Krispy Kareem posted:

I wonder whether people with those kinds of allergies ever had time to be terrified of it. Back in the olden days they probably died pretty young.

Byzantine posted:

I thought Saturn represented eating your kids.

china bot posted:

Here we are at the internet make-fun forums, providing instruktion on how to be polite when discussing football

Subjunctive posted:

I have kettlebells.

Someone Awful! posted:

because it's what "should've" sounds like when spoken at least in my neighborhood of America and apparently nobody gives a gently caress about spelling/grammar anymore

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Presenting evidence that a prominent poet in the 1300s eschewed conventional rules of English spelling and grammar as a way to argue against complaints from modern folk that people these days are not the best at communicating in English? I've never heard of such a thing! How novel! For all intensive purposes, you've decimated any argument I could of come up with as a rebuttal, but I could care less

FreudianSlippers posted:

New York Values:
-Murder
-Tuberculosis
-Saxophones

chitoryu12 posted:

She actually made some eerie predictions early in the thread, like guessing the Malheur Standoff months before it would occur.

chitoryu12 posted:

Actually there were at least 15 mass shootings in Australia from the 1971 up through Port Arthur in 1996, plus 1 incident of arson at a nightclub. Afterward there were 4 mass shootings, 3 arson attacks, 1 blunt instrument attack, and 1 mass stabbing of children. The actual number of casualties from mass murder has only slightly decreased.

So a better explanation is "Australia took like 15 mass shootings to change the law, then still had a pretty similar number of mass murders with different methods instead."

Admiral Joeslop posted:

Don't remind me of those banned, super dark episodes of DuckTales.

Jables88 posted:

Quick question for American goons.

When someone uses the phrase "We The People" is it absolutely guaranteed that they are retarded?

PhazonLink posted:

"Real" white people willing to do stuff are lazy slacker-terrorist, slacker-ists. See the Oregon Standoff. Tarpman was an except to the rule.

Tiberius Thyben posted:

Have you guys considered staging a coup of Sealand?

chitoryu12 posted:

Considering Bradbury's seemingly pathological fear of technology, I'd put him in the "half-bright" category in retrospect.

Byzantine posted:

No soldier's died to protect America since 1945 anyway

Fashionable Jorts posted:

What's with the sudden love of right wingers calling Hitler a socialist? I'm seeing it everywhere lately, so I'm wondering which of those awful talk show hosts (or Trump) is mentioning it.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I really don't get the smug satisfaction people extracted and seem to continue to extract from her death.

Josef bugman posted:

I don't understand why "Pleb" means something bad. In the Republican Roman era it may have meant "the mob" but Plebeians were the largest class and, if we count the equities as closer to them than the Patricians, generally produced just as much power for the Romans as any one else. I hate the idea that even after thousands of years some dick-hole is still sat somewhere thinking of themselves as "Patrician" sincerely.

RareAcumen posted:

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who's annoyed by whatever the hell he's doing.

Data Graham posted:

When was that Intendo article from? 1987?

Yawgmoth posted:

Vaguely amusing story: around 2003 I was planning on closing out my Paypal account because of all the problems they were giving a ton of people I knew. So I went on ebay and found this listing of "27 DVD anime sampler" that, after shipping, cost exactly what was left in the account to the penny. It's a sign! So I hit buy it now, empty and close my Paypal account, and a few days later I get this plain brown box. Open it up and it's 27 burned discs, all completely unlabeled outside of being numbered with a sharpie. So I pop the first one in, and it's La Blue Girl. And the next one is Bible Black. And the next is that laughable bad Sailor Moon/DBZ mashup hentai I forget the name of. All 27 discs are various flavors of hentai.

So now every now and then my friends and I will buy some beers, randomly generate a number 1-27, and watch whatever's on it while getting drunk and laughing our asses off because hentai is really funny. Best $6.38 I ever spent.

Aramek posted:

Breakdancing is a sport.

RoboRodent posted:

Man, Hitler sure was great!!

Byzantine posted:

Uh huh.

Baron Corbyn posted:

Maybe the article means Alamanni and is using Goths as a catch all for Germanic tribes? It's not the most egregious problem with that article.

quote:

The Gothics forebearers of the present day Spaniards, Portugese, French, Germans, English, Nowerges and Swedes, and Iranians were then aliens in Europe, as well as in Iran, having migrated from Turkmenistan to the shores of River Danube. The Parthian branch of the Gothes headed down to Iran. These peoples collectively call themselves the Aryan tribes and they were the same ones that the neo-Nazis, the facists and the white supremacists of today rally to arms.

Low Desert Punk posted:

I'm a ska fan, so the universe has already done that for me

Absurd Alhazred posted:

quote:

The native religion of the Khazars is thought to have been Tengrism, like that of the North Caucasian Huns and other Turkic peoples. The polyethnic populace of the Khazar Khaganate appears to have been a multiconfessional mosaic of pagan, Tengrist, Jewish, Christian and Muslim worshippers. The ruling elite of the Khazars was said by Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Daud to have converted to Rabbinic Judaism in the 8th century, but the scope of the conversion within the Khazar Khanate remains uncertain. Proposals of Khazar origins have been made regarding the Slavic Judaising Subbotniks, the Bukharan Jews, the Muslim Kumyks, Kazakhs, the Cossacks of the Don region, the Turkic-speaking Krymchaks and their Crimean neighbours the Karaites to the Moldavian Csángós, the Mountain Jews and others.

In the late 19th century, a theory emerged that the core of today's Ashkenazi Jews are genetically descended from a hypothetical Khazarian Jewish diaspora who had migrated westward from modern Russia and Ukraine into modern France and Germany. This theory still finds occasional support, but most scholars view it with skepticism. The theory is sometimes associated with antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

No, no, I heard about the "Ashkenazi Jews are actually fake Khazars so the Holocaust the Rothschilds orchestrated wasn't antisemitic but a bizarre form of self-sacrifice aimed at dispossessing the true Jews" canard, but Baal-worshipers?

snergle posted:

one of the more socially liberal blue collar guys.

timp posted:

Excuse me Ms. Sanam, but fake bullshit designed to fleece people out of their money knows no race.

(Also, if their witchy poo poo is fake, why do you have to worry about it throwing your real magic (sorry, magicks) out of balance?)

Tarantula posted:

Hitler outright said that he chose to use 'socialist' and the red on the flag to piss of Marxists, and "workers party" to muddy the water with all the other workers party groups that existed at the time.

Nuebot posted:

Yes, now stop appropriating my bags of milk,

Facebook Aunt posted:

Sir Mix-a-lot has a lot to answer for.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Possibly the worst username/post combo.

steinrokkan posted:

The programming you speak of were basically switchboard operator jobs, and had little to do with programming as people understand it today.

steinrokkan posted:

Yes? I can name like a dozen women programmers working today, doesn't mean the field is promoting equality.

Croatoan posted:

I responded to that with "Yeah, but it was the state's rights to let you own slaves that they were defending" to a guy once. Would you believe he responded that he hadn't thought about it that way and apologized? It was weird as gently caress. I honestly didn't expect that at all. He actually meant it too. Super weird. He was just a 19 year old college student though so I guess that had a lot to do with it?

Admiral Joeslop posted:

Prove it, liar.

quote:

Article I, §9.4

No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.

Article IV, §2.3

The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several Sates; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.