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Another Surly threat of violence for the vault.

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FriendlyAtheist has an entry titled "Teenage Girl Burned to Death For Not Following Islamic and Paternal Custom"

At 128 comments the word "Christian" is mentioned more often than "Muslim" or "Islam".That's how it always goes. Comment after comment torturously avoiding the words Muslim or Islam. It is almost always about religion in general. But if it is something about what Christians did, it is all about Christianity.

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At this moment lolz are available by revisiting Amy's 'peer review art' pitch.

The way her eyes boggle as they roll from script to *anywhere else* back to script is ....... disconcerting. But hugely appropriate.

[youtube]lQ-DI7Lu5cs[/youtube]

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Brive1987 wrote:
Eskarina wrote:That should read "Fatwa Gadget".
Someone should rape you for that.
Harassed AND threatened within less than 12 hours. What a day. :dance: Yay me!

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No problem. In fact I have been concerned about you. After due thought, I fear it is your avatar that's letting you down. I'm finalising a new one, but it's still a work in progress.

http://i.imgur.com/ofATGMk.jpg

No thanks needed. We are family here.

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Brive1987 wrote:Another Surly threat of violence for the vault.
:lol:

I sense a showdown coming...

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Brive1987 wrote:
comhcinc wrote:You glorious pedantic bastard! Take the wife to Captain America. She will thank you.
I love the Avengers as much as she hates them.

This Sunday is Mothers Day.

My chance of swinging Civil War without a civil war :rimshot: is vanishingly small.
Brive, if you'r stuck for a present, ugg boots. Can't go wrong. Look in her runners for her she she-size.

I've recently-completed renos at my place, whIch I designed and managed over four years, and have been a labour of love for me. The main space is pretty sparse concrete and stone, and I think it is beautiful in its simplicity and elegance - which means my wife is champing at the bit to fill it full of awful reproduction furniture, rungs and 'art'. Ive held firm thus far but she's kept at me, and I'm weakening, so for Mother's Day I'm giving her a handwritten voucher permitting her desecrate my safe space with one rug and one piece of alleged art. God help us.

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She's in luck. I hear a new container full of faux French shit has come in from China/Vietnam.


On my front, I got her tickets for Fiddler on the Roof. Together with her mother. Leaving me to fill in time ....


[youtube]dKrVegVI0Us[/youtube]


As with all apparently intractable problems, money will find a way.

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Service Dog wrote:I may have been fired today, because of this trans-bathroom political kerfuffle....
So, I got un-fired. Actually, after a few days of silence, my boss/friend/chick resumed business as usual, with an utterly transparent poker face. I don't know if she realized she needed me to do the job, or if someone (her boyfriend?) told her my failure to embrace SJW scripture isn't a reason to fire me.

The art event was a massive success. Tons of press for the corporate sponsor. Plus a line of attendees was waiting eagerly outside & was giddy inside. Every piece of art on the walls went out the door. The event logistics were complex but smooth.

Even aesthetically-- the social experiment of giving-away free ugly, filthy, damaged, worthless art... with an 'official' certificate explaining the silly new-name for each piece, as deemed by a hipster-friendly demi-celebrity, provided a legit commentary on the meaning & value of art. I wonder what happened when people got home & unwrapped their godawful acquisitions, away from the crowd-hype.

The event was reported by the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News. Amy Sedaris did a segment on Jimmy Fallon:

http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/vid ... rt/3031393

The Super 8 hotel chain is owned by a conglomerate, which also owns Ramada, Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Travelodge, Microtel, as well as casinos, luxury hotels, & resorts. So the boss of Super 8 is a "Senior Vice President of the Super 8 Brand". Nice guy, but: Spending a few hours in the gallery with him-- during the press events & the actual opening-- I seriously considered telling him to stop saying variations on "Not your grandfather's Super 8", "Not your parent's budget hotel..." The "not your father's Oldsmobile" slogan is nearly 30 years old & is now known for failing to save Oldsmobile from dying of old age. Not exactly the way to convince young customers Super 8 is for them. It was very 'not my place' to tell the guy how to do his job, but, all the people who should have told him-- were too incompetent or too concerned with ducking-down & protecting their gig... to give the dude a heads-up.

