The Abortion Thread

Ken Shultz's picture

I tried to be nice about this. I tried to get along. ...but nooOOOOOooo. You wouldn't sign up for Fantasy Football.

So AS PROMISED here it is--The Abortion Thread.

So how many abortions have YOU had? Have you ever talked a woman into getting an abortion? Should men have to face paternity suits if abortion is still legal?

If the discussion lags, I can add more questions but that should be enough to get started... Of course, you could help put a stop to this thread too...

Just go to the following link:

http://www.grylliade.org/node/953

...and join the Libertarian Fantasy Football league. But before you do, please, be forewarned--playing fantasy football can and does involve reveling in the accomplishments of others.

Shem's picture

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No. Just no.

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dhex's picture

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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J sub D's picture

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Zero, no, and I'm way too smart to go there.
Sorry to read that your recruitment effort is struggling. Being tenuosly rooted in reality, I've never gotten into tribalistic, trailer trash fantasy sports leagues. NTTAWWT.
;-)

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bzial's picture

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This thread needs more illegal immigrants and US anti-shiite factions in Georgia. Oh debates about how much God either rocks and/or sucks.

CARBON CAPTURE. GLOBAL WARMING. NO KNOCK RAIDS. AGE OF CONSENT LAWS.

DEMAND KURV!

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dhex's picture

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let's talk about the NorthAmericanUnion and how it CausesMexicans.

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Shem's picture

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Can I get Mexicans from kissing?

Did you know that 45% of teenagers have Mexicans and don't even know it?

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J sub D's picture

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Shem wrote:
Can I get Mexicans from kissing?

Did you know that 45% of teenagers have Mexicans and don't even know it?


If you "tongue kiss" you can get the GayMexicans. I read it in Reader's Digest.

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Sandy's picture

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GettingMexicans casuses CamelHumping which makes you AJavaProgrammer and NotAPerlProgrammer.

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dhex's picture

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so does the solo wackolo have some kind of MentalIllness or is he merely a NativistCunt?

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fyodor's picture

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Ken,

I'm a big Broncos fan, but I've never had any interest in Fantasy Football. I just want to root for the Broncos (and revel in their accomplishments and bum out over their fuckups, as ultimately arbitrary and unrequited as that may be) and not worry about what players I've chosen for some Fantasy team.

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J sub D's picture

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dhex wrote:
so does the solo wackolo have some kind of MentalIllness or is he merely a NativistCunt?
FloorPolish, DessertTopping.

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Timothy's picture

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I'm not pro-abortion, I'm just anti-fetus.

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tymac's picture

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I think abortion should be legal until the 303rd trimester.

dhex's picture

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i'm against cellular division. it is anti-life.

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Sandy's picture

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Life begins at dinner.

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Warren's picture

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tymac wrote:
I think abortion should be legal until the 303rd trimester.

Whoa, that's more hardcore than even I go.

I believe that a woman has the absolute right to (but not subsidization of) an abortion for any reason what so ever, right up until the moment of birth. And after that moment, both parents have that right. At least until the little bastard gets a job and starts making a financial contribution to the household.

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dhex's picture

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I think abortion should be legal until the 303rd trimester.

ACID
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Stevo Darkly's picture

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Even though I personally have little interest in sports, and would never participate in Fantasy Football myself, I believe that a-sportin' is every person's legal right.

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Eric the .5b's picture

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*considers*

Fixed HMG emplacements are really nice for thinning out zombies, since they wonderfully never run out of ammo or overheat in CoD4. You just need to have someone covering your back.

Now, a zombie mod for one of the Battlefield games would rock - you could run them over in a tank all day long!

EDIT: typo corrected.

Sandy's picture

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Clearly, we were right not to sign the anti-landmines treaty. Won't someone please think of the zombies!

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Stevo Darkly's picture

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Know what I think are really cool and interesting? Mesonychids. But we never have any mesonychid threads.

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mediageek's picture

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I'm only for aborting people who play fantasy football.

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Fin Fang Foom 3000's picture

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I'm searching for the anti-life equation.

dhex's picture

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to be honest i'm not even sure how something could be anti-life. even murders are into themselves.

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Eric the .5b's picture

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dhex wrote:
to be honest i'm not even sure how something could be anti-life. even murders are into themselves.

Well, it's an ideological thing.

Wikipedia wrote:
Jack Kirby's original comics established the Anti-Life Equation as giving the being who learns it power to dominate the will of all sentient and sapient races. It is called the Anti-Life Equation because "if someone possesses absolute control over you - you're not really alive."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Life_Equation

Aresen's picture

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Stevo Darkly wrote:
Know what I think are really cool and interesting? Mesonychids. But we never have any mesonychid threads.

If I'd known what that meant before I wikied it, I still wouldn't have agreed.

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Stevo Darkly's picture

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The Wiki illustrations do not capture their weird coolness.

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dhex's picture

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"if someone possesses absolute control over you - you're not really alive."

jack kirby never heard of topping from the bottom.

edit: obviously i have no idea who jack kirby is.

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Shem's picture

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dhex wrote:
edit: obviously i have no idea who jack kirby is.

For shame. He was only the artist behind the design or creation of half the characters in the Marvel comics universe. And a significant number of DC characters, also.

