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WCT 24-28 January, 2011

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jwhouk:

--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 28 Jan 2011, 13:55 ---Aw c'mon guys I know he's a perv but Marten is his owner, is it so hard to believe he actually cares about him? Being full of porn, this is just the only way he knows how to show it. I still think it's kinda sweet, havin a little robot all cuddlin' on you.

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He's always cared.

Olymander:
For the record, I've been to a strip club once (it was a friend's bachelor party... the ironic thing is, it was suggested by his fiancée, who drive us there and sat there with us), and those girls can be really pushy.  I told them I wasn't interested in a lap dance, and they kept insisting.  Now, I understand that this is how they make their money and all, but they just wouldn't take no for an answer...

Oh, and this is a very small sample, but this report mentions trying to do a survey of male and female strippers, and out of 33 clubs they attempted to survey in suburban Virginia (page 4-5), 12 refused, 18 agreed, and 3 of them they did not manage to get any of the dancers to voluntarily answer the survey.  Out of those that did (56 people), 16 were male, and 40 were female.  This is supposedly in line with the US national exotic dancing population (this pdf cites Forsyth, 1992).

Akima:
I can't imagine that Pintsize would be very comfortable to have in bed. I mean, he's basically an oddly-shaped metal box. It'd be like sleeping with a filing cabinet.


--- Quote from: Odin on 28 Jan 2011, 10:54 ---I swear, something this obvious shouldn't have to be spelled out so clearly, it's almost like another forum I go to where people are seriously arguing that Sherman's army raped a million women during it's march to the sea. Completely false and based entirely on "traditional belief" information.
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So what is the correct number, exactly? A million sounds a large and suspiciously round number, implying that, on average, each man in Sherman's army committed about sixteen rapes over the five weeks of the campaign, but did anybody actually keep any records? Rape has been a traditional perk of the soldier's trade since at least the fall of Troy, and remains common to this day, but the numbers, even in recent conflicts, are never more than estimates. Generally, the crimes go unrecorded, the perpetrators go free, and the victims go unavenged. No number greater than zero is small enough to be OK.

Carl-E:
His appendages probably have a silicone outer layer for grip.  Not that thatwould feel much better. 

Still, the case is probably metal - we know the head is, or Marigold wouldn't have been able to pull out the dents...

Odin:

--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Jan 2011, 18:47 ---So what is the correct number, exactly? A million sounds a large and suspiciously round number, implying that, on average, each man in Sherman's army committed about sixteen rapes over the five weeks of the campaign, but did anybody actually keep any records? Rape has been a traditional perk of the soldier's trade since at least the fall of Troy, and remains common to this day, but the numbers, even in recent conflicts, are never more than estimates. Generally, the crimes go unrecorded, the perpetrators go free, and the victims go unavenged. No number greater than zero is small enough to be OK.

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You've got a couple options, read this: http://flattopshistorywarpolitics.yuku.com/topic/457 for a more brief look at things and look for the answer or download the audio files found here and refresh your memory.

You're missing the point by focusing on the numbers or even the accusation, the topic over there was that The South's racism was (and is) perfectly okay because Sherman did nasty things to win the war, a thoroughly idiotic position to take. Much like the one that makes negative judgments about women that are strippers or even the very existence of strip clubs that cater to straight men while completely ignoring the very common strip clubs that cater to straight women, gay women and gay men. The actual numbers don't matter in the least once you put them in context of local population demographics (you'll find that there are exactly as many strip clubs catering to a specific group of people as the local population will support, expecting exact even numbers of male and female strippers is stupid and I don't know why I wasted time trying to argue that point).

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