The ad agency behind the giveaway gimmick really nailed-it, tho. I hope to keep getting hired by them. Not sure if my friendship/partnership with bosschick will endure, tho. A couple times, she barked at me without thinking. Not unusual for her to be so derogatory to me when we're alone or around people we both know well... but in front of near-stranger big-money business contacts... she caught-herself looking bad too-late. I laughed inside.

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A micro-firing. Always the best sort.

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And Ape+Lust classic ...

http://i.imgur.com/Ck6jduO.jpg

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Brive1987 wrote:At this moment lolz are available by revisiting Amy's 'peer review art' pitch.

The way her eyes boggle as they roll from script to *anywhere else* back to script is ....... disconcerting. But hugely appropriate.

[youtube]lQ-DI7Lu5cs[/youtube]
Wow. She's really fucking dumb.

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KiwiInOz wrote:
Katrina and the Wahabis
Jem and the Allahgrams

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But a 'B' or an 'F' or an 'M' will appear
And then I say "Bo" add a 'B' then I say the name
Then "Bonana Fanna" and "Foe"
And then I say the name again with an 'F' very plain
then a "Fee Fi" and "Mo"
And then I say the name again with an 'M' this time
And there isn't any name that I can't rhyme
Let's do Mohammed!

Mohammed, I'm-a go-bomb-it
Banana fanna faux-vomit
Fee, fie, foe- dammit-
Mohammed!

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:At this moment lolz are available by revisiting Amy's 'peer review art' pitch.

The way her eyes boggle as they roll from script to *anywhere else* back to script is ....... disconcerting. But hugely appropriate.

[youtube]lQ-DI7Lu5cs[/youtube]
Wow. She's really fucking dumb.
But so very attractive.
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I especially love the rash her "jewelry" has given her. Excellent advertising.

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CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
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I especially love the rash her "jewelry" has given her. Excellent advertising.
Maybe out there, somewhere, isa Bizzaro world populated by derpy rhinos and Surly Amys. A world where Sulyramics are thought of as the pinnacle of fine art. That particular piece looks a lot like someone fell asleep at the plasma cutter.

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For those who don't follow the Hugo drama...

Chuck Tingle who writes bad erotic science fiction was given a joke nomination by Sad Puppies for a book about getting fucked int he ass or some other shit. He hates Vox Day so he's decided to send Zoe Quinn (anti-gamergate) to collect the award.

Vox Day just asked Mercedes Carerra (prominent pro-gamergater) to represent him to collect an award.

I feel this is a beautiful thing.

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Brive1987 wrote:In December 2009 he leaves JREF to pursue his crap TV series Dangerous Universe based on his pop book. This cringe worthy show is canned after its test run. Plaits NDT run is over. I will never forget ushering my family in to watch this (while I was still a Plait fan) only to receive pity glances before they left the room one by one with excuses, never to return.
And then you thought you could fix this with a single box of chocolates? No, son. Lifelong supply of liquor-filled Austrian confectionery.

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Brive1987 wrote:She's in luck. I hear a new container full of faux French shit has come in from China/Vietnam.


On my front, I got her tickets for Fiddler on the Roof. Together with her mother. Leaving me to fill in time ....


[youtube]dKrVegVI0Us[/youtube]


As with all apparently intractable problems, money will find a way.
The furniture shop she buys at SMS her when a new container of faux-French provincial shite arrives from the Philippines.

Nice work, though, Brive -,Everyone's a winner.

Enjoy your night. I won't. I'm at something called 'The Mounties' club, for a charity fundraiser...
Who knew dreadfulness on such a grand scale existed.

What an truly awful monument this is to early-2000s cut-price-casino architecture.

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rayshul wrote:For those who don't follow the Hugo drama...

Chuck Tingle who writes bad erotic science fiction was given a joke nomination by Sad Puppies for a book about getting fucked int he ass or some other shit. He hates Vox Day so he's decided to send Zoe Quinn (anti-gamergate) to collect the award.

Vox Day just asked Mercedes Carerra (prominent pro-gamergater) to represent him to collect an award.

I feel this is a beautiful thing.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that is awesome.

