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Best player: Shadow, what a boss
Worst player: Me. I forgot how to play then I got bored.
Best leader: Firetooth
Best Indy: Shadow. He's always the best at everything.
Best farmer: Fooooooooooooooooooood
Best casher: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Best solo player: Blood wake
Best clan: Woof. At one point it felt like it included nearly all of the active players.
Worst clan: Honor. MORE LIKE DISHONOR AMIRITE?
Most improved: TS
Biggest surprise: Neo dropping out after talking up some big secret game plan.
Biggest disappointment: Wolf bite whinging to the point where he ruined the game for everyone.

Lol @ needing a cable for your phone to post a pic

Turns out I actually worked with that crew once: http://www.redwallwarlords.com/forums/index.php?topic=11803.0

I did not remember that...

Oh man, I was a meanie.

Haha I don't remember that. Nearly 11 actually, wondyhonks.

We won the modern pentathlon! Probably the event with the most useful skills... if you're a 19th century cavalry soldier.

Yeah, that is pretty sweet.

Something short and sweet. I'm sick of reading novelposts.

<<<< see my title

For example, this little doozy from Tony Abbott:

"What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it's going to go up in price, and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up,"

Just wanted to add that this guy then appointed himself Minister for Women...

Well in the interest of bringing this back on topic, I have to stay that if Hillary Clinton was attractive I would be slightly more inclined to vote for her.

Would you say your comment is consciously or unconsciously sexist, though?

I'm going to call shenanigans here Firefight. I've read a lot of the same pieces you have about how assertive women are bitches, while assertive men are respected. I never really bought any of them though. There are certainly examples given to support that narrative, but just like any well-written persuasion piece, they gloss over the large number of counter-examples that ruin the whole thing. There are any number of movies which depict the ambitious, career-driven man as a total jerk. If he's the protagonist, he comes to realize that family is most important, etc. you know the story. Think "Click" or "Liar Liar", or pretty much any 90's comedy. It's a really old storyline though, at least as old as Charles lance "A Christmas Carol", if not older. Conversely, if the ambitious, career driven guy is not the protagonist, he is inevitably the main villain who the good, kind, family-oriented hero must defeat or gets his comeuppance in some way. If you can find a statistical analysis with a decent sample size showing that assertive, career-oriented women are portrayed negatively significantly more often than men, I might believe you, but from where I'm sitting, the same story-lines that lance laid out in "A Christmas Carol" seem to be applied pretty equally to men and women.

You can not honestly defend this, Volkov. We're not talking about Christmas movies here, we're talking about the challenges that real women face in professional contexts all over the world. It's called the backlash effect, where women are socially punished for displaying counterstereotypial behaviours. If a woman is not stereotypically "nice" enough, they receive social repercussions and are disliked. If she is feminine and nice (as women should be), she is seen as not competent for leadership roles.

May I also add the example of our own female former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. She faced constant misogyny in the media throughout her leadership, including criticism for being unmarried and childless, while unmarried childless men have ruled many times without being questioned. In fact the marital and parental status of men in leadership hardly comes up at all. And then there was the time Tony Abbott stood in front of signs calling her a [dog] and a witch. Because she was a woman, but not a mother, and had the assertiveness to beat other men to the leadership of the party, she was a [dog] and a witch. 

Now I want scones.

American election threads on ALL THE BOARDS!

^ I like femitooth.

This was that guy in 2008.