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Socrates Dissatisfied (1727 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
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Maybe I'm being over sensitive...
But there seems to be a fair bit of misogyny in some posts. All in jest, but still, some posts that are misogynistic in nature. I'm curious as to whether there would be so many if there were more women on the site.
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CommanderByron (801 D(S))
16 Jul 14 UTC
Vsauce?
So I am an avid viewer of the youtube channel Vsauce and was curious if anyone else watches it?
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Gobbledydook (1389 D(B))
14 Jul 14 UTC
English Writing Skills Thread
Discuss skills that help you write good prose and poetry.

I'll start:
If you are trying to write an argumentative piece, it helps a lot to be concise. A long-winded piece that just says the same thing in ten different ways just leads readers astray.
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CommanderByron (801 D(S))
15 Jul 14 UTC
Sandbox
I used to play on an online diplomacy site that had a sandbox. Is it possible to get one on this site, even if just for classic. I looked on the todo list and saw nothing in reference to it.
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Vikesrussel (839 D)
15 Jul 14 UTC
Un pause please.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=143190
Please Un pause the game.

Russia wont do it.
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Draugnar (0 DX)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Obiwan where are you?!
I just finished watching Joss Whedon's production of Much Ado About Nothing and wanted to learn if you had seen it and what your impression was if you had. I quite enjoyed it and felt it was, at the least, comparable to Branagh's version.
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krellin (80 DX)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Dead Children = Liberal Compassion
Truth in Action - One of the brilliant ideas of Libtards is "open borders"...it's compassionate. Everyone deserves blah blah blah. Yeah, but there are CONSEQUENCES: ** Dead CHILDREN on the shores of the Rio Grande **

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/report-small-lifeless-dead-children-found-washed-up-along-riverbank-of-rio-grande/
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King Atom (100 D)
13 Jul 14 UTC
Millions of Germans just wet themselves...
...and probably plenty of other Europeans too...

Congrats and all.
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SantaClausowitz (360 D)
15 Jul 14 UTC
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Little Known Casual Board Games That Are Excellent
Getting some opinions
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CommanderByron (801 D(S))
15 Jul 14 UTC
England?
So I have played maybe 100+ games of classic and never have I played as England. Now for the first time here I am. What are some good strategies?
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zultar (4180 DMod(P))
15 Jul 14 UTC
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What it means to be human
A question and some thoughts
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2ndWhiteLine (2736 D(B))
14 Jul 14 UTC
Shopping
In an effort to make this site more female friendly, I'd like to discuss where us WebDippers buy clothing, household goods, and anything else relevant.
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
15 Jul 14 UTC
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I SAW THE BANNER
I SAW THE DAMN COMMUNITY FREEDOM OF SPEECH BANNER THINGY WHAT'S GOING ON ZULTAR
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SplitDiplomat (101466 D)
11 Jun 14 UTC
New Top 7 GB game
The game is about to start so an info for the
participants only,about the final roster;
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
14 Jul 14 UTC
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Look how modern the Church of England is...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28300618

I can't wait until they officially include LGBT Bishops .... and officially outlaw paedophilia, then I might start taking them a bit more serious
Jamiet99uk (1307 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Do we really need two threads about this?
NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
14 Jul 14 UTC
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No, we can just use this one
Maniac (189 D(B))
14 Jul 14 UTC
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Pretty sure peadophilia i outlawed NigeeBaby
NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
14 Jul 14 UTC
If paedophilia is outlawed how many prosecutions have the General Synod brought against Bishops committing the crime while in their employ.
KingCyrus (511 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
I thought there already was an Anglican LGBT Bishop, albeit, in the US.
Maniac (189 D(B))
14 Jul 14 UTC
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I don't know Nigee - If a shopworker in Tesco commits an offence I wouldn't expect his/her bosses to prosecyte them. The police and courts are best for that.
NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
14 Jul 14 UTC
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Please don't be a twat and compare theft of groceries to child sex abuse
Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
So now women can be parasitic religious professionals too? Progress.
Maniac (189 D(B))
14 Jul 14 UTC
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Where did i say the shopworker stole groceries? My point is all offences should be dealt with by the law - not by employers.
NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
14 Jul 14 UTC
Maniac - the point is the General Synod have the evidence, of course they would have to supply this information to the police, that goes without saying.
The question is, "how many times have the General Synod handed over details of sex abuse accusations so that the police can do their job, and how many convictions have resulted from this evidence. The numbers should disgust you ......
Octavious (2732 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
It is good to see the old left wing institution evolving with the times. Disappointing that the usual suspects will continue to attack it regardless of what it does, but such is the way of things.
Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
The Church of England is leftwing? And I suppose the Protestant Ascendancy was socialism in action, right?
Octavious (2732 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
You think the CofE is right wing? They've been more an opposition than the Labour party.
Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Opposition? David Cameron was scolding it for not making this decision years ago. I suppose Cameron is a Marxist, then?

