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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 15, 2016 0:20:36 GMT -5
Yeah... I used to go crazy over Christmas as a kid (and even a young adult), but having it turned into a seven week long shopping spree sort of killed the mood. I particularly hate how cheap a lot of it has become. I thoroughly despise the plastic inflatable snowmen tied down with yellow cables that my neigbours seem to have such a bizarre fondness for. Even as a child I wouldn't have found much magic in that stuff. I thought the idea behind Christmas decorations is that they would be decorative, but those sorry half-deflated snowmen drooping under the autumn rain are more like a monument to depression than to Yuletide cheer. Side note: one of my neighbours installed, very early in autumn, a laser projector that projects green "stars" on a weeping willow between our two houses. My wife and I were puzzled for a good twenty minutes when we first saw them, not believing that so many fireflies could be found in one spot! Christmas is for kids. Its the only reason I'm not a total scrouge.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 15, 2016 9:37:46 GMT -5
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Post by Pharozonk on Nov 15, 2016 10:11:32 GMT -5
Isn't threatening to assassinate a politician a crime here?
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 15, 2016 12:01:41 GMT -5
Isn't threatening to assassinate a politician a crime here? Yep. www.dailydot.com/layer8/obama-potus-twitter-account-threats/May not apply to veiled threats: WILMINGTON, N.C. — Donald J. Trump on Tuesday appeared to raise the possibility that gun rights supporters could take matters into their own hands if Hillary Clinton is elected president and appoints judges who favor stricter gun control measures. Repeating his contention that Mrs. Clinton wanted to abolish the right to bear arms, Mr. Trump warned at a rally here that it would be “a horrible day” if Mrs. Clinton were elected and got to appoint a tiebreaking Supreme Court justice. “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.” Oblique as it was, Mr. Trump’s remark quickly elicited a wave of condemnation from Democrats, gun control advocates and others, who accused him of suggesting violence against Mrs. Clinton or liberal jurists. Bernice A. King, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., called Mr. Trump’s words “distasteful, disturbing, dangerous.”
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 18:58:59 GMT -5
And here it is.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 15, 2016 19:11:45 GMT -5
And here it is. It's terrible, but Trump has to get used to it, just like all the presidents before him. Comes with the territory, like living in the White House, working a full week, and knowing stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 19:19:59 GMT -5
Looks like the Clinton dynasty isn't over...little one is reportedly being groomed. PS Not trying to turn this into a Political thread 2...so I'll change the subject. Shimera Seamless is awesome.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 15, 2016 19:47:15 GMT -5
Looks like the Clinton dynasty isn't over...little one is reportedly being groomed. PS Not trying to turn this into a Political thread 2...so I'll change the subject. Shimera Seamless is awesome. Welcome back Razormaid, whatever you call yourself. You're awesome.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 15, 2016 19:53:10 GMT -5
PS Not trying to turn this into a Political thread 2...so I'll change the subject. Shimera Seamless is awesome. Not picking on you Ms Jezebel but it almost seems impossible to avoid. As I peruse the variety of interest message boards I am a member of I see it everywhere. Even my vintage erotica board. This election and/or events leading up to it have widen the gap between the liberal and the conservative (and it seems even all those in between) that it makes the Grand Canyon look like a line drawn in the sand. It's a very troubling state in US history.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 15, 2016 20:39:47 GMT -5
Is Byrne a sub taking out his frustrations with role reversal in FF? Come on dude, it's ok. Embrace who you are.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 15, 2016 20:58:08 GMT -5
I've been threatened with worse personally. Heterosexual intercourse. No thanks. I'd rather be shot. I can't tell whether I should laugh at this or gasp and cry. Hoping it's the former. In vaguely related news, I had a pretty disturbing issue come up while teaching today. We're doing To Kill A Mockingbird, and one student asked whether or not rape would be punishable by death, and a second, completely seriously, asked "Why? Why's rape such a big deal?" I was at a total loss in how to reply and felt tears welling up inside. If I were talking to a friend my own age who was somehow ignorant enough to not understand this, I'd ask him to imagine someone a foot taller than him sodomizing him against his will, but I had no idea how to make this completely ignorant 14 year old boy that I was legally responsible for educating understand why free sex can be the total opposite of a wonderful thing. I can make a teachable moment out of ANYTHING, and I had no idea what to say here, so I just told him it was a very serious matter that ruined lives, and we moved on. So I feel like I failed in a major way today, and I'm still really shaken by the experience.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 15, 2016 21:04:28 GMT -5
