Random Thoughts
I'm tired of the post whore thread, I'm not whorin'
so...
Shouldn't Cellar have the same first syllable as Cellist? Should Cellist be a synonym for Dwellar?
So....are we calling it the chell-er now?
I don't know Monster. Seems awful radical to me.
If we're gonna pronounce the c in the Italian way, I say we go Spanish with the two L's.
Chay-yer Dwayers
Then would we have to say 'chellery' and would we be able to eat chellery in the chellar?
I mean, you can't eat chellery quietly, and it might disturb those who are concentrating on when to pop up and say something relevant.
I can't eat chellery right now anyway. My multi-thousand dollar caps broke AGAIN, and my dentist died, and I look like a cross between Flossie Mae and Jaws from James Bond. Because I'm all lucky like that.
Oh ffs, seriously? My God that's some shitty timing.
Sorry about your teeth. The dental industry kind of sucks, but I guess it's better than no dental industry.
My first caps lasted 27 years!
Can I drag Dr S out of retirement? (Clarify: Dr S did my first caps when I turned 18 and was deemed grown-headed enough to have them fitted and my head wouldn't grow out of them. The dentist who did these replacements a couple-few (?) years ago died, suddenly. Can't really make him fix 'em.)
I guess I"ll go to Doctor Strip Mall and get it done cheap. Sorry parents, I know you wanted me to have a beautiful smile but GAWD has other plans. We really really really should have known this.
Then would we have to say 'chellery' and would we be able to eat chellery in the chellar?
Not necechellery...
...My multi-thousand dollar caps broke AGAIN, and my dentist died...
Damn, that's an omen, surely.
Sorry for calling you Shirley.
Among Romance languages, the word "cellar" is gender neutral in English, feminine as "cave" in French, and masculine as "sótano" in Spanish. Does the Cellar have a global gender identity issue and should we feel oppressed?
If person A buys prescription drugs from person B and no prescription is involved, neither are pharmacists.... who is breaking the law? A, B or both? In US and/or UK and/or other countries you kave knowledge of. (when a minor buys and drinks alcohol, the culpability differs between UK and US)
it depends on whether the drugs are controlled substances. if you're talking pain pills, then BOTH.
In the US, one can't legally dispense a prescription medication (for money or for free) unless authorized to do so. Buying a prescription medication from an unauthorized dispenser would be participating in a crime; therefore, a crime even if only for that reason (like the driver of a getaway car used in a bank robbery). Dispensing "controlled" medications without authorization just ups the crime to a felony.
it depends on whether the drugs are controlled substances. if you're talking pain pills, then BOTH.
She specified 'prescription drugs', prescription = controlled substance.
What I want to know is this: Is 'Person A' really a hunter, and is 'Person B' really a squirrel on a tree?
Does the hunter have a license and are squirrels in season or seasoning?
Not all prescriptions are controlled substances, although Person A isn't likely to find much of a market for Amoxil or Keflex.
If the hunter has a license, it isn't a crime, but it sounds like Person A doesn't have a license. Big trouble. The squirrel, on the other hand, is in trouble if caught with the acorn. Consuming the acorn isn't illegal, but possessing it is.
If you're caught buying viagara, the cops can make it pretty hard for you. Used to be a short sentence, but it's getting longer. The law is quite firm about this.
If you're caught buying viagara, the cops can make it pretty hard for you. Used to be a short sentence, but it's getting longer. The law is quite firm about this.
OMG, the same thing can happen if you try to buy vergara!
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I think Football is what's holding America back from going metric Games take forever in yards, it'd be almost 10% longer in meters. And the 45.72 Meter Line doesn't have the same ring to it.
Baseball is a silly game. A pitcher throws a ball towards a batter. Does the pitcher want the batter to hit the ball? No! So why does he throw it in the first place?
Not all prescriptions are controlled substances, although Person A isn't likely to find much of a market for Amoxil or Keflex.
There is also the civil crime of insurance fraud, if you sell a prescription that your insurance bought for you.
I may or may not have been on the buying end of a similar type of transaction before. As the substance being hypothetically purchased could also be purchased without a prescription--just at exorbitant rates--I may have decided that I had no legal culpability as long as I didn't ask too many questions, and kept my nose out of any ethical quarrels between the seller and their insurance company.
Not to mention that you hypothetically probably didn't pay sales tax. :eyebrow:
It was hypothetically classified as a food item, no tax levied. Also, it was hypothetically purchased across state lines, so again no sales tax.
The Ranger assigned to your case has confirmed this; but, some day you'll slip up and they'll be there.
Not all prescriptions are controlled substances...
Why are they prescribed then, instead of being available otc?
Why do I have to pay a middle man a hundred damn dollars to write me a prescription for 'not a controlled substance'.
If you drive down the road with ANY prescription pills not in their proper container, [and get stopped by the popo] you will go to jail.
If I can't walk into Wally World and buy it without a prescription, that is a controlled substance. In circumstance, if not on an official list.
A prescription drug may not be a narcotic, or a recreational drug, but I still think that it would be a controlled substance.
Then again, I'm not a doctor. Or a cop.
Why are they prescribed then, instead of being available otc?
Why do I have to pay a middle man a hundred damn dollars to write me a prescription for 'not a controlled substance'.
Because government and industry collude to take advantage of you.
... or because you haven't yet signed up for Obamacare. :rolleyes:
While viewing the Main index, alongside
Current Events it read:
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and I thought ...
I didn't know she was visiting.Why are they prescribed then, instead of being available otc?
A prescription drug may not be a narcotic, or a recreational drug, but I still think that it would be a controlled substance.
I was referring to the DEA classification of controlled drugs, Schedules 1 through 5. Other prescription drugs are restricted in that they need a prescription, but aren't tracked in the same way.
If you drive down the road with ANY prescription pills not in their proper container, [and get stopped by the popo] you will go to jail.
Is it that you just go to jail long enough for them to figure out what the unlabeled pills really are, or are you saying it is illegal to drive with an otherwise perfectly legal prescription outside of its orange bottle?
I was crossing into Canada when the man asked if we had drugs. My wife whips out an unlabeled pill bottle with a few of each of her prescriptions in it.
That held us up for a while. :haha:
Dalai Lama
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we’ll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvelous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.
And fluffy cows, surely the Dalai Lama wouldn't forget fluffy cows.
I mean look at it, just look at it, you know your life will be incomplete without one. :D
I am friends with Matt Lautner and we breed fluffy cows, actually that's a bull called Texas Tornado ;)
I ran across that picture the other day, and went to Google for fluffy cows. The images are great but couldn't find much info. I have visions of getting ready for showmanship class and finding a matted fluffy cow. :haha:
I was crossing into Canada when the man asked if we had drugs. My wife whips out an unlabeled pill bottle with a few of each of her prescriptions in it.
That held us up for a while. :haha:
:facepalm:
Canadian customs officers are FAR more hostile than American ones.
We used to get asked if we had any copies on The Sun on the CanAm border.
Is it that you just go to jail long enough for them to figure out what the unlabeled pills really are, or are you saying it is illegal to drive with an otherwise perfectly legal prescription outside of its orange bottle?
Here, in KY, if you have a legal scrip, even for penicillin, and the pills are not in the prescription bottle that is marked with all the prescriptiony info on the label, and the police find out (doesn't matter if you're driving, riding a bicycle, or walking), you'll be charged with "prescription drug not in proper container".
Scenario: You're driving and run a stop sign, Barney Fife pulls you over. Barney goes through all the bullshit, and while you're pulling your ID/wallet outta your purse a Xanax tablet (for which you have a legal prescription) falls out and bounces across the hood. You're going to enjoy the hospitality of the county jail. Not just until they find out if you have a legal scrip, but, until you make bail. And go to court, and be sentenced, and do time for having a prescription drug not in it's proper container.
Now, if you're digging out your ID, and a
prescription bottle of Xanax falls out and bounces across the hood, as long as it's a legit scrip, you're golden. (Unless, in the case of Xanax, or some such, you admit to driving under it's influence.)
If you have a loose pill,
and a legit scrip, bottle and all,, sometimes the cop will let you slide.
If the bottle is at home, you're in trouble.
ETA: One of these won't help, either.
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(Well, maybe with a verrrrry understanding popo. But, I doubt it.)
I am friends with Matt Lautner and we breed fluffy cows, actually that's a bull called Texas Tornado ;)
Is
that what Tracy Lawrence is
singing about?
:p:
:facepalm:
Canadian customs officers are FAR more hostile than American ones.
That's an interesting observation. I've found the Canadians to be pretty hospitable and polite, whereas the Americans to be 50% rude pricks. I wonder if it's a mindset, on both sides, to be nice to guests but keep the natives in line?
Could be, although I'm sort of a native of both countries. Canadians despise those of us who take dual citizenship, though, so that brings crud down on our heads with anyone who knows. The woman/guy in the booth is never impressed when I hand over a US passport that says I was born in Canada.
Could be, although I'm sort of a native of both countries. Canadians despise those of us who take dual citizenship, though, so that brings crud down on our heads with anyone who knows. The woman/guy in the booth is never impressed when I hand over a US passport that says I was born in Canada.
like Ted Cruz
I am friends with Matt Lautner and we breed fluffy cows, actually that's a bull called Texas Tornado ;)
Matt Lautner can suck it.
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I know. It just reminded me of Matt Lauer.
I fell asleep earlier. Was only 5 minutes but felt like a long time. But I was awakened. Now I can't sleep. Lying here with blanket kicked aside and feeling cold. I still don't want put the blanket back nor am I closing my eyes to fall asleep. I'm getting cold....colder. Maybe I shouldn't have pushed the thermostat down. I can feel the cold air hovering over me.
Lola Bunny that has the makings of a 'polar vortex' special edition update to Wordsworth's 'I wandered lonely as a cloud'. :)
I still don't want put the blanket back nor am I closing my eyes to fall asleep. I'm getting cold....colder.
Sounds like a Disney movie... where is that damn prince anyway? ;)
How is it like a Disney movie? :-P And the prince hasn't made up his mind yet. Can't totally blame him. I haven't made up my mind either.
Lying seemingly helpless in bed, getting progressively more uncomfortable, but unable to act for some unknown reason. Waiting for something, waiting for the plot to reveal itself... or the prince?
Or the little match girl.
Or the little match girl.
That's rather sad. I hope I don't end up like that.
Lying seemingly helpless in bed, getting progressively more uncomfortable, but unable to act for some unknown reason. Waiting for something, waiting for the plot to reveal itself... or the prince?
Perhaps more like waiting for the plot to reveal itself. I am but a character in a story that I am not writing for myself. Momentarily, I was lying there feeling confused, helpless, and lost.
Maybe you should seize the pen and write your own story.
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Momentarily, I was lying there feeling confused, helpless, and lost.
Maybe you should seize the pen and write your own story.
Whenever Twil's lost, helpless and confused in bed, I always advise her to seize the pen. The story's never the same, but it almost *always* comes to a happy ending.
Recommended, five stars.
If only there's a pen lying nearby....
Nopes, no stylus either. I use my finger. :-)
From the published recollections of a Peninsula war veteran:
‘ A grenadier of the 88th regiment (I think it was) had come over from his own division, to endeavour to prevail upon his wife, who had deserted him and taken up with a sergeant of our first battalion, to return with him, she having, as I understand, left him with one or more children, the first of their marriage, which he was anxious she should come and take care of.
They had often, I fancy, quarrelled, and he had probably used her ill, but he was now desirous of a reconciliation, and entreated her to return with him to his regiment. He prevailed upon her to accompany him to some distance from the bivouack, that they might the more freely discuss the subject, for she had hitherto refused to agree to his request, being probably better provided for by the sergeant than she had been with him.
While walking in a field close to the wood in which the bivouack was situated, and arguing the point with some heat, and she still persisting in remaining where she was, he became so exasperated at her continued refusal, that he, in a rage of jealousy and anger, drew his bayonet and plunged it in her bosom.
Her cries soon brought people to the spot, who at once secured him, and he was instantly committed to the provost prison tent, and her body of course brought in and buried. Poor creature! she was one of the gayest of the females which graced our rural balls near Ituera only a short while previous, and had often danced with old General Vandaleur on those occasions.
I believe he was not brought to trial for it, as her ill conduct probably had been considered as in some measure palliating what he did, and that he might be supposed to have been irritated to a degree of madness when he perpetrated the fatal act.’
You'd think my first reaction, on reading that, would be some sense of human compassion or outrage. But my actual first reaction was to punch the air and say 'yes! that's brilliant'.
Historical research can warp the mind.
What part was brilliant? his writing, the final analysis and conclusion, or the stabbing?
Or something else entirely?
Oh, and what about that paper on hot soldier on soldier violence?
It ties into a couple of points I'm making in the violence chapter.
Mainly, it makes for a very nice and accessible little demonstration of the dangers of justice records to indicate actual levels of violence (that this incident apparently did not lead to a prosecution). Now, that's not a revolutionary point, it's been made before, but it's nice to find something within my specific evidence base that points up that idea in relation to my particular subject group. In that sense it's a bit of a rare find: always harder to identify crimes that may be absent from a record set.
But it's also useful in showing one of the ways in which service might shape the experience of violence within the military communities: he used the weapon he was issued and trained to use as a soldier.
It's a fairly minor piece of evidence. But I was very pleased to find it.
Some random thoughts I have been having about book ideas that I want to write sometime in the near future.
Books for Children:
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[*]Fun Facts About Crack
[*]Why You Should Kick Daddy Repeatedly Between The Legs
[*]Outlets: And What To Put In Them
[*]The Sharper The Better
[*]The Monster Under Your Bed Is Only The Manifestation Of Mommy And Daddy's Wrong Doings Coming Back To Punish You For Their Mistakes
[*]The Monster In The Closet Is A Idea Placed In Your Head By Daddy So He'll Have The Opportunity To Be The Hero By Making The Monster Go Away With The Magic Words "Boogie Boogie Motherfucker!"
[*]Daddy Steals Your Food When He Is Alone With Mommy While You're Sleeping
[*]If You Don't Succeed In Life There Is Always Suicide
[*]Why You Still Get Cookies From The Babysitter Even Though They Hate You
[*]Candy From Strangers: Go For It
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General Book Ideas
[LIST]
[*]Thumbs Down To The Brown: A Practical Guide To Anus Bleaching
[*]The Extensive History Of The Poptart: A American Delicacy
[*]Why Masturbation Makes You Go Blind (Available Only In Braille)
[*]"No, Not Like That Stupid!": A Beginners Manual To Serial Killing For The Mentally Defective
[*]Dragon Ball-Z Shirts: Why You Deserve To Be Murdered In A Grocery Store If You Wear One Past The Age Of Twelve
[*]A Book With One Page: But It Has A Really Great Synopsis!
[*]Vagina and The Gas Mask: A Romance Novel
[*]Purple, Hard and Stiff: A Biography Of Rigamortis (pervert)
[*]Open Up And Say "AH": Why You Should Never Let A Dentist Named "Richard" Administer Nitrous Oxide
[*]The Birds Went North and All The Bees Are Killers: The Reason Teenage Boys Watch Porn and Grow Up To Be The Men Who Love It
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That's all I have for right now.
.P404.
General Book Ideas
[LIST]
[*]Thumbs Down To The Brown: A Practical Guide To Anus Bleaching
[*]The Extensive History Of The Poptart: A American Delicacy
[*]Why Masturbation Makes You Go Blind (Available Only In Braille)
[*]"No, Not Like That Stupid!": A Beginners Manual To Serial Killing For The Mentally Defective
[*]Dragon Ball-Z Shirts: Why You Deserve To Be Murdered In A Grocery Store If You Wear One Past The Age Of Twelve
[*]A Book With One Page: But It Has A Really Great Synopsis!
[*]Vagina and The Gas Mask: A Romance Novel
[*]Purple, Hard and Stiff: A Biography Of Rigamortis (pervert)
[*]Open Up And Say "AH": Why You Should Never Let A Dentist Named "Richard" Administer Nitrous Oxide
[*]The Birds Went North and All The Bees Are Killers: The Reason Teenage Boys Watch Porn and Grow Up To Be The Men Who Love It
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That's all I have for right now.
.P404.
Random question. These days, why do books (not just yours) always seem to have subtitles?
You'll fit right in here at the cellar, Prince O' 404
.P404.
Prince O' 404
I was wondering what the abbreviation would end up being. There was no way I'd be typing that name out in full more than once. :)
I seriously doubt the fresh Prince will be hanging around long enough for anyone to have to type out his name that many times.
Go on, Prince. Prove me wrong. We're not your test audience; we're real people who are each pretty damn interesting, probably much like yourself, if you choose to be real.
Random question. These days, why do books (not just yours) always seem to have subtitles?
Because some of us are hard of understanding?
Re: Prince of the 404, aka p404
I was wondering what the abbreviation would end up being. There was no way I'd be typing that name out in full more than once. :)
p404 sounds like a handgun - "...James Bond reached into his immaculate dinner jacket and from the grain leather shoulder holster drew his Walther P404..."
alternatively it could pass as some pretty useful large bore ammo eg. "...belt-fed p404 centrefire full metal jacket shells..."
Pee for Ophir?
is that someone being paged, or an instruction, or are you placing an order?:p:
I knew a guy in college named Ophir. That wasn't what he went by though.
I thought maybe that's what p404 said, phonetically like or something. ;)
I knew a guy in college named Ophir. That wasn't what he went by though....
what? you mean if he didn't go by Ophir he went by car or by bus or something? ;)
Do you think I'd get sick from eating fuzzed-ridden corn? I was sooo hungry and half a sandwich just didn't do it for me. I raided the fridge and found some corn. It tasted a little funky, so I looked at it closer. Hmmm....some white fuzz. My mom would kill me if I throw away food, especially good food since she won't be able to see the fuzz without her glasses and she refuses to wear her glasses unless she's reading. I washed it real good and ate it. But hey, it killed my appetite and I stopped eating. :-D
Eating healthy sucks....a total BLAH!!!! I'd rather have some pancakes, eggs, and bacon. Instead, here I am with a bowl of oatmeal. :greenface
Heh... Everyone's definition of "healthy" is so different... In my house, eating eggs and sugar-free bacon would be considered far healthier than a bowl of oatmeal. You're right to get rid of the pancakes, but you're just subbing in a slightly more complex carb with the oatmeal. Not nearly as important as getting protein, first thing in the morning.
Heh... Everyone's definition of "healthy" is so different... ..... Not nearly as important as getting protein, first thing in the morning.
That is true, hehe. And I do know about protein in the morning. However, I needed a quick breakfast, so I can get to work. And I need to lower my cholesterol. Does eating oatmeal everyday help? I hope so. I'm trying to eat it once a day in hope to bring down the number. :neutral: Anyways, Clod, how do you make oatmeal at your house? I made mine with milk, a dash of cinnamon, a drizzle of honey, and some dried prune bits. Not exactly low in calorie, but I don't think it's unhealthy either.
We don't do oatmeal at all. For one, it's a grain, but even before we were grain-free, it's almost impossible to get oats that are not contaminated with gluten, so we didn't do them when we were just gluten-free either. And before THAT... well, I don't actually like oatmeal, so I never ate it. :)
Studies have shown that eating oatmeal every day can help lower cholesterol, but I personally think that's only because the people eating it were replacing the even worse carbs that they normally ate for breakfast. I think a person who normally ate eggs and fruit for breakfast would not see any improvement in their cholesterol by switching to oatmeal.
I did a bowl of oatmeal once. But, I didn't wait for it to cool down enough, and so I blistered my junk.
It felt real good for a minute, though.
:p:
I wonder how much of America's "golden age" (the 1950s) was do to the reduction in world population from WWII. There would be less competition for scarce resources, and more competition for labor.
I did a bowl of oatmeal once. But, I didn't wait for it to cool down enough, and so I blistered my junk.
It felt real good for a minute, though.
:p:
I had to read this a few times to understand how eating a bowl of really hot oatmeal blistered your junk. :p:
We don't do oatmeal at all. For one, it's a grain, but even before we were grain-free, it's almost impossible to get oats that are not contaminated with gluten, so we didn't do them when we were just gluten-free either. And before THAT... well, I don't actually like oatmeal, so I never ate it. :)
Studies have shown that eating oatmeal every day can help lower cholesterol, but I personally think that's only because the people eating it were replacing the even worse carbs that they normally ate for breakfast. I think a person who normally ate eggs and fruit for breakfast would not see any improvement in their cholesterol by switching to oatmeal.
That's right, I forgot your household is gluten-free. I had temporary memory loss there because every time I go to HEB, I would pass this long section on the back wall of gluten-free products and think of you. :D
Check out pcrm.org for some good information on whole grains. Oatmeal is a good thing, at least the truly whole-grain type - not the 'instant' packets, the type that takes some cooking.
The best, most reliable way to bring your cholesterol, and every other parameter, down into the healthy range, is to eat a whole-foods plant-based diet. The studies are consistent. And protein is present in every single food (whole food, that is) we eat. Meat isn't 'pure protein'; it's perhaps 17% at most. Mammals don't do well on high protein diets; see T. Colin Campbell's work, and see the more recent research on animal vs plant protein in Levine ME et al, Cell Metabolism 2014; 19(3):407-417. Even the higher protein recommended for those over 65 was not animal protein; just a slightly higher protein intake.
We've been brainwashed so long by Big Food/Ag that we NEED tons of animal protein that we've stopped challenging the ads. Got milk? You don't need it. Got meat? You don't need it, either.
