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04 Jan 2016, 9:31 am

Six.

Teen.

Degrees?!

Are you serious?

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04 Jan 2016, 6:30 pm

Sylkat wrote:
Six.

Teen.

Degrees?!

Are you serious?

8O


Yes. I have a weather and temperature on my "Siri". Reno is located near the Sierra Nevada mountains



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04 Jan 2016, 6:52 pm

too daggone cold for me. :smurf:



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04 Jan 2016, 7:14 pm

Dox47 wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
A better idea would be to put Cosby in the same cell with Jerry Sandusky.

(ofcourse it would help to give Cosby a little facelifting first- to make Cosby look more like a young college boy).


Do you also support putting female convicts in cells with convicted rapists?


First: I was kinda joking. Like saying "Scott Peterson should marry Jodi Arias", or "Jon Binet Ramsey's parents should adopt the Menendez Brothers". Maybe it was a rather tasteless version of that kinda joke. But it was a joke.

Second:if you're going to make the mistake of taking a joke seriously then at least do it right by making a better analogy. The joke was to let Cosby get a taste of his own medicine. So if you know of a woman convicted of serial forcible rape (not just statutory rape of a single minor, but serial forcible rape) then name that person and ask "would you be for putting so-and-so into a cell with a convicted male rapist?". A woman shoplifter being allowed to be raped by a fellow inmate is not analogous to Cosby being allowed to be raped by Sandusky. She has to have somehow raped a series of other adult people to be analogous.



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04 Jan 2016, 7:56 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
First: I was kinda joking. Like saying "Scott Peterson should marry Jodi Arias", or "Jon Binet Ramsey's parents should adopt the Menendez Brothers". Maybe it was a rather tasteless version of that kinda joke. But it was a joke.

Second:if you're going to make the mistake of taking a joke seriously then at least do it right by making a better analogy. The joke was to let Cosby get a taste of his own medicine. So if you know of a woman convicted of serial forcible rape (not just statutory rape of a single minor, but serial forcible rape) then name that person and ask "would you be for putting so-and-so into a cell with a convicted male rapist?". A woman shoplifter being allowed to be raped by a fellow inmate is not analogous to Cosby being allowed to be raped by Sandusky. She has to have somehow raped a series of other adult people to be analogous.


My major problem is that people too often toss off these "jokes" in such a way as that I'm pretty sure they're not joking, less 'wouldn't it be funny/ironic if the same type of crime befell this person?', more 'I hope they get put in a cell with bubba', which to me sounds like they think rape is an appropriate punishment in some cases. I have a moral absolute position against rape in all cases, so I go out of my way to point out what people are actually saying when they make comments like that; yours is I believe the 3rd this week.

Just to clarify, I'm not against rape jokes per se, funny is funny, nor do I take the social justice argument that joking about something normalizes it, what I'm against is rape cheerleading or punitive rape advocacy, which I felt like you veered into with that comment.


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04 Jan 2016, 9:13 pm

auntblabby wrote:
too daggone cold for me. :smurf:



Even when I was bundled up I was still freezing. It had snowed there a two weeks before New Years



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04 Jan 2016, 9:17 pm

I'm glad I live in a more temperate location.



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11 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm

Aristophanes wrote:
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The full deposition in available from the link above. I don't think Cosby realizes that what he did was wrong. I think he feels entitled to sex.

...perhaps he'll use the affluenza defense: "I didn't know drugging and raping women was wrong because I'm rich and famous so I never had to have morals."



Naaah, he just needs to use the Bill Clinton defense. 8)