It's just a number.

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They just dyke out all the time and wear thongs and so we bored holes through the walls with our bare teeth and watched the lesbian fest for almost the entire duration.

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Did a big one pull a Porky pull on any of you?

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Interesting. Did you have an overbearing mother? Were you breastfed? Was your mother emotionally distant and cold?

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Is that a memory any of us should have, being breastfed? Unless you're portraying me as Milkman Dead, don't you think that's a bit of a stretch? You must have been classmates with Lucy.

I enjoy a rather healthy relationship with my mother if you must know. Well, it gets a bit awkward when politics are brought up, I did find a Glenn Beck book in her bathroom one of the last times I visited :sigh:

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I did find a Glenn Beck book in her bathroom one of the last times I visited :sigh:

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I've got one of his books from my more conservative daze, and before he turned batshit insane. :dave:

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I did find a Glenn Beck book in her bathroom one of the last times I visited :sigh:

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I've got one of his books from my more conservative daze, and before he turned batshit insane. :dave:

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I don't know how far back it goes, but I think the one I saw was "Glenn Beck's Common Sense" with a subtitle trying to tie him to Thomas Paine. I think it's that one, as I don't recall there being a picture of him on the cover.

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They just dyke out all the time and wear thongs and so we bored holes through the walls with our bare teeth and watched the lesbian fest for almost the entire duration.

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Did a big one pull a Porky pull on any of you?

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I don't know. Maybe. If it's a good thing, I'll work it into the story perhaps.
What's a Porky?

Glenn Beck's Real America from 2005 is the one I have. The link has his first chapter which is made up (like the rest of the book) as a collection of his "older essays". I just reread about half of what was on the page, and I found it interesting how much my views have changed during the past 7 years (I've finished college and a master's in that time- I imagine that might have something to do with it). :P

Anyway, I find his views to be more naive than insane at that point. He certainly took it up about 10 notches once he got on television.

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Did a big one pull a Porky pull on any of you?

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I don't know. Maybe. If it's a good thing, I'll work it into the story perhaps.
What's a Porky?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa0DbAXlnUg

I'm wagging my finger at you, vigorously.

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"Have you seen this prick? Report immediately to Beulah Balbricker. Do not attempt to apprehend this prick, as it is armed and dangerous. It was last seen hanging out in the girls' locker room at Angel Beach High School."

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Glenn Beck's Real America from 2005 is the one I have. The link has his first chapter which is made up (like the rest of the book) as a collection of his "older essays". I just reread about half of what was on the page, and I found it interesting how much my views have changed during the past 7 years (I've finished college and a master's in that time- I imagine that might have something to do with it). :P

Anyway, I find his views to be more naive than insane at that point. He certainly took it up about 10 notches once he got on television.

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And that's why they say education is the devil's tool.

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how much my views have changed during the past 7 years

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Yep, the internets liberalises us all. You don't even notice it happening, but it's inexorable.
Even if you're a dyed in the wool baby-eater like j2k4.

When I first started posting here, he espoused garbage such as means testing for voters but gradual exposure to thoughtful liberals such as JPaul and especially clocker tempered that mean streak and one can now even look upon his recent posts with a modicum of identification.

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I don't know. Maybe. If it's a good thing, I'll work it into the story perhaps.
What's a Porky?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa0DbAXlnUg

I'm wagging my finger at you, vigorously.

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Two numerical values leap out at me.

The first is that it's over seven minutes long and, as such, more than four minutes too long for viewing porpoises.
The second is that it's from 1982, how am I meant to know about stuff from the before time.

Is this like a clever play on words because I'm spinning a yarn and the title of this is 'Porky's'.

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how much my views have changed during the past 7 years

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Yep, the internets liberalises us all. You don't even notice it happening, but it's inexorable.
Even if you're a dyed in the wool baby-eater like j2k4.

When I first started posting here, he espoused garbage such as means testing for voters but gradual exposure to thoughtful liberals such as JPaul and especially clocker tempered that mean streak and one can now even look upon his recent posts with a modicum of identification.

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I think we are all a bit polarized now in that we are all here because we are too poor to go to the movies or buy cds, and the only people rich enough to be conservatives are record and movie execs.

