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    ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Gooey wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    The new conservativism thread is a teeming jungle of wild and dangerous fallacies.

    It isn't a conservatism thread. It's a libertarianism thread in disguise.

    They're adapting! Memetic evolution at work.

    Currently it's evolving into a capitalism vs. socialism thread

    Which, as I pointed out, is silly because it's a false dichotomy.

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    DmanDman Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I just saw this in H/A and I wanted to debate it,

    QUOTE=meeker;7977553]Hope for Homeowners. Google it.

    As for everyone who is giving him a hard time.Why should he have to pay an inflated price for a place when prices were artificially driven up by investors, mortgage brokers and speculators.

    There was so much gambling going on that every homeowner has been fucked.

    I have lost 35% as well and am now over under in equity in a two bedroom townhouse my family is quickly outgrowing.

    We are all fucked in this mess, homeowner or not, but it is not really our faults as most of us were just trying to find a nice place to live.

    Do what is best for your situation. If you can get out without getting burned, do it. Your credit will take a hit, but so is everyone else's. Good luck.[/QUOTE]

    The person buying an overpriced house is just as at fault as the bank who gave them a loan to buy something that was overpriced. I am sick of hearing "we were just trying to find a nice place to live".
    :x

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    Wonder_HippieWonder_Hippie __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    I'm in Woodstock, Elks is going to be in Kennesaw. Can't miss the opportunity, let me know when you're down here and we can all go hang out.

    Cool, I'll do that.

    Although this does sound suspiciously like the start of a Lifetime movie. How big is the trunk of your car?

    Motorcycle. I'm the bad boy, inasmuch as Kevin Spacey was a bad boy in American Beauty.

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    Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Gooey wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    The new conservativism thread is a teeming jungle of wild and dangerous fallacies.

    It isn't a conservatism thread. It's a libertarianism thread in disguise.

    They're adapting! Memetic evolution at work.

    Currently it's evolving into a capitalism vs. socialism thread

    Those threads are always ruined by the douchebags who have no understanding of the word 'socialism' and instead try to paint any kind of public system as 'communist'.

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    TrowizillaTrowizilla Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    I'm in Woodstock, Elks is going to be in Kennesaw. Can't miss the opportunity, let me know when you're down here and we can all go hang out.

    Cool, I'll do that.

    Although this does sound suspiciously like the start of a Lifetime movie. How big is the trunk of your car?

    Motorcycle. I'm the bad boy, inasmuch as Kevin Spacey was a bad boy in American Beauty.

    Then I guess I'm safe, although the thought of trying to ride a motorcycle with a dead body is Lifetime-worthy lol.

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    GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    I'm in Woodstock, Elks is going to be in Kennesaw. Can't miss the opportunity, let me know when you're down here and we can all go hang out.

    Cool, I'll do that.

    Although this does sound suspiciously like the start of a Lifetime movie. How big is the trunk of your car?

    Motorcycle. I'm the bad boy, inasmuch as Kevin Spacey was a bad boy in American Beauty.

    Smoking pot, working out, listening to Cream in your garage while your neighbor spies on you and falsely thinks his son is fellating you and later tries to kiss you as he comes to grips with his own sexual confusion and then a little bit later murders you? Also there is red.

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    The Raging PlatypusThe Raging Platypus Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    evilbob wrote: »
    James wrote: »
    Australia is like America but worse
    :x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x
    :cry:

    You guys do have awesome accents though

    also Koalas
    And platypodes

    *beams*

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    YOU'RE A GOD DAMN PLATYPUS.
    PSN Name: MusingPlatypus
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    AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    evilbob wrote: »
    James wrote: »
    Australia is like America but worse
    :x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x
    :cry:

    You guys do have awesome accents though

    also Koalas
    And platypodes

    Sounds like a pokey man.

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    ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    I'm in Woodstock, Elks is going to be in Kennesaw. Can't miss the opportunity, let me know when you're down here and we can all go hang out.

    Cool, I'll do that.

    Although this does sound suspiciously like the start of a Lifetime movie. How big is the trunk of your car?

    Oh god... please let it not be a Lifetime movie. Then we'd have to have a plot synopsis in [chat] and Lifetime would make a "based on a true story" piece of crap and next thing you know Valerie Bertinelli is talking on TV about cucumber salad... D:

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    JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    evilbob wrote: »
    James wrote: »
    Australia is like America but worse
    :x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x
    :cry:

    You guys do have awesome accents though

    also Koalas
    And platypodes

    Sounds like a pokey man.

    Actually, our resident Platypus sounds like George Takai.

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    TrowizillaTrowizilla Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elldren wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    I'm in Woodstock, Elks is going to be in Kennesaw. Can't miss the opportunity, let me know when you're down here and we can all go hang out.

    Cool, I'll do that.

