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whenever something big happens with i/p i am like "ok this time i will start from wherever the thread is, and keep up with it" then i get back from work and there are like 500 posts and i just sorta sigh and read the freep thread
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How do you pronounce "juche"?
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Jul 24, 2014 11:32
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tɕutɕʰe
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Jul 24, 2014 11:35
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A&W restaurants are awesome. There is nothing better than eating a burger and a root beer float served to you on a tray hanging off your car's door window. But there's a reason that there aren't many of them left.quote:One of the most vivid arithmetic failings displayed by Americans occurred in the early 1980s, when the A&W restaurant chain released a new hamburger to rival the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder. With a third-pound of beef, the A&W burger had more meat than the Quarter Pounder; in taste tests, customers preferred A&W’s burger. And it was less expensive. A lavish A&W television and radio marketing campaign cited these benefits. Yet instead of leaping at the great value, customers snubbed it. 
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Jul 24, 2014 12:28
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americans: dumb as all hell, even concerning burgers
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Jul 24, 2014 13:12
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I just had a university senior in my class try to add 1/R + 1/R and she got 1/2R. Did it casually and right in front of me as if it were not even in question. 
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Jul 24, 2014 13:24
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That's even more sad then being the only guy in a room of ~20 college graduates who is able to do longform divisions.
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Jul 24, 2014 13:29
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good posters use proper spelling and grammar and a lack of capital letters. it's how people can tell you're a good poster with correct opinions without having to check the name against the "good posters" list.
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Jul 24, 2014 13:44
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Joementum posted:A&W restaurants are awesome. There is nothing better than eating a burger and a root beer float served to you on a tray hanging off your car's door window. But there's a reason that there aren't many of them left. ...everything is clear now.
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Jul 24, 2014 13:45
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Tony Jowns posted:good posters use proper spelling and grammar and a lack of capital letters. it's how people can tell you're a good poster with correct opinions without having to check the name against the "good posters" list.  Every goddamn time...
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Jul 24, 2014 13:56
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ISIS is so cool now they're instituting female circumcision in the parts of Iraq they control. I got a regressive medieval theocracy bingo!
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Jul 24, 2014 14:14
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zoux posted:ISIS is so cool now they're instituting female circumcision in the parts of Iraq they control. I got a regressive medieval theocracy bingo! Every time someone says "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi" I just want to add "Codename: Duchess."
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Jul 24, 2014 14:18
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Randler posted:That's even more sad then being the only guy in a room of ~20 college graduates who is able to do longform divisions. Euclid's Algorithm owns, too. 
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Jul 24, 2014 14:22
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I don't know if I'm looking forward to this movie more because it looks funny or because of the apoplexy it's going to put the right wing media into: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwJhmqLU0so
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Jul 24, 2014 14:30
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:I skip over tons of pages in the I/P thread and yet it's like I skip none at all. Same. 
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Jul 24, 2014 14:35
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The weird thing about the I/P thread is that there is always one and exactly one Hasbara dude in there at a time with the same arguments and then they leave and another immediately appears.
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Jul 24, 2014 14:37
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zoux posted:So do you think the Tea Party is unique or is it just another nativist ultraconservative movement ala Goldwater or The John Birch Society or the Know-Nothing Party? Charles Koch is a Bircher. Finally saw it confirmed in stuff on "Sons of Wichita", if you need a link to the article, I can dig it up. Jerry Manderbilt posted:I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a good deal of Teabaggers were blood descendants of those who joined the John Birch Society in the 50s and/or the KKK in the 20s Fred Koch, the father, was a founding member of JBS. He has a bio page on the JBS website. Edit: I think it's fair to say one (JBS) begat the other (Tea Party).
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Jul 24, 2014 15:07
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One of my co-workers had an interesting Freudian slip yesterday when talking about over-population. "I think we should thin the hood".
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zoux posted:The weird thing about the I/P thread is that there is always one and exactly one Hasbara dude in there at a time with the same arguments and then they leave and another immediately appears. time is cyclical
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:One of my co-workers had an interesting Freudian slip yesterday when talking about over-population. so he's obsessed with female circumcision?
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Jul 24, 2014 15:23
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Hello from Israel
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midnightclimax posted:Hello from Israel whats it like there?
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another day, another mass casualty aviation incidentquote:REFILE-UPDATE 5-Missing Air Algerie plane from Burkina Faso has crashed - Algerian official wheez the roux fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jul 24, 2014 |
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Jul 24, 2014 16:15
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I hate flying and it scares me a bit tbqh.
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Miltank posted:whats it like there? Well I'm in the middle of the Negev desert, not a highly attractive target for rockets. That being said, yesterday I was in Elat and mistook a shooting star for a rocket, couple seconds of scare. Otherwise it's pretty peaceful. We're very removed from the conflict in the north. Edit: there's more things I would like to say, but writing on a tablet is a pita
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Jul 24, 2014 16:21
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What do the people think? Like what do you see on facebook or the news?
