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Funniest/Oddest CV Posted: 8/13/2009 9:36:03 PM
This isn't CV related but my dad passed on to me an anecdote he read in a book recently about a man whose job it was to direct interviews. Out of all the hopeless applicants and oddities he had seen, the strangest one by far was a woman who showed up to an interview - on a hot summers day admittedly - in a bikini. It turns out that she had been sunbathing beforehand and didn't think that her attire was important enough to warrant her changing. On a side note, I may have some more job application related anecdotes somewhere in my home, but they will have to wait till at a later date.

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Circumcised vs Un-Circumcised... Posted: 7/23/2009 1:30:06 AM
No, it is not life or death. Plenty of men go through their life uncut. But from my personal experience with patients, friends and lovers, I would definitely choose to circumcise my son, should I have one. As a parent, I believe I would be doing my child a favor by making this decision for him. This is my opinion. You are welcome to yours, even if you disagree. Perhaps they should make this decision for themselves, seeing as it's an irreversible decision (more or less) which, as you say, isn't based on life or death and seems to be inspired mostly by a concept of cleanliness. Hair isn't easy to clean either. Would you honestly shave your child's head throughout their prepubescent life to "do them a favor"? I believe that the reason why the majority of mothers cut their sons hair short is based on their own desires about the way their child should look and act, not on who the person is that they're raising. A child is a person, not a doll for you to manipulate to your will, especially in terms of biology. Your personal experiences are fine but perhaps you should pay attention to the mass of opinions of uncircumcised men throughout these 19 pages who are thankful that they still have their foreskin - myself included. Put yourself in their position and imagine finding out, later in life, that your mother cut off part of your penis for your "benefit". There are many men who have been in this situation and they were far less than grateful.

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Circumcised vs Un-Circumcised... Posted: 7/22/2009 4:18:50 PM
If I have any male children I will have them cut, its a personal choice and to each his own.. Yeah ... THEIR choice. Your dislike of the male foreskin seems to be based on its involvement in sexual intercourse. So, unless you're planning on having sex with your potential sons, do them a favour and leave their bodies alone. How would you have liked it if your mother had cut the little toes off both your feet because she didn't like them as a rule? I expect you'd be bitter, just as I would be if my mother had mutilated my genitals based her own intolerance. You're entitled to your opinions but you must realise that sometimes a person's opinions are ignorant and should be overcome through knowledge and intelligent reasoning, especially when they are prepared to put their opinions in to practice on powerless people.

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Where's the Ask a Sapiosexual forum? Posted: 7/16/2009 5:29:21 PM
Firstly, let me say that the components of an online forum go: Forum > Board > Thread > Post Now that's over with ... There is definitely room for an LGBT (GLBT) board within this forum, if not a necessity. Many may argue that one is not required as there are several boards already which could accommodate the issues faced in an LGBT board, but: 1) You're unlikely to reach your target audience for a first-hand opinion and 2) There are already boards which are technically unnecessary so there's really no excuse not to add a board that applies to a primary dating platform. I see that some people have also tried arguing that if POF accommodates for the LGBT community, they will/should also have to accommodate for every other community, i.e. Asians, Jews, Men 5' and Under, etc. This isn't true as attraction and the search for a relationship almost always begin with the person in question determining to which sex they are attracted; they then determine the other attributes of the person they are attracted to until they've found a basic model, i.e. Male - Black, Muslim, between 40 and 50, slim to average, 5'11 to 6'5, etc. And so, we come back to the issue of unnecessary boards. Here are a list of boards and what are technically/could be considered sub-boards [not including Worldwide/USA/Canada and Sex and Sexuality which are justifiably independent]: Relationship Issues - Single Parents - Ask a Girl - Ask a Guy - Broken Hearts Dating Experiences - Dating Over 30 - Dating Over 45 - Dating and Love Advice Stories and Creative Writing - Poems and Quotes Off Topic - Profile Reviews - Recipes and Cooking - Humor - Travel - Science/Philosophy - Sports - Art/Music - Health and Fitness Plentyoffish Get Togethers - Event Hosts forum Plentyoffish Site/Suggestions/Help - Technology and Computers - Volunteer Moderators Only As you can see, most of the boards are technically unnecessary but exist anyway - why not a board concerning an ever-growing group of people who wish to discuss LGBT issues with like-minded people? There's no harm and a definite interest. While I'm here, POF should also add the option 'Both' to the 'Looking For' box in the main website. Without it, bisexuals have to pick either 'Male' or 'Female' or create two profiles to accommodate their sexuality. I'm sure we can all agree that it's a simple error that should be corrected.

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Do we really need film critics? Posted: 7/12/2009 5:38:04 PM
Do we really need film critics? Yes, because an uneducated opinion is worth nothing - obviously. I don't know how to explain it more simply or clearly.

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Ghost hunters.. Posted: 7/12/2009 5:23:25 PM
There was a woman on these forums about a year ago who believed she had a "gift" and had once seen an spiritual aura around her ex-husband/boyfriend/whoever. The incident quickly lost credibility when she explained that this aura had appeared while he was looking at TVs in a showroom. So, he was essentially standing in front of high-powered lights. Guess the answer to that riddle(!) A camera not working =/= ghosts There could be any number of reasons why your camera wasn't working at that particular moment - I'm sure it happens to people all the time. Heck, if million-to-one incidents never occurred once in a while then the lottery wouldn't exist, would it? Walk it off Scooby-Doo.

