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#25471
Random Topics / Re: Fave food combos
July 26, 2014, 12:38:54 PM
Agreeable red (Merlot, Shiraz, Carbernet Sauvignon) and Lindt white chocolate.
#25472
Politics / Re: Tomb of Jonas Obliterated
July 26, 2014, 12:26:07 PM
Quote from: Quick Karl on July 26, 2014, 10:51:36 AM
If you saw a cockroach in your home, would you wait till there were more of them before you start killing them?


You're leading the way aren't you son? When are you calling the little get together outside Mosul and you can go through tactics and stuff before launching your crusade?

Roughly?
#25473
Politics / Re: Politics
July 26, 2014, 02:37:40 AM
Quote from: Paper*Boy on July 26, 2014, 02:12:31 AM

There are many people around the world who have never even been here who are Americans in spirit,


What horseshit. America isn't the centre of civilisation, far from it. Almost all current US citizens are descended or direct emigrees from other countries. There isn't anything that is older than 250 years that says 'Made in America'. Everything that the current America was built on was imported. Politics, education, law, medicine, science, engineering, music, art, society, roads, infrastructure, railways, electricity, et al...

Yes, it is an experiment; an anthropological one, and one day when it's grown out of adolescence and stops believing that the only life worth living is in it's own bedroom it will grow up into a mature adult, and realise the rest of the house isn't just to throw it's discarded pizza boxes and coke cans, dirty clothes; and begin to respect the other occupants and their right to a tidy and peaceful place.

So when you say American in spirit, you actually mean that America has had it's spirit grown from the rest of the world.

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Sorry Pud, nothing in there about gender or race.

I didn't mention race; and gender is relevant. Pro/ anti abortion is roughly split down the far right Real Americans and those who are presumably not Real Americans. As women generally (well okay exclusively) are the ones who have babies, I'd say they're being disregarded by those who consider their feelings as an irrelevance.
#25474
Random Topics / Re: Intolerably pompous words
July 26, 2014, 02:22:21 AM
Quote from: SciFiAuthor on July 26, 2014, 01:15:15 AM
Not that *I* have any problems with pompousness, I am after all speaking to intellectual inferiors and none of you could possibly know what it means to be a genius like me. You also don't know what it's like to be beautiful, either. You are all hideously ugly. I'm not. But with your absolute inferiority now being firmly established, my most hated pompous phrase is when people say "This is a nation of laws!"

Talk about a heaping load of stinky horseshit. I seriously hate that phrase. I cringe when I hear it. Laws can be wrong, crooked, bullshit, misused, abused, badly written, repealed, replaced, rewritten, changed, abolished and ignored. By saying that phrase, people suggest that the law is somehow infallible or even sanctified. It isn't. I think this should be a nation of reason (all nations, actually), not laws. Change them as needed, and make it easy to change them.

You'd have a nation of anarchy then? The phrase (Although I think it's a crap phrase too) doesn't qualify the value or otherwise of said laws; it simply states the fact they exist.
#25475
Quote from: eddie dean on July 25, 2014, 04:29:32 PM
I guess so. In hindsight, I should have simply hung up on him. Thus removing any liability of  the gabcast being included into his perceptions of a growing conspiracy against him. It's my fault for trying to understand his story.


I know why I'm not a radio/ podcast presenter; I wouldn't have had the patience to indulge the arrogant self absorbed oaf longer than about 20 seconds. That you guys did above and beyond the limits of oral aural endurance when I wanted to punch the laptop, rip out the speakers and do a satanic dance around the burning remains, says a lot.
#25476
Politics / Re: Politics
July 26, 2014, 01:54:56 AM
Quote from: albrecht on July 25, 2014, 06:14:10 PM
relatives in various States and places, etc.

Well that discounts about 80% of the population. There are those who haven't any family outside the county they were born in. Appalachian folk will be on the first boat out...which will come as a surprise 'what's dat der thang?' 

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Now, legally, once you are born here or are naturalized you are an American Citizen. But not a "real one." Of course, I also think you should have to own real property,

Well that gets rid of a lot more...

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be literate,

That's another 49 million out... 14% of US adults are functionally illiterate.

