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Did you actually read a legitimate story on it, or did you read the blurb in the list on Cracked.com about it? If the former, repost it in SLAM and we can all discuss what the article says and doesn't say without silly hyperventilating like you always do. I actually went ahead and visited Cracked a...

I don't know why people are so confused by the desire of many people to get fucked up. Recreational drug use is not some odd, deviant behavior; this kind of thing has been going on since the dawn of humanity, in pretty much every culture. You even see this behavior in other species, ranging from rei...

Man, it's hard to get even mad at that level of stupidity.

Let me guess, it's because only black people have pimps. Nothing makes you lose faith in the intelligence of the human race like reading comments on the Internet. Actually, it's probably more due to the geographic location of the story. IIRC that neighborhood is largely black. Doesn't make race any...

2) Jar-Jar: in what way does he remind you of a real ethnicity? Many said he seemed "black"; I seriously never saw the parallels between him and black people; nothing about his clothing, his gait, his physiology, or his behaviour seem like stereotypical black behaviour to me. What blacks ...

In earlier centuries, in fact, medieval canonists argued that if the pope became mentally disabled, "he could no longer function as a human being and should be treated as if he were dead," Father James Provost, an expert in canon law, once wrote.

Oh gawdz, the irony.

Apparently there is some connection between the views that any complex organism (or even life) was designed by a human like mind, and the views that social institutions were the result of conscious design. All that is based on the common idea that everything that exists was the result of human like...

Goddamnit, fucked up my quote tags in my last post. Totally disagree. Calling somebody a "pussy" is less insulting than calling them a dick, although neither is a particularly bad insult compared to most. Pussy = cowardly, dick = being excessively unfair or mean. That's the point though, s...

*snip* Oh, I agree completely. Obviously the English language is the way it is because of the culture of the population that originally spoke and continues to speak it. Funnily enough (and certainly this is not the case today), but apparently one of the worst things a man could be called in Ancient...

I've thought this for a while. The English language itself, is, in my mind, intrinsically biased in favor of rich white (specifically Anglo-Saxon) heterosexual males. Consider the lack of identity-specific slurs available for them. There is no heterosexual equivalent for "fag" or "que...

^Do we actually make money on these deals, when all is accounted for? There's some other thread floating around saying the US military is one of the most cost-inefficent in the world, because all of our R&D is, for lack of a better word, "in-house"? Militaries that purchase exports fro...

The Likud leader has to try to square the rigorous demands of the Obama Administration with his nationalist, ultra-Orthodox coalition partners, who want him to stand up to Washington even though Israel needs US backing in confronting the threat of a nuclear Iran. That pisses me off. "Stand up ...

The pleasure of having sex does not reduce your life unless it's unprotected sex which gives you a high STD risk; ergo, a failing of the health care system (in the "preventive care" and "sanitary culture" spheres). The "pleasure" of smoking is ridiculous. By the same r...

The industry does not let rappers age gracefully, unlike rock . Did you really just say that? :lol: Laugh all you want, but AC/DC's members are literally senior citizens, and their tours still sell out, and their albums still sell in the millions (despite being unavailable digitally). Then there's ...

JACKSON, Miss. – An 18-year-old Mississippi lesbian student whose school district canceled her senior prom rather than allow her to escort her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo said she got some unfriendly looks from classmates when she reluctantly returned to campus Thursday. ... The district announced...

I remember he was on some talk show once and he wiped his glasses on the hem of some lady's skirt, randomly and without permission. It'd be fine, but he was the fucking president, and it really becomes embarassing for us.

*snip*. Does that really account for the current disparity? Even Redman has some pop appeal, his first 5 albums went either gold or platinum. He's done a shitload of features and has done TV shows, movies, and commercials. It's not like his subject matter is particularly arcane or serious, he mostl...

But that doesn't explain why people tan. Girls used to wear bonnets (1800s) so as not to get tan when working outdoors. Now they go to tanning salons. What changed? I know it doesn't, it was more a tangential point than anything. I already put forward my own theory in my earlier post, and many othe...

My reaction: I thought the whole point of civilization was that we were supposed to be better than our animalistic tendencies. So this argument seems silly to me. This is something that needs to be challenged strongly, at the risk of the starting a tangent. Is there any way to demonstrate this conc...

Wait - you're saying that lower class people go tanning so that they will get hired, because employers are more likely to hire darker skinned people because that's an indication that they're lower class? That doesn't make a wit of sense. Sorry, should've been more clear. I meant that manual labor j...

I do not listen to hip hop. Period. I find it non-challenging and boring. So no. I always recommend Illmatic to people who says this. Possibly the greatest hip hop album of all time. Of course, that's not gonna do anything for you if something about hip hop's basic aesthetic (chanted rhymes over sa...

As far as music in general goes, the most popular artists will usually be the ones who pump out the worst, least complex music. Average Joe doesn't want to have to think to process his music, so the simpler the better. Then the simpler artists get more wealthy, allowing them to advertise their musi...

Yes, I'm from the Midwest. Yes the lower class is traditional manual labor. However, people don't get tanned from manual labor today, they get tanned in tanning salons. And it's generally lower class people who do that, hence my associating tanning with the lower class. Well the whole thing is just...

I mean, yeah, maybe you didn't get good ticket sales, but show up, perform for your fans, and they'll spread the word about how fucking awesome it was and more people will go to the next one. Instead you have some animosity towards them from their own fans, what makes them think anyone else will be...

The discrimination against dark skinned folk in India runs deep. Aside from being banned from acting (not legally, but that's the practical reality), they inevitably hold lower paying jobs than their lighter skinned counterparts. What's really weird is how little anyone seems to acknowledge it. Even...