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Title: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 30, 2021, 01:18:27 PM
I have learned to reconcile my own free will with the concept that ultimately my life will reach a point toward which I was partially led by the decisions and consequences of that free will acting in concert with the intrusion of factors over which I will have had no control. I think of that concept as cinneadhadh (kin-na-aw) after the Irish words for “decision” and “luck”.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on September 30, 2021, 07:50:13 PM
^ Sounds like the overthinking...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 01, 2021, 02:22:28 PM
No, I don’t think it’s a coincidence, I think the Ayurvedic herb ashwagandha makes many women more amorous.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 01, 2021, 02:41:32 PM
 :question: :question: :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 01, 2021, 03:00:41 PM
Did you decide to have free will? I mean, if given the choice I don't know that I'd take it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 02, 2021, 10:20:04 AM
Will entropy have an entropy?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 02, 2021, 11:46:02 AM
Will entropy have an entropy?

Yes. It stops when everything has decayed to the lowest possible state.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 02, 2021, 04:33:43 PM
... everything has decayed to the lowest possible state.

Now here I must comment.  This would describe my brother who has been diagnosed with Korsakoff Syndrome.  He has been hospitalized for a month.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 03, 2021, 08:22:02 AM
In fourth grade I read Charlotte’s Web and no book in my life has ever made me cry harder, though the near-agape demonstrated by the old priest in The Exorcist also got me good as a teenager.

I count that reaction as my first real exposure to the propensity toward entertaining sadness that often lies in Celtic genes.

I went to school and confided my sorrow to my teacher, and she said to me, “Do you not understand, child, that death is part of life?”

“Yes, Sister.”

“Well, that’s why we need to be prepared for death at any moment. When was your last confession?”

“Uh…”

“Then maybe you’d better stay in at recess and go to special confession.”

Never tell a nun that death makes you sad.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 03, 2021, 03:35:47 PM
I think I need to buy some new shoes.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 04, 2021, 09:35:58 AM
Somewhere in the world there are immortal rabbits. We just don't notice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on October 04, 2021, 12:36:55 PM
I think I need to buy some new shoes.

I bought a pair of red sneakers last week, for $25. My nephew bought a pair online for $350. I would never pay that much for a pair of sneakers, even if I were a millionaire  :bouncegiggle:



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on October 04, 2021, 02:44:34 PM
After ~20  years I finally beat Puzzle Bobble 2.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 05, 2021, 12:28:48 AM
Years ago my grandfather told me he heard the IRA tried to shake Stanley Kubrick down during the filming of Barry Lyndon, but the best it got out of the attempt was some of its supporters being used as extras in a few scenes, and others becoming Ryan O' Neal's drinking buddies after hours, and you know, every time I watch Barry Lyndon I try to see who among the visual back benchers looks like they may be in the IRA. I've narrowed my suspicions down to the squinty guy in the army camp sequence, and the bald man in the brown vest.  Provos, I tell you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 06, 2021, 06:56:07 PM
Halloween should last all month.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 07, 2021, 11:22:59 AM
If Yoko Ono came to my house, I'd drape a marble birdbath in scarlet velvet, align it toward true north, then fill it with freshly-squeezed pomegranate juice, because I think it'd make her feel welcome.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 07, 2021, 11:32:31 AM
If Jeffery Dahmer came to my house, I'd have the fridge stocked with frozen dicks, heads, and hands.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 07, 2021, 11:52:58 AM
If Jeffery Dahmer came to my house, I'd have the fridge stocked with frozen dicks, heads, and hands.

 :buggedout: :teddyr: :teddyr:

Reminds me of that scene in State of Grace where Gary Oldman keeps a pair of chopped off hands in his freezer for fingerprints.  :buggedout: :teddyr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SKDxqUpfH4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SKDxqUpfH4)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 07, 2021, 12:00:43 PM
If Jeffery Dahmer came to my house, I'd have the fridge stocked with frozen dicks, heads, and hands.

 :buggedout: :teddyr: :teddyr:

Reminds me of that scene in State of Grace where Gary Oldman keeps a pair of chopped off hands in his freezer for fingerprints.  :buggedout: :teddyr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SKDxqUpfH4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SKDxqUpfH4)

Holy sheep s**t!
I never even heard of that movie! Now I must see it!  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 07, 2021, 12:04:29 PM

Holy sheep s**t!
I never even heard of that movie! Now I must see it!  :buggedout:

Yikes, I just remembered I was still in college when I saw that: 1990! But it is very good and it's about the New York Irish gangsters The Westies. I believe that those were buggers you didn't mess with.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 07, 2021, 12:27:46 PM
I was born in NYC! The Bronx!
I never paid no mind to gangs. Nobody in the Bronx ever even noticed me. I was a poor white boy. My only friend was a guy from Columbia who could barely speak English. But I had a Led Zep t shirt on at DeWitt Clinton High School. So we sat in Poe Park after school and got drunk and listened to heavy metal on a bench facing the main road right in front of Edgar Allen Poe's house. He had a boom box!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 07, 2021, 12:58:12 PM
right in front of Edgar Allen Poe's house. He had a boom box!

Wow, Edgar Allan Poe was really ahead of his time  :wink: :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 07, 2021, 10:17:02 PM
I wonder if people wet the bed more often on nights when rain is falling on the roof?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 08, 2021, 11:15:21 AM
I wonder if people wet the bed more often on nights when rain is falling on the roof?

Aren't you just glad that you don't do that at all? 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 08, 2021, 11:22:32 AM
Soft rock is my most despised music genre. I absolutely can't stand it. A graveyard at night has more life in it than soft rock has.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on October 08, 2021, 11:25:01 AM
So we sat in Poe Park after school and got drunk and listened to heavy metal on a bench facing the main road right in front of Edgar Allen Poe's house. He had a boom box!

A longtime online friend was born in the Bronx. She lived there until the early 2000s and then moved to Houston. She would go to Poe Park very often. I think she lived not too far off. She showed me lots of pics of the park and house. I'd love to visit some day but I'm too afraid of flying.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 08, 2021, 11:31:09 AM
^ It was a nice place to sit. Drink and listen to music.  :drink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 08, 2021, 11:35:36 AM
I was asked by someone who likes to shock if it’s “too soon” to dress up for Halloween as a pair of Covid lungs, and I said I think it is. He said, “Spanish flu 1918 lungs?” I suggested something from Star Wars instead.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 08, 2021, 11:44:46 AM
^ Can't he just dress up as colon cancer? That way he won't have to wear a costume.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on October 08, 2021, 11:52:17 AM
They already did covid Halloween costumes in 2020

(https://imagevars.gulfnews.com/2020/10/26/halloween-kids-costumes_175654704a1_original-ratio.jpg)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 08, 2021, 04:55:55 PM
If a vampire decided to go to medical school, would they study hematology in order to learn more about blood, or would they study psychiatry to learn more about getting into peoples' heads?
Maybe they would cross anthropology with sales & advertising......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 08, 2021, 09:06:44 PM
I used to be acquainted with a gay German kleptomaniac. Bet not many girls who grew up in '90s Midwestern suburbia could say that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 09, 2021, 02:45:20 PM
what's with the super ostentatious cat sounds in movies? life if theres a cat in the room the microphone goes right to its face and its like " MEEEOW!" right in your ear.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 09, 2021, 05:48:55 PM
That's cool, but aren't all boots made for walking?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 09, 2021, 06:30:39 PM
^  :bouncegiggle:

(https://i.imgur.com/nmBjJjW.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 09, 2021, 06:53:06 PM
Soft rock is my most despised music genre. I absolutely can't stand it. A graveyard at night has more life in it than soft rock has.


" I'm so lost in love, I can't live without out you..."
I don't disagree. I also hate bands that pretend to be  good rock bands. Like Limp Biscuit.
 :bluesad:

http://youtu.be/gES95UtYTr0 (http://youtu.be/gES95UtYTr0)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 09, 2021, 07:19:18 PM
I wonder if ducks think we are gods if we save them from dying in an oil spill that we caused?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 09, 2021, 08:34:32 PM
That '90s Show is coming? I'm down with that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 09, 2021, 10:43:50 PM
...I also hate bands that pretend to be  good rock bands. Like Limp Biscuit.
 :bluesad:...


