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The Big Coloring Book of Vaginas? - David Sep 17, 08:00 1
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Happy two year anniversary to Occupy Wall Street! -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 07:57 1
- yeah, how's that going for ya? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Sep 17, 08:35
I struggle to reconcile that Under the Dome and Y the Last Man are both the same guy. - David Sep 17, 07:55 1
- The Dome strayed so far from the book, it's not even the same story. Kinda disappointing. That being said... - Jim Sep 17, 07:56
just had to run downstairs, you should *see* the pick up line for GTA pre-orders! -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 07:52 4
- 'Hey baby, your PS3 or mine?' -- nm - decline Sep 17, 07:55 1
  - :) -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 07:55
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  - excellent point. *locks door.* -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 07:55
Timelapse video of the Costa Concordia -- (link) - decline Sep 17, 07:52 1
- What a monumental miracle -- indeed. -- nm - OAE -- Explorer, Antarctica, Old Sep 17, 08:00
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- I'd say it's time to panic. -- nm - mafic Sep 17, 07:57
- $1.30 per litre here right now -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 07:56
- fun fact: we paid to fill up the tank of a Lincoln town car a couple times while in Virginia. - Andie Sep 17, 07:55
- and yet in the same period US oil production has consistently increased. -- nm - decline Sep 17, 07:54
- Obama! -- nm - spamlet Sep 17, 07:53
Good start last night to Bones current season. Still really love that cast as a group -- nm - Capstern Sep 17, 07:49
Related to below discussion. No phrase scares me more than "good guys with guns". - loosilu Sep 17, 07:46 36
- could be wrong here, but the impression I got was that is the cause of reports of additional shooters, and the reason the situation lasted so long - znufrii Sep 17, 07:49
- it all depends on each individual situation. - groiny Sep 17, 07:47 34
  - who gets to decide? the untrained civilians with concealed carry permits? -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:48 33
    - if they have concealed carry permits, they are not untrained. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 07:49 32
      - Training doesn't mean knowing how to pull the trigger. Cops and soldiers have to train constantly. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:50 31
        
        cops and soldiers kill innocents all the time, by accident. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 07:54 30
        
        That is not helping your point -- nm - amoxy Sep 17, 07:58 9
        
        sure it is. - groiny Sep 17, 08:00 8
        
        though you most likely increase your chance of being shot if someone attempts to shoot back. -- nm - Truman Sep 17, 08:02
        
        odds are, you now have 2 people firing indiscrimiantely in a crowded room and the victims are now - Will Hunting Sep 17, 08:02 3
        
        again, what chance do I have if it is just one guy with the gun, killing everyone? -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 08:04 2
        
        How would your chances be if we had some gun control. No automatic weapons or limited clip sizes so you had time to get out while he reloads? - pmb Sep 17, 08:08
        
        You have a chance to get to one of the multiple exits in the room. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 08:06
        
        you can't eliminate the possiblity. You can IMPROVE it dramatically with training. Lack of training, on the other hand, virtually guarantees - loosilu Sep 17, 08:01 2
        
        it does no such thing. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 08:01 1
        
        I don't see how you can make that argument. You honestly think that untrained (or massively less trained and experienced people) will do as well as - pmb Sep 17, 08:05
        
        and they are trained. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:56
        
        probably not helping the point you wanna make unless its conceal carry is a bad idea. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 07:55 12
        
        Exactly. Like the theater shooting. How many more people would have been killed by a concerned citizen trying to take out the bad guy? -- nm - Jim Sep 17, 07:57 11
        
        Just the other day in New York cops shot 2 innocent bystanders going after a guy they thought was pulling a gun (he wasn't). The guy they were - pmb Sep 17, 08:01 3
        
        Why not? Everyone is saying that conceal carry will help stop perpetrators. You think they'll show better judgment than trained officers? -- nm - pmb Sep 17, 08:06 1
        
        Sorry this should go under Groiny's post. -- nm - pmb Sep 17, 08:07
        
        I assume they would not be going after the guy? -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 08:02
        
        My idiot buddies were going on how it woulda been different - Will Hunting Sep 17, 08:00
        
        There are some videos out there of "concerned citizens" pulling otu a gun to stop a bad guy. it's terrifying. - loosilu Sep 17, 07:58 3
        
        I would have assumed the media would have been all over these types of stories -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 07:59 2
        
        I saw one where an old guy stopped a robbery and he was shooting kind of wild. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 08:00
        
        check the youtubes -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 08:00
        
        which is kind of where I was headed with the depends on the situation. - groiny Sep 17, 07:58
        
        alternativelt, maybe the citizen takes him out before he gets started - Beaker Sep 17, 07:58
        
        that...doesn't support your point. -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 07:55 5
        
        it kinda does, training does not equal 100% certainty. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 07:56 4
        
