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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: GmanJoe on October 29, 2004, 08:01:48 AM
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/29/canine.caller.ap/index.html
Faith, a 4-year-old Rottweiler, phoned 911 when Beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the service dog unlocked the front door for the police officer.
"I sensed there was a problem on the other end of the 911 call," said dispatcher Jenny Buchanan. "The dog was too persistent in barking directly into the phone receiver. I knew she was trying to tell me something."
Faith is trained to summon help by pushing a speed-dial button on the phone with her nose after taking the receiver off the hook, said her owner, Beasley, 45, who suffers grand mal seizures.
Guided by experts at the Assistance Dog Club of Puget Sound, Beasley helped train Faith herself.
The day of the fall, Faith "had been acting very clingy, wanting to be touching me all day long," Beasley said Thursday.
The dog, whose sensitive nose can detect changes in Beasley\'s body chemistry, is trained to alert her owner to impending seizures.
But that wasn\'t what was happening on September 7, and Faith apparently wasn\'t sure how to communicate the problem. During Beasley\'s three-week hospital stay, doctors determined her liver was not properly processing her seizure medication.
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Dogs eat shit (either their own or horse shit), cats do not. Plus, I have seen two homosexual dogs having a go at each other, ugh.
Cats > Dogs
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ohhh puhlesse
Everybody knows dogs own cats, why do you think Tom always runs when Jerry goes to the Bull Dog because everybody knows that dogs rule and cats drewl.
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F U, PETA!!!
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Why do I sense this will be a 10 page debate about nothing?
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All dogs know how to do is sit there and annoy the **** out of you when you\'re with all your friends watching tv or playing games.
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sorry someone had to say it.
Nothing like coming home and having you pussy waiting for you.
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Cats are snobs, they’re not your pet, you’re theirs. Dogs are mans best friend, they\'re ALWAYS wanting company and pats. Cats just snob u off and walk away. Dogs protect you from intruders, dogs are smarter. How many cats for the blind or cat drug finders are have u seen?
DOGS ownz da catz. The only good cat is a dim sim\'d one.
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monkey > dog > cat
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cats are lazy and cute....like me....
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Bulldogs are lazy and ugly, or cute however you wanna look at em.
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I\'d get both if I weren\'t allergic to cats.
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Hmm..my German Shepard and my cat are like best friends. It\'s really weird. The German Shepard (a girl) herds the cat inside every time the cat finds a way to get outside. First time I saw it, it was the single coolest thing I\'d ever seen.
So yes, I\'m quite impartial...they\'re both awesome :)
See Yuz.
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^^Thats awesome^^^
Im with most of the cat people in this thread but recently i got a puppy. Hes getting close to being a year old come january i think, but we got him when he was about some weeks. Hes a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel - almost a pure bred but im not entirely sure (id have to ask my dad). Maybe ill post pics later, but hes awesome and i wouldnt trade him for anything.
Ive never really HATED dogs but i grew up with a cat and so I guess you could say im a cat person.
*shrugs*
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Cavaliers are damned nice dogs, I have two
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Ahhhh, the age old cats V dogs debate.
Dogs > Cats always.
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The only positive thing I can think about cats is that they bury their own sh*t. I used to have an outside cat, and trust me...the cat leaving somewhere to make a fatty dump in someone else\'s lawn is a lot more fun than having to clean up my dog\'s grass-killing substances...
Dogs are smarter though...they don\'t have that stupid "curiosity"...
EDIT: OH yeah...back on topic...that\'s a cool story...
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Beasleys a cool name.
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^^^
Well isn\'t that just random
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Originally posted by EviscerationX
^^^
Well isn\'t that just random
Well it is! :D
"whats up beasley?"
"what u doing later beasley?"
oh yeah..
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Dogs sniff other dogs\' a$$holes, they lick their own crotch and then they try to lick you in the face. Best friend indeed. :D
But that story was cool. I just wonder how the **** they train it to respond to her altering chemestry, or whatever the story said.
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Originally posted by Nolaws
monkey > dog > cat
i\'ll have to agree with monkey being top choice :)
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You\'re still a twit, GMan.
Cats and dogs are equal in my book. They\'re both far too different.
Dogs are mans best friend, they\'re ALWAYS wanting company and pats. Cats just snob u off and walk away.
All the cats I\'ve ever owned have LOVED company and pats. Sometimes they\'ll scratch at, or learn to open the door to my room because they\'re lonely.
