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After months of work, chanelqueen17 has created a gorgeous scene of Alice and Oz from Pandora Hearts, using scans that didn't even feature both characters together. Even after spending so much time on matching the details of the characters to their new looks, chanelqueen17 didn't stop there and went all out on the background too! This wallpaper definitely needs to be seen!
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~kittylove
5 minutes ago
Everyone should check out that video!
☆Bantam
5 minutes ago
Bad image syntax is fail
~kittylove
7 minutes ago
$authemis
8 minutes ago
I'm okay whats a fail bantm?
☆Bantam
10 minutes ago
Fail
~kittylove
10 minutes ago
Hey Authy , and how are you?
$authemis
11 minutes ago
Hello
~kittylove
11 minutes ago
Hey Cerberus! how are you?
~Loleta
12 minutes ago
IMG]http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac319/LoletaBittersweet/cat-picture-bag-2-1-1.jpg[/IMG] Hello Masta~. *Meows*.
~kittylove
14 minutes ago
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Dooms Day
2 years 6 months ago
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Country vs country
2 years 6 months ago
"To be perfectly honest, I can't really get excited about any of my national teams most of the time, since most of them are in sports I don't really care much about, or because they suck. While I do like reading about the U.S. beating the Canadians in hockey whenever it happens, that's mostly because it's Canada's game they were beaten at; I'm not much of a hockey fan.In the recent World Cup, the U.S. team was downright awful, so I didn't bother getting disappointed at how it turned out. Instead, I saved my enthusiasm for Germany and France, and my disappointment for when the Italians eliminated them in turn. In a similar situation to the above, though, I do like it when the Mexicans can't manage to beat us.
On the whole, though, my sports passion is, like most Americans, reserved for professional, not national teams."
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Westboro Baptist Church
2 years 6 months ago
"Al Queda does have a political objective, namely the expulsion of the United States from the Middle East, in particular Saudi Arabia, and has as much to do with our support for the House of Saud as it does for Islam.
The Jewish-Arab conflict is, in fact, a rather new event, and is based fundamentally on land, not religion. The Arabs understandably unhappy about the Jews displacing them in Palestine and creating the State of Israel, and the Jews are understandably unhappy about the Arabs trying to take the land back. (The Palestine Liberation Organization was a nationalist entity, not a religious one.)
Of course, the Arabs are also unhappy about Israel's actions elsewhere, such as invading and occupying part of Lebanon in the 1980s. In particular, this invasion was why Hezbollah was formed in the first place, with the very secular aim of driving the Israelis out of Lebanon.
By talking about them, you're doing exactly what they want, which is giving them attention. Ignore them, and they'll die. Or do something so stupid to get attention that it will destroy them.
On the other hand, have a picture: http://www.bilerico.com/2005/12/collegehumor164376.jpg"
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Westboro Baptist Church
2 years 6 months ago
"I believe this has been covered.
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Westboro Baptist Church
2 years 6 months ago
"More often, when religion is being used as a "cause" of wars, it is being used as a means to further a secular and political end. The Thirty Years War, for instance, was less about Catholics and Protestants than it was about the House of Habsburg and their opponents."
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Harry Potter: The Eight Installment?
2 years 6 months ago
"Rowling is woman who, out of nowhere created a series of books beloved by people of all ages around the world, and with it created a franchise worth billions. If she can do that, killing off the star at the end of the series isn't going to ruin her career. Not only could she still write, but she has millions of other fans who would buy whatever new book just because she was the one writing it.
Whether any other project she undertakes can come close to matching the success of Harry Potter is something else entirely, but killing Harry Potter is in no way going to "ruin" her career."
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Crocodile eats 9 years old boy
2 years 7 months ago
"There is some merit to this position, but only some. While people of all ages can be stupid, there are different forms of stupidity. You cite people who are bad with money as an example of comparable stupidity to this, but it isn't. Albert Einstein once used a $10,000 check as a bookmark, and the check ended up at the library when he returned the book. This shows Einstein was forgetful (which he was), but doesn't say he was stupid on the level of this kid was, mostly because this didn't endanger his life or well-being.
Similarly, some stupidity can be forgiven if the person is a child. A three year old who manages to kill himself by eating dishwashing detergent or playing with a gun can be forgiven for not knowing what it was he was eating or playing with, that it was dangerous, or that his parents were irresponsible enough to leave it where a three year old could get to it; the child may have honestly not known what he was doing was dangerous, and the blame could primarily shift to the parents for causing the child's death through their own responsibility.