...or LINKIN PARK... or NICKELBACK...  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 10, 2021, 01:22:02 AM
If they ever made a 7 cent coin, it should be called a dickel.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 10, 2021, 01:23:34 PM
A song that makes me recall a funny moment is Bullet With Butterfly Wings, because it was playing years ago while I was being bench-pressed like a 115-pound weight. Just an idea someone got, “Think I can bench-press you if you hold real still?”

“Let’s see.”

So as Billy Corgan warbled that he was still just a rat in a cage, I held myself rigid and was lifted toward the ceiling several impressive times in a row.

It was fun til he tickled me and I fell on him and my elbow busted his lip.

Crazy times.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 11, 2021, 04:01:55 PM
Death goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 11, 2021, 06:02:37 PM
The more I learn about the business practices Horace Smith & Dan Wesson, the more it surprises me that these two didn't wind up in jail at some point during there careers....
Considering how many business partners Horace Smith & Dan Wesson left shirtless, the more ironic I find it that Volcanic Arms was bought out by a shirt maker.....
The more I learn about the evolution of Volcanic Arms, the more I can't help imagining these things turning up in some late night infomercial......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 11, 2021, 09:32:50 PM
...I also hate bands that pretend to be  good rock bands. Like Limp Biscuit.
 :bluesad:...


...or LINKIN PARK... or NICKELBACK...  :lookingup:
Sadly all three bands have more energy than a radio station that plays at work. I swear that radio station is what drives my hatred for soft rock. My manager is even more vocal on his displeasure with soft rock than me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on October 12, 2021, 01:21:21 AM
I swear that radio station is what drives my hatred for soft rock.

I feel the exact same way. I was working a few weeks in a section of our firm that had a radio station on all day. It was torture because they would repeat certain songs throughout the day and all week long. The radio station had a hard on for Westlife's Total Eclipse of the Heart, a cover version of the Bonnie Tyler classic. Funny thing is the Westlife version was never released officially as a single, but the radio station would play it 3-4 times every day for weeks. I felt violated and brain washed lol. Thanks to that radio station pushing that song (it is still on their heavy rotation list to this day. Why?) it became one of my most hated songs.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 12, 2021, 10:55:08 AM
Orange is the most naturally-caffeinated of all bi-racial crayons.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 12, 2021, 08:09:09 PM
I was falling asleep watching Bob Ross paint, when I heard him say a certain dirty-ish word for male bovine poop. I did a double take and rewound YouTube and what he said was, “….blend the color, or moosh-it.” OK, the world returned to normal then.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 12, 2021, 08:55:47 PM
I am reading the comments to a cocktail recipe and wondering, do people not know what lemonade is anymore?  :question: One guy thinks it's carbonated and another thinks it's pure lemon juice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 13, 2021, 09:05:47 AM
Someone has to clean up after every onscreen food fight, after every hotel room trashed by rock stars showing off to groupies, after every dropping of confetti and balloons at a time-wasting political convention. Those are the unsung heroes in the wake of your self-indulgence, Belushi, Plant, Pelosi.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 13, 2021, 09:30:49 AM
in the wake of your self-indulgence, Belushi, Plant, Pelosi.

I know John Belushi- but the others? Robert Plant from Led Zep? Nancy Pelosi ?  :question:
They're not in movies.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on October 13, 2021, 11:44:06 AM
I know John Belushi- but the others? Robert Plant from Led Zep? Nancy Pelosi ?  :question:
They're not in movies.

Someone has to clean up after every onscreen food fight (Belushi)
after every hotel room trashed by rock stars showing off to groupies (Plant)
after every dropping of confetti and balloons at a time-wasting political convention (Pelosi)




Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 13, 2021, 01:55:45 PM
Kristi said she was looking for a TV show to buy me as a Yule present. I have suggested Saphire & Steel.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 13, 2021, 11:03:46 PM
Kristi said she was looking for a TV show to buy me as a Yule present. I have suggested Saphire & Steel.

Wow: that is a blast from the past.  :smile: :thumbup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_%26_Steel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_%26_Steel)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 14, 2021, 08:46:23 AM
I think Andy Warhol would have made a frustrating D&D Dungeon Master.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 14, 2021, 12:25:28 PM
Kristi said she was looking for a TV show to buy me as a Yule present. I have suggested Saphire & Steel.

Wow: that is a blast from the past.  :smile: :thumbup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_%26_Steel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_%26_Steel)

The other show I suggested was "Into the Labyrinth". If you remember that one without needing to search for it, colour me impressed. At least in the U.K, I seem to be the only one who remembers it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 14, 2021, 12:36:43 PM

The other show I suggested was "Into the Labyrinth". If you remember that one without needing to search for it, colour me impressed. At least in the U.K, I seem to be the only one who remembers it.

I had to search for it: it looks good. :thumbup:

The one British TV series which scared the *BEEP* out of me as a teen (but I remember fondly and have on DVD) is this:  :buggedout: :buggedout:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Factor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Factor)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 14, 2021, 04:56:21 PM
I think we can all be glad that trees don't fart.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 14, 2021, 05:02:28 PM
I think we can all be glad that trees don't fart.

"If trees could scream, would we cut them down?
 We probably would, if they did it all the time, for no reason."
 - Jack Handy


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 14, 2021, 08:30:03 PM
I know John Belushi- but the others? Robert Plant from Led Zep? Nancy Pelosi ?  :question:
They're not in movies.

Someone has to clean up after every onscreen food fight (Belushi)
after every hotel room trashed by rock stars showing off to groupies (Plant)
after every dropping of confetti and balloons at a time-wasting political convention (Pelosi)




Some odd choices. Belushi has been dead for decades, Plant hasn't thrown a TV out a window since about 1973, and Pelosi having a big rally? I must have missed that one. Though I noticed Dump is still running around the country having circle jerks all over the place, even though he isn't holding any office.
Oh yeah...and Jan.6.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 15, 2021, 08:03:50 AM
It seems like the modern medical community is better at keeping sick people lingering than it is improving overall health in the later stages of life.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 16, 2021, 04:34:06 AM
It seems like the modern medical community is better at keeping sick people lingering than it is improving overall health in the later stages of life.

I think that is down to how much people look after themselves though when they are younger and then suffering the effects later.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 16, 2021, 12:59:28 PM
Visited some friends out of state last night and drove home through two separate active tornado warnings. Crazy stuff.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 17, 2021, 03:54:13 PM
I am randomly wondering whatever happened to Boy Scout Kevin.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 17, 2021, 04:22:29 PM
I am randomly wondering whatever happened to Boy Scout Kevin.

I dunno...it's been almost a year...I hope he's ok.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 18, 2021, 02:36:47 PM
The world was forever changed because you came into it. The future is rewritten because of the children to whom you gave life. Everything you do, every choice you make, changes what would have been. We are each writers of the great story.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 18, 2021, 02:48:45 PM
^ well, thank you for that compliment!  :twirl:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 19, 2021, 10:12:30 AM
I am randomly wondering whatever happened to Boy Scout Kevin.

I dunno...it's been almost a year...I hope he's ok.

I was also wondering about him.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 19, 2021, 10:23:58 AM
My friend spent several summers in Israel as a kid, and one year her group went to Masada, and the guide told them the women there in AD 74 made themselves beautiful before their deaths, and the Romans who found them dead were so stunned by this that some veteran soldiers cradled the Jewish women’s bodies in their arms and wept. I’ve never heard that anywhere else but she said that’s what the Israelis said.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on October 19, 2021, 10:34:08 PM
My friend spent several summers in Israel as a kid, and one year her group went to Masada, and the guide told them the women there in AD 74 made themselves beautiful before their deaths, and the Romans who found them dead were so stunned by this that some veteran soldiers cradled the Jewish women’s bodies in their arms and wept. I’ve never heard that anywhere else but she said that’s what the Israelis said.

