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Thanks to a chosen few who have made it virtually impossible to post any subject, the forum has been brought down to nothing more than a place to post party announcements, and "come fuck me" ads.
Thanks a lot you guys, and I hope your so proud of yourselves, nobody wants to post any interesting subjects, nobody dares post anything even slightly controversial, is that what you were trying to accomplish? by forcing your opinions on everyone?
Now because of your inability to play well with others, we all suffer, and the forum dies. Thank you, thank you very much.
RIP Swingular Forum, I will miss you.

-Me
well..... to be honest, the quality of the content in the forums waxes and wanes over time. Give it a bit, things will get better....

then worse...
then better again...
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As you are often one of my arch nemesis' in the forum and come up with some pretty juicy subjects, perhaps you can throw a controversial hand grenade in the mix of party anouncements and "piss flap" pictures. Perhaps we can talk of our positions in regard to Stem Cell Research. I am all for it, as I feel there is no moral implications in doing such. Maybe we could talk about the need for a more diversified forum. What we'd like to see change. I for one, though very rare, am with you on this thread. I think there are far too many individuals that want to dictate what the forums should be.

Hell, I don't like threads about meat wrinkles and mushroom caps, which we have in abundance, but I would never think for an instance about foiling those threads or complaining in them. I just ignore them all together. It's quite simple. I guess or some, they want to not only choose what's best for them, but what they think is best for everyone else.
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One of many great adventures of Jake. These are choose your own adventure games. The idea is to get Jake laid. Some of these are really difficult. Let me know if you beat it.

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TR,
How about Global Warming? where do you stand on this?
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I for one, think we are killing our planet. States like Utah should be ashamed of the amount of pollution they are allowing to be pumped into the atmosphere. I am a tree hugging Oregonian. LOL!
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TR, why do you think I live in the south? LOL My sky is still blue!!
Last night made me wonder why anyone would think there is a "global warming" (Froze my ass off)
Here is proof of above ass frozen off statement!
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Dayam... You did freeze... uh.... What were we talking about again. I... uh... uhuhuhuh.
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what did i miss can't we piss on any one anymore?all you have to do is go in there subject and take it off track.tell them they shouldn't be talking about that because it offends you.oh well fuck em if they can't let it be or is that supposed to take a joke
Phil
Hmmmmm ......... Global warming? I think global warming is one of the main culprits of our recent population explosion. When men wear underwear that is too tight, it holds their globes up high and tight and WARM. Everyone knows that this causes their sperms to be very strong swimmers and much more potent. So with way too many globes being held up close to the body, there are babies being born left and right. Pretty soon, if this insane practice keeps growing rampart in our present society. we will be over-run with too many people on this Earth. We won't be able to feed them all, and disease will spread un- checked all over the world. Come on guys ....... you need to be more responsible. Wear boxers or nuttin at all, and let's stop this damn global warming shit Right Now!

Classy ..... you got toilet paper hanging out your ass. LOL
Actually wearing boxers will cause the men to produce more sperm. That is why their testicles are on the outside of their body as opposed to being inside. They need to be a few degrees cooler than the body.
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Not entirely true. The testicles are kept of the outside of one's body because a man's scrotal tissue expands and contracts to regulate the temperature of his tesicles to keep them at an even average temperature. One should wear boxers on a hot day and briefs on a cold day to promote the health of one's swimmers.

Think of it this way, if body temperature killed sperm, then your sperm would die upon ejaculation into the female or when being moved through the Vas deferens and Cowper's gland. That's my understanding anyway.
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Damn, you are full of such useless knowledge....
TR ..... you keep your globes warm the way you want ..... I'll get my global warming the old fashion way. LOL
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That is entirely subjective to one's perspective. Apply it to a couple that is trying to spawn a fucking drooling shit machine and you have instant value. Seriously though, I am full of useless shit. I have to relieve myself by taking a mental shit once in awhile. Give a guy a break for fuck sake. LOL!
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<b>Wettfem,</b> with that being said, I will retire to my masturbatorium now.
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Hmmmmmmmmmm...... ???
Global warming is a normal cycle in the world. some how someone is out to make a buck of global warming. wasn't it just 2 years ago that we had one of the coldest winters on record -- or at least that is what the oil companies said so they could raise the price of heating oil.