Feeling insecure sucks. It truly sucks. That's what on my mind at the moment. Okay, bye.
How come I only see karma happening to me and not on other bad people?? :the pain: Okay, maybe some get it too but I don't see it. Anyways....:thepain:
I have a giant, painful lump at the base of my hand between the outside edge of my palm, and the heel of my thumb.
Is that random enough?
I thought ganglions were usually painless? Have you seen the doc grav?
I thought ganglions were usually painless? Have you seen the doc grav?
Unless you bang it on something. I have one on my right thumb. Right at the crease of the first knuckle. It's finally receding after about 2 months. Almost gone now.
Hmmm...a friend of mine in hs had one on her shin and she used to squish it all around and say how it didn't hurt. That's my only experience with them though, so there you go.
I had what one Dr. called a ganglion cyst, but the VA operated on my wrist and put me out of commission for about 6 weeks. One Dr. tried to push it back in and it hurt like hell. OUCH!!!
This thread is too medical ... my random groove has been thrown off.
This thread is too medical ... my random groove has been thrown off.
Happy Canada Day. :thumb: :f32: :thumb:
Better?
Have you seen the doc grav?
Why hell no! Doctors cost money, woman!
Two reasons I haven't went to the doc yet:
1) My regular doc is currently being investigated in some kind of Medicare fraud case. He was served some search warrants for his offices, and the gym next door, which is in the building he owns. I'm not sure why they searched the gym, maybe he owns that, too.
2) I'm a cheap bastard.
If the hand falls off, I'll get it checked out.
Really, I was just bitching at random. It doesn't bother me unless I mess with it. Or bump it. Or touch it.
It's not affecting (?) my, uh -ahem-
schedule, or anything.
Also, I thought those ganglion thingies were mostly on the back of the hand.
I've heard those "Here, lay your hand flat on this desk.", WHAM!-type stories before. If I think that's what it is, I'll just pound it myself.
I can hear ya already..."Do you have experience pounding it yourself?"
Uh, yes, yes I do.
Had one of those on my left hand for years, sometimes painful but mostly just there. Even had surgery set up, but when I read there's 50% chance it'll come back, I cancelled. When I retired I quit wearing a watch and it went away within a month.
The watch had a Speidel twist-o-flex band which was tight enough the watch wouldn't move around and get caught on something while working, but it wasn't constrictive. It most certainly could be a coincidence, just retiring may have done it. ;)
I think the one on my thumb came from gripping my throttle.
On my motorcycle.
I think the one on my thumb came from gripping my throttle.
On my motorcycle.
Uh huh.
I've been saying "fuck" a lot again recently...I think it started when I came back over here. See what you fuckers inspire?!
The Muppets should cover this. OK so the link is obvious, especially with Miss Piggy and the backing singers, but Animal would be amazing in the video :D
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Oh, God! Kill it! Kill it with fire!!!!
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And when you get out of work run to your car, fire it up, slam it into reverse, and floor it. :facepalm:
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I don't get it? :confused:
Yeah. The picture doesn't match the words. But you can get the idea from the words. Just let the sun bake the bottom of the steering wheel by turning the steering wheel upside down when you park.
That's cute for people who live in places where it is only the sunlit portion of the steering wheel that gets hot, and not the entire interior of the car that turns into a 500 degree oven. Cloth seats hot enough to burn your legs, no joke.
Oh, the top of the steering wheel. That makes more sense.
That's cute for people who live in places where it is only the sunlit portion of the steering wheel that gets hot, and not the entire interior of the car that turns into a 500 degree oven. Cloth seats hot enough to burn your legs, no joke.
But, but, but the top of the steering wheel will only be 425°.
:right:
Yeah, and if you dressed modestly the car wouldn't burn your butt. :haha:
I once had a random thought.
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No, no I didn't. I just said that because I wanted to be part of the "in" crowd.
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I'm so ashamed.
If Russia attacked Italy from behind, would Greece help?
If Russia attacked Italy from behind, would Greece help?
Just understood what Greece got to do with Russia. lol.....
If Russia attacked Italy from behind, would Greece help?
Greece or Kentucky
Not so good on toast, though.
I think Grav is bored this thanksgiving. He's thankful to have so many threads he can post on in the Cellar ;)
My name is Gravdigr, and I'm a post whore. Read me, and suffer.
When I was in hospital last week I passed the time trying to remember the Gamesmen of Barish . Failed miserably. Didn't even get the number right. Got Dealpas though - Broken Leaf. Think there may be a reason for that .
Anyway, those who love me will be pleased to hear I'm eating again.
Had a garlic naan last night.
However those who want to kiss me (shurely all of you?) will be sorry to hear I'm I had a garlic naan last night.
I think Grav is bored this thanksgiving. He's thankful to have so many threads he can post on in the Cellar ;)
Giving everyone something to be thankful for. :haha:
It would be wrong and judgmental to send condoms, wouldn't it?
https://annarbor.craigslist.org/zip/4798323781.htmlposting removed. too bad.
I thought I had posted the text separately in case that happened. Oh well. someone wanted help with Christmas presents for their family. they have a 14yo girl. and a1yo girl. And their boys are aged 8,6,5,4,3 and 2. or something like that
Here's a random thought. How do you know when you've analysed a situation to the right stage? Obviously I've been doing a fair amount of navel gazing recently, trying to understand motivations and what not, but how do you know when you get to the truth, and when you're just telling yourself shit so you might stop thinking about it?
You don't, you never can be absolutely sure of anything. You make your best guess with the information you've got, and go with it. Don't make yourself nuts by rehashing your analysis over and over with the same information, trying to convince yourself you must be right.
Only rethink it when new information comes your way. Remember new information doesn't automatically change how you feel. And sometimes even when it changes your mind, it's better to keep on, keeping on, rather than make a disaster trying to change course.
Sorry to not be more reassuring, but that's a lesson I learned the hard way... several times. :o
Oh well, I am just taking one day at a time for now.
I thought I had posted the text separately in case that happened. Oh well. someone wanted help with Christmas presents for their family. they have a 14yo girl. and a1yo girl. And their boys are aged 8,6,5,4,3 and 2. or something like that
Maybe some condoms, for the parents?
That's what she said. (I don't mean that in the jokey way...monster mentioned the condoms before referring to the post, because her link to the situation had been deleted.)
Similar thing happened to me at my old old job. We 'adopted' a family at Christmas each year and one girl said her friend was really needy. "They have five kids and one on the way!" There was no mention of a sudden unemployment or the like. I leaned over to another woman in this meeting and mumbled "so, how about we get them a box of condoms?"
I mean, they know their financial situation but just keep popping them out? I would rather give to a family who recently lost income they depended on or who had unexpected medical bills or something like that, not one more Catholic family who feels the need to just keep on having kids no matter what. And yes, that WAS the situation.
That's what she said. ...
:blush:
You don't, you never can be absolutely sure of anything. You make your best guess with the information you've got, and go with it. Don't make yourself nuts by rehashing your analysis over and over with the same information, trying to convince yourself you must be right.
Only rethink it when new information comes your way. Remember new information doesn't automatically change how you feel. And sometimes even when it changes your mind, it's better to keep on, keeping on, rather than make a disaster trying to change course.
Sorry to not be more reassuring, but that's a lesson I learned the hard way... several times. :o
QFT.
For whatever reason, I can never remember that QFT means "quoted for truth." I always read it as "quit fucking trying," and then I have a good ten-second spasm in my head at the unexpected rudeness before I finally remember.
I always misread it as 'quite fucking true'.
I never knew what it meant, so I skipped those posts.
The "word" jelly as an abbreviation for jealous (when really they mean envious most of the time anyway) just needs to die in a nasty green slimy nukular asplosion.
that is all.
for now.
I looked it up cuz I had not a clue.
We fat kids still salivate at jelly, and won't accept dilution by tangential nerd speak. :boxers:
I looked it up cuz I had not a clue.
yeah I looked it up too because I wasn't sure why it wasn't right, I just knew it wasn't
Oh Jesus fucking christ, I am so sick of this bastard thesis. I can't believe how much work I have done. I can't believe how much is still to do.
It's just all too much. I've turned into a hermit - I don't talk to anybody (except Ma). I don't answer the phone in case it's debt collectors - I can't spare the time or mental energy to sort out payment plans or anything. (I haven't done a telesales shift for two and half weeks - so payday at the start of Jan will be about £40 lol ) none of that matters. All that matters is the thesis. I don't go anywhere, except walking the dog. I go to sleep with the thesis in my head, I get up with it still there.
I make myself spend at least an hour in the evening just watching tv, and I usually read for half an hour before I sleep. That and the bits of time I spend posting here is the only time I am not thinking about the thesis.
I want to cry when I think about how much work there still is to do over the next 2 weeks (xmas day excepted). And I want to shout at how close I am to the end.
It currently stands at a little over 65k words and 149 pages. I've probably got another 10k words to add to bring it all together - and a fuckton of reference checking and formatting.
I think some people should just kill some people. Please. For the sake of sanity. Waaa waaa waaa waaa
Not you, Dana. You'll figure it out! I just had to say this somewhere. I have faith in YOU! :)
Yah GO D GO
you can DO IT!
Break it into bite-sized chunks, daily allowances. Can you mix up the last bits of writing abd reviewing earlier sections? Excellent that you've planned in some R&R daily: don't lose that. Or Christmas day. You can do this. X
Grind it out girl! Do you know how many of us don't have the balls to even start the process you are closing in on completing? Do it!
I'm a sucker for a gravelly voice.
RIP Joe Cocker
Thanks guys. I am feeling a little less like tearing out my hair today :P
Edible glitter fruitcake.
American Underwear lasts for about 5 minutes before the elastic is fucked.
British Underwear lasts forever. For-fucking-ever. So long, apparently, that letting it go would be like assisted suicide for a healthy family member.
I may or may not know a highschooler-to-be squeezing his butt into tighty-whitey style knickers I was horrified to see were (allegedly) for kindergarten-age (I know these are ones that were way to big for the age they said so completely bypassed the first boy and ended up on the second when he was somewhat older than that.... but still..... they must be eligible for pension by now)
Action has been taken. Certain items will not be returning from the laundry. New short-lived-that-wont-get-his-ass-kicked-in-the-locker-room items have been purchased and approved. He thinks they'll be great for when he needs them. that need will occur sooner than he thinks.....
that is all.
Wait, no it isn't. I'm real pissed/somewhat miffed that the 3-month-old underwear is in worse shape than the 12-year-old-possibly-worn-for-4-years (:eek:) stuff
... New short-lived-that-wont-get-his-ass-kicked-in-the-locker-room items have been purchased and approved. ...
Get him
ready for those locker room antics:
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They make American men's underwear flimsy, because American Women so love to rip and tear them off us.
They make American men's underwear flimsy, because American Women so love to rip and tear them off us.
Man, I love when that happens.
And it needs to happen
soon.
Uh, those 'blast protective undergarments'...
...does that mean protective from an internal blast, or, external blast?
It means if you're going out to party, and want to have a blast, don't wear these. :haha:
I really thought Shel might have something to say about those.
Blast proof... Shel shocked... OK, I see the connection.
In this country with a zillion flavor choices for everything, why are there so few chip/crisp flavors? Even Salt and Vinegar is pretty daring.
I miss Worcester Sauce crisps sometimes.
https://www.walkers.co.uk/crisps-range/walkers-crisps
Who needs unsweetened vanilla-hazelnut almond milk creamer anyway?
Monster, try looking at Big Lots stores (there's one in your town, and one closer to Ypsilanti). They buy store leftovers/overstock, and sell it cheap.
There is usually a pretty good selection of odd/different potato chip flavors. Quality/freshness is a crap shoot though, to be honest.
Weird potato-chip flavors are un-American.
Nowt wrong with Hedgehog flavour crisps.
Grav, thanks, I am familiar with Big Lots. I once got cheap Weetabix there but generally the food section in this one is pretty crap. I can have MIL bring what I miss, it just struck me as odd when there are so many flavors of every other product including a plethora that shouldn't come in any flavor other than "original"....
Nowt wrong with Hedgehog flavour crisps.
I was telling my kids about those. Do they still sell them?
Don't think so :P Don't think they made it out of the 80s.
well that was about when I stopped buying crisps anywhere but pubs.... ;)
What made me think of it is that Lays (~=Walkers) have a "suggest a flavor" competition every now and then, currently on the back of the packets. But they only have four regular flavors :/
My Person of Interest addiction has gone full blown - I watched 4 episodes last night. They're just too easy to binge on at 43 mins an ep.
halfway through season 2.
I kinda like "Person of Interest". I call it 'The Man In The Suit'.
I'm completely addicted. I love the team - especially the two leads. I mayhave fallen just a leetle bit in love with Finch.
It has a good vibe. Kind of old fashioned in some ways - reminds me a bit of Quantum Leap. But with the addition of ongoing story arcs and deep political cynicism.
I like how it deals with one of society's current top fears: gov't surveillance.
Yeah. The one that always gets me is when someone hacks a car - the idea that someone could take remote control of your vehicle is terrifying.
I like the mix of drama and humour. I always like shows that have a team dynamic - like Stargate, or Spooks. The buddy feel to it really works.
That scares the living shit rite out of me.
Regulators, Elon Musk, manufacturers, Google, pundits, fuck 'em all.
The elephant in the room... tah dah... insurance companies(along with their congressional toadies)... large and in charge. :yesnod:
That scares the living shit rite out of me.
Meh...It just adds one more name to the lawsuit.
:D
Driverless cars don't freak me out too much, what get's my interest is that this is just a software update. The car was already built with the relays and servos and crap to turn the steering wheel and engage the brakes. Has steering been done by wire on many cars for a while now, and I just haven't been paying attention because I drive an old car?
Actually that doesn't matter. I'm getting away from my point, which is that this was just a remote software update. If the manufacturer can do a remote software update that takes control of driving the car away from the owner in a car that is currently on the road, then can't hackers also do remote software updates that take control of the car? The manufacturer is using the power for good, but hackers can use the power for anything they want. And this isn't a hypothetical car of the future. It's on the road right now.
I ain't skeert. :unsure:
From Tesla:
Software updates
Model S Manual
Model S Quick Start Guide
Model S regularly receives over-the-air software updates that add new features and functionality. When an update is available, you’ll be notified on the center display with an option to install immediately, or schedule the installation for a later time. The average software update takes 45 minutes to complete. Connect your Model S to your home’s Wi-Fi network for the fastest possible download time.
The current Model S software version is 6.1 and includes traffic-aware cruise control, camera-enabled automatic high/low beam headlights, forward collision warning, smart cabin preconditioning, energy prediction for trips, and an enhanced park assist view with reverse camera guides. Download the release notes for details.
What scares me is the trouble that computers and the internet have is security. All it would take is 5 or 6 cars running on the freeway at speed in heavy traffic to lock up the brakes immediate pile up.
It looks like you're trying to slow down.
Would you like help?
*Get help with brake function
*Just try braking without help
What should worry you is people using cars. The pileup only happens with cars driven by humans. Computers notice the stoppage and stop in time.
Computers notice the stoppage and stop in time.
Almost always true.It is the almost that gets me.
This is my biggest fear regarding computer-driven cars:
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In this situation 'unsaved information' means 'your ass'.
The blue windscreen of death
You just cracked me up twice in a row, Dr. Dana.
Driverless cars don't freak me out too much, what get's my interest is that this is just a software update.
That's only Telsa's cars, and not without the owners awareness/permission.
You just cracked me up twice in a row, Dr. Dana.
:)
Then my work here is done
But not my work
here...
I have *glances at clock* 75 minutes left of my 5 hour telesales shift.
It's been a boring shift - loooooong waits on the dialler between calls - and a very high number of hang-ups/call refusals. Very frustrating when you've been sat there for 10 mins waiting for a call and when it clicks and you start to speak you hear the hang-up tone. Wait another 10 mins - but with a quick call (30 second wait) just often enough to know that you have to remain ready to speak at any moment.
Is that an identicial post to last time?
Somebody sure wants us to watch the stupid program M_GIC M_KE XXL...
It's OK because eventually Google punishes them for bad links when it changes the algorithms.
Not that cellar.org is considered a source of bad links, but they put their links up widely;
And then Google finds the links on sites that are known link farms; and changes its algorithm to give negative scores for those links;
And then the site linked to is heavily punished in search rankings, and their traffic suddenly just *boom* goes away, along with all revenue for their business;
And then I get a message from Contact Us saying please, as a favor to us, that link is bad, it's hurting us, remove that link;
And then I get a second message a week later saying this is a followup, I notice you haven't taken the link down, please as a favor remove that link;
And then I send them a notice saying that the volume of requests for link removal is high, but if they pay my invoice for $5 for the work involved, I will take the link down.
So far it has not paid off once, but the joy I get in sending those invoices is so great that it makes up for everything.
So, i've caught myself up with Person of Interest - in about a fortnight. Now I've run out of Person of Interest to watch until they air a new episode.
It's left me with a teensy bit of an obsession with several of the actors. So now I have to start checking out other stuff done by Michael Emmerson, Jim Caviesawhatever and Amy Acker.
What's the big one for Emerson? Fucking Lost - I dropped off Lost by the end of the first season - now I feel compelled to watch the damn show. And being the completist that i am, I'm not capable of just launching in at the point Emmerson enters the show - no, I need to watch the whole damn thing. And since I've forgotten most of season one, that means starting at the beginning.
Just finished ep 1, and y'know, I'd forgotten just how unbelievably awesome the first few eps were.
...
What's the big one for Emerson? Fucking Lost
- I dropped off Lost by the end of the first season -
now I feel compelled to watch the damn show.
And being the completist that i am, I'm not capable of just launching in
at the point Emmerson enters the show - no, I need to watch the whole damn thing.
And since I've forgotten most of season one, that means starting at the beginning
...
I have no idea how it happened, but this quote just popped up in my Private Messages.
It's from Carrot.
I have no idea how he was able to send it or why it came to me.
Maybe he sent PM's to all Dwellars. It goes on:
please please please help dana before it is too late
she has gotten herself into something she cannot control
she has to be stopped it will take over her free will
i fear that ultimately she will be disappointed and devastated
she is still great about taking me for my walks and my meals and all
but her developing obsession to watch each and every episode of lost will end badly
even the canine world knows that series was terrible
someone must shake dana out of this state
she's a wonderful woman who deserves a better life
i am desperate
please help us
carrot
I thought he was looking more than usually shifty.
but her developing obsession to watch each and every episode of lost will end badly
And he speaks the truth...
The pendulum swings after political wins, but often too far.
Ricardo Lara, the California state senator who put forward the resolution
to memorialize the astronaut, said, “Sally Ride will be the first woman to represent California
and the first person to represent the L.G.B.T. community in the Capitol.”
Mr. Lara, a Catholic who is openly gay, added, “It’s about modernizing our heroes.”
“Symbols are important, especially for those of us who have traditionally not
seen ourselves in figures of influence or power,” Mr. Lara said.
So who was Sally Ride ?
... An astronaut !
What does Mr Lara want to do ?
... He wants to replace a statue in the National Statuary Hall with one of Sally Ride.
Whose statue does he want to replace ?
...He wants to replace the statue of Rev.
Junipero Serra,
the 18th-century Catholic priest who established California missions
and is about to be canonized by Pope Francis.
For Jebus H Christ ... get some perspective !
Driverless cars don't freak me out too much, what get's my interest is that this is just a software update.
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I ain't skeert. :unsure:
It's all relative. We've heard about planes having "auto-pilot" for a long time now.
But then, along comes this...
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New forum:
Whine Tastings
[SIZE="1"]A place to sample whines, match them with cheeses, a cellar within The Cellar[/SIZE]
What's making you sad today
What's upsetting you today?
What's mildly irritating you today?
What might be making you a tad apprehensive, but might not,
[COLOR="White"]...[/COLOR]as It's too soon to tell
What is pissing you off this time?
What's bumming your stone today?
What is in your room 101 today?
What's making you a tad apprehensive today?
Fuck it
I will not let the bastards grind me down
Neither will I let the bastards wind me up.
What Smells Bad Today?
Looks like I'm doing it again
Things I'm tired of
You guys are boring
... He wants to replace a statue in the National Statuary Hall with one of Sally Ride.
Whose statue does he want to replace ?
...He wants to replace the statue of Rev. Junipero Serra,
the 18th-century Catholic priest who established California missions
and is about to be canonized by Pope Francis.
For Jebus H Christ ... get some perspective !
An astronaut seems like a better representative than a religious recruiter, especially one from an era where religious recruiting was rather cruel.
Kind of seems a good idea to me...
There are no crickets in Wayward Pines.
Is it any good, that show? I'm tempted to give it a go.
It
definitely has potential.
Very "X-Files"-ey, with faint shades of "Lost".
Go
here.
It definitely has potential.
Very "X-Files"-ey, with faint shades of "Lost".
Go here.
*grins*
that sounds right up my street.
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That was something that came up in Tom Holt's Doughnut. It involved travelling through multiple universes (via the hole in the doughnut - read it it's hilarious) and one of the characters got trapped in a universe where multiverse theory did not apply.
I bet The Queen carks it shortly after becoming the longest reigning UK monarch on September 9.
Is she on your List?
Sent by thought transference
Is she on your List?
Sent by thought transference
no. but she darn well would have been if I'd realized this milestone was imminent. Phileeeeep is though, so hopefully he'll follow suit, pining away..... or choking on the canapes at the funeral tea.
