what's black and slides down nelson's column?

the ECHR ruled in favour of the british airways hostess and said that she had been discriminated against because of her religion. are you ignoring this example for any particular reason?

‘who wants to blow the western penis’

ooh, ouch. now the claws are out. i haven’t commented on ‘the west’ and it’s various systems at all. i just said that i don’t consider the chinese model to be very attractive. maybe i just spend too much time outside Shanghai’s gated communities, rubbing ...

there's a reason BUPA exists

BUPA's brilliant. get BUPA.

i would argue that the benefits of china’s command structure aren’t nearly great enough to make the overall package an attractive model. you live in china as a foreign expat who can live comfortably in china and leave at the drop of a hat if they really want to (as do i). would you really want to ...

'Britain is the fourth largest GROSS contributor and second largest NET contributor to EU funds. Germany leads the way on both measures. in 2011 the UK contributed a GROSS €11.25 billion (€11,250,000,000) and received €6.57 billion in EU spending. The result being a net contribution of €4.68 billion ...

jesus

'The Southern EU members would have less resources to extract from the richer, northern EU members, and then many politicians would be forced to actually make the necessary spending cuts, reforms, etc.'

the richer EU members don't actually contribute that much, net. off the top of my head, the UK's ...

sabotage says:

'Family and home are the same character in Chinese'

家 = home
家人 = family (人 means 'people' or 'person', so 家人 means, literally, 'home people')

even if 'family' and 'home' really were represented by the same character, that doesn't demonstrate a whole lot. come live in china and ...

sabotage says:

'1. No one in China looks back at it and says; wtf was the government doing? They just robbed us and bailed out the other guys that robbed us. That is, they maintained the trust or perhaps built trust in some minds.

2. They dealt with the crisis, a situation that average businesses ...

we're all going to die eventually

There is no tragedy in life like fat girls who would be really hot if they stopped eating so many doughnuts.
Especially if you live in western Europe, Australia or the USA, where bite-sized girls are in short supply as it is.

most people who are raped don't tell anyone, and even those who do are highly unlikely to do so formally (e.g. to report it to the police). good luck persuading rape victims to engage in advocacy work.

the second response to me was 'some people are just too stupid to be allowed to say anything ...

a group of uberl33t hackz0rs who spend the vast amount of their time conducting DDOS 'attacks'? purleeeease

i'm afraid "you is the stupid, LOL" isn't really a compelling reason for me to revise my views on this topic. keep trying though. maybe one day you'll be able to triumph in a debate with one of my grade 4 students.

'People are going to disagree about the significance of certain periods but I think Jerusalem while Jesus was teaching would be a trip to say the least.'

if we're allowed to say things like this then i would visit never never land

tripoli as libya transitioned from gadaffi to the new guys.

i would rather be raped then murdered than just raped, yes. i might as well. if it was a really nasty attack my 'life' is over for at least a considerable chunk of my remaining mortality anyway. plenty of people commit suicide due to rape. is that not a death sentence?

i'm not saying one is 'better ...

maybe i should clarify a little. it's perfectly legitimate to explore the reasons that rape and murder are perceived through such different glasses, but i said it's a 'fucking stupid' OP because you included this: 'It seems obvious that murder is worse'

from whose perspective?

fucking stupid question.

if someone is murdered, then what? they are dead. no lasting damage to the victim (from the victim's perspective) because there is no victim any more. no one sits at home, crying and afraid to walk down the street at night because they were murdered.

if someone is raped ...