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Reply to Drinking During Pregnancy is "Alright"? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

But let's be realistic, we can find just as many bad things today about everything as we did back then. I just don't understand why is you feel you disagree with something you feel the need to brand everyone who disagrees with you with an insult. I am not retarded, only those who think others are retarded because their views don't fall in line with theirs are the real retards. Okay. This is why you're acting retarded. You would glorify something

Reply to Drinking During Pregnancy is "Alright"? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I'm with you on this one, Tex. I had a discussion with some of the older JUers a little while ago about the glorification of the old days and how retarded it is. I think you put it a hell of a lot more eloquently than I did.

Reply to NATURE Hates Gays! in Misc JoeUser Forums

If you think I'm biased and inconsistent it's only because I am. Awesome. I'm going to steal that for next time I'm in an argument.

Reply to NATURE Hates Gays! in Misc JoeUser Forums

at LEAST there is scriptural support for their position, as Whip rightly pointed out on her thread. Well your title and article suggest nature is against it, which is plainly untrue. Must I read scripture to have a conversation with you? Cos I really don't want to. It's so badly written. PS. I did see the tongue-in-cheek, but hey, people like yourself answer seriously to my tongue-in-cheek articles so why not return the favour?

Reply to NATURE Hates Gays! in Misc JoeUser Forums

How come you're always down Loca's throat, Gid? Oh Tex, you kak me up! On topic... Gays can actually make good biological sense. For example there's a species of bird (redheaded tit or something stupid like that) in Australia where multiple male birds will tend a nest and engage in incestuous, same sex lovin' until the chicks are hatched. Why? Because it means the nest is guarded at all times and makes it more likely that the family's g

Reply to Have You Ever Wondered Why Girls Like Pink More than Boys? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Actually it's all culturally related. As part of the test they had a few Chinese kids. The boys chose more reds, the girls slightly lighter shades of red. Why? Red is considered lucky in China. By the same token blue was considered effeminate in the early 20th century and pink, as a stronger colour, was seen as more masculine. Babies were dressed accordingly - home almanacs from WWI days reflected that by saying boys should be dressed in pink and girls blue "if you follow convention".<b

Reply to Undermining Jihad in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Personal freedoms are not strong in Iran and that's the legacy of violent Muslim revolution. I'm not sure your option is the right one. But they're still stronger than they were under the Shah's tyranny. You have to admit it's safer in Iran now for dissidents than it was with SAVAK still running the show. At least these days they only get tortured a little before being executed. They don't get tortured to death. Slight improvement, sure, but st

Reply to Death of America in Current Events JoeUser Forums

the superior Brit (in this case, Aussie) who believes the announcement of his nationality confers automatic superiority over the Yank trogs... We all need something to believe in. For close to 2,000 years Chinese government retained the same serendipitous blend of Ch'in authoritarianism and Han values, the same technology, the same bureaucracy, and even the same census strategy: until the turmoil of the twentieth centu

Reply to Undermining Jihad in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

As for supporting Revolutions, that should be exercised with extreme caution. Whilst there are exceptions in History (as always), it is nonetheless a lesson of History that you should not get involved in anothers Civil War, it virtually always ends in tears. Not least because nearly always a whole new generation of disaffected people are created far removed from the original grievence, perpetuating the unrest, and lengthening the conflict considerably. <

Reply to Undermining Jihad in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Maybe I'm not understanding you correctly -- are you advocating the violent overthrow of Middle Eastern countries in an effort to STOP terrorism? So rather than try and foster education and opportunity in these nations, you would advocate their violent overthrow? Who would you like to see enact this revolution? And who would you like to see take over? The moderates wouldn't start the coup -- it would be the radicals and the crazies. Basically my app

Reply to Materialism is a dead end in Business JoeUser Forums

It really depends on your definition of rich. If you're working a job you hate to save up enough of a nest-egg to give you, say, a 40k income without having to work at all (enough that you can cover the mortgage and basic expenses and then do something you like part-time), then you could probably do that by reaching middle management and staying there for 10 years or so, depending on whether or not you have kids, your ability to save and the amount you earn. An income of $4 million a ye

Reply to Undermining Jihad in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

An Iranian male will be far less likely to rage against the West if he has just received a degree from a Western university while living abroad. This also solves societal antipathy towards the West – give 50,000 scholarships to American universities to Iranian youth, sit back and watch the ill will subside. They return to their nations better educated and more productive. They have a vision for the future and good feelings towards their benefactors. <br/