That was something that came up in Tom Holt's Doughnut. It involved travelling through multiple universes (via the hole in the doughnut - read it it's hilarious) and one of the characters got trapped in a universe where multiverse theory did not apply.
curious how the character got into that universe... but not curious enough to read the book at the moment.
:)
Hmmm ... Carrotchops could start posting pics ... I may have some suggestions.
Nikon made a camera that lets dogs take photos of things they likeTimes Editors must written this with tongues in lateral locations
Risks to Hands-Free Driving
NY Times - Editorial Board - 5/29/15
If your friend told you to jump off the bridge, should you do it ?
...Most automakers are not expected to sell cars that drive themselves all the time for at least several more years.
But many companies like Mercedes-Benz, Tesla Motors and General Motors
are already selling or working on cars that can do a lot of driving without the help of drivers.
Some cars, for example, can follow cars in front of them at a safe distance on highways....
But don’t worry, the Feds will write Rules to solve any problem.
...The federal government and most states have not yet issued rules on how such features
should be designed. One approach is to require that automated systems warn
drivers to slow down if they are about to crash into a car or pedestrian in front of them...
It's important to know what options your car has.
In this somewhat disturbing and cringe inducing video, you see a driver testing out the pedestrian detection and automatic stopping feature on his new Volvo. Unfortunately for his guinea pig friends, the car did not have this feature. (No blood, but dude's gonna be sore for a few days.)
I'm filling in an application for a teaching job - J sent me a link to the vacancy yesterday - closing date is Monday midday.
I fucking hate these kinds of applications. It's the kind where you have to go through each of the person specifications (there are fucking loads of them) and give examples of how you have met those in previous employment. And then having effectively exhausted most of what i can say about how my experience is relevant to the job - I am then expected to write up a personal statement.
It's important to know what options your car has....
I did read the "...cringe inducing..." warning, but that shocked me
so much I actually knee-jerked out of the path of the car.
"Idiot of the Day" popped into my mind.
Who, the guy standing there with his hands in his pockets getting hit by the car, or the driver hitting him?
OK, let's change that to:
"Idiots of the Day" popped into my mind.
George Carlin — 'Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.'
Mark Twain — 'Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.'
Proverbs 18:2 ESV — 'A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.'
I'm filling in an application for a teaching job - J sent me a link to the vacancy yesterday - closing date is Monday midday.
I fucking hate these kinds of applications. It's the kind where you have to go through each of the person specifications (there are fucking loads of them) and give examples of how you have met those in previous employment. And then having effectively exhausted most of what i can say about how my experience is relevant to the job - I am then expected to write up a personal statement.
I hate that shit, too. Treat it as a language exercise, pick three items you've already mentioned at random and phrase them differently.
Sent by thought transference
Quote:
George Carlin — 'Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.'
Quote:
Mark Twain — 'Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.'
Quote:
Proverbs 18:2 ESV — 'A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.'
"You've done nothing when you've bested a fool."
~La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) in "True Grit"
apparently I have to be up in 3 hours. This time not for work -to fetch my daughter from the graduate all night party. Then I have to go to work. Oh well. at least I'm not visiting her in prison. yet
yup ...
Ha! I often say I'm the worst person of me and my siblings but I'm not in prison or anything. Yet. ;)
Anyway, I came here to say 'jesus mother of god I attract freaks!'
Does orphan black pass the Bechdel test for having all it's main interaction between women or does it fail on the technical requirement of what exactly counts as "two women"? :neutral:
hahahahahaha. That's a truly excellent question, Trace :P
Tell you what show totally passes the Bechdel test - Person of Interest. Not bad for a genre/procedural crime show.
Haven't seen it - I might give it a shot.
Currently starting with Orange is the new black, which... So far would probably not pass a reverse Batchdel test, but the main character is a mid 30s bisexual convict / aromatic soap entrepreneur / drug dealer with a thing for Jews, so all is forgiven as long as I can date her in my head... Which is also now making me wonder if that is the perspective women get when watching so much media where the main identifiable characters are male, or alternatively, when getting married to death row inmates... *head scratching*
...Also, why don't we have a head scratching emoji?
I should say it only really starts to pass the test properly by third season - at which point the core team is about a 50/50 male female split - and the women talk with each other often and not about the guys.
I was checking out a list of top indie films for last year at Indiewire, and came across this film synopsis.
http://www.indiewire.com/film/goodbye-to-language
Synopsis: The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself between them. The other is in one, the one is in the other and they are three. The former husband shatters everything. A second film begins: the same as the first, and yet not. From the human race we pass to metaphor. This ends in barking and a baby's cries. In the meantime, we will have seen people talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin.
I expect it will come as a surprise to nobody that it is a French film :p
I was late to the party and wasn't' able to generate the youtube discussion I hoped for in one of the very few youtube channels that actually have compelling discussions more often then troll wars, so... I might as well put this here and see what happens:
[YOUTUBEWIDE]Ytcyfe2gbwQ[/YOUTUBEWIDE]
Perhaps We both advertise our connection to the childhood and doing so out of nostalgia, not directly as a desire to relive the object from our childhood but as a desire to relive the means for social esteem from our childhood, thus the need to socially advertise, simply because the means of esteem in our childhood are a lot more easily accessible to us then the means for esteem as adults, with every piece of media we ever seen accessible at any moment as the carrot, but economically depressive times with huge unemployment as the stick.
Or maybe it is nothing but accessibility? My inner cynic would offer a much simpler explanation, pointing at data mining, pirating and streaming as more obvious sources: In the past the only real way for producers to know what is popular was sales of mostly recently released media, and most of the accessible media was the most recently released media.
In a world where you are able to access nearly every piece of media ever created, there is a good chance what you'll access might not be the most recent one, and there's a good chance that someone is selling a publisher a file in which you are a line on a spread sheet where you together with other people can let some analyst in a company meeting say "Hey, look how many people are still into ninja turtles", and the reason we are watching those is simply because in a few clicks away, we can, and we are more likely to look for something we know of because.. We know of it.
Would we still do it without the stick? Would we still be spending that time bindging on old media if more of us got to do more fulfilling jobs were more likely to start families at younger ages and so on? Maybe not, maybe in gaining more esteem in the present our ideas of our positive experiences would be more grounded in the present. But I would speculate that the answer is... Yes, yes we would. Because even with less free time you'd still be able to choose among a much larger spectrum of media from different times and the most recent would still not necessarily be the best choice available.
And maybe that's alright - What if instead of thinking of it as recycled material from the past, think of it as people going to a museum to re-experience art pieces of the past, a very advanced museum that is able to get a [Statistically significant] reading of us as an audience and retouch the old pieces with changing preferences and sensibilities... Because it knows it can make a lot of money. Production motives aside, this suggests to me a more long term memory of cultural icons, which is significantly richer better then the world where we all simply followed the latest releases of whatever was thrown at us.
I'm a little tired. I was at work this morning at 830, after limited sleep. Thank you Twil for calling and waking me and giving me a chance to get to work on time, after wearing out the snooze button on my alarm.
Now I'm home. I watered the flowers. I've fed myself (NY strip steak, sauteed mushrooms and onions, caesar salad with mushrooms and carrots, no corn tonight, and a reaaallly big G&T. Really big. Last night I put the leftovers of the previous XL G/T, about 16 oz, in the freezer. It was solid tonight, the perfect icecube for a genuinely big G/T. Also, some leftover garlic naan and potato/pesto naan.) Fucking Nom.
AAAannnnyhow.
just hanging out with y'all now. I have on my "list" a trip to the beach/buff to take a sunseting picture of (near) the solstice. But that was a pretty big drink. I have an hour, so... we'll see.
Meantime, I'm just indulging myself in your posts from the last day or so. Thanks guys!
Is it worth the IVF and everything to have triplets to name Gerry, Ronnie and Mo?
Why else would you go through all of that?
Just grab triplets from the SPCA. ;)
Scotland's Pretend Celts Association?
Yeah, those animals too. :haha:
Today, July 5th, Earth At Aphelion Day. At approximately 4 p.m., Earth will be at the furthest point from the sun in its orbit —the aphelion—at a distance of about 94,510,000 miles. So run around naked, how could it burn you from that far away. :blush:
Pics, or it didn't happen.
Instructions for my new sunglasses, I could read the page labeled EN.
I could not read the pages labeled SL, PL, BG, RO, IT, FR, ES, GR, DK, FI, RU, DE, PT, HL, SE, ET, CN, SK, CZ, H, LT, TR, or LV.
If the Stewarts had done a better job we wouldn’t need all these pages.
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One other Mayberry marriage comes to mind. The guy who ran the fix-it shop ([Strike]Hank, or, Henry, maybe[/Strike] Emmett) was featured in an episode where the wife wanted him to retire.
Anybody know if they ever addressed what happened to Opie's mother? I've missed that, I think.
Wiki:
Opie's mother is mentioned only once in the series. In "Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee", Andy tells Opie he had a love for the boy's mother similar to the love Aunt Bee feels for her beau. Other than this one mention, Opie's mother is non-existent on the show. There are no photographs of her in the house, or other souvenirs, and no one mentions a grave. She apparently has no relatives in Mayberry such as parents or siblings as Opie never mentions grandparents or aunts and uncles except those on his paternal side. In the backdoor pilot episode from The Danny Thomas Show, viewers learn Andy lost Opie's mother when the boy was "the least little speck of a baby."
In the pilot episode it is mentioned that Opies mother died when he was "just the least speck of a baby". We learned Barney was the best man at the wedding and Andy was very much in love with his wife. We never learn her name or much more history. We also know Barney is Opies godfather. Some have specualted that maybe she died during Opies birth but their was never proof of that info in the series.
linkInstructions for my new sunglasses
1. open glasses
2. place on face, with side arms over the tops of ears
3. push onto face until bridge sits securely on nose
4. for safety, remove glasses when conditions become dark
1. vidrios abiertos
2. lugar en la cara, con los brazos laterales sobre las copas de los oídos
3. empuje en la cara hasta que el puente se sienta segura en la nariz
4. para la seguridad, quite las gafas cuando las condiciones se vuelven oscuras
1. verres ouvertes
2. placer sur le visage, les bras secondaires sur les sommets des oreilles
3. Appuyez sur le visage jusqu'à ce que le pont soit solidement placée sur le nez
4. pour la sécurité, retirer les verres lorsque les conditions deviennent sombres
1.打开眼镜
2.将脸，侧臂在耳朵顶部
3.按压于脸部，直到桥安全地坐在鼻子上
4.安全，摘掉眼镜时的条件变得黑暗
Every time I see a Broderick Crawford western, I wonder how they would explain a cowboy in the Olde West having such a thick modern Brooklyn accent.
So, to say usually I am not a fan of Keynesian economics is a huge understatement...
But I've been noticing some of the shifts in investments and innovation over the years, and thinking about the bloom and burst economical impact on the world, and I am wondering if technological progress the way we know it isn't in some way one of them.
while for a long period innovation was focused on ubiquitous technologies and extending their reach utility and infrastructure, over the last few years you see increasingly more innovation in the realms of toys for the wealthy... Space tourism, smart houses, household robotics, self-driving cars.
I can't help but wonder, has this happened before? Weren't fat oversized computers becoming corporate and institutional mainstreams at a time of general economic depression during the 70s? Didn't the explosion of automobiles happen straight after the big american depressions at the turn of last century?
Maybe this is how it's done - a period in which we make the big investments to overcome the central challenges to what we could achieve, and a period in which we pick the low hanging fruits and squeeze the juice out of it - exploring what we can do with it and making it ubiquitous to society at large.
If this is true, maybe the modern day combination of welfare and government intervention deserves some credit - maybe what we need is not to stop doing this but to find ways to prevent it from causing unnecessary suffering.
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So when is that line exactly where people who are otherwise progressive find out that society has marched on and they are now more conservative then otherwise?
My mother tends to think of herself as quite liberal, and yet once in awhile when talking to her she'll blur something out like "computer graphics can't be art" or "Television isn't part of culture" (To be clear, she's from South Africa, and their baby boomers didn't grow up with television because trade embargo's and stuff).
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Jezus, can anyone else talk?
Heh, just a random thought.
I really love the German language. Always have. It's my favourite foreign language - I love its quirkiness, it's poetry and the way it feels to speak. I was watching this video about awesome German words that have no direct equivalent in English and which capture or express complex and specific feelings. I've heard it said many times that German is particularly well-qualified for capturing these difficult to express concepts and emotions. The same is often said of French - where a singlre word can capture whole something that English can't express.
I think there's a high degree of bollox to that. But I do not French to argue it in any kind of informed way :P I think the hang up on single words being able to express these complex and poetic concepts is missing the point when it comes to English - what we have isa language of ridiculous flexibility in expression and structure. You can play around with word order and meaning in staggering ways in English and still be coherent in a way that would collapse a sentence in many other languages. That it might take several words to say what another language could express in one doesn't make it less able to express that concept. For instance: Luftschloss = sky castle = unrealistic dream. That can be expressed in English - castles in the sky - and we all know what that means. Zeitgeist = time ghost = spirit of the time
But anyway - my point- inasmuch as I have one is that the video of awesome German words is pretty cool. But the only reason they are able to express these complex things in a single word is that they essentially just crush several words or a sentence together and call it a single word :P Which, it has to be said, is one of the things I love about German.
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there is a word, in German which means to screw something up. to fix things that don't need fixing. I spent 2 1/2 years in Germany. And could talk and read a newspaper.
The US should stop producing oil. Then, when the rest of the world has run dry, we be the only source, bitches. Because he who controls the [strike]spice[/strike] oil, controls the world.:p:
I'd have loved to spend some time in Germany when I was in my late 20s and learning the language. I was pretty good at it, though I have forgotten 90% or more of what I learned. I took classes at the Goethe Institute in Manchester for a couple of years. Our tutor was awesome. I'd always loved the german language, but he brought in so much of the cultural side as well.
Brits have the untranslatable words, that mean something only to them, in that rhyming slang. :rolleyes:
Every language has concepts that they capture with a word or short phrase that doesn't quite directly translate because of the layered nature of language and meaning. But setting aside the incredible differences between wholly unrelated language types, in which there are such deep cultural differences that we conceive the world in entirely different terms - such as cultures in which temporal relationships are not a part of language - there's generally a pretty close equivalent to get across the same feeling or concept most of the time,and I don't think any of the european languages are superior to others in their ability to capture and express the sense of a thing.
When it comes to expressing sophisticated, suave, or romantic thoughts, foreign languages excel because they sound so... foreign. :lol2:
Whenever Twil's lost, helpless and confused in bed, I always advise her to seize the pen. The story's never the same, but it almost *always* comes to a happy ending.
Recommended, five stars.
Wow, that's really kinky. :eek:
As long as I'm here, some sage advice...
Are hashtags as a Cellar post add-on trending? Do these comments make it to Teh Tweeterz? Or are they just a new-fangled twist on the old way of pretending there is a smilie to accompany your post?
:ihatehashtagssmilie: <---- Like so?
Hey, if it's a 'thing' far be it from me to stop progress, but I do wonder if it has any outside relevance. Like if I hashtag a hashtag, do the twits see that on their feed?
@I don't understand twister #wtf does this thing do?
As far as I know the only way the hashtag wuold be seen by anybody not already in the cellar would be if they searched for that hashtag on google and the cellar post came up.
I use them in jest on the Cellar - because I know they aren't actually going out as tweets, but they have a kind of rhythm and feel to them that I like. They just give a comment a different feel.
#twittersuckshashtagthecellarinsteadrowr
@I don't understand twitter #wtf does this thing do?
Wuz that a
#bazinga, or do you honestly not know...because
this.
As far as I know the only way the hashtag wuold be seen by anybody not already in the cellar would be if they searched for that hashtag on google and the cellar post came up.
I use them in jest on the Cellar - because I know they aren't actually going out as tweets, but they have a kind of rhythm and feel to them that I like. They just give a comment a different feel.
#wellsaid
Incidentally, if anyone gives a damn, my Twitter profile is @
https://twitter.com/meeeesserjohn.
This ain't twitter, as far as I'm concerned those links are spam.
This ain't twitter, as far as I'm concerned those links are spam.
And yer not currently a mod, so why should I care.
The Cellar: What It Is by Undertoad, owner/admin dude
First, the staff:
Owner/admin: Undertoad
Moderator: glatt
Moderator: limey
Moderators are elected, current term runs through 1/10/2016
You seem to think you're important or something? Why should I give a fuck whether you care or not, when I post my opinion on anything. :confused:
I guess we wouldn't make very good Satanists then, huh? :D
I guess we wouldn't make very good Satanists then, huh? :D
I retract this statement. I realize it makes no sense in this context, and I apologize for it.
And no, Bruce, I'm no more important than anybody else around here. I also realize I could have handled your comment about my Twitter links better.
I just watched last night's episode of @Midnight, and for some reason during the guest intro one of the guests was dropping into an english accent, which she did very well, and Hardwicke needs little urging to play with his British accents, so it ended up with the entire panel just randonly talking British. Hardwicke and the guest who'd started did pretty good jobs of the accent, but more importantly they'd pretty much nailed the tone and slang as well. They were using words like mental and massive. But mainly a lot of swearing.
Made me laugh. It's funny to see how we are perceived, and it's clearly as people who swear constantly. But then, if the shoe fits....:p
You get @midnight in England? :cool:
I retract this statement. I realize it makes no sense in this context, and I apologize for it.
And no, Bruce, I'm no more important than anybody else around here. I also realize I could have handled your comment about my Twitter links better.
I get the feeling Bruce either doesn't believe me. or used that damn ignore feature.
You get @midnight in England? :cool:
Yes, practically every night.
You get @midnight in England? :cool:
Not that I know of. I don't have Sky or cable tv though so there are a lot of channels I don't get - it might be on one of them.
I see it via streaming sites.
I get the feeling Bruce either doesn't believe me. or used that damn ignore feature.
Or he hasn't been back through this thread since you posted.
Not that I know of. I don't have Sky or cable tv though so there are a lot of channels I don't get - it might be on one of them.
I see it via streaming sites.
Got it.
Something strange and frightening has just happened.
I just watched Thursday's Late, Late Show and Justin Bieber did a thing - and I quite liked him.
Petit Stockholm syndrome.
Kind of been pondering the thought of retirement in a couple more years. I don't know though... It's going to be tough considering I've worked the past 40 years. Just the thought of hanging out at the house more than 50% of the time is kind of scary. My wife is especially excited about it... I have no clue as to why she would want to hang out with me 24/7. I mean to say... She's a good woman and has been an exceptional wife forever so far. But I still get chills up my spine thinking about having to hang out with her 24/7. I just can't imagine hanging out at Department Stores watching her shop for clothes or shoes. Oh Gawd... Shoes!!! She has over 50 pair now - I know because I bought the rack to put them on and it's full.
Anyway... On the other side of the coin I'm getting sick of working. Maybe I'll be able to find a happy medium by then.
Who knows? Not me... Yet anyway.
Oh man, you gotta get your own time-intensive hobby before you commit to something like that.
Yes.
Sent by thought transference
I agree, the great thing about being retired is you can do what you want, not what someone else wants. If the spouse is telling you what to do every day, you might as well be working. Find your own shit to do, and if she wants you to do something with her, schedule it, just like when you had a job. You just have more flexibility in the scheduling as to day of the week and time of day.
Nobody, including spouses, should assume you are doing anything unless they're paying you for your time.
Not to mention, there is the flipside - so maybe you go with her to do some shoeshopping - but then maybe she goes with you to do your thing.
There's also volunteering. A really nice way of getting to do stuff you might not have done in formal work, keeping a toe in the worldof the workplace, but tailored to how much time you want to give.
Mum did that when she retired. She spent a good few years working with refugees and asylum seekers and now she is a Samaritan listener. She spends about 6-9 hours a week taking calls from people who need to connect. Some suicidal,some just depressed,some coping with unusual and stressful situations (sometimes for example they'll get calls from people serving long prison sentences and struggling to cope) or who are just isolated (by age, infirmity, mental health) and need someone to talk to.
She gets to still be a part of the world, and her skills and talents continue to be useful. And she gets much more from her freetime because of that.
My Mum made a concerted effort to "save" their marriage before they both retired.
They had both worked shifts for so long that they were out of the habit of spending time in eachother's company.
So using a supermarket bonus scheme they started spending a few nights away in various cities around the UK. Discovering eachother again.
Their marriage was not really in any danger, but she didn't want things to fall into silence and unhappiness.
As it turned out, with Dad's dementia, the time was very well spent. They couldn't do it now.
He retired before her, and has always been happy spending time alone.
He pottered about quite happily (spending too much money, but that's another story) until she also retired. Then they spent a lot of time visiting friends and family, going on holiday, and again visiting major Cathedral cities, which in American or Australian terms would be considered to be right on the doorstep.
Again, the timing was good considering what came very soon; Grandad's declining health, which meant they had to be home (until I moved back), Dad having to give up his driving licence, Mum's first round with breast cancer etc.
I understand what you're saying Madman, but never look at a relaxed and prosperous future as an arid desert. There are plenty of things to do, to see, places to go, life to live. I'm sure you and your wife will be in good health for years, but don't think about it as treading water. Make the most of the now.
Not to mention, there is the flipside - so maybe you go with her to do some shoeshopping - but then maybe she goes with you to do your thing.
