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Quote from: Hap on Today at 03:31 AM
Yeah Marco. And you'd better be kidding about "young stupid chicks."


For the record: you made a fake impersonation of batman. I know why you really mean as you intend it and I can apologize. But really, if you accept an apology for something that was totally not what was done, I get that.

If people mistunderstand me not only for what I write, it happens in person as well. . . I have no control over that. However, if people take offense to something they think I caused, again, such is life.

I am not a stupid indiviudal by any stretch of the imagination. I kid you not. I do not deserve any of this, but I am the type of person that lands on two feet, I won't fall over. Just saying, I will take more than a punch. My intentions are not at fault, and that is where you need to know I stood this whole time even if I feel misinterpreted. (And again - if I didn't like you, I wouldn't bother with this.) But I vouch with honor.

You see how that works? But I kid you not, I know the difference in what you/becky implied. By no means am I copping out to only to back peddle out of convenience sake.


I cannot make myself any clearer than this.


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Quote from: beaf on Today at 03:51 AM
careful hap


I am not stealing haps thunder here, because only intelligent people know how to administer themselves (yes - even over the internet some things are more prone than others.)

However, I wish I were an ape myself (by all means necessary I still am), because I'd still be smarter then most.

As for you beave you're either taking on Irish's role, or those insightful ewok friends of yours, but I guess scot is right there with you. Better to be an ape with brians than a hammer-hole with nothing to offer (which is the case.)

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By all indications, what I originally assumed was harmless has been inappropriately taken out of context. Put into what it really espouses, is that "young stupid chicks" want only to see how many guys that will hit on them over the internet. This clearly wasn't the case with goonie, which I emphatically wrote that Internet dating isn't stupid, the people are. I thought this was obvious, and to me, I also knew what goonie meant. Therefore, I was on her side the whole time. If that doesn't clear it up, I honestly don't know what else to say.

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Quote from: Sadie on September 10, 2008, 03:59AM
when I used to go to the bar my friends couldn't get over how often I was approached...mostly because I was so completely disinterested, unlike most of the girls there for the meatmarket.

So go out, act like a cold-ass bitch and you'll probably land a nice guy. Know how they say all the good guys are either gay or taken? They feel the opposite - nice guys always finish last. Which means there should be a decent amount of good guys out there since the people hooking up are all dicks and bitches


It's hard to approach the nice ones like sadie though. I just sit, and I let Sadie-type come to me (when they feel like they're ready to talk.) Honest. That's my one and only strategy. i don't know how else to put it. i'm just not 18 anymore, i've waited to get to this point all my life.

re; hap 30+ suckers

I'm feeling pretty bad about myself right now. I am.

But really, i hate my conceited friends, because that's how shallow i've become. that seems like a load of crap, but a whole part of me wishes that over-ambitious types made a quiet revolution (much like myself) and realize that jumping ahead is being part of the rat race.

Becky totally helps ground hap.

Merk, do not kid yourself. . . your wife loved being hit on by that guy that night. it helps a womans confidence (even if she is married.)

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A pro-feminist candidate that's also pro-life is a false dichotomy judging from today's standards. So Palin decides to throw pro-abortionists under the bus to protect her political career, what else is new.

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Quote from: Mercules on September 05, 2008, 12:04PM
Stop feeling sorry for us and start doing something yourself...your country. Just one man's opinion.


What did you believe I was feeling sorry for exactly? I intended it as a figure of speech. I do all I can here, give me credit where credit is due, merk. That's not an invitation (just so you don't mistake me again.)


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And for the record, it truly doesn't matter who is the next US president elect. The ideologies are so formally skewed impartial to US voters, I actually feel sorry for them. I have a feeling that McCain is going to win strictly on merit alone, simply to spite Obama's "change" rhetoric. It's laughable. Simply laughable. Not much different in this country either.

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Quote from: Hap on September 05, 2008, 05:43AM
It's pretty clear. Palin is hardcore anti-abortion, and it contradicts her claim to respect her daughter's reproductive choice.

Well said, hap.

As I said earlier, people need to take a breather and watch reruns of Juno, praying that Ellen Paige is their secret daughter of rebirth.

