OT: For all the genocidal dictators...

Puke · #1 July 17th, 2002, 01:53 AM

does that mean its 10 times more gay, or 1/10th as gay as soaps?

and do you mean "days of our lives" gay, or "90210" gay? or liberachi gay? or perhaps you meant "soap dropped in the prison showers" gay.

whichever it is, im entertained, and i have exclusively been entertained by straight porn before. unless you count lesbian porn, but im not sure this is as good as that.

oops, i was supposed to have left this topic alone. darn.

Ragnarok · #2 July 17th, 2002, 03:16 AM

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Originally posted by Puke:
does that mean its 10 times more gay, or 1/10th as gay as soaps?

and do you mean "days of our lives" gay, or "90210" gay? or liberachi gay? or perhaps you meant "soap dropped in the prison showers" gay.

whichever it is, im entertained, and i have exclusively been entertained by straight porn before. unless you count lesbian porn, but im not sure this is as good as that.

oops, i was supposed to have left this topic alone. darn.

ROFLOL That was great man. Loved it. But gay as in flaming gay, as in a gay guy going "Oh thank god for spandex!" That gay. Gay enough?

DirectorTsaarx · #3 July 17th, 2002, 08:18 PM

The website in question reminded me of a site I found way back in '95, when the public web was still fairly new. It was a site dedicated to "Negative Population Growth", although it advocated far more peaceful measures (without any silly "how fast can you click a mouse button" crap). Anyway, there really is a problem with overpopulation on good ol' planet Earth, and environmentalists all over the world are trying to 1) convince people the problem exists, and b) convince people to SOLVE the problem (generally by birth control, etc. rather than genocide, of course).

I do support one thing stated on the webpage that started this whole debate: the vast majority of people on this planet are not smart. Not smart at all. How these people figure out how to have babies & raise them to an age where the reproductive cycle can keep on rolling is beyond me...

And I have to say, the stupid people seem to have more babies than the smart people; probably because the smart people get distracted and spend their time playing games like SE4 rather than having sex with their spouses...

(Like how I turned this topic back around to Space Empires?)

(Oh - and sorry for the reference to "Mad About You" and the main character's habit of forgetting whether he was "counting" reasons by number or by letter)

Phoenix-D · #4 July 17th, 2002, 10:50 PM

"the vast majority of people on this planet are not smart. Not smart at all. How these people figure out how to have babies & raise them to an age where the reproductive cycle can keep on rolling is beyond me..."

The vast majority of people on this planet live in conditions where they have multiple kids to increase the chance of SOMEONE living long enough to have kids of their own.

Phoenix-D

Baron Munchausen · #5 July 18th, 2002, 03:25 AM

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Originally posted by DirectorTsaarx:

I do support one thing stated on the webpage that started this whole debate: the vast majority of people on this planet are not smart. Not smart at all. How these people figure out how to have babies & raise them to an age where the reproductive cycle can keep on rolling is beyond me... And I have to say, the stupid people seem to have more babies than the smart people; probably because the smart people get distracted and spend their time playing games like SE4 rather than having sex with their spouses...

(Like how I turned this topic back around to Space Empires?)

This really depends on your definition of 'smart', doesn't it. People who have babies tend to leave someone behind to have more babies and so their family continues. People who play Space Empires or other computer games in lieu of a social life don't tend to leave any descendants. Who's 'smart' now?

[ July 18, 2002, 02:32: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

capnq · #6 July 18th, 2002, 04:59 AM

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Where do you get your incorrect ideas about the US? I guess the European press must protray America as some sort of facist police state.

The European press? Try the American entertainment and news media (not that there's that wide a difference between the latter two).

Re: intelligence and reproduction, has anyone else read the classic SF short story "The Marching Morons", by C.M. Kornbluth?

[ July 18, 2002, 04:01: Message edited by: capnq ]

Growltigga · #7 July 18th, 2002, 06:18 PM

Crikey. I do not know what has been discussed on this thread since I posted yesterday, but the symantec firewall software we have has denied me access to about 2 pages of Posts on the basis that they contain restricted material..

What is going on? did Geo simply ruin our fun debate by reverting to simple swearing? has someone got smutty? what is going on?

BTW, in response, the European press does not represent America (generally) as a fascist police state.. what it does do is generally challenge quite a lot of the preconceptions many people have (including many Americans) about their own country. You have to remeber that America is not always well liked in the world community (the government policies, not individual Americans).

Geo, my chums at Cravath Swaine & Moore are going to email me the American Bar Associations recent synopsis on Freedom of Speech. I will send it to you (I have your eddress at home)... you will find it interesting and I will take a can of any non-American beer as a suitable apology)