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  1. goldenquagsire

    Occupy (Insert Location)

    Consistently raise living standards over the past two hundred years? 'The market' isn't a benevolent force. However, capitalism moderated by, for example, strong labour movements can have a very beneficial impact. Put it this way: many people put the Nordic countries on a pedestal for their...
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    TMI Time: Virginity

    I don't get this whole 'sex is gross' thing. You don't think of it as gross to masturbate (unless you've had an absolutely screwed-up childhood), and sex is just masturbating someone else... kind of.
  3. goldenquagsire

    TMI Time: Virginity

    Why did this come to mind? :(
  4. goldenquagsire

    I Have a Problem!

    Two in one week? I wish my uni was this exciting... :P
  5. goldenquagsire

    I Have a Problem!

    Shuppet! Get an old sheet, cut some eyeholes into it, paint it black. Then, put a funnel or something on your head to make a horn, then throw the sheet over yourself. Or if you want something from the original 151 (which I assume you might, since this seems like the sort of party that normal...
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    TMI Time: Virginity

    I've lost my 'mouth virginity' (never heard that one before, hm) and came damn close to losing my real virginity, but then the evening kind of went tits-up (and not in a good way, sadly)...
  7. goldenquagsire

    eReaders

    I hate this as well, but the solution I came up with is to invest in a printer and just print off all the pdfs we're given and read/make notes on the paper copies. :P Second-hand books are even cheaper...
  8. goldenquagsire

    Internet Friends/Real Life Friends

    What about when the boundaries between internet and irl friends gets blurred? :o My best friend from school (he's down in Oxford, the smug bastard) and I talk almost every day on either skype or facebook and text each other like mad. We're currently gossiping over the details of each others'...
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    What are you reading? II

    Reading for my course kind of killed my love of reading for pleasure. I mean, I find that type of reading fun, picking apart arguments and writing notes and preparing essays and stuff, but when you do that for six hours every day you don't really want to do another hour of reading after that...
  10. goldenquagsire

    Gender

    You've pretty much got it. Gender is whatever you want it to be, sex is what's in your trousers. The possibilities of gender are endless, sex is pretty much limited to male, female or relatively rare cases of intersex individuals.
  11. goldenquagsire

    eReaders

    That seems reassuring. :D Problem is, at York they want to make everything paperless so they're distributing ebooks and PDFs rather than telling people to get stuff out of the library. I can't stand reading a lot of text (like, 20+ pages) on a screen and I don't have an ereader so I just print...
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    eReaders

    This, so much. Not everyone has the cash to throw on an e-reader. Books never run out of energy and they're less likely to get stolen. It seems kind of inevitable that dead tree books will slowly die out, but I for one will miss them. :(
  13. goldenquagsire

    Gender

    On a slightly less volatile note, what's the meaning behind the asterisk in 'trans*'? It's rather confusing, like there's meant to be a footnote at the end of the post.
  14. goldenquagsire

    Scars

    I have this weird, small mark on my right elbow, it sort of looks like either a b or a q depending on which way you look at it. I can't remember if that's a birthmark or a burn. My dad, on the other hand, has a lot of cool shit. He's got a great big scar on his leg from when he broke it getting...
  15. goldenquagsire

    Do people deserve help?

    Re: Do people deserve help. Well, nothing specifically relating to food supply but population growth is slowing. But people need a certain amount of pride in order to function. Without self-esteem, without the ability to say "this is what I've achieved, isn't it great?" we succumb to...
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    Do people deserve help?

    Re: Do people deserve help. As others have pointed out, many people are too proud to seek out assistance even if they are in desperate need. Also, a lot of people aren't even aware of the benefits they're entitled to - in the UK, £10.5 billion worth of benefits goes unclaimed (a fun fact to...
  17. goldenquagsire

    ITT I describe all the countries I've been to in one sentence.

    Oh god, the Stiff Upper Lip is so overrated. In the US, if a company is offering you crap service you and everyone around you will kick up a massive fuss and ensure that it get fixed. In the UK, everyone just grumbles quietly and accepts whatever bull is thrown at them. Of course, sometimes...
  18. goldenquagsire

    ITT I describe all the countries I've been to in one sentence.

    I don't get this anti-US hate. I've been twice to your country and it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen! The people are nice as well, in many cases nicer than in the UK - in my experience, people are a lot kinder towards tourists in the US than in Britain. I think many people...
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    The Amazing Atheist!

    In my experience a lot of atheists, even if they don't self-identify as feminists, use feminist issues to criticise religion. For example, the enforcement of head coverings in Muslim communities, and the more subtle but every bit as insidious shaming of women's sexuality which is prevalent in...
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    Dominique Strauss-Kahn walks free

    Bang on the money. Strauss-Kahn's semen was found on Diallo's uniform, and doctors proved that she suffered vaginal bruising. The issue of her credibility is meaningless; the physical evidence heavily supports her claim. Vaginal bruising is pretty much 'beyond reasonable doubt', unless one...
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