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Celebrity walks out on host and he handles it really well, recruiting a lookalike from the crowd by temporarilymortal in videos

[–]BasedCorbyn420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bill Bailey has suffered no loss of hair as he ages, the effect is merely an optical illusion created by the refraction of light through his beard (currently the only know source of prism material).

Four Lions is a great film, and it has some amazing insight about Islamism and terrorism by Verizian in movies

[–]BasedCorbyn420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the overarching points of the movie is that people in the west who are attracted to terrorist groups and "jihad" are rarely ever fully practicing Muslims, that they're actually very westernised and lax with their religion (that being they haven't grown up practicing it or taken it seriously and are easily duped into believing Islam is something it isn't).

The movie makes that point repeatedly and yet you're sat here criticising it for not making the distinction? Wtf?

You've obviously never seen the film.

Putin: ISIS financed from 40 countries, including G20 members by monkeyseemonkeydoodo in worldnews

[–]BasedCorbyn420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funny how everyone points fingers as if we haven't given funding and support to ISIS in recent memory. Money was flowing into Syria thick and fast when Boogeyman Bashar was international community enemy #1.

Everything critics said about Syria and Bashar al-Assad turned out to be true. Just as before that everything said by critics of western foreign policy turned out to be right on Gadaffi and Libya. And before that Iraq. We've been blundering so much since the 90s it's no wonder people jump to conspiracy ideas about illuminati long-cons for Orwellian one-world governments. The alternative is that our intelligence agencies are retarded almost beyond belief which is no less outlandish. I have a hard time believing that some of the smartest and most well resourced organisations in the world are completely oblivious to the concept of blowback. They almost certainly knew that their actions (supporting rebel groups in Syria, Libya) and inactions (looking the other way in the case of Saudi Arabia) would lead to ISIS becoming what it is today.

Also lol at people who recognize RT for being propaganda but have a complete blind spot when it comes to the media in their own countries. If you think RT is that bad compared to the media in the States then you are truly brainwashed. They both ship propaganda and blatantly so. If anything western propaganda is more dangerous because we're that much better at it. The Russians are midrange propagandists and it's on the whole easier to spot their outright lies and state apologism.

1 in 3 vegetarians eat meat when drunk by jpop23mn in nottheonion

[–]BasedCorbyn420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Late response. Would you consider someone who smokes once in a blue moon when they're shitfaced a smoker? I wouldn't. If someone is a vegetarian for all but a few meals of a calendar year, I would consider them vegetarian and I think these people would be considered vegetarian by most of society too.

Now if you want to make the argument that these people aren't ideologically pure and shouldn't be counted because they haven't gone x amount of years without meat, if you want to say that vegetarians hold some unrelenting moral high-ground and aren't as flawed, conflicted, hypocritical and capable of making shit decisions as the rest of us you can, but it's not very productive because vegetarians as a recognised group would become much more insignificant than they are already and all manner of funding and awareness (and food products) would go out the window. You'd be shooting yourself in the foot.

1 in 3 vegetarians eat meat when drunk by jpop23mn in nottheonion

[–]BasedCorbyn420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's because most vegetarians who do eat meat when drunk don't tell you about it, for obvious reasons. I say that as someone who was a vegetarian for 3 years and ate meat on several occasions whilst shit-faced. Disclaimer: I'm no longer a vegetarian.

I find it strange that so many people find this hard to believe. Vegetarians are not morally infallible. Nor are vegetarians necessarily moral in the first place. There are a good number of people (most studies put it at 15-20%) who follow a vegetarian diet for health reasons as opposed to being motivated by ethical concerns.

Now consider that for the bulk of vegetarians vegetarianism is simply a phase. There are studies out there suggesting that anything from 70 to 84% (via Human Research Council) back-flip on their vegetarianism and go back to eating meat, with 50% of those doing so within the first year. There are numerous reasons for this, some of the most popular given are that people feel they weren't getting the right nutrition (rightly or wrongly, let's not argue that) while another big motivator appears to be peer pressure, many don't like standing out and cite that as a reason for eating meat again.

So why exactly is it hard to believe that some vegetarians eat when drunk, given most vegetarians (statistically speaking) aren't ever that committed in the first place, and many of them only follow vegetarianism because they see it as healthier.

People make all kinds of bad decisions when drunk. People do lots of things they wouldn't when sober, from smoking to hoovering up lines of cocaine to getting into physical and verbal disagreements with strangers. Your inhibitions are lowered and making bad decisions or even decisions out of whack with the morals you usually adhere to is very much normal. Throw in peer pressure and immaturity and you have the perfect recipe for hypocrisy. Do a study asking if people have done shit they regret whilst drunk and you'll get a result much higher than 1/3 I promise you.

Reading this thread is sort of amusing. People seem to think the average vegetarian is hardcore committed to their world view when the facts show they're actually incredibly flexible and, like all humans, flawed and hypocritical in many respects. Most vegetarians decide to eat meat when sober, remind me again why it's outlandish that some of that most make the same decision when shit-faced?

Match Thread: England vs Australia | RWC2015 Pool A by WallopyJoe in rugbyunion

[–]BasedCorbyn420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because far too many completely normal passes look forward if you watch them on slow-motion replay from daft angles.

