Jump to content
The Official Site of the Vancouver Canucks
Enter Search Term. Use arrows to navigate between autocomplete results. If no results appear, use Enter to do a full site search.
Forum Closure ×
Canucks Community
Forum Closure

Master 112

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    18,239

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    9

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Master 112

    Poetry & Creative Writing

    in Creative and Media Forum

    Posted · Edited by 112

    It was one of her games: a swindling seductress, giving clues, making him think they might lead somewhere, when after all, the thrill to her was the non-ending path, every anticlimax, the shifting labyrinth of gestures and winks, tugs and pulls, pushes and jabs that only lead to void in every sequence. She cared about the way there,--nothing else,--and so getting to a specified 'there' with her wasn't possible, any 'there's she hinted at not really existing, everything with her only another layer of the imaginary. The pink drink she sipped on seemed chilled and was slushy, some sort of vodka and juice, and she was getting drunk more quickly than she intended to, starting toward conversational playfulness more open than was her usual tell in a lightless room.

    • Upvote 1

    Mafia - General Discussion

    in White Noise

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Master Radishes said:

    I will commit to committing.

    MR always clutch.

     

    I'm signed up for some off-site games now, lol. I couldn't stay away for long. It's only when I walk into a Twilight Zone episode that I really need to stay away from the game, though.

    • Upvote 1

    Is math racist?

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Jester13 said:

    Affirmative action is specifically designed to help combat WP because data and research shows that white people are more likely to get the job over an equally qualified candidate of colour. The argument against AA is that it negates Merritt, but that is not the case, as it is 100% used when candidates are equally qualified.

    uhh... maybe we should negate Merritt...

    Is math racist?

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted · Edited by 112

    Topically: my understanding of 'privilege,' which is a definition a lot of people on here don't seem aware of or share, is that it is not exclusive to race but rather can be used to describe sexed/gendered advantages in one's culture/society, wealth growing up or status-by-birth in one's culture/society, things like height or attractiveness, physical ability versus disability, etc..

     

    I do not do much reading on these topics and think most people who do tend to live within too narrow scopes to have good things to say on it either way... but as far as I know, the general belief among what has come to mean 'SJW' on this site is that /everyone/ has privileges and disprivileges, just in different ways and to disproportionate or incongruent and wrong effects for some people within all societies. I don't think this is ridiculous, honestly?

     

    People like enforcer are completely out of touch with what it is like to be a coloured and poor immigrant in the country, which is the only reason he could come to interpret polices meant to give these historically-marginalized groups fair representation within the forces that impose laws on them as somehow indicative that he must have, in reference to other ethnicities, a racial disprivilege--having lived in Canada as a white person since at least as long to have been able to apply to the RCMP in 1992.

     

    I have been well below the poverty line for most of my life at 23; I was on-and-off homeless for 4 years at one point. I looked awful and did sketchy things. I am not a privileged person. But I am not going to go around and claim I don't have a racial privilege for being white when throughout all that I was never rolled up to or stopped by a cop for drinking a monster energy drink, but that it was just a w/e common thing if one of my native friends were walking down the street and drinking one. I saw it happen to them and they just shrugged it off; but it seemed like very stupid profiling to me and made me realize where I lucked out in my non-character-indicative traits.

     

    Some people have /racial/ disprivileges, and it hurts the effort to rid our country and the globe of them when the attitude toward affirmative action within the scope of something so sacred as the application of law is to go into a CDC thread and make silly simplified jokes about it.

    • Upvote 1

    Need some advice from CDC's stoners

    in White Noise

    Posted

    1 minute ago, luckylager said:

    Why $3 each? The more I think about it the less sense it makes.

     

    I've made lots of edibles over the years, and because the THC comes from trim and unmarketable bottom buds, the active ingredients are free, you only really need to cover food cost and labour.

     

    If these guys are actually buying quality herb to cook with, all I can do is shake my head, because that makes no goddam sense to me.

    just get lucky in on this venture imo

    • Thanks 1
    • Cheers 1

    Is math racist?

