@Gullas - the rest of the song should tell you that :)
I chop my own balls off and die at least once a day.
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@Bravo - I hate the term "politically correct". It's a strawman, nothing else.
Being sensitive to other cultural points of view isn't being "politically correct", that's just being normal. If people hate that then they ARE likely flat out racists and bigots.
THAT being said though- people who seek to police the way others think and actively try and strive for the mythical "political correctness" are a bane and poison to everybody! It is THEY who do more harm to the cause of cultural sensitivity and inclusiveness than anyone else.
They caricature the ideals, distort them, weaponise them and turn them into targets of hate.
It's like how people like Dawkins turn Atheism into something obnoxious and objectionable, when it's not.
Or self described "Darwinists" misunderstand evolution, focussing it all on monkeys and other misunderstood crap like the idea of a linear progression from simplicity to perfection etc. which leaves the door wide open for crazy creationists.
Or PETA, who've done immeasurable harm to the cause of the human treatment of animals…
Or George W Bush Jnr as the US President and what he did for the nation's image world wide. :)
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They caricature the ideals, distort them, weaponise them and turn them into targets of hate.
Well put. And if you take these people to task, then of course you are a racist, sexist, homophobe etc etc. This makes it impossible to have a mature and reasoned discussion with them. I was deeply pissed off this morning to discover that the chap who used to do Due East on here, has been badgered into removing the word 'biracial' in reference to a character in his comic profile over there.
This is a corruption of the noble idea that you shouldn't be erroneously referring to the race of individuals in newspaper articles and TV reports when their race isn't relevant to the story. But this author is promoting the positive aspects of the character, not pushing negative stereotypes - it's all gone arse about face if you ask me.
And hi Lothar! :)
I suppose the Wayback Machine is a kind of time machine - I sometimes look at the old DD. It's a pity you can't post there!
I go with Bill Maher and free expression. I was a huge fan of his show Politically Incorrect back in the day. I use the term the way he did fully aware that to Conservatives it is one of their favorite straw men but for me it's the irony of having to follow the party line like the term originally meant back in the day of the Bolsheviks. As far as I am concerned all the restrictions on language only serve to hide the actual existing conditions of prejudice and 'isms. Deal with changing the conditions first and foremost. Splitting hairs over language will never help a member of a group get a job. Back in the Civil Rights days it was said doesn't matter what you call the black man; nigger or negro, what matters are the rights you deny him.
Recommended books: Illiberal Education by Denesh DeSouza, Closing of the American Mind by Bloom,and various works by Nat Hentoff and Susan Jacoby.
I was a teen of the 80's. I'm guessing that's when I lost my sanity watching all those saturday morning cartoons. Or was it the first five years of my eldest niece's life when I was forced to watch Barney the Dinosaur almost every single morning…
I remember watching The Centurions (Man and Machine, Power X-Treme if I remember right)..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQT00ZSVzcg
Only Powered Suit type heroes I've seen before this was Iron Man. I liked that they could mod their suits for any situation within their fields of expertise. Now I find myself wondering which powered suit would be a better military platform. Iron Man's suit, which has every gadget he could think of built in. Or these Exoframes which can be modded as needed (even without the teleportation feature which is pretty hard to recreate IRL).
Of course now there are militaries working on powered suits. I've seen Japan with an air powered frame and the US with a bulky frame connected by cables to a power source. How will such things augment soldiers on the battlefield is anyone's guess…
Lonnehart wrote:The future is droids and drones. It's easier to make a metal framework and send it off to do things with the person on a remote control, than to try to put the metal framework around the poor grunt. It is easier to bulk up a soldier so he/she can carry preexisting body armor and make that body armor lighter and easier to carry than to make some kind of powered suit.
Of course now there are militaries working on powered suits. I've seen Japan with an air powered frame and the US with a bulky frame connected by cables to a power source. How will such things augment soldiers on the battlefield is anyone's guess…
And then one day the two technologies will meet in the middle and viola! A lightweight powered suit?
