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The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
Texas strikes me as a state where people are probably against a social safety net even if they need it not out of any real ideology, but because the wrong type of people will get it.
Fox News chief Roger Ailes wants to take his conservative interpretation of contemporary affairs and apply to history.
Ailes told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday that he wants Fox's parent company News Corp to team up with host Bill O'Reilly — author of a series of pop history books detailing the bloody deaths of Lincoln, JFK and, most recently, Jesus — and launch the venture.
"I would like News Corp to form a history channel and let Bill work with me," Ailes said. "I'd run it for him because I'd like history done correctly for a change. They're not teaching the kids the real stuff. I think there is room for another channel, and I would love to do it."
Here is the post I was writing before I was hit by the very elegant way vanilla handles closing threads:
The first norseman to put his boots on Iceland was a man named Naddoðr. He called it Snæland, snowland
Next came a man called Garðar, who stayed for the winter, and also cirumnavigated it, discovering that it was an island. He named it Garðarshólmur. Garthar's island.
A man who came with Garðar, Náttfari, eloped and decided to stay for good, along with two thralls. The bay he settled in is called Náttfaravík. Náttfari's bay. His name, by the way, means Nightwalker. Which is cool. Anyway.
The next man to come over was a man named Flóki. He brought three ravens to find land with, for which he was later named Hrafna-Flóki. Raven-Flóki.
After naming a bunch of bays after the people who first went "oh, look, a bay", their first winter was harsh and cold, all the cattle died, and when Hrafna-Flóki spotted ice drifts in the bay, he went "[expletive] iceland." thus naming it.
kaleeditySometimes science is more art than scienceRegistered Userregular
I'd imagine most of the voters in texas would respond to a personal health crisis the same way the Duck and Cover videos taught people to respond to nuclear threats
anyone who votes for a government that will prevent them from getting healthcare is clearly not equipped to fully understand the situation
i can't really resent them, but it makes me sad
they're being manipulated and, essentially, injured and killed by the politicians they're propping up
they were doing that thing on TV the other day where they find some bottom of the barrel troglodytes in a given state (in this case Alaska they were questioning people who voted for Palin) and interview them on their opinions
there was one guy who couldn’t justify whey he thought anything but was still positive he was right and that Palin represented his view even if he didn't know what they were
and i wasn’t laughing at it, i actually kind of felt that the guy had been really really failed by the state at some point, he'd just had no education and because of that he was fodder for being manipulated into voting against his own interests
it's a pity
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
The pity leaves you quickly when you're around people like that constantly and you realize how willfully ignorant they are.
on that not im highly amused by Wills yearly anime post and look forward to it every time
I'm not sure how he can top this years though
how can he go further than "no anime period"?
"No discussing Anime, even on other forums. In fact, even the word "Anime" is banned from here on out. Chances are you've done a Secret Santa here recently, so we know where you live."
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
on that not im highly amused by Wills yearly anime post and look forward to it every time
I'm not sure how he can top this years though
how can he go further than "no anime period"?
From the desk of Irond Will cir. 2015:
We will no longer be allowing anyone with an anime AV to post in the Debate and Discourse. We feel that it has put undue stress upon our sensibilities and honestly, who cares what those guys have to say anyway.
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I am too old to use the interbutt
I don't know how to bookface or twoot or 2square or punterst
you guys have probably already hacked my megahurtz with my personal information
god damn it I am become irond will
WHICH MODS ALT ARE YOU
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/roger-ailes-bill-oreilly-history It would be so 1984.
you are already dead
that cat has anime eyes
someone call Will this must be against the rules somehow
The first norseman to put his boots on Iceland was a man named Naddoðr. He called it Snæland, snowland
Next came a man called Garðar, who stayed for the winter, and also cirumnavigated it, discovering that it was an island. He named it Garðarshólmur. Garthar's island.
A man who came with Garðar, Náttfari, eloped and decided to stay for good, along with two thralls. The bay he settled in is called Náttfaravík. Náttfari's bay. His name, by the way, means Nightwalker. Which is cool. Anyway.
The next man to come over was a man named Flóki. He brought three ravens to find land with, for which he was later named Hrafna-Flóki. Raven-Flóki.
After naming a bunch of bays after the people who first went "oh, look, a bay", their first winter was harsh and cold, all the cattle died, and when Hrafna-Flóki spotted ice drifts in the bay, he went "[expletive] iceland." thus naming it.
omg those eyes
I assume this means he'll probably commit seppuku in shame soon.
I invented this phrase
I'm not sure how he can top this years though
how can he go further than "no anime period"?
ð is pronounced like the th in them
þ is pronounced like the th in thing
i knew i got it somewhere
i am highly amused by throwing some scientology in with my blasphamy
i assume that's what it is?
COOKIE
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i can't really resent them, but it makes me sad
they're being manipulated and, essentially, injured and killed by the politicians they're propping up
anime thought crimes
no japanese words
the spiral goes ever upward
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Should have sent a poet
Excuse me but Mike Tyson uses Eth all the time.
I like the story behind "ye olde".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVWvkZbhgAc
they were doing that thing on TV the other day where they find some bottom of the barrel troglodytes in a given state (in this case Alaska they were questioning people who voted for Palin) and interview them on their opinions
there was one guy who couldn’t justify whey he thought anything but was still positive he was right and that Palin represented his view even if he didn't know what they were
and i wasn’t laughing at it, i actually kind of felt that the guy had been really really failed by the state at some point, he'd just had no education and because of that he was fodder for being manipulated into voting against his own interests
it's a pity
"watch your gif sizes you chucklefucks" was also a powerful bit of word play
i like to sit down in an evening with a glass of wine and enjoy jeffes greatest works
i'm a connoisseur of grumpy old men articulately venting
"No discussing Anime, even on other forums. In fact, even the word "Anime" is banned from here on out. Chances are you've done a Secret Santa here recently, so we know where you live."
no offense but I hope this happens
he doesnt mean they literally hit the report button on themselves
it's the people who go "i know i'll get an infraction for saying this but it's worth it"
and there are a fair few of them
Huh.
Not at all how anyone here actually pronounces "ye olde"
Same reason "thou" turned into "you", I've heard.
He means both.
Willfully ignorant is kind of a contradiction though.
Anyone who is willfully ignorant is that way for a reason. Somewhere along the line, their family or education or peers or etc failed them.
Blaming them isn't really going to help... though I can understand avoiding them.