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Do straight marriages cause beastiality and pedophilia? Posted: 5/13/2009 2:19:41 PM
The scripture verse I use to defend my stand against the homosexual lifestyle is not in Leviticus. It is Romans 1, which by the way is the new testament. There are many solid objections to same sex marriage. First and for most homosexuals do not want marriage but a govermental legitimization for thier sex practices. What people do behind closed doors I do not care. just do not ask for my stamp of approval. I do not believe the government should be giving it either. I do believe the acceptance of one perversion will lead to the acceptance of all. I feel the same way about Christianity: allow one nut to preach their idiocy and soon you have the whole lot doing it.

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Are there any people left who are NOT into clubbing and heavily drinking nonstop ?? Posted: 1/31/2009 11:07:22 AM
I'm 23. I've never drunk alcohol nor been to a club. I'd had enough of being in cramped places with music so loud you can't physically talk to people before I had left school. I'd had enough of listening about the effects of alcohol before I had started school. My choices make me the minority. Ho-hum.

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Creationism or Evolution? Posted: 1/28/2009 12:52:51 PM
i wasn't sure if you meant this in jest? i would love for you to elaborate? What Agapis said was accurate but I was referring to when breeders breed dogs of desirable qualities with dogs of similarly desirable qualities. They typically end up with a high quality pedigree. This is called natural selection - although, obviously, in this instance the dogs' choice is not natural. The reason why dogs don't evolve in to other species is because they don't have to - they have people who feed them and heal them and have no need to evolve further. There is some evidence of this with dogs that would clearly not survive if left to nature's whim: minuscule dogs, dogs with short legs and dogs with short snouts. These dogs are not designed for survival in the wild but are kept in existence thanks to humanity's helping hand.

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Creationism or Evolution? Posted: 1/27/2009 8:43:58 PM
i am open minded enough to accept that either evolution or intelligent design could yet be proven right. Evolution has been proven correct. Go to a dog show once in a while and witness evolution at work.

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Creationism or Evolution? Posted: 1/27/2009 10:04:44 AM
The only people who would believe in creationism are those whose knowledge of evolution doesn't even cover the basic dictionary definition. The truth is that creationism has zero proof, period. The only thing that stops it from being rubbished completely is the zero-point-zero-recurring possibility factor that all illogical claims have and the mass of believers who nod in agreement whenever someone unqualified to answer states that they think God is actually real and did create life. The most annoying responses from creationists are those who alter the words of their dogma - the only pitiful evidence that their faith has to go on - to the point of ridicule so they can work in science in to their faith. So they say, perhaps God created evolution. Perhaps the seven days that God made the Earth were actually not days at all. Perhaps God is the sun and created mankind out of ice cream that the demi-god Barney the Dinosaur laid in an egg on the moon. When we're just making up excuses and random hypotheses, anything's possible. Fools follow fools and wish to bring the rest of us down with them so that they don't feel more foolish.

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Fortune tellers/tarot cards readers Posted: 1/9/2009 8:08:26 AM
Plus I work at the cafe with my mother who is also a psychic reader... I notice that a lot of self-proclaimed psychics - particularly female psychics - have an older female relative (mother, grandmother, aunt, etc) who also claims to have psychic ability. It usually turns out that this relative informs the child that they too have psychic ability at a young age, or at least try to determine whether or not they have an ability by encouraging them to practice and test their "ability". It's basically the same tactic that cults and religious organisations use to doctor people in to their faith.

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Spontaneous Human Combustion..and other Strange Experiences.. Posted: 12/30/2008 12:34:54 AM
Myth. No confirmed cases have ever been identified.

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Is Liking cars, video games, and gory films a turn off to guys? Posted: 12/22/2008 9:54:42 PM
What your interests are isn't important: you're an attractive, intelligent woman and men are going to respond to that. Just be confident in who you are and you'll do fine in the dating world.

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not Will you marry me? Posted: 12/5/2008 8:48:45 AM
1) Marriage is not an entry in to a relationship: it's a promise of everlasting love and commitment by a couple who are already in a relationship. 2) Marriage is an equal partnership. 3) Women can propose as well. 4) "Will you marry me?" also asks the question, "May I marry you?", which (as far as I'm concerned) negates the cp you wrote about the woman becoming a possession. 5) "Will you marry me?" is most commonly used because it's direct and asks what it needs to ask. 6) The proposal isn't as important as the person asking the question. 7) As ColonelIngus** has said, I wouldn't worry too much about proposals. With your attitude you're a long way away from marriage.

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simple question - do you believe in a god? Posted: 12/1/2008 9:15:08 AM
You must think unlike a scientist to have any possible means to get the message. It is your choice to not believe in a god or God, but it is not your right to try to inflict your own lack of understanding on others. Neither is it your right to inflict your dumbfounded belief system on the world. Are you aware of the horrors religious belief has given to the world and continues to give? Are you aware of all the civil rights that are being denied because of religion? It's sickening and pointless! Four thousand, two hundred religions slowly killing each other under the excuse of benevolent evil so they can assure themselves that their religion isn't the fiction that it actually is. Because, hey, when you can't find the Devil himself, find his work somewhere else, right? No Satan around to battle so let's start on the homosexuals. Why shouldn't they be evil, the Bible says they're sinners. So let's take away homosexual rights to child adoption and re-orphan four hundred children based on one line of a seven hundred page book that doesn't apply to modern life, science or morality. The majority of Christian Arkansas did it so I assume you would agree with this practice? And I ask why? Why do you believe in a deity? Why do you believe in a heaven and a hell? What evidence have you ever had to their existence that you have seen with your own eyes? And how was it so infallible that you Christianity was proven to you and not any of the other four thousand, two hundred creeds? If I am asked whether I believe in snow in Perth, I can answer No, without trying to insult the people a little older than I who HAVE seen snow in Perth. I'm unaware of Perth's climate history although it's a fact that climate and landmass movement can be traced back through history to provide a picture of what the climate was like hundreds, thousands or millions of years ago. If science tells you - if people who have lived in Perth at time when the climate was different tell you! - that it used to snow in Perth, then it's a damn fact. Belief has nothing to do with it and denying it will only make you appear a fool. If I don't believe, then there is no need to elaborate on the reasons, because there is no need to have a reason not to believe in anything. There is always a reason for human decisions. What is more important is why you believe in a deity whose existence has stayed unproven for two thousand years. That is why this same old debate continues so pointlessly. If you can't accept that you just don't understand the truth while you continue to blind yourself with science, then maybe you should stop trying to antagonise those who DO understand and possess the cognitive requirements that you lack. Science doesn't blind - it is our entire field of vision. To the same degree, religion is our denial.