Mother Nature will find a way to come back and level the playing field, i just don't want to be in her way when it happens
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That would depend on if you masturbate or masterbate. I think my spelling is correct. Regarding your analysis of global warming, I will disagree with you. There is not enough scientific data from the past to support your hypothesis.
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TR ... I think you left out an s there, Cowboy.
The mouse would say "thanks", but he ain't got no mouth. Actually, his nose wiggles, but won't do it on here.
Global Warming??

Umm.. I agree whole heartedly with the originator, Classy Not Trashy... that the forum has de-evolved into the party ads, and fuck me requests..

BUT STILL!!

I mean with the world news stating that the wonderful man in the WHITE HOUSE (until he gets drug out by his heals in handcuffs) Flat out refused to soften his stance yesterday, on what we as AMERICANS produce in green house gases, while the rest of the world is pledging to reduce..

We are the largest producers of CO2 with is the key element in global warming..

Does the planet go thru cycles, Yes. What drives these cycles, CO2 levels, and the current levels have existed before... Before the last ICE AGE..

To answer the statement about how cold it was, or how the winter went.. be prepared, thats just the tip of the iceberg (pun intended)

According to an Inconvient truth.. the current levels, are expected to triple int he next 60 years.. the thing as kids we were all told will come to pass.. the ICE CAPS will melt, ocean levels will rise 20 to 35 feet.. within 100 years, NYC will be under 14 feet of water..

Daytona beach, the race track.. will be under water.. Miami, Tampa, LA, New Orleans, and every coastal city will be as well..

Now, how about we come at this another way...

In the past 4 years, the weather has gone nuts.. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, extreme cold, and extreme heat..

Is it cool to be able to have shorts on at christmas, sure.. but I live in Florida now... its when they can do that in NY people will start to notice.. just before the beach front homes in long Island or Jersey.. go under water.. or worse.. a repeat or the late 20's early 30's of the last century..

Dust Bowl anyone?
TR,

You have to take a "Mental Shit?" I hate to use acronyms like the kids, but in this case I will: ROTFL!

R
OK, I tell my kids not to believe everything they see on TV, do I have to say it to all of you ADULTS?
You see "an inconvenient truth" and all of the sudden we are in dire straights? That's like telling me I need to fear Aliens because you saw "Independence Day".
Just now, because Al Gore put out a movie saying so, there is a problem? (isn't that why they outlawed aerosol hairspray in the 90's? It was suppose to fix that problem) I read an article once, cant think of the magazine right now, that said the hole in the ozone layer was closing up, so really find a "truth" you can live with and stand behind it, none of us will be alive to say I told you so.
I also believe the world cycles and adapts, and so what if the polar ice caps melt, I wont be alive to drown, and if this happens, I will blame the Oil industry anyway!! They should have to take some flack for something those greedy fucking bloodsuckers.
~K~
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As a former nuclear plant employee (Robinson Nuclear Plant, Hartsville, SC), I will agree that the material transported down I15 is of no worry to the public. I will say that there <b><u>is</u></b> more than alpha and beta emitting rays on the protective clothing, tools and other materials that are being scrapped at the underground waste facilities here and in Washington State. What matters is the dose and dose rate that you are exposed to and what part of you is exposed. There are different types of Gamma rays. You are getting mild amounts of Gamma from the sun, your microwave and other various forms of "Background Radiation".

As a radiation worker, you are alloted 5000-6000 millirem (6 rem) in one year. That number varies. It was 6000 when I worked there 2 years ago, but I think they dropped it to 5K. Most nucear plant enforce an administrative dose limit of 4000 millirem. As an Armed Nuclear Security Officer, you are expose to less about .01 - .03 millirem in one trip through RCA (radiation control area). You may pick up .06 if you are asked to guard a containment hatch or door.

There are plenty of pipes that leak and need constant repair due to the corrosive nature of the boric acid they use the slow or stop fission. As the worker are exposed to different types of radioactive material and different types of radiation i.e. ionizing (used to x-ray pipes) or radioactive dust particles that can be inhaled. You are often exposed to gamma types. A lot of the contaminated protective clothing <u>does</u> have gamma emitting particles. The levels are assessed before leaving the plant and a more than adequate amount of shielding is used for transport. No one is in danger.

