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  • Cracker: Summer in the City,

    Syncopated wadding?

    It's the dampener that did it, I tells ya!

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Cracker: Summer in the City,

    Bit obvious I guess. Well, more than a bit, but hey, it's Friday...

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Press, Privacy and The Paps,

    It should be possible to engage with what someone says without claiming to be made "physically ill".

    You have checked the Still Crazy thread recently haven't you? Sometimes it clearly isn't possible to engage without gagging.

    Speaking of which, a gagging order may be required.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Somebody Had To Say This....,

    Oh, and the 'A4' thing? WTF?

    Isn't that an iPad?

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Somebody Had To Say This....,

    You should definitely judge them (loudly and often) on their white socks, though. Otherwise they'll never learn.

    Funny, that takes me back to travels in former communist Europe, where earnest young men in white socks approached you saying 'change money maybe?' Guess it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for that to be happening in the USA these days. Or perhaps they'd be Canadian Mounties in Chaps.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Speaker: The Fabians: There is an alternative,

    Hmm. System froze and posted it twice. Anyone with super human powers watching? Apart from Einstein's ghost.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Speaker: The Fabians: There is an alternative,

    LOL. Who would you pick in Einstein vs Gandhi though?

    Ah, so I'll post that video for Alien after all.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Speaker: The Fabians: There is an alternative,

    [Redacted].

    Ben made flippancy inappropriate. It is a skill he seems to have perfected. Were I wearing a hat, I would be taking it off right about now. This is the debate. Not some headline seeking ignorance as witnessed elsewhere.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Speaker: The Fabians: There is an alternative,

    Time article from 1999 on Eugenics.

    Eugenics never recovered from the news of what had been carried out under its banner in Hitler's Germany. In truth, a number of people--including G.K. Chesterton, H.L. Mencken, Walter Lippmann and Clarence Darrow--had ridiculed and debunked eugenic theories well before the horrors of the Holocaust occurred and became widely known.

    Is this what DG and Lhaws want to be associated with? There do seem to be a number of old school Fabians who were in the Eugenics movement also. G B Shaw, H G Wells etc. Would be interesting to hear the current Fabian views on this.

    And that someone sat down and drew this picture makes me embarrassed to be part of the same species. Calling all Aliens, any chance of an interplanetary abduction?

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Speaker: The Fabians: There is an alternative,

    having natural advantage can make a lot of people lazy and weak.

    Yeah, comprehensive social reform is just so messy, and expensive. Best way to solve that problem is make 'them' cease to exist. Easy! Yeah, easy.

    Anyone who writes sentences starting with 'these people' while discussing eugenics should include an irony tag.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

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