Iun

Happy Birthday You Magnificent Bastard! You serve as a constant reminder that old technology can still be useful!

It sounded to me like you were bemoaning your lot. Fair enough if that's not the case. I envy you the choices open to you. I'm in a situation where if I earn less than 2k a month, I will be shafted by the bank, the UK government, the Chinese government and my future self. And all I want to do is take a part-time ELT job in a shitty language centre where I have no responsibility and no worries, but take a cut of 500 quid a month. But, no choice.

I'll get back to you on this later.

Oh, my heart fairly bleeds for you. What a pitiable situation you find yourself in. It really puts my 72 hour working week into perspective, where I barely earn enough money to pay the mortgage, student loan, pension and £10 a week social life (that I have no time to enjoy because of, um, the work). Gosh I feel so terrible for you. Stop whining. Just go part time and see if it works for you.

As a man born into a Northern Family who migrated to the South, I can see both sides of this: Southerners are smarmy little snot-piles who think they've got the best of everything. On the other hand, most Northerners are about as well-dressed, thoughtful, creative and intelligent as a brick wall wearing a flat cap. Back to TV: Frost and even Rumpole of the Bailey are good choices.

Desperate Housewives. What?

Stay, then look around. It's always easier to find a job when you already have one.

And they should be brave, it happens to all pubescent girls. ... Cough. Anyway, as a man with an ex-girlfriend who was a Rangers supporter, I can't help but feel terrible for the supporters - by and large a decent lot who deserved to be served better by the club they love.

Ellyone's a rittle bit lacist.

Oh HA HA HA!

Gah, we lost 3-1 and had a man sent off. Two extremely soft yellows. Stupid.

On me, ok. In me? Also ok.

Ugh, this thread is so gay.

First game of the season and I've got a mania/depression episode about to break. First sign is always a "brain fog" which started yesterday morning - the whole world gets slightly out of sync, like looking at a 3D image that just won't "pop". Then the fun REALLY begins: if it's depression, the windows will need to be locked. If it's mania, I'm going to have to concentrate all my willpower and every other mental resource I've got into NOT attempting to run a mile in under a minute/climbing up lamp-posts with a carving knife in my teeth "because I'm a pirate"/doing Matrix-style wall-runs/eating the sofa. Hilarious as it sounds (and boy is it funny at the time) it's a real bastard of a nuisance. But I can control it. Yes. I can control it. All of it.

You can batter my sausage any time! ...this abstinence before football matches is hard.

@Sheikah So what you are saying, is that we can overcome an emotional and ingrained fear of monsters in the cupboard, but not an emotional response to two ladies eating bearded clams wanting to get married? That just makes no sense whatsoever to me. If it makes sense to you, fair enough.

If we can get rid of the urge to explain the existence of a new day being due to the goat we sacrificed last night, then surely we can eradicate feelings of disgust at the sight of a pair of gorgeous blokes having a snog.

Oh, yeah, I do... He can stick me with his Goron Knife any time.

Fairly argued. Same thing about religions: some poeople can be hypocrites. However, there is no denying that religion, wither scientifically disproven or not, brings a lot of comfort to many people without doing them too much harm (providing they are not themselves being led by the aforementioned hypocrites) But regarding the ingrained psychological reaction to homosexuals: would you not argue that since the dawn of man, we have either worshipped or created deities for ourselves - and therefore its an instinctual reaction like the prejudice against lovely lovely bumsex?

Again, I disagree. Homophobia seems to be conditioned by... daddadadaaaaAAAHHHH: religious prejudices. If you have rejected religion, you should be able to reject the inherent prejudces as well. And that alcohol thing is a bit of a straw man argument, come on... that's a narcotic that purposefully changes your body chemistry. It's not even an apples and oranges comparison.

Your honesty is a shining example to us all! You mug.

@Goron_3 Happy birthday, Big Bro!

I don't think you can equivocate on this point: If atheists deny the existence of a supreme being or supreme beings based on science, then they can't reconcile the belief in the Little Blue Pixie Who Cleans The Toilet simply because they don't recognise him as a supreme being. You mean human chemical reactions? Again, logically speaking, if you are capable of scientifically and empirically proving against the belief that there is something bigger than us that we cannot see... ...then two blokes having a shag shouldn't prove an obstacle. And if it does, there should be some internal struggle within the mind of the atheist saying "My prejudice is irrational, therefore I should temper it".

So, going by the empirical evidence thing, I guess all atheists must therefore be completely accepting of homosexuality? After all, there's a slew of evidence that homosexuality is a genetic predisposition and therefore the logical thing to say is that it's simply a part of the species. Additionally, when someone says "I love you" do you respond "thank you, but you're simply vocalising a number of chemical changes in your brain and choosing to call it love."? I'd like to point out here that I was excommunicated from the Catholic Church for openly questioning their dogma in Sunday School.

I used to use Amazon for deliveries like you, then I took an arrow to the knee.