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There's nothing wrong with exotic pets per se, and many of them are less dangerous than dogs which absolutely anyone can have. Either require training and permits for dogs, or shrug your shoulders when someone wants to own flying squirrel.
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Oh, also both women and men really need to chill out about outward appearances. Beauty culture is completely out of loving control. That said, shave your loving pube-y beard, it's loving disgusting.
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Nov 26, 2016 17:54
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steinrokkan posted:It's not just about danger, it's also about animal cruelty. Who can say they can provide an adequate habitat to a flying squirrel, not to mention something like a leopard. The same is entirely true of a dog or cat, though. I don't object to a ban per se, I object to the double standard where it's okay to have a Great Pyrenees crated in your 1br, but a possum is right out.
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Nov 26, 2016 17:58
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Furthermore, 1. "Fast fashion" needs to end. No one needs that many clothes. If we have that much money for clothes, we have enough money to pay a little more for better clothes, maybe even clothes produced domestically. 2. There's nothing wrong with school uniforms. 3. Marijuana legalization is important on behalf of minorities whose lives are ruined over a largely harmless activity, not so that college whites can toke up. 4. Road to El Dorado sucks. 5. Inside Out also sucks. 6. Having Asperger's is a reason why you're a dickhead, not an excuse for being a dickhead, and you can learn to be less of a dickhead. 7. A lot of people claim "Asperger's" when really they are self-centered and poorly socialized in a way that is no way inherent. 8. Commoditization of sex is a serious social problem and does not benefit men or women regardless of how well-established it is in human history. 9. If your car has absolutely nothing personal in it, then you are probably more obsessed with appearances than introspective about yourself. 10. Pepperoni is loving gross.
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Nov 26, 2016 18:06
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The pacing of Stephen universe is going to kill it if the creators aren't careful. It is cute, but it is not so good that it will withstand self-indulgently spinning its wheels.
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Nov 27, 2016 05:00
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Obama was too naive to become president at that time.
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Nov 27, 2016 19:45
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Two seasons of Rick & Morty, from a storytelling standpoint and despite Dan Harmon's marketing of those skills, contain less nuance than a single episode of The Amazing World of Gumball. I agree with this. I think the entire "comedy by approaching an emotional issue in an unemotional way" genre is tired as hell, and is basically propaganda for autists.
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Nov 28, 2016 17:25
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Fister Roboto posted:Here's my unpopular opinion: please stop using autism as an insult. I was being literal, I see it as propaganda for the unacceptable behavioral tendencies of people with autism spectrum disorder.
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Nov 29, 2016 23:15
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Grandmother of Five posted:most people become better people when they become parents I agree.
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Dec 3, 2016 22:40
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I like animation, period, but frankly I do wish it veered further from its almost exclusive role as "family entertainment." Animation is essentially just art with a time axis, the fact that it's 95% Johnny Test is inexplicable and a travesty.
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Dec 4, 2016 02:24
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America already has a strong undercurrent of "soft eugenics" and it's never come close to solving poo poo.
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Dec 4, 2016 03:47
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Das Boo posted:Venture Bros is better than them both. I agree. But I have a real unpopular opinion which is that Steven Universe is mostly good because it is really funny, and without being really funny the rest of it wouldn't be that great.
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Dec 4, 2016 21:27
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I didn't even finish the Harry Potter series because only the first three books are any good whatsoever.
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Dec 5, 2016 08:35
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There isn't really a good fast-food burger. In-n-Out, Five Guys, etc. are all just the shame poo poo and they're all pretty bad. I mean Burgerville is all right but they're sort of on the brink like Panera Bread of not really being fast food as such.
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Dec 5, 2016 18:38
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Malt-o-Meals are literally the Post cereals. They're made in the same factory, I know someone who works there. Crispix is a Kellogg's cereal, and Kellogg's doesn't do quite the same thing as Post.
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Dec 8, 2016 00:38
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The average Brit is no smarter, or dumber, than the average American.
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Dec 8, 2016 18:56
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A lot of young people are stupid and entitled. However, so are a lot of middle-aged people, and old people.
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Dec 8, 2016 20:39
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Not to mention some animals, like grey squirrels, are actually overpopulated in cities and occur in unnaturally high densities there (squirrels occur at around 8 times the population densities in cities than in the wild). Also, sometimes your cat just sucks at catching anything and isn't a threat. My cat is an indoor cat, but my mother's insanely stupid and pointlessly violent cat goes outside to take a dump and that's about it, she's afraid of birds, snakes, and small pieces of ham so she's probably not doing too much damage. Admittedly, our family's former cat took to the fields around our house and was basically death on paws. and would stack deer mice in piles as her little cat job. But we were fine with that because as much as I love almost every kind of animal, to me rodents (with a few exceptions like beavers) are vermin.
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Records are a dumb gimmick so it's fine to scratch them, you can always listen to it digitally if you don't want the scratch sounds.
