Random News Article Discussion II
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If you needed anymore reason(s) to hate James Woods
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/james-woods-and-armie-hammer-engage-in-twitter-war-of-words/
Ew.
What's the deal with Hollywood and underage sex?
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In the '70s the French (lefty, I think –-- but also the right-wing intelligentsia for other reasons) intelligentsia thought there was nothing wrong with having sexual relations with 13 year-olds (in the name of sexual liberation/revolution) and even signed a paper demanding the release of 3 people who had sexual relations with a 13 and 14 year-old. Among those who signed, here are some famous names : Jean-Paul Sartre, *Simone de Beauvoir, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, Patrice Chéreau, Félix Guattari, Michel Leiris, Philippe Sollers, André Glucksmann, Jack Lang, Bernard Kouchner and Louis Aragon.
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The British are the reigning champs of this topic.
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If you needed anymore reason(s) to hate James Woods
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/james-woods-and-armie-hammer-engage-in-twitter-war-of-words/
Call Me By Your Name is potentially Oscar-worthy? Sweet, I really wanted to see it anyway.
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I hope this don't influence his casting on KH3.
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@Monkey:
The British are the reigning champs of this topic.
Mind if I ask what you mean? Age of consent in the UK is a perfectly reasonable 16. It's the other european countries that are messed up. Italy 14, Spain 13…
Japan is also 13! Germany strikes a balance. 14 if the other one is under 18, otherwise it's 16.
So yeah.. Uh why the brits?
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Mind if I ask what you mean? Age of consent in the UK is a perfectly reasonable 16. It's the other european countries that are messed up. Italy 14, Spain 13…
Japan is also 13! Germany strikes a balance. 14 if the other one is under 18, otherwise it's 16.
So yeah.. Uh why the brits?
So you've heard about "lol hollywood secret pedos" but in spite of living in the UK you have no idea what I'm referring to.
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Ew.
What's the deal with Hollywood and underage sex?
Trump would say that if they are famous they'd let you do anything and get away with it.
But the truth is that the famous THNIKS they can do anything and for some, the more forbidden it is the more tempting it is for them. -
I hope this don't influence his casting on KH3.
Don't fret, there will be plenty of time for them to fix it when it comes out in 2031. :P
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Mind if I ask what you mean? Age of consent in the UK is a perfectly reasonable 16. It's the other european countries that are messed up. Italy 14, Spain 13…
Japan is also 13! Germany strikes a balance. 14 if the other one is under 18, otherwise it's 16.
So yeah.. Uh why the brits?
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I hope this don't influence his casting on KH3.
hercules was an allegory for the alt-left, it's so obvious now :ninja:
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Hades to be replaced by Japanese James Woods in all future endeavors.
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Hades replaced by Pluto.
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Bah, I figured it could be Saville, but there's so many ways to slice the "country has fucked up issues with sex at super young ages" that I wasn't sure that's what you meant.
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Bah, I figured it could be Saville, but there's so many ways to slice the "country has fucked up issues with sex at super young ages" that I wasn't sure that's what you meant.
Isn't Rolf Harris a British expatriate, too?
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While we're on this subject…
Were there ever any allegations against Bill Maher?
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All this pedophilia talk reminds me of the recent controversial news in my country.
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In Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul there was happening a "Queer museum" exposition, in this art exposition, there were paintings representing the LGBT community.
But, among those pieces of art, there were paintings with clear representation of zoophilia (orgy with goats), pedophilia (frames with kids dressed as prostitutes and those frames were entitled "fag kids" and to top it of, a frame with Jesus Christ in the cross holding numerous objects, including a vibrator and a butt plug.The exposition was closed due to constant complaints.[/Hide]
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I'm having trouble to remember an organization in an European country looking to lower the age of consent to a ridiculous young age, can't remember the name and the Country but South Park once made a hilarious parody about it.
All this pedophilia talk reminds me of the recent controversial news in my country.
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In Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul there was happening a "Queer museum" exposition, in this art exposition, there were paintings representing the LGBT community.
