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I read it on the internet! As we all know, everything you read is true!
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Nov 9, 2013 21:26
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It just baffles me that people could read something as ridiculous as "Chinese people eat baby soup for sex" and believe it for even one second.
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Nov 9, 2013 21:35
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Celery Face posted:It just baffles me that people could read something as ridiculous as "Chinese people eat baby soup for sex" and believe it for even one second. Didn't you know that the Chinese are godless communists? They'll do anything to get ahead over there.
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Nov 9, 2013 22:11
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I was really tickled by the notion that a nuclear power that has world's second-largest economy and is the world's largest exporter of goods is a third-world country.
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Nov 10, 2013 01:54
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Really I'm glad the only one I'm friends with is blue. There are just so many other things going on there that I'm a little embarrassed.
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Nov 10, 2013 02:03
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All on Black posted:I was really tickled by the notion that a nuclear power that has world's second-largest economy and is the world's largest exporter of goods is a third-world country. In the present day, those divisions don't really make a lot of sense anymore. But if you really wanted to use them, China would be, or would have been, part of the second world.
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Nov 10, 2013 02:11
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Dr_Amazing posted:You used to get a little notice when someone commented on one of your videos or responded to one of your comments but they took that out too. At this point I'm not sure why they don't just remove commenting completely. They should permanently remove commenting. Same with news sites. Let the human trash feel the full effects of their garbage -- nobody cares what they say, therefore they cannot post it.
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Nov 10, 2013 04:17
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Dandy Shrew posted:
Yes. It is completely acceptable to beat your child until they are dead for screaming, "gently caress you, MOM!"  Isn't that what that image is actually saying?
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Nov 10, 2013 04:30
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Bored posted:Yes. It is completely acceptable to beat your child until they are dead for screaming, "gently caress you, MOM!"
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Nov 10, 2013 04:40
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Bored posted:Yes. It is completely acceptable to beat your child until they are dead for screaming, "gently caress you, MOM!" Haha, yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking too. Sorry, no, I don't agree that I should kill my children... So I had this fun exchange unfold:     "wow... you could all use some anger management therapy." The original link: http://blogs.terrapinn.com/vaccinenation/2013/08/27/unbelievable-impact-vaccines-image/
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Nov 10, 2013 04:40
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It's always so disheartening when someone conflates "I have a refutation of your claims, or claims that are in opposition to yours that have greater merit" with "you, personally, along with your opinions, are bad, and I dislike you, for no real identifiable reason, that is why I disagree with you." I guess it's expecting too much but gently caress stop taking everything so PERSONALLY
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Nov 10, 2013 05:26
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Strudel Man posted:A lot of people misuse or just aren't aware of the actual context of those terms. Being a third world country doesn't mean "crappy and undeveloped," though enough people use it that way that I guess it's maybe taking on that meaning. In their original senses, the first world were the countries aligned with the United States and NATO in the Cold War, the second world were the countries aligned with the USSR, and the third world were the unaligned, or those with shifting allegiances. I'm reasonably certain this person's understanding of a third world country is "place without many white people".
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All on Black posted:I'm reasonably certain this person's understanding of a third world country is "place without many white people".
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Nov 10, 2013 05:35
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Strudel Man posted:Mm. I doubt it, really. Probably something more along the lines of simply "not the traditional West or Japan." Which obviously has a lot of overlap with what you suggest, but I feel like immediately assuming racial motives is a little inappropriate. I wasn't implying any racism, just speaking from experience with people who don't understand the term. For those people, quite often the third world = almost everywhere except Europe and North America.
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Nov 10, 2013 05:42
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All on Black posted:I wasn't implying any racism, just speaking from experience with people who don't understand the term. For those people, quite often the third world = almost everywhere except Europe and North America.
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Nov 10, 2013 08:51
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All on Black posted:I was really tickled by the notion that a nuclear power that has world's second-largest economy and is the world's largest exporter of goods is a third-world country. In fairness, China is very much a developing country still trying to get hundreds of millions of people out of poverty (or at least, it would be under different leadership) but those terms get badly misused anyway, as Strudel Man said above me.
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Has anyone ever noticed how people who use "That's just my opinion" as the ultimate, unbeatable, argument ender are also the same sort of people who will dismiss your argument by claiming it to be "just your opinion"?
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Nov 10, 2013 10:36
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Celery Face posted:It just baffles me that people could read something as ridiculous as "Chinese people eat baby soup for sex" and believe it for even one second. It's still obviously bullshit, but I can at least see how someone might believe it. U.T. Raptor has a new favorite as of 11:08 on Nov 10, 2013 |
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Nov 10, 2013 11:06
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I think that's a pretty big leap from eating endangered animals to eating human children.
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Nov 10, 2013 11:25
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 The image was posted by someone on my list, and the comments against it made me smile Then that last one  Remember, you don't need to be a bigot to be an idiot on facebook.
