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by Norseman
Mon Aug 28, 2017 3:32 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Trump pardons Joe Arpaio
Replies: 7
Views: 9543

Re: Trump pardons Joe Arpaio

I would like to repeat my belief that we have accidentally fallen into a techno-thriller universe written by a mainland Chinese author. It is the only thing that makes sense anymore.
by Norseman
Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:30 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Spie
Replies: 1
Views: 1185

Re: Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian

Hey, he is keeping his campaign promises to ease tensions with Russia, I don't know what you guys are complaining about.
by Norseman
Sat Jan 28, 2017 4:00 pm
Forum: Science & Logic
Topic: Hydrogen turned into metal
Replies: 1
Views: 1108

Re: Hydrogen turned into metal

Let me just say as a metallurgy geek: Wowowowowowowow!

I mean normally hydrogen is this horrible stuff we try to get rid off (it does bad things to aluminium alloys), but this is really cool!
by Norseman
Fri Jan 20, 2017 2:05 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: White Nationalists' Enthusiasm For Trump Cools
Replies: 1
Views: 1205

Re: White Nationalists' Enthusiasm For Trump Cools

Radical movements tend to splinter over and over and over, since there are no real stakes (they have no power or wealth to divide) there is no motive to be reasonable. The time to worry is when the radicals present a united front, but at the same time moderate and compromise, because that usually me...
by Norseman
Mon Jan 09, 2017 12:45 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Michigan just banned banning plastic bags
Replies: 1
Views: 1121

Re: Michigan just banned banning plastic bags

Small government! I kid, but this isn't the first time a Republican State government has decided to tell an elected city government what it can and can't do. In Oklahoma the state government banned cities from passing minimum wage increases after the Oklahoma City and Tulsa city governments got ele...
by Norseman
Sat Dec 17, 2016 3:07 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Obama Birth Certificate Fake Claims Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Replies: 2
Views: 1358

Obama Birth Certificate Fake Claims Sheriff Joe Arpaio

I got the strangest case of deja vu here, just deja-vu. I want to get off Mr Bones Wild Ride! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk3KRxTfkLM[/youtube] I know I am supposed to make comments on this, instead of just posting a link, but what am I supposed to say? Why is this still a thing? Why is ...
by Norseman
Mon Nov 28, 2016 12:52 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: The Holocaust on Ice (Only in Russia)
Replies: 3
Views: 1720

Re: The Holocaust on Ice (Only in Russia)

Sorry but i don't see what the problem is here. What is it about an ice skating performance that makes it offensive in ways that the very silly movie that inspired it isn't? Did the Nazis decapitate people with ice skates or something? If you wonder why certain movies are acceptable, while this is ...
by Norseman
Mon Nov 28, 2016 12:00 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: The Holocaust on Ice (Only in Russia)
Replies: 3
Views: 1720

The Holocaust on Ice (Only in Russia)

No really. A holocaust themed ice-show performance. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3FsrjBASNY[/youtube] Let's see what CNN has to say : A Holocaust-themed ice skating routine on a Russian reality television show, involving the wife of a high-level aide to President Vladimir Putin, has spar...
by Norseman
Wed Nov 09, 2016 7:54 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: President Donald Trump
Replies: 3
Views: 1644

President Donald Trump

Need I say more?
by Norseman
Mon Oct 03, 2016 5:55 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Trump 'may have avoided paying tax for 18 years'
Replies: 3
Views: 1751

Re: Trump 'may have avoided paying tax for 18 years'

This just shows that he is the right man for President, Americans don't like paying taxes, and if this guy could stick it to the IRS, THE IRS, then he has the gumption you need for the job! So obviously he'll go up in the polls. Go on, be honest, isn't that reaction what you're half expecting at thi...
by Norseman
Wed Sep 21, 2016 11:19 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: The GOP-Trump fight megathread
Replies: 9
Views: 3695

Re: The GOP-Trump fight megathread

I get this strange feeling that the Republican establishment does not like Donald Trump.
by Norseman
Thu Sep 15, 2016 10:29 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Starbucks pledges to donate 100% of unsold food
Replies: 1
Views: 1199

Re: Starbucks pledges to donate 100% of unsold food

I honestly read that as Starbucks pledges to donate 100% of unsold blood, I am not sure what that says about me, except that maybe as an engineer I am 20% caffeine by volume.
by Norseman
Sun Aug 21, 2016 10:37 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Hard Times in Venezuela Breed Malaria
Replies: 1
Views: 949

Re: Hard Times in Venezuela Breed Malaria

One of the reasons for the problems is of course that the Venezuelan government is actively blocking humanitarian aid, after all the perfect socialist economy does not need such things.
by Norseman
Sun Aug 21, 2016 10:29 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Federal judge refers Sheriff Joe Arpaio for criminal contemp
Replies: 3
Views: 1932

