I wanted to hate this movie, but when I eventually saw it I couldn't stop laughing

"What do you think Mr Token Balanced Perspective...OH NOES, we are out of time"

The major religions of today didn't get to their major status by sitting on their hands and letting people believe what they wanted to. I certainly wouldn't encourage a crusade to kill the believers, or even atheist missionaries, but if you want the world to be a more rational place then you can't shy away from debate.

Calling the guy arrogant would seem to be attacking the speaker, and not the argument...

You could also argue that the use of the 30mm saved the guys behind the camera from having to clean the place out, possible saving lives...

...but I suppose that doesn't really defend its position on sift.

Ugh, I'd have Morgan Freeman's silky chocolate coated voice over these talking heads any day.

Is this *British ?

Maher. What a smarmy man. His voice sounds like an oil slick. I still love him though.

I went to a very religious wedding recently and I felt entirely outnumbered by The God Squad. This video made me feel better.

To me the amazing thing isn't really how realistic it looks, but how there is still definitely something uncanny about it. Its truly weird and fascinating to be able to notice every single minuscule discrepancy in the cg so effortlessly.

It reminds of a video about neurological phenomena, specifically a disorder in which the ability to recognise faces is impaired. Sufferers are incapable of recognising their own mother, but more than that they are often repulsed and distrustful of them because the brain thinks the face it sees is an imposter. (I think sufferers can still recognise faces, but the link pairing facial recognition to memory is damaged, so they see a familiar face, but don't recognise it as their mother.)

Anyway, I suppose our ability to recognise an imposter isn't as bizarre as our repulsion to the imposter. Why have we evolved to be quite so wary of things trying to be human?

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Pretty phenomenal. Swimming normally bores me, but the finals I have seen have been so close. The womens 400 (forget discipline) was another race where the leader had a metre or so distance between coming into the last 10m, and then just fell into silver. Also, that is an insane amount of time to be ahead of the world record. I wonder, are they going to train in the old suits and then put on the hydrophobic ones for competitions?

All the national pride does make me kinda uncomfortable Bad vibes I guess, but then this IS the Olympics. I just cheer for whoever is in first place.

"GOOOOO FRANCE......GO AMERICA YEAHHHHHHH!"

I worship Higg's Boson.

>> ^BillOreilly:
Unfunny, untruthfull, uncalledfor, downvote


Shut up Bill.

That was pretty special. I have to go and find out how lightning works now.

ok. Wiki says the leader takes 100s of milliseconds to reach the ground before the discharge. It also says the successive "strokes" are 40-50 milliseconds apart. I'm guesstimating that the video shows lightning slowed by about 50 times.

I remember the outcry not so long ago when Fox planned to make an American version of Spaced, similar to The Office. Because of the huge response by fans, Pegg, Wright and Hynes, Fox decided not to go ahead with it. Surely a triumph.

Love Pegg. I feel a little twinge of patriotism whenever I see decent British comedy. How totally pathetic, I know.

MYTH NUMBER THE FIRST.

I don't know if porn really cultivates good relationships, but in my experience it doesn't particularly damage them either. It depends entirely on the person...I know peeps that watch porn for the terrible plots, for comedy more than for arousal.

MYTH NUMBER THE SECOND.

True enough, some Men appreciate the male body

MYTH NUMBER THE THIRD.

This one I agree with as well. I've known people who have been addicted to porn, it happens on rare occasions. I've also known people who have ruined their lives through alcohol. As ever, its all about moderation.

FOUR

Its a Myth.

FIFTH

Yeah, I don't really think that masturbating to a red head or blonde is going to make a guy less likely to cheat on his brunette. However, some people make polygamous relationships work. Fantasising about a girl in a porno is ok even in a monogamous relationship as long as your partner is ok with it. (rare I know, but still...)

SIX

Some people can make valuable careers out of it. I'm not sure I'd want my daughter doing it, but you know, lets dismiss the myth that the porn industry is a wasted career.

SEVEN

Ha! When you meet a man that uses this one stay the fuck away

EIGHT

Hard to say, I guess you'll never know until you're a porn star.

NINE

Its a fantasy for me!


I certainly don't think porn is destroying society, and I don't think it has to be especially sexist or demeaning of women either. I don't think I'd want porn, or even sex, to become a conversation topic over dinner, I still want it to remain a little scandalous, but I do tire of the constant vilification of pornography. A massive percentage of males regularly watch pornography, and we aren't all a bad bunch. The fact that a relatively small amount of women watch porn is perhaps because so much of it is targeted at men, and this is perhaps because the entire concept of porn doesn't appeal to most women.

YEP, SHE'S A BLONDE.

I don't think the US really changed the country. All their guns and planes removed a dictator and his army, but you cant make peace with bullets and shrapnel. The US fought a conventional war in unconventional times. I don't know whats worse; that the leaders is Washington failed to learn from past mistakes and tried to fight long standing hatred and deep divides with an army, or that they knew democracy could not be forced and that it really was all blood for oil.

How simple is it to understand that the politics of a country is not just dependent on its leader? You cannot simply hang the head of a country and expect all those beneath to fall into line. Far from me to advocate the criminal Saddam was, but his influence was massive and it was plain to see his removal would create a power vacuum that would suck the place into chaos.

All the while its spun to the people as part of the War on Terror, and the people believed it. I was 13 years old on 9/11, and even I knew it was not Saddam's hand guiding those planes. What a colossal failure to let all this happen.

I hope History remembers ALL the crimes of war.