    Although this does sound suspiciously like the start of a Lifetime movie. How big is the trunk of your car?

    Oh god... please let it not be a Lifetime movie. Then we'd have to have a plot synopsis in [chat] and Lifetime would make a "based on a true story" piece of crap and next thing you know Valerie Bertinelli is talking on TV about cucumber salad... D:

    I love those "based on a true story" pieces of crap. Have you seen the one where the eeeeeevil woman seduces this guy on the Scary Internets and manipulates him into killing her husband? Mullets abounded.

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    Wonder_HippieWonder_Hippie __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Gooey wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    I'm in Woodstock, Elks is going to be in Kennesaw. Can't miss the opportunity, let me know when you're down here and we can all go hang out.

    Cool, I'll do that.

    Although this does sound suspiciously like the start of a Lifetime movie. How big is the trunk of your car?

    Motorcycle. I'm the bad boy, inasmuch as Kevin Spacey was a bad boy in American Beauty.

    Smoking pot, working out, listening to Cream in your garage while your neighbor spies on you and falsely thinks his son is fellating you and later tries to kiss you as he comes to grips with his own sexual confusion and then a little bit later murders you? Also there is red.

    That was Bob Dylan, man.

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    AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    evilbob wrote: »
    James wrote: »
    Australia is like America but worse
    :x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x
    :cry:

    You guys do have awesome accents though

    also Koalas
    And platypodes

    Sounds like a pokey man.

    Actually, our resident Platypus sounds like George Takai.

    If I could see a Platypus doing this, it would be even funnier.

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    GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Gooey wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    I'm in Woodstock, Elks is going to be in Kennesaw. Can't miss the opportunity, let me know when you're down here and we can all go hang out.

    Cool, I'll do that.

    Although this does sound suspiciously like the start of a Lifetime movie. How big is the trunk of your car?

    Motorcycle. I'm the bad boy, inasmuch as Kevin Spacey was a bad boy in American Beauty.

    Smoking pot, working out, listening to Cream in your garage while your neighbor spies on you and falsely thinks his son is fellating you and later tries to kiss you as he comes to grips with his own sexual confusion and then a little bit later murders you? Also there is red.

    That was Bob Dylan, man.

    Ah, I haven't seen the movie since it came out. Also there was that thing about a plastic bag that people made fun of for years afterwards.

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    INTERNETS

    the internets are scary business


    i mean one time i heard about this sexual predator named mikeman and he posted on...

    i mean nevermind

    so how about those videogames guys

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    DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2008
    Hmm, I think I'm due to write an LJ entry.

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I wonder how much one makes from selling the rights to your life story to Lifetime

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    american beauty was still a damn fine movie

    the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power

    see also: donnie darko

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    TrowizillaTrowizilla Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MikeMan wrote: »
    american beauty was still a damn fine movie

    the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power

    see also: donnie darko

    Meh Donnie Darko. American Beauty was pretty good, though.

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    Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I think Donnie Darko was more ruined by the director. His cut of the film made it very obvious that he got lucky / had a talented editor ignoring him for the theatrical release.

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    american beauty was still a damn fine movie

    the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power

    see also: donnie darko

    Meh Donnie Darko. American Beauty was pretty good, though.
    donnie darko was good times

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    I think Donnie Darko was more ruined by the director. His cut of the film made it very obvious that he got lucky / had a talented editor ignoring him for the theatrical release.
    which is why i am not going to watch the director's cut

    it's better when he's not slapping you over the face with the god angel metaphors

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    TrowizillaTrowizilla Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    american beauty was still a damn fine movie

    the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power

    see also: donnie darko

    Meh Donnie Darko. American Beauty was pretty good, though.
    donnie darko was good times

    It was okay. I'd have liked it better if the twist hadn't utterly failed to surprise me.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    american beauty was still a damn fine movie

    the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power

    see also: donnie darko

    Meh Donnie Darko. American Beauty was pretty good, though.
    donnie darko was good times

    It was okay. I'd have liked it better if the twist hadn't utterly failed to surprise me.

    What's the twist in Donnie Darko? That Gyllenhall is not a very good actor?

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    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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    Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Trowizilla wrote: »

    It was okay. I'd have liked it better if the twist hadn't utterly failed to surprise me.
    It didn't really have a twist.

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    Wonder_HippieWonder_Hippie __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Gooey wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    I'm in Woodstock, Elks is going to be in Kennesaw. Can't miss the opportunity, let me know when you're down here and we can all go hang out.

    Cool, I'll do that.

    Although this does sound suspiciously like the start of a Lifetime movie. How big is the trunk of your car?

    Motorcycle. I'm the bad boy, inasmuch as Kevin Spacey was a bad boy in American Beauty.