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MacGruberKnows wrote:FriendlyAtheist has an entry titled "Teenage Girl Burned to Death For Not Following Islamic and Paternal Custom"

At 128 comments the word "Christian" is mentioned more often than "Muslim" or "Islam".That's how it always goes. Comment after comment torturously avoiding the words Muslim or Islam. It is almost always about religion in general. But if it is something about what Christians did, it is all about Christianity.
There's a couple of people who are trying to point out that these things happen in Islam much more often than in Christianity, but the usual SJWs equivocation tactics are at play.

It's baffling for me to see people accusing anyone who dares to say that Islam is a huge threat to human rights, far worse than Christianity at the moment, of being privileged because they're straight. As if Islam didn't inspire anti-LGBT violence.

Check out the comments by "pablo", a gay guy who rather sensibly argued that being thrown off a building is worse than having some of your rights threatened by Christian legislators. The SJWs first accuse him of being straight, then back away.

I guess that though SJW ideology plays a huge role in the avoidance of blaming Islam one most also consider that most people who comment on TFA are Americans. In general I've noticed that American atheists, whether they're SJWs or not, tend to be concerned with Christianity much more than with Islam. It's easy to see why: American society is much more religious than, say, Europe, and Islam is a small minority in most of the US. Also the American religious right is pretty anti-Muslim, which makes some people wary of agreeing with them.

But yeah, it's disconcerting to see just how many people gloss over the problems with Islam while they're always ready to rant against Christianity.

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HunnyBunny wrote:Thanks to all for the enlightenment on Phil 'Not A Scientist, but does do Sci Com' Plait. So just another worthless SJW who makes little to no contribution to humanity except to point out that it is really mean to point out facts to a chosen few women on social media. Got it.
He's got a YouTube 'Crash Course' series on Astronomy which is really rather good. And his longstanding webpage debunking the moon-landing conspiracy theory is very useful ammo for pub arguments.

On the other hand, if he's happy to pretend Surly Amy's excreta are 'cool', that tells you all you need to know about him as a person. :bjarte:

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I admit I find it a little terrifying that Islam trumps all other SJW identities.

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Couch wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:She's in luck. I hear a new container full of faux French shit has come in from China/Vietnam.


On my front, I got her tickets for Fiddler on the Roof. Together with her mother. Leaving me to fill in time ....


[youtube]dKrVegVI0Us[/youtube]


As with all apparently intractable problems, money will find a way.
The furniture shop she buys at SMS her when a new container of faux-French provincial shite arrives from the Philippines.

Nice work, though, Brive -,Everyone's a winner.

Enjoy your night. I won't. I'm at something called 'The Mounties' club, for a charity fundraiser...
Who knew dreadfulness on such a grand scale existed.

What an truly awful monument this is to early-2000s cut-price-casino architecture.

Way to go Brive! I look forward to discuss this with you (and anyone cause I all gay for this movie).

Couch what do we need to do get you to see this film? We are here to help man.

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comhcinc wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:There are other sites?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ferrets/
Holy shit, I just OD'ed on furry.

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feathers wrote:
comhcinc wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:There are other sites?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ferrets/
Holy shit, I just OD'ed on furry.
:shock: I'll keep my other sites to myself then. It' might be too much for you to handle :shifty:

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Brive1987 wrote:At this moment lolz are available by revisiting Amy's 'peer review art' pitch.

The way her eyes boggle as they roll from script to *anywhere else* back to script is ....... disconcerting. But hugely appropriate.

[youtube]lQ-DI7Lu5cs[/youtube]
She's got 96 patrons, pledging low dollar amounts for a total of $520 dollars per piece just for producing drawings and paintings. The "opportunity to own" of course equals "buy," and you can bet they're not going to be cheap. She hopes to produce one painting or drawing a week; that $25k per year before she even sells anything! And this is outside Surlyramics sales.

Folks, you know something? .... We're doing this Internet thing wrong.

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HunnyBunny wrote:Pat Condell is a racist. He and Steers would get on well.
Pat may be a racist but he's my racist. Hear that ranty rant ranting! It's fantastic even if you don't agree.

