The Saddest Rhino posted:

wow made me think

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Pull your head from your posterior
The people have everything to do with what happened
They allowed these animals into their midst
Now
Grow up
Stop talking
Pay attention
And
Let the adults talk


When the people fail to control their Government, as INTENDED, yes, it is the people's fault that it has gotten to this point, In Paris, AND HERE. As one single person, I cannot make much difference, however, if I join with thousands of others, my voice will be heard and our actions noticed. We have a nation of people who are either afraid or complacent and so does France. Until the PEOPLE STAND THE gently caress UP and tell their Government that they are DONE, NOTHING will change. NOTHING.


The USA is not only NEXT, we are already INVOLVED. 10,000 of the jihadists are ALREADY in New Orleans as of last week. Hope you have already toured New Orleans because it will be a cesspool in six months, I'm predicting!

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Traitor. And should be treated as such. Him and his husband "michelle"

There is nothing to "appreciate" with those ANIMALS.

trapped mouse posted:

It's true, the idea that the future could possibly be worse than the past is exclusively a 21st century idea.

Also, what is that supposed to be? Nuclear wasteland? Because that specific fear has been going on since the cold war.

goose fleet posted:

I like how mental illness now has "allies" as if it's an oppressed sexual orientation

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

This person has never actually interacted with someone with clinical depression, have they? At my low point I once went an entire weekend without eating, and during that period I only got out of bed I think twice to go to the bathroom and spent multiple hours long stretches doing nothing but staring at the wall. During episodes, you don't feel "bad", you essentially temporarily lack any capacity to feel emotions at all. Like, that is such a facile understanding of depression I don't know how they didn't just get laughed out of their graduate advisor's office.

DudeGoofyGuy posted:

If the project is looking at the *discourse* surrounding depression (that is, how people talk about it) then questioning why it is considered important to be productive is interesting. Like, I could see asking the philosophical question, "what value is there in work for work's sake? Why is it that when we define depression (or any mental illness) as interfering with a person's life, it's accepted that work is a necessary part of life? Why have we accepted the capitalist way of being is suited for all personality types?" Those are interesting questions for a thesis. If the argument is that "depression" is just a term to stigmatize unproductive people and, therefore, that it ONLY really inhibits a person's work (as family isn't considered productive to capitalists but is something that can be severely hurt by depression), then it is a bad project that itself fails to understand the mental illness it wants others to see in a new light. As a grad student who did undergrad in Psychology and English, I can see how the humanities Marxist-critique of psychology studies is extremely tempting, but I don't know if this was the best planned project. Good luck to the person though. Maybe they'll produce something worth thinking about!

Wilford Cutlery posted:

Did you seriously put a hashtag in your forum post?

sugar mouse posted:

Judge Tesla posted:

The funny thing is people thinking Old Queenie has any powers and isn't just an aging figurehead who gets rolled out to read speeches the Government wrote for her and wave to the public like a puppet.

Picnic Princess posted:

That's so loving ironic I want to punch my monitor.

kinmik posted:

Remember that case of a high school teacher who had sex with her teenaged students? The judge just tossed the lawsuit and basically condemned her and the school for not protecting their students better. Found some classy people in the comments, including the most convoluted case of "boys will be boys".

Takoluka posted:

Wouldn't a mass shooter not be abiding by the law, implying that all mass shooters are law-abiding citizens in regards to guns until they do so, making it an incredibly stupid statement?

Madkal posted:

He also wants to read 1984 really badly now, which is kind of amusing.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

To be honest I don't get this whole "a real X listens to Y genre or they are Z which is a very bad thing" idea in the first place. Listen to the music that sounds good to you and don't let anybody tell you it's wrong. It's entertainment. Who the gently caress cares?

Blackfish posted:

Who What Now posted:

Who wants some Pure Platinum grade insanity?

If you click one link in the IOSM thread this year... make it this one.

Attitude Indicator posted:

i'm not reading all that, but it seems on par for video game wikis i guess?

