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Your Dunkle Sans posted:"UFC - now that's a real sport!" literally just heard, spoken unironically at a Steak 'n Shake. I mean the scoring system, judges and athletic commissions are bad for MMA but what's your problem with it as a sport in general?
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Inzombiac posted:"I'm okay with the races mixing as long as they go home alone or with their own race" -only would mention this if he saw a pretty white woman with a black man. Had a dude tell me he was disapointed in me for dating black people because he didn't believe in mixing the races. I'm gay and so was the guy who was saying that to me. 
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Jan 19, 2016 09:14
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Telemaze posted:If you are then I'm an idiot too, cause that sounds fun to me. No reason professors can't have interesting but goofy hobbies imo. I'd be kind of weirded out knowing my ostensibly logical anthropology professor believed in pseudoscience and cryptozoology personally, if only because that kind of stuff could seep into their teaching
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Jan 20, 2016 13:45
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luloo123 posted:This reminds me of a story an English professor friend told me. Early in the semester, the professor mentioned that her husband was an archaeologist and a student responded "how can he study something that doesn't exist?" Another student that semester told her that he doesn't believe in Native Americans because "no one was around to see them." Apparently, their grasp of American history is a little fuzzy. I would like to know more about both of these things. What the hell did either person think they were talking about?
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Jan 20, 2016 21:00
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Tiggum posted:If you're not aware, it sounds like some weird bit of nonsense, but it's actually an old-fashioned racism thing. It comes from medieval depictions of Jews as literal demons, and was re-popularised by the Nazis. Yeeeeeah people are dumb but I'm pretty sure at that point that guy was just being a huge rear end in a top hat and was basically going to drawn out extremes to make fun of her. There are certain people who will take rear end in a top hat jokes to an extreme and act extremely ignorant to get a reaction, and if they don't get the specific reaction they want they'll just ride with it the whole way through. It's more common in dudes from middle school to college cause they tend to get weeded out when they're not in a forced peer environment type of setting but that poo poo isn't totally uncommon among weird assholes. Not even the most fervent anti-semetic idiot believes jews are literally born with tails
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Jan 21, 2016 04:51
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:No, the person I was debating with at the time was trying to make the argument that minorities literally have different biological structures than "normal" human biology, so it's impossible to apply universal healthcare coverage to everyone equally. Not quite Jew-horn mythology but definitely more than "sickle cell anemia affects black people differently" reasoning. This is a fairly common belief among people in China and probably other east-asian countries. They really do think they're structured differently and that Chinese medicine doesn't work the same for westerners
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Jan 21, 2016 09:18
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RillAkBea posted:My sister is a nurse and... yah. She has a creepy obsession with people with Down's Syndrome. Uh... in what way?
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Jan 21, 2016 18:10
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Zeroisanumber posted:We have Euro SA posters who literally post this poo poo. It will never stop being amazing to me when the very sane, polite UK people I know will go from bitching about about racism to talking about how vile travelers are within the same conversation
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Jan 23, 2016 08:38
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22 Eargesplitten posted:This guy? Lol
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Jan 23, 2016 21:44
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VoteTedJameson posted:Guy:"Not only can a dust mite survive at ground zero of a nuclear blast, scientists debate whether they're even biologically alive." I'm not even sure what this guy was thinking of because dust mites don't fit either of those facts. Was he thinking of water bears or something? Cause even with those I don't think they can survive a direct nuclear bomb and they're definitely recognized as living animals. The only things I can even think of that have a complicated answer to "are they alive" are viruses, and even with them the growing consensus is that they are in fact living http://www.sciencealert.com/viruses-are-alive-and-they-re-older-than-modern-cells-new-study-suggests
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Jan 24, 2016 11:05
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Inzombiac posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEIE1GaMlnA
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Jan 25, 2016 13:18
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kreyla posted:My dear mother is smart, but we had long arguments about her assertions that dinosaurs were mammals and that India, until very recently, was a primitive and undeveloped area. Well, India kind of is, in a way. Probably not the way she's thinking but still http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/economics/what-are-the-important-features-of-india-as-an-underdeveloped-economy/3052/
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Jan 26, 2016 04:00
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Geniasis posted:I think the pep talk was essentially an "even you can grow up to be Ben Carson" type of speech. I too want to grow up to be a man dumber than a rock who can somehow still perform neurosurgery and run for president. It'd be like living a stretched out early 90s SNL skit
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Jan 26, 2016 11:52
