fightinfrenchman wrote:

lejend wrote:

fightinfrenchman wrote:@lejend I downloaded a "verse of the day" app recently

Really? I'm almost proud

and I've been disappointed by the results. Share the best verses with me

They're all good. You'll just have to read them in context, because what gives a .....

Oh the actual name on the menu is probably just “quarter pounder” but since I like meat too (cuz I’m ‘murican), I get double patty. Hence “double quarter pounder.”

I was talking about other options as well not just burgers, but if you like burgers and there are only two burger joints nearby, I guess .....

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occamslightsaber wrote:Reminds me of a Chinese allegory/idiom (五十步百步) about two soldiers who ran from the battefield. One fled 50 ft, the other 100 ft. The deserter that “only” fled 50 ft hypocritically denounced the one who f .....

chris1089 wrote:

occamslightsaber wrote:Reminds me of a Chinese allegory/idiom (五十步百步) about two soldiers who ran from the battefield. One fled 50 ft, the other 100 ft. The deserter that “only” fled 50 ft hypocritically denounced the one who fled further as a coward. The moral of the story is th .....

iNcog wrote:and?

Reminds me of a Chinese allegory/idiom (五十步百步) about two soldiers who ran from the battefield. One fled 50 ft, the other 100 ft. The deserter that “only” fled 50 ft hypocritically denounced the one who fled further as a coward. The moral of the story is that they are essentially the same. I gue .....

Goodspeed wrote:I did say "no one" so I guess that was wrong, though to be fair they didn't say "third world". Jerom though loves his hyperbole, have you noticed? He makes stupidly exaggerated statements like that all the time.

That still doesn't make "most people here", .....

iNcog wrote:What are the arguments for "strong opposition to healthcare reform" ?

It's literally just that it's a for-profit lobby and people believe in that government oversight costs money. Those beliefs are wrong.

WickedCossack wrote:Well the argument is that universal health care should be a right and not a privilege. Ergo in countries that have a health system reflecting this then it is a right and not a privilege.

I think you could somewhat negate the ethical argument that it's not a right if you could poin .....

chris1089 wrote:Wow. I spent 90 minutes writing that.

Killzone 1-3 also had really great openings, now that I think of it.

The Halo Wars intro almost made me think that I would enjoy an RTS game on console.

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n0el wrote:I’d rather give everyone 1200$ again, since you know that actually lowered poverty.

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Kaiserklein wrote:I just remember having fantastic boners when I was 10, blasting everything away with my massive cannon
Idk what part of the campaign it was

Since this discussion is still going strong but could be more constructive, I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts about this excerpt about the definition of racism. It's not a long read, so I encourage everyone interested to take a look.

iNcog wrote:I am actually always pissed off whenever I fill out an American questionnaire and they ask for what race I am. Firstly, the fuck does it matter? Secondly, race doesn't exist for humans in the first place. They beat this into us in France.

chris1089 wrote:So I'm the Brit who is more in favour of the second amendment than quite a few of the Americans in this thread?
It seems like a no-brainer to me. If you don't have it you can't stop a tyrannical government. The second arguement is that the bad guys will get guns whether it is legal or .....