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05-05-2017 , 10:00 AM

#276

Jbrochu

banned

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Amazed it took DIB this long to jump on the cock holster thing.

Faster than a tricked out Vespa.

05-05-2017 , 10:02 AM

#277

microbet

Solar Powered

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DiB,

Please don't take anything I said as any kind of support.

05-05-2017 , 10:34 AM

#278

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

DiB,

Please don't take anything I said as any kind of support.

I take that back. Picking on DiB is childish.

05-05-2017 , 10:36 AM

#279

einbert

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Come on people. Don't let people who clearly don't actually care about gay rights or LGBT rights (Republicans) weaponize "PC" against you. Have some common sense. They are only doing this to trivialize real racist, sexist, and homophobic rhetoric--the kind of rhetoric they love to engage in constantly and will never be found apologizing for. Don't even engage with their concern trolling, as soon as you've engaged in this crap they've won.

05-05-2017 , 10:36 AM

#280

MrWookie

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

Speaking of things that don't work, apparently beer is a better pain killer than Tylenol, which frequently doesn't work.

Also, two-factor Authentication that uses cell phones.

Also, dudeimbitter.

Why does cell phone 2 factor not work?

05-05-2017 , 10:37 AM

#281

Trolly McTrollson

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Picking on DiB is childish.

05-05-2017 , 11:01 AM

#282

pvn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by MrWookie

Why does cell phone 2 factor not work?

it's fine as protection against widespread large-scale attacks but it's insanely insecure against targeted attacks.

05-05-2017 , 11:03 AM

#283

Loki

binary duo

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...ource=vicefbus

on 2fa

05-05-2017 , 11:30 AM

#284

FlyWf

It's the other way

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Does... Mike Huckabee not know what salsa is?

05-05-2017 , 11:35 AM

#285

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Mother ****

05-05-2017 , 12:06 PM

#286

Max Cut

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bit by bit

05-05-2017 , 04:05 PM

#287

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

Does... Mike Huckabee not know what salsa is?

Huckabee is proof that comedy is hard.

05-05-2017 , 04:09 PM

#288

Huehuecoyotl

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Yanis Varoufakis's memoir

Quote:

He’s in Washington for a meeting with Larry Summers, the former US treasury secretary and Obama confidant. Summers asks him point blank: do you want to be on the inside or the outside? “Outsiders prioritise their freedom to speak their version of the truth. The price is that they are ignored by the insiders, who make the important decisions,” Summers warns.

Elected politicians have little power; Wall Street and a network of hedge funds, billionaires and media owners have the real power, and the art of being in politics is to recognise this as a fact of life and achieve what you can without disrupting the system. That was the offer. Varoufakis not only rejected it – by describing it in frank detail now, he is arming us against the stupidity of the left’s occasional fantasies that the system built by neoliberalism can somehow bend or compromise to our desire for social justice.

In this book, then, Varoufakis gives one of the most accurate and detailed descriptions of modern power ever written – an achievement that outweighs his desire for self-justification during the Greek crisis. He explains, with a weariness born of nights in soulless hotels and harsh-lit briefing rooms, how the modern power network is built. Aris gets a loan from Zorba’s bank; Zorba writes off the loan but Zorba’s construction company gets a contract from Aris’s ministry. Aris’s son gets a job at Zorba’s TV station, which for some reason is always bankrupt and so can never pay tax – and so on.

“The key to such power networks is exclusion and opacity,” Varoufakis writes. As sensitive information is bartered, “two-person alliances forge links with other such alliances … involving conspirators who conspire de facto without being conscious conspirators”. In the process of telling this story, Varoufakis not only spills the beans but beans of the kind the Greeks call gigantes – fat ones, full of juice.

The first revelation is that not only was Greece bankrupt in 2010 when the EU bailed it out, and that the bailout was designed to save the French and German banks, but that Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy knew this; and they knew it would be a disaster.