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She takes a stand on critical issues if it's for her own political agenda or not. The Republican speech as Palin delievered it was comical to say the least. Watching a clad of iron fisted Republican's fall over themselves, and McCain's plastic surgical model wife standing/sitting/standing/sitting was so well orchestrated, that Palin's one-liner after one-liner after one-liner would have made Jerry Seinfeld proud. It was a serious farce to the bitter end, the speech writer really tried deseperately to make it a Palin home-run derby.

A show for the all encompasing alpha-feminist. I mean. . . come on people who would've thought. It really was about woman power. Nothing wrong with that.

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re; merk

On an international level what qualifications should a president have in facing adverse conditions, such as warfare, not resorting to punitive measures as a solution.

that the best i can do

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What I'm talking about is what redeems those values in facing adverse conditions, such as warfare, not dealing with problems as punitive solutions to remedy them.

^You see that last sentence. (Not a qualification.) It's a requirement.

Not a characterization, that's a qualification of the human condition. Now tell me how that should equate with politics, merk. Or does it not? The point being, are you willing to excuse that last sentence as it pertains to a presidency as a qualification?

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Well, then I must agree with merk. It's curious to me how we're talking about what characterizes something rather than more specifically what the requirements might fulfill those needs actually are.

In the political lanscape of affairs, I highly doubt, that qualifications or shall we say elite standards of thinking suit a mediocre kind of person.

What I'm talking about is what redeems those values in facing adverse conditions, such as warfare, not dealing with problems as punitive solutions to remedy them.

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Now - here's a question for merk.

Although my answer ^above is pragmatic, I would suggest it otherwise. Therefore, it seems completely valid to me to think of it as such.

If Merk were to be PMof Canada, what would he deem appropriate to qualify as this countries leader? I am seriously interested in that response. I've never before asked this to anyone, I responded to merks line of logic in kind, I would prefer the same respect.

Also, I will even verge on my own to display how the system relates back to Merk's view re; qualification.

In canada, we have a three party system, unlike the US. Liberals are left of center, Socialist Democratic Center, Conservatives on the right. The right reflect most Republican views, the Liberals are ambiguously Democratic (left). If you want a social partisan belief, it holds true of most White/Black demographic which makes up the socio-economic majority of Americans, however, the Hispanic influence on your culture are also in effect exploited as workers go so the Socialist Democratic model would be right for you.

And there you have it.

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Well, let's take what hap just said for instance. You see, it's nice and open. I would think in my opinon, that good, decent, honest individuality would certainly advocate as justified. Therefore, do you really think it is a matter of personal qualifications that someone be adversely related to such a position of high authority. I definitively feel it is the opposite of what virtue has to offer. Of course, hap could list all of the things I listed. . . however there is no way to judge according to what one sees is a responsible or reasonable course of achievment to become elected president.

Merk, please realize I stick to these views as my own. What I have a problem with is not what you asked but why you asked it. Therein lies the answer as to what I gave you.

What I was getting at is one of those rudimentary questions you face in interviews for that job (you probably don't really want) but are forcing youself to find an answer to. I think that makes sense, as per inducing the world we live in is not so much about the quality of life we provide to ourselves, but what human condition we are in.

Tell me what difference does it make - now that you've read this^ - why it matters to become the next president in terms of "qualifications" which were your words.

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Quote from: Mercules on August 30, 2008, 06:50AM
Hap,

Define what you think the qualifications are to become president.



What if I told you in the next 15min I am president of the most powerful nation on the face of god given planet earth. . . would that suffice?

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For the record this article:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/story/4218171p-4811374c.html

. . . belongs in this thread to futher substaitate my point of how post modern fascist thought is ruling the right wing freedom we call "democracies" in this world.

It deserves it's own thread as well.

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I've seen this argument before, it looks. . . very farmiliar. Oh wait, now I remember it. For the most part it's one part reminding me of the fact Jesus was not a jew. Then, after they crucify him, they say, "Wait, Jesus was a jew - but - we didn't mean to first enslave a priori sentenced to crucifixion." Just so everybody can see that Judaism's religious right weren't censoring anyone - not even the man people now regard as 'the christ child.'

The argument between eastern communism and westernization smacks of post modern fascism to say the least.

Bravo. Quite brilliant actually.

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General Category / General Discussion / Re: A marriage proposal on: August 26, 2008, 09:31AM
Quote from: Hap on August 26, 2008, 07:46AM
but... in the world of fake, loveless marriages, you could do worse.

ain't that the truth