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26 Apr 2012 07:29 PM   |   7063 clicks   |   Huffington Post
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Nadie_AZ    [TotalFark]  
Mitt is not a small government backer. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a small government backer, but he is *not* a porn star!

26 Apr 2012 06:08 PM
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Quasar    [TotalFark]  
"I wanna make sure that every new computer sold in this country after I'm president has installed on it a filter to block all pornography and that parents can click that filter to make sure their kids don't see that kinda stuff coming in on their computer."

Old and busted: magic underwear
New hotness: magic computer technology

26 Apr 2012 06:09 PM
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MaudlinMutantMollusk    [TotalFark]  
Well, it is the most important issue facing our country today, right?

/FOAD, Mittens

26 Apr 2012 06:10 PM
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9beers     
Nice try subby but what he's obviously talking about is something similar to the V-chip found in televisions.

Go ahead and herp the derp though, you libtards are great at it.

26 Apr 2012 06:15 PM
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Nadie_AZ    [TotalFark]  
9beers: Nice try subby but what he's obviously talking about is something similar to the V-chip found in televisions.

Go ahead and herp the derp though, you libtards are great at it.


Actually, I think we suck. Could you help us out?

26 Apr 2012 06:18 PM
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hillbillypharmacist    [TotalFark]  
9beers: Nice try subby but what he's obviously talking about is something similar to the V-chip found in televisions.

What's a computer, but a TV with a keyboard?

26 Apr 2012 06:19 PM
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2wolves    [TotalFark]  
It's actually a Jobs Program. Making and installing all these widgets will take tens of thousands of employees.

26 Apr 2012 06:23 PM
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MaudlinMutantMollusk    [TotalFark]  
2wolves: It's actually a Jobs Program. Making and installing all these widgets will take tens of thousands of employees.

Chinese workers

/but, close enough for Republicans

26 Apr 2012 06:25 PM
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propasaurus    [TotalFark]  
2wolves: It's actually a Jobs Program. Making and installing all these widgets will take tens of thousands of employees.

Of course, it'll be at the cost of tens of thousands who are employed in the porn biz.

26 Apr 2012 06:33 PM
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TheOnion    [TotalFark]  
I wonder if he still feels this way, since it is from 4 years ago. I don't think it is the government's job to get involved here, especially when the free market has done a good job at providing parents the ability to censor computers for their children.

26 Apr 2012 06:33 PM
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sno man    [TotalFark]  
9beers: Nice try subby but what he's obviously talking about is something similar to the V-chip found in televisions.

Go ahead and herp the derp though, you libtards are great at it.


So, okay how does your 'puter v-chip tell if that jpg is a cat in the ceiling or something that's gonna lead to the death of a kitten?

26 Apr 2012 06:33 PM
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2wolves    [TotalFark]  
MaudlinMutantMollusk: 2wolves: It's actually a Jobs Program. Making and installing all these widgets will take tens of thousands of employees.

Chinese workers

/but, close enough for Republicans


propasaurus: 2wolves: It's actually a Jobs Program. Making and installing all these widgets will take tens of thousands of employees.

Of course, it'll be at the cost of tens of thousands who are employed in the porn biz.


Close as these twunts are getting to a 'Jobs Policy.'

26 Apr 2012 06:34 PM
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jake_lex    [TotalFark]  
There was a great article I saw somewhere a little while back where point was made that we shouldn't assume Romney will return to the middle if he is elected President: his political views are so malleable, so contingent, and so subject to change that he would probably happily govern from the extreme right if he thinks it will be to his political gain.

26 Apr 2012 06:34 PM
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MaudlinMutantMollusk    [TotalFark]  
TheOnion: I wonder if he still feels this way, since it is from 4 years ago. I don't think it is the government's job to get involved here, especially when the free market has done a good job at providing parents the ability to censor computers for their children.

I'm sure he's changed his mind on the matter dozens of times since then

/actually, I'm sure he's changed his mind on the matter dozens of times since last Tuesday

26 Apr 2012 06:34 PM
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GAT_00     
9beers: Nice try subby but what he's obviously talking about is something similar to the V-chip found in televisions.

Go ahead and herp the derp though, you libtards are great at it.


