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Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
zoom zoom, human being diamond mining kids

posted from my iphone

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Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

Moridin920 posted:

yeah

what're you gonna do though? :shrug:

if one person in GBS donates to the Against Malaria Foundation instead of uhh, I dunno, that charity that gives children video games, I've done my duty (as long as others don't change their mind about donating to malaria prevention to pwn me!!!)

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

if one person in GBS donates to the Against Malaria Foundation instead of uhh, I dunno, that charity that gives children video games, I've done my duty (as long as others don't change their mind about donating to malaria prevention to pwn me!!!)

just lol if you dont think the most important thing a sick child could receive is some indie retro chiptunes crapfest made by a bearded man in a lumberjack shirt and skinny jeans

Clemocracy
Jul 21, 2015

by Ralp
i mean if the kid cant do a no death run of battletoads or write an essay on the deeper meanings of Gone Home does he really even deserve to not get malaria?

Ramsus
Sep 14, 2002

by Hand Knit

Solice Kirsk posted:

Who would eat a lion?

I have eaten lion. Well, lion mixed with hamburger.

i didn't mean just lions

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Ramsus posted:

i didn't mean just lions

tell us about your micropenis :v:

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



ASK ME ABOUT
BEING
ESCULA GRIND'S
#1 SIMP

Nooner posted:

tell us about your micropenis :v:

haha ramsus got owned

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

This displeases Dev- ..van. Shut up.

whoflungpoop posted:

he's trying to engage you in discussion about his *sticks out pinky, makes curling motion* and so far you have blithely and -- i gotta be honest -- somewhat inconsiderately ignored all of his social cues to this end

so hes understandably frustrated, i mean short of wearing a sign that says ASK ME ABOUT MY MICROPENIS what more does it possibly take

I have all that stuff turned off, so I didn't initially see the small dick warning. I'm on my guard now, thanks for looking out.

pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib
some hick from zimbabwe wrote an article for the nyt about how in his village they were afraid of lions so he's glad this guy shot it

yeah because you were a dumb hick living in a village while the rest of us had fuckin cars and were livin in harare like real people

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


The other guy who was trying to single handedly kill one of every endangered thing was worse imo, but I guess he was a better shot because he was killing hippos and elephants and poo poo with a bow.

PerilPastry
Oct 10, 2012
P hosed up that being a white cheerleader won't save you from the outrage if you kill lions and elephants
https://youtu.be/4vv0nRPa1r8?t=18

fuccboi
Jan 5, 2004

by zen death robot

pathetic little tramp posted:

some hick from zimbabwe wrote an article for the nyt about how in his village they were afraid of lions so he's glad this guy shot it

yeah because you were a dumb hick living in a village while the rest of us had fuckin cars and were livin in harare like real people

fifty years ago we'd have him upside down

Dead Gay Romans
Mar 19, 2015

Pitbull enthusiast

Lord of Pie posted:

The other guy who was trying to single handedly kill one of every endangered thing was worse imo, but I guess he was a better shot because he was killing hippos and elephants and poo poo with a bow.

if you can kill a hippo with a bow you loving deserve to hunt whatever the gently caress you want.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Dead Gay Romans posted:

if you can kill a hippo with a bow you loving deserve to hunt whatever the gently caress you want.

I killed a rhino with a bow in FarCry4

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
I also killed one with a grenade launcher before :twisted::getin::twisted:

kindermord
Jun 5, 2003
ducks is chickens with swimmy toes

PerilPastry posted:

P hosed up that being a white cheerleader won't save you from the outrage if you kill lions and elephants
https://youtu.be/4vv0nRPa1r8?t=18

Please stop being hate-filled losers, anti-hunting activists.

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007
ok well this is kind of weird

visit the dentist's website here: http://www.riverbluffdental.com/ (it looks like the .CSS isn't loading so the page looks pretty hosed up but that's not important)

Click on "follow us on Twitter".

How the hell did someone do that to his Twitter page? Did they hack the account? Or does Twitter immediately "free up" Twitter usernames when someone deletes them?

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/08/07/suspicious-package-reported-at-palmers-dental-office-is-flowers/

kindermord
Jun 5, 2003
ducks is chickens with swimmy toes
A Zimbabwean who grew up as a potential menu item shares his thoughts:

quote:

The Opinion Pages | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions
By GOODWELL NZOUAUG. 4, 2015

Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me.

So sorry about Cecil.

Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe?

Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by an American dentist, the village boy inside me instinctively cheered: One lion fewer to menace families like mine.

My excitement was doused when I realized that the lion killer was being painted as the villain. I faced the starkest cultural contradiction I’d experienced during my five years studying in the United States.

Did all those Americans signing petitions understand that lions actually kill people? That all the talk about Cecil being “beloved” or a “local favorite” was media hype? Did Jimmy Kimmel choke up because Cecil was murdered or because he confused him with Simba from “The Lion King”?

In my village in Zimbabwe, surrounded by wildlife conservation areas, no lion has ever been beloved, or granted an affectionate nickname. They are objects of terror.

When I was 9 years old, a solitary lion prowled villages near my home. After it killed a few chickens, some goats and finally a cow, we were warned to walk to school in groups and stop playing outside. My sisters no longer went alone to the river to collect water or wash dishes; my mother waited for my father and older brothers, armed with machetes, axes and spears, to escort her into the bush to collect firewood.

A week later, my mother gathered me with nine of my siblings to explain that her uncle had been attacked but escaped with nothing more than an injured leg. The lion sucked the life out of the village: No one socialized by fires at night; no one dared stroll over to a neighbor’s homestead.

When the lion was finally killed, no one cared whether its murderer was a local person or a white trophy hunter, whether it was poached or killed legally. We danced and sang about the vanquishing of the fearsome beast and our escape from serious harm.