No no no, that's too much together time, even if he's doing what he wants. He needs "me" time, to suck in the gut when the lassies stroll by, and say naughty words at the pub about strongly felt issues. :haha:
Don't put it off because you're scared of how long it might last and that it might be too early.... you have no idea how much time you have left, but you can be more certain about the near future than the far future, so use that well. Enjoy it.
Also, you don't need to have a plan for a time-eating hobby before you retire. You can Build It, He Will Come. Your pastime will most likely make itself known when you need it, a phoenix from the ashes
I don't need friends to judge everyone. :p:
Does it help to apologize for being too apologetic?
Does it help to apologize for being too apologetic?
What brought this on? As if I didn't know.
Does it help to ask questions you already know the answers to?
Eye am too unemecated for you're reading pleasures, are you knot to?
So. Hold you're hand out for you're allocated amount that you didnt work to hard four.
I heard a guy on sports radio say that he was disheveled over the Eagles loss. Neither of the hosts seemed to notice.
I'm so behind on the news from teh cellar... I have much to share and more to read, but I'm too damn tired.
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Damn, that is spot on.
someone should cobble together a Lemmy/Bowie duet
There are some crazy dumbass mudderfluckerz, in the world. :)
I'm so behind on the news from teh cellar... I have much to share and more to read, but I'm too damn tired.
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Like:
Work, it's awesome
I've been sick
I've been injured
Car's working again, much drama
Camera broke, then I took it apart a little and mostly fixed it
The political scene is CRA CRA
what did you make today the other day? A bannister
Crafty DIY, that's me, upcoming project a new headboard
Totally with you V. i can't even begin ... LOVE my new job..
Thats all for now.
That John Denver song, Take Me Home, Country Roads, mentions all these West Virginia things that are wonderful and throws the Shenandoah River in there. Since moving to this area and doing a lot of camping near the Shenandoah River, I associate it strongly with Virginia, not West Virginia. So the song just came on Pandora, and I looked it up on a map. The river is like 98% in Virginia with a little jog just over the border into WV by Harpers Ferry. I think John needed to look at a map.
Does that mean only songs about the state of Mississippi can mention the Mississippi river? :rolleyes:
Maybe he wrote Monongahela first but people got even more confused?
Maybe he wrote Monongahela first but people got even more confused?
I think the Oakridge boys sang a song with that in it.
Maybe he wrote Monongahela first but people got even more confused?
Nope, when that crosses into PA it becomes ours, their loss our gain. However, Ohio claiming ownership of our Ohio river is a bald faced travesty. :crone:
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"you're the reason this county needs instructions on shampoo bottles"
All I asked was how many times, after I read "rinse and repeat". :blush:
When Bill was President, Hillary was the First Lady and Monica was the First Sex Buddy. If Hillary becomes President, in time, Bill will become the First Cuckold. Payback is a bitch and so is Hillary.
I was at Skidmore College the other day and I guess it's a super PC place; they had a bathroom marked 'gender neutral'.
So when I was done peeing, I put the seat halfway down.
Work is not The Cellar or the UK. Way too many double entendres are missed. The Receiver doesn't think his job title is funny. I don't know how I'm going to survive the change to backdoor receiving. announced today. The other type comes with an invoice, apparently. Or a ticket. This is where it gets confusing -when backdoor receiving, the receiver shoots the load on delivery rather than just checking the size of the package.
Oh man, I would not be able to prevent myself from making jokes...
Let us know what you get away with saying, but try not to get canned.
Clearly you've found an appropriate strategy for survival - save it all up, all through the day then cum here and offload on us
:)
Getting canned would certainly be jarring, but should that happen, don't shrink wrapping it up.
Buttsecks!
Wait...I did that wrong, didn't I?
...Started as a tight end, wound up a wide receiver...
Oh man, I would not be able to prevent myself from making jokes...
Let us know what you get away with saying, but try not to get canned.
Oh I don't hold back. just not everyone gets all of them :) (especially not the receiver) I think I make the boss blush and I certainly surprise the odd truck driver passing my office door :lol:
A friend called me yesterday evening. Haven't heard from him for almost two years. He asked how I was doing... I started to answer when he chimed in... "Hey, I have another call coming in. I have to go." <click>
I think I'll give him a call tonight.
I hate my life.
Let me revise this: I don't hate my life, just my crippled body.
We're overdue for a major politician assassination in this country.
Sometimes I wish I was in college again, today. I would tell all my professors and the administration that trigger warnings are a trigger for me and therefore they need to stop issuing trigger warnings.
On and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
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I threw it out
There is no spoon.
I threw it out
Heh. I was half-expecting "Only Zuul.".
if you die from "complications from a suicide attempt", isn't that just suicide?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36186708It is, unless there's a statute of limitations on successful. Maybe if the medics say you're still alive, it starts the clock over.
"He was searching most of his life for his identity," Merry-Ellen Unan, a close friend of Dryden, told the Canadian press. "He truly didn't know who he was." The effort to prove his parentage led George Dryden to become estranged from the family who raised him.
He was obviously mentally ill, seizing on the who's my daddy as his problem to blame his failures on. Once he's grown, unless daddy was lending him a million to get started, or left him property in a will, it doesn't fucking matter who daddy is.
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http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/please-stop.htmlStick war? That's fucked up.
I'm sure it started out as a thumb war and things escalated...
I just read a little article about season 2 of Lucifer and it pissed me off.
Spoilers for the season finale so put in white:
[COLOR="White"]In the finale, after Lucifer returns from Hell, we learn that someone has escaped hell and is loose in the world - his mother...so now there is speculation about which actress will play Lucifer's mum. This is the article that pissed me off:
"Now which TV or movie actress would get the role of Luci’s mom? As of the Season 1 finale, it was not revealed whether Luci and Amenadiel share the same mother. Regardless, the show bosses could choose a young early 20s or older mid 40s actress to play the role. Age should not be an issue, but assuming Luci’s mother is bad, then she must be vain to the core. One of the most crucial criteria then should be an undeniably strong presence."
Apparently, it is beyond our collective imagination that the woman playing the mother of Tom Ellis's character be older than mid-40s - when he himself is 39. And yes, I get that as immortals that rules might be a bit different, but I don't really think that's what is going on here. It's the usual bullshit of women over 45 being basically invisible as far as Hollywood is concerned. If they were casting someone to play the father of an immortal who is played by a 39 year old man, I fucking guarantee they'd go for an older man, probably in his 50s or 60s[/COLOR]
If it makes you feel any better, that shit pisses me off too.
Julianne Moore would be a good candidate for Lucifer's mother. As would, God help me, Julianna Margulies, but, I just can't stand her.
Oooh, Meryl Streep.
Here's a list of 50 actresses over 50:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/famous-actresses-over50.html
Some really great casting choices,
I might add Andie McDowell, fucking Betty White would be awesome. There are a ton (48x140lbs* = 6720lbs, so three tons) of other great actresses.
*average weight of 50 y.o. American female from the low end of the curve assuming that career actresses have, with some notable exceptions, generally kept their weight down.
It's a sad note that when entering the search term 'female actors' (as opposed to actresses) Google's search suggestions are, hot, sexy, under 30, under 40, still sexy under 40, hottest, etc.
Typing in 'over 50' gets similar results, with a few nods towards their ability rather than how well they've aged.
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I clicked through that list, and was wondering what happened to Terri Garr, and then saw a report she has Multiple Sclerosis. Bummer.
I might add Andie McDowell, fucking Betty White would be awesome.
Both of those are way too nicey nice.
Although I did love Betty White's delightfully foul mouth in "
Lake Placid".
Both of those are way too nicey nice.
Although I did love Betty White's delightfully foul mouth in "Lake Placid".
I haven't actually watched the show, but I like to cast against type.
Meryl Streep would be teh awsum - but I suspect she's too big a movie star for a little genre show on Fox.
And, yeah, foots, that does make me feel better :P
i don't even really mind of they end up casting someone younger - given they're immortals, who take a different shape when human, they could cast a 10 year old and it would probably work (not to mention being seriously fucking creepy). It's more the way the article was written - that they didn't even consider the possibility of someone who actually would be old enough in human terms to play his mum.
Here's a list of 50 actresses over 50:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/famous-actresses-over50.html
Some really great casting choices,
I might add Andie McDowell, fucking Betty White would be awesome. There are a ton (48x140lbs* = 6720lbs, so three tons) of other great actresses.
*average weight of 50 y.o. American female from the low end of the curve assuming that career actresses have, with some notable exceptions, generally kept their weight down.
It's a sad note that when entering the search term 'female actors' (as opposed to actresses) Google's search suggestions are, hot, sexy, under 30, under 40, still sexy under 40, hottest, etc.
Typing in 'over 50' gets similar results, with a few nods towards their ability rather than how well they've aged.
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Some awesome actors there. My personal choice, for an older actor in the role, would be Ann Dowd. She is magnificent. She might not fit the bill if they want her to be the beautiful, glamorous type - but my God she can be terrifyingly intimidating with just a look. Her performance in Leftovers was chilling.
.....and if they did end up going down the woman in her 40s route: Liv Tyler was also magnificently unsettling.
Apparently, AMC, the channel that brings so much gore in the Walking Dead, the characters are literally drenched in it, and has no problem showing people's heads exploding, has censored a glimpse of Tom Hiddleston's bum
It became one of the most iconic scenes in The Night Manager when it aired in the UK, yet it seems #Hiddlesbum didn't quite make the cut in the US.
When AMC aired the fourth episode last night (May 10) in the States, the beloved shot of Tom Hiddleston's derriere in that steamy scene was censored.
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/news/a793745/tom-hiddlestons-night-manager-bum-was-censored-in-the-usa-so-heres-what-you-missed/Guess his bum isn't as nice as Walter White's.:right:
It's because his bum was being shown during a sex scene.
Oh noes, sex! Think of teh children! Imagine the damage it will do to their morality if they see a sexy bum in amongst the extreme violence on tv
Hell, Donald Duck never wore pants. That never warped any of us. But, he did wrap himself with a towel when he came out of the shower...
That never warped any of us.
Oh, then what did? :p:
I think my parents fed me lead paint chips as a child.
CHIPS! Oooooooo, luxury!
We had to bite our own lead paint, straight from the window sills....
You had teeth? you jammy bastard! Our parents used to pull ours and sell them to the gypsies. then they'd spank us til we grew some more. We had to suck our lead out of the paint. backwards.
We prayed every night for paint. We had to walk down road and find pieces of metal just 'oping that they had lead in them. Father would use a file and make shavings to put under our tongues. Still, those were good days.
During the war, we had to turn all our leaded paint chips in to the gov'ment refinery so they could make bullets. In return, they gave us pencil leads to eat; but, those were actually graphite and we went into withdrawal. If it wasn't for our dog chasing cars and snatching the lead wheel weights off them, we would have starved to death. Good Loco: it was the first and only trick he ever learned.
You guys just tickle the shit outta me sometimes.
:lol2:
Luxury!!
When I was a lass, we had to tickle the shit into our empty carcasses first.
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I could use that on one of my nighttime cow orkers. Just for 5 seconds, shut it? Please? ;)
Random thought: No matter how many times I read it, I will never stop cracking up at client correspondence that tells us they have a mister meanor (or meaner or meener, etc.)
Ha ha
Especially when everybody knows it's MISS and not MISTER.
Miss Appropriate! Ha...get it...thieves...get it?
I could use that on one of my nighttime cow orkers. Just for 5 seconds, shut it? Please? ;)
Random thought: No matter how many times I read it, I will never stop cracking up at client correspondence that tells us they have a mister meanor (or meaner or meener, etc.)
"Let's play a game. It's called 'Monastery'. OK, now you pretend you just took a vow of silence."
If they can afford a hundred tattoos why can't they afford teeth?
they paid for the tattoos with teeth. it's nice to be able to admire your naked body in the mirror while you suck down your pureed burger and fries
:bolt:
If they can afford a hundred tattoos why can't they afford teeth?
There are so few tattoo artists skilled enough to tattoo teeth onto the gums that they can charge exorbitant prices.
I wonder if the tooth fairy is inked?
You'd be amazed at the range of foods that can be eaten without teeth, just by taking your time and gumming the hell out of it.
When growing teeth in the lab gets cheap, the tooth fairy is in trouble. :yesnod:
If they can afford a hundred tattoos why can't they afford teeth?
this
I rode all day yesterday in shorts. Sunscreen attracts a lot of grime, so I had greasy grey shins. I had to shower last night at 1 am when i realized that I could, in no way, get into my bed like that. This morning, I was happy that I didn't have to shave or shower. But.
I forgot deodorant.
It's going to be 92 here today. oops. I hope that skip a day thing is legit.
I remember an insult from an old book of insults I had when I was a kid:
You're on the sixth day of your 5 day deodorant.
To what did that refer? This:
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I hope that skip a day thing is legit.
Not if you washed it off.:(
I put a bit on after the shower last night. The antiperspirant aspect is more the concern. My pits smell like roses.
Dear Universe, please just stop, OK? Whatever it is you want I don't understand and I'm too far past caring.
Sounds like someone is having a Gravdigr Day™.:(
Hope it gets better.:comfort:
My son brought his middle school yearbook home today. He was showing me where he appeared as a little speck in various group pictures. But my eye was drawn to all the stuff people were signing in his book. Apparently he somehow got the nickname HAGS because many of the notes were addressed that way. I didn't want to pry, but I was curious, so I asked him about it. He ignored me at first and didn't answer me, changing the subject. So I dropped it for a minute as we talked about something else in the book. But I asked again, and that's when he rolled his eyes and told me it means Have A Good Summer.
Oops.
anonymous has a split personality
Maybe more of a Splattered Personality?
Not sure where to put this, and I'm not sure if it's a good idea to say it in Facebook either. However, I just want to say it somewhere. The other day, Bruce's co-worker showed him a flyer of an organization that calls for violence not just towards the police but also to firefighters. They claim firefighters are as bad as the police. Bruce's co-worker just wanted him to be aware. I was relieved that Bruce is not a policeman. We live in a small town that adjoins other small towns. I'm not scared for Bruce's safety, but it does make me nervous. Society is going crazy.
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If the man is under the impression that women are always right and men are always wrong, or thinks that women think women are always right and men are always wrong, is he right in his thinking that women are always right and men are always wrong, or is he wrong in hanging out with women who think women are always right and men are always wrong? :D
Could you create a rainbow poop by making yourself constipated, eating highly colored foods in the appropriate order and then releasing the beast?
Eat all the red froot loops, then all the green froot loops, etc.
I was thinking more blue Gatorade, beets, tomatoes by the ton, but yes......
Recently, a dead man was found floating in a toolbox in a local river (True Story™, btw).
It's been ruled a homicide.
No Shit™.
Maybe he just couldn't afford a casket and a plot.
Maybe his boat was in the shop?
Being a river repairman is dangerous work.
Hah!
River repairman.
:lol2:
He wasn't worth a damn, either! There are multiple leaks and blockages on that river...
I'm watching Pitch Perfect. I was like "is that Elizabeth Banks or Parker Posey?" I thought I can't be the only one who can't tell them apart:
So, I started taking walks to lose weight. I've been going every day consistently for about a month now and I enjoy them. This week has been close to 100 degrees each day so I've been waiting till the evening/night to walk with my dog. It's a little creepier this way so I decided since I couldn't get out last night or today till after 9pm that I'd just go up and down my two main roads (the ones with streetlights) until I hit my 4 mile goal.
That was a great plan until I got followed by a FREAKING FOX. Thankfully it was mostly just curious and the husband came and picked me up in the car as quickly as he could. It was very creepy though as I've never been followed by a wild animal before and it shadowed me for about two blocks before I was rescued. Ahhhhhh!
I've seen a lot of foxes in my neck of the woods recently. Not sure if they're more comfortable around humans or what.
Also popping up in this part of the world: armadillos. 4 years ago, they were 150 miles south of here...now they're just outside of the metro area. And getting killed...and fucking up cars.
I think foxes are among the few natural predators of armadillos. Perhaps some cause and affect going on there.
Texas speed bumps.
When I lived in Springfield, MO, I had a 2-week period where two of my drivers totaled their cars by hitting deer, and a third tore up a fender running over an armadillo.
I've seen a handfull of them since moving to NC but never had one interested in me before. It was young and I had Tim, who was roughly the same size as the fox, with me so I wonder if that had something to do with it? Either way it was spooky for me. All the non docile animals just leave me be, k? Lol
Why are they prescribed then, instead of being available otc?
Why do I have to pay a middle man a hundred damn dollars to write me a prescription for 'not a controlled substance'.
If you drive down the road with ANY prescription pills not in their proper container, [and get stopped by the popo] you will go to jail.
If I can't walk into Wally World and buy it without a prescription, that is a controlled substance. In circumstance, if not on an official list.
A prescription drug may not be a narcotic, or a recreational drug, but I still think that it would be a controlled substance.
Then again, I'm not a doctor. Or a cop.
I know this is an old post, but I can answer part of it for you.
I take a generic that is available OTC to combat massive acid reflux. I survive on $725 a month BEFORE I pay rent, which is almost half that amount. My OTC medication, at the cheapest local pharmacy, is $56 a month. When my 'scrip was originally written by a doctor who actually understood the nightmare that is fixed-income budgeting, it was given to me because on 'scrip the exact same month's supply cost $1.05. One dollar and one nickel.
I still take it, but changes in my insurance coverage have removed all my medication copays. If not for the prescription and the insurance actually covering it, I'd have had to skip many months, possibly leading to gastric and esophageal damage that could have required tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars in hospital visits and surgeries. I am profoundly grateful to the taxpayers who fund my quiet little life and I have a strong preference for minimizing my use of community resources and avoiding any spending beyond my means. This includes keeping myself out of the ER and off the surgical table whenever possible.
Added detail bonus I found out the hard way: if you do something stupid like leave the state without your tranquilizers, it is against USPS regulations to have them mailed to you in the bottle
with the correct label unless NONE of the meds have been taken.
:facepalm:
Canadian customs officers are FAR more hostile than American ones.
Weirdly, in my days of occasionally crossing over from Washington to British Columbia, the one and only time I ever got hostile treatment at a border station was when a Canadian friend was driving me home! It was the Americans who flipped out on us. They looked at my driver's license (but not his, although he was driving), then proceeded to ask me things like where I was born, where my mother was born, what was her maiden name, where did I live, why had I been to Canada...and they asked everything twice. They only asked him if he was Canadian and planning to stay in the US after dropping me off. He said no and they went right back to grilling me! It was so strange...
Do you think I'd get sick from eating fuzzed-ridden corn? I was sooo hungry and half a sandwich just didn't do it for me. I raided the fridge and found some corn. It tasted a little funky, so I looked at it closer. Hmmm....some white fuzz. My mom would kill me if I throw away food, especially good food since she won't be able to see the fuzz without her glasses and she refuses to wear her glasses unless she's reading. I washed it real good and ate it. But hey, it killed my appetite and I stopped eating. :-D
Fuzz = mold = probably a bad idea. I recently did something similar with a loaf of bread that didn't show the mold until the day after a sandwich made me sick.
On a more disgusting note, I once knew a blind woman who insisted all her leftovers go into a semi-permanently simmering pot of "soup". She would get super pissed at me when I threw it out from time to time, insisting that I was (look away if you have a tetchy stomach...) lying about the
DROWNED HOUSEFLIES floating in it. I did not enjoy my time living in that household!
I mean, they know their financial situation but just keep popping them out? I would rather give to a family who recently lost income they depended on or who had unexpected medical bills or something like that, not one more Catholic family who feels the need to just keep on having kids no matter what. And yes, that WAS the situation.
I'm with the bumper sticker on this one. Can't feed 'em? DON'T breed 'em! Good for dogs, cats, horses, and humans. All the other livestock I can think of is things we already do eat widely in the US, and the other popular home-breeding-friendly pets oftentimes can go to local pet stores--rodents, small reptiles, things like that.
I "adopted" a brother & sister 10 years ago who were born into a feral cat colony. By "adopted" I mean "stole from their mother when she started teaching them to be wild". I did this when I had no money and no immediate prospects for making money, which ordinarily I would regard as a hideously irresponsible act. The one thing that I did that many people do not is that I made a deal with my landlord, who already owned indoor cats. Her lazy kid claimed ownership of 3 cats but refused under any circumstances to clean their 4 catboxes. So in trade for cat food and litter from their household supply, I cleaned those 4 boxes every morning for almost a year and a half, missing a grand total of 4 days when I was super sick. I think we made a fair deal, and since I got put on lifetime disability back in '08 those cats have never missed a meal or had to go more than 48 hours without a freshly scooped-out litterbox.
And I had myself spayed (well, tubal ligation anyway) WAY before I could accidentally ruin a child's life by being its mother. Cats are about as much toddler as I can stand!
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Hopefully that shows the one about someone from the 50s suddenly encountering modern technology.
Bland Marvel Headcanon (which I found on Pinterest) and other Marvel Cinematic Universe headcanons address exactly that, largely picking on Captain America. I have many favorites, including:
"When Steve Rogers gets upset and starts yelling, Tony Stark fondly calls him Capslock."
There's a longer Texts from Avengers one about him texting Stark because "the robot next to the refrigerator hissed at me again." Reply: "That's the coffeemaker. Thank God you're pretty."
There are SO MANY more, but I gotta leave to pack up the truck for the trip out of state in like 18 minutes :(.
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So is tilting/twisting your head to crack your neck. Try it sometime when you're in the first car in line at a stop light, then watch in the rearview. My record was 7 ppl cracking their necks in succession before I could no longer see drivers behind me!
