(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03 2022, @04:50AM
(3 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Friday June 03 2022, @04:50AM (#1250110)
Can't remember when I was without sin. Bread and butter will melt in my mouth. Bottoms are there so we know how much better we are than they. Maybe that's what penises are for, too. Most people live just fine without one, and many of the rest can take 'em or leave 'em. Anyway, I prefer the term wang. This place isn't exceptional, and nothing's bottomed-out yet... wait a few months. Some of it will straighten out... like song lyrics we always remembered wrong.
Admiral Halsey notified me, He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea. I had another look and I had a cup of tea and a butter pie.
"Butter pie?" "The butter wouldn't melt, so I put it in the pie, alright!"
Hands across the water, heads across the sky, Hands across the water, heads across the sky.
Live a little, be a gypsy, get around, Get your feet up off the ground, Live a little, get around.
Live a little, be a gypsy, get around, Get your feet up off the ground, Live a little, get around.
Hands across the water, heads across the sky, Hands across the water, heads across the sky.
- Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey - Paul & Linda McCartney
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03 2022, @05:00AM
(2 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Friday June 03 2022, @05:00AM (#1250112)
Just wanted to see how many times I could say p*n*s without offending myself. The answer is best left as an exercise in introspection for the reader. (But it's not a big number.)
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @10:51AM
(18 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 29 2022, @10:51AM (#1248732)
In case you're not grasping the obvious: liberal mindset is: "control the narrative". Freedom of speech was one of the major principals on which the US was founded. Astonishingly there is a very strong force (liberals) doing all they can to stop any opinions or views that differ from their liberal views. Ironically the liberals have many great ideas, but their delivery is dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. People really need to learn from all-too recent history. Governments around the world are controlling, suppressing, and even killing those who dare to speak against the establishment. It's much like a cult. The story has been told many times in movies and TV shows like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", Star Trek, and many others.
Since there seems to be confusion over my usage of the word spam, here is my working definition (others will likely have a better one):
Spam is an incessant in-your-face offer to subscribe to or buy a thing (or concept) you do not want, nor need, nor potentially derive benefit from in its acquisition. It is a collosal waste of everyone's time and attention. It aims to swindle value from the foolish by misrepresenting the bankruptcy of whatever benefit it offers.
...which is reminiscent of this passage:
Woe to those that deal in fraud, Those who, when they have to receive by measure from men, exact full measure, But when they have to give by measure or weight to men, give less than due. Do they not think that they will be called to account?
Qur'an 83:1-4 (Yusuf Ali translation)
-- "Don't let the handshake and the smile fool ya" -The Undisputed Truth, Smiling Faces Sometimes
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @05:02PM
(3 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @05:02PM (#1248997)
Ad always the conservative has rrality backwards and misconstrues social judgment for actual authoritarian actiins.
Liberals want people to stop being assholes, and you'll see calls to ban racism on private platforms. That is not tyranny, that is a private community exercising freedom.
Republicans are the ones trying to control other people. Book banning? Restrictive laws around consensual sexuality? You can own all the guns you want in Texas, but more than half a dozen dildos and jail for you!
It is hilarious when the party of fascism tries to pretend the party of freedom is the real enemy. Just pay any amount of attention to facts and stop letting Fox tell you what to think.
PS: I'm sure there are examples of shitty Democrat policies but the overall trend is for Republican fascism. Seeing as liberal users here are happy to criticize shitty dems save your whataboutisms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @06:36PM
(2 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @06:36PM (#1249250)
Seeing as liberal users here are happy to criticize shitty dems save your whataboutisms.
All the criticism in the world is just bullshit lip service when shitty dems are reelected anyway. And you just use "whataboutism" as an excuse to act the same as your antagonists
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2022, @10:20PM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday June 02 2022, @10:20PM (#1249981)
Back atcha Nazi lover.
PS: Bernie Sanders almost won the primary, but the DNC is set up so the political rulers can easily bully their way through. It is a problem that pales in comparison to Republican fascism destroying democracy and freedom, literally.
Address the GOP fascists and white supremacy problems you have and I'll happily engage your criticisms of the left. Until then you're just a hypocrite and will be mocked or ignored.
liberal mindset is: "control the narrative". Freedom of speech was one of the major principals on which the US was founded. Astonishingly there is a very strong force (liberals) doing all they can to stop any opinions or views that differ from their liberal views.
I don't have any problem with expressing an opinion. Example: government should be smaller, taxes should be lower, people should be stupider.
I do have a problem with misinformation. Example: The California wild fires were started by secret Jewish space lasers. 5G causes covid! The sound of windmills causes cancer. The microchips are in the vaccine! Covid isn't real. The earth is flat. The moon landings were faked. Trump won the 2020 election by a landslide!
There is a difference between the two.
-- Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)
We should be more concerned about why people do want to kill each other, not how.
There is a plenty of ways to kill a human without a systemic weapon, either with bare hands or even indirectly without a touch. Tools like weapons just serve as a spatial projection of intent. They are not the cause. Any object may assume a role of a weapon.
Therefore, I ask: Why are those people killing school children uninhibited by moral restraints nor by biologic instincts?
I understand your fear, but certainly, that's not a mechanical problem of owning some specific tool or another.
It's a problem of badly poisoned mind of the attackers. Their intent is broken as well as their self-control and natural instincts. Where this poison comes from?
And, more importantly: How to remove it?
-- The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2022, @09:28PM
(9 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday May 28 2022, @09:28PM (#1248615)
Vote for ptogressive candidates that support universal healthcare, education, and police reform. Those are the three most fundamental changes needed right now in the USA.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2022, @11:14PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday May 28 2022, @11:14PM (#1248637)
How about voting for secessions, so that the people in progressive-dominated states can have all the goodies that they want, and the basket of backwards deplorables who are suckling off the teat of the wealthy coasts can have ... well, whatever's left to them? As long as the coasts have this political millstone, there's no reason to believe that they'll be able to swim up to what they really want. Massachusetts and Maryland, California and Connecticut can step aside and like Mississippi and Missouri, Texas and Tennessee shrivel and die, clinging to their guns, gold and whatever god-bothering they want.
