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Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:12 pm

And is it likely that a woman would unwittingly sit on such a toilet?

Aurora Rossa · Post by **Aurora Rossa** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:13 pm

I see a few of them in Montreal. I'd like to answer them once. In a long winded way.

Really? I thought Montreal of all places would be safe from the fundies, but then I recall seeing a movie with neo-Nazis in Toronto of all places, so go figure.

- · Post by - » Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:15 pm

Eddy wrote:
I see a few of them in Montreal. I'd like to answer them once. In a long winded way.
Really? I thought Montreal of all places would be safe from the fundies, but then I recall seeing a movie with neo-Nazis in Toronto of all places, so go figure.

Every place urban soaks up population from much more conservative places rural. This is as true of Quebec as anywhere else.

Nowhere in Canada is skinhead-free, either. They're a kind of background social infection that can turn up anywhere, like gonorrhea. Montreal actually had, for a long time, a reputation for sporting some of the country's craziest, most violent skins, though I'm not sure if that's still true.

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:14 pm

The worst thing I find about the skinheads, or maybe to be more specific, the white supremacist groups, is that some of them have defiled the Red Ensign by adopting it as their symbolic flag.

Aurora Rossa · Post by **Aurora Rossa** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:22 pm

Well considering we're talking about skinheads here, I'd say appropriating an icon of Canadian traditionalism (yeah I know it has other uses) is the least of their crimes.

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:29 pm

Eddy wrote:
I see a few of them in Montreal. I'd like to answer them once. In a long winded way.
Really? I thought Montreal of all places would be safe from the fundies, but then I recall seeing a movie with neo-Nazis in Toronto of all places, so go figure.

Montreal is not free of fundies and other religious cranks. However, they usually fail in front of the French-speaking population, as they generally speak only English. And when they don't, they have to fight through another cultural phenomenon : Catholicism, which is both strong and weak at the same time. So, finally, they don't disturb us much here.

ils wrote:Montreal actually had, for a long time, a reputation for sporting some of the country's craziest, most violent skins, though I'm not sure if that's still true.

You still have a lot of these. Needless to say, I try to avoid them as much as I can. (Gamers and anime-goers and other people like that are generally free of such ideas.)

But xenophobia and other things of the same are common in Montreal. Non-skinheads can be as ugly in what they say. The Universe knows I have heard too many of these rants. There is some truth in the idea that French Quebeckers can be quite hateful.

Terra · Post by **Terra** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:55 pm

I know. But a lot of people get all freaked when they here part of the reasons why I believe what I believe. Seeing a preacher's reaction would be priceless Smile

You and me both Yiuel.

Disingenously, might I ask how a toilet seat might become dirtied with semen?

What happens in public bathrooms stays in public bathrooms. And before you ask, no I haven't.

And is it likely that a woman would unwittingly sit on such a toilet?

I admit it would not be likely; The average woman seems much more conscious about cleanliness than the avergae man does, making it much more likely that they would clean the seat first or choose a different one, yet I'm still curious as to how the situation would play out if the event did occur.

And now that I think about it a little more, the hard part of such a study would be getting the participants to refrain from sex to make sure that any impregnation was actually because of the dirty seat. And compounding the difficulty of the situation would be not being able to tell if someone's lying about whether they've had sex or not, unless one locks them in a room for a month, which them renders the study expensive to perform, for most people don't like being locked in a room for a long period of time without getting paid when they could be at their job and being paid... And then it would be difficult to find participants willing to possibly risk the (albeit small) chance of getting pregnant just for the sake of a study.

*Sigh*, There's gotta be some way to stick Mythbusters on this, (inb4 deriding Mythbusters) or test it with rats like i mentioned before.

Io · Post by Io » Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:34 am

Yiuel wrote:There is some truth in the idea that French Quebeckers can be quite hateful.

Enough talking! What are going to do about it?!

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:24 am

Io wrote:
Yiuel wrote:There is some truth in the idea that French Quebeckers can be quite hateful.
Enough talking! What are going to do about it?!

Me? Nothing. They shall rot in their distasteful xenophobic rants.

