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Friday November 12, 21
10:35 PM
So I was drinking beer and eating curry. Where did it all go wrong? Life's great mysteries!
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Hand me a pair of leather pants and a CASIO keyboard -- I'm living for today!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 12 2021, @10:59PM (9 children)
The problem is that you didn't stay eight years old. It's quite the common mistake.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 12 2021, @11:18PM (6 children)
Silly observations, glad to see you branch into comedy /nos
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 13 2021, @12:49AM (5 children)
One consequence is that people tend to think of their youth as being the best times of their lives, no matter when they were born!
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Saturday November 13 2021, @09:40AM (4 children)
khallow has managed to stay eight years old. And a Vienna School Libertariantard. Astonishing.
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Saturday November 13 2021, @11:54AM (3 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 14 2021, @03:42AM (2 children)
So if I'm reading this correctly either Aristarchus is actually your ally, which would mean you hate what you are; or you are really Aristarchus' pupil or sock puppet.
Intriguing.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday November 14 2021, @03:53AM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday November 14 2021, @10:25AM
Such are the problems of our times. Rather recent development for me, however.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday November 13 2021, @12:21PM (1 child)
The rot had already set in by then. I would have preferred to have stayed 6. I had my epiphany at 7.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 13 2021, @03:59PM
> I had my epiphany at 7.
Musts be a late bloomer, 19 for me (several life changing events).
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 12 2021, @11:09PM (19 children)
When the Dems had all the asylums around the nation shut down, and all the inmates rushed out to register as Democrats. That was the end of the beginning. Or the beginning of the end. Or something in between. Then, there was Korea (before my time) and Vietnam (still before my time, but I can remember some of it) and the Assassination Season (two Kennedys and a King). But, the core of the meltdown was when they shut the asylums down. When the former inmates started getting elected to congress, there was no turning back.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 12 2021, @11:16PM (2 children)
Agreed, when turgid had the inevitable runny shits who could have predicted the puddle of shit would run for president? Then not 40 years later another sentient turd would come along. Most shocking of all is how much you domestic terrorists love smearing the turds all over yourselves. Was that why y'all smeared your shit in the Capitol? Hoping to summon a new demagogue?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 12 2021, @11:27PM (1 child)
The dementagog was already summoned, and waiting to be sworn in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 13 2021, @12:21AM
Yeah Reagan was already famous and prepped by fucking up Republican's most hated state. Then an even fatter deuce from New York. Wonder how hard the GOP leaders laugh at your expense.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 13 2021, @04:03AM (2 children)
I'm impressed. I didn't know that the Democrats had such power in Scotland.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday November 13 2021, @12:20PM (1 child)
There's a global conspiracy, apparently, with green lizard men from outer space. I saw it on the intertubes so it must be true.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 14 2021, @04:44AM
The plot thickens, so long as alien males menstrate. [lbc.co.uk] Think I did read about a conspiracy on the intertubes, it was called "biology" -- what is that right-wing hairy bollocks about then?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by canopic jug on Saturday November 13 2021, @05:56AM (9 children)
When the Dems had all the asylums around the nation shut down
You have been misinformed and/or are making stuff up. While Reagan is to the left of many of today's Democrats, he was in no way a member of the Democrat side of The Party. It was really the Reagan administration which started the seasonal closing of the looney bins [salon.com] in 1981, legally undoing the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 signed by Carter. Thereafter through the 1980s and 1990s it was also common practice to disperse the freshly released, mentally unsound by giving them one-way bus tickets to nearby cities, especially "blue" cities or even "blue" states [calmatters.org] where they promptly encamped on the street and lived for a little while eating from the trash and begging until succumbing to exposure, violence, drugs, or their illnesses. The closures and dispersals almost always happened during the early summer so as to best hide it from view.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 13 2021, @06:15AM (8 children)
You can't put that all at Nixon's door, no matter how you try. It started with a Dem administration, and was followed up by bleeding heart liberals who, rather than fix a broken system, just burned it down.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-mental-hospitals-contribute-to-homelessness-here [kqed.org]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 5, Informative) by canopic jug on Saturday November 13 2021, @07:09AM (7 children)
No, of course it's not Nixon. As stated, it's clearly due to the Reagan administration. See also your own quote above and note the fallout from the 1981 misdeeds.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 13 2021, @08:49AM (6 children)
Sorry, somehow typed Nixon, when I meant Raygun. But, yeah, like I pointed out, it started with the Kennedy administration.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 13 2021, @05:43PM (5 children)
Jesus Fucking Christ, you are so tribally motivated to blame liberals for every misdeed you voted for.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 13 2021, @06:11PM (4 children)
So, which part of that first item did you fail to understand?