Nothing like giving folks what they want - that's democracy, after all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:00AM
(7 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:00AM (#1248733)
Absolutely agree on universal healthcare.
Education? WTF do you mean? We already have an education system (that sucks) that forcibly takes money from citizens, even to the point of seizing their home and property and auctioning it at pennies on the dollar to pay for the very broken horrible wasteful "education system". Home schooled and private schooled children are leaps and bounds ahead of the horrific public school system. More $ thrown at it will fix it? All my life I've observed that complaint and more and more and more $ thrown into the giant money pit of public "education". Not enough time to discuss the mindset of people who suck on the tit of taxation. Let's just say they're not the most productive people. And then you have the problem of children's horrific behavior and how discipline is gone. Time for the school system to sue parents of badly behaved children who disrupt the classes and system, often physically harming, beating, even killing teachers, administrators, and other children.
Police reform. Yes, definitely. That's a tricky thing. Much rational psychological analysis needed to figure out how to hire people who can be good police, without hiring the people who enjoy power far too much.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @08:55PM
(6 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 29 2022, @08:55PM (#1248831)
"All your life" which means you're under 30. Things were going alright till around 2000 when means-testing got popular and higher education was defunded in favor of government backed student loans. This made perverse incentives to raise tuition rates every yesr by extreme amounts and spend that money on corrupt projects like new unnecessary buildings. They did similar with some k-12 schools, one place they spent millions on a fancy gym, pool, and track then people complained that more money does nothing.
Yes, it does nothing when the money is not spent on hiring more teachers and better materials for the actual students. Republican motto: "Government doesn't work, elect us and we'll prove it." Same thing UK conservatives are doing to the NHS because they want to privatize it and suck more money from the working class.
So thanks and good points, but universal education works very well in less-corrupt countries. Private schools can still exist, but saddling young people with insane debt so they can get a shit paying job is a recipe for societal collapse. We're going through it right now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:35PM
(4 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:35PM (#1248861)
Wow, thank you, great post. I'll upmod when I have points.
You're spot-on re: corrupt countries. We have horrifically corrupt corporatocracy here in US.
As other AC wrote, it was more like 1980 when the huge tuition increases started. And "free market" doesn't fix it. Once you've started at university A, you lose credits and incur many other overhead costs to move to university B.
Funny you mention "unnecessary buildings". University I attended has been doing that aggressively for the past 20+ years.
How can we clean up the corruption? Better asked, since the corrupt people are in power, how do you replace them? Wasn't it Trump who ran on "drain the swamp"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 07 2022, @09:36PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday June 07 2022, @09:36PM (#1251385)
Yeah, we do. It's always a crapshoot between dumb and dumber, or bad and worse. Many vote D or R because. Many vote for someone but wish for some things from the other.
Cynical me thinks that the whole system is so corrupt that only corrupt people even get involved and run for office.
How about: no parties. Just represent We The People?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @03:01AM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @03:01AM (#1248890)
it was more like 1980 when the huge tuition increases started.
And the huge tuition increases are the direct result of too much "student loan" money.
When students pay for their schooling with free money (and to an 18 year old, a student loan is "free money" -- few yet even begin to understand what a "student loan" means, they lose all desire to care one bit what their school of choice charges per year.
When the schools learn that the students are no longer price sensitive, they realize they can charge whatever they want, and the students will just pay (by pulling in more "free money") whatever the school asks, then the schools all start increasing their tuition at a rapid pace, in order to grab more of that "free money".
The sad part is that this very exact scenario is taught, in those same schools, in the Econ. department, when the economic theory gets brought out that pumping too many free dollars into a market leads to rampant price inflation. The student loans pumped loads of dollars into the university tuition market, and what was the result? Rampant inflation of the costs of college. Just exactly like the Econ. theory predicts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 07 2022, @09:41PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday June 07 2022, @09:41PM (#1251387)
You could not be more correct. In fact, I took 3 econ courses and learned all that good stuff.
Every time a school or "education system" whines about needing more money and raising taxes, all I can think about is how the greedy leeches latch on and soak up more of the $. Same goes for medicine of course. It's a runaway system.
I feel strongly that econ should be required courses in much or most of K - 12, certainly high school. I have to wonder how different (better?) the US and maybe the whole world would be if people were more in tune with economic forces, power of money, etc. Instead of buying the cheapest thing possible at X-mart, buy that slightly more expensive, made in somewhere other than China thing, for the betterment of the future for all.
You do well to recognize that almost every action is preceded by thought, and that poisonous thought results in deadly action.
Every complex activity a man might undertake and succeed at requires that he imagine and train for its execution over and over in his mind. The more he imagines an action, the easier it will seem and the more comfortable he will become to its execution.
Now the thing that precedes those thoughts is angst - either a lack or a hurt - angst so severe that it drives one to try to devise some way to allay it. Then when the angst driving him reaches an unbearable level and the activity he imagines will provide relief becomes comfortable enough to him, the result is fairly inevitable.
Then if one is to prevent such deadly action, one must either eliminate the actor, or relieve the angst driving his mind to meditate murder.
Some who post here want you and me to imagine - over and over - that you had a gun with which to kill the deadly actor dead. This conflicts with my faith, and so I refuse to practice that scenario in my mind and I reject the assertion that this is the best solution.
Instead, I spend my time practicing empathy, that with everyone I meet, I might better understand the angst they are feeling. Then having understood the angst that drives them, I practice finding and delivering the words that in some way allay that angst and heal those hurts - thereby removing the need for deadly action on every side. Mostly I suck at this, but it is a strategy that my heart can live with. In my experience, though, words - if you can find the right ones - are much more effective than bullets.
If I wanted to wield deadly force, and serve as judge, jury and executioner ever, I would have chosen a career in law-enforcement. -- "They didn't care, they were just dyin' to get off" - Eagles, Life in the Fast Lane
If we had a new global Newspeak, then it might be impossible to even think of carrying out any new mass shootings [theguardian.com] on labor day weak end.
-- Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @11:40PM
(2 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday June 01 2022, @11:40PM (#1249565)
Indeed, I expect shootings and murders and social upheaval to increase as this nation continues to fail to recognize and obey its divine messenger. Those who would worship their political leaders and expect salvation by electing some party or another shall all be sorely disappointed. There is no remedy short of revitalization of human hearts - a process that requires a creative word from God.
Feel free to disagree with my assessment, but I am utterly certain that political spin will not redeem this nation. Don't let me stop you, though.
Your greed for more has distracted you until you go down to your graves. No, indeed you will soon know. Certainly you will soon know. Indeed, If you knew the knowledge of certainty you would see Hell, then you would surely see it with the eye of certainty. And on that Day you will be asked about the pleasures you enjoyed.
Qur'an 102 (Safi Kaskas translation)
Of course, this is merely an apropos scripture, not an endorsement of the institution. Modern day Islam is as astray as modern day Christianity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2022, @03:04AM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday June 02 2022, @03:04AM (#1249601)
Chicago has long been an exceptional example... anybody who's been there at night has stories. It has a tradition to maintain. They don't just commemorate Valentine's Day, they celebrate The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Shootings are ubiquitous, like green rivers.
Before the musical "Chicago," there was Roxie Hart (1942) [imdb.com], which is a phenomenal and under-rated little movie, and which begins to explain Chicago. It also has an actor I've long appreciated (not admired, just appreciated).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2022, @03:43AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday June 02 2022, @03:43AM (#1249612)
Okay, some pedant will say it was story->musical->movie->musical->movie->breakfast cereal.
Just give Nunnally Johnson some credit for doing something wrong, right. It's like Along Came Jones (1945) [imdb.com], the wrong way to make a western.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:04PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:04PM (#1248833)
We should be more concerned about why people do want to kill each other, not how.
Look at the increases in depression, mental dis-ease, suicide, family violence, random vandalism, robbery, drive-by-anything. We're making homicidal wackos out of those who a generation ago were just people you said "good morning" to on the street.
So many refuse to realize that we are in a time when the bizarre and disgusting goal of media, education and leaders, is to disarm, dishearten and depress society, to make us eternal children. We will all depend on those elites, those enlightened adults in the room who understand in ways we could never fathom. If you think life is too expensive now, just you wait.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2022, @02:36AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday June 02 2022, @02:36AM (#1249594)
In another thread, people like me mentioned self-medication in the whole wacko mass murderer thing. People have problems, and they can handle them... really, they can, honestly, no need for people to jump down their throats about it. I hadn't factored in marijuana, since it's not one of those things I ever, ever think about. Tuesday night, Laura Ingraham did a segment on how today's pot is so much stronger than the '60s version. In fact, she said, it can trigger psychotic reactions in young adults. To me, it's another in the very long list of problems today.
This one is apparently different. I did a quick, non-evil search, and was surprised that there is so much strong reaction to her statements. Makes one wonder why they're making such a big deal. Say it's 1960, and somebody said cigarettes were bad for you, and then the tobacco companies jumped in... yeah, it sounds like that.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @03:40AM
(19 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 29 2022, @03:40AM (#1248681)
I partially disagree with you. There are worthwhile journals. There are a few people who post tech-related journals about things that don't make it to the front page. Look at some of hubie's journals, for example. They would go completely unnoticed were it not for the recent journals box. I like giving visibility to tech-related discussion and other interesting topics that would never make it to the front page.
The problem is that some people love to post divisive political crap, and those journals tend to get the most comments. One user, in particular, is particularly prolific. However, others do post divisive political journals with some regularity. I would prefer that these journals not be posted because their purpose seems to be to piss people off instead of having a genuine discussion about issues. That said, I'm not entirely sure that having a genuine discussion about the issues is possible in today's political climate. However, I do remember there were plenty of political journals on Slashdot when the feature was introduced, and that the discussion was civil. I distinctly remember debating the Iraq War with people in those journals and the discussions being respectful. However, I do believe that the divisive nature of those journals is detrimental to the overall health of the site, and that those arguments tend to spill over into other discussions here and have caused users to leave the site.
I would love to see the journals get cleaned up and to have the divisive political crap go away. However, I don't know how to implement this. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the recent journals box entirely. Besides, we do have some influence on what goes in that box. We can post tech-related journals and other interesting content that isn't political at all. At a minimum, it will take up a space that might otherwise go to political crap.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:20PM
(18 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:20PM (#1248836)
The only reason I come here is for AC posting. My goals are personal release, and to maybe soften up some of the turds from this commode. Some are actual experts in tech fields. This isn't a tech site. If it were, people like me might consider helping, instead of watching those topics we have passion for, swirl down the main page. Somebody ought to get together the $3500, and then do an Elon Musk on this place.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @02:43AM
(13 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @02:43AM (#1248886)
If you mean the Real-Real DJT, you mean code that works and is maintainable. I've done coding for his people, and it works, without bringing back retirees from Miami, just to figure out how to do a back-up without deleting three months worth of posts.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @04:32PM
(12 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @04:32PM (#1248992)
Wow! I never get down-mods in -nostyle threads. Must've hit a nerve. Okay, this place dresses funny, too!
I don't seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That's why I never talk about it. I think it's all here — in the mountains and the desert. I don't think God is a softie, either. In the end, it's better if people are forced back into — well — into being right, before they're too far gone. I think your temple is your everyday living.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @06:07PM
(11 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @06:07PM (#1249010)
Sorry your missive was mistreated. Fixed what I could for now. Folks wax irrational when you group the "D" with the "J" with the "T". Probably my fault for pitching that set up line to see who would snap at the bait. Lack of sarcasm tags doesn't make things any clearer either.
Cool quote from Carole. One does wonder how we got on that topic though. Reminds me of the proposition:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @08:00PM
(10 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @08:00PM (#1249036)
Well, it was less about D (which is, I'll have you know, half of a smiley face), and more about the semi-great purge of last spring. I was grateful for it, since it disappeared a few unfortunate posts I made that narrowed it to less than 3-degrees of separation.
I'm — honestly, truly, for sure this time — working on a project rife with live&death coin flips (it's a comedy). You know, there's a subplot with a tribute to a Kingston Trio song. And now we have "I don't think God is a softie" going in there, for sure. And maybe a little Huxley... he's the father on that old Cosby TV show, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @10:20PM
(8 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @10:20PM (#1249058)
Then let me run interference for you.
