Boywhiz88 posted:

Who the gently caress doesn't tip their barber!?

Facebook posted:

Jiggs McDonald, NHL Hall of Fame broadcaster speaking in Orillia, Ontario, said, "I am truly perplexed that so many of my friends are against another mosque being built in Toronto. I think it should be the goal of every Canadian to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus, the mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance."

That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, 'The Turban Cowboy,' and the other a topless bar called 'You Mecca Me Hot.'

Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant called, 'Iraq o' Ribs.'

Across the street there could be a lingerie store called 'Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret,' with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.

Next door to the lingerie shop there would be a liquor store called, 'Morehammered.'

All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the very same tolerance they demand of us, so their mosque issue would not be a problem for others...

VitalSigns posted:

My favorite conservative friend immediately dismisses any snopes link because "it is run by a liberal couple and is biased". Even for questions of fact such as "did <celebrity> really say <thing>"

Rosalind posted:

I am getting so sick of my childless friend posting "Respect your parents" and pro-spanking stuff on Facebook that I'm going to start calling him out on it.

Coffee And Pie posted:

I'm always a little shocked at how outwardly pro-beating children some people are.

Rosalind posted:

Because in a lot of people's crazy minds a spanking is not equivalent to child abuse. There are, perhaps, degrees of severity between hitting your child on the butt and laying into them with a switch or belt but it's still in the realm of inflicting corporal punishment on a child. It doesn't work as a punishment, and it doesn't teach children "respect." It does teach them to fear their parents and that it's ok to hurt people you love if they do something bad.

CS3710 Assignment 2 posted:

(25 points) Write and test a Prolog program that solves following problem:
Everybody needs loving and understanding. People get their courage to live from loving and understanding. Understanding means listening and compassion. Rape victims have to gather their courage to live in order to stand on their dignity and to face future. Heather is a young rape victim. she would die if she could not stand on hr dignity and no future. Unfortunately the persistant bullying online and calling her "slut" in her community show that nobody would listen her and there is no compassion towards her. A person willing to die causes the person's attempting suicide. Whether is Heather attempting a suicide?

Discendo Vox posted:

A source of the difficulty with physical punishment/discipline debates is that information on psychological outcomes/mechanisms of physical punishment in parenting is hard to come by and slow to disseminate.

CS3710 Assignment 2 posted:

posted:
(25 points) Write and test a Prolog program that solves following problem:
Everybody needs loving and understanding. People get their courage to live from loving and understanding. Understanding means listening and compassion. Rape victims have to gather their courage to live in order to stand on their dignity and to face future. Heather is a young rape victim. she would die if she could not stand on hr dignity and no future. Unfortunately the persistant bullying online and calling her "slut" in her community show that nobody would listen her and there is no compassion towards her. A person willing to die causes the person's attempting suicide. Whether is Heather attempting a suicide?

BonoMan posted:

I think a lot of people don't realize it's a common thing

Poizen Jam posted:

That's right. An instructor at the local university gave an assignment to a computer science class to essentially write a program predicting the suicide of a socially isolated and bullied rape victim. I... Don't even know where to begin on this one, but apparently it was reported to the student union and sexual harassment office.

Excuse the grammar/spelling- I believe the prof is ESL and I'm not sure I want to bring up the implications of such a discussion.

Renaissance Robot posted:

My sister maintains that all people should watch Supernanny. I've only seen bits of it, though I gather the general line after fixing specific problems boils down to "don't be a domineering shitlord" and "spend time with your kids", with discipline usually being isolation based rather than physical or even verbal.

Discendo Vox posted:

Statements like the last part of the post quoted above, which implies a categorical causation between childhood physical discipline and the practice of physical abuse as an adult, are a pretty good example of counterproductive messaging leading to this phenomenon.

Discendo Vox posted:

I wonder if this was an incredibly poorly conceived attempt at informing the class of the serious issue of a lack of strong social support netowrks for rape victims?

Rosalind posted:

I am getting so sick of my childless friend posting "Respect your parents" and pro-spanking stuff on Facebook that I'm going to start calling him out on it.

Discendo Vox posted:

Could someone link me to a summary of the chemtrails conspiracy theory? I'm not clear on what it is.

