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- Today, 14:46
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Head of State vs. Head of Government
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3549
Re: Head of State vs. Head of Government
Because being elected to office requires that one be refined and diplomatic so as not to be an embarrassment to the people he represents.
- Today, 14:29
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: The Lust to Acquire
- Replies: 1519
- Views: 135796
Re: The Lust to Acquire
I'm so jelly.
I'd pick one up, but I've got no where to put it. Cleaning out the garage is on the list this year. So maybe.
I should buy a drone.

I'd pick one up, but I've got no where to put it. Cleaning out the garage is on the list this year. So maybe.
I should buy a drone.
- Today, 11:04
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: This is the thread for people who died, died.
- Replies: 2902
- Views: 277652
Re: This is the thread for people who died, died.
Goddamnit. That bastard still owes me twenty bucks!D.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑Today, 10:57 Bernie Madoff, thus cheating the state out of most of its 150 year sentence.
- Today, 10:23
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Mo's moderately interesting sci/tech thread
- Replies: 951
- Views: 96472
Re: Mo's moderately interesting sci/tech thread
My son rarely posts links but just posted this link on Twitter. I don't know enough to understand, let alone analyse it so I thought I'd let you big brain types (I'm looking at you, Warren!) tell me what to think. zkPorter: a breakthrough in L2 scaling I didn't get all of that, but I got enough to ...
- Yesterday, 20:23
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: The Lust to Acquire
- Replies: 1519
- Views: 135796
Re: The Lust to Acquire
Watched Mulholland Falls, and in looking up the *real* star of the movie, discovered that that curvaceous beauty is for sale, alas at $99k a little too rich for my blood. Wanna go halvesies? Splendid idea- I'll have to keep in in SoCal though, I mean we couldn't risk it getting damaged by tornados ...
- Yesterday, 12:03
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Petty annoyances
- Replies: 10177
- Views: 712193
Re: Petty annoyances
Is it just me? Or is repeating something three or more times becoming standard English?
I heard and understood you the first time you said it. Why are you still saying it?
I heard and understood you the first time you said it. Why are you still saying it?
- Yesterday, 11:13
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: The Lust to Acquire
- Replies: 1519
- Views: 135796
Re: The Lust to Acquire
Wanna go halvesies?dead_elvis wrote: ↑Yesterday, 00:52 Watched Mulholland Falls, and in looking up the *real* star of the movie, discovered that that curvaceous beauty is for sale, alas at $99k a little too rich for my blood.
- 12 Apr 2021, 20:28
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Quotable quotes
- Replies: 1562
- Views: 142087
Re: Quotable quotes
This is why we can't have nice things.
- 10 Apr 2021, 19:35
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Light laffs
- Replies: 6233
- Views: 470121
Re: Light laffs
It's thst trees planted in memory of loved ones, i'm presuming? I don't know whether it was connected with memorializing the dead, but when I was young and Israel was still a new Jewish state, paying to plant trees "in the desert" was a thing routinely done among American Jews and as a result Ameri...
- 09 Apr 2021, 20:28
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Corona(virus)? ITS NOT EVEN BEER DAMMIT!!!
- Replies: 1660
- Views: 133785
- 08 Apr 2021, 15:47
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Music for the Masses
- Replies: 1473
- Views: 197989
Re: Music for the Masses
Neo-Psychedelia from a friend of mine
- 06 Apr 2021, 11:56
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Petty annoyances
- Replies: 10177
- Views: 712193
- 06 Apr 2021, 11:50
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Towing the Lion
- Replies: 2097
- Views: 233841
Re: Towing the Lion
lolD.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 02:59Both include mathematics.lunchstealer wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 01:29I think you mean humanities.Hugh Akston wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 00:47 Free yourself from addition forever, major in the liberal arts.
- 04 Apr 2021, 13:50
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Thoughts on our Civic Religion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1092
- 01 Apr 2021, 17:38
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: This is the thread for people who died, died.
- Replies: 2902
- Views: 277652
Re: This is the thread for people who died, died.
You guys. Liddy was a hoot. Saw him debate Timothy Leary. They both lost 

- 31 Mar 2021, 14:34
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: This is the thread for people who died, died.
- Replies: 2902
- Views: 277652
Re: This is the thread for people who died, died.
On hearing of his passing the first thing I thought of wasn't Wattergate, it wasn't "head shot", it was Robert Conrad who played him in the TV movie version of his autobiography Will.
- 31 Mar 2021, 09:52
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9384
- Views: 533233
Re: Observations of the Random sort
Nicedead_elvis wrote: ↑30 Mar 2021, 22:36 Plus the northwest passage will be available soon enough anyway.
- 28 Mar 2021, 10:57
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Tiny Triumphs
- Replies: 1097
- Views: 118063
Re: Tiny Triumphs
2021 is your year ducky.Hugh Akston wrote: ↑28 Mar 2021, 00:31 I parked my new car in my space on the first try. I didn't even have to turn around and come at it from the other direction, which is more than I can say for my old car. This means I can keep the new one, which is good because I rather like it.
- 27 Mar 2021, 13:21
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9384
- Views: 533233
Re: Observations of the Random sort
People talk about JFK's press conferences as though they were the Federalist Papers, but I Like Ike. And as Mort Sahl said of Ike's press conferences, they probably sounded better in the original German. :roll: Context, Warren. The joke (which Sahl actually attributed to his wife) was over Eisenhow...
- 27 Mar 2021, 07:38
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9384
- Views: 533233
Re: Observations of the Random sort
People talk about JFK's press conferences as though they were the Federalist Papers, but I Like Ike. And as Mort Sahl said of Ike's press conferences, they probably sounded better in the original German. :roll: ...a personality best suited for stealing women's underwear out of laundromat driers. Th...
- 26 Mar 2021, 22:38
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9384
- Views: 533233
Re: Observations of the Random sort
People talk about JFK's press conferences as though they were the Federalist Papers, but I Like Ike.
- 26 Mar 2021, 19:51
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Star Trek Wankery
- Replies: 1462
- Views: 163674
Re: Star Trek Wankery
He refused to give the show credit for the kiss shared between Terry Farrell and Susannah Thompson in "Joined," because it only scratched the surface and he believed they could've tried harder to explore the topic than they did. Any harder and they'd have had to move to premium cable https://www.yo...
- 26 Mar 2021, 19:30
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Star Trek Wankery
- Replies: 1462
- Views: 163674
- 26 Mar 2021, 19:28
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9384
- Views: 533233
Re: Observations of the Random sort
Nor did anyone ask him why he read from prepared talking points during answers to three questions on foreign policy. No recent president has felt the need to do that. I'm pretty sure "consulting his notes" is actually a pretty normal thing to do, though after four years of "just make up whatever bu...
- 26 Mar 2021, 17:37
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Surprise! It's Government's Good Side
- Replies: 962
- Views: 89625
Re: Surprise! It's Government's Good Side
We'll see how that plays out.JD wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 12:10 Every now and then, NYC does something right: New York City Ends Qualified Immunity For Police Officers, Becoming 1st In Nation To Do So