Well then, explain please how a mandatory device acting as a government intrusion into the personal lives of Americans by interfering with their own life choices is small government? Or how it is small government acting to dictate to private business how a free market should work?

26 Apr 2012 06:39 PM
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TsarTom    [TotalFark]  
Now, why would I think Republicans might be wise not to push too much in this area...

Oh, yeah. The porniest states are almost all redder than Bubba's knuckles after a lazy Sunday afternoon spent furitively googling up all them videos.

1. Texas
2. Florida
3. Louisiana
4. Colorado
5. Nevada
6. Arizona
7. Michigan
8. Georgia
9. Ohio
10. Kentucky

Link

I'm sure they were all of straight couples in a darkened room too.

26 Apr 2012 06:41 PM
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9beers     
sno man: So, okay how does your 'puter v-chip tell if that jpg is a cat in the ceiling or something that's gonna lead to the death of a kitten?

The only way to adequately block adult material would be to make it mandatory for those sites to use the .xxx domain. You can't knock Romney for saying that he wants to make sure that parents have the means to keep their kids from viewing porn online, even if he's mistaken on how to do it.

26 Apr 2012 06:41 PM
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Nadie_AZ    [TotalFark]  
9beers: sno man: So, okay how does your 'puter v-chip tell if that jpg is a cat in the ceiling or something that's gonna lead to the death of a kitten?

The only way to adequately block adult material would be to make it mandatory for those sites to use the .xxx domain. You can't knock Romney for saying that he wants to make sure that parents have the means to keep their kids from viewing porn online, even if he's mistaken on how to do it.


Why?

26 Apr 2012 06:42 PM
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queezyweezel    [TotalFark]  
9beers: sno man: So, okay how does your 'puter v-chip tell if that jpg is a cat in the ceiling or something that's gonna lead to the death of a kitten?

The only way to adequately block adult material would be to make it mandatory for those sites to use the .xxx domain. You can't knock Romney for saying that he wants to make sure that parents have the means to keep their kids from viewing porn online, even if he's mistaken on how to do it.


Simple eh? We just have to get THE WHOLE WORLD TO DO IT......DERP DERP DERP.

On a relate note, 80% of the population will say "heck yeah Mitt" then vote against him once the curtain is pulled closed at the polls.

26 Apr 2012 06:49 PM
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GAT_00     
Nadie_AZ: 9beers: sno man: So, okay how does your 'puter v-chip tell if that jpg is a cat in the ceiling or something that's gonna lead to the death of a kitten?

The only way to adequately block adult material would be to make it mandatory for those sites to use the .xxx domain. You can't knock Romney for saying that he wants to make sure that parents have the means to keep their kids from viewing porn online, even if he's mistaken on how to do it.

Why?


Because he wants the government to act as a parent and tell people how to raise their kids.

In effect, he is what he claims liberals want. Of course he'll frame it differently but he's saying government should directly control your private life.

26 Apr 2012 06:50 PM
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Ed Finnerty     
What about magic underwear porn? Is that okay?

26 Apr 2012 06:50 PM
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cman    [TotalFark]  
Not to burst his bubble, but parental controls are already built into modern day OSes. Self regulation, motherfarker, how do you like them apples, shiathead?

26 Apr 2012 06:51 PM
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Nadie_AZ    [TotalFark]  
GAT_00: Nadie_AZ: 9beers: sno man: So, okay how does your 'puter v-chip tell if that jpg is a cat in the ceiling or something that's gonna lead to the death of a kitten?

The only way to adequately block adult material would be to make it mandatory for those sites to use the .xxx domain. You can't knock Romney for saying that he wants to make sure that parents have the means to keep their kids from viewing porn online, even if he's mistaken on how to do it.

Why?

Because he wants the government to act as a parent and tell people how to raise their kids.

In effect, he is what he claims liberals want. Of course he'll frame it differently but he's saying government should directly control your private life.


If that's the case, then don't we want to provide them with health care, ensure they have the food they need, the education to better themselves and the opportunities to become healthy and productive adults that can earn a healthy wage?

26 Apr 2012 06:51 PM
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Nadie_AZ    [TotalFark]  
cman: Not to burst his bubble, but parental controls are already built into modern day OSes. Self regulation, motherfarker, how do you like them apples, shiathead?

