Back to the 50s we go. Assassination attempt, wow... In Canada of all places. Western world really is going to shits.

What next, Norway in debt? Riots in Denmark?

Yeah it sucks how much this rings true. If I had to choose I think I would still choose the narcissistic USA to the totalitarian viewpoint of North Korea. If only there was a happy medium somewhere? (Denmark or Sweden perhaps)

I think this has a lot to do with zeitgeist as well. The market for degrading porn is there, so it gets produced. There are different ways to quell it, like outlawing, or affecting the market in some way. Essentially, we would want to make people want the "good stuff" and not want the "bad stuff", but this is a problem with all sorts of things.

Some places, like denmark, have a "fat tax", to make people eat more healthy. You can also subsidize healthy food/porn from a government perspective. Alternatively, you need someone high in the industry that says "fuck this, we're only making good things now" like a steve jobs of porn. Heh.

When peoples' tastes change, the market changes with it. It's a shame that we're being driven towards wilder and wilder stuff, but I'm not sure what it takes to push back.
>> ^spoco2:

@gwiz665
I agree that the 'control group' isn't really one, as it is, as you said, severely skewed, it's just the best he had to work with.
I haven't looked at the studies at all, but you would think they could do ones that looked at frequency of porn use vs affects. They said they couldn't find anyone who didn't use it, but there sure as hell will be big differences between the amount people do.
And surely they could have a trial where they prescribe the amount of porn watched, and types for a period of time.
All of these things can be done even without a 'clean' control group.
So yeah, it seems like there isn't 'good' data on this.
But I certainly dislike the way that porn is so mainstream, and so anti female now. If you look hard enough you can find pockets of porn where everyone in it is respected and you see her feelings and arousal being addressed as well as his, but it's rare. There's far more 'Bangbus' and 'drunk coeds' shit.
I'd love to know a way to swing porn back to the respectful side of the spectrum, so that when people did just random porn searches, more often than not they saw real looking people having loving sex.... but I have no idea how that could ever be done.

>> ^Fusionaut:

What country is the best? Somewhere in Scandinavia I'd wager...


My bet right now would be Denmark.
But, with their education system I think Finland will be next.

>> ^brycewi19:

And what exactly is the point of running a promotion like this?


Really? You don't see how having the opening of your store become a viral video is NOT a good thing for publicity and people knowing that the store exists? People in the areas that this place services are going to be sent the video with comments like 'check out what's near you!' and 'Did you go? I think you did... '

Nudity + free stuff = easy (and cheap) promotion.

A "border shop" is a store located close to a national border. Such shops are targeted mostly at people living on the opposite side of the border from the shop, which mostly offers products that are taxed higher and/or are illegal on the customers' side of the border. You might see this with fireworks stores across state borders in the US. For Denmark/Germany, it's all about taxes on alcohol, which is why this "supermarket" is 90% alcohol isle. Nobody goes there to buy groceries beyond maybe a couple of hot dogs to help wash down their 10 crates of Tuborg. You can see that even the flat-bottom shopping carts are designed to be piled high with beer crates, not to hold on to baby food and cleaning products. >> ^dag:

What's a bordershop?

Because it was a free groceries give-away, you mean? >> ^Stingray:

At least they didn't have to worry if they were shoplifting.

Your video, Naked people at supermarket in Denmark, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Are people really hard up for groceries in Denmark?

They don't have those here In reply to this comment by Fletch:
I'd fill my cart with Reeses.

Cart full of liquor. Smart play. >> ^lurgee:

upvote for bewbs~n~booze @1:18

>> ^Edgeman2112:

aw here we f-cking go.
I like how the narrator implies he died March 1st.


d. March 1, 2012 (aged 43) according to *wiki
*(world inserts kine information)

So when did he die, or does he still live because no one has seen the long form?

What I don't understand (actually, I do) is why people who, having been raised on media owned and controlled who are now suddenly enlightened now that so-called "alternative" news is all available on the internet, don't immediately smell shit from the Denmark rot surrounding them.

>> ^gwiz665:

The nice Christians generally don't argue. :]
Too many political debates are faith based, with no foundation in reality - us against them mentality, where I'm on this side because I'm against that other guy.
When I was younger, I always thought that voting with your brain (for the one that's most likely to win that's better than the other guy that I don't like) was the best, but in my ripe old age of 28, I'm voting more and more by heart. Be damned if they will actually get into government, at least I'll send a message. Here in denmark, whether it's the left or right getting into power is largely the same. By american standards they're all socialists. heh. Even the ones called "ultra-liberalists" (who I vote for) are FAR more socialistic than any american party, and they want to bring in the low low tax of 40 %.
>> ^NetRunner:
I honestly think Christians as a group aren't as prone to it as Republicans.
I've met plenty of Christians who admit upfront that their faith doesn't have logical/evidentiary support, understand that arguments from faith should not be expected to carry weight in secular environments, and accept the legitimacy of secular institutions in society (e.g. government, public schools, research, etc.).
I don't think most avid conservatives are even aware that they're engaging in faith-based reasoning, nor do they understand that arguments from faith deserve to be dismissed by others, nor do they accept the legitimacy of secular (i.e. not explicitly conservative) institutions.
Maybe it's just an American cultural thing though. Here there's a pretty high overlap between Christians who make fallacious arguments about God, and people who've adopted conservative political views.
>> ^gwiz665:
@NetRunner or Christians.




baby jesus told me to tell you that youre both dirty dirty sinners and youre doomed to hell



god bless!

The nice Christians generally don't argue. :]

Too many political debates are faith based, with no foundation in reality - us against them mentality, where I'm on this side because I'm against that other guy.

When I was younger, I always thought that voting with your brain (for the one that's most likely to win that's better than the other guy that I don't like) was the best, but in my ripe old age of 28, I'm voting more and more by heart. Be damned if they will actually get into government, at least I'll send a message. Here in denmark, whether it's the left or right getting into power is largely the same. By american standards they're all socialists. heh. Even the ones called "ultra-liberalists" (who I vote for) are FAR more socialistic than any american party, and they want to bring in the low low tax of 40 %.

>> ^NetRunner:

I honestly think Christians as a group aren't as prone to it as Republicans.
I've met plenty of Christians who admit upfront that their faith doesn't have logical/evidentiary support, understand that arguments from faith should not be expected to carry weight in secular environments, and accept the legitimacy of secular institutions in society (e.g. government, public schools, research, etc.).
I don't think most avid conservatives are even aware that they're engaging in faith-based reasoning, nor do they understand that arguments from faith deserve to be dismissed by others, nor do they accept the legitimacy of secular (i.e. not explicitly conservative) institutions.
Maybe it's just an American cultural thing though. Here there's a pretty high overlap between Christians who make fallacious arguments about God, and people who've adopted conservative political views.
>> ^gwiz665:
@NetRunner or Christians.

Aarhus, Denmark.