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simple question - do you believe in a god? Posted: 12/1/2008 3:26:36 AM
and it was reported that hilter had syphillis ( hense going mad ) so i dont see what your point is there It must have been pretty f*cking bad for him to have started the Holocaust. Besides, do Christians believe in syphilis? You'd have to ask the Pope. My point still stands: most psychopaths believe in God.

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simple question - do you believe in a god? Posted: 12/1/2008 2:26:22 AM
Re: Smoranean Scientists and mathematicians do not seek proof of God. There are approximately four thousand, two hundred world religions. Approximately four thousand, two hundred of these religions can be debunked using probability. Remember I said 'approximately'. I fail to see how Atheism constitutes a religion but others may wish to categorise it as such. The most pathetic excuse that religion uses to explain the lack of proof of their God - in scientific terms - is when they say that it's His will he cannot be proven - just like you are saying Smoranean. The only proof your religion has to go on is a two thousand year old collection of fables b*sterdised in to modern English. A collection of stories depicting would-be followers of Christianity as unsure, until God sends ten plagues to destroy a populace, or drowns the world leaving on a guy in a boat with a set of each animal that inhabited the world at that time. Is this the kind of being who would abscond from showing proof to those outright asking for it? Forty thousand, two hundred religions and no one has any proof of their beliefs except for outlandish stories written for people who could be controlled using fear, promise and paranoia (people such as children). You speak of psychopaths while disregarding the fact that most psychopaths are religious. Hitler is a good example. On the same topic, why do most religious people feel that they can pick and choose from their doctrine? The Christian Bible states that homosexuality is a sin. The Christian Bible also states that lying in the bed of woman who is menstruating is a sin (or something to that effect). I'm sure you're quite aware of the emphasis followers place on each of those commands using your acquired knowledge. So, probability is a logical flaw? With forty thousand, two hundred religions probability is all I have and according to science fact and theory it's working pretty well for me. Sometimes this same argument goes round in such circles with scientific athiests incapable of thinking outside their learned limitations that we might as well be writing in Braille, but I hope some people might get the message without having to find out the hard way. Trust me, we atheists feel the same way.

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beauty trend you don't get Posted: 11/30/2008 6:55:14 AM
Piercings (including earrings – they just seem pointless in this age) Clumsy jewellery (bangles, rings on every finger etc) Ultra-high heels Ultra-long fingernails (not at all attractive) Shaved off/drawn on eyebrows Dying your hair a light colour but not your dark eyebrows Perfume (what smell are you trying to cover?) Ties (an utterly useless fashion accessory) Botox Male breast enlargement surgery (just do some damn body building!) Butt enlargement surgery

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Walmart Worker Killed by Holiday Shoppers... Posted: 11/28/2008 10:34:56 PM
The people who trampled this man to death are at fault here, not walmart. I don't care what type of situation I was in. I would not trample someone to death just to get a cheaper price on something.I certainly would not just walk past someone who was lying there dying just to get a little shopping in. Certainly a lawsuit would draw attention to the problem. Yes against the people who actually killed him. My Lord now it's people saying "don't blame me walmart made me do it". By fuelling this situation while not respecting proper health and safety protocol, Walmart are clearly at fault for instigating this double murder. And yes, of course CCTV footage should be reviewed and witness statements taken to identify the exact people responsible, but overall this case should be made high profile so that measures can be taken to prevent further incidents.

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simple question - do you believe in a god? Posted: 11/28/2008 9:19:25 PM
Sometimes angiosperms make me wonder whether God was there at The Beginning (aka Big Bang) or only came onto the field in the final quarter, but could it be possible that evolution might have been God's idea? I'm not sure how to see the two concepts as exclusive, because all science seems to teach me is how long it takes us to work such simple things out and how much I'm never going to know for certain nor probably want to anyway. I reckon Darwin wrote it down fairly well to start with, not that it hadn't already been written before, in various styles. I like both ideas! What's wrong with that? In terms of probability, the concept of a God existing (especially in religious terms) is so low that it's not even worth considering. Life exists simply because it can and works on a trial and error system. There's no deep meaning behind anything. Why is the universe here? I like to think that absolute nothing cannot logically exist without a comparison and vice-versa.

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Walmart Worker Killed by Holiday Shoppers... Posted: 11/28/2008 9:05:37 PM
What happened in this case is an accident. Reading stories like that is like reading about someone who went for a drive and got into fatal collision. It happens. Part of life. And looking at this with "bad thing happened - let's find someone to sue" mentality is ... well... to me that is a sign of disintegrating society a lot more than the rush itself. When you knowingly walk across a person it is not an accident - it's grievous bodily harm and assault. This occurrence should not be looked at as "a part of life", it should be seen as a terrible mistake and should be corrected to prevent further instances. Certainly a lawsuit would draw attention to the problem.

