Posts by BenWilson
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
I am not really a dog called Martin Lindberg. Honest!
I always see a thought bubble around everything you say, and imagine you lying wistfully under a Bitches Box. Way to rupture the dramatic illusion.
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OnPoint: Set it on fire, then, in reply to Steve Parks,
I spent all of 10 seconds thinking up my outlandish, but possible, example. I can’t see how there couldn’t be a “lesser of two evils” situation even with something as reprehensible as torture.
Heh, I like the way your abstract mind works.
To me, the formulation of argument against torture isn't something you should leave to one killer point. It's OK to have multiple lines of attack. A human rights argument is persuasive to me, but it might not be to others, in which case the "it doesn't work" argument is valuable. And practically, I'm by no means 100% sure of either case, because there are always going to be the Jack Bauer counterexamples. I just think that such things, like Jack Bauer, are unlikely to happen or exist in reality.
Far more likely is that the dirty bomb goes off before intelligence ever knows about it. Or the terrorist dies in a shootout as the FBI bust into his lair. Or lies about where the bomb is, wasting valuable time. Or they torture some guy who doesn't actually know anything. Or they torture ten people and get ten different answers. Or they torture ten people, and it turns out there was no dirty bomb after all (most likely of all).
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OnPoint: Set it on fire, then, in reply to richard,
In fairness, this incident happened before some (most?) of today’s students were born. This is a bit like refusing to vote Labour because of Nordmyer’s Black Budget.
Well, it happened well after Rogernomics, which is still, to this day, a major reason not to vote Labour.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Ross Mason,
"Oh no I'm not!"
You're just saying that because you got dropped when you were an egg.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Lilith __,
The shape I think. It's sort of...long with a rounded end. Someone once gave me one but, sadly, I no longer have it.
Yes, well you shouldn't really use other people's condoms.
Here's an infuser that looks like a dong. Silicone, with all those holes "for her pleasure".
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Lilith __,
There is a device they have in Germany that is known as a “tea condom” (it’s a fabric bag with a metal handle attached – you put loose tea in the bag and dangle it in your teacup).
So an infuser made with fabric rather than just a little cage? I'm trying to think what's like a condom about it. Perhaps German condoms are full of perforations? Or maybe just by the time they're finished with them :-)
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Jackie Clark,
How innocuous an activity for such an intriguing term
Yes, hairy salty tea should be more widely appreciated.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Heh, at least I was using long form jargon. Battleground chat sometimes looks like this:
me: inc fm 3 dr pal mg
team member: np omw eta 20
me: dw pwned & tbged inc lm im gud -
Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Bart Janssen,
You probably play a frost mage in BGs too so I hate you doubly.
I had a fire/arcane mage, but my BG favorite was a feral druid. She became my main. Resto was good too, fantastic support player that you just can't kill.
I preferred bear form for teabagging. Imagine that on your face.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Russell Brown,
Really? Utterly different prose style and MOs. But I suppose I had to interact directly with both of them.
I didn't spend more than about 10 mins reading the copyright thread, where I understand lil'P blew a lot of his social capital. It's a big hole in my PAS fluency.
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