Interesting.  The only contemporary account of Masada is the one from Josephus, who did interview the only survivors the Romans found.  Guess I need to dig out my volume of THE JEWISH WAR and see if that's in there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 19, 2021, 11:11:41 PM
My friend spent several summers in Israel as a kid, and one year her group went to Masada, and the guide told them the women there in AD 74 made themselves beautiful before their deaths, and the Romans who found them dead were so stunned by this that some veteran soldiers cradled the Jewish women’s bodies in their arms and wept. I’ve never heard that anywhere else but she said that’s what the Israelis said.

Interesting.  The only contemporary account of Masada is the one from Josephus, who did interview the only survivors the Romans found.  Guess I need to dig out my volume of THE JEWISH WAR and see if that's in there.

Probably some scheme older Israeli women cooked up to guilt-trip American Jewish girls into self-improvement. "If our ancestors could gussy themselves up to face death, is it too much to ask you to lose five pounds while you're over here for the summer, Rachel Beerman?"

My theory.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 20, 2021, 12:08:36 PM
I keep finding sloppy anachronisms in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. For instance, they didn't have hand grenades in ancient Antioch, they didn't have neon lights in Dark Age Britain, rabbits had quit being carnivorous by the 2nd century, God didn't have an English accent til Victorian times, and police in the 1970s couldn't travel back in time to arrest people, because time machines still aren't common today, five decades later. And this is dubbed a classic?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 20, 2021, 06:34:26 PM
I keep finding sloppy anachronisms in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. For instance, they didn't have hand grenades in ancient Antioch, they didn't have neon lights in Dark Age Britain, rabbits had quit being carnivorous by the 2nd century, God didn't have an English accent til Victorian times, and police in the 1970s couldn't travel back in time to arrest people, because time machines still aren't common today, five decades later. And this is dubbed a classic?

Have you secretly been WyreWizard all along?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 21, 2021, 10:39:54 AM
It's raining, and I keep thinking how when people draw raindrops, they are drawing them upside down. The thick end should be at the top.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 21, 2021, 12:41:51 PM
It is a wet autumn here.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 21, 2021, 01:34:49 PM
I keep finding sloppy anachronisms in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. For instance, they didn't have hand grenades in ancient Antioch, they didn't have neon lights in Dark Age Britain, rabbits had quit being carnivorous by the 2nd century, God didn't have an English accent til Victorian times, and police in the 1970s couldn't travel back in time to arrest people, because time machines still aren't common today, five decades later. And this is dubbed a classic?

Have you secretly been WyreWizard all along?

 :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 22, 2021, 09:52:19 AM
When I was a kid I used to like a variation of hide and seek called hide and bite. It was hard to get people to play it with me twice though.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on October 22, 2021, 09:58:40 AM
I didn't even know there was a hide and clap variation until I saw The Conjuring.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/QMCorrbkNGXiU/giphy.gif)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 22, 2021, 11:49:13 AM
Any sufficiently advanced science will indeed seem to be magic to anyone who doesn't understand it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 22, 2021, 10:56:40 PM
The heart speaks its own language and the soul hears it, oft to its own grief.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 24, 2021, 09:59:51 AM
There's nothing quite lke waking up and cleaning up dog mess after having a frantic day yesterday.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 24, 2021, 12:10:20 PM
^ Except for rolling in it and drinking it's blood!  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 28, 2021, 01:30:04 AM
They really should have stuck with Boaty McBoatface.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 28, 2021, 06:17:20 AM
After watching Marvel's 'What if?" show, I think I'd have much rather seen a Captain Carter series of movies than Captain America.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 28, 2021, 07:26:44 AM
They really should have stuck with Boaty McBoatface.

 :teddyr: :teddyr:

If you're talking about the navy renaming a ship after David Attenborough,  :thumbup: I have a toilet in my house I named after his brother Dick.  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on October 28, 2021, 10:41:47 AM
After many many years IMDb added the genre tag "horror" to The Silence of the Lambs (1991) this week. I wonder what made them change their mind?

Jaws (1975) still remains without "horror" tag though.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 29, 2021, 12:39:07 AM
Something I remember about 1985.

I remember I got a splinter in my chin and it hurt.

I was staying all night with my cousin, who took me through some woods near her home and out the other side to this house they were building at this new subdivision, and by propping a ladder against the side of a half-built house, we'd gone up on the roof, which seemed really high at the time, even though the house was just a one-story ranch.

I was keenly aware my cousin was leading me astray, her standard MO, and if I got busted I'd be in complete and total trouble for going up on a roof with her, but I did it anyway, which was a recurring pattern: she'd propose mischief, I'd follow. She was ten, I was six, she was my leader.

We climbed back down after being up on the roof a few minutes, and I saw that this house had a wooden deck, not sanded or painted or anything, so I climbed it and leaned over the deck to see my cousin who was on the ground, and put my chin against the railing to call out to her, and a little splinter from the rough wood stuck me like a dart, just zooming straight into me diagonally about half an inch in.

I pulled half of the splinter out but it broke and partly stayed under my skin and ached and got red over the next few days, like a tiny chigger bite, and my cousin said don't tell them how it happened, so I didn't, but everybody kept saying I should get the splinter taken out and I said no. I picked at it and it burned but I wouldn't let anyone else touch it.

Finally my dad, who'd been away for a while with his new work in another state came home and saw my chin and did a double-take and raised his eyebrows and said the splinter would stay in there the rest of my life and I'd notice people always looking down at my chin when they talked to me, and asked did I want that?

Well, no, so I let him take a needle and work the splinter out, which hurt like insanely much and bled a lot more than it'd seem like a little thing like that would, and it left an even bigger red spot on my chin for the next week, but at least it did heal so I wasn't destined to be called Splinter Chin, like my cousin said I would be as she laughed her head off when it happened in the first place.

1985.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 29, 2021, 10:36:51 AM
( Say in a Carey Grant voice)
"Rudy, Rudy, Rudy!"
That's an Abe Lincoln hat??? Looks like the Mad Hatter's hat!
 Real life makes it hard to make fun of stuff. Because you cant't make this sh!t up.

(https://i.imgur.com/34NmGNy.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 29, 2021, 10:47:04 AM
...That's an Abe Lincoln hat??? Looks like the Mad Hatter's hat!
 Real life makes it hard to make fun of stuff. Because you cant't make this sh!t up.
...


It is not an ABE LINCOLN "stovepipe" it is an earlier "bell crown" and therefore WAY wrong.   :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 29, 2021, 10:53:07 AM
^ Whatever is going on here- it's so stupid it's funny.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 29, 2021, 02:39:52 PM
^ Whatever is going on here- it's so stupid it's funny.  :bouncegiggle:


Indeed.

(https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/index1-3-1605902864.jpg?crop=0.5xw:1xh;center,top&resize=980:*)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 30, 2021, 11:20:17 AM
What ever happened to Women's Roller Derby? Or any roller derby TV shows, for that matter?

http://youtu.be/9JySr3QeeOs (http://youtu.be/9JySr3QeeOs)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 30, 2021, 04:12:01 PM
It turns out that the party Kristi asked me to go to is fancy dress. Advance warning of this would have been useful. If anyone asks about my costume I am going to rip my tee shirt off and say I’m Jon Moxley.

Although he wishes he has my shoulders.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 30, 2021, 04:27:54 PM
What ever happened to Women's Roller Derby? Or any roller derby TV shows, for that matter?

[url]http://youtu.be/9JySr3QeeOs[/url] ([url]http://youtu.be/9JySr3QeeOs[/url])


Had a league called The River City Roller Girls my first year at WRIR....
It's what the movie Whip It (2009) was about....
I think an episode of Lucifer, maybe the second season, was about roller derby....

Maybe it's one of those things only women know about.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 30, 2021, 09:18:03 PM
Work played Uriah Heep on the radio, a group I had never heard of before.  Both of my parents heard of the name but don't know any songs of them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 30, 2021, 09:26:51 PM
 ^ I had one of they'r records in the 70's. They were early prog rock. But with a metal edge.
I had this record.

http://youtu.be/lumulauzCU0 (http://youtu.be/lumulauzCU0)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 30, 2021, 11:47:56 PM
^ I had one of they'r records in the 70's. They were early prog rock. But with a metal edge.
I had this record.