I've seen a lot of foxes in my neck of the woods recently. Not sure if they're more comfortable around humans or what.
Also popping up in this part of the world: armadillos. 4 years ago, they were 150 miles south of here...now they're just outside of the metro area. And getting killed...and fucking up cars.
Foxes are urbanizing like crazy all over the world. So are coyotes (Central Park in NY, downtown Tucson, San Diego, just to name a few), raccoons, bears (Google for stories about bears up trees in places like Washington, DC), and cougars (someone got a pic of one on a backyard fence with the Hollywood sign in the background recently). All are good reasons to keep cats indoors and small dogs & kids under careful supervision!
We don't have many deer here in KC, but they are a regular problem in STL (where I'm from)...they're hanging out in the City now on occasion.
BBC Headline
Trump urges extreme vetting of migrants
.....and extreme migranting of Vets? :/
The best things in life are free, 'cause someone else paid for theqm.
BBC Headline Trump urges extreme vetting of migrants
.....and extreme migranting of Vets? :/
headline's interesting, link is not a link
headline's interesting, link is not a link
yeah, that is a little weird, it worked for a little while but now is garbage.
I was just amused by the wordplay with vets and immigrants, otherwise I'd've posted it in politics/not at all :)
This one seems to work right now :
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37086578Does Footfootfoot hang three Christmas stockings?
Does footfootfoot follow the Yard Goats?
Does footfootfoot follow the Yard Goats?
only if someone's paying him to pick up their shitshitshit
random
but, for your love, I'd follow the yardbirds
I have an "office" at a Tim Hortons in the Detroit suburb of St Clair Shores. There are several groups of regulars that might be there at any given time.
Today, I blew the minds of a group of old men by advising them that they can get the stuff they used to get in Playboy on the Internet for free. I then amazed some of them even further by explaining Wifi to them.
I have an "office" at a Tim Hortons in the Detroit suburb of St Clair Shores. There are several groups of regulars that might be there at any given time.
Today, I blew the minds of a group of old men by advising them that they can get the stuff they used to get in Playboy on the Internet for free. I then amazed some of them even further by explaining Wifi to them.
You're lucky they didn't try you for witchcraft
;)
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Today, I blew the minds of a group of old men by advising them that they can get the stuff they used to get in Playboy on the Internet for free. I then amazed some of them even further by explaining Wifi to them.
In college, I took a really stupid class on the "digital divide," i.e. the inequalities inherent among social groups with and without ready access to the internet. (The subject itself has the potential to be interesting, but this particular course wasn't.) One of the projects was to volunteer in a computer class at the local senior center. This guy in his 50s would teach the 20-minute lesson to a room full of 70- and 80-year-olds, and then the college kids would walk around helping anyone who was having trouble.
The teacher was mostly clueless about modern computer use himself, as he hadn't been a professional programmer since the 70s. But he was volunteering his free time, and the level of the old people was "how do I use a mouse?" so it was okay. But he was trying to get them to do things like use Outlook to manage their appointments (because, you know, retirees have so many important business meetings to attend,) and put "fun stationary" backgrounds in their emails. The moment he left the room, we began a polite but firm mutiny, informing everyone that actually, their grandkids would
not appreciate it if they sent emails with graphics, and would be more likely to delete them.
Instead, one of the college guys suggested somewhat loudly to his old person that there was a way to clear his browsing history--say, if he wanted to buy his wife a birthday present without ruining the surprise. And for the first time, the class was very interested. Thus, we taught them all how to hide their porn searches. It ended up being a nice community service project after all.
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If the majority of the flight deck personnel on a plane are women, should the cockpit be renamed the titpit?
Do women ever have foot fetishes?
I think it's only men, right?
Do women ever have foot fetishes?
I think it's only men, right?
I think you're wrong.
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Ok.
When women have foot fetishes, do they like men's feet? Or women's?
They all have foot fetishes... but most settle for six inches. :blush:
They all have foot fetishes... but most settle for six inches. :blush:
FTW!:notworthy
Do women ever have foot fetishes?
I think it's only men, right?
I think you're wrong.
:D:whip:
Ok.
When women have foot fetishes, do they like men's feet? Or women's?
Might depend on if they like men, or women...:cool:
Will nostalgia drive someone to start a Dwellar NSFW 2017 thread next year?
Got a letter from Boeing saying they had settled a lawsuit against the company that used to handle Boeing employees' 401-Ks.
I got a check for $11.30. I wonder how much the lawyers got?
Way more than that. Many times over.
Got a letter from Boeing saying they had settled a lawsuit against the company that used to handle Boeing employees' 401-Ks.
I got a check for $11.30. I wonder how much the lawyers got?
Well, that's better than a sharp stick to the eye.
But, not by much.:D
Don't spend it all in one place.
Do women ever have foot fetishes?
I think it's only men, right?
In all seriousness, the sensory map of the human brain is all over the place, and it just so happens that the foot part of the brain is immediately adjacent to the reproductive organ part of the brain. And that's why foot fetishes are a thing, and elbow fetishes are not.
And yeah, I have a bit of a foot fetish, male feet only. It's not a straight up sexual thing, more like an intimacy thing. I find them fascinating and want to examine them, and want to be trusted to do so. But I am also extra repulsed by bad feet, so it cuts both ways.
Hah. What's a bad foot? Just smell or is it something else?
Just made hotel reservations for an SSR international rally in Dennison Texas, October 4th through 8th, 2017.
How's that for being optimistic. :rolleyes:
hoping not to scare away the competition?
that *is* optimistic!
Hah. What's a bad foot? Just smell or is it something else?
Well I just developed a tailor's bunion, so there's that.
I always figured foot fetishes were more common among the ladies because of the shoe thing.
Hah. What's a bad foot? Just smell or is it something else?
Smell's not great, but smell can be washed off (and if it regularly isn't, that's a whole separate issue.) Crusty calluses that shed foot dandruff are the worst; I'm not a fan of huge tufts of hair anywhere, really; toenails should be clean underneath. You know, basic foot hygiene.
Feet are ugly. Yours. Mine. Everyone's. That's why God put them as far from your face as He could put them. The only thing uglier than feet are assholes, and that's why God put them completely outta sight.
"And now, for something completely different."
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union classified Pluto as a dwarf planet because its mass is only 0.07 times that of the mass of the other objects in its orbit (Earth's mass, by contrast, is 1.7 million times the remaining mass in its own orbit). Then, in June 2008 Pluto was re-classified as a sub-class of dwarf planet, known as a plutoid, which refers to Pluto and other objects that have an orbital semi-major axis greater than that of Neptune and enough mass to be of near-spherical shape.
Trump would say there was a conspiracy in the International Astronomical Union and the reclassification of Pluto was rigged. As President, he would direct that Pluto be made a planet again.
Trump would say there was a conspiracy in the International Astronomical Union and the reclassification of Pluto was rigged. As President, he would direct that Pluto be made a planet again.
LOL. Re-classifying Pluto as a full-fledged planet ain't worth having Trumpzilla destroy democracy as we know it.
I like Boobs.
Boobs are awesome.
it's been 8 years since Dan wasn't sorry about UT's finger!
http://www.cellar.org/showpost.php?p=436503&postcount=74Tony's finger is just fine, Dan. Fag.
Tony's finger is just fine, Dan. Fag.
You say that like its a bad thing. ;)
Fags cause lung cancer. Lung cancer's bad mmmk?
You're supposed to talk 'Merican now.
I really like this one posted by
So Awkward on Twitter.
Whү get thinner when үou can get more dinner.
Hello.
This is week 10 of being away from home...I am ready to go home.
7 days.
Hello.
Send the wife a pic, before you get home, in case she doesn't remember you.
Perhaps you've stayed in contact, nevermind.
We moved right before I took off on this trip...I regularly forget my new address.
Chap calls through to our claims dept today, and after I've taken his name and policy number, I ask him what we can help with - he says 'well, this is going to sound really stupid....' - I laugh and ask 'go on, what's happened?'
Well, says he...in April my daughter's hamster escaped (ok, I thought - not what I was expecting) and we thought it was lost. Anyway, this week our washing machine stopped working, so we called out the repair guy and he came out and when we moved the washing machine we found the hamster (uh oh, I think, this story is taking a turn for the grisly) - 'Oh dear,' I say, preparing for the nasty part.
No, no, says he, the hamster's fine - he's a bit annoyed we've put him back in a cage, but he is fat and healthy as ever. But he's chewed through the wires - totally destroyed the loom and damaged the motor. The washing machine is beyond repair.
......................................................................................................................
Hamster, missing for 7 months. Alive and well and living in the washing machine. That was a file note I enjoyed writing.
And to make things even better - most policies exclude damage by pets - but his was a legacy policy that only lists a pet damage exclusion on the Impact peril (don't ask). There was no specific exclusion in any of the other perils, and no whole policy exclusion for damage by pets or animals (except for vermin). And because he was a longstanding customer with a clean claims record, I was able to offer him a cash settlement there and then.
His daughter is ecstatic because hamster is back. He's delighted because what he no doubt expected would be a ball ache of a claims process turned out to be one 15 minute phone call with a cash payout straight into his bank (less the excess obv)
And I got to write the sentence 'Hamster has been living in washing machine since April and has eaten through the wires' in the claim file description, which then appears in the green banner across the top of the claim file screen and will come up every time someone does a claims search on his policy.
Some days I love my job.
Ha ha, that must have made your day. :thumb2:
Fags cause lung cancer. Lung cancer's bad mmmk?
Dude must have a long tongue.
tarheel
:fumette:Ahhhhhhhhhthat'sbetter.:fumette:
If I have to set this motherfucker on fire, it [COLOR="DarkRed"]WILL[/COLOR] be over 70 degrees in this house.
Flint and tw are soulmates. They should get married. I know I would issue them a marriage license and sell them a wedding cake.
Gee golly willickers sexobon you're the best and most bodacious of all the dwellars and this is the best of all the posts ever made by anyone ever in the history of man!!!!!!!
(Just trying to fit in...I really do luvz ya)
I was possessed by the ghost of Christmas future.
The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect:
Flint and tw will have been soulmates. They shall have been married. I know I will have issued them a marriage license and shall have sold them a wedding cake.
(With apologies, and a marriage proposal, to Demetri Martin)
Before you get married, you should know that he is severely--like can't be in the same room severely--allergic to peanuts.
FYI, I love Cris Collinsworth
Before you get married, you should know that he is severely--like can't be in the same room severely--allergic to peanuts.
Ugh. I love peanuts. Will i have to eat them in another building, and will he have peanuts envy?
That certainly sounds like something he would do. Coincidentally, I just bought his book as a stocking stuffer for my stepson today. I don't know if he will like it, but if he's a good human being he will.
I do love This is a Book. He is so funny! :)
Why is it that the men no one wants to fuck are the most lecherous assholes? Hey, no one wants to fuck you. End of story. Stop being gratuitous and gross.
You never know ...
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Why is it that the men no one wants to fuck are the most lecherous assholes? Hey, no one wants to fuck you. End of story. Stop being gratuitous and gross.
because they know it ain't gonna happen, but that's close enough to get them off?
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Ruth Buzzi & Arte Johnson...:rolleyes:
That's gold, Sexobon, gold!
Why is it that the men no one wants to fuck are the most lecherous assholes? Hey, no one wants to fuck you. End of story. Stop being gratuitous and gross.
It's an infinite feedback loop. They take the Lecherous Asshole on-ramp and then discover there is no She Wants To Fuck Me off-ramp. Just an endless cloverleaf.
The ones getting laid have no need to be lecherous.
It's the reason I'm the way I am.
Well, one of the reasons.
Holy Fuck, thats funny!!!
I took a call today that was ridulously difficult.
You know it's going tobe a belter when the answer to the question, 'And is that Miss, Mrs or Ms?' ...is 'Oh, I don;t know, I always get confused'
You're phoning up in the hope we're going to write you a £500 cheque. The questions don't get easier from there, ya know?
Why is it that the men no one wants to fuck are the most lecherous assholes? Hey, no one wants to fuck you. End of story. Stop being gratuitous and gross.
Sorry, I was just kidding! Jeez... Is it my 70's dick broom mustache that bothers you?
a wee shag mantra is an anagram of we hate anagrams
Ok, small hands thing aside -even before I realized you could see his hands- the one thing I noticed about this pic is Melania has enormous hands! they could be photoshopped but I doubt it because this pic is doing the rounds about the cake...
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I think the small hands belong to the guy behind him. :confused:
Now he has *no* hands?
Hands in his own pockets, that's a departure.
I shoulda cropped him out of the picture. But look at her hands -they're huge! She should play the Piania.
I have a body like a Greek God.
White as milk with a two inch dick.
I admire your staying power. . .
But the commercials say you might want to see a doctor.
Ok, small hands thing aside -even before I realized you could see his hands- the one thing I noticed about this pic is Melania has enormous hands! they could be photoshopped but I doubt it because this pic is doing the rounds about the cake...
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Did you see that someone gave that cake to the Daily Show?
All Saint's Day follows Halloweeen*
Maybe there should be a date of hate after Valentine's Day to even things up?
* yes I know technically Halloween precedes ASD....
;)
All Saint's Day follows Halloweeen
I don't see anything wrong with that statement, technical or otherwise?
Perhaps Feb 15th can be Payback For The Disappointment Day.
All Saints' day is also know as all Hallow's day which is where the word Halloween comes from.....
Yes, but ASD is November 1st, and Halloween is October 31st, so ASD does follow Halloween?
Yes, but ASD is November 1st, and Halloween is October 31st, so ASD does follow Halloween?
It's a chicken-and-the-egg kind of question. Halloween is an eve like Christmas Eve--Christmas could in theory exist without a Christmas Eve, but a Christmas Eve with out a Christmas after it wouldn't be an eve after all. Chronologically you are right, it's one then the other, but ASD is sort of assumed to be more important and "exist" first, even if it happens second.
not a queue, a circle
And it travels anti-clockwise
It's a chicken-and-the-egg kind of question. Halloween is an eve like Christmas Eve--Christmas could in theory exist without a Christmas Eve, but a Christmas Eve with out a Christmas after it wouldn't be an eve after all. Chronologically you are right, it's one then the other, but ASD is sort of assumed to be more important and "exist" first, even if it happens second.
I understand Samhain is a couple thousand years old whereas the church didn't move ASD to Nov 1st until around 736AD, allegedly to stomp out Samhain by telling pagans they could be Christian and still party. The previous eve was when all the fun really was so that evolved into Halloween, although unlike when I was a youth, today most activity for children is before evening, and adults on the nearest weekend.
So ASD and Samhain are on Nov 1st, with Halloween on Oct 31st. Halloween evolved from Samhain which is older then ASD, and is the day before. Therefore Halloween comes first on the calendar and chronologically.
I know my computer will jump a hour ahead on it's own tonight, but I can't remember if my new clock does or not. I think it does but I'd have to dig the booklet out and read the tiny print(I know what file drawer it's in), or wait till morning and see... and drink some more tonight. I'll put it to a vote, all in favor of waiting till morning say hell yeah. Hell yeah. The hell yeahs have it. If it doesn't reset, I hope messing with it doesn't make me late for church. I have to leave time to find one on the internet first. Hmm... maybe I shouldn't drink more.
I have to turn my phone off and back on for the change to take effect. There's no provision for changing/resetting the time on my phone.
By the way, the Hell Yeahs were right, the clock fixed itself. :celebrat:
Harry Wesley Coover, Jr. A chemist working for Eastman Kodak, he accidentally discovered a substance first marketed as “Eastman 910,” now commonly known as Super Glue.
Coover was a prolific inventor holding 460 patents, but was proudest of the organizational system that he developed and oversaw at Kodak. “programmed innovation,” a management methodology emphasizing research and development, which resulted in the introduction of 320 new products and sales growth from $1.8 billion to $2.5 billion.
In 2004, he was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame; then in 2010, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
tw will be along to tell how it all went down the toilet. ;)
I really should go to bed. It's a quarter to four in the morning.
My brother and I decided to commemorate the death of the baby Jesus with some mushroom tea. It was fun. We were down at mum's house, 'cause my youngest niece is having a birthday party and my brother and sis-in-law didn't to cramp her style by being there.
I got back at about 12:30 and disappeared into the youtube vortex.
So now I really should go to bed.
I think some flight attendants need to to be reintroduced to reality.
By having the everloving shit stomped out of them.
The guy who stood up for the woman with the stroller on American Airlines? I wish that guy had just stomped, and stomped on that flight attendant. Fucking glorified waiter.
Would you like a denim jacket with fake mud that doesn't wash off?:rolleyes:
or flake off onto the rich corinthian leather of your expensive car or couch.
Poser.
eta:
Who the fuck gets covered in mud that way? I'm no "Dexter", but that patter is only seen on Nickelodeon, and usually in green goo.
Poser.
other random thought... more a hopeful one.. I'm through 2008-2015, mostly done with 2016, and have part of 2017 in the books.. big thread update coming.
Yay!
The Director of the FBI was just about to close in on me when all of the sudden the President fired him! I suppose my plan for world domination will go forward after all.
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I don't have a Swiss Army tophat, but I got a razor-sharp banjo.
And I ain't doing anything atm.
I suppose my plan for world domination will go forward after all.
A passive-aggressive evil genius.:p:
Oh I forgot you were here! See you in July, everyone.
I hope he brings us back something good.
Eh, fuck him, I'd rather see Jackie come back. :lol:
I've been slightly obsessing over The Thick of It and In the Loop and Tuckerisms keep popping into my head. I felt a childish urge to sign-off calls at work with 'Fuckety-bye'
I resisted.
Nor did I tell our stand-in team leader to pop a jaunty bonnet on her KPI scores and ram them up the shitter with a lubricated horse cock.
But I enjoyed thinking about saying it in the team meeting. Which is the important thing.
:p
There was a person from Home Office (BritEnglish: Head Office, not The Home Office) showed up at work today to do some Safety Walk thing. Is it bad that within minutes of meeting her, I eye-bombed her pants (trousers)?
I had to Google it.
Eyebombing is the art of sticking “googly eyes” onto an inanimate object in the public sphere, in a way that cleverly lends the object the appearance of a living creature.
she had a peacock feather design at the bottom of each pant leg begging for googly eyes.
Was she aware of the vandal-eyes-ing? Or was this a stealth operation?
Aware. :D but I think she thought it was an idle musing, not one I could follow through on in seconds :lol:
Psh... I bet you say the same about urinal cake.
Psh... I bet you say the same about urinal cake.
Well, if you have a nice frosting...
how about Jaffa Cakes.....?
..................runs away before the suicide Jaffa Biscuit can activate its explosive orange splodge...............
A dolphin just flew over my house.
No, one of these:
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Not a common sight in these parts. Very distinct sound.
Today is the mid point of the year.
182 days down, 182 days to go.
2 minutes from now, noon (1:00 pm, if your on summer time), is the exact middle of the year.
:)
Today is the mid point of the year.
182 days down, 182 days to go.
2 minutes from now, noon (1:00 pm, if your on summer time), is the exact middle of the year.
:)
I meant 'you're'. I'm very sorry.
Sorry urrbody! Sorry!
Outrageous. Get your coat and don't show you're face around here again!
:P
At least not until he realizes "midpoint" is one word.
So...
Is there a bus?
Should I get an Uber?
How's this Coventry thing work, anyhow?
The Cellar: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all dwellars are created equal, that they are endowed by their Administrator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Sockpuppets, Clone Threads and the pursuit of Memes
Outstanding.
Bartenders are...(sigh)...they're just great.
God bless them, everyone.
I'm still sad about the death of Robin Williams.
The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks during the daytime today. If a really big one was visible streaking through the sky during daylight, I wonder how many people would think we were under North Korean attack.
An asshole is just someone with a completely unique sense of humor
Finally, somebody gets me.
Are these wusses gonna let this guy get away with
that?
Consider this: when you drive a car, you're putting your life in your feet's hands.
Puts a whole new twist on things, don't it? ;)
Only if ya steer with ya feets.
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I pray for him every night.
I hope the person who invented glitter is roasting on the same spit, in the same pit in hell as the piece of shit who laid out my subdivision.
WTF was I thinking when I bought this god damned place?
WTF was I thinking when I took that pistol outta my mouth?
WTF was I thinking when I ducked when that motherfucker shot at me that time?
WTF was I thinking when I took that last breath?
I guess I was thinking "Suffer, motherfucker, suffer."
Ya ever seen an Arab midget?
Would women be less sexy, as sexy, or sexier, if, instead of two boobs, they had just one big boob? Like a camel hump poking outta their chest.
depends if you like to put your dick between them or not?
Human beings are just rotten as shit.
Wuzzat, some kinda fertilizer?
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If Santa Clause drops lumps of coal on North Korea, will it violate UN sanctions?
Santa global positioning status:
https://www.noradsanta.org/Yesterday I went to WallyWorld for some last minute stuff. As I'm getting out of GrandCherokee1, a guy and his wife (?) are getting out of their car 2 empty parking spaces away.
The guy takes a couple steps in my direction and says:
"Excuse me, sir?" (btw, do ya get used to that 'sir' shit as ya get older? It still fucks with me.)
I said "Can I help ya?", expecting him to ask for money, or some Xmassy, scammy-type thing.
He says "Boy, I sure hope so. I'll give you a $100 right now if you'll whup my ass so I don't have to go in here (pointing to WallyWorld).
