The Off Topic Topic

[Barrister]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/14/fathers-day/

Here's your father's day news. Fathers may be more important to child development than mothers.

[Neil]

Yes, yes he could.
Things were going great in the Taisho era, then up pops the depression and the never-ending war with China and Japan loses its sprit. A decade on constant war footing really messed up the country even before it attacked the US.

He really couldn't.  The core of the ultranationalists were young junior officers for whom the army was the only way out of backbreaking agricultural work and the kind of poverty that you didn't see in the slums of the West.  You of all people should understand that unproductive hicks with a sense of greivance can be a dangerous political force.  And these people had it a lot worse than you and your brothers in coal.  They didn't get much in the way of handouts, and vocal dissent was not permited.

[Caliga]

I saw my dad on only two occasions between ages 4 and 14. Thanks, dad. 

Interesting.  Are you black by any chance?

[DGuller]

I saw my dad on only two occasions between ages 4 and 14. Thanks, dad. 

Interesting.  Are you black by any chance?

At the risk of being politically incorrect, I don't think it's a matter of chance.

[MadImmortalMan]

Paging Dr. Martinus.


http://ww w.joshweed.com/2012/06/club-unicorn-in-which-i-come-out-of.html

Link broken deliberately. You know how to fix it.

[Lettow77]

 I read that! I liked it. Mormons are delightful, especially that one.

[PDH]

Mormons aren't delightful, they are evil, twisted people.  People who do horrible, nasty things while all the time smiling and telling you that it is for your own good.

[CountDeMoney]

People who do horrible, nasty things while all the time smiling and telling you that it is for your own good.

Yeah, that ratchets up the Creepy Factor substantially, more so than your average cult.

[Jaron]

That seems like a silly thing to say about Mormons.

[CountDeMoney]

That seems like a silly thing to say about Mormons.

I see you've already gone native, Dances With Mittens.

[Sheilbh]

People who do horrible, nasty things while all the time smiling and telling you that it is for your own good.

Yeah, that ratchets up the Creepy Factor substantially, more so than your average cult.

Yeah.  There's something a little bit Stepford about Mormons.

Having said that their missionaries are normally pretty good looking in a kind-of clean cut, repressed way.  They're the sort of guy I imagine Marty going for.

[Scipio]

I hate Sonic.

I find their food mediocre at best. And everybody I know from TEXAS says it is the bees knees. 

Maybe it's because we've never had any around Maryland until very recently, but I sorta like them.   I think Checkers is better, though.

Then again, I have an absolute, irrational, crackhead weakness for cheeseburgers, so don't trust my judgement.  Even the shittiest ones on the planet.  OMG HAS THAT ROYAL FARMS CHEESEBURGER SLIDER BEEN UNDER THE WARMER FOR 9 HOURS LEMME TAKE THAT OFF YOUR HANDS

Dawgg.  You has got to come to Mississippi and NOLA.  We will show you the disgustingly cheesiest burgers that ever burged a cheesey dump in your throat.

[Sheilbh]

Only two exams left and I'm done.  So far I think I've passed 2 comfortably, probably passed a third, I'm borderline on a fourth and had an enormous catastrophic collapse on the fifth.  Which was weird because it was the one I felt most prepared and comfortable with when I went into the exam room.

A horrible three hours.  So I'll be resitting that in August.  Only EU and Public to go!

[Josquius]

A resit? Bad luck, that'll really mess your grade up

[CountDeMoney]

People who do horrible, nasty things while all the time smiling and telling you that it is for your own good.

Yeah, that ratchets up the Creepy Factor substantially, more so than your average cult.

Yeah.  There's something a little bit Stepford about Mormons.

Having said that their missionaries are normally pretty good looking in a kind-of clean cut, repressed way.  They're the sort of guy I imagine Marty going for.

Yeah, but even those young missionaries are creepy in their own right;  in fact, considering the sheer amount of them that go through even the worst Dazzling Urbanite areas in Mobtown, in all my years I have never heard of, or known a single cop that could ever recall, a single incident of them being robbed, assaulted or otherwise accosted in the 'hood.

In short, they're so fucking creepy, even the natives leave them the fuck alone.