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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Do you know what is a good way to pass time at my job? Could I wear headphones while I do carts with a hood up?

Originally posted by: Tiptup


Yes, those are all cultural issues, but they aren't necessarily original ideas. I know of conservatives who were concerned with those issues long before O'Reilly was. And even then, those issues aren't the end of the world. There are more important things out there. When it comes to the core problems which give birth to these issues, I've seen O'Reilly argue for the wrong side many times (or at least have no clue what he's talking about). If you find his show valuable, however, I won't attack that; I'm just explaining why I don't like it.

Originally posted by: lordjedi


Dude, you're going to have to give up or just stop using the Internet. It's a losing battle. Trying to correct everyone's spelling and grammar mistakes is only going to make you go insane.

Back OT. I watch O'Reilly just about everyday. I've honestly only seen him try to "spin" a couple of things in a different light. Most of the time, he asks yes or no questions about hot bed political issues and gets really long answers from the person he's interviewing. Case in point, he asked one of the people from a group that protects illegal immigrants if she thought it was ok for people to cross our borders illegally. She kept answering that all people are protected by the 4th amendment. This all had something to do with a household of illegal immigrants that the government busted into and essentially hauled people off to be deported. So basically, she wouldn't answer the question. From her answer, I gather that her opinion is that once you cross the border, illegally or not, you're protected by the 4th amendment, which is bullshit.

The only other time I've seen him "spin" an issue is when a house full of possible illegals caught fire and some children died. It was in New York and they basically have a local ordinance that says the cops can't do anything to investigate possible illegals. It was essentially a case where the house was totally overcrowded beyond what local zoning laws allow, but they were looking the other way because New York is a sanctuary city.

Originally posted by: Tiptup


Well, in a sense, culture "wars" go on all the time and in every society throughout our planet and throughout history. There are always different practices and different ideas all battling for dominance. While these types of concerns have often lead to real wars between societies, you can't really say that sort of thing is happening right now with the Untied States. (Though perhaps having millions upon millions of illegal immigrants pour into our culture, from a heavily clashing culture, could be considered a cultural act of war on this level.) On the small scale, however, I believe we can say that there are many incompatible philosophies and truths desperately trying to win over our hearts and minds. This is a war of sorts with many different warriors.

Bill O'Reilly is not someone I generally disagree with. My problem is more with his attitude and his approach to the truth. He likes to say how he's free of "spin," but all I ever see him doing is incessantly spinning every issue to make himself look so incredibly smart and so incredibly sensible. Part of that is obviously a joke on his part, but most of it actually isn't and I honestly don't find him all that genuinely smart or sensible. That's why I call him a jackass. Simply watch him for a while and you'll see how on every issue, no matter how clear cut, he'll go way out of his way to try finding some sort of middle ground where he can call both sides of an issue extreme or incorrect and make himself seem above the "spin" of it all, and it bugs the hell out of me. He thinks that everyone should want to do what he says because his common sense is so damn balanced and intelligent. If anyone dares question him, then you'll see him get truly worked up. Well, I for one don't buy that bullshit of his and would prefer to get my commentary from an authentic mind.

All of that is why I believe O'Reilly deserves to be made fun of. That said, however, it is sad that our society takes humorous falsehoods to be gospel truth (as lordjedi pointed out). I don't necessarily blame Colbert for that however (and I certainly don't think his show is a bad thing), I mostly blame our society for being at a point where it makes stupid leaps of judgment when it obviously should not.


For me, I generally see two culture wars going on in the English-speaking world that are of top priority for us to handle. The first is between people who believe that the truth is something which should be struggled for with old-testament-style zeal and people who think that we should moderate and even attack our ability to pursue the truth. The second is between people who believe that private property and liberty are sacred and people who believe those same qualities should regularly be negotiated away for the sake of comfort and peace. I firmly believe that both of these cultural problems stem from an improper view of and approach to God in the English speaking world (but that's a complicated can of worms I'm not going to even try detailing at the moment).

Originally posted by: sean wookie


But what if their innocent (question mark) my fucking keyboard is screwed up.

Originally posted by: lordjedi


Are that many people on the right that stupid? I've watched his show a couple of times and honestly, I don't think he's good at it at all. He's more of a caricature of how a liberal might view a conservative than anything else. The way he acts isn't even extreme, it's just stupid. He hardly acts like any other conservative would. I realize that he thinks he's mocking Bill O'Reilly, but as someone who watches O'Reilly on a pretty regular basis, he acts like someone who just wants to twist how O'Reilly really is in order to make him look dumb. IMO, that just makes Colbert look even dumber.

Between the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, I pretty much don't watch Comedy Central from 8-9pm just because it is so stupid. I'm honestly surprised so many young people actually watch it for "news" since it's really anything but. Of course, that would explain on the misinformation that's out there.

Originally posted by: Arnie.d

Well, XP works like a charm for me. I'm sure you will like it. When I re-install XP I always make a lite version using nlite. That way I remove all the crap I don't need/want. With nlite you can also do stuff like turning system restore off, entering the key, creating an account, setting up the network etc. You can also integrate service packs, hotfixes and other updates. I end up with an windows setup ISO of about 160mb with a lot of settings already as I want them, saves a lot of time especially if you don't have to download and install all the updates the normal way. I love windows XP lite .

Originally posted by: lordjedi


There are many different Parks Sabers handles. There are not that many different OT lightsaber handles. DO NOT CONFUSE parksabers with LICENSED sabers. Parks Sabers are NOT licensed. There's a reason the saber handles look almost like what you'd find in the prequels and OT. They are his own designs. There's also a reason they're called Parks Sabers all over that site and not lightsabers. He can't use the term lightsabers.

Even at the conventions, when people tell you about their Parks Sabers, they'll use the term Parks Saber. They do that because Jeff Parks (as well as others) has continuously informed them that they are Parks Sabers, not Lightsabers.

Originally posted by: Zebonka
"It just didn't seem to be the same kind of quality that my pistol was and wasn't as accurate as I thought it should be. "

Woah - you mean you can fire the thing!!?? Cool!

Originally posted by: C3PX
I got it!!! The solution to the world's energy crisis! All we have to do is figure out a way to tap into skyjedi's impressive amount of hate aimed at George Lucas.

Originally posted by: daveytod
Thanks for all your kind comments guys.

I'm 31 years old but this Gizzy was my (and our) first proper pet. The kicker to this whole thing is that we got a new kitten last friday, a little noisy 6 week old shitbag. Obviously, at first, Gizzy was a bit put out by this, however just yesterday he was slowly starting to come round, but now my girlfriends is stricken with guilt over the possibility that he died feeling replaced and unhappy.

The bright side is that he came from a rescue home, so at the very least the life we gave him (he was one spoilt cat) was a lot better that the one he was due to have

Pictures of the fat fella.......

Originally posted by: sean wookie
I heard this story that made me lol