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what if instead of disappearing threads, we just replace all the text with boobies?

Ok. Since I own this thread, I want all the posts in the thread (except mine) show boobies instead of whatever drivel was written.  

I'll accept my role in derailing the thread.  Obviously, for anyone who actually knows me (admittedly, few anymore) should know I was absolutely kidding about rounding up all the racist/stereotypical jokes being directed towards @TimTheAzn and sending the examples to their respective employers.  And yes, I know you think they were harmless and certainly didn't intend ill will probably.   If you look in my post history, I've made plenty of naughty problematic jokes and have no actual problem with them for the most part. 

So that all being said, can someone explain why the thread was closed and disappeared?

I won't make assumptions, I would like an explanation. 

42 minutes ago, Tonik said:

The median household income for Asians is 87,194, while for Whites it is 70,642. Perhaps Harvard is just doing some affirmative action?

I think you know that you don't want to go down this income, wealth and affirmative action road in terms of the upper echelon of higher education because if you look past just this very short dead end you're going down, you know it looks very bad for this line of reasoning as soon as you zoom out and look at overall distribution of wealth along racial lines and college admissions in Ivy's especially Harvard.  We can waste our time on this if you want. 

1 minute ago, durk said:

The court’s second explanation for the racial “personal rating” gap is that there is racial bias in the evaluations by teachers and counselors. The judge wrote: “teacher and guidance counselor recommendations seemingly presented Asian Americans as having less favorable personal characteristics than similarly situated non-Asian American applicants . . . Because teacher and guidance counselor recommendation letters are among the most significant inputs for the personal rating, the apparent race-related or race-correlated difference in the strength of guidance counselor and teacher recommendations is significant.” This seems like a smoking gun showing that Asian American applicants are victims of discrimination.

@SpecialEd is a racist. Got it. 

If we're speaking to guidance counselors and teachers as a whole, you are absolutely right.  I doubt specialed as an individual is particularly overtly racist based on what I've seen of his comments, but I don't know him personally (at least, I don't think I do).   But at the institutional level, data shows this mechanism of overly relying on narrative feedback from a predominantly white educational structure for specifically Harvard admissions (though I'd guess this failure extends to other similarly desirable schools) for Asian vs white students is racially discriminatory for asians.   Do.you disagree?

Yeah a level playing field would be nice. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2019/10/01/why-the-asian-american-students-lost-their-case-against-harvard-but-should-have-won/

53 minutes ago, Steve Butters said:

 

To be honest, I have no real preference either way. I'm the kind of dude who just goes with the flow. I'll wear a mask if everyone else is, I'm not the guy protesting it outside the Walmart lol.. 'm pretty buzzed right now so maybe my point I'm making isn't coming through how I mean, but I just feel like while it may be a moral obligation to wear a mask, I don't agree with mandates of any kind and I feel like it's a slippery slope. I have to sacrifice my freedoms (subjectively, I understand that argument) to wear a mask in public to combat a virus that I just am not convinced is as bad as it is... Maybe it's my distrust in MSM but I just don't get it... Yea people are dying, I get it... And I don't mean to minimize it when I say it but people die every day... We can't just shut the fucking world down over a flu virus... I'm sorry if that offends anyone (actually, I'm really not), but that's my stance 🤷🏻‍♂️ my flame suit in on for all the people here about to post facts and studies and all that, call me ignorant or whatever but that's my stance... I'm fucking sick of COVID... No matter what we do, everyone is getting it... I almost feel like everyone is going to get it eventually and it becomes survival of the fittest... I personally know someone who was about to quit their job over wearing mandatory masks, my comment was wondering if that sentiment is common around here given the newly introduced order to wear masks. I'm not hiding from replying how I feel, I just know it goes against the collective mind here, so what's the point typing it all? Even though I just did

honestly, it doesn't seem like a horror movie virus in the eyes of those of us that were hit the least hard like in not super densely populated Ohio that went into lock down early or those of you in nice dry heat states like Arizona so I get the sentiment.  But I think any front line health care worker in places that were hit super hard like in parts of China, Korea, NYC, Italy, etc will probably tell you different.  Personally, I can tell you that my in laws who live in Brooklyn live right across the street from a major hospital and they have seen the lined up body bags as they walk by.  But i agree with you, sometimes it's hard to see how bad it is when you just don't see people around you dropping like flies.  An honest earnest question here: what would it take for you to truly empathize with the people who could get it and likely die from it and truly believe why this is a real problem, beyond what's been parroted on MSM?  more personal experiences, immediately family members getting it, friends or their family getting it?  or information presented from a different source?  Obviously, I'm not wishing any bad health on you and yours and I'm thinking if you had contracted it personally and suffered from it like What did, it would be easier to empathize but since you're younger, you're not very likely to feel severe symptoms even if you did get it.  So outside of that, what do you think would change your mind about this?

2 minutes ago, Steve Butters said:

Simply making an observation. I never said it was problematic. I just don't like the idea of anything being mandated on me in regards to how I dress. I know I am not alone and simply curious on whether or not other people are following this order, given the rebellious nature of this state. But I really don't care about public opinion, so think what you want lol.

