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Mu Zeta posted:Enough people must have agreed with him and liked it otherwise they would have ignored it. The people that agreed with him were agreeing out of fashion more than anything. The Cool and Good Thing to Be was a Latin-derived Romance language which English never, ever was. For a very long time the official language of the English royalty as well as the court was French because that was fashionable. When English started coming back it was considered important to still speak a Latin-derived language in high circles so that guy started the idea of "gently caress all of you, English is a Romance language now." And, of course, those stupid arguments still run today. The people who care a whole lot about those rules or stuff like the proper use of "whom" (which, mind, has never been totally codified and the word is currently drat near dead) tend to be those that want to look down on others. There's a lot of classism and racism tied up to it. There's a right way to speak English and a wrong way to speak English. If you speak any of the wrong ways you're a dirty, lesser person so if you want to be seen as a respectable person never, ever end a sentence in a preposition.
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doverhog posted:There almost certainly is life out there, some biological scum at the bottom of a sea, or a space rat. Intelligent life tho, they will first discover nukes, and if they survive that, discover virtual reality. Neither is conducive to space travel. I think we'll probably find other life in our solar system to be honest. Not intelligent, but bacteria or single celled organisms bumbling around in one of the frozen ocean moons or maybe bacteria around a thermal vent or something. And once that happens then it will be a safe bet that tons of life exists through out the universe since even our planet wasn't special with in the confines of a single solar system. Really though, I'm hoping for space crabs.
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I took a course in college called "astrobiology" that was about the possibility of life outside of Earth. Basically it seemed to more or less say that it would be super weird if, at the very least, simple life didn't exist elsewhere. Some of the stuff we read did imply that it's tough for complex life to develop. Which kind of makes sense when you think about it; given how long it took complex (much less intelligent) life to develop on Earth, the universe as a whole is actually pretty young, and I think that only solar systems with relatively younger, metal rich stars might be capable of hosting complex life (since earlier stars wouldn't have some of the elements needed for complex life as we know it).
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Religion-slash-spirituality is pretty cool. My ideal religion would be a cross between Classical paganism and Buddhism-slash-Hinduism-slash-Taoism. Like, there's ultimately one Thing and everything participates in it, and everything is just part of an ongoing process that is Eternal. But "gods" and "spirits" and "demons" exist as thought-forms and egregores generated by sapient minds and imaginations, which themselves are a part of the Whole. There is no discrete self, either.
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Blue Star posted:Religion-slash-spirituality is pretty cool. My ideal religion would be a cross between Classical paganism and Buddhism-slash-Hinduism-slash-Taoism. Like, there's ultimately one Thing and everything participates in it, and everything is just part of an ongoing process that is Eternal. But "gods" and "spirits" and "demons" exist as thought-forms and egregores generated by sapient minds and imaginations, which themselves are a part of the Whole. There is no discrete self, either. 
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Apr 1, 2017 02:37
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Wendy's has the best fast food burgers and Burger King has the best fries.
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Apr 1, 2017 02:58
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I don't know what the hell seems to be going on with everyone else's Arby's, but mine's really goddamn good.
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Leavemywife posted:Wendy's has the best fast food burgers and Burger King has the best fries. I go to Burger King when I'm in the mood to be disappointed.
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Das Boo posted:I don't know what the hell seems to be going on with everyone else's Arby's, but mine's really goddamn good. The last Arby's here closed years ago. I didn't know it still existed.
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Mu Zeta posted:The last Arby's here closed years ago. I didn't know it still existed. i work at an Arby's and we are stupidely busy a lot. Like people were lining up today for goddamn gyro sandwiches. loving WHY???
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If dragged to a burger joint like McDonald's or whatever I'll usually just take the chicken nuggets. No crappy bread, not messy to eat, pretty good when eaten a few times a year.
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Blue Star posted:i work at an Arby's and we are stupidely busy a lot. Like people were lining up today for goddamn gyro sandwiches. loving WHY??? I just go for the curly fries. The bland mystery meat sandwich is just a side.
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Apr 1, 2017 06:40
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That turkey bacon sandwich from Arby's is loving unreal. And also 800 calories, so there's why.
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doverhog posted:If dragged to a burger joint like McDonald's or whatever I'll usually just take the chicken nuggets. No crappy bread, not messy to eat, pretty good when eaten a few times a year. McDonald's chicken nuggets are genuinely good.
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Tiggum posted:McDonald's chicken nuggets are genuinely good. The last time I got them I was a kid and bit into one and it was raw as hell. Never again. Sonic popcorn chicken is pretty good though.
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Apr 1, 2017 06:59
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Leavemywife posted:Wendy's has the best fast food burgers and Burger King has the best fries. Completely agree.
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McDonald's nuggets are bad because it's just ground up chicken from like 20,000 different chickens all mixed together in a big vat. At least if you eat chicken tenders it's from a recognizable piece of meat.
