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By Ramyrez 2015-07-23 12:13:27
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I was wondering where my hyperbole was. Yes, I'm sure people want everything to be free, permanent on demand *** and four arms to wield lightsabers from while shouting "HAVE AT THEE, MORTAL".

Why don't I have these things yet? This sounds awesome.

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By Bahamut.Ravael 2015-07-23 12:14:16
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I would shop local, but then the hipsters would stop shopping in those places because it'd be too mainstream. I'm actually doing local businesses a favor by not going there.
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By fonewear 2015-07-23 12:15:15
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I would shop local, but then the hipsters would stop shopping in those places because it'd be too mainstream. I'm actually doing local businesses a favor by not going there.

I would shop local but *** those hippies ! I want harmful pesticides it makes the corn taste better.
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By Ramyrez 2015-07-23 12:16:11
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That sounds too much like work and not sitting on my *** !

Incoming uncomfortable topic:

It's my personal belief that having the CCC around again and shipping some of the city's unemployed out of the city, getting them in a job where you do real work and see real results, and get paid for it, would perhaps jump-start some of the inner-city problems that have been faciliated by over a hundred years of generational poverty and race relation problems.
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2015-07-23 12:16:17
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Considering the exploding affordable housing plans being put into place precisely because most people can't afford rent unless they sink 80% of their income into paying it

Anecodote incoming, take with salt:

I have a few friends who live and work in NYC. Both are gigging musicians (good ones, with an income comensurate to your average middle class worker) and one works another job on top of that teaching lessons through music store.

They both really, really hate the 'affordable housing' initiatives because they're providing nicer houses to people paying less than what they can afford making significantly more money. And they don't get to qualify.

And in a place like NYC, it definitely knocks down the middle class earners as much as it does helps people working unskilled positions.

You're paying for neighborhood, not for quality of housing.

Affordable housing is mostly going up in low income neighborhoods which means newer buildings, better amenities etc etc. But you're still in a poor *** neighborhood which for some people is a dealbreaker. You also have to win the lottery which is somewhere around over 160k applicants. There's also a racial divide at play where neighborhoods don't start to turn around until a certain white quotia is met. Nature of the beast.

If you rent Union Square, Midtown, Williamsburg or any of the swanky places to live in the city then you might be living in a tenement building... but you're living in the heart of the city. Most of these buildings are also old developments. With slumlord owners who are milking out of towners willing to pay anything to say they live a few blocks from *insert famous area* here.

Or you could rent out an illegal basement or subdivided house but that's not really an apartment is it?
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By Ramyrez 2015-07-23 12:16:40
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I would shop local but *** those hippies !

You can *** the hippies, but I really suggest wrapping up.
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By Jetackuu 2015-07-23 12:17:21
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Ramyrez said: »
Leviathan.Chaosx said: »
People aren't going to be happy until everything is free and they don't have to work if they don't want to. Even then, they'll still find something to *** about. I say start up those FEMA camps already.

I've been an advocate of recreating the Civillian Conservation Corps for years.

Can't find a job? We've got one for you fixing our highways and bridges, rebuilding after natural disasters, etc. Pay people directly and stop hiring shady *** contractors cutting quality to get a little more money out of that government contract.

Of course, it would mean able-bodied people would have to not be lazy.

That's hard.
Woah, how did I miss this post...

I'm fully with you, and (anecdotal of course) but I know a lot of people who would jump on this. People will endure for their families, even if it means living away for a few months doing projects while sending money home.

It's a better way to do infrastructure spending or spending in general, instead of you know: bailing out banks (or awarding contracts to XYZ companies).

I still say we go and build some new nuclear reactors this way, at the least we'd be able to shut the old less efficient (less safe) ones down.
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By fonewear 2015-07-23 12:18:37
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Who needs roads and bridges when we got other problems in the country like racist flags !

We'll fix the bridges after they fall down. The roads *** em we will just put some black top on it and call it a day.
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2015-07-23 12:19:08
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fonewear said: »
Yea but discussing reality is kind of a downer !

It's why over half the country is well on it's way to be addicted to prescription painkillers or alcohol.

God bless, *hic* America.
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2015-07-23 12:19:08
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Yea but discussing reality is kind of a downer !

It's why over half the country is well on it's way to be addicted to prescription painkillers or alcohol.

God bless, *hic* America.
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By Ragnarok.Nausi 2015-07-23 12:19:24
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US teen sex rate drops dramatically.

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In 2013, 44% of teenage girls surveyed said they had experienced sex, compared to 51% in 1988.

