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At 10/30/14 02:59 PM, Stretchysumo wrote:
Wouldn't want to trigger you, now would we?

Oh no, a snarky comment and funny meme!

At 10/30/14 02:53 PM, Makakaov wrote:

At 10/30/14 01:24 PM, SentForMe wrote:

At 10/30/14 01:22 PM, Makakaov wrote:
The ones without socialism.

Could you name say, 5 countries that would fulfill this definition?

I am not your teacher. Go, read a book.

Here's a map of all the countries that have called themselves socialist at one point or another. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't call all the rest of the countries uniformly normal. I mean hell, some of them are downright weird.

At 10/30/14 02:32 PM, kazumazkan wrote:

At 10/16/14 06:07 PM, FurryGod wrote: Viruses are nothing new, I don't know why Ebola is suddenly a hot topic.

because of fear and conspiracy theorist

a relatively slow news cycle helps too.

At 10/16/14 06:21 PM, NeonSpider wrote: It's a mistake to send the United States' military into such areas.

Because exactly what we need is for mass numbers of US soldiers to contract the disease while at the same time escalating fears of the extremely superstitious Africans in those areas and make them think we're the ones causing the disease right? ... right???

Just quarantine those countries. Make them no fly zones in or out. You're there? Too bad. You're stuck there.

Ever tried to quarantine an entire country? Neither has anyone else. I'm also pretty sure it would be much more expensive to try to quarantine 3 countries as opposed to trying to beat the illness. The two countries have literally thousands of kilometers of borders and the countries that border it are in no position to enforce a full military blockade of the countries.

If you wanted even a chance of succeeding you would need to put something like half a million troops on the ground and about a thousand ships to blockade the oceans. Even then someone is bound to get through and the quarantine is bound to make them even more motivated to do so. When all was said and done it would likely cost a $100 billion or more, assuming it even succeeded. That is over 100x the cost of the current US military operation there right now and that is not even including the economic cost of imposing no fly zones.

So yeah, massive waste of money and no guarantee of success. Why do people keep bringing this up as a good idea?

At 10/30/14 01:36 PM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: God, I hate YouTube videos that call themselves "social experiments". The punch in the face is the only reason I chose to watch that, and I feel a fool for doing that because it's at the end of the vid so that people watch the whole thing.

Problem solved
^
This link skips right to the good part.

At 10/30/14 03:59 AM, Chumbawamba wrote:

At 10/30/14 12:24 AM, SentForMe wrote: Well, it looks like we'll find out one way or another soon enough, assuming they can get funding for a more extensive expedition to try to find the plane and the bodies.

Just need to convince James Cameron that a film on this subject would raise the bar.

Who knows, he might be able to pull a Titanic and make a billion of the film. Then again, if they don't find anything it would just be a waste of money. He has plenty to burn and I'm not convinced this would be that much riskier then say Avatar was.

At 10/30/14 01:22 PM, Makakaov wrote:
The ones without socialism.

Could you name say, 5 countries that would fulfill this definition?

At 10/30/14 01:16 PM, Makakaov wrote: It's only racist when someone makes a problem out of it, and it usually isn't the person called 'racist'.

In normal country unless you're burning negroes on stakes it's hard to call you a racist.

So, what are some examples of these "normal countries"?

At 10/30/14 01:05 PM, kazumazkan wrote: I ordered one from amazon a couple of days ago and i should get it on Monday.
i also got a book with some songs from zelda and other things
im excited.

Once you get good at it you should record a song or something. They sound quite nice, apparently.

...by punching the racist in the face. Even though this was a "social experiment" it was still pretty funny. Maybe these social experimenters should realize that if they act like real life trolls there are bound to be real life consequences.

Anyway, what would you have done in the same situation?

At 10/30/14 12:35 PM, Thor wrote:

At 9/6/14 06:51 PM, Magical-Zorse wrote: America has better food and better beer.

All of our food is just stolen from other countries, though.