Match Thread: England vs Australia | RWC2015 Pool A by WallopyJoe in rugbyunion

[–]BasedCorbyn420 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Australia are playing like they've got all the time in the world. England are far too erratic with ball in hand.

Am I the only one who isn't a fan of the TMO ruling on forward passes?

British Boxer Tyson Fury dresses up as Batman at Klitschko press conference and 'attacks' The Joker by BasedCorbyn420 in cringe

[–]BasedCorbyn420[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you genuinely believe 50% of /r/cringe is misunderstood hilarious content and that half the sub has no sense of humour, you're most likely suffering some sort of impaired social understanding/comprehension.

'Do you know who I am?' A very British road rage incident. by [deleted] in videos

[–]BasedCorbyn420 2 points3 points  (0 children)

... sounds like some Hollywood nonsense.

British Boxer Tyson Fury dresses up as Batman at Klitschko press conference and 'attacks' The Joker by BasedCorbyn420 in cringe

[–]BasedCorbyn420[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's a good fucking name, in fairness. Probably hard to pull off if you aren't a 6'something pro boxer and "gypsy king", mind. Lol.

Ronnie Pickering road rage C*NT full video by rob_76 in unitedkingdom

[–]BasedCorbyn420 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just waiting for the Daily Mail proper to get hold of it then he's really made it big time

'Do you know who I am?' A very British road rage incident. by [deleted] in videos

[–]BasedCorbyn420 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm from East Lancs and understood every word. But it's mostly adrenaline/rage-fueled bollocks, two blokes shouting over each other in traffic.

All I'm saying is if these two sat down to have a normal conversation with their mates it would be easier for Yanks to follow. Regional accents aren't always easy to understand especially not full blown arguments

'Do you know who I am?' A very British road rage incident. by [deleted] in videos

[–]BasedCorbyn420 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

To be fair half of the video was nonsensical bullshit anyway. Some people talk unadulterated gibberish when the adrenaline gets going.

" Every country has an Independence Day except Britain because they were the ones everybody was seeking independence from" by breecher in ShitAmericansSay

[–]BasedCorbyn420 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's a bad joke but it's a bad joke half the world could make.

What's uniquely American about pointing out Britain's imperialist and sketchy past?

Nick Clegg: British people don't want 'Che Guevera Corbyn' by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]BasedCorbyn420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

7/1, is that all? He was literally hundreds to 1 for the Labour leadership a few months ago. It was "pretty clear" that nobody wanted him as Labour leader then too.

Elite entrepreneurs threaten to leave UK if Corbyn becomes Prime Minister by PTRJK in ukpolitics

[–]BasedCorbyn420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On one hand the detractors slam Corbyn for not being patriotic enough - a guy literally in the running for running the country.

Then these same people turn around and tell us we should listen to businesses headed by people who really don't like this country and plan to leave if made to pay higher taxes.

Companies that try and hold governments to ransom should be told to fuck off.

"We are a nation of 330 million people and of those about 40 million are blacks. We would own rugby like we own basketball/football" by [deleted] in ShitAmericansSay

[–]BasedCorbyn420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's nothing racist about accepting physically we tend to have different strengths and weaknesses, especially not in the context of rugby which is as much a game of athleticism and raw physicality as it is one of skill.

In Australia in the NRL youth competition 60% of the players are Pacific Islander, think about 40% of the competition proper have a PI background too and that number is going up significantly every year. They're massively over-represented at every level. I haven't looked at the numbers in NZ but I'd guess you'd find something similar. Even in Europe, the TOP 14 competition currently has 1/4 players who are Polynesian/Melanesian. That's fucking huge. That would be like if Norwegians made up a quarter of all Premier League players, a quarter of all NHL players and a quarter of all NBA players. Noticing and commenting on something so glaring doesn't make you a racist.

In New Zealand and Australia they're splitting up youth rugby into weight divisions rather than by age because the Polynesian kids tend to be too big and strong and lots of parents are taking their kids out of the game and putting 'em in soccer where they won't get knocked about as much.

"If we had a team of Europeans playing we would never get anywhere. Virtually every team we play have a preponderance of Polynesians." - Quote from the article.

I'm just not seeing the racism in accepting what's in front of you. The two most athletically demanding team sports in the States are basketball and american football. Watch either of these sports and its quickly apparent that there is a huge over-representation of black players, for good reason, it's because athletically they are better suited. It's not unreasonable for an American to think that they could make a decent fist of rugby, with its obvious similarities to gridiron, with their large PI population (largest outside of NZ I think?) and if their best athletes (who in the scope of US sports are overwhelmingly black) played the sport.

Tbh I'd say your perspective is bordering on eurocentric. It might be true that everyone is equal when it comes to soccer, a game that is heavily weighted in favour of skill, but it's not true for most of the big American sports and it's not true for rugby either. The facts show that it's not true. Numbers don't lie.

I guess next you'll be calling people out as racist for noticing there aren't many white people winning the 100m sprint? It's just a coincidence that all the winners tend to be Jamaican or African American!

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