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I have a (as of very recently) former friend in Israel who loves Trump and Musk, and insists that this was not a Nazi salute.

I suggested that she does exactly the same gesture near the Wailing Wall, and see how people react if its not a Nazi salute.

We are not friends any more.

I just googled 'sidesaddle' and apparently there associations of people who are into that. I had no idea. Apparently for people with arthritis that can be the only way they can ride. I will look into that - I know people who can no longer ride because of arthritis - and really miss it - and if that ...

The only place I have seen women riding side-saddle is in movies or tv series set a long time ago.

I have certainly never seen a side-saddle in real life, not even in a museum. Any man suggesting that women should ride side-saddle would be laughed at pretty much anywhere in the world these days.

Where I live, most girls learn to ride horses from a young age. Any man who suggested that there is some way to determine if a girl is a virgin would be laughed at - by men and women.

LuckyR wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 6:53 am Still waiting to find out how the "confirming the bride's virginity" thing works.

Q. Have you ever had sex?
A. No.

There, you have confirmed it. Why would you want to, that is another question.

I've never seen or heard of women 'initiating' the chase. Male sex drives are pro-active. Female sex drives are re-active. It happens a lot - I have personal knowledge of multiple cases. Finally, to answer your first question, no, it's not the same type of love. Male and female are fundamentally, e...

Morality is relative to subjective experience thus there is no universally applied definition of bigotry nor the harm implied from it. Morality is not fixed, but subject to change. Dunno about that. I live in the Appalachians, in the Southern part - and objective harm done by racists is well within...

A friend from the UK assures me that one is much more likely to be randomly punched in the face by a drunken chav than by the most illegal radical Mulsim immigrant. In his case, chavs vs Muslims radicals are leading 3 to zero - and thats just from this year. If I understand correctly a UK chav is li...

If someone has a track record of expressing.... lets say 'extreme dislike' for certain groups of people. And their given reasons for disliking those groups have nothing to do with race.

but... none of those groups are white. And the reasons are often iffy.

Is that evidence of racism?

attofishpi wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:36 pm blah blah blah random numbers omg japanese muslim radicals 9/11 blah

What is the name for that fallacy where someone presents so many fallacies at once that the other person has no idea how to even start responding?

Yep. Very comparable. Muslims make up more than half the population in some parts of London. It's hard to find exact recent figures asking Wokie McGoogle. Muslims make up 1 percent of the US population. Have you ever even seen one? :lol: Some nerve though. The US fucked over their countries and now...

For most men, it is not difficult not to cheat. The men who cheat, however, do it all the time. Women want the same few men. For these men, not cheating amounts to putting in an Herculean effort into ignoring the gigantic herd of clearly available attractive women. A man is a cheater because women ...

So in other words you don't give a shit because it's not the US. From what my friends in the UK tell me, the situation is not that different - people get worked up about Islam but the lunatic right is far far worse. There are people in the USA who are convinced that Islam is "taking over"...

"Animal sacrifice" sounds so much more sinister than saying "Animals slaughtered and eaten" and yet refers to the same thing Again, i dont know about situation in the UK but here in teh USA the crazed Christians are so much closer to taking everything over than crazed Muslims tha...

Meh. I cannot speak for UK but here in the USA crazed Islamic preachers calling for Sharia and ranting about The Jews are not that different from crazy guys yelling gibberish at traffic - and about as dangerous. Not exactly harmless but basically irrelevant. A white Christian going on about how Hait...