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tchrist
tchrist
9:14 PM
So much evil racism.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
?
 
Robusto
Robusto
9:48 PM
@Cerb: This anything like your life?
@tchrist Evil racism as opposed to virtuous racism?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Robusto That does look very Dutch!
Although much was not to my liking.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@AndrewLeach Nickname Jay Anus. /nod
@Cerberus You'd rather be having tea at the Savoy every afternoon, yes?
High Tea, that is. At the Savoy.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
The Savoy is a very sleazy bar here that's open until 6. So yes.
We used to go there when all other bars had closed.
@Robusto Your Dutchman is a football fan.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Haha. It's posh in London.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
His floor is plastic wood.
He has black things.
He lives in a dreary building in a suburb.
 
Robusto
Robusto
9:54 PM
Well, what do you expect from Utrecht?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I have lived in Utrecht!
 
Robusto
Robusto
Yet now you live in Amsterdam ... that is a comment in itself.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Although the house I lived it was declared "uninhabitable" by the firemen shortly after (not my doing).
 
Robusto
Robusto
I guess you showed 'em, huh?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I like Utrecht.
Look at that former cathedral.
 
Robusto
Robusto
9:55 PM
1 min ago, by Robusto
Yet now you live in Amsterdam ... that is a comment in itself.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
A tornado went right through it in the seventeenth century.
The ruins became a gay cruising area in the 18th century.
@Robusto Okay, okay, I like Amsterdam better, because Utrecht is more provincial.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus Wait, so Nederlands invented gay?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
That's why "Utrechtenaar" still means "homo".
 
Robusto
Robusto
hahaha
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Robusto Something tells me it was invented slightly earlier.
 
Robusto
Robusto
9:57 PM
Oh right. Greece!
Hellas.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
And also prehistoric man, no doubt.
Apes.
In 1730, seventy homosexuals were executed at Utrecht.
 
Robusto
Robusto
wow
Martin Luther did that?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Calvin, yes.
Calvin is worse than Luther...
 
Robusto
Robusto
lighting the way to intolerance
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Calvinist Utrechters also complained about the homosexual acts performed by the various foreign delegations in the city in 1713, when the Peace of Utrecht was negotiated.
Much later, the term Utrechtenaar apparently also became a billiards term, for hitting a ball "from behind".
 
Robusto
Robusto
10:02 PM
See, America is like Utrecht these days. 50 dead gays in Florida this year ...
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
That was horrible, but it was not supported by the population!
And weren't there various straights among the dead?
 
Robusto
Robusto
Dunno. But a lot of the population support that stuff.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Death?
Surely that is a tiny part.
The Utrechtenaren were executed by the state.
Times have improved!
 
Robusto
Robusto
Basically they're called Republicans ...
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Naaah.
They're not so extreme.
Look how many Republicans now support gay rights.
And how religion is declining.
 
Robusto
Robusto
10:09 PM
I guess you're an "ass is half full" kind of guy.
Sorry ... you know I can't resist a pun ...
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Quite.
We may hope for perfection, but not instantaneous perfection.
 
Robusto
Robusto
And yet still we desire it.
ok, ttyl, gotta go
 
tchrist
tchrist
10:50 PM
There are too many people who would still vote for the Republican "candidate" even if he punched out the debate moderator on live television. It’s gone far beyond anything even unreasonable now.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
11:07 PM
Punched out??
 
tchrist
tchrist
11:21 PM
@Cerberus I presume you're not seeking a definition.
Orange people are beyond the pale.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
11:40 PM
@tchrist I would not believe you if you said he became violent on television.
So that can't be what you meant.
 
tchrist
tchrist
No, I did not say he had.
I said that it would not matter to some people if he were to do so.
There comes a point in a conflict where people have so demonized the other side that their own side is literally incapable of doing any wrong, that nothing their side could possibly do is too far, too evil, too much. That's what leads to the mob going along with atrocities.
 
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