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Sox:
I noticed that many 'generation divides' can be marked through lists of your favourite childhood TV shows. All these young folks today, wearing T-shirts with the ThunderCats logo? Can't even sing the theme song, or name all of the Thunderians living on Third Earth! Poseurs!
Of course, this method is not as reliable as it used to be, thanks to the use of the internet in order to easily obtain all these old shows. Nowadays, a persons favourite videogames and sitcoms are much better indicators of age.
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: Switchblade on 13 Mar 2008, 08:49 ---Blah blah blah politics are fun blah blah but I apparently agree with you anyway.
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Seriously, what was the point of that even? I never said politics are bad and should be avoided at all costs, I said that certain political subjects are a disaster waiting to happen...and then you pretty much backed up my argument. A gun control debate will, nine times out of ten, devolve into a pissing match between liberal and conservative viewpoints. This entire thread has been about 90% pissing match and it should be pretty obvious that with the overall tone of said thread, a subject like that is only going to get worse. I mean, fuck, it should be obvious based simply off of the sheer polarization of people on even discussing the idea of maybe considering talking about the possibility of discussing gun control.
That in its own should be enough, but I also submit exhibit B:
FORUM RULES
--- Quote from: est ---RELIGION AND POLITICS:
Threads about religion & politics are undesireable in this forum because they are two topics that make Jeph angry/set off his depression. He has specifically asked us to kill these kinds of topics, especially if they are veering into argumentative or "DOOOOM!" modes.
If you would like to talk about these topics then I am sure that there are plenty of other places you can do it. There are many fine political and religious sites around, some of which are sure to have forums almost guaranteed to be politics/religion friendly.
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If the forum admin says "hey, don't do that shit," I tend to think "hey, I better not do that shit. Especially when it's a rule that's widely known to have been passed down by the dude with his finger hovering over the "delete entire fucking forum" button.
RedLion:
You know who stifled political discussion with warning of it being "dangerous"?
JEAN-BEDEL BOKASSA, dictator of the Central African Republic.
Probably Hitler, too.
Really though-- I understand the reason for the aversion to talking about things like politics and religion, but we've only been discussing a few contentious topics in here. It's had nothing to do with political parties or idologies, and I think everyone's been relatively civil thus far. It can't hurt to have a semi-intelligent discussion about things that actually are important.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 13 Mar 2008, 09:02 ---I miss the Nazis.
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Patrick:
GUYS
We're having a flamewar over flamewars. DO YOU NOT SEE HOW FUCKING IDIOTIC THIS IS.
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