Chef Jim Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 5 hours ago, row_33 said: hope the libs who banned straws don't need one in the hospital if they fracture their jaw and it's wired shut Well to be fair they didn't ban straws just plastic ones. We still get paper ones......that ***** disintegrate before you finish your drink. Why straws? I kind of get the plastic bag thing because they were all over the place and you don't see them blowing around anymore. But straws? WTF. All I can think is the guy who manufactures paper straws had a friend in CA government. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Chef Jim said: Well to be fair they didn't ban straws just plastic ones. We still get paper ones......that ***** disintegrate before you finish your drink. Why straws? I kind of get the plastic bag thing because they were all over the place and you don't see them blowing around anymore. But straws? WTF. All I can think is the guy who manufactures paper straws had a friend in CA government. My older brother once told me that only guys who suck **** use straws. My group of friends never used them; took the tops off and drank soda like real men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Straws are used to poke fun at people in bars who are not drinking alcohol. you order a Coke or a water and they put a big straw in the glass to show you are a wuss or a child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Chef Jim said: Well to be fair they didn't ban straws just plastic ones. We still get paper ones......that ***** disintegrate before you finish your drink. Why straws? Because a kid did a science project, extrapolated numbers based on a few phone cxalls, it got printed in the local newspaper, which got picked up by a politician...and presto...no more straws. No, I'm not kidding Edited February 1, 2019 by LABillzFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 1 hour ago, row_33 said: Straws are used to poke fun at people in bars who are not drinking alcohol. you order a Coke or a water and they put a big straw in the glass to show you are a wuss or a child. yeah make fun of the designated driver and pressure them into drinking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Strawman argument! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 1 hour ago, LABillzFan said: Because a kid did a science project, extrapolated numbers based on a few phone cxalls, it got printed in the local newspaper, which got picked up by a politician...and presto...no more straws. No, I'm not kidding But there's consensus!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 (edited) 22 minutes ago, /dev/null said: yeah make fun of the designated driver and pressure them into drinking They are totally making fun of a person not buying alcohol. That big straw means not getting any for eternity Edited February 1, 2019 by row_33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numark3 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 1 minute ago, row_33 said: They are totally making fun of a person not buying alcohol. Maybe down at Old Bills Tavern with 2 dollar beers. i like a nice craft cocktail some nights. Occasionally they will have a straw in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leh-nerd skin-erd Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Chef Jim said: Well to be fair they didn't ban straws just plastic ones. We still get paper ones......that ***** disintegrate before you finish your drink. Why straws? I kind of get the plastic bag thing because they were all over the place and you don't see them blowing around anymore. But straws? WTF. All I can think is the guy who manufactures paper straws had a friend in CA government. Paper causes heart disease in lab rats. Soon you will drink with your fingers but you will save the planet and lab rats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 I wonder how the law is worded. Does it say "straw" or "cylindrical sucking device." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 10 hours ago, unbillievable said: I wonder how the law is worded. Does it say "straw" or "cylindrical sucking device." the first is something grown in a field. the latter is something called the government. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 2, 2019 Author Share Posted February 2, 2019 Left-wing activist shot by police had posted ‘time to start killing pigs’ online. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 On 2/2/2019 at 3:32 PM, B-Man said: Left-wing activist shot by police had posted ‘time to start killing pigs’ online. . Too da looooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Snowflakes get what they really needs... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 Masked Protesters ‘Occupy’ Border Patrol Museum in El Paso, Deface Fallen Agent Memorial. “F*ck your walls, f*ck your borders, we won’t take your f*cking orders!” . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 23 minutes ago, B-Man said: Masked Protesters ‘Occupy’ Border Patrol Museum in El Paso, Deface Fallen Agent Memorial. “F*ck your walls, f*ck your borders, we won’t take your f*cking orders!” . Sooner or later someone is going to get killed. Again, this isn't protesting. This is vandalism and intimidation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 These idiots do more harm than good to any cause they're pushing for. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/kissing-sailor-statue-florida-spray-painted-metoo-sailor-death-sarasota-1335883%3famp=1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 1 hour ago, RaoulDuke79 said: These idiots do more harm than good to any cause they're pushing for. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/kissing-sailor-statue-florida-spray-painted-metoo-sailor-death-sarasota-1335883%3famp=1 If this is true these idiots have no idea what a war atrocity really was during WWII. Welcome home soldier. RIP. You were one of the lucky ones that got to live to age 92. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilzfancy Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 1 minute ago, Uncle Joe said: If this is true these idiots have no idea what a war atrocity really was during WWII. Welcome home soldier. RIP. You were one of the lucky ones that got to live to age 92. Every man and woman who served in that war is a true American hero and whenever I meet one, I tell them that. These young millienials should read what these men and woman went through in the Pacific or in Europe. Horrific, doesn't describe what these wars were like 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 6 minutes ago, Uncle Joe said: If this is true these idiots have no idea what a war atrocity really was during WWII. Welcome home soldier. RIP. You were one of the lucky ones that got to live to age 92. They have no idea about atrocity, that's why they have to manufacture outrage. The worst thing most of these whiny ***** experienced is when their Wi-Fi doesn't work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 18 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said: They have no idea about atrocity, that's why they have to manufacture outrage. The worst thing most of these whiny ***** experienced is when their Wi-Fi doesn't work i was at the library last week and i guess Wi-Fi went down because a dozen people started yelling "oh no" repeatedly.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilzfancy Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 (edited) A great book to read is Bill O'Reilly's, Killing of the Rising Sun. I'm not sure who was worse in atrocities the Japanese or the Nazis. Edited February 19, 2019 by bilzfancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 13 minutes ago, bilzfancy said: A great book to read is Bill O'Reilly's, Killing of the Rising Sun. I'm not sure who was worse in atrocities the Japanese or the Nazis. Nazis. Japanese were casually brutal. But only German efficiency and bureaucracy could depersonalize and industrialize it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 16 minutes ago, DC Tom said: Nazis. Japanese were casually brutal. But only German efficiency and bureaucracy could depersonalize and industrialize it. those who fought both stated that the killing during the partition of India and Pakistan was far more brutal and ruthless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LB3 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, RaoulDuke79 said: These idiots do more harm than good to any cause they're pushing for. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/kissing-sailor-statue-florida-spray-painted-metoo-sailor-death-sarasota-1335883%3famp=1 Though I never doubt how nutso the left has gone, this could easily be a hoax . Can they really be THIS stupid and unaware? They have stepped on too many rakes recently and this just seems too perfect and like the perfect time for some mouthbreathing far right winger to try to attempt to pile on. Edit: Yes, I know they can be. I'm just trying to be hopeful for some semblance of sanity. Edited February 19, 2019 by LBSeeBallLBGetBall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilzfancy Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 2 hours ago, DC Tom said: Nazis. Japanese were casually brutal. But only German efficiency and bureaucracy could depersonalize and industrialize it. In terms of sheer numbers, no one can touch the Nazis, but what the Japanese did to the Chinese, Filipinos, and even American POWs, was beyond inhumane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 55 minutes ago, bilzfancy said: In terms of sheer numbers, no one can touch the Nazis, but what the Japanese did to the Chinese, Filipinos, and even American POWs, was beyond inhumane And Malayans, and Indonesians, and especially Koreans. Certainly, the Japanese challenge the Nazis on mere numbers. But that shouldn't be the distinguishing factor. Japanese brutality was born of cultural attitudes of racialism and emotional repression merged with elements of Victorian imperialism, and compounded by a warrior ethos often misunderstood by Western observers (beheading a captured enemy is quoted commonly as a war crime, for example, but to the Japanese was considered mercy towards a respected enemy in defeat). That led to Japanese atrocities being, not organized, but more "grass roots," taking place in a multitude of isolated instances or, when on a large scale, developing organically (such as the Bataan Death March or the Rape of Nanking) and not as a matter of policy. Contrast that with the foundation of the Nazi brutality, which was founded in a unique belief of imperial Darwinism - imperial nations otherwise recognized the need for subject peoples to form the basis of colonial economies, Germany is the only nation among imperial powers to explicitly pursue policies of extermination against colonial natives (most of the practices they pursued in World War 2 - slave labor, human medical experiments, the "hunger plan," concentration camps - were present in their extermination of the Herero in Southwest Africa forty years earlier. They even referred to both as racial struggles, literally the same term: rassenkampfen. There's a direct like from Shark Island to Treblinka, or the Schutztruppen and Peiper's Blowtorch Battalion.) The Japanese were brutal...but individually. Their atrocities were rarely organized above a battalion level, if that, and not as a matter of policy. The Germans organized atrocity at the level of an entire nation, as a planned and directed activity. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 28 minutes ago, DC Tom said: The Japanese were brutal...but individually. Their atrocities were rarely organized above a battalion level, if that, and not as a matter of policy. The Germans organized atrocity at the level of an entire nation, as a planned and directed activity. another feather in the cap of central planning 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 THE BIGOTRY THAT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE FAKED: Store Clerk in Kansas Curses Out MAGA Hat-Wearing 14-Year-Old. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 1 hour ago, DC Tom said: <snip> The Japanese were brutal...but individually. Their atrocities were rarely organized above a battalion level, if that, and not as a matter of policy. The Germans organized atrocity at the level of an entire nation, as a planned and directed activity. The Japanese imperialism was national fanaticism where no one was supposed to get out alive. Genocide with a different twist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Deranged Rhino Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 37 minutes ago, B-Man said: Someone should give that cop a medal for not tasing that Hodor lookin' assclown stalking him throughout the second video. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 7 hours ago, DC Tom said: And Malayans, and Indonesians, and especially Koreans. Certainly, the Japanese challenge the Nazis on mere numbers. But that shouldn't be the distinguishing factor. Japanese brutality was born of cultural attitudes of racialism and emotional repression merged with elements of Victorian imperialism, and compounded by a warrior ethos often misunderstood by Western observers (beheading a captured enemy is quoted commonly as a war crime, for example, but to the Japanese was considered mercy towards a respected enemy in defeat). That led to Japanese atrocities being, not organized, but more "grass roots," taking place in a multitude of isolated instances or, when on a large scale, developing organically (such as the Bataan Death March or the Rape of Nanking) and not as a matter of policy. Contrast that with the foundation of the Nazi brutality, which was founded in a unique belief of imperial Darwinism - imperial nations otherwise recognized the need for subject peoples to form the basis of colonial economies, Germany is the only nation among imperial powers to explicitly pursue policies of extermination against colonial natives (most of the practices they pursued in World War 2 - slave labor, human medical experiments, the "hunger plan," concentration camps - were present in their extermination of the Herero in Southwest Africa forty years earlier. They even referred to both as racial struggles, literally the same term: rassenkampfen. There's a direct like from Shark Island to Treblinka, or the Schutztruppen and Peiper's Blowtorch Battalion.) The Japanese were brutal...but individually. Their atrocities were rarely organized above a battalion level, if that, and not as a matter of policy. The Germans organized atrocity at the level of an entire nation, as a planned and directed activity. The belgians weren't saintly in the Congo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 On 2/1/2019 at 5:01 PM, LABillzFan said: Because a kid did a science project, extrapolated numbers based on a few phone cxalls, it got printed in the local newspaper, which got picked up by a politician...and presto...no more straws. No, I'm not kidding Can someone explain to me like I’m five, how do plastic straws on the US mainland have anything the f ***** to do with the “swirling mass” of detritus that is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Shouldn’t the SE Asian countries, China, Japan, and China be asked about this mess that they created? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 (edited) 10 hours ago, B-Man said: Meanwhile Mayor Ted Wheeler calls for special investigation of officer that communicates with protesters from both sides.Police union blasts Mayor Ted Wheeler’s criticism of cop for friendly exchanges with right-wing group leaderhttps://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/02/commanding-police-officers-union-blasts-mayor-ted-wheelers-criticism-of-lt-jeff-niiya-as-either-disingenous-or-ignorant.html Antifa lack of cooperation with police Portland activist ostracized, police criticized after cooperation, communication exposedhttps://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/12/portland_activist_ostracized_p.html Edited February 20, 2019 by Uncle Joe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary M Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 45 minutes ago, Uncle Joe said: Meanwhile Mayor Ted Wheeler calls for special investigation of officer that communicates with protesters from both sides.Police union blasts Mayor Ted Wheeler’s criticism of cop for friendly exchanges with right-wing group leaderhttps://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/02/commanding-police-officers-union-blasts-mayor-ted-wheelers-criticism-of-lt-jeff-niiya-as-either-disingenous-or-ignorant.html Antifa lack of cooperation with police Portland activist ostracized, police criticized after cooperation, communication exposedhttps://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/12/portland_activist_ostracized_p.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 Um..............you appear to be standing on the curb. Quote Eyewitness NewsVerified account @ABC7NY FollowFollow @ABC7NY Anti-Trump protesters say plow driver splashed them on purpose https://7ny.tv/2SQtSU1 . 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 4 hours ago, B-Man said: Um..............you appear to be standing on the curb. . Reports are the driver was smirking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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