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simple question - do you believe in a god? Posted: 11/28/2008 6:59:12 PM
Yes, Look around, there is absolutely no way this planet and humans could have occured by just random chance of accident. There is little or no prove for evolution. Think about it. Never in human history has there been matting between 2 different species been succesful. A dog and cat have sex and nothing. A horse and donkey have sex and make a mule but then the mule is infertile. Most mutations tend to be infertile and short lived. Just remember that evolution is just a theory and has very little real proof. Just as believing in god is a religion so is evolution as both require believing in things you cannot prove. Why cannot these scientists be honest and acknowledge that evolution is a religion and thus should not be tort in schools. Wow! When I left there was only one lovely post. Now there are two! Okay, three points to make: 1) Evolution is defined as: Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species. [The Free Dictionary] It is not the interbreeding between unrelated species. As the definition suggests it is a series of minuscule changes affecting the genetics of a generation of species (not an entire species on a global level!) until a new species is formed, typically as a result of a changing habitat. If you wish to see evidence of this then look at the different races of human beings, or go to a dog show and look at the different breeds of dog. Dogs that are alive today would not survive if left in a world without people: the only dogs that would survive are the ones most similar to wolves and would evolve as their habitat demands it. There are also plenty of fossilised remains of extinct species that show evolution in progress. So, as you can see God did not place each animal in a habitat that can accommodate it - the animals evolved to live in their specific habitat. 2) Earth and humans did develop due to chance. Particles in the universe collided in to each other forming matter which collided in to other matter until planets and stars developed. Eventually Earth was formed and was stable enough to sustain life. Single cell organisms were the first forms of life on Earth and they evolved in to larger species which eventually evolved in to monkeys who eventually evolved in to humans. 3) In the context you were using, "Tort" is spelt correctly as "Taught". You must be able to see the irony.

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simple question - do you believe in a god? Posted: 11/28/2008 7:29:02 AM
Yes, Look around, there is absolutely no way this planet and humans could have occured by just random chance of accident. There is little or no prove for evolution. Think about it. Never in human history has there been matting between 2 different species been succesful. A dog and cat have sex and nothing. A horse and donkey have sex and make a mule but then the mule is infertile. Most mutations tend to be infertile and short lived. Does anyone else want to take this or should I?

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simple question - do you believe in a god? Posted: 11/27/2008 3:28:31 PM
Simple question - do you believe in a god? No. Gosh, that was a simple question. Well, I guess I'll get on with my life.

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UFO's, believe or not? Posted: 11/25/2008 3:28:49 AM
Again, according to our very limited knowledge. We once "knew" the earth was flat until we discovered otherwise. No one credible in human history has ever believed the Earth is flat. It's a common misconception. An old argument towards the belief in alien visitors is that, given the size of the known universe, how could there possibly not be other planets similar to Earth in existence. I don't think people realise just how one-of-a-kind Earth is. It's a planet that exists thanks to an enormous number of probable outcomes and the chances of finding a replica in the universe that's been spawned naturally is practically zero.