Today my bride & I celebrate our 47th, and I am feeling expansive and fearless. So for fun search on you tube for Liz Kauai 2009 and look for the haole in the Hawaiian shirt. The percussion was cribbed from LesPaul & Friends version of Sam Cooke/Clapton rendition of Troublin' Mind, and of course the lyrics are from sky fairy land, but the rest is all mine.
I'd link you to album version of the little song, but after a dozen years on you tube, it has only five views and zero likes. Seems only my mom could love such a thing.
No more cracks about my Hawaiian shirt now - deal?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:25AM
(2 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:25AM (#1249099)
I just googled for all the telltale breadcrumbs you've left here. Ha! One or two more posts, and I'll know where you buried your gold! But, about your shirts... nah, too easy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @10:17PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday June 01 2022, @10:17PM (#1249560)
Sometimes the glitter is enough. Look really, really close, and my old car glitters, all by itself.
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd But you can be happy if you've a mind to
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:38AM
(4 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:38AM (#1249103)
Seem to spend more time addendumin' than doin'! "Troublin' Mind" or is it...
01 Jamaica Farewell 02 Don't Get Around Much Anymore 03 Far Away Places 04 Little Girl Blue 05 The Song Is Ended 06 Bali Hai 07 Trouble In Mind 08 They Call The Wind Maria 09 Swing Low Sweet Chariot 10 Since I Met You Baby
About six months after my dad passed, I dreamed I met him on an infinitely long beach. I asked how he was doing and he told me, "It doesn't hurt anymore." I was happy to have encountered him there. Do miss him still.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:12AM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:12AM (#1249117)
Last week stopped me cold; drained the color from my gut. We knew it wouldn't last, even if it left a scar. Didn't want to post here, didn't want words or pictures at all. "Somebody Ease My Troublin' Mind" pretty much underlies that whole project, and somebody has to do it. Nobody do nothin' for awhile, okay?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:59PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:59PM (#1249247)
Shouldn't have posted in that Digitization thread. Thinking about mortality. Relatives were scattered or already gone, except for my mother and me. When the time came, I was the one who made the decision to "pull the plug" on my father. Watched the big white hospital clock tick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:57PM
(2 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:57PM (#1249235)
I spent many months and wrote a big, elaborate digital book when paperless distribution was still a novelty. Trust in people led me to leave out copy protection, and to charge a more than reasonable price. It was a hit, people were celebrating it, thanking me profusely, and begging for more. Downloads and distribution were absolutely overwhelming and wonderful.
I sold 4 copies.
A life lesson learned. People really are something.
(Broke a personal rule and posted on a front page article. Here's a FREE reprint.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @05:07PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday June 01 2022, @05:07PM (#1249480)
Well, we went out on a double date Me and Edith, you and Kate Before we got past their front gate There you were making eyes at Edith While you were making time with Kate
You can't have your Kate and Edith too You rascal you yodel-a-dio
Years have passed since that first date I married Edith, you married Kate Now every night when I come home Your car's in the driveway Kate's in the car And you and Edith are in the house alone
You can't have your Kate and Edith too You rascal you yodel-a-dio...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @01:35AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @01:35AM (#1248876)
My contributions to this site are so unworthy, I should never be allowed to log in. There are moments, though, when I vainly imagine I can nudge an off-the-rails conversation toward a commonly recognizable truth with a few pithy phrases. In those instances, it is convenient to have a functioning account. Otherwise I have no desire to be a named contributor.
I have a love/hate relationship with all human beings. I love you all and hope I can help you, but I hate how you treat one another and wish you would all stop being so stupid and selfish. Just stop it.
Oh,... and I love how I look in a mask - like a desperado waiting for a train.
This is fair warning that, absent some changes, I will be deleting my journals in about 24 hours. If there is anything posted in them that you wish to make a copy of, please do so now.
I have no desire to participate in a site that features obscenity on its front page - especially when it is done only for the purpose of political slander.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2022, @06:10PM (28 children)
Let him do his thing. You don't have to read the journals if you don't want.
I, for one, appreciate the convenience of having them listed on the front page.
Don't like it? Don't read it
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2022, @07:28PM (8 children)
Who doesn't love Runaway?
He is a hoot to have around. It is rare to find somebody who is so reliably wrong about everything.
Spam kills. Absolute spam kills absolutely.
Ask me why I never answer my phone - evar.
-nostyle
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @05:06PM (5 children)
"Hiatus, dude."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @08:44PM (4 children)
Only here to try flushing the commode, amigo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03 2022, @04:50AM (3 children)
Can't remember when I was without sin. Bread and butter will melt in my mouth. Bottoms are there so we know how much better we are than they. Maybe that's what penises are for, too. Most people live just fine without one, and many of the rest can take 'em or leave 'em. Anyway, I prefer the term wang. This place isn't exceptional, and nothing's bottomed-out yet... wait a few months. Some of it will straighten out... like song lyrics we always remembered wrong.
Admiral Halsey notified me,
He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea.
I had another look and I had a cup of tea and a butter pie.
"Butter pie?"
"The butter wouldn't melt, so I put it in the pie, alright!"
Hands across the water, heads across the sky,
Hands across the water, heads across the sky.
Live a little, be a gypsy, get around,
Get your feet up off the ground,
Live a little, get around.
Live a little, be a gypsy, get around,
Get your feet up off the ground,
Live a little, get around.
Hands across the water, heads across the sky,
Hands across the water, heads across the sky.
- Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey - Paul & Linda McCartney
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03 2022, @05:00AM (2 children)
Just wanted to see how many times I could say p*n*s without offending myself. The answer is best left as an exercise in introspection for the reader. (But it's not a big number.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03 2022, @05:13AM (1 child)
Check out the fair warning I have posted at the bottom of this journal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03 2022, @05:26AM
Talkin' about exercises in introspection.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:07AM (1 child)
i tried calling, but no answer, do tell why?
(Score: 2) by nostyle on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:44AM
Marxist tautology.
