Peace will win the war"


"CNT - AIT - FAI Forward! Freedom fighters!"




Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

AlternateAccount posted:



A few of apparently several photos deleted from Trayvon Martin's phone, along with text messages by Fourth Judicial Circuit Information Technology Director Ben Kruidbos. That's not ideal.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/29/3422519/lawyer-zimmerman-prosecutor-withheld.html

How are these pictures relevant to the case? What, so because Trayvon Martin smoked weed and took a picture of a gun that makes it okay for him to have been killed? The judge threw this evidence out of court, and for good reason.



152 mm Howitzer battery fires during Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, 1944.


What are they complaining about?

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

He push a man



Crasscrab posted:

What are they complaining about?

Autism Speaks is a funnels money into research for pre-natal screening of autism and, in a thousand words:

The Dark One
Aug 19, 2005

I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!






SwimmingSpider
Jan 3, 2008


Jön, jön, jön a vizipók.
Várják már a tólakók.
Ez a kis pók ügyes búvár.
Sok új kaland is még rá vár.
Here's Fox pissing themselves about women earning money for their families:

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

And here's an upcoming kid's show about a transvestite superhero (that conservatives are also pissing themselves about):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW3FBjKt7Co
.

a bad enough dude
Jun 30, 2007

APPARENTLY NOT A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO STICK TO ONE THING AT A TIME WHETHER ITS PBPS OR A SHITTY BROWSER GAME THAT I BEG MONEY FOR AND RIPPED FROM TROPICO. ALSO I LET RETARDED UKRANIANS THAT CAN'T PROGRAM AND HAVE 2000 HOURS IN GARRY'S MOD RUN MY SHIT.

AlexanderCA posted:

Disturbingly sobering isn't the words I'd use, "I will burn in hell for laughing at this" maybe.

US forces also used horses when working with the northern alliance in the invasion of Afghanistan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Response_Monument


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

tyler is a joke
Apr 28, 2013

Rhinoceraptor posted:

Here's Fox pissing themselves about women earning money for their families:

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


Don't worry, Erick Erickson walked this back on his radio show today.

Oh wait no he didn't.

platedlizard
Aug 31, 2012

I like plates and lizards.

Rhinoceraptor posted:

Here's Fox pissing themselves about women earning money for their families:

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

.

quote:

Fox's Erick Erickson: "When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and female in society, and the other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it's not antithesis, or it's not competing, it's a complimentary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complimentary relationships in nuclear families, and it's tearing us apart."

I'm not surprised that sexist assholes don't know much about science or nature. Our own national symbol shows how much of a crock of poo poo that is.

Deceitful Penguin
Feb 16, 2011

Rhinoceraptor posted:

Here's Fox pissing themselves about women earning money for their families:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kORINpVUEtE
My ma always had a better paying job than my dad. This has never even been even the tiniest of issues, ever. I wonder what it's like to be so mentally regressed to think that it should be a matter of any importance.

Babylon Astronaut
Apr 19, 2012

platedlizard posted:

I'm not surprised that sexist assholes don't know much about science or nature. Our own national symbol shows how much of a crock of poo poo that is.
They only use science to support their preconceived perceptions; never to answer a question.

Look at these godless heathens. Surely this isn't natural (the little clingy things are the male angler fish).


Figure 2: the liberal agenda.


Yea, I find it hard to support the crush your balls initiative called "man spreading." It's almost like there is a reason to not tightly cross your legs.
VV

Babylon Astronaut fucked around with this message at 03:29 on May 31, 2013

MinionOfCthulhu
Oct 28, 2005

I got this title for free due to my proximity to an idiot who wanted to save $5 on an avatar by having someone else spend $9.95 instead.

Babylon Astronaut posted:

They only use science to support their preconceived perceptions; never to answer a question.

Look at these godless heathens. Surely this isn't natural (the little clingy things are the male angler fish).


They are eventually absorbed into the female, leaving nothing put a pair of gonads to pump sperm into the female every now and then. Fox News is afraid of literally this happening to us. :cry:

Deceitful Penguin posted:

My ma always had a better paying job than my dad. This has never even been even the tiniest of issues, ever. I wonder what it's like to be so mentally regressed to think that it should be a matter of any importance.



