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AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:

They probably hate Catholics too, evangelicals generally hate every other denomination that isn't as wacky and crazy as they are.

Evangelicals have plenty of their own creepy dudes to worry about (Bill Gothard, anyone?)

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AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Einstein's children were brilliant, though. One was a very distinguished engineer; the other had very severe schizophrenia, but was intellectually curious and well read.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Falcon2001 posted:

Best of all is how a lot of that was complaining about fish bladders and carrageenan, both of which are about as natural as you can really get.

Carrageenan is infuriating to those of us who aren't supposed to eat it*, because it turns up in all kinds of foods where you're not expecting it.

*pretty much anyone with inflammatory/autoimmune digestive stuff going on

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Postal Parcel posted:

Isn't Cindy McCain the one who said being a mother was the hardest job in the world?
Cindy McCain, John McCain's wife? Rich as gently caress John McCain*?

*gently caress obviously not meaning Romney

It's almost all her money, actually. She inherited some large business from her parents and has expanded it greatly.

One of her sons was in Iraq some years ago; the other has been stationed in Guam the whole time, so it's weird that she lumped them together like that.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Picnic Princess posted:



I don't know if she's aware that we can all see her reviews of these lovely vampire romance Twilight rip-off books she keeps writing. At least she hated this one!

Wait, what? That isn't Laurell K. Hamilcrap reviewing herself, it's someone who bought four of Hamilton's lovely books.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Picnic Princess posted:

I think she used the "Sign in with Facebook" option on a review website and now we all get to see the trash she reads. Kind of like when people "like" a porn vid and it shows up on their friends' walls unintentionally, but a bit tamer.

Ah! Well, yeah. Also, her review is full of bad spelling and grammar.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Pilchenstein posted:

This just makes my head hurt. Why is she censoring the word "black"? :psyduck:

Because Facebook hates white people and will ban any white person with the temerity to use the word "black". Racists think this.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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TinTower posted:

Whatever happened to Maxine?

Will she ever be at it again? :ohdear:

The original cartoonist sold it to Hallmark.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Is Bruno Mars even an emotional train wreck? I've never heard that about him.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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CrowsNestMutineer posted:

I didn't even know John Locke wrote smut...

Thomas Hobbes tried. It was nasty, brutish, and short.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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ToxicSlurpee posted:

Yup. Soon as copy machines became readily available people circulated all sorts of stupid poo poo.

Mimeographed sheets of crappy "jokes" from the 1960s were among my father's effects.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Human fetuses are a vulnerable/endangered species now?

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Krispy Kareem posted:

Yeeeeeah, about that.



FDR did a lot of great stuff, but we were still in a Depression leading right up to WW2.

That first big reduction in unemployment was mostly attributable to the NRA, which was repealed (and unemployment went back up), then WWII started in Europe and unemployment shot down again.

The thing about that is that it's difficult to quantify the economic impact of government work programs like the WPA and CCC on indices other than straight employment numbers. So the New Deal did have a visible impact on employment, but there are different points of view on how much that benefited the GNP, and what would have happened if the programs hadn't been rolled back, and what would have happened if the war hadn't started...

But "worst President ever" is crazy because hello, James motherfucking Buchanan.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

Well, I assume a devil rape would be broadcast on Coast to Coast, but I wonder what other AM stations he has in mind.

ESPN?

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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In my experience it's more often conservative elected officials who are anti-pit bull.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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I think it's more likely it's a troll/parody that she fell for than that she made it up.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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beepsandboops posted:

Has Michael Sam been in the news again, or is this person just bringing this up again after months and months?

He won an award at the ESPY awards last night (the night before?)

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Higgy posted:



My favorite thing, besides the oversimplification of taxation as a concept, is the hammer and sickle "x" in "extorted".

loving hell, there was income tax during the Civil War (Revenue Act of 1861). Poz this neg Earth forever.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Dogfish posted:

"Yeast" is probably a reference to "systemic candidiasis," which is a made-up thing.

It's a real thing, but it's extremely rare and the only people who get it are severely ill and immunosuppressed, so they're not posting abou it on Facebook.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Excels posted:

There's no way to control that short of making it law to only have one child per household like China or something.

The best way to lower population is generally agreed to be providing educational and career opportunities for low-income people, especially low-income women. Cheap or free contraception is the second most effective way.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Ragequit posted:

Ah, I forgot about Australian 9/11.

I thought that was 000?

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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There are certainly a bunch of people with cognitive disabilities who have spoken out against the casual use of "retarded". I loved the guy who schooled Ann Coulter about it.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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The idea is that if you dump the ice water on your head, the person who "challenged" you has to make the donation.

The whole thing actually has been successful for the ALS Association.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Parasol Prophet posted:

If those are the options for Baby B, what did Baby A get stuck with?

Koncerto, Panasonic, Klef, Scherzo, Fermata, Feedbacque, and Iggy.

Also, babies should be able to eat (breastfeed or bottlefeed) in places it's appropriate for other people to eat. Restaurant? Great. Bathroom? No. Airplane? Sure. In crowded elevator? Not so much.

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AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Broenheim posted:

Why would he try to kill the largest and not the smallest.