AtraMorS posted:

Eh it's not really religious persecution if your entire religious code is "Hate people who are happy." The Puritans were joyless, intolerant dicks that went around England smashing organs because they hated music--music!--and in the colonies, they were all too happy edit: did I say happy? No, they were not happy. They were perfectly somber and morose and murderous when they executed Quakers and other undesirables. They were assholes who deserved to be treated as such.

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Send help

Your Computer posted:

I know youtube comments are low brow but I've never seen anyone been this angry about safety before:

On a video where a guy pours molten aluminium into a tank of water for "science".

twistedmentat posted:

The Alberta Government is extending the Health and Saftey act to include farms. Suddenly, a bunch of "Farmers" started freaking out about it saying this will ruin family farms, because kids won't be able to help out, or ride with dad in the tractor and injuries will now have to be reported and that means the Government will have to get involved and such. It was so full of people claiming that the provincal government and its socialist ways where poking its head into business it doesn't have a right to.

Some of the complainers were saying stuff like "losing a finger makes you a man" and so on. Seriously, what the gently caress is wrong with you if you think that's a positive thing? Somehow I feel like someone who says things like that also beats their children for the smallest infraction.

The reason I put "farmers" in quotes is because many of the people who were protesting the bill are not farmers in any way shape of form, but are simply owners of farms as buisnesses, and have no interaction with the crops in any way. It would be like calling a person who owns a factory an assembly line worker.

I love that we live in a world where "provide your workers and consumers with healthy and safe products/environments" and that's seen as a bad thing.

Strudel Man posted:

Star wars is not even remotely confined to 'nerds' anymore. It's a general cultural touchstone, and so you can find responses to it from across society.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...y-a6775406.html

into the void posted:

This is essentially what The Mary Sue has boiled down to (yet Supergirl still gets a weekly glowing pass). That and the occasional article complaining extensively about such and such media, written by someone who opening admits to never watching/reading/playing said media. Can't even hate read that site anymore.

BigglesSWE posted:

Arguing for better representation of trans-people isn't bad thing. But doing it on the expense of other minorities is just petty. When did it become a competition to see who is the biggest victim?

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Bast Relief posted:

I hated how every time one of these stories hit the news cycle people would jokingly ask if I was loving my students, because certainly they must have had crushes on me and therefore I guess I had no agency in making a moral decision, never mind any interest in some minute man action with some teenage doofus.

God back when I was Internet dating I can't tell you how many guys liked to go on about some hot teacher they had knowing I was a teacher. OK fine, whatever, if it wasn't for them always asking if I even found any of my students attractive. No. Well adjusted adults don't feel that way about the children they are responsible for.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

I mean we're talking about it like it's Tesla but I'm still not entirely convinced it's Tesla.

Madkal posted:

I thought that picture of Tesla was Nietzsche, making the prison who posted it extra smug.

Kajeesus posted:

What was the first one of these? I know some official republican outlet had "12 Taylor Swift gifs in response to Obama's free college proposal," that spent 9 or 10 gifs revealing that "free" actually meant "taxes pay for it," and had 1 gif with the line "how about instead of doing that we cut taxes and make education cheaper and better?" I don't think anything will top that one.

trapped mouse posted:

You should use the money face in your class.



Made by a goon trying to create a parody of those types of images, ended up being shared unironically by tons of people. Not sure what your class is on, money face is just amazing

Lottery of Babylon posted:

However, even though men can act feminine, the opposite is not true. Women cannot act masculine. For one, they just don’t have the physical strength to intimidate men. But more importantly, they do not have the masculine emotions to the same degree men do. Women can be slightly masculine to a point (they also have some testosterone, but once women are confronted with men, their aggressiveness and assertiveness disappears. They are biologically wired to be submissive to dominant men who are attacking them. Of course women can be trained to pretend to be masculine, the same way that a parrot can be trained to talk. But they don’t have those same competitive emotions as men.

Dogfish posted:

Also that's not where your uterus is, if you're not pregnant. Your uterus is inside your pelvis. It's not touching the front wall of the abdominal cavity; it's behind the pubic bone.