I looked at him for a minute and said "Deal. But, you'll have to wait for me to come back out, I'm sure I'll be ready to fight by the time I get outta there." And then I looked the guy up and down right quick, he's 6 feet tall, 250 lbs if he weighs an ounce, and then I said "I might have to section off a piece of ya to whup on, you a pretty good sized old boy."
He laughed. I laughed. He's funny, I'm funny, we're all pretty fuckin' funny.
Dude's wife came off with the line of the year as far as I'm concerned. She said, without even glancing at the guy:
"If you wanted your ass whupped, you shoulda said something before we left the house."
:drummer:
That is fucking priceless. :thumb:
"Excuse me, sir?" (btw, do ya get used to that 'sir' shit as ya get older? It still fucks with me.)
I know exactly what you mean.
A few weeks ago I nipped out for some milk and as I crossed the road to the shop a member of the Ministry of Defence Provost Guard Service was just getting out of his vehicle. (There's a nearby MoD establishment).
So, I nod and wish him good morning and receive a 'good morning, sir' in response.
That took me by surprise as nobody ever calls me 'sir' unless they are attempting to extract money from me.
Proof, I suppose, if proof were needed that decrepitude really has set in. :(
In 1986ish I worked in high street clothing stores, and any male older than me was "sir" (I was late teens) Same age or younger was "mate". Now they are all "sir" even though I am older than many. But I guess I am trying to extract $$ from you....
I've been called "girlie" in certain clothing shops, even in recent years, and it always throws me for a loop.
Consider that the President is surrounded by loyal yes men. All he hears all day long is 100% agreement. Two thirds of the country disapproves of him, but he's surrounded by 100% approval all the time.
From 2006 friends.
Barring the 2/3, this is true of virtually every president for the last half century.
I feel like running a four-bore, double barrelled shotgun up this day's ass all the way to the collar bone and pulling both triggers. Then, stomp what's left of the skull until flat, and dry. Then, eat this goddamned, motherfucking, son-of-a-bitch of a goddamned day, with hot sauce and shit it over a thousand foot cliff, directly into a coal seam fire, where I hope it burns white hot for the next twelve thousand, nine hundred, eleventy-seven eternities. In the fucking rain.
Yeah, not happy with this day so far. I'm a little miffed.
I feel like running a four-bore, double barrelled shotgun up this day's ass all the way to the collar bone and pulling both triggers. Then, stomp what's left of the skull until flat, and dry. Then, eat this goddamned, motherfucking, son-of-a-bitch of a goddamned day, with hot sauce and shit it over a thousand foot cliff, directly into a coal seam fire, where I hope it burns white hot for the next twelve thousand, nine hundred, eleventy-seven eternities. In the fucking rain.
Yeah, not happy with this day so far. I'm a little miffed.
At around four thousand miles, I'm probably out of range of the 1st Gravdigr Heavy Artillery Regiment, so could I enquire as to what has prompted your miffdom?
That is a good question, but as I am only three thousand miles away, I'll wait for him to answer YOUR question.
I feel like running a four-bore, double barrelled shotgun up this day's ass all the way to the collar bone and pulling both triggers. Then, stomp what's left of the skull until flat, and dry. Then, eat this goddamned, motherfucking, son-of-a-bitch of a goddamned day, with hot sauce and shit it over a thousand foot cliff, directly into a coal seam fire, where I hope it burns white hot for the next twelve thousand, nine hundred, eleventy-seven eternities. In the fucking rain.
Yeah, not happy with this day so far. I'm a little miffed.
This, but change 'day' to 'week'.
I seem to have spent the last three days dealing almost exclusively with dipshits and wankers.
*Imma add to that a short plea to anybody who is willing to listen:
If you have a home insurance policy - please read the details provided in your welcome pack, that set out the various aspects of cover included in your policy. And if you chose to keep down your monthly premiums by selecting a big ass excess/copay in the event of a claim, or by not opting to take the additional lines of cover such as Home Emergency cover, or Accidental Damage to contents - please do not shout at me and call me names when I tell you I have to deduct £400 excess from the settlement for your £500 TV, or that I cannot send out an emergency locksmith to your house, or that there is nothing I can do about the giant paint stain on your brand new sofa.
I did not select your cover. Other people are paying additional premiums for the cover you decided you wouldn't need, have now discovered rather belatedly that you do need, and are raising merry hell and threatening to go to the Ombudsman because you are not being provided with it.
And then when, despite you not having the cover in place, I spend 2 hours liaising with our windows and doors supplier to try and get your non-emergency timescaled appt moved forward - have the decency to thank me for it when I get them to you the next fucking day instead of complaining that I was 'condescending, unsympathetic and didn't understand'.
The previous handler just said they were really sorry but there was nothing they could do without the home emergency cover in place - they would have to go through the standard windows and doors repair process. I could have done the same. I didn't - I tried my hardest to get this woman a better solution and fucking succeeded, but she was still pissed off at me.
That is a good question, but as I am only three thousand miles away, I'll wait for him to answer YOUR question.
Discretion is the better part of valour. :)
Also - while I am at it - I can understand not having your policy number when you call - but not knowing a goddamn thing about the fucking policy is not helpful when I am trying to complete security checks.
There are all sorts of questions I can ask you to comply with data protection questions - only one of them has to be policy related. Don't have you policy number/ That's fine, can you confirm the month your policy is renewed each year? No - ok, can you confirm the name of the broker or bank where you took out the policy? No - ok - do you know what your excess is on the policy? No. ok - ok then can you tell me what kind of policy it is: is it buildings only, contents only, or a combined contents and buildings policy? no.....ok - have you made any previous claims? You'e not sure - you think maybe - but you can't remember what it was for?
well, then we have a problem because I can't discuss a damn thing about your policy or potential claim.
Days like today would get me fired for sure from that type of job. This would be one of those 'mental health' days some companies provide.
Days like today would get me fired for sure from that type of job. This would be one of those 'mental health' days some companies provide.
*grins*
I do sometimes imagine what it would be like if I actually let out the annoyance I feel on a call.
"Well, actually, I don;t think you do understand, and I find your tone very condescending - you don;t sound sympathetic at all"
"Really, well that's weird, because I was just thinking you sound like a total bitch with anger management issues and a misplaced sense of entitlement, so go figure"
At around four thousand miles, I'm probably out of range of the 1st Gravdigr Heavy Artillery Regiment, so could I enquire as to what has prompted your miffdom?
That is a good question, but as I am only three thousand miles away, I'll wait for him to answer YOUR question.
Discretion is the better part of valour. :)
Oh, it's nothing a thousand years and ten gallons of Wild Turkey won't remedy.;)
Just venting, really. I don't frustrate well.
YouTube thumbed me in the eye first thing this morning.
I expect I'll get over it, but, prolly not today.:lol2:
Why aren't there comments on Craigslist? I have so many questions like ... does that mean frying pans are included?....
https://annarbor.craigslist.org/for/d/complete-breaded-dragon-set-up/6443175319.htmlBecause it's not fleabay it's a classified ad, you have to conact the seller with questions.
dude, the question was rhetorical. Just for funsies. Did you have to sell your sense of humor to pay your heating bill or something?
Sometimes I think human services is excellent work excepting people.
Yah. My Job would be so easy if it wasn't for the policyholders, brokers, suppliers and underwriters ...
'Good morning, you're through to DanaC in the claims team, could I take your full name please?'
'Joseph'
*blinks*
'Thankyou, and your surname please?'
'Bloggs'
'Thanks. And do you have a policy number or claim reference I can take?'
'No'
'Ok, that's fine, could I take your post code?'
'AA1 1AA'
'Thankyou, and are you calling about an existing claim or to register a new one'
'Well, I don't know - I called last week'
'Right, ok, I can have a look and see if anything was registered'
'Well - I've got a claim number...'
*shoots self in the head*
Yah. My Job would be so easy if it wasn't for the policyholders, brokers, suppliers and underwriters ...
Anyone who works with, or for, the Great British Public has my undying admiration.
Having 'served' a subset of the public for years in a previous life, the thought of having to deal with them en masse brings me out in a cold sweat. :eek:
You have my sympathy.
Many of the people I speak to are lovely. Most are fine - some are funny, some are heartbreaking, and some you're thankful for only having to be a part of their life of for a few minutes.
dude, the question was rhetorical. Just for funsies. Did you have to sell your sense of humor to pay your heating bill or something?
Pardon me, I forgot about your fucked up Brit humo(u)r.
Looks like the beginning of a new fad:
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Able bodied adults, who don't have State approved mitigating circumstances, will have to work at least part time to get into the State healthcare program and to remain there.
They actually expect people to stop freeloading on their government! Oh those wily Kentuckians.
Yeah, if anyone gave a shit, that might be newsworthy.
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Who is he dueling?
Maybe he's a Yankee Doodling Dandy.
Could be "walk ten paces, turn and fire!" rules in effect.
That's how gunfighters used to train back in the ol' days. They'd stand there while the sun was going down until the angle was just right; then, see if they could outdraw their own shadow. The wait was a grueling ordeal that taxed the nerves and hardened them.
...outdraw their own shadow...
Somewhat related[/notreally]:
I once won a staring contest with my own reflection.
I had an interview today for a 6 month secondment to the customer relations team as a complaints specialist.
Man I hate interviews. This one was at least fairly low stakes because if I don't get it, I'm still doing a job I love.
The worst thing in interviews, are the fucking 'competency based questions'. It doesn't matter how many times you've done this or that, or contributed to the other, when someone asks you to give an example they all vanish from your mind.
Sounds like you know the answers, you just get freaked and lose it because of your lack of self confidence.
C'mon, you ain't no dumb cubical mushroom, you're DOCTOR Dana ferchristsakes.
Only for a moment. I'm pretty good at dragging out some kind of answer.
One of the company values (a set of directives we're supposed to live and breathe) is 'be yourself, be big hearted'
In the interview I was asked: 'what does that mean to you'?
*blinks*
I think I waffled that one a bit til something popped into my head.
What I am quite good at, I think, is reframing that shit to my own purposes. Ask me about a time I 'collaborated on a project or task' and I chose to focus on something a little less nailed down, like the way we are building our new team, and helping the newbies get to grips with the job.
If I don't have something that exactly matches what they're looking for, I can usually find something that speaks to the same set of skills.
Practice your, Hmm, wrinkled brow, maybe fist against the chin, deep thinker pose. :thumb:
How many pot holders do you have?
How could you possibly ever need more than two (2)?
You only have two (2) hands.
What, are you working your feet in there, too?
Okay. That's four, if you're a tigger, or a kangaroo, and can rest/stand on your tail.
What's with all these fucking pot holders?!?!:mad:
How in the fuck am I supposed to know what you are talking about when you yourself have no fucking clue?
How in the fuck am I supposed to know what you are talking about when you yourself have no fucking clue?
You OK there, Grav?
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I technically have four potholders, but two are kid-sized.
Some folks use those simple square potholders as trivets.
You OK there, Grav?
Y'know...I'm not sure at all sometimes.:p:
Just random venting.
Someone had just used the word 'thing' four times in one sentence. I hate the word 'thing'.
"What's that thing that things on the side of that thing? Yeah, pick me up one of those."
Thank you for your concern.:D
This man is a B-52 of Truth:
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KABOOM!!!!!
:devil::devil::devil:
There's a hotel called YurInn in Cancun
In our family, we call them "lifters," not "potholders."
Anyone else?
The vet called me.
My cat, Slick's vet.
The vet to the cat that's been dead for three years...
She just wanted to check in. See how I was. Do I have another pet?
Would I want to get a drink, or have dinner, sometime?
:jig:
Is this, like, a date? Or is she just drumming up business referrals? I hope it's the former!
IDk what I hope it is.:lol2:
IDk what I hope it is.:lol2:
You
animal you!
It's looking like North Korea may replace Mexico as a retirement destination abroad.
I can see a land of Trumpkin Villages recreating NK, old white folks dotting the landscape. So much bigly beauty.
On Facebook there was an article posted about who should pay on a first date.
My response:
Neither should pay because I believe in adventure on a first date. You make reservations under a false identity at a restaurant. Order anything you want, have a wonderful time. Then towards the end when things start to wind down call over the server and ask them to give your compliments to the chef. In fact, the food was so good you would like to thank them personally and insist they bring the chef over to your table. Once they leave explain to your date that on the count of 3 you will both stand up and calmly walk out of the restaurant. Done.
A few tips:
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[*]Make sure this is a restaurant that you will never want to visit again.
[*]Do the simple math on how much the bill would have been and leave a 20% tip for the server.
[*]If your date gives you any resistance about leaving then give them 1 chance to change their mind, if they refuse, then say "You're on your own, sucker!" in the voice of James Cagney and leave immediately.
[*]If you're accosted for any reason between your table and the exit look wild-eyed at your date and start screaming "[COLOR="Blue"]CODE BLUE! CODE BLUE![/COLOR]" and bolt in a different direction. No you did not have any prior contingency plan for such an event, but in the confusion you will be able to make a getaway and self preservation is all that matters.
[*]Enjoy.
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Welcome aboard Thatch Slasher.
Thatch Slasher's first post was #666. Better keep an eye on this newbie.
Thatch Slasher? Do you work at Great Clips or Fantastic Sam's?
Good idea, keep up the distractions. That pirate is here for our devil fruits.
He'd best keep his crummy dick beaters off m'devil fruit.
I won't tolerate it.
It has just occurred to me that, as I sit here, Donald is about 2½ miles away.
As random thoughts go, I think it qualifies.
Do you feel any smarter? If not, he's probably not carrying much money with him.
Did you download American Idiot yet?
Random thought: It's all the fault of Fox News, which means it's not 'Merica's fault for having a shitty education system, blame Murdoch.
What a coincidence, AI also stands for Artificial Intelligence.
Just a random thought.
On the bright side, we're being replaced.
Fuck you Jack Daniel.
I will purchase Jack Daniel's Whisky no more. Forever.
Or until the new bottled in bond Jack is available somewhere besides a duty free shop.
Fuck you Jack Daniel's Whisky.
I know. Straight to hell in a handbasket....
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Boo.
And fuck Jack Daniel's.
My Birkenstock's don't have eyes, that's creepy.
I stand in awe at the ability of 1 cu ft of hedge to transmogrify into 1 cu yd of hedge trimmings.
I have just finished trimming the hedge that runs along the side of the house and all the way down the back garden.
It won't get any Royal Horticultural Society topiary awards, but it has been tamed and is unlikely to strangle us all in our beds.
As above, the trouble is that you always end up with a huge volume of debris (apparently) far in excess of what you've just cut off.
I concur, it grows exponentially after cutting. :yesnod:
You should see what happens to tree!:eek:
You should see what happens to tree!:eek:
That's one road I definitely don't want to go down!
I'm not really a tree surgeon, more a hedge paramedic. :)
Ya never hear anything about Mozambique in the news.
What is an occasional table the rest of the time?
What is an occasional table the rest of the time?
A right now table.;)
I've apparently come to a point in my life where I have to add "treadmill lube" to my to-do list.
I've apparently come to the point in my life where I've been made aware that treadmill lube is a thing.
So I googled it. 100% silicone oil. You should be able to use it to remove scars too. It's the exact same stuff as
ScarAway for one twelfth to cost.
I think it's called ADHD because that's what their report cards look like. (currently AAADA in mine's case....)
[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Let's play spot the teacher who thinks he should just "focus" more rather than following the accommodations set down by the school support team -notably that homework assignments and deadlines should be in a written form..... (there has been recent improvement, I suspect the counselors may have looked at these grades and brought it to the attention of the teacher in question...but this is yet to show up in the grade.... sigh[/COLOR]
What might change with Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court?
Hmmm …
Pussy grabbing could become an Olympic sport.
Beauty pageant swimsuit competitions could be done away with, not the competitions, just the swimsuits.
[COLOR="DarkRed"]#MeeToo[/COLOR] might have to be written in all scarlet letters.
Bill Cosby could get another sitcom, in which he portrays a father figure, that's called Pudding Pop.
Football players could be denied medical coverage for knee injuries.
The FBI might have its name changed to the FBLI.
College students may have to sign NDAs.
The border wall could be extended around California's land border.
Julie Chen (Moonves) might be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I'm betting that only people/organizations that follow such things very closely will know anything ever happened.
Only 75 days until
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:xmashat:
Stop that. You stop that, right now, do you hear? I won't have it. I just won't.
:p
Only 75 days until
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:xmashat:
Stop that. You stop that, right now, do you hear? I won't have it. I just won't.
:p
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I got one! I got one!
Ooh, it's a two-fer.
Ya ever post looking for a specific response?
:D:jig:
I hate you.
See this: :cuss:
That's my hate face.
I am easily entertained sometimes.:D
Only 75 days until
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:xmashat:
Only 72 days until Christmas is over! Whoop!!!!!!!!!
Welp, there goes my retirement. thanks Obama!
:( I actually really hate having investments. This is far too stressful. I'm refusing to look.
Are you about to retire? If not, buy more investments when there's a downturn. You only lose money on an investment when you sell. If you don't need to sell something off to live on during retirement, look at a market downturn as a store-wide sale.
I get emails at least weekly from Edward Jones telling me to go look at what they are doing with my money. I don't.
I get emails at least weekly from Edward Jones telling me to go look at what they are doing with my money. I don't.
My workplace pension people write to me every so often. I hae tried to read them. They make zero sense to me.
Here's the headline:
PBS writer mumbles 'not bad' at picture of Duchess Meghan Markle, is fired: lawsuit
Disclosure: I knew this man several decades ago. His father was a retied British Army Major from Gibraltar. His mother was in the US Women's Army Corps and from Pittsburgh, PA. He has lived in Europe.
Professional background
Story:
An editor for PBS Newshour Weekend mumbled “not bad” at a photo of Meghan Markle, outraging colleagues and resulting in his termination, according to a new lawsuit.
Max*, 72, says in papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court that his colleagues on the show misunderstood and overreacted to his stray comment to a male co-worker.
The remark came on Nov. 25, 2017 as Max* wrote a story about the Royal Family and Prince Harry’s engagement to Markle, who is now the Duchess of Sussex.
“By this remark, (Max*) intended to convey that the Duchess possessed charm and beauty and was a suitable match for her fiance, who has a reputation of possessing charm and handsome looks,” the suit reads. “Plaintiff did not intend his remark to be a sexual comment about the Duchess.” ...
*We called him by the shortened version of his middle name to differentiate him from his namesake father.
Q: Given his age and background, is his explanation plausible from your point of view?
yeah that defense is bullshit. "not bad" in that context is a remark on her sex appeal. Outrage and dismissal though? Purlease...
so no, not plausible. But Fired seems harsh. Retraining on whatever we are politically-correctly calling "don't be sexist in the workplace" these days might be more appropriate. It's "Harassment and Something Else Awareness" I think where I work. Dull as dishwater and hours long so you learn appropriate behavior to avoid ever having to do it again.....
From what I can tell, he said it live on air, is that correct?
Not that I know of, he's an Editor/Writer. The only times I've seen him on camera were Christmas broadcasts when they panned the staff behind the scenes so they could wave to their families.
How did they ascertain the "not bad" was in reference to Ms markle and not the quality of the photograph?
According to the article, he acknowledged the comment was about Markle in his lawsuit; but, denies a sexual connotation.
My takes, in order:
1.) He definitely meant to refer to her sex appeal; his defense is typical CYA bullshit.
2.) If he said it on air, I support his firing. If he said it privately to a coworker, I do not. However...
3.) Even in "today's climate," my impression is that such a comment, taken in isolation, is not enough to get someone fired. I suspect they have endured decades of borderline behavior from this person, and are merely jumping at the opportunity to get him now while they can. Or maybe it's plain old age discrimination cloaked as overzealous feminism. Who knows. But I'd bet money there's more to this than a single comment of that caliber.
I think he's up a creek without a paddle using that defense. However, I knew his extended family and his background is a bit different; so, I solicited opinions.
According to the article, he alleges that those who complained have exhibited similar behavior without such repercussion. If that's the case, they wanted to get rid of him for some other reason. I'd guess they wanted to put him out to pasture to make room for someone else. Whether he's been screwing up in his old age; or, was just made a target of opportunity by an opportunist isn't evident from what I've seen so far.
:( I actually really hate having investments. This is far too stressful. I'm refusing to look.
My mum's financial advisor said you should take away your age from 100, and that is the percentage of your money you should have in stocks and shares. The rest should be cash in the bank.
According to the article, he alleges that those who complained have exhibited similar behavior without such repercussion.
That would not surprise me in the least. Sexism is endemic in the workplace in my experience.
Would someone please kill me? I'll come to you, you wouldn't have to travel. I'm not brave enough, it seems. I'm a pussy. I'm a big fucking pussy.[/bigfuckingpussy]
Sorry, Grav, it's a hard pass from me. I want you here and I'm selfish enough to demand it.
Fuck you Grav, you ain't goin' nowhere, you'll stay and suffer with the rest of us.
What about the people around me, then? I ain't particular.
Bring extra ammo.
Sorry I posted that. Weren't as bad as it sounded. I guess. You guys are cool.
waitaminit!
let's *compromise*.
you come on out here and we'll just skip the assisted suicide part.
Come on, what do you say???
Oh, I've moved from suicide on to homicide.
Sentence is shorter.:D
I poop platinum and diamonds, but the evil media never reports it so everyone thinks i poop shit
Fuckin immigruntzes, man. Leaving their piles of diamonds and platinums all over the place...
