Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #450 – 2015-09-08, 23:05:10 Clever little finch.From NewScientist.https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28103-darwins-fast-evolving-finches-use-a-natural-insect-repellent/
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #451 – 2015-09-09, 07:59:09 Quote from: tt92 on 2015-09-08, 18:05:10From NewScientist.https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28103-darwins-fast-evolving-finches-use-a-natural-insect-repellent/From that piece...QuoteHendry thinks that even now, an estimated 2 to 5 million years since their arrival...How could that be since the earth is only 6,000 years old?
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #452 – 2015-09-09, 09:54:54 Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2015-09-09, 07:59:09Quote from: tt92 on 2015-09-08, 18:05:10From NewScientist.https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28103-darwins-fast-evolving-finches-use-a-natural-insect-repellent/From that piece...QuoteHendry thinks that even now, an estimated 2 to 5 million years since their arrival...How could that be since the earth is only 6,000 years old?The finches don't know that.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #453 – 2015-09-09, 11:24:31 Must you always argue against the dumbest positions you can find, Jaybro? (Perhaps that explains why you always call me out! And why you so often don't…)
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #454 – 2015-09-09, 18:43:26 I'm trying very hard to ignore you, but you make it difficult.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #455 – 2015-09-13, 12:40:34 This is really strangeSourcehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XjietgsBDY
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #456 – 2015-09-14, 10:57:46 What's strange about it?
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #457 – 2015-09-14, 18:58:41 It was going to take on Trump for the election.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #458 – 2015-09-14, 20:21:00 Quote from: ersi on 2015-09-14, 10:57:46What's strange about it?Well, in case you can't notice anything else strange, I suppose six year old humans don't use to be 13 cm tall. (not 1,30m, it's 13cm)
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #459 – 2015-09-16, 08:44:37 It's not a child. It's an alien. Aliens are old news. Now, this is weird, wacky and wonderful.Gaybar på Putins tomt har polisanmältsA Swedish hip hop band made a gay-friendly video at a seemingly abandoned spot in Åland, Finland. It turned out the spot is owned by the country of Russia. The hip hop band is facing charges for unlawful entrance to private property, for having built something there and for not cleaning up after themselves.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #460 – 2015-09-16, 09:27:53 Quote from: ersi on 2015-09-16, 08:44:37The hip hop band is facing charges for unlawful entrance to private property, for having built something there and for not cleaning up after themselves.Makes sense. But that owned by Russia thing doesn't really sound like a coincidence, does it?
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #461 – 2015-09-16, 09:52:24 Quote from: Frenzie on 2015-09-16, 09:27:53But that owned by Russia thing doesn't really sound like a coincidence, does it?I am kinda intrigued by the same line of thought. If I were a journalist, I would approach the band members and Putin with the relevant questions. The source where I heard it first (Swedish local radio) did not consider any such connections.Ålandstidningen.ax also has a strictly local scope. The currently latest random commentator under the tidbit (the news item that reads like a mere disconnected factoid) says, "How is the police supposed to investigate the location of the crime? ...the place is Russian territory and "Putin" must give permission to our local investigators to check if indeed an illegal gaybar has been erected "Edit: Given that homosexuality is banned in Russia, the band may have been deliberately provocative. Last Edit: 2015-09-16, 10:07:15 by ersi
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #462 – 2015-09-16, 18:29:27 If queerdom is banned why are there queer clubs as recently shown in places like St Petersburg and other cities? They are not allowed to push their direction amongst the young and that is illegal but I note that the fact that Islam is a massive religion globally and in the face on queers a sidestep is done. Just shows how people are brained by the media into anything if Russian. Now that other smart alec who is a Sir here, Elton John, is gabbing about wanting to go and meet Putin?? Considering there are millions of homosexual anti people here in Islam he doesn't need to go far at all but like the usual so-called liberal mind a load of nonsense.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #463 – 2015-09-16, 18:36:05 Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-09-16, 18:29:27If queerdom is banned why are there queer clubs as recently shown in places like St Petersburg and other cities? Prostitution is also banned but there are whorehouses. Child pornography is banned but there are networks who produce and share it. Police work is pragmatic business with a limited reach. Crackdowns are mostly unmethodical, done by campaign rather than by letter of law.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #464 – 2015-09-17, 21:06:24 Not a proper answer I am afraid as you cannot go into publicly advertises prostitution clubs BUT you can go into queer clubs in Russia which is a statement of fact. That country has a more conservative traditionand that is their right and up to them. All the propaganda we get about Russia is childish stuff but Islam is second fiddle and we shut a damn blind eye to them due to corporate business and having military allies in Islam. Kind of two-faced in a way. Anyway such clubs in the cities over in the land of the bear would not exist without permission.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #465 – 2015-09-17, 21:44:52 Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-09-17, 21:06:24Not a proper answer I am afraid as you cannot go into publicly advertises prostitution clubs BUT you can go into queer clubs in Russia which is a statement of fact.I have no idea what the facts are, but extrapolation suggests you can also go into prostitution clubs in Russia.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #466 – 2015-09-17, 22:09:21 ohhhh... prostitution... the oldest profession of mankind. How bourgeois, the best customers by the way, gets so much "moralist" about it.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #467 – 2015-09-18, 02:20:31 You are drifting as well Frenzie and my point that there ARE legal queer clubs there is valid.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #468 – 2015-09-18, 17:05:04 Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-09-17, 21:06:24Not a proper answer I am afraid as you cannot go into publicly advertises prostitution clubs BUT you can go into queer clubs in Russia which is a statement of fact. Concerning Russia, those who have actually been there can judge what the proper answers and statements of facts are.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #469 – 2015-09-19, 13:07:25 I have to sigh a wee bit there ersi. When you see these clubs in cities and people going in and out of them they exist! They exist because the city council and government have allowed them! One could see the point you have if this was not so much in the practical face of things! Even in that city they had the Winter Olympics and a world view had a queers club (!)
