Signs of the times

Nic Name • Sep 27, 2002 8:08 pm
Hard times at hobby farm.
Gravdigr • Sep 8, 2015 3:23 pm
This thread - it's aaalllliiiiiiiiiiiive!!!! Muwahahahahahaha!!!!

All these happen to be church signs:

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Gravdigr • Sep 8, 2015 3:24 pm
As are these:

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Sundae • Sep 12, 2015 10:00 am
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Gravdigr • Sep 12, 2015 2:19 pm
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xoxoxoBruce • Oct 18, 2015 4:23 pm
I knew those damn squirrels are dangerous, second only to bunnies. :yesnod:
BigV • Oct 19, 2015 2:02 pm
At least the bunnies are now actually clothed... :(
Gravdigr • Oct 19, 2015 3:00 pm
If that's a reference to Playboy no longer doing nakedness...That shit ain't funny, man!:mad:
BigV • Oct 19, 2015 3:24 pm
Agreed.
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 19, 2015 4:07 pm
You know, the announcement surprised and annoyed me. For a magazine I haven't bought for probably 40 years. I haven't even seen it except for extremely rare occasions, so why should I care?

Because it's change, destroying the touchstones, the guideposts, the common references to the past. Damn money grubbin' whippersnappers. :crone:
Gravdigr • Oct 19, 2015 5:33 pm
xoxoxoBruce;942464 wrote:
Because it's change...


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lumberjim • Oct 19, 2015 11:19 pm
Wait, wut?

Playboy doesn't do nudes now?
Clodfobble • Oct 20, 2015 1:09 am
They've been trying to convert to a semi-legitimate online entertainment/news source for awhile now (on par with vox.com, perhaps.) I'm sure magazine sales have dwindled to almost nothing with all the online porn available, so they're probably right to go this different route to keep the company alive.
glatt • Oct 20, 2015 8:51 am
An article I saw said that a very significant source of their income was licensing their logo in China and other countries that never had the actual magazine but that somehow know about it and want their Playboy baseball caps.

They lose money on the actual magazine.
Gravdigr • Nov 2, 2015 5:12 pm
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fargon • Nov 3, 2015 7:55 am
Rudy's has closed for the season. So sad.
Gravdigr • Nov 3, 2015 6:00 pm
Fargon, did you recognize that Rudy's as your's?

That's kinda weird. Cuz it is yours.
Gravdigr • Nov 3, 2015 6:11 pm
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fargon • Nov 4, 2015 7:40 am
You Are = UR
glatt • Nov 4, 2015 8:18 am
CHURRCH

I think it's a church for pirates. Arrg.
Gravdigr • Nov 7, 2015 6:05 pm
No lesbians in India, apparently.

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classicman • Nov 14, 2015 11:39 am
Ha!
infinite monkey • Nov 14, 2015 11:42 am
The guy in the pink shirt should probably stick to eating berber. Whole Lotta fluff going on in that belly. Maybe he's preggers.
Gravdigr • Nov 23, 2015 6:45 pm
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glatt • Jan 20, 2016 3:08 pm
There are two oil stains that match each other, but one is 10 inches closer to the curb. The same car visits that spot.

and what's that massive stain where a driver's door would be?
tw • Jan 20, 2016 7:20 pm
glatt;951761 wrote:
and what's that massive stain where a driver's door would be?

Blood. Don't park there.
xoxoxoBruce • Jan 20, 2016 7:37 pm
Actually it is a disability, but not one that qualifies for handicap parking. ;)
Gravdigr • Jan 21, 2016 12:52 pm
You can't fix stupid.


~ Ron White
Gravdigr • Jan 21, 2016 12:54 pm
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This place has a history of sign humor:

From GoogleEarth StreetView:

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"You don't need rehab, you need refill"

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Scriveyn • Jan 21, 2016 2:25 pm
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xoxoxoBruce • Jan 21, 2016 2:27 pm
Get those commie bastids!
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lumberjim • Jan 26, 2016 5:08 pm
glatt;951761 wrote:
There are two oil stains that match each other, but one is 10 inches closer to the curb. The same car visits that spot.

and what's that massive stain where a driver's door would be?

Old coffee
Gravdigr • Feb 5, 2016 2:18 pm
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glatt • Feb 5, 2016 2:28 pm
My story of those signs is that the road is still under construction, but about to be completed. The workers installed the permanent white sign and paused to take a picture before taking down the temporary orange one. That's my story.
Gravdigr • Feb 5, 2016 3:12 pm
That story is worse than the Richard Trethewey story...:p:
Happy Monkey • Feb 5, 2016 3:20 pm
It's a T-intersection. You're not allowed to turn left. Cars can come from both directions. Cars coming from the right can't go straight, but cars coming from the left can.
lumberjim • Feb 5, 2016 7:22 pm
Simple
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 5, 2016 8:15 pm
And if you're slow figuring it out, DO NOT park in everybody's way. :haha:
Gravdigr • Feb 9, 2016 3:07 pm
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fargon • Feb 9, 2016 3:27 pm
Don't laugh you may be next.
Gravdigr • Feb 10, 2016 1:57 pm
Word.