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Hamburger is ground up meat too, that doesn't make it inherently bad. Chicken muscles don't have a soul that is broken if your grind them up for a nugget.
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I loved McNuggets when I was a kid. Not so fond of them now. Somewhere in between, I was told that "way back when" they used to be part fish nugget. I have no idea whether or not that's true, but some part of me believes the story. No, I've never looked into it.
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Chinese people make fish sausage and it's weirdly good even though it's probably way grosser than chicken pink slime nuggets.doverhog posted:Hamburger is ground up meat too, that doesn't make it inherently bad. Chicken muscles don't have a soul that is broken if your grind them up for a nugget. I'm just extra suspicious of ground chicken because it seems so easy to put in filler or mystery textures. Beef always tastes like beef.
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Das Boo posted:I don't know what the hell seems to be going on with everyone else's Arby's, but mine's really goddamn good. I think there was some ongoing Simpsons joke about Arby's being bad that turned it into a meta joke, but Arby's is good and The Simpsons is bad.
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Shaft isn't Isaac Hayes's greatest work - Hot Buttered Soul is.
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Horsey Sauce mixed with their really runny BBQ type sauce thing is legit delicious.
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veni veni veni posted:I think there was some ongoing Simpsons joke about Arby's being bad that turned it into a meta joke, but Arby's is good and The Simpsons is bad. Jon Stewart was far more responsible for the myth that Arby's is the worst.
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lemon-lyme disease posted:I loved McNuggets when I was a kid. Not so fond of them now. Somewhere in between, I was told that "way back when" they used to be part fish nugget. I have no idea whether or not that's true, but some part of me believes the story. I'm pretty sure that's impossible. I'm allergic to fish and have never, ever had a reaction to a McNugget other than "you know what these actually aren't all that good."
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Apr 1, 2017 14:40
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Arby's is fine but it's stupidly expensive for what they're selling
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I don't see Whataburger anywhere in this conversation about hamburgers 
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Apr 1, 2017 16:21
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Oh! I got a bad opinion! The movie Stripes is not very funny.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Oh! I got a bad opinion! The movie Stripes is not very funny. Harold Ramis was so unfunny and bad he sucked all the humour out of the entire movie. Imagine how good Ghostbusters would have been without Ramis
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Solice Kirsk posted:Oh! I got a bad opinion! The movie Stripes is not very funny. I haven't seen Stripes but related to this, Caddyshack isn't really that good. It has its moments, but it's like three separate movies that just don't gel together. Animal House, on the other hand, is still fantastic.
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Originalist interpretations of the Constition is garbage.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I'm pretty sure that's impossible. I'm allergic to fish and have never, ever had a reaction to a McNugget other than "you know what these actually aren't all that good." I couldn't find any legitimate source backing this up, so you're almost definitely correct. Didn't even consider the allergy angle. It was probably just a (local?) myth that I bought as an impressionable preteen.
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mojo1701a posted:It has its moments, but it's like three separate movies that just don't gel together. Animal House, on the other hand, is still fantastic. Animal House is great fun but The Blues Brothers is better.
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jastiger was right all along also this is now the unpopular facts thread
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Wheat Loaf posted:Animal House is great fun but The Blues Brothers is better. DID YOU GET ME MY CHEEZ WHIZ, BOY?
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You Are A Elf posted:DID YOU GET ME MY CHEEZ WHIZ, BOY? "Cars got a lot of pick up..." I'll also say that the best soundtrack of all time is a tie between The Big Chill (not a very good movie though) and The Blues Brothers.
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lemon-lyme disease posted:I loved McNuggets when I was a kid. Not so fond of them now. Somewhere in between, I was told that "way back when" they used to be part fish nugget. I have no idea whether or not that's true, but some part of me believes the story. Sounds like the myth that KFC would substitute rabbit for chicken for some reason, despite rabbit being more expensive and the obvious fact that people would notice the difference.
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lemon-lyme disease posted:I couldn't find any legitimate source backing this up, so you're almost definitely correct. Didn't even consider the allergy angle. Probably. Food myths are incredibly common and common/popular things are popular targets. You know like saying that the beef that made the hamburgers at school lunch was "Grade D - can be sold to convicts and students" and the like. There are an insane number of food-based urban legends. Food allergies are a huge freaking deal and it's very unlikely that McDonald's would replace chicken with a common allergen.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Probably. Food myths are incredibly common and common/popular things are popular targets. You know like saying that the beef that made the hamburgers at school lunch was "Grade D - can be sold to convicts and students" and the like. There are an insane number of food-based urban legends. They're the only fast food place in our area that doesn't separately package peanut poo poo (so it's no-go with an allergy). They're "open packaged." Is that just a middle Canada thing? Mcdonalds vary a lot apparently depending where you live.
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I think everyone should be fed peanut and fish stuff and just let nature sort things out. Or develop a cure for fuckoff stupid allergies where super common stuff kills people.
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