Quote from: JimBobOzThe United States is never going to carry out a policy of genocide against fat people. Genocides are for minorities.

Good point!!

 I better get working on my diet real soon.

- E.W.C.

In all honesty, I think that america rates highest in obesity because we let corporate scum create sugary, fatty, addictive things that shouldn't be called foods, like soda, most breakfast cereals, premade cakes, ad infinitum, and then spend millions of dollars, if not billions, advertising them to children with the cold blooded intent of getting them addicted to them and stuff like potato chips, cheeseburgers, ad nauseum.

Again, speaking seriously, I think that the corporate pigs who deliberately target children for addiction to greasy, fatty foods that are designed to be addictive are as much child predators as the sick fucks who troll chatrooms looking for kids to have sex with, and the corporations who set kids up to become addicts to this shit with carefully crafted advertising harm a lot more kids, tho in, admittedly, different ways.

You want to hear something totally insane? In america we don't allow companies to advertise cigarettes to adults on TV, but we allow junk and fast food makers to advertise their addictive, unhealthy and destructive products to children.

Man, is that insane or what?

You may now resume your usual me bashing.

Nox, you are indeed into all kinds of conspiracies.
Did you know this site is owned and operated by a bunch of Freemasons?

What´s the deal with that?

BTW, nutritional habits are formed by the parents.

Quote from: SettembriniNox, you are indeed into all kinds of conspiracies.
Did you know this site is owned and operated by a bunch of Freemasons?

That's a wildly inaccurate statement.

There's not enough of us to constitute a 'bunch'.

Quote from: SettembriniNox, you are indeed into all kinds of conspiracies.
Did you know this site is owned and operated by a bunch of Freemasons?

What´s the deal with that?

If it turns out that Ron Edwards is a Rosicrucian then everything will suddenly start making sense

Is that similar to a bunch of bananas?

Quote from: Dominus NoxIn all honesty, I think that america rates highest in obesity because we let corporate scum create sugary, fatty, addictive things that shouldn't be called foods, like soda, most breakfast cereals, premade cakes, ad infinitum, and then spend millions of dollars, if not billions, advertising them to children with the cold blooded intent of getting them addicted to them and stuff like potato chips, cheeseburgers, ad nauseum.

Again, speaking seriously, I think that the corporate pigs who deliberately target children for addiction to greasy, fatty foods that are designed to be addictive are as much child predators as the sick fucks who troll chatrooms looking for kids to have sex with, and the corporations who set kids up to become addicts to this shit with carefully crafted advertising harm a lot more kids, tho in, admittedly, different ways.

You want to hear something totally insane? In america we don't allow companies to advertise cigarettes to adults on TV, but we allow junk and fast food makers to advertise their addictive, unhealthy and destructive products to children.

Man, is that insane or what?

You may now resume your usual me bashing.

You completely bypass the idea that parents might be responsible for making sure that their children eat a fairly balanced diet. All kids like sweet crap. Is it not the responsibility of their parents to make sure that they eat a varied diet?
I also see a few roleplayers who are pot bellied and unhealthy due to the fact that they don't do anything more physical than roll dice. The moral of this observation being that some form of exercise is better than being a lazy slob 24/7.

Quote from: Dominus NoxI think that the corporate pigs who deliberately target children for addiction to greasy, fatty foods that are designed to be addictive are as much child predators as the sick fucks who troll chatrooms looking for kids to have sex with

No. No, they're not.

Quote from: Dominus Noxthe corporations who set kids up to become addicts to this shit with carefully crafted advertising harm a lot more kids

No. No they don't.

Quote from: Dominus NoxYou want to hear something totally insane?

Almost every time I tune in to Channel Nox, that is indeed what I hear.

Quote from: Dominus NoxYou may now resume your usual me bashing.

Nice one, thanks mate. So, how's the diet going?

- Q

It's not a diet, it's "addiction recovery."

Quote from: James McMurrayIt's not a diet, it's "addiction recovery."

Hey, are you going to eat that Twinkie?





Just askin'...


TGA

I wish I wasn't going to, but the advertisers when I grew up had those really cool Twinkie ads in my comic books and Saturday morning cartoon shows and now I'm addicted.