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Favorite Quotes Posted: 11/23/2008 6:44:45 AM
Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Give him a gun and he can solve his own f****g problems. ~ J.I.Q.* Once childhood is over, having the same age is no longer a point in common. ~ Sulphuric Acid, by Amelie Nothomb From the first moment I looked into that horror on September 11th, into that fireball, into that explosion of horror, I knew it, I recognized an old companion. I recognized religion. ~ Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, professor of theology at St. Joseph's Seminary in New York Sometimes it’s just easier being a jerk. ~ Meowth, in Pokemon Pete Doherty: What a waste of good heroin. ~ Unknown Never take your eyes off the opponent, even when you bow. ~ Unknown Sexuality: It yearns to be classified and then defies classification just to spite you. ~ Unknown Love is blind but friendship closes its eyes. ~ Unknown Long hair is dangerous in a fight. By extension, long hair on a man is an announcement to the world that he thinks a fight will never get to the point where anyone can grab his hair. This is why long hair is viewed as a badass thing for bikers and Vikings. ~ Unknown member of POF, on POF Forums She was a great man whose only fault was being a woman. ~ Voltaire, on Émilie du Châtelet Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. ~ Steven Weinberg - Nobel Laureate Most of the Master Quest levels are like the original Ocarina of Time levels but really scary, like someone sane gave the level design to some psychopath and was like “Here, draw this.” ~ Unknown member of Lik-Sang commenting on the ‘Zelda: Master Quest’ video-game All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, And when they catch you, they will kill you… But first they must catch you. ~ Watership Down, poster quotation [continued below from source] Digger; Listener; Runner, Be cunning and full of tricks, And your people will never be destroyed. He was just some lonely guy I picked up on a rainy day. Some lonely devil… …Who had beautiful dark gray eyes… And smelled like blood. ~ Chiaki, from the Demon Ororon by Mizuki Hakase I see I’m not perfect - but that’s all I see. ~ Trapt, Lost in a Portrait I've gone into thousands of furtune teller's parlours, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. ~ A New York Detective In tragedy, embrace oblivion. It's the closest you will ever come to clarity. ~ Tao If you can appreciate something beautiful, then you can also appreciate someone beautiful. ~ Tao If you truly want nothing, you must have something to subtract. ~ Tao Ineptitude: If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant The quickest way to not be fat is to eat LESS and move MORE. ~ Unknown Life is an incessant series of problems... all difficult, with brutally limited choices - and a time limit. ~ Chapel the Evergreen, in Trigun I’ve grown to hate my own creation. Now I know how God feels. ~ Homer, the Simpsons I don't have the stats to hand, but RedEye would guess that the number of copies of Doom involved in handgun killings last year was significantly lower than the number of handguns involved in handgun killings. ~ RedEye, in Edge magazine The one thing you can be sure about gameplay, is that when it's bad, it's obvious. But when it's good, it's almost transparent. ~ Danster, Edge Forums Good news: the 'All-You-Can-Eat' salad bar joint just decided to stay open 24 hours a day! We can get a table by the window and live there for the rest of our lives - for only $5.95 apiece! ~ Dogbert, in Dilbert by Scott Adams I bought a sofa because I enjoy conformity. ~ J, UKA Isn’t it about time for you to be getting on the bus back to Sesame Street with all the other retards?! ~ J, UKA Golly, how awesome! Let’s go play some O-Town and slowly kill ourselves. ~ J, UKA Her magical vagina is able to pull God down from Heaven and make him feel inferior. ~ Unknown, a critical opinion of the character Bella from the book ‘Twilight’ by Stephanie Meyer I have nothing to confess. All the things I like and think about and do are enough that redemption is out of the picture. I'll just stay in my twisted little f****d up head and enjoy the nightmare. ~ Unknown, DS Forums* If you sin, you go to hell. If you are naughty, Santa will put coal in your stocking. What the hell is the spiritual value of that c*p? Be nice to save your own hide. A favorite teaching of mine to be sure. ~ moJoe, on Everything2* First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs. ~ Usenet Science is not a Democracy! You cannot decide reality by popular vote. ~ Wasserspeier, on Fark The real world has a term for kids who try to use Micro Machines to outsmart bad guys during a robbery: missing and presumed dead. ~ Cracked discussing Home Alone You forgot Gary Coleman. At age 7, he had the nation laughing as he tried to figure out exactly what it was that Willis was talking about. Later, still at age 7, he managed to hold down a mall security guard job after he had gotten bored with acting. A few years after that, at age 7, he was ending his marriage in the best possible way, on Divorce Court (check Youtube). I imagine, 30 or 40 years from now, he'll be the first person to die from old age at 7. ~ Unknown Comment, on Cracked Conceal nothing. And watch the fools search forever. ~ Andromeda I am what I have to be. ~ Batman [DC Comics] A witty saying proves nothing ~ Voltaire Whenever something that has been humanly created doesn’t make sense, it’s probably an advertising campaign. ~ Unknown comic book quote As it turns out, my faith was fine. God was just telling me c*p. ~ Unknown comic book quote* God learnt in the beginning what we should have realised all along: if you take your eyes off the world for even a moment you lose sight of everything. ~ Unknown comic book quote Laugh once. Laugh loud. Laugh your last laugh. Here comes the end. ~ Unknown comic book quote That’s not an opinion, it’s an observation. An opinion suggests you know what the hell you’re talking about. ~ Unknown comic book quote Where do babies come from? Okay, listen up kid. I’m going to tell you what I told my ex-wife: sometimes people get stupid… and then accidents happen. ~ Unknown comic book quote You know the saying “Kiss and make up”? Not so effective when you’re arguing with a cop. ~ Unknown comic book quote I don’t have time to love you. ~ Unknown comic book quote Drugs couldn’t cure this mess. ~ Unknown comic book quote

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Reverse Racism? Posted: 11/21/2008 7:01:12 AM
There's no such thing as reverse racism - unless you count the destructive influence of positive stereotyping. Racism is prejudice due to race. It's neither good nor intelligent and I doubt anyone here would disagree.

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Psychics/Clairvoyants ~ cynic or believer?? Posted: 11/21/2008 1:20:16 AM
^^ Absolutely. I couldn't agree more with what you've said! Although, no one credible in history has ever believed that the Earth is flat. And I'm sure you were using "Sixth Sense" as a term of reference as we're all intelligent people here and are aware that there are between fourteen and twenty human senses, depending on your classification of what constitutes a human sense - but this only reaffirms the argument that there are still aspects of people left to understand. Also - and I'm sorry if this sounds negative towards your post - there are still people in the world who believe that the wind is God, regardless of scientific evidence. They believe that God is everything and by correlation God is the wind - that would be part of your wonderful closing statement on belief. Science will constantly evolve and be able to understand the universe in greater context, but proof is questionable and fallible. The "proof" that science has already obtained through scientific method that states psychic ability is yet to be proven true (because it can never be proven false while the human mind is still being explored) could easily be an error of misjudgement on science's part. What do these people and their scientific method actually know? Perhaps circumstance is a necessary part of the psychic world's equation: when you are proved incorrect in psychic testing, the circumstances were wrong. And when you generate some level of results, the circumstances were right. Why is that so hard for people (and by "people" I mean those lacking in faith) to grasp this concept? Your example of the Thredbo and Tasmanian mining disasters proves what I've just said beyond a shadow of a doubt. With so many people praying for life and the safety of these men, how could it not have helped?! Science would probably argue with how many people there were not praying for a happy result, and that the situation could have only really gone two ways, but these people are shallow minded and lack the intelligence to "believe". As I was saying - God bless you and your wonderful addition to this thread. You are truly a gifted person and I hope you will accept me as a fellow believer of the unproven/illogical and/or unseen.

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Age discrimination and nosey job interview questions.HELP Posted: 11/19/2008 10:48:48 PM
The majority of job applications I've had to fill out have included: * Age * Sex * Race * Religion * Sexuality I'd like to believe that they use this information purely for statistical analysis, but whatever the reason I find it disconcerting that someone would even suggest asking for your sexuality on a work application form.

