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Posted April 14, 2015
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budejovice: Meanwhile, humans keep living longer and longer and longer.
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drealmer7: I wouldn't call what most people do "living." I call it "being a cog in the system and not knowing what it is to actually be ALIVE." We're also shortening the lives of most species on the planet and hurting the planet as a whole by the way we live. We're a cancer to the planet, just because the cancer has gotten more advanced, does not mean it is "better."
Humans suck. I get that.

But I think rearranging your entire life because of fluoridated water or Fukushima fallout (when you live in Pennsylvania) is living in fear. And that's not living.
Posted April 14, 2015
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budejovice: But I think rearranging your entire life because of fluoridated water or Fukushima fallout (when you live in Pennsylvania) is living in fear. And that's not living.
Neither is living in denial "living."
Posted April 14, 2015
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budejovice: But I think rearranging your entire life because of fluoridated water or Fukushima fallout (when you live in Pennsylvania) is living in fear. And that's not living.
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OldFatGuy: Neither is living in denial "living."
Denial.
Posted April 14, 2015
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Hardrada: First, one must consider that the description "united states of America" can apply to any one of half a dozen countries from Canada to Argentina, not to mention regional bodies. Therefore we must begin by clarifying which union of states we are talking about. I believe the term "Union of States Upon Central North America" is much clearer about which country we are referring to, and this can be turned into an easily pronounced acronym - U.S.U.C.N.A. - which can then be adapted to identify the citizens. Therefore the inhabitants of the United States should be called "Usucnans".
Well played, sir. +1
Posted April 14, 2015
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budejovice: But I think rearranging your entire life because of fluoridated water or Fukushima fallout (when you live in Pennsylvania) is living in fear. And that's not living.
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OldFatGuy: Neither is living in denial "living."
Ah, but I'm just denying those that deny science.
Posted April 14, 2015
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tinyE: And of course, the nearest town only having 80 people helps keep the pollution down.
You call 80 people "town", in China they call 200,000 people "village". The world is full of relativity...
Posted April 14, 2015
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tinyE: And of course, the nearest town only having 80 people helps keep the pollution down.
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toxicTom: You call 80 people "town", in China they call 200,000 people "village". The world is full of relativity...
Well it gets to about 1500 in the summer; twice that on 4th of July weekend.
Posted April 14, 2015
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tinyE: Well it gets to about 1500 in the summer; twice that on 4th of July weekend.
1500 is about the size of the village were I grew up. In Germany the difference between town and villages is most of the time rooted in history. If a place was important enough, it got "town rights", meaning city council and aldermen, own guards and taxes...
If course towns tend to be of larger population than villages, but there a quite a few villages with more than 10,000 inhabitants and some towns with only a few hundred.
Posted April 14, 2015
"The people that go by the name of some jackass and/or Italian named Vespucci."
Posted April 14, 2015
I think it's completely fine to call citizens of the U.S.A. "Americans'' because our country is officially called "The United States of America", and as far as I'm aware we're the only country with "America" in its name. Anybody who isn't okay with that is just splitting hairs in my opinion.
Posted April 14, 2015
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Messi_is_Messiah: just splitting hairs in my opinion
What happens if a Merkin splits hairs? Do you end up with a Brazilian?
Posted April 15, 2015
Don't ever tell this to ANY greek whatsoever ever, but, if it's ok to call "americans" the inhabitants of the USA, and if it doesn't prevent people to ALSO know that, in parallel, "america" also means something different and more global, then one COULD wonder what's the big deal about the fyrom/macedonia name dispute.

But i'm afraid the mere presence of this post here endangers the life of every user of these forums and gog services. Sorry about that, guys.
Posted April 15, 2015
Squidward.
Posted April 15, 2015
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tinyE: And as a cancer survivor I object to the analogy. My cancer wasn't anything like the humans I know, though it was always telling me to buy Sacrifice, but that might have just been a side effect from the Lorazepam.
I KNEW there was something odd about Licurg! So, he was just an excised tumor all along...

...But wait -- how did it get to Romania?
Posted April 15, 2015
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tinyE: And as a cancer survivor I object to the analogy. My cancer wasn't anything like the humans I know, though it was always telling me to buy Sacrifice, but that might have just been a side effect from the Lorazepam.
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HunchBluntley: I KNEW there was something odd about Licurg! So, he was just an excised tumor all along...

...But wait -- how did it get to Romania?
Commission on sales of a certain game.
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