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #470 – 2015-09-19, 17:01:08 Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-09-18, 02:20:31You are drifting as well Frenzie and my point that there ARE legal queer clubs there is valid.Yes and their were gay clubs even back in the end when "sodomy" was illegal. This proves nothing. Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-09-16, 18:29:27They are not allowed to push their direction amongst the young and that is illegal but I note that the fact that Islam is a massive religion globally and in the face on queers a sidestep is done.WTF? Anyway, the problems with Russia laws are many and extend beyond LGBT. The fact that its yet another crackdown on free speech by the Putin regime is just the beginning. Even anti-gay people in the US seem to fail to understand that such a law can only the work of a dictatorship. So, be comforted in the fact that you're not alone in being blinded by your bigotry. Another problem is that anti-LGBT violence has escalated since the law was passed. I could go into far more detail, but your response would only be a generic rant.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #471 – 2015-09-19, 19:20:41 Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-09-19, 13:07:25I have to sigh a wee bit there ersi. When you see these clubs in cities and people going in and out of them they exist! They exist because the city council and government have allowed them! This is how it works in countries where governments rule in accordance with law. Not so in Russia. In Russia, lots of things you see, such as sales of vodka and jewellery on the street, the entire CD and DVD industry, gay clubs and whorehouses (usually labelled "салон массажа") where you see business going on as if it were okay. They are all illegal, but police only jumps on them when the bureaucrats think that enough time has passed from the previous campaign against those activitities.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #472 – 2015-09-21, 03:31:04 You are still drifiting from the basic point erso.The clubs are legal and fully operating and i think the other things you mention are an odd matter and the officially allowed existence of public clubs on main streets still prove my point I don;t see all the open minded so-called liberals mounting a campaign against dozens of Muslim cave dwelling mentality countries being hounded. So the fact that Russia gets singled out is well frankly, negative. They have the clubs try it in Islam places and you are dead!
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #473 – 2015-09-21, 04:56:42 Just one question to you, rj. In Russia, tourists have to register their passports at the police in every city they visit. Did you know this or not? Most people don't know this and hardly anyone does this. The police doesn't usually jump on ordinary tourists because of this, but if they have some other issue with you, whatever that may be, the fact that you have not registered your passport easily becomes a major issue that gets you locked up. Happens to foreign journalists or visitors of conferences often enough. This is Russia.And no, gay clubs are not legal in Russia. They may operate until the next raid.
Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful Reply #474 – 2015-09-21, 08:47:44 Quote from: ersi on 2015-09-19, 19:20:41This is how it works in countries where governments rule in accordance with law. Not so in Russia. In Russia, lots of things you see, such as sales of vodka and jewellery on the street, the entire CD and DVD industry, gay clubs and whorehouses (usually labelled "салон массажа") where you see business going on as if it were okay. They are all illegal, but police only jumps on them when the bureaucrats think that enough time has passed from the previous campaign against those activitities.I've never been in Russia but have travelled in some Eastern European countries - hence my assumption.It's hard to beleave that in Russia you can't purchase legally a bottle of Vodka, jewellery or a CD/DVD (to name just some famous classics like Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov or Mussorgsky).Sales on streets is another matter. I assume that those sellers have neither a license/authorization nor do they pay taxes. Besides, the source of their goods is obscure to say the least. Such illegal sellers (till some day when the police pick them up) were common in some East European countries I've visited.As for brothels, AFAIK they are prohibited in other places like Poland as well. However there is less excitement therefore and you can visit even so many brothels operating illegal.BTW, Wikipedia tells me that organized prostitution (whorehouses) are illegal in Estonia too.
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