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General Chat / Re: The ANGST thread: Complain here!

« on: September 09, 2008, 11:30:02 AM »

so the company I interned fr that I was sure I could get hired full timeby didn't hire me full time.

Convince me not to hurt myself.

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Site Discussion / Re: Allow All Discussions

« on: September 08, 2008, 11:33:55 PM »

Uh, there was nothing wrong at all with the Election '08 thread. If people want to make idiotic immature posts the posts can be deleted without notice.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: TMK Votes

« on: September 08, 2008, 03:50:26 PM »

1) Because we (I would definitely say I'm part of the "religious right") want someone who will practice their faith in the white house, not just claim to be a member of that faith.

2) I agree with you there.

3) You say that like it's a bad thing...

4) Again, you put that in a bad light.  And her 17 year old pregnant unwed daughter may be pregnant because she wasn't taught abstinence-only.  Even if she was, no one is perfect (you think that if one person doesn't do something right, it reflects on everyone else in that person's group?  Well, yes, it does, but it shouldn't).  

5) Forgive me for being skeptical, but... aren't you invoking the exception instead of the rule?

6) Showing off her child with Down's Syndrome?  As far as I know, that shows consistency; she didn't abort her disabled kid.

7) Forcing her daughter to marry a... when did you hear him proclaim himself a "****ing Redneck?"... anyway, she's just trying to make her daughter respectable for her (daughter's) own good as well as her (Palin's) own.

8) Given your custom title, it doesn't surprise me that it wouldn't surprise you...

9) If she was raped and got pregnant at 14 and had the child, good for her!



10) ...Lest you should take this post as being "uncivil," please don't take it personally/close the thread.  I'm sorry if I offended anyone.

1) Meh, I always thought that this goes against the whole "separation of church and state thing" but then again I just don't get religion as an institution so I'll back off this comment.

2) In general I support most (not all, most) things where the government stands back and doesn't get actively involved in social or fiscal policy. So I tend to be more conservative fiscally.

3) Creationism is NOT SCIENCE. Again, church and state, don't mix them. Take an optional theology course somewhere if you're interested in Creationism as a theory.

4) From what I can tell, telling most 15-17 year olds "DON'T DO THIS" makes them want to do it more. There's exceptions, obviously, but just because she's the daughter of a governor doesn't make her exempt from this human tendency.

5) The exception is important because it's the one case where even the "abortion kills babies" argument doesn't fly -- the faetus will not become viable in this state. Period. You're risking the lives of people who did nothing wrong by forcing your ideologies on them.

6) By "show off", I mean the GOP is planning to use the child in their ad campaigns. Basically her child is being used in a way he can't approve of to further a political agenda.

7) His MySpace said it, in those exact words, before it was deleted. Also, explain how being forced to marry at 17 is a GOOD thing again?

8) I've seen a few pictures that suggest this, it's not just whacko liberal slander. It may not be true, but it's not exactly baseless, either.

9) Yea, we'll never see eye to eye on this. Moving on.

10) Actually that's a rather civil post. I disagree with most of it, but it's substantial, which is more than I can say for most politiks debate. Well, compared to the post below yours at least that I deleted for being idiotic (it was, essentially, "you're wrong because I have different beliefs than you"). -_-

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: TMK Votes

« on: September 08, 2008, 02:24:50 PM »

No, the Republican Party (READ: Not McCain) chose Palin because the religious right doesn't like McCain all that much. The religious right also tends to vote in droves, so the party needed someone who these people can back. Mitt Romney would be suicide to the GOP because of his religion and how the social cons view McCain.

Also, notice how the Republicans are losing seats in Congress. This VP pick will not only cause the social cons to vote for the McCain ticket, they'll vote (R) down the board and maybe stop the bleeding in Congress/state positions. I mean, as much as I hate Palin, she does make sense from the party's goal of getting as many officials elected as possible. The fact that she's a woman is moot in this case.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: TMK Votes

« on: September 08, 2008, 01:36:27 PM »

This is the first election in my life I can vote. It's also the first election in my life where my vote would not be against a Presidental candidate. I'm not a terribly big fan of Obama or McCain. Obama shares my views closer, but I hate hate HATE liberal fiscal policy.