You also have to realize that it is about dose rate. You would have to linger for quite a long time for the clothing (even fully exposed to it a 5 meters away) for it to have any adverse effect on you. Dose rate upon exposure is what matters. You can sit all day in something that's only putting out .01 millirem per hour. However, if you have something putting out 1000 rem an hour (1,000,000 mrem), then you will probably not survive long at all. Spent Fuel Rods put out doses like this or higher. Lastly, I would just like to say... it also depends if its a whole body dose or just a dose to you foot. There are far too many factors to be paranoid about such things.


About your hypothesis regarding global warming. I just have one question. How many oil refineries and cars have the found as fossils or perhaps in the ice? What nature does and what we do is two different things. We are adversely affecting the invironment and that's a fact. We're even good at lying to ourselves about it. The word "inversion" is a fucking joke. Only in Utah.

Watch a movie called Chernobyl Heart. Also look up radioactive decay, half-life and other components to the problem. You can not blame people for being paranoid about what the government allows. Talk to downwinders and service members that suffer from NBC (Nuclear Biological and Chemical) testing. Nuclear plants are filthy, expensive and cause a nearly eternal problem. The spent fuel rods don't just go away. They have half-lives of like 200, 000 years. That's longer than man has walked on this planet.


<b>WETTFEM,</b> As long as the idea makes it, spelling is of little consequence. Especially when you mispell two words trying to correct someone. "Believe" and the very word in question "Masturbatorium". After all, someone that uses double negatives like " ain't got no", should be a little forgiving. Am I right there Cowboy? LOL!

<b>SHEKKI,</b> Acronyms are ok, they shorten your time typing. As long as they are not too obscure. I still think Special Weapons And Tactics or Special Emergency Response Team should be Fast Action Response Team. HAHAHA!

<b>CLASSY,</b> Think of blaming the fuel companies the next time you put the key in your car. We are all to blame.
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Maybe we ought to scrap sending shuttles into outer space and quit punching holes into the atmosphere. You think that is helping our trouble with global warming?
VP,
(CLAP CLAP CLAP) Right on!!!
~K~
Classy,

here is where reality and fantasy need to be seperated..

Unlike the movies, Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum are'nt capable of swooping in and saving the day with a computer virus.

You point to an Inconvient Truth as a money making venture, even though the academy award it won was for best Documentary.

Nature will take care of itself? You are absolutely right, to a degree.. but the key to that question is.. At what point CAN'T nature recover? Bill Maher has been bringing up the decrease in the population of bees..

Remember your basic science? Co2 is Bad for HUMANS, and MOST ANIMAL life.. How is it made HEALTHY for us? Plants and trees.. they breathe in Carbon Dioxide, and breathe out Oxygen.

So, Trees and plants are important, RIGHT? and how do trees and plants reproduce? in most cases the seeds need to be POLLENATED.. and who does that??

BUZZZ BUZZZZ BUZZZ...

Getting a clearer view yet?

Or is the current take, we will all be dead before it becomes a real problem? Could be, you are correct, in that respect. So, while we bust our asses to send our kids thru schools, and hope for the best for them... we are just as quick saying..

Fuck 'em, theres nothing we can do about it

Or did I read something incorrectly in your reply?
PUTNAMCOCPL,
Actually, that was intended as humor, (that means it was a joke, ya know....... funny....... haha?????........(chirp chirp)

Do you think that in the days of the caveman they all sat around boobing about how if the dinosaurs go extinct they were all gonna die? or do you think that nature took care of it?
This world has been evolving and adapting, animals, plant life included, funny how that works.

An inconvenient truth won an award, big deal, still just a way for the rich man to become richer, or did he let the whole world see it for free? NOPE
Maybe that rich man should start spending some of his profits on a SOLUTION, or am I supposed pay for it, on my salary? Or maybe you could start sending in your paycheck?