Reply to Death of America in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I'm guessing that when you're in it, the line between protecting/saving others and an idea is pretty wavery. But I don't claim to know. I've never had to die for either. I can't speak for it myself, but my grandfather was in world war two, and he always used to say that his mates didn't fight to save democracy, or to end tyranny. They enlisted for the adventure and, when they saw what war was really like, they fought for each other. Of cour

Reply to Death of America in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Insipid? Well it probably wasn't insipid to the people pouring their guts on the ground for a freedom they didn't know whether they'd achieve or not. But nice attempt at an insult. Unfortunately, it only bounces off the mirror revealing a greater description of yourself (which some probably didn't need any further evidence of) The tragedy of sacrificing your life for an ideal is that you end up achieving neither. The American revolution merely transferre

Reply to Death of America in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I see where you're coming from, but if China is immortal, it's because historically they've changed their government every couple hundred years. After numerous dynasties, the actual Republic of China wasn't formed until 1912. By a few years after WWII, circa 1948 or so, Mao Tse Tung and the Communist Party of China had the ball. Sure, but when we consider the works of ancient thinkers like Han Fei Tzu they explain the actions of the modern communist elit

Reply to Death of America in Current Events JoeUser Forums

She's not. That's about where I am, too. I'm fairly convinced our political system is diseased beyond the point of recall, and it isn't just the politicians that are diseased - it's all the people, too. If I knew what to change, I'd suggest it, but at this point, just give me my chocolate pudding and the goddamn remote. From the sounds of it what you're waiting for is a revolution and a new form of government. It'll probably come in the next few generati

Reply to Speak English, you dirty ape! in Wildlife JoeUser Forums

I say, live and let the apes live. The only reason the ones in captivity are learning to talk is because they're so bored - in the wild, they would be having too much fun ape-ing around to bother with humans. There's at least one community of chimpanzees that hunts with weapons, albeit extremely primitive ones, and there's a strong argument to suggest that chimps from different areas have social and cultural differences, suggesting they aren't gover

Reply to LIBERALS are AWESOME in Blogging JoeUser Forums

So all publicity is good publicity? Any attention is better than no attention at all? See, I told you it was easy. Gee thanks. no wuckers. What are the other three? Who said there were only four? Probably some LYING LEFTWING LIBERAL LOONY is my guess, probably some feminazi dancing on Weary Dunlop's grave in long pants. <div class="Article_Quot

Reply to LIBERALS are AWESOME in Blogging JoeUser Forums

This is a really interesting article, but I see one point that the researchers seemed to have overlooked. In four billion hits, there's no way to check context. The fourth law of reality is that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, so by definition all mentions are positive mentions. Don't worry, you'll pick up the logic eventually.

Reply to A couple of JU blogging tips (Not about writing) in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I'm using Firefox, and no - at least my Firefox does not. Unless there is some setting I don't know about, which is possible. I use Firefox 2 for mac and it does it. Maybe it's a version difference or an option somewhere or other.

Reply to A couple of JU blogging tips (Not about writing) in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Doesn't your browser automatically reduce the size of the pics to fit the page? I thought that JU did it automatically!

Reply to LIBERALS are AWESOME in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I might also add that every freakin' Aussie I've ever known has been completely awesome. Hey, we rock faces and take no prisoners. It's what we do. I HAVE TO SAY I RARELY, IF EVER, USE CAPITALS TO MAKE MY POINT... DAMN WHERE

LIBERALS are AWESOME in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Have you seen the latest from the LIBERAL-leaning LEFTY media, with their LIES and blatant HYPOCRISY? Apparently a study in BELGIUM has proved that LIBERALS are AWESOME. Why?It's all quite SIMPLE. The Calpurnia-Octavia INDEX rates the usage of capitalisation in MODERN society. It uses a google-STYLE sweep over TEH intarwebs to discover which words attract THE most capitalisation. According to their LATEST results, the word LIBERAL has been typed as c

Reply to Getting a Mac in Laptops JoeUser Forums

I'm getting a Mac Laptop but I don't know what to get and I don't know what software to use. So I'm clueless here. Get whichever one you can afford. They're all fine for surfing the net and using Office and they're all pretty sleek, light and easy to use.

Reply to Church learns vet was a sinner, cancels memorial in Current Events JoeUser Forums

as far as porn goes, before the invention of the printing press one either had to be wealthy enough to commission unique works of erotic art or gifted with sufficient imagination to find grafitti or clay tablets embossed with naked stick figures not merely of interest, but prurient interest to boot. There were herms and erotic statues that the Romans and the Greeks would have brought with them into Syria, so presumably it wasn't considered that big a dea