Sure they criticized your neoliberal friends for their depraved indifference to poverty, but so did the Catholic Church. I suppose they're leftwing too?
Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
"They've been more an opposition than the Labour party."

That's like saying they're more concise than Judith Butler.
NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
14 Jul 14 UTC
I think Octo is joking - he means left-wing compared to him - of course the Church of England is very conservative but compared to the current LibCon Coalition they are pinko Liberals :-)
Octavious (2732 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
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True, the sum of Labour's opposition recently has been taking photos of themselves holding newspapers and then apologising for it. I also see neither gender equality or gay rights as left/right issues. Strip those away and the CofE is pretty much Socialism with incense.
Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Well, if Octavious wants to write everybody off who isn't a complete Neo-Malthusian as his political enemy, including the entire Christian community of England, that's fine by me. How this works as a viable political strategy I don't know. Perhaps next thing you know the foxhunting crowd will be called Sandinistas on horseback, and the Ulster Scots will be said to be chanting sayings from Mao in their spare time.
Octavious (2732 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
What would I want a viable political strategy for? I'm not seeking election. Also, political enemy is rather a strong phrase, isn't it? They may be led by a bunch of soft headed lefties but that doesn't make them bad people. I'd reserve the term political enemy for fascists and the hateful wretches in the Socialist Workers Party.
Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Whatever you want to call it. Political competitors? I really don't care. They're written off from the Church of Octavious because they care about poor people somewhat, that's the point.

"What would I want a viable political strategy for? "

Silly me I thought you wanted your political commentary to be taken seriously and not as a joke where you just hurl meaningless labels at people who don't agree with you 100%.
Invictus (240 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Also strange to think of the C of E as "the entire Christian community of England." They're very much a dying breed. I bet almost all the regular churchgoers in England were rounded up meet the laity quorum at the synod. More of the proud knownnothingism of contemporary atheists. I suppose you can't all be Robert M. Price...
Invictus (240 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
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^^pot calling the kettle black
Invictus (240 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Sorry for the triple post. That should be regular Anglican churchgoers, obviously.
Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Well as I mentioned earlier, had you been paying attention, the Catholic Church, and indeed a plethora of major church groups in England all condemned the Coalition's welfare reform policies. So if the C of E are fuzzy headed leftists then the entire professional religious establishment is.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2563497/David-Cameron-criticised-benefits-reforms-26-Church-England-bishops-say-national-crisis-causing-poverty-malnutrition.html

Proud knownothingism indeed.
Invictus (240 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
All of his posts are unambiguously about the C of E. Nice try, though.
Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Who cares? The logic extends to the other groups since they have the same position and have expressed the same 'opposition'.

Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
And not that you care, but 30% of regular churchgoers in England are CoE members. Hardly a dying breed, or rather, any more dying than any other church in the country.
Invictus (240 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
The share of C of E churchgoers of the total amount of English church goers tells us precisely nothing about whether they are a "dying breed" or not. Isn't statistics the field of mathematics political scientists like yourself are supposed to be good at? The fact that their average age was 61 in 2010, however, does.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7054097/Average-age-of-churchgoers-now-61-Church-of-England-report-finds.html

Especially when the average age of all English churchgoers was 45 in 2005.
http://www.eauk.org/church/research-and-statistics/english-church-census.cfm


"Who cares? The logic extends to the other groups since they have the same position and have expressed the same 'opposition'."