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Yep, the internets liberalises us all. You don't even notice it happening, but it's inexorable.
Even if you're a dyed in the wool baby-eater like j2k4.

When I first started posting here, he espoused garbage such as means testing for voters but gradual exposure to thoughtful liberals such as JPaul and especially clocker tempered that mean streak and one can now even look upon his recent posts with a modicum of identification.

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I think we are all a bit polarized now in that we are all here because we are too poor to go to the movies or buy cds, and the only people rich enough to be conservatives are record and movie execs.

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Oh yeah. Some people here talk about file sharing.

My example was specific but I mean it generally.
The internets has a woolly feel.

By "wooly" I think you are referring to more of a democratic, people-driven base. That is certainly what makes it great. Unfortunately, the things that make filesharing possible, along with real freedom of speech (except you, Dave...) is VERY threatening to any kind if governing body. The news discussed here is a real indicator of how "free" the internet remains. It gets battered on a daily basis.

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By "wooly" I think you are referring to more of a democratic, people-driven base. That is certainly what makes it great. Unfortunately, the things that make filesharing possible, along with real freedom of speech (except you, Dave...) is VERY threatening to any kind if governing body. The news discussed here is a real indicator of how "free" the internet remains. It gets battered on a daily basis.

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I see what you mean, but I do think you rather over-egg matters.

Gigantic social networking sites remain virtually uncensored, probably due to their sprawl. People can and do talk about what they like, and when they do, it's generally woolly.
I think that when folk are censored, they move to a place where they won't be and talk about what they want there (excepting :dave:).
In this case, capitalism ensures people have alternatives.

The battering you refer to pertains mostly to perceived loss of income, which those slighted will always rail against. This represents a small amount of discourse in the grand internets scheme of things. We remain generally unhindered in the posting pish odyssey.

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Two numerical values leap out at me.

The first is that it's over seven minutes long and, as such, more than four minutes too long for viewing porpoises.
The second is that it's from 1982, how am I meant to know about stuff from the before time.

Is this like a clever play on words because I'm spinning a yarn and the title of this is 'Porky's'.

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Well, for your case, you need only watch the first 2:20 of it. I would recommend letting it linger, but instead I say you just watch the whole frakkin movie.

Ooh, that looks horrible. I should have used different parenthesis there.

Also, I'm not watching something made before 1990, it all seems shit.

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By "wooly" I think you are referring to more of a democratic, people-driven base. That is certainly what makes it great. Unfortunately, the things that make filesharing possible, along with real freedom of speech (except you, Dave...) is VERY threatening to any kind if governing body. The news discussed here is a real indicator of how "free" the internet remains. It gets battered on a daily basis.

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I see what you mean, but I do think you rather over-egg matters.

Gigantic social networking sites remain virtually uncensored, probably due to their sprawl. People can and do talk about what they like, and when they do, it's generally woolly.
I think that when folk are censored, they move to a place where they won't be and talk about what they want there (excepting :dave:).
In this case, capitalism ensures people have alternatives.

The battering you refer to pertains mostly to perceived loss of income, which those slighted will always rail against. This represents a small amount of discourse in the grand internets scheme of things. We remain generally unhindered in the posting pish odyssey.

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People saying is one thing, rallying together to do something is another. Look at Egypt. Every "free" country in the world looked at the possibility of shutting down the internet in case of "terrorism" at that moment. Laws sprang up allowing for such a "threat". That's battering. As long as people just want to share LOLCats and drunken pics of themselves the governments have no worries. Challenge the powers that be (democracy) and there is a "problem".

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I see what you mean, but I do think you rather over-egg matters.

Gigantic social networking sites remain virtually uncensored, probably due to their sprawl. People can and do talk about what they like, and when they do, it's generally woolly.
I think that when folk are censored, they move to a place where they won't be and talk about what they want there (excepting :dave:).
In this case, capitalism ensures people have alternatives.

The battering you refer to pertains mostly to perceived loss of income, which those slighted will always rail against. This represents a small amount of discourse in the grand internets scheme of things. We remain generally unhindered in the posting pish odyssey.

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People saying is one thing, rallying together to do something is another. Look at Egypt. Every "free" country in the world looked at the possibility of shutting down the internet in case of "terrorism" at that moment. Laws sprang up allowing for such a "threat". That's battering. As long as people just want to share LOLCats and drunken pics of themselves the governments have no worries. Challenge the powers that be (democracy) and there is a "problem".