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted

    1 hour ago, 189lb enforcers? said:

    When I was in high school, I had no brain and no plan. 

    I just thought I could one day be a K9 guy or a guy paid to hurt child molesters and rapists. 

     

    So, I took French right through. 

    Graduated with 49.7%

    A pass! 

    Miserable experience. 

     

    Imagine my dismay when I was “racist math”-ed against, and told I was not what they wanted, being a white male and all. 

     

    Nobody reading will I’ll be told, “ you’re too brown, yellow, blue or whatever” only white guys. We have laws on the books for this for diversity quotas = racist math. 

     

     

     

    If you don't understand why it's important for a federal police force to represent the demographics it enforces laws upon, it's probably a good thing they didn't hire you.

    Need some advice from CDC's stoners

    in White Noise

    Posted · Edited by 112

    10mg is not a lot for /my/ tolerance and psychophysiology and past experience with thc, but there are people who would be quite knocked down by even that much in edibles, imo. I haven't had an edible in a long time, but I tend to go up to and over 300mg without a problem... but I am not going to tell you that this is something everyone can do and have a good time with--because that would be lying. :p Most seasoned stoners would consider 10mg nothing, sure--but that doesn't mean it can't have intense effects for some. The first time I smoked was comparable to a mushroom trip, and I don't recall having more than half a joint for it.

     

    I pay $20 for my 300mg chocolates in Vancouver, although I haven't looked for anywhere else that sells them and so wouldn't be able to tell you whether this is fair price.

    • Cheers 2

    What Are You Currently Reading?

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted · Edited by 112

    16 minutes ago, UnkNuk said:

    Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper

     

    A very interesting book by a former prominent member of the Westboro Baptist Church.  These are the folks you sometimes see on tv picketing the funerals of American soldiers and celebrating the deaths of homosexuals.  Basically, it's one extended family of religious extremists into which Phelps-Roper was born .  She describes her life within the church as a true believer, then recounts how doubts began to form, culminating in her decision to leave the church and her family and then coping with life in the outside world.

    I've never heard of her but might check it out; I've a real interest in these types of things.

     

     

    I don't think most people who comment on these Westboro guys when they come up understand super well the 'mind control' and indoctrinating powers/relationships that can force a person into such a group/cult. It's a very sad thing, and I tend to see many of the people who are in similar organizations with a very sympathetic sorrow; I don't think all of them are devils, just people who fell into traps and bad thinking.

    Is math racist?

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted · Edited by 112

    22 hours ago, Tystick said:

    Like you said, the extremes are taking over both camps.

    I would say the reasonable majority agrees on most issues, with just a slight difference in how we approach them.

    I would say it's true though, that the left has been taken over by these lunatics. 

    For the record, I once identified as liberal or left, but the PC crap is just too much for me.

    Just that you once identified as a liberal/left person does not mean you ever were one. I think a prerequisite to calling oneself a liberal should be an understanding of set theory such that you don't conflate 'PC crap' and its proponents with the set of all liberals/liberalism itself.

     

    What do you mean 'taken over'? You're confusing the pop news and the world's social media 'highlights' with sociopolitical reality. There's nothing valuable in that. The reality is that, likewise conservatives, liberals hold,--as a group,--diverse and many opinions. I think you're making a mistake when you abandon describing yourself like that simply because some people you disagree with have taken to the same /general/ ideology and began describing themselves similarly. You approach understanding of this when you remark that the reasonable majority agrees on most issues; but then you fail when you go down to drawing such a direct line between the views/actions/'PC'ness of a small subset of people who call themselves liberals and the banner of liberalism itself.

     

    No definition I know of liberalism equates so much to 'political correctness' as it does 'freedom and tolerance.'

     

    Do you rather identify with the racists within our conservatives? Or do you just go around telling people you're politically agnostic now?

×
×
  • Create New...