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Jumpingmanjim posted:bless him 
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I can't believe how good this thread is!
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Apr 1, 2016 02:48
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Cartoon posted:It's gone noon in the eastern states Skelly. The A bomb isn't happening any more. It was 11:48 when I posted that, southern scum.
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Apr 1, 2016 06:10
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Endman posted:The Aztecs also ripped people's hearts out en masse in order to appease their gods, but the Spanish invasion of Central America was still super bad. 
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Apr 1, 2016 08:09
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It's not a flattering outfit at all for his body shape. It makes his torso and arms look really really long, I hope he didn't choose it for himself.
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Apr 3, 2016 02:48
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LibertyCat posted:OK quoting from Simple aka "Wikipeda for Retards" is getting desperate. The Maya didn't have wheels either.
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Apr 3, 2016 09:38
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Would nomadic steppe and tundra people, with or without wheels, count as civilisations?
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Apr 3, 2016 09:43
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Would a nomadic horde suddenly become civilised if they murdered everyone in a city, built a pyramid out of their skulls, and then lived in the city?
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Apr 3, 2016 09:50
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But you can have all those things without a city.
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Apr 3, 2016 09:58
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How do you define 'advanced'? The Americas had huge cities and burgeoning empires without having wheels, metal tools or domesticated livestock beyond llamas. Steppe nomads invented the stirrup and routinely dominated their city dwelling neighbours despite having nothing more permanent than large tents. Arctic tribes invented a thousand and one uses for seals and whales that nobody else figured out. Polynesians colonised the whole Pacific. The richest man in all of history was from Mali. The inhabitants of Easter Island built so many large stone monuments they destroyed their ability to live there, they dominated the environment to an extent far beyond the bounds of almost any other group in history.
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Apr 3, 2016 10:09
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Does a giant pyramid of skulls count as an urban construction? The Mongols were really good at making those.
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Apr 3, 2016 10:10
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Be honest, how many of you knew the difference between Atilla the Hun and Genghis Khan? Well duh they had separate campaigns in AoE2.
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Apr 3, 2016 10:10
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I don't even know what numinastic means!
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Apr 3, 2016 10:25
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Money is evil and distracts society from the communist ideal.
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Apr 3, 2016 10:32
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Note: All children have been reclassified as 'Tiny miniature terrorist persons'
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Apr 3, 2016 13:07
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LibertyCat posted:My understanding is the bulk of female "computers" were doing mathematical grunt work, and were not designing algorithms like higher skilled programmers today 
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Apr 3, 2016 13:27
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Bill Shorten has a weird shaped head.
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Apr 5, 2016 02:13
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hooman posted:Why are white men the most fragile, thin skinned assholes imaginable? That's the price of min/maxing all the stats for gold farming
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Apr 5, 2016 08:02
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Looks like they're getting ready to put either Abbott or the book in a buried time capsule.
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Apr 6, 2016 07:39
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Actually looking closer, they all have great expressions ranging from smugness to disgust
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Apr 6, 2016 07:42
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Reposting for new page
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Apr 6, 2016 07:54
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LibertyCat posted:The prison "industry" in the USA is very sick, so I'd vote no. On top of that it creates incentives to put more people in prison. How would you know if they were lying? Wouldn't taking blood from millions of people and then discarding most of it be incredibly wasteful? Why do you love waste?
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Apr 7, 2016 12:56
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All those old retirees being sucked dry, trying to collect their pension. Actually yes I like the idea of sucking the life force from boomers.
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Apr 7, 2016 13:06
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How would you only take enough for Australia's medical needs if every welfare recipient is donating every time they collect? This would waste so much medical equipment and expertise.
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Apr 7, 2016 13:11
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Yeah, I can't tell if LibertyCat is a terrible libertarian or a great one. What's the difference?
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Apr 7, 2016 21:39
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Cartoon posted:You couldn't actually use their blood you know. Might as well just grind us all up for fertilizer. Okay?
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Apr 8, 2016 02:51
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Anidav posted:Lmao imagine being kidnapped and forced to live in Australia like some sort of convict. Truly a fate worse than death.
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Apr 8, 2016 04:31
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Three word phrase accomplished.
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Apr 8, 2016 07:52
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Genderblob Ponynomics/None/None
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Apr 9, 2016 11:45
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Dodgy mums trying to steal their fat kids from Lebanese dads, the shocking truth behind shonky tradies.
