FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
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FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1hr ago
I would advise putting criminals who began claiming to be trans-women after being charged in a separate facility from both cis-man and cis-women
Why?
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
18hr ago
I'll ask again: is it your contention that anyone who visits Israel for any reason thereby becomes fair game for assassination, in perpetuity? Is that what you believe, yes or no?
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
18hr ago
So in your opinion, anyone who visits Israel for any reason thereby becomes fair game for assassination by terrorists, in perpetuity?
I like Israel
I find that very hard to believe.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
19hr ago
It’s a good bet that a lot of the young adults visit Israel and probably did birth right tours.
By this standard, any Muslim who has ever visited Mecca is fair game for assassination at the hands of someone who lost family in 9/11. Is that the standard you endorse?
So what you're really saying is "Alice is entitled to seek revenge on people who actively conspired to murder Alice's family members". That's really not what I'm asking. I'm asking, is an American who lost a family member on 9/11 entitled to shoot up a mosque even if he has no reason to suspect that any of the worshippers in said mosque had even the most tangential role to play in 9/11? Is he entitled to shoot up a mosque purely on the basis that the worshippers in that mosque are part of the same "tribe" (broadly defined) as the people who killed his family?
"You can be as Jewish as you like, just as long as you don't engage in any of the cultural practices associated with Judaism, not even in private."
To answer your final question would an American be justified shooting up a mosque who had losts a family member in 9/11? Potentially yes.
What is the word "potentially" doing there? Would an American who lost a family member in 9/11 be morally justified in shooting up a mosque, yes or no?
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
21hr ago
Michelle Yeoh (when she was younger)
Honestly: I think I would even today.
So rapists trying to avoid serving their sentences in male prisons are not acting in bad faith when they suddenly "discover" a female gender identity immediately before going into trial, not even if they make zero effort to medically transition and only the most token effort to socially transition.
The only people you see as acting in bad faith when they "identify" as something they aren't are the people doing so ironically in order to expose how nonsensical your worldview is. You are more comfortable admitting rapists, murderers and pederasts than you are admitting infidels and gadflies.
And you wonder why the trans activist movement attracts so many bad actors.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
No worries, I won't ping you going forward if you'd rather I didn't.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
I got into running at the very start of Covid, and ran my first marathon in May 2021.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
Unfortunately not. There's probably one in my gym but I don't fancy going. Tempted to treat myself to a massage this evening.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
New year's resolutions check-in:
- Posted my tenth blog post of the year last Thursday, an analysis of Chinatown and Spec Ops: The Line I originally wrote for Scott's everything-except-book review contest.
- Went to the gym three times last week. Have yet to go this week, as yesterday morning I suddenly got a horrible pain between my shoulder blades which has yet to dissipate. Can deadlift 1.84x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1.15x for 7 reps and bench press .87x for 6 reps.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
How goes it, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @falling-star, @Tollund_Man4 and @self_made_human?
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
(I doubt there are any transwomen fitting those specifications, though.)
Bless your heart.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
For the former meaning, Brits and Irish tend to use the word "unsociable".
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
I mean, wouldn't you rather them throw spears at each other than fire Glocks? Surely there's a vastly reduced risk of innocent bystanders getting caught in the crossfire.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
But when people call out Israel for not sharing our values (in being an ethno-religious state), that's also called Antisemitic.
I don't think there's anything antisemitic about pointing out that Israel is an ethnostate. However, when people reserve this criticism for Israel while ignoring the various other countries to which it applies (Liberia, Japan, Korea), it's hard to avoid the conclusion that antisemitism is the underlying motivation.
Even if Israel doesn't share all of its values with the US, I think you would have a hard time contesting the assertion that it has more values in common with the US than any other country in the Middle East, and that it's not even a close race.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
I fear you already know how he's going to answer.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
Oh "spunk" would still primarily be used as a noun in the UK too. I was using "ejaculate" as a noun, not a verb.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
Made a work trip to Australia very awkward.
They also use it very freely in Scotland.
Same for 'bloody' as a prefix, which I still don't get.
"Bloody" is generally just used as a generic intensifier. I have a very vivid childhood memory of listening to a newsreader talking about Bloody Sunday on the radio and feeling baffled as to why she was suddenly cursing mid-sentence.
Some examples that might be helpful.
- "Bender" can be used as a derogatory term for a gay man.
- "Bugger" can used as a verb meaning "to sodomize" (I don't know if this word has an innocent meaning in the US).
- "Pants" refers to boxers and briefs, not trousers.
- "Pissed" means drunk, rather than angry.
- "To pull" means to get a girl to come home with you e.g. "I managed to pull at the pub last night."
- "To shag" means to have sex with (I assume a lot of Yanks are familiar with this owing to Austin Powers).
- "Slag" means a promiscuous woman.
- "Spunk" means ejaculate.
Yeah, I saw it for the first time a few years ago and felt rather underwhelmed. If compiling a list of my Spielberg films it certainly wouldn't crack the top five. (I did enjoy it more than Close Encounters, though.) Definitely a film which fell victim to the "Seinfeld is Unfunny effect, where it's hard for modern viewers to appreciate how inventive it must have seemed on release.
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