He is completely out of touch with reality, living in a bubble. I remember he told me it wasn't possible that I had brown friends in growing up riding BMX bikes with me because he knows all the brown people in Nanaimo and they don't do that :fulloffuck:

I think you meant “dumbed down”. Pot, kettle.

Manic is brown?

Does that mean Im a racist white supremacist now if I think he's an idiot?

Careful not to trip over your own cleverness SeemsGood

For the record I don't know what was said on that podcast but you don't punch them in the nuts you punch them in the arm or shoulder when you catch someone looking below the waste with that gesture.

Now if I asked you the capital of Thailand and you didn't know it I'm going to yell BANGKOK! and punch/slap you in the dick probably dropping you to your knees. You'll only ever get someone once with this game. I couldn't even get my 12 year old with this one, everybody knows this one so chances of surprising anyone are slim.


Edit: Ok I just watched the video you posted, when he describes the game he actually says they punch people in the arm. I don't know where you came up with people punching others in the balls with this game.

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i don't think i ever played a game as a kid where you punch each other in the dick.

What the fuck are you guys even arguing about in this thread? Kicking people in the nuts?

Sounds like something from this ancient episode of South Park

This thread is a prime example of what's wrong with the world right now. Everything is so damn polarized.

An asshole live streams a murder of 50 people based on racist ideals, killing people simply because of their race or religious background. An utter and complete tragedy. Yet we have posters in this thread either defending the guy, or arguing whether or not alt-right "memes" and dog whistling even exists in the first place.

Fucking strange.

No, we never played a game called "OK" where we kicked each other in the nuts. Why has this thread diverged into that stupid topic?

Dog whistling has been around for eons, those dog whistles change and alter as does the culture, whether it be the iron cross, swastika, etc.

People nowadays are being more held accountable for their words and actions in the public. This will only further encourage folks with those types of esoteric views to use subterfuge and double meanings in order to espouse their true feelings and values, aka the OK sign, Pepe meme, and so forth.

And I’d argue that people are only being held more accountable publically so those doing the holding can further their own political agendas.

It’s a big fucking circle

I was wondering if anyone was going to create a thread or even discuss the Easter bombing attacks on Christians/Westerners at several churches and upscale hotels in Sri Lanka which killed over 320 people. Well Sri Lanka's defense minister is reporting that the attack was a direct response to the New Zealand mass shooting at 2 mosques. Given the time needed to plan such attacks, this was likely planed before NZ and they just used it as justification.

Sri Lanka bombings were response to Christchurch shooting, says defence minister


Waking up Easter Sunday morning to all but one media outlet reporting details of the attacks including churches, upscale hotels, Christians, Easter Mass, or Westerners. That one outlet refusing to share those details by noon was none other than the CBC. They were still wondering if the Tamil Tigers had been built up again. Given their recent SJW White-man guilt slant on everything, I couldn't help but wonder why they would be slow to give such details.

Maybe the Roman catholic church that's worth 30 billion should use some of that money the help these poor people out instead of begging for money to rebuild a church in France.

If this is true, then all I see here is a left-leaning news organization and a right-leaning Revscene poster trying to use a tragedy and make a political point. :stfu:

Do me a favour and try to picture the DVD logo as it finally reaches the very bottom left corner of the TV. That is about where I have consistently landed on the Political Compass test, in the Libertarian Left quadrant. Describing me as right-leaning is laughable given my politics, my voting history, and my support of the CBC (I'm a member of the CBC fan page on FB meant to keep it funded.) How absurd of me to demand the CBC do its job and report the facts. How absurd to see their politicizing of yet another tragedy as offensive and expect better from them.

Maybe the Roman catholic church that's worth 30 billion should use some of that money the help you deal with opinions you don't like. Or is that also using a tragedy to make a political point? You're right, do continue discussing the tragic events in Sri Lanka and homage to the victims like everyone else. Don't let the crickets distract you.

We're just a bunch of stupid monkeys trying our best to rationalize the extremely complex society we've created for ourselves.