This is the real answer- as it was during the 'v chip' days.

26 Apr 2012 06:52 PM
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cman    [TotalFark]  
cman: Not to burst his bubble, but parental controls are already built into modern day OSes. Self regulation, motherfarker, how do you like them apples, shiathead?

Before anyone gets the wrong idea, "shiathead" was directed at Romney

26 Apr 2012 06:52 PM
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Lionel Mandrake    [TotalFark]  
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26 Apr 2012 06:52 PM
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9beers     
GAT_00: Well then, explain please how a mandatory device acting as a government intrusion into the personal lives of Americans by interfering with their own life choices is small government? Or how it is small government acting to dictate to private business how a free market should work?

What? Have you bought a new TV in the past few years? If so, it has a V-chip in it. Has that ever stopped you from watching anything? No! Why not? Because nobody is interfering with your choices, they're offering a tool for people who wish to use it.

26 Apr 2012 06:53 PM
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9beers     
GAT_00: Because he wants the government to act as a parent and tell people how to raise their kids.

See what I mean about herping the derp? You have fun with that.

26 Apr 2012 06:55 PM
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Nadie_AZ    [TotalFark]  
9beers: GAT_00: Well then, explain please how a mandatory device acting as a government intrusion into the personal lives of Americans by interfering with their own life choices is small government? Or how it is small government acting to dictate to private business how a free market should work?

What? Have you bought a new TV in the past few years? If so, it has a V-chip in it. Has that ever stopped you from watching anything? No! Why not? Because nobody is interfering with your choices, they're offering a tool for people who wish to use it.


Wasn't the v chip a Democratic Party idea?

/stupid either way
//parents must be the answer

26 Apr 2012 06:55 PM
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Marcus Aurelius    [TotalFark]  
TsarTom: Now, why would I think Republicans might be wise not to push too much in this area...

Oh, yeah. The porniest states are almost all redder than Bubba's knuckles after a lazy Sunday afternoon spent furitively googling up all them videos.

1. Texas
2. Florida
3. Louisiana
4. Colorado
5. Nevada
6. Arizona
7. Michigan
8. Georgia
9. Ohio
10. Kentucky

Link

I'm sure they were all of straight couples in a darkened room too.


I notice the Spanish language porn is really going great guns. That's caliente.

26 Apr 2012 06:56 PM
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sno man    [TotalFark]  
9beers: sno man: So, okay how does your 'puter v-chip tell if that jpg is a cat in the ceiling or something that's gonna lead to the death of a kitten?

The only way to adequately block adult material would be to make it mandatory for those sites to use the .xxx domain. You can't knock Romney for saying that he wants to make sure that parents have the means to keep their kids from viewing porn online, even if he's mistaken on how to do it.


Adequately? okay so the original sites are .xxx... Screen caps and right-click save-as aside, how does your guy's v-chip keep that genie in the bottle?
And yes... Yes I can. It is a lovely idea, how can anyone be for all-porn-all-the-time-on-the-interwebs for kids?
But it is so far from doable, and anyone that has spent more than 5 minutes on the internet knows that.
How about a little parental responsibility? And leave the Government out of it altogether?

26 Apr 2012 06:56 PM
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Nogrhi    [TotalFark]  
Quick! Someone whip up a 'Ceiling Romney is watching you masturbate' picture with the shoops!

26 Apr 2012 06:56 PM
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adamgreeney     
cman: Not to burst his bubble, but parental controls are already built into modern day OSes. Self regulation, motherfarker, how do you like them apples, shiathead?

Yeah, I generally laugh at the sheer idiocy you crap into these threads, but yeah. You're 100% right. Things like Net Nanny and Bess have been around since the mid 90's. It isn't the governments job to watch what your kids see when they surf.

26 Apr 2012 06:57 PM
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Marcus Aurelius    [TotalFark]  
Nadie_AZ: 9beers: GAT_00: Well then, explain please how a mandatory device acting as a government intrusion into the personal lives of Americans by interfering with their own life choices is small government? Or how it is small government acting to dictate to private business how a free market should work?

What? Have you bought a new TV in the past few years? If so, it has a V-chip in it. Has that ever stopped you from watching anything? No! Why not? Because nobody is interfering with your choices, they're offering a tool for people who wish to use it.