But yeah, he's right. Hitler did nothing.

It doesn't even make any loving sense because a) there were Jewish people living in the same geographical region all through, from Roman Judea to Ottoman Syria (which included present-day Israel and Jordan as well as most of present-day Syria) through the surge in Zionist settlement in the late 19th century through the British Mandate of 1922, and b) if you're going to imagine a clairvoyant, beneficent Hitler, why not imagine a pet dragon for everybody, or pixie friends to do our housework?

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Amused to Death posted:



won't someone please think of the burger king! :qq:


lmao BK isn't even a "someone" with money, it's loving corporate entity that like all corporate entities here exists solely because of the United States government.

Corporate tax rates in Canada are higher than corporate tax rates in the US, in any case. Wow, I am way out of date. Canada's corporate tax rates are now lower than the US's. Huh. Well, good luck with all that, Burger King!

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AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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WeeabooJudas posted:

We would do this in Canadian public and high schools as well. I assumed everyone did it.

It never felt like nationalist brainwashing, it was just something we had to do every day.

That being said, I'm glad I don't have to anymore, as it was rather boring.

There's a Canadian pledge of allegiance? :vince:

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Henchman of Santa posted:

They are. The NFL is 70% black, so it's not just your mom making racist assumptions.

White NFL players have gotten in their share of trouble in recent years (Richie Incognito, Riley Cooper, Ben Roethlisberger), but none of it happened to be domestic violence (bullying, racism and sexual assault in these respective cases).

And Aaron Hernandez committing murder!

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Henchman of Santa posted:

Aaron Hernandez is Hispanic.

And white, not black. I agree with your general point about the demographics of the NFL, which I think is the right answer to RareAcumen's mother's question (as opposed to selective publicity or whatever).

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AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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SybilVimes posted:

While the story is clearly fake, it IS possible for the uterus to be rendered unable to bear child from an abortion, but it's one of those 'unlucky chance' things.

Less likely than post-partum infertility, though. Sometimes stuff goes wrong in our bodies.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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SteveVizsla posted:

That's basically it. The other two were already diagnosed and brought to the USA for treatment with all sorts of precautions taken. This is the first person to be diagnosed here, to not appear sick until home for a few days. Hopefully the person didn't infect a bunch of other people first.

Obama should have stopped this guy from going to Liberia, I guess? But you know if the State Department actually banned international travel, it would be all "ARE RIGHTS".

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Stottie Kyek posted:

I thought we did, though? Women tend to see female gynaecologists, men tend to see male urologists, and people ask GPs of the same gender for advice on their respective junk. My mum's a doctor and one of her female colleagues said she had trouble getting any practice with men's issues because everyone went to doctors of the same gender. She said "if I ever see a Peyronie's plaque, I'll put it up on the wall."

I think the FB dude's argument was literally as stupid as "Since male gynecologists exist, claiming that women have more expertise on women's reproductive issues is invalid."

My dad had a woman urologist at one point. He liked her (not in a creepy way).

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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TrekBek posted:

I hear that "uses less fabric" thing all the time. Is there really any truth behind that? It'd probably explain thongs, though.

It's more that you have to recut patterns for plus sizes that raises the cost, not the actual cost of fabric per garment. Tall sizes also generally cost more, for the same reason, not for the extra inches of material at the hemline.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Dogfish posted:

Do they not have petites sections/stores where you come from?

That's just shorter versions of the "straight sizes" 0-16 (or 00-14); the waists and hips usually aren't smaller.

Everything about women's clothing sizing is ridiculous and makes no sense.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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BonHair posted:

How do you not notice there's an election? Over here in socialist hellhole, we all get mailed a little ticket-thingie that we have to bring to the polling place, so if nothing else, we get that as a notification that "hey, it's time to vote for [whatever] on [date]". On the other hand, America is hosed up, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

My city sends out postcards and puts up signs all over public spaces (in the parks, front lawns of city buildings, etc.) and voter turnout is really high. So much of this stuff is local here.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Sagebrush posted:

Why do you have people like this on your friends list?

It's from STFUParents, a mockery site that collects idiots on social media.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Met posted:





Why does he have two accounts?

Can't fit that much stupid on one account.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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Taking chemically active preparations in standardized doses is bad. Just cramming chemically active herbal preparations willy nilly into your body is awesome! Why, sure, random stranger, I'll take that pennyroyal. How much should I take? A bunch? Well, all righty then. (Brain damage ensues.)

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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RareAcumen posted:

From the comments on the article, I was expecting 4chan. I don't know Stormfront that well so I thought they were the guys panicking over white people being eradicated [somehow?] and also they're super crazy racist and also totally unaware of it.

Racist and proud of it. A bunch of useless idiots who have literally nothing else to take pride in than a relative lack of melanin. Team Pasty and Ignorant.

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AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

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RareAcumen posted:

Pretty much that entirely.

This is probably just me having a wider view of how lovely America [I loving hope to god that MRA poo poo doesn't have any penetration in other countries] is with how the Epic Scroll of social, legal, economic, etc problems it has.

Do you want to hear about the :canada: MRA groups that hail the Montreal Massacre perp as a hero? If not, don't click here.

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