I refuse to answer any call that would have me as a party.
--
"I got me an office, gold records on the wall. Just leave a message, maybe I'll call." -Joe Walsh, Life’s Been Good
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @10:51AM (18 children)
In case you're not grasping the obvious: liberal mindset is: "control the narrative". Freedom of speech was one of the major principals on which the US was founded. Astonishingly there is a very strong force (liberals) doing all they can to stop any opinions or views that differ from their liberal views. Ironically the liberals have many great ideas, but their delivery is dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. People really need to learn from all-too recent history. Governments around the world are controlling, suppressing, and even killing those who dare to speak against the establishment. It's much like a cult. The story has been told many times in movies and TV shows like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", Star Trek, and many others.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:19AM (6 children)
Spam == Excess of Speech
It is a deadly poison.
...but go ahead and spin it however it makes you feel better.
-nostyle
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:25PM (1 child)
But who gets to define it? You? Your supreme leader? Who, seriously?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @12:56AM
-Clippy
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:20PM (3 children)
Spam is only an excess of certain bad kinds of speech.
Now it becomes a simple matter of tagging it as either good or bad.
Simple. Problem solved. Everyone happy.
Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)
(Score: 2) by nostyle on Tuesday May 31 2022, @07:50PM (2 children)
Since there seems to be confusion over my usage of the word spam, here is my working definition (others will likely have a better one):
Spam is an incessant in-your-face offer to subscribe to or buy a thing (or concept) you do not want, nor need, nor potentially derive benefit from in its acquisition. It is a collosal waste of everyone's time and attention. It aims to swindle value from the foolish by misrepresenting the bankruptcy of whatever benefit it offers.
...which is reminiscent of this passage:
Qur'an 83:1-4 (Yusuf Ali translation)
--
"Don't let the handshake and the smile fool ya" -The Undisputed Truth, Smiling Faces Sometimes
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @08:20PM (1 child)
No, no, DannyB is correct. Spam is an excess of certain bad kinds of speech that he doesn't like.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 31 2022, @09:11PM
Yes! That exactly! Which makes that speech bad.
Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @05:02PM (3 children)
Ad always the conservative has rrality backwards and misconstrues social judgment for actual authoritarian actiins.
Liberals want people to stop being assholes, and you'll see calls to ban racism on private platforms. That is not tyranny, that is a private community exercising freedom.
Republicans are the ones trying to control other people. Book banning? Restrictive laws around consensual sexuality? You can own all the guns you want in Texas, but more than half a dozen dildos and jail for you!
It is hilarious when the party of fascism tries to pretend the party of freedom is the real enemy. Just pay any amount of attention to facts and stop letting Fox tell you what to think.
PS: I'm sure there are examples of shitty Democrat policies but the overall trend is for Republican fascism. Seeing as liberal users here are happy to criticize shitty dems save your whataboutisms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @06:36PM (2 children)
All the criticism in the world is just bullshit lip service when shitty dems are reelected anyway. And you just use "whataboutism" as an excuse to act the same as your antagonists
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2022, @10:20PM (1 child)
Back atcha Nazi lover.
PS: Bernie Sanders almost won the primary, but the DNC is set up so the political rulers can easily bully their way through. It is a problem that pales in comparison to Republican fascism destroying democracy and freedom, literally.
Address the GOP fascists and white supremacy problems you have and I'll happily engage your criticisms of the left. Until then you're just a hypocrite and will be mocked or ignored.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03 2022, @08:54PM
Whatever, like I said, you're just making excuses, and still reelecting over 90%. Quit your stupid bellyaching.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Wednesday June 01 2022, @08:32PM (6 children)
I don't have any problem with expressing an opinion. Example: government should be smaller, taxes should be lower, people should be stupider.
I do have a problem with misinformation. Example: The California wild fires were started by secret Jewish space lasers. 5G causes covid! The sound of windmills causes cancer. The microchips are in the vaccine! Covid isn't real. The earth is flat. The moon landings were faked. Trump won the 2020 election by a landslide!
There is a difference between the two.
Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @09:21PM (5 children)
Hunter Biden's Laptop is Russian disinformation
Gas prices are Russia's fault
Trump is a Russian puppet
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @09:33PM (1 child)
Whatabout Santa Claus! The Easter Bunny! The Tooth Fairy! The Cake!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @09:40PM
Russian plots... every one of 'em!
Haven't been able to get Foster Farms Bourbon Chicken in over two years... Russian plot to sell Vodka Chicken.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 02 2022, @02:12PM (2 children)
You know, we could talk about those subjects.
The problem is that the crazy people talk about the truly crazy items I described -- AND THEY ARE VOTED INTO OFFICE!
That is what sucks all the oxygen out of the room so that other subjects cannot be disgust.
Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2022, @04:19PM (1 child)
No, we couldn't. That's how some of us get banned from this dump. Hypocrisy, much?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 02 2022, @08:18PM
So what problem do you have with beer now being cheaper than gasoline?
(note: I don't drink)
Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2022, @07:09PM
as soon as you split your title from your text.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday May 28 2022, @08:41PM (18 children)
We should be more concerned about why people do want to kill each other, not how.
There is a plenty of ways to kill a human without a systemic weapon, either with bare hands or even indirectly without a touch.
Tools like weapons just serve as a spatial projection of intent. They are not the cause. Any object may assume a role of a weapon.
Therefore, I ask:
Why are those people killing school children uninhibited by moral restraints nor by biologic instincts?
I understand your fear, but certainly, that's not a mechanical problem of owning some specific tool or another.
It's a problem of badly poisoned mind of the attackers. Their intent is broken as well as their self-control and natural instincts.
Where this poison comes from?
And, more importantly: How to remove it?
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2022, @09:28PM (9 children)
Vote for ptogressive candidates that support universal healthcare, education, and police reform. Those are the three most fundamental changes needed right now in the USA.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2022, @11:14PM
How about voting for secessions, so that the people in progressive-dominated states can have all the goodies that they want, and the basket of backwards deplorables who are suckling off the teat of the wealthy coasts can have ... well, whatever's left to them? As long as the coasts have this political millstone, there's no reason to believe that they'll be able to swim up to what they really want. Massachusetts and Maryland, California and Connecticut can step aside and like Mississippi and Missouri, Texas and Tennessee shrivel and die, clinging to their guns, gold and whatever god-bothering they want.
