tom sarbeck

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]

@TheEncongitationer

Do you see as many generalizations coming from the left here on AZ as you often like to present?

The first time I actually noted these kinds of popularized slights was about 15 or 20 years ago when a co-worker used the word “Libtards”. Took me more time to realize it was used fairly often on Fox News shows, and then…[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]

My first thought was about consciousness, too. But first…

Alive vs dead are indeed matters of definition. Take viruses… the debate on calling them dead or alive is still happening, and in my opinion, it’s similar to whether one calls Pluto a planet or not. IMO, the only time you could call a virus anything close to “alive” is when it’s…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
I find it easy to simply go up to the address line (the URL) and block copy it. Works every time.

Ok, but I can’t let you win with that response.

I promise I wasn’t looking for anything on Max Headroom; serendipity just happened, as a choice that Youtube presented in their list of what I could watch next.

I watched the whole…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
The one I posted is the actual sketch. They are the same length, but not the same content. Is this another internet mystery?

Looks like Davis accidentally clicked on “Copy URL at current time” while he was at the end of the skit. So his URL’s set to play 64 seconds into the video. It’s a nice feature that I use a lot. Easiest way to…[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]