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:taco bell did wrong by the concept, it's probably going to be a hard sell to a lot of people now. Uh the breakfast crunchwraps are one of the best breakfast inventions ever. The rest is admittedly sub-mcdonalds quality but those things are pretty drat good
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Feb 1, 2016 07:12
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Birb Katter posted:What about breakfast chimichanga? ...Get out
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Feb 1, 2016 07:46
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Tiggum posted:The ones I've seen are metal and don't have buckles (they look like this). Apparently they're called Brannock Devices and literally every shoe shop I've ever been to has had one. Sometimes the staff don't even bother asking if you know your size because I guess they just assume you don't. They're kind of an outdated thing in America, probably by 20 or so years. I don't know of any places left that actually use them or even have people to assist with measurement or fittings unless maybe it's like some fancy custom shoe place or something I know this cause my dad used to manage a shoe place 30ish years ago and he was talking about how no places bother with that stuff anymore
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Feb 1, 2016 18:35
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Tiggum posted:I don't know what shirt or pants size I wear either. When I need to know, I check. Then I don't bother remembering it because I won't need to know it again for quite a long time. It's not like I'm buying new clothes every month or something. Is this you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwigmktix2Y
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Feb 4, 2016 06:39
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Maggie Fletcher posted:"Oh yeah, I'm part Native American too." To be fair doesn't Canada refer to them as the First Nations? I've heard Native Canadians thrown around in the past too. Of course that woman probably wouldn't have known that either
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Feb 8, 2016 17:46
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Sentient Data posted:Why? It's no different than "Excuse Me Sir, Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Jesus?" I would be significantly more freaked out if a middle aged woman came door-to-door to introduce me to the singularity considering the thing you mentioned is actually something that occurs regularly
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Feb 12, 2016 15:56
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Sentient Data posted:I was wavering on looking up the Roko Basilisk stuff again to make fun of cyberpunk doom and gloom apocalyptic preachers, but then I realized this is the perfect thread for it. I haven't had the privilege to actually hear someone talk about this in person, but http://basilisk.neocities.org/ Wouldn't doing whatever you were doing anyway indirectly be supporting/allowing for a world in which the AI is created? This God AI is a semantic rear end in a top hat
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Feb 13, 2016 00:08
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Scathach posted:How does she explain lesbians and us half-lesbians? If she's anything like a lot of religious people I've known, you don't exist and women who are lesbians are just playing a selfish game of pretend
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Feb 13, 2016 06:57
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Yeah I think getting PTSD from losing a very close SO/spouse is not something I would ever claim as stupid or unlikely. Who the gently caress would ever even question someone on that
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Feb 14, 2016 19:19
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Birb Katter posted:"why don't babies have nipples" brings up a nursing website that says they probably do but are too small to see at such a young age. Either their google-fu is weak as gently caress or it's a fetish thing. ...have you and those people never seen a baby somehow?
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Feb 20, 2016 02:36
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Non Serviam posted:Why were you looking at other people's pubic area? Why the f wouldn't you And also dudes should trim but not totally shave, to lay down my long awaited thoughts on the matter
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Feb 25, 2016 04:19
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kith_groupie posted:I'm glad you liked it. To be a bit more on topic, pretty much everything that comes out of the North Korean propaganda machine is some stupid poo poo, I think everyone knows that at this point. However, anyone see the doc "The Propaganda Game" on Netflix? It postulated that because some of the information about North Korea we get is incorrect (apparently Kim Un didn't execute his uncle via wild dogs, he just had him shot) that maybe, maybe you guys, all of it isn't true? Maybe......we're being lead to believe that North Korea is actually a pretty nice place to live? Maybe.....the truth is in the middle? I watched it and the end result is that North Korea is definitely fabricating almost everything it presents itself as but that other countries also just make poo poo up in the media about it and other asian countries, like the bullshit about everyone having to get specific haircuts and how they fed that one government official to dogs without any evidence. It was mostly making GBS threads on propaganda of any kind. Maybe you didn't watch the whole thing? Cause it definitely didn't end with me thinking any better of NK
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Mar 3, 2016 20:35
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Mister Adequate posted:We would build some incredibly efficient cities, at least. And Dwarf Fortresses. Dwarf Fortress is pretty much exactly how it would go. Autistic President Obama would spend all our money digging a moat that pumps lava through it before he goes crazy and kills Biden with a flaming axe that has a picture of the moat engraved on it
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Mar 4, 2016 00:53
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AlphaKretin posted:no i'm pretty sure it's the insult "politicunts" Pretty solid excuse actually. I mean I doubt it was labeled not for them
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That's not how ownership works you loving klepto.