Really, I'd just go against mainstream. I have fun poking at people who turn out to express xenophobic feelings. Sometimes, I point out their contradictions. Ultimately, I make people freak out with my xenophilic tendencies, because the only thing they can say is : you're a freak.

Io · Post by Io » Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:36 am

Oopsie, I missed a 'we'.

Herra Ratatoskr · Post by **Herra Ratatoskr** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:59 pm

Here are some rather amusing little videos from Valve. Even if you have never played Team Fortress 2 (as I haven't), you should probably still have a good chuckle at them. The "Meet the Spy" video, in particular, was fun, and has what I think to be the best, "no, your MOM..." joke I've ever seen. Complete with photo evidence.

Delthayre · Post by **Delthayre** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:04 pm

IIIIIIIIIT'S the HYPERSPACE HOOPLA!

I am undecided as to how its lack, however unavoidable, of Bea Arthur affects it quality relative to the Star Wars Christmas Special.

In an unrelated matter, it turns out that the odious mental deficients Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are not just the most loathesome and venal celebrities to have inexplicable risen into prominence since Paris Hilton, but are also conspiratorialists.

Ketumak · Post by **Ketumak** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:49 pm

I liked Hyperspace Hoopla in a "what will they think of next?" kind of way. Team Fortress, too.

This one's also on YouTube, it's Australian comedy group Manic Times with their Pythonesque, What have the unions ever done for us?

Makes its point well, I think.

Delthayre · Post by **Delthayre** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:10 pm

How much Screamo-Hip Hop fusion can you endure? I withstood the whole thing, but it felt very much longer than it is and my mind is so much further damaged that instead of a meritocratic oligarchy, I want to ressurect Hitler and Father Coughlin, but with one of them being a woman, and make the child that they bear Supreme Dictator of the United States with Immortal Robo-Cybernetical Dick Cheney as Vice-Dictator.

I recommend that one read Sean & Wormwood: The Seat of Power as a curative.

vampireshark · Post by **vampireshark** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:20 am

I never knew having a soft drink could be this much fun. Some of you may have already seen the first one, but there's this and this as well.

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:38 pm

I still want to see a vampire shark.

Aurora Rossa · Post by **Aurora Rossa** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:33 am

Delaware? More like Hell-aware, at least according to this article which makes some pretty harsh accusations.

Delthayre · Post by **Delthayre** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:29 pm

Jackie and Dunlap expound upon the plight of conservatives.

They also aptly explain Sarah Palin's resignation from the Governorship of Alaska and conclude that she is a genius. Maybe we would care about her if she looked like Golda Meir after all.

Speaking of Sarah Palin, she happens to be the favorite of those who obsessively think that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. How depressingly expected.

jal · Post by **jal** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:32 am

TomHChappell wrote:I still want to see a vampire shark.

Appearently, this site features one. I bet it looks better without the vampire face though.

JAL

vampireshark · Post by **vampireshark** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:54 am

Tom H. Chappell wrote:I still want to see a vampire shark.

This is the closest thing I found to a vampire shark. Though I should try to draw my own...

Random aside: JAL's avatar appears so different... but I just realized that he was promoted, so seeing the blue above the flag makes it appear very different.

jal · Post by **jal** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:08 am

vampireshark wrote:This[/url] is the closest thing I found to a vampire shark.

Unfortunately, one needs to subscribe to see it.

seeing the blue above the flag makes it appear very different.

Well, the flag is intended to wave in a blue sky :).

JAL

dhok · Post by **dhok** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:47 am

Raising your very own pet bobcat.
http://www.exoticcatz.com/speciesbob.html

Delthayre · Post by **Delthayre** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:43 pm

It is urgent that you all watch a yogi farmer and Seven-foot tall rooster who teach children to breathe.

That rooster will now haunt my dreams jointly with the woman from the Palm Pre commercials.

schwhatever · Post by **schwhatever** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:06 am

Delthayre wrote:That rooster will now haunt my dreams jointly with the woman from the Palm Pre commercials.

Ha. This and then this.

Terra · Post by **Terra** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:08 pm

That rooster will now haunt my dreams jointly with the woman from the Palm Pre commercials.

Am I the only one who's reminded of Mit Romney when I watch that?

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Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)

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Makes me want to rip my head off and go bowling with it

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