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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: But seriously folks...

« on: October 22, 2021, 08:44:15 PM »

"But seriously":

Do you expect anyone that believes in some sort of intelligent design to come forth and say:

"Your relentless forum posts have finally brought me around to your way of thinking."

Be honest.

 

Could you do us all a favor and turn it down a few notches with the bait and troll crap?

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Science / Re: Extraterrestrial Intelligence

« on: October 13, 2021, 08:55:07 PM »

They should do an experiment to satisfy Tubby's curiosity and fly a Boeing 737 through the atmosphere.

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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: Atheist found to be most despised, research finds

« on: October 13, 2021, 08:44:57 PM »

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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: Atheist found to be most despised, research finds

« on: October 08, 2021, 08:57:53 PM »

As an Atheist I can say that I have never experienced any real "hate" for my belief at all.

In my experience it is religion, not the lack of it, that inspires hatred.

As a supporter of ________ I have never experienced any real "hate" at all.

In my experience it is _________ that inspires hatred against my __________.



 

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Ratings

« on: September 27, 2021, 07:15:38 PM »

Having an issue with people negatively rating you just invites more negative ratings aimed to mess with ya. The rating system was meant to be humorous and fun.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: Who runs tastyspleen?

« on: August 22, 2021, 08:03:46 PM »

It's like wallfly told you. Anyone involved was appointed by quadz himself.

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/dev/random / Re: The Official 2021-2022 Football Thread

« on: July 24, 2021, 06:56:02 PM »

The South(which is the southeast), to me REGIONALLY has always been everything within North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana. If we're talking varied historical significance, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina are the first 4 to mention. Still no Texas and Oklahoma by either category.

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/dev/random / Re: The Official 2021-2022 Football Thread

« on: July 23, 2021, 07:49:54 AM »

Texas becomes a middle of the road SEC team. Oklahoma at best can be 2nd in the SEC. That is unlikely. 4th may be most likely, 3rd 2nd most likely. At worst 5th, maybe 6th. It's tough to pull a clean sweep of the SEC excluding Georgia, Florida, Texas a&m, LSU, and obviously Alabama. If Oklahoma manages to beat 2-3 of those teams, and sweeping the rest that's pretty darn good. But, I can easily see them dropping a token game they shouldn't lose so.. that's 3 losses.

WVU and Notre Dame to the ACC is the other gossip. Iowa State and okie state to PAC as well, in addition to other big 12 teams following suit. I haven't heard much about the big 10. They're a big money machine, but have also always had a system that avoids and benefits off only playing in their inner circle.

The word is, the big 12 schools/AD's and big 12 bigwigs. ESPN wouldn't renew contracts with the big 12 because they're not confident in their existence. Seems like the conference is imploding.

The SEC has considered bringing Texas into the fold, but they've always met a roadblock with "the longhorn network". Texas won't drop it, SEC won't allow it.

So it's hard to say, but it sounds like the big 12 going to shit is actually putting the super conference thing into motion. But so far it looks like the PAC is in a position to benefit the most from this, IMO. USC is a joke and Oregon needs more consistent teams to play against.

In the ACC Clemson will take anything they can get. UNC should be ranked 8th and at worst 12th entering the season, but this will be the 2nd year in a row where they don't play UNC. NC was the unofficial winner of the coastal last year, but since they scrapped the divisions due to covid it was a rematch with ND. Hoping UNC doesn't drop losses to VA tech or ND is their main way to face a quality opponent. NC's first game is a night game @ VA tech, and play ND in south bend as well. VA tech is going to be going for that upset like crazy. It'll be tough, and NC is only favored against ND by 1.5 last I checked.

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Quake / Re: Quadz, the Loquaciously Multiloquent Member

« on: July 12, 2021, 03:56:09 PM »

Quadz was an ardent supporter of free speech, science, and more power to the individual. There is no one more unbiased and impartial I've ever known. I knew him for 17 years, and I'll miss him.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Tastyspleen - Donate Button!

« on: July 12, 2021, 06:19:59 AM »

It's been on my mind.

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/dev/random / Re: The Official 2021-2022 Football Thread

« on: July 06, 2021, 01:09:50 PM »

What do you mean? This time it's for'eal. The U is BACK!!!

 

It's a pretty good way to make money maybe. Their spread is only 17.5 for Alabama Miami because of the endless hype they always give Miami in the preseason.

Last year Miami had 3 losses. Regular season losses to Clemson by 25pts and UNC by 38pts, and bowl game okie state with a 1pt loss. UNC and Alabama had the best offense numbers in 2020(about tied in every category), and unless bama really lost some people they should cover that 17.5 without issue, especially if it keeps dropping lol. 16.5 would be better.....I guess ya never know though. I won't be betting on it.

In all honesty Miami isn't THAT bad. But when they face a good coach that has top level talent they don't fare well, so far. I think that's on manny diaz.

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/dev/random / Re: The Official 2021-2022 Football Thread

« on: July 05, 2021, 05:09:23 PM »

It's safe to say bama is fucked.

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/dev/random / Re: The Official 2021-2022 Football Thread

« on: July 02, 2021, 05:48:53 PM »

Fromm wasn't good. Good enough, sure, but not what should be good enough for Georgia. Georgia's a far bigger program than NC but I can actually make the comparison at the qb position because a good qb at NC is the norm. And... out of our last 5, I'm not sure I would've taken fromm over any of them. 4 I'm certain, hell no, the only one I'd debate over is brynn renner(he was actually semi decent. Big rivalry between him and mike glennon, but Renner's the weakest link).

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/dev/random / The Official 2021-2022 Football Thread

« on: July 02, 2021, 10:39:36 AM »

A little early, but since North Carolina is one of the "breakout" teams, I'm at least a little informed about the preseason.

First, it honestly looks like business as usual for the most part. Everyone that's usually beats each other more than likely will continue to do so. Georgia is slightly more stacked than usual, but that only means so much and it's tough for them to not have a better than 1 loss record. They really only lose 2 at worst, so that's typical.

So the teams that can potentially mix things up a bit are Michigan, Miami, USC, Texas........HELL NO.

It's Texas a&m, North Carolina, Iowa State, and Oregon, in no order.

I'm not gonna make a huge post as the first one, but I'll add that north Carolina lost the best running back duo in the nation, yet gained what should be the best corner back duo in the nation(two top 10 ncaa corners, Duck and Grimes).

I'm buying tickets to a NC game today. My mom's going to Miami, might meet her there.

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Quake / Re: Chaingun -how to make it sound slower....

« on: June 23, 2021, 11:55:06 AM »

Happy to hear vae's near only win on me is circulating as he hoped 

Wouldn't it be easier to replace the sounds in a different pak that overrides stock?