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SybilVimes posted:Usually 'refused service' is code for 'wouldn't give me a (25-50%) veteran's discount'. Somehow this got turned into a fully uniformed soldier who had just performed in an honor guard ceremony for a fallen vet being callously denied service in front of his young son because of his sacrifices protecting our freedom. It even made snopes! Thankfully, Davis is a small city and this is a well established business that has had the same owner for ten years. Locals jumped to the poor owner's defense very rapidly, and there is security camera footage that contradicts the looney account. Yelp was so kind as to nip the wave of righteous indignation in the bud. I'll have to stop by there later, since I'm sure this was really horrifying and stressful for the tiny shop. Unfortunately, the Facebook page still took a beating, and is currently filled with bile such as: quote:I'm sorry but I think it's hillllarrrioousss that your refusal to serve military members has gone viral. Betcha didn't think that would happen when you jumped on top of that self righteous soapbox huh? teehee.... you see what you did there? You denied a group of people based upon the actions of the government that pulls the strings, but I bet you 5 bucks that you still enter that ballot box every election dont you? What a moron! Good luck in the Unemployment line! lmao..... oh and P.S. Go F*** yourself!
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dregan posted:MUH RIGHTS WHAT DID THEY JUST EAT POTATOES FOR BREAKFAST LUNCH TEA DINNER MIDNIGHT SNACK EVERYTHING???~!! Well, yeah, pretty much.
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big business sloth posted:WHAT DID THEY JUST EAT POTATOES FOR BREAKFAST LUNCH TEA DINNER MIDNIGHT SNACK EVERYTHING???~!! Granted, I know very little about the Irish famine, but I imagine if you suddenly remove a significant part of a country's diet, regardless of what other food is available, you are going to have a problem. Because if people can't eat that major food, they start consuming other resources (like fish and cows and so forth) until you're running short on those too. Especially considering this was back before the existence of big rear end grocery stores and cargo ships/trucks that could move massive quantities of food from one part of the world to another. This whole post assumes an entire country is full of people thinking 'herpderp no more potatoes. Guess we all better die". It's almost like he has an irrational hatred for an entire group of people, which would just be silly.
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into the void posted:Granted, I know very little about the Irish famine, but I imagine if you suddenly remove a significant part of a country's diet, regardless of what other food is available, you are going to have a problem. Because if people can't eat that major food, they start consuming other resources (like fish and cows and so forth) until you're running short on those too. Especially considering this was back before the existence of big rear end grocery stores and cargo ships/trucks that could move massive quantities of food from one part of the world to another. This whole post assumes an entire country is full of people thinking 'herpderp no more potatoes. Guess we all better die". It's almost like he has an irrational hatred for an entire group of people, which would just be silly. It's pretty much the same logic people use for poverty. Why don't poor people just work harder! Why didn't the Irish just go fishing?!
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I love how people hear "It's wrong for a man to punch a woman." and their reaction is "But I want to punch women!" rather than "Yeah, punching people is bad." Like as though beating people up is a right and they're taking it away from you. Just don't punch people, it's easy!
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into the void posted:Granted, I know very little about the Irish famine, but I imagine if you suddenly remove a significant part of a country's diet, regardless of what other food is available, you are going to have a problem. Because if people can't eat that major food, they start consuming other resources (like fish and cows and so forth) until you're running short on those too. Especially considering this was back before the existence of big rear end grocery stores and cargo ships/trucks that could move massive quantities of food from one part of the world to another. This whole post assumes an entire country is full of people thinking 'herpderp no more potatoes. Guess we all better die". It's almost like he has an irrational hatred for an entire group of people, which would just be silly. Basically this. The potato was such a staple of the Irish diet that they literally did eat it almost for every meal. I've heard stories from my ancestors and such of fishing, yes, and also collecting eggs of sea birds on the rocks. Some places in Ireland really can't sustain much agriculture, especially the small coastal islands. Ironically, food stores could have been moved from the British Isles, but I've also heard stories of wagon trains for British army outposts/something moving by while the Irish looked on, their teeth stained green from eating grass.
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Reiche posted:I keep my FB friends list to a minimum but sometimes I feel like I'm missing out calling out idiot young people. Maybe I should unblock my cousin who posts weekly anti-abortion reminders with graphic pictures of aborted fetuses. You never know! I keep my friends list tight and delete/put on ignore any idiots, but today a friend's post about the FDA allowing some things on the market that really shouldn't be (which is completely true) turned into some of her friends yammering on about chemtrails and related nonsense.
