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02 Jan 2011, 7:53 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
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But no hydrophobia? Maybe we can just expose you to a strange raccoon. Raccoons aren't dogs.


Rabbies is not something I'm that worried about.

Good! SEND IN THE RACCOONS!! !


We raccoons are not all rabid. The bats are anxious to spread that rumor.



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04 Jan 2011, 1:45 pm

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It hadn't occurred to me but you are also correct. He should have identified himself as a cell colony of indeterminate gender. This may piss off a few touchy viruses but when they complain on this site I will come up with something.


No, No, NO! Nouns have gender. Organisms with sexual dimorphism have sex.

I identify myself as a human being of the male sex. (Without in any way suggesting that my taxonomical classification or sex is in any way preferable or superior to other species (regardless of their genera, family, order, class, phylum or kingdom) or sex (be it male, female, intersexed or transexual).


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04 Jan 2011, 3:06 pm

I just like spaghetti and meatballs, count me in.



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04 Jan 2011, 7:35 pm

visagrunt wrote:
Sand wrote:
It hadn't occurred to me but you are also correct. He should have identified himself as a cell colony of indeterminate gender. This may piss off a few touchy viruses but when they complain on this site I will come up with something.


No, No, NO! Nouns have gender. Organisms with sexual dimorphism have sex.

I identify myself as a human being of the male sex. (Without in any way suggesting that my taxonomical classification or sex is in any way preferable or superior to other species (regardless of their genera, family, order, class, phylum or kingdom) or sex (be it male, female, intersexed or transexual).


There is no linguistic gender in either English nor Finnish. And in Finnish there is only one word signifying both he and she.



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04 Jan 2011, 8:23 pm

SNS vis-a-vis Sexic