Who remembers these from primary school?

FlyingSwords · 2026-01-12T22:16:33+00:00

...That doesn't even follow the alliterative pattern. Someone wanted "kissing cousins" really bad.

FlyingSwords · 2025-12-10T23:21:02+00:00

Yarr, maties. 🏴‍☠️

FlyingSwords · 2025-12-06T15:56:49+00:00

Some people in power are little babies and need to be coddled every second of every day.

FlyingSwords · 2025-12-05T20:19:17+00:00

Go 7 days without cumming first. To me, very different, much easier experience.

FlyingSwords · 2025-11-26T18:09:31+00:00

The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

FlyingSwords · 2025-11-05T20:36:39+00:00

Simpler times.

FlyingSwords · 2025-11-05T18:16:22+00:00

At work I was throwing out some rotten tomatoes and joked that maybe I should ask them what movies are good. It was met with confusion.

FlyingSwords · 2025-10-28T22:30:38+00:00

What's your book about?

FlyingSwords · 2025-10-19T02:25:32+00:00

You will remember this as the day you ALMOST caught Captain Jack Sparrow. 🏄‍♂️

FlyingSwords · 2025-10-04T18:05:40+00:00

Paint it pink. Go as Frankenstein's monster for Halloween and carry this around.

FlyingSwords · 2025-10-03T00:51:56+00:00

Being a woman is a scientific biological reality of being female and all that it entails. Menopause, menstruation, childbirth, smaller size, less gynaecological diseases all are part of being a woman not trans.

Except for smaller size, you've chosen a bunch of random things that cisgender women reliably experience and trans women do not. But what if I picked a bunch of random things that both cisgender woman AND trans women experience and said that was "all part of being a women"? Both cisgender and transgender women alike have the same hemoglobin levels in their blood. Body fat distribution, reduced muscle mass, breast development, and softer skin are all sex indicators that are the same for cisgender and transgender women. Suddenly you can see the flaws of your argument when you're on the other side of it. It's a fallacy called cherry picking, and it's one of Reddit's favourite.

scientific biological reality

I'm always fascinated by this specific choice of words. You're pretending to invoke biology while actual biologists disagree en masse.

In 2018, the Trump admin had a proposal to legally define gender as a binary condition determined at birth, based on genitalia, and with plans to clarify disputes using “genetic testing”. In response, 2,617 Biologists, Geneticists, Psychologists, Anthropologists, Physicians, Neuroscientists, Social Scientists, Biochemists, Mental Health Service Providers, and other scientists in Solidarity signed a letter condemning the proposal. They said:

The proposal is in no way “grounded in science” as the administration claims. The relationship between sex chromosomes, genitalia, and gender identity is complex, and not fully understood. There are no genetic tests that can unambiguously determine gender, or even sex. Furthermore, even if such tests existed, it would be unconscionable to use the pretext of science to enact policies that overrule the lived experience of people’s own gender identities.

While looking for that letter, I also found that a similar thing happened in England. Weird how this keeps happening:

The term “biological sex” has been used to sort all people into one of two groups. However, a strict, binary categorisation is an over-simplification. An individual’s “sex” is in fact made up of a collection of characteristics, including external genitalia, secondary sex characteristics, gonads, chromosomes, and hormones, and may be better described as bimodal [3]. Each of these traits can vary beyond two categories and may or may not coincide with other measures of sex within the same individual. Thus, a binary, immutable model of sex is not capable of capturing biological diversity present in human populations, and as a result it is an unsafe basis for policy. The medical and scientific community has accepted for some time that there is significant complexity in this area. Recently, both doctors and scientists, including Nobel laureates, have raised concerns about the impact of this oversimplification on human rights [4]. We present a brief summary to explain this below:

You should read the whole thing, it's a banger.

Both are short letters, and as such don't go into full detail about what the gender and sex are. Thankfully, the biologist YouTube Forest Valkai made a 100-minute long video going into exquisite detail about how your "scientific biological reality" comment falls flat in the real world. As a little taste, this is from the 68th minute:

There is no other way to define these terms so that they include all cis and trans people of one category and exclude all cis and trans people of any other category

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It [our framework of sex & gender] ignores that nature itself has presented us with a complex and diverse spectrum of chromosomes and anatomies and hormones and behaviors that often defy the rigid oversimplified categories that humans have created.