Don't laugh a whole lot anymore, not worried on that score...
glatt • Feb 10, 2016 2:19 pm
What happens to laughter? I don't laugh much anymore either.

Is laughter tied to novelty and things just aren't as novel as you age?
Gravdigr • Feb 10, 2016 4:20 pm
I think laughter goes to the same place that gray hair comes from.
Clodfobble • Feb 10, 2016 4:34 pm
I very actively seek out laughter. It's a big part of why I started doing the open mics. Yeah, it's attention, but it's also an excuse to attend a free comedy show on a regular basis. But even beyond that, a drama has to be extraordinary before it gets on my queue, whereas a comedy can be middling at best and I'll still watch it if I get 2-3 small laughs over the course of 30 minutes.
Gravdigr • Feb 10, 2016 4:52 pm
Clodfobble;953299 wrote:
I very actively seek out laughter.


I used to. Now, not so much.
lumberjim • Feb 10, 2016 5:22 pm
glatt;953290 wrote:
What happens to laughter? I don't laugh much anymore either.

Is laughter tied to novelty and things just aren't as novel as you age?

That makes me sad to hear. I don't have any handy advice, either. More thought required.
Undertoad • Feb 10, 2016 5:38 pm
Here, try some Maria Bamford that just came out

This is literally the only thing I've ever laughed out loud at in over 40 years of Prairie Home Companion. She crushed it. Never mind the lame audience

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glatt • Feb 10, 2016 7:33 pm
Ok. That WAS funny. I laughed out loud at least 5 times. Especially the song about therapy.
Carruthers • Feb 11, 2016 5:33 am
It speaks for itself, really.

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monster • Feb 13, 2016 6:57 pm
I can't imagine life without laughter. I seek humor in everything. pisses the oncologist off no end -he has NO sense of humor AT ALL. Imagine if it was a requirement for passing the board :D
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Gravdigr • Apr 14, 2016 4:48 pm
In my neck o' the woods, at the end of a loooooong dead end road:

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Gravdigr • May 7, 2016 1:41 pm
Undertoad;953302 wrote:
Maria Bamford...Prairie Home Companion.

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Literally thirty seconds into that I could take the breathy, low impact, soft, PHC-style of speaking no longer. Nothing against PHC, but, anyone but Keillor sounds like they're trying way too hard to do it.

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Anyway, what I came here for:

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Gravdigr • Jul 16, 2016 11:48 am
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Gravdigr • Aug 29, 2016 1:53 pm
Ask for it by name:

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lumberjim • Aug 30, 2016 11:44 pm
$2100 snake skin cowboy boots. Google it
Gravdigr • Oct 4, 2016 5:21 pm
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Carruthers • Oct 27, 2016 6:37 am
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Over to you, ladies and gentlemen.
Gravdigr • Oct 27, 2016 11:58 am
Oh. That is unfortunate.
Sundae • Oct 28, 2016 7:18 am
They got a picture of an alien's butthole. Impressive!
glatt • Oct 28, 2016 8:05 am
Maybe I'm slow. Was that supposed to be retinal? They aren't even close.
sexobon • Oct 28, 2016 9:55 am
It was shopped:

http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/26/vision-express-denies-offering-free-rectal-photography-with-every-eye-test-5463418/
BigV • Oct 29, 2016 1:56 pm
Brown eyes on special today, buy two, get one free!
Gravdigr • Oct 29, 2016 2:40 pm
Ah, yes, the ol threefer...
Gravdigr • Nov 3, 2016 3:14 pm
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tw • Nov 3, 2016 10:35 pm
Why are signs of the time unsigned?
Carruthers • Nov 13, 2016 10:58 am
Information leaflet from a pack of multi-purpose cleaning tablets.

Perhaps even they are made in China now.

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Carruthers • Nov 13, 2016 11:44 am
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"Charity shop. That must be one collld freezer!"
xoxoxoBruce • Nov 13, 2016 4:42 pm
Very current....
Gravdigr • Nov 14, 2016 3:56 pm
Protested by a guy who doesn't understand punctuation.

Or sentence structure.

^See what I did?:D
tw • Nov 14, 2016 4:17 pm
Gravdigr;973615 wrote:
Protested by a guy who doesn't understand punctuation.