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Psychics/Clairvoyants ~ cynic or believer?? Posted: 11/19/2008 11:52:29 AM
Re: solomon999 Yes, you are right. The military and police all around the world use psychics as a normal part of day to day life. I was entirely wrong and apologise for denying their use in governmental sections. I was also wrong in suggesting that psychics are “supermen”. It’s been made clear to me that they have the same level of responsibility towards the world as “regular” people regardless of their born skill to harness information unavailable to those born without this ability. I was entirely misinformed and apologise sincerely for my apparent stupidity. Thank you for correcting me.

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Psychics/Clairvoyants ~ cynic or believer?? Posted: 11/18/2008 7:41:32 AM
Joseph McMoneagle, a man whose abilities are renowned according to his own beliefs. If you scroll down on that Wikipedia article you'll find an experiment conducted by the National Geographic Channel which he fails completely. And yes, like Project Star Gate there have been other psychic trials conducted by sections of the government, but these were all in the past and achieved little to no results. As I was saying, nowadays you will not find the police using psychics [the original claim, I believe]. The police have worked hard (and constantly do work hard) to develop extensive investigative methods and no longer require the obscure information of self-described psychics to use as a last resort plan. Whether they ever did, I really can't be bothered to research. I know that there are certainly claims that they did in the past and perhaps these claims are true. But psychics are known exaggerators and what isn't known is the amount of psychics used who achieved no results and pointed the police in the entirely wrong direction - whether they even existed at all. For the record, this information is not "misinformed". It comes from the police directly, who swear that no psychics are used by their organisation. And I hope to God that they have some idea of how their operations are run. As for the whole Superman debate: you are still contradicting yourself. Supermen are people able to perform feats that ordinary people cannot - such as Joseph McMoneagle claims to achieve. You will find many ordinary psychics in comic books and fantasy fiction who save lives by finding abducted children and predicting murders and cataclysmic events. The original argument was that these people should make use of their gifts - if they actually have them - and save lives from dangers that they could help extinguish or prevent. Sure, anyone could "make a difference" to the world but only so-called psychics could stop planes flying in to buildings and tsunami's wiping out countries.

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Msg: 129 (view)

Psychics/Clairvoyants ~ cynic or believer?? Posted: 11/17/2008 9:14:22 PM
^^ Congratulations - you just contradicted yourself. If psychics weren't able to do things that "normal" people can't do then why would the police use them? This makes them super human [and I like to believe that Superman is such an iconic character that he is able to be presented in any analogy regardless of the person's reading choices, thank you. And let's not forget that a comic book character recently stormed the box office and gave a great Australian his greatest and final role, so lets not shoot down a medium based on stereotypes]. But of course, the police don't use psychics. They may have used a psychic in a special case in the past but nowadays it would be stupid to even suggest such an idea. There are so many better methods of investigation to use than the half-formed statements of people with unfounded beliefs who call the police incessantly with descriptions of forest clearings and scary men that they obtained from a dream or a flash of inspiration. Police psychics (and military psychics, including "secret government agencies" if you like) will forever stay in the realm of fantasy fiction. Back on course - I've seen programs and read reports where so called psychics claimed to have foreseen 9/11, yet no (visible) action was taken to prevent it. Clearly these people believed they had a special gift, so why then did they let their insight go unanswered? The only logical answer is that they don't have any real power and are living in a world of self-disillusionment. The only other answer would be to suggest that these people are so apathetic that they would prefer to have these flashes of knowledge in the background of their lives than bring them to the forefront and use them to give advice in ignorant situations. Or that the majority are frauds and have made it impossible for the real articles to be taken seriously - not a hard hypothesis to believe when dealing with a subject that no one seems able to support with clear evidence. Finally, these hostile responses are of the same composition I would expect to receive if I were arguing with alien conspiracy theorists. You are having your belief structure attacked and are replying with personal insults and misguided facts because you have no real evidence to use in your support. Check the heading of this thread: I am a cynic. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - as they say - so, until you or someone else can provide such irrefutable evidence towards your belief, I will stay a cynic and we will have to agree to disagree - as adults hopefully.

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Msg: 127 (view)

Psychics/Clairvoyants ~ cynic or believer?? Posted: 11/17/2008 5:29:26 AM
True mediums - that the police use to help with detecting missing people, et cetera - don't get to pick and choose their messages, just what they do with them. Contrary to popular myth, the police do not use psychics in any investigations. They use proven scientific methods over the more obscure path of tracing ambiguous information provided by people's dreams or visions. In one-hundred percent of cases the police will not even accept this type of information from the public. Why should non psychic try to save the world? Why shouldn't they ? The world is everyone's responsibility ! I wonder if Superman ever used that logic... Citizen: Superman, there's a meteor heading for Earth! Why aren't you trying to stop it?! Superman: Me? Why aren't you trying to stop it?! If you (and I use that in the wider sense) claim to have powers that enable you to predict catastrophic events and the whereabouts of missing people, shouldn't you be at the forefront of intervention? No one else is claiming to have this gift so why would you shun responsibility in to the hands of the less able? But of course all of this is systemic based on a hypothetical situation. Psychic ability is on the same plane as Bigfoot, ghost and alien sightings. Belief is passed along through word of mouth, false evidence and misplaced hope. If the results were as affluent as the number of claimers then this "ability" would have been harnessed by now and would play a discernible role in modern society.

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My Story Posted: 10/26/2008 11:26:30 PM
Essentially, you got in to a relationship too quickly and then strung the guy along who wasn't a good catch to begin with. I'm not sure what to suggest as I would assume that any advice I could give you would be ignored or misinterpreted. At this stage, you could try going to your local library and reading all the self-help books you can find, but I doubt they will be of any use to you. A better idea would be to read all the archived threads on this forum that are applicable to your situation and learn from their mistakes, but I have an assumption that you would misinterpret the information presented to you and intensify your label as a victim. I suppose the best advice would be to lock your door and avoid strange men for at least six months. Good luck with that.