That doesn't apply in the case of young Mr. Liu, who was killed doing something monumentally stupid that he should have known was monumentally stupid. Kids may think they're indestructable, but walking into a proverbial lion's den and poking the proverbial lions with sticks is beyond pushing it. I fail to see why the kid should be cut any slack for doing something kids have his age would know was a good way to get yourself killed.
Why should I feel more sympathy for the kid than for the crocodile? The crocodile got killed for following its natural instincts, responding to provokation and protecting its unhatched young; it was its bad luck that the threat it dealt with was a stupid nine year old boy.
The boy, meanwhile, got himself killed doing something that it has been repeatedly said was mindbogglingly stupid, which everybody here knows was mindbogglingly stupid and that he should have known was mindbogglingly stupid in the first place. It's compounded by the fact that his stupidity ended not just his own life, but the life of the aforementioned crocodile.
The boy, by being an idiot, caused two deaths. The crocodile, meanwhile, was killed for doing what its instincts and nature told it to do by killing an intruder that would have been fine had it not been a human.
On balance, the crocodile is far more deserving of sympathy than the child."
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Crocodile eats 9 years old boy
2 years 7 months ago
"Maybe I was just exceptionally smart at 9 years old, but I knew that crocodiles were big things with lots of sharp teeth that could easily eat me, so it's best to stay away from and generally not screw around with them. All those people who file for bankruptcy and are otherwise not so smart with financial matters are also smart enough to realize that going into a crocodile's nesting area, shooting at them with slingshots, poking them with sticks, looking for their eggs and otherwise messing with it is a stupid thing to do.
Maybe people would sympathize with you. Maybe they wouldn't. People probably would not, however, call you exceedingly stupid for what you did. At least, not the same type of stupid as this was.
As stated above, it's common sense, even at that young age, that messing with large carnivores like crocodiles is not someone one should do. Animals tend to react with instinct when provoked, as these crocodiles were. Large carnivores (again, like these crocodiles) are well equipped for doing great harm to people, even killing them, when they react.
This crocodile reacted with its natural instinct to an intruder that was provoking it and, presumably, out to harm its young. Normally, this would be perfectly fine, since this is what crocodiles do. However, since the intruder was an exceedingly stupid kid, the crocodile was killed for it. The kid's stupidity got both himself and another animal killed. So yeah, it's perfectly reasonable to feel sorry for the crocodile here.
As such, I'm thinking of nominating this kid for a Darwin Award. He won't win, because the "maturity" requirement states that to win one needs to be sixteen. However, if what a kid does to remove him- or herself from the gene pool is stupid enough even accounting for their age and immaturity, the nomination will get inclued.
You may not think so, but I think provoking 11 crocodiles is stupid enough that most of his peers would know better."
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What will you do if someone know your secret, and he/she want to "share" it with everyone?
2 years 7 months ago
"The simplest answer is that if you have a secret to not share it with anyone.This goes along with the saying that "three people can keep a secret, provided two of them are dead"."
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humans and evolution
2 years 7 months ago
"Not if what you're trying to say is that race is equivalent to species, because that isn't true. Humans, wherever they are and what race they are, are all members of the same species, Homo sapiens sapiens."
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humans and evolution
2 years 8 months ago
"Humans adapt to their environment, but we don't adapt biologically. For us, cultural evolution replaces biological evolution, and we adapt our behavior to suit the environment rather than our biology. We don't need to adapt biologically, and we haven't needed to since the time modern humans emerged. This can be seen in the fact that humans, whatever climate they live in and however long they've been isolated from other groups of humans, are all the same species.Jared Diamond, in his book and TV documentary Guns, Germs and Steel talked about how sub-Saharan African cultures adapted to live in an environment infested with malaria. This involved living in small villages, which can be quite distant from each other, and staying as far away from bodies of water as was practical. This was totally different from how cultures in Europe and Asia developed, with big cities situated quite near bodies of water. While this prevented sub-Saharan cultures from advancing as far technologically as their Eurasian counterparts, it let them survive in their environment. Also, while these cultural adaptations left Africans ill-prepared to successfully resist European conquest, European cultural adaptation was unsuccessful in Africa for a long time, since it was condusive to the spread of malaria and continued to be until the development of medicines like quinine to fight it."
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Preved vsem medvedam!
3 years 3 months ago
"Looking at the url, the Cyrillic letters come out in Roman as "preved". Preved is, according to Wikipedia (so don't argue), a misspelling of privet, which means "hi"."View
World domination...
3 years 4 months ago
"To be perfectly honest, Animepaper is big or important enough for a wikipedia article. While it may be big in the anime wallpaper and scan business, it's really not a major force insofar as the Internet is concerned. Websites that are big enough, and have made some kind of significant impact would be worthy of an article. Sites like 2ch, 4chan, Fark, YTMND, eBaumsworld and SomethingAwful fit that bill; is AP in the same category as they are?If added to Wikipedia, I think an AP article would most likely be deleted as an advertisement or vanity page. Kind of like what's happened to staredit.net's entry."