Any blue collar worker knows what punchuation is after too many beers.
xoxoxoBruce • Nov 14, 2016 4:51 pm
I see two periods and one comma, all where they should be.
Gravdigr • Nov 15, 2016 3:48 pm
Your eyesight is better than mine. I thought they were all periods.
Gravdigr • Apr 5, 2017 12:34 pm
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Gravdigr • Apr 25, 2017 4:35 pm
Genius Signs From “The March For Science”

Some are really good.

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ETA: Another:

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xoxoxoBruce • May 1, 2017 4:05 pm
Here's a "sign" of the times...
Gravdigr • May 2, 2017 6:22 pm
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Gravdigr • Jun 1, 2017 1:44 pm
El Arroyo is kinda famous for its funny signs:

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xoxoxoBruce • Jun 1, 2017 3:24 pm
It's kinder funny. :cool:
Gravdigr • Jun 2, 2017 9:22 am
In Russellville, KY there was a quonset hut liquor store on 4th street (aptly named 4th Street Liquors) that usually had a humorous sign.

One day I drove by and the sign read:

Tony said "Change the sign." So I did.


:sweat:



ETA: Liquor store no more.
Gravdigr • Jun 8, 2017 4:33 pm
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Gravdigr • Jun 27, 2017 1:10 pm
Someone would probably kill for this old Exxon sign w/what looks to be an original post:

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It is most definitely not for sale. The lady wasn't real kind about telling me that, either. Probably gets bugged to death by ppl wanting to buy that sign for cheap.

Anyway, I know where it is.;)
Gravdigr • Jul 3, 2017 3:25 pm
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sexobon • Jul 6, 2017 6:02 am
It seems that the biggest losers on the planet, Hillary supporters, have decided the way back to power is ... wait for it... bumper stickers!

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They must be developmentally impaired: they just don't get it.
xoxoxoBruce • Jul 6, 2017 4:00 pm
Yes, that is dumb sticker, although is does raise a valid point. Even rabid Trump supporters are unhappy with congress, tro da bums out. It's up to the voters to drain the swamp.
Gravdigr • Aug 3, 2017 6:01 pm
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Pico and ME • Aug 3, 2017 6:07 pm
ewwwwwwww.....
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tw • Nov 17, 2017 9:35 am
Must be Trump country.
Gravdigr • Dec 2, 2017 4:08 pm
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Why would you fight a child w/diebeetus?:eek:
glatt • Dec 2, 2017 4:19 pm
That's so not right.
sexobon • Dec 2, 2017 8:21 pm
December 1st last fell on a Sunday in 2013. They've had a few years to get it right.
lumberjim • Dec 4, 2017 5:13 pm
It says bizarre. And it is.
Gravdigr • Dec 12, 2017 5:07 pm
Gravdigr;999450 wrote:
Why would you fight a child w/diebeetus?:eek:


Cuz I like to win.

BRING IT YA LITTLE SHIT!!!!
Gravdigr • Dec 12, 2017 5:08 pm
...by the each?

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BigV • Dec 14, 2017 8:52 pm
scale broken, just buy the damn steak


or....


by the "8 oz portion", so a price of $4.50 per is really $9.00 / pound.
Carruthers • Dec 15, 2017 5:52 am
Local newspapers have always plodded along in the shadow of their national and regional counterparts.
Apart from the rare occasion when a story of national importance occurs on their patch it has always been a struggle to come up with a headline that will encourage potential readers to part with their money.
No doubt circulation increased by tens of thousands...

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xoxoxoBruce • Dec 15, 2017 7:00 am
Absolutely, working 2nd shift(2:30 to 11) there were always plenty of newspapers left behind. I'd always look for the local paper (Delaware County Times) because they would tell me the important things. Stuff like a sausage dog runs amok, or Chester Twp cop doing a routine check at the Boots&Bonnets Bar, couldn't get out because there was a dead body against the outside of the door when he tried to leave.
The Philly Inquirer was just depressing stuff like hate and crooked politicians and war.
glatt • Dec 15, 2017 7:45 am
I love my little local paper. It has stuff that I actually care about. School sports. Local issues. Quirky stories.

My daughter sent a letter to the editor a couple weeks ago as a college assignment and it got published, giving her an automatic A on that project.
That makes me wonder how many letters are written by college kids doing homework. You can tell the nut balls easily enough, but if a letter makes sense and spotlights an issue, did a college kid write it for homework?
tw • Dec 15, 2017 12:48 pm
xoxoxoBruce;1000218 wrote:
The Philly Inquirer was just depressing stuff like hate and crooked politicians and war.