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I was joking. The type of person who would do that and make that excuse is the type who would eat other people's food at work and say the same thing
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Mar 5, 2016 06:14
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BlueKingBar posted:Well, mostly mammals and small birds. Anything that lives around the ocean floor is anything but. Cough, anglerfish. Cough, gulper eel. Don't Google those if you don't like spooky creepy-crawly fish things. Primates in general aren't really cute, except maybe gorillas. If you meant apes instead of primates I can see where you're coming from but there are a ton of cute primates  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu55-haigoI 
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Mar 23, 2016 11:18
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Iron Crowned posted:Before my parents moved recently, they lived near a development that had the same poo poo, and insisted on driving me around through it. That's such a parent thing to do that it's kind of adorable
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Mar 31, 2016 19:50
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AlbieQuirky posted:Nurses and engineers are the two worst professions for pseudoscience IMO, followed closely by school teachers. I have no idea why that would be, except that all three pride themselves on "practical, hands-on solutions" rather than "doing things by the book"? I'm a massage therapist and our field is definitely up there for that type of poo poo. Most massage therapists I've worked with or learned from have been fundamentally broken people who believe all types of insane poo poo. I have to be really gentle when I give clients advice cause I don't want to be like "reflexology and any sort of energy work are total bullshit" since most other therapists accept it, but good lord is it annoying. Also how many people come in saying "I have chronic back problems and I've been seeing a chiropractor and he's amazing but for some reason I still feel like poo poo" and I have to diplomatically explain that it's because they're not actually doing anything that would ever help them
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Apr 15, 2016 02:08
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AlphaKretin posted:Absolutely not trying to shut the conversation down, but there's a thread for exactly this tucked away in SAL that I could see people missing: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3100175 Cool, thanks. Didn't know that thread existed
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Apr 15, 2016 22:01
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Das Boo posted:Alright, I don't get this one. Of course he'd be local, he's living right there at the house the guy delivered to. You don't get much more local than that
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Apr 15, 2016 22:56
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:It's a long, rambling rant. Basically the tl;dr version is if there is an extinction level event and we sent 40 people off to another planet to repopulate humanity so we don't die out, gay people would not be helpful in that. Is this guy unaware that gay people are actually capable of reproduction, and have done so in the past
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May 29, 2016 02:55
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EmmyOk posted:Anyone who smokes weed is all about 420 blaze it and huge weed leaf decals on everything or a spiritual hippy. The majority of people who smoke aren't just normal people. source your quotes
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May 29, 2016 14:24
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Can we stop talking to the mentally ill guy now? Why do people like this even bother going out to restaurants with others? Most restaurants are going to have something chicken on the menu. I mean I know the answer is "so they can bitch about it and get attention" but I can't even see a good excuse they could make
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May 31, 2016 00:43
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The Celts being ridiculous anime warriors is great. It's like listening to 8 year olds talk during lunch period
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SciFiDownBeat posted:I thought dingoes were extinct? or am I thinking of some other southern hemisphere canine animal You're probably thinking of the tasmanian tiger 
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Mak0rz posted:I met an Australian a couple of weeks ago and he was telling us about spike-tailed wallabies or some other such probably fictional creature. I asked him if they're related at all to drop bears and he looked a bit surprised because I knew what a drop bear is and then said "no, because these animals are real." Is Australia just a country filled with everyone's goofy but racist uncle?
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