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Feuerschwanz - Der Henker (German Medieval Comedy Rock)

Saltatio Mortis - Nachts weinen die Soldaten(Medieval Metal)

Saltatio Mortis - Wo sind die Clowns? (Medieval Metal)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Paid Family Leave

ChaosEngine says...

Oh god, someone in the US please tell me that Hooters ad is real... 'cos that is just amazing. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

On topic, when I was 22, I was a young software developer and offered a job in the US. They pay was great and then they told me I'd get 2 WHOLE WEEKS vacation. At which point I hung up. I now have 5 in NZ (on top of public holidays).

The way employees are treated in the US is little short of medieval.
We get 14 weeks paid parental leave in NZ and most people think that's nowhere near enough.

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Magna Carta: Legacy

Magna Carta: Legacy

My First Figure Drawing Class

robbersdog49 says...

Many many moons ago when I was seventeen we started doing life drawing at my school. there were a few models they used but the most common two were a lady about thirty, nice looking, slightly plump but attractive and Alan. Alan was a thirtyish year old gay guy who was just very average looking. Physique wise he was 5' 10" or so, maybe just under 200lbs, slightly balding, wore glasses. Nothing offensive but as a seventeen year old lad I obviously started off preferring drawing boobies to schlong.

Thing is, I always drew better when drawing Alan because I just wasn't as distracted I suppose. He was a really nice guy and we got to know him pretty well over the year or so we did the class. I'd grown up doing a lot of sailing at a club with communal showers for the men so naked guys were no mystery to me. I wasn't offended by him and he certainly never did any poses like the guy in this video.

Fast forward ten years and I'm at a friend's house party. I know about half the people there and there's a lot of people from her work that I don't know. She worked at a medieval castle as a wench for their banquets and a lot of her actor colleagues were there. I kept catching the eye of this guy, forty years or so old, 5' 10" and just over 200lbs, pretty bald. You know when you get that feeling that you know someone? The face is familiar but you can't for the life of you remember where you've seen him before. Worse was the feeling that it was someone I knew quite well, not just someone I'd bumped into in the supermarket or something like that.

He looked puzzled by me too and we eventually got talking in the kitchen about where we knew each other from. We went through everything, from what we did for a job, where we'd worked, where we lived and drew blanks every time.

We went further and further back in time until he stopped, grinned and said 'you didn't go to Woodland's school did you?'

In that instant I knew exactly who he was, laughed and completely without thinking blurted 'Alan! I didn't recognise you with your clothes on!'

Of course it went quiet and I had to explain to my wife why I didn't recognise the gay guy with his clothes on (not helped by the fact that it was an all boys school). I still have paintings and drawings of him in my attic somewhere, which my wife was 'thrilled' to be shown!

Life drawing is great, and you don't need a 'fit' or attractive model. Anyone will do, in fact the more normal the better I think. It helps you look at what's there rather than any sort of ideal you might have in your head.

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Jon Stewart Goes After Fox in Ferguson Monologue

lantern53 says...

I got to give you credit for not calling me a 'fuckface'.

but you know what they say...when you 'assume' you make an ass out of u and me.

My brother is quite well read, everything from medieval war tactics to the rules of cricket.

He used to live in a predominately black area of town. When they parked their cars below his window with music thumping to rattle the spleen, he would scream at them to knock it off...they responded to that! You have to talk to people in a way they can understand.

Like the lady at Fox said...a terrorist doesn't understand anything but a bullet to the head.

Is there an Afterlife - Hitchens & Harris - Full

A10anis says...

If ever there was a time when we needed the great "Hitch" it is surely now!
A time when crazed barbarians are trying to drag us back from enlightenment into medieval, theocratic subservience. He would be telling all who would listen that we ignore this clear and present danger at our peril, and that trying to placate with logical discourse those whose intent is clear, will end in our downfall.

D&D is wrong. Different sword types explained.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Prison (HBO)

Januari says...

When your country starts incarcerating its citizens at an enormous rate, unprecedented in the world, dwarfing that of a country like China, yeah i can't imagine where those comparisons would come from.

I want a number... You feel so strongly about this give me a god damn number... how many innocent people should be executed to sate your desire for rapid executions?... How many each yer?... 5? 10? 20?... Of course we'll never really know will we.

Maybe you should actually watch the video... or i don't know spend 10 minutes on google... If your concerned about prisoners getting free health care or *gasp* free food!!!! Well your in fucking luck!... because increasingly they aren't getting any of either... Shelter???? don't count on it...

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/jacquielynn-floyd/20140424-the-crime-of-un-airconditioned-texas-prisons.ece

WTF am i wasting my time discussing this with a guy advocating a police state and as far as i can tell medieval era punishments...

Do you actually work for Geo Group?... be honest you do don't ya.

Jerykk said:

What's really terrifying is how often people make silly Nazi analogies on the internet.

Our prison system is broken but not because of how it treats prisoners. It's broken because it's not acting as an effective deterrent. The whole point of prison (or any other punishment) is to deter people from committing crimes. Our current prison system isn't accomplishing that.

If we replaced prison with immediate execution (no more sitting on death row for years), crime rates would probably go down. If we increased surveillance and enforcement, crime rates would probably go down. If we made prison nicer and tried to rehabilitate instead of punish criminals, would crime rates go down? Good question. If I knew that prison would be a safe and comfortable experience, I'd definitely be more inclined to break the law. If my current living conditions were bad enough, I might even be inclined to break the law just to gain the benefits of such a prison. Free food, free shelter, free healthcare. Not a bad deal if you don't have to worry about being beaten, raped or killed. I'd love to see what would happen if all the prisons in the U.S. were as posh as the Halden Prison in Norway.

AIDS is cured! - by serving AIDS in an Egyptian army kebab

A10anis says...

Scarey stuff. These people are the true enemy of humanity. They are desperate for their once held god fearing control over the populace. A control that focuses on the utter ignorance of their subjects. Education, education, and education, are the only tools necessary to thwart their medieval objectives.

Harrowing Footage of LGBT Beaten and Humiliated in Russia

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