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Josquius

Quote from: alfred russel on January 28, 2016, 12:48:16 AM
Mongers, I like the ballot form. Straightforward, anyone can understand. Most of the ballot initiatives I get are anything but that.
Not so much understanding that is usually a problem but loaded questions.
The Scottish independence ref for instance with its "do you agree Scotland should be an independent state" - :bleeding:
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Tyr on January 28, 2016, 02:45:12 AM
Not so much understanding that is usually a problem but loaded questions.
The Scottish independence ref for instance with its "do you agree Scotland should be an independent state" - :bleeding:

I don't get it.

Jacob

My recent favourite loaded poll question - from the governing party of the province - had the options "Yes" (green) and "Tell me more" (red).

It was advertisement rather than a referendum, but still pretty funny.

alfred russel

Quote from: Razgovory on January 28, 2016, 02:00:32 AM
Haven't heard back from my job interview.  In retrospect my first question shouldn't have been "do I get a gun?"

Interview strategery ftl. :(
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

Syt

They're still upgrading internet in my old home town, slowly spreading fiber optics throughout the district. A new milestone is set, and the local paper headlined "Vollgas auf der Datenautobahn" (Full Speed on the Information Superhighway).

I don't think I've heard the internet being called that in, oh, at least 10 years? :lol:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Malthus

Well, at least he died doing what he loved:

QuoteDETROIT - A new level of distracted driving was reached when a 58-year-old man, allegedly preoccupied by a pornographic movie on his phone, crashed and rolled his vehicle, all while not wearing pants.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pants-less-driver-in-detroit-dies-in-wreck-watching-porn/
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

DGuller


Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Josquius

Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 28, 2016, 02:50:54 AM
Quote from: Tyr on January 28, 2016, 02:45:12 AM
Not so much understanding that is usually a problem but loaded questions.
The Scottish independence ref for instance with its "do you agree Scotland should be an independent state" - :bleeding:

I don't get it.
People have a natural tendency to agree with positive statements and ideas planted in their head.
"Do you agree that X" will get more votes for X than a simple "X or Y?"
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Duque de Bragança

"The worst film from each country in Europe (most of them) and Turkey, according to IMDB."
Thankfully, most of these are not exported (Morangos whatever  :bleeding:).


The Brain

The worst Swedish movie I've seen is Naken. It's as bad as Valhalla Rising.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Razgovory

The concept of film hasn't reached Ukraine.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Malthus

Quote from: Syt on January 28, 2016, 11:53:27 AM
Premature  ejection. :(

He must have been listening to Steppenwolf.  :D

Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way

Yeah, darlin'
Gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

LaCroix

moldova really sticks out like a sore thumb

Josquius

I've never actually seen Fat Slags though have heard a lot about it.
Shame it turned out so monumentally shite. I like The Viz. Though those characters are not my favourites.
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