Blarghagh

Yes, very brave that a woman on her third marriage with children born out of wedlock while married to another man stands up for the sanctity of marriage because as she states she will be damned to hell if she doesn't. If there was such a thing, her seat would have been reserved a long time ago. If this is who you respect for taking a stand...

Sounds like that was a personal opinion that didn't affect what was actually delivered. You find that offensive? Also, I didn't see any "hate your guts" comments despite you responding to them as if they existed. I think you take Linux far too personally, it's just an OS.

Meditation is a gimmick on the level of aromatherapy to you? I'd urge you to reconsider the hell out of that.

Ditto on the finding someone to talk to. You seem to need it, otherwise you wouldn't spend such time on the internet writing about it. The truth is, I doubt anyone here is really qualified to give you advice on anything like this. This is just a message board and anything should come with the disclaimer of "anyone can post here and its likely that most of it is nonsense".

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/us/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0 Held in contempt, jailed.

All four at the same time? I had to get two at a time done because they said they never do all at the same time, both due to increased risk of infection and so you've got the other side left to use. Two on the right, then two on the left two weeks later.

Both at the same time? Take a day or two off and expect at least a mild fever.

Man, I wish I was as lucky. My teeth have been a problem for a long time. All my wisdom teeth were impacted and grew in so fast they undid everything my childhood braces did, and I broke several teeth in an accident when I was a teenager and had to get root canal on a few. I think the crack is still from that. Dentists are just going to charge you money, you dont need to go A good piece of string tied to a door handle is the best way to remove problematic teeth Yeah, except I already said it was cracked. It's just as likely I'll pull it in half and leave fragments in there to fester. Well, a cracked root and a cavity have pretty much the same effect. But yeah, it sucks. I've felt weirdly sick and tired since the swelling started too, but the dentist is packed until at least next week.

Of course, if they do that there'll be rampant accusations of islamophobia or somesuch.

The fleshy bit above it is swelling up in the same way it happened last time it got infected, and it also feels the same. There was a crack in the root that caused it, and they fixed it but said if it happened again they were going to have to remove the tooth.

I think one of my teeth roots is infected again. Happy day. Time to make a dentist appointment, I guess.

Hm. I used to be that annoying guy that would challenge christians on their beliefs all the time (a side effect of being one of the few atheists in a christian high school I suppose) and there was this one guy who I'm still friends with to this day because of a mutual respect in belief - he was always able to provide a satisfactory answer to everything I grilled him with and he grilled me right back (he introduced me to the convergent evolution conundrum). He's the only Christian I know that really knows his bible and really follows the doctrine of forgiveness rather than judgement, so I once asked him how it affects christians that gay marriage is legal. He pointed me towards Matthew 18:18 - "Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (This specific quotation is from the New English Standard) The way he explained this verse (and several similar verses in Matthew) to me was that Jesus gave his disciples reign to make decisions about law, and if the disciples feel that law should be changed on earth then it will change also in heaven. Now, obviously he only had few specific disciples then but the common interpretation is that any christian is a disciple of Jesus, so the law has changed based on what christian society has accepted. It's why christians are now allowed to wear clothing made of two different fabrics, or eat pork, or don't have to stone their entire city to death if it has a single non-believer. If good people accept homosexuality (the law being a symbol of that acceptance) and homosexuals live good, full lives they will be accepted into heaven just like anyone else who doesn't follow archaic old testament rules. Now the jury is out on whether or not believers have accepted homosexuality, but considering the amount of christian homosexuals I'd say the silent majority has. To be fair, Matthew is also the book in which Jesus himself has a temper tantrum and kills a tree because it didn't happen to have any fruit for him that day. The entire book is nonsensical to me. Anyway, just thought it was an interesting perspective from the only Christian I have ever respected (not to say I don't respect Christians as people, but the only one I have respected in their belief). Personally, I think all those old school bible belt Christians who deny homosexuals rights should also follow all the other rules in their little book. Considering how many rules the good book has and how little of it gets followed, I'd say that 99% of them will be stoned to death within a week. I mean, if they find the rules of Leviticus to be so important, they better never have shaved because that book condemns that about as much as it does a man lying with a man as he does with a woman. I hope they've never eaten lobster or calamari. And if they ever, even once disobeyed their daddies? Stoned to death! The problem would solve itself. But I'm cynical. EDIT: It would be fun to get a tattoo of the specific sentence in Leviticus forbidding tattoos.

I was about thirteen, fourteen when I was really into Disturbed and I realized after that they really weren't that great. But when he's not screaming like an idiot and singing a song that's actually good (i.e. something they didn't write), hot damn David Draiman has some pipes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN8wSwmqjpk&feature=youtu.be

Yeah, they don't just ban someone twice for no reason. As you describe, they checked why you were banned in the first place and realized that the ban was on solid ground after all. We got in touch with support last time, but if they triple check and decide your ban was warranted then you obviously did something much worse than making a second account. Contact support again if you want to contest it again, but I highly doubt you'll pull that off again. Thread closed.

That's the Mary Sue... can't use them as an example of bad game journalism. They're not a games website, they're a feminist website.

Dammit, I had hoped no one noticed my blunder! Next time, Gadget! Neeeext tiiiiime!

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/most-psychology-papers-cant-be-reproduced

Aaaand I posted this in the totally wrong thread. Since it's 8 AM on a saturday, that is about all I did today however.

I don't like It's Always Sunny in Philedelphia, I do like Seinfeld, and the character of Dr. Cox alone in Scrubs encapsulates everything that was great about Seinfeld and improves on it. I don't see how you can like Seinfeld and not like Scrubs. I hated Seinfeld when I was a kid though. I think you have to hate people before you can like Seinfeld, because it's escapist fantasy about being a horrible person. I certainly would never want to spend any length of time with the people who created it. Makes me wonder how long a show like Seinfeld would survive today. Probably one episode and then it would be deemed problematic and cancelled.

The only people who don't like Scrubs are people who only watched a couple of episodes and thought they could just pick it up like a sitcom. It isn't just one of the greatest comedy shows ever, it's one of the greatest shows period.

I prefer the Scrubs approach of "it's okay... provided you've got a black guy in whiteface with you".

Good god, why do you guys care about Black Pete? I don't even care and I grew up with it. As for it being "racist", it's vaguely rooted in a stereotype of moors but for about a century the explanation for their color has been that they are covered in soot because they are the ones who go down the chimneys to deliver presents to the children (santa claus traditions actually stole that from sinterklaas, just like it stole just about everything else). The debate is about nine decades too late to be relevant.

Wow, there's hard numbers that GG is less bad than the rest of the internet? I'm surprised considering I did catch some **** from GG and some of it was rather nasty smelling too.

At most a bitesized snack for thought.

Though that was not really an altruistic act to help the victims per se, it was largely done to stop false flags and 3rd party trolls who'd drop in with "[person] needs to die!!! #Trump2016 #Gamergate #ISroolz" on their burner accounts. The Sarkeesian bomb threat one was certainly more than significant than simply a 3rd party troll on a burner account though, since it explained why the police didn't take the threat seriously as well and it wasn't a burner account either, but most have been. And to be scrupulously fair I suspect that some people would point to the GGautoblocker and CON or whatever it's called as examples of prominent antiGG people getting off their butts to do something even if I would regard them more as donation trolling with little actual utility. I'm aware it wasn't entirely altruistic, but they did something. And the people who point those out are simply wrong. Autoblocker was never designed to stop harassment but to ignore people who disagree with you, and Crash Override Network never launched. Go to their website. The countdown just reset itself. The thing doesn't exist. To call it donation trolling is charitable - it's a pure scam.