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    TheGeneral

    Rugbyfan,

    I've been to the US a few times and really don't like it when a tip is expected, especially when you can tell that the waiter is "pretending" to be nice. The same thing goes for some US airlines like United. I found the cabin attendants to be really "two faced".

    You do realize that flight attendants don't work wages plus tips, right?

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    LoveUSA

    It allows to swim without attracting attention of ojisans and idiots. And it covers areas that I am ashamed to show because of fat.

    It sounds like you unnecessarily worry.

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    TheGeneral

    Watch your kids people! These nuts are everywhere!

    Fortunately, this couldn't be farther from the truth.

    Posted in: Two young girls punched by stranger on street in Hyogo

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    TheGeneral

    I wonder How much or what the US gave up

    I see that some are dutifully parroting the Faux News sound byte concerning President Clinton's accomplishment.

    I feel kind of sorry for these people. It must be really confusing to base one's ideology on constant baseless conjecture delivered by bleating talking heads.

    Posted in: 2 pardoned U.S. journalists leave North Korea with Bill Clinton

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    TheGeneral

    Sure you can! Just say "sauce nuki."

    "My way" is an unmolested (i.e. spicy) Angry Whopper.

    Posted in: Burger King adds 'angry' burger to Japan menu

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    TheGeneral

    It is interesting to note that more than one woman in Oblasser’s book reported using traditional Chinese medicine to re-establish the energetic flow of (severed) meridians after the birth.

    It's only interesting if you are duped by this pseudoscientific nonsense. Others understand what the placebo effect is.

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    TheGeneral

    burger, whose sauce has been slightly adapted to Japanese tastes

    I was just about to go get one until I read this.

    I guess you can't really "have it your way" here after all.

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    TheGeneral

    Tony the Tiger on a killing spree?!?!?

    Oh wait . . . "serial" cat killer".

    Here's a great idea: how about the humane society stops releasing stray cats into the city.

    How is that even legal?

    Sophia University Professor Emeritus and criminal psychologist Akira Fukushima comments, “The fact that the abuse is directed solely at stray cats and not household pets points to an individual whose tendency is to victimize animals somehow identified as weaker. The possibility of such acts escalating to a random assault targeting, in particular, children and women should not be entirely dismissed.”

    . . . or it points to someone pissed off about stray cats in the park, Clouseau.

    Posted in: Serial cat killer on the loose again in Tokyo's Setagaya

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    TheGeneral

    The overly broad definition of what is being called homosexual behavior indicates bias to me. It looks to me like they are doing anything they can to prove homosexuality in nature, even going so far as to imply that two animal blokes or two animal lasses pairing up to do most anything is homosexual behavior. That smells like a bias to me, and the bias seems to aimed at justifying homosexual marriage and child rearing.

    Your second logical fallacy: confirmation bias.

    There's nothing in this article that suggests any such thing.

    What other reason is there for such nonsense?

    To state the obvious, Dr. Bailey is an evolutionary biologist and this "nonsense" is what he studies. According to his team's research, it seems that homosexual behavior may be the result of natural selection and/or a selective force.

    But my experience is extensive for someone not actually employed in any sector related to domestic animals. I have seen lots of homosexual behavior among many various farm animals and pets, but nothing to make me think that any animal was truly gay. But how could you know that anyway?

    Argument from ignorance again. "[I've never seen convincing evidence]. . . but how could you know that anyway?" are the hallmarks of this logical fallacy.

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    BeaverCleaver

    I'm not bitter.

    Just by virtue of being a scientist it does not make their science sound and not their definitions either.

    We are in agreement. Like I said, good science relies on good peer review.

    And I consider myself a pretty solid skeptic, thank you. If you are as well, you surely recognize the logical fallacy you've employed here: argument from ignorance.

    I, on the other hand, simply pointed out what new research has suggested based on what the researchers are publicly saying.

    The article is what it is and nothing more: "In laymen's terms, here's what we found". There will be more to come as the scientific method does its thing.

    Furthermore, there is nothing in this article I see that signals bias or poor scientific protocol.