So tell me.....how do you purpose we fix the whole in the ozone layer? bee pollen? and really just like VP stated, what are we going to do start living on the moon?
show me some SOLUTIONS, bitching is not going to get you anywhere.
~K~
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While I don't doubt that global warming is occuring, the fact that the documentary won an academy award doesn't lend anything to the validity of it's content. Academy awards are voted on by the peers of the documentarian and other entertainers in hollywood.

I do agree with your assessment of the balance of nature being interrupted by human influence. Many people talk about events in history that prove that cycles happen. They do, but nowhere in history do we have millions of tons of pollutants in the atmosphere, except during asteroid strikes. EXTINCTION LEVEL Strikes. So, if your argument is that the Earth heals itself after life gets wiped out, that is just daft. I have no doubt the world will heal itself after we kill ourselves off making the environment inhospitable at a rate faster than evolution can keep up with. The difference between then and now is that we are creating <b>unnatural</b> circumstances that wipes out entire species, often for the sake of our fat and lazy convenience. We have to smarten up and start taking care of the environment. PERIOD. I would love to see big oil turned on it's fuckin head.
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Pollutants are particulates. Most things that pollute the atmosphere can be found in the ground. Oil is a big one. Most pollutants are naturally occuring chemicals.

Lets look at Mt. Saint Helens for an example. That was a great example of natural pollution. The ash alone wiped out a great deal of the rivers and streams in the area for quiet sometime. All of the forests in the area were wiped clean of life due to the severity of the ash. Hell I remember when I was young I had to wear a fuggin mask on my face just to go outside and I lived in Yamhill County, Oregon.

Regardless of all that, my point was that we are doing things to the environment that the Earth isn't doing. The pollutants caused by a volcano are nothing compared to synthetic chemicals and Nuclear waste and Extreme Radiation that is emitted by spent fuel.. etc. These are things that nature doesn't do. This isn't part of the natural cycle of life. I was agreeing with Putnam, not the contrary.

Oh and we'd have a much easier time wiping out bees than microbes because bees can not evolve as fast as bacterium or viri. It is much easier to adapt to the environment if you're not mutating a complex organism. Common sense bro. It's all about the process of selection. It stands to reason that a bee has many more systems, functions and processes to be adapted to a changing environment. These changes happen over 100's to 1000's of years, where as bacteria can evolve in hours or days.
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As a tree-hugging former Minnesotan, I gotta say that global warming is crap. "Ooooh something strange is happening with the weather. Let's give it a fancy name to explain it so we don't have to be scared anymore, but wait OMG this is so much worse that we thought. Everyone panic, we're doomed!" Whatever! Yes, our consurmerism is driving the planet to an early grave, so what are you going to do about it? Where does the buck stop?


- Are you a member of your local Freecycle group that passes items you don't need anymore on to others so these things don't end up in landfill? Don't have a local Freecycle group? Start one!

- Are you using cloth (or other completely reuseable) grocery bags instead of collecting mountains of plastic bags? If you are collecting those plastic bags are you taking them back to store to be recycled?

- Speaking of recycling.. Are you recycling any and all items that can be recycled? Are you trying to buy items that are already made of recycled materials to encourage those companies to continue their efforts?

- Have you considered buying a stainless steel thermos or other environmentally friendly reuseable water bottle to reduce the amount of plastic that needs to be produced?

- Are you turning off lights you aren't using when you leave a room? Are you closing your blinds during the day to conserve energy costs? Do you turn your thermostat up (or down depending on what time of the year it is)?

- Are you using cloth diapers and wipes in an effort to save money (long term) and reduce the rate at which landfills are multiplying? Convenience always comes with a price and that includes diaper services that take care of your cloth diapers for you. Can we say gallons upon gallons of bleach? Which btw, lessens the life of cloth diapers and is unnecessary.

- Are you growing your own vegetables so you don't have to depend on the chemically treated stuff you could buy in stores? Are you developing ways of becoming self-sufficient (solar power, wind energy, etc) or at least supporting those efforts in your local energy companies?


What the hell ARE you doing to reduce the amount of impact you have on the environment besides producing more hot air whining about how its so-and-so's fault? One person may not change the world alone, but world change begins with one person. I'm tossing my soap box into the recycling bin so everyone else will have to bring their own.

-SG