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into the void posted:Granted, I know very little about the Irish famine, but I imagine if you suddenly remove a significant part of a country's diet, regardless of what other food is available, you are going to have a problem. Because if people can't eat that major food, they start consuming other resources (like fish and cows and so forth) until you're running short on those too. Especially considering this was back before the existence of big rear end grocery stores and cargo ships/trucks that could move massive quantities of food from one part of the world to another. This whole post assumes an entire country is full of people thinking 'herpderp no more potatoes. Guess we all better die". It's almost like he has an irrational hatred for an entire group of people, which would just be silly.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:They actually could move pretty large quantities of food around, the problem was that this is precisely what the British did, out of Ireland. They were so committed to not messing with "free trade" that they would not interfere even in such an emergency, and of course the Irish, being poor, weren't able to pay as much for the alternative food sources as the people their food was being exported to. On top of that, the British also denied charity from other countries (such as the Ottoman Empire), since that would imply the Empire couldn't take care of its own subjects. The Irish have a pretty drat good reason for not liking the English. Yeah, the potato famine is usually thought of as a natural disaster caused by crop failure. Most people don't realize that even when the potato crop failed, Ireland was still producing plenty of food. It just wasn't eaten by the Irish. 
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obscurer en tut posted:Yeah, the potato famine is usually thought of as a natural disaster caused by crop failure. Most people don't realize that even when the potato crop failed, Ireland was still producing plenty of food. It just wasn't eaten by the Irish. God sent the blight but the English sent the famine, and all that. For content, local idiot Willie Frazer has a new page, and it's loving incredible. I don't know if it's a parody or for real, but the rather disctinctive typing style is consistent between the two. I was going to produce some screenshots but seriously it's all gold, though probably only if you live in Norn Iron. dregan has a new favorite as of 02:36 on Nov 20, 2013 |
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IronicDongz posted:Who the gently caress likes something like this? How on earth are there (at least)13 people who agree with this?
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Smoremaster posted:Hey man stop bullying those poor creationists. It's not rational.
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dregan posted:MUH RIGHTS Yes? I mean, why wouldn't you believe that poor surfs were dependent on a single crop to live?
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ratbert90 posted:Yes? I mean, why wouldn't you believe that poor surfs were dependent on a single crop to live? He's a real life Alan Partridge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3gfjpcgZmw
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Strudel Man posted:Uh, no, the implication is that evolution is about the triumph of the strong over the weak, and that therefore bullying is just natural selection. Doesn't matter either way, because that's a critical misunderstanding of how evolution actually works in social species (particularly humans). I'm just assuming whoever wrote that is a creationist, since I can't imagine any other reason to be against teaching evolution.
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Smoremaster posted:Doesn't matter either way, because that's a critical misunderstanding of how evolution actually works in social species (particularly humans). I'm just assuming whoever wrote that is a creationist, since I can't imagine any other reason to be against teaching evolution.
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Parkingtigers posted:He's a real life Alan Partridge. Oh crap. I forgot how much I loved that show. Wonder if it's on netflix. Fake edit: It is not.
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Strudel Man posted:Oh, no doubt. I'm just saying, it pretty obviously isn't complaining about it being irrational to bully creationists. Yeah my joke was lovely and poorly worded, I was trying to make fun of how creationists feel bullied because evolution goes against their 'rational' world view, and religious beliefs aren't taught as equally valid.
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Smoremaster posted:Doesn't matter either way, because that's a critical misunderstanding of how evolution actually works in social species (particularly humans). Ugh this reminds me of a run-in I had with an idiot on a friend's Facebook. I don't have screenshots because this was seriously forever ago. Friend posts an article on why supermodels are bad for women's body image or something like that, and some fitness obsessive guy comes in with 'how is this more unhealthy than fat chicks  '. After a while of people fruitlessly arguing with him, we eventually find out that he genuinely believes that anybody who doesn't spend every second of every day working out (and if female, that working out isn't allowed to make them bulkier!) they literally deserve to die because 'survival of the fittest, we're going against nature and evolution here'. Also he was in favour of killing disabled people. I still can't believe that guy exists.
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 God, I have to wait a month for dental surgery I put off for years... Wish I was one of those lucky welfare recipients.
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York_M_Chan posted:
From what I know, the dental insurance you get from welfare is loving terrible too. It pretty much only covers pulling teeth and the most basic fillings.
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Smoremaster posted:From what I know, the dental insurance you get from welfare is loving terrible too. It pretty much only covers pulling teeth and the most basic fillings. And that's if you can even find a dentist to take Medicaid. If not, you could just die from an easily-treatable infection.
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 Not really as extreme as most of these, but which of those 4 people would you least like to have dinner with?
