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Old 10-17-2013, 12:24 PM   #21
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Love Anthony Bourdain. I like his attitude.
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Old 10-17-2013, 12:25 PM   #22
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The use of the term "fat shaming".
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Old 10-17-2013, 12:29 PM   #23
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The use of the term "fat shaming".
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It is stories like that that make me wish there was a global plague that would simply wipe out all of humanity like the parasites we are. Sure there are good people, but there are enough bad ones, that this planet would be so much better of without the human race.

Humanity has done nothing but ruin everything on this precious planet, and we don't deserve to be here anymore.
Maybe it will rain for 40 days straight.
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Old 10-17-2013, 12:44 PM   #25
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Humanity has done nothing but ruin everything on this precious planet, and we don't deserve to be here anymore.

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Old 10-17-2013, 12:47 PM   #26
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It is stories like that that make me wish there was a global plague that would simply wipe out all of humanity like the parasites we are. Sure there are good people, but there are enough bad ones, that this planet would be so much better of without the human race.

Humanity has done nothing but ruin everything on this precious planet, and we don't deserve to be here anymore.
This is a massive over reaction
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Old 10-17-2013, 12:48 PM   #27
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This is a massive over reaction
Just took Pylon off ignore eh??
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Old 10-17-2013, 12:49 PM   #28
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Fat shaming is something that seems to be gaining some media attention as of late (or maybe I just haven't been paying attention). Can someone explain to me why it is so horrible of a thing to do though? I mean yes it shouldn't be in public or of strangers, but how is it any different than how people shame smokers?
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One of my closest friends has recently started dating a girl who has convinced him that bull#### like Reiki, Healing Touch, Power Crystals, and the like are legitimate things.

He won't stop talking about them, and every time I have an opposing viewpoint (being a pretty heavy skeptic) I feel like a total ass for bringing in "negative energies".

You just can't ####ing win and it's leaving me exhausted in frustration and genuine concern.
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Fat shaming is something that seems to be gaining some media attention as of late (or maybe I just haven't been paying attention). Can someone explain to me why it is so horrible of a thing to do though? I mean yes it shouldn't be in public or of strangers, but how is it any different than how people shame smokers?
Because people decide to smoke, fat people can't help that they are fat.........
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One of my closest friends has recently started dating a girl who has convinced him that bull#### like Reiki, Healing Touch, Power Crystals, and the like are legitimate things.

He won't stop talking about them, and every time I have an opposing viewpoint (being a pretty heavy skeptic) I feel like a total ass for bringing in "negative energies".

You just can't ####ing win and it's leaving me exhausted in frustration and genuine concern.
Body Talk, we knew friends and the husband was a Body Talk Practitioner....thank #### we no longer hang with them.
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One of my closest friends has recently started dating a girl who has convinced him that bull#### like Reiki, Healing Touch, Power Crystals, and the like are legitimate things.

He won't stop talking about them, and every time I have an opposing viewpoint (being a pretty heavy skeptic) I feel like a total ass for bringing in "negative energies".

You just can't ####ing win and it's leaving me exhausted in frustration and genuine concern.
Your friend is dating somebody just like my mom.
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Old 10-17-2013, 01:01 PM   #33
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fat people can't help that they are fat.........
Wait, what?

Predisposed perhaps, but can't do anything about it? At all?

C'mon man.
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Predisposed perhaps, but can't do anything about it? At all? C'mon man.
He's being sarcastic/facetious.

I don't think we should be shaming smokers either. I thinking shaming people will either piss them off or hurt them. We have one thread here where we say "oh those horrible kids... bullying people". And then we have threads where we say "hey, those people should be bullied". There are much better ways to promote change than ridicule. Like I said before, it was the bullying in high school regarding my weight that lead me to near suicide. Making people feel really small is not a solution.... Unless the goal is to hurt people. Then kudos.

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Wait, what?

Predisposed perhaps, but can't do anything about it? At all?

C'mon man.

Sorry I left something out of my last post.
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Wait, what?

Predisposed perhaps, but can't do anything about it? At all?

C'mon man.
He is being sarcastic.
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Old 10-17-2013, 01:40 PM   #37
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the Alberta government washing their hands of Michael Stanley after he crossed the border really made me sick.
Really, what should they have brought him back on? He wasn't currently charged with any serious offenses. There was nothing we could do really. We informed the US who he was and after that it is their laws that govern. he was a US Citizen. I think we handled it correctly.
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Really, what should they have brought him back on? He wasn't currently charged with any serious offenses. There was nothing we could do really. We informed the US who he was and after that it is their laws that govern. he was a US Citizen. I think we handled it correctly.
Didn't he cut off a tracking ankle bracelet?

I'd say that's a serious offense given his past convictions. Sexually assaulting females aged 15 months to 80 years old...
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Space looks kind of boring and empty. I think I'll stay on earth.
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Really, what should they have brought him back on? He wasn't currently charged with any serious offenses. There was nothing we could do really. We informed the US who he was and after that it is their laws that govern. he was a US Citizen. I think we handled it correctly.

My main complaint is that they let him out in the first place. I think being labelled high risk to re-offend should get someone locked up indefinitely.
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