[url]http://youtu.be/lumulauzCU0[/url] ([url]http://youtu.be/lumulauzCU0[/url])


URIAH HEEP my favorite English band to dump on.   :thumbdown: What drivel.  Here you go : 

http://youtu.be/QaRXQkuB2SM (http://youtu.be/QaRXQkuB2SM) 

https://youtu.be/QaRXQkuB2SM (https://youtu.be/QaRXQkuB2SM)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 31, 2021, 05:53:12 PM
If people are parts of a wheel, then what is the difference between the cogs & the spokes???????????


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 01, 2021, 04:03:11 AM
Try saying "Red leather, yellow leather" 3 times real fast.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on November 01, 2021, 03:00:05 PM
YouTube wants me to test two months free premium and I wouldn't mind but in order to do so I have to actually complete a premium purchase and click "try it free."
If I don't cancel the free trial on time they will charge a monthly fee. From what I read people get shafted all the time because they are struggling to cancel or did cancel on time but still charged and didn't get their money back.

If you are giving away two months for free just do it, and switch automatically back to regular YouTube after two months without forcing the purchase.
No drama, no struggling, no p**sed off people.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 02, 2021, 07:21:11 AM
Retiring at age forty-two seems great beforehand because it leaves you with the entire second act of life still ahead. But then you realize the playwright hasn't written the second act, and you've been improvising your lines since the door closed behind you, and you can't go back in anymore. So you wash off the makeup and shake their last style out of your hair and you look in the mirror at this stranger you're suddenly meeting, and you think, "What now?"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 02, 2021, 10:40:27 AM
Retiring at age forty-two seems great beforehand because it leaves you with the entire second act of life still ahead. But then you realize the playwright hasn't written the second act, and you've been improvising your lines since the door closed behind you, and you can't go back in anymore. So you wash off the makeup and shake their last style out of your hair and you look in the mirror at this stranger you're suddenly meeting, and you think, "What now?"

Write a novel, paint a picture, go naked ice skating on a frozen lake in Canada. The world is your oyster.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 02, 2021, 10:42:17 AM
^ Smoke weed, play with the dog, sit in the front yard watching cars-trying to guess what color the next car will be.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on November 02, 2021, 12:40:20 PM
Get another job, this time on YOUR terms.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 04, 2021, 09:22:26 AM
Exchange from this morning....

Me: "I had warm cinnamon buns for breakfast."

My friend Edie: "You cheated with a hot Cuban guy this early in the day?"

Pretty bad, but funny.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 04, 2021, 11:57:46 AM
Retiring at age forty-two seems great beforehand because it leaves you with the entire second act of life still ahead. But then you realize the playwright hasn't written the second act, and you've been improvising your lines since the door closed behind you, and you can't go back in anymore. So you wash off the makeup and shake their last style out of your hair and you look in the mirror at this stranger you're suddenly meeting, and you think, "What now?"

Get coked-up, have a threesome with a stripper, kill a hobo for kicks.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 04, 2021, 02:13:03 PM
Retiring at age forty-two seems great beforehand because it leaves you with the entire second act of life still ahead. But then you realize the playwright hasn't written the second act, and you've been improvising your lines since the door closed behind you, and you can't go back in anymore. So you wash off the makeup and shake their last style out of your hair and you look in the mirror at this stranger you're suddenly meeting, and you think, "What now?"

Get coked-up, have a threesome with a stripper, kill a hobo for kicks.

Can the hobo and the stripper be the same person?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on November 04, 2021, 10:19:18 PM
Retiring at age forty-two seems great beforehand because it leaves you with the entire second act of life still ahead. But then you realize the playwright hasn't written the second act, and you've been improvising your lines since the door closed behind you, and you can't go back in anymore. So you wash off the makeup and shake their last style out of your hair and you look in the mirror at this stranger you're suddenly meeting, and you think, "What now?"

Get coked-up, have a threesome with a stripper, kill a hobo for kicks.

Can the hobo and the stripper be the same person?

No, because the stripper hobo might be me when I’m unemployed in March and have to take up stripper hoboing to provide for my family.  I don’t think I’ll quite be ready to die yet, but the list of things I would do for 20 bucks might get much longer. 

Plan an adventure!  Solve mysteries! Did you know you can make baskets out of pine needles?   There’s a youtube video on it.  I think I’m going to do that too – I’ll be a basket weaving stripper hobo.  I may not be able to do all the moves the other strippers can do, but I bet you haven’t seen a stripper on a freight train with super cute hand woven pine needle basket top grass tasseled pasties.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 05, 2021, 09:29:05 AM
Remember, remember the fifth of November, when a benighted bunch of Catholic fundamentalists tried to murder the English government and bring the brutality of the Inquisition to the land, somehow inspiring modern-day revolutionary hobbyists who say they want social equality for all. Try 'n connect those far-flung dots, eh....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 05, 2021, 10:12:39 AM
Remember, remember the fifth of November, when a benighted bunch of Catholic fundamentalists tried to murder the English government and bring the brutality of the Inquisition to the land, somehow inspiring modern-day revolutionary hobbyists who say they want social equality for all. Try 'n connect those far-flung dots, eh....

Seems pretty useless.
All of it.
All religion seems competitive and useless. Or dangerous.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 05, 2021, 10:54:22 AM
I often feel it was a shame they didn't succeed. Not that I agree with their beliefs or aims, but sometimes I do feel that the country would be better off without Parliament.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 05, 2021, 11:24:49 AM
Retiring at age forty-two seems great beforehand because it leaves you with the entire second act of life still ahead. But then you realize the playwright hasn't written the second act, and you've been improvising your lines since the door closed behind you, and you can't go back in anymore. So you wash off the makeup and shake their last style out of your hair and you look in the mirror at this stranger you're suddenly meeting, and you think, "What now?"

Get coked-up, have a threesome with a stripper, kill a hobo for kicks.

Can the hobo and the stripper be the same person?

No, because the stripper hobo might be me when I’m unemployed in March and have to take up stripper hoboing to provide for my family.  I don’t think I’ll quite be ready to die yet, but the list of things I would do for 20 bucks might get much longer. 

Plan an adventure!  Solve mysteries! Did you know you can make baskets out of pine needles?   There’s a youtube video on it.  I think I’m going to do that too – I’ll be a basket weaving stripper hobo.  I may not be able to do all the moves the other strippers can do, but I bet you haven’t seen a stripper on a freight train with super cute hand woven pine needle basket top grass tasseled pasties.



If you can steal a laptop, you could always leech onto some free wi-fi and launch your own highly specialised Only Fans.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 05, 2021, 03:30:18 PM
 ^ Ride a sperm whale, get swallowed by it, get sh!t out, and go on to live a normal life.

(https://i.imgur.com/oh25nul.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 05, 2021, 03:41:58 PM
I really need to do some laundry soon.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on November 05, 2021, 07:38:38 PM
Well, I have dug up or helped dig mammoth, mastodon, bison, a Pleistocene musk ox, mosasaur, plesiosaur, xiphactinus (a 16-foot tarpon-like fish), and an ancient sea turtle.
Now I can say I have helped dig up a giant ground sloth!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 05, 2021, 09:51:29 PM
Three Friday night thoughts.....

I once asked an expert on the subject what I'd be like on cocaine, and he said, "Frightening."

Religion is a finger pointing at the moon, not the moon. (Though which finger varies.)

It broke my heart to find out the best compliment ever---she's never bored because she's never boring----was lifted without credit from The Pet Shop Boys.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 07, 2021, 09:02:14 AM
The frost was so thick when I got up this morning in the pre-dawn it looked like grass had been replaced by sauerkraut.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 08, 2021, 08:22:04 AM
I found out that a version of Monopoly, based on the Bible exists (Bibleopoly). I wonder how much Sodom and Gomorrah are worth?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/8009477520?iid=133927653124 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/8009477520?iid=133927653124) if anyone wants a copy by the way. It is touted as being fun and educational.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 08, 2021, 09:01:26 AM
The Towles novel reminded me of something Fitzgerald may have written had he lived into his fifties. You should read it when you're in "Miami."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 08, 2021, 09:50:04 AM
I used to tell my kids when they were real little that thunder and lightning was just God bowling.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on November 08, 2021, 10:41:09 AM
I found out that a version of Monopoly, based on the Bible exists (Bibleopoly). I wonder how much Sodom and Gomorrah are worth?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/8009477520?iid=133927653124 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/8009477520?iid=133927653124) if anyone wants a copy by the way. It is touted as being fun and educational.
Have a copy. If that one's like ours, it's a co-operative game where you have to trade with players to form a certain number of churches. (Going by memory.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 09, 2021, 10:10:19 AM
I hear there are moves in Brazil to make their president stand trial for genocide for his handling of Covid and the amount of deaths.