There's a whole tumblr about this and it comes off as super crazy.


"legs spread, feet across the whole aisle, ahhh to be a white man in the morning"

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



Yeah, those "man spreading" people are crazy. If the people on that tumblr were, like, lying down on the seats or pushing people or whatever I'd get it, but taking pictures of white guys on buses is hardly emblematic of privilege.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/V1Tc9QP.jpg][/img]

"One good turn deserves another"

Deceitful Penguin
Feb 16, 2011

MinionOfCthulhu posted:

There's a whole tumblr about this and it comes off as super crazy.


"legs spread, feet across the whole aisle, ahhh to be a white man in the morning"
Yeah, it was a fun read when it first came up. I do think it's legit hilarious when women tell me though that I'm mansplaining when I talk about how it's more comfortable when you have your knees apart. Like, denying my physical experiences much????
(the real point, as far as I can tell is how men and women are conditioned differently to think of public spaces and deal with being touched by strangers, rather than the base physicalities of genitalia, but it´s still amusing to be on the receiving end of having your experiences denied)

Simone de Beauvoir at a Café.

Red Mundus
Oct 22, 2010

MinionOfCthulhu posted:

There's a whole tumblr about this and it comes off as super crazy.

Dear god, everyone needs to read the FAQ. It isn't just creepy, it's also misogynistic as hell. Tell me more about how all women think/act/behave in public? :allears:


Deceitful Penguin
Feb 16, 2011

Red Mundus posted:

Dear god, everyone needs to read the FAQ. It isn't just creepy, it's also misogynistic as hell. Tell me more about how all women think/act/behave in public? :allears:
Don't forget how it tells us men are raging beasts that can't be reasoned with: the real way to solve this problem is to make a passive-aggressive blog about it on tumblr and somehow this will solve alles. Or it's just venting, eh. Not everything has to have a serious message behind it.

duodenum
Sep 18, 2005

Deceitful Penguin posted:

I do think it's legit hilarious when women tell me though that I'm mansplaining when I talk about how it's more comfortable when you have your knees apart. Like, denying my physical experiences much????
(the real point, as far as I can tell is how men and women are conditioned differently to think of public spaces and deal with being touched by strangers, rather than the base physicalities of genitalia, but it´s still amusing to be on the receiving end of having your experiences denied)

There's also the whole thing about men's and women's pelvic bones being shaped differently and, generally, different adipose tissue distribution in the whole buttocks area. It probably makes for quite different seating experiences, especially on hard surfaces.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

MinionOfCthulhu posted:

There's a whole tumblr about this and it comes off as super crazy.

That tumbler seems devoted more to people who take up multiple seats in public transit which is really super loving annoying more than ranting a men projecting their penii around the bus.

Miltank
Dec 27, 2009

by XyloJW

Dusseldorf posted:

That tumbler seems devoted more to people who take up multiple seats in public transit which is really super loving annoying more than ranting a men projecting their penii around the bus.

If I wanted to be rubbing thighs with strangers I would ride a sex bus. :colbert:

Maybe people are meaner in the big scary cities, but where I live if there are people taking up all the seats on the bus I just ask them to scoot over :v:

vickser
Dec 27, 2012

Dusseldorf posted:

That tumbler seems devoted more to people who take up multiple seats in public transit which is really super loving annoying more than ranting a men projecting their penii around the bus.


Move The gently caress Over, Bro

FAQ

1) But women do this too?!
Yes, true, sometimes women spread out, but here’s the thing: the social context is totally different. Women are trying to establish themselves in the social world and resist the pressure to be small and reduce themselves into compliance, men are just following the social order to impose themselves on others and be dominant; they are acting from a position of power, women are not.

Also, “sometimes women spread out as a way to establish personal space. Even if you are on an empty bus or subway, men can be creepy and try to sit right next to you”

vickser
Dec 27, 2012
This took place in Spain

FreudianSlippers
Apr 12, 2010

Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!

