imperialscum

I am from Europe.

So is it still processed by the mods, or did the hive mind win?

TV's Frink said:

imperialscum said:

Warbler said:

My apologies to the Canadians for forgeting Canada Day.

Apology not accepted.

 On behalf of Warb, and Canada, I'd just like to say thanks for not accepting something you don't deserve.

No, I was speaking on behalf of Canada.

Just out of curiosity, how did this story end?

Warbler said:

My apologies to the Canadians for forgeting Canada Day.

Apology not accepted.

Warbler said:

TV's Frink said:

EyeShotFirst said:

You can buy a nazi flag on Amazon, but not a confederate flag...

Let that sink in.

 One wrong and one right does not make it right or wrong...it just makes it halfway to right.

Let that sink in.

 say what you will, it is stupid and asinine to decide not to sell the Confederate flag because you don't want to offend people while still selling the Nazi flag.

If Amazon feels that the Confederate flag is so offensive that they don't want to sell it any longer, why did they feel it was ok to sell before the shooting?  Does one shooting really change what that flag means?

Have you maybe considered the possibility as to why Confederate flag is not sold by Amazon being related to marketing rather than to offensiveness? After all, being a redneck just isn't cool in civilised world. :)

TV's Frink said:

I'm guessing they're perfect, just like you are.

You guess correctly.

Well racism and racial segregation was openly practised under your current flag as well.

And if I sum up all the bad* US foreign policies in the last 100 years under your current flag, I would say Confederate flag represents the lesser evil of the two.

*I used a mild term

team_negative1 said:

Many of us share the same opinions. Hence the use of 'Team'.

Team Negative1

Technically if just a single member of your team does not share the hive mind opinion, then you are not allowed to use "we" in combination with "Team Negative1" signature.

From now on, if the opinion is not shared completely among your team, you are obligated to state who specifically does not agree with it.

The ultimate strategy to cope with anything unpleasant on intertnet is to ignore it. It is no rocket science.

DuracellEnergizer said:

It reached 27°C (80°F) today, it's supposed to reach 33 (91) tomorrow, and get as high as 39 (102) on Sunday.

And just to avoid any uncertainty, 25 (77) is the highest temperature I can stomach.

That seems normal, especially if it is dry. Have you ever experienced extremely humid 35+?

DuracellEnergizer said:

Warbler said:

What is wrong with summer?

The heat. The accursed, godforsaken heat. I loathe it. I loathe it long time.

Heat in Canada? You should go to some tropical country and recalibrate your sensors.

TV's Frink said:

imperialscum said:

We think the darker tone is better.

Representative of humanity.

 You forgot to tell us what team you are on.

Team Olie

I am above all teams.

Possessed said:

The bit he said about ImpScum was pretty funny too I thought.

I didn't quite get it.

Btw, good luck Trident. :)

DuracellEnergizer said:

lacklustre lightsaber

Inconsistency. :)

The real question is why would you search for such stuff?

I don't watch TV series in general, unless it is anime.

Well if the score is good I let them roll through (not necessarily reading the credits).

Well for me it was 2004 DVD release with all the PT parasites. I was generally very satisfied with 1997 SE.

TV's Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV's Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

DominicCobb said:

Maybe something like transsexualism is technically a "disorder" but who gives a fuck. If a guy feels like he should be a girl, then why not let him be a girl? It's a victimless act.

It's not quite victimless when it has an impact on loved ones. 

 Oh please.  They aren't victims, they're intolerant.

So if a man/woman

1. Meets a girl/guy

2. Falls in love with her/him

3. Ends up marrying her/him

4. Has a number of children with her/him

5. Spends a good portion of his/her adult years with her/him

he/she's intolerant if s/he one day springs the news that's s/he's transgendered and wants to have a sex change operation, emotionally devastating him/her in the process? 

 Well ok, I was thinking of family and friends that couldn't handle it.  But even so, is it not better to know the truth than be part of a lie?

