Stewart

During my two trips in Boston (equalling 6 days in total) I saw a street corner with South-Boston toughs intimidating nearly everyone who passed by including racial taunts, threats of violence and general hooligan menacing.

While in Newark I saw a group of kids walking down the street knocking over a ladies shopping trolley and harassing a…[Read more]

If there is a currently playing NHL, NBA or MLB player (not an understudy, not a prospect, not a farm team player, not a benched player) then please let me know. I am not aware of any. If there is one or two, then I stand corrected (please let me know who they are). As far as I know there is 1 currently in the NFL and this was Earth shattering and…[Read more]

College is not top tier Enco (it isn’t even professional). Details matter. Pay attention and try not to misrepresent what people say or repackage them to suit your world view.

College is not top tier Enco. Details matter. Pay attention and try not to misrepresent what people say or repackage them to suit your world view.

your broad assertion that there are no out Gay athletes in the entire Western World

Enco…stop with the misrepresenting what people say. You failed to read what I said clearly (as you often did). I said out athletes in top tier European football leagues or in the North American leagues: NHL, NFL, NBA, MLB. Pay attention to what people say Enco.…[Read more]

No I do not think that Europe has a bigger problem with racism than the US. The US is an exceptionally racist society and the fall-out, especially with African-Americans is atrocious. Just walk around a black inner city in most cities. There are no non-racist societies anywhere in the world. A few countries are slightly less outwardly racist.

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Autumn is completely right about the shit-cake of fans. In most of European top-tier football (remember once again, that place where the thousands of gay players of which none are out of the closet), most teams, at least in Western Europe, after interviews find fellow players mostly indifferent to or actively wanting players to come out to show…[Read more]

The Progressive Left thinks mere words…

Blah blah blah. Meaningless stupid ridiculous overgeneralisations. Just stop Enco. Please. Seriously. WTF? I would react the same if someone said such vacuous nonsense about “the reactionary right”. Hyper overgeneralisations make us all less intelligent.

The Progressive Left thinks mere words

Just stop…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!!

Putin and those who help keep him in power are completely uninterested in the long term anything per the Russian economy, security, regional stability, quality of life and so on. And they are just as uninterested in what Russians think (they are telling them what to think under threat of severe penalties otherwise). Until a significant threshold…[Read more]

Putin and those who help keep him in power are completely uninterested in the long term anything per the Russian economy, security, regional stability, quality of life and so on. And they are just as uninterested in what Russians think (they are telling them what to think under threat of severe penalties otherwise). Until a significant threshold…[Read more]

Oh that’s a great one I had never seen

Could we maybe change the website to:

http://www.cranktank.wtf ?

We evolved as a competitive species and its well documented that we need an element of danger in our lives, whether it means jumping out of aircraft, or knitting a new style – whatever gives you that quiver moment.

As an aggressive species, we seek confrontation, but as armchair warriors, it’s cool if the confrontation can be manufactured at w…[Read more]

I have a high functioning Asperger’s niece (who is the apple of my eye).

At around 12 or 13 years old, she suddenly panicked that should something happen to her right hand, she wouldn’t be able to do all sorts of things. So she decided to be left handed for a year.

She reflects now on how difficult it must have been for her teachers to read her…[Read more]

Despite being left handed, I was instructed to play all sports with my right hand/arm: throwing, hockey, football (both kinds), bowling, tennis etc. Even in the martial arts you are almost invariably instructed to grip with your right hand/arm (predominantly). There was definitely no left handed mouses back when I learn’t IT. I insisted on…[Read more]

We actually have a very strong union

Get out of here! I am left-handed and I have never received an invite. They must have gotten my email address wrong or something. Or maybe this is just “elementary school team selection” all over again !!!

Not sure if I belong in either category, but can at least say that not all Atheists are as alike as many others might assume.

Indeed. You must all know by now how much I deplore overgeneralisations about atheists. When most people say such things, they are for the most part referring to Western sceptical rational atheists, which are actually a…[Read more]

Tell me about it. I start a Hi-how-are-you thread and all of a sudden

Yeah…you started with a Hi how are you and were greeted cordially, and then you made some dubious blanket statements on atheism later and were fairly challenged. You are a moderator of discussion boards, you should know that such replies are not unusual nor unreasonable.

I’m b…

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