Dogs protect you from intruders
Yah.. unless it\'s a shi-tsu, right? Oh, how about this one: Dogs maul little kids. YAYAYAYAYAY!!!
dogs are smarter. How many cats for the blind or cat drug finders are have u seen?
Rediculous. A dog can be easily manipulated and trained to do specific tasks, all of a sudden makes it smarter?
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
You\'re still a twit, GMan.
Cats and dogs are equal in my book. They\'re both far too different.
All the cats I\'ve ever owned have LOVED company and pats. Sometimes they\'ll scratch at, or learn to open the door to my room because they\'re lonely.
BUHHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA "wipes tear from eye"
Yah.. unless it\'s a shi-tsu, right? Oh, how about this one: Dogs maul little kids. YAYAYAYAYAY!!!
How many cats have u seen kill animal life (including birds) I\'ve also seen cats take swipes out kids (watch funniest home videos ;))
Rediculous. A dog can be easily manipulated and trained to do specific tasks, all of a sudden makes it smarter?
Damn straight it does, simply because the dog can do the tasks. They\'re not manipulated into anything, they do it because they love what they do. A cat is too retarded to do anything.
That doesn\'t make it smarter. If so, does that mean all the lazy ass people on this planet are smarter then everyone else because they don\'t do shit or to stuck up to bother........ umm sure ok :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
You\'re still a twit, GMan.
Cats and dogs are equal in my book. They\'re both far too different.
Equal? No. Dogs are far and away > than cats.
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
All the cats I\'ve ever owned have LOVED company and pats. Sometimes they\'ll scratch at, or learn to open the door to my room because they\'re lonely.
No way. It\'s coz they need your body warmth and food. If you wanted them near you, you have to go pick them up and basically force them to be near you. A dog, you just call his/her name and there they are.
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Yah.. unless it\'s a shi-tsu, right? Oh, how about this one: Dogs maul little kids. YAYAYAYAYAY!!!
You obviously ignorant about pet dogs. Even a the most gentle of dogs will protect their owners. I\'ve seen this with my Miniature Terrier and Shepherd/Collie mix. Both extremely kind animals. However, if my friends get a little too rough with me, they will growl and warn them.
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Rediculous. A dog can be easily manipulated and trained to do specific tasks, all of a sudden makes it smarter?
Yes. It takes intelligence and understanding for that to happen. In fact, the first time a dog was known to have sensed a skin disease was in England. A lady\'s dog kept licking and trying to nibble on her mole that was on the lower part of her leg. Mind you, this was a simple house pet. No training.
It was persistantly doing this for weeks until she decided to have it checked out by the doctor. Turns out it was melanoma. A skin cancer.
Today, dogs are being trained to smell the urine of older men to detect prostate cancer. So far, the success rate is around 30%. And it\'s only the beginning of the training.
BTW, I don\'t hate cats but I don\'t like them either. I just like to jab a little fun towards cat owners. Coz....you know...cat owners are gay. :p ;)
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How many cats have u seen kill animal life (including birds) I\'ve also seen cats take swipes out kids (watch funniest home videos )
You totally missed the point.
If you wanted them near you, you have to go pick them up and basically force them to be near you.
A massive generalisation. Many/most cats grow very fond of their owners/friends. I know when I first started living with my friend, the cat would hiss and run away whenever I came near. But after a couple of weeks, it\'s leaping up on me while I sleep for a cuddle, walking over to me for a scratch on the chin, etc. etc.
A dog, you just call his/her name and there they are.
Again, another generalisation. A lot of dogs won\'t necessarily come when they are called. Particularly if something else has caught it\'s attention.
You obviously ignorant about pet dogs. Even a the most gentle of dogs will protect their owners. I\'ve seen this with my Miniature Terrier and Shepherd/Collie mix. Both extremely kind animals. However, if my friends get a little too rough with me, they will growl and warn them.
You obviously didn\'t get that I was being subtly ironic. Using a massive overstatement/generalisation, just as Soully did to give him an example of how stupid he sounds.
And again, you\'re generalising. You seem to do that a lot, and always to the detrement of your opinion on cats, and to make dogs look better. Kind of like saying that all muslims are terrorists.. ;)
And again, those things you describe don\'t necessarily make it intelligent. A dog will also eat it\'s own shit and run in front of speeding cars like crazy, but that definately doesn\'t make it necessarily a moron.
