George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
20d ago
Indeed, I should have specified "however one parses the abbreviation HBD." I only changed it because it was once mentioned, though your spelling out of the abbreviation is probably the more accurate and common.
Cops at least are on the radar and aware of the hypervigilance of anything resembling overtly ___-ist behavior and the repercussions that face them should they violate the Rules. Teachers on the other hand have essentially free rein to sanction, downgrade, or otherwise penalize students exhibiting (via essay or otherwise) views that they find personally repulsive (almost always this means anything right-coded.) Anything blatantly suggesting racism (imagine a well-written essay on Human Biological Determinism, without any use of epithets or slavery) could feasibly get a student reported to admin. There's a level of acceptability (I dislike using currently popular terms like Overton window) where things of this sort are treated the same as if a student were to write about the strategies in rape, or how to build some device that goes boom. I suppose a classroom is a relatively low impact environment, until of course it isn't and generations of like-minded groupthinked kids start waving flags and blocking traffic. Or worse.
Edit: I've strayed from the point.
edit 2: Sorry to sully the fun thread.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
20d ago
Particularly on mobile, yes.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
24d ago
I suppose it's going to appear differently on different feeds, true enough.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
24d ago
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
24d ago
I found it odd (perhaps naïvely so) to see headlines, notably the BBC, focused not on the release Israeli hostages, but on the Palestinians: "Palestinians celebrate return of detainees freed by Israel"
Look at that! A Mottezin (Mottezen? Mottizen?)in the wild! Could be my first time seeing the actual visage of anyone here.
The guy Paul Scharre's constant rapport-seeking rise in intonation was distracting so I ended up reading the transcript, but thanks for the vid!
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
28d ago
This is starting to read like a Python skit.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
29d ago
What kind of soup are you brewing?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
29d ago
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
These post-ers who pop up again after two years always have me scratching my head. Like what's been on your mind since 2023?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
First of all, why aren't you at your post?
Second, you're getting reasonable responses to what I'd consider an overgenerous appraisal of Jones, but let me back up a bit and ask about your lady friend who wants to stockpile bombs. What the fuck? Obviously you may have been using hyperbole or making a joke ot whatever, but if you're serious, what gives here? She knows something about bombs, does she?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Well Japanese but it's everyone else's first language. In places like Namba (a heavily touristed enclave of Osaka) probably Chinese and Korean, not necessarily in that order. I've also met down there Germans and French and one Italian couple. Not as many English speakers around as there seem to have been in previous years, though English is probably the second language go-to for most Japanese. I also hear spatterings of Vietnamese and occasional Urdu (?) as there's a Pakistani extended family around town.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
What's Sentinel? Is this the name of an organization that performs sentinel surveillance of disease?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I got it, just going for low comedy.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
With a nod to the disappointment of @TwiceHuman (and others) I am enjoying immensely the ones of these I've read so far, and actually many I somehow missed the first go-around. The AAQC thread is one of the goodest features here.
(I intentionally didn't write best to spite my phone keyboard, which kept giving me shit as I tried to type. Take that, Xperia.)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I thought he was writing Shittack.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I went without having sex well into my twenties, for what it's worth, largely because I saw it as a sacred act at the time but also because I was terrified of screwing up (no pun intended). And of various other parts involving intimacy. It scared me. I sometimes wonder if my own mystification of sex was a smokescreen for that. But yes, getting outside one's head does wonders.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I'm curious how you have arrived at (and remained with) these beliefs. You previously listed a couple of evangelical/fundamentalist-type beliefs (the YEC idea that earth is 6,000 years old etc.), that you have dismissed as implausible. Yet you hold this rather staunch belief (stated in the previous set of replies) that sex makes you (one, us) dirty outside the confines of marriage. Your terms macro- and micro-intimacy here seem very tenuously cobbled together. There are many types of intimacy--should all of these be measured out so carefully lest we sully ourselves or dilute what we have to offer some future friend? If sex is different because of its procreative nature, that's of course an argument. But that's not necessarily intimacy. You seem to be attaching a mystical quality to sex--this without ever having had it yourself.
Obviously to some degree you got these ideas from your father, but you've embraced them and I'm wondering why. I wouldn't normally comment in the face of such a long statement laying bare one's experiences, because I'm not sure I have much to offer you other than stay alive and work things out in fear and trembling. But you're digging in here and I'm not positive that you are digging in in a way that is going to help you.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
top the infamous I'm A Man ad
I had never actually seen that. Damn. That's pathetic.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Being boring is not a sin.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Funnily enough I like oden but not everything in it. It's best in winter after a night of drinking beer with friends. You then drink more beer and eat the oden and eat the daikon radish with a bit of mustard. But you may be onto something.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
À chacun son gôut as the French say. I make only subjective claims here, mind you. Even natto with okra must be eaten, after all. I am happy there are those who are up to the task.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
You made the right choice.
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