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Ethnic cleansing and genocide seem to be the stated or implicit goal of both. Only Israel has the means to really follow through on that though.

:up: That's to play a rhetorical game rather than engage philosophically though, isn't it? True. I was referring to tit for tat between Republican and...

I don't see your position as morally tenable. Surely, the indiscriminate killing of / targeting of civilians has to be condemned unequivocally regardl...

Great to see you back, Tiff. :cheer:

Dunno, but I'm happy for you to run with that interpetation. :party:

The meter might be a bit off but I think it works.

So I think I need to focus on my health now and never post in TPF again, eh?

I think the engineered outrage is the connection to "wokeness" as that's easier to attack. Critical race theory is simply an academic discipline that ...

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In fairness, Harrison is a fairly easy prospect. By contrast, I've been working on the Dalai Lama for years and nada. :sad:

Nice. After the Nachtwey experience, I tried to get several other famous people to tell me to fuck off and was sometimes successful. Here's me with Ha...

lol, I kinda added to it really. :nerd:

@"praxis" @"Hanover" :lol: I met Nachtwey while I was clumsily doing photojournalism during the Thai yellow shirt vs red shirt protests. I didn't know...

In my case, it was my fault. Nachtwey is a legend.

World renowned war photographer James Nachtwey once told me to fuck off. :heart:

My memory on that colour might have been a little off...

It was one of those in the Tate. :up:

For the sake of pointless argument, no.

Hate to say it, but @"Hanover" nailed the blue wars there. There's a painting in the Tate modern that is pretty close to just that blue actually. Up y...

February is spring here, my dude. My kind of people. :cool: :starstruck:

In Ireland, it's August, September, October traditionally.

Ah, ok, I guess I understand you a bit better. There are some here who are genuinely uninterested in doing anything but repeating Trump's nonsense tho...

For this, we should surely: 1) Establish, using evidence, the premise that mail-in ballots "always benefit the left". (A contrary view: https://fiveth...

Where did you get this from? Here's a paper that says the opposite: "The article employs nonparametric meta-analytic methods to synthesize a large num...

Why is the fact that left-leaning voters are more likely to be able to fill in a form and vote by post so threatening and so evidential of fraud? Can ...

I made the mistake the other way around and ended up joining fig club. On the positive side, kicking the crap out of those fruit fans was a piece of c...

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Maybe you want my opinion on this issue? Honestly, I haven't read enough to pipe in, but I do understand the frustration of good lounge threads being ...

Yes... unless that's a trick question. :scream:

Don't worry, you never had a chance anyway. :up:

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Correctimundo.

Exposing the poverty of the online imagination? :chin: Well, there's just one Irish I know of--me, so I'm fully dense, I suppose. @"Jamal", having @"f...

"Bellendism" has similar connotations.

:up: The paraphrase was totally clear in its form and its intention.

Not really. It wasn't even planned. But it kind of turned out that way and I realized at the end that's one explanation for what was going on. I hope ...

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Updated the OP and unpinned the discussion. Feel free to keep discussing here and in the story and poem threads though. :up:

Speaking of food, I went into a Wendy's for the first and last time today. I think I should have gone into the Taco Bell for the first and last time i...

Thank you. Yes, sex was not my intention at all here. Vessels = blood vessels, holes = pupils of eyes, white flag fluttering = inner surrender, camera...

Interesting. Like I mentioned in the Shaun and Quigley story, the seed phrase was the first line, which I just got out of nowhere, far as I remember. ...

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Lol, thanks! All stories and poems now open!

Really glad my comment helped. You have the tools to make great stories, but as you intimated you need to push yourself outside your boundaries, or co...

Oh, maybe I should just respond to this. The idea here was Shaun "wakes up" initially but only into a kind of drunken rock star state that though, unc...

Thanks for the feedback all. I'm glad most of you liked it. The first paragraph is a little convoluted and the first line a bit of a risk but that was...

Got the goods on the hold outs and I'm going to identify them now as I want all the stories to be open to comments.

Also, thank you @"Amity" for the lists. Helped a lot. Remaining authors, please fess up. Let's keep this train moving.

No worries. I might be unavailable later and I don't know when the remaining few authors will show up to confirm, so feel free to dive in.

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