While I find it hard to believe such a protest actually succeeding and him standing trial for war crimes, imagine a world where politicians were actually held accountable for their actions? Now wouldn't that be something?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 09, 2021, 10:23:40 AM
^ It happened in Nuremberg...except some sneaky Nazis ended up working for the Allies, and many still had their companies and holdings.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 09, 2021, 10:54:02 AM
Shame the Japanese war criminals got away with their crimes back then.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 09, 2021, 11:17:38 AM
^ Yes. But we dropped 2 A-bombs on Japan, and I think all  involved just wanted it over.
I think they got what they paid for, but dropping it on civilians- and I know they murdered civilians-so did everybody.
But we just dropped a big bomb on a major city. And another the next day.
I don't really know what to say about anything.
I DO know by sowing anger and hate into a mind set among others is just f**king lashing out because your life is empty.
I don't know for sure, but it seems to have become a religion to some folks.
" You have created a monster, and it will destroy you."
FRANKENSTEIN (1931)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 09, 2021, 01:20:57 PM
Here at home, Donald Rumsfeld deserved to be held accountable for his inexcusable failures of duty as Defense Secretary; Dick Cheney was probably within the bounds of being a war criminal; and George W. Bush routinely ignored intelligence that ran contrary to his version of how he wanted things to be, costing uncountable loss of life.  At the very least I hope history judges them harshly.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 09, 2021, 02:04:55 PM
I think dropping the bombs possibly had more to do with being a warning shot to the Soviet Union. They were already grabbing territory in Eastern Europe that went further than the agreements Stalin had made with the west. No one wanted them grabbing more land and having a controlling stake in Japan.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on November 09, 2021, 08:14:50 PM
My Dad was scheduled to take part in the second wave of the invasion of Japan.  Army intelligence expected America to lose 250,000 to 500,000 troops in a conventional D-Day style invasion of Japan - and to subdue the island, the casualties they would have to inflict on the enemy, based on  Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Saipan, and all the other Japanese held islands we stormed, would have probably been ten times our own losses.
The bomb ended the war at the cost of 100,000 dead.  It sucked for those killed, but in the end, I do believe the  atomic bombs saved more lives than they took.
And one of them was my Dad's.

I'm glad I didn't have to make that call.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 09, 2021, 08:26:32 PM
^ The deal I have with dropping the A bomb-once- I can understand from a tactical move. It scared the f**k out of everybody. But why Nagasaki? There was no reason to do that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on November 09, 2021, 10:56:19 PM
^ The deal I have with dropping the A bomb-once- I can understand from a tactical move. It scared the f**k out of everybody. But why Nagasaki? There was no reason to do that.

After Hiroshima, the USA gave Japan an ultimatum: Surrender within 48 hours or we hit you again.
Japan did not surrender, and we hit them again.
They surrendered the next day.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 09, 2021, 11:13:03 PM
it was terrorism, plain and simple


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on November 10, 2021, 12:16:07 AM
it was terrorism, plain and simple

It was WAR.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 10, 2021, 12:29:17 AM
Bombing the population to influence the policies of the govt is terrorism


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 10, 2021, 06:46:42 AM
^ The deal I have with dropping the A bomb-once- I can understand from a tactical move. It scared the f**k out of everybody. But why Nagasaki? There was no reason to do that.

The cities that were hit were picked because they had been relatively untouched by the war so far. It was felt that bombing a city that had already been reduced to rubble would lessen the psychological impact of the weapon. If I remember rightly (and I'd have to admit here that my memory is a bit fuzzy here, it has been a long time since we did the Laws Of Armed Conflict (LOAC), as a study in relation to the bombings), both cities were legitimate targets as they were producing war goods or had a large military base... something like that. Certainly, given their own activities in places like Nanking (it was the Rape of Nanking that really set Japan and the US on the course to war) I don't think the Japanese can really complain about what was done to them. If you really want to know more behind the reasons RC, I can look them up for you and send you some links when I have some free time.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 10, 2021, 08:43:31 AM
^ Like Alex mentioned, I think the fact that Russia was eyeballing Japan in the final months of the war is why the US dropped the bombs. If I recall, Russia and Japan had dealings with  each other back in the early 1900's.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 10, 2021, 08:56:45 AM
In academic circles there is certainly a lot of debate on what actually caused Japan to surrender, was it the two bombs, or was it that the Soviet Union had broken their non-aggression pact and was rampaging throughout Manchukuo (Manchuria). My own view is that it would have been a combination of factors (these and a few others too).

You are correct about Japan and Russia having been at war previously. Japan shocked the world when it humiliated Russia in 1904/1905, sinking two large Russian fleets. Later (although Russia was by then the USSR), there was the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, an event little known in the west but that set the course of the Second World War even before a shot of that conflict had been fired.

In a completely unrelated issue, is anyone here an expert in faultfinding with printers?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 10, 2021, 09:59:14 AM

^Yeah- throw it in the garbage and buy another one. When my old printer took a s**t, I tossed it. I'm on my 3rd printer.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 10, 2021, 05:12:50 PM
I wonder what would happen if Jason Voorhees hockey mask was destroyed, and he was forced to wear a Green Bay Packers cheese hat for several sequels.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 10, 2021, 10:11:38 PM
My email doesn't seem to be working tonight.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on November 10, 2021, 10:44:27 PM
It is 2021 and I'm streaming for the first time. We got Netflix which is part of a renewed and updated contract with our Internet provider.

As far as movies go, I'm not very impressed. About 65% of the Documentaries look like crap. I was never much into series but I'll probably start watching a few. I guess Stranger Things is the obvious first choice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 11, 2021, 01:55:44 PM
It is 2021 and I'm streaming for the first time. We got Netflix which is part of a renewed and updated contract with our Internet provider.

As far as movies go, I'm not very impressed. About 65% of the Documentaries look like crap. I was never much into series but I'll probably start watching a few. I guess Stranger Things is the obvious first choice.

Netflix has gone down in quality--especially in movies--in the past few years, as they've gone almost exclusively to original content. They do have a new deal with Sony, though. Last non-original movie I watched on there was LABYRINTH (1986).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 11, 2021, 02:24:33 PM
If I'd been conceived in a projectionist's booth, I think I'd brag about that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on November 11, 2021, 02:42:36 PM
Never was all that impressed with Netflix. Around 2015 or 2016, I was at someone's house & tried it. I wanted to watch "The Valley of Gwanjii" but couldn't find it. Failing that, I decided to watch "The Lost World." They didn't even have the public-domain silent version.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 11, 2021, 02:47:01 PM
I would get netflix if they offered ALL their movies streaming


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 11, 2021, 07:48:29 PM
I wonder what it would look like if somebody tried to make a cigar store indian out of a muk yan jong...
Or tried to make a muk yan jong out of a cigar store indian....
Or if some artist had some weird vision of a fusion of the two.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on November 11, 2021, 08:44:19 PM
Is fostering cats a new trend? It seems that almost everybody in my social media feed is suddenly now fostering cats.

I'm not against the Idea but personally I wouldn't have the time and patience.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 12, 2021, 03:04:43 PM
the best part of Wild Wild West by The Escape Club is when he goes "gimmee gimmee safe sex"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 14, 2021, 03:33:38 PM
Yoda dies around the age of nine-hundred with a head of thinned out grey hair....

