🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Needs a 20 gallon hat.
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there could stand to be a few more pairs of boobs in congress.
Arizona is doing what it can to address the situation:
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Anyway, my understanding about the origin of censorship in the us is that it was a somewhat voluntary thing, because there were a lot of local cinemas that refused to show films that they considered offensive, and the studios figured they could make more money by enforcing a standardized ratings system.
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You missed the when Fascism was introduced into a topic about censorship.
OK, hold on. I bow to no man in accusing @blakeyrat of his bullshit, but the censorship was about Mein Fucking Kampf.
It was actually kind of funny, to say that one reason we fought fascism was so that an important document in fascism's most notorious incarnation could continue to be printed.
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Just some random people having very bad ideas
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From that compilation:
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Yeah, that guy is fucking legend.
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for PC there would have to be two of them. one with boobs and one with
moobsMorbs
Filed under: FTFY
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Besides, I think that level 20 elf druidess wild-shaped all over Morbs and proceeded to turn him into a greasy pink pancake...
Filed under: druuuuuiiiiiddddddsssss
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Besides, I think that level 20 elf druidess wild-shaped all over Morbs and proceeded to turn him into a greasy pink pancake...
Don't underestimate the power of a rusty screwdriver to the kidneys.
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Don't underestimate the power of a rusty screwdriver to the kidneys.
You missed the reference there...good luck fighting a bear (or worse!) with a rusty screwdriver, because you'll need it.
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You missed the reference there...good luck fighting a bear (or worse!) with a rusty screwdriver, because you'll need it.
Look, if you can invoke magical bear bullshit, @morbiuswilters can invoke magical rusty screwdriver bullshit.
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It was actually kind of funny, to say that one reason we fought fascism was so that an important document in fascism's most notorious incarnation could continue to be printed.
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ah..... the onion.
it's so much fun when one of their stories is picked up by a new journalist not in the loop and then the other news sources start copying the journalist's story without researching the sources to find the onion....
it's been a while since a big incident of that happened.... maybe we're due for another.
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"Nip" is pretty much only acceptable in old WW2 movies.
http://www.nip.gl/wp-content/themes/nip2014/images/nipheader2014c.png
http://www.nip.gl/wp-content/themes/nip2014/images/nipheader2014c.png
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http://www.nip.gl
And apparently Greenland hosted shit that I have no idea WTF it is and neither does anyone else except @JazzyJosh and probably @ben_lubar, now that I went there and looked at what it was.
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Counter Strike: Global Offensive / League of Legends / (I assume) Starcraft 2 team not that you nor anyone else actually cares.
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It's not Greenland, it's "good luck" or "good game". Just like ".tv" isn't Tuvalu and ".me" isn't Montenegro.
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Look, if you can invoke magical bear bullshit, @morbiuswilters can invoke magical rusty screwdriver bullshit.
Problem is -- improvised weapons are 1d4 by RAW -- doesn't stop you trying though, but getting through a L20 character's HP with a 1d4 weapon...will take a while, at a minimum.
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BLAH BLAH BLAH WIZARDS AND ELVES I'M A NERD PLEASE TAKE MY LUNCH MONEY AND GIVE A ME WEDGE
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Problem is -- improvised weapons are 1d4 by RAW -- doesn't stop you trying though, but getting through a L20 character's HP with a 1d4 weapon...will take a while, at a minimum.
I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish here, but I don't think it's working.
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This is also fun:
http://i.imgur.com/olgJyCh.gif
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As a climber, that one is scary.
And a big part of why I don't have interest in ice climbing. (Well, not that particular image specifically.)
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Yeah, I had to switch it off within the first day of trying it.
I stuck it out, and have got used to it. Luckily all my Android devices are now Android 5, otherwise I'd get pissed off with it.
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Oy; yes, definitely on our list. Currently working on putting out another fire, but hopefully we’ll get to this one early next week.
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The BBC's Sarah Corker visited the protesters and spoke to acclaimed fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, who is a fierce opponent of fracking.
[Westwood] suggested fracking was not a financially viable solution to energy needs, describing it as "absolute madness".In other news...
http://www.viviennewestwood.com/shop/mens/accessories/shoes/orb-mocassin-black
Not available in Green™, sadly.
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Maybe she goes out of her way to buy more expensive "naturally" drilled oil.
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Maybe she goes out of her way to buy more expensive "naturally" drilled oil.
There is a natural source of oil that could be used to replace all that stuff coming from the ground.
It's called whales.
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Maybe she goes out of her way to buy more expensive "naturally" drilled oil.
It's possible, but this is the person, IIRC, who thinks that if you can't afford "organic" food then you should just eat less. IOW, an actual instance of @flabdablet's "Fuck you, I've got mine."