Beer... Well I've always been more of an import guy, but Yuengling is good. I was going to say "I think the only Belgian beer I've had is blue moon" but after fact checking, I see it's American. Hmmm. I really like St. Pauli Girl, which is German, and very good, but I've always had doubts that it even remotely resembles actual German beer..

If you live in the United States you probably have access to quite a few fine Belgian brews if you go to some of the larger wine and beer stores. If you can, try to find a Chouffe Houblon Triple IPA if you can. It's a fine pale ale and well worth trying.

I bought some Polish food for dinner yesterday. Stuffed chicken, potato dumplings with gravy, and some tomato salad isn't bad for $6. Not healthy, but not bad.

You could do a whole lot worse than hiring #9 on this list, Neal Ellis. Just make sure he has his helicopter along with him.

At 10/30/14 05:51 AM, Amaranthus wrote:
It's Islamic State (IS) now, they ditched ISIS weeks ago. Why can people not realize this?

Well, the world's media continues to refer to it overwhelmingly as ISIS an to a lesser extent ISIL, so you can hardly blame me for making the same mistake.

At 10/30/14 05:51 AM, Amaranthus wrote:
Also, SentForMe, quit being a retard and stop bumping topics, especially because all you do is flame Belgium and claim we're overrun by Muslims. While only 6% of our population is Muslim.

Come on now, my discussion of Belgium in this thread has been overwhelmingly positive. I only mentioned ISIS once and I never stated that Belgium was being overrun by Muslims.

At 10/30/14 12:05 PM, GRIMthaREAPER wrote:

At 10/30/14 12:02 PM, SentForMe wrote:

At 10/30/14 12:02 PM, NewgroundsMike wrote:

At 10/30/14 12:00 PM, GRIMthaREAPER wrote: didnt you know im a grammar jew?

Do you want to be grammar exterminated?

Don't you think that comment is a bit grammar-insensitive?

do you know who i am? and do you want to grammar exterminate me?

If you grammar exterminated me, does that mean that I would write in grammatically incorrect sentences from now on?

At 10/30/14 12:04 PM, GRIMthaREAPER wrote:

At 10/30/14 12:01 PM, NewgroundsMike wrote:

At 10/30/14 11:58 AM, GRIMthaREAPER wrote: would you rather cut off your dick or get ass raped every day?

Cut off my dick.

Would you rather quit your obsession over dicks or leave?

quit my obsession with dicks i cant obsess over vaginas
would you rather die or become dead?

I rather become death, because then I would be the grim reaper and would have something to do after my passing.

Would you rather be able to see only in the dark or breathe underwater without technological assistance?

At 10/30/14 12:02 PM, NewgroundsMike wrote:

At 10/30/14 12:00 PM, GRIMthaREAPER wrote: didnt you know im a grammar jew?

Do you want to be grammar exterminated?

Don't you think that comment is a bit grammar-insensitive?

At 10/30/14 11:45 AM, NewgroundsMike wrote:
I'll take the needles to my ears. Chances are they won't reach far enough in.

Would you rather drink ale or mead?

Ale, because I find it tastier.

Would you rather screw in a light bulb or screw up making a sandwich?

So, an update to this story.

A bunch of coaches have been suspended and at least seven students were arrested connected with the incident. There's a question of whether they should be tried as juveniles or adults. Thoughts?

At 10/30/14 11:24 AM, GRIMthaREAPER wrote:

At 10/30/14 10:54 AM, NewgroundsMike wrote:

At 10/30/14 02:30 AM, SentForMe wrote: If it did answer my question, could you answer my second question of where to buy one at a discount?

Do you really need this?

do we really need most things we have?

Perhaps not, but where would the world be if we only purchased things we actually needed?

So, Brazil is experiencing its biggest drought in decades. It has caused close to $10 billion in damages and is a contributing factor in the fact that Brazil's economy hasn't grown in the last two and a half years (since the drought started). Reservoirs for its largest city in the country have shrank to 3 - 5% of normal capacity and there is water rationing all over the country.

