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#2682 Apr 05 2016 at 2:27 PM Rating: Excellent

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Jophiel wrote:

Also, the other night she had ants in her food bowl and responded with plaintive mewls until I did something about it. Blood of a smilodon in that little princess.

Why should she deal with it? She has staff to handle the mundane details.

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#2683 Apr 05 2016 at 5:02 PM Rating: Good

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When I was in elementary school learning grammar, I'm pretty sure that we were taught that using "they" and "them" and "their" to refer to a generic single person was improper. They were supposed to be "he or she" or "him or her" or "his or hers." I remember specific exercises were we had to correct the grammar of a sentence, that involved changing "they" to "he or she".

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#2684 Apr 05 2016 at 7:34 PM Rating: Good

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TirithRR wrote:

When I was in elementary school learning grammar, I'm pretty sure that we were taught that using "they" and "them" and "their" to refer to a generic single person was improper. They were supposed to be "he or she" or "him or her" or "his or hers." I remember specific exercises were we had to correct the grammar of a sentence, that involved changing "they" to "he or she".

See! This is clearly what we need to change in our school system, so as to knock out the systematic oppression of genderflexible people. Or... Not.

I have no issue with referring to someone I know, and who has expressed a preference, with whatever gender label they want. My issue is with the insanity of the sort of thinking in this article. That we should all change our mode of speaking to be much more vague and confusing for the vast majority of people around us, on the off chance that we might offend some incredibly overly sensitive person in earshot of us. Sorry. Not going to do it. If the mere use of gender pronouns offends you, then that's a problem you have. Maybe spend less time obsessively seeking out things to be offended by? Just a suggestion.

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#2685 Apr 05 2016 at 9:19 PM Rating: Good

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So, to be slightly off (and on) topic, a bit misogynistic, and creepy... I think I found a new favorite thing.

A new woman started working just before Easter, and she has some ink. Lace bands all over he arms and legs. Just the other day she had a shirt on that showed off some deep cleavage. And those lace bands were in some other places too. They almost seemed to encircle her breasts. Like tattooed lingerie.

And I thought to myself, "That is just... Smiley: thumbsup

."

I'm not one for tattoos. Not my thing. But that one...

Edit:
Oh, and the "favorite thing" is the style of tattoos, not the woman. I may be a misogynist, but I'm not that bad.

Edited, Apr 5th 2016 11:57pm by TirithRR

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#2686 Apr 06 2016 at 10:17 AM Rating: Excellent

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On one hand this kind of thing really benefits from visual aids; on the other hand women who wear overly revealing outfits in the workplace are very annoying. What a dilemma.

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#2687 Apr 07 2016 at 8:15 AM Rating: Good

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I wonder if the song is part of the program because that would be great. The soundtrack is safe for work, the video probably isn't.

Edited, Apr 7th 2016 10:16am by lolgaxe

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#2688 Apr 07 2016 at 10:06 AM Rating: Excellent

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Nothing ruins virtual reality like watching someone else play around in it.

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#2689 Apr 07 2016 at 1:03 PM Rating: Good

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I'm going to have to listen to that song a few more times because according to the weather reports we might get three inches of snow. Now, granted, three inches of snow is really nothing when our winters can hit like three feet of the stuff in the span of minutes but it's FLARKING APRIL AND THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY FLARKING SNOW AT ALL.

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#2690 Apr 07 2016 at 1:35 PM Rating: Excellent

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It's supposed to be 85 here today... trade? Not liking this July weather already. Smiley: frown

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#2691 Apr 07 2016 at 1:55 PM Rating: Good

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Deliver it for this weekend. I want to break out the grill for some real burgers and even the potential for snow gets in the way of that.

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#2692 Apr 07 2016 at 2:08 PM Rating: Good

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Real burgers on a grill? Heathen. REAL burgers get cooked on a 15 year old flat top by some dude named Sal who just got out of prison for shanking his last parole officer.

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#2693 Apr 07 2016 at 8:32 PM Rating: Decent

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Jophiel wrote:

Not to go all Poldaran, but this column about raising your cat "gender neutral" is the dumbest thing I've read in the past few weeks.

I respect it's privacy.

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#2694 Apr 08 2016 at 12:54 AM Rating: Good

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The column, or your cat?

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#2695 Apr 08 2016 at 8:17 AM Rating: Good

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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:

REAL burgers get cooked on a 15 year old flat top by some dude named Sal who just got out of prison for shanking his last parole officer.

Well, the grill is old so that counts. It's also a war veteran that should have gotten decorated for losing a limb in combat but was discriminated against.

Corporal Grill for President. Make America Delicious Again.

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#2696 Apr 08 2016 at 8:38 AM Rating: Good

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Since Joph brought up some high quality gender related stupidity, let me bring up some high quality Catholicism related stupidity. First, here's a tweet by an association of Dominican Friars.. You might ask yourself why they had to tweet that.

Here's a lolBreitbart article about it. There are others, but this was the first one I loaded with a pic front and center.

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#2697 Apr 08 2016 at 8:59 AM Rating: Good

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I've always thought the cincture looked more like the rope that holds back my great-aunt's curtains than a whip.

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#2698 Apr 08 2016 at 1:00 PM Rating: Excellent

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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:

First, here's a tweet by an association of Dominican Friars..

Okay so I'm convinced the priest guy isn't a KKK guy now and all that, but still feeling pretty iffy about the kid in the Halloween costume.

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#2699 Apr 08 2016 at 8:03 PM Rating: Good

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Governor Rick Scott was heckled by some woman in a coffee shop. So, Mr. Scott decides to make a political attack ad on this random citizen. Nothing about that decision seems correct.

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#2700 Apr 09 2016 at 11:08 AM Rating: Decent

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Professor stupidmonkey wrote:

The column, or your cat?

The cat. That was a misguided attempt at using a quote from Grosse Point Blank.

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#2701 Apr 09 2016 at 10:59 PM Rating: Good

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Yeah, I made a misguided attempt at humor, which is about the best this website has ever gotten out of me.

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