Damn straight it does, simply because the dog can do the tasks.
Then explain to me why a Labrodor, known to be one of the dumbest in the dog kingdom is most commonly used as a guide dog? Perhaps because it\'s easily trained. Why do we never see a blind persons life in the hands of a poodle?
Oh, and the dogs a genius because it\'s seen a spot on a woman\'s leg and was licking at it? I suppose if they brought in other melanoma patients, it would instantly identify the problem? Understand what it was, why it was caused, how to avoid it and think of a treatment, eh?
That doesn\'t make it smarter. If so, does that mean all the lazy ass people on this planet are smarter then everyone else because they don\'t do shit or to stuck up to bother........ umm sure ok
What the hell? Did you think for a second before you wrote that?
p.s. Sorry for mixing up all your quotes.
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
You totally missed the point.
A massive generalisation. Many/most cats grow very fond of their owners/friends. I know when I first started living with my friend, the cat would hiss and run away whenever I came near. But after a couple of weeks, it\'s leaping up on me while I sleep for a cuddle, walking over to me for a scratch on the chin, etc. etc.
Again, another generalisation. A lot of dogs won\'t necessarily come when they are called. Particularly if something else has caught it\'s attention.
You obviously didn\'t get that I was being subtly ironic. Using a massive overstatement/generalisation, just as Soully did to give him an example of how stupid he sounds.
And again, you\'re generalising. You seem to do that a lot, and always to the detrement of your opinion on cats, and to make dogs look better. Kind of like saying that all muslims are terrorists.. ;)
And again, those things you describe don\'t necessarily make it intelligent. A dog will also eat it\'s own shit and run in front of speeding cars like crazy, but that definately doesn\'t make it necessarily a moron.
Then explain to me why a Labrodor, known to be one of the dumbest in the dog kingdom is most commonly used as a guide dog? Perhaps because it\'s easily trained. Why do we never see a blind persons life in the hands of a poodle?
Oh, and the dogs a genius because it\'s seen a spot on a woman\'s leg and was licking at it? I suppose if they brought in other melanoma patients, it would instantly identify the problem? Understand what it was, why it was caused, how to avoid it and think of a treatment, eh?
What the hell? Did you think for a second before you wrote that?
p.s. Sorry for mixing up all your quotes.
Crikey, you accuse me of generalizing when you doing the same thing. Not all Shi-Tsus will attack kids. And BTW, generalizations ARE GENERALLY TRUE.
A lab may not be the most intelligent of dogs but they make up for it in their willingness and eagerness to please and get the training right. A cat is simply not capable of such things coz their intelligence just does not have that capacity. Poodles are not guide dogs simply due to its small size. :rolleyes: Duh! It\'ll get stepped on.
And I have no idea what your opinion is of that dog that found melanoma. Are you saying that scientists today are wasting their time training these dogs to find skin cancer?
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^^^some Poodles can get pretty big you French hating whore.
HOW YOU DARE
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This poodle would make for an excellent guide dog.
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I guess I was thinking of the miniature version.
They would make excellent guide dogs if not for its high maintenance on it fur. It needs to be trimmed frequently whereas Labradors their hair follicles sheds off when it reaches a certain length.
OH MY LORD! DOES THAT POODLE HAVE A FANNY PACK? SEXAY!
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bob, its simple. When you teach your cats or a cat to help people. Then you can say their smarter. Till then close your pipe hole.
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You can make your dog piss itself when you ring a bell. Does that make it smarter than a cat?
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Originally posted by Samwise
You can make your dog piss itself when you ring a bell. Does that make it smarter than a cat?
Actually, that\'s something they can overcome. That "urinating when the Alpha male/female arrives" is a trait common with wolves as it shows its submissiveness. As dogs get older, they don\'t do that anymore. Remember, dogs aren\'t too far derived from wolves, despite some of their appearances.
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Originally posted by GmanJoe
Actually, that\'s something they can overcome. That "urinating when the Alpha male/female arrives" is a trait common with wolves as it shows its submissiveness. As dogs get older, they don\'t do that anymore. Remember, dogs aren\'t too far derived from wolves, despite some of their appearances.
My friend German Shepard pup will piss anytime ANYONE comes in. We call her lil piss.
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Originally posted by Samwise
This poodle would make for an excellent guide dog.
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Wtf is the guy on the right getting ready to do there???
What was that song the Osmonds did about puppy love?
