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Post by MaybeNever on Apr 8, 2011 15:39:42 GMT -5
Nah, the platypus was a duck designed by committee of wizards.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Apr 9, 2011 2:59:23 GMT -5
No, the platypus is clearly Nature trolling the rest of the animal kingdom.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Apr 9, 2011 16:13:09 GMT -5
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Post by Alexandria on Apr 9, 2011 19:17:19 GMT -5
Paul Ryan is a hack. The only way I'd vote for him if he was the only one running (which seems to be the case with him) and no write in option.
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Post by kristine on Apr 9, 2011 20:12:59 GMT -5
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Post by SCarpelan on Apr 10, 2011 2:25:17 GMT -5
;D The Finnish political parties: Currently in the Parliament National Coalition Party - Social Democratic Party Center Party - Left Alliance Green Party - Christian Democrats Swedish Folk Party - True Finns Bubbling under: Communist Party of Finland - Change 2011 Islamic Party of Finland - Pirate Party  |
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Post by Professor Cold Heart on Apr 10, 2011 3:44:35 GMT -5
The Finnish political scene looks pretty cool.
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Post by worlder on Apr 10, 2011 10:52:15 GMT -5
I was taken by the last one. You know the nerd one.
That image is generally used to denote that someone is a loser.
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Post by Smurfette Principle on Apr 10, 2011 10:58:03 GMT -5
What is the SDP, and why is it run by Hyacinth Bucket Bouquet?
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Post by happycheeze on Apr 10, 2011 11:43:04 GMT -5
What is the SDP, and why is it run by Hyacinth Bucket Bouquet? hehe, that show is silly. |
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Post by Smurfette Principle on Apr 10, 2011 12:52:34 GMT -5
What is the SDP, and why is it run by Hyacinth Bucket Bouquet? hehe, that show is silly. Also fantastic and awesome. It was my very first sitcom as a child. *nostalgia* |
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Post by SCarpelan on Apr 10, 2011 13:16:41 GMT -5
What is the SDP, and why is it run by Hyacinth Bucket Bouquet? Social Democratic Party. Hyacinth is supposed to be a caricature of a typical voter, who nowadays is a lower middle class type. |
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Post by Kit Walker on Apr 10, 2011 13:33:21 GMT -5
I was taken by the last one. You know the nerd one. That image is generally used to denote that someone is a loser. It is a party that, according to a quick google search, advocates for abolishing patents on software and preventing the prosecution or investigation of people for non-commercial uses of copyrighted material (which, seeing as their name translates to "Pirate Party", probably means "downloading the shit out of copyrighted materials for personal use"). So yeah. Losers. Going by their website, even their somewhat good ideas are unrealistic (abolishing patents on medicines would bring down their cost, which is good, but it would give drug companies far less incentive to put the years and millions needed to create new drugs, which isn't). Also, that Communistic chick is really cute. I wish to do things with her. Things that the man pictured below her would disapprove of. |
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Post by Thejebusfire on Apr 10, 2011 13:45:15 GMT -5
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Post by Vene on Apr 10, 2011 16:09:18 GMT -5
(abolishing patents on medicines would bring down their cost, which is good, but it would give drug companies far less incentive to put the years and millions needed to create new drugs, which isn't). Publicly funded R&D, which then allows any company to manufacture it, which in turn lowers the overall cost of research as company b doesn't have to rediscover company a's drug in order to make a generic alternative. That is at least one aspect of why medicine is so expensive, there's a lot of wasted effort discovering something already known. |
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