That said... instead of voting against a presidental candidate... I'm voting against a VICE presidental candidate. The thought that Sarah Palin is an election and missed heartbeat away from becoming president scares me A LOT. Never mind her relative lack of experience. Never mind teaching creationism in science. Never mind abstinence only sex ed (if you have any questions about how well this works, look at her daughter. Her 17 year old pregnant unwed daughter.) Never mind banning -all- abortions, including pregnancies where the faetus get stuck in the Fallopian tubes... which is very dangerous (can be fatal) to the mother and practically never results in a viable child (in the history of recorded medicine... well, however long this is recorded, only one child in the history of the world has EVER survived a pregnancy of this type). I mean, how can you call yourself "pro-life" when you support banning a practice that saves lives (and support the death penalty, of course I support the death penalty too but I don't run around calling myself "pro-life" in the same breath) Sarah Palin is worse than a typical politician; she's perfectly willing to abuse even her own family to get ahead in politics. Show off your child with Down's Syndrome to show how family-oriented you are? Yep. Force your pregnant daughter to shotgun marry a self-proclaimed "f[---]ing redneck", AT AGE 17, so you look better to the social conservative base? Yep. Lie about who gave birth to the aforementioned Down's Syndrome child so the public can't say that your daughter got pregnant prior to hitting the age of consent? ...maybe, this one's a mere rumor but it wouldn't surprise me. She's on record as telling Bristol that if she were raped and got pregnant, she would be forced to have the child. WHEN SHE WAS 14. She's also on record as referring to Barack Obama as "Sambo", a racial slur that's not too much less degrading to blacks as the well-known one starting with "n".

And yet, despite all this, she's more popular with the American public than any of the other presidental or vice presidental candidates.

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
~George Bernard Shaw

Also, who seriously names their eldest son "Track"? Seriously? That's a only a half step above "Neveah" and the same level of WHY as "Madison".

PS: Also I'll be watching this thread, first sign of it becoming uncivil and it's getting closed. It'll stay open for now because MB didn't close it yet.

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Video Game Chat / Re: What's the worst videogame you've ever played?

« on: August 28, 2008, 08:06:15 AM »

Erm, the actual NES Pictionary game is much, MUCH worse than Anticipation.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Personal Bests on non-Mario titles

« on: August 22, 2008, 02:03:18 PM »

Oh hi (on pad, not keyboard)

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Site Discussion / Re: HELP!!

« on: August 22, 2008, 01:40:03 PM »

Ok. You posted a thread that violates forum guidelines. Namely, no advertising websites. So it got locked. Read the rules sticky in this sub-forum.

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Video Game Chat / Re: What's the worst videogame you've ever played?

« on: August 18, 2008, 03:43:06 PM »

Yea, it's NES only. And I'm currently on #17 right now, so it's not getting done for a while, although there's already a decent number of reviews in it so far.

Also I don't think Deadly Towers is nearly as bad as everyone says it is. At all.

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Video Game Chat / Re: What's the worst videogame you've ever played?

« on: August 16, 2008, 06:37:21 PM »

It's funny, I'm actually, right now, compiling a list of reviews called "100 Nintendo Games Worse Than Deadly Towers". So, I've been playing a lot of bad NES ROMs to add to this list. It's been fun.

Not posting it here, though. It's really, really profane.

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General Chat / Re: Ultimate Birthday Compilation

« on: August 16, 2008, 06:17:11 PM »

Last Edit: June 13, 2007, 09:08:45 pm by Suffix

Yea pretty much, I'm considering just unsticking this and being done with it.

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General Chat / Re: Your \

« on: August 10, 2008, 06:46:43 PM »

Oh, another completely unrelated one:

Towing companies. They make used car salesmen look like the President of the Better Business Bureau. The Mafia aspire to achieve the level of corruption that towing companies get away with.

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General Chat / Re: Your \

« on: August 10, 2008, 12:02:50 PM »

Oh, I just remembered another one:

People using quotation marks in signs "unecessarily" like the "quotes" I am using in this "post". It bothers me more than all the your/you're, their/there/they're, and it's/its errors everywhere put together.

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General Chat / Re: The ANGST thread: Complain here!

« on: August 09, 2008, 08:07:58 AM »

Ammerica?[sic] Violence, blood, gore - Awesome, A-Okay!
Rest of the World? It's destroying our children!
Rest of the World? Sex, nudity, love - Awesome, A-Okay!
America? It's destroying our children!

It's funny because it's sooooooo true

Also I had no cavities until I was about 18... and 12 since then.

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General Chat / Re: Too old for certain Japanese manga or anime?

« on: August 09, 2008, 08:01:51 AM »

Short Answer: No.

Medium answer: Some people wll try to convince you otherwise. Ignore them; they are idiots.

Longer answer: When I was about 16-17 I wanted to get some Mario game, I'm not sure which one (I forgot) and I asked for it and the clerk went "Aren't you too old for Mario?" I replied "Oh, I guess you're right" and walked out of the store, and bought the game from the store across the street instead.