Random Politics & Religion #00

And this guy is a good actor:

They need to hurry up with the DLC cause I need a reason to play Fallout doing random misc. quests doesn't cut it.

In the meantime while waiting for DLC this picture will get me through:

Beards used to be something for normal men now the hipsters have taken over and ruined it for everyone.

Beards used to be something for normal men now the hipsters have taken over and ruined it for everyone.

Like this:

I feel like that's a beard the same way fake *** are breasts.

It's peacock-level vanity strutting and is in no way indicative of the real thing, just some shallow imitation.

You can have a large and distinguished beard. But as soon as you put on skinny jeans and a Where's Waldo? hat, you've skeedaddled right past irony and into poseur territory.

Which in an actual bit of irony, is exactly what hipsters are trying to avoid!

I think to be a real hipster now you have to actually dress like a shop teacher from the 60s and actually never break character at all. Listen to his music, live the life, die of lung cancer at 54.

Don't forget the hipster vapers

*Doctors writes "*** loser" on medical chart*"

Reminds me of a thing I saw somewhere...Twitter, I think, or maybe Reddit.

"Doctor: Do you smoke?

Patient: No, but I vape.

*Doctors writes "*** loser" on medical chart*"

stolen from "Spies Like Us" when they met the combat instructor...

and his assessment of dan akroyd and chevy chase was "pussies"

I feel like that's a beard the same way fake *** are breasts.

It's peacock-level vanity strutting and is in no way indicative of the real thing, just some shallow imitation.

You can have a large and distinguished beard. But as soon as you put on skinny jeans and a Where's Waldo? hat, you've skeedaddled right past irony and into poseur territory.

Which in an actual bit of irony, is exactly what hipsters are trying to avoid!

I think to be a real hipster now you have to actually dress like a shop teacher from the 60s and actually never break character at all. Listen to his music, live the life, die of lung cancer at 54.

Random question about that. I know hipsters have kinda ruined that whole thing, but is there any sort of use for it besides being a tool?

I know sometimes I get stressed the fudge out and think I would love to start smoking at that moment. I don't know what part of smoking a cigarette is the anti stress part, but do the vapor things provide that?

don't be judgmental

but aren't you judging him for being judgmental?

Short answers: better than cigarettes, still bad for you

The nicotine inside the cartridges is addictive. When you stop using it, you can get withdrawal symptoms including feeling irritable, depressed, restless and anxious. It can be dangerous for people with heart problems. It may also harm your arteries over time.

So far, evidence suggests that e-cigarettes may be safer than regular cigarettes. The biggest danger from tobacco is the smoke, and e-cigarettes don't burn. Tests show the levels of dangerous chemicals they give off are a fraction of what you'd get from a real cigarette. But what's in them can vary.

"E-cigarettes may be less harmful than cigarettes," Drummond says. "But we still don't know enough about their long-term risks or the effects of secondhand exposure."

Either everything is okay to be made fun of or nothing is. You can't force your precise definition of fair game for humor on everyone.

What does humour have to do with this?

Fashion has always existed and always will. Beards were popular in the past, then they stopped being so, and now they are again, simple as that. Just like almost all generations alternate between long and short hair for men, or when on a yearly basis you should buy clothes of "this year's colour", not cause it matters but cause people like fashion. You don't? That's fine, but it doesn't hurt anyone that some do.

And then there's a couple of posts about e-cigs..there's a lot of lack of information around those, a lot of people got into them thinking they are innocuous compared to real cigs. While you can also make a point they're also used for elegance as they certainly look better, there's little reason to call it worse than non electronic smokers.

fashion hurts plenty of people in a lot of ways

it's more about the attitude and actions of a lot of people who do it

Some 1,000 men are alleged to have carried out dozens of sexual crimes on New Year's Eve in the city of Cologne. That these crimes occured in the city's most famous square has left local authorities reeling.

Police in the western German city of Cologne responded on Monday to outrage over a string of sexual crimes over New Year's Eve. According to police, the series of assaults in one of the city's busiest thoroughfares represented a "completely new dimension of crime."

Some 90 criminal complaints, including one allegation of rape, have been brought to the Cologne police department after women said they were molested by a crowd of men who had gathered in the city's famous square between its central train station and towering Gothic cathedral. Authorities expect more victims to come forward in the next few days.

City police chief Wolfgang Albers said the crowd was composed of up to 1,000 heavily intoxicated men who gave the appearance of being "Arab or North African" in background.

The police chief told German news agency dpa that the incidents represented "an intolerable situation" for Cologne. His department has already assembled a task force to deal with the matter.

Mayor Henriette Reker, who made international headlines in October when she was stabbed on the campaign trail, has called a crisis meeting, which will include local and federal police, for Tuesday to address the crimes.

Reker told the local press she found the men's actions "monstrous."
"We cannot tolerate this development of lawlessness," Reker told the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" newspaper.

Speaking with local newspaper "Express," Ralf Jäger, the state interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, promised swift action.

"We will not accept that groups of North African men gather expressly for the purpose of debasing women by sexually assaulting them," the paper quoted Jäger as saying.

The leader of the North Rhine-Westphalia branch of Germany's main police union, Arnold Plickert, called the crimes "a massive attack on basic rights" and said justice must be seen through even if it has "politically uncomfortable" consequences.

Plickert warned, however, against exploiting the incident to stir up anti-refugee sentiment.

"Any refugees who have a problem integrating into our open society and respecting the rights of other people" must be dealt with using the "full force of the law," he said, though adding that the public should not forget that "the great majority of the people who have come to us have done so because their lives are no longer safe in their homelands."