For teenage boys, the drop was more dramatic. In 1988, 60% reported they’d had sex compared to only 47% in 2013

Dropping for boys much more than girls. Who's got 2 cents they want to throw in as to why?
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By Siren.Mosin 2015-07-23 12:20:00
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pornography!
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By Jetackuu 2015-07-23 12:20:40
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Lakshmi.Sparthosx said: »
painkillers or alcohol.


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By fonewear 2015-07-23 12:20:59
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US teen sex rate drops dramatically.

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In 2013, 44% of teenage girls surveyed said they had experienced sex, compared to 51% in 1988.

For teenage boys, the drop was more dramatic. In 1988, 60% reported they’d had sex compared to only 47% in 2013

Dropping for boys much more than girls. Who's got 2 cents they want to throw in as to why?

This is bad news to me. If teenage girls aren't getting pregnant/having sex surely the population will suffer.
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By fonewear 2015-07-23 12:21:17
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Siren.Mosin said: »
pornography!

Finally a solution to all my problems.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2015-07-23 12:21:43
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Dropping for boys much more than girls. Who's got 2 cents they want to throw in as to why?

Video game forums.
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By fonewear 2015-07-23 12:22:21
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Dropping for boys much more than girls. Who's got 2 cents they want to throw in as to why?

Video game forums.

I would say just video games and porn.

Normally Sally in 9th grade doesn't have big fake ***...
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2015-07-23 12:22:38
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Why hook up with a real woman when you've got MILLIONS to choose from on Pornhub.com????
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By fonewear 2015-07-23 12:23:18
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Why hook up with a real woman when you've got MILLIONS to choose from on Pornhub.com????

And does she do all the perverted things that teenage boys are into ?
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2015-07-23 12:23:59
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fonewear said: »
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Ragnarok.Nausi said: »
Dropping for boys much more than girls. Who's got 2 cents they want to throw in as to why?

Video game forums.

I would say just video games and porn.

Normally Sally in 9th grade doesn't have big fake ***...

Only in California schools.
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2015-07-23 12:24:17
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Social media cause teenagers to be less social. Why go clubbing or to a pub or whatever gathering place there is in your town and meet someone when you can chat all night instead?
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By Ramyrez 2015-07-23 12:24:23
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Ragnarok.Nausi said: »
US teen sex rate drops dramatically.

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In 2013, 44% of teenage girls surveyed said they had experienced sex, compared to 51% in 1988.

For teenage boys, the drop was more dramatic. In 1988, 60% reported they’d had sex compared to only 47% in 2013

Dropping for boys much more than girls. Who's got 2 cents they want to throw in as to why?

My obvious desire is to provide an explenation that fits a narrative that I prefer, but without far more specific information, I couldn't tell you.

Where was the polling done? One area? Nationwide? City/rural? Income level in the area(s)?
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By fonewear 2015-07-23 12:24:30
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If 9th grade girls are getting breast implants I'm in the wrong profession...
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By Ramyrez 2015-07-23 12:24:52
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Why hook up with a real woman when you've got MILLIONS to choose from on Pornhub.com????

If there are millions of women why do I get the same like, six, whenever I run my preferred searches. =(
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2015-07-23 12:25:15
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Social media cause teenagers to be less social. Why go clubbing or to a pub or whatever gathering place there is in your town and meet someone when you can fap fap fap all night instead?
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2015-07-23 12:25:37
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fonewear said: »
If 9th grade girls are getting breast implants I'm in the wrong profession...
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2015-07-23 12:26:29
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Ramyrez said: »
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Why hook up with a real woman when you've got MILLIONS to choose from on Pornhub.com????

If there are millions of women why do I get the same like, six, whenever I run my preferred searches. =(

I have a spinner for such things, let the wheel of fate take me.

***, it's Gonzo Grandmas tonight. Welp, better not challenge fate...
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By Ramyrez 2015-07-23 12:26:30
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Valefor.Sehachan said: »
Social media cause teenagers to be less social. Why go clubbing or to a pub or whatever gathering place there is in your town and meet someone when you can chat all night instead?

Got to know my wife through ICQ (it was a precursor to AIM, which was a precursor to texting and social media, for you youngins out there).

Your theory has...holes.
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By Ramyrez 2015-07-23 12:26:59
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If 9th grade girls are getting breast implants I'm in the wrong profession...

Hurray! A thing I did caught on on the internet!

I'm awesome now!
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By fonewear 2015-07-23 12:27:24
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I'll tell you where not to meet women bars. Trust me I would know...
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