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MeTa post:
Misogyny Filter (?)
Explain to me why a man who has taken on good faith that the woman he is with is using birth control should be forced to pay child support?
Because there is a child, and children have a claim of support from their fathers.
And only one person in the situation has any choice in the matter. This is fair because..?
This is fair because biology allows women to have this choice as an... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 10:03 AM on August 3, 2008
I haven't found any evidence of mothers being forced to pay child support in a case where they tried put the child up for adoption and the fathers refused to consent.
Well, we can get to an essential equivalent in a couple of steps.
While relatively rare, it does happen that sometimes fathers get full or residential custody of children in a divorce. It seems reasonable to think that in any relevant proceeding, the fact that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 2:24 PM on August 3, 2008
If this were true, then we would not allow sperm banks to exist
I fully expect that sometime within my life, a child of sperm-bank sperm will discover who his or her father is and successfully press suit for support, or back support, or for inheritance as an heir.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 4:43 PM on August 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Hubbard tested, Xenu approved!
Relationship problems? See page 171
Send Xenu $500 for hookers.
What should I name my cat? See page 265
Xenu. The rights to name your cat Xenu can be bought for $2300.
Should I eat it? See page 129
Sure, what's the worst that can happen? If you get the shits, that's just you expelling bad thetans out yer bunghole.
What is this rash? See page 215
It's thetans. Send money.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 9:49 PM on July 26, 2008
First they came for the communists, and I was going to speak up, but Fred said that if I did he'd tell everyone the shit I told him in our clearing sessions, so I shut the fuck up.
Then they came for the socialists and the trade unionists, and I was going to speak up, but the guy from the central office said that when I kept Sally in that room so she could get clear, that was kidnapping and if I didn't shut up they'd shop me to the cops.
Then... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 9:54 PM on July 26, 2008
MeTa post:
Don't ask me!!
This is precisely why law-related questions have no place on AskMe, as Jayder has very eloquently stated above.
Nonsense. Following are law-related questions that are perfect for AskMe:
I was in the courthouse yesterday paying my property taxes and overheard some lawyers talking about how someone didn't have a menses ray. WTF? Is this related to women getting off because they're PMSing?
I don't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 6:58 AM on June 16, 2008
MeTa post:
seofeed? really?
I hate the pointless turds. They're painful.
Which is ironic, don't you think, because seofeed was about to shill internal rectum-mounted turd-sharpeners.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 11:40 AM on June 13, 2008
MeTa post:
Metafilter is....
It resized my window. My opinion, earnestly held, is that Vanity Fair is worse than Hitler and that we should crush their web morons, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentations of their women.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 12:59 PM on June 12, 2008
MeTa post:
Meetup in Buffalo??
biscotti and/or I shall endeavor to make it but I'll not promise; she and her sister have a cottage a cottage on the Bruce peninsula running through the 28th.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 8:01 PM on May 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to MetaTalk callouts
I routinely shout "I SENSE COUNT DOOKU" immediately before delivering a triumphant Cleveland steamer. I thought it was romantic; the restraining order says otherwise but what the fuck do nuns know?
And it's "wookiee," laser-brain.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 12:41 PM on May 20, 2008
Hmm.
Around the survivors a perimeter create, mother-fucker.
Nope. Sucks it does still.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 2:52 PM on May 20, 2008
Around the survivors a perimeter create in bed.
Away put your weapon! I mean you no harm in bed!
Judge me by my size, do you in bed?
No. There is another in bed.
Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi in bed.
[Luke:] I can’t believe it.
[Yoda:] That is why you fail in bed.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 5:01 PM on May 20, 2008
MeTa post:
We are a Paragon
In fact, I KILL YOU! looks like some kind of mutant YouTube meme
Maybe youtube is just full of Al Bester fans? I kill you filthy!
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 7:27 AM on April 11, 2008
MeTa post:
AskMe homework help
Are professors not giving students any guidance at all about how to go about doing their assignments?
It's entirely possible that the instructor for that course gave extensive guidance about doing research, finding secondary sources, using unciteable sources like wikipedia to find better sources, rules for citation, structuring an argument, and so on, at length and with examples. And that the student didn't show up that day, or didn't pay any... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 6:25 PM on March 15, 2008
MeTa post:
Double bad.
Sometimes when I see the word "assist" I wonder what "assism" is exactly, and how I, too, can become an adherent.
I once wondered very briefly why some document was telling me that the faculty here aren't ionized.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 12:20 PM on March 15, 2008
MeTa post:
Hmm, you might know the answer to this...
what if someone asks the best way to deal with, say, a half-tailed neutered orange tabby cat with an upper respiratory problem
.50BMG?
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 11:11 AM on March 12, 2008
Half measures won't do. I say kill it, then declaw it.
.50BMG does both at once. Circumcises it too. And you can use the cat goo to grease your gears for the next Critical Mass ride, or throw it at Critical Mass riders, or both.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 2:11 PM on March 12, 2008
MeTa post:
Don't Mess With "Don't Mess With Texas"
Everybody come on wfrgms!
Don't come on me, bro.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 8:37 PM on January 3, 2008
Man, I am tired of defending my state from people.
Then don't. A perfectly good reply to "Texas is full of ignorant thugs" is to chuckle or sigh and say "Yeah, the ignorant thugs that give it a bad name are hard to live with for the normal people there." Follow that with a "...but we're not all ignorant thugs, you know..." if you want.
