This is from one of your own links: "The latest YouGov poll for the Sunday Times found that 54% of Britons support “changing the law to allow same-sex couples to marry,” with over 53,000 civil partnership ceremonies have been carried out since their introduction in December 2005...
Why do I need to "take feedback more seriously" when not only is the feedback total bullshit, I haven't been in a position of responsibility there for months?
I quit in large part so that the whiners wouldn't have me to whine about, and they're still doing it. What does it take, you want to cut...
Did you miss the part where I resigned months ago? How about the part where all the so-called persecution of right-wingers is wholly concocted bullshit?
It's bad enough that I wasted dozens, if not hundreds of hours of my time for nothing. Having to listen to this crap is REALLY pissing me off.
I honestly no longer give a shit. I resigned three months ago and at that time strongly suggested to the admins that they shut it down. They didn't want to do that, so there it sits. You and the others wanted it to fail, and it has. Celebrate.
And of course, never stop pretending that you've...
Not only is he being incredibly intellectually dishonest, it's so obvious that he's doing it that it's insulting to the intelligence. Twists and turns, turns and twists, denials, distortions, all attempting to do what? Convince me that Republicans are generally in support of gay marriage...
He was supportive of Portman's decision. He did not express support for gay marriage. Furthermore, the quote and reference I gave is newer than yours.
Try again. Even better, try addressing the actual underlying issue instead of flailing about trying to deny the obvious.
Oh, well if you deny it, then obviously it all disappears, right?
Let's recap. In a subdiscussion about how extreme the right has become in the US, someone said this: "The Conservative party in the UK lines up pretty well with Democrats in the US. David Cameron supports gay marriage for crying...
Go to the top level and type "dir /b /s >filelist.txt". Then edit it with a good text editor, removing all the lines of the files with extensions you want to keep. Then put quotes around them and "del " in front and save in a batch file. I can do it for you if you want to send me the list.
There is no "structure". It's a forum. It works exactly the same way as this one, except the trolling and other obnoxious behavior is not allowed, and people are expected to debate in a logical manner.
It hasn't thrived because most people either can't do that, or don't want to. It's really...
No, the mistake was having a separate place where the undesirables were not welcome, as opposed to simply banning them from the forum.
It's easy to sit on the sidelines and jeer those trying to make things better, as evidenced by yourself and a few others who have been griping about the DC...
Because it never achieved critical mass, and is mostly ignored even by many of the people who said they wanted it in the first place. And because it gave the admins an easy way to avoid a more proper solution, which is draining this swamp, imposing reasonable discussion standards like those in...
This is from a different thread but it belongs better here.
The bottom line is simple: given an opportunity to reform this sewer, and also given an alternative, most people have chosen to keep this place as it is, and remain here. Thus, this is the way most of them want it.
If a majority of...
McDonald's has had summer lobster rolls in New England for years. Really. It's not horrible, from what I remember (not great, but at least reasonably fresh).
Oh, and to be fair, New Englanders have their own "down home" ways of destroying lobster as well. :)
The first is the so-called "lazy man's lobster", in which a lobster is cooked, the best parts removed from the shell and drowned in a garlic butter sauce and baked in a casserole until the meat...
Now there's some real Grade A cherry-picking.
General trends about groups aren't invalidated by a handful of counterexamples. Every single person here knows that the vast majority of opposition to gay rights comes from conservatives. I'm baffled that you'd even try to argue against that.
Are...
Okay, maybe not sriracha, I just liked the alliteration. :) It was years ago and resembled the picture posted. It wasn't a bad dish by any means, but had the typical heavy Chinese-American restaurant sauce that overpowered a subtle, luxury ingredient.
Italian-Americans have a similar...
No, the worst thing he could have done was along the lines of what the last guy did.
And it remains to be seen whether he "failed" or not. So far all he's done is make people who hate him whine a lot, and that's not really important.
I've had the Chinese-style lobster. It might as well be cheap fish for all you can actually taste of it.. lobster has a subtle flavor that is lost when it is smothered in soy and sriracha.
Nice thread.
The two things I will never buy in restaurants any more: shrimp and steak. The former, because restaurants continue to price them as if they were grand luxury items, giving 6 medium-sized shrimp on a plate for 20 bucks, when they are now dirt cheap at the grocery store. Steak, for...
Right, thus the qualifier about it requiring cooperation from others. The simplistic types think that we somehow have the power to fix any problem anywhere in the world just because we are "exceptional" and have a bloated military.
I think you really meant to say "can't be disputed by those...
The people going on about winning and losing seem to forget that there is no situation here where Obama could possibly win, unless others choose to cooperate.
Even if he had never made the "red line" comment, his choices were to ignore what is going on there or get involved, and neither would...
Again, I was talking about the people who still kept calling for bombing even as this deal was unfolding. They are nearly all on the right.
So deciding to get involved in a war unnecessarily is "strength"?
You think we gained "respect" after what we did in Iraq? Honestly, where do people come...
If you were actually trying to have a discussion here, no, no foundation to it. If you're just here to take pot shots at people without even trying to contribute to the discussion, as you did in your example, that's different. But then that would earn you an infraction in most places on this...
A new mother with an infant at home can't go out and get a part-time job. If she can use some of the time between having to deal with the child to save money, that's pure win, compared to using that time for something completely unproductive.
Try seeing things from someone else's perspective...
If there's any stupidity here, it's on the part of people who can't see the applications for something where it makes sense, and instead thoughtlessly write off the entire thing by saying "they're stupid".
The benefits of doing this depend on your life situation. Like anything, you can go...
Doppel, I'm talking about those whining about the possible non-military solution and still saying we should have attacked anyway. Are there people on the left doing this? I haven't seen any. It's all coming from the right.
And if Putin and Assad "won" this, I'm still not seeing it. What did...
That's part of what I said above, conservatives pretending to be libertarians. And of course, liberals exacerbate this by conflating the two, paying attention more to the areas where libertarians diverge from liberals than where they diverge from conservatives.
Libertarians have not been traditionally considered left or right. Most political surveys/quizzes that involve at least two dimensions show significant differences between libertarians and either liberals or conservatives.
In recent years there has been a trend towards somewhat of a blurring of...
Obviously, what he's done wrong is not bombing the crap out of Syria to prove how "strong" he is. The fact that this would have accomplished nothing and likely been detrimental to US interests? Well, that doesn't matter nearly as much as "not appearing weak".
Most of the strident right is...
Great article. Love to see people doing what they want rather than what they think other people want.
I can see living out of a minivan ... I've done it for a week before, and even done it with our Outback which is pretty small for that. If we didn't have to deal with weather and rough roads...
There was an argument there, very clearly made -- more than once. You ignored all of it because, well, it's a lot easier to just swear at people than to respond intelligently. But that didn't make it disappear.
As I said, Bush is still relevant because it seems that most of the warmongers and...
Thanks for all the replies. To be clear, I'm not criticizing anyone for their choices. If I have a beef it is more with the marketing departments of these companies than any customers, who should buy what they feel makes sense for them. And I appreciate the different perspectives.
BTW I should...
Feeling optimistic, I clicked the link to read all about how global warming was a "hoax" and read the obviously damning evidence showing how it was invented to enrich Al Gore.
Imagine my surprise.
Perhaps not everything, but yes, it's a big part of it I am sure. That particular aspect of the human condition is not unique to any political philosophy, of course.
I think it's a pretty strong -- and sad -- statement about this place, that someone gets flamed repeatedly simply for trying to express something positive, even towards those he disagrees with.
Pretty typical of American society as well, unfortunately.
Okay, and what's the intelligence level...
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