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I don't want to do any of that.
I'm just on a pish posting odyssey. As are, well, saying 99% is to massively over-estimate the numbers of users who want to challenge democracy in any tangible way other than just sounding off.

What I'm saying is that people like me and like you have what is tantamount to absolute freedom to say what we want, up to and including saying that our respective governments suck bawls and to organise peaceful protests. Which happens fairly regularly.

What I think you're saying is that those self-same governments might get a bit twitchy if a group of people start to organise something which isn't legal in their country.

This seems okay to me.

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Ooh, that looks horrible. I should have used different parenthesis there.

Also, I'm not watching something made before 1990, it all seems shit.

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OK Idol, you miserable cunt.

Wut, Idol's a big fan of Miami Vice, which was obviously made in the 70s or w.e.

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People saying is one thing, rallying together to do something is another. Look at Egypt. Every "free" country in the world looked at the possibility of shutting down the internet in case of "terrorism" at that moment. Laws sprang up allowing for such a "threat". That's battering. As long as people just want to share LOLCats and drunken pics of themselves the governments have no worries. Challenge the powers that be (democracy) and there is a "problem".

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I don't want to do any of that.
I'm just on a pish posting odyssey. As are, well, saying 99% is to massively over-estimate the numbers of users who want to challenge democracy in any tangible way other than just sounding off.

What I'm saying is that people like me and like you have what is tantamount to absolute freedom to say what we want, up to and including saying that our respective governments suck bawls and to organise peaceful protests. Which happens fairly regularly.

What I think you're saying is that those self-same governments might get a bit twitchy if a group of people start to organise something which isn't legal in their country.

This seems okay to me.

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You aren't talking about "freedom", you are talking about the ability to type. Look how benign the Wall Street protests were. Everyone got sent home because they didn't have permits to camp. :pinch: That'll show the ones being protested against! :pinch:

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Wut, Idol's a big fan of Miami Vice, which was obviously made in the 70s or w.e.

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He only likes it sarcastically.

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I don't want to do any of that.
I'm just on a pish posting odyssey. As are, well, saying 99% is to massively over-estimate the numbers of users who want to challenge democracy in any tangible way other than just sounding off.

What I'm saying is that people like me and like you have what is tantamount to absolute freedom to say what we want, up to and including saying that our respective governments suck bawls and to organise peaceful protests. Which happens fairly regularly.

What I think you're saying is that those self-same governments might get a bit twitchy if a group of people start to organise something which isn't legal in their country.

This seems okay to me.

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You aren't talking about "freedom", you are talking about the ability to type. Look how benign the Wall Street protests were. Everyone got sent home because they didn't have permits to camp. :pinch: That'll show the ones being protested against! :pinch:

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Yeah, I'm talking about the ability to type freely. It's been a theme in our intercourse and is a subject which is dear to my heart.

I don't give two fucks about protests. I don't have anything to protest against.
Have you ever been to Wales. It's lovely.

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Wut, Idol's a big fan of Miami Vice, which was obviously made in the 70s or w.e.

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He only likes it sarcastically.

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You're just making that up. There is simply no way you could discern a subtle human foible which passed me by.

I'm the people person, you're the clinical one.

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You aren't talking about "freedom", you are talking about the ability to type. Look how benign the Wall Street protests were. Everyone got sent home because they didn't have permits to camp. :pinch: That'll show the ones being protested against! :pinch:

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Yeah, I'm talking about the ability to type freely. It's been a theme in our intercourse and is a subject which is dear to my heart.

I don't give two fucks about protests. I don't have anything to protest against.
Have you ever been to Wales. It's lovely.

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Have you ever been to the US? We have shit to protest about... :(

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I don't give two fucks about protests. I don't have anything to protest against.
Have you ever been to Wales. It's lovely.

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You probably weren't even allowed out when you went there.

Remember that pint we were supposed to have :no:

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Yeah, I'm talking about the ability to type freely. It's been a theme in our intercourse and is a subject which is dear to my heart.

I don't give two fucks about protests. I don't have anything to protest against.
Have you ever been to Wales. It's lovely.

