Posts by Simon

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Optimum human Order, the Olympics

by waton in

anybody watching the olympics here?

bodies perfected, minds steeled against pain?

amazing performances in sailing, running, jumping, throwing.

Simon

but by cutting down the top, you are not going to help the lowest.

some in the bottom are beyond help, and there is also the trickle down effect. the human race has been lifted up most by it's top performers in every discipline. science particularly.

I don't think Olympics particularly helps people. It doesn't even help most of the athletes, physically, as professional sports take a toll on the body and are different to regular fitness. What you don't see are the wrecked bodies of the people who didn't make it.

And "trickle down" to help the poor? Sounds more like they are pissed on. Maybe helping them directly would do more good than spending obscene amounts on a spectacle.

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Optimum human Order, the Olympics

by waton in

anybody watching the olympics here?

bodies perfected, minds steeled against pain?

amazing performances in sailing, running, jumping, throwing.

Simon

on a different note.

Women's soccer gold was given to Canada by a Swedish player, who rolled the ball in the shootout into the hands of the Canadian goalkeeper.

The main thing is that annoying US woman didn't win :D

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Optimum human Order, the Olympics

by waton in

anybody watching the olympics here?

bodies perfected, minds steeled against pain?

amazing performances in sailing, running, jumping, throwing.

Simon

It's hard to describe quite how boring and uninteresting the Olympics is to me.

A bunch of overpaid people enjoying their hobby ... all paid for by taxpayers who are then expected to applaud them? No thank you. The original ideal of the Olympics being an amateur athletics competition have long passed.

Also, your posts are gibberish. Remember kids - don't do drugs!

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Logical Fallacy… can I get some help here?

by DATA-DOG in

dr. leanna wen is currently spreading the fallacy that unvaccinated persons should have vaccines mandated because they are like drunk drivers… they have the right to be drunk at home she says, but wanting to be part of society at large without being vaccinated is like driving drunk and putting others at risk.

besides ignoring the science proving that persons who have had sars cov-2 have natural immunity that equals or exceeds anything that could be imparted from the mrna shot, without the side effects or need for boosters, ( sorry big pharma, you’ll be losing $$$ ) this illustration just smacks of illogical reasoning.

it reminds me of the borg comparing getting baptized to getting your driver’s license.

Simon

if there was drugs that be given to people who are having severe symptoms and have them relieved in a couple of days, they would be used in most hospitals today as viable treatments

Would they? for certain?

They could be used, but there are often other factors than purely medical reasons for certain drugs to be used or not used.

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Homless in Seattle raping and assulting people, the dems don't care.

by mickbobcat in

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-seattle-homeless-resident-homicide-attempted-rape-jason-rantz.

Simon

Why are Real Estate prices so high, and why can’t folks pay their rent? Any ideas?

Because of policies that make housing more expensive!

Rent control for instance is a favourite tool of the left, and has the effect of depressing investment in housing. Not granting permits to build more houses has a more direct effect.

The left usually run the cities and they are invariably shit-holes. Recently things seem to have gotten a whole lot worse with the bat-shit crazy of allowing "homeless" to set up their tents anywhere, and drag neighbourhoods down.

These "homeless" are just druggy criminal losers who don't want to work and they are increasing in number as the message being put out is "why should you work!"

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Have you been vaccinated? Have you had any side effects?

by LoveUniHateExams in

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hi all.. i'm 42 years old.

i have had two jabs of the oxford-astrazeneca vaccine.. after my first jab i experienced flu-like symptoms - shivering, wanted to lie down in a dark room, etc.. i experienced no side effects after my second shot.. how about you?.

how many jabs have you had?.

Simon

Pfizer and Moderna, arm at the injection site was slightly sore for a day, that's all.

Otherwise I'm still clinging to life and Covid free.

But still waiting for my new super-powers to kick in, and for my brain to be upgraded to Windows 11.

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Logical Fallacy… can I get some help here?

by DATA-DOG in

dr. leanna wen is currently spreading the fallacy that unvaccinated persons should have vaccines mandated because they are like drunk drivers… they have the right to be drunk at home she says, but wanting to be part of society at large without being vaccinated is like driving drunk and putting others at risk.

besides ignoring the science proving that persons who have had sars cov-2 have natural immunity that equals or exceeds anything that could be imparted from the mrna shot, without the side effects or need for boosters, ( sorry big pharma, you’ll be losing $$$ ) this illustration just smacks of illogical reasoning.

it reminds me of the borg comparing getting baptized to getting your driver’s license.

Simon

"Dr" is rapidly losing meaning.

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What is it with these lard ass GB and gold rings and watches?

by mickbobcat in

they wear jewelry like they are some don from the cosa nostra.

watches and rings like some cheap pimp.

hey they are cheap pimps.

Simon

mickbobcat: I've already told you, several times, that we don't need bad languages all the time. Use it in, when something actually justifies it, otherwise it becomes annoying and you just come across as a potty mouth.

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England through to the Euro Final!!!

by LoveUniHateExams in

f**kin yes!!!.

get in!

!.

Simon

One game, it's just one game to win it. England do have the players that are capable of doing it.

Of course, we could improve our odds of winning finals by getting to finals more often, but lets enjoy the moment whatever happens.

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20 Years Occupying Afghanistan, Nothing Achieved

by Simon in

so the occupation of afghanistan is coming to an end and, as predicted, they achieved absolutely nothing in that 20 years apart from:.

the death of 2,300+ service personnel and tens of thousands more seriously maimed or injured.. handing $billions or even $trillions of taxpayer dollars to defence contractors (so the military industrial complex wins, even if the military doesn't have a clear victory).. has this lengthy but short-term military occupation really changed anything in the country?

it doesn't appear so.. i said at the time that the us wouldn't have the staying power to enact real change.

Simon

So the occupation of Afghanistan is coming to an end and, as predicted, they achieved absolutely NOTHING in that 20 years apart from:

The death of 2,300+ service personnel and tens of thousands more seriously maimed or injured.

Handing $billions or even $trillions of taxpayer dollars to defence contractors (so the military industrial complex wins, even if the military doesn't have a clear victory).

Has this lengthy but short-term military occupation really changed anything in the country? It doesn't appear so.

I said at the time that the US wouldn't have the staying power to enact real change. They lack the political stability and will-power for the length of campaign necessary to transform a culture, which has to be multi-generational.

Remember: next time your "leaders" tell you to go to war for dubious reasons, grab the nearest rifle and point it at them - that's the only fight worth fighting.