But, among those pieces of art, there were paintings with clear representation of zoophilia (orgy with goats), pedophilia (frames with kids dressed as prostitutes and those frames were entitled "fag kids" and to top it of, a frame with Jesus Christ in the cross holding numerous objects, including a vibrator and a butt plug.The exposition was closed due to constant complaints.[/Hide]
Brazil, definitely the leader in Latin-American region, I remember I once watched a video about some young girls(like from 9 to 12), riding ships in the river to "sell some goods", tropical fruits and such they were carrying with them. I thought well that's pretty cool, then I scrolled down to the comments and someone said that's just really a 'cover', those girls actually look for old men to have sex with, I was like naah wtf dude, googled it and unfortunately seems to be true.
here's how they ride the ships, looks incredibly dangerous, amazingly skilled kids
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Japan is also 13!
This isn't actually true.
Japan's AoC varies by prefecture (The average being 18, even). The amount of places in Japan where the age is 13 can be counted on one hand and the amount of people that actually live in those places can be counted on another. 13 is the bare minimum the AoC can be set in Japan or related territories
That's not including youth protection laws which criminalize sexual relations with a minor (20 and under by japanese standards) by adults'course, you've been there, have you not? You should know these things beyond the (incorrect) idea that 13 is the legal age there
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Were there ever any allegations against Bill Maher?
He seems like the type.No too many people were too busy whining about him lionizing the September 11th Hijackers for anything to gain traction there…....though I do wonder what you mean by "looking" the type,
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No too many people were too busy whining about him lionizing the September 11th Hijackers for anything to gain traction there…....though I do wonder what you mean by "looking" the type,
I said he seemed like the type, being weirdly defensive of pedophilia (a view he's repeated at least twice and I don't think he ever backed down on it).
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All this pedophilia talk reminds me of the recent controversial news in my country.
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In Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul there was happening a "Queer museum" exposition, in this art exposition, there were paintings representing the LGBT community.
But, among those pieces of art, there were paintings with clear representation of zoophilia (orgy with goats), pedophilia (frames with kids dressed as prostitutes and those frames were entitled "fag kids" and to top it of, a frame with Jesus Christ in the cross holding numerous objects, including a vibrator and a butt plug.The exposition was closed due to constant complaints.[/Hide]
And there was some new stuff happening there today, but I'm out of the loop. I work a couple blocks from the place and heard some loud noises from that direction.
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And there was some new stuff happening there today, but I'm out of the loop. I work a couple blocks from the place and heard some loud noises from that direction.
Yeah, from what I have seeing, it was possible that it was a alt left group protesting for the reopening of the exposition, saying that the early closing of the expo was a attack against freedom of expression. Just a little thing that I forgot to tell, this exposition was open to everyone and some elementary/middle schools were making field trips to this exposition.
About child prostitution in Brazil, yeah, it's a sad reality, specily in the northen and northeast states, their families encourages them to do this in order to get money/food.
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Nun With A Chainsaw Clears Hurricane Irma Like A Pro:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nun-chainsaw-hurricane-irma_us_59b8c698e4b02da0e13d5cea
This is pretty cool, and makes this nun awesome in my book because of her expertise with the chainsaw. It was also nice of her to help people there as well! :3
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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12229806/texas-mass-shooting-9-dead/
Of course this is seen as business as usual.
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Macron called those who were against his neo-liberal reforms "lazy, cynical and extremists". –----Typical centrist.
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ESPN: She knows what she did wrong.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2017/09/tunisia-lifts-ban-muslim-women-marrying-muslims-170914154657961.html
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Alright MLK take the soapboxing somewhere else
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So uhm, North Korea fired a missile over Japan apparently? For the second time in less than a month?
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Someone tried to rebrand the Swastika in a positive light with rainbow Swastika t-shirts. It went about as well as you'd expect.
The fact that he/she/they completely forgot to un-tilt the Swastika really makes me wonder who this was for in the first place.
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Someone tried to rebrand the Swastika in a positive light with rainbow Swastika t-shirts. It went about as well as you'd expect.
The fact that he/she/they completely forgot to un-tilt the Swastika really makes me wonder who this was for in the first place.
