Bet the landmines would have made that a lively fucking game.

Is it just me or could that movie totally have been about a boy who Just Wanted To Dance?

You know about the genocides 'n shit, right? I mean, the US has gone to war on much weaker justifications before.

I thought that was Feynman. He was the one with the whole plain speech philosophy, wasn't he?

I bet the novelty wears off pretty fucking quick.

Considering how foxes tend to smell, that island is going to stink like you wouldn't believe...

Y'know, hunting manual author is exactly the sort of job I would expect a serial killer to have. Right up there with taxidermist.

The whole civil rights metaphor really breaks down when you consider some of what these kids can do. Alright, so one kid just has weird eyes and can see through walls. No big deal as such, and putting him on some kind of watch list is a bit much. But they you have kill-all-you-touch-girl and bazooka-eyes-guy and a man who can puppeteer people with his mind and is only held in check by his moral compass. Senator Kelly is a dick 'n all, but it'd be weird if the government DIDN'T keep track of these people. Especially since they all need to learn how to use their ability like they just grew a whole new limb, and their immature flailing is liable to cause some property damage at best. Kill a lot of people at worst. When random members of the public start to be able to explode cars by sneezing and walk through walls, some kind if response is warranted, damnit. It needs dealing with.

"Sweety, if you don't invite the other kids over to your birthday, you won't be able to go to theirs either."
"That's an option? Sweet!"
- actual exchange between me and my mom when I was little

I remember that illustration. It's from one of the d&d 3.5 expansions. Sandstorm, I think.

You forgot "crippling respect for privacy and a somewhat baffling expectation that others follow suit." There's a common joke that Danes don't use blinkers because it's none of your business where we're going. So if a scientist trots up and ask some Danes if they're happy with their life, they could literally be on fire and they would still answer "yes" or "it's alright" just to make him bud out.
I'm not saying that's the only reason we're always so high in those tests, buuuut...

This is so totally preparation for lichdom ceremonies that never got off the ground.

If you've got to get up on a freaking bike and ride for an hour or two to do laundry, you might as well skip the pedal power and just do it by hand the old fashioned way, no?

The UN Parliament agreed to the Human Rights declaration because it is a permanent casus belli that allows any country to declare war on another by citing human rights abuses, no matter how vague or unsubstantiated - usually when a rich nation needs to attack a poor one. It allows the opponent to be painted as monsters out of hand.

"If trends continue." So basically we have to continue with all the green politics for 34 more years. Considering how much resistance there is against it, don't celebrate yet.

Long, continuous derp

Uh. I'm Danish and I've never heard of that before. Are you... sure it's Denmark you're thinking of?

This is one of those things that sounds deep but breaks down under the slightest bit of scrutiny. Seriously, there is no good reason why men and women shouldn't be able to do the same things. Oh, and "women are losing their uniqueness" must be the kindest way I've ever heard anyone tell them to get back in the kitchen.

"Childhood was a magical time where you had no responsibilities and" no influence on anything going on around you, no knowledge, no skills, no experience doing anything at all. You were not permitted to do anything cool, and you had no authority to tell people where to shove it, or indeed tell them anything of consequence. Whyall would you limit what little strength you have by refusing to let go of your childhood? By the time you have adulthood to carry, childhood has served its purpose. Let. It. Go.

I'm sure that'll slow down the whalers, what with then being so powerless without government websites.

... for when you have more vertical than horizontal space in your room?

What's the artists name?

*rest of the world holds back snickering in background*