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Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
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RE: Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
October 5, 2021 at 9:51 am
Regarding the abstract principle of broad and sweeping statements, mine are consistently on point.

I applaud the overall general disarray of this thread.
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RE: Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
October 5, 2021 at 10:05 am
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If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
October 5, 2021 at 10:06 am
Generalising generalisations generally degenerates into....oh look! A horse!
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RE: Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
October 5, 2021 at 10:17 am
(October 5, 2021 at 6:00 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(October 5, 2021 at 5:51 am)Lawz Wrote: Funny you should mention quilts AWTY, I was ruminating just last night about how I'd projectile vomited red wine all over my step father's prized, beige and coloured patchwork, genuine Amish quilt, last year. Luckily my sister was on hand and swept into action, directing washing it by hand in the bathtub etc etc etc...it came out spotless in the end, and the Old Man has/will never know what happened. Result! 

I imagine that, being American, you'd reach for the 9mm if anybody drenched one of your handiwork quilts in red wine sick  Panic Hehe ; )

I vommed on a cop once. I didn’t have to clean it up, but I got introduced to Mr. Trucheon.

Boru

I had a drunken mate hop up onto a police car and began peeing on it. He was also able ward off the officer with pee. Eventually he realized the flaw in his plan... 

A shining example of piss- poor planning.

He got a couple lumps on his head and 180 days as a guest of the county for his efforts.
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RE: Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
October 5, 2021 at 10:30 am
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RE: Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
October 5, 2021 at 11:09 am
Weather in Winnipeg has been unseasonably warm for October, and the only insects of note are some derpy little ladybugs who keep getting caught up in the leaf-raking (and summarily dumped, at least temporarily, into leaf bags). Clearly an indication that there's no statistical correlation between cute and smart.
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RE: Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
October 5, 2021 at 11:31 am
Would "Trolls are fake" be an appropriate generic generalization that's relatively definitive?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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RE: Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
October 5, 2021 at 1:29 pm
(October 5, 2021 at 11:31 am)tackattack Wrote: Would "Trolls are fake" be an appropriate generic generalization that's relatively definitive?

A fake persona but real trollishness, perhaps.
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RE: Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
October 5, 2021 at 1:31 pm (This post was last modified: October 5, 2021 at 1:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's not much difference between pretending to be an asshole, and being an asshole. It's a variant law, poes anus.
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RE: Atheists Who Argue Against Generalizing
October 5, 2021 at 1:34 pm
(October 5, 2021 at 10:17 am)onlinebiker Wrote:
(October 5, 2021 at 6:00 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I vommed on a cop once. I didn’t have to clean it up, but I got introduced to Mr. Trucheon.

Boru

I had a drunken mate hop up onto a police car and began peeing on it. He was also able ward off the officer with pee. Eventually he realized the flaw in his plan... 

A shining example of piss- poor planning.

He got a couple lumps on his head and 180 days as a guest of the county for his efforts.

I fared rather better - just a medium set of lumps and an an overnight guest of HRM.

Boru
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