Furry Canary

Reply to Terminator genes...a threat to global agriculture? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

A major factor in the development of such GM foodstuffs was the desire to keep raking in cash from the third world. After all, why charge them ONCE for grain, when you can do it year after year after year? Once again, the environment (not to mention any sense whatsoever of social justice) plays second fiddle to the irresistible smell of the largest profit imaginable. And it's not exactly science's finest hour either. There was a time when the

Reply to Scotland Is Full of Psychos in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Yoiu fail to mention the article goes on to say that England and Wales run Scotland a close second for violence. Shouldn't you change your tagline to 'An ENGLISH perspective?'

Reply to Why does an Atheist do what they do? in Religion JoeUser Forums

'What is it about God that Atheists fear so much?' Er, I think you've got this the wrong way round, foreverserenity. To quote just one of several similar quotes from the Bible: 'That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.' (Joshua 4:24.) So it is BELIEVERS who fear God, not atheists. I don't believe in the existence of God, so how can I fear hi

Reply to PRESIDENT BUSH HAS AN EPIPHANY in Politics JoeUser Forums

Ooh, so much personal invective. Methinks someone located a sore spot among the right.

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

' Just for the record, I find the title of your article offensive ...' While I agree, xtine, personally I find the content far more disturbing - particularly the statement 'I don’t understand why black people get so upset when white people use the word “nigger”'. She is either very ignorant of black American history or in denial.

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

'Are you running on diminished brain capacity or are you being deliberately obtuse?' Diminished brain capacity - I find I don't need to employ more than a fraction of my full mental abilities when dealing with you, drmiler! 'In reply #13 LW very specifically refers to "SLAVERY"! And my reply (#17) is ALSO referring DIRECTLY to slavery!' Hint to drmiler: Which came first

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

'cause you are a bird....' Touché!

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

'... Furry was correct with her answer of Rosa Parks.' Why is everybody so convinced I'm a girl?

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

drmiler wades back in, brandishing a limp stick of celery ... 'When you replied on #9 all you quoted was the last line.' Exactly. It was EXPLICITLY the last line to which I responded, and nothing else. Little Whip had the sense to see and the good grace to acknowledge this. (Thanks, LW.) You obviously have neither, drmiler. Manopeace's reply was a list of grievances, to which LW provided an all-encompassing reply. I disputed

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

' Furry - While you did not mention slavery specifically, that was the context of the comments you responded to.' * Sigh * Absolute codswallop, Zoomba. It's all there in black and white. Go back and read it. 1. Manopeace supplied a list of historical abuses against black people, including but not limited to slavery. 2. Little Whip responded to ALL of them, saying that ''There isnt an "African American" alive today that knows

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

'WRONG! She was born in 1913! Looong after slavery was abolished! So she did NOT live through it. Want to try again? Just an FYI discrimination is different from slavery.' Oh dear. A slow one. Suggest you go back and read the post again, drmiler. Better still, I'll save you the trouble and copy it here - from your OWN post ... Furry Canary ... Do you know what it means to be denied the same rights as your white neighbours?' 'There

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

'I have never used the word so to speak but it just pisses me off to no end when I hear black people saying it'. To all those poor sensitive souls who wilt like yesterday's lettuce at even hearing black people use the word 'nigger', do you perhaps remember the Simpsons episode 'Homer Phobia', which featured John Waters? One exchange, to the best of my memory, went something like this ... John Waters: Homer, you just hate me because I'm

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

'Name one! And it better be one who lived through it.' Rosa Parks.

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

'... Do you know what it means to be denied the same rights as your white neighbours?' 'There isnt an "African American" alive today that knows how it feels, either, Mano.' The hell there isn't, LW!

Reply to UNDER GOD! in Religion JoeUser Forums

'-They DO NOT HAVE TO recite it...period... The parents, if they are atheist, can go to the school and insist their child leave at the time it is said... ' And how does that make those children feel? I would suggest there are two kinds of children at such schools - those that recite the pledge (whether they subscribe to it or not), and those that sit outside the room while the pledge is being recited inside, feeling marginalised. Public sc

Reply to If You're Responsible in Blogging JoeUser Forums

'Like he stated, Canada, too, has laws concerning working hours, paid leave, and sick time. In my country, there really is NO excuse to come to work highly contagious, thereby spreading it around to everyone and anyone.' (This is a genuine question, not a dig.) What about contractors as opposed to employees? In Canada, if you are not salaried but paid on an hourly / daily / weekly rate - do you still get sick pay? I only ask because here in Austral

Reply to N!??3R in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I suspect that there may be an element here of black people reclaiming power over a word that is inextricably associated with their cultural history of discrimination. It's a bit like the words 'dyke' and 'queer', for example - once upon a time, to hear these words spoken was a sure-fire giveaway of prejudice on the part of the speaker. Now, they are worn with some pride by some (if not all) gay women and men respectively. Even so, I'm not s

Reply to Israel vs. UN: Why has it always been on bad terms with it.. in International JoeUser Forums

'And btw.....don't pay any attention to the furry bird. Just ignore her.' Not for the first time, drmiler, I'm a HIM, if you don't mind!

Reply to A Woman's Right to Choose, Not MY Responsibility to Pay! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

'I've seen you advance some pretty stupid arguments before, but that one takes first prize.' Ah, the insult ... one's best friend in the absence of a decent argument.

Reply to Israel vs. UN: Why has it always been on bad terms with it.. in International JoeUser Forums

You need to go back further than three decades, Lucas. Find out about the origins of the state. Then the animosity between Israel and its immediate neighbours may begin to make more sense to you.

Reply to A Woman's Right to Choose, Not MY Responsibility to Pay! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

'I see abortion as a moral wrong. I will always see it as such. ... If abortion rights advocates want abortions to be paid for, let THEM pay for it. Let them hold bake sales, telethons, what have you, to raise the funds to pay for abortion.' I feel the same way, but about a variety of other issues - having nuclear weapons springs most readily to mind. The advocates of nuclear defence would have to have a pretty big cake stall ... <img src="../image

Reply to Things i need to say...#2 in Misc JoeUser Forums

'I was excited when i found him, but he didn't want contact with me.... It was hard...i mean i had searched and searched, for that missing link...but, things happen for a reason right?' Sorry things didn't work out with your dad, Lucas. I don't know whether or not things actually do all 'happen for a reason', but I know one thing - it's HIS loss. Happy virtual birthday. Here's wishing you the strength you need.

Reply to Thinking 'bout death. in Misc JoeUser Forums

I'm with Roger McGough on this one. For those who don't know him, McGough is a Liverpool poet who first came to public attention during the 1960s - hence his reference in the poem below to the 'the Cavern', the Liverpool club in which the Beatles achieved their initial, local notoriety. Here is his poem, 'Let me die a young man's death'. Let me die a young man's death not a clean and inbetween the sheets holywater death not a famou

Reply to Top 10 Authors i like..... in Misc JoeUser Forums

By 'authors', I'm assuming you mean novelists, hence you'll find no Shakespeare (plays / sonnets), Alan Moore (graphic novels) or Paul Davies (non-fiction) here, for example. Anyway, here's today's list. Tomorrow's would doubtless be very different ... Iain Banks John Banville Julian Barnes Richard Brautigan Philip Dick Elizabeth Gaskell Ernest Hemingway Jerzy Kosinski Dylan Thomas Robert Tressel

Reply to What was Your First Favorite Movie as a Child? in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

' My memory is soooooooooo good I remember slapping the doctor back at birth.' That's nothing. I remember going to the high school dance with dad and coming home with mum!