.....Leaving me to conclude that at some point in his prime, he must've had a full head of hair with some kind of color to it....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 14, 2021, 03:41:32 PM
^ Maybe blue. Or a purple mohawk. Or a Moe Howard.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 16, 2021, 07:07:15 PM
Gotta love it when the general manager doesn't call someone to fix a simple fix on machinery and that leads to it breaking more and injuring a worker. Yea that happened to me today.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 16, 2021, 07:19:13 PM
Gotta love it when the general manager doesn't call someone to fix a simple fix on machinery and that leads to it breaking more and injuring a worker. Yea that happened to me today.

DANG!
The most dangerous thing we had at WRIR was a gas stove, which I saw enough people make enough mistakes with...
Still that was one of the reasons I left in 2016; The maintenance & repair team would never fix anything, just send me a rude email asking why I needed said equipment......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 16, 2021, 07:33:54 PM
Gotta love it when the general manager doesn't call someone to fix a simple fix on machinery and that leads to it breaking more and injuring a worker. Yea that happened to me today.
I got




DANG!
The most dangerous thing we had at WRIR was a gas stove, which I saw enough people make enough mistakes with...
Still that was one of the reasons I left in 2016; The maintenance & repair team would never fix anything, just send me a rude email asking why I needed said equipment......
I got injured when I was trying to do a bale from the box baler at work. The box baler has two broken struts that holds up the gate.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 16, 2021, 08:45:59 PM
The clock hanging on my wall in the living room is whacked. The time is off by hours.
I tried to reset it-didn't work.
So I just left it hanging on the wall.
The little second hand goes round- but every day it's some weird time.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 16, 2021, 10:13:10 PM
Today I learned about Elmer McCurdy......
A successful plumber at one point in his life, a real piece of work in his last living year.....
In death, a curiosity both figuratively & literally........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 17, 2021, 12:27:56 AM
I don't know about you folks, but I'm excited to see JFK rise from the dead!



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 17, 2021, 12:34:55 PM
My nose is getting distracting......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on November 17, 2021, 12:42:15 PM
I don't know about you folks, but I'm excited to see JFK rise from the dead!



but he will reinstate Trump. Not excited about that  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 17, 2021, 12:45:50 PM
I don't know about you folks, but I'm excited to see JFK rise from the dead!



but he will reinstate Trump. Not excited about that  :bluesad:

I think you guys mean JFK Jr. It would be ludicrous to think JFK would come back from the dead to reinstate Trump!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 17, 2021, 12:51:39 PM
^ Of course! JFK Sr. would be a 104 year old zombie! Jr. would only be a only a 61 year old zombie!
Now if we could just get Jackie to rise from the dead, we can recreate the murder and funeral!

(https://i.imgur.com/UMZ3N2F.gif) (https://lunapic.com)



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 17, 2021, 01:05:10 PM
I don't know about you folks, but I'm excited to see JFK rise from the dead!



but he will reinstate Trump. Not excited about that  :bluesad:

I think you guys mean JFK Jr. It would be ludicrous to think JFK would come back from the dead to reinstate Trump!

Why stop there? Bring back all the dead presidents.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 17, 2021, 01:15:41 PM
^ Or just bring back ALL the Dead Kennedys!

http://youtu.be/Gm0t99WmSCM (http://youtu.be/Gm0t99WmSCM)



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 17, 2021, 02:54:10 PM
Air fryers suck. All food that goes into it comes out tasteless. UGH!  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on November 17, 2021, 07:12:44 PM
Air fryers suck. All food that goes into it comes out tasteless. UGH!  :bluesad:

How is that even possible? Don't you salt and pepper your food before air frying it?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 17, 2021, 08:45:57 PM
There are times I think More Than Meets The Eye by The Bangles would've gone nicely with that closing scene in The Wild One (1953)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 18, 2021, 10:27:49 PM
Air fryers suck. All food that goes into it comes out tasteless. UGH!  :bluesad:

How is that even possible? Don't you salt and pepper your food before air frying it?

You can't make home fries with onions in an air fryer. It's a glorified microwave.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on November 18, 2021, 10:42:17 PM
Air fryers suck. All food that goes into it comes out tasteless. UGH!  :bluesad:
How is that even possible? Don't you salt and pepper your food before air frying it?
You can't make home fries with onions in an air fryer. It's a glorified microwave.

Maybe not, but we eat chicken out of air fryer often.  It is NOT a "glorified microwave".


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 18, 2021, 10:57:00 PM
What kind of chicken? How do you fry chicken in that?
Unless it's like Banquet or Swanson.
Nah. You can fry chicken, you can shake and bake chicken, you can make a roast chicken.
You can get a pack of frozen chicken nuggets and stick it in an air fryer.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on November 18, 2021, 11:12:40 PM
What kind of chicken? How do you fry chicken in that?
Unless it's like Banquet or Swanson.
Nah. You can fry chicken, you can shake and bake chicken, you can make a roast chicken.
You can get a pack of frozen chicken nuggets and stick it in an air fryer.

Wings or thighs.  What the air fryer does is render out all the fat and leaves crispy skin behind.  Air fryer ain't even close to a microwave.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on November 19, 2021, 01:15:00 AM

You can't make home fries with onions in an air fryer. It's a glorified microwave.

I make home fries in the air fryer all the time. They are delicious. Air Fryer is nothing like a microwave, it's more like an mini-oven. Huge difference. Microwave heats up food and can make it soggy. Food from the air fryer is like straight out of the oven, always with a crispy edge.

One of my favorite things to cook in the air fryer are hamburgers. Put the patty in the air fryer basked and "broil" for 6-7 minutes at 355F on each side. They come out perfect. Super easy without grease splatter.
Marinated chicken pieces or wings from the air fryer are the best. You can do breaded chicken but it is suggested to pam spray the chicken first.

I also love to crisp and heat up savory snacks from the bakery. They taste like freshly made from the oven.

Air fryer is also great for roasting tomatoes, egg plant, zucchini - you name it. I use my AF almost every day.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 20, 2021, 10:55:05 AM
 ^ Eh. I don't like them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 21, 2021, 09:40:50 PM
Stargazer from Rainbow is a better Kashmir than Kashmir itself.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 22, 2021, 02:18:39 PM
Do crabs think fish are flying?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 24, 2021, 02:40:19 PM
Repo Man is on tubi


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 24, 2021, 07:17:43 PM
Jack of Norfolk be not too bold,
For Dicken thy master is bought and sold.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 25, 2021, 10:24:48 PM
Many memes this week about that one episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, & there's a couple things I just can't get past:

1) "Wild" turkeys "can" fly, not farm turkeys....

2) Who the hell gives away "LIVE" turkeys for the holidays, particularly in an urban location???? I mean, do they really expect that many people to know how to kill, clean, gut & cure an animal?????  And are they allowed to do that in the city???


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 26, 2021, 02:26:47 PM
Many memes this week about that one episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, & there's a couple things I just can't get past:

1) "Wild" turkeys "can" fly, not farm turkeys....

2) Who the hell gives away "LIVE" turkeys for the holidays, particularly in an urban location???? I mean, do they really expect that many people to know how to kill, clean, gut & cure an animal?????  And are they allowed to do that in the city???

Because Cincinnati is the weirdest city in the Midwest; it makes Rome, Wisconsin seem sane. Therefore live turkeys, helicopter drop, eh, sounded logical.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 26, 2021, 10:51:14 PM
Many memes this week about that one episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, & there's a couple things I just can't get past:

1) "Wild" turkeys "can" fly, not farm turkeys....

2) Who the hell gives away "LIVE" turkeys for the holidays, particularly in an urban location???? I mean, do they really expect that many people to know how to kill, clean, gut & cure an animal?????  And are they allowed to do that in the city???

Because Cincinnati is the weirdest city in the Midwest; it makes Rome, Wisconsin seem sane. Therefore live turkeys, helicopter drop, eh, sounded logical.

The first time I saw this bit, I thought they were dropping "frozen" turkeys from the helicopter onto the crowd, which I found pretty funny, but then somebody mentions something revealing the turkeys are alive, & that's when I suddenly have a problem turning my brain off...........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 29, 2021, 12:06:56 PM
The woman I've been seeing going on two years just got accepted into a master's program at NYU. She's hinting she'd like to try a long-distance thing but I don't see it working out.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 29, 2021, 01:03:59 PM
The woman I've been seeing going on two years just got accepted into a master's program at NYU. She's hinting she'd like to try a long-distance thing but I don't see it working out.

