Rolling CHALLENGING OPINIONS thread 2008

Hitchens's rhetorical style is almost as faulty as the religious people he criticizes. Take a bite out of this, homos:

There are also those who think that Romney's disowning of past Mormon polygamy is too opportunistic, since the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does still offer the consolation prize of multiple wives in heaven (just like the sick dream of Mohamed Atta).

What purpose does making that comparison serve other than to associate Romney with an established Enemy of America (EoA)? It mistakes degree and extent based on casual association to a shallow, muckrakey effect.

-- burt_stanton, Friday, December 7, 2007 2:40 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

Take a bite out of this, homos

as faulty as the religious people

File even if you owe, even if you can't pay, even if you claim crazy deductions. Get an extension but do not fail to declare income to the IRS. You'll pay either way. IRS keeps track of this and technically when, not if, they find you, you could get audited, penalities, probation, criminal record (fraud is considered moral turpitude).

-- felicity, Monday, April 14, 2008 12:02 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

The insinuation at the end.

haha, where'd you dig up my old comments from? Roxymuzak, I guess your concern is with my use of elision, which is a weird dialect tick I inherited from my oldschool Mid Atlantic family.

"Hitchens's rhetorical style is almost as faulty as the [rhetorical style of the] religious people he criticizes. Take a bite out of this, homos:

or whatever the fuck you call it, where you leave out phrases to shorten sentences in spoken englihs.

yeah, we're all real concerned

We took our eye off the ball being distracted by Starbucks and let those torture and debt guys get into power and run the country into the ground. That may be how we'll look back on the past 10 years. Soon enough we'll be nostalgic about gentrification, as opposed to storefronts closing without new replacements, and for the years when a coffeeshop with a fireplace was the target of our righteousness.

-- Eazy, Monday, April 14, 2008 3:29 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

oh come on, surely a truth bomb.

some of these truth bombs dangerously close to challenging opinions

-- latebloomer, Monday, April 14, 2008 2:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Who are these people who are more upset about Starbucks than about the Bush administration, and are they perhaps busy scaring off crows or taking practice jousts as we speak?

the same people that were worried about some kind of boats four years later?

well, in eazy's post it's past tense, so he/she meant ratm-listening kids back in the 90's, no?

Yeah actually I guess s/he might mean pre-2000 elections, in which case that would be kind of true.

I was being slightly tongue in cheek their Geir. I mean, pretending to be satan is just plain ridiculous.

-- Fer Ark, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 09:18

yeah its like pavement except its good

-- Preview of the Matrix 12, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:38 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

The Fall?

no age

that guy is annoying.

You have to be in a Bergman kind of mood to watch Kurosawa.

-- Other, Sunday, 27 April 2008 15:09 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

deep

Deep and bollocks, it's a twofer.

bollocks deep

deep bollocks?

Balls Deep would be a good band name.

^ban?

Soz.

I crossed the rubicon back in february after spending a couple hours listening to car radio, reaching the point where if I heard ONE MORE lame rap about "shorty" getting down & dirty in da club my head would explode.

-- m coleman, Sunday, May 4, 2008 9:14 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^ same dude who was repping this racist v.s. naipaul travelogue the other being all "i read it after 9/11 and my jaw was on the floor"

m coleman is good people usually, need to remember guy is over 50
(maybe i should start i love old dudes secret borad)

i mean if we're talking old ilxors with chall-ops
coleman > morbs > chuck eddy

m coleman started the 10+ sandwiches i am thinking about thread, which was a valuable public service.

chall-ops4u

in the sandwiches vs. casual racism battle i guess sandwiches win

he probably doesn't like phil collins either

it was hard for me to tell from his response to that naipaul book exactly why he dug it so much. a lot of people were all, what is the deal with this islam? post-9/11. especially lol old people.

yeah maybe im being harsh but i remember that book being like a better-written bernard lewis screed, a lot of "islam is a backwards and militaristic religion" etc etc... i sort of assumed his jaw had dropped at "oh my how barbaric islam is!!" but i might have misinterpreted him

no, i mean that was how i read it, too, but i am weirdly sympathetic to people who admit having that reaction to islam, maybe because i expect that every nonmuslim secretly harbors it?

suspect, not expect. anyway.

lololol u found me out dawg! i think muslims are mostly terrorists, or backwards primitives!! pls dont tell anyone!!

lol sorry max i think that was a long digression about how i'm a self-hater. it wasn't actually about other people.

nah i was jking i didnt think you were accusing me of racism, self-hatred is the best kind, plus it gives u an excuse not to talk to white people

m coleman, 3 months ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7rE-8jTyAY

V.S Naipaul = The Kapoors (Pronounced Cooper!) on Goodness Gracious Me

This thread = #1 Google for "challenging opinion" and "challenging opinions". Good job Dom.

i've started to use this phrase irl now

can't help it-- hopefully i can stay away from irl use of "challops"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y_vA4gDZ14

all rappers suck live

-- The Brainwasher, Friday, May 16, 2008 9:59 PM (Friday, May 16, 2008 9:59 PM) Bookmark Link

haha i said "challenging opinions" to a guy tonight!