Yeah, it was piss poor. I shouldn't have included it.

I predict a lot of selling, indeed incredibly stupid selling, this Christmas, especially to family and relatives. Just don't mention the 'G' word, it's not kosher these days.

Or this?

With an attitude like that, no wonder. Especially as you yourself are advocating this "group think" you are talking about.

It is fairly accepted that diversity in a group tends to increase the quality of decision making. I do not see the reason in keeping intelligent people away from parliament just because they are not old or "mature" enough.

That argument is akin to saying "Fine, using that logic lets only drink water and not eat anything" to somebody who said water is good for you. I hope you can see that argument is fallacious, and well, quite silly.

Yes, this. As Steve Ballmer said "Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers". By developing for the XBOX the developer is using almost the same Microsoft stack as the one to develop on Microsoft Windows. This helps keep the developers locked in instead of developing using a cross platform API or the other specific technologies that the other console gaming platforms use. This also hugely decreases the friction involved in porting the game to windows. Do you see the Uncharted series on anything but a PS3? No. Do you see major Wii games ported to Windows? Not really. Do you see XBOX (360) games ported to Windows? Very Often. Xbox and Windows are symbiotic.

Cupcakes!? Surely you mean fruitcakes.

Um, I mean it's like never existed when you've died.

Yes. As an individual it's like you've never existed when you lived. So although life is horrible, it's not that bad in the end.

What, you expect Google to just sit there and take it!?

Grandparent was talking about a lawyer being able to take an advantageous position anything for their employer. Lawyers generally aren't interested in stuffing their employer.

I think Queen Bitch is a much more appropriate term here.

It certainly looks like that she is saying these things to pander to a a certain group of people which she believes will further her career. It is not certain that this is the case, but I'd bet on it.

I cried when I watched this video.

I've spoken about something extremely similar with the psychologist I have been seeing. From what I remember what the psychologist said was "Apart from scaring the living shit out of you, I can't see the purpose of him doing that to you" and he said that I have never experienced any love in my life. This sort of corporal punishment is shown to be really bad for a persons development. Please see the video entitled "Dr Drew livid over videotaped whipping" in this link.

Personally it has manifested in my life by the fact that neither me or my brother have never had a girlfriend and we are now in our late twenties, that I have tried to kill myself with bad results to my body (some loss of sexual function for one, although the psychologist thinks it is psychological), and that me and my brother are fairly socially outcast. Though perhaps there was a lot of plain bad luck, I believe we wouldn't be as broken as we are if our environment had been better. I've had a psychiatrist that I was seeing say "You could shoot the bastard, but it won't do you any good.", this was just after a couple of questions, I hadn't even told him about my life, just that I have had thoughts of revenge.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot more beatings and that she was locked in an almost empty room for weeks, apart from school and living necessities. From what I have seen, it looks like this guy is worse than my father. Part of me likes the idea of his balls being sawn off*.

* Although if that happened I actually don't believe I would take any satisfaction out of it, I just find this whole thing horrible.

Which one?

I know it is an artifact of Google Translate, but I like the name 'Road Roller'.

Except that it is super easy to do most things, and much easier to die.