Recently, a 14-year-old boy in a village not far from mine wasn’t so lucky. Sleeping in his family’s fields, as villagers do to protect crops from the hippos, buffalo and elephants that trample them, he was mauled by a lion and died.

The killing of Cecil hasn’t garnered much more sympathy from urban Zimbabweans, although they live with no such danger. Few have ever seen a lion, since game drives are a luxury residents of a country with an average monthly income below $150 cannot afford.

Don’t misunderstand me: For Zimbabweans, wild animals have near-mystical significance. We belong to clans, and each clan claims an animal totem as its mythological ancestor. Mine is Nzou, elephant, and by tradition, I can’t eat elephant meat; it would be akin to eating a relative’s flesh. But our respect for these animals has never kept us from hunting them or allowing them to be hunted. (I’m familiar with dangerous animals; I lost my right leg to a snakebite when I was 11.)

The American tendency to romanticize animals that have been given actual names and to jump onto a hashtag train has turned an ordinary situation — there were 800 lions legally killed over a decade by well-heeled foreigners who shelled out serious money to prove their prowess — into what seems to my Zimbabwean eyes an absurdist circus.

PETA is calling for the hunter to be hanged. Zimbabwean politicians are accusing the United States of staging Cecil’s killing as a “ploy” to make our country look bad. And Americans who can’t find Zimbabwe on a map are applauding the nation’s demand for the extradition of the dentist, unaware that a baby elephant was reportedly slaughtered for our president’s most recent birthday banquet.

We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people.

Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.

And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger.

Goodwell Nzou is a doctoral student in molecular and cellular biosciences at Wake Forest University.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
That's a lotta words to say he is afraid of lions haha

Clochette
Aug 12, 2013

Moridin920 posted:

That's a lotta words to say he is afraid of lions haha

Have you ever seen a cat torture and kill a mouse or a bird? Lions are just big cats, and unlike regular cats, they're bigger than humans.

Million Ghosts
Aug 11, 2011

spooooooky

Clochette posted:

Have you ever seen a cat torture and kill a mouse or a bird? Lions are just big cats, and unlike regular cats, they're bigger than humans.

i imagine it's as psyche scarring as watching mr and mrs(mr?) clochette torture roach poop floor pizza

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations

kindermord posted:

A Zimbabwean who grew up as a potential menu item shares his thoughts:


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html

he cares so much about zimbabwe he got the gently caress out first chance to live and study in the soft ridiculous west :allears:

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Aw that's sweet. His entire life will be paranoia

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007

Darth123123 posted:

Aw that's sweet. His entire life will be paranoia

true but I'm wondering who the weirdo was that sent him flowers

Them shits gonna be long dead before he gets back from Venice or wherever the gently caress he's chilling right now

Ramsus
Sep 14, 2002

by Hand Knit

whoflungpoop posted:

he cares so much about zimbabwe he got the gently caress out first chance to live and study in the soft ridiculous west :allears:

nice racism

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Melmac posted:

true but I'm wondering who the weirdo was that sent him flowers

Them shits gonna be long dead before he gets back from Venice or wherever the gently caress he's chilling right now

Big game joke here

kindermord
Jun 5, 2003
ducks is chickens with swimmy toes
Nine days ago Zimbabwe forever banished white devils from big game hunting within their borders. But apparently Mugabe's accountant sat him down and explained that a ban would mean the loss of millions of dollars that would otherwise have ended up in the president's personal Swiss bank account - because hunting is back on!

http://time.com/3992160/zimbabwe-hunting-ban-cecil-lion/

quote:

The statement reportedly says that “following some useful discussions between operators and the relevant Zimbabwean authorities, the suspension [on hunting] has now been uplifted throughout the country.”

i hope this blows back up but social media fatigue probably means it's dead. oh well it sure was a fun ride :keke:

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Ramsus posted:

nice racism

What's that white liberals are condescending racists with zero perspective of reality? Well I never

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
The majestic lion... Must be protected by the noble white men... *camera pans to sobbing family of small child maimed and devoured by some gay rear end lion*

Who Is Paul Blart
Oct 22, 2010
I do not care about lions or the third world. Suck my cock.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Professor Tomtom posted:

I do not care about lions or the third world. Suck my cock.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
Hans Kruuk famously studied lion kills by walking up to lions eating while clapping his hands and they'd run away so he could take a look.

Triple A
Jul 14, 2010

Your sword, sahib.

kindermord posted:

i hope this blows back up but social media fatigue probably means it's dead. oh well it sure was a fun ride :keke:

animal rights faggots only care if it's a whitey shooting animals

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
I will not rest until I've personally eradicated the lion from the face of the earth so our children may never know the fear of being eaten by gay lions

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
All lions must die

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Lol is anyone else here really happy and relieved they aren't living in Africa

I mean gently caress I'd even rather live in Russia than Africa

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007

Triple A posted:

animal rights faggots only care if it's a whitey shooting animals

I think it has more to do with the fact that when a dirt-poor homeless guy from Zimbabwe does it it's a bit more easy to accept than when it is done by an affluent, educated American who spends the average person's yearly salary for the privilege to do it (and then gloats and smiles in pictures with its carcass). That's what I would assume the difference is, anyway.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Pick posted:

Hans Kruuk famously studied lion kills by walking up to lions eating while clapping his hands and they'd run away so he could take a look.

loving dumb rear end africans getting eaten by lions dont they know they just have to slap real loud at them? No wonder the white man had such an easy time colonizing and enslaving them :rolleye:

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LethalGeek
Nov 4, 2009

I'm really happy that guy's life got ruined without any actual violence happening to him. I don't have to feel sorry for him at all

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