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The Bad Idea™ here is in pandering to the parents (and kids') delicate sensitivities, not the showing of a music video...
PARENTS have rallied round a school after pupils suffered nightmares when they were shown Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video in class.
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One mum whose son saw the film said: “Mr Reilly has responded in an appropriate way. He has done the right thing and I think everyone should now move on. We all make mistakes.”The implication here being that the little kiddiewinks were (allegedly) scared by the theme of the Thriller video, not the fact that it starred Michael Jackson. Irregardless, lessons must be shown to be learned...
It is with considerable regret that I am writing to you to apologise that the children in classes KP/3 and CF/3 [9 and 10 yr olds FFS - ed] were yesterday shown the Michael Jackson ‘Thriller’ music video without parental consent being sought.
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Schools are a bit sensitive these days.
When it snowed the other week, someone from work was saying the kids at her kid's school weren't allowed out at break/lunch to play in the snow for "Health and Safety" reasons.
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That makes sense to me, though. Probably a lot of kids weren't dressed appropriately, and the school doesn't want to deal with wet and cold kids for the rest of the day.
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If this doesn't convince you that it's jumped the shark, you need to start drinking the other Kool-Aid.
I recently assisted a young man who was subjected by administrators at his small liberal arts university in Oregon to a month-long investigation into all his campus relationships, seeking information about his possible sexual misconduct in them (an immense invasion of his and his friends’ privacy), and who was ordered to stay away from a fellow student (cutting him off from his housing, his campus job, and educational opportunity) — all because he reminded her of the man who had raped her months before and thousands of miles away. He was found to be completely innocent of any sexual misconduct and was informed of the basis of the complaint against him only by accident and off-hand. But the stay-away order remained in place, and was so broadly drawn up that he was at constant risk of violating it and coming under discipline for that.
(h/t Althouse)
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As it was thick snow when they were sent to school, I'd have assumed (maybe wrongly) that their own parents had provided appropriate clothes for outdoors in the snow.
Either way it didn't happen when I was in school. It snowed, we were allowed outside.
I still think it's silly. They're kids, let them be kids.
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As it was thick snow when they were sent to school, I'd have assumed (maybe wrongly) that their own parents had provided appropriate clothes for outdoors in the snow.
I have no idea what the population there is like, but my neighborhood is mostly fairly recent Central American immigrants. Most of them don't own appropriate clothing. I mean, they have coats and stuff, but probably not boots and other waterproof stuff you'd have. Plus, then they come in and they're wet? Yuck.
Either way it didn't happen when I was in school. It snowed, we were allowed outside.
I dunno...I grew up in SoCal. We didn't go outside if it rained, and it never snowed where I lived. That happened up in the mountains.
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I have no idea what the population there is like
The school in question is down South in an affluent area. The kids will be dressed properly.
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"As God is my witness, I'll never let my kids go to school in inappropriate clothing again!"
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Is that the house from Jumanji?
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Is that the house from Jumanji?
now that you mention it........
probably not. that's Tara from gone with the wind.
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i'm actually impressed i knew that without looking it up.
i had to look up the name of the house (it has been a while since i saw gone with the wind) but i did remember the house correctly.
:-D
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Such a selection here. We'll start with the NSFL photos, spoilered for your pleasure. Skip to the news extracts first if you want the suspense...
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A woman who makes her fiancé take a lie detector test to prove he has been faithful every time he leaves the house has been diagnosed with a rare condition that causes delusional jealousy.
[She] is so paranoid that her partner [...], will stray that she also checks his phone, email accounts and bank statements several times a day for evidence of infidelity.
[He] is even banned from watching women on television or looking at pictures of them in magazines.
I think he’s gorgeous, but that’s not the issue - it’s about whether or not I can trust him not to look at other women while he is out on his own.
Britain's most jealous woman who forces her husband to take a lie detector test to check he is being faithful is now having a gastric band operation on the NHS to ensure he does not stray.
Debbi Wood, who weighs 21 stone, hit headlines last year after admitting that she forces her husband Steve to take the test whenever he goes out, in a bid to curb her extreme jealousy.Now the size 24 mother-of-two wants the £2,500 taxpayer-funded operation so she can lose ten stone and be less anxious about her 32-year-old husband cheating.
Mr Wood, 32, is now a full-time carer for his wife, who is unable to work due to back pain associated with her weight.
Together, the pair receive almost £1,500 per month in benefits, including income support, carer's allowance and disability and housing allowance.
Mrs Wood said she cannot exercise because of her size but is 'really careful' about what she eats.
She said the pair occasionally 'treat themselves at the chippy' but that she has not had a McDonald's Big Mac for five years.
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It would be really funny if she turned out to have been cheating on him all along.
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Classic deflection