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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I know that React once showed Honey Boo Boo to people, but the thumbnail didn't really motivate me to watch it - probably for the better. :/
I only watch TV when visiting my family - my mother likes to watch Krimis. I didn't even plug my TV in when I moved into my current flat half a year ago.
Most of the program is shit anyway, so why bother.
edited 24th Aug '15 1:25:27 PM by DrunkenNordmann
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyNah those are only for the waiting rooms. The hospital rooms have their own T Vs.
It is a private hospital, btw, not a public one.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesThis FB post pretty much explains why I want Josh Duggar to burn in Hell
edited 24th Aug '15 2:50:31 PM by NoName999
I'm pretty sure this is the U.S. politics thread, not the Dig Duggar thread.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Eric Erickson made a point like that, suggesting that conservatives would outbreed liberals, which would be true if he were only considering white conservatives and white liberals, but the growth demographics in this country are almost locked in for Democrats (at least, until the Republican coalition collapses and they have to start ignoring the racists.)
The problem with the idea of conservatives out breeding liberals is that it assumes that all kids vote like their parents. Sure some do get screwed up enough to do so, but seeing how much younge people lean Democrat we can see that the idea that the kids of conservatives vote Republican simply isn't true.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranFundamentalism needs to be destroyed, plain and simple. It's disgusting that these bigoted, holier-than-thou shitheads are still allowed to spread beliefs that encourage hatred and hypocrisy on an inhuman level.
Trump says that if people that he rounds up are good, then he will release them back into the U.S. I don't want to go into too much of a rant, so I'll say it quickly-look at the criminal records first instead of deporting first. Not that any aspect of Trump's immigration policy are feasible, but that specific part simply doesn't have an ounce of sense to it.
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."

Josh Duggar 2020.
If his wife can forgive all the shit he has done, so can you
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes