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The Flood / Re: What's your fetish?
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The Flood / Re: What's your fetish?« on: August 04, 2014, 01:15:46 PM »fuck yesfat chicksmah nigrah 14972
Serious / Re: Top Country« on: August 04, 2014, 01:12:31 PM »Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles. Uber alles in der Welt... I was wondering when you'd show up. 14973
Serious / Re: oh gawd y« on: August 04, 2014, 01:11:18 PM »Conversely, we could lease hospitals out to contractors and put fiscal responsibility with local boards.Maybe if we stopped putting so much money into the private sector.It really isn't. It's quite mediocre and - considering how much we spend on it - really quite frustrating. Did you ever see that article about the NHS not being free-at-the-point-of-use in ten years' time? It's not particularly sustainable; it needs serious reform.The NHS is a great system, it's just under funded in parts of England.You know what America needs? That'd be a start. It's not a case of the government misallocating funds, it's a case of them having too much funds in the first place. Remove all of the spending on defence, foreign aid, welfare and a bunch of other things and we'd still have a deficit. 14974
The Flood / Re: What's your fetish?« on: August 04, 2014, 01:09:04 PM »-PainMy respect for you just skyrocketed. 14975
Serious / Re: oh gawd y« on: August 04, 2014, 01:07:11 PM »It really isn't. It's quite mediocre and - considering how much we spend on it - really quite frustrating. Did you ever see that article about the NHS not being free-at-the-point-of-use in ten years' time? It's not particularly sustainable; it needs serious reform.The NHS is a great system, it's just under funded in parts of England.You know what America needs? 14976
Serious / Re: oh gawd y« on: August 04, 2014, 01:02:23 PM »You know what America needs? I know you don't like America, but there's no reason to punish them with such a horrible system. 14977
The Flood / Re: Do you know what I really hate?« on: August 04, 2014, 09:06:47 AM »
The Ides of March with Ryan Gosling and George Clooney was just atrocious.
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Serious / Re: A perfect example of how retarded politics is« on: August 04, 2014, 06:04:45 AM »
Jesus, Dustin, you're getting stupider by the day.
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The Flood / Re: Where will the US be in 100 years?« on: August 03, 2014, 05:29:44 PM »>0+2014Oh my God I fucking love Glitch. 14980
The Flood / Re: The boy/girl that you like and you thought would never want to talk to you...« on: August 03, 2014, 05:02:43 PM »I would just deal with it since I know what it's like to be the annoying one. You genuinely believe that spending more time with them will make them want to be around you more.This. You're very agreeable. 14981
Serious / Re: Israel Will Never Stop Abusing Palestinians« on: August 03, 2014, 04:57:44 PM »
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I'll take Israel over Hamas any day. Islamists have to be fucking crushed. 14982
The Flood / Re: The boy/girl that you like and you thought would never want to talk to you...« on: August 03, 2014, 04:56:33 PM »I would just deal with it since I know what it's like to be the annoying one. You genuinely believe that spending more time with them will make them want to be around you more.This. Pretty much the smartest fucking thing Dustin's ever said. 14983
The Flood / Re: The boy/girl that you like and you thought would never want to talk to you...« on: August 03, 2014, 04:44:36 PM »I know exactly how you feel. . . I was attracted to this one girl in my class. One day, we started talking, and she's really buddy-buddy now. She keeps telling her friends I'm like the funniest guy ever, and saying "Hi, best friend" whenever I walk past her. Part of that is because I don't like clingy people, part of it is because I wasn't emotionally attracted to her. 14984
Serious / Re: England is an Orwellian dystopia« on: August 03, 2014, 04:26:51 PM »Did you make this thread because I showed you that picture bbycakes? I did honeysuckle. 14985
The Flood / Re: The boy/girl that you like and you thought would never want to talk to you...« on: August 03, 2014, 04:24:43 PM »
I know exactly how you feel. . .
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Serious / Re: Let's see how stupid some people are (hint: very)« on: August 03, 2014, 04:09:29 PM »When a UK citizen says "we should have stricter immigration control" they generally mean A) remove the EU backed privilege to move to any country without that country being able to reject you (unless you have a particularly egregious crimes in which case either the parent country wants you back and we send you packing or they don't and we have to stick them in our prisons) and/or B) put a system in place so when people cross the border without identity we don't have to shelter them.I'm still skeptical. Xenophobia runs deep. 14987
Serious / Let's see how stupid some people are (hint: very)« on: August 03, 2014, 03:45:49 PM »
All data taken from poll results of isidewith.com; I'll only use examples where the stupid opinion is within the majority. I will do UK and US polls (I realise some of these will be more controversial than others). Yes, the judgement of stupidity is, in itself, an opinion. I'll put really controversial ones in italics. Particularly egregious statistics will be emboldened.
