America Jumps the Shark

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  1. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Since we are back on this, I believe I have a proof that demonstrates once and for all that good sex can happen without anything beyond physical attraction if the attractive person is skilled. To wit:

    The widespread use of prostitutes throughout history means that there can be good sex with or without any kind of personal connection.
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    So, your God is opposed to the ghey, but has no problem with pre-marital sex? That's an "interesting" concept.
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  3. K.

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    I'm not saying your conclusion is false, but for your argument to work, you'd need to show that sex has to be good for people to choose to pay for it. I'm sure people have paid for lots of aboslutely horrific food throughout history, when the alternative was starving. People don't starve without sex, but many might be similarly unwilling to go without. Others might not, and of course throughout history prostitution is often condemned by a majority, at least openly.
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  4. TheLonelySquire

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    I don't believe I mentioned sex, did I?
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    So, you're saying that you leave women even more unsatisfied and sexually frustrated than you claim John does? Or are you one of those people who thinks that anal sex, oral sex, and calling a penis "stick pussy" means "it doesn't count" and that you're not really gay?
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    I'm not even sure what he was trying to say. I said that I was looking for intelligence, humor, and compassion in a person, and he apparently found that laughable. I think it says more about him than anyone else.
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    Way more chicks for you to date rape?
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  8. TheLonelySquire

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    Could your post be any more nonsensical, lol? And the idiots that "liked" it are even more pathetic. No wonder this place is a ghost town.
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  9. TheLonelySquire

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    The fact that you make such a correlation is very telling.
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    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    Ghost town? We've got old posters coming back lately, activity is trending up. Try not to be a complete 'tard.
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  11. Dr. Krieg

    Dr. Krieg Stay at Home Astronaut. Administrator Overlord

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    Isn't it? I remember what you post.
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    It's funny. Lonely Squire keeps coming back but I've not heard any more from Clever Wombat. IIRC, there was the speculation they were duals. And, he does sound like CW ...
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    "Duals"? You mean like this...

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    It would not surprise me.
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  15. oldfella1962

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    Sorry - somebody might have to walk an extra three blocks. Unless the food is hand-delivered it's just for the rich/elites. I'm stretching a bit but people will NEVER run out of excuses as to why they refuse to eat better. This cuts across all economic + demographic groups BTW. America is a land of choices - everyday, everywhere. Like DEVO said "freedom of choice is what we got. Freedom from choice is what we want."
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    Here we go again...

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    :wtf:

    I say some cities are making efforts to provide better food to more people and you're still pissed? :unsure:

    Yes, there are families that would love to eat organic and have fresh food in the house; but that shit is usually sky high expensive. Places here are easing that along to encourage folks to buy their products, and it's working or else no one would've done it.

    The market makes money, parents are saving in cab/ bus fare from having to go across town for nutrition, and children have a hope of growing up with better eating habits than their parents. It's a win-win from what I can see.
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    The more I read @TheLonelySquire 's posts the more I think his handle is accurate.
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    Isn't that guy dead?
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    Just like your god.
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    He's your God too. ;)
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    Nope. Sorry. If you believe the Bible (Spoiler Alert! It gets a lot of shit wrong.), then the one thing for which there is no "redemption," and will turn God away from you forever, is to reject the Holy Spirit. As an atheist, I consider Big Daddy, Junior, and the Spook to be as real as the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and Darth Vader. Therefore, on the off chance that there is a god, who somehow matches the bizarro, contradictory shit to be found in the Bible, I am not a member of his "flock" and, like lots of really cool and interesting people (Robin Williams, Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Leonardo da Vinci [he liked teh buttsecks, FYI], and billions more), there's dick I can do about changing god's mind, so I'll see you in Hell. (Not really, since it doesn't exist, but if it does, and there's any kind of justice in the universe, you'll be there as well.)

    Of course, some Biblical interpretations have it that we atheists aren't damned to hell, but when we croak, we just don't get an afterlife, like religious people do. Which is what most of us atheists expected anyways, so we're not going to be terribly disappointed when we don't end up in heaven, hell, limbo, or the Circle K.

    Either way, he ain't my god, and I ain't one of his sheep.
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    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Mapquest includes convenience stores under "supermarkets." Basically, if you can buy milk and cigarettes, it's a food store. Out of curiosity, how would you buy a week's groceries if you didn't have a car? Dayton's already failed that challenge. Will you?
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    I wouldn't mind spending eternity at Circle K.

    In the 80s, the ones in my hometown rented the best porn tapes. :yeehaw:
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    The same way people in my neighborhood do who don't have cars. They walk two miles to the nearest grocery store and carry home enough at a time for a couple of days. BTW the nearest convenience store/gas station is also two miles away - they are at the same intersection. No I don't live in "the country". My nearest neighbor is 15 feet away. Regardless I included a link demonstrating that convenience stores do indeed have yogurt, cheese, cereal, milk, fruit, etc. I don't care if Mapquest considers all stores "grocery stores." Many CircleK, 7-11, Stop-N-Rob, etc. have at least a few types of food with actual nutritional value. Yes, it sucks much of America is spread out with zero public transportation. But short of hand-delivering food to everyone people may unfortunately have to walk/bike/snowmobile to get it.
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    You realize the fresh food section of a liquor store is limited, at best?

    Even in the liberal hippie utopia of Southern California, I could count the 7/11s with any produce beyond bananas and grapes on one hand with fingers to spare. I've also mention in the last thread on this issue that infrastructure to promote biking/ walking in a lot of places in the South do not exist. Like, at all. NOLA had okay cab service, but the suburbs around it like Metairie and Avondale had dick for bus service, and the one time I used a cab I had to call ten different companies before one told me it'd be a forty minute wait (and never showed) :brood:

    In an area where I grew up, with was upper middle class and three cars in each driveway of course the poor will get the bus shaft. But most people living in those outskirts of NOLA are broke and barely keeping their cars running. There's a need for more transportation than what is there, or a need for more real grocery stores. Or both.
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    Plenty of lemons and limes, so if you wind up with rickets, you've only yourself to blame!

    And you want to know where a lot of them get their "produce"? One of the employees goes to the nearest grocery store and buys it.

    I live in a city of nearly 33K people, and sidewalks aren't exactly common. As for bike paths I can't think of any that exist, but there might be a couple of miles worth.

    Where I live, the cab service is limited to 7 AM to 6 PM, the minimum cost is $10, and the two cab companies are ran by a pair of brothers who mainly use it as a cover for their drug running operations. As for bus service? There's 2 buses which will take you to Nashville, they run at 6 AM and 6:30 AM M-F. Coming home, there's 3 buses from Nashville. One leaves Nashville at 4 PM, the next leaves at 4:15 PM, and the last leaves at 5:30 PM.

    It ain't just NOLA. The average age of a car on the road is 11 years old. Way back in the days when taxes were incredibly high (i.e. the 1950s), it was something like half that. Nowadays, a car will be 20+ years old before its scrapped, and then only because the cost of the repairs outweigh the value of the car. In a thriving economy, cars would be scrapped at a much younger age, since it'd be easier for people to afford a car.
  29. gul

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    Not to say that isn't an issue, but a major reason why the average car age has gone up from the 50s is that cars are made to last longer now than they were then. I have a ten year old car, and my other is five. I have no need/interest to replace either, and in fact, plan to drop to one when the time comes to scrap one of them.
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    Just thought I'd skip the last 5 pages and say she has a nice ass.

    Hope this comment is still relevant! :yes: