QUOTE(Ottava @ Mon 12th November 2012, 10:58am)
QUOTE(Retrospect @ Mon 12th November 2012, 7:13am)
Yep, that's right shithead. I've known many Moslems, colleagues, friends, even one girlfriend. They're not all bloody Ayatollahs.
"Moslems"? The only people who spell it that way are those who are from the 18th century and still see them as inferior heathen "other-people" from that magical Orient.
Sadly, there are all too many people around who were taught "social studies" using 18th century textbooks.
I certainly thought it was spelled (and pronounced) that way until a Muslim classmate corrected me in 3rd grade.
QUOTE(Ottava @ Sun 11th November 2012, 11:02am)
I think it is odd that banning porn is some how extreme. Porn was always fringe, but yet somehow the rhetoric has treated it as if it is mainstream. Odd.
It's just a sign of the (d)evolution of things in the age of the web. Just about everyone (present company excluded
) has sex, lots of people enjoy watching strangers having sex, so what's the big deal?
There's a big difference (IMO, etc.), however, in what I was exposed to as a young lad (sneaking peeks at my friend's father's Hustler collection) and what the kids can click a mouse and bear witness to these days (!!!).
I remember when I was a young teen that every girl who wanted to seduce a boy knew how to tie a knot with the stem of a cherry in her mouth (scene from one of the "brat pack" movies, I forget which). I can't even imagine what the girls know how to do now.