Omi-Polari posted:

I once offended a very serious anarchist (covered with tattoos of AK-47s and anti-fascist symbols no less) for suggesting "it's because you have more in common with them than you might think." Clearly I'd prefer the anarchists to the fascists, but both fascists and anarchists see the established order as inauthentic and diseased, and themselves as romantic revolutionary movements. I think anarchism also often shares this romantic, heroic and organic vision of how society should be; like fascists do, but with a different conception of what that would look like. Fascists are about the will to power. Anarchists are about the propaganda of/by the deed. It's politics dressed up in provocation and aesthetic and symbolism. Marxists? Eh.

And the appropriation goes both ways. I'd even argue that the anarcho-punk style was a reaction to the hippie style, and deliberately imitated fascist aesthetics with the black clothes, military surplus, boots, short haircuts, and so on.

Like this late 70s anarcho-punk:





I mean, these guys look like blackshirts. Ill-disciplined blackshirts who aren't going to be marching in parades, but still blackshirts. But actually they're anarchists. There was also this book from last year by this Tulane film theorist on anti-fascist aesthetics. She argued that this movie is an example of how anti-fascists have tried to develop their own myths to counter fascism but they'd inadvertently come out resembling fascist style:

http://books.google.com/books?id=90Snq6hD_0QC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT8q6VAyTi8

Of course this doesn't mean "anti-fascists are as bad as fascists" or anything like that. But there's definitely borrowing going on, on both sides.


The Crass logo was very carefully designed to remind you of fascism. It's pretty much a suncross/swastika crossed with a ouroboros with a bit of Union Jack mixed in.

I remember reading something by Hobsbawm about how anarchism was at it's roots an anti-industrial and even traditionalist ideology. The early anarchists either peasants or craftsmen put out of a job by the industrial revolution and dreamed of society of scattered small towns free of the dark satanic mills of industry. Among modern anarchists the anti-industrial attitude is strongest among anarcho-primitivists who think any technological advances since, and including, the invention agriculture is oppression and groups of more than 100 are automatically oppressive. Of course from the mid 19th century to the late 20th anarchism was for the most part simply a libertarian form of communism with a heavy emphasis on worker control of industries but in recent years more anti-industrial schools of thought such as primitivism and post-left anarchism have been becoming increasingly prominent.

Fascism on the other hand is both traditionalist, with a heavy emphasis on the mythic and mystical heroes and symbols of the past, and industrialist with a fetish for tall monuments, fast vehicles and various death machines. This obviously clashes a bit and doesn't make too much sense but that's mostly because fascism is a contradictory mess for and by madmen and morons.




To make up for my inane ramblings have an anarchist song about how revolutions are bad, a lovely nazi song about how socialism is bad, and a anti-fascist song inspired by a much older anti-fascist song that was actually written by prisoners in a concentration camp in 1933.

"So don't think you can fool me with your political tricks
Political right, political left, you can keep your politics"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEko6kMfng

"Mongrelise, centralise, kept to your place
All the same colour and all the same race
Freedom is freedom from dissident views
Eyes full of terror and authorised news"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlgZo3hqLRw

"Es lebe die Freiheit!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_znocUwFn4

Admiral Bosch
Apr 19, 2007
Who is Admiral Aken Bosch, and what is that old scoundrel up to?

vickser posted:

This took place in Spain


That looks like a rather serious and organized protest. Any context?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW0y6kazWM

One of my very favorite protest songs.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.


Tame Iti

vickser
Dec 27, 2012

Admiral Bosch posted:

That looks like a rather serious and organized protest. Any context?

Catalans (outside their Parliament in Barcelona) protesting against proposed budget cuts

davebo
Nov 15, 2006

Parallel lines do meet, but they do it incognito
College Slice

gently caress that, Dick Cheney always best Penguin.

Tzen
Sep 11, 2001

MinionOfCthulhu posted:

There's a whole tumblr about this and it comes off as super crazy.