They can work, but it takes a huge amount of effort and commitment from both parties.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 29, 2021, 01:18:25 PM
The woman I've been seeing going on two years just got accepted into a master's program at NYU. She's hinting she'd like to try a long-distance thing but I don't see it working out.

They can work, but it takes a huge amount of effort and commitment from both parties.

I've never had any luck with them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 29, 2021, 01:31:14 PM
The woman I've been seeing going on two years just got accepted into a master's program at NYU. She's hinting she'd like to try a long-distance thing but I don't see it working out.

They can work, but it takes a huge amount of effort and commitment from both parties.

I've never had any luck with them.

I got married through one, but yeah my previous long-distance ones were a disaster. It was a matter of finding things we could still do together, date nights where we'd start watching the same movie at the same time and chat on Skype while it was on, gaming online together etc. I was so very close to calling the whole thing off early on due to prior experience. If you do decide to go for it, then you both need to fully commit to it 110%. It takes a hellish amount of work for something that is not guaranteed to succeed. It might be better to call things off early than go through that. I am not trying to advise either way, but if you ever want to chat about how me and Kristi made things work then drop me a PM.

Whatever you both do decide, the best of luck to the pair of you. I don't envy you having to make this choice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 29, 2021, 03:05:55 PM
The Letters of Shirley Jackson provides more true insight into who Shirley Jackson was than any biography of her I've so far read. I think I really like her.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 29, 2021, 04:30:02 PM
The woman I've been seeing going on two years just got accepted into a master's program at NYU. She's hinting she'd like to try a long-distance thing but I don't see it working out.

They can work, but it takes a huge amount of effort and commitment from both parties.

I've never had any luck with them.

I got married through one, but yeah my previous long-distance ones were a disaster. It was a matter of finding things we could still do together, date nights where we'd start watching the same movie at the same time and chat on Skype while it was on, gaming online together etc. I was so very close to calling the whole thing off early on due to prior experience. If you do decide to go for it, then you both need to fully commit to it 110%. It takes a hellish amount of work for something that is not guaranteed to succeed. It might be better to call things off early than go through that. I am not trying to advise either way, but if you ever want to chat about how me and Kristi made things work then drop me a PM.

Whatever you both do decide, the best of luck to the pair of you. I don't envy you having to make this choice.

Thank you for the offer. Truth is, I already know I am not interested in trying another long-distance thing. I am more worried about her accepting that fact.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 29, 2021, 04:52:35 PM
The Letters of Shirley Jackson provides more true insight into who Shirley Jackson was than any biography of her I've so far read. I think I really like her.

I have a book of her collected works, which includes many of her letters.
An amazing mind.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 30, 2021, 01:37:45 PM
I wonder if Get Smart could be done in this day & age....
I don't just mean in the age of smart phones & guns that have built in flashlights, but also in the age of HD television....

Such as when smart was wearing a stealthy fake nose to protect him from poisonous gasses instead of a gas mask, or the fake lips to protect him from a woman wearing poison lipstick.....

I keep wondering if people would notice those those things these days.........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 02, 2021, 04:32:10 PM
Joyce Carol Oates' latest short story collection (knowing her she should have five more out by next week) contains a stream of consciousness tale of a Manson follower rehearsing her speech before a parole board, and even though it was fiction, as I read it I found myself thinking: may you never walk free, you wretched scum.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 03, 2021, 01:28:23 PM
Been so warm and sunny here this week I managed to get a mild sunburn.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 04, 2021, 08:51:48 AM
My daughter: "Why haven't more species of freshwater sharks evolved?"

Me: "Honey, God invented war, genocide, diseases, and hurricanes, but he's not THAT cruel."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 04, 2021, 09:48:07 AM
My daughter: "Why haven't more species of freshwater sharks evolved?"

Me: "Honey, God invented war, genocide, diseases, and hurricanes, but he's not THAT cruel."

You could always tell her about the Bull Shark which can survive in both fresh and saltwater (as well as being the animal believed most likely to be responsible for the shark attacks that would later inspire Jaws, rather than a Great White).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 04, 2021, 11:37:39 AM
My daughter: "Why haven't more species of freshwater sharks evolved?"

Me: "Honey, God invented war, genocide, diseases, and hurricanes, but he's not THAT cruel."

You could always tell her about the Bull Shark which can survive in both fresh and saltwater (as well as being the animal believed most likely to be responsible for the shark attacks that would later inspire Jaws, rather than a Great White).
Ha! That is EXACTLY what we were talking about when she asked that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 05, 2021, 11:58:55 AM
You know, I've done things in my life that I guess would have to be considered brave, but little in a long time has required more personal courage than going with my daughter to her horseback riding these last couple months. Though I think I conceal it well, horses (i.e. long-faced assassins :-) terrify me and I don't know what the root of this fear is, present life, past life, no cause, but when I am standing there watching her happily ride these seemingly gentle and benign beasts, I have to force myself not to start trembling. Shrug.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on December 05, 2021, 12:47:24 PM
Try some horse sausage. Maybe you won't fear them anymore after you ate some?

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on December 05, 2021, 04:37:07 PM
^ "Horse cock!"

That's a saying around here. I don't know why. Same as saying "bulls**t."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 05, 2021, 09:14:50 PM
I heard a gross, disturbing, almost funny story today. Remind me to tell you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 05, 2021, 10:32:29 PM
I heard a gross, disturbing, almost funny story today. Remind me to tell you.
Go on....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 06, 2021, 09:24:23 AM
You know, I've done things in my life that I guess would have to be considered brave, but little in a long time has required more personal courage than going with my daughter to her horseback riding these last couple months. Though I think I conceal it well, horses (i.e. long-faced assassins :-) terrify me and I don't know what the root of this fear is, present life, past life, no cause, but when I am standing there watching her happily ride these seemingly gentle and benign beasts, I have to force myself not to start trembling. Shrug.

Telling you, it is because of a past life experience Catherine....  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 06, 2021, 09:59:50 AM
You know, I've done things in my life that I guess would have to be considered brave, but little in a long time has required more personal courage than going with my daughter to her horseback riding these last couple months. Though I think I conceal it well, horses (i.e. long-faced assassins :-) terrify me and I don't know what the root of this fear is, present life, past life, no cause, but when I am standing there watching her happily ride these seemingly gentle and benign beasts, I have to force myself not to start trembling. Shrug.

Telling you, it is because of a past life experience Catherine....  :bouncegiggle:

Ja.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 10, 2021, 12:26:46 PM
Ever notice maps are a reliable gauge for showing when you've slipped into a different dimension? Like one day Sri Lanka is off India's southeast coast, another time it's off the due south, or Europe doesn't exist. You know, little things like that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 15, 2021, 01:51:19 AM
It only just now occurred to me, The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr T doesn't rhyme.....
Not what you'd expect from Dr. Seuss.....

Even The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) somehow managed to rhyme for two hours.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 16, 2021, 05:50:06 PM
Why is there a blank page in the paperback version of "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on December 16, 2021, 11:44:32 PM
^good question


weed stores are opening like crazy around here. They are like dunkin donuts franchises: no reason why you would drive by one to go to another. they all sell the same stuff at similar prices


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 17, 2021, 10:45:09 AM
Why is there a blank page in the paperback version of "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"?
If it's in the back, maybe it has to do with the way books are printed and bound. Usually books are printed on large sheets with many pages on them, and then they're folded, trimmed, bound, and unless the number of pages in a book happens to coincide exactly with the number of pages being pressed on the large sheet, there can be a blank page or two or. more left when the book is bound. Maybe that's it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 17, 2021, 10:47:14 AM
Words are open to interpretation by all but their speaker, but I think there's no more jarring comment on growing old and selling out than Don Henley's line about the Deadhead sticker on the Cadillac.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 17, 2021, 10:51:38 AM
Someone told me this satire of the old Master Card: Priceless commercials.....

