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Dorian might hit Georgia, and I note no one has extended any concern in my direction. Atlanta is not on the coast, sure, but there is the possibility ...
September 03, 2019 at 00:00
The neutral words would be "less common." It's less common to be gay, black, a philosopher, or an Indian chief. Because most people aren't black doesn...
September 02, 2019 at 18:09
For the last time, I'm sorry. I didn't know she was your mother.
September 02, 2019 at 12:20
I'd propose adding to the diagnostic criteria questionnaire asking whether one has previously committed mass murder, and if so, then providing the dia...
September 02, 2019 at 11:58
You've presented a homophobic argument, so the personal disclaimer appears inconsistent. The term "unnatural" carries a negative connotation, so your ...
September 01, 2019 at 19:39
A cat with no arms or legs isn't a snake. It's a doorstop.
September 01, 2019 at 18:59
A cat with arms is a fucked up cat.
September 01, 2019 at 01:24
I couldn't listen to that box of toys.
August 31, 2019 at 13:30
In: Really  — view comment
It can also be used to try to clarify if something really is true. If I said "'Really' means duck in French," you might say, "really"?, and I'd say, "...
August 31, 2019 at 06:08
Oh, the irony in telling us you can speak in all tongues. Y'all (not ya'll) is a contraction of you all. It is the Southern American informal plural o...
August 31, 2019 at 02:24
I had a friend (you'd call him a "mate" because you guys mate your friends) who spoke this rhyming Cockney talk that seemed sort of cool, but it was a...
August 30, 2019 at 14:44
You speak British, an antiquated English, the form spoken prior to the American corrections and perfection.
August 30, 2019 at 10:10
Hopefully, as I'm a native English speaker.
August 28, 2019 at 01:51
There is good argument that the "good and evil" reference is a literary device intended to mean knowledge of everything, not just of morality (the jux...
August 28, 2019 at 01:37
Often marriage ceremonies don't occur on the birthing table.
August 27, 2019 at 14:14
I say it means she's been a wife for 64 years.
August 27, 2019 at 04:01
English beer is warm and stupid. You also don't put ice in your other drinks which is stupid too. Your lack of universal air conditioning isn't real s...
August 27, 2019 at 03:58
Teffilin. Nice./uploads/files/s2/nf5t1abjr42n0ovq.jpg
August 22, 2019 at 13:24
Next time maybe read a book.
August 22, 2019 at 03:15
Send a pic. Why'd it take you 30 or so years to make that bad decision?
August 20, 2019 at 23:26
Gather round all you lads and lasses and I shall tell you the tale of our humble abode. Our nation had just emerged from the Great War. We were beaten...
August 20, 2019 at 03:32
The English speak different languages from pub to pub. The variants of English are so specific, I speak August 19th Hanoverian. Today at least.
August 19, 2019 at 23:54
If the knob falls off a door, we have a knobless door, not a wall. Maybe this is a thread about essentialism. I'm not sure. If it is, I'll just jump t...
August 18, 2019 at 23:27
I know, but now you should be in favor of it because you've just argued that it's more humane.
August 15, 2019 at 13:26
I doubt he was ever going to talk. I do agree though that many were worried that an extensive prosecution would result in more damaging evidence being...
August 15, 2019 at 12:24
We have had threads about the right to die. Wouldn't a guy in Epsteins's situation be the perfect candidate for assisted suicide based upon the hopele...
August 15, 2019 at 05:26
In: Hong Kong  — view comment
And the even bigger picture is how long must those in mainland China continue to suffer under fascism. There is something painful in watching freedoms...
August 13, 2019 at 15:28
You're making an impossible distinction here. Obviously different tribes behaved differently across continents, but trying to distinguish them into te...
August 10, 2019 at 18:33
Assimilation is not a homogenation process. Germans can celebrate Oktoberfest and still be fully American. I would acknowledge that some groups do fig...
August 10, 2019 at 15:47
Not to get too far afield from the OP, but the actual word used is the Hebrew ????? (pronounced hevel) meaning vapor or breath. This term is obviously...
August 10, 2019 at 12:03
This assumes meaning is found in one's occupation and that an occupation is not simply a means to an end. I suspect you find meaning in life with your...
August 10, 2019 at 02:57
Isn't this just a declaration of moral high ground itself?
August 09, 2019 at 23:12
That's a debate I don't feel like having. It reopens the whole discussion of whether Bush sold the war as responsive to 9-11 as opposed to it being th...
August 09, 2019 at 22:02
I guess I'm looking for the examples of bad responses to the shootings. The usual response I've seen is sadness, crying, anger, maybe a prayer vigil, ...
August 09, 2019 at 18:48
To say that one is proud to be Irish compliments the Irish. To say one is ashamed to be Irish insults them. It therefore makes sense to be insulted by...
August 09, 2019 at 18:40
Perhaps, but that's not what she said. She said she was ashamed to have been born white and privileged. That is nothing to be ashamed of. Creating or ...
August 09, 2019 at 14:23
I've not advocated fearfulness as the solution, and it's doubtful that on a day to day basis those who've adopted your viewpoint live any differently ...
August 09, 2019 at 13:17
All Republicans are in favor of gun control. They just arbitrarily draw the line at automatic weapons and say those are just too dangerous to allow fo...
August 08, 2019 at 21:10
Yeah, well you're just saying that because you have too, not because you believe it. That 1% free will is interesting though. Maybe it gives your life...
August 08, 2019 at 19:14
If it'll piss you off maybe. Democrats are socialists now and Republicans are fiscally irresponsible without many ideas. I choose the latter 99%. The ...
August 08, 2019 at 18:41
Law and order is generally not a Democrat notion. The police power is considered a legitimate function of the state even to far right Libertarians.
August 08, 2019 at 18:00
Random murders occurring where one ought be safe is cause for alarm. We should feel. confident when we drop our kids off at school or go to the mall e...
August 08, 2019 at 01:13
Why does making them solely responsible make them less likely to do it? I'm up for giving both the organizer and the trigger man the maximum sentence....
August 06, 2019 at 18:02
A contract isn't a speech act? Sounds like an ad hoc exception to the absolutist free speech rule you advocated. If I ask you to murder someone for $1...
August 06, 2019 at 17:58
We don't have a world like that. We hold both the organizer and the person who followed the order responsible for the act. The "I was just following o...
August 06, 2019 at 17:50
And yet over 10 million people died who otherwise wouldn't have, yet in your world he would be free to go about his day, watering his daisies and what...
August 06, 2019 at 17:06
The serial killer tends to be the white male and the common murderer tends not to be a Trump supporter. That's just the truth, racist or not. One shou...
August 06, 2019 at 02:29
No one holds that the NT was written by God and only some fundamentalist sects hold that the 5 books of Moses were written by God. No one holds that a...
August 05, 2019 at 13:01
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August 03, 2019 at 19:37
Biden Baden what's the difference?
August 03, 2019 at 19:34