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and not be an employee of the government or net gainer when filing personal income tax  to vote in national elections and Senators should not be popularly elected.

It's going to be a lonely place for you...

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And no standing army except the National Guard in each State and keep our nuclear deterrent up-to-date to dissuade invasion. So there!

As you've depopulated the country so much it's likely you won't have enough to form a battalion let alone an army.
#25477
Politics / Re: Politics
July 26, 2014, 01:45:49 AM
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on July 25, 2014, 05:54:59 PM
I'm not interested in joining the argument, but I would like to know what characteristics, other than birth or naturalization (and correct me if I'm wrong about naturalization), make a person a "real American."


Oh goody I can teach my brother something at last!! A Real Americanâ,,¢ isn't a Communist, liberal in thought or deed, or a woman who can think, or   who disagrees with everything that the 90% percentile of Real Americansâ,,¢ think and do.

I thought you'd know that bro!  8) 
#25478
Random Topics / Re: Nice Little Facts
July 25, 2014, 11:55:24 PM
A quarter of the human skeleton is made up of bones in the feet.
#25479
Politics / Re: Tomb of Jonas Obliterated
July 25, 2014, 09:36:47 AM
Quote from: West of the Rockies on July 25, 2014, 09:20:32 AM
You've probably seen the footage, heard the story...  Thoughts?  Left-leaning progressive here (I like progress)... I think the crazed rabble that did this are scum.  I don't believe Jonas was truly swallowed by a whale; his mortal remains may not even have been in that temple.  Nonetheless, destroying a spot considered sacred by Christians, Jews, those who revere antiquity and history--a spot that was now an Islamic mosque to boot!--was hateful.

Similar thing happened in Afghanistan mate. That time it was the Taliban destroying ancient and irreplaceable monuments and structures.
#25480
Random Topics / Re: Live Human Experimentation
July 25, 2014, 12:45:36 AM
Quote from: Kelt on July 24, 2014, 05:57:37 PM
So this is good feedback... experiment on the blind, you say. It's not like they'll see it coming, those damned Blindies.

As for Geordie... no way was he a Geordie, and I think Yorkshire Pud will back

I would concur. Not a Geordie; he doesn't go out on the lash in winter wearing just a t shirt and shorts.
#25481
Random Topics / Re: Intolerably pompous words
July 25, 2014, 12:30:24 AM
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on July 25, 2014, 12:17:21 AM
Absolutely not!  Bellgab is strictly for consenting adults.


Typical! Puns get a free ride though. It's been like that ever since the unfortunate incident with Prerogatives.
#25482
How did you see that? It's classified.
#25483
Random Topics / Re: Intolerably pompous words
July 24, 2014, 11:26:33 PM
Is there an option to introduce pedantry into this thread about pompous words? It's feeling neglected.
#25484
Quote from: WildCard on July 24, 2014, 11:27:57 AM
Finally! About time someone makes sense around here.

If abortion is murder, it's murder in self-defense.
Seconded!

Wasn't AZ using a new cocktail of drugs, since the commies in the U.K. won't send us the good stuff anymore?


We don't send the good stuff because we need it to fortify our beer. Well, they do in the south of England anyway. Northern England is strong enough.
#25485
Random Topics / Re: Intolerably pompous words
July 24, 2014, 01:52:59 PM
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on July 24, 2014, 12:15:30 PM
Your adorable doe-eyed innocence is what endears you to me, Yorkie.  It's a beautiful thing, and it saddens me to sully it by referring you to the Urban Dictionary for the proper definition of rusty trombone.

I have no need for this dictionary of urban origin of which you speak, my brother in mutual fetid prurience. I will only assume it involves a rash, embarrassing itching and several applications of ointment that makes the skin glow a disturbing hue of orange.
#25486
Just say the word; the boys will be around to visit your spammer.  8)
#25487
Quote from: Juan on July 24, 2014, 01:40:27 PM
You people are silly.  Mr. Obama is obviously a liberal - defined as someone who holds two or more contradictory ideas within his head and believes the combination results in utopia for himself and his rich friends.

Is that philosophical or political? Yes, you can be one or the other or both.
#25488
Quote from: Kelt on July 24, 2014, 10:51:19 AM
Well, I'm not sure dumping prisoners on a Scottish Island is any worse than rendering a Scottish Island uninhabitable for thousands of years by dropping anthrax all over it.