    Smoking pot, working out, listening to Cream in your garage while your neighbor spies on you and falsely thinks his son is fellating you and later tries to kiss you as he comes to grips with his own sexual confusion and then a little bit later murders you? Also there is red.

    That was Bob Dylan, man.

    Ah, I haven't seen the movie since it came out. Also there was that thing about a plastic bag that people made fun of for years afterwards.

    I love that scene for all the wrong reasons. That character was such a pseudo-intellectual, self-absorbed piece of shit, and it all came out when he talked about that stupid fucking bag.

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    AstraphobiaAstraphobia Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! Root! Sleep! Death!Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    american beauty was still a damn fine movie

    the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power

    see also: donnie darko

    Meh Donnie Darko. American Beauty was pretty good, though.
    donnie darko was good times

    I enjoyed Donnie Darko and Napoleon Dynamite as much as I enjoyed a rectal exam; which is to say, not at all.

    In their defense, I had heard for months on end how awesome they were and had listened to quotations ad nauseum. As such, by the time I watched them they were rather stale.

    Now Super Troopers.. That is an awesome movie. :lol:

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    american beauty was still a damn fine movie

    the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power

    see also: donnie darko

    Meh Donnie Darko. American Beauty was pretty good, though.
    donnie darko was good times

    It was okay. I'd have liked it better if the twist hadn't utterly failed to surprise me.
    twist?

    oh the
    kills himself to save the others
    twist?

    or the
    the bunny is frank is his sister's boyfriend
    twist?

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    TrowizillaTrowizilla Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »

    It was okay. I'd have liked it better if the twist hadn't utterly failed to surprise me.
    It didn't really have a twist.

    I'd call the whole
    "you have to die to prevent Very Bad Things"
    a twist, personally. It's hard for me to get into a movie when I'm watching the main character and going "Yeah, I shouldn't get emotionally invested in you."

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    american beauty was still a damn fine movie

    the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power

    see also: donnie darko

    Meh Donnie Darko. American Beauty was pretty good, though.
    donnie darko was good times

    I enjoyed Donnie Darko and Napoleon Dynamite as much as I enjoyed a rectal exam; which is to say, not at all.

    In their defense, I had heard for months on end how awesome they were and had listened to quotations ad nauseum. As such, by the time I watched them they were rather stale.

    Now Super Troopers.. That is an awesome movie. :lol:
    i saw it knowing nothing about it other than it had a stupid sounding name

    i'm glad that's how it went down.

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    ViolentChemistryViolentChemistry __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    What sort of empirical or argument-from-authority evidence is out there to encourage increased arts-programs in schools?

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    OboroOboro __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    oh my god when that guy said we had 98% literacy 'before public schools' I think I suffered a minor stroke

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    american beauty was still a damn fine movie

    the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power

    see also: donnie darko

    Meh Donnie Darko. American Beauty was pretty good, though.
    donnie darko was good times

    I enjoyed Donnie Darko and Napoleon Dynamite as much as I enjoyed a rectal exam; which is to say, not at all.

    In their defense, I had heard for months on end how awesome they were and had listened to quotations ad nauseum. As such, by the time I watched them they were rather stale.

    Now Super Troopers.. That is an awesome movie. :lol:

    Man I hated napolean dynamite, it was so awful yet all my retard coworkers were telling me how awesome it was, and quoting it endlessly.

    Preacher on
    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    TrowizillaTrowizilla Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    What sort of empirical or argument-from-authority evidence is out there to encourage increased arts-programs in schools?

    http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr123.shtml

    Learning music makes you better at math.

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    nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Oboro wrote: »
    oh my god when that guy said we had 98% literacy 'before public schools' I think I suffered a minor stroke

    in the 1800s only land-owning white folks could fill out surveys

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    SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Preacher wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Trowizilla wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    american beauty was still a damn fine movie

    the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power

    see also: donnie darko

    Meh Donnie Darko. American Beauty was pretty good, though.
    donnie darko was good times

    It was okay. I'd have liked it better if the twist hadn't utterly failed to surprise me.

    What's the twist in Donnie Darko? That Gyllenhall is not a very good actor?

    Having watched this mediocre, forgettable film, you will now hear about it.....forever

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    JamesJames Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    evilbob wrote: »
    James wrote: »
    Australia is like America but worse
    :x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x
    :cry:

    I mean like, with your really conservativeness. But like America there are some really awesome people there.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Senjutsu wrote: »

    Having watched this mediocre, forgettable film, you will now hear about it.....forever

    Soylent green is bad acting!

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    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Oboro wrote: »
    oh my god when that guy said we had 98% literacy 'before public schools' I think I suffered a minor stroke

    During childhood? Possibly.

    Thread had me facepalming pretty hard right now.

    And I liked Donnie Darko.

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I have no particular feelings either way on Donnie Darko

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