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[Evil Surgeon]

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Nap time for you..

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[conzibald]

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[LUVGAMZ23]

Spoiler: CCXVIDONAFERENS

Yep you're both right. Episode 6 (or thereabouts) of the first season, titled 'Thank God it's Friday, Again'. If anyone's interested Shout studios have been continuously streaming the entire series on Youtube and Twitch for free since at least January.

Thank you for the confirmation.

You see, I'm at that stage in life when my memory is so off that I often hear from others:

"Yeah. No, that never happened."

Spoiler: CCXVIDONAFERENS

The reason they want it to go to arbitration is because then with no trial there will be nothing that is made a matter of public record like it would for a trial. No information about food handling processes or how they could have failed to allow the events that caused the death to happen. No park employees being brought in to provide evidence on working conditions/pressures or management and employee communications regarding concerns raised about health and safety isssues, no contract experts being brought in to testify about the legality and ethics of the 'contract' terms and conditions, which depending on how they may have been applied in any other cases that have occured may have wide reaching effects, but probably most importantly from a Disney corporate perspective it kills any reporting that could be considered detrimental to Disney that would cost them even more money on crisis management and reputational repair as well as the cost of appeal after appeal if the initial case went against them and a large set of damages were awarded. I'm sure there are other aspects of a trial that I am not thinking of at the moment that could shed a potentially unflattering light on Disney and it's business practices should it get that far.

Ok, I'm not American, so I don't know how crazy this is regarding their laws:

What's stopping people from going:

"Oh. Can't go to court. Can't go to the press. Hmm. Well, sue me for 5 thousand. Sue me for 5 million. Sue me for 5 billion. I don't got it. HEY EVERYONE! LOOK WHAT DISNEY DID! Watcha gunna do Disney?"

I can't see they guy going to federal prison for words (then again...), but Disney takes a hit, which snowballs others to do the same. Yet I never read about that... so what am I missing?

Spoiler: HTYYHRK

In my opinion the issue is that there's a conflux of things, some of which are based on morality and some aren't. Morally, everyone has some sense of what they think is right and wrong, and some sense of when they should stop someone else from doing something they think is wrong (in some way, not necessarily physically preventing them but taking action against them). However, there is a third part of this which isn't really about morality but about personal satisfaction, effectively some people really get off on imposing some amount of power over other people. To the people who go out of their way to report the site, they are getting satisfaction out of preventing someone else from doing something they think is immoral. There's obviously degrees of all of this, you'd probably get some satisfaction if a robber you reported to the police was caught too, but the kinds of people the Internet now calls Karens get a lot of satisfaction just by imposing power on other people, even if there's no real gain to them.

Very true. I have an alternate analogy actually (or comparison, not sure):

Roman Gladiator Pits:
When everything was shit, people could get satisfaction from the fights or from the people being hurt. Other people's pain took their minds off of their daily lives. Then, they could go back to producing goods and services for the Roman Empire.

Modern Day People:
They create their own gladiatorial pits

Spoiler: CCXVIDONAFERENS

Following on from this, isn't there a school of thought that the most ardent homophobes are actually deeply closeted homosexuals who cannot reconcile with their sexuality. If true would that mean that those who report certain elements of fiction do so because they actually like it but they are afraid to admit it.

It's possible. Some of the thinking I've read is like this:

"Of course we have the same violent and same feelings about sex, violence, etc... as you do. And we know ourselves. If we don't keep society repressed, you have NO IDEA how damaging it'll be if WE can do what WE want."

Said another way, some repressed people are Vulcans. They don't repress sex, violence, etc... to protect themselves. They repress it to protect US from THEM.
Or, what I've heard in my checkered past: "The law isn't there to protect ME from YOU. It's there to protect YOU from ME."

Not a great match with what you just said... but it's what popped in my head.

Spoiler: SARYA

Here another example. According to Pornhub data, in the USA, red states (who pass laws against trans) watch more trans porn than blue state (who pass laws to defend trans). So yeah, deep hypocrisy!

That... plus:

Oh... I'm not allowed to see it.

Now I want to.

 

[Slumdum]

Mr surgeon!!

HRNGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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How are things going with the two of you? All good?

Yeah, doing fine, not much to report today.

 

[User_108364]

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I think you posted it wrong.

 

[Amman]

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[conzibald]

I think you posted it wrong.

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[User_108364]

Yeah, doing fine, not much to report today.

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I, the great raccoon, bearer of trash, prince of the landfill, ruler of racconia, the humble one, the great furball, am doing great!

 

[conzibald]

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[Amman]

Spoiler: CCXVIDONAFERENS

Thank you for the confirmation.

You see, I'm at that stage in life when my memory is so off that I often hear from others:

"Yeah. No, that never happened."

Spoiler: CCXVIDONAFERENS

Ok, I'm not American, so I don't know how crazy this is regarding their laws:

What's stopping people from going:

"Oh. Can't go to court. Can't go to the press. Hmm. Well, sue me for 5 thousand. Sue me for 5 million. Sue me for 5 billion. I don't got it. HEY EVERYONE! LOOK WHAT DISNEY DID! Watcha gunna do Disney?"

I can't see they guy going to federal prison for words (then again...), but Disney takes a hit, which snowballs others to do the same. Yet I never read about that... so what am I missing?

Spoiler: HTYYHRK

Very true. I have an alternate analogy actually (or comparison, not sure):

Roman Gladiator Pits:
When everything was shit, people could get satisfaction from the fights or from the people being hurt. Other people's pain took their minds off of their daily lives. Then, they could go back to producing goods and services for the Roman Empire.

Modern Day People:
They create their own gladiatorial pits

Spoiler: CCXVIDONAFERENS

It's possible. Some of the thinking I've read is like this:

"Of course we have the same violent and same feelings about sex, violence, etc... as you do. And we know ourselves. If we don't keep society repressed, you have NO IDEA how damaging it'll be if WE can do what WE want."

Said another way, some repressed people are Vulcans. They don't repress sex, violence, etc... to protect themselves. They repress it to protect US from THEM.
Or, what I've heard in my checkered past: "The law isn't there to protect ME from YOU. It's there to protect YOU from ME."

Not a great match with what you just said... but it's what popped in my head.

Spoiler: SARYA

That... plus:

Oh... I'm not allowed to see it.

Now I want to.

 

[Evil Surgeon]

Better get this out of the way. *clears throat* His royal highness.. lord @Guz89 is here.

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@Slumdum.. you know the deal.

 

[User_108364]

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[conzibald]

guess who is getting fucked next!

 

[Slumdum]

I, the great raccoon, bearer of trash, prince of the landfill, ruler of racconia, the humble one, the great furball, am doing great!

Good to hear!
Can't have the little raccoon going around being not great!

Better get this out of the way. *clears throat* His royal highness.. lord @Guz89 is here.

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@Slumdum.. you know the deal.

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[ledUsername]

How is this the most active forum I've ever seen? I swear every time I turn around there's another 20-80 pages.

Prep the confetti, page 1,000 incoming

 

[Slumdum]

guess who is getting fucked next!

Is it one of the Guzs?

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[darqfybre]

Page 999 incoming

Look out below....

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[Amman]

guess who is getting fucked next!

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[User_108364]

Is it one of the Guzs?

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Which one?

Spoiler: On the Job Guz

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Note: I know there's a no-number guz as well.

 

[conzibald]

Is it one of the Guzs?

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