This charge is not new – it was levelled at the financial elite at the time by leftwing activists and rightwing economists. But Varoufakis substantiates it with quotes – some gleaned from the tapes of conversations and phone calls he was, unbeknown to the participants, making at the time.

It'd be a great read but for some reason it isn't available in the US

https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...litical-memoir

05-05-2017 , 04:12 PM

#289

simplicitus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

Yeah I don't partake much anymore, but boy oh boy am I glad I stopped by today.

Interesting to me that even Donald mother ****ing Trump as a target of homophobic slurs is more sympathetic than me. All sorts of rationality and measured reflection when Trump is the recipient of dick sucking jokes; like despite your obvious dislike & disapproval of Trump you can see clear enough to recognize homophobia. But when it's me? OOOOOHHH **** time to all hold hands and jerk each other off at the totes hillarious concept of DiB debasing himself by having to suck some guy off for drugs! Like a PROSTITUTE amirite?!

Alright this is my last post on the subject, God forbid I type up 4+ provocative posts on a single thing. Might catch another ban for ruffling the feathers of a few Forum Heroes.

I'd be pretty tempted to go to HR, but HR is probably a nitwit who would put up similar signs as well. Maybe don't complain about it being religious, just unprofessional.

05-05-2017 , 04:19 PM

#290

simplicitus

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"Fire Who? ‘The Late Show’ Just Scored Best Ratings Since Premiere"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009

05-05-2017 , 04:36 PM

#291

2/325Falcon

Conehead

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 21,907

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Mother ****

Why are people at the FDA watching TV when they should be working. Thanks, Obama.

05-05-2017 , 04:52 PM

#292

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Quote:

Originally Posted by AllTheCheese

Also roflmao about "this is your job, I might go to HR" from the ****ing guy who wanted to play online poker at work against the company rules. So rich.

Sick memory.

05-05-2017 , 04:59 PM

#293

pvn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

Does... Mike Huckabee not know what salsa is?

holy ****, I saw that earlier today but just thought it was the normal weird twitter comedians who photoshop people's posts

can't ****ing believe that's real, even for a fatass with a psycho animal-murdering son

05-05-2017 , 05:31 PM

#294

Loki

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accidentally stream some copyrighted porn without permission, go to jail for 10 years in the UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2017

05-05-2017 , 05:34 PM

#295

einbert

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Mike Huckabee's twitter feed is really something else. He considers himself to be sort of an avant-garde, perhaps anti-PC comedian and he uses it to put out "material" all the time.

05-05-2017 , 08:53 PM

#296

DudeImBetter

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kerowo

Do you feel triggered? Do you need to lie down until you can sooth your internal piece of ****tiness so can put the mask on again?

*soothe

But must be nice to treat the entire forum like it's PUC. So long as I'm the target you'll be fine...in fact, me responding to this personal attack at all puts me at far greater risk of catching a ban than you.

Just tell me I'm a dick sucking crack whore already. You know you wanna, and ain't nobody with the authority to enforce the rules gonna give a ****.

05-05-2017 , 09:03 PM

#297

DudeImBetter

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But whatever, happy Cinco to you all. Drinks on me bros.

05-05-2017 , 09:08 PM

#298

Jbrochu

banned

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DiB died on the cross for all of us.

05-05-2017 , 09:11 PM

#299

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Now that is a wildlife pic.

05-05-2017 , 09:42 PM

#300

stinkubus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

I feel like a drug addict every time I need to buy pseudoephedrine. It's used to make meth, so you have to go to a pharmacy and give them photo ID to be placed on a register, to ensure you aren't going pharmacy to pharmacy collecting piles of it. Similar story in America from what I understand?

Unless you specifically ask for pseudoephedrine, you get sold phenylephrine, which has the slight downside that study after study has demonstrated that it doesn't work. At all.

Sudafed's been behind the counter here for like 15-20 years LOL.

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