Benkei

get outta here.

glad you liked it! It's my current favourite series.

I'm Benkei, using an internet handle I've lifted from Japanese history. In real life I'm a lawyer specialised in international contract law and financ...

Borat is a Kazakh. Not everybody funny is English, you damn snob.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/defensive_profile.png

or wily old dude confirmed.

I'll go first: What's the value added by this squirrel and how much of that value should flow to the person that paid up capital for it? Why is that f...

Let's make religion, sexism and racism off limits. Topics for discussion today are, the weather and this squirrel: https://youtu.be/dVfXF8O-lHw

Sometimes a question is another way of saying "hello". Especially between strangers.

I'm a bit late to this party. We have a system of laws that regulate the market in a certain way. So I'll just put a few (value-laden?) questions out ...

True. It would be unlikely we'd have such large corporations as we do now and progress would likely be slower. I suspect though the benefits could out...

Yes, I actually think that would be better. We had an industrial revolution without limited liability so why not? For a nice historical overview about...

You can't approach a social problem by looking at individual cases so this is a bit of a red herring. Inequality in itself isn't the issue, it is how ...

There's a window of about 5 minutes after my shower that I'm not.

What's the role of congress and the senate in the US? In the Netherlands the chambers of parliament have two jobs: writing laws and checking the gover...

Just for my understanding, what's the consequence in the US if a secretary of state or president lies to the house or senate? In the Netherlands that'...

Only an accomplishment if they're shady individuals...

It being Thailand, how did you know she was a she?

Y'all should pity my daughter, I know I do whenever I'm Jekyll. Also I wouldn't dare saying that in real life because fat people can squash me like a ...

Yes, especially because like everything I write here is totally true.

Funny, I never raised the issue of double standards, merely get accused of it by you on what's becoming a regular basis. Whatever floats your boat I s...

So today I arrived at the busstop and a plump woman was already waiting so I asked "When's it due?". She said: "I'm not fucking pregnant!" to which I ...

I've found the moderators receptive to advice and criticism. Criticisms like "there's a double standard" aren't going to be very effective as they are...

Great, then I told the story correctly and I'll leave it at that. :P EDIT: actually my influencing skills are so terrible at times I cannot even convi...

Do you think that could be true?

It's not so much that I think it's a big thing but didn't the US invade Afghanistan because the Taliban were harbouring him? So they basically started...

First US election I didn't even do any predicting. That should've been alarm bells enough as I called Obama already on October 25, 2007, and erred on ...

I complained about SXL, Baden's and your behaviour in that thread somewhere in feedback as I thought the discussion was less than it could be due to t...

Different discussion but that appears a bit defeatist; we have a sucky system so we need sucky lobbyism to engage politicians and make everything wors...

Why?

It's multi-ethnic for sure but I doubt the various ethnic cultural values have been subsumed in the larger "American" cultural framework. It's more li...

Part of the context could be she had to deal with comments like that everyday combined with an undercurrent of unwanted attention. It gets old really ...

I lied about lying by the way but I just wanted to illustrate that the rules, and as a result probably the expectations of employees too, are differen...

https://youtu.be/KkJnd9rSAQ8 I read your other post about the stringent rules in the USA as well. I worked for a US company for awhile with a US manag...

Trump Says Putin ‘Means It’ About Not Meddling in U.S. Elections Well, I guess that settles that. We should apply that to other areas too. I can just ...

Can Timey and Hanny do a version of Anchorman? Something like this?

You have too much time on your hands.

HEhe. That made me chuckle.

Me, last year. http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/legacy.images/smosh-pit/092010/man-bikini-11.jpg

I don't touch sharks or lizards so that goes double for Hanover. No hands involved here. I'm just trying to save us 20 more pages of whining about a p...

https://r.hswstatic.com/w_907/gif/stufftoblowyourmind-23-2014-02-navel.jpg

We are in agreement then because I said that handguns are the most accurate after rifles. In any case, I'm not an expert. There's an article in this i...

Shotguns, assault rifles are allowed too right? By rifle I mean a typical hunting rifle. One shot, reload, sort of thing. What is? EDIT: I'll remind y...

Maybe you're thinking about CTW but the below was not a reply to CTW but to me. emphasis mine I take it though that we're in agreement guns are genera...

Do we get to place bets? Maybe some live streaming on youtube and you've got yourselves a business model.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/weekinreview/09baker.html "In all shootings — including those against people, animals and in suicides and other ...

Based on the ratio of bullets fired in most gun violence incidents and bullets actually hitting someone, I believe the term "accuracy" is a bit of a m...

I'd take Trump over Nixon any day. To that back alley in Bangkok where they harvest kidneys. A quick thousand bucks for me.

So neither you nor cicerone know and are just guessing. Let's make it 50-50 then, ok?

Man, if the marxists come you're the first one to go! >:)