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Jul 24, 2014 16:22
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Are you on a birthright tour 
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zoux posted:Are you on a birthright tour  courtesy this masterpiece of a blog http://birthrightphotos.tumblr.com/ e: i was digging up photos from my time in nablus (north-central west bank) and found a decent landscape photo i took c.2008. view from window in my apartment  wheez the roux fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jul 24, 2014 |
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Miltank posted:What do the people think? Like what do you see on facebook or the news? Depends who you ask. I've learned that even from those who consider themselves left, a bit of patriotism is to be expected. Choice quote from an american immigrant: "well I always said netanyahu is a fascist pig, but I believe right now what he's doing is for our defense. I hope the world will understand us better now that they've seen the tunnels." She also stopped watching CNN, because she feels it "makes us look like we're monsters." zoux posted:Are you on a birthright tour Nope, volunteering on a kibbutz. It's a pretty cool one, not privatised and still sticking to their anarchist origins.
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Jul 24, 2014 16:33
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zoux posted:The weird thing about the I/P thread is that there is always one and exactly one Hasbara dude in there at a time with the same arguments and then they leave and another immediately appears. zoux posted:I don't know if I'm looking forward to this movie more because it looks funny or because of the apoplexy it's going to put the right wing media into: I ended up linked to yet another "# Things White People Should Know About Race" type article today explaining, in the usual manner, all about how privilege and so on. Got into it, very ethnocentrically American which is always a tip off. Written by a white college kid yet again. Because of course. There are no non-white people writing about race in America, heh. EDIT: Except Coates (always forget how to spell his first name) who I actually do like to read. zoux posted:ISIS is so cool now they're instituting female circumcision in the parts of Iraq they control. I got a regressive medieval theocracy bingo!
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midnightclimax posted:Well I'm in the middle of the Negev desert, not a highly attractive target for rockets. That being said, yesterday I was in Elat and mistook a shooting star for a rocket, couple seconds of scare. Otherwise it's pretty peaceful. We're very removed from the conflict in the north. How's the Negev doing lately just in general? I had some family go that route for their Israel visit rather than do the more 'mainstream' (I guess) stuff up north, they hit Dimona (that's the city with all the Indian and African Jews and such right?) and a bunch of other places including Rahat. One of my aunts who went swears by that chunk of the nation as the 'real' Israel with all the different cultures and people (and, at least at the time they were over, a decent bit of bitterness about basically being used as props to say 'hey look how good the development towns are doing' and then ignored when they need support).
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ReindeerF posted:White, mid-twenties director?  Lol here are the threads on IMDB about it: Lets make a movie called ' Dear Black people' and see what will happend! Why is it OK to be racist against white people? Seriously?! What's with the rating ? [zouxnote: the rating is 4.0 and the movie isn't out yet] No one gets it This entire board is lost. midnightclimax posted:Nope, volunteering on a kibbutz. It's a pretty cool one, not privatised and still sticking to their anarchist origins. Is it...is it full communism 
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He looks like a nice young man! I'll look him up and give it a fair shake. EVEN WITH ALL THE REVERSE RACISM. It's political correctness gone mad, Stu.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:How's the Negev doing lately just in general? I had some family go that route for their Israel visit rather than do the more 'mainstream' (I guess) stuff up north, they hit Dimona (that's the city with all the Indian and African Jews and such right?) and a bunch of other places including Rahat. One of my aunts who went swears by that chunk of the nation as the 'real' Israel with all the different cultures and people (and, at least at the time they were over, a decent bit of bitterness about basically being used as props to say 'hey look how good the development towns are doing' and then ignored when they need support). Yeah I think they no longer support the kibbutzim as they used too, meaning that most of them are privatised by now. But my view on this region is still very one-dimensional, apart from occasional trips to Elat, I don't get out much. zoux posted:
As a matter of fact it's dinner time right now, and food is being served in the communal dining room. Also there's only one bank account, which everyone has access to. Plus you don't have to work, if you don't want to. (Also becoming a member takes something like two years, during which you're heavily scrutinised). Gotta run, laters.
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midnightclimax posted:Hello from Israel מה קורה, אחי\אחותי?
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midnightclimax posted:Yeah I think they no longer support the kibbutzim as they used too, meaning that most of them are privatised by now. But my view on this region is still very one-dimensional, apart from occasional trips to Elat, I don't get out much. It's a shame to hear they've let so many of them fall, the tradition of kibbutzim has always been one of the most admirable to keep alive, and letting them fall to private whims is basically entirely going against it even if those interests are noble. Good on you working on one that's stayed true.
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The female genital mutilation story is not a true thing apparently. http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/07/24/3463683/no-isis-isnt-ordering-female-genital-mutilation-in-iraq/
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This movie has 4/10 on IMDB and 100% on rotten tomatoes. I wonder why there is such a disparity (no I don't I know why and so does everyone)
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Jagchosis posted:This movie has 4/10 on IMDB and 100% on rotten tomatoes. I wonder why there is such a disparity (no I don't I know why and so does everyone) Again, the movie isn't in release yet so no one on IMDB who is voting has seen it unless they were at Sundance.
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zoux posted:Again, the movie isn't in release yet so no one on IMDB who is voting has seen it unless they were at Sundance. yeah i'm aware it's because the trailer didn't open with "tw: white privilege"
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