Rosalind posted:

quote:

My boyfriend hates the monetary system because he understands how hosed it is.

me posted:

What exactly is the problem with the monetary system. Be specific.

quote:

Oh, you need specifics? Fractional reserve banking, fiat currency, inflation, devaluation, credit, fraudulent mortgages, fraudulent loans, a national debt that exceeds our GDP and a global debt 100 times the global GDP.
Justan Peterson I'm on a phone on a bus. I can give you explicit details later this evening if you'd like. Or you could just research it.

quote:

Nah that's ok because what you just posted are just general things that exist. You ever head of the bank panic of 1819 or 1837 or 1825 or 1901? (Just to name a few) Do you know what DIDN'T exist before that happened? Go on guess. Hint: The Federal Reserve System. In fact the bank panic of 1837 existed specifically because there was no national national bank and people just lost money. National debt is a matter of FINANCE policy and not MONETARY policy and debt in and of itself is not a bad thing. The boogeyman of inflation I find hilarious because inflation has been (practically) non-existent. Fraudulent mortgages would be worse in Ron Paul world because banks and financial institutions could do whatever they want whenever they want because there would be no regulation.

But hey, you know maybe it's hard to actually know your history.

Mornacale posted:

Also, as far as tipping barbers, another issue is not knowing how much to tip. Is it 20% of the cost of the haircut? Less if they set the fee themselves? More because a haircut is more meaningful than a meal? Or maybe it's a flat fee. I have no idea, so I always end up just thrusting some bills at my barber and hoping.

Rosalind posted:

And I called him out on it and the crazy came right out:



Apparently if your child swears, you should just punch them! Raising children in the 21st century!

Renaissance Robot posted:

Funnier, even, since that's technically true.


"I looked online just now and there were like 50 jobs on the first page!" *fails to notice that 49 of those are outside your ability, zero-hour contractor poo poo, or outright scams*

Sir Rolo posted:

Thanks to this thread the word "Statist" automatically starts alarm bells ringing in my mind.

Woman Against Feminism posted:

Facts:

~Single, childless women are earning more than men (in cities)
http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274,00.html

~Women make up 57% of bachelor’s degrees, 60% of master’s degrees, and 52% of PhDs

~More women are enrolled in college than men.

~ More women are in graduate school than men.

~Law schools are half women.

~Women control over 60% of consumer wealth

~80% of tv ads cater to women

~Women possess reproductive rights (while men do not)

~Women’s organizations are legion (while men’s organizations are banned from college campuses or else antagonized)

~Courts routinely award women full custody of children over men, as well as alimony and child support

and so on…

feminists are in the business of imposing an inferiority-mentality upon women in order to keep their feminist lobbying industry going.

But the reality is that women have never had it better.

Dr. Killjoy posted:

What in the hell is this crap?

theblacksphere posted:

Grant was up for Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance for “Alive (Mary Magdelene),” a song she wrote with her husband Bernie Helms, and Best Christian Music Song for the chart-topping “Hurricane.”

The couple went to the Grammys proud to represent gospel music. Little did they know when they arrived at the Los Angeles Staples Center that they’d be going to church.

To warm up the congregation and open the service, Beyoncé twerked her ample bethonged derriere to the delight of millions. After that, Natalie and Bernie were subjected to Mrs. Carter sitting astride a chair in, shall we say, an extremely come-hither position.

Next the high-powered billionaire, Jay-Z ,and his bodacious bride left little to imagination about what goes on in their boudoir when nobody’s looking.

From there, Natalie got to see pop star Katy Perry, who used to sing about Jesus. However, since crossing over into showbiz stardom she’s been circling the vortex of hellish behavior for years. Katy, wearing an illuminated Knights Templar cross on her chest, pushed the envelope beyond ‘kissing a girl’ in what even the secular media described as a Satanic Ritual, or at best, witchcraft.
Right about that time Natalie and Bernie were probably starting to feel out of place among people winning awards for being “Up all night to ‘Get lucky.’”

It’s unclear which debauched performance prompted Natalie Grant and Bernie Helms to call it a night.

Hopefully, they were already gone and missed the church-like mockery that was overseen by Reverend Latifah. Wedding music was compliments of a menopausal Madonna on behalf of 34 same- and mixed-sex couples who tied the knot on what’s supposed to be a music awards show.

Refusing to pass judgment on the debacle, after she left Natalie had this to say on her Facebook page, which in a few words said so much:

quote:

We left the Grammy’s early. I’ve many thoughts about the show tonight, most of which are probably better left inside my head. But I’ll say this: I’ve never been more honored to sing about Jesus and for Jesus. And I’ve never been more sure of the path I’ve chosen.

Lord Wexia posted:

Oh no! Popular music isn't honoring Jesus!

Leospeare posted:

And what's worse, they let Madonna sing it, even though she's menopausal!

ArchangeI posted:

I'll never understand the point about reproductive rights. Is there specific legislation in the US about when a man can and can not get a vasectomy or buy a condom?

Dr. Killjoy posted:

What in the hell is this crap?

Mooseontheloose posted:

Rand Paul was on a bunch of Sunday shows spewing this so now it's the truth.