If you emotions are relevant, then you are still a child. Adults need facts and do not let their emotions rule them.

We massacred 50,000 Americans in Vietnam for no purpose because so many adults were emotional - and then foolishly believed a president who was a crook. They even blamed the victims and all other students at Kent State for a massacre created by corrupt Ohio National Guard soldiers. A classic murder justified by emotional adults. An example of how hate rules so many adults who are still children.

Adults never let emotions (fear of or love of) rule. Children do. Adults learn irregardless of their emotions.

Local paper is useless if it does not report upcoming events. Until recently, most local papers never did. For example, a paper must list time and location for every 4th of July fireworks. None around here did. Local paper must report the results of the investigation of every car crash and murder. Still most don't. Those would be relevant facts. Most local papers only want to hype emotion of the crash or murder. And cannot be bothered a month later to report what really happened, why, and details of that trial or scientific study. Emotional adults (their target audience) don't care about facts.
Gravdigr • Dec 15, 2017 1:02 pm
Dude. Don't you get tired of repeating the same thing ad infinitum?

I've asked before with no proper response, but...

TW, what do you do for a living? Srs qstn, no barb to follow, just genuinely curious.
glatt • Dec 15, 2017 3:22 pm
tw;1000237 wrote:
Local paper must report the results of the investigation of every car crash and murder. Still most don't. Those would be relevant facts. Most local papers only want to hype emotion of the crash or murder. And cannot be bothered a month later to report what really happened, why, and details of that trial or scientific study.


This is actually a good point. But the truth is that a newspaper story must be a story to engage the reader.

18 year old boy took LSD, thought he was dying of internal hemorrhaging when he started throwing up red jello in the shower, so he ran out naked into a busy street and got arrested when he fought back as the cops tried to subdue him. It's anticlimactic to write a story four months later that the charges were dropped because he kept his nose clean and apologized to everyone and their mother.
sexobon • Dec 15, 2017 7:18 pm
Y'all missed the most important part of tw's post.

Tw said:
tw;1000237 wrote:
... irregardless ...


You done good tw.
tw • Dec 15, 2017 10:15 pm
Gravdigr;1000239 wrote:
Dude. Don't you get tired of repeating the same thing ad infinitum?

Fact don't change because you don't like them (an emotional response).

Don't you get tired of denying reality ad infinitum?
Gravdigr • Dec 21, 2017 2:02 pm
Heeeeere's yer sign.[/BillEngvall]
Carruthers • Dec 29, 2017 1:39 pm
OK, so it's juvenile humour. Just indulge me for a few minutes.

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You want the rest of it? Yertiz...

A parish council has been left red-faced after its minibus spelled out a rude message when the vehicle's sliding door was left open.

An eagle-eyed shopper spotted the Churchill and Langford Minibus Society while on a pre-Christmas trip to Weston-super-Mare last weekend.

Unfortunately for the trip's organisers, when the sliding door opened it masked over several of the letters, contracting the original sign to the more risque Churchill Anus Society.

The image of the minibus was posted on Reddit before it was picked up by local newspapers.

The Somersetlive website reported that one local resident was visiting Asda for some last minute Christmas shopping when they spotted the minibus with the offending slogan.

They said: 'I just had to take this picture while Christmas shopping at Asda. Wonder how many more amusing words out there when opening sliding doors.'

Laura Batt, who books the minibus said: 'We have been made aware of this situation and this will be addressed in the New Year as we have had a shortage of funds and not been in a position to have the signage amended before.

'Obviously no offence was intended to the general public. The wording will be corrected as soon as possible. We have been running our Minibus Society for over 42 years and have not had any issues previously.'

The minibus society purchased a new 12-seater vehicle in 2016 following a grant from the Department of Transport.

The society, which is based outside Bristol, uses the minibus to provide transport for people in rural areas. Their new vehicle - with the unfortunate sign, is equipped to deal with disabled passengers.


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sexobon • Dec 29, 2017 1:52 pm
The could use one of these - &
DanaC • Dec 29, 2017 2:19 pm
Bring on the ampersand
xoxoxoBruce • Dec 29, 2017 4:45 pm
I like juvenile humor...
Carruthers • Dec 30, 2017 6:48 am
I've started us on this slippery slope so I might as well have my money's worth.

When the *hit hits the van. :blush:

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xoxoxoBruce • Dec 30, 2017 9:17 am
I don't believe you're one tiny bit sorry, I can almost hear you sniggering from here. Image
Carruthers • Dec 30, 2017 9:22 am
xoxoxoBruce;1001175 wrote:
I don't believe you're one tiny bit sorry, I can almost hear you sniggering from here. Image


I cannot tell a lie. :)
Carruthers • Jan 29, 2018 7:55 am
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I resisted the temptation to ask what it was known as informally. ;) (Best Value, I suppose!)