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Apr 10, 2016 08:22
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For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. A new authoritarianism has descended. There now seems to be a list of official beliefs we are allowed to hold and no others; decided for us by the new establishment that has taken hold in government and the media, especially but not only in Fairfax, the ABC and SBS where there is now a uniformly censorious tone that colours everything. The very idea that you might hold a different opinion from the approved one is, to use the word that is now creeping into our discourse, ‘unacceptable’ and if you dare express it, what you get in reply is not a counter argument but a demand for an apology, the more humiliating and grovelling the better. You will also be forced to resign from whatever post you occupy. And behind the threats and intimidation lurks the spectre of the thought police to enforce the approved view of what is acceptable and what is not. The advocate of unapproved views these days is simply bludgeoned into submission. It is unacceptable that you might have a different opinion from the establishment on climate change, same-sex marriage, adoption by same sex couples, illegal refugees, abortion, the republic, the family, the sexual agenda in schools, foreign aid, religious freedom, government spending, freedom of speech, Israel, Islam and any proposal for changing the constitution. As views other than the official ones are unacceptable, what is also unacceptable is that you should be allowed to express them. Indeed, you run a terrible risk these days, not that you will have to defend your case on its merits, but that you will be branded as a social leper, shunned, stopped from holding a public meeting or setting foot inside a university, blacklisted, abused and ridiculed simply because you hold a personal view different from the official one that has been sanctified by the new establishment. Were Voltaire alive he would find it easier to say: ‘I disagree with everything you say and will fight to the death to stop you saying it.’ The new authoritarianism has found a very fertile field in the denigration of Tony Abbott which has now reached an hysterical crescendo. He represents a separate strain of opinion from the mush that passes for policy in the Liberal party today and consequently must be stopped and silenced, not by logic, but by ridicule and abuse. He was probably doomed from the start by putting forward the uncomfortable truth in the 2014 budget that the country was living beyond its means and that surgery was needed before we went bankrupt. Given that the new establishment depends on government spending and handouts, it was inevitable that the budget would be unacceptable and Abbott with it. But by that time, it was known Abbott also had a real commitment to socially conservative positions that bind the society together, contributing to its stability. So he was doubly cursed and totally unacceptable. As the Age put it (before the staff went on strike and Fairfax shares went up), Abbott could not be allowed to stay in office and had to be ‘checked’. Eventually this led to his removal, but now, he has to be silenced, his legacy degraded and, if that does not work, forced to leave the parliament altogether. The most egregious example of this practice is the recent attempt by the PM to belittle his predecessor’s achievement in stopping the boats bringing illegal migrants into this country. Turnbull’s argument is that the boats were stopped, not under Abbott, but Howard. For Turnbull, the crazy excesses of Rudd/Gillard that allowed people smugglers back into business and Tony Abbott’s successful response just did not happen. This is little better than the whiting-out of any inconvenient facts by Turnbull that might diminish his own wondrous lustre. Worse, you would think that Turnbull would have at least an ounce of feeling that here was a policy of which Abbott was justly proud and would allow him this one tick of approval. But no, the zeitgeist is that Abbott and all his works are bad and Turnbull has to deliver the cruellest cut of all. Abbott’s supporters, guilty of the unacceptable sin of loyalty, are now condemned and abused as malcontents, subversives and troglodytes; forget about the arguments, just abuse the advocate. I hope they speak out more, because they contribute to the robust debate of ideas, whether you like their opinions or not. Then we have seen the unedifying spectacle of the Liberal Party itself promoting the line that Abbott should not stand again for election, campaign in the election, speak at conferences or even write articles. You would think that any political party with a former leader who had brought it back from disintegration and got it into government would show gratitude, welcome his experience and invite him to contribute to the debate. Instead, we see a party, now with no sense of tradition or respect, full of midgets who sold their souls for the exalted post of assistant minister or parliamentary secretary, and wailing like a Greek chorus, trying to destroy him. No-one seems prepared to say it, but such an attitude is mean, ungenerous and, above all, foolish, for it cuts the party off from the conservative point of view that Abbott represents and many people want to see promoted. Worse still, it shows how the new authoritarianism is eating away at the free exchange of ideas that used to be one of the Liberal party’s – and the country’s – great strengths.
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Haha imagine if you studied the sciences in the last twenty years and made that a career, haha, you should have foreseen the LNP actively trying to destroy all science in Australia for some reason, haha, imagine if you were that dumb, get a real job you latte-sipping lefty scum, preferably one in mining or off-shore concentration camp hospitality
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Apr 12, 2016 00:50
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Kommando posted:Jokes aside, this is literally my life. Yes, you were the primary inspiration! 
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Apr 12, 2016 01:58
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It's not the disease that kills Quarians, it's the immune response.
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Apr 12, 2016 15:09
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It had a lot of descriptions of guns.
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Apr 13, 2016 06:24
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GoldStandardConure posted:gently caress what did he say/do this time? Complimented the female year 12 student he was spotted surfing next to "very attractive and very, very talented"
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Apr 13, 2016 09:06
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Don't blame Tony, it's all he knows.
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Apr 13, 2016 09:21
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Well now I don't know who to vote for!
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Apr 14, 2016 13:32
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Anidav posted:Peter Dutton is a demon of some kind but my scriptures cannot identify which one. 
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Oh my word: There are no words
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