I had to go read up on it at Wikipedia. I was trying to think of another name for the swastika and forgot. Turns out Iw as thinking of the Japanese term for it, manji, not the other name from Hindu, Svastika. Interesting note though, that it could be tilted too in history….its just bad news now because we automatically think of the Nazis (at least I do when seeing the tilted version)
@wiki:
In the 1880's the Theosophical Society adopted a swastika as part of its seal, along with an Om, a hexagram or star of David, an Ankh and an Ouroboros. Unlike the much more recent Raëlian movement, the Theosophical Society symbol has been free from controversy, and the seal is still used. The current seal also includes the text "There is no religion higher than truth."[109] The British author and poet Rudyard Kipling used the symbol on the cover art of a number of his works, including The Five Nations, 1903, which has it twinned with an elephant.
The Nazis have too much of stronghold on the swastika in the west for me to see it as anything but racist.
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Reminds me of when I started reading that one volume of One Piece where Shirohige is introduced, there was an editor's comment on one page saying the Swastika on his Jolly Roger was a religious-based thing and not the Nazi.
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http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2017
The 2017 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 14, 2017 at the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre.
PHYSICS PRIZE [FRANCE, SINGAPORE, USA] — Marc-Antoine Fardin, for using fluid dynamics to probe the question "Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?"
REFERENCE: "On the Rheology of Cats," Marc-Antoine Fardin, Rheology Bulletin, vol. 83, 2, July 2014, pp. 16-17 and 30.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Marc-Antoine FardinPEACE PRIZE [SWITZERLAND, CANADA, THE NETHERLANDS, USA] — Milo Puhan, Alex Suarez, Christian Lo Cascio, Alfred Zahn, Markus Heitz, and Otto Braendli, for demonstrating that regular playing of a didgeridoo is an effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring.
REFERENCE: "Didgeridoo Playing as Alternative Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome: Randomised Controlled Trial," Milo A. Puhan, Alex Suarez, Christian Lo Cascio, Alfred Zahn, Markus Heitz and Otto Braendli, BMJ, vol. 332 December 2006.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Milo Puhan, Christian Lo Cascio, Markus Heitz, Alex Suarez. NOTE: Alex Suarez was the first patient, and was the inspiration for the study.ECONOMICS PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, USA] — Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer, for their experiments to see how contact with a live crocodile affects a person's willingness to gamble.
REFERENCE: "Never Smile at a Crocodile: Betting on Electronic Gaming Machines is Intensified by Reptile-Induced Arousal," Matthew J. Rockloff and Nancy Greer, Journal of Gambling Studies, vol. 26, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 571-81.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Matthew Rockloff and Nancy GreerANATOMY PRIZE [UK] — James Heathcote, for his medical research study "Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears?"
REFERENCE: "Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears?" James A. Heathcote, British Medical Journal, vol. 311, 1995, p. 1668.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: James HeathcoteBIOLOGY PRIZE [JAPAN, BRAZIL, SWITZERLAND] — Kazunori Yoshizawa, Rodrigo Ferreira, Yoshitaka Kamimura, and Charles Lienhard, for their discovery of a female penis, and a male vagina, in a cave insect.
REFERENCE: "Female Penis, Male Vagina and Their Correlated Evolution in a Cave Insect," Kazunori Yoshizawa, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, Yoshitaka Kamimura, Charles Lienhard, Current Biology, vol. 24, no. 9, 2014, pp. 1006-1010.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: They delivered a short video acceptance speech, filmed in a cave.FLUID DYNAMICS PRIZE [SOUTH KOREA, USA] — Jiwon Han, for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks backwards while carrying a cup of coffee. REFERENCE: "A Study on the Coffee Spilling Phenomena in the Low Impulse Regime," Jiwon Han, Achievements in the Life Sciences, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, pp. 87-101.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Jiwon ("Jesse") Han
NOTE: Jiwon Han was a high school student when he wrote the paper, at Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea.NUTRITION PRIZE [BRAZIL, CANADA, SPAIN] — Fernanda Ito, Enrico Bernard, and Rodrigo Torres, for the first scientific report of human blood in the diet of the hairy-legged vampire bat
REFERENCE: "What is for Dinner? First Report of Human Blood in the Diet of the Hairy-Legged Vampire Bat Diphylla ecaudata," Fernanda Ito, Enrico Bernard, and Rodrigo A. Torres, Acta Chiropterologica, vol. 18, no. 2, December 2016, pp. 509-515.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: The winners delivered their acceptance speech via recorded video.MEDICINE PRIZE [FRANCE, UK] — Jean-Pierre Royet, David Meunier, Nicolas Torquet, Anne-Marie Mouly and Tao Jiang, for using advanced brain-scanning technology to measure the extent to which some people are disgusted by cheese.
