JadedWolf

I don't know, I'm not hating it judging it only as a look, but it doesn't seem particularly true to the character to me. The Joker doesn't strike me as someone who can even sit still long enough to have someone tattoo on him, let alone letting them being "badass" tattoos rather than some kind of horrible joke. Looks more like the lead singer of an angsty teen rock band to me.

I like the direction this thread is going!

Well to be fair, the only Dutch history that we were taught in scando-land was the colonizations in Asia and that they sold New Amsterdam for almost nothing Come now, come now. We got Surinam for it. It was a steal! I mean, New York on one side, Surinam on the other... Which would you pick? The choice is obvious.

The trouble with waiting is puberty is extremely traumatic for a person who is struggling with gender identity. It's not an or/or scenario, though. Apparently you can wait with surgery and still avoid at least some of the trauma by delaying puberty with hormone treatment. http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/09/16/3567886/transgender-puberty-suppression-study/ (No, this isn't something I knew beforehand, I just looked it up myself because it is an interesting conundrum.)

Probably depends on a woman to woman basis?

I, for one, welcome our furry cat overlords.

I honestly can't even believe how you could hear that as anything else BUT bugger. >_>

Bugger. 100%.

I have a strong dislike for watches*, and was rather glad to see them go. Aside from people who simply have to have the latest gadget, who has a need for these? * Not all watches. Pocket watches are rather stylish.

"A massive chamber holding enough magma to fill the Grand Canyon more than 11 times over is hiding beneath the steaming volcanic system of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. We knew of a smaller magma chamber closer to surface, holding some 10,000 cubic kilometres of magma and feeding heat upwards. The newly discovered reservoir sits under it and has a volume of 46,000 cubic kilometres. Together, the two form the largest known magma reservoir in the world. "We can't say definitively that this is the biggest magma reservoir in the world, but we currently don't know of any other that has been imaged that is as large as the two we see beneath Yellowstone," says Fan-Chi Lin of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City." Source: http://tinyurl.com/o6ftdrs

Doesn't the rest of you want a job? ... I'll get my coat.

Meowwww. Bit of a cat fight in here.

From Wikipedia: "In April 2015 the TSO cancelled performance of pianist Valentina Lisitsa. It accused her of breaching section 319(2) of the Criminal Code of Canada and insinuated that she would face trouble with Canada's immigration authorities and made threats against her if she revealed the reasons for the cancellation in public. The reasoning behind these actions was that Valentina had publicly criticised the Neo Faschist government of Ukraine, the country of her birth." ... Hmm, I guess someone has been editing that particular Wikipedia page. Tell us, Oby, was it you? You can tell us. Bruce won't judge. He never does.

Interesting article from Der Spiegel about the origins of the Islamic State. Seems the founders of it are a lot less interested in religion than they are in controlling people through fear. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-files-show-structure-of-islamist-terror-group-a-1029274.html Highly recommended reading.

First I was laughing, then I started thinking... Prescription against dyslexia? There's no such thing, right? It's not like there's some magical pill that can cure you. Then I stopped laughing. This is why I am no fun at parties.

Guys I think the Op was referring to valid and accepted languages? Dutch is basically a bastardization of Afrikaans so its not really applicable in this case Ek jy nie verstaan nie.

I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes I start saying something in my native tongue, then I switch without even realizing it, and then suddenly everyone is staring at me like I am some kind of madman. Turns out I've gone and switched to Klingon again.

To be fair, they kind of had to. They rolled really, really crappy characters. And with all that resting, they still lost the mage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8g-lugXGBQ

Hmmm, nope. Think you're pretty much alone on that one.

Source? You know what. I'll have to admit that I made a mistake here by claiming that the "American Communist Party" said this. My bad. It was a mistake I made while researching the abortion issue in the past. I misread my source, a book called, "Issues: Abortion" which is in a line of books from the 90's that cover a range of political issues from the perspective of various ideologies including Nazi's, KKK groups, Feminists, Democrats, Republicans , and yes, Communists regarding various political issues. While looking for that piece online I've read some of the parties' views of abortion which doesn't jive with what I claimed about them. Found the book and re-read it (the Communist part) just to be sure. It seems that I foolishly interpreted certain lines. When taken into proper context some of their lines have a different meaning than how I took them back then. They are pro-reproduction rights, even in the long term. I completely take back the quoted statement. It seems I should re-evaluate my perception of the American Communist Party... Man, a few years ago I must have been tired or something... I got that 100% wrong. I hate it when I misunderstand something I read! Oh well, we all make mistakes, or at least I do. I can't be SURE everyone makes mistakes. Hey, mistakes happen.