Recent content by aldt

'Reverse discrimination' is a nonsensical phrase. If you're discriminated against for being female, that's discrimination. If you're discriminated against for being male, that's discrimination. If you reverse the discrimination involved in a situation, you still end up with discrimination.

I'm one of the most indefatigably cynical people on Earth, and even I accept that love exists. Is it a neurochemical reaction, which keeps a couple together long enough to raise their offspring to a point where it can fend for itself? Yes. Does that lessen its significance? No, of course not...

Antidepressants. Hahah, just kidding. They make you feel numb.

There are two options: 1. You make out in public. You're comfortable with that. Other people aren't comfortable with it. Overall comfort factor: low 2. You don't make out in public. You're comfortable with that. Other people are comfortable with it. Overall comfort factor: high Is your...

No. Not only because of the myriad other valid explanations - schizophrenia, hallucinations, et cetera - but because the only provided "evidence" is so wildly and ludicrously inconsistent that the explanations involving mental instability are supported not just by the claims of seeing sparkly...

"Ah, but that begs the question... [question]?" No it doesn't. At a stretch, it begs for the question to be asked, but that's a different 'beg', and the sentence is tortuous at best. Begging the question is a specific logical fallacy. With that said, if someone misuses said phrase, I will...

My first name - Alexander - isn't particularly rare, based on statisics. That said, I don't personally know many people who share it. My last name, on the other hand, is an eclectic hyphenation. Apparently only one other person shares it, and she's a devout Christian from half the world away...

I'd like to see the Restaurant at the End of the Universe made into a film. Yeah, most people hated the first one because it wasn't 100% true to the books, but the books weren't 100% true to the radio series either. Plus, Pink Floyd could cameo as Disaster Area. It's unlikely to happen now...

I don't care if you cheat, and neither does anybody else. If you'd get more enjoyment from ploughing through a dungeon rather than trekking back to each arrow shop, or grinding bandits, that's probably your answer.

It's important to note that in order to create a sugar-cube-size volume of quark-gluon plasma, you'd need to already have 40 billion tons of uncompressed matter, or the equivalent energy. Plus, a particle accelerator large enough to smash it all together. And if you already have that much...

Is 'fghwloozyd' a word? Why is this even a poll? Of course it's not a word, and no dictionary or lexicographer would argue otherwise.

So they're covering up the upper part of her inner thigh. Ok, I guess that would make sense to the extremely conservative demographic. But that thigh is in the process of delivering a roundhouse kick. It's a game dedicated to violence, and yet any glimse of the human body is abhorrent?

No, they can't. They don't have vocal cords. Furthermore, they are incapable of consciously producing melodies or rhythms, so the verb 'sing' cannot possibly be used to describe any of a star's mechanical functions.

Can I pretend that my limited understanding of the political, economic and social aspects of an enormous and tortuous conflict is sufficient to make a simple yes-or-no judgment that would affect the lives of millions? No. No, I can't.

Yes. People should be allowed to make jokes about anything. This is due solely to the fact that people can take offense to anything, so if one thing is made off-limits, you are embarking upon a slippery slope. Speaking of which: never high-five a rabbi.