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You can pose this question to all sorts of !@#$s. Christian !@#$s will respond with, "because evolution is an atheistic worldview that true Christians do not hold." Atheist !@#$s will respond with, "because creationism is stupid/illogical/irrational/whathaveyou, thus religion is stupid, and the theory of evolution proves it." Muslim !@#$s will respond with, "derka derka mohammed jihad!" Jewish !@#$s will respond with, "oy vey! Saying the Tanakh is fallible? It's shoah all over again!" Scientologist !@#$s will...well you get the point.

I just want to know how he figured out that I smoke a pipe

Wasn't me. It's back up now, though. Not sure what that was all about.

:lol: Great thread, Sage. You got them all riled up!

Man, you just get so friggin' butthurt over someone questioning the potency of your little third rail.

You picked a bad example there.

The guy was a damn good speaker. I like this authoritarian better though: I ask this audience to-night whether or not we are going to give everything we have within us - not only material resources, but our moral and spiritual being, our very life and our very soul - in holy dedication to England that she shall not perish, but shall live in greatness. We are going, if the power lies within us (and it lies within us because within us is the spirit of the English), to say that our generation and our children shall not die like rats in Polish holes. They shall not die but they shall live to breathe the good English air, to love the fair English countryside, to see above them the English sky, to feel beneath their feet the English soil. This heritage of England, by our struggle and our sacrifice, again we shall give to our children. And, with that sacred gift, we tell them that they come from that stock of men who went out from this small island in frail craft across storm-tossed seas to take in their brave hands the greatest Empire that man has ever seen; in which tomorrow our people shall create the highest civilisation that man has ever known. Remember, we say to our children, those who have gone before you. Remember those who through the centuries have died that Britain might live in greatness, in beauty and in splendour. Remember too that, in the spiritual values that our creed brings back to earth, these mighty spirits march beside you and you must be worthy of their company. So we take by the hand these our children, to whom our struggle shall give back our England; with them we dedicate ourselves again to the memory of those who have gone before, and to that radiant wonder of finer and nobler life that our victory shall bring to our country. To the dead heroes of Britain, in sacred union, we say, "Like you we give ourselves to England: across the ages that divide us, across the glories of Britain that unite us, we gaze into your eyes and we give to you this holy vow: we will be true to-day, to-morrow, and forever. England lives."

Vote early, vote often.

Well she was an Amereecun girl raised on PROMEESEZ!

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I was making a statement on violent crime. And perhaps I was giving TheNewBills too much credit. They do in state prisons. And what would those things be? Honestly, I think that stupid laws and policy changes have driven higher incarcerations percentages more than anything else. IMO, the only people that really need incarceration are the violent offenders and only a small number of nonviolent offenders.

It's fairly well-documented that violent crime is generally intraracial. For example, the typical street robbery victim - young, black, lower class - has the same profile as the typical street robbery offender.

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Not just researchers, but students, which explains the following: Dear !@#$ing lord that **** is awful. Half of my work wouldn't get done without having a decent librarian or five around.

It's not even fair. At least if theists are correct they (at least some of them) get the pleasure of observing that fact. If atheists are correct, nobody will ever know!

I'll use derivative work in order to delay legal action: Buy a better monitor, you penny-pinching idiot.

I don't care.

You're going to smoke your Hot Wheels?

Better yet...

Now I'm confused. First you say that bbb's position is that "the whole damn thing is her fault," but then you say, "but you keep defending the indefensible and put some of the blame on the girl." So which is it? Or is your emotional outrage making you all confuzzled?

I'm sure NoJustice could name a few.

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This is true. But hey, if I can't rely on my own eyes and ears, what can I rely on? Oh, wait. !@#$.

I can try. Never done reviews before, this'll probably be pretty bad. Quick synopsis of the film: Milos, a retired Serbian porn star, finds himself and his family (he has a wife and son) low on cash. He is contacted by a former associate, who tells him that a man, Vukmir, is making the next great adult film; a true work of art. Milos reluctantly agrees to star in the film, and gets caught up in some !@#$ed up ****. Not entirely sure how to start this review. There's no doubt: A Serbian Film is torture porn for people who think that the rape scene in Irreversible wasn't realistic enough and Hostel wasn't gory enough. If you can't stomach that sort of thing then don't bother; there aren't enough redeeming qualities in the film to make watching it worthwhile at that point. However, if you can stomach that sort of thing, A Serbian Film may be worth watching. Milos and his brother (Marko) both end up being relatively well-developed characters, with Marko's envy of his brother turning into a remarkable plot device (after first seeming hollow and rather pointless). Milos' inner turmoil, with his struggle between his family's financial security and his morals (at least in the first half of the movie), is interesting to watch. The supporting characters in the first half of the movie seem pleasant and well-intentioned enough, but many of them turn sadistic and sinister by the end. The guy who plays Milos (some Serbian whose name I can't bother copy/pasting) is a decent actor; his lines (though poorly written [or maybe poorly translated - I don't understand Serbian, so I relied on subtitles]) are well-delivered, and it's easy to get caught up in his emotions. The plot, while definitely lacking real depth, is engaging enough to keep you interested and doesn't want for surprises. The writers/director/whoever made good use of flashback (it's not true flashback - if you watch you'll understand - but it serves that sort of purpose) after the halfway point in the movie. There is some heavy exposition in the first half of the film, which sets the viewer up for extreme frustration and depression following the second half of the film. Unfortunately, the movie has several scenes that do nothing for plot, character development, or exposition, and leave you sitting there thinking, "why did they just show me that?" All in all, this is a cruel, frustrating, soul-stealing movie with more than a few redeeming qualities. If you watch it, you'll probably feel awful. Masochists, this is for you. On the other hand, it is torture porn, which drives a lot of people away. If you have a cast-iron stomach and don't mind bad dreams for a couple of days, A Serbian Film is worth a try.

I always like to pose this question to monotheists who laugh at pagans: what makes more sense, a bunch of supreme beings (gods) came together to create a universe, or some bored guy came up with it all on his own? It always gets me some odd looks. It's like they've never worked as a team before.

1. Lurk more. 2. Post less. These two could probably be combined into one suggestion, so we have room for 9 more.