Comments on: My Picks for Top Tweets: 11 September 2017

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:47:12 +0000

In reply to nicky. It is good advice, but can you imagine the Bible bashers thinking it's acceptable? I know this advice has been given in sex ed in high school here, with almost no controversy. Those who protest are seen as ridiculous.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:43:35 +0000

In reply to Lee Knuth.

That’s the difference between the main centre-right party here and there. Ours significantly increased benefits, regularly increases the minimum wage, supports universal healthcare etc. They come out significantly further right on the political spectrum than most of our political parties, but in the US they’d be further left than the Democrats on most policies.

I can’t work out if Paul Ryan really believes his policies would work, or he’s just plain cruel.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:36:26 +0000

In reply to GravelInspectorAidan. All I remember is Data and his cat Spot. :-)

By: nicky

nicky — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:15:58 +0000

I did not know the expression “to rub one out”, but the advice is not unsound (although in healthy young males rubbing 2 or 3 out might work better).
Contrary to what the ‘moral crusaders’ want you to believe there is a negative correlation between access to pornography and rape incidence.
In Denmark and the Netherlands it was seen after legalisation of pornography a few decades ago. More recently the access to internet is used as a measurement for access to pornography.

By: Lee Knuth

Lee Knuth — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:04:08 +0000

The Dominican nun really put Ryan in his place. His social conscience is nonexistent.

By: GravelInspectorAidan

GravelInspectorAidan — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 01:44:48 +0000

Cats and boxes – it’ll always be a thing.

Since SF has a non-trivial line of “Cat-alien” stories, I’m slightly surprised that I can’t think of an example.