The first step, in an AA "admit you have a problem"... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 9:10 AM on January 4, 2008
I'd love to see you point out what Washington is doing that is *massive major progressive* as a state over Texas.
Washington didn't put a ban on even civil unions into its constitution.
Washington doesn't have a law banning the sale of vibrators. AFAICT.
Washington banned the execution of the mentally retarded.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 10:25 PM on January 4, 2008
The law is obviously rarely enforced, but someone was arrested relatively recently in Lubbock; the stories (google for lubbock "something sexy") don't definitively state the year.
God only knows whether it was just prudes who hate sex toys, or the owner hadn't paid his/her protection money to the local potentates, or what.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 11:37 PM on January 4, 2008
I didn't leave because of conservative anything, actually. I hated living in Texas, but I was used to living in North Carolina which is only somewhat less conservative (though I did live around Chapel Hill). I didn't like living in an area dominated mostly by conservative Baptists, but I was used to it.
I hated the endless heat. I hated winters of bland temperatures and depressing brown grass. I hated the dinky little trees, unless you water them for 50 years. I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 9:26 AM on January 5, 2008
Yeah, I was out of line. Hence the apology in the last comment. Right there at the end?
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 6:05 PM on January 5, 2008
It does look like that, I admit. Didn't mean it that way though.
It's not that Texas treated me particularly badly. I just *really* didn't like it. Not meaning to slam on it, but the place just felt wrong. It's a big world and people like all kinds of things, though. Even Brussels sprouts, liquorice, and Texas.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 6:33 PM on January 5, 2008
MeTa post:
Buffalo/WNY meetup?
Interested, but I can't do the 9th--13th; in New Orleans for a conference.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 9:53 PM on December 13, 2007
Probably, but biscotti will know better than I and she's not off work until ~6.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 9:11 AM on December 14, 2007
We are afflicted with sore throat bugs and our heags are full of bucus, to our annoyance. I don't think y'all want a dose of what's going 'round Chez Xenophobe.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 10:26 AM on January 5, 2008
Sorry about that. I feel bad for skipping, especially after y'all shifted the date to avoid my conference. But, seriously, I don't think you wanted to be near our germs.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 1:25 PM on January 5, 2008
MeTa post:
Holiday gratuities/gratuitous for our beloved admins?
Obviously they do not want gifts.
What is less well known is their predilection for tummy rubs. If you run into cortex or jessamyn at a meetup or maybe you're just in their house without their knowledge late one night, just roll them over onto their back and rub their tummy real good while solemnly intoning "WHO'S A GOOD MOD? WHO IS? WHO'S A GOOD MOD? WOODGY WOODGY GOOD MOD!" They love it. They'll act like they don't, just for appearance's sake, but they... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 10:24 PM on December 28, 2007
MeTa post:
What comes up...
Re-hashing old arguments is the raison d'etre of MetaTalk.
I disagree.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 11:19 AM on December 12, 2007
there is no way for the conveyor belt, no matter how fast it is going, to stop the plane from moving forward.
Nonsense. Ways include:
*The conveyor belt might have embarrassing photos of the airplane with a helicopter.
*The airplane and conveyor might love each other very much.
*If the conveyor goes fast enough, it will acquire enough relativistic mass to hold down the plane by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 11:24 AM on December 12, 2007
Dude, that was just an excuse for that AWESOME impact.
Too bad they didn't use one of their dead pigs, if you ask me.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 7:48 PM on December 12, 2007
They spent an inordinate amount of time and energy on three things from the movie that could have been solved with pencil and paper using pretty elementary math and physics.
You don't get the show.
The point is not that they could have been solved with pencil, paper, equations, and brains. That is what Snopes is for, maybe. Or various "bad physics" and "stupid movies!" websites.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 9:31 PM on December 12, 2007
MeTa post:
AskMe screws the pooch
BAD is asking for a diagnosis or asking for specific treatment advice.
Still bad, but maaaaaaaybe less bad for things that physicians notoriously misdiagnose. Someone with an assortment of appropriate symptoms might benefit from any random person saying "You might think about getting screened for MS if you have good insurance," since MS seems to be something that usually takes several years and many front-line physicians to get diagnosed.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 10:20 AM on December 6, 2007
You don't see many people trying to second guess or play armchair electrical engineer. In fact, I doubt you would find any layperson trying to question one with an electrical engineering doctorate.
Well, you're very wrong.
In any sort of practical matter that someone might actually want concrete advice about dealing with electricity, an electrical engineer with a doctorate would be a *terrible* person to ask. I really don't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 2:54 PM on December 6, 2007
I think you know what I was trying to say.
I suppose. Let me restate:
I think this isn't a law and medicine thing.
I think it's a thing about topics where people want concrete, practical advice about something directly affecting their life.
I'll grant that if people are having an argument about the way that large-scale power systems work and someone chimes in to say, "You... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 8:00 PM on December 6, 2007
MeTa post:
Are Questions Okay When They're Based Around Finction Worlds
I was wondering if there existed a logical sequence (like in the troll that lies and troll that tells the truth) to break the symmetrical problem.
Then you should have asked that. Your question didn't ask that. A question that asked that might have been:
ALGORITHMS TO BREAK SYMMETRIES?
I'm looking for algorithms that could be used to break locks caused by symmetries and allow otherwise identical... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe
at 6:17 PM on December 2, 2007
