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My Imaginary GF posted:History provides universal lessons on the human experience: no matter where you are, the only thing standing between ambitious assholes and loving your rear end are the institutions between the two. Better hope those institutions ain't rubber to your natural lube. do you read gwynne dyer at all
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Effectronica posted:cleopatra was also fairly competent for a ptolemeian as i recall, actually learning egyptian she gets credit for being able to know a winning team when she saw one and helping orchestrate a relatively (emphasis on relatively) painless transition into the Roman sphere, which is more than you can say about a lot of rulers at the time. the whole antonius thing was a serious gently caress up, but i can almost forgive it because really set aside everything you know about history and ask yourself who you would back in a fight between julius caesar's right hand man and his pissant nephew who everyone knows is a coward and sycophant.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 02:48 |
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Effectronica posted:People were talking about the elderly and anime, and well quote:EltBerserker
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nutranurse posted:pop history's part of the reason why the confederacy's gotten its image reworked into being what it is now Yeah, well, the good news is the younger wave of pop historians doesn't seem to be on that wavelength, at least. Mike Duncan is a cool dude no matter what R. Mute thinks, and he's gone out of his way to say, "Hey, American Revolutionary leaders - this is a pretty big black mark on your records." PS - that wasn't meant as a diss at you, R. Mute, you're a pretty cool dude too. nutranurse posted:robbing people of their cultural ties does a lot of really hosed up things to their descendants, self-identity wise Yeah, I can definitely sympathize. Everybody wants to be connected with something big historically, and it would be only fair for black people, who have gotten so unbelievably royally hosed over for centuries and stripped of their cultural roots, to in fact descend directly from the Egyptians. But luckily, genetic testing can do some pretty cool things nowadays in tracing people's family roots, so who knows. Maybe we'll see a greater interest in West African culture in the US before long.
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Effectronica posted:People were talking about the elderly and anime, and well A friend convinced me to go to Anime LA this year and I saw the convention founder, looked like the main character of Whomp! aged up 40 years. Also saw a camera guy with a t-shirt from a basement convention in 1988, so that anime convention shirt is slightly older than I am.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 02:52 |
"Marmaduke sexually harassed a police officer just to get his owner-man in trouble, and by the looks of the (uncomfortably breast-level) raspberry he is blowing at his owner-lady, he would do it again in a heartbeat."
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nutranurse posted:dont read too many d&d threads at the same time i just didn't think it was appropriate to ask about his linguistic proclivities in the jesus threads
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Majorian posted:Maybe we'll see a greater interest in West African culture in the US before long. im 110% positive we'll have an indonesian lesbian muslim president before the US sees wide-spread interest in west african anything, hth
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Effectronica posted:cleopatra was also fairly competent for a ptolemeian as i recall, actually learning egyptian Yeah, and she was clearly cunning. She just had the common sense of a 21-year old, silly thing.
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nutranurse posted:im 110% positive we'll have an indonesian lesbian muslim president before the US sees wide-spread interest in west african anything, hth What about West African viral epidemics?
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nutranurse posted:im 110% positive we'll have an indonesian lesbian muslim president before the US sees wide-spread interest in west african anything, hth
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Jagchosis posted:What about West African viral epidemics? the extent of that was more or less "keep those darkies over there with their diseases" tho
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nutranurse posted:im 110% positive we'll have an indonesian lesbian muslim president before the US sees wide-spread interest in west african anything, hth you know something about Megawati Sukarnoputri that i don't?
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After reading about the FCC ruling on net neutrality, I came to D&D to look up some discussion on it, but I couldn't find any. Do we just not talk about non-electoral US current events anymore?
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Majorian posted:PS - that wasn't meant as a diss at you, R. Mute, you're a pretty cool dude too.
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nutranurse posted:im 110% positive we'll have an indonesian lesbian muslim president before the US sees wide-spread interest in west african anything, hth I guess it depends on how widespread we're talking, though. I'm not thinking about it as something that EVERYBODY does, but you know. At least it would be nice if more schools taught West African history and cultural things. R. Mute posted:fight me irl I would, but you'd just roll over like the Belgian you are.
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Dreylad posted:do you read gwynne dyer at all the gently caress is that
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Democrazy posted:After reading about the FCC ruling on net neutrality, I came to D&D to look up some discussion on it, but I couldn't find any. lol fcc chat pops up every now and then in uspol, you just have to sift through a ton of posts to find when it pops up or get lucky to see it happen in real time
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Democrazy posted:After reading about the FCC ruling on net neutrality, I came to D&D to look up some discussion on it, but I couldn't find any. *the fishmech signal glows proudly in the night sky*
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Democrazy posted:After reading about the FCC ruling on net neutrality, I came to D&D to look up some discussion on it, but I couldn't find any. net neutrality is a trigger topic for uspol
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vilerat peed in my apartment and had bad opinions about laughable xhosa girls and he dead but was still better than migf
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Zoux decided that we shant talk about net neutrality in favor of Seinfeldian bum sex faux pas.
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Democrazy posted:After reading about the FCC ruling on net neutrality, I came to D&D to look up some discussion on it, but I couldn't find any. Oh Christ, you're going to get fishmech all riled up.
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Democrazy posted:After reading about the FCC ruling on net neutrality, I came to D&D to look up some discussion on it, but I couldn't find any. whiny babies who get upset about truth bombs being dropped on them get things banned from discussion, lmbo anyway there's nothing to discuss, all the discussion's been done for like months at this point. you may be a bit confused by the way news sites and poo poo are pushing it but the only thing that's been unsettled has been extremely arcane technical details of minimal relevance.
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LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE
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Dreylad posted:do you read gwynne dyer at all e: oops, I thought you were talking about Owain Glyndŵr, not a present-day historian. Welsh joke retracted. Majorian fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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let's talk about net neutrality
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But how does the ISPs throttling Netflix play into all of this? That kind of heavy handed corporate move to strangle innovation seems like an obvious sign that this is important.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:But how does the ISPs throttling Netflix play into all of this? That seems like an obvious sign that this is important. you motherfuckre
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Xhosa girls are the most beautiful, brightest, resourceful women I've met, and I'm not just saying that because a bestie is married to Zimbabwe's NUMBER ONE WOMAN, the Miss Zim if she ever wanted it, the jewel of Africa and blood diamond of his heart, top of her class at public school and star of Uni of Harere.
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Who decides they are a top on the first date? Who are these people?
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My Imaginary GF posted:Xhosa girls are the most beautiful, brightest, resourceful women I've met, and I'm not just saying that because a bestie is married to Zimbabwe's NUMBER ONE WOMAN, the Miss Zim if she ever wanted it, the jewel of Africa and blood diamond of his heart, top of her class at public school and star of Uni of Harere. quick someone check if grace mugabe is xhosa
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euphronius posted:Who decides they are a top on the first date? The man. That's who.
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Net neutrality is almost as important as Keystone XL and it must be discussed.
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This movie is gonna rule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_euhvZQMaw
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 03:07 |
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A Chicago Jew commenting on African women seems wrong somehow.
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Volkerball posted:This movie is gonna rule Yeah, I've only heard good things.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 03:10 |
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It amazes me that there are still posters who don't post pictures in the picture thread. That thread really just draws in the dumbest loving posters, there are at least one or two probations a day ever since the enforcement of the 'post a picture' rule stepped up a while back.
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Volkerball posted:This movie is gonna rule yeah i wanna watch the gently caress out of this movie
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:It amazes me that there are still posters who don't post pictures in the picture thread. That thread really just draws in the dumbest loving posters, there are at least one or two probations a day ever since the enforcement of the 'post a picture' rule stepped up a while back.
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