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I think, at heart, it isn't a complicated issue.
edit: I don't really want to get into it again after having gotten into it with Richy a couple days ago, but I've yet to see anything from the pro-ban side that wasn't thinly disguised bigotry or magical thinking
Then I see J in chat, and I feel human again.
I will talk to myself about the entertaining quartet if no one wants to join it. They are distinctive crackers and there are four different kinds!
That short film? I watched that shit. It was pretty tight.
My answer is usually, don't ban the burqa, that's like putting earplugs in your ears when your neighbor is beating his wife, rather than calling the cops. I swear, some people put so much emphasis on the cloth, as if being bare headed will make it any easier for oppressed women to be free. Give immigrants a better place to start from, that way women who want to can have the education and means to leave those who force it on them. And, after that, when they're on their own and self-sustaining and choose to wear it, let them.
'night [chat].
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
personal choice
it’s not a simple question
I understand why many feminists feel that it is in the interests of womens rights to ban burquas and suchlike, not that I necessarily agree, but I can see why.
What?
When did I do that?
o_O
Good luck. Thanatos clearly deserves that one.
What's it called? It sounds neat.
Restricting personal choice in a way that won't address the root issue ban proponents claim motivates the ban in any way short of *magic* vs not restricting personal choice.
It's perfectly straight forward
I was raised better than this.
Really, it's the wheat ones I don't care for. They're too puffy and have that wholly inappropriate "touch of sweetness" thing going on. Screw that.
the funny thing is that his opinion exists at this weird junction where populist junk-food writing and highfaluting academic discourse collide. like a lot of lit crit type dudes think that writing should be freed from the tyranny of narrative and plot, because real life doesn't happen in three acts blah blah blah.
I think it's silly, frankly. A book that's nothing but plot is an airport novel but I have yet to read a serious examination of the human condition that was not bettered by having a few clear plot throughlines and character arcs and act breaks and so forth.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
wait are you saying it wasn't you?
gosh i am going to have to go back to the drawing board on this one now.
No
It's much more likely that if some fabric goes away the men will attain enlightenment and the women will throw off the cotton shackles of oppression
I keep hearing this but the whole "dragons are misunderstood! kid teaches tolerance" plot seemed really cheesy. Does it manage to avoid being really preachy and cliched?
i agree with your criticism of the whole wheat crackers. in principle i really prefer the edge that whole grains bring to the table, but the leavening and sweetness of those crackers call to mind cookies almost, and just ruin the whole vibe
later chat
I'd say it's troped, not cliched, it's a kid's movie. But no, it's not really preachy or cheesy.
I might've. I don't remember, but if it was a while ago I've most likely forgotten.
i can't remember really being satisfied with a book that did not have a coherent story structure
king's books give the sense that they are made up as he goes along and it's just frustrating. i just don't even want to bother
This one.
I like sweet biscuits with cheese, especially brie. I quite often just buy a pack of digestives to have with cheese.
I have come to terms with my oddness.
Also, can you get proper blue cheese in the States?
And yes, we can get good blue cheese in the States. We're not the boondocks, Cesca.
my word!
Apparently this is some magic combination, the McDonald's burger with Sriracha. I can't remember where I heard about it, but trying it will supposedly be so good that it will destroy my life.
I gotta get in on that.
he has actually managed to deliver a couple of times
like there was this one book I read, Wizard and Glass, that felt like it was written by an entirely different dude. It had this really relentless sense of foreboding and everything fit together really neatly and the plot moved inexorably and culminated in this fucked-up, sad ending, like a Greek tragedy
I guess if you write that many books though you're bound to get one right
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Sounds like an odd experiment to me, but I still get the occasional craving for McNuggets, so who knows. Maybe the crack in McDonald's food interacts with the chili in some way.
you probably mean stilton
so yes
also, we can get danish, roquefort and gorgonzola pretty easily
some of the other kinds are kind of harder to track down but specialty stores and whole foods generally have a good assortment
I figure it's either that or I've been totally mislead.
it was me
actually it's mcdonald's double cheeseburgers with sriracha
it will ruin your life
you will be ugliest albino
with ugliest soul
and ugly paunch