"legs spread, feet across the whole aisle, ahhh to be a white man in the morning"
Haha that tumblr is completely mental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aNdEaOAHfg

Prism Mirror Lens
Oct 9, 2012

~*"The most intelligent and meaning-rich film he could think of was Shaun of the Dead, I don't think either brain is going to absorb anything you post."*~




:chord:
I can see this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but men spreading their legs all the hell everywhere on public transport is kind of a problem. The Tumblr takes it too far, but I commute about an hour each way every weekday, and very often dudes will plonk themselves down both sides of me, actually shoving my legs out of the way with their own. I get that it's not comfortable to sit with your legs tight, but it's not all guys that do this, and I'm guessing the ones that do don't actually have the gigantic balls that would require that distance. It's also not very comfortable or pleasant for me to have my legs pressed together the entire time just so you can take as much room as you want!

This is central London, so to ask them to move would be so socially unacceptable as to make everyone on the carriage shrivel into a husk of embarrassment. And pressing your legs against a man's legs does not have quite the same effect as a man pressing his legs against yours...

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

The more things change, the more they stay the same. At least they've gotten slightly more subtle about it.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Cerebral Bore posted:

The more things change, the more they stay the same. At least they've gotten slightly more subtle about it.



So basically France has been the better country since the Revolution?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj1ivxmg2G8

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:
Well, The Danish People's Party is at it again. This time they found out that one of about 700 new citizens is a person of interest to the Danish intelligence service PET. They would've liked to just print an add with his name, but that would be illegal, so they went for the second best option; printing an add with the names of all of those new citizens.


The government and the other parties are handing out citizenships left and right:
One person on this list is a danger to the safety of Denmark
Now he gets to be a Dane...

(A lot of talk about how there's a potential terrorist, how the Danish People's Party is the only party who want's it to be difficult to become a Danish citizen and so on.)

Luckily, they've been reported to the police, and it might stick, since the name of the "potential terrorist" was classified information.

Prism Mirror Lens posted:

I can see this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but men spreading their legs all the hell everywhere on public transport is kind of a problem. The Tumblr takes it too far, but I commute about an hour each way every weekday, and very often dudes will plonk themselves down both sides of me, actually shoving my legs out of the way with their own. I get that it's not comfortable to sit with your legs tight, but it's not all guys that do this, and I'm guessing the ones that do don't actually have the gigantic balls that would require that distance. It's also not very comfortable or pleasant for me to have my legs pressed together the entire time just so you can take as much room as you want!
I think people are mostly reacting to the way that Tumblr, like usual, can't do anything but go full throttle. Either something isn't a problem, or else every man who takes up more space than the average women is doing it to dominate. Public transportation can in my experience be pretty drat uncomfortable due to the dimensions being fitted to normal sized women/small men. With those small seats, a dude trying to sit next to another due might have to sit across the gap instead of on the seat, which can be uncomfortable, leading to the 5 seats/3 dudes situation. (Though of course they should then consider the discomfort of anyone who does not get to sit because of the way they've divided those 5 seats.) In the case of buses, you might also lack leg room in front of you, forcing you to spread out to the sides. (The lack of legroom has been the biggest problem for me, being a problem since I was 14.)

Not that this excuses the more blatant examples, but the design of seating in public transportation caters to a pretty narrow range of people, long before we begin talking about obese people or giants.

NAME REDACTED
Dec 22, 2010




As a Briton, the thing I'm most concerned about here is that the water in the English kettle appears to be brown, thus setting this cartoon in a dystopian future where austerity measures have gone so far that the national water supply isn't even kept clean any more. Is the point meant to be that in Britain, our society has conditioned us so far against "making a fuss" that even if our basic standard of living is eroded we will not do anything about it as a people except continue to complain in private, whereas in France the populace is much more socially and politically involved? Because if so, France actually seems to have it much better.




edited for potential tablebreaking

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Lucy Heartfilia
May 31, 2012


Since we are talking about taxes: Do you know how the government online service for paying your taxes in Germany is called?

ElsterOnline (= magpie online)



And the right part of the title bar is a dumb pun. ... I like their sense of humor.

And yes, I should be doing my taxes right now, but I'm surfing the internet instead.

Lucy Heartfilia fucked around with this message at 13:11 on May 31, 2013

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