Evening Reading
by Maarten Goldstein, Aug 20, 2001 5:50pm PDTAh yes another Dutch ER tonight. Because you know that those are extra special right? No in fact they suck. But you still get your wack stories !
- Hey sometimes you just gotta get your game on. It's a creative way of stealing or something. - I guess Italians chicks are hard to get or something? - Those crazy Canadians and their donut weddings. - Ah yes..Milli Vanilli and his crazy tricks. Anyone remember him?Lastly, porn on campus is good. Thanks mrraist-.
- Apparently you're not allowed to be a real man in Brazil anymore.
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I want to expand on the ability to use potentially offensive words and to be able to make potentially offensive racist jokes (funny or not) that may or may not include these words, as well as have arguments and discussions about racism that may or may not include these words and the ability to express an opinion on this topic contrary to what I think most people believe. People wanted my post nuked because it wasn't funny and it was offensive to them. I want to explain why that shouldn't matter if it was funny or not and why in general nothing like this needs censoring and why it's wrong for people to ask for it to be censored.
The issue here is not whether black people are being oppressed, or whether people might be offended because of 'ties to their original culture'. The issue is broader than that. Something will always offend somebody. There are a ton of controversial things that can offend a person in this world: Gays are made fun of all the time, doesn't that offend people (this is changing, posts are being nuked for this now too)? The Chinese have recently been the brunt of many jokes, I'm sure that offends somebody. The same goes for Communists, abortion, davecrazy, etc. Porn offends me. I get offended when people say there is no God, because it is against what I was taught my entire upbringing. Each of these topics has a multitude of different positions/stands you can take. But you cannot say something that might even remotely be considered racist. Why is this off-limits while the others are not? If you essentially ban this topic of discussion, how far will you go? If you're going to put your foot down on anything remotely racist, what's next? Anything remotely sexist? No more jokes about overweight people? No more humorous blond jokes? (Sorry I think I stole those last two from somebody else) What will the next 'controversial topic' be that becomes hazardous for public discussion?
The issue is not whether oppression against blacks has more 'history' behind it than these other topics. I could give a damn about history. Maybe you don't, and you're offended, but while I respect your right to be offended I'm not going to modify the contents of my posts to suit you. Even if I did, somebody'd be bound to be offended by the new content. You can't please everyone; if you could this forum would turn into a really boring place to hang out. I read a comment in my (first post) thread that essentially said: what about people who are not strong enough to ignore the offending post/poster? The answer is: It's not my problem. Nobody makes sure their posts are agreeable to everyone else before posting. It may be 'basic human compassion' to do so, but nobody has any responsibility to act unoffensive to anybody else.
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I just unleashed a massive slurp attack on my coffee and made this lame noise
I hope no one heard that
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mmmmmmmmmm
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Recent botched executions in the US. Not really gross or anything (no pictures). Definitely interesting, though.
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but we need a GameOS ...
something specifically for running games...
it'd need really high quality device drivers...
but it could probably give much faster performance than under windows...
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there's 3 dots, a green one, a blue one and a red one.
the green dot goes into the forest.
the blue dot goes into the water.
where does the red dot go?
he said, the entire thingie makes sense with the answer.
he also said we'd beat him up once we got the answer right (must be stupid, but still logical).
HELP!!!
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WHOA!
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MAXIMUM STOOPID SHACKER OF THE YEAR
People should get banned for bumping threads
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I think it would be cool to learn.
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I found my favorite! *drops fluid like a chemist*
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I look at the hat and thing....why?
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Dragonball Z?
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* C U P T I T T Y 'D*
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Transplant was July 2, he wasn't expected to make it a month. Still alive.
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"Wanna go for a swim?"
"I didn't, uh, bring my bathing suit, heh.."
"You don't need one.."
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GOTTA VIOLATE THEM ALL
EXTRA SPECIAL BONUS:
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This girl look like a clone of the bitch who jerked me around for six months. Picture this girl maybe six inches taller, and you have Tracy. HOORJ
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