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It's really not but I just wanted to jump to a bullshit conclusion, pile on and add no real value to the thread. :)

We haven't created anything. Religion is the basis for most of the worlds problems, as it has been for thousands of years. The entire religious population is arguing and fighting about something that doesn't even exist. It's purely a belief that what one group believes is better than what someone else believes.
From an Atheist standpoint I can't even wrap my head around people being so brainwashed into thinking a God actually cares about what us humans are doing. Even more than that, anything you do on earth will affect where you "go" when you die.

Berz out.

I felt the same way for many years. After going to a private school, I turned my back on religion completely for about 20 years.

Fast forward to 2017 and we lose someone close to my family. When you have little kids with tears in their eyes asking you where someone went when they died, you can't just say "Poof, they're gone and in the dirt". It becomes a lot easier to explain to young people who lack the life experience that this person is in heaven looking down, or something like else that softens the blow.

Secondary to that, church itself can offer strength through a sense of family or equality. It gives people the opportunity to surround themselves with a group of like minded individuals.

Now, I'm not religious by any means. But like Jasonturbo said, I am starting to understand how a belief or faith can help you make sense of things. The problem is, like anything, you get these fucktards who come in and use it to further their own agenda, whether it's for business, power, or sex. That's when religion gets ugly.

I don't know, I'm glad my parents didn't spew me some bullshit to soften the blow while I was a kid. You learn life isn't all Christmas presents and videogames, shit gets real sometimes and the sooner you learn that the better imo.

A family death is a very teachable moment for a child, instead you lie and tell them something you don't even believe yourself.

In a thread that illustrates how almost all humans have underlying hate, you have these examples of where our common empathy has sunk amongst humanity.

Damn dude, you must be hard as fuck. I'm talking east van on the bus selling dope at 10 years old hard.

Or maybe you just don't remember because you were a kid and memories tend to become altered as we age. Or maybe you didn't suffer any major losses as a kid so you don't have any semblance of experience. Or maybe you don't have kids of your own, and are so out of touch with this type of reality that all you can offer is a different opinion. Or maybe you are being honest, and your parents couldn't provide you with the love and support that you may have appreciated.

The bottom line is that you come across as angry and bitter here, and that speaks volumes.


You're lying to yourself if you think that your belief is the correct belief. Who knows what happens after death? No one.... Anyone who has claimed to have had contact with the dead is labelled a nutjob. So yeah, I softened the blow of the sudden loss of a close family member. I just hope that if you're ever in the same situation that you will do your best to numb the intense pain of that loss.

With comedy like that in your arsenal I'm surprised you had to lie to your kids to lighten the mood.

I remember my grandpa dying when I was 8 and how sad everyone was and it fucking sucked. I also remember that I got over it at some point without some make believe story. If my parents not telling me that he's in heaven means they didn't love me then you have an unusual way of viewing things. Maybe they didn't believe in making excuses so I won't cry as much.


Believe whatever you want, I'm commenting on the fact that you said you aren't religious and used religion to help your kids not deal with a tragedy.

Anyways I gotta get back to selling dope in East Van ttyl bruh.

actually its not religion...

guaranteed if you moved away from religion, and more and more atheists popped up, people will just take extreme sides of philosophy and ideologies, who will also fight for things that "don't exist" (in the eyes of the other side, the other side is always worshiping some non existent reality).

anyways... i think i basically explained what is happening now.

people will kill each other over which religion they're tied with.

you don't think for a second if religions didnt exist... they'd kill each other for just which "side" they're on? whether its race, or political sides, or fucking ANYTHING?

you're always on a "side".

its not religion... it's just humans. Religions aint the problem. there is NO problem actually.

it's just an algorithm figuring out which sides have more of a hold in this world at this moment. the algorithm of human evolution.

killing each other is pretty much how we figure shit out really fast... eventually things that don't work, will fade.

believing in "things", and taking "sides", and killing each other, are probably never going to go away. It's kinda the core reason why humans are around in the first place... and why we've achieved so much in such a short time... To find universal truth. There can only be ONE universal truth, and damnit, you're wrong *shoots you*