Tube of lube: $7.50
Box of condoms: $10.00
Three gay porn videos: $29.99

Making your parents think your jerk of a big brother is secretly a homosexual: priceless.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 17, 2021, 01:48:58 PM
Why is there a blank page in the paperback version of "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"?
If it's in the back, maybe it has to do with the way books are printed and bound. Usually books are printed on large sheets with many pages on them, and then they're folded, trimmed, bound, and unless the number of pages in a book happens to coincide exactly with the number of pages being pressed on the large sheet, there can be a blank page or two or. more left when the book is bound. Maybe that's it.

You've clearly never read (had it read to you) this book as a child.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 17, 2021, 01:56:52 PM
^good question


weed stores are opening like crazy around here. They are like dunkin donuts franchises: no reason why you would drive by one to go to another. they all sell the same stuff at similar prices

Now that it's legal in this state, I keep thinking I smell a dead skunk everywhere I go....

The most notable shop in the state was was opened by a state senator who fired a police chief for charging her with inciting one of last summers race riots.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 17, 2021, 03:22:36 PM
Why is there a blank page in the paperback version of "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"?
If it's in the back, maybe it has to do with the way books are printed and bound. Usually books are printed on large sheets with many pages on them, and then they're folded, trimmed, bound, and unless the number of pages in a book happens to coincide exactly with the number of pages being pressed on the large sheet, there can be a blank page or two or. more left when the book is bound. Maybe that's it.

You've clearly never read (had it read to you) this book as a child.....

Well sod it, I tried.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 17, 2021, 04:25:03 PM
^It's in the middle of the book, & has a caption, but no picture.^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on December 17, 2021, 04:49:01 PM
^ It's a conspiracy!

(https://i.imgur.com/v92Meck.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 17, 2021, 04:52:39 PM
Why is there a blank page in the paperback version of "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"?

Methinks this was the inspiration for the subplot in Elf (2003)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on December 17, 2021, 05:05:14 PM
^ Hmmm....what?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 17, 2021, 05:23:57 PM
^Will Ferrell finds out who his real father is, & he's on Santa's naughty list for publishing a children's book with a blank page.^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on December 17, 2021, 05:55:03 PM
^ Hmmm. That's not in the movie at all.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 17, 2021, 06:02:30 PM
^Seriously? I know it's been a number of years since I've seen it, but that's the one thing I recall when they introduce the character....^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on December 17, 2021, 11:30:10 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/v92Meck.gif)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 19, 2021, 09:00:25 AM
I keep having vivid dreams about people I know who have died.

Not long ago I dreamed about this woman I knew in Austin, whose house I stayed in, and she was sitting on the end of a boat dock with her back to me, apparently not surprised to find me there, and we had a short conversation in which she (like all the dead people in these intense dreams) told me she was waiting but she didn't know what she was waiting for.

Last night I had another one about my cousin Magda, who died in London last year, and she too told me she was waiting and didn't know for how long.

Then she said something that should have been nightmarish but somehow wasn't. She told me, "You'll do this too after you're murdered."

I told my husband this morning and he said, "You really gotta stop taking LSD before bedtime."  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 21, 2021, 04:32:17 PM
I wonder if Captain Picard ever read the history of the inventor of his beloved tea? Earl Grey was a jerk.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 21, 2021, 04:33:14 PM
I also wonder if the giant in the castle on top of the bean stalk ever flushed his toilet over top of Jack's cottage to get back at jack for his B&E?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 21, 2021, 04:34:52 PM
And finally I wonder if I have been buying defective Rice Krispies all these years since mine have never once snapped, crackled, or popped, just sort of hissed a little when wet, at best sounding like limp rain hitting a moist sidewalk.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 21, 2021, 10:57:43 PM
A Christmas Carol....



.... Is about A Christmas Karen.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 22, 2021, 08:49:14 PM
Faking a mild speech impediment is a good way to cover up a foreign accent if you're imperfectly speaking a language that is not your native tongue.

I used to get paid to tell people tips like that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 23, 2021, 09:21:54 AM
Sometimes I think the Japanese represent the high-point of human evolution.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on December 23, 2021, 12:36:00 PM
Faking a mild speech impediment is a good way to cover up a foreign accent if you're imperfectly speaking a language that is not your native tongue.

I used to get paid to tell people tips like that.

No offense but that is terrible advice. It is insulting to people with real speech impediments and insulting to foreigners.

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 23, 2021, 02:05:57 PM
Faking a mild speech impediment is a good way to cover up a foreign accent if you're imperfectly speaking a language that is not your native tongue.

I used to get paid to tell people tips like that.

No offense but that is terrible advice. It is insulting to people with real speech impediments and insulting to foreigners.

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None taken, since I passed on what my bosses taught in the course, and they were admittedly unconcerned with people's feelings. From a pragmatic standpoint it was useful in covering some flaws in foreign pronunciation, and it activated most people's tendency to then become non-judgmental and at least in most western cultured to make excuses for the speaker due to handicap. It was about covering yourself and exploiting another person's perceptions. What's useful isn't always nice and there was a coldness to it all, no denying.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on December 24, 2021, 03:55:17 AM
Elegantly explained racism. Our firm has over 50% foreign employees, half of them don't speak the German language perfect. Some do speeches for clients. If our bosses would 'teach' me to say such thing to them not only would I be embarrassed, I would sue the bosses for discrimination. Mocking people with disabilities? Wow. Common sense says this is wrong on so many levels. f**k that firm.

Merry Christmas  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 24, 2021, 09:23:40 AM
Elegantly explained racism. Our firm has over 50% foreign employees, half of them don't speak the German language perfect. Some do speeches for clients. If our bosses would 'teach' me to say such thing to them not only would I be embarrassed, I would sue the bosses for discrimination. Mocking people with disabilities? Wow. Common sense says this is wrong on so many levels. f**k that firm.

Merry Christmas  :cheers:

Gosh, how about some thoughts in defense of my former employers, before I see what my birthday holds?

Firstly, people with speech disabilities constitute a "race"? I guess I would have thought of them more as representing a handicap since there are only three recognized human races.

Your reaction shows there is indeed a sensitivity recognized around speech impediments and why someone who evinces one might be cut slack rather than have the assumption be that this is someone with a foreign accent. Few are brave enough to jump on the words of someone with a disability, and frankly sometimes it's useful to capitalize on that allowance. Whatever you may think of it, if the technique didn't work it would not have not have been taught for decades. Whatever else may be true of them, my bosses were pragmatists.

Under the circumstances in which this particular technique is used, it's really no better or worse than faking a limp in the hope people won't be as inclined to stare at you, wearing glasses when your eyesight is good, dyeing your hair to look different, or any of a great many other employable deceptions out there in a world that exists right under the radar of the everyday.

Life isn't PC and like I said, these people, my former bosses, couldn't care less about hurting feelings, or for that matter ruining lives, to achieve an end. Insofar as they pause to consider morals at all in their undertakings, they see this and much else---correctly----as justified by their needs and goals.

And that's about all I have to add, except I respect your pique and kind of envy you the luxury of dwelling in a life where you allow yourself the quaint liberty of feeling selective outrage over something so small when in many other people's careers there are much bigger things to worry about,  including protecting other peoples' lives and not just their little feelings.

Mmerry Christmas back atcha....



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on December 24, 2021, 12:27:46 PM
^ Merry Christmas? Are you a Christian?

If so, it's only in name.
That's immoral, dishonest, and disgusting.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 24, 2021, 01:48:58 PM
Immoral, dishonest and disgusting describes the job well. What is a little funny is....falling back on a feigned impediment scandalizes you? Oh, trust me, that....that barely moves the needle in the list of things done for those employers either as an instructor or earlier in my career.

 :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on December 24, 2021, 01:55:03 PM
 ^ Your such an angel of hope and wisdom.  :lookingup:

(https://i.imgur.com/wjym624.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 24, 2021, 02:08:31 PM
Ha! Thanks, mate, I love you too.  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 24, 2021, 02:12:02 PM
Hey, just to be clear because sometimes print comes off too strong, I'm not mad at you, RC, or Claws or anybody, just kinda bouncing along with it. Hope everyone has a pleasant Christmas Eve or at least a good December 24th.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 25, 