Taken in Torrington WY on my pioneering journey through Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska, Lewis and Clark being unavailable for the job.

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xoxoxoBruce • Jan 29, 2018 11:11 am
And 15 years later the same guy is doing the signs. :haha:
Gravdigr • Mar 6, 2018 4:22 pm
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Gravdigr • Mar 6, 2018 4:24 pm
"Exxxtra" in post #132 reminds me of an oldie:

A man is checking into a hotel with his wife and two young children. Glancing at his kids the man says to the desk clerk "I hope the porn in our room is disabled."

The clerk says "It's just regular porn, you sick bastard."
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Urbane Guerrilla • Apr 14, 2018 2:07 am
Carruthers;1001174 wrote:
I've started us on this slippery slope so I might as well have my money's worth.

When the *hit hits the van. :blush:

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Seems to be station CKIX-FM 99.1 FM.

Found myself looking up the Berne List for Canadian station call letters. Callsigns begin CF, CH, CJ, CK, 10 and continue for a couple more letters.
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Those (lawyerly?) people in 63557 need somebody to strip away that comma. It is too poorly used to be let out in public like that.
DanaC • Apr 14, 2018 4:57 pm
@ Grav - that first one made me lol
Gravdigr • May 3, 2018 4:12 pm
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Carruthers • May 4, 2018 11:00 am
There has been speculation about the contents of sausages since God was a boy, but it seems our worst fears have been confirmed...

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Cue much mirth from the good people of South Australia.

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xoxoxoBruce • May 4, 2018 12:23 pm
It may well be true, but likely the recipe hasn't changed only the label. Since you've been eating them all these years without repercussions just go for it. :yum:
lumberjim • May 10, 2018 9:56 am
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Gravdigr • May 10, 2018 3:04 pm
Excellent.
Carruthers • Aug 11, 2018 5:23 am
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Shoppers did a double-take after spotting the word ‘sail’ in the window of a shop in Gerrards Cross.

Lighting Matters has the word plastered in its window instead of the word ‘sale’ – after its owner ironically found the signs cheaply in a sale – leaving shoppers perplexed.

Reader Andy Hill wrote in to the Bucks Free Press saying:”I’m not sure if it was deliberate but it has definitely caught everyone’s attention and [is] the talking point of the town.”

Manager Ian Peaple said a number of shoppers had come into the store to tell him the word had been spelt incorrectly.

He said: “It has certainly garnered a lot of interest. It’s giving people a laugh in the High Street.

“Some people have come in to tell us about the error saying, ‘we don’t want you to become the laughing stock of the High Street’.

“It seems to be pulling people in.”


Confession time...

I have committed this very same abomination. :eek:

I'm not sure whether to put it down to a moment of divided attention, extreme fatigue or plain bone idleness.

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xoxoxoBruce • Aug 11, 2018 11:48 am
Carruthers;1013235 wrote:


I'm not sure whether to put it down to a moment of divided attention, extreme fatigue or plain bone idleness.

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The third sign is my favourite.

Bad grammar is something up with which I will not put.

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xoxoxoBruce • Sep 6, 2018 10:59 am
Thanks, Yoda. :haha:
Gravdigr • Nov 16, 2018 2:58 pm
No scantless fish??

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Clodfobble • Nov 16, 2018 3:10 pm
I'mma guess prostitute.
Flint • Nov 16, 2018 5:56 pm
scantless = "scandalous"
Gravdigr • Nov 17, 2018 12:06 am
No scandalous fish?
BigV • Nov 18, 2018 6:21 pm
Pssst...





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Gravdigr • Nov 18, 2018 10:01 pm
[size=1][COLOR="Gray"]Ooh, snap![/COLOR][/size]
tw • Nov 22, 2018 5:55 pm
Teletypes (also called Teletypewriters or TTY) only printed capital letters. That proves all early IT people suffered severe harm.
sexobon • Nov 22, 2018 6:16 pm
tw;1019390 wrote:
Teletypes (also called Teletypewriters or TTY) only printed capital letters. That proves all early IT people suffered severe harm.

Are you sure you wanted to post that in this thread tw? There's another nice thread called UNI LECTURERS WARNED AGAINST USING ALL-CAPS BECAUSE IT MIGHT UPSET STUDENTS where it may be more fitting.
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Griff • Jan 7, 2019 6:00 pm
Ha!
cellGerr • Jan 7, 2019 6:49 pm
Haha its sometimes terrible today
Gravdigr • Jan 17, 2019 3:26 pm
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Carruthers • Jan 21, 2019 1:34 pm
Gentlemen, it really is bad form to brag. We are British, after all.

