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i can't think of any at all, good, evil, integral, incidental, or otherwise.
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=))
Disney is just recently starting to tell stories about positive female role models and you're surprised that there's no positive LGBT characters?
Beauty and the Beast is a terrible idea for a children's movie to begin with. It and Sleeping Beauty are satires of the French aristocracy. The subtext is that French nobles felt free to kidnap any attractive peasant women they encountered. Also, the "beast" is a shot at the effects of inbreeding among nobility.
Finally, it perpetuates the myth that a good woman can "fix" a bad man with her love. Because the spousal abuse statistics aren't high enough already.
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This is the best response I've seen yet about High School Wrestler Mack Beggs:
Aquila89 wrote:It's really nice how a conversation about linguistics overlaps with a debate about strap-ons.
A good friend comforts you and talks you down when you are angry. A best friend skips along side you, carrying a baseball bat, and chanting, ‘Somebody’s gonna get it!"
Chelvo56 wrote:Sorry, but when the sentence "It is wrong to go into a foreign country, take out your weapon and enforce your will there", coming from an US-diplomat, was generallly laughed at, you might want to think why.
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Adamas: thank you for posting that. That was both eloquent and touching.
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What really did it for me was him basically saying "I don't pretend to understand everything about it but there has to be a better answer to the situation than THAT."
Aquila89 wrote:It's really nice how a conversation about linguistics overlaps with a debate about strap-ons.
A good friend comforts you and talks you down when you are angry. A best friend skips along side you, carrying a baseball bat, and chanting, ‘Somebody’s gonna get it!"
Chelvo56 wrote:Sorry, but when the sentence "It is wrong to go into a foreign country, take out your weapon and enforce your will there", coming from an US-diplomat, was generallly laughed at, you might want to think why.
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Aparently the GOP wants you to have your genes tested whether you like it or not.
Aquila89 wrote:It's really nice how a conversation about linguistics overlaps with a debate about strap-ons.
A good friend comforts you and talks you down when you are angry. A best friend skips along side you, carrying a baseball bat, and chanting, ‘Somebody’s gonna get it!"
Chelvo56 wrote:Sorry, but when the sentence "It is wrong to go into a foreign country, take out your weapon and enforce your will there", coming from an US-diplomat, was generallly laughed at, you might want to think why.
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Elections in the Netherlands tomorrow....
Pray for us.
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Read about this in the morning. she supposedly shouted that over and over
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Good for her! :-bd I hope that stupid POS hears her voice every time he closes his eyes!

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I live in such a small town, I highly doubt there is such a thing here.
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Error of Logic, good luck, and beware of big-haired politicians. ;)
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We have one of our own.
Needless to say, he did NOT get my vote.
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Well, let's hope that Piece of Volatile Vomit gets nowhere.
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Nice use of acronym. :)
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He did not get my vote either.
The voting ends about an hour after posting this (21:00 Dutch time), and then comes the wait for the results. While I am extremely confident that Wilders won't get into a position of power, I still have to hope he won't get the most votes, cause it'll just give the tosser more things to cry about.
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