As one of the largest agricultural producers and exporters in the world, this drought has been a contributing factor in increases in the prices of coffee, oranges, beef, and other agricultural products. There's also a question of how how much longer Brazil's important rainforest can survive the drought without long term damage. As one of the planet's most important carbon sinks and an important source of new pharmaceuticals the loss of vast swaths of an already shrinking rainforest, would be a major blow to the world.

So, the CEO of the world's largest company has come out publicly, which is pretty cool. Who knows, maybe it will convince more public figures to come out as well and by extension more people in general. It is still dangerous to come out in many parts of the world, but at least this is another step in the right direction.

At 7/12/14 11:36 AM, Reiska3 wrote: Lets say Europe never colonized America, what do you think would be the result from then til now?

At some point Asia would have tried to colonize America and then roughly the same thing would have occurred as when the Europeans arrived. Perhaps a few more would have survived, but most of the deaths were a result of disease and the same illnesses that existed in Europe also existed in Asia at the time.

In all likelihood it would have either been the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, or the Tsardom of Russia that first arrived in the Americas. Neither empire was known for being particularly less brutal than the European powers, so I imagine they would have followed a somewhat similar track as the European empires.

At 7/12/14 11:36 AM, Reiska3 wrote:
Also, are native americans its own race, or is it just tribes of people who lived in America before

I don't think that all native americans could be said to belong to one race. There were several migrations of asian peoples to the americas over time and in between several minor ice ages. This lead to the development of a number of distinctly different peoples that could be said to be their own races, based on isolation from other peoples on the continent. Then again, race is such an imperfect term, that I'm not even sure it's worth trying to describe native americans in that way.

At 10/29/14 09:57 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:

At 10/29/14 01:32 PM, NewgroundsMike wrote:

At 10/29/14 07:07 AM, VJF wrote: Which guy do you mean, this kaiju toilet person, Cthulu, or GRIMthaREAPER?

What's a kaiju toilet, by the way?

A kaiju toilet is a nuclear reactor, such as the ones at a nuclear power plant, so does that answer your question?

If it did answer my question, could you answer my second question of where to buy one at a discount?

At 10/29/14 10:09 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:

At 10/29/14 06:42 AM, NewgroundsMike wrote:
Would you rather have your keyboard or your mouse break?

My mouse, for they are easier to replace.

Would you rather live in a world where everybody walked around naked or have sex with a rule 63 Godzilla?

I would rather live in a world where everybody walked around naked. Nudity really isn't that bad and it makes life simpler by taking away the stress of picking out clothing. It would also force human beings to move to more temperate climates, so there might be a positive effect on Northern ecosystems.

Would you rather have a cold war or a hot war?

If there's one thing that Reddit is good at it's courting controversy, for all the wrong reasons. There have been all kinds of sick, twisted, and disturbing subreddits. As it became more popular over time it shut down many of those subreddits, but there are still plenty left and new ones that occasionally pop up as well. So, what is the most disturbing subreddit you have come across?

Make sure you describe it fully, so we don't wind up wandering into something that is completely traumatizing by accident.

At 10/30/14 01:55 AM, Monster-64 wrote:

At 10/30/14 01:53 AM, SentForMe wrote: Well, either she's dead or she's the oldest living person on Earth at the age of 117. If I had to take a guess I'd say long dead.

Yeah, we should probably give up hope now.

I was just thinking that if she died on the island and wasn't buried some animals likely ate her corpse over time and dragged the bones all over the place. Then the chances of finding skeleton intact are pretty low, even if they can prove she was there.

Well, looks like the shit is really hitting the fan now.

At 10/30/14 01:44 AM, Monster-64 wrote:

At 10/30/14 01:37 AM, SentForMe wrote:

At 10/30/14 01:34 AM, Monster-64 wrote: Isn't this like the... billionth time they found her plane?

They haven't found her plane yet, they just think they have a better idea of where to go looking now.

But the better question remains: Is she dead?

Well, either she's dead or she's the oldest living person on Earth at the age of 117. If I had to take a guess I'd say long dead.

Well, the kickstarter was funded to the successfully tune of £32,660. I wonder how long until we'll see new content from these guys?