>> ^bananafone:

>> ^CheshireSmile:
chivalry is dead, and feminism is the box they're gonna bury it in

A. Chivalry never existed. It's a myth invented by the Victorians.
B. You really think women being second class citizens will make men treat women better?
C. I hate it when feminism is blamed for all societal woes. Feminism is awesome and has brought about a better world for me and for my children to live in.


what i was actually saying was that it seems more and more often, whenever a guy tries to be polite for a girl, she mistakes it for him acting like she's below him (not dissimilar to the misunderstanding you just made), and talks about how she doesn't need him and whatnot. feminism is fine. really. i'm all for equal rights and wages and whatnot. just often i see the facts skewed by feminazis to look worse off than they are. with that in mind it seems like these days feminism isn't fueled so much from a thirst for equality as much as from, say it with me, misandry.

of course, everyone has their reasons.

>> ^CheshireSmile:

chivalry is dead, and feminism is the box they're gonna bury it in


A. Chivalry never existed. It's a myth invented by the Victorians.

B. You really think women being second class citizens will make men treat women better?

C. I hate it when feminism is blamed for all societal woes. Feminism is awesome and has brought about a better world for me and for my children to live in.

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Upvoted. I get it- and I think there's some truth to this. I've seen a few Goth's who have broken out the Victorian brown waistcoats and monocles.

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I, for one, am impressed and grateful that the dregs of Victorian society could somehow slay the deadly koala and usurp the mighty kangaroo long enough to stay drunk and procreate all at the same time!

New Mexico needs more Aussies!

At 0:31
wait, what was Edwin A. Abbott's job again...?

Gregor Mendel: a pea farmer who lived in Victorian Austria.

At 0:31
wait, what was Edwin A. Abbott's job again...?

Gregor Mendel: a pea farmer who lived in Victorian Austria.

I'm thinking that the utterly non-Victorian nature of this discussion regarding the smell of cum on the linden tree renders this video somewhat *nsfw

so much awesome is contained in this video.

little tich on wiki here.

more info here.

>> ^joedirt:
750 HOMES??!!! 750!! Is that it? Biggest disaster?? WTF.
One California fire is more damage. One Mississippi levy breach. One Hurricane. New Orleans was like 750 homes undamaged.


How many dead though?

California, biggest fire: more houses... 9 dead.

Our current tally, over 180 dead

Seriously, the majority of you need to get over yourselves in this thread. Jesus, kids have tantrums, they explode, they become momentarily demonic and they make you hate them a lot of the time. That hardly means they are lacking discipline.

Consistency is always the key with kids no matter which way you spin it. Consistently remaining calm in the face of a willful child will work out in the end, even if it does take years. You don't bring kids up to try and make them into perfect kids (idealistic and pure luck), you are bringing them up to be balanced adults, and that is always going to be a challenge and never as clear cut as just "belt them and shut them up". I'm suprised that so many of you have this Victorian mentality in this day and age

>> ^chtierna:
So... one abnormal question that always pops up in my head when I see super religious people is how they have sex. Do they get it on real good and hard or is it like they are ashamed to even touch each other? I cant even see them saying anything dirty...


You have all sorts...some will go at it and do just about anything you'd expect from a monogamous, sexually active couple (with the possible exception of talking dirty), and some are downright Victorian, only having sex to make babies (generally under the sheets and in the dark) and completely oblivious to the concept of female orgasm. If they'd take a look at the Bible itself, it tends to support being wild and crazy, so long as it stays monogamous, but don't try telling them that

Holy Moly. That was just pure awesomeness.

And nice audio and text commentary with the video too.

We had rain that was heavy for us in Melbourne, and thought that was pretty heavy, but NOTHING at ALL like that! That was insane.

Even here in Melbourne I was wishing we'd been able to afford to put in a rainwater tank, as our rain would have filled it. Also, we had snow in the Victorian high country.

And this is days away from Summer here in Australia! Madness... but brilliant madness brought on by good ol' Mother Nature

I could go for some light peer bonding activity. Going to post before I read.

Favourites

1) Season - Autumn.
2) Place in the world - My home. I don't really see the point of anywhere else.
3) Children's book - I'm going to count the whole silver age X-Men as one book and make that my answer.
4) TV Series - The Crystal Maze
5) Word - Appendices.
6) Film - The Fifth Element
7) Curse - Making something up on the spot is always the most satisfying.
Creature - Man.
9) Past time - Past time or pastime? The Victorian era, when people knew how to dress / playing board games.
10)Person - Myself. Everyone should be just like me.

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Cat, if they didn't have those brain parasites.
12) Sweet or savoury - Savoury unless I run out of sweet. Everything, and as much as possible.
13) Cereal or Toast - Toast.
14) Tan or pale - Pale.
15) Shoes or barefoot - Barefoot.
16) Desktop or laptop - Desktop.
17) Drive or walk - I'd rather have whatever it is I'm driving or walking to delivered.
18) Drama or comedy - Comedy.
19) Sex or food - Food. I made that choice a long time ago.
20) Futurama or Simpsons - Simpsons.

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - ...didn't get any votes.
22) A great comment on one of your vids - * promote
23) Most off the wall member - Obviously choggie.
24) Favourite user name - I would have to check every name to answer this question.
25) Your most used channel - eia
26) Personal dumbass moment - I've never made a mistake in my life.
27) Best avatar - dotdude's examples of his own artwork, and anything from that star wars thread.
28) Partner in crime - Don't have one.
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - To some extent.
30) Idea for the site - Bring back the new member queue.

About you

31) Where do you live - SE Britain.
32) Smoker/non-smoker - Occasional cigar/pipe smoker.
33) Left or right handed - Right.
34) Hair colour - Brown.
35) Relationship status - Leper.
36) How tall - Don't know, 6' 4"-ish.
37) Children - are too expensive.
38) Ever had an operation - Nope.
39) Best feature - Glorious human mind.
40) Use four words to describe yourself - Better person than you.

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Tolkien. I'd like to see what he made of those films.
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - Amnesty International.
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Sarah Palin.
44) Relive a moment in your life - Any time when I was hitting somebody.
45) Have a superpower - Wolverine's healing factor, in continuities where it makes him immortal.
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - The future of the human race.
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - Scarcity of awesome sex toys.
48) Be president for one hour - Have the last president executed.
49) Delete a period in history - Anything people are proud of today without having actually participated in the accomplishment.
50) Achieve one thing - Bomb something.

The spewing forth of ten thousand words per minute, speaking like a Victorian and going off on the most random of tangeants made me think he'd never break America. I dunno if i'm glad he has or not.