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Count Chocula wrote:So the speculation now is that the Miami cannibal couldn't get his regular drugz and was smoking "bath salts."

WTF Bath Salts? Who, who, WHO had the time and motivation to put bath salts into a crack pipe and smoke it? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

bath salts is the street name for some new drugs apparently

not actual bath salts

Well that's a relief, I guess. I'm going to drizzle some Drano on my cigarette and see what happens.

evilsoup wrote: That article is surprising, though, since the impression I get about the monarchy from most people is indifference rather than support.

honestly the only real feeling i have towards the royals is irritation that the queens speech this year involved telling the british people to be frugal and tighten belts while wearing a giant hat of gold and diamons

it's like, the fuck would you know about that?

and there was that time last year when the minister of education suggested 40 million pounds of public money be spent on buying the queen a new yacht, at a time when libraries were closing due to lack of funds

but even david cameron immediately saw that was a terrible idea and released an official statement saying "god no that's a dumb idea"

but whatever

i mean at least shit like the jubilee or royal weddings get extra national holidays

so i guess they're not totally useless

so boatman literally said blacks don't score as well on iq tests as whites because of their genetic makeup and it has nothing to do with their socioeconomic status

Losonti Tokash wrote:where does some context-less "badass" quote from dw fit into that spectrum

I quote him, but without acknowledging him, and I'm using it to highlight the very nature of the board (ie, extreme, stupid pedantry).

How's that fit on the scale?

Losonti Tokash wrote:so boatman literally said blacks don't score as well on iq tests as whites because of their genetic makeup and it has nothing to do with their socioeconomic status

Dude, he fucking out and out said he misses when Britain was colonizing Africa.

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 0#p3680313

Have you guys alerted a mod?

Pezook was reading the thread for the one I just linked to, and Dalton and Thanas are keeping a close eye on him already, so I don't see much reason to point out that specific instance.

Especially since Thanas will probably read this anyway.

Lol, hi Thanas!

Manus Dei wrote:honestly the only real feeling i have towards the royals is irritation that the queens speech this year involved telling the british people to be frugal and tighten belts while wearing a giant hat of gold and diamons

it's like, the fuck would you know about that?

and there was that time last year when the minister of education suggested 40 million pounds of public money be spent on buying the queen a new yacht, at a time when libraries were closing due to lack of funds

but even david cameron immediately saw that was a terrible idea and released an official statement saying "god no that's a dumb idea"

but whatever

That's one of the complaints I've heard about them, and probably about the only one I'd care about. They cost the government money to keep in their "royal lifestyle" or whatever and do...something?

Manus Dei wrote:i mean at least shit like the jubilee or royal weddings get extra national holidays

so i guess they're not totally useless

That and be Britain's tabloid fodder.

Yeah, I know some of the royal family does some charity work and all that so I guess it's kinda like, I dunno, having an entire family of First Ladies from the US perspective. That's probably useful.

How much government money do they get, though? Honest question. Like their royal residences and stuff. How much would, say, limiting them to Buckingham Palace save, for instance?

well thanas is already posting his uselessly broad definition of what he thinks freedom is so one would hope he or dalton will stumble across it

As far as I know, the British crown is mostly used as a tourist attraction, so you would have to put into context how much they cost the government, with how much they give back directly (through taxes and shit) and how much tourists spend over things directly related to the crown.

As far as I know they give back directly to the government more than they perceive. I could be wrong, though.

That's pretty funny because all politicians ever who call for less waste are rich

So uh

??

anecdote #1: knew a guy in high school who smoked his own pubes

anecdote #2: one of my mates had to give Prince Charles a tour of his school...talked about windfarms for 40 minutes.

Did he cut them off first

starku wrote:That's pretty funny because all politicians ever who call for less waste are rich

So uh

??

False issue.

All Politicians who ever called for more waste are also rich.

ALL politicians are rich.

CONCESSION ACCEPTED!

shit los i got your pm just after i went to bed - sorry dude

let me know if you still want me to arrange things

well i'm home now so no worries but i suppose do it around the time you go to bed and that'd be great

what is afoot

the game

look

i was told the other day by sdn people that i'm a bad person because i prefer 'rigidly defined goals' in a game

so do not start with me

starku wrote:look

i was told the other day by sdn people that i'm a bad person because i prefer 'rigidly defined goals' in a game

so do not start with me

why do you hate minecraft

starku wrote:look

i was told the other day by sdn people that i'm a bad person because i prefer 'rigidly defined goals' in a game

so do not start with me

is that your phrasing or theirs

it was followed up with

name an online game that works better than day z

so yknow

oh yeah i saw that

man