Walsingham

Is that Philosophy or just good old weed talk? I for one am in favor of a stoned thread.

Point to raise about Obsidian: every single female in the Fallout New Vegas arc is a completely identical C-cup. It's a little immersion breaking. But it's about as close to asexual as you could get without having to explain yourself in the world building.

I should clarify that I feel very old fashioned and do not care to have my every move pawed over. But if as I say, if it wasn't a government agency it would be some smug autistic **** poking through my comms for the lulz.

"More than 8,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Germany's eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt after a dam on the Elbe river broke June 8, officials said June 9, AP reported. State officials are investigating a letter sent to multiple media outlets that threatened to blow up dams on the river." I feel that we haven't really been very sympathetic about this. Quite a few forumites are probably effected, at least second hand. What's it like out there? How're you coping?

I'm just guessing, Bruce. But I'd put a tenner on the questions that Insidious just put being well known in philosophy circles. Which is why I won't talk to philosophers unless I'm drunk.

I'm not particularly bothered by the privacy aspect of it. If something's genuinely private I meet that person face to face. Email just is not secure. If it isn't the NSA it'll be Facebook, or it'll be those t***s at Anonymous. What I do object to is the ludicrous mismatch of the intelligence to what we do about it. Any time there's an incident these days it seems the people were firmly on the radar. But we're over-stretched in terms of incarceration and rehabilitation. The answer isn't to generate more intelligence. For the record I am now firmly of the opinion that the only way to win the war on terror (as much as it can be won) is to commercialise lower tiers of drugs, and treat higher tiers as an illness requiring treatment. It is only be freeing justice assets from that wasted effort that we will generate the mass to put extremist terror onto the back foot.

Well, my point is that gaming, or a variety of reasons, is an activity enjoyed by young males. They are, by definition, immature. Their reaction to any female is going to be sleazy. Believe me. I come from before the internet. Yes, designers play up to the sleazy instincts of their market. As others have said here. But they don't MAKE the market sleazy. Obviously, obyknven wants some kind of big government daddy figure to step in and tell us all what breasticles to like. My rejoinder is actually what mkreku said earlier: You want it, you make it.

The Sun doesn't have hydrogen gas or liquid in it, the Sun doesn't fuse atoms to create energy either, its God's light. In ipso vita erat, et vita erat lux hominum: et lux in tenebris lucet, et tenebræ eam non comprehenderunt. (vel) ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων. καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν. (Jn 1:4-5)

Query Lady Evenstar makes a point about context. Is some of the negative perception arising from the gamers not the games? You could attend the most sophisticated and breathtakingly female centric Spanish film ever made about sexuality, but if you attended it in a room full of 16 year old boys it's going to seem sleazy.

The Sun doesn't exist remember? Strapping him onto a raft and pushing him off the edge of the world(he does believe that the world is flat right?) would be more appropriate and cheaper. That's my point though. Just thinking of his exquisite satisfaction as he is proved right and he crashes into a plywood and LED facsimile of the sun.

See now Volo. this is what makes you a troll's troll. A willingness to say or do quite literally _anything_ just to provoke a response. You poor deranged bastard.

It is part of the settled order of things that when a man is faced by a part of nature he doesn't like he should _always_ fight. Never flee. Then, ideally, kill, cook, and eat said nature with a cold pale ale.

Speaking of which, has Cal started his new job yet?

Always a big fan of the muppets. Pepe the prawn is my favourite. ..And cute English girls. They're good too. Pepe flirting with same is fantastic.

Careful Wals, we don't want to give them any ideas... Is Dredd still in print? Of course Dredd is still in print. The Galaxy's Greatest Comic still comes out weekly, with Biff Clenchteeth in almost every issue.

Kaine, what gives with the tentacle fear? Tentacles are nature's way of telling me someone isn't a relative and I can souse them in teriyaki marinade, barbecue and eat them.

To be fair, the new "kewl" Superman ditched the red undies. And like Oerwinde said, Superman has been depowered(although the reboot probably undid it) and isn't quite as smart or strong. Doesn't matter though, Spider-Man is better. I think it's only fair to state at this point that the only two comic book heroes I recognise are Judge Dredd and Jesse Custer. Everyone else might as well be saving lives using a note from their mum.

I agree that causality itself is an illusion. Any attempt to prove otherwise will rely upon causality and be self-referential. I should like to ameliorate my earlier statement a little. I don't mind people talking on their phones during movies. Provided this is used as a means of enabling aggressive eugenics. With badgers.

I really don't understand what makes spiders any creepier than any other crawly. They're just hard-working goons trying to get by. Leave the poor sods alone. EDIT: Having said that if required to remove a spider I will just t*** it with a shoe.

Well, I think The Authority make the case that if you are that powerful then why the gibbering clagnuts are you dicking around saving busloads of orphans? You should be out curing malaria and corruption. You red-arsed c***. Aside: my language standards have been going downhill recently.

I think the most polite thing to do under these circumstances - and I've had a lot of training in etiquette, so I don't want any arguments - is to taser Felithvian, load him/her into a rocket, and fire him/her into the heart of the Sun.

Hold on a minute. Isn't the directly observable curvature of the Earth a ****ing giveaway? The top of a mast is visible before the ship itself? Something like that. To be honest, because I'm more human sciences than physicals I'm more interested in understanding why in the name of all that's holy anyone would dress up as a cretin and pretend any of this was their real opinion. Could the OP please elucidate? That would be genuinely interesting.

Funny thing about people. It's very often the little things, isn't it? Not even just food. But a nod in the morning, or a teaspoon with the coffee. I wonder what that says about our cognition?

Indubitably. But much like Oby, we put up with it because our community is awesome at debating the bizarre ROFL. Maybe so. Maybe so.