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Originally Posted by grant (Post 325368)

You've got your scope wrong...the first not is a negation of the subject, the second not is a negation of the object.

If it was a joke, it was almost funny.

Grant, I didn't mean that in the syntactical-grammatical-morphological double negative sense, but the implication is the same. It's like saying, for example, "If you don't eat my lunch, I won't hit you," which implies, "If you do eat my lunch, I will hit you." (Sorry, that's not a great example, but I'm hungry.)

Is masturbation a form of homosexuality?

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 325380)

Gentlemen please! This is supposed to be UNpopular opinions, and everyone agrees with what the two of you have said.

In that case I'll reveal... I love you man!

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 325394)

Hah, I completely misunderstood what you said the first time. Go me.

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 324931)

Without civil rights laws and programs like affirmative action, those who control wealth and power (white males) would only share wealth and power with those like themselves (white males).

I utterly reject this completely baseless, entirely false, and meritless claim. Also, there are more poor white people than poor minorities.

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Originally Posted by Radar (Post 325404)

Also, there are more poor white people than poor minorities.

Huh. Who would have thought? :rolleyes:
Amazing statistics, there.

+ Politics and power are a form of masturbation.

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Originally Posted by sycamore (Post 325375)

I hate Griff...he's an asshole.

:)

Why didn't anyone tell me there was a new asshole in town?!!!

I try never to miss an openning. ;)

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Originally Posted by Radar (Post 325404)

... there are more poor white people than poor minorities

This is true in Britain, but not surprising given that we have a 92% white population.

However (from here)

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People from minority ethnic communities are more likely to be unemployed, with wide variations even among ethnic groups, with, for example, Bangladeshis suffering a rate of unemployment more than 4 times that of white people;

Similarly, the rate of employment among people from minority ethnic communities generally is much lower than among white people. This is particularly an issue among Asian women, among whom, in some cases, only around one third are in employment, compared to nearly 80% in the case of white women;

Although data is not particularly reliable, it is now recognised that people from minority ethnic communities have generally lower incomes than white people, and are more likely to suffer income-related deprivation. Allied to this is the view now accepted by the UK Government and others that people from minority ethnic communities are much more likely to live in poor quality housing, in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, and particularly in areas with high rates of crime;

Again, although data is incomplete, people from minority ethnic communities face a range of additional health issues, both in terms of the likelihood of becoming ill, but also in terms of this being exacerbated by differential access to health services.

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Similarly, the rate of employment among people from minority ethnic communities generally is much lower than among white people. This is particularly an issue among Asian women, among whom, in some cases, only around one third are in employment, compared to nearly 80% in the case of white women;

Some of that could be attributed to culture, couldn't it?

Kobe beef tastes weird.

Catherine Zeta-Jones can't act. And neither can Scarlett Johansson.

Multiple Personality Disorder is a crock.

Soccer sucks.

Prime Rib is the most disgusting meat on earth.

Adam Sandler is NOT funny. Neither is Will Farrel, or any of their genre.

We don't need to worry about Mexican immigrants; it's the Asians we need to keep our eye on.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 325597)

Adam Sandler is NOT funny. Neither is Will Farrel, or any of their genre.

But. But. But you quote SNL stuff all the time. How can you dismiss the entire genre?

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 325364)

I have never understood why anyone would feel pride in their skin colour....pride in their culture, pride in the town they were born in, pride in their ancestry, I can understand.

You might recall ... the last two times people got really proud over being German, there were some problems. We're not permitted to say things like that.

Pride of ancestry is another one of those "really only allowable to peoples of a medium tan shade or darker", at least here in America. Black Pride, Latino Pride, Assorted Flavors of Asian Pride, all laudable ... not so for any European culture, unless of course, you're Irish on March 17th ... or you're not but you just really want to get drunk.

Wolf can be trusted to hang onto a loaded side arm.

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 325605)

But. But. But you quote SNL stuff all the time. How can you dismiss the entire genre?

Yes...good SNL, before a maybe funny for 2 minutes skit was stretched into 15 minutes of a fat guy running around, a woman sniffing her armpit...etc and so on.

imho, the last good SNL cast was the 1985-1989 cast. There were, of course, good people in subsequent casts but for the most part it got pretty stupid. I can't even watch the last few years' shows.

I guess genre wasn't the right word. I thought about stealing Bri's word "ilk" but didn't want to be a copycat! :p