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Irregardless? WTF?!?!?!?! Posted: 10/21/2008 4:34:21 AM
I went to a French school and was raised in a French family up here in Canada. If I am French born and raised, why is it that my English language skills are better than people who take time out of their day to trash the French? What does that really say about them? Oh, sweet irony.

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If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond? Posted: 10/15/2008 12:15:25 AM
First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs. ~ Usenet

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Msg: 113 (view)

What's up with all the hatred towards feminists? Posted: 10/4/2008 10:08:10 AM
Are you freaking kidding me?? I know you can't be saying that a woman who is too drunk to consent to sex is accountable for her own rape. Yes, we definitely need to teach women to take responsibility for themselves and not walk into these dangerous situations but people make mistakes and I don't think rape is a fitting punishment nor a good lesson to be learned. I'm assuming you mean that the boy was just as drunk so why is he 100% responsible? Is that what the commercial showed? That is definitely a grey area but until drunkeness is used as a defense for other crimes I don't think it can be used as a defense for rape. What the advert was saying is that even if a woman who has been drinking (not necessarily drunk) consents to sex with a man, she can call it rape. I agree with GrandmaBooBoo that it's an absurd declaration and takes all responsibility away from women while placing it simultaneously on men. There are plenty of accounts where this ideology has hurt men due to women running with the theme and calling rape on acts of sex that they themselves initialised and sought pleasure in. Some women will happily call rape on a night of drunken sex to try and re-establish their lost dignity or because they can't remember the night before and believe that they could have been raped, even though they're often the ones gyrating on the unfortunate man the night before whilst begging him to come home with them. It's a sad state of affairs. People in general need to take accountability for their actions. You wouldn't leave your keys in your car door in a rough neighbourhood and still expect it to be there when you get back, so why get drunk and pass out in a park then cry foul when something happens to you? This is what radical feminists try to get away with: the shunning of accountability. It's stupid and only places people at risk.

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Would you help a lost child? Posted: 10/3/2008 11:44:32 PM
What's the problem here? For years these social report programmes have been shouting at us to watch out for paedophiles and violent youths and now that they've undertaken an experiment proving that two young children can be left in a crowded place without being abducted or stabbed, they're angry about it. Make up your damn mind! Quite honestly, I didn't see the programme so I can't ascertain the validity of the children's vulnerability, though I don't think it really matters. Are there really parents out there that are dumb enough to let their young children wander off, and why now is the responsibility of other people's children being shunned on to the castrated public? First we're not allowed to sit in parks without an accompanying child for fears we could be paedophiles and now we're expected to walk up to vulnerable children in busy places. The only outcome I can see from that situation is some anxious woman calling the police because she's seen a strange man approach a lost child and walk off with him (towards the customer service desk, unbeknownst to her paranoid reality). As far as I'm concerned, if I a child looks as though they're about to put themselves in danger or they ask for my help, then I will help them. Otherwise I expect their parent or guardian to do their damn job and look after their child - although I do respect the people who have said that they've taught their child to ask for help from a responsible adult if they find themselves lost, that's pretty good advice.

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If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond? Posted: 9/28/2008 5:38:22 PM
'm not going to read all these posts as the few I skimmed just made me feel bad. Let me instead offer this, Cher, Disney, Steven Jobs, Edison, Patton, Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Branson, Sir Winston Churchill, Scott Adams, Bell, Henry Ford, and Whoopie along with millions of others have dyslexia. Good thing Jefferson, Einstein and Kennedy didn't have to look here for friendship and dates. Unless ninety percent of people on this website are dyslexic then I don’t think it’s the problem. Besides, dyslexia isn’t a permanent condition and can be alleviated with the correct learning and teaching methods. In actuality, people with dyslexia should be the ones most concerned with the correctness of spelling and grammar on this website as they are the ones who are going to suffer the worst when trying to read broken messages. I don’t want to talk too profusely on the subject but I would like to create a comparison between dyslexics and paraplegics: if you lost the ability to walk (or never had it), would you lie down in the street and tell people to carry you or find ways to live around your condition independently? I truly believe that anyone can use a spellchecker. It’s the poor speller’s wheelchair and should be used by anyone who doubts their spelling. Grammar can also be checked but it’s a more difficult subject to learn and I’m happy (usually) as long as people don’t make obvious or purposeful errors. It doesn’t help anyone to ignore the basics of grammar and leave out things such as capital letters and full stops, or to use sequences of commas instead of periods for ellipses; these are simple and obvious errors which can break up sentences and confuse a reader. If you’re writing so that others may read your efforts, it’s in your best interest not to confuse them. The main reason for the poor spelling and grammar by the patrons of this website is laziness. Everyone here has the ability to write correctly but most do not. Instead of using spellcheckers, practising the basics of grammar and taking time to read through their messages before submitting them, they choose to pass the responsibility of comprehension on to their readers. This might be fine to begin with but it quickly becomes tiresome and, as the messages on this thread suggest, a lot of people are going to decide to ignore the messages altogether, eventually or immediately depending on their level of patience. I would also like to add that typing ability is not a valid excuse. If you managed to log on to the Internet, find this website and register to use it, then you can certainly replace an incorrectly typed word for a correct one. No one will thank you for it but no one will ever create a thread titled ‘If someone emails you with correctly spelled words and good grammar, do you respond?’ either – hopefully.

