OT: 110th Obsequious Banter Thread: Giving 110% and more

[Jack Straw]

The is morning’s doggie on a deck installment.

 

[Rebels57]

The Philadelphia Airport sucks ass.

 

[Flybynite]

So banks got armed guards and have limited number of entrances. How exactly is that suggestion to 'fortify' schools gonna work if all it takes is one guy with a 'long rifle' to storm a location with armed guard(s) and manage to kill at least 5 people?

 

[Embiid]

So banks got armed guards and have limited number of entrances. How exactly is that suggestion to 'fortify' schools gonna work if all it takes is one guy with a 'long rifle' to storm a location with armed guard(s) and manage to kill at least 5 people?

Amerika ist wunderbar
We're all living in Amerika
Amerika, Amerika....

 

[ellja3]

Kind of! My girlfriend lived there for more than a year and I also lived in Utrecht for a year.

Actually living in the Netherlands again now, albeit not Amsterdam.

Are there any sports-related spots it would be worth to see? I will have quite a few hours to spare on Friday, then Monday in late August.

 

[Embiid]

Dilly Dalai..


The Dalai Lama apologizes for asking a young boy to suck his tongue

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1168962589/dalai-lama-apologizes-tongue-kiss

 

[Flybynite]

Dilly Dalai..


The Dalai Lama apologizes for asking a young boy to suck his tongue

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1168962589/dalai-lama-apologizes-tongue-kiss

"How you gonna come at me like that? This was perfectly acceptable for 500+ years and now you're gonna tell me I can't do it anymore?"

 

[Embiid]

"How you gonna come at me like that? This was perfectly acceptable for 500+ years and now you're gonna tell me I can't do it anymore?"

The sucking is the "modernity" part of it......the Dalai lama is very progressive like that.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

So banks got armed guards and have limited number of entrances. How exactly is that suggestion to 'fortify' schools gonna work if all it takes is one guy with a 'long rifle' to storm a location with armed guard(s) and manage to kill at least 5 people?

Gotta keep banning books tho. Banning the Diary of Anne Frank. This country is going backwards.

 

[Lord Defect]

Gotta keep banning books tho. Banning the Diary of Anne Frank. This country is going backwards.

The diary of Anne frank is not banned, a diary of a young girl was for sexual content, more specifically detailed descriptions of a 12 year old anatomy

 

[BigToe]

@Magua they got you working as Gritty today?

 

[Lord Defect]

@Magua they got you working as Gritty today?

I thought only winners got invited to the white house.

 

[Magua]

@Magua they got you working as Gritty today?

The blue bunny to the left instantly recoils, stares at Gritty’s ass, looks around to see if the other bunnies are seeing this, and says to himself, “Gerddamn!”

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The blue bunny to the left instantly recoils, stares at Gritty’s ass, and says to himself, “Gerddamn!”

@FLYguy3911

 

[Tripod]

So banks got armed guards and have limited number of entrances. How exactly is that suggestion to 'fortify' schools gonna work if all it takes is one guy with a 'long rifle' to storm a location with armed guard(s) and manage to kill at least 5 people?

Just makes no sense. Sorry you guys have to live in that kind of situation

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

The diary of Anne frank is not banned, a diary of a young girl was for sexual content, more specifically detailed descriptions of a 12 year old anatomy

Fine. I stand by my stance that book banning is wrong. It’s up to parents to tell a child what they shouldn’t read not local governments.

 

[Lord Defect]

Fine. I stand by my stance that book banning is wrong. It’s up to parents to tell a child what they shouldn’t read not local governments.

It’s a public school. The book can be bought it cannot be provided by the school in the school library.

 

[Flybynite]

It’s a public school. The book can be bought it cannot be provided by the school in the school library.

Maybe you looked more thoroughly into it than I did... but I looked for a copy of the graphic novel adaption that was in question. I looked through the images and did not find anything of a 'graphic sexual' nature. There was one illustration of a park with statues and some were 'nude', but not done in an exaggerated or sexual nude way. Anyone prior to the last decade and having gone to a museum on a class trip would have seen things much more graphic and explicit.

In terms of the 'text' and diary entries. Those were Anne Frank's own words. Her Father was the lone survivor and after the diary was recovered he published it, but some of those things he himself censored as to protect her 'privacy'... but later in life he said he regretted that and thought it was important to show who she was.

We're talking about a young teenage girl who was in a situation I doubt any of us can even begin to comprehend, but the things she thought about and wondered about were things many other teenagers do. I think showing that is important. I think having others in her age group read and see that and realize they're not 'strange', they're not 'immoral', it's ok. I think that's important.

The group that fought to get the book removed also lied about their reasons. They claimed the graphic novel was fabricating Anne Frank's actual diary, when in fact as I said the original published diary itself was edited and had these things removed. The actual full version of her diary (which is now published and sold) has these passages and this graphic novel presented much word for word while also having a narrative relayed in a comic format.

I find it extremely insulting to think something written by a young teenage girl in the 1940s is somehow 'inappropriate' for teens of the same age today.

 

[Embiid]

American Theocracy here we come with the radical Supreme Court and other extreme judges out there as the American mullahs. Just missing an Ayatollah and morality police.

 

[wankstifier]

The diary of Anne frank is not banned, a diary of a young girl was for sexual content, more specifically detailed descriptions of a 12 year old anatomy

Oh, no... not a description of anatomy

 

[Lord Defect]

Maybe you looked more thoroughly into it than I did... but I looked for a copy of the graphic novel adaption that was in question. I looked through the images and did not find anything of a 'graphic sexual' nature. There was one illustration of a park with statues and some were 'nude', but not done in an exaggerated or sexual nude way. Anyone prior to the last decade and having gone to a museum on a class trip would have seen things much more graphic and explicit.

In terms of the 'text' and diary entries. Those were Anne Frank's own words. Her Father was the lone survivor and after the diary was recovered he published it, but some of those things he himself censored as to protect her 'privacy'... but later in life he said he regretted that and thought it was important to show who she was.

We're talking about a young teenage girl who was in a situation I doubt any of us can even begin to comprehend, but the things she thought about and wondered about were things many other teenagers do. I think showing that is important. I think having others in her age group read and see that and realize they're not 'strange', they're not 'immoral', it's ok. I think that's important.

The group that fought to get the book removed also lied about their reasons. They claimed the graphic novel was fabricating Anne Frank's actual diary, when in fact as I said the original published diary itself was edited and had these things removed. The actual full version of her diary (which is now published and sold) has these passages and this graphic novel presented much word for word while also having a narrative relayed in a comic format.

I find it extremely insulting to think something written by a young teenage girl in the 1940s is somehow 'inappropriate' for teens of the same age today.

I didn’t see the images but I’ve read a snippet of what she wrote. IMO it should not be in a school library by someone under the age where they receive sex education.

 

[Flybynite]

I didn’t see the images but I’ve read a snippet of what she wrote. IMO it should not be in a school library by someone under the age where they receive sex education.

It was removed from Vero Beach HIGH SCHOOL.

 

[Lord Defect]

It was removed from Vero Beach HIGH SCHOOL.

Overlooked that. That’s stupid.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[ellja3]

Kind of! My girlfriend lived there for more than a year and I also lived in Utrecht for a year.

Actually living in the Netherlands again now, albeit not Amsterdam.

Ah, ok clear. I was wondering whether you know any sports-related spots in Amsterdam worthy a visit.