Whatever it was called....
*Cerberus whistles the tune to it*
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Originally posted by GmanJoe
Crikey, you accuse me of generalizing when you doing the same thing. Not all Shi-Tsus will attack kids. And BTW, generalizations ARE GENERALLY TRUE.
You are officially dumb. That was my ****ing point. And if the point was too subtle, I even came out and blatantly told you that my generalisations were just to show you how stupid generalisations are.
Btw, they\'re generally true? So you are saying that all muslims are terrorists? :rolleyes: Get a grip.
A lab may not be the most intelligent of dogs but they make up for it in their willingness and eagerness to please and get the training right.
Well golly, are you almost saying that there is more to training a dog than it simply being intelligent? You mean, dogs are good at tasks because they are eager to please? You could train an eager to please retard to suck dick, doesn\'t mean he\'s smarter than you, just because you\'re not willing to do such an act.... assuming you\'re not. ;)
A cat is simply not capable of such things coz their intelligence just does not have that capacity.
Just because a cat is stubborn/not interested in certain tasks does not mean it\'s stupid. See eager to please knob gobbler comment above. :p
Poodles are not guide dogs simply due to its small size. :rolleyes: Duh! It\'ll get stepped on.
You\'re a twit.
And I have no idea what your opinion is of that dog that found melanoma. Are you saying that scientists today are wasting their time training these dogs to find skin cancer?
That\'s not what I said at all.
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WOOHOO! I knew the retard would return! Time to own Bobo once again! This is too easy. Watch :
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
You are officially dumb. That was my ****ing point. And if the point was too subtle, I even came out and blatantly told you that my generalisations were just to show you how stupid generalisations are.
Btw, they\'re generally true? So you are saying that all muslims are terrorists? :rolleyes: Get a grip.
God damn, you\'re as stupid as the cats you defend. And what do Muslims have to do with the stupidity of cats? You\'re the first one to generalize and then you accuse others of generalizing?
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Well golly, are you almost saying that there is more to training a dog than it simply being intelligent? You mean, dogs are good at tasks because they are eager to please? You could train an eager to please retard to suck dick, doesn\'t mean he\'s smarter than you, just because you\'re not willing to do such an act.... assuming you\'re not. ;)
And it\'s not about whether the dog is smarter than the trainer, THE POINT IS THE DOG IS SMARTER THAN THE CAT. Hell, my chair has more function than a living breathing cat. Why you waste your money on that foul feline is simply retarded.
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Just because a cat is stubborn/not interested in certain tasks does not mean it\'s stupid. See eager to please knob gobbler comment above. :p
See my comment above, Chairs > cats
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
You\'re a twit.
And you\'re a dumbass. Cat owners = cock suckers. And you own a cat! So suck my COCK!
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware That\'s not what I said at all.[/B]
It doesn\'t matter. I\'d still own yer Aussie (in your case, Assie) Ass anyway. BRING IT ON!
No amount of arguing you can make will change the fact that DOGS are SMARTER than CATS. That\'s nature.
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Judging the relative intelligence of cats and dogs is like deciding which is better looking--there\'s just not much basis for comparison. Psychologists have a tough enough time coming up with a culture-blind IQ test for humans, who all belong to the same species; designing a species-blind test for dogs and cats is just about impossible. What people take to be signs of intelligence in their pets usually are just specialized survival skills that say nothing about innate brainpower. A cat, for instance, is much more dexterous with its paws than a dog. This dexterity fascinates cat lovers, who also cite the cat\'s legendary standoffishness as proof of its mental superiority. The dog, on the other hand, is much more of a social animal; dog advocates claim this proves the dog is more civilized, ergo, more intelligent.
Animal ethologists (they\'re the professionals in this line of work) regard such arguments as rubbish. Cats are loners because they have always hunted alone--one mouse won\'t feed more than one cat. Without his nimble paws, a cat couldn\'t corner, catch, and eat his prey. Dogs, though, hunted in packs because they picked on game bigger than they were. They used their teeth to kill their prey and dismember the carcass. (Admittedly, not all cats hunt alone--lions don\'t, for instance--but let\'s not make this discussion any more confusing than it already is.) Ethologists don\'t even like to weigh one breed against another, within the same species. If a bloodhound smells better, or a greyhound sees better--well, that\'s what they were bred for.