England would love that.

Yes?


We have Luton. Anthrax is a soft option.
#25489
Quote from: albrecht on July 24, 2014, 10:44:17 AM
Despite their harshness there is a beauty about those islands. I would hate to waste them with our criminals. I have a solution that is patently obvious. We have a border problem. We have a criminal problem. Why not an "Escape From New York" type of solution but instead of giving up the Big Apple we build a big fence along the Southern border, but a mile or so inwards towards the USA? There already is funding and bills passed that says we are supposed too. But we throw our violent criminals on the other side of that fence. And mine/electrify/guard tower that fence (even maybe offer rednecks, for a fee, a chance to man guard towers. Have some CCTV cameras around to allow pay-per-view, for the voyeuristic sadists, and for sociologists see how a community, albeit criminal, will organically grow, fail, etc. And for monitoring to ensure they aren't organizing a breech of our wall.

If Mexico wishes they can build a fence on their side. If not, they can deal with our criminals who might swim/walk across the border (as we have done for decades with theirs.) It solves our criminal problems and solves the illegal immigration problem. And wouldn't violate law because we aren't shipping our criminals to Mexico- they would walk over on their own volition. Or stay in that no-man's land and create criminal communities that would help keep illegals out.


I agree about not contaminating Scottish Isles; so with your proposal I want to add to the throng: Blair, Bush, Cheney, Putin, Ted Nugent, All religious zealots, no exceptions, Mike Bara, Alex Jones, David Icke, and anyone else I feel fit to be disposed of.
#25490
Random Topics / Re: Intolerably pompous words
July 24, 2014, 10:43:30 AM
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on July 24, 2014, 10:39:53 AM
I'm glad you find my disability so amusing.  It's gratifying to know that your gleeful mockery gives you something to do besides playing the rusty trombone.

You might call it a rusty trombone, and I agree it isn't in the prime of youth, but it's the only thing I have to piss through.
#25491
Quote from: Kelt on July 24, 2014, 10:30:47 AM
The death penalty is barbaric, but I'm not against the notion of taking those whose actions show they have no interest in actiing in a social manner and dumping them on an island inside the Arctic Circle.

There they can forge a new society, or non-society, where the murderers, career criminals, Rangers fans, rapists, and assorted shitbags of various ilks can rape, murder, bugger, and shitbag to their heart's content, away from those of us who do act in a social manner.

Total fiscal burden on the taxpayer?

The cost of a boat-ride to Kelt Island.

I call it Kelt Island.




Where? In the Hebrides? Between Lewis and Skye? Further out nearer Rockall? Or between Shetland and Orkney? Salmond will be panting to make the first speech from it.
#25492
Quote from: albrecht on July 24, 2014, 09:27:08 AM
As I pointed out there were plenty of leftist Muslims in history and political parties based on that. But they weren't "fundamentalist" enough leftists or "fundamentalist" Muslims for many of the people in the region (why Sadat was assassinated by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.) So Obama could be a Muslim and a socialist. But the far-far left and the "fundamentalist" Muslims would support him initially (because he is better than the other candidates) but eventually turn on him, as we see already.


Muslims follow a capitalist philosophy. They also follow a philosophy of women not being of the same stature as men (on several levels)..Neither is compatible with socialism. Absolutely not with Communism. The Jewish faith follows the same philosophy with capitalism, and orthodox Jewish women live separately from men during menstruation. Again, not compatible with either socialism or Communism. 
#25493
Quote from: albrecht on July 23, 2014, 02:39:44 PM
It was posited that there couldnt be a communist and a Muslim. And I said true but in reality there aren't many pure "isms" in the real world. Even the Muhammedan ISIS leader was wearing a fancy wristwatch. So I use example of ASU and the Baathist parties of socialist, yet Islamic, movements. And think Obama is similar, socialism with an Muslim face. But, as with Sadat etc, not radical enough on either side for the pure, fundamentalists of either ilk.