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As you were chaps.
Happy Monkey • Jan 21, 2019 1:57 pm
Armed bars? Like the bartender's shotgun under the counter?

Or maybe the bar from over thar has a stick.
Gravdigr • Jan 21, 2019 2:08 pm
Shoulda been 'armed with bars'?


ETA: There is a product called 'armed bars' (alarmed window bars), but, I'm still not sure that's what they threatened the crew with.
Gravdigr • Jan 21, 2019 2:15 pm
Also "Special Boast Service"...

They have commandos just for bragging?
Griff • Jan 21, 2019 2:43 pm
The close relationship between GB and the EU seems to have changed the national character. Time for a Brexit?
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xoxoxoBruce • Feb 18, 2019 2:09 am
Unfortunately...
Happy Monkey • Feb 25, 2019 4:29 pm
The funny thing is, they often claim that getting the disease is better for the immune system than the vaccine (Melanie's Marvelous Measles), so the analogy becomes "get shot with larger bullets to build up an immunity to larger bullets".
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I guess the ugly ones are on their own.
Carruthers • Apr 2, 2020 11:07 am
I made a quick trip to what passes for our local supermarket this morning.
There were several laminated signs apologising for the limited number of open checkouts but staff had been redeployed to keep the shelves full and customers were asked to 'bare with us'.

I decided not to take up their kind invitation.
I think the nation is suffering enough at present. ;)
monster • Apr 2, 2020 11:18 am
Very community minded of you, Mr. C :lol:
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 2, 2020 11:39 am
I was so embarrassed...
Griff • Apr 2, 2020 12:23 pm
Well played C!
Urbane Guerrilla • Apr 10, 2020 11:24 pm
Carruthers;1049986 wrote:
I made a quick trip to what passes for our local supermarket this morning.
There were several laminated signs apologising for the limited number of open checkouts but staff had been redeployed to keep the shelves full and customers were asked to 'bare with us'.

;)


Strip them shelves!
Urbane Guerrilla • Apr 21, 2020 2:06 am
In the Annapolis Safeway, I once encountered what the sign billed as "Naval Oranges." After a pause to appreciate this, I examined several; not one purple inked anchor was to be found.

Even for Annapolis, the home of the Naval Academy, this was rather going overboard.
BigV • Apr 22, 2020 12:40 pm
I thought that was the main ingredient of naval jelly. Or would that be naval marmalade?
Urbane Guerrilla • Apr 22, 2020 5:23 pm
In the circumstance I'd go with marmalade.
tw • Apr 24, 2020 5:39 am
Why would anyone put jelly in their navel?
BigV • Apr 24, 2020 1:05 pm
Don't knock it until you've tried it.

But as a beginner, I urge you to start with the marmalade. The jelly is for experts only.
tw • Apr 24, 2020 9:40 pm
BigV;1051481 wrote:
But as a beginner, I urge you to start with the marmalade.
She likes marmalade better.

Trouble is social distancing gets in the way.
BigV • Apr 24, 2020 9:56 pm
Bow-chicka-bow-whoa, what the fuck just happened?

Tell us more about your girlfriend, girlfriend!
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BigV • Jul 4, 2020 11:54 am
I second that.
Gravdigr • Sep 8, 2020 11:42 pm
Might be a repeat:

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Urbane Guerrilla • Sep 22, 2020 5:55 pm
tw;1051473 wrote:
Why would anyone put jelly in their navel?

Well, naval jelly *is* a corrosion remover... You can connect the dots. If you connect all those dots you get an underscore.
be-bop • Sep 23, 2020 8:10 am
Can someone tell me what's going on in the States when you have groups like this wandering about, and how are they allowed to?
Ibby • Sep 23, 2020 10:34 am
US News and World Report ran an article yesterday making the case that these militias are not actually legal, but that broadly summarizes the rationale for allowing them to exist:

Yet the groups go largely unchecked because law enforcement often does not enforce anti-militia laws due to a number of overlapping reasons, most based in ignorance or misunderstanding, analysts say. Law enforcement is sometimes simply unaware of state statutes that define and prohibit private militias and paramilitary activity.

That ignorance can be tied, McCord says, to a widely held "mythology" that the Second Amendment protects militia-like activity – an expansive understanding of the amendment's protections that has been promoted by cultural forces like the National Rifle Association, which in recent years has championed "stand your ground" laws in states across the U.S. and characterized guns as a protection against tyranny.