This might not have been a good example to begin with. It is more an example of a bad person. I don't think this just happens overnight, which would mean that the person was deceiving the other person for a large portion of their lives. Knowing the truth after such long period would actual be worse than maintaining the lie.

DominicCobb said:

@impscum I was talking to ender, who in a previous post made the slippery slope argument I was referring to.

I apologise.

DominicCobb said:

Even if it is "technically" a psychological disorder, that doesn't matter, because, unlike the other disorders, it's not harmful (in fact the only thing harmful about it is other people making fun of them or comparing them to pedophiles).

Any sexual deviation falls into the same category in a sense of being an error in the intended programming. No disorder by itself is harmful to the external world unless an action is taken in accordance with the disorder. The only advantage of gay is that even if the action is taken, there is no harm to the society.

And I must stress that I am socially completely okay with homosexuality (I even defended it in some threads). But I am an honest guy. When it comes to technical aspects I have to disregard to social norms and be technically correct.

Post Praetorian said:

imperialscum said:

Danfun128 said:

imperialscum said:

DominicCobb said:

Waiting til marriage for sex is not normal sexuality.

That is correct.

So is the idea of "sexual purity" nonsense? Will the world eventually come to a place where everyone has sex with everything?

I am was quite clear. I am not saying monogamy is a nonsense. All I am saying is that marriage is a nonsense.

 I am curious why you might say so? Or are you simply speaking of it as a technical concept?

One's concious decision or being led to it by a natural instinct are two self-sufficient conditions for one to practise monogamy. Marriage is just a human-made redundant nonsense. I hope I don't need to explain why religious marriage is so. Civil marriage is the same nonsense but on top of that it is also adds injustice with the unfair wealth-splitting laws in case of separation (half-half crap etc.).

Danfun128 said:

imperialscum said:

DominicCobb said:

Waiting til marriage for sex is not normal sexuality.

That is correct.

So is the idea of "sexual purity" nonsense? Will the world eventually come to a place where everyone has sex with everything?

I am was quite clear. I am not saying monogamy is a nonsense. All I am saying is that marriage is a nonsense.

DominicCobb said:

Monogamy is not normal sexuality.

That is a completely wrong statement if we look from an individual species perspective. In a few percent of animals monogamy is normal sexuality. It must have been more beneficial than polygamy to some kinds otherwise evolution would not allow it.

DominicCobb said:

Waiting til marriage for sex is not normal sexuality.

That is correct.

DominicCobb said:

You may be making a "scientific" argument but you're basically just repeating the typical homophobic "slippery slope" argument more eloquently.

I wasn't making any argument. I was stating how things are from technical point of view. Homosexually is technically an error in programming since it obstructs the propagation of the species. But nevertheless, homosexuality is completely natural. It can be either attributed to variation of species (i.e. to one of the key elements of evolution) or it can simply be an error in a very complex process.

Ryan McAvoy said:

I like you most of the time Ender, but when you occasionally say insane things like...

darth_ender said:

the differences in sexual orientation are in many ways analogous to the differences between normal adults and pedophiles.  I am certain this will cause offense, but the parallels are many, regardless.  The big difference is that it is socially wrong for adults to have sexual relations with children.  Similarly, there are those who wish to have sex with animals, or sex with close relatives, but such things are not acceptable socially.

Sorry but f*ck you. I'm sure you'll argue that paragraph doesn't say "Being gay is like being a pedophile" but yeah it does. Children and animals can't give consent, adults can. You aren't an idiot, so I know you understand this distinction. So why make a post like that?

Well any kind of deviation of sexual orientation is technically an error in the intended function of the human control system (i.e. brain). So in a completely technical sense, all kind of sexual ordination deviations can be put in the same category.

Of course being gay and doing adult gay sexual intercourse is completely acceptable from a social perspective (in my opinion at least) since they don't do any harm. But still you must note that just being a pedophile or zoophile (i.e. an error in the brain function) cannot be considered as crime on its own. On the other hand, being a child abuser or an animal abuser is a crime.