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[BeoPuppy]

Well, that too.

[snalin]

No matter how wrong having a royal family is, I'm so glad I don't have to sit through a presidential election.

From what I understand left is right over there.

No seriously. The "left/right" political spectrum is reversed across the pond. Belay that, it might be just Russia... not sure.

Maybe you're confusing left/right with red/blue? Because that is reversed. Somebody hating taxes is considered right-wing on both sides of the pond, but on this side that person would not be waving a red flag around...

[GarandMarine]

Maybe? Like I said I think the left/right reversal is just Russia.

[Is it cold in here?]

Isn't the term "refinishing" an oxymoron?

[calenlass]

It's ok, "left and right" are reversed in the USA, too. Around 1906 the political parties reversed their positions to curry the black vote: Democrats had been the majority party in the South, but the politicians realized that the black vote would definitely decide local elections, so they decided to be anti-Jim Crow. The Republicans reversed their position to appease all the unhappy Southerners.

[Method of Madness]

That's not left/right reversing, that's Democrats and Republicans reversing.

[Grognard]

neg.
that's politicians living according to their principl ....... hahahahaha

I'm sorry.
I can't say that with a straight face.

[calenlass]

Well, in that case I don't suppose you can reverse it anywhere, since this is a conceptual scale we're talking about and any group that adheres to one belief or another are just people and not, in fact, abstract concepts.

[Grognard]

 ? hunh ?

Queen's English, please?

[Barmymoo]

I think that was in response to the statement that it wasn't left/right reversing, it was Dem/Repub reversing - calenlass is saying that since left/right are concepts that are applied to real people, if you argue that left =/= democrat and right =/= republican then the concept of reversing just doesn't exist.

[Is it cold in here?]

"Left" and "Right" are not things in themselves, they are labels we attach to humans in order to oversimplify them. Saying left and right have changed places is therefore as nugatory as saying the Iliad was not composed by Homer but by someone else with the same name.

[94ssd]

I've been reading a few articles on activist burnout. I'm trying to figure out how to not let the pessimist in me take over too much. It's something I've been wrestling with ever since I spent I spent the better part of my freshman year of college fighting against NC Amendment One, only to see it pass, and not by a narrow margin. I can't tell you how angry I was. I had never invested myself so personally into anything,

I go to Moral Monday protests as often as possible, and even got arrested for one. Yet I honestly feel like there's no way we can change anything until the 2016 election, and it's just going to get worse until then. Sometimes I wonder if I should just give up or just leave this state behind for somewhere else, preferably somewhere with marriage equality.

I don't know man. Maybe this should go into politics, or Pessimism/Depression. Or maybe I should just shut up.

[Barmymoo]

Don't shut up. Never shut up.

[ChaoSera]

2 more posts until I am at 666 posts. I can't think of any funny ideas for that post.

[Thrillho]

Well no worries, because the number of the beast is actually 616.

[Patrick]

Don't shut up. Never shut up.

May's right, 94ssd. Even though you face an uphill battle, your cause is worthwhile. The level of adversity it faces just makes your work all the more important. Think of the people whose lives you improve simply by persisting despite the odds. And think of all the people who are going to eventually look back on today with regret for having been so wrongminded as to willfully oppress other human beings.

[94ssd]

2 more posts until I am at 666 posts. I can't think of any funny ideas for that post.

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=666

[LeeC]

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I often wonder about a friendly blind guy stumbling into medusa's lair. Medusa, used to people coming after her for her head, is usually on the defensive.  Ready to slay her hunters.  But upon seeing this blind man, walking stick in hand, groping around to find his way through even the most well lit areas, would she drive him out? Or, after years of loneliness, would she try to be friendly to this stranger?

[Grognard]

In the earliest light of the new Thanksgiving day, I shall hunt the forest for sustenance.
Those asshole deer have ravished their last garden, and totalled their last vehicle.
Softly. Quietly. Deadly.
until...

BOOM.

venison be mine.

that is, if I can get this fat ass with bad knees into position without spooking every deer within 10 miles 

[GarandMarine]

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I often wonder about a friendly blind guy stumbling into medusa's lair. Medusa, used to people coming after her for her head, is usually on the defensive.  Ready to slay her hunters.  But upon seeing this blind man, walking stick in hand, groping around to find his way through even the most well lit areas, would she drive him out? Or, after years of loneliness, would she try to be friendly to this stranger?

I think Medusa would react fairly well to any friendly contact in general. I mean I'd go with wrapping leather around your eyes to avoid inadvertant "stoning" but everyone for the most part likes it when someone reaches out to them in a kindly manner, albeit she'd probably be mistrustful for the first while, but can you honestly blame her for that?

[LeeC]

I like to think that once she realized he was blind (and doesn't fire an arrow into him) she may not voluntarily reveal who she is.  Though blind, he may have heard of the monster known as Medusa!  Maybe takes him in out of the rain and they become friends.  Finally having positive contact with someone.  Hopefully she doesn't go all "Misery" on him and try to prevent him from leaving. 

That is assuming she welcomes the company and doesn't try to scare him off.  In which case she might yell at him to leave the lair of Medusa...only for him to hurriedly try to escape and trip.  unsure where to go.  It could go either way at that point.  Either she gets annoyed and has to direct him to the exit, or maybe her heart warms up a little.

[GarandMarine]

I smell a romance novel.

[LeeC]

Unless Zeus overturns Athena's warping of Medusa, or if Athena ups the bitch meter and unbinds the guy, I don't foresee a happy ending.  And seeing that her lower half is a snake, erotica is out the door too.  Would also have to decide if the snakes on her head follow her will or their own basic snake behavior. Any lean in for a kiss and bam bam bam, like 20 venom filled snake bites.

