That may be why some people do it.

Other people do it for other reasons, like claiming space for themselves, to find peace.

Silence can be a form of manipulation, but demanding that someone engage with you is coercive.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about! And since I'm not at all familiar with Dutch, I've been confused by this several times.

I wonder how the similarities/differences between Dutch/German compare to, say, Spanish/Italian, or Spanish/Portuguese.

I've heard other people say similar things about those languages.

Have you ever tried duolingo?

Its a free app that takes you on a complete learning program, from beginner level on up. Its surprisingly good. They also have a web-based interface for people who don't want to do in on a smartphone.

I could be wrong, but a brief scan of the internet makes it look like those "over 2 million" numbers you mentioned may have been true OVER 50 years ago.



I think those that are still alive have probably moved to old folks homes.

Ras, you list several claims about the KKK which I'm going to assume are correct.

However, none of them justify accusing the police force of being KKK members in general.

If you really look at it, this makes as much sense as saying that 'all [insert race here] people are [insert quality]' and then providing statistics showing that *some* of them are.

This is why I said that your post was simple bigotry and hatred. How would you feel if I said that black people are thieves, and then provided statistics on numbers of black people convicted of theft?

THIS is what all of us should be working to move past.

Oh, by 'intense' I didn't mean to compare how intense Dutch or German sound compared to each other. I was trying to say that Dutch 'sounds vaguely German' but also 'not quite like any German I've ever heard'. Almost like someone was speaking German with a very strange, heavy accent.

Several times in my life, when in contact with travellers, I found myself trying to make out the German someone seemed to be speaking, and thinking to myself "wow, his accent is so unusual, I can't make anything out" only to realize eventually that he wasn't actually speaking German at all, but Dutch.

Hey.

Cowgirl

Yes, people should be free to communicate with whom they want to communicate, not expected, manipulated, or coerced into communicating with people they find unpleasant or unhealthy to be around.

Yes, emphatically yes.

The anti-racist crowd and anti-police-brutality crowd have chosen, again, the *wrong* situation to rally around.

Brown basically threw his own life away when he went after the cop's gun, and again when he started moving back towards the police officer.

To me, Dutch sounds like someone is speaking german with some intense accent...like every other word sounds just like a german word, though I can't make out any clear meaning.

Vielleicht habe ich es falsch. Ich mag Deutsch. Menschen versuchen lustig sein. Wer ist negativ?

Oh, *new* bikes that are cheap are generally so poorly made that they aren't worth riding.

I buy cheap used bikes. You can get a cheap used bike that is built to last, and still has 5 or more years left in it.

Yeah, for those of us that are patient, we don't need to spend a lot of money. I once rode a 500 mile tour on an $80 bike.

And I commuted to work for years on a different sub-$100 bike. The extra weight of the bike probably cost me 5 minutes of extra pedalling time each day, but thats just 5 minutes more exercise!

.... (see link below for full article)




http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/28/reporter-suspended-defending-evolution-comes-back-gives-immediate-middle-finger-to-espn/

By 'this story' do you mean a specific article referenced earlier in the thread, or the larger Ferguson story?

Because if you mean the latter, I can't agree. The story that I keep hearing from people irl, who wilfully ignore the facts, are the lies as told by Dorian and augmented by others. The story of a innocent gentle giant who was a victim of an unprovoked physical attacked, and who was shot down in cold blood by a maniac cop while in the midst of trying to surrender to him.

This is the story which motivates many to protest, to say 'hands up don't shoot', to declare that the system is unjust, etc.

Sure, there are a few people out there who are mad because they think that a cop should be more like a robot, and should be able to control a situation and use *exactly* the level of force required at each instant....

.... but it seems to me that most of the angry 'justice for brown' people are not actually angry about Wilsons failure to fine tune his use of force, they are angry because they believe the dorian-esque lies.

Ich weiss nicht wie mann sagt diese auf deutsch:


I ask in part to be conversational, and in part because you brought up nazis.