Re: Federal judge refers Sheriff Joe Arpaio for criminal con

Lets see if Teflon Joe actually goes down, or if its just yet another fine the county has to pay on his behalf.
by Norseman
Thu Aug 11, 2016 11:51 pm
Forum: Great Hall
Topic: BBC to broadcast lost Tolkien recordings
Replies: 3
Views: 6609

Re: BBC to broadcast lost Tolkien recordings

Batman wrote:It wouldn't exist because DVDs hadn't been invented yet?
:-p You know what I mean. Magnetic tape is amazingly durable.
by Norseman
Thu Aug 11, 2016 12:33 am
Forum: Great Hall
Topic: BBC to broadcast lost Tolkien recordings
Replies: 3
Views: 6609

Re: BBC to broadcast lost Tolkien recordings

Frabulous day! And only goes to show how good it is that we still have archives with proper magnetic media, imagine if this had been stored on a DVD.
by Norseman
Tue Jul 12, 2016 4:19 am
Forum: Great Hall
Topic: Why are Danes celebrating the Fourth of July?
Replies: 1
Views: 5515

Re: Why are Danes celebrating the Fourth of July?

Obviously they like celebrating the national day of a country whose language they actually understand, unlike their own.

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by Norseman
Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:55 pm
Forum: Philosophy & Theology
Topic: Pakistani clerics say 'honour killing' is against Islam
Replies: 1
Views: 5500

Re: Pakistani clerics say 'honour killing' is against Islam

They are not the first ones to say this, a prohibition against honor killing is mentioned in the Arabian Nights for crying out loud. This is one case where we definately have a very good case for popular behaviour going against the long term, established theological concensus of the religion.
by Norseman
Sun Mar 27, 2016 2:09 pm
Forum: Science & Logic
Topic: Chicken embryos grown with dinosaur-like lower legs
Replies: 6
Views: 2774

Re: Chicken embryos grown with dinosaur-like lower legs

Fuck that, hatch the chickens. It's taking too long to make the dinosaur army that I used to daydream about using to attack my elementary school. At this rate the school will be demolished before I get to smash it under the plodding feet of my brontosaurus. Alas my gradeschool burned down. Several ...
by Norseman
Sun Mar 20, 2016 1:10 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: FIFA admits bribery, wants U.S. to give bribe money back
Replies: 5
Views: 2123

Re: FIFA admits bribery, wants U.S. to give bribe money back

I don't think they deserve any of that money. I'm willing to be many of them did know what was going on, and looked the other way for years, if not decades. Ah Lady Tevar, you always try to think the best of people :thumb: Unless by look the other way you mean turning their head while someone stuff...
by Norseman
Mon Mar 07, 2016 8:45 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Norway 'lacks influence in EU decisions', says its PM
Replies: 2
Views: 971

Re: Norway 'lacks influence in EU decisions', says its PM

Let me give the same answer that I gave on other forums: The reason the politicos want to be in the EU is partly political ideology, and partly that it would surely be much more fun to be able to play around in Brussels than in Oslo. Simply put a population of slightly under five million people is n...
by Norseman
Tue Mar 01, 2016 1:19 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Mitch McConnell tells Republican Senators run against Trump
Replies: 8
Views: 3259

Re: Mitch McConnell tells Republican Senators run against Tr

Have I completely misunderstood or is both Trump and Sanders an expression of, "No more mainstream, humdrum same as old! Break the system and give us something actually new!" sentiments? Because there seems to be a lot of that going around.
by Norseman
Wed Feb 17, 2016 12:45 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: U.S. special forces storm ISIS strongholds north Iraq,
Replies: 4
Views: 1375

Re: U.S. special forces storm ISIS strongholds north Iraq,

Josh wrote:
The operation has reportedly caused a state of alert in the ranks of ISIS militants in Mosul –the group’s main bastion in Iraq.
Good. Lose a little sleep, motherfuckers.
I read that as "Good. Lose a little sheep," and did not think of them as mother****ers.

I am too tired XD
by Norseman
Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:48 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Saudi, Turkish Forces Prep for Potential Air, Land Invasion
Replies: 1
Views: 898

Re: Saudi, Turkish Forces Prep for Potential Air, Land Invas

frigidmagi wrote:I'm not really happy about this, as I don't really trust the current turkish government. Never mind me not wanting the Saudi Military anywhere near Syria. Or anywhere else really.
Will they call it Operation Overthrow Assad or Operation Poke Bear?
by Norseman
Fri Jan 15, 2016 2:25 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Reactions to mob attacks in Cologne
Replies: 19
Views: 5658

Re: Reactions to mob attacks in Cologne

And yet another cover-up, sort of, has been discovered as ... ugh... MIGRANT SEX ATTACK 'COVER-UP': Welcome party for Cologne refugees turned into mass groping It was in fact posted about on the website of the local Refugees Welcome chapter , but it appears that no press organisation picked it up. P...