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Place values after the decimal point are named by their ordinal number names -- or alternatively, by adding "th" to the end of a cardinal number name: tenth, hundredth, etc. If so, why is there no oneth (or first) place? The ones are the on…
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The socialist oxygen redistribution schemes of the overbearing nanny state need to end! People should have to pay for the oxygen they consume again! Fiscal responsibility! Free entrepreneurship!
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That's dangerous. Bulls could start to charge the flag.
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Capital idea, this thread! I'm Lenin towards agreeing with your position.
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Well, actually, I thought Lois was WAY more attractive than those two. I mean, she had a ponytail and a suit of armor! At the very least, those two girls didn't have their hair in ponytails. While I do agree with your aesthetics there, pleas…
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So I take it from your statement he is South African? Eh... might be taken as arrogant, but I still stand by what I say, unless I hear good arguments to the contrary.
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Of course Mandela made some mistakes. Who doesn't? But if the worst you can bring up against him are some personnel decisions, then uh, yes, I think that speaks well of Mandela. Now, de Klerk - he was necessary. But he still was part of the very s…
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Sorta-kinda. Though this forum seems to have caught a bad case of deadness.
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I can't see any grave bad sides to Mandela. People like Gandhi or MLK, yeah, they have their dark sides glossed over, but Mandela pretty much just did what was necessary. And de Clerk opened the way to the end of Apartheid, but in the end he *was* …
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Was mostly thinking from a genetic standpoint, since ethnicity never made sense to me all that much. Like "okay, these people may have the same ancestors as I do, but I don't find them all that relatable". Yeah but that kinda was my point, too…
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Maybe "Celtic" and "Teutonic" would work better. Or not. Ethnicity kind of confuses me when in a socio-political context. "Teutonic"? Absolutely not! And Celtic, well, most Irish aren't actually Celtic anymore (i.e., don't actually speak a Ce…
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Well, "ethnic conflict" is what one calls those things. "National conflict" (as in conflict of nationalities as defined by national identities) would be a better term, anyway. Though I don't know why one couldn't name British as an ethnicity. Since …
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I thought the PIRA split off over the question of parliamentary abstentionism/recognizing the Republic of Ireland? In any case, my point is that "Catholics" is a misnomer. The conflict is an ethnic one, not a religious one. What's called "Catholics"…
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^^^Eh, you weren't actually wrong, it's just that somehow, as soon as a certain ethnicity is Muslim, large parts of the public try to make a religious issue out of it (so it's not just you, either). Though I guess that's not just the case with Musl…
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Let's not make a religious issue out of this. It's a national issue: The majority population of Sinkiang is Uyghur, a Turkestanic people related to the Uzbeks. Hence also Uyghuristan or Sinkiang Uighur as names for the region. While, yes, they're Mu…
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Hey, Milos, April 1st is over
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All I'm really getting out of this thread is that y'all still read TVTropes for some reason. Nah, I'm just going off memory, how Fighteer cited Krugman in every second post in the European Debt Crisis thread (and goddamn was he annoying in tha…
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It wouldn't be so bad if those people didn't forget to think for themselves instead of Krugman-quoting. And by "those people" I mean Fighteer of course. And really, he's like two thirds of the Krugman worship over there anyway, isn't he?
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^^I think you missed JHM's point. He explicitly talks about civic patriotism, not nationalism - the attitude/desire to see one's community improved. Which, it's true, can only be done if you're aware of your community's shortcomings. "My country rig…
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Well at least they have free delivery.
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They don't get the First Amendment wrong, they say that federal courts have no rights to judge about them. Of course, any proper state court should strike such a law down, too, on constitutional grounds. But still, it goes to show what kinda people …
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The Space Wolves are Tau?
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In how they get away with blatantly ignoring the Codex and telling the Inquisition to fuck off, maybe. But in general... eh, they can't even manage to get a single successor chapter going!
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^^I think it's a case of the inmates running the asylum. Matt Ward has always played Ultramarines, and when he became GW's codex writers that fact now shows.
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Come at me, bro!
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^^^But that doesn't mean he needs to go on about that in such length and repeat his points over and over again without being provoked to. That's just getting... awkward. You know how we discussed cringe comedies? Yeah, like that
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They're magical oranges. You should bury them.
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Well, okay, the Easter Day is Sunday, but Easter Monday is a holiday here and hence a thing.
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Considering how they just hang in the sky and even form patterns and signs there I think it's safe to say they're magical.