Oh I see. Oh in that case I just disagree. Obama isn't a socialist. Not even close.
#25494
Quote from: onan on July 24, 2014, 09:49:14 AM
Luckily, the free market gives us several other options that are just as inclusive with all varieties of software.

Damn you Macman.!!!
#25495
How can you trust a company that employs someone who comes out with this pretentious nonsense? Does she even know what this bollox means?
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"During the quarter, we reassessed our product roadmap and decided not to ship a new form factor that was under development," said Amy Hood, the company's chief financial officer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28440288
#25496
Quote from: phrodo on July 24, 2014, 03:06:33 AM
Exactly right Paper Boy. An unborn child has committed no crime and deserves the chance at life.

No-one has said an unborn child has committed a crime. The circumstances however over if it 'deserves' life pertain to the mother within the regulations that have been arrived at-no-one else. What of catastrophic disability? What of rape? What if it would kill the mother to continue the pregnancy? What if it would psychologically harm the mother? What if the mother wasn't mentally able to continue the pregnancy?


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The guilty criminal murderer has taken life for granted and terminated another human's life -- so why should they get upset about theirs ending??

What if they're later found to be innocent?

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And I don't see why executions should be painless and/or comfortable. It's highly unlikely that the murderers were thinking of their victim's comfort or level of pain when they were killing them. Eye for an eye....

Again, what if they're innocent?
#25497
Random Topics / Re: Intolerably pompous words
July 24, 2014, 02:11:41 AM
Quote from: Scully on July 24, 2014, 02:06:20 AM
For some reason this thread calls to mind a long-ago poster who left this forum with an unflattering letter of farewell in which he accused the group of being "a bunch of quasi-intellectuals, all trying to impress each other."  8)

I think we disappointed him on that; we don't try anymore.
#25498
Random Topics / Re: Intolerably pompous words
July 24, 2014, 02:10:34 AM
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on July 24, 2014, 01:47:22 AM
That's an old wive's tale.  The plethora can't be replaced, and the worst part of living without one is that it makes it unbearably painful to play the violin.

You're full of surprises! I didn't know you could play. Is the impression of strangled cats being thrown against walls just you getting a feel of the Stradivarius then?
I still think you over reached paying $2 million for a practice violin. It's your money though.
#25499
Quote from: HAL 9000 on July 24, 2014, 12:50:26 AM
As an aside, it is medicine's "dirty little secret" that, when taking someone off of life-support when death is imminent and family is present, we always assure the families that their loved one will not suffer; that we will keep them "comfortable." This is code for "we will keep the family comfortable" so they don't have to witness a patient gasping for air, or twitching, etc. for a lengthy period of time. It is not unusual that, drugs are administered, not at a "minimum" dose, but at a dose that actually hastens death, for the comfort of all involved.

The 'gasping for air' and 'twitching' isn't a reflection of the dying patient's consciousness though, but you know that. It's a reflex. I was married to a doctor and she told me that patients close to death on a morphine driver are unconscious, and always in very great pain (Hence the morphine); the driver is just turned up. It 'hastens' death but it wouldn't significantly add to their longevity not doing that, but it does significantly reduce their pain continuing.

The difference between that and murder via lethal injection, is that the chemicals used in lethal injection are at best experimental, and the person having them injected fully conscious with a great deal of adrenalin coursing through them. 

I used to be pro execution years ago..I changed my opinion pretty much instantly when the case of Stefan Kisco was unravelled. If we had capital punishment he'd have been killed. He was entirely innocent and stitched up by not only the police, but his shockingly incompetent barrister who went on to be a minister in Thatchers government.

The ex top honcho of Georgia who was in charge of executions is now on something of a crusade to get it outlawed. I think his views have to be respected considering he's been at the sharp end.
#25500
Random Topics / Re: Intolerably pompous words
July 24, 2014, 01:11:01 AM
Quote from: HAL 9000 on July 24, 2014, 12:59:00 AM
Not only do I completely agree, but I'll take it a step further (farther?) - Facebook, Twitter, and texting (to include the general way in which much of our society uses smartphones) will be responsible for the demise of America. I would be remiss if I also didn't include Obama as a primary cause.

Only America? So long as it's only 5% of the planet's population we'll be okay; it's acceptable attrition if that's all. However I think the demise will be much more.
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