"If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up." - Barry Humphries (Dame Edna)

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"A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain, or but a very insignificant one; and however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighboring palace rises in equal of even in greater measure, the occupant of the relatively little house will always find himself more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped within his four walls." - Marx on irrationality

If the fact that blacks and other minorities form a disproportionate share of the prison population means that they're discriminated against and that the system is rigged against them, does that mean that men are also discriminated against and that the system is rigged against them? [Someone: maybe it just means that more white women are sent to the gallows or face lethal injection than other demograhic groups, which explains why they are not in prison. there's no discrimination overall actually. ;) yep, poor white women]

The gross under-representation of men in Women's Studies and Nursing faculties in universities worldwide, Media and Physiotherapy in Melbourne University, English in some universities is evidence of gross systemic discrimination against them.

If imposing labour regulations on businesses causes them to move overseas to avoid them, hurting the people the regulations were meant to help in the first place, doesn't imposing environmental regulations similarly harm the planet?


A friend says that in his school, boys can only go to toilet singly but girls can do so in pairs.

Owl instant tea sucks. It's extremely tannic, like SAF tea.

I went to enquire how much Bloodbones cost (it wasn't in stock, unfortunately), and found out it cost only $7.88 - that's cheaper than FF books were in the 90s! ($8+)

Women are very prone to inexplicable fits of mindless laughter. Someone said he thinks it's a gap-filler, like how guys go "erm" and "uhh".