Califan007 The Constipated

1 minute ago, TheGoodBits said:

If theoretically a person can be a woman despite having a penis, why should we (taxpayers/health insurance payers) have to fund their expensive! efforts to transform their penises into… well… something that at least kinda looks like a vagina.

 

 

Read up on the very real and very damaging effects of knowing you're female, of having every synapse in your brain and every chemical in your body constantly telling you that you're female, yet being condemned in a "male" body (or conversely, being male forced to exist within a female body). The suicide rate among trans people is a reflection of that reality. When they look in the mirror they don't see themselves, or anyone...they see a jail cell that they're condemned to spend the rest of their lives in even though they didn't do anything illegal or criminal. Using that jail example, surgery can be like an innocent man sent to jail for life suddenly getting a pardon and released from prison.

So, no, it's not just for "looks."

3 minutes ago, TheGoodBits said:

In all seriousness though, kinda weird to me this isn’t just considered a cosmetic procedure. 

That's probably because you don't really know the science behind gender.

12 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

This one took 2nd place lol...

23 hours ago, China said:

Yeah, whoever titles his videos uses Bombshell about every third video, and then throws in other ones like Devastating or some such.  The titles are way too clickbaity.

They all do lol...every left-leaning video title on youtube has one of these words in it, always in all-caps:

- BOMBSHELL (it's never a bombshell, more like a firecracker)

- BRUTAL (there's nothing brutal about whatever the Dem politician said to the Republican politician)

- DESTROYS (nobody gets destroyed by anyone, ever...not even close)

- MUST-WATCH (lol please)

- BREAKING (usually it's about something that happened 4 days ago)

I've unsubscribed from almost all of them due to the stupid clickbait titles.

1 hour ago, Simmsy said:

 

While I completely agree with what he's saying, just as a sticking point the dog did not kill Noem's chickens, it killed a neighbor's chickens...and the neighbor would have had the legal right to shoot and kill the dog themselves in that situation.

1 hour ago, Jumbo said:

I can see this bring a bit of reach given the thread title, but the content is mainly focused on Trump v Biden, and it's well worth viewing in general (and of course for topically related humor value, always welcome in any ES thread). It's a link Colin Jost's whole routine at the Annual White House Press Dinner

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/colin-jost-13-best-jokes-152649997.html

 

 

"President Biden, Dr. Biden, Vice President Harris...Doug." LOL...

17 minutes ago, Destino said:

Thats actually a good idea. Let’s see how I’d do on such a test….

 

Mine...my guess is the "bombshell" is absolutely nothing lol.

Narrator: Three Year Letterman is a parody account lol...

Imagine Trump lol...

20 minutes ago, Simmsy said:

 

I could hijack a school bus, crash it into Walmart, kill everyone inside and still get more support than if I kicked a dog. I get that people like dogs, but I think people go overboard with it. Why do we always need a "dog story" to beat the GOP in a presidential election?

Dogs and small children are basically the epitome of unconditional love, abiding trust, and complete loyalty...I'm not sure it's reasonable to think those things won't have a strong effect in our perceptions when something happens to either. I would say we are protective of both--whether they are ours or not--precisely because of those qualities they bring to our lives. Kids can grow up and lose those qualities, of course lol...but if they do, it's usually due to how bad the parents were. Dogs, it's damn hard to shake that unconditional love and loyalty out of them as they grow up.

24 minutes ago, tshile said:

The Noem dog thing is funny because that’s how life is on a farm, and it shows how unaware of that many people are. 
 

animals have jobs or purposes and when they fall outside that ability for whatever reason the animals are usually put down and often with a firearm. They aren’t cute things you pet and form bonds with, they’re just a cog on a wheel. Horses, pigs, cows, goats… dogs… they’re all treated that way. 
 

it’s a great illustration of the fundamental disconnect between two core cultures in this country 

 

farmers don’t have a use for a hunting dog that doesn’t hunt well. It’s just another thing to feed at that point and you don’t do that with animals. 
 

it’s nothing close to dog fighting, and I saw that as someone that thinks what Vick did was horrendous but also he served his time so leave him alone about it 🤷‍♂️ 

- Most farmers who kill dogs kill other farmer's dogs who threaten or have killed their livestock. Farmers usually understand the necessity of controlling their own dogs and take the time and put in the effort to do just that. But, yeah, it does happen when farmers end up putting down their own dogs. But I would be shocked if "they can't hunt" is considered reason enough for most farmers to pull the trigger.

- Noem--let's say "made the mistake"--of injecting feelings into the discussion when she said "I hated that dog"...that goes beyond utility being the motivating factor and into personal feelings being a factor, no matter what those feelings were based on.

- I'm not exactly a fan of "that's just how things are in rural America, that's just their mindset"...but then I'm speaking from the perspective of a Black man who lived his entire life in the U.S. and had more than his share of experiences with the rural mindset on things lol...

9 minutes ago, Panninho said:

Well if you stop reading there, sure. But the sentence finishes with "based on the consensus draft board". So based on this metric they did knock it out of the park with regards to the players they took.

But for one year it's just one more data point, that doesn't necessarily mean all that much. However, if you do this every year, history has shown that your chances are quite good you are gaining strength relative to the field. So adding draft classes like this will help in the long run, even if this individual one doesn't pan out.

Don't know what's so controversial about this.

"Based on  the consensus draft boards" that are based on the consensus mock drafts of journalists all over the internet which are based on....

None of that negates what I said.

If it's "just one more data point" in a long list of draft data points, then they definitely should not be claiming any team "knocked their draft out of the park."

13 minutes ago, Panninho said:

This says nothing about the individual players and draft classes though.

 

When they say a team "knocked the draft out of the park," but that conclusion has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual players the team drafted or that team's overall draft class, something's wrong lol...if they are only looking at the best use of a team's draft assets, then something better than a glowing "knocked their draft out of the part" comment needs to be used.

6 minutes ago, Simmsy said:

 

The dog could've been planning a mass shooting, the context of the story has been told in a certain way and that is now the truth. When this comes up, she'll have to defend it and she won't be able to. Americans are weird about their dogs, I don't get it.

4 minutes ago, Skinsinparadise said:

 

Brenden's birth name i heard is Han. 

We already have a 'Han lol...

1 hour ago, Panninho said:

 

This dude apparently thinks we did worse in this year's draft than we did in last year's draft...and blames our drafting of Daniels at #2.

Color scheme choice is questionable lol (though it has a B&G feel), but the sentiment is spot-on.

For anyone who didn't read the dog-killing section of Noem's book, the dog sounded violent and uncontrollable so it was not just that she didn't like it or that it wouldn't hunt...

At the same time, though, there are A MILLION OTHER WAYS OF HANDLING A DOG LIKE THAT OTHER THAN SHOOTING IT IN THE HEAD...there are literally dozens if not hundreds of organizations in the U.S. that specialize in training dogs to control their "alpha-ness" (for lack of a better way of putting it) and training it to socialize itself, often with the use of other well-behaved alpha dogs laying down the law. But Noem had the mentality of "What do I need them for? I have a gun." Sheesh...really do feel this will do her in for anything other than keeping her seat as governor. And maybe not even that.

Wait, we already traded Pickisin to the Eagles?...