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does anyone else find the dark knight to be overated a bit? Posted: 9/24/2008 1:37:24 AM
I didn't think much too it. I can appreciate the themes that Nolan was trying to produce from the plot, but the overall effect felt preachy and unrestrained - to me anyway. Batman himself was seriously undeveloped, but Batman is a character that lacks history anyway and there are only a small number of memorable moments from Batman's timeline which is why Batman films become bogged down with villains after the origin story (case in point). I also think I'm one of a handful who felt that Heath Ledger's performance wasn't as mind blowing as everyone says it is. Take a moment and imagine him saying, "That's despicable!" [One moment later] Yep, he's Daffy Duck. Actually, without speaking like his mouth is torn his voice would sound more-or-less like Mark Hamill's when he voiced the Joker. My main gripe with it all is that no one can decide on who the Joker is anyway; not the comic book writers, not the film writers - no one. So when I hear people say that he played the best version of the Joker to date and that he captured the Joker perfectly, I wonder what the hell they're referencing him to. Heath Ledger played a good villain, but he was nowhere near my interpretation of the Joker - for a start, he barely smiled. Also, why couldn't the film have been even a little canon? Gordon has a daughter damn it, not a son! A daughter who plays a pretty big role in the Batman universe - obviously something Nolan doesn't much care for. It only helps prove the hypothesis that you could take Batman out of this film, rework some names and imagery and sell it as Action Film #100,001.

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LADY TO SELL HER VIRGINITY Posted: 9/14/2008 4:50:26 AM
This is nothing new: a young woman in the UK tried this stunt a couple of years ago, as did a young man. If I recall correctly, they both pulled out after receiving modest attention. Personally, I believe that a woman's virginity is worth only the value of her morals. This lady's is obviously worth very little.

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Msg: 34 (view)

Guys - which would you prefer? Posted: 9/8/2008 2:38:41 AM
To all the guys that say "Give me a different option like door no.3" I say no. You just don't want to make a choice. I will not give you another option. If you can't play the game, then go away. It is meant to be a difficult choice that is the whole idea. Geez. To all the guys that chose Scenario No. 2. I thank you. I am the woman in the second scenario. I was not that messy ( I overdramatized it a touch) but when I had my 3 young children running around and my husband would come home, he was always more worried about the mess and yet I was so happy to see him, especially when he came home early. Okay, you're divorced - get over it. If you need reasurrance this badly then look to your family and friends for it instead of tricking Internet users in to handing it to you. And don't sound so surprised when some of them choose the side of your ex-husband based on the questions in your sympathy quiz or ask for a third option due to the fact that they're intelligent and capable enough to think their way out of a bad situation. Sophie's Choice questions like this one never have a right answer; either option leaves your life worse off than when you started so stop placing option two (yourself) on a pedestal. Only option three has a chance of happiness so lets all try and work towards that scenario (and yes, option three is supposed to be ambiguous).

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Msg: 39 (view)

Top court in California clears the way for voters to decide gay marriage issue. Posted: 7/24/2008 8:35:46 PM
yes it works. it won't be necessary to decide on polygamists since the imbecillic gay marriage idiocy will end in november. yes, the world does work It'll never end unless homosexuality is eradicated, which is a sociological impossibility. Eventually, America - a thriving liberal country - will have to concede and give homosexuals equal rights in the context of marriage, it's just a matter of 'when'.

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HULK 2003 VS HULK 2008 Posted: 7/24/2008 2:45:02 PM
^^ What he said! The 2003 film may not have been perfect but at least it wasn't as routine as the 2008 film. I always get a kick out of seeing the Hulk swaying in the wind when he leaps in the 2003 film, as well as his size increasing whenever anyone throws a (symbolic) punch.

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Msg: 36 (view)

Top court in California clears the way for voters to decide gay marriage issue. Posted: 7/24/2008 2:16:39 PM
your inability to reason rationally does NOT change reality my boy. And yet the state of California is still not deciding on whether or not to allow polygamists to marry. The world works!

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interesting new theory on what causes homosexuality Posted: 7/23/2008 9:21:43 PM
^^ Sexuality = Attraction not Action. As an analogy I could say that I'm not very attracted to you right now but I could still have sex with you and stay heterosexual. Am I winning this war?

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Stuff Skegness..My Trunks And I Are Off To The Sun Says Boris Johnson Posted: 7/23/2008 9:07:59 PM
I've seen the worst of Skegness - the comment is justified.

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Msg: 48 (view)

interesting new theory on what causes homosexuality Posted: 7/23/2008 8:58:18 PM
Spitfire6844 - You're wrong. I don't know what book you've taken this definition from but I can inform you that the only people who follow it are you and whoever wrote it. For your information, there is already a term for homosexuals who are closeted: closeted! While homosexual is the technical term for people attracted solely to those of the same sex, gay is the social term, as it's lighter and sounds less clinical - but they still have exactly the same definition. If you don't believe me then feel free to start a poll in the Off Topic section of POF and see what answers are generated. I'd be surprised to find one other adult who agrees with you. Betterguy - You're idiocy is admirable. Natural reproduction requires sexual intercourse between a man and a woman. As homosexuals clearly represent these categories, they can reproduce - it's just a matter of whether they do/want to. What you're trying to do is to pin sexuality entirely on sexual activity and alter it accordingly - sexuality doesn't work this way: a homosexual person having sexual intercourse with a person of the opposite sex is still homosexual. Reproduction only requires the fundamentals, not the supplementaries.

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Msg: 32 (view)

Top court in California clears the way for voters to decide gay marriage issue. Posted: 7/23/2008 4:47:39 PM
the irrefutable reality is that, everyone who supports gay marriage supports polygamy, bestiality, and every other perversion. it truly IS discrimination to support one perversion and not all By the same principle, if you support sexual intercourse between a man and a woman then you also support paedophilia. Clearly you're just a homophobe taking shots.

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