Quote from: James McMurrayI wish I wasn't going to, but the advertisers when I grew up had those really cool Twinkie ads in my comic books and Saturday morning cartoon shows and now I'm addicted.

*Picture of Twinkie the Kid riding Dubya like a bronco removed due to slow response*

Following a post from RPGPundit on his blog suggesting I "make the case for the prosecution", I'm necroing this thread to suggest that we ban Dominus Nox.

Quote from: The Good AssyrianMaybe it is a cultural disconnect here.  As an American (and a naturalized one, at that), I have a basic assumption that I should be able to say what I want to.  That means that others should be afforded the same courtesy, even if they turn out to be assholes.  The community I live in puts limits on this ability for free speech, but these limits are (or at least should be) tied to actual potential harm.  

In principle, this is so, in practice, less so. There's the general principle of free speech, and there's the practice of where that speech is made.

For example, if you visit your buddy's house, and tell his wife, "nice tits, pity your kids are ugly," you may find that your buddy respects your freedom to say that, but asks you to leave his house and never come back.

If I go to church, though we have freedom of speech and freedom of worship in the country, probably standing there with tallit and teffilim and bellowing out "SHEMA YISRAEL!" - I'll be asked to leave.

If I go to court, and the judge makes a ruling, and I say, "that's a fucked-up ruling, judge," then probably I'll be charged with contempt of court, or at the least removed from the courtroom.

While speech should be free, that does not mean that we are obliged to put up with any damn thing said, and let the speaker stay if they offend us. Each place where people speak has certain rules and guidelines, often unwritten, about what's acceptable and what's not. No place is obliged to keep you around if you piss them off.

Now, this place is not someone's home, nor a church, nor yet a courtroom. Nonetheless, it's a place where people gather for a particular purpose. That purpose is to discuss roleplaying games with as wide a variety of gamers as possible. I've already spoken about how our conduct and posts here put off the female and homosexual part of the roleplaying population. That's bad enough. However, the continued presence of someone who openly advocates genocide, and whose only defence when called on it is, "well it's not genocide because that's for a race, and Moslems aren't a race," is something which has the potential to put off quite a wide range of gamers. It sure as shit puts me off.

As well as the good of the forum as a whole, there's our own personal dignity and sense of self-worth. It's simply not good to hang around with people you despise. For example, I was once befriended online by a gamer, who talked to me over a couple of years, we got along well and had a lot of laughs and interesting conversations. Then one day he told me how he'd slapped around his woman, he felt bad about it, but she brought it on herself. I talked to him for a bit and reassured him that it was, in fact, entirely his own fault - as a man, not a boy, he was entirely in control of his own actions, and these actions were shameful and cowardly. Now, any human can make mistakes in life, but this was, weeks afterwards, not acknowledged as a mistake. It was still all her fault. So this told me that the guy was going to do it again, and again, and again. So I cut that guy off, and never spoke to him again. I can't befriend a guy who slaps around his woman. It lowers me. I am less of a man just talking to him.

Likewise, the continued presence of a person who expresses blatant and vile racism, who openly advocates genocide, lowers me. I am less of a man just talking to him. Who does not feel a little sour and a tinge of shame when they realise they're talking to a person with such attitudes?

Dominus Nox should be banned from therpgsite. Alternately, he could be banned from the Off-Toic forum. I don't care what he thinks, only what he says - and he seems able to keep his vile racism in Off-Topic, so if he were kept out of there, whether by moderator fiat or some forum software function, that might do the trick.

Quote from: JimBobOzDominus Nox should be banned from therpgsite. Alternately, he could be banned from the Off-Toic forum. I don't care what he thinks, only what he says - and he seems able to keep his vile racism in Off-Topic, so if he were kept out of there, whether by moderator fiat or some forum software function, that might do the trick.

Based on his recent behavior, I agree that he should be banned from Off-Topic.  He's acerbic and crazy in the RPG board, but not as he is here in OT.

Quote from: JimBobOz...I'm necroing this thread to suggest that we ban Dominus Nox.

Well, if we're voting, I vote no.

Don't like him? IL him. Feel his presence lessens you as a man? Work through it. Trying to mold and shape this forum into what you, or anyone else, feels it should look like, is the surest way to kill it.

Quote from: JimBobOz...there's our own personal dignity and sense of self-worth.

Thank you for your concern, but I'll look after these things for myself.