I don't see how. He was talking about the Church of England alone, and never talked about their response to government spending cuts.
Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
And so what? 70%+ of regular churchgoers are 55 and older and among people under 45 non-Christians outnumber Christians. So, like I said, to the extent to which churchgoing is a dying trend, the Church of England is a dying trend. 1/3 of the churchgoing population is not an insignificant number, especially when that number doesn't include affiliates like the Church of Scotland and Church of Ireland, whose churchgoing rates are much more in proportion with overall affiliation rates. It would also help if you got your numbers from the same source, an elementary rule of statistics, if you're going to lecture me about it.

"I don't see how. He was talking about the Church of England alone, and never talked about their response to government spending cuts."

Well considering that the main, or really only point of criticism the churches have made is on the issue of welfare reform, that is the crux of the claim for the C of E being an "opposition". And I don't really give a fig if he was talking about the C of E alone, since all the churches *made the same point* so the *same categorization would apply*.

I can't tell if you're intentionally being obtuse or what. I think you're just back to your normal "let's contradict Putin33 for no reason" self. Glad to have you back. Not really.
Invictus (240 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
I'll leave it to others. It seems pretty clear to me you're the one being obtuse here. As is typical.


Only back to try to get rid of my points again. If no one joins that game in the 9 days left you'll be free to spout North Korean propaganda unmolested till January at the earliest.


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tvrocks (388 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
how to play Italy, france, and germany
All other countries have been done so i've decided to make a thread for the last 3 to hopefully make it so that there won't be any more on this topic. (though i am at fault for one of them)
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Maniac (189 D(B))
14 Jul 14 UTC
What are "agreed hypothetical facts"
There is a case going on in the UK about whether our surveillance service have broken any laws. As they can't confirm or deny what they have done the case is proceeding based on "agreed hypothetical facts". Is this bending the language too far?
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krellin (80 DX)
14 Jul 14 UTC
How to Play...
A hot blonde...regardless of coutnry of origin. Go.
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mollie bean (102 D)
13 Jul 14 UTC
doctrine of shock
New ppsc game please join
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Putin33 (111 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Happy 14-Juillet
Vive La France! What is everyone doing for La Fete Nationale?
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Al Swearengen (0 DX)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Troll Supergroup
This thread is to hail the coming of the troll supergroup

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Al Swearengen (0 DX)
07 Jul 14 UTC
Chaqa Outreach
Gentlemen: Let's stage an intervention for our most troubled member, userID=30476

Why does Chaqa hate?
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denis (864 D)
13 Jul 14 UTC
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Germany
World Cup Champions
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Al Swearengen (0 DX)
14 Jul 14 UTC
Overflow Thread
This is the overflow thread.
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Maniac (189 D(B))
14 Jul 14 UTC
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Women Bishops
Finally women bishops in the Church of England, about time.
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tvrocks (388 D)
12 Jul 14 UTC
How to play england
I've played as england a lot lately and have realized that i'm bad at it. So how exactly can someone do well as england?
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mapleleaf (0 DX)
04 Jul 14 UTC
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americans need to answer.....
When will Palestinians get THEIR Fourth of July?
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Crazy Anglican (1100 D)
14 Jul 14 UTC
WTA games
Not to comment on ongoing games, but I haven't played very many.
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Ogion (3817 D)
13 Jul 14 UTC
Quick question: accessing PMs?
Hey folks. I've never figured out how to get to the Messages page so i can look at old PMs and send them. What am I missing here?
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denis (864 D)
13 Jul 14 UTC
How to Play
With all these How to Play X (insert country) threads going around why not just get down to the simpler question how to play and thoughts about the game.
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