Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Ford Fairlane]

Titus O'Reily, did laugh.

Robert Allenby responds to the doubters

To those people who doubt me, I ask, is it more believable that I just got drunk and fell onto a rock or that the far-fetched plot of the movie Taken actually happened to me?

Robert Allenby responds to the doubters

 

[chiwigi]

I'm not knocking empathy, I'm just saying it's not the only tool you need to interact with the world. At some point you have to call people on their bullshit, particularly when that bullshit is harmful. There's a point at which acting on empathy alone does mutate into acquiescence, this happens when you find yourself making excuses for things that are inexcusable.

Absolutely you do. I'm no pacifist.
But when you can...and we often can, understanding must come before sanction. Desperate parents believing that vaccines have hurt their children is nowhere near inexcusable. People who want to hurt babies...that is! We should still seek to understand why they want to hurt babies...how else could we avoid it in the future? If they are just evil scum then they are just evil scum. There is no acquiescence in understanding.

I don't know what job you do, but I'm guessing that you'd rarely make big decisions without all the facts and resources available at hand unless you absolutely have to...why not extend the same consideration to people?

In your pacifist scenario...my sympathetic empathy would be with those being stabbed and I would act accordingly. Empathy does not only apply to those doing what is seemingly wrong and it seeks to avoid unnecessary harm, not excuse it.

 

[raman]

I just realised Robert Allenby is a dead ringer for Lee Mack.

 

[raman]

Absolutely you do. I'm no pacifist.

That was intended as a jocular reference, for the record.

But when you can...and we often can, understanding must come before sanction. Desperate parents believing that vaccines have hurt their children is nowhere near inexcusable. People who want to hurt babies...that is! We should still seek to understand why they want to hurt babies...how else could we avoid it in the future? If they are just evil scum then they are just evil scum. There is no acquiescence in understanding.

Would you be equally understanding if an acquaintance told you they blamed their child's autism on chocolate/pollen/the Jews? Because there's as much evidence as there is for vaccines. Just because the vaccines connection is an established concept in the marketplace of ideas, that doesn't mean it's more credible than any other random connection I could make up, or any more worthy of respect.

Groundless ideas that attain an air of respect purely by dint of how widespread and long-lived they become... that's how religions get started.

I don't know what job you do, but I'm guessing that you'd rarely make big decisions without all the facts and resources available at hand unless you absolutely have to...why not extend the same consideration to people?

Indeed. But unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, if you're lazy) sometimes people reach a saturation point of stupid with alarming swiftness.

 

[PepeSilvia]

Shared a lift with Chad Cornes at the cricket, am I famous yet?


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[I Dont Care]

Did people used to keep pr0n in toolboxes?

If that's where the missus didn't look, well then..yes

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I just realised Robert Allenby is a dead ringer for Lee Mack.

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Lee Mack is a better bullshitter.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Shared a lift with Chad Cornes at the cricket, am I famous yet?


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no.

 

[Vic_Vinegar]

when i was an apprentice, there was stacks in the dunny cubicles. pretty awful really.

As an apprentice I assume you were in charge of separating the pages.

 

[Forzaport]

Linking vaccines with autism is fear mongering at its finest. It's disappointing that we're seeing a return of polio and measles because parents have no understanding of vaccines and the risks involved in not vaccinating your child. It's almost criminally negligent.

 

[I Dont Care]

Shared a lift with Chad Cornes at the cricket, am I famous yet?


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[I Dont Care]

Linking vaccines with autism is fear mongering at its finest. It's disappointing that we're seeing a return of polio and measles because parents have no understanding of vaccines and the risks involved in not vaccinating your child. It's almost criminally negligent.

Indeed, plus it burdens the rest of society

 

[raman]

when i was an apprentice, there was stacks in the dunny cubicles. pretty awful really.

You were an apprentice in the 80s? I knew you tories had a work ethic, but that's amazing.

 

[Doctor Feel]

As an apprentice I assume you were in charge of separating the pages.

i really didnt go near them. an old copy of playboy didn't go astray when i spent 8 hours in a 2x2 shed called the "dog box" in 46 degree heat.

 

[tribey]

Linking vaccines with autism is fear mongering at its finest. It's disappointing that we're seeing a return of polio and measles because parents have no understanding of vaccines and the risks involved in not vaccinating your child. It's almost criminally negligent.

The thinking behind it also doesn't wash.

All Doctors are apparently shills of 'Big Pharma' and vaccines are a conspiracy, but these same pillocks will accept any and all medical advice when their kid needs other injectable substances, such as insulin to treat diabetes or anaesthetic so that appendix can come out.

What's the difference?

 

[raman]

The thinking behind it also doesn't wash.

All Doctors are apparently shills of 'Big Pharma' and vaccines are a conspiracy, but these same pillocks will accept any and all medical advice when their kid needs other injectable substances, such as insulin to treat diabetes or anaesthetic so that appendix can come out.

What's the difference?

Don't forget the bleach enemas!

 

[Magpiespower]

Dude gets off train. Stands on platform. Watches train doors shut. Presses button to open train doors.

Train doors don't open.

Dude finger stabs button. Punches train door. Calls train door a "f@%khead!"

Train departs.

Dude abuses the s#it out of train as it pulls out of station...

 

[I Dont Care]

Don't forget the bleach enemas!

Sounds enticing

 

[I Dont Care]

Dude gets off train. Stands on platform. Watches train doors shut. Presses button to open train doors.

Train doors don't open.

Dude finger stabs button. Punches train door. Calls train door a "f@%khead!"

Train departs.

Dude abuses the s#it out of train as it pulls out of station...

Once, I was that dude

 

[raman]

Dude gets off train. Stands on platform. Watches train doors shut. Presses button to open train doors.

Train doors don't open.

Dude finger stabs button. Punches train door. Calls train door a "f@%khead!"

Train departs.

Dude abuses the s#it out of train as it pulls out of station...

Gawler line?

 

[Powerstufff]

Soccer...the football you watch when you're not watching football

Nah. Well not for me. I try with other codes but the only one I find enjoyable is American football. And even then I haven't identified with a particular team or watched with any consistency.
Still, to be fair, I'm glad no other code gets my pulse racing/breaks my heart like Aussie Rules. From October through February I enjoy a sweet Aspergers-like emotional detachment from sport. I get slightly revved up with cricket but that's it.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Whatever happened to Swedish tennis players?

 

[Magpiespower]

Gawler line?

Haha! Yep, I'm back in da hood...

 

[Powerstufff]

Gawler line?

At least there you have a sexual partner/close family member to talk to about it.

 

[raman]

Whatever happened to Swedish tennis players?

Who needs them when you have Canadians?