REFERENCE: "The Neural Bases of Disgust for Cheese: An fMRI Study," Jean-Pierre Royet, David Meunier, Nicolas Torquet, Anne-Marie Mouly and Tao Jiang, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 10, October 2016, article 511.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: The winners are delivering their acceptance speech via recorded video.COGNITION PRIZE [ITALY, SPAIN, UK] — Matteo Martini, Ilaria Bufalari, Maria Antonietta Stazi, and Salvatore Maria Aglioti, for demonstrating that many identical twins cannot tell themselves apart visually.
REFERENCE: "Is That Me or My Twin? Lack of Self-Face Recognition Advantage in Identical Twins," Matteo Martini, Ilaria Bufalari, Maria Antonietta Stazi, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 4, 2015: e0120900.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Matteo Martini, Ilaria BufalariOBSTETRICS PRIZE — [SPAIN] — Marisa López-Teijón, Álex García-Faura, Alberto Prats-Galino, and Luis Pallarés Aniorte, for showing that a developing human fetus responds more strongly to music that is played electromechanically inside the mother's vagina than to music that is played electromechanically on the mother's belly.
REFERENCE: "Fetal Facial Expression in Response to Intravaginal Music Emission," Marisa López-Teijón, Álex García-Faura, and Alberto Prats-Galino, Ultrasound, November 2015, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 216–223.
REFERENCE: "Fetal Acoustic Stimulation Device," patent ES2546919B1, granted September 29, 2015 to Luis y Pallarés Aniorte and Maria Luisa López-Teijón Pérez.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Marisa López-Teijón, Álex García-Faura, Alberto Prats-Galino, and Luis Pallarés Aniorte
NOTE: They also offer a product based on this research The product is named "Babypod". -
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You know I've thought a lot of Iceland's success and efficiency at being a nice place comes down to having a small tight knit community, this being a country of 300,000 people and all.
But I wondered sometimes what the weak points of that would be, and uhhhhh, yeah this would be that.–- Update From New Post Merge ---
Man I was just thinking yesterday how it seems like every first world country keeps grappling with existential crisis after reading about the Catalonia thing heating up in Spain again (that and Japan having a second missile lobbed over it).
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I don't enjoy living in interesting times. The catalunya thing has me on edge, as the inmigration law says nothing about what would happen to me. I guess I could move, again.
As an ex colony citizen, I get some priority on citizenship, the "project country catalunya" says nothing of that advantage, putting me back on the 10 year track, instead of the other 2 that I need for the spanish roadmap.
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I don't enjoy living in interesting times. The catalunya thing has me on edge, as the inmigration law says nothing about what would happen to me. I guess I could move, again.
As far as Madrid is concerned nothing they could potentially do independent of Madrid counts as legal, so worst case scenario you would move outside of Catalonia to anywhere else in Spain and I don't think anything would change legally for you.
Actually I guess the worst case scenario is Southwest Europe decides to explore reenacting the recent history of Southeast Europe. But somehow that seems really really unlikely.
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I'll try to write up a bit of a summary for you guys soon (on the Iceland thing)
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What is this Pirate Party?
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Yes the Pirate Party bit has my imagination spinning a tale of rough, yet fair naval-criminals who one day decided that enough was enough and put their seafaring ways behind them so they could lead the country to success… with much ARRRR-ing and other pirate gimmicks.
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I think they're a party focused on protection of privacy (which includes protecting your ip when you're pirating).
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If I recall right the PirateParty in Iceland has an anarchist/liberal tendency
Also direct democracy through internet yeah (I think it's internet).
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I think they're a party focused on protection of privacy (which includes protecting your ip when you're pirating).
Shhhh let me have my dreams.
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I think they're a party focused on protection of privacy (which includes protecting your ip when you're pirating).
They're also big supporters of The Pirate Bay. IIRC The Pirate Party of Sweden (the first pirate party) was largely formed to fight encroaching American copyright interests that were threatening to destroy TPB at the time.