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Dec 9, 2016 04:40
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Pornography, as it is most commonly represented and practiced, is a net social ill.
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Dec 11, 2016 08:51
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Annabel Pee posted:Actually thats the stereotype lol.
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Dec 13, 2016 02:10
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free basket of chips posted:I agree, if only because its really only the business thats losing by alienating major demographics or people I sort of doubt that, though. I think you'd find a profitable niche if you launched a "whites-only" restaurant or similar. That's why it has to be illegal. Essentially the entire business plan of Waitrose is to charge more for exactly the same products to keep the poors out, and they're doing well.
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Dec 13, 2016 17:56
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I can't imagine a whites only restaurant succeeding anywhere that isn't already pretty much whites-only just from demographics already. Put one in a major city and it would probably be a permanent protest site, constantly having to pay for damages and the people who went would have their identities smeared all over the internet. I lived in the South for a while and I guarantee you, it would do fine. Lines got longer at Chik-fil-a after they announced they hated the gays, even if it were a cynical marketing move it would have been a profitable one. Furthermore, it wouldn't be just one restaurant, is the point. If it were a profitable niche (it would be), others would move in, or do their own version--blacks only, Asians only, men only, etc.
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Dec 13, 2016 20:37
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My very unpopular opinion is that Blue Star, provided they're not a hoax account, is entitled to whatever perspective they have as a function of their experiences.
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Dec 15, 2016 18:39
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Calling them an idiot is also fine.
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Dec 15, 2016 18:52
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Most of the "tech advances" we keep crowing over aren't that special or interesting. Many of them are just re-packaged versions of older ideas. The real change is just that a lot of this Sharper-Image-esque bullshit is now "affordable", in that they've convinced you that you should own a "smart" water bottle even though that means nothing, no you don't, and you still owe $40K in student loans.
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Dec 16, 2016 06:15
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The only good thing about the Star Wars Expanded Universe is how loving upset nerds were when it was made non-canon. No, no part of it was ever good, even Thrawn. It was all poo poo and it's good it's gone, and you caring about it was a waste.
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Dec 16, 2016 07:56
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Dec 16, 2016 08:09
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Bigotry is bad, but I do think "Because!" is not an answer that gives bigots much to chew on.
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Dec 16, 2016 18:37
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Babylon 5 is the best, with neither budget, recognizable actors, or more than 3 distinct sets  .(A favorite moment is when Cartagia is visiting Narn, and his assistant is like "we've done it up just like your throne room so you'll be comfortable!" which is a funny excuse in its own right, and made funnier by the fact that it's mostly cheap gauzy fabric hanging over cardboard tubes)
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Dec 16, 2016 18:59
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Babylon 5 is a show for turbonerds. i am that turbonerd.
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Dec 16, 2016 19:19
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It's also tough because some of its best qualities are tied to how groundbreaking it was, where other shows have begun to do those things more commonly. It's like when the lil alien in Twilight Zone screams "INCREDIBLE RACE OF GIANTS HERE! INCREDIBLE RACE OF GIANTS HERE!" and you're like oh poo poo, he's the human! That twist probably blew some people's fuckin minds in black-and-white teevee days, but now it's like woooahhh nice work, R.L. Stein.
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doverhog posted:Eh, almost all old shows and movies have bad production. You can either look past it or you can''t. The thing that hits them harder is what Pick mentioned, it's all old news at this point. That said, I will still defend Babylon 5 to my grave, because it's build around a nugget of god-damned authenticity. True, the rest of the pearl is made of layers of ham and cardboard, but there's a kind of person out there who wants ham and cardboard with a center of pure gold. That might not describe most people, but for a subsection of the population, it's a joy.
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Dec 16, 2016 19:58
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The "basic income" idea is flawed because people do need to have tasks. If they don't, they flounder. It doesn't matter if the task is ultimately of any use, as long as they think it is of some use. That said, people aren't being given a fair income to survive on, and this undercuts the entire system which relies on a perception of fairness.
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Dec 17, 2016 19:32
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Graphic tees are for teens.
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Dec 22, 2016 16:45
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Stephen Fry's husband is way too young for it to not be gross. Although Stephen Fry was always pretty insufferable.
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Dec 23, 2016 22:58
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Jerry Cotton posted:I looked them up and his young husband is gross and should wash his hair. Yeah, if you're in your 60s don't marry someone who is still greasy.
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steinrokkan posted:Stephen Fry has made a living our of having interns stream smart things for him to say into his earpiece. Except quite often those smart things happen to be extremely dumb and wrong. Any time he's speaking off the cuff it's clear he's not that sharp, and to have him rip on Laurie's intelligence is ridiculous. On the other hand, Sandi Toksvig is legitimately very intelligent, so I'm glad I can watch QI now. Richard Dawkins is an acquaintance and regardless of what you might think of his political positions, he's legitimately extremely smart. Fry is a tryhard.
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hard counter posted:fry's been repressed and celibate for like 2/3rds of his life he did, it's why he's a convicted felon
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