        I don't think anyone's making the argument that it does. - znufrii Sep 17, 08:00 2
        
        but you cannot automatically assume that all concealed carry people are morons either. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 08:01 1
        
        which is why I'm not the one making that argument. -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 08:02
        
        where does that % with less training? -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:57
TV Premier PSA: Dads, Brooklyn 99, New Girl, Mindy Project -- nm - oblique Sep 17, 07:44
TV : any new/returning shows premiering tonight? -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 07:42 1
- New Girl, Dads, Brooklyn 99. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 07:43
Ill say this about NBC's Siberia.. - Jovian Sep 17, 07:40 2
- i watched one episode on mute... it was way funnier that way. -- nm - colin Sep 17, 07:42 1
  - it was enjoyable summer fare, certainly more enjoyable than Under the Crap, but they *really* f*cked us with the finale. -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 07:43
Source: 50-50 chance Gronk back Sunday -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 07:38
btw, Amazon Instant Video on iOS can now AirPlay -- nm - oblique Sep 17, 07:33
Had never head this song until at dinner last night. Very cool lyric I just find well written - Capstern Sep 17, 07:28 2
- That's because it came out in the 70's. - pmb Sep 17, 07:30 1
  - Yeah I love 70 and 80 rock just never heard this one. 38 Specialish but liked it -- nm - Capstern Sep 17, 07:43
at least 2 million americans infected & 23,000 killed annually by bacteria resistant to antibiotics.... - x Sep 17, 07:19 11
- Where's my bubble? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 17, 07:25
- that's a scary list of bugs. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:21
- America obviously need more guns to kill the bacteria -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 07:21
- we're all infected. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 07:20
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  - clostridium difficile is the big one. kills 14k people annually...nm - x Sep 17, 07:22 5
    - Yeah, that's nasty, nasty stuff. My wife's aunt had it a few times. -- nm - spamlet Sep 17, 07:40
    - it's why I don't go to hospitals or beaches. -- nm - mafic Sep 17, 07:31
    - People can pronounce "sharks". -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:28
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    - but what if the sharks are resistent to antibiotics as well? -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 07:23
An ABC News article about yesterday's shooting is dated for Sunday leading all the conspiracy theorists to pounce on it..(link) - Walt_Disney Sep 17, 07:11 6
- We spent yesterday afternoon in a doctor's office. It was comical how many older white people were blaming Obama. - David Sep 17, 07:31
- I'm so glad my paranoid FB friend from HS isn't in my feed anymore. - Mel Profit Sep 17, 07:25
- It's the simplest and most logical conclusion based on the facts. -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 07:23
- Obama! -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 07:22
- offs. -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 07:21
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Patron at Kentucky's state fair peruses their new online health insurance marketplace, pronounces that "this beats Obamacare, I hope." -- (link) - znufrii Sep 17, 06:59 1
- Hilarious. Interesting article. -- nm - volnelk Sep 17, 07:27
Your Amazon.com order of "Grand Theft Auto V" has shipped! -- nm - decline Sep 17, 06:51
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- Off topic but "...he spent the last three years living in the Texan suburb of White Settlement." WTF, Texas? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 17, 07:56
- OFFS -- nm - Epiphany Sep 17, 07:23
- he carried a gun in his drawers all the time, because of Call Of Duty? - groiny Sep 17, 07:20 1
  - See? SEE??? - David Sep 17, 07:39
- I read that post in my mind in a Zoidberg voice -- nm - amoxy Sep 17, 06:55
- Ender's Game isn't entirely wrong. - Mel Profit Sep 17, 06:55 31
  - I still don't think I buy that. I just don't find any causation. It's not surprising that someone who commits violent acts is drawn to violent games - pmb Sep 17, 07:26 30
    - It's not that the overwhelming majority are being turned into trigger pulling killers... - Mel Profit Sep 17, 07:31 26
      - Aren't those games available in Canada and Europe? They don't cause mass shootings there. - loosilu Sep 17, 07:38 1
        
        *ding* -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 07:38
      - I don't think it's actually happening more, as much as the scale is somewhat larger. If I was going to blame anything for that fact I would blame the - pmb Sep 17, 07:34 23
        
        and this particular guy had signs of being mentally unstable from the get go. - groiny Sep 17, 07:37 2
        
        apparently he was treated at some point. Someone needed to TAKE HIS GUNS. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:41 1
        
        Why do you hate law-abiding gun owners, loosi? -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 07:47
        
        ultimately I think the best solution is Gun Control but... -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 17, 07:36 19
        
        people have had guns for decades, why is it all of a sudden now that this is happening more? - groiny Sep 17, 07:39 18
        