Nothing like giving folks what they want - that's democracy, after all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:00AM (7 children)
Absolutely agree on universal healthcare.
Education? WTF do you mean? We already have an education system (that sucks) that forcibly takes money from citizens, even to the point of seizing their home and property and auctioning it at pennies on the dollar to pay for the very broken horrible wasteful "education system". Home schooled and private schooled children are leaps and bounds ahead of the horrific public school system. More $ thrown at it will fix it? All my life I've observed that complaint and more and more and more $ thrown into the giant money pit of public "education". Not enough time to discuss the mindset of people who suck on the tit of taxation. Let's just say they're not the most productive people. And then you have the problem of children's horrific behavior and how discipline is gone. Time for the school system to sue parents of badly behaved children who disrupt the classes and system, often physically harming, beating, even killing teachers, administrators, and other children.
Police reform. Yes, definitely. That's a tricky thing. Much rational psychological analysis needed to figure out how to hire people who can be good police, without hiring the people who enjoy power far too much.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @08:55PM (6 children)
"All your life" which means you're under 30. Things were going alright till around 2000 when means-testing got popular and higher education was defunded in favor of government backed student loans. This made perverse incentives to raise tuition rates every yesr by extreme amounts and spend that money on corrupt projects like new unnecessary buildings. They did similar with some k-12 schools, one place they spent millions on a fancy gym, pool, and track then people complained that more money does nothing.
Yes, it does nothing when the money is not spent on hiring more teachers and better materials for the actual students. Republican motto: "Government doesn't work, elect us and we'll prove it." Same thing UK conservatives are doing to the NHS because they want to privatize it and suck more money from the working class.
So thanks and good points, but universal education works very well in less-corrupt countries. Private schools can still exist, but saddling young people with insane debt so they can get a shit paying job is a recipe for societal collapse. We're going through it right now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:41PM
A little before. Remember "America's Bridge to the 21st Century."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:35PM (4 children)
Wow, thank you, great post. I'll upmod when I have points.
You're spot-on re: corrupt countries. We have horrifically corrupt corporatocracy here in US.
As other AC wrote, it was more like 1980 when the huge tuition increases started. And "free market" doesn't fix it. Once you've started at university A, you lose credits and incur many other overhead costs to move to university B.
Funny you mention "unnecessary buildings". University I attended has been doing that aggressively for the past 20+ years.
How can we clean up the corruption? Better asked, since the corrupt people are in power, how do you replace them? Wasn't it Trump who ran on "drain the swamp"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @01:50AM (1 child)
By voting for somebody else. The entire House of Representatives is up for grabs every two years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 07 2022, @09:36PM
Yeah, we do. It's always a crapshoot between dumb and dumber, or bad and worse. Many vote D or R because. Many vote for someone but wish for some things from the other.
Cynical me thinks that the whole system is so corrupt that only corrupt people even get involved and run for office.
How about: no parties. Just represent We The People?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @03:01AM (1 child)
And the huge tuition increases are the direct result of too much "student loan" money.
When students pay for their schooling with free money (and to an 18 year old, a student loan is "free money" -- few yet even begin to understand what a "student loan" means, they lose all desire to care one bit what their school of choice charges per year.
When the schools learn that the students are no longer price sensitive, they realize they can charge whatever they want, and the students will just pay (by pulling in more "free money") whatever the school asks, then the schools all start increasing their tuition at a rapid pace, in order to grab more of that "free money".
The sad part is that this very exact scenario is taught, in those same schools, in the Econ. department, when the economic theory gets brought out that pumping too many free dollars into a market leads to rampant price inflation. The student loans pumped loads of dollars into the university tuition market, and what was the result? Rampant inflation of the costs of college. Just exactly like the Econ. theory predicts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 07 2022, @09:41PM
You could not be more correct. In fact, I took 3 econ courses and learned all that good stuff.
Every time a school or "education system" whines about needing more money and raising taxes, all I can think about is how the greedy leeches latch on and soak up more of the $. Same goes for medicine of course. It's a runaway system.
I feel strongly that econ should be required courses in much or most of K - 12, certainly high school. I have to wonder how different (better?) the US and maybe the whole world would be if people were more in tune with economic forces, power of money, etc. Instead of buying the cheapest thing possible at X-mart, buy that slightly more expensive, made in somewhere other than China thing, for the betterment of the future for all.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by nostyle on Sunday May 29 2022, @12:46PM (5 children)
You do well to recognize that almost every action is preceded by thought, and that poisonous thought results in deadly action.
Every complex activity a man might undertake and succeed at requires that he imagine and train for its execution over and over in his mind. The more he imagines an action, the easier it will seem and the more comfortable he will become to its execution.
Now the thing that precedes those thoughts is angst - either a lack or a hurt - angst so severe that it drives one to try to devise some way to allay it. Then when the angst driving him reaches an unbearable level and the activity he imagines will provide relief becomes comfortable enough to him, the result is fairly inevitable.
Then if one is to prevent such deadly action, one must either eliminate the actor, or relieve the angst driving his mind to meditate murder.
Some who post here want you and me to imagine - over and over - that you had a gun with which to kill the deadly actor dead. This conflicts with my faith, and so I refuse to practice that scenario in my mind and I reject the assertion that this is the best solution.
Instead, I spend my time practicing empathy, that with everyone I meet, I might better understand the angst they are feeling. Then having understood the angst that drives them, I practice finding and delivering the words that in some way allay that angst and heal those hurts - thereby removing the need for deadly action on every side. Mostly I suck at this, but it is a strategy that my heart can live with. In my experience, though, words - if you can find the right ones - are much more effective than bullets.
If I wanted to wield deadly force, and serve as judge, jury and executioner ever, I would have chosen a career in law-enforcement.
--
"They didn't care, they were just dyin' to get off" - Eagles, Life in the Fast Lane
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 31 2022, @09:22PM (4 children)
If we had a new global Newspeak, then it might be impossible to even think of carrying out any new mass shootings [theguardian.com] on labor day weak end.
Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @10:27PM (3 children)
In 2022, 46 Shot During Memorial Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago [breitbart.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @11:40PM (2 children)
Indeed, I expect shootings and murders and social upheaval to increase as this nation continues to fail to recognize and obey its divine messenger. Those who would worship their political leaders and expect salvation by electing some party or another shall all be sorely disappointed. There is no remedy short of revitalization of human hearts - a process that requires a creative word from God.
Feel free to disagree with my assessment, but I am utterly certain that political spin will not redeem this nation. Don't let me stop you, though.
Of course, this is merely an apropos scripture, not an endorsement of the institution. Modern day Islam is as astray as modern day Christianity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2022, @03:04AM (1 child)
Chicago has long been an exceptional example... anybody who's been there at night has stories. It has a tradition to maintain. They don't just commemorate Valentine's Day, they celebrate The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Shootings are ubiquitous, like green rivers.
Before the musical "Chicago," there was Roxie Hart (1942) [imdb.com], which is a phenomenal and under-rated little movie, and which begins to explain Chicago. It also has an actor I've long appreciated (not admired, just appreciated).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2022, @03:43AM
Okay, some pedant will say it was story->musical->movie->musical->movie->breakfast cereal.
Just give Nunnally Johnson some credit for doing something wrong, right. It's like Along Came Jones (1945) [imdb.com], the wrong way to make a western.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:04PM
Look at the increases in depression, mental dis-ease, suicide, family violence, random vandalism, robbery, drive-by-anything. We're making homicidal wackos out of those who a generation ago were just people you said "good morning" to on the street.
So many refuse to realize that we are in a time when the bizarre and disgusting goal of media, education and leaders, is to disarm, dishearten and depress society, to make us eternal children. We will all depend on those elites, those enlightened adults in the room who understand in ways we could never fathom. If you think life is too expensive now, just you wait.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2022, @02:36AM
In another thread, people like me mentioned self-medication in the whole wacko mass murderer thing. People have problems, and they can handle them... really, they can, honestly, no need for people to jump down their throats about it. I hadn't factored in marijuana, since it's not one of those things I ever, ever think about. Tuesday night, Laura Ingraham did a segment on how today's pot is so much stronger than the '60s version. In fact, she said, it can trigger psychotic reactions in young adults. To me, it's another in the very long list of problems today.
This one is apparently different. I did a quick, non-evil search, and was surprised that there is so much strong reaction to her statements. Makes one wonder why they're making such a big deal. Say it's 1960, and somebody said cigarettes were bad for you, and then the tobacco companies jumped in... yeah, it sounds like that.
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Sunday May 29 2022, @02:41AM
Because that adds a lot of value to SN (not just for me). If they don't do that for you, then don't read them.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @03:40AM (19 children)
I partially disagree with you. There are worthwhile journals. There are a few people who post tech-related journals about things that don't make it to the front page. Look at some of hubie's journals, for example. They would go completely unnoticed were it not for the recent journals box. I like giving visibility to tech-related discussion and other interesting topics that would never make it to the front page.
The problem is that some people love to post divisive political crap, and those journals tend to get the most comments. One user, in particular, is particularly prolific. However, others do post divisive political journals with some regularity. I would prefer that these journals not be posted because their purpose seems to be to piss people off instead of having a genuine discussion about issues. That said, I'm not entirely sure that having a genuine discussion about the issues is possible in today's political climate. However, I do remember there were plenty of political journals on Slashdot when the feature was introduced, and that the discussion was civil. I distinctly remember debating the Iraq War with people in those journals and the discussions being respectful. However, I do believe that the divisive nature of those journals is detrimental to the overall health of the site, and that those arguments tend to spill over into other discussions here and have caused users to leave the site.
I would love to see the journals get cleaned up and to have the divisive political crap go away. However, I don't know how to implement this. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the recent journals box entirely. Besides, we do have some influence on what goes in that box. We can post tech-related journals and other interesting content that isn't political at all. At a minimum, it will take up a space that might otherwise go to political crap.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:20PM (18 children)
The only reason I come here is for AC posting. My goals are personal release, and to maybe soften up some of the turds from this commode. Some are actual experts in tech fields. This isn't a tech site. If it were, people like me might consider helping, instead of watching those topics we have passion for, swirl down the main page. Somebody ought to get together the $3500, and then do an Elon Musk on this place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:10PM (14 children)
...you mean, like asking the Real-DJT to come back?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @02:43AM (13 children)
If you mean the Real-Real DJT, you mean code that works and is maintainable. I've done coding for his people, and it works, without bringing back retirees from Miami, just to figure out how to do a back-up without deleting three months worth of posts.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @04:32PM (12 children)
Wow! I never get down-mods in -nostyle threads. Must've hit a nerve. Okay, this place dresses funny, too!
- Carole Lombard
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @06:07PM (11 children)
Sorry your missive was mistreated. Fixed what I could for now. Folks wax irrational when you group the "D" with the "J" with the "T". Probably my fault for pitching that set up line to see who would snap at the bait. Lack of sarcasm tags doesn't make things any clearer either.
Cool quote from Carole. One does wonder how we got on that topic though. Reminds me of the proposition:
I put that one into a little song once.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @08:00PM (10 children)
Well, it was less about D (which is, I'll have you know, half of a smiley face), and more about the semi-great purge of last spring. I was grateful for it, since it disappeared a few unfortunate posts I made that narrowed it to less than 3-degrees of separation.
I'm — honestly, truly, for sure this time — working on a project rife with live&death coin flips (it's a comedy). You know, there's a subplot with a tribute to a Kingston Trio song. And now we have "I don't think God is a softie" going in there, for sure. And maybe a little Huxley... he's the father on that old Cosby TV show, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @08:30PM (9 children)
Oh no! I did it again. Please disregard previous post. No, not the typos, but the reference to a TV personality who is now un-personed (Barr'd?).
It would've been cool. The scene with George Burns as a corporate lawyer, would've been priceless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @10:20PM (8 children)
Then let me run interference for you.
