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Why would that be so? In India non-Indians compain of racism quite a lot. When they return the favour, that is reverse racism, there needn't be a single white person involved in the entire transaction. As a rule, reverse racism is just racism against the normal flow (which is typically from majorit...

It's not the worst love poem I ever read and there's certainly no line that's cornier than Shall I compare thee to a summer's day Thou art more lovely and more temperate Could never figure out why this sonnet by Shakespeare is so famous. Those by Keats I think are far superior. When it comes to pur...

Write another poem if you think that's going to turn her on. Make sure it's not just another piece of sentimental slop coming out of a greasy soup kitchen. Ninety nine percent of love poems are like that overdosed with saccharine and cholesterol inside a limited vocabulary. (here's the original pie...

Hitler was an extraordinarily ordinary man who was a construct of his times and was given an inordinate amount of power. Give anyone that much power and they invariably go insane and start mass-murdering (rarely doing the actual killing themselves). People need to look at themselves before pointing...

Unless you are living in the early 19th century and your name is Byron then don't bother.

If you give her the poem she will think you are needy and a bit creepy. If your girlfriend finds out she might leave you -- and rightly so.

A bit of nostalgia for the Americans from the wonderful Waltons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLm5kKkuTPM I once read somewhere some facts about the actors that serve as a nice checkpoint with the realities, and some of the fragility, of human nature, compared to the parts they played on the tel...

A bit of nostalgia for the Americans from the wonderful Waltons:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLm5kKkuTPM

No such thing as the most evil person ever. Exactly. Humans are a lot more complex (or commonplace) than simply 'evil' or 'good'. There are any number of people around who live ordinary lives who would be just as bad, given enough power. That's the thing I've wondered before, veg. If a person is 'e...

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Thu Jul 12, 2018 11:13 pm

No such thing as the most evil person ever.

Exactly. Humans are a lot more complex (or commonplace) than simply 'evil' or 'good'. There are any number of people around who live ordinary lives who would be just as bad, given enough power.

You need to realise that you are smart, before you can expliot it and reach your potential. The average IQ of all of humanity = 100. Smart people have a 120 IQ atleast. So not all who might want to, can become scientists. My best guess is that 1% of all people have the potential, but only a few of ...

Hitler was an extraordinarily ordinary man who was a construct of his times and was given an inordinate amount of power. Give anyone that much power and they invariably go insane and start mass-murdering (rarely doing the actual killing themselves). People need to look at themselves before pointing ...

So you do not understand the idea of "imperialists" in the context of Skip's post? It seemed obvious enough. Do you require us to keep words limited to no more than three syllables for you? I am familiar with the concept of being genuine. Good to know that that word is allowed as it's becoming hard...

Or, like surgeons, we could carry a supply of latex gloves in case a handshaking occasion should present itself, then immediately upon completion of the formality, dispose of them in a sealed container, conveniently located alongside the hand-sanitizing dispenser at all entrances and landings. (I d...

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