Is Byrne a sub taking out his frustrations with role reversal in FF? Come on dude, it's ok. Embrace who you are. I don't get it. But that's okay. It's not like I'm President or something. What are we talking about anyways? The panel of Reed slapping Sue. Closet submissive men sometime compensate what they feel by being over masculine and even abusive due to society's expectation on what a typical male should act like/be in the male/female dynamic. Honestly it was more a joke towards the crazy things I've heard Byrne say out loud than an actual inquiry into what he does in his bedroom. :-)
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 15, 2016 21:12:12 GMT -5
I've been threatened with worse personally. Heterosexual intercourse. No thanks. I'd rather be shot. I can't tell whether I should laugh at this or gasp and cry. Hoping it's the former. In vaguely related news, I had a pretty disturbing issue come up while teaching today. We're doing To Kill A Mockingbird, and one student asked whether or not rape would be punishable by death, and a second, completely seriously, asked "Why? Why's rape such a big deal?" I was at a total loss in how to reply and felt tears welling up inside. If I were talking to a friend my own age who was somehow ignorant enough to not understand this, I'd ask him to imagine someone a foot taller than him sodomizing him against his will, but I had no idea how to make this completely ignorant 14 year old boy that I was legally responsible for educating understand why free sex can be the total opposite of a wonderful thing. I can make a teachable moment out of ANYTHING, and I had no idea what to say here, so I just told him it was a very serious matter that ruined lives, and we moved on. So I feel like I failed in a major way today, and I'm still really shaken by the experience. Being married to a rape survivor it's is a despicable act one can commit against another human being. But so is taking someone else's life (outside self defense) so it physical, emotional, psychological, so is genocide, bigotry in general, enslaving a people/person, living with an alcoholic/substance abuser, etc. And that's not to diminish rape, I know first hand how it effects someone it was perpetrated on. But a crime against humanity is that. And I don't think that the student's question was raised out of the desire for conflict (I can only go on what you posted) but a real honest question. Why is rape the most talked/controversial crime in all the plethora of crimes humans perpetrate on each other.
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 15, 2016 21:13:43 GMT -5
THIS IS NOT THE POLITICS THREAD
There's a thread specifically for that as you are all well aware.
Especially considering how polarizing it is, let's not bring up those materials here.
Those that dare to enter can of their own volition in the aforementioned thread, not here, or any other non-"The Politics Thread" thread.
Please do not put politics anywhere but there.
Thank you
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Post by shaxper on Nov 15, 2016 21:16:36 GMT -5
I can't tell whether I should laugh at this or gasp and cry. Hoping it's the former. In vaguely related news, I had a pretty disturbing issue come up while teaching today. We're doing To Kill A Mockingbird, and one student asked whether or not rape would be punishable by death, and a second, completely seriously, asked "Why? Why's rape such a big deal?" I was at a total loss in how to reply and felt tears welling up inside. If I were talking to a friend my own age who was somehow ignorant enough to not understand this, I'd ask him to imagine someone a foot taller than him sodomizing him against his will, but I had no idea how to make this completely ignorant 14 year old boy that I was legally responsible for educating understand why free sex can be the total opposite of a wonderful thing. I can make a teachable moment out of ANYTHING, and I had no idea what to say here, so I just told him it was a very serious matter that ruined lives, and we moved on. So I feel like I failed in a major way today, and I'm still really shaken by the experience. Being married to a rape survivor it's is a despicable act one can commit against another human being. But so is taking someone else's life (outside self defense) so it physical, emotional, psychological, so is genocide, bigotry in general, enslaving a people/person, living with an alcoholic/substance abuser, etc. And that's not to diminish rape, I know first hand how it effects someone it was perpetrated on. But a crime against humanity is that. And I don't think that the student's question was raised out of the desire for conflict (I can only go on what you posted) but a real honest question. Why is rape the most talked/controversial crime in all the plethora of crimes humans perpetrate on each other. He definitely wasn't trying to start something; he honestly didn't know, and that's exactly why I found it so upsetting. It's kids who don't think rape is such a big deal that end up committing it, helping to cover it up or intimidate its victims, or even just looking the other way when it occurs. The other crimes you've listed aren't debatable -- we all know how bad they are. But rape seems to come down to an issue of empathy -- if your drive to understand the pain and fear of others doesn't override that feeling you get in your pants, then you continue to see rape as a sexual encounter instead of a violent crime.
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