I read about it, but thought it was cubic zirconia news.
TIHAW, try the cod.
President Trump will be able to pardon himself on Thanksgiving Day.
Works like a charm every time. Could not find the lien release for one of the cars in the stack of all the paperwork I've had to deal with this year. Decided to give up and call before office hours ended and get another copy sent ........found it at the very bottom of the last possible bundle as I was finishing up the call. I really should just learn to give up at the start, I'd save so much time. :p On the plus side, I managed to dispatch a sizeable volume of paperwork to the recycling bin so there's some good. On the minus side I missed the Secretary of State Office hours for today so I'll have to brave it on a Friday :eek:
Has anyone noticed that in Freddy vs Jason when Freddy awakens Jason that he already has a machete? I'm all for the suspension of disbelief, but come on. You want me to believe that $15 dollar bush machete that has been covered in damp forest vegetation and rained on for at least a decade would still be capable of piercing/slashing through 7+ bodies, sever a human head and also cut into an aluminum beer keg?
I know it is a fictional movie about a burnt pedophilic serial killer vs. a mentally disabled child who drowned in Crystal Lake because of neglectful camp counselors and he somehow revived and lived in the surrounding woods for over 20 years and became a mass murderer.
Yes, it's a ridiculous story... BUT that is somehow more believable than that bastard machete!
Welcome to the cellar thiccween.
Welcome to the cellar thiccween.
Thank you very much, fargon!
Today would have been Bruce Lee's 78th birthday.
Makes me want to watch kung fu movies now.
Makes me want to watch Green Hornet re-runs now.
Wasn't it a Bruce Lee movie where Kareem Abdul Jabbar was one of the fighting extras (or something) and got kicked by Bruce hard enough to leave a perfect footprint on his chest as he went flying backward?
Looks like YouTube is fucked up again.
I can't get anything to play.
I feel like the little red hen. They're all to happy to drive the car when it's fixed, but far too busy to drive the thing to the shop... :/
I feel like the little red hen. They're all to happy to drive the car when it's fixed, but far too busy to drive the thing to the shop... :/
Yabbut be mean. Keep your car functional and your keys hidden. They’ll learn that car driving also means car maintenance ....
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...and make them pay for it occasionally.
Multiple car keys is what allows this family to work! I'm just griping. Because I can. We have three keys for the one the college kids drive and it's fabulous -originally 2, but one was broken and then lost so we paid the $100+ to get a new second key.... then we found the lost one this summer. So either of them can use the car without having to locate the other for the key, and I have one too. You know for if I need to pick it up to take it to the repair shop :/ I'm happy to do it because they are spending their time wisely and will keep me in my old age ;)
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Hard-wired, in the same building, versus, from fucking MARS, by radio.
God damn a Vizio television.
Only 333 days until Christmas.
Only 333 days until Christmas.
the advent of the half-beast?
Terry Crews is a very talented painter.
No, really.
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Dis some Bob Ross shit, man.
Ever wonder why Grandpa won't buy a Jap car?
Just posted a ton of pics.
My Pics For The Cellar folder is now empty.:cheerldr:
The protocol for Wiki's list of notable deaths goes like this:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death
Dude died the other day, cause of death was listed as "
airstrike".
That stood out.
apparently I'm really fuckin tired.
I'm sorry monster.
I know it's a lot.
you and I clearly live in different realities.
But since that post I've put the laundry on, cooked dinner, flea-treated the cats, so I guess I'm a little closer. lunches, dishwasher and some other shit to go
oh and then there's the crippling inertia that sets in when I'm finally ready to go upstairs to overcome.....
oh well
oh yeah and then the insomnia that sets in once the inertia lets go ..and the nightmares after the insomnia if I manage to fall asleep early enough that I start to dream before my alarm goes off....
Go to Bed :rolleyes:
Rub one out, you'll feel better.
Ya still might not be able to sleep, but, you'll feel better.:o
you and I clearly live in different realities.
But since that post I've put the laundry on, cooked dinner, flea-treated the cats, so I guess I'm a little closer. lunches, dishwasher and some other shit to go
oh and then there's the crippling inertia that sets in when I'm finally ready to go upstairs to overcome.....
oh well
I hear you, and I get it, and I'm sorry. We'll all stagger through together, because fuck the world, it doesn't get to win.
But sometimes surrender looks very appealing.
Giving up looks very appealing, sometimes.
apparently I'm really fuckin tired.
so wheeee Saturday off! wanted to do Parkrun today for first time. Set alarm. woke up. decided too early, not feeling it, set later for last minute attempt.... yeah nope. Ended up with about a 12 hour kip total. aaaahhhh. Been pretty productive around the house today. Thunderboy was out for most of it doing lifeguard training. Empty Nest practice. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how fucking bored I'm going to be if that ever actually happens? :lol:
(Thunderboy's college/campus of choice is a commuter college, so he will live at home despite it being much further away than the campus the other two chose -which is closer than their high school.)
Also.... I met an old friend last night at Thurnderboy's school. used to be a cop, now apparently a "Community Assistant" (hall monitor). Has kids same age as my older two, they all went through K-8 in the same classes...... didn't recognize Thunderboy when she saw him and apparently pegged him as a potential active shooter from his appearance and demeanor. nice. She says better now he's wearing his varsity jacket rather than camo, but prob something we should work on.....
People 'choose partners with similar life expectancies'
People unwittingly tend to choose a partner with a similar life expectancy, according to new research.
A genetic study found humans also unconsciously select mates with similar risks of illness such as blood pressure or heart disease.
Experts say the findings help explain why long-term couples often suffer from the same ailments in later years.
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh concluded the effect is likely a result of choosing a mate with shared lifestyle factors that are genetically linked to disease. These include risks such as smoking, or healthy behaviours.
I never had the good fortune to marry so, taking the above into account, it occurs to me that I might live forever.
Or will it just feel like it?
LinkYou and I will never know the infinite relief of a divorce.
Ya want the best of both worlds, so to speak?
Throw away half of what you own.
Marie Kondo: Divorce simulator?
Could be. Idk what a Marie Kondo is.
You and I will never know the infinite relief of a divorce.
Nor the dread. :thumb:
Ya want the best of both worlds, so to speak?
Throw away half of what you own.
I've started working on this. Last year, I went through every one of my closets and cleaned them out. Goodwill got a metric butt-ton of good new and used clothes/shoes, plus books and small electronics and appliances. I was also able to get rid of some old computers and TVs (they recycle them for free). Claimed it all on my taxes. Win-win-win.
I need to keep going with this, though. I think this year, I'm going to tackle the front room in my house. That's where (1) I keep a bunch of boxes of stuff that didn't sell at my last yard sale a few years ago, and (2) multiple boxes of misc family treasures and house decor items that I lugged home from my folks' house.
The yard sale stuff can go, but I need to decide what to do with the stuff I brought home from SoCal. Some I want to keep, but there are quite a few things I plan to sell. Need to get going on this!
I want to return back to my mother's belly.
That post absolutely qualifies as random.
Weird as fuck, but, random.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Thanks Griff. I like this, I lean on it regularly, like a sturdy walking stick as I travel along the road of life. Sometimes it's more of a hike on a trail, sometimes I'm bushwhacking. It's especially helpful in times like those.
Thanks Griff. I like this, I lean on it regularly
2nded
I have ten 1099s, 4 W2s....
welcome to my hell
extension filed.....
financial advice with a little help from my friends :)
so.... every payout/fund rollover I received when beest died brings forth a 1099. his 401K kept receiving dividends for some time ..each one bringing on a 1099 etc etc etc. Plus he got a regular W2 and then one from when he was paid by their insurers because he was on long term sick leave (turned out to be one day....), I got a regular W2 and one from a former employer (local public schools from when I coached the swim team) who had a recent ruling against them that something they were doing regarding withholding cash for some fund when they employed me was wrong and they had to pay it back. It was a whole $13....... such is my world.....
I guess that shoots the 1040EZ all to hell, don't it?:lol2:
doesn't exist any more
Neither does the Edsel, but we still make fun of it and use it for jokes.
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Today is Monday, but don't let it bother you.
Just change your perspective.
Upper management sucks.
They have brought in a new system which should eventually cut everybody's stress levels down and allow for a more 'claim ownership' approach where we are primarily dealing with our own claims and newly assigned claims, rather constantly having to deal with other people's claims which are often very complex: policyholder calls in for an update on their claim, it lands on a claims handler who has never touched it before so they end up having to do a full claim review before they can help.
Yay - Direct dial, what we've been asking for is finally here.
So why do management suck?
1. They know for this system to work the team needs to be at 70% strength - minimum - e.g normal levels of holiday, sickness, appointment absence
2. They know for this system to work the entire team needs to be trained to handle bespoke / high net worth policies.
This is because they need us all in Ready status on the phones - the direct dial call ins won't come through to us if we are in 'wrap up' status and would therefore ping across to someone else, which defeats the purpose.
So - no wrap time - you take or make a call, at the end of it you go back into Ready - if a new claim referral comes through on the main line it will go the person who has been in ready the longest, and if it's a call to your direct line from one of your customers, or a supplier, you try to deal with it but can also book a callback with them and go back to what you are doing. If people are off work, or in training someone else will need to pick up that call.
So the idea is that it will take quite a while for another call to come through so that should give plenty of time for appointing suppliers, reading adjustor reports etc. But it only works if we aren't limping along with half the team away or unable to pick up calls.
3. They know that to get the entire team trained up will take approx. 6 weeks as they filter small groups through the training.
4. They know that while the training is going through there will groups of 3-4 on a full day of training with a second consolidation day where they only deal with high net worth calls, and one of the HNW experienced handlers will also be on protected lines - meaning with normal levels of absence, the team will be at about 50% strength for 2 days a week for 6 weeks.
Did they wait until everybody was trained?
No. They started halfway through.
Did they introduce it on a day when the whole team were in (less the normal absences) ?
No - the new system went live on a training day which meant for the first 2 days of this brand new way of working which requires everybody to be doing the same thing and not be on protected lines - we were at 50% strength.
Three weeks of 2 days a week of everything falling apart - racking up mountains of follow up work which then makes the other 3 days hellishly busy as we all play catch up.
It's a long time since I have felt depressed at the thought of going to work, but that's how I felt all last week.
They made such an almighty hash of introducing the new Buildings Team process when I first started in the team in May, that it's taken to about the last couple months for things to start calming down - and we very rarely more than a bad day away from meltdown (way too few people with way too little working time to do what they want us to do).
During the past few months they have changed how we work several times - usually it leads eventually to a more workable system, but usually it is done in the most stress inducing way possible - and we always tell them: X will lead to Y - and they always say, look just try it and then feedback - so we try it, and X leads to Y and so we feed it back and they basically tell us to live with it for a few months, because it will work when Z is in place - so why the fuck not just wait until Z is in place before implementing?
*deep breath*
Hoping things will settle down in a couple of weeks - until the next time.
:grouphug: Sorry to rear than, unfortunately it's all to common.
Rich connected people get their kid into the “right schools” because it’s first base and success always starts at first base. Then the wealthy people’s friends make sure the kid gets into the best internships, leading to the most prestigious jobs. The folks social connection get the kid into the right clubs and appointed to the board of the most high profile charities. Now the kid is ready for a corporate board of directors where just showing up for meetings is good enough to make the kid a candidate for CEO/CFO/COO. It doesn’t matter if he knows his ass from a hole in the ground because he’ll be surrounded by people who actually know how to run the business but can’t because they didn’t get to a prestigious first base. The people who know aren't allowed to object or criticize higher ups so stupidity trickles down.
True dat.
I think it's pretty standard practice across most major organisations - I doubt my employers are worse than most. In many ways they're pretty decent - or at least, the middle and low management are better able to mitigate the corporate bullshit than most.
They've been very supportive of my going for light treatment for my eczema - allowed me an hour and a half appointment time 3 times a week for about 13 weeks (possibly longer, possibly shorter depending how I respond to treatment) and shuffling my shifts around so I don't have to do the early shift when I have appointments and stuff. That way o don't have tto come to work then go off to the hospital and back - I can just go straight to the hospital and then go from there to work.
It's just bloody frustrating when they overload us unnecessarily and then wonder why the system falls apart for a few weeks lol
Is it just me, or does HoMedic seem a poor choice for a brand name? Unless they're selling on the spot penicillin shots
...I went home with this 43 yo nurse, I was 22. She was a big 'un, but she was fun. We got back to my place and she gave me a penicillin shot before we did anything, which I thought was really nice of her. Lotta women won't tell ya there's something down there that'll get ya, but she had a heart, and she cared about ppl.
~Rodney Carrington
I’ve found myself doing this thing a bit recently, where, if someone asks me what sort of music I like, I say "well I don’t listen to the radio because pop lyrics annoy me". Or if someone asks me what food I like, I say "I think truffle oil is overused and slightly obnoxious". And I see it all the time online, people whose idea of being part of a subculture is to hate Coldplay or football or feminists or the Liberal Party. We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff; as a comedian, I make a living out of it. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
-
Tim Minchin
(i am a miserable contrarian but i do try to do this)
There are several threads for quotes; but, somehow they end up here.
- Tim Minchin
(i am a miserable contrarian but i do try to do this)
That's good advice
That's good advice
oh, no. wait. the opposite of that.
The judgement thread is elsewhere.
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This loops in my head a lot these days.
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
And so the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through
you know, Bowie
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All it takes is evaluation of one's posting habits.
And the intent, which may not always be clear.
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Henry fucking gets it. It's fucking hard.
Maybe, but how many times do you have to have it unexpectedly stuck up your ass until you just keep your pants up?
Intent is often fuzzy (at least to the observer): so, judge the actions.
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Then they are gone... so is your horse and hat.
hunt 'em down: bury 'em deep
May the 4th be with all Dwellars today.
May the 4th be with all Dwellars today.
Bravo! :thumb:
They named him Archie hoping he'll someday marry a gal named Edith. They'll always have that over him.
"Hate hurts you." Racism is more harmful to the person who is racist, than to any person they are being racist to.
I mean, I guess if you're just counting words and thoughts. Being dragged to death behind a truck is probably worse than what racism does to the redneck.
Back when I was doing my degree, I read some really interesting stuff about slavery in the antebellum south that made a really good case for the psychological damage the system of slavery did to the slave owning class
Rainy day, this should at least reduce the number of rounds the transplanted city folk touch off today. :nuts:
Big Sarge - please check your PMs.
Maybe Gravdigr popped the question to Big Sarge and they eloped.
Hmmm, maybe I'll pick up some extra batteries.
U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid
I don't know, isn't Kaspersky on their side?
I think I'll rule out Argentina and Uruguay as vacation destinations.
Massive power outage hits Argentina, Uruguay: power companies
Picture caption...
© Victor R. Caivano/AP Photo Using her cell phone as a flash light, a woman walks up the stairs to her sixth floor apartment in a building that has been without electricity for two weeks in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. Power outages continue in Argentina's capital, where electricity usage is setting new records amid 100-degree (37.8 Celsius) temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere summer.
They're using old shit to do the story with minimal work, but how do they set usage records with the power off? :lol:
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/ˈbrounout/
noun [SIZE="1"]NORTH AMERICAN[/SIZE]
a reduction in or restriction on the availability of electrical power in a particular area.
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I wouldn't call no power for two weeks a brown-out.
Mah ahr condishner don't got no overdrive.:sadpace:
I wouldn't call no power for two weeks a brown-out.
The usage records are set while causing brownouts which can progress to widespread blackout if left uncorrected.
asking for a friend.......
When you put the third bottle of bleach in the cupboard under the guest sink, should the thought process change from "....." or at best "wonder why mom keeps buying bleach" to "perhaps mom doesn't realize this (stupid place) is where I am putting all the bleach she buys and so buys more because we don't have any"
Put a prophylactic bottle of bleach under each sink in the house to keep them from reproducing.
That's bleotch, please.
FTR, I will never refer to bleach any other way. It's Clorox Bleotch for me, forever and always.
It's color-safe, bleotch.
Thank you for the education.
Hmmm, Cf is a very busy person and might not yet have heard about
this.
Anyway, a reminder wouldn't hurt.
Goddamn a homegrown tomato, and goddamn the fucking gnats they draw.
I prefer homegrown weed.
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When they replace the next K hurricane name, please let them choose Karma.....
My dream job might be picking hurricane names....
Oh no you don't, who would take shelter from Windy McBlowface. :rolleyes:
Oh no you don't, who would take shelter from Windy McBlowface. :rolleyes:
oooohhhh........
Gusty McFloodface
I have decided to become a duck. This weather is apparently nice for them, plus they have some really cool tape for fixing things.
And very long penises. Penii.
Won't that be nice.
And very long penises. Penii.
COCKS!And very long penises. Penii.
Peniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii?
I have decided to become a duck. This weather is apparently nice for them, plus they have some really cool tape for fixing things.
Ducks? Don't mention ducks.
I
am from Aylesbury after all. :)
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Aflac, is that you?
My buddy had a duck. It's name was Aflac.
The name choice, Benjamin Franklin Plumbing, is the result of a market survey of 1,600 residential service customers that found most customers see plumbers as honest, frugal and hardworking. We differentiate ourselves from all other plumbing companies by our unique message to the marketplace.
Differentiating themselves from the "honest, frugal and hardworking" plumbers?:eyebrow:
I found a pack of really old walnuts in the pantry.
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Differentiating themselves from the "honest, frugal and hardworking" plumbers?:eyebrow:
noted
Some tugnut DHL driver just argued with me over the name of the street I live on.:eyebrow:
I told him he wanted the next street over and he asked "Are you sure? Cuz the sign at the end of this street says The Street He Wanted." The sign does not say The Street He Wanted, it says Another Street.
Me: "I've lived here off and on for 35 years, I'm pretty sure. And the sign at the end of this street says Another Street".
And then I watched him drive to a house on the exact opposite side of the block, go to the door w/a package, and then come back to his van without a package.
I guess I was right. Go figger.
Reminds me of a substitute teacher I had in high school. She was taking roll and when she came to me she mispronounced my last name. I said "Here" and corrected her mispronunciation. Then she said "are you sure?", completely serious.
I said, just as seriously, "It's my name, I'm pretty sure."
No-one ever says to Pologirl "hey I just noticed your eyes are different colors" ...they always say "Do you know..."
....and she is Pologirl again -just sent me this.... awwww
What a cool gal. Does she know her eyes...
Reminds me of a substitute teacher I had in high school. She was taking roll and when she came to me she mispronounced my last name. I said "Here" and corrected her mispronunciation. Then she said "are you sure?", completely serious.
I said, just as seriously, "It's my name, I'm pretty sure."
When spelling out my surname which is spelled other than you would expect I had someone ask me if I was sure there's no "e" on the end. Yep.
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When spelling out my surname which is spelled other than you would expect I had someone ask me if I was sure there's no "e" on the end. Yep.
Sent by magick
and they ask me if I'm sure there is (I'm posh) :lol:
What a cool gal. Does she know her eyes...
:D I noticed after i posted that pic it's really clear in that one. I do love this pic :)
It's a really good picture.
I tell people they spell their names wrong all the time. Usually they laugh.
Never say, your mom spelled it wrong. That just pisses them off.
OreIda might know a very little bit about french fries, but, they know absolutely fuck-all about tater tots.
Several years ago I swore them off. They were just terrible. I got another bag yesterday cuz it's all the store had, and they are just awful. Cooked 'em every way ya can cook a tater tot. Oven, deep fryer, I even thawed 'em, mashed 'em and cooked 'em in a skillet like hash browns. Maybe I should try over an open fire...
Just awful.
OreIda might know a very little bit about french fries, but, they know absolutely fuck-all about tater tots.
Several years ago I swore them off. They were just terrible. I got another bag yesterday cuz it's all the store had, and they are just awful. Cooked 'em every way ya can cook a tater tot. Oven, deep fryer, I even thawed 'em, mashed 'em and cooked 'em in a skillet like hash browns. Maybe I should try over an open fire...
Just awful.
serving suggestion: Feed to animal (e.g. cow/chicken. Eat animal.
Someone had to be the first person to buy a 40 channel CB radio.
Everyone else was still on 9, 11, and 14. This guy had 37 channels of dead air to flip through at his leisure.
That's a lot CQing.
And, like you said, to nobody.
Nothing but chicken coops and Highway Patrol on 9, though.
The only thing worse than having no radio is having the only radio.
If someone else becomes President in 2020, will they call it corrected vision?
There's not a lot of humor here anymore...
A Priest and a Rabbi are walking down the street when a 10-year-old boy passes by. The Priest says, "Wanna fuck him?" The Rabbi says, "Out of what?"
A Priest and a Rabbi are walking down the street when a 10-year-old boy passes by. The Priest says, "Wanna fuck him?" The Rabbi says, "Out of what?"
:::ring-ring::: Hello? Millennial Committee? We got a Cancellation here.
Can't take credit, that came out on a Artie Lange / Gilbert Gottfried podcast that happened recently. :D
3 minutes in
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Artie's face belongs on Mt Rushmore.
Right above the words "Not even once."
I wonder just how much coke/horse/meth it takes to achieve that visage...
I tried one of those new apples the other evening...The
Cosmic Crisp.
A very nice apple. Firm, sweet. Almost too firm. They're a cross between a Honeycrisp and an Enterprise (I think). One article I read said they'll keep for up to a year.