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US currency:
3 years 4 months ago
"Unless you know who the person is, in which case the only way you could mistake the person in question for God is if you're insane or are too stupid to tell the difference.
Not that any of this matters, since the portraits and "In God We Trust" are on opposite sides on U.S. currency."
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US currency:
3 years 4 months ago
"Communism as a form of government may not have been something to be especially afraid of. Governments are governments. Communism as an ideology was something else entirely."
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elemental control
3 years 4 months ago
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US currency:
3 years 4 months ago
"I remember the Soviet Union being a superpower, with a military quite capable of fighting that of the U.S. on even terms or better, an intelligence service that was just as well versed in the practice of Dirty Tricks (and the usual tricks, to boot) as that of the U.S., with plenty of working experience, and several thousand nuclear weapons that they could deliver very easily.
You're saying it was dumb to be afraid of that?"
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Only Loli....
3 years 5 months ago
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what cars do you like
3 years 6 months ago
"I think this is a pretty cool car."View
The Da Vinci Code Movie
3 years 6 months ago
"According to the Internet (lol listening to the internet), the people who saw the movie at Cannes were less than impressed by it; they apparently broke out laughing at what was supposed to be one of the more dramatic lines in the film, and didn't bother trying to contain their laughter afterwards. The end result was that it was panned by critics. While it won't stop this theatrical juggernaut from making a box office killing, it offers a different answer to the question of whether the film is worth seeing."View
Jun(6)-06-06
3 years 6 months ago
"I distinctly remember hearing the exact same thing before June 6, 1996, as well. It would appear that they were wrong, and I have no reason they're any more right now than they were then."View
Women and War
3 years 6 months ago
"This geography teacher should have paid more attention in history class. If (s)he had, (s)he would have remembered Queen Victoria and how, in the 62 years she was on the British throne, not one year passed in which her troops weren't fighting a war somewhere.
Or Zenobia of Palmyra, who, seizing an opportunity presented by a power vacuum in Rome, proceeded to conquer and hold for a time much of the Roman Empire's eastern provinces.
Or the Empress Theodora, who was responsible for her husband Justinian not fleeing Constantinople during the Nika Uprising and staying and fighting to keep his throne, and through that the wholesale slaughter of the rioters. She didn't exactly discourage Justinian from trying to reconquer the Western Empire.
Or Queen Elizabeth I of England, who cheerfully steered England into a war with Spain, a war which King Philip II would have been happy to have not fought had Elizabeth not pushed him too far.
Or Tsarina Elizabeth of Russia, who was determined to drive Frederick the Great from the Prussian throne and, in conjunction with Empress Maria Theresa of Austria fought the Seven Years War to do just that. (Had Elizabeth not conveniently died, Prussia likely would have been crushed.)
Or Tsarina Catherine the Great, who conquered the Crimea from the Ottoman Empire, and then schemed to place her lover on the Polish throne. When the new Polish king refused to be the pliant puppet she had wanted, she, along with Prussia and Austria, forced Poland to hand over large swaths of its territory.
Or the Empress Dowager Cixi of China, who was determined to remove foreign influence in China, and to accomplish that end set China against the all the great powers of the world in 1900.
Or Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, who, to preserve her influence over her son, provoked the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Or Indira Gandhi, who sponsored India's original nuclear weapons program, and who led India's intervention into the Pakistani Civil War in 1971.
I'd be interested in seeing these studies your teacher cited, since there seems to be plenty of evidence from history available that challenges its conclusions."
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!Germany!
3 years 6 months ago
"I've long been interested in Germany. This probably developed from my interest in history, and the important roles Germany has played in it at various times. That led to Germany being one of the places I've concentrated on when studying history.It also led me to want to learn German. I took German in high school, but didn't find it as enjoyable as I might have hoped. That may have stemmed from my German teacher being an ass, but I grew less interested as time went on, and after I stopped taking it, I gradually lost most of what I had learned, along with the French I took in middle school. Oh well.
Also, I couldn't stand Lola rennt."
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have you ever got straight A's
3 years 6 months ago
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Gankutsuoh,has anyone watched?
3 years 7 months ago
"The artwork takes a bit of getting used to, but it's once you do get used to it, it's wonderful. Also, the story is magnificent, even if certain purists will dislike changes in it from the original. It's widely considered Gonzo's best work ever, bar none. To quote the last paragraph of Anime News Network's review of the second DVD from January:Conclusion: Watch it. Now."
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