Wasn't the v chip a Democratic Party idea?

/stupid either way
//parents must be the answer


You may be thinking of Bill Clinton's "Clipper" chip for encryption.

Now THAT was a stupid idea.

26 Apr 2012 06:57 PM
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cman    [TotalFark]  
TsarTom: Now, why would I think Republicans might be wise not to push too much in this area...

Oh, yeah. The porniest states are almost all redder than Bubba's knuckles after a lazy Sunday afternoon spent furitively googling up all them videos.

1. Texas
2. Florida
3. Louisiana
4. Colorado
5. Nevada
6. Arizona
7. Michigan
8. Georgia
9. Ohio
10. Kentucky

Link

I'm sure they were all of straight couples in a darkened room too.


I am quite surprised that Maine isnt on that list. Have you ever seen our women?

*shivers*

26 Apr 2012 06:57 PM
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GAT_00     
Nadie_AZ: GAT_00: Nadie_AZ: 9beers: sno man: So, okay how does your 'puter v-chip tell if that jpg is a cat in the ceiling or something that's gonna lead to the death of a kitten?

The only way to adequately block adult material would be to make it mandatory for those sites to use the .xxx domain. You can't knock Romney for saying that he wants to make sure that parents have the means to keep their kids from viewing porn online, even if he's mistaken on how to do it.

Why?

Because he wants the government to act as a parent and tell people how to raise their kids.

In effect, he is what he claims liberals want. Of course he'll frame it differently but he's saying government should directly control your private life.

If that's the case, then don't we want to provide them with health care, ensure they have the food they need, the education to better themselves and the opportunities to become healthy and productive adults that can earn a healthy wage?


Because he doesn't give a fark about helping people. Only controlling them.

26 Apr 2012 06:58 PM
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Nadie_AZ    [TotalFark]  
Marcus Aurelius: Nadie_AZ: 9beers: GAT_00: Well then, explain please how a mandatory device acting as a government intrusion into the personal lives of Americans by interfering with their own life choices is small government? Or how it is small government acting to dictate to private business how a free market should work?

What? Have you bought a new TV in the past few years? If so, it has a V-chip in it. Has that ever stopped you from watching anything? No! Why not? Because nobody is interfering with your choices, they're offering a tool for people who wish to use it.

Wasn't the v chip a Democratic Party idea?

/stupid either way
//parents must be the answer

You may be thinking of Bill Clinton's "Clipper" chip for encryption.

Now THAT was a stupid idea.


They all are.

What next, silence any kid who is in the locker room? Playground? Hormones aren't introduced into a child when they turn 18. Sex isn't some taboo thing that we should hide from.

Are we still stuck in Victorian times? Forget 1950, people think we are in 1900- or should be.

26 Apr 2012 07:00 PM
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9beers     
Nadie_AZ: parents must be the answer

So what's your plan for controlling a kids TV and internet use? Should you lock up all electronics when you're not home? Should you not allow them to have a computer or TV in their room? It's ridiculous to say that even the best parents can monitor what their kids are viewing on a TV or computer 100% of the time.

26 Apr 2012 07:00 PM
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timujin    [TotalFark]  
9beers: Nice try subby but what he's obviously talking about is something similar to the V-chip found in televisions.

Well, then he's obviously a moron. Or you are, if you think the technology that makes a v-chip function would work in a computer.

26 Apr 2012 07:00 PM
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adamgreeney     
cman: TsarTom: Now, why would I think Republicans might be wise not to push too much in this area...

Oh, yeah. The porniest states are almost all redder than Bubba's knuckles after a lazy Sunday afternoon spent furitively googling up all them videos.

1. Texas
2. Florida
3. Louisiana
4. Colorado
5. Nevada
6. Arizona
7. Michigan
8. Georgia
9. Ohio
10. Kentucky

Link

I'm sure they were all of straight couples in a darkened room too.

I am quite surprised that Maine isnt on that list. Have you ever seen our women?

*shivers*


I grew up in rural Wisconsin. I image our women would give your a run for their money.

26 Apr 2012 07:00 PM
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cman    [TotalFark]  
9beers: Nadie_AZ: parents must be the answer

So what's your plan for controlling a kids TV and internet use? Should you lock up all electronics when you're not home? Should you not allow them to have a computer or TV in their room? It's ridiculous to say that even the best parents can monitor what their kids are viewing on a TV or computer 100% of the time.


If you are worried having your children exposed to such then I suggest withholding said technology from them. That way you are 100% sure they won't see what you do not want them to see.

26 Apr 2012 07:01 PM
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adamgreeney     
9beers: Nadie_AZ: parents must be the answer

So what's your plan for controlling a kids TV and internet use? Should you lock up all electronics when you're not home? Should you not allow them to have a computer or TV in their room? It's ridiculous to say that even the best parents can monitor what their kids are viewing on a TV or computer 100% of the time.


You are very technologically challenged aren't you? Things like Net Nanny have been around since the 90's. Any idiot can install them. Install software, limit your kids usage and STFU.

I can't wait until those of us 35 and younger take the reins. This type of shiat won't fly with us. A politician who spouts this stuff will be laughed at because we will already have our nets set up to catch this stuff, and we'll know to monitor our kids internet use.

26 Apr 2012 07:02 PM
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9beers     
adamgreeney: I can't wait until those of us 35 and younger take the reins. This type of shiat won't fly with us. A politician who spouts this stuff will be laughed at because we will already have our nets set up to catch this stuff, and we'll know to monitor our kids internet use.

We're doomed when some of you start having kids.

26 Apr 2012 07:04 PM
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Nadie_AZ    [TotalFark]  
9beers: Nadie_AZ: parents must be the answer

So what's your plan for controlling a kids TV and internet use? Should you lock up all electronics when you're not home? Should you not allow them to have a computer or TV in their room? It's ridiculous to say that even the best parents can monitor what their kids are viewing on a TV or computer 100% of the time.


Oh grow up. Some kids will listen to their parents, some won't. Some will go to their friends' house and watch. Some will go to the library. My children are all teenagers and have a pretty damn good idea about sex and what not. Should they be ashamed of their bodies, like I was taught to be? F*ck no. Should they be attention whores with their bodies? F*ck no.

But then, I think Americans are stuck in Victorian England. Sex isn't some horrible thing to hide.

26 Apr 2012 07:09 PM
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sno man    [TotalFark]  
MaudlinMutantMollusk: TheOnion: I wonder if he still feels this way, since it is from 4 years ago. I don't think it is the government's job to get involved here, especially when the free market has done a good job at providing parents the ability to censor computers for their children.

I'm sure he's changed his mind on the matter dozens of times since then

/actually, I'm sure he's changed his mind on the matter dozens of times since last Tuesday


I was leaning closer to dozens since lunch, but whatever...

26 Apr 2012 07:14 PM
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adamgreeney     
9beers: adamgreeney: I can't wait until those of us 35 and younger take the reins. This type of shiat won't fly with us. A politician who spouts this stuff will be laughed at because we will already have our nets set up to catch this stuff, and we'll know to monitor our kids internet use.

We're doomed when some of you start having kids.


Did your crystal ball tell you that? Do you have some magic ability to discern the parenting ability of entire generations around the world? Or are you simply talking out your ass again?

26 Apr 2012 07:15 PM
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GAT_00     
9beers: adamgreeney: I can't wait until those of us 35 and younger take the reins. This type of shiat won't fly with us. A politician who spouts this stuff will be laughed at because we will already have our nets set up to catch this stuff, and we'll know to monitor our kids internet use.

We're doomed when some of you start having kids.


Such quality debate. Already down to a NO U response.

26 Apr 2012 07:15 PM
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NateGrey     
Fark Off Republicans

Getting tired of Contards invading people's bedrooms.

26 Apr 2012 07:19 PM
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cman    [TotalFark]  
NateGrey: Fark Off Republicans

Getting tired of Contards invading people's bedrooms.


Technically they are invading more living rooms than bed rooms on this one

26 Apr 2012 07:20 PM
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Angry Drunk Bureaucrat    [TotalFark]  
Listen Vanessa Janice Tiffany Amber Thiessen. I'm gonna go ahead and give ya a little something I call Perry's Perspective. I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the Internet, there'd only be 1 website left, and it would be called Bring Back The Porn.

26 Apr 2012 07:23 PM
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