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Knife-TotingRat 13 points ago +13 / -0

The city I was born in is ... or was ... known for having more Italian immigrants than NY fucking C. Rome even gifted it a very nice fountain for its riverfront because of this, in the 1990s (though they started to come in droves in the early 20th century - my grandfather's first job before going to Chrysler was working with Italian masons to install the marble flooring in the downtown post office.) The old architecture all over the city has their fingerprints all over it.

When this song came out, it was #1 for weeks. The Detroit DJs even got kind of exasperated over how many Windsor Italians were calling in and requesting it, and said so on air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs

And yeah, Mafia. Lots of 'em. It's the weirdest thing to stumble into one of their fronts.

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Knife-TotingRat 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yeah, but Mata Hari's whole schtick would probably now be seen as "sexist" by those who didn't realize she's not a fictional character made up by Stan Lee or something.

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Knife-TotingRat 2 points ago +3 / -1

It isn't so much that women are "most fertile" in their 20s. It's that between 20 and 30 is the time least likely to wind up in either miscarriage (on the young end) and mental retards (on the old end).

Frankly, I think the preponderance of retards has at least something to do with too many couples waiting until they're in their 30s.

And yes, there's evidence to suggest that the older a man gets, the more likely it is that his sperm is going to result in a retard, too (copying errors get more common as you age).

But of course, the retard-lovers of the world don't want to talk about that angle, because they don't see a problem with retards (even though they're usually the same people most offended at the idea of being related to other apes.)

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Knife-TotingRat 13 points ago +14 / -1

Yes, well, in South Korea dogs need to bite or they get bitten. They'll be affected for generations to come, especially since not everyone seems to have agreed with the dogmeat ban.

Planet of the Apes would be an improvement over the current Planet of Demon-Apes that it is.

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Knife-TotingRat 5 points ago +5 / -0

No Man's Sky is my go-to fuckaround game. It came a long way from its launch debacle (though it was still amazingly chill and interesting for at least so many hours even then), with a little more structure, and they just introduced ship building. As it is, they've introduced several different quest lines, and some new mechanics. The rest of the posts seem a little out of date.

Wish I had a VR set for it.

Keep in mind that it's not really a quest focused game, but there are a slew of random quests at both the space stations and the Anomaly once you've got the story/mechanics quests out of the way.

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Knife-TotingRat 10 points ago +11 / -1

"Teenager" was a marketing term invented by the music industry, yes.

But "child" is a biological term that oughtn't be confused with the legal term "minor".

They might be minors, but if their balls have dropped or they started to bleed, they're not goddamn "children".

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Knife-TotingRat 4 points ago +4 / -0

Just don't spell out certain "violent" words in full.

Never say die, it'll result in a wekk long ban.

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Knife-TotingRat 2 points ago +2 / -0

Remember that normal dancing is haram in Islam.

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Knife-TotingRat 2 points ago +2 / -0

I only remember dancing Muslims.

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Knife-TotingRat 2 points ago +2 / -0

He was a victim of the Ring, that's it. The Ring was just part of Sauron's larger evil, which victimized a lot of people.

And the murder of his cousin probably wasn't all the Ring's doing. The thing just finds whatever foothold in the soul that it can.

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Knife-TotingRat 2 points ago +2 / -0

:) Not a Wham! fan myself, but I did like Platinum Blonde's first two albums enough to use as regular driving music. Along with Ozzy, who I'd like to include as an honorable, but I only ever owned a couple of his albums; but I heard most of them because friends owned them.

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Knife-TotingRat 2 points ago +2 / -0

Rush and Big Country were always my prime targets at the used record stores, and Duran Duran. Never felt I went wrong with any of them, even if I didn't care much for BC's stuff past The Seer (they changed their sound a lot).

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Knife-TotingRat 5 points ago +5 / -0

It was always "inclusive", and didn't need legislation. And legislation isn't going to make more females interested in doing it. Just like every other time this was done.

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