"I think the NRA and other Second Amendment absolutists have been remarkably successful over the last several decades at sort of just convincing people that the Second Amendment protects private militia activity, especially in open carry states," McCord says, referring to statutes that allow residents to openly carry firearms in public and in some cases permit the display of long guns like semi-automatic rifles.

The line between a citizen legally carrying a weapon in public and what constitutes illegal paramilitary action, therefore, often goes unrecognized by law enforcement.


(i'm not really sure I agree with their conclusion - that these are roundly illegal, that is - but i also don't really care a whole lot about arguing what some two-hundred-year-old document really means anyway so)
tw • Sep 23, 2020 2:44 pm
Same attitudes brought about something called the Nazi party. Complete with justification because jews, et al were a threat to all. They were told that. So it must be true.

They need assault weapons to protect themselves using same reasoning. Adults who are still children. Nazi party targeted (recruited) same type people.
Griff • Sep 23, 2020 6:39 pm
be-bop;1058451 wrote:
Can someone tell me what's going on in the States when you have groups like this wandering about, and how are they allowed to?


We are out of our damn minds over here.
Urbane Guerrilla • Sep 24, 2020 11:07 pm
be-bop;1058451 wrote:
Can someone tell me what's going on in the States when you have groups like this wandering about, and how are they allowed to?

Because we are a genuinely democratic republic. The sole source of political capital in a democracy -- and hence power -- is the electorate.

People who misunderstand civilized thought protest, "But that is just power to kill!" And so it is. What they miss completely is that the crude power to kill translates very efficiently to the refined power of the ballot.

Which is at least more polite, and an exercise of faith in the society's tenets.

The guns are for when and if that faith is lost. An unarmed electorate is an electorate *without* a power anyone's "obliged to respect." You can google that phrase and see where it came from and why it's in quotes.

In a fit of theorizing, founding father Thomas Jefferson wrote that the tree of Liberty should be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and of patriots. He never had to live with that more than the once, 1775-1783.
xoxoxoBruce • Sep 24, 2020 11:10 pm
They're just rehearsing for Halloween.
Urbane Guerrilla • Sep 24, 2020 11:12 pm
tw;1058467 wrote:
Same attitudes brought about something called the Nazi party. Complete with justification because jews, et al were a threat to all. They were told that. So it must be true.

They need assault weapons to protect themselves using same reasoning. Adults who are still children. Nazi party targeted (recruited) same type people.


I see your chiefest function in a gunfight will be that of a sandbag. Presumably you are built rather like a sandbag, with shoes.
Griff • Sep 25, 2020 8:35 am
I'm not really sure death threats are appropriate here. It does illuminate the truth that some gun nuts are armed for intimidation not self-defense.
BigV • Sep 25, 2020 1:24 pm
Griff;1058538 wrote:
I'm not really sure death threats are appropriate here. It does illuminate the truth that some gun nuts are armed for intimidation not self-defense.


Yes, the emphasis on "obliged to respect" kinda seals it, doesn't it?

Our founding documents state

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness….”


and nothing about a subset of those men who are armed, y'know, so others are obliged to respect them.

What widespread gun possession does is reduce the margin for error to the length and force of a trigger pull. Bad decisions are executed faster, more emphatically, more fatally. Being armed does not exempt one from making bad decisions, that's a human trait we all share.

The news is overflowing with reports of shootings that did not need to happen. Can the term unjustified be used? Yes, in the vernacular; no, in the strictest legal sense in many cases. And not just in the horrific stories about overreactions by police. Civilians are just as liable to make rash choices that have tragic consequences.

Let me ask you about Jake Gardner, you can google that name and see the news stories where it appears. He had the right to a fair trial but that's moot now that he's dead. How did a gun oblige others to respect his rights? Of course it didn't. All it did was accelerate the consequences of a bad decision.

Let me ask one more thing. When has using your power to kill ever obliged someone to respect your rights?
Diaphone Jim • Sep 26, 2020 12:15 pm
A 'scope and a rainbow magazine on his assault rifle.
That guy is conflicted.
Ibby • Sep 26, 2020 12:33 pm
ain't a rainbow
tw • Sep 26, 2020 12:34 pm
Diaphone Jim;1058570 wrote:
That guy is conflicted.

Black lives matter more when one carries an assault rifle.