Look man, you're a cool dude and we always get along.  I'm not trying to condescend to you.  But I'm asking an honest question to understand your view.  Likewise, you should consider being intellectually honest and not hide behind something like "I never said I disagreed with masks" when you clearly did and do and probably will continue to do so after this conversation. 

I don't like mandating anything either.  But from a conservative or libertarian perspective, I think I could make a stronger case for mandating masks vs not in a scenario like this in preserving personal freedom overall.  I'm open to having this conversation and understanding where you're coming from.  I'll be honest and open to ideas and perspective if you are willing. 

Just now, Tonik said:

Wow, I am playing MGSV right this minute.

I KNOWWWWWWWW

5 minutes ago, Pauly said:

I saw it hidden last night and had no idea why or who. 

And did someone say they didn't want OP (solid snake) at the ride? What's that all about. 

12 minutes ago, motocat12 said:

It makes more sense for some states/areas than others.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/

So in Arizona (and Florida and probably others) some of these states are in the process of peaking infection rates.  It would make sense that they would want to blunt that progress as much as possible.  Short of shutting down the state/cities, mandating masks (which is proven to reduce microdroplets transmission) seems reasonable.  

https://www.google.com/search?q=arizona+corona+cases&oq=arizona+corona+cases&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.16018j0j7&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

9 minutes ago, Tonik said:

I think you should open a new one, and make it clear the OP and the mod involved are not welcome on the ride.

Was that thread seriously closed?  Why?  Better not have been cause of me, I was just fucking around.  I love you and Pauly. Long time. 

4 hours ago, Steve Butters said:

AZ cities are basically all requiring face masks now in public. While I appreciate the urge to quell the virus, this is America and I'm not sure how the fuck this flies... I wonder if people are complying or ignoring it.. It's pretty new so I haven't been out. 

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

Can you share why wearing a mask is problematic when there are literally over a hundred thousand people dead in the US alone just from COVID?  To be fair, many would likely have died from the flu flavor of the week , but even controlling for that like this study done in NYC (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e5.htm), that is a whole lotta dead people just from COVID. 

So why is it a great undertaking to wear a mask again?

i personally think it's going to crater soon, but that's ok, I'm going to live forever so i'm just gonna leave my shit in there and should be fine overall.

26 minutes ago, magley64 said:

$2200 at laudermilk Kawasaki up the road from me on 45.

 

It was their last 2018

OMG so greedy eating the last cookie

On 5/13/2020 at 1:05 PM, magley64 said:

Wanted the honda, but they cost almost double what I paid for the kawi... Couldn't justify the difference

DAAANG SON so how much was it? like 1500-2000?  WHERE

Lake county boyyyeee

3 hours ago, Bad324 said:

It can't handle any worse than a Vrod can it? I wasn't exactly a great rider back in the day but I could mostly keep up a medium fast pace and I had to really work to attempt to keep up with Jinu on a VROD down in the Smokies.

that vrod was actually not horrible except that the forward controls would drag if you tipped it over more than 5 degrees.   a really neat bike otherwise.  the diavel handles much better.  i'm 80% sure i could drag knee on it if i wanted to and wasn't such a pussy.

1 hour ago, TimTheAzn said:

Ew Jinu had a vrod?

haha no, that was actually Matt (I forget his username here), he rode my shitty FZ1 while i rode his vrod and he quickly found out he had wasted his whole motorcycle life riding cruisers.  and then of course, 10 years later, i bought a cruiser.

4 minutes ago, SpecialEd said:

Mr. Bastard, did you move into yer new house yet?

i did, except at least 2 rooms are 100% full of sealed boxes and various packaging materials.  also, i managed to break a drain while replacing an old utility tub so now my laundry room is a complete disaster again.  so i have that going for me.

9 hours ago, Pauly said:

Ok, Diavel. 

the diavel is amazing and i'm definitely not a total ra-tard for getting one

6 hours ago, motocat12 said:

Wasn't that the I'm baked, ask me shit thread?

You are absolutely right. We need to revive that like Pauly's taste in non-fugly ass bikes

On 5/3/2020 at 9:35 AM, Pauly said:

Yes. It is YOUR driveway. You owe him zero explanation. You owe him zero BBQ invites. You owe him zero beers. What you DO owe him is a firm position of your expectations. Expecting him to accommodate you without telling him what those expectations are is unfair. Just know that all you do owe him is a firm "No. You may not use my driveway." You do not owe him what, who, how, why or when. You only owe him an answer. 

I learned a few things in the past few years. One of them is "'No.' is a complete sentence."

We should start a thread where we ask for relationship advice in a "dear Abby/Pauly" style column and you can just shit on people.  I could fap to that. 

Haha what a silly goose

21 minutes ago, Tpoppa said:

What kind of pace can that be ridden in tighter curves?

I dunno, just done shirt rides. Seems like it handles ok. Probably good for being a cruiser 

I should be able to do a ride during a weekend as long as it doesn't take forever. Got heated gear and shit.   Gixxus, you should get a diavel, it's the only cruiser like bike that is super comfy, light and fast as fuuuuuuck. Also cause I don't want to be the only moron who got suckered into buying a diavel

Used to live in Concord but still work in mentor. Welcome to the fun!  If you see a Diavel with bags roaming around, you're welcome to give me the finger.