@Thenomain said in RL Anger:
I just don’t get chicken and waffles.
I usually stick to safe food, meaning stuff I know I'll probably enjoy, when dining out.
A few weeks ago, I took a walk on the wild side and had BBQ pork over jalapeno waffles.
It was surprisingly good, both in taste and texture.
It's hard to pick an all time favorite, but our current favorite is 'Puerto Rico'.
@Ex-FaviIIa-Surgo said in RL things I love:
Weapons in general. Guns, knives, they're all fucking fantastic
I've always been partial to the Panzer VI Tiger.
@surreality If you use Firefox and GreaseMonkey then you can use this script:
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The downside is it doesn't stop the images from being downloaded, just from being displayed.
I watched the first episode of 'American Horror Story : Cult' last night.
It was hilarious.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
I suppose my anger is that damn near any time somebody hears this, I get the lecture about how I'm a misbegotten throwback trying to adhere to a damaging beauty standard and oh, mercy, have you seen those x-rays of bodies of women who grew up wearing those things and destroying their inner organs?! because they cannot conceive of any other possible way it might be, and that this attitude is as damaging, limited, and nonsensical as the notion that women all should have to wear such a thing for those very different and not OK reasons of yore.
I wonder if "The Carlton" is still available.
Sometimes gifs are necessary because there are very important ideas that one wishes to communicate that are difficult to put into words.
For example...
@mietze Shunning is wildly popular these days, but less so in churches.
Game of Thrones - Libertarian version
I ROTFLed.
Warning: spoilers up to season 6.
She's back and badder than ever...
Look what you made me do
@Lain It depends on where you are and what it is you're afraid of, naturally. Though Christianity might well be bland and acceptable in the 'western' world, in many parts of Christian Africa (especially Uganda, the "most Christian nation in Africa") homosexual acts are punishable by imprisonment and death.
How could Uganda be the "most Christian nation in Africa", when the percentage of Christians is higher in Zambia, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Namibia and Equatorial New Guinea?
And if you go by most Christians by population, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania Christian population is higher.
The only nations in Africa that have the death penalty for homosexual acts are Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria and Mauritania.
You seem like a nice person, so I'll be gentle on you and keep the really bad words I want to use out of the equation. For now.
Pats @WTFE on head. You seem like a gentle non-condescending soul.
You're talking to someone whose hobby (RPGs) was on the receiving end of hate campaigns you had to see to believe. They hunted us out in the school basement in my high school. (Luckily the principal had a backbone and told them to fuck off so they were left with only harassing us with pamphlets.) They (in this case the Campus Crusade for Christ) followed us from room to room in university until we found a place they couldn't reach us (a private attached college's meeting room) trying to get our club shut down.
Our Wargamming/D&D club met in the basement of St. Mary's Catholic church and the priest played with us. And yes, for some reason he always played a cleric. We'd all heard about the media frenzy over devil worship, but as far as I remember nobody's parents took it seriously.
Given all of this, you'll have to excuse me if I'm a bit gunshy whenever I meet someone who self-identifies as a Christian. Especially of the evangelical camp. (The tormentors in high school were Adventists.) And if you think you're oppressed because of people like us being gunshy and suspicious, perhaps it's time for you to reflect on how you (the collective, not you individually) have been treating people for centuries. Perhaps, then, you'll feel a bit of sympathy instead of whining about your oppression.
My German teacher in high school was a Russian orthodox nun who managed to escape the Soviet Union where over 250,000 priests and nuns were rounded up and murdered by atheists. Given the track record of atheists in the 20th century, well that ought to turn many a Christian white with fear.
@Aria Man, I hate to start something, but ...
I'm Christian.
I grew up in the Evangelical community, though in a very small, independent tradition, and not among the Baptist wave.
Although, I left my tradition for a mainline denomination, I'm currently attending a church of that same tradition again, because family.
I'm Christan. I grew up as a Methodist, but left for a conservative Congregationalist church (neo-Calvinist). I find the term "evangelical" somewhat puzzling. After all the Church of England and Methodists are part of the "evangelicalism" movement, and are considered by many to be "mainstream".
Furthermore, almost all Christians sects "evangelize" or "proselytize" more or less. Back in the 80's and 90's, the media used the term "fundamentalist" in referring to churches it considered "conservative", now days they use "evangelical" for some reason.
I disagree a ton with what many Evangelicals preach and believe. I do not believe there is a war on Christians. I do not believe Christians should be able to legislate morality, BUT ...
Who should legislate morality then? Maybe that's begging the question... Are not most laws based on morality?
The argument isn't that they're oppressed because they're no longer able to force their beliefs on people. The argument is that they're oppressed because they feel like they can no longer voice their beliefs outside of their own small circle without having half the country jump down their throat for their backwardness and hate. They feel like their not even given the chance to truly explain what they believe or how it differs from more extreme fundamentalists like Westboro Baptist.
I agree. Why anyone cares what ~40 people in a Topeka, Kansas church think is beyond me.
At the time I was obsessed with simulations and my "Lambert's laws" reflect that.
Dr. Cat's "Attention is the currency of the future" was probably the most prescient when you realize social media was virtually nonexistent at the time. Most of today's popular online games interface with social media.
These Game of Thrones ravens are really really fast... faster than text messaging.
@WTFE I've seen cricket played and I agree with what he said about cricket.
Maybe he should have said instead that cricket is a game for pussies. 
I think at 82, he could say whatever the hell he wanted and the world could piss off.
@Thenomain said in RL things I love:
@Tyche said in RL things I love:
I'm a swiftie.
I heard that about you.
You know, from your wife-slash-girlfriend or husband-slash-boyfriend.
It's a bad joke.
On purpose.
... I think.
Your mother should be more discreet.
That was too easy. 
P.s. Posting from Gencon 50... after 3 pitchers
@Misadventure said in RL things I love:
@tyche @admiral Are either of you seriously suggesting that what someone sings about, or how many people they date has bearing on whether they were sexually assaulted or not?
Not I. I'm a swiftie.
@Admiral Why do you got to be so mean? Can't you see the tears on her guitar?
Taylor Swift Wins. Let this be a lesson. You leave my girl alone.