You think SLC looks good, check out Calgary after the '88 Winter Olympics. Mind you, all the volunteering helped, and the 'winter activities' infrastructure was already there, but still: You'd think that communities bidding for host status would use Calgary as a socio-economic model touchstone around which to build an…

Hear, hear.

If you want to get a clear grasp at the whole situation, read Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East; Reflections on Justice and Nationhood; & Failed States: The Abuse of Power and The Assault on Democracy, all by Noam Chomsky. The first two are collections of research essays and interviews, while Fa…

Magical Negro is painful, but for me the worst is Black Dude Dies First. Soooo many movies, so little time. Tvtropes has a good breakdown...

You're very kind, thanks. I'm a little slow on the intertubez front, so would you be so kind as to explain what sporfle stands for? I can't figure it out : )

If there's any time that a cattle prod should be used on our own species, it's on boys who get in girls grills for fucking. Thinly veiled behaviour like that always reminds me of people who walk by pay-phones and press the return button to see if any coins come out. Doing that to another human just to see if they'll…

I think it may be a dialect, though not of males. Perhaps emotionally retarded (yes, in the clinical sense) individuals employ the dialect?

I should point out that I have had a long-standing tendency to respond in just such a fashion (me a male/cauc. primate, btw) owing to doing street-level care work for a while. Seeing someone write it out showed me why a lot of people in my neighbourhood avoid me, hahaha! But one needs to set boundaries in socially…

"Are you lost?" When he said "Uh, no," she cut him off, and said "Then there's no reason for you to ask me anything."

Feels like karmaaaa

Until he rejoins PWEI, you're not alone in excavating the Mansell vein found in theaters showing Aronofsky's films.

I second the position taken in this article. The situation in Qatar is realistically worse than the headline indicated, especially if the reader is not an American. The headline gave reasonable perspective, while also getting the 'jingoism & patriotism' neural pathways that many Americans rely on to fire, thereby…

Well, for all concerned I truly hope that the 'truth will out', as it were. With any luck no rape occurred, as rape can be a truly horrifying experience.

*Phew*, not a stitch of CFL merchandise!

Thank you

Agreed, BJ's comment sure makes it easy to hate people who reify legal arguments.

Digital, analogue, electric, acoustic... I use ALL the equipments! These redux look positively aware of the various demographics who may use them, and the different respective ways which these pieces will be used. The interfaces look bright enough for dark environments, and the construction looks like they won't fall…

Hey GW, is that you? If so, I'd say you have the most proven experience in this chat room. Tell it like it is!

Sensible? I wish I were sensible enough to have caught it the first time I read it!

*blushing*