UK: - 63% of voters (79,225) think we shouldn't renew our Trident nuclear weapons system. - 67% of voters (510,605) think we should enact a stricter immigration policy. 9% of the total, however, think we should admit high-skilled workers, so not all bad. - 73% of voters (329,513) think we shouldn't leave the EU. - 50% of voters (375,458) think we should decrease foreign aid spending. - 50% of voters (378,068) think the NHS shouldn't use private services. - 63% of voters (320,081) think the government shouldn't make spending cuts. - 58% of voters (297,510) think we should raise corporation tax. - 61% of voters (293,301) don't support the use of hydraulic fracking. - 60% of voters (454,913) think we should abolish tuition fees. - 65% of voters (492,711) are against the establishment of free schools. - 62% of voters (466,616) are against the legality of zero-hour contracts. - 53% of voters (399,498) are for the construction of HS2. - 52% of voters (391,001) are against the declaration of the London Underground as an essential service. US: - 52% of voters (4,706,659) think the government should expand NASA's budget. - 46% of voters (4,327,247; not a majority, but close enough) support Obamacare. - 73% of voters (5,959,878) support the death penalty. - 69% of voters (305,699) think immigrants should be required to learn English. - 67% of voters (369,087) support tougher immigration controls. - 81% of voters (788,719) support term limits. - 53% of voters (4,089,920) support the Patriot Act. - 52% of voters (1,963,582) are against decriminalising drug use. - 55% of voters (208,318) don't think the government should give immunity to Edward Snowden. - 78% of voters (3,051,272) think able-bodied adults on welfare should be forced to work. - 60% of voters (5,723,850) support a rise in the minimum wage. - 77% of voters (762,252) think Wall Street execs. should be criminally liable for the 2008 financial crisis. - 57% of voters (2,493,077) think the government should subsidise farmers. - 62% of voters (6,232,450) think America should expand off-shore drilling. - 65% of voters (1,715,066) think the government should subsidise wind power. 14988
The Flood / Re: Has 2014 been a good year for you?« on: August 03, 2014, 02:27:36 PM »
Fucking shit.
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Who needs sleep? Do you enjoy it? 14990
Serious / Re: England is an Orwellian dystopia« on: August 03, 2014, 01:14:59 PM »Fucking what?Seriously I wouldn't want to go to the UK. I've talked to some British people and they tell me it's like the government wrote the laws while referring to 1984. 14991
Who needs sleep? What do you even do? 14992
The Flood / Re: The official TV show/Movie recommendation thread« on: August 03, 2014, 12:39:35 PM »Blackadder, VGHS, Stargate, Top Gear and Red Dwarf are all shit.Only Fools And HorsesYou're alright Spr?ngli. Especially Red Dwarf. 14993
The Flood / Re: The official TV show/Movie recommendation thread« on: August 03, 2014, 12:30:07 PM »
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned House of Cards or Dexter.
Two fantastic shows. 14994
Serious / Re: There are good and bad forms of taxation« on: August 03, 2014, 11:35:17 AM »It's not swaying people's personal choice. If that was the case then you wouldn't be seeing homeless and poor people spending their money in order to get some crack or heroin. There's health risks to the public whenever a person smokes or decides to drink too much and drive. If they don't have health insurance then these taxes would offset the medical bills so insurance policies won't rise for everbody elseAn externality like a person drinking and driving or smoking in public isn't at all solved by taxation. And no, businesses cannot pay tax because only people pay tax. 60% of corporation tax is borne by the workers in the form of lower wages, and the rest being divvied between investment returns and prices. Corporation tax also has a massive deadweight loss, and is incredibly economically inefficient. Yes, exactly, competition is being stifled. For example, the EU currently has agricultural tariffs that stops extra-European competitors from efficiently doing business in the market. There's literally no justification for tariffs. If agricultural produce could be sold by African firms at a cheaper price than the European firms (assuming no tariffs) then everybody would be a lot wealthier. Protectionism is literally economically disgusting; even Paul Krugman supports free trade. 14995
Serious / Re: England is an Orwellian dystopia« on: August 03, 2014, 10:35:10 AM »You saw a guy die?No joke, when I got to the airports train platform in London yesterday the first thing I heard over the intercom was some bullshit about CCTV was watching and monitoring everything for the purposes if my own safety and protection. Fucking kek. 14996
The Flood / Re: I'm a nihilist, AMA me anything« on: August 03, 2014, 10:24:11 AM »It's a meme.Your point?My philosophies, unless political, don't usually come up in conversation with anybody. Just like bismuth. 14998
The Flood / Re: I'm a nihilist, AMA me anything« on: August 03, 2014, 10:20:50 AM »It's a meme.Your point?My philosophies, unless political, don't usually come up in conversation with anybody. Have you honestly never seen it before? 14999
Serious / Re: There are good and bad forms of taxation« on: August 03, 2014, 10:18:41 AM »That's an interesting argument you have there.You can't seriously call yourself a libertarian and still think taxes should be used to sway people's personal choices. Not to mention, taxation on such goods doesn't stop such behaviour and simply makes people poorer.First 2: Not a necessity and can increase health risks of peopleBad forms of taxationYou'd better have a damn good reason for thinking cigarette, liquor, corporation taxes and tariffs are fine. 15000
The Flood / Re: I'm a nihilist, AMA me anything« on: August 03, 2014, 10:17:34 AM »Your point?My philosophies, unless political, don't usually come up in conversation with anybody. |