The US has played with advanced technology for military purposes for a long time and they're usually trying to do too much, too soon with too little. And then they build something and it's far too expensive to be practical no matter how cool it is. Look up all those 1950s-1960s boondoggles like the XB-70 and MBT-70. Super duper cool but too soon, too expensive and totally unnecessary. How long did it take to make the flying wing practical? From the YB-49 to the B-2?
lothar wrote:Yup. Turned into a jet, bombed the Russians.
fucked a giant fish , like a boss
@Bravo- The rule I stick by is to avoid saying "politically correct" or incorrect or whatever completely. When you let the enemy define the battlefield you've already lost.
As for other groups- what they want to be called is what they're called. That's it. Self identification. -Where possible.
ozoneocean wrote:If you think the battle is already lost no matter how you define the battlefield you have already lost. Use your opponent's definitions against him. Know your opponent as yourself and use his assumed mastery to defeat him. Napoleon at Austerlitz not McClellan at Antietam.
. When you let the enemy define the battlefield you've already lost.
Just been pruning my eucalyptus. This tree produces such perfect digeridoo shaped branches, but we don't have any termites here to hollow them out, so the whole operation is tinged with sadness. :(
Maybe I should cut them off earlier; apperently it's very good wood for walking sticks. Not that I need a stick to walk, but with all the vicious bull terriers people keep around here, it makes sense to carry a weighty club when I walk the kids through the park every morning.
Why don't people keep labradors anymore? Labradors never used to knock down old ladies or eat children. >:O
Why don't people keep labradors anymore? Labradors never used to knock down old ladies or eat children. >:O
The British isles are too small for Labradors. They're everywhere here in the states. The most common dog breed owned among my fiends is the Lab. They need room to run around and get in touch with the perfection of what it is to be a dog. If one breed has achieved enlightenment it is the Lab. They are truly satisifed and at peace with their dogness and just are.
Now where did I leave that bag of prop swords? I need one for the next scene. Putting twelve figures into one tight scene spells trouble. One falls over and I'll be swearing a blue streak for at least a quarter hour. And I have a pile of scenes I can shoot together with the way I designed the set, but the next scene in the script is in the one place that would require the redoing the floor and that is a major pain for just one short sequence. So I have to delay and hope I can get to that in one week before the buffer runs out. Right.
My grandparents had one. Only dog I've ever been afraid off. When no one was around he'd attack me. I learned a lot about dealing with shit-head personality dogs from him, never had a problem since no matter how big, agressive and dickish the dog.
I's a personality thing, some individuals are natural bullies, they get off on intimidation, but if it things don't go as they expect they panic.
This is why some smart cats have been known to chase down dogs- I've seen it.
actually makes me kinda glad to know that our family dog (Lab/bord/icelandic) is so stupid that he can't really hurt a fly. Well, except the fact that he's actually a good watchdog, might be because of all the sheep-dog genes, he's an idiot. I mean he panicks when he farts!
I remember Donald Sutherland's character in Eye of the Needle who could go to any dog and completely disarm it with a whistle. It's not that easy, but it can be done. I'm able to approach any dog and establish rapport. My nephew calls me "the dog whisperer" and some of the residents in the building where I work say it's because their dog can recognize a truly gentle and good person. I get a good chuckle out of that.
Samuel Clemens understood dogs. He thought they should go to heaven and people shouldn't. He also said that you can take a starving, homeless dog; give it shelter and food and raise it to prosperity and it will not turn on you and bite. That is the difference between a man and a dog. Unlike people, I don't think that dogs have the awareness of self to be that selfish. Don't anthorpomorphize our species' loyal helpmate. Some dogs don't have the self-awareness to know that a loud noise came from them, the same as they are not aware that their tail is not another dog. The whole recognizing oneself in a mirror as opposed to thinking it is someone else.
The problem as always is with the owners - people who deliberately train their dogs to be aggresive or simply fail to train them at all, so you have thugs of both sexes with their status symbol 'protection' dogs and owners who's dogs are clearly taking them for a walk, fighting with other dogs and forming angry packs. If two professional dog walkers arrive at the same time you might have 6-10 dogs running loose and nobody with any idea of how to control them. It's hard to be objective about this when you're escorting two terrified children.
Add to that the revelation that every cherished TV presenter you grew up with is now turning out to be a serial child molester and the country is quite literally going to the dogs!
