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A majority of Kiwi knows this already, but did you know hate speech isn't defined as an exception to free speech? Doesn't make hate speech right but you won't be prosecuted for it like some want. Plus it'd be hard to put this in anyway, since the Bill of Rights can't be changed.

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Hate Speech is Free Speech - National Coalition Against Censorship

And yet not without consequences. After the November 4th election of Barack Obama, 4 North Carolina State students hit the “Free Expression Tunnel” to spray paint messages that have now sparked a fierce debate on campus about how to respond to hate speech. The messages, including one that read...
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Hate speech in the United States - Wikipedia

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Cheetahman said:
Bicycle helmets increase the risk of bikers getting hit by cars
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Site hasn't been updated in years but ... https://www.cyclehelmets.org/


I think the main reason people want to make bicyclists wear helmets is due to some sort of conspiracy by car motorists and manufacturers who hate sharing the road with bicyclists and want to get every bike off the streets, because everybody hates wearing a bike helmet.
 
TiggerNits said:
I don't get what this is doing. I can see the cursor the whole time its in the white frame
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Maybe this one will be more noticeable. Don't forget that you need to focus on the left dot with your left eye closed.

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Elvis Presley was actually a twin; his brother Jesse Garon was stillborn, born 30 minutes before Elvis.

Despite never actually having "met" him, Elvis was reportedly haunted by the loss of Jesse. He claimed to have heard a "mysterious voice" all his life which he attributed to Jesse, and he also attributed part of his creativity and talent to him.

Jesse was buried in a small cemetery in Priceville, Mississippi, with an unmarked grave (indicative of what a poor family could afford). He has a memorial marker at Graceland.
 
TiggerNits said:
Do i have a tumor?
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Hopefully not, I think I have found the real culprit - that gif worked fine when I posted it from my phone, but now that I'm on PC I can't seem to notice any blind spot effect, just like you. The solution is just to move your head closer to the screen.
 
The term sharing the limelight comes from Victorian theatres, and was because a specific recipe mixture of coal and lime. This recipe was used to make quicklime, and it was noticed that when the two items were burned together made a very bright luminous light, hence the adoption by theatres, since it was an excellent way to light the stage.
 
The phrase "Pulling my leg" comes from victorian era pickpockets. The usual MO of pickpockets was to work in pairs, where one would create a distraction for the victim so the thief would have an easy job stealing from them. The usual method of distraction was to pull the leg of the victim in order to make them trip and take their attention to the floor, moment when the pickpocket would move in.
 
Saint Nikolas (the man Santa Claus is partially based off of) was part of the Council of Nicea. At the council, a man named Arius proposed a heretical theology called arianism which posed the trinity should be defined as one god with two lessers. Angry at this, Saint Nikolas punched Arius in the face.
 
WinterMoonsLight said:
Saint Nikolas (the man Santa Claus is partially based off of) was part of the Council of Nicea. At the council, a man named Arius proposed a heretical theology called arianism which posed the trinity should be defined as one god with two lessers. Angry at this, Saint Nikolas punched Arius in the face.
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I think this was in that Kirk Cameron movie, Saving Christmas, where Saint Nikolas beat the shit out of heretics.
 
WinterMoonsLight said:
Saint Nikolas (the man Santa Claus is partially based off of) was part of the Council of Nicea. At the council, a man named Arius proposed a heretical theology called arianism which posed the trinity should be defined as one god with two lessers. Angry at this, Saint Nikolas punched Arius in the face.
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Damn curious, because Arianism's most famed propheth was Zarathustra, the man Nieztsche used as a vessel for his philosphy book Thus spoke Zarathustra.
 
The fast food mascot the Burger King is actually directly based on King Ottokar II of Bulgaria.

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Not really, I just made that up.

WinterMoonsLight said:
Saint Nikolas (the man Santa Claus is partially based off of) was part of the Council of Nicea. At the council, a man named Arius proposed a heretical theology called arianism which posed the trinity should be defined as one god with two lessers. Angry at this, Saint Nikolas punched Arius in the face.
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Santa Claus is shocked by your heresy.
 
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Since you speak about kings, i will too.

When Elisabeth the 1st of Spain died, her husband Fernand of Aragón married the young Germana de Foix who was 18 while he was 53. With the arrival of Philip the handsome to the court and seeing how one of his daughters (Jeanne the Looney, in spanish Juana la Loca) he wanted to get another heir since things didn't looked good for the kingdom of Castilla. That is why he made a deal with the King Louis XII of France in which he had to provide a heir in exchange for rights to the crown of Naples.

The thing is that the king couldn't get his little guy up and that's why he used an afrodisiac concoction made with powder of spanish flies. In his efforts to have a new heir he abused the substance more and more until he died of a stroke caused by it while he was shagging his young wife.
 
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In the criminal underworld there have been terminologies for specific types of crimes and specialisations since the 17th century and the language while changing still has kept some of the original words in play.

So a prat, was the word that a pick pocket would use for someones wallet or purse, and so it wasn't meant as an insult originally rather a way to denote a target. Later it became an insult, because it denoted perceived gullibility or lesser intelligence.

Likewise to boost something usually meant to shoplift. A Fence is someone who will sell stolen goods. Bunko isn't used much anymore outside of law enforcement, but essentially is gambling and games that the mark can't win. And a confidence game, although shortened to con game, still means the same thing.
 
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The saying "To bite the dust" comes from the strange but usual custom medieval knights had. When a knight was gravely wounded in battle he would take a handful of dirt and put it in his mouth, symbolizing a farewell kiss to his beloved land.

In relation to this, knights as well usually carried a small but lethal knife called "Stiletto". This knife was extremely thin and was designed to pierce through chainmail with ease, to which knights usually used it to put themselves out of their misery. But stilettos weren't originally a weapon, but a tool used in ancient rome to do engravings in tablets. It was due to this use that the word "Stylus" came to be in relation to the stilettos.
 
Many people are unaware of the Andy Griffith Show spinoff series titled Mayberry R.F.D. (named after the main series finale). Andy and Barney are not main characters and make only a few appearances.

It was cancelled after three seasons due to the rural purge.
 
For several years in the 1960s, the U.S.A. operated a nuclear-powered base capable of holding several hundred servicemen buried underneath the Greenland ice cap.

No, seriously. It was called Camp Century and it's my favorite thing.
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Camp Century

During the Cold War, the U.S. Army built a military complex under the Greenland ice sheet as a prototype for nuclear missile silos.
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Also, Pyrrhus of Epirus - he of 'Pyrrhic victory' fame - was reputed to have a magic toe that could cure spleen diseases when touched.
 
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