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I fucking love this what the fuck is it

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/world/europe/belgium-brussels-police-orgy.html?_r=0

PARIS — In the six weeks since the Paris terrorist attacks, law enforcement agencies in Brussels, where most of the attackers lived or had ties, have been denounced as slow, unresponsive, disorganized and even incompetent.

To this list of woes, another was added Wednesday: Officials are investigating accounts of an alcohol-fueled “orgy” at a police station one night last month while Brussels, the Belgian capital, was nearly shut down over fears of a copycat terrorist attack.

At the time, soldiers had been sent to Brussels to help patrol the city, which was paralyzed with fear. Schools, government offices, markets and the public transit network were all closed.

According to an article in La Dernière Heure, a local newspaper, the orgy occurred sometime between Nov. 21 — when the federal government’s crisis center raised the alert level for the Brussels region to 4, the highest — and Nov. 26, when the alert level was reduced to 3.

About 20 soldiers from a light infantry unit known as the Bataillon de Chasseurs Ardennais were bivouacked at a police station in Ganshoren, a neighborhood north of Molenbeek. According to the newspaper, after the police station closed for the night at 10 p.m., two policewomen were invited upstairs to the floor where the soldiers were sleeping and had sex with eight of them.

A spokeswoman for the Brussels-West police agency, one of six police departments that patrol the city, confirmed on Wednesday that it had begun an internal investigation after the article was published Tuesday.

The police agency is responsible for Molenbeek, the working-class neighborhood in Brussels that was home to several of the men involved in the Paris attacks, which killed 130 people.

How does this make you feel?

>I had never seen or read LOTR before I read The Hobbit
>Read The Hobbit in late June of 2012 during a camping trip, because it's required reading for Sophomore Honors English
>Me being in the woods at the time I am able to visualize Bilbo's journey very well, fall completely in love with the story and the imagery, comfiest book I've ever read
>Book makes a huge impact on me and, alongside Boy Scouting finally making a real impression on me around this time, helps me develop a love of adventure and the outdoors
>school starts back
>"guys the Hobbit is actually really amazing it meant a lot to me"
>"Yeah dude I love LOTR bro r u exctited for the new hobbit movie?"
>Didn't know there was going to be one
>Everyone is now bandwagoning for the new movie
>Everybody reading The Hobbit around this time to prep for the movie
>My major personal find is now somewhat invalidated by media hype
>Okay whatever I bet the movie will be good as hell
>Movies come out
>First one bretty decent for what it is
>Tumblr girls shitposting about their elf and dwarf waifus and husbandos
>Learn to hate them
>Second one is butthole
>Start to hate Hobbit movies
>Hate everyone who likes this thing I like because they like it for all the wrong reasons
>Fuck you you'll never understand me
>Consumerist pigs
>Tolkien please help me I'm dying on the inside

It's a feel I've never quite gotten over.

Quote from: Auld Lang Turkey on January 05, 2016, 08:11:30 PM

Quote from: † on January 05, 2016, 08:09:51 PM

Am I now seriously going to have to clarify my stance on the influence of gender on political mentality and the female vote? I can do that, but I really don't feel like it because it's like half-formed as is.

As long as it's presented cogently instead of just a flippant remark like it was here I'd be interested in hearing your rationale. Separate thread maybe?

Aight.

I'm an egalitarian first, regardless of biological differences. Seeing, for example, irrefutable evidence that one ethnic group is inherently more prone to violence would not change that.
I believe natural rights are inherent to all human beings. I believe some rights are god-given, and that some are simply reasonably inherent.
I do not believe in the right to vote. We've all been over why I feel this way, most of you disagree with me. I don't believe humans have the right to exercise control over one another, especially not based on numerical majority. I am critical of all government, but I will admit to being more critical of democratic government lately.

I think it is fairly clear, based on my interactions and what I know of scientific studies, that there are mental differences inherent to men and women. Whether these are entirely biological or partially culturally-implanted, the fact of the matter is that men and women, in general, think differently. I believe this impacts the voting tendencies of men and women, although to what extent is unclear.

I recently heard it suggested that the social roles typically assumed by women, that of a nurturer and caregiver, are projected on the state when they vote, likewise men are likely to project the role of protector on the state. This is an uncomfortable thought, but I'll admit it has left an impression on me during the last week or so.

I'm not comfortable completely committing to this position, because I am not as informed as I should be on the psychological and scientific understanding of the issue, if there is one. This is where I am at the moment.

Misogynistic? You guys tell me, but if it is, tell me why. I strive for an egalitarian view always.

Reposted from DAS' thread in the Flood.

But Nutria Brown is the true king

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3003874/The-hopeless-British-ISIS-jihadi-Former-Morrisons-security-guard-threatened-bomb-UK-struggles-peel-potatoes-wash-clothes-Syria.html

i dont not understand why was these made be for revenge of the sith and the toher as luke was born after any became lord vador but yet these where made befor then or was rebenge of the sith made after for a back story such as this is luke then show how he was born i dunno im confused why this has been done

>current year

I could not bring myself to hate a film where it was so clear that everyone involved in the production was having a great time. That had to be the happiest vibe I've ever gotten from a big budget movie.

Also I was surprised how much I liked John Boyega's character. I expected just a token black character but he was actually my favorite by the end of the movie.

I still think this thing should never have been made and that Disney is going to suck the franchise completely dry and ruin the Star Wars name. But that didn't stop me from enjoying TFA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Zoroastrians
>After the Muslim conquest of Persia, Zoroastrians were given dhimmi status and subjected to persecutions; discrimination and harassment began in the form of sparse violence. Zoroastrians were made to pay an extra tax called Jizya, failing which they were either killed, enslaved or imprisoned. Those paying Jizya were subjected to insults and humiliation by the tax collectors. Zoroastrians who were captured as slaves in wars were given their freedom if they converted to Islam.
>Zoroastrian places of worship were desecrated, shrines were destroyed and mosques built in their place. Many fire temples, with their four axial arch openings, were usually turned into mosques simply by setting a mihrab (prayer niche) on the place of the arch nearest to qibla (the direction of Mecca). Zoroastrian temples converted into mosques in such a manner could be found in Bukhara, as well as in and near Istakhr and other Persian cities. Urban cities where Arab governors made their quarters were most vulnerable to such religious persecution, great fire temples were turned into mosques, and the citizens were forced to conform or flee. Many libraries were burnt and much cultural heritage was lost.
>Gradually there were increased number of laws regulating Zoroastrian behavior, limiting their ability to participate in society, and made life difficult for the Zoroastrians in the hope that they would convert to Islam. Any political, military, or economic resistance by Zoroastrians was unfeasible or violently suppressed by the government.