Democrats haven't changed much in the last 60 years. They vote federal intervention into every aspect of life, then fail to fund it, then blame it on Republicans when their dream world turns into a latrine.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 13 2021, @10:34PM (3 children)
AC was right, you are a partisan hack. I fully understand your point while you fail to understand anything beyond the GOP narrative. Thank god Rush Limbaugh is dead, but damage has been done.
Can conservatives break free of the fascist shackles they so wear so proudly while proclaiming they are the only real freedom lovers? Doesn't look good after 1/6, seems you're all committed to creating a theocratic state to erase all progress of the 20th century.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 14 2021, @04:31PM (2 children)
Thank God Joe's brain is dead, but the damage is still being done.
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Fuck Kommie Harris!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 14 2021, @09:04PM (1 child)
Lol, we understand that to! Fuck Joe Biden :D Fuck Trump, fuck McConnell, fuck Pelosi, fuck all the corrupt bastards. Sadly you tribal idiots are incapable of even faking your pretend centrism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 15 2021, @02:19AM
If "centerism" means to meet you halfway each time (and it always does), then fuck you, too.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 13 2021, @04:56PM (2 children)
Peculiar thing is that the left is now arguing that we are going to be required to stand there and get killed. Self-defense should be illegal, around next Wednesday... right when this year's new riots start. The first shot's free!
Close the loony bins so the left doesn't feel like the only oddballs. There's sanity for you.
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Run and Hide, Kyle!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 13 2021, @06:14PM
You have a problem with being "Bingered"? [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 15 2021, @07:48PM
"You Lose the Right to Self-Defense When You’re the One Who Brought the Gun"
- Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday November 13 2021, @01:48AM
Everything was always wrong by design.
That's a total breakthrough of mind equivalent to lesser enlightenment. It's transforming because it may either prompt you to die willingly (if you are weak) or seek for completely new survival strategies (if you are strong enough). Either way, renounce of passivity of being towed changes the Game of Life.
Trust is binding. Without trusting to anything, a man is free to maneuver himself with a higher degree of freedom.
Just don't do gun cleaning while drinking hard, that's not fair option to loose by.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 13 2021, @03:47AM (1 child)
Just read this fun New Yorker book review, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/early-civilizations-had-it-all-figured-out-the-dawn-of-everything [newyorker.com]
The authors take on the standard model of hunter-gatherers marginalized by settlers eating grains and living in a social hierarchy, or swords into plowshares if you prefer.
Thought provoking, well worth the read, imo.
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday November 13 2021, @05:05PM
It's quite difficult to hit a man with a plowshare, so I still prefer a sword.
Also, when government collapses (any model) and organized land cultivation stops it's still possible to survive a harsh winter in a forest without any additional resources, but near to impossible in a desolate city or barren land.
That's valid for any epoch.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 13 2021, @04:12AM
Imagine our turgid doing this, just like one of those Brexit supporting commoners. Next he'll be enjoying banter with his fellow country-men in a public house and eating KP nuts off the bar!
(Score: 1) by Frigatebird on Sunday November 14 2021, @12:32AM (4 children)
Was it the beer, or the curry? Or the combination, which does not seem likely.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 14 2021, @04:36AM (2 children)
A frigatebird that never experienced a spicy asshole? And that isn't just the officer class. Tell us you've never served in a navy, merchant or otherwise, without telling us you've never enjoyed curry on a beer session.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Frigatebird on Sunday November 14 2021, @05:53AM
Evidently, you do not know Frigatebirds, nor our digestive systems! Ha!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 15 2021, @08:24PM
You know, not everyone is white.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday November 14 2021, @10:11AM
In a word: stress. The beer and the curry weren't working this time. It creeps up on me. I never quite see it coming.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].