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The guest access is consistently fcuked. Can you just have a mail address for tips instead?
Brive1987 wrote:For so long we have heard about how she followed in the footsteps of giants, graduating from magic shop to skepticism.

Well, alas, Funtastic has closed, but it's digital memories remain.

And to me it looks like the typical novelty shop selling fart door signs and soft porn lava lamps. I'm sure it had its quota of fake blood capsules and impossible metal rings. But magic shop it ain't.

Yet again I fear we have a story that grew in the telling.
I haven't got a link to (guests can't link) but there's an old podcast interview somewhere where she says the shop was called Magic Hat in Boston and she worked full time by fitting in her college credits around shop work hours and graduated 6 months early because of that. There was a large hat in the store you could stand in like a proxy front desk, and do card tricks and things.

So yes this story is noted by skeptics, notable skeptic.

On Linkedin I found this on someone else's resume that might explain


Operations & Multi-Store Manager
Funusual/The Magic Hat
July 1999 – October 2006 (7 years 4 months)
The Magic Hat was a small magic/toy shop located in Boston's historic Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Funusual is an expanding home furnishings shop that peaked at 3 retails stores, the most recent of which is located in Faneuil hall Marketplace.
- Turned what had started as a low sales year into being the top year in sales for The Magic Hat in my first 6 months as Store Manager, exceeding sales of prior years by 20%
- Kept up sales and store standards during and after the events of 9/11 at the Magic Hat and during the opening stages of Funusual's first store which was shortly after 9/11.
- Helped establish Funusual as a viable brand and it grow to 3 stores over the course of its first 3 years. Also opened one seasonal location and one seasonal cart.
- Regularly developed, implemented and maintained company and store procedures, paperwork and forms, creating complete store procedures & register operations manuals.

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Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
KiwiInOz wrote:
Katrina and the Wahabis
Jem and the Allahgrams
Just for you Phil - I propose that we reintroduce public floggings in the West.

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Guest_dc61f689 wrote:The guest access is consistently fcuked. Can you just have a mail address for tips instead?
Brive1987 wrote:For so long we have heard about how she followed in the footsteps of giants, graduating from magic shop to skepticism.

Well, alas, Funtastic has closed, but it's digital memories remain.

And to me it looks like the typical novelty shop selling fart door signs and soft porn lava lamps. I'm sure it had its quota of fake blood capsules and impossible metal rings. But magic shop it ain't.

Yet again I fear we have a story that grew in the telling.
I haven't got a link to (guests can't link) but there's an old podcast interview somewhere where she says the shop was called Magic Hat in Boston and she worked full time by fitting in her college credits around shop work hours and graduated 6 months early because of that. There was a large hat in the store you could stand in like a proxy front desk, and do card tricks and things.

So yes this story is noted by skeptics, notable skeptic.

On Linkedin I found this on someone else's resume that might explain


Operations & Multi-Store Manager
Funusual/The Magic Hat
July 1999 – October 2006 (7 years 4 months)
The Magic Hat was a small magic/toy shop located in Boston's historic Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Funusual is an expanding home furnishings shop that peaked at 3 retails stores, the most recent of which is located in Faneuil hall Marketplace.
- Turned what had started as a low sales year into being the top year in sales for The Magic Hat in my first 6 months as Store Manager, exceeding sales of prior years by 20%
- Kept up sales and store standards during and after the events of 9/11 at the Magic Hat and during the opening stages of Funusual's first store which was shortly after 9/11.
- Helped establish Funusual as a viable brand and it grow to 3 stores over the course of its first 3 years. Also opened one seasonal location and one seasonal cart.
- Regularly developed, implemented and maintained company and store procedures, paperwork and forms, creating complete store procedures & register operations manuals.
You have allowed truth to get in the way of a good story. :naughty:

But thanks for the info - the fact are ultimately the real prize. It is sad such potential got snuffed out so young.

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And the solution to your problems is to raise your own potential - with an account. Don't fret. The FT doxes sparingly and only with the best intent. ;)

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Wait that was someone else's multi store success. I thought it too good to be Becks. Weirdly parallel experiences though.

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Hunt wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:At this moment lolz are available by revisiting Amy's 'peer review art' pitch.