        Part of the cultural issue is the love of guns. I do think the media's fascination with this breeds more of it, but gun control would help. - pmb Sep 17, 07:49 4
        
        I think there is a whole lot of things at play with the cultural issues..... - groiny Sep 17, 07:52 3
        
        I agree there's a lot, which is why focusing on the tools used first makes so much sense. - pmb Sep 17, 07:59 1
        
        I agree with you, I am fine with taking the AR-15 and similar guns out of the equation. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 08:03
        
        I can agree with a lot of what you say here. There's no one cause. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 17, 07:53
        
        When did semi-automatics become available to the public? -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 07:41 1
        
        they weren't even invented until the 20th century. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:43
        
        it's not 'happening more'. homicides, gun violence, and even mass shootings are on a long decline trend. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 07:41 3
        
        I'd be interested to see the stats on this. -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 07:45 1
        
        Homicide's pretty easy to find data on. And the decline in crime over the 1990s has been talked about a lot in recent years. - Roger More Sep 17, 07:54
        
        I don't know about that last part. -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 07:44
        
        if you think the gun laws haven't been weakened in the last 30 years there's no point in talking about it. - Mel Profit Sep 17, 07:41 6
        
        sure, they have been, but IIRC this guy did this with a handgun. - groiny Sep 17, 07:45 5
        
        he had three guns, one of them an AR-15. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:47 4
        
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        thanks. still tons of misinformation out there. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:54
        
        While I would like to own an AR-15, I would be ok if they removed those from circulation. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 07:49 1
        
        we can agree on that. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 07:50
    - But that's exactly the same argument that gun advocates use to protect gun rights. -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 07:28 2
      - But that is completely apples and oranges. The video games don't enable the violence to take place. The gun is the means of the violence. People - pmb Sep 17, 07:32 1
        
        I agree, but I thought I should make the comparison. -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 07:39
- Why go on a shooting spree the day before GTA5 comes out then? -- nm - LMS Sep 17, 06:52
And I've just found what I'll be listening to this afternoon -- (link) - LMS Sep 17, 06:33
Neil MacDonald: My dear American neighbours: -- (link) - Beaker Sep 17, 06:21 3
- The irony is that Neil MacDonald will one day become a senator and be investigated for misconduct. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 17, 07:52
- good. the proposed quebec law is horrible. -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 07:10 1
  - Quebec is very effective at their "If you don't like it, you can get out!" policy. - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 17, 07:58
So these are the new shows coming to British TV over the next few months I'm excited about: - LMS Sep 17, 06:19 7
- where has OB been shown if not the BBC? (do you only get one channel?) -- nm - amanda hk Sep 17, 07:09 3
  - It was on BBC American only I think -- nm - decline Sep 17, 07:10 2
    - it's a BBC America original series, actually. -- nm - mafic Sep 17, 07:14 1
      - Yep both Orphan Black and Copper have being broadcast yet by the BBC in the UK. -- nm - LMS Sep 17, 07:18
- Here's the trailer to The Wrong Mans -- (link) - LMS Sep 17, 06:31 [youtube]
- haven't watched Orphan Black but the people I know who have just rave about it -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 06:19 1
  - It's a very good show -- nm - decline Sep 17, 06:25
I like that in a show about a headless horseman with demons and witches and the apocalypse our biggest complaints about realism are... - Ender Sep 17, 06:16 3
- Well --- (spoils) - Will Hunting Sep 17, 06:46 2
  - Technical spoiler - Guigue Sep 17, 06:50 1
    - Spoils - Will Hunting Sep 17, 06:53
Just read the BOP Survivor preview...a comment about the Blood vs Water theme...(spoils that aren't happening, or something) - Jim Sep 17, 06:04 4
- There are pluses and minuses with that format - the new bies would have more of a chance, but the intra-tribe stuff wouldn't be as interesting -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 06:17 3
  - Well, the interesting thing would be when (spoils) - Jim Sep 17, 06:23 2
    - I assume the word 'Rupert' is missing in your IM? -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 06:36 1
      - Heh...yep -- nm - Jim Sep 17, 07:19
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although I did just now figure out the significance of the 144000 figure. -- nm - Reagen Sep 17, 05:57 3
- Rael is displeased it took you this long. -- nm - mafic Sep 17, 07:12
- Oooooh, nice. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 06:08
- Mayans! -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 06:01
LIR: Mop. Can you spoil Siberia for me? - oblique Sep 17, 05:46 1
- It was Lost... in the Russian outback. (spoilers) - Mop (200 lbs) Sep 17, 07:25
zzzzzzoom zoom -- nm - oblique Sep 17, 05:45 1
- where you off to? -- nm - OAE -- Explorer, Antarctica, Old Sep 17, 05:54

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