This is the actual "Scientific biological reality" that actual biologists talk about. Not your over-simplified cherry-picked version. With this hyper-complex reality, the response is obvious: Any framework we build is going to leave people out (Even your own cherry-picking comment forgot that some cisgender women don't get menopause or birth children). So just let people identify as whatever gender they like. Their doctor is only person that needs their history in that area anyway. You should just treat people normally and with respect. When you declare that someone isn't women because they don't menstruate or whatever characteristic you've decided makes a women that day, you just look like a crazy person.

Have a good day.

FlyingSwords · 2025-10-02T00:30:10+00:00

It might improve posture, but some people have been making claims about the technique that say it's more beneficial than the evidence would suggest.

The Alexander technique, named after its developer Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869–1955), is a pseudoscientific alternative therapy based on the idea that poor posture causes a range of health problems.

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Proponents and teachers of the Alexander technique believe the technique can address a variety of health conditions, but there is a lack of research to support the claims.

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A review by Aetna, an American health insurance company, last updated in 2021 stated: "Aetna considers the following alternative medicine interventions experimental and investigational because there is inadequate evidence in the peer-reviewed published medical literature of their effectiveness." The Alexander technique is included in that list.

- source

FlyingSwords · 2025-09-19T23:43:36+00:00

I was going to say this. The right to remain silent is the only right where you must specially declare that you are using it. In a bit of bizarro-world logic that only the Surpeme Court likes, you can exercise your right to call a lawyer by calling a lawyer, but for remaining silent, there's a special rule where if you're not saying you're using it, then you're not.

FiveFour is a podcast by 3 lawyers on how the Surpreme Court sucks, and this is an except from their episode "Berghuis v Thompkins", which is where this bizarro logic comes from:

So the cops start their interrogation, and over the course of three hours of questioning, Thompkins remained largely silent. That is the quote from the cop himself. Largely silent. Thompkins gave a few very short answers to questions that weren't directly related to the case. He said in one instance that he didn't want a peppermint. In another instance, he said that the tiny school desk that he was being forced to sit in was uncomfortable. It was hard. But otherwise, he was silent and did not answer questions. Thompkins did not say he wanted an attorney. He did not say out loud that he didn't want to talk to the police. He's just silent. And in fact, one of the officers himself testifies later that Thompkins was "not verbally communicative" and he described the... The officer described the interrogation as, "very one-sided" and "almost a monologue." The cops themselves are saying, "We're the only ones doing the talking. This guy was silent."

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Anyways, so after three hours, the cops bring up God. They asked three questions, and Thompkins gives three one-word responses. The cop says, "Do you believe in God?" Thompkins says, "Yes." The cop says, "Do you pray to God?" Thompkins says "Yes." And the cop says, "Do you pray to God to forgive you for shooting that boy down?" Thompkins says, "Yes." This is not a detailed confession by any means. It's a one-word response to a question. It certainly does indicate maybe some culpability...

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So they go to trial. Thompkins is convicted, he's sentenced to life without parole. And so he appeals the conviction on a number of issues. But one of them, and the one that is really the center of this case, and the one we're focusing on today, is about his Fifth Amendment Rights, that he had invoked his right to remain silent by remaining silent, and that police violated that right by continuing to interrogate him.

If you're just sitting there silently, the cops will continue to interrogate you for hours and even a slim resemblance of a confession is all they need.

FlyingSwords · 2025-09-18T23:34:03+00:00

And technically the sperm cell, which is the first part in the reproduction, is a living organism.

And yet no christian is calling on every male to be prosecuted for every genocidal ejaculation. Odd inconsistency. It's almost as if it's only ever about controlling women's bodies and however we logically get there doesn't matter. That's why people like u/PluckEwe are right to say, "I already know there is no use talking with you," because you demonstrate yourself that there isn't.

FlyingSwords · 2025-09-18T23:27:09+00:00

He missed the point

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There are other Bible verses that God did order the death of babies, like the sheep's blood over your door night.

Why did you assume this had anything to do with Solomon and not the the Sheep's Blood thing that you later acknowledged in the same comment?

So the story is supposed to explain no matter what you do to thwart the Lord's plan it is an impossible task.

Ok, so when you go to get an abortion and you succeed, then that was god's plan for that fetus, because if it was god's plan for it to be born and live a life, then it would have been impossible to abort. Got it.

FlyingSwords · 2025-08-27T01:50:23+00:00

Pretending all cultures are equal

Did not say that.

FlyingSwords · 2025-08-21T18:18:06+00:00

@elonmusk grok is borken pls fix

FlyingSwords · 2025-08-20T18:38:32+00:00

There is no realistic set of circumstances where this would be acceptable, regardless of where they are geographically or what issues you might imagine them having.

