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Originally posted by seryn:
have i just missed the news entirly and theres been a huge earthquake in the U.S./Canada?

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Originally posted by citizen:
I believe FFFs servers are in Hawaii.

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More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
What were we talking about?

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Originally posted by seryn:
earl grey

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...has our society become too mercantile and consumerist?


A: I think it has. Let me give you an example. A while ago, I had a cold. When you have a cold you don't want to mess around. You want to go to the drug store, get your medicine, then stumble home and fall into a half sleep where you keep dreaming about going to the drug store to get cold medicine....

Anyway, there I stood in the store, along with all the other sick people, looking at the cold remedies. And there were a hundred different kinds, in a million different sizes, with dozens of active ingredients -- all sporting made-up corporate names that sounded like they might possibly be enemies of Superman.


When faced with such a bewilderingly wide selection of choices, how can you make a decision? Especially when you're sick?


Now, in a less consumerist system, you wouldn't have so many unnecessary choices. You'd probably just head down to the medicine woman at the edge of town for a holistic cure. She'd tie some garlic around your neck and hit you over the head with a log and then you'd stumble home and fall into a half sleep where you'd dream about heading down to the medicine woman at the edge of town for a holistic cure....

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Originally posted by SimonWho:
So this person (who was it by the way?) would rather have no choice and the wrong treatment than have to make a decision for themselves? That's a little weird.

I refuse to take anything for colds other than tissues. So far, I've recovered from every one.

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Anyway, my point is this: I've become so upset about the rampant greed and consumerism destroying our society that I've decided to write a book about it and sell a million copies.
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Q: Paul, did you have sex with Monica Lewinsky?

A: I think it's important to differentiate between actually having sex with a person and just being a performer with them in a live sex show.

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Originally posted by cozen:

*wishes he were a fly on the wall at the breakfast table, yep*

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Originally posted by citizen:
I think it's important to differentiate between actually having sex with a person and just being a performer with them in a live sex show.

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Originally posted by citizen:
It sounds terribly like a strawman argument against anything other than capitalism to me.

Sort of: "Look either it's Capitalism or be hit on the head with a log" kind of thing.

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Originally posted by SimonWho:
Ah, such genteel English behaviour.

We did give the world the Sex Pistols too you know.

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Originally posted by citizen:
It sounds terribly like a strawman argument against anything other than capitalism to me.

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A straw man argument is a logical fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw-man argument" is to create a position that is easy to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent. A straw-man argument can be a successful rhetorical technique (that is, it may succeed in persuading people) but it is in fact misleading, because the opponent's actual argument has not been refuted.

Its name is derived from the practice of using straw men in combat training. In such training, a scarecrow is made in the image of the enemy with the single intent of attacking it. [1] It is occasionally called a straw dog fallacy [2] or a scarecrow argument.

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But he seemed to be on the side of anything other than capitalism!

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Originally posted by SimonWho:
As far as painkillers go, I'm a great believer in Aspirin which is cheap, natural and plentiful.

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Originally posted by seryn:

Shocking folks is fun. May as well do it properly.

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