But surely, you cry, there must be some way to compare cats and dogs. Maybe, but it hasn\'t turned up yet. Obedience and trainability aren\'t considered reliable measures of intelligence. Newborn cats open their eyes a little sooner than dogs do, but the dog gets into solid foods sooner than the cat. Overall, puppies and kittens grow into adulthood at virtually identical rates. Mama cats toilet train their young, and mama dogs don\'t, but that doesn\'t prove anything.
My advice is, go argue about something else.
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http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_005.html
:D I googled. :D
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yup....... you can call me mr. cut and paste I would never want to give some sort of effort into a silly debate like this!
I even picked the very first article.
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At least give the author some credit. I thought you were the smarts for a second. ;)
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good copy and paste there cyrus
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Being Aussie has nothing to do with owning someones ass.. You\'ll find that booby would properly put up a very good fight.. Having to fight crocs day in day out does something to a man....
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Having to fight crocs day in day out does something to a man....
Um...gets him eaten?
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yes, but also makes him tough.
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Wow, pretty weird. That dog prob\'ly got a lot of prase.
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What in the hell are you all arguing about? 2 pages of whether dogs are smarter than cats? God......this makes me sad :(
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Originally posted by GmanJoe
God damn, you\'re as stupid as the cats you defend. And what do Muslims have to do with the stupidity of cats? You\'re the first one to generalize and then you accuse others of generalizing?
Muslims have to do with your stupidity. A generalisation would be that all muslims are are terrorists. You claimed that generalisations (and you were very definately the first to generalise, as I pointed out) were more often than not.. true.
And it\'s not about whether the dog is smarter than the trainer, THE POINT IS THE DOG IS SMARTER THAN THE CAT. Hell, my chair has more function than a living breathing cat. Why you waste your money on that foul feline is simply retarded.
Again, you\'re a twit.
See my comment above, Chairs > cats
You\'re a twit.
And you\'re a dumbass. Cat owners = cock suckers. And you own a cat! So suck my COCK!
Actually, not any more. But I live with cats. And dogs. You\'re a twit.
It doesn\'t matter. I\'d still own yer Aussie (in your case, Assie) Ass anyway. BRING IT ON!
Nothing more arrogant than an idiot claiming he owned someone when all he does is make false generalisations and spew off pro-(whatever) propaganda then misunderstand the refuting points and spoit off more idiotic dribble.
No amount of arguing you can make will change the fact that DOGS are SMARTER than CATS. That\'s nature.
Nothing you can, and have said can prove otherwise. Your arrogance and blind love for you pet has completely clouded your views.
And despite the fact that Cyrus copied and pasted (I thought it was a little bit too well written for him.. ;)) it was still an excellent post.
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Muslims have to do with your stupidity. A generalisation would be that all muslims are are terrorists. You claimed that generalisations (and you were very definately the first to generalise, as I pointed out) were more often than not.. true.
I never made such generalizations about muslims but apparently you have. Is it because you\'re a twit?
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Again, you\'re a twit.
You don\'t have a valid response, I see. Your mother\'s a twit.
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Actually, not any more. But I live with cats. And dogs. You\'re a twit.
Damn, you are so retarded.
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Nothing more arrogant than an idiot claiming he owned someone when all he does is make false generalisations and spew off pro-(whatever) propaganda then misunderstand the refuting points and spoit off more idiotic dribble.
Listen to yourself, child. You\'re losing your temper over stupid cats. You = idiot. Your parents should be slapped.
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Nothing you can, and have said can prove otherwise. Your arrogance and blind love for you pet has completely clouded your views.
Clouded my views? Did you read the article? You\'re in denial. But mostly you\'re just dumb.
Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
And despite the fact that Cyrus copied and pasted (I thought it was a little bit too well written for him.. ;)) it was still an excellent post.
Then quit losing your temper over the superiority of dogs over cats. A cat would have let the lady die. Argue against that, bitch.
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^^^^^ Thats exactly why cats are smarter cause at this point I would let the bitch die too! IN FACT I M THE ONE WHO TRIED TO KILL HER she was abusing her dog and I couldnt stand for it anymore so I tried to kill her. Fliping dumb ass dog had to go and call 911 because of his BLIND loyalty and now he will be back to getting his ass beat from the old hag.
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Is it coz she turned you down when you asked her out for a date?
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I didnt need to ask her I was still gang banging your old hag of a mom with mm.
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This is going nowhere. Geez, what a lame waste of serverspace.