Recent content by awesomeClaw

Swedish is my native language, and I know English fluently. I also know some German, though not a lot. My thinking tends to be divided based on what I'm currently occupying myself with; if I'm watching a movie in English, then I tend to think in English. If it's in Swedish, that's what I...

That's why we should take in less refugees here, where it's more expensive to house people (as you said, Sweden would collapse if we took in 1.6-2 million refugees. Libanon and Jordan don't, since they don't have a welfare state), and give some of the money we save to UNHCR. What are you...

Except that we can see the same phenomenon in countries that didn't have huge amount of colonies, or any deep institutionalized racism. Take for example Sweden. Sweden was historically a fairly ethnically homogenous country. The immigrants that have arrived these last few years have...

Of course Christians aren't the nicest people in the world; I'm an atheist, and I would never claim they were. And you know what? If Sweden, or Germany, or the UK, was ACTIVELY encouraging Christians from the Deep South to come and live in our countries, and bring those...

I am not surprised at all; but being poor is an explanation, not an excuse, and the fact that's it is because of >insert reason here< does not make the problem go away. Another suggestion might be restricting immigration from muslim countries, since we know these kind of problem can (and...

Alright, I'll bite. According to a survey reported on by the Telegraph, 40% of young muslims living in the UK would prefer to live under Sharia Law. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1540895/Young-British-Muslims-getting-more-radical.html More fun quotes: "One in eight young...

Good thing there exists a similar study but for immigrants, then: https://www.wzb.eu/sites/default/files/u6/koopmans_englisch_ed.pdf According to this survey, which was taken by muslim immigrants (and christian natives) in Sweden, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria: - circa...

I haven't had that much success with women, but if I am to speak about the subject... One thing I see many people in this thread mentioning is that blaming women for your failure is bad, and this is true. That is not a productive way of handling your emotions. However, after this sound...

The problem with the last part is that I just can't buy Its motivation anymore. Let's assume it doesn't care about how fast it does things. That implies Its not taking this whole murder-the-sluts-thing very seriously. The only way I can envision it now is as an uninterested day labourer...

Okay, I think I've found the fundamental reason the movie didn't work for me. The motive and abilities of It are ambigious and unclear. Some find that incredibly scary. And I sort of get why. But I just find it frustrating and annoying. I just can't be frightened by something that doesn't do...

The problems with that is that now the rules of what It can/cannot do have become thin. We NEVER see it steal a car or ride a train in the movie, even though that would many times be a hundred times quicker than the walking-alternative. So if I board a plane, it just boards the next plane...

So, I just watched It Follows and...wow. It's been a long time since I disliked a movie this much. Everything about it rubbed me the wrong way. It wasn't scary, the characters were unlikeable, the plotholes were absolutely massive and it was just plain boring. But when I went online and...

This got me thinking. Imagine there are people you find very attractive. Now imagine you will not be sleeping with them anytime soon (shouldn't be too hard) If we assume the above is true, that sex actually is significantly better when you are doing it with people you find very attractive...

I am frankly appalled to see people defending the preposterous criticisms thrown against Obsidian. Appalled, but not surprised. For you see, I have predicted a long time that the strongarming PC-brigade will never stop in the way that other political groups stop when their goal is reached...

We all get more upset than we need to get sometimes, I feel you. And as I think it over, I suppose you do have a point. Apoligizing for petty crimes will only encourage petty criminals. And we don't want that.