[pwhodges]

The tickets for the upcoming Monty Python get-together show sold out in 45 seconds.  What's remarkable to my mind is less that there was such demand and more that the servers were capable of handling that traffic.

[Thrillho]

Four more dates added, Hodgy. Let's go to one and make out.

[Welu]

Can I get in on Python make-outs? Mainly the Python bit.

[Thrillho]

Python, eh?

NO TONGUE HAAAAAA

[LeeC]

Wow, in my searches for Medusa stuff I found an episode of Disney's Hercules where Medusa crushes on Herc...god I hate Icarus.  Can't watch the show 'cause of him.  Whole "People like you the way you are" message was cliche (I hate cliches!), but having Jennifer Love Hewitt play Medusa and Lisa Kudrow as Aphrodite was cool.

[GarandMarine]

Unless Zeus overturns Athena's warping of Medusa, or if Athena ups the bitch meter and unbinds the guy, I don't foresee a happy ending.  And seeing that her lower half is a snake, erotica is out the door too.  Would also have to decide if the snakes on her head follow her will or their own basic snake behavior. Any lean in for a kiss and bam bam bam, like 20 venom filled snake bites.

I've dated women like that before. Also google Lamia porn, a snake lower body will not stop perverts as you should know by now.

[Valdís]

Also google Lamia porn, a snake lower body will not stop perverts as you should know by now.

..Alternatively it wouldn't stop someone who loves her and doesn't mind.

[GarandMarine]

That is an absolutely fair point, I was more referring to Rule 34 with that particular post.

I dunno if I'd be cool with a snake woman, a centaur mare would be bad ass though. Maybe a bit more difficult to go out to dinner, but hey she can give you a ride to work! I swear a conversation about monster girls popped up somewhere else just recently...

[LeeC]

I don't think I'd be good at writing erotica (even though thats where the money is in writing) but Valdis brings up a good point.  The whole situation is cute.  May make for a webcomic better than a novel.  If I wasn't shit at drawing, I wouldn't mind doing one.

As far as monster girls: which was mentioned in another thread (or was it this one?) I'd stick with the nymphs as far as greek monster girls go.  GM's post reminds me of the SNL skit with Christopher Walken interviewing a centaur doctor.

[GarandMarine]

A centaur lady would probably stomp me to death for all the lame horse puns I'd probably make.

[LeeC]

You know, you never really see satyr women, I guess they are BAAH-shful...

also I am not googling anything with the words Lamia and Porn in it. 

[Thrillho]

That is an absolutely fair point, I was more referring to Rule 34 with that particular post.

I dunno if I'd be cool with a snake woman, a centaur mare would be bad ass though. Maybe a bit more difficult to go out to dinner, but hey she can give you a ride to work! I swear a conversation about monster girls popped up somewhere else just recently...

I believe it was earlier in this thread. Then we had a Facebook discussion about it that spilled over onto here. Involved centaurs and satyrs.

[Patrick]

Valdis brings up a good point.  The whole situation is cute.  May make for a webcomic better than a novel.  If I wasn't shit at drawing, I wouldn't mind doing one.

well shit even Ariel got the D and her lower half was a fish. granted there's a pretty terrible message inherent in the whole "you can win him over by being pretty and not speaking a word until you're married and he's stuck with you" plot, so I never really liked that story. one of you should write a less terrible one.

[GarandMarine]

The original Little Mermaid story is in fact even more terrible

[LeeC]

Ariel didn't get the D with her lower half though.  She had human legs.  Most folk tales with mermaids have them able to come onto land and change their lower half to legs.  Tricking men to come with them to the sea where they would drown them.  Some could sing like the sirens to convince them to come into the water.  Hark! A Vagrant does a few strips about mermaids that reflect them (one is a small story and kind of cute in the end).  I also heard once in a celtic tale (forget if it was Irish or Welsh.  My money is on Irish), That after the battle in heaven, the angels who sided with Lucifer went to Hell. Those who were loyal stayed in heaven. Those who were on the fence and aided neither side were sent to the sea and became merfolk.

@GM: Yeah I heard the original one through cracked.com....Ariel didn't get a happily ever after.

[GarandMarine]

The only way she could have been more screwed over was by being served as sushi at the Prince's wedding.

In other news today is a day for the giving of thanks. I am thankful for all you motherfuckers in my life.

[Method of Madness]

I'm thankful for all my friends, which includes all of you.

[GarandMarine]

 “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

[Method of Madness]

If I had sufficient gold, I'd spend it on food and cheer and song and maybe a Playstation 4.

[ankhtahr]

Method of Madness: My calendar just told me that I promised to remind you of wanting to try speed beer.

[Method of Madness]

Ha, thanks! It hasn't started snowing in Jersey yet, and I can't think of any place where doing this wouldn't get me arrested, but I do appreciate it.

[GarandMarine]

speed beer.

Explain.

[ankhtahr]

I'll have my old avatar do the talking:

Explanation…

[GarandMarine]

....I MUST TRY THAT

[Loki]

The forum management does not encourage any kind of activity which may get you arrested, in (involuntary) pain, or in mental anguish.


That said, please take pics.

[GarandMarine]

I'm sober at the moment, tis anguish enough.

[Thrillho]

The forum management does not encourage any kind of activity which may get you arrested, in (involuntary) pain, or in mental anguish.

I once reported a post for making a terrible example for people and was told that's not against the rules...

Quite a few people on here admit to illegality fairly often.