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#77 Sep 16 2008 at 5:12 AM Rating: Default
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Nexa wrote:
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I am prepared to accept that I'm biomechanical, and a doll, but not necessarily the two together.

Now if you offer me one...


If you have sex with your own biomechanical doll replica, is it gay, or is it love?

If she has my memories and tastes, it's the best ************ ever.

Nexa, thanks awfully for your concern, and your advice, but I have my own defense mechanisms. They'd have to track me down in my own dissociated universe first.


I'm not concerned about you, I'm concerned about you infecting the entire forum when your dissociative
recombination of molecular ions produces neutral atoms and accelerates the conversion of the ionized
plasma into a neutral gas. Then what will we argue about?

Nexa


I vote you argue about hot robo-lesbians.
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#78 Sep 16 2008 at 5:20 AM Rating: Good
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Don't fret Nexa. I do believe I'm safe in saying that I'm known in the OOT as the nicest poster there.

Not the smartest. Not the funniest. Heaven knows not the most knowledgeable. But the nicest.

And despite my contaminating presence the OOT has slid more and more Asylumwise for two years, to the point of the admins now having to haul on it kicking and screaming in the opposite direction. So I'm confident that the Asylum can survive me well and truly intact.
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#79 Sep 16 2008 at 5:24 AM Rating: Good
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Meh. "We" don't seem to be all that fussy.
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#81 Sep 16 2008 at 6:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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classy

Social studies show that both the lower classes and the upper classes swear a lot. It's only the middle classes that frown on swearing. So that the use of profane language in and of itself is not an indication of a general lack of manners, refinement of behaviour, poor consideration of other people, poor hygiene, poor education, lack of social standing, etc.
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#83 Sep 16 2008 at 6:33 AM Rating: Decent
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knoxsouthy wrote:
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Social studies show that both the lower classes and the upper classes swear a lot. It's only the middle classes that frown on swearing. So that the use of profane language in and of itself is not an indication of a general lack of manners, refinement of behaviour, poor consideration of other people, poor hygiene, poor education, lack of social standing, etc.


Is that what you tell your child when they tell you to go f*ck yourself?


The funny part is that you say **** a lot so you're basically insulting yourself here. It's like the forum equivalent of watching someone ********** with steel wool.
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#85 Sep 16 2008 at 6:45 AM Rating: Decent
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knoxsouthy wrote:
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The funny part is that you say @#%^ a lot so you're basically insulting yourself here. It's like the forum equivalent of watching someone ********** with steel wool.


I'm also not a father raising children, nor a grandparent around them. And believe it or not I don't curse that often, and never out of anger.



I can believe that. No-one would be stupid enough to bear your children, much less let you anywhere near them if they did.

Also, as a side note? I love it when people refer to me as "poodle". Most people say zep. I only picked the name in order to get people to refer to me as Poodle.
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#86 Sep 16 2008 at 6:48 AM Rating: Good
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zepoodle wrote:
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The funny part is that you say @#%^ a lot so you're basically insulting yourself here. It's like the forum equivalent of watching someone ********** with steel wool.


I'm also not a father raising children, nor a grandparent around them. And believe it or not I don't curse that often, and never out of anger.



I can believe that. No-one would be stupid enough to bear your children, much less let you anywhere near them if they did.


I'm not sure why you can't believe it. He said he's not a father. Smiley: lol

I curse a lot. I'm not sure why it matters.
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#87 Sep 16 2008 at 6:53 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm not sure why you can't believe it. He said he's not a father. Smiley: lol


I said that I can believe that. Which is really the exception to the rule considering that most of what Knox says is totally unbelievable.

edit: speeling

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#88 Sep 16 2008 at 6:54 AM Rating: Good
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There is a big difference between swearing AT a person, which I agree is usually offensive, especially if it's done in anger, and swearing in general.

I'm happy for someone to use swear words as adjectives about stuff, or to swear at something they find unpleasant or extremely dissapointing, for instance swearing at unexpected rain wetting all your washing, or at your sports team losing a match, or your party losing an election. Swearing in pain? Acceptable.

People who swear usually have "time and place" rules about when they will use it, and lists of people that they will or will not swear around.