Today my bride & I celebrate our 47th, and I am feeling expansive and fearless. So for fun search on you tube for Liz Kauai 2009 and look for the haole in the Hawaiian shirt. The percussion was cribbed from LesPaul & Friends version of Sam Cooke/Clapton rendition of Troublin' Mind, and of course the lyrics are from sky fairy land, but the rest is all mine.
I'd link you to album version of the little song, but after a dozen years on you tube, it has only five views and zero likes. Seems only my mom could love such a thing.
No more cracks about my Hawaiian shirt now - deal?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:25AM (2 children)
I just googled for all the telltale breadcrumbs you've left here. Ha! One or two more posts, and I'll know where you buried your gold! But, about your shirts... nah, too easy.
You can look at it a couple of ways:
It's A Wonderful World (1939) [imdb.com], James Stewart, Caludette Colbert
It's A Wonderful Life (1946) [imdb.com], James Stewart, Donna Reed
Happy 47th.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @04:06PM (1 child)
The gold is a lie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @10:17PM
Sometimes the glitter is enough. Look really, really close, and my old car glitters, all by itself.
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
But you can be happy if you've a mind to
- Roger Miller
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:38AM (4 children)
Seem to spend more time addendumin' than doin'! "Troublin' Mind" or is it...
01 Jamaica Farewell
02 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
03 Far Away Places
04 Little Girl Blue
05 The Song Is Ended
06 Bali Hai
07 Trouble In Mind
08 They Call The Wind Maria
09 Swing Low Sweet Chariot
10 Since I Met You Baby
- Download w/o Clapton The One and Only Sam Cooke [archive.org]
At the anniversary of losing my father. Lookin' around... it's gettin' lonely down here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @03:20AM (3 children)
Sorry to be unclear... here you go:
"Somebody Ease My Troublin' Mind" [youtube.com]
About six months after my dad passed, I dreamed I met him on an infinitely long beach. I asked how he was doing and he told me, "It doesn't hurt anymore." I was happy to have encountered him there. Do miss him still.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:12AM (1 child)
Last week stopped me cold; drained the color from my gut. We knew it wouldn't last, even if it left a scar. Didn't want to post here, didn't want words or pictures at all. "Somebody Ease My Troublin' Mind" pretty much underlies that whole project, and somebody has to do it. Nobody do nothin' for awhile, okay?
Watched Good Girls Go To Paris (1939) [imdb.com] tonight. Throw-away lines are the best:
Customer: "Waitress, what time is it?"
Waitress: "I don't know, this isn't my table."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:03AM
My go-to for a good chuckle has always been His Girl Friday (1940) [imdb.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:59PM
Shouldn't have posted in that Digitization thread. Thinking about mortality. Relatives were scattered or already gone, except for my mother and me. When the time came, I was the one who made the decision to "pull the plug" on my father. Watched the big white hospital clock tick.
Remember every tick. Remember what you can.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:57PM (2 children)
I spent many months and wrote a big, elaborate digital book when paperless distribution was still a novelty. Trust in people led me to leave out copy protection, and to charge a more than reasonable price. It was a hit, people were celebrating it, thanking me profusely, and begging for more. Downloads and distribution were absolutely overwhelming and wonderful.
I sold 4 copies.
A life lesson learned. People really are something.
(Broke a personal rule and posted on a front page article. Here's a FREE reprint.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @04:26PM (1 child)
The cake is a lie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @05:07PM
Well, we went out on a double date
Me and Edith, you and Kate
Before we got past their front gate
There you were making eyes at Edith
While you were making time with Kate
You can't have your Kate and Edith too
You rascal you yodel-a-dio
Years have passed since that first date
I married Edith, you married Kate
Now every night when I come home
Your car's in the driveway Kate's in the car
And you and Edith are in the house alone
You can't have your Kate and Edith too
You rascal you yodel-a-dio...
- Statler Brothers
(Score: 4, Informative) by drussell on Sunday May 29 2022, @04:20PM (4 children)
You just need to go in and change your preferences, the site doesn't need to change anything.
Just go to Preferences -> Homepage tab -> Customize Slashboxes -> uncheck Most Recent Journal Entries -> Save
Done. Easy peasy.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @08:41PM (2 children)
Cool! Thanks for the info.
Trouble is,... it won't help me unless I log in, the thing I simply hate to do.
-nostyle
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:41PM (1 child)
Your browser doesn't do your login automatically for you? Or are you saying you don't like being logged in for some reason?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @01:35AM
My contributions to this site are so unworthy, I should never be allowed to log in. There are moments, though, when I vainly imagine I can nudge an off-the-rails conversation toward a commonly recognizable truth with a few pithy phrases. In those instances, it is convenient to have a functioning account. Otherwise I have no desire to be a named contributor.
I have a love/hate relationship with all human beings. I love you all and hope I can help you, but I hate how you treat one another and wish you would all stop being so stupid and selfish. Just stop it.
Oh,... and I love how I look in a mask - like a desperado waiting for a train.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:30PM
Press Ctrl+L
Type https://babylonbee.com/
Press Enter
(Score: 1, Troll) by nostyle on Friday June 03 2022, @05:11AM (5 children)
This is fair warning that, absent some changes, I will be deleting my journals in about 24 hours. If there is anything posted in them that you wish to make a copy of, please do so now.
I have no desire to participate in a site that features obscenity on its front page - especially when it is done only for the purpose of political slander.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03 2022, @05:17AM
It's lonely at the top.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03 2022, @09:45PM
"Absent some changes?" If you haven't changed, might as well drop the big one, now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2022, @01:24AM
Do you know how to keep an idiot in suspense?
(Score: 1, Troll) by nostyle on Tuesday June 07 2022, @10:24PM (1 child)
All the best to everyone. Nostyle has left the theater.
--
"Bought a one way ticket back
To the life he once knew
Oh yes he did
He said he would"
- Gladys Knight & The Pips, Midnight Train to Georgia
--
"I don't mind (ooh, where I get taken)
The road is callin', today is the day"
- Boston, Don’t Look Back
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 13 2022, @08:59PM
Theater of the absurd.