I sprinkled a little salt on it, it was very good.
Only Washington will be growing them, for the next 10 years anyway.
Your link says “ It is said to be the largest campaign in apple industry history,[15] and will include payments to social media influencers .”
How much are they paying you?
Sometimes the conversation gets confusing when people use different terms while thinking of the same thing. This should help with color.
Newbituary.
A portmanteau for a thread mourning a poster who jumped in with gusto and promise and then promptly disappeared.
My favorite portmanteau is Tryping.
I wonder if Harry and Meghan will be looking for mercenaries to help manage the tabloids. I could do some moonlighting.
“Change is the elixir of the human circumstance, and acceptance of challenge the way of our kind. We are bad-weather animals, disaster’s fairest children. For the soundest of evolutionary reasons, man appears at his best when times are worst.”
Robert Ardley, African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man (1961)
He may have something there, right now times are good compared to earlier human history, and man is at his worst. :idea:
Dr appointment later. I think he's gonna let me outta bed.
:fingerx:
I've been graduated to the recliner.
Baby steps, I reckon.
I'm driving to the river this afternoon. Slowly, and as smoothly as I can. GOTTA get outta this house!
He didn't say which reclining seat, now that I think about it...:D
I've been graduated to the recliner.
Baby steps, I reckon.
I'm driving to the river this afternoon. Slowly, and as smoothly as I can. GOTTA get outta this house!
He didn't say which reclining seat, now that I think about it...:D
Whatever fate has befallen you, Mr G?
Perhaps you've already said and I've missed your post.
I fully understand that you might not wish to elaborate so, if that should be the case, my apologies.
Whatever fate has befallen you, Mr G?
Perhaps you've already said and I've missed your post.
I fully understand that you might not wish to elaborate so, if that should be the case, my apologies.
No apologies needed, Kind Carruthers.
I'm just a little reticent in discussing medical/personal matters. I may discuss it at some point in the future.
It's looking like 2019 may be repeating itself, in part anyway. 2019 was
NOT kind to the ol' Gravdigr. I've been to more doctors since early 2019 than in my previous 50 years combined.
Srsly.
ETA: Cabin fever is receiving top priority, atm. I mean, I love these ppl and all, but, we need a break from each other.
Glad you can still make it here...
Oh, I'll be annoying you ppl for a while yet...:D
Like the rest of us, it depends on the fickle finger of fate. :cool:
Thanks for the confidence.
The 'rents are watching Bob Hearts Abishola, and Marilu Henner is on there.
She's 67 yrs old.
Damn. I mean, DAYUM!!
She's still smokin' hot.
She was being raised about 3 miles from where I was being raised up until I was 11 years old. Even if I had met her back then; however, I wouldn't have had a chance with her. The 3 year age difference at that stage of life would've done me in.
But she would have remembered what day you met
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I'm sympathetic to Gravdigr here; 2019 and early 2020 was a rough year for my own health -- major surgery and appreciable period of rehab. Way more X-rays the last sixty-eighty days than the whole rest of my life put together, along with the odd ultrasound, angiogram, and MRIs of everything short of my head. Whee. Followup appointment with my heart surgeon tomorrow a.m. That end of things actually looks pretty good from here, I hope.
Where The HELL Is Carmen Sandiego?
Who can limn the leopards' God?
I would love America to be great. I just think maybe I have a different definition of my great. In my great, America would be a country where you didn't need to be rich to get good healthcare and good education or afford healthy food, a country where those who are "differently talented" can still work an honest 40 hours in one job and make enough to live on. I'm fine with people being rich. I'm fine with wealth buying fancy houses, vacations, fast cars, meals in restaurants, luxury private rooms in hospitals, golden unicorns to piss on you to realign your chakras..... These are not life necessities, I'm ok with poorer people going without them. But when those who need help with their mental health are homeless and hungry and families have two parents working 2 or 3 part time jobs each to try and keep their family afloat but end up with no time to cook healthy meals even if they could afford the ingredients or eat together as a family ...the country they are in is not great. I'm not ok with that.
I know this is kind of political, but I'm not meaning/wanting to start a debate about it. I know it's naively stated and idealistic. I just wanted to say it because it's bugging the fuck out of me.
I would love America to be great. I just think maybe I have a different definition of my great. In my great, America would be a country where you didn't need to be rich to get good healthcare and good education or afford healthy food, a country where those who are "differently talented" can still work an honest 40 hours in one job and make enough to live on. I'm fine with people being rich. I'm fine with wealth buying fancy houses, vacations, fast cars, meals in restaurants, luxury private rooms in hospitals, golden unicorns to piss on you to realign your chakras..... These are not life necessities, I'm ok with poorer people going without them. But when those who need help with their mental health are homeless and hungry and families have two parents working 2 or 3 part time jobs each to try and keep their family afloat but end up with no time to cook healthy meals even if they could afford the ingredients or eat together as a family ...the country they are in is not great. I'm not ok with that.
I know this is kind of political, but I'm not meaning/wanting to start a debate about it. I know it's naively stated and idealistic. I just wanted to say it because it's bugging the fuck out of me.
^^^What Monster Said^^^
fargon said it first, but I'm saying it again.
When we have more than we need, we shouldn't build a higher wall, we should build a bigger table. #postercaptionindiningroom
Sounds like a good goal to me. Everyone has a home to go to at night where they can sleep safely without hunger or sickness. A first world country.
Of course in a free country there will always be some who won't want that and if forced it's no longer a free country, but it sure would be nice if they were offered the choice.
Some things are free, but nothing is free of consequences.
Semantics. I feel you're limiting the word.
Definition of free (Entry 1 of 3)
1: not costing or charging anything
2a: having the legal and political rights of a citizen- setting the slave free
b: enjoying civil and political liberty- free citizens
c: enjoying political independence or freedom from outside domination - This is a free country.
d: enjoying personal freedom : not subject to the control or domination of another
You are free to do whatever you want.
3a: not determined by anything beyond its own nature or being : choosing or capable of choosing for itself
b: determined by the choice of the actor or performer- free actions
c: made, done, or given voluntarily or spontaneously gave his free consent
4a: relieved from or lacking something and especially something unpleasant or burdensome- free from pain
a speech free of political rhetoric—often used in combination- error-free
b: not bound, confined, or detained by force-The prisoner is now free.
5a: having no trade restrictions- duty-free imports
b: not subject to government regulation- free competition
c: of foreign exchange : not subject to restriction or official control
6a: having no obligations (as to work) or commitments- I'll be free this evening
b: not taken up with commitments or obligations- a free evening
7: having a scope not restricted by qualification- a free variable
8a: not obstructed, restricted, or impeded- free to leave
b: not being used or occupied- waved with his free hand
c: not hampered or restricted in its normal operation
9a: not fastened -the free end of the rope
b: not confined to a particular position or place- in twelve-tone music, no note is wholly free for it must hold its place in the series— J. L. Stewart
c: capable of moving or turning in any direction-a free particle
d: performed without apparatus- free tumbling
e: done with artificial aids (such as pitons) used only for protection against falling and not for support- a free climb
10a: not parsimonious- free spending
b: OUTSPOKEN- is free in his criticism
c: availing oneself of something without stint- she's very free with her money
d: FRANK, OPEN
e: overly familiar or forward in action or attitude- a young man who had been much too free with the ladies of the town— Harvey Graham
f: LICENTIOUS- inexcusably free talk before the ladies
11a(1): not united with, attached to, combined with, or mixed with something else : SEPARATE - free ores
a free surface of a bodily part
(2): FREESTANDING
a free column
b: chemically uncombined- free oxygen- free acids
c: not permanently attached but able to move about- a free electron in a metal
d: capable of being used alone as a meaningful linguistic form- the word hats is a free form— compare BOUND entry 1 sense 7
12a: not literal or exact- free translation
b: not restricted by or conforming to conventional forms- free skating
13: FAVORABLE —used of a wind blowing from a direction more than six points from dead ahead
14: not allowing slavery- was admitted to the Union as a free state
15: open to all comers- that most pleasurable of Anglo-Saxon pastimes, a free fight— Winston Churchill
for free: without charge
Dreamed last night, by yours truly:
Sell your moose, sell your moose,
And buy a van, Django.
I remember when people said that 2019 sucked and they were glad 2020 was here.
Turns out, comparatively speaking, those were the good old days.
I had a thought (amazing ain't it) what would you do with $1,200.00? If it just fell from the sky. Like so many of my otherwise intelligent, thoughtful neighbors think is going to happen.
I would spend it on The Lady Keryx, Aunt Mary. And Meat, Charcoal, Wood, and Spices. Because Barbeque.
I'd ask whether it was taxable
I wonder if there's a bailout for the porn industry; or, if it was deemed essential?
PornHub is giving away their service for free, so clearly they're maintaining their balance sheets just fine.
The more hardcore a porn is, the more likely the activity shown is to cause direct human-to-human transmission.
~ yet another thing ruined by this damn'd virus ~
The 2 meter distancing is for people you don't live with.
If the new social distance is 6 ft., I wonder what the anti-social distance is now.
I wonder if there's a bailout for the porn industry; or, if it was deemed essential?
Have there been any reports of porn panic buying?
I don't want to brag but I've got the Fast and Furious Hot Wheels set.
They should probably rewrite the theme lyrics to Green Acres. Getting allergic smelling hay doesn't sound so bad anymore.
Let's clone footfootfoot, lock him in the cellar, and then we'll all be good for social distancing.
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Let's clone footfootfoot, lock him in the cellar, and then we'll all be good for social distancing.
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Then we'd have two, so, six feet. Wouldn't that bug you? I say nay, nay, nay. There can be only one, or three as the case may be.
Notice how peaceful it's been without that Undertoad fellow going around acting like he owns the place. :lol2:
I noticed how much less interesting and friendly it had been
I wonder if there's a bailout for the porn industry; or, if it was deemed essential?
Rumor has it they're stuck on trying to figure how to get in copulation range -- with social distancing. Some are predicting it'll be the ruin of the industry for this year. As for the "actors/actresses"...
They need Billy
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My friend Billy had a ten foot willy
And he showed it to the girl next door.
She thought it was a snake
So she hit it with a rake,
And now it's only Five foot four.
What if ([SIZE="1"]I know, I know; but, bear with me...it's a doozy[/SIZE]) Undertoad has sent himself to Coventry and is actually posting in threads and maybe even starting new ones; but, we just can't see them. He can see them on the Administrator's board, get some satisfaction out of it now, then move them all back onto the public board for all to see when he returns. It could happen!
Undertoad Please Come Home.
I wonder if anyone has sneezed while wearing their mask, had it stretch the elastic out, and then snap back into their face?
Popdigr chews tobacco, and said he almost spit the other day without moving his mask...
that sounds like the kind of thing you do only once.
But...... why is he going anywhere he needs a mask? He must be like a bajillion given how ancient you are.....
He's old, he has to make his daily trip to the post office or he'll explode.
I have sixty-two fucking tabs open in Chrome on my phone.
WTF.
I have sixty-two fucking tabs open in Chrome on my phone.
WTF.
Are they
all fucking tabs? Or is at least one teh Cellllar?
(that post was cellar-bait
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:D
...hear the softly spoken magic spells.
Why do we wonder about the state of the world when two prominent leaders have names synonymous with farting, and one with male genitalia?
The Flatulent Penis would be an interesting pub name.....
Maybe UT jilted J and ran off with HQ!
That would explain things.
I'm tired of everything.
And tired.
Quantum Cellarics: Parallel Dwellardoms. 111 is resurrecting Drax threads. No good will come of it
I'm tired of everything.
And tired.
Pete and I were both running on fumes yesterday.
I don't want to go for a run
I don't want to go for a run today either. It's 27 degrees. But it's Tuesday.... running day
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What are the chances baby Archie will rebel against his parents and decides he wants to be a Royal after all? :D
It'll be his fallback--Hollywood first, then back to the castle if that doesn't work out.
I'm not going for a run today. I went out for a look and it is nasty. I'm insane, but not that much.
Benny and I rode. Get out there!
No. It's 32. I was hoping the thunderstorms would cool it down a bit, but they just disappeared off the forecast. I might try near dusk, see how badly I can get bitten
instead I'm going to home despot to get a new knob for my shower which broke so I was forced to use the boys' :eek:. I wanted to walk, but it was unpleasant enough walking halfway around my house to look at the dryer vent cover that needs replacing, so car it is....
The pressident is orange. Does that make him a POC?
Today I saw this picture for the first time and thought wouldn't they make a cute couple...
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Beautiful people inside and out.
Why is America obsessed with having old people run the country? Dementia denial? Retirement is not just for the good of the retiree.....
I pledge to retire as early as possible.
If we made face masks out of higher value bak notes, I wonder what would kill us? Covid, Drugs, Murder....?
Well, Ulysses S. Grant, the last President who was a slave owner, is on the $50.00 bill; so, you'd probably die from a fall after protesters toppled you.
Random household hint. Those plastic roll film canisters that were readily available (I had a bushel of them),
were so handy for keeping things safe and dry and fresh and dry and handy and dry.
But they've gone the way of the Dodo, so I suggest a substitute on the left. Even better the lid stays attached
so you can't fumble it and in the bottom there's a perforated cage full of DO-NOT-EAT to help keep things dry.
I can almost hear you saying where can I get said same? From your friendly neighborhood Diabetic.
They come filled with blood sugar test strips for in this case a Prodigy machine, which are extremely common.
If you kill a man, it's murder.
If they were a shit, is it turder?
If you kill a man, it's murder.
If they were a shit, is it turder?
Turd degree turder, actually.
Accuracy is all in these matters. ;)
Sentencing is harsher if it's your turd strike.
smaller tp allowance? Or single ply only?
I just found out my next door neighbor's middle name was Kermit. As a Brit, i still find it very hard to get over anyone but a Frog being called Kermit. I didn't know it was a real name until I got here and saw a sign for a dentist whose name was Kermit.
I told my daughter they had something in common -Bob was born and named before Kermit the Frog was a thing, and she was born and named before Amazon (the company) was a thing.... :/
Think of all the poor women named Karen. :(
over a million of them in the US who have to put up with that horrible meme
there's more us that have to put up with them
If the Representative from Florida who was recently embarrassingly called out for appalling behavior finds solace in drink and fornication, we could have Yoho, Ho, and a Bottle of Rum.
I approve of this message.
His non-apology was textbook quality.
"... I'm sorry for their misunderstanding. "
FFS
Bread for the World didn't like the whole look so he's "resigned."
Let them have Pieces of Cake
....I'll get my pegleg....
... we could have Yoho, Ho, and a Bottle of Rum.
He would have to had been there for this.
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I just want to check that I'm not mistaken in that you are using a visual aid to call representative Ocasio-Cortez a ho?
Which is exactly the same unacceptable behavior as that of Yoho, Trump etc. So I must be mistaken. Right?
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They say that all politicians are whores, but it turns out that the best ones are nymphomaniacs!
:p:
Why do recipes to "use up what's in your fridge" never include:
2 slices of drying but sweaty presliced plastic cheese
several aged carrots
1" blackcurrant jam from a fancy tall jar that's longer than your regular cutlery/silverware
half a serving of salsa
1 squished kitkat
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4 Chick-Fil-A sauce dipping thingies
19 Heinz Ketchup packets
2/3rds of the jar some seeded mustard that is nothing but seeds
Cross-cut the carrots, toss lightly with oil and 2/3 jar of seedy mustard, and roast at 400 degrees F for 60 minutes. Lay the slices of cheese over the carrots, and finish under the broiler for 2 minutes until the cheese is melty and just starting to brown.
Meanwhile, combine the jelly, salsa, ketchup, and Chick-Fil-A sauces for a bright and sassy dipping glaze.
Throw it all in the trash, and eat the Kit Kat for dinner.
Ha! Good one. Add 1/3 a jar of kimchi and a fist full of pepperoncinis.
...39 bottles of various condiments...
And pickles. My God, the half empty jars of pickles...:facepalm:
...39 bottles of various condiments...
And pickles. My God, the half empty jars of pickles...:facepalm:
The non-vegetarian, of course, can get themselves a big chub of ground beef, some buns... and have both a dinner and a project.
If you'd rather have a project that yields a condiment, chop all the pickles for green pickle-dillish relish. Even the pickling spices can be useful there. Make a run for hot dogs.
Some people like putting a few dill pickle slices on chili.
My neighbors' dog shits in our back yard sometimes. They are apologetic about it, but I don't mind at all. To me, it means I get to see their dog from my window, and that makes me happy.
Do they pick it up, though?
They miss some of it, but I only go out there to mow, and I wear my old shoes to do that.
It's a lovely big old Boxer Dawg
I know it's a normal thing in some parts of the country, but backyards without fences is bizarre to me.
It's the norm here moat HOAs do not allow fences... unless you have a dog. Then you must fence. I hate it, I'm used to the English way....
The dog's name is Bruno. The neighbors only speak Italian. They want to be social, but it's difficult. I want to speak Italian with them.
Bruno è un bravo cane!
You could practice your Italian by watching "Johnny Stecchino!" It's a mafia spoof by Roberto Benigni, before he got all famous for "Life Is Beautiful." Highly recommend.
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Or "Down By Law" He's brilliant in that.
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Johnny Stecchino was fun. :thumb:
Someone had to ride that wave. Nice Budgie Smuggler, dude.
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everything is reversed in that picture, the wave is waxed and the board is wet.
Ruh Roh!
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may need to change a pronunciation.
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can someone explain?
I think it involves a turd?
can someone explain?
assplain what? there's a wave. There's a dude surfin' it. In a Speedo. Then, Shark!
This is Random Thoughts, Acid Trips is down the hall.
trips are wherever, gramps
Did you fellers see the size of that chicken?!?!
~YoungGuns
I was hoping this Forum had a Games section.
What if I posted some games here, would people participate?
Indeed alot would enjoy them :)
Yea, if some played more Games, maybe some of the anger would be reduced, it really comes out .....
I've thought this for Decades:
If more got massages and more WOMEN ruled the world, we would live in a lot more Peace.... All the anger just brings on more Wars.
ƒuck you, nobody cares. cut your losses and leave
I just went to the Main Menu and all the sites and it seems like maybe 10 of the same people post all the time, since I've been here anyway. ummmmm
That's what I'm thinking....
Otherwise thinking about a dinner snack....
there's not many people here, so you gotta pound 'em HARD to stay occupied
pro-tip: there's a 30-second post timer, so keep a running Notepad of fresh, wackadoodle content. hit each board and dominate the main page, peppering just the right amount of conspiracy theories, buried under a mountain of inane non-sequiturs and 5yo thread bumps
But when you're older, 5 years is proportionally a shorter time. Play fair. It's only 10% of my life for example, but about 20% of Ibby's and ipretty much her entire adult life.
I'll play fair, sorry about the.. foul balls :o
I'll play fair, sorry about the.. foul balls :o
dudess, ya shoulda just thrown them away after the op, we warned you not to keep 'em
I wonder if cats are aware humans don't see as well in the dark as they do?
I'll play fair, sorry about the.. foul balls :o
Wash 'em, you'll be fine.
I wonder if she's been sportin him at the buffet....
I wonder if cats are aware humans don't see as well in the dark as they do?
Once you accidentally step on them, they figure it out.
Once you accidentally step on them, they figure it out.
apparently not.....
I wonder if she's been sportin him at the buffet....
that affair ended tho....
A good good happening just now. On another group I'm a member and it's primarily all Health oriented, the Admin agreed to start a Games section in Chit Chat...I am so jazzed...there is goodness in the world. Others on the group wanted a Games section too and it's happened and we'll see how it goes....
Makes up for all the other stuff going on.
I couldn't figure out why "Buddy" grates so much...... but I just remembered this book from when my middle child was in elementary school and I used to go in to help with reading groups. The kids in the group who were assigned this book (3rd/4th grade of several races) just couldn't comprehend the racism of the era. Which was good and bad at the same time :neutral:
https://www.amazon.com/Bud-Buddy-Christopher-Paul-Curtis/dp/0440413281When I spam a website and use it for my own personal amusement, I don't attribute it's compliance to my wishes as "goodness in the world" --that goes beyond being self-centered and lands squarely in "delusional ƒucking nutjob" territory. I assume "all the other stuff going on" refers to your reception at the Cellar. Well why the ƒuck are you still here? If you don't like it, vote with your feet.
Serendipity.
My sister has taken to messaging me dad jokes, particularly ones based on the periodic table of the elements. I don't know why -she teaches business. Anyway, I kid you not... this was today's:
My favourite atomic number is 82.... I’m so easily lead
Hahahahaha. I like that.
And yeah very apt
I swear she ain't a dwellar ....although the pseudonym we used for her here -Aunt Scary- kinda snuck into real life (fitted with the "family theme" and related to her name in a way) :D
I just passed 20,000 posts here. A nice milestone, I'm glad I reached it.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
* not really, the system will stay up as an archive
I have to get out of my chair and walk four, possibly five feet to make coffee.
Here goes. Wish me luck.
I have to get out of my chair and walk four, possibly five feet to make coffee.
Here goes. Wish me luck.
It's always good to stretch, footfootfootfootfootfootfoot, possibly footfootfootfootfootfootfootfoot
77 people clicked on a post called "Hard As Anything" but no-one responded. Wonder what they were all hoping to see that left them disappointed?
Flash recoil
Sounds like a character name in a pulp novel.
This place has turned into All Dude, All The Time...
Well it's making someone hard as anything....
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