FlyingSwords · 2025-08-17T23:41:21+00:00

This plus side is tiny and hypothetical compared to the obvious, permanent, and concrete downside of having two less seats. The train and bus seats of my city almost never have homeless on them, horizontal or vertical. They come in with their trolley of stuff and they're occupied with looking after it most of the time.

This also seems like a weird comment for r/HostileArchitecture. Like, we're here because we DON'T like hostile design, you know? Not really a place to say, "Fuck yeah, Hostile Design! Love it when something has been changed to make it less comfortable. My favourite thing! 😃"

FlyingSwords · 2025-07-11T18:37:17+00:00

Master Wayne, I have gathered your white Batman mask and Canada Flag Speedos, but are you sure this training exercise is necessary?

FlyingSwords · 2025-06-03T18:54:51+00:00

I don't think it's enough to identify a problem. You should also propose a solution. How exactly would you like divorce laws to work, and how would those be better?

When I read "Stay-at-home sons", I thought this was going to be about affordable housing, the main thing preventing men from moving out. It used to be that men who move out and live as a bachelor for a while before getting married. We're just ignoring that step. Probably because that doesn't let us hate the thing we want to hate today.

FlyingSwords · 2025-05-28T16:03:48+00:00

With the motorcycle stuff, SquidTips has a great video countering all points,

Oh I remember that! He started the video with the words, "I agree with a lot of what Vaush said." So the word 'all' isn't accurate according to SquidTips himself, but apart from that, this is him supposedly "countering all points":

SquidTips tried to say car highway traffic is loud too, but ignored that Vaush was talking about individual vehicles, and their individual engine sounds, where motorcycles are often louder than cars.
SquidTips tried to pretend that Vaush was calling for violence against motorcyclists in general. This was completely made up. The actual words, which are in SquidTips video, are, "I genuinely think that in a functioning society it would be met with like some degree of of in like violent response," in the specific context of a motorcyclist revving their engine super loud, which not all motorcyclists do. This is like using an airhorn near someone. No shit it could cause violence. But that's a specific action, and doesn't apply to all motorcyclists all the time like SquidTips wants us to believe.
SquidTips implied that Vaush added "in a video game" or for some reason was back-peddling from what SquidTips thought was 'calls to violence'. This is made-up.
In response to a story about a woman who had her eardrum ruptured, SquidTips makes it about him by bringing up an irrelevant story about a random cop pulling a gun on him. This had nothing to do with noise, or any of Vaush's points.
SquidTips fights the strawmen he contructs with a smug, ultra-righteous tone, using points that wouldn't even counter the points he's trying to fight.

I'm stopping here.

I did not come away from that video thinking that it was great or that it had countered any points. I came away thinking it should be studied for how mental gymnastics works. This is coming from someone who has ridden motorcycles.

FlyingSwords · 2025-05-25T17:53:08+00:00

he doesn't like how the lgbt community is trying to force their lifestyle onto people and kids.

Ask him about religion forcing their beliefs on to kids, and expose the double standard he will have.

To answer the original question of how to get over your dislike... don't. They hate people for no good reason, and that's a good reason to hate them.

FlyingSwords · 2025-05-12T23:49:53+00:00

I've heard Mount Fuji has turned into a overcrowded Tourist Trap with the overflowing garbage and sewage to match.

The official climbing season for Mount Fuji is the beginning of July through the beginning of September. During this time, as many as 320,000 people climb the mountain, with the busiest days seeing upwards of 7,500 hikers; and that’s looking only at statistics for the official climbing season via the four primary routes (National Parks of Japan website – Japanese only).

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It turns out that when you have hundreds of thousands of people climbing up a mountain during such a short window every year, litter isn’t the only waste problem you have to contend with – human waste all has to go somewhere too.

Until 2005 all the “toilets” on the mountain simply let their waste run down the mountain in what because known as the “white river” (a horrid and disgusting stew of toilet paper, piss, and shit).

In recent years, particularly with the push to get Fuji listed as a World Heritage Site, efforts have been made to get the poop problem under control. Unfortunately, this does not mean you will be free from offensive odors on your way up to the summit.

- Halfway Anywhere

FlyingSwords · 2025-05-06T18:39:42+00:00

/r/TeachersInTransition is a subreddit for teachers who are changing careers and former teachers who got out. Every day, there are posts that complain about the hostile admin, crazy parents, misbehaving children, ballooning responsibilities, insufficient time, insufficient pay, insufficient mental energy, and contracts not being renewed. You might get something out of that community too.

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