UG said so. It must be true.
BigV • Sep 26, 2020 1:29 pm
Ibby;1058571 wrote:
ain't a rainbow


not talking about the sticker, but the shape of the ammunition magazine, like a "rainbow"
xoxoxoBruce • Sep 27, 2020 12:19 am
Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out.
Griff • Sep 27, 2020 7:24 am
Kill 'em all, let [strike]God[/strike] Clod sort 'em out, seems more fair.
Clodfobble • Sep 27, 2020 9:28 am
Looks like it was just a bureaucratic typo that put me in charge, like in "Brazil." Guess I'll just have to accept my fate as a supreme deity. You can't fight City Hall.
sexobon • Sep 27, 2020 9:47 am
Get Santa Claus to help you. He's already done a lot of the legwork: making lists, checking them twice, keeping track of who's been naughty or nice.
xoxoxoBruce • Sep 27, 2020 10:11 am
sexobon;1058601 wrote:
Get Santa Claus to help you. He's already done a lot of the legwork: making lists, checking them twice, keeping track of who's been naughty or nice.
Can't wait for the part where you rise up on a giant clam shell. :yum:
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Urbane Guerrilla • Sep 30, 2020 11:04 pm
tw;1058572 wrote:
Black lives matter more when one carries an assault rifle.

UG said so. It must be true.


Rights matter more when you have an assault rifle. You can stop authoritarians with assault rifles -- in batches of twenty if your marksmanship is good. Batches of thirty if you have those magazines to hand, like the guy with the painted magazine in his AR. You have those rights you can enforce -- regardless of anything militated against them. Thus, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Which is civilization. Anything other -- isn't.

I say so -- but you carefully refuse to learn it. What a low character you amount to. I am thoughtful, you are less so. I commit to liberty and human rights. You in particular have never done that. That's what's wrong with you.
Urbane Guerrilla • Sep 30, 2020 11:09 pm
Griff;1058538 wrote:
I'm not really sure death threats are present here. It does illuminate the truth that some gun nuts are armed for intimidation not self-defense.

Brought you round to accuracy. I recollect having gotten on your case before. As is evident between your lines, you value your fear more than you value your liberty. I don't.

You must intimidate tyrants. Or they'll feel free to kill you. I think you'd find that awkward.
Griff • Oct 1, 2020 7:05 am
Griff;1058538 wrote:
I'm not really sure death threats are appropriate here. It does illuminate the truth that some gun nuts are armed for intimidation not self-defense.


Let's play a quick game of find the potential tyrant. I suspect you won't be there to help remove him if he pretends the election was invalid. Who is the potential tyrant in this picture?
Griff • Oct 1, 2020 4:54 pm
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fargon • Oct 1, 2020 5:19 pm
Griff;1058837 wrote:
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What Griff said.^^^
Urbane Guerrilla • Oct 6, 2020 12:05 am
If Griff said what it looks like Griff said...

NOT what Griff said.

Seriously, my child: YOU can call him anything you like. That doesn't MAKE him anything. Nor does it make ME believe anything. Not even if petulance is your latest hobby. You're afraid of the wrong people, you know.

How many genuine tyrants afford a Second Amendment? Think they could? And how does DJT view the Second?
tw • Oct 6, 2020 11:10 am
Urbane Guerrilla;1059121 wrote:
If Griff said what it looks like Griff said...
NOT what Griff said.
Who are you attacking this time?
BigV • Oct 6, 2020 11:01 pm
UG

dude, you crack me up.
Griff • Oct 7, 2020 7:42 am
tw;1059148 wrote:
Who are you attacking this time?


Jesus maybe?
tw • Oct 7, 2020 9:16 am
Griff;1059266 wrote:
Jesus maybe?

Who is the only person that Trump will not attack? Himself. Maybe.
Urbane Guerrilla • Oct 8, 2020 11:50 pm
I see V, tw, and Griff would rather make their root-canal appointments than look up what Trump's view of the Second Amendment is.

Any 2A activist you know will tell you that the electorate armed is something a tyrant cannot survive nor endure.

Griff's stance is particularly untenable -- and were he genuinely concerned the country was sliding into tyranny or something, Griff would be out getting at least three firearms: a rifle (an AR type in 5.56mm NATO chambering probably the easiest to feed regardless), a pistol suiting his tastes, and a .22 rimfire (anything) to practice with surely and cheaply. Centerfire ammo runs into bucks unless you'd like to get into reloading, which in a genuinely concerning national situation of the above sort might be a darn good option to have around.

But I do not observe a sign of genuine, true concern from him. What I see reading between his lines is an intense emotional state -- like fear. As I said, of the wrong people.
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 8, 2020 11:54 pm
Tell that to an Apache helicopter or A-10. :rolleyes:
Griff • Oct 9, 2020 7:44 am
Griff is well armed.

Trump supports the 2nd in hopes that Vanilla ISIS is Standing BY. We are beyond well-armed as a nation. We have enough guns and ammo to kill the shit out of each other while Putin enjoys the show. We'd be better off respecting the electoral process and learning how to interact with the government officials we elect instead of taking our guns to the State House every time we are asked to be humane.