Ironscarf wrote:This is what someone told me shortly after I had been (quite badly) bitten by a dog when I was ten or so. I was very frightened of dogs for a while afterwards, and knowing that even an aggressive dog could be changed (as this person said) helped.
The problem as always is with the owners
On the other hand, my own dog has always been sweet and polite regardless of how well we trained him. Which is not all that well, I think…he can't even shake a paw, but he seems to instincively read and react to people. And he spent the first year of his life homeless and then in a pretty dumpy shelter, so I can't attribute it to the way he was raised.
And he once chased away a bear when it got too close to my little sister.
Okay, now I'm just bragging about my awesome dog.
Anyway, my point was that the owner makes a huge difference but dogs are born with personalities just like any other animal.
Some dogs do have definite issues beyond just their owner being an ass. I have two dogs in my immediate family, one of whom is an old hunting dog named Juniper and she's about the smartess, kindest, "wouldn't touch a fly if it meant her dying" kind of dog despite the fact that she'll happily retrieve dead birds all day. The other is Rex, who is also one of the smartest, kindest animals I've ever met; right up until he hears anything that remotely sounds like gunfire or some foreign language he invented in his little doggy brain, because Rex has one of the worst cases of doggy PTSD on the face of the planet from his two tours of Afghanistan before we adopted him from the military pets program. He hears anything he doesn't like and at that point he gets real twitchy at minimum, and outright hostile at worst. He's calmed down since we got him, but some dogs are just messed up, the same as any people you might meet in the world.
Thanks for reminding me of that one dog I had to deal with when I was forced to walk/bike to work. He was pretty aggressive and in the end that was what killed him. Found him a dead mess on the road… the victim of being run over by a car, complete with his chain and part of the wooden post at the end of the chain which had been broken off. The dog was apparently going after someone walking across the street. It must have had huge problems if it was so aggressive that it would charge across 5 lanes of traffic to get to his victim…
That's the thing despite obknoxious owners and trainining I can go up to a vicious brute and establish trust. And then my neighbor's dogs just like to bark and run around because they want attention.
It is disappointing when I don't see the dog for awhile and they've forgotten me especailly my old boss' dog who was an abandoned "junkyard" dog. Nasty as all get out if he didn't know you as he was a trained guard dog and then abandoned. But greatest dog ever once he trusted you.
People with aggressive pets should rein them in around children. Do they really want the lawsuit or worse police intervention? There's a couple of shootings a year in the county where I live. A dog bites and then is aggresive to the cops? BLAM! Sorry buddy you should have controlled your animal better. Working in an apartment building if a dog is too loud and aggressive all the time, the neighbors will call the Cops and Animal Control. Some places just don't countenance that kind of behavior and I have seen animals taken away.
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I am currently holidaying in the City of Darwin in the Northern Territory with my travelling companion. And tonight Skoolmunkee and Banes will make a lovely sweet Quackcast together! And you will all laugh along with their hilarious japes and tomfoolery! They're going to have a spiffing time!
Darwin is a pretty warm city. I talked to an old, very dark little lady from India in the lift earlier who said "ohhh, it's just so HOT here…". It's on a peninsula surrounded by beaches where no one at all ever swims because the wildlife makes it too dangerous- mainly gigantic saltwater crocodiles.
Darwin locals talk in a very slangy way and seem to be pretty "country" and conservative.
What else? I'd like to be back home again though, even with going back to work and all. there isn't too much to do here and my companion is and my personalities are a poor match (being diplomatic). Might take a trip to one of the national parks tomorrow.
ozoneocean wrote:'bout time too.
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Free comic book day today!! Yeahhhhh~~
Is the whole world celebrating with free comics?
My local comic shop let me take home six different comics! I have been reading through some this afternoon, but usually the story gets to a very interesting place and it ends with a "to be continued" buy the full length issue next month. -_-' bummer
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:Totally! I haven't had the chance to read mine yet, but I'm very excited.
Free comic book day today!! Yeahhhhh~~
Is the whole world celebrating with free comics?
I also ended up buying two new graphic novels, of course. Free comic book day is a great idea for everyone.
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