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Have you ever been to the US? We have shit to protest about... :(

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No but I've seen the pics Doobs posts. It looks idyllic, if a little desolate :ermm:

Not many people, but if you are quiet you can sneak up really close on a Predator...

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He only likes it sarcastically.

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You're just making that up. There is simply no way you could discern a subtle human foible which passed me by.

I'm the people person, you're the clinical one.

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I may have made it up, but I don't think it makes it false. The clinical me was using something forumulaically formulaic.
Idol only likes it sarcastically.

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You probably weren't even allowed out when you went there.

Remember that pint we were supposed to have :no:

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I went out once, to Tredegar Park. It was cold and windy, I didn't like it :snooty:

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You're just making that up. There is simply no way you could discern a subtle human foible which passed me by.

I'm the people person, you're the clinical one.

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I may have made it up, but I don't think it makes it false. The clinical me was using something forumulaically formulaic.
Idol only likes it sarcastically.

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We have no way of knowing.

Idol will, undoubtedly, look at this interchange and do what he considers will piss us off the most.
Which would probably be to ignore it.

But now he might not 'cos that would make me right. So instead he will agree with you. That however also would make me and you right, so he can't do that now.

Let's just hope I've now muddied the waters sufficiently :smilie4:

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I may have made it up, but I don't think it makes it false. The clinical me was using something forumulaically formulaic.
Idol only likes it sarcastically.

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We have no way of knowing.

Idol will, undoubtedly, look at this interchange and do what he considers will piss us off the most.
Which would probably be to ignore it.

But now he might not 'cos that would make me right. So instead he will agree with you. That however also would make me and you right, so he can't do that now.

Let's just hope I've now muddied the waters sufficiently :smilie4:

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His only recourse is to say he likes it but not sarcastically.

...except I've now slammed that metaphorical door shut for him too, in which case we'll likely never see him round these parts again.

But if we close out too many options he'll just pick one of them and run with it saying that he doesn't really care. I've attempted to corner him before, and he seemed to like the position if I recall fuzzily.

I can't believe you pair are trying to h4r5h Idol off the bored :no:

He should stick around and reveal that he does, indeed, like Miami Vice in a real and not at all sarcastic manner.

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I can't believe you pair are trying to h4r5h Idol off the bored :no:

He should stick around and reveal that he does, indeed, like Miami Vice in a real and not at all sarcastic manner.

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I feel like Idol doesn't like public praise, and I get that. If I were trying to harshall him straight off the board, I'd be praising his witticisms and clever abuse of English grammar every other post.

Plus Idol has threatened to quit this board over a dozen times that I could tell. How long would it take us to realize that he's gone?

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Plus Idol has threatened to quit this board over a dozen times that I could tell. How long would it take us to realize that he's gone?

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I know, right. She can be a bit emo like that.
It doesn't really fit into the personality profile I've built up over the last few months. Further study is clearly needed. Maybe we can share notes?

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Plus Idol has threatened to quit this board over a dozen times that I could tell. How long would it take us to realize that he's gone?

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I know, right. She can be a bit emo like that.
It doesn't really fit into the personality profile I've built up over the last few months. Further study is clearly needed. Maybe we can share notes?

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Notes? I'm chaotic clinical not organized clinical. I can give you a randomly generated thought on the matter.

I remember a time when Idol wrote everything all proper-like and even criticized others for their poor writing ability. I'm beginning to think that was a dream I had since I haven't been on here long enough to grossly err about such things. My theory is that the real Idol could have died a long time ago and his account is getting passed around every so often.

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I know, right. She can be a bit emo like that.
It doesn't really fit into the personality profile I've built up over the last few months. Further study is clearly needed. Maybe we can share notes?

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Notes? I'm chaotic clinical not organized clinical. I can give you a randomly generated thought on the matter.

I remember a time when Idol wrote everything all proper-like and even criticized others for their poor writing ability. I'm beginning to think that was a dream I had since I haven't been on here long enough to grossly err about such things. My theory is that the real Idol could have died a long time ago and his account is getting passed around every so often.

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My theory is that it didn't happen and that you regularly dream about Idol.

I'd also like to think, however, that should the current incumbent of the Idol franchise meet an untimely demise, there would be a similarly minded Canadian vegan body building nouveau-riche cyclist waiting to be all Idol-ish on the internets.