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Hahaha, I know right, sure the homeless aren't even real people, why would anyone be concerned about their welfare, hahahaha losers dregan posted:MUH RIGHTS Obviously spreading the Potato Famine conspiracy theory really annoyed some folk, there's clearly still loads of potatoes and loads of Irish, YOU COULDNT WRITE THE SCRIPT
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Smoremaster posted:From what I know, the dental insurance you get from welfare is loving terrible too. It pretty much only covers pulling teeth and the most basic fillings. Yeah. I used to work with a lot of patients on that kind of insurance and basically any problem you have is solved with pulling out the tooth.Many patients refused to go to the dentist for that very reason, hoping the problem would just go away. In fact, there was a charity in town known specifically as the dental place you could go to that didn't just pull the tooth. Dentists would work for them pro bono. And you had to wait a real long time to get seen by them, if at all. Also, not sure how being on welfare would magically fix that fact that you are a 30yr old getting his wisdom teeth removed. I imagine all the risks would still exist if you were poor, only you probably wouldn't get all the follow up care.
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I thought this must be from the onion or something, like one of their 'Romney can't understand why poor families don't just fire one of the servants' articles. After Googling it, turns out that this guy is for real. That's pretty disgusting on a Patrick Bateman level. (victimising the homeless, not the serial murder.)
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Shannonmcn posted:Hahaha, I know right, sure the homeless aren't even real people, why would anyone be concerned about their welfare, hahahaha losers I think you missed the point. All four of the people are bothered by the article, but one is angry that the reporters don't appear more upset. That's a silly thing to be angry about. edit: Here's the article. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/19/2966371/hawaii-homeless-smash/ canyoneer has a new favorite as of 16:31 on Nov 20, 2013 |
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Reporters shouldn't be upset but even less than that should they trivialize the pretty heavy social implications of their news items by labeling their photos with silly jokes like "hammer time."
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into the void posted:Also, not sure how being on welfare would magically fix that fact that you are a 30yr old getting his wisdom teeth removed. I imagine all the risks would still exist if you were poor, only you probably wouldn't get all the follow up care. poo poo, I am 26 and still have my wisdom teeth. When I was 16 my dentist told me they needed to be removed, but for some reason (I was an idiot and apparently so was my dad) I never did it. When my teeth grew in without any issues, I eventually switched to another dentist and they told me that my wisdom teeth were "some of the happiest they had seen."  Are my wisdom teeth going to kill me?  fake edit: Apparently Obama recited the Gettysburg Address, but left out the "under God" that Lincoln added on the spot which was not included in the original written speech. Incoming shitstorm on Facebook in 3, 2...
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Smoremaster posted:fake edit: Apparently Obama recited the Gettysburg Address, but left out the "under God" that Lincoln added on the spot which was not included in the original written speech. Incoming shitstorm on Facebook in 3, 2... If I were him, I'd do that stuff intentionally just to irk the people I knew I could never win over.
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canyoneer posted:I think you missed the point. All four of the people are bothered by the article, but one is angry that the reporters don't appear more upset. I got your point, I just disagree with you. My Lovely Horse posted:Reporters shouldn't be upset but even less than that should they trivialize the pretty heavy social implications of their news items by labeling their photos with silly jokes like "hammer time." I agree with you.
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My guess is they're in for a rude awakening when they have to pay the full bill even with dental insurance. About 7 years ago I signed up for dental insurance knowing I needed to get my wisdom teeth out soon. I waited until January for it to kick in and then had the procedure only to discover that my insurance required you to be on the plan for an entire year before having "surgery" like wisdom teeth extraction. They denied my claim and I had to pay over $2,000 for it.
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YES SHE SAID AGE! gently caress you, trained medical professionals for insinuating anything about my body is in any way different from when I was 17!
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Smoremaster posted:poo poo, I am 26 and still have my wisdom teeth. When I was 16 my dentist told me they needed to be removed, but for some reason (I was an idiot and apparently so was my dad) I never did it. When my teeth grew in without any issues, I eventually switched to another dentist and they told me that my wisdom teeth were "some of the happiest they had seen." My wisdom teeth came in when I was about 19 and my dentist basically said that he would remove them if I wanted but that I seem to have room for them and if they aren't causing me discomfort that the procedure is unnecessary. I'm now in my early thirties and have had no trouble but my wife is about your age and is needing them removed so it might not be a bad idea to ask your tooth doctor about it. My ~60 year old aunt recently discovered Facebook. It mostly fluctuates between cat pictures and The Blaze.  Arnold Schwarzenegger is anti-murder but made money in movies where he kills guys MAKES YOU THINK
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"What we tolerate today our children will embrace tomorrow" is a fine point about how young people more readily embrace new ideas and technologies than traditionally more conservative older generations, but knowing the tone of Facebook idiots, it's probably more like "if we let gays have rights, then everybody will be a homo in the future rabble rabble downfall of American society".
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So I was bored and saw this on a page about Lady Gaga: Out of morbid curiosity, I checked out his public profile, and all of my suspicions were confirmed:  And a link to this: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36728.htm But this is the best:  An MRA Libertarian, eh? Who would've thought based on that one comment about a pop star?
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