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2012/03/25 02:20:25
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Veteran ORC
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DeadlySquirrel wrote:How am I being obtuse by thinking that people are too sensitive, and that facts aren't offensive? Your logic is flawed.
Calling someone who is overweight "fat" when they have a medical condition isn't something you should do; they know, and they don't need you to point it out to them. What's going on in their head is "No gak, jackass."
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2012/03/25 02:26:45
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Fixture of Dakka
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Melissia wrote:Relapse wrote:That's interesting about the Japanese.
Japanese doctors will tell you that you broke your leg because you were "too fat".
Rather than, you know, because you fell off a roof.
Never get treated for something in Japan. Seriously. For a nation so obscenely obsessed with large breasts (putting America's love of them to shame by far), they're also obscenely obsessed with keeping minimal body fat, thus rendering large breasts impossible. Amongst other weird and bizarre cultural norms for them.
That's some harsh medicine they have there. The story about the obsession with large breasts puts me in mind of a Korean room mate I had.
One morning I was watching a Miss Olympia competition and he walked in and started watching with me.
After about five minutes he looked over at me with his eyes resembling eggs on a plate and asked me if all American women were like that.
I told him no, this was a contest to find the most delicate one.
At that point, he about had a heart attack.
It was a personal failing of mine to mess with the heads of my Asian room mates who were fresh off the boat. 
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2012/03/25 02:26:56
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Hauptmann
In the belly of the whale.
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Calling someone who is 30 stone in weight fat is a fact. Saying a spade is a spade is a fact. Saying a black person is black is a fact. Saying Obama looks like a chimp is a fact.
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kestril wrote:The game is only as fun as the people I play it with.
"War is as natural to a man as maternity is to a woman." |
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2012/03/25 02:29:02
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Fixture of Dakka
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DeadlySquirrel wrote:Calling someone who is 30 stone in weight fat is a fact. Saying a spade is a spade is a fact. Saying a black person is black is a fact. Saying Obama looks like a chimp is a fact.
Saying your head is a dark and scary place, also fact.
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"But i'm more than just a little curious, how you're planning to go about making your amends, to the dead?" -The Noose-APC
"Little angel go away
Come again some other day
The devil has my ear today
I'll never hear a word you say" Weak and Powerless - APC
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2012/03/25 02:31:33
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Fixture of Dakka
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DeadlySquirrel wrote:Calling someone who is 30 stone in weight fat is a fact. Saying a spade is a spade is a fact. Saying a black person is black is a fact. Saying Obama looks like a chimp is a fact.
Getting knocked up the side of the head by someone you called fat is also a fact. The fact that you are still among the living calls attention to the fact that you either have not said it to anyone of bad temperment or had at least the good sense to be far enough away to not be caught.
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2012/03/25 02:35:08
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Hauptmann
In the belly of the whale.
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Rather OT here, people...
I simply asked the question why it is considered offensive. Like why saying Obama looks like a chimp is.
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kestril wrote:The game is only as fun as the people I play it with.
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2012/03/25 02:38:01
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Anointed Dark Priest of Chaos
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alarmingrick wrote:DeadlySquirrel wrote:Calling someone who is 30 stone in weight fat is a fact. Saying a spade is a spade is a fact. Saying a black person is black is a fact. Saying Obama looks like a chimp is a fact.
Saying your head is a dark and scary place, also fact.
Exalted.
Dakkadakka off-topic is sounding more and more like a klan rally lately...
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2012/03/25 02:44:08
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Veteran ORC
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CT GAMER wrote:alarmingrick wrote:DeadlySquirrel wrote:Calling someone who is 30 stone in weight fat is a fact. Saying a spade is a spade is a fact. Saying a black person is black is a fact. Saying Obama looks like a chimp is a fact.
Saying your head is a dark and scary place, also fact.
Exalted.
Dakkadakka off-topic is sounding more and more like a klan rally lately...
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I've never feared Death or Dying. I've only feared never Trying. |
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2012/03/25 02:50:43
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Dwarf High King with New Book of Grudges
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DeadlySquirrel wrote:How am I being obtuse by thinking that people are too sensitive, and that facts aren't offensive?
Because human behavior nicely demonstrates that facts are, in fact, often offensive.
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2012/03/25 04:12:08
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork
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DeadlySquirrel wrote:Saying a spade is a spade is a fact.
If you are talking about the playing card, yes. If you are talking about a small shovel, yes. If you are referring to a human being, no. Humans are not 'spades'.
DeadlySquirrel wrote:Saying Obama looks like a chimp is a fact.
Except he does not, at least not anymore than you do as well.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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2012/03/25 08:25:54
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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Captain of the Forlorn Hope
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DeadlySquirrel wrote:Saying Obama looks like a chimp is a fact.
Considering the human genes are about 98% Chimp that should tell you that we all resemble chimps or they resemble us.
Words are a pretty silly thing to be offended by, no matter what they are.
I do not understand how people get offended by a word. It does not have any inherent meaning.
The Spoilers are NSFW!
Society thinks is a "Bad" word, but it is inherently no more offensive than or telling someone to Or saying
People can be offended by the slightest things these days.
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2012/03/25 11:14:20
Subject: Nothing says America like racist election swag:
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[MOD]
Anti-piracy Officer
Somewhere in south-central England.
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If words have no inherent meaning why are you wasting your time typing them?
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