Someone who swears might never swear at school, at work, in front of clients, media, or politicians, in front of one set of Grandparents, in front of one particular parent, or around children, or perhaps around certain sets of friends' children.

As part of child-raising, most parents who swear will teach their children where are the appropriate and the not-appropriate places to swear are. Not-appropriate places tend to include "at school" and "at the super-market check-out".

In Australia swearing is usually reserved for informal occasions, when one is feeling relaxed. Therefor, it's more usual for people to swear around their friends, and their favourite family members, than it is for them to swear around non-friends. Therefor, in the course of friendly banter, it's actually a mark of affection and personal respect to use swear words around some-one else, or even swear at your closet friends.

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Aripyanfar wrote:

In Australia swearing is usually reserved for informal occasions, when one is feeling relaxed. Therefor, it's more usual for people to swear around their friends, and their favourite family members, than it is for them to swear around non-friends. Therefor, in the course of friendly banter, it's actually a mark of affection and personal respect to use swear words around some-one else, or even swear at your closet friends.


QFT.

In fact, if I called up my best friend right now, I'd be insulted if he didn't call me an AIDS-infected c*ntlip.

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The last thing I need is to knock up one of my girlfriends; not sure the others would understand.


Woah there! We have lax morals now?

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I'm guessing you're the type who married the first woman who was kind enough to spread her legs for you.


Not married!
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#93 Sep 16 2008 at 7:08 AM Rating: Excellent
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knoxsouthy wrote:
I understand cursing to make a point now and again, but to make a habit of expressing yourself in so crude a manner is something society would be better off without.

Words are only as powerful as the ear they fall upon allows them to be. In other words, if society didn't put such heavy weight upon certain words, we wouldn't really care who used them.


They're only words, and nothing more.
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#95 Sep 16 2008 at 7:19 AM Rating: Decent
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Knox, even given what you normally write about, this is pretty irrelevant.
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#96 Sep 16 2008 at 7:21 AM Rating: Good
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They're a representation of who you are.

I suppose I'd have to care what others thought about me for them to be anything more than just words then.
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#99 Sep 16 2008 at 7:24 AM Rating: Decent
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No, I mean...you're complaining about swearing. On the Internet. It's like complaining about all the ****.
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Not to spoil this little love-in about swearing a robo-dolls but here's another quote form our current VP in which he (A) explictly mentions the Bush Doctrine and (B) connects the concept of stopping terrorism to pre-emptive military action:
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The President annunciated what's come to be known as the Bush doctrine, and henceforth, we will hold states that sponsor terror or provide bases for terrorists accountable and responsible for any attacks launched by those terrorists. So not only are we going after terror-sponsoring states, we've also worked aggressively to take down the financial networks that support them, to take away their logistical support, which oftentimes is found buried in otherwise legitimate organizations, non-governmental and charitable organizations. We've mounted a major effort with respect to our intelligence services and the intelligence services of other nations.

And of course, most of all, we've launched, when we had to, aggressive military action in order to destroy the terrorists before they can launch further attacks against the United States. Some people have talked about preemption. And sometimes that takes on a negative connotation, the notion that somehow the United States would reach out and strike with military power before we've been struck. But I would argue that we were struck on 9/11. They got in the first blow, and I ask you, if we had been able, with preemptive military action, to defeat that attack before it ever occurred, would we? And the answer is, absolutely, I would hope. You bet.
This "Oh, Palin could have never known because it doesn't exist!" crap is pure apologetica for Palin's ignorance. No one can just say "Yeah, she fucked up that question but that doesn't change my over-all opinion of her or McCain." It has to be these bizarre contortions between re-writing history ("It was coined by LIBERALS!!") and denial ("It doesn't really exist!!").

Edited, Sep 16th 2008 10:31am by Jophiel
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#101 Sep 16 2008 at 7:41 AM Rating: Excellent
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I don't really care that she didn't know what the Bush Doctrine is (although I modestly assert that I could have hazarded a better answer than her deer-in-the-headlights impression, which was astonishingly true to life. Given that a deer would wear tacky designer eyewear, that is).

I do care that she blithely advocated aggression against Russia, that she talked about NATO without having even the simplest understanding of it, and that (diverging now from her interview gaffes) she apparently has a history of firing people who disagree with her. Who else do we know that does that, class? And in what way does this represent any appreciable change, then?

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