The way her eyes boggle as they roll from script to *anywhere else* back to script is ....... disconcerting. But hugely appropriate.

[youtube]lQ-DI7Lu5cs[/youtube]
She's got 96 patrons, pledging low dollar amounts for a total of $520 dollars per piece just for producing drawings and paintings. The "opportunity to own" of course equals "buy," and you can bet they're not going to be cheap. She hopes to produce one painting or drawing a week; that $25k per year before she even sells anything! And this is outside Surlyramics sales.

Folks, you know something? .... We're doing this Internet thing wrong.
There's always someone who'll put the uncomfortable thought, shuffled and pushed to one side, into words. :cdc:

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Com, I'm hanging for maximum Black Widow exposure. How predictable. .

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Brive1987 wrote:Com, I'm hanging for maximum Black Widow exposure. How predictable. .
Like the last Captain America film, she does a lot. In fact she is one of the most important characters in the film which with this cast says a lot.

Lol frankly it's more proof that SJWs are clueless because they should be singing the praises of Marvel for putting a woman in such an important role.

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Ok. Sold again. :)

Meanwhile off reservation.

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rayshul wrote:I admit I find it a little terrifying that Islam trumps all other SJW identities.
There are many Saudi shills in the Regressive Left. Nathan Lean is the most obvious choice, CJ Werleman is a close second, but they're probably not the only ones. Petro-dollars are a powerful motivator.

Iran also has its fair share of shills, usually on the left, sometimes on the extreme right. The Iranian Revolution was supported by the French left, and there are still many contacts between Teheran and former Communist groups. To say nothing of the Putin-bots who have aligned themselves with Iran for strategic reasons. There's even a not-so-former Italian fascist who has become an admirer of the Iranian revolution, because they're the Muslim version of the Italian fascist regime.

Defending Islam from "Islamophobia" is a good excuse to shill for King Salman or for Rouhani.

Of course most of the SJWs who engage in Muslim-friendly or Muslim-excusing behavior aren't shills but rather "useful idiots". Dogmatic idealists make for good propaganda and are naive enough not to realize what's going on. To be fair to the SJWs there are plenty of naive people on the right, too, who support shills for Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Israel.

In the end SJWs are simply pawns in a bigger game. The real conflict is between the Wahabi/Salafi-supporting Gulf States and Iran and its allies. And the "West", sadly, is firmly on the Wahabi side, instead of trying to stay away from a fight between two authoritarian systems.

In the end it's all about oil. We need it, the Saudi have it and are willing to give it to us at a good price in exchange for some favors. Iran has fallen on the side of Russia so they're rivals at best and enemies at worst. The biggest problem is that the Saudis and their other Gulf State friends are crooked players who pretend to be our allies while they also turn a blind eye (at best) at terrorism and actively finance the Wahabi/Salafi preachers.

Everything else is just smoke and mirrors.

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Brive1987 wrote:And Ape+Lust classic ...

http://i.imgur.com/Ck6jduO.jpg
http://imgur.com/1G9dwQA.jpg

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I believed our ABC news when they said in January that the USA was self sufficient in oil.

But a quick check reveals this is not so.

http://crudeoilpeak.info/the-myth-of-us ... -crude-oil

http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/upl ... ct2015.jpg

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Apes back! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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Kirbmarc wrote:
rayshul wrote:I admit I find it a little terrifying that Islam trumps all other SJW identities.
There are many Saudi shills in the Regressive Left. Nathan Lean is the most obvious choice, CJ Werleman is a close second, but they're probably not the only ones. Petro-dollars are a powerful motivator.
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Everything else is just smoke and mirrors.
Good analysis, most of which I agree with.

Maybe somewhat off the topic, but just ran across this in my files from a "moderate" Muslim that seems relevant:
Should Muslims be allowed to impose Islam on Others?
Posted On Nov 30 2006 By : Dr. Muqtedar Khan Comment: 0

Many Muslim cab drivers in Minneapolis are refusing to allow passengers carrying alcohol in their cabs, saying it is against the Islamic Shariah [law] to do so. More than half the taxi drivers on the airport are Muslims, and as soon as they got a majority, they have resorted to imposing their beliefs on others.