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tymac's picture

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And a master of dramatic foreshortening.

dhex's picture

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i never got into comics as a kid because they cost money, and the library was free.

for whatever reasons at that point in my life, i looked upon serial offerings as a scam; in many ways i still do. or perhaps i am merely impatient.

edit: i will note that my life is filled with cartoonists and comic aficionados, nearly all of whom cannot appreciate what i mean when i say reading comics is generally difficult and a slow, time-consuming process. the format makes sense to them, and they understand it's various touches, turns and at least some of its history.

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J sub D's picture

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Getting back to the thread topic.

Pomegranates? Tasty exotice fruit or impalatable evil?

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Ali's picture

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Should abortion be illegal? I dunno, I checked Wikipedia and they don't answer that question. Sorry, Ken, don't have an answer for you. Shem may know though. He knows everything.

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dhex wrote:
i never got into comics as a kid because they cost money, and the library was free.

for whatever reasons at that point in my life, i looked upon serial offerings as a scam; in many ways i still do. or perhaps i am merely impatient.


After the first couple of times of getting a comic based on the SHOCKING!!! cover and finding out the story was much more timid, I decided they were bait & switch and stopped buying them.

dhex wrote:
edit: i will note that my life is filled with cartoonists and comic aficionados, nearly all of whom cannot appreciate what i mean when i say reading comics is generally difficult and a slow, time-consuming process. the format makes sense to them, and they understand it's various touches, turns and at least some of its history.

Funny--my problems with comics like Joss Whedon's continuations of his various stories is that they are over in a flash, so I could have gotten hours of enjoyment out of a novel for the same money I paid for the comic, which provided minutes of enjoyment.

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Sandy wrote:
Funny--my problems with comics like Joss Whedon's continuations of his various stories is that they are over in a flash, so I could have gotten hours of enjoyment out of a novel for the same money I paid for the comic, which provided minutes of enjoyment.

That's one of the reasons I only buy trade paperbacks.

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Quote:
Funny--my problems with comics like Joss Whedon's continuations of his various stories is that they are over in a flash, so I could have gotten hours of enjoyment out of a novel for the same money I paid for the comic, which provided minutes of enjoyment.

well, it's not like reading a novel, at least in my experience, and i read a lot of disjointed postmodern novels.

there's a whole thing to it where you have to look at the panel, take in the art (and in my case, often try to make sense of it) *and* read dialogue and descriptions. totally different technique and headspace.

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I agree with dhex; the disjointed way you have to read a comic just isn't the same as reading prose. The only exception I make to this rule is Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, which I think really did work better as a comic (or rather, graphic novel) than it would have worked as prose. Her style's a lot more minimalist than the standard comic book, though; you don't have to absorb a hundred details in every picture.

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Ali wrote:
Should abortion be illegal? I dunno, I checked Wikipedia and they don't answer that question. Sorry, Ken, don't have an answer for you. Shem may know though. He knows everything.

Please do not feed the Tyrannosaurus Minimus' ego.

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Shem's picture

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Aresen wrote:
Ali wrote:
Should abortion be illegal? I dunno, I checked Wikipedia and they don't answer that question. Sorry, Ken, don't have an answer for you. Shem may know though. He knows everything.

Please do not feed the Tyrannosaurus Minimus' ego.

Swear to god, Aresen, I'm going to have C-Rex bite the hell out of your disposable income one of these days.

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Shem wrote:
Aresen wrote:
Ali wrote:
Should abortion be illegal? I dunno, I checked Wikipedia and they don't answer that question. Sorry, Ken, don't have an answer for you. Shem may know though. He knows everything.

Please do not feed the Tyrannosaurus Minimus' ego.

Swear to god, Aresen, I'm going to have C-Rex bite the hell out of your disposable income one of these days.

You mean you want to bite my assets?

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Jennifer's picture

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Next time I attend a Grylliade gathering, I'll bring a couple of bullion bars so that if anyone offends me, I can wave the bars and shout, a la Bender, "Bite my shiny metal assets!"

Timothy's picture

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Note to self: Mug Jennifer at next gathering. Bring overly complicated get away conveyance, likely a helipack.

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Stevo Darkly's picture

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Since it's my impression that a bar of gold would probably weigh significantly more than Jennifer does, the next gathering is shaping up to be a new kind of awesome to see.

(Okay, maybe I exaggerate. Poking around in Google yields a couple assertions that a certain type of gold bar would weigh about 27 pounds. But it also reveals that there is no standard size for bars of gold. And I'm almost positive that I once read in an Encyclopedia Brown book that a large brick of gold like one sees in the movies would weigh more than 300 pounds.)

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JD's picture

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I'm picturing Timothy laughing maniacally as he attempts to make his getaway with his helipack - "So long, you fools!" - clutching the handle of the suitcase full of gold bars. Bzzzzz...the blades chop the air and Timothy strains at the handle, but the suitcase doesn't budge, and he twists the throttle harder...bzzZZZZZZZ - and suddenly the handle goes *POP* off the suitcase and Timothy shoots spiraling off towards the horizon out of control with only the handle in his grasp, while the suitcase just sits there with its 3 tons of contents.

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While conducting a Google image search for "helipak" (protip: you'll have more luck searching for "helicopter pack") I stumbled across some other stuff ...

Good news, Timothy! You can instead build your own antigravity engine for your lifting device! The design is so simple that you can build it out of magnets available at Radio Shack! Plans available for as little as $30!

http://www.futurehorizons.net/grav.htm and scroll down a bit. And then scroll down a bit more for more related useful stuff.

And remember: Multi-colored bold text is the hallmark of credibility on the Interwebz!

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