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    TheGeneral

    Actually, it was you who cherry picked.

    If cherry-picking means "reading and comprehending the entire article" to you, then I'm guilty as charged.

    Read it again. Out loud, if necessary.

    The article is entirely about a new study that suggests that "homosexual behaviour is a nearly universal phenomenon in the animal kingdom".

    the article does not back it up except for one reseacher declaring that it is

    The "one researcher" (Dr. Nathan Bailey) you dismiss out of hand was part of the research team and is commenting on their findings.

    Their findings? This 16-year-old's "demons" occur almost universally throughout the animal kingdom.

    Assorted homosexual and homogender behaviors are not enough to proof actual gayness.

    I'm sure you could track down the paper itself. You could even explain your definition of "gayness" to the scientists in your peer review of their research.

    As for me, I'm not a scientist so I don't comment ignorantly on scientific findings. I rely on other experts to review and test them. That's how good science works.

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    BeaverCleaver

    TheGeneral, that link is useless.

    I guess it's useless if you're going to cherry-pick the article and respond with a pitiful analogy.

    From the same "useless" article:

    "Same-sex behaviours – courtship, mounting or parenting – are traits that may have been shaped by natural selection, a basic mechanism of evolution that occurs over successive generations," he said.

    "But our review of studies also suggests that these same-sex behaviours might act as selective forces in and of themselves."

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    TheGeneral

    Its not "people" who think this way - the rules were invented by the Creator, so if you or anyone else has a problem with that, you should take it up with Him.

    Yep. Now we just have to figure out how to pray the gay out of the rest of the intelligently designed animal kingdom.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5550488/Homosexual-behaviour-widespread-in-animals-according-to-new-study.html

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    TheGeneral

    Try reading the Qu'ran or about Buddhism if it is too complicated for you to understand,

    The Brothers Grimm is another good place to start.

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    TheGeneral

    Moderator - What is an "ex-gravure idol" (or a current "gravure" idol, for that matter)?

    You use this term (and have done so before) as if it is English but it doesn't make any sense.

    Please enlighten me.

    Posted in: Atsuko Kurusu tells story behind her attempt at suicide

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    TheGeneral

    How many of you have asked someone to pray for you and you begin vomiting so violently and heavily that they need more plastic bags to help you? And then after the prayers you go limp and slide to the floor? Have you ever seen this kind of behavior? Strange ain’t it? Seems real enough to at least have a look regardless of the century.

    You're right. It is indeed strange for someone (an adult no less) to get their imagination so worked up they exhibit this kind of behavior.

    I’ve seen one where a 200+lb woman, howling like a wolf was taken out of a service and received prayer (she did not ask for this we presumed – there’s lots of that of course- which is what you are probably all laughing at). Promptly she slithered like a snake off the sofa and around a chair and curled up under the pastor’s desk. My usher buddy and I stood there speechless

    I would be speechless, too - regardless of whether or not she was putting on a show for the congregation or actually required psychiatric attention.

    They got her back on the sofa and called her family and they came and took her home. She was not delivered. Did she have demons?"

    No, she didn't. She also didn't own a unicorn that could gallop across rainbows.

    It's just sad that there are so many lunatics and frauds out there harming kids like this boy with their nonsense.

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    TheGeneral

    It's already finished in the real world. Hold it right there . . .

    It was a never a BBC TV show; it was on BBC radio. The American TV series is the only TV series!

    And it hasn't been canceled.

    What say you, sir?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flightofthe_Conchords

    Posted in: 'House' is world's most popular TV show

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    TheGeneral

    Too bad she died on the same day as Michael Jackson whose death will overshadow her's by primetime tonight.

    I don't think she'll mind.

    Posted in: 'Charlie's Angel' Farrah Fawcett dies at 62

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    TheGeneral

    And I'm guessing you meant "no longer on BBC".

    Season 2 of Flight of the Conchords (HBO) started in January of this year.

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    TheGeneral

    Flight of the Conchords is the smartest show no longer on TV.

    No, that would be Arrested Development.

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