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Brive1987 wrote:Apes back! :lol: :lol: :lol:

:clap: :clap:
Haha! Gracias, my friend! :dance:

Rebecca bellyaches about climbing "straight up" a mountain, but you can see a parking lot right behind her.

She's hardly begun, if that thing is any bigger than a hill.

And she used to run 9 miles at a go, when she wasn't surfing or bicycling? :roll:

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HunnyBunny wrote:Pat Condell is a racist. He and Steers would get on well.
:) Pray tell, what evidence do you have to support that argument? I've criticized Islam but that's not a race so that can't be it. And women aren't one either so our differences of opinion there shouldn't be a factor. And the infamous "Nigger-Cunt-Hypothesis" is more a question of semantics and prescriptive linguistics than unfair criticisms of either of the implied groups. So, where's the beef? To coin a phrase. :-)

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I thought Karen James would appreciate the joke. We will see, I'll get a block or a like. ;)

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I've never tasted that stuff, and right now I'm convinced I don't want to :shock:

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Brive1987 wrote:I thought Karen James would appreciate the joke. We will see, I'll get a block or a like. ;)
Lol, thanks Brive! Fat chance, though. If her sloshpot friend's alcoholism is open for jokes, she has a magnificent sense of humor (for a justice warrior).

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feathers wrote:
I've never tasted that stuff, and right now I'm convinced I don't want to :shock:
PBR is discount beer that is literally made from the rejected ingredients of other beers. They don't even brew their own stuff.

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feathers wrote:
I've never tasted that stuff, and right now I'm convinced I don't want to :shock:
It's cheap. Pallid, non-descript, and cheap. There's nothing to set it apart from other economy brews, but for whatever reason, it's become the official beer of Hipster Nation USA.

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Ape+lust wrote:
feathers wrote:
I've never tasted that stuff, and right now I'm convinced I don't want to :shock:
It's cheap. Pallid, non-descript, and cheap. There's nothing to set it apart from other economy brews, but for whatever reason, it's become the official beer of Hipster Nation USA.
Do they drink it ironically?

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Kirbmarc wrote:Do they drink it ironically?
:lol:

Probably so. While unaware that irony is ineffective when you look like 19th century bicycle repairmen.

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[youtube]snhiofL2Rh4[/youtube]

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feathers wrote:
I've never tasted that stuff, and right now I'm convinced I don't want to :shock:
It's better than Heineken.

[youtube]snhiofL2Rh4[/youtube]

(No, actually, it's not)

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:nin:

Holy shit, how embarrassing.

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didymos wrote:
:D Wunnerful movie.

http://i.imgur.com/77F36Ci.jpg

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Post by Phil_Giordana_FCD »

Out of things to watch, I've decided to give Dark Knight Rises a second chance. I shouldn't have. What a fucking disappointing movie. It took me yesterday afternoon and this morning to finish it.

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comhcinc wrote: snip


Way to go Brive! I look forward to discuss this with you (and anyone cause I all gay for this movie).

Couch what do we need to do get you to see this film? We are here to help man.

Com, is Civil War OK for kids? The girl is 13 and boys are a month short of 10 and 12respectively.

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Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Out of things to watch, I've decided to give Dark Knight Rises a second chance. I shouldn't have. What a fucking disappointing movie. It took me yesterday afternoon and this morning to finish it.

I think all of the Nolan Batflicks are overrated. I think Heath Ledger's Joker was almost as bad as Jack Nicholson. I think Frank Miller is to blame for a lot of this because he was the one that decided to make Batman a ninja, just like every other Miller character.

I think Snyder is doing shitty work too and as corny as it is Adam West is still the closest thing to Batman that have been on the screen. I mean at least that guy did detective work.

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Ape+lust wrote::D Wunnerful movie.

http://i.imgur.com/77F36Ci.jpg

Wot?? You've been in Rebecca's trick shop, haven't you.

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Couch wrote:Com, is Civil War OK for kids? The girl is 13 and boys are a month short of 10 and 12respectively.
Well, Khomeini sent children as young as 12 on to the inter-nation battlefield, so some internal strife should be no problem.

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