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Nov 10, 2013 12:06
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Experto Crede posted:
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Nov 10, 2013 12:13
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Shorter Than Some posted:The Queen actually is descended from Mohammed though.  should have done some research, it just sounded like a bizarre thing to state (Though the Iberian Moorish aspect makes sense).So clearly it is me who is the idiot on facebook 
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Nov 10, 2013 12:22
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The Queen is a SECRET MUSLIM GONNA INSTALL SHARIA LAW
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Yay, it's the time around Remembrance Day  I've not had anything this year sadly, but do share any racist and untrue stories from the UK about muslims making GBS threads on poppy fields and whatnot.I wish Openbook.org was still around.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:02
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Just check out #whitepoppy on twitter, there's some gems of 'ill gently caress up anyone who wears a white poppy'. I am a little sensitive to it today because I was spat on by a soldier for wearing a non-red poppy. What joy. Hopefully I can track down his no doubt triumphant Facebook post.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:08
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I only had one person mention the whole white poppy thing and yes, it was in a "gently caress you for wearing a white poppy, you freedom hater" style post. He's otherwise fine, even if he is an angry old guy! Fortunately (or unfortunately for this thread) I have unfriended the raving racist lunatics that used to populate my news feed so today has been fairly sane, even if someone is boring enough to post a play by play picture fest from the Grand Slam of Darts!
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Nov 10, 2013 16:12
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All quiet here so far; one guy changed his profile picture to a field of poppy, and I've seen one or two things about the anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, nothing thread-worthy so far. One guy did post a picture of a piece of mango next to a pot of mango yogurt with "WTF is this gross thing in my yogurt" but apparently it's a comment on the paucity of actual fruits in yogurt or something.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:18
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I had never heard of the whole "white poppy" thing before one of my FB friends made a post to the effect of "don't bother talking to me if you're wearing one." I briefly looked up the symbolism behind it and the only negative thing I could find in ten seconds of research was that it led to a bunch of folks being fired during the mid-1900s. I still don't get it.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:24
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NotAnArtist posted:I had never heard of the whole "white poppy" thing before one of my FB friends made a post to the effect of "don't bother talking to me if you're wearing one." I briefly looked up the symbolism behind it and the only negative thing I could find in ten seconds of research was that it led to a bunch of folks being fired during the mid-1900s. I still don't get it. In the UK at least, white poppies have always been seen as somewhat non-conformist, but it's been since the mid-eighties when Margaret Thatcher denounced them in parliament, and they were then attacked in the right wing media as being disrespectful, etc. that it took on a new level. Most people under the age of thirty don't care, but you get the old angry sorts, usually the same who will say "hanging's too good for 'em" in an unironic capacity.
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NotAnArtist posted:I had never heard of the whole "white poppy" thing before one of my FB friends made a post to the effect of "don't bother talking to me if you're wearing one." I briefly looked up the symbolism behind it and the only negative thing I could find in ten seconds of research was that it led to a bunch of folks being fired during the mid-1900s. I still don't get it. People on my feed seem to think wearing a white poppy is the equivalent of pissing on the tomb of the unknown soldier while pushing a veteran down the stairs. I got chewed out just for saying that people are allowed to have different views on war and history. It's odd because most of them are pretty level headed about most topics.
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Wikipedia suggests that red-poppy folks dislike the white poppy because they feel that somehow hoping for an end to all wars demeans veterans or something. I don't get it either.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:32
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The white poppy was started more or less by the relations of veterans anyway - and is run by a tiny, harmless pacifist charity in London. A lot of Canadians seem to really really hate it.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:41
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Aerdan posted:Wikipedia suggests that red-poppy folks dislike the white poppy because they feel that somehow hoping for an end to all wars demeans veterans or something. I don't get it either. Nobody wishes for an end to war more than veterans. The most die-hard crazy war hawks are never veterans, in my experience.
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Nov 10, 2013 17:02
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I've never heard of them until recently but they seem kinda attention whorey. "Oh you're wearing a normal red poppy? I'm actually against war so I only wear the WHITE poppy."
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Nov 10, 2013 17:13
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 Why do people believe this stuff? Like Sony would just go "oh darn, these boxes have been opened, guess we'll just give them away for some reason" instead of "oh darn, these boxes have been opened, guess we'll just reseal/repackage them and sell them at full retail anyway."
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Nov 10, 2013 17:43
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The problem that a lot of people in Canada have with the white poppies right now, and the reason why they're in the news here, is that they're being used by the Rideau Institute and University of Ottawa activists as a response to the "celebration of war" represented by the red poppy. Which is complete garbage, and anyone with half a brain knows that Remembrance Day represents the exact opposite. I don't think white poppies are offensive in themselves, but I do think the message they're being used to convey in some circles is.
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There needs to be a third, like, purple poppy for people who support veterans and also support war. Then the white poppies can be for people who support veterans but oppose war and red poppies for people who support veterans and are merely ambivalent about war. Then everybody can know your exact opinions on war which is obviously the most important reason behind the poppy fundraiser.
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Poppies are the opiate of the masses. You argue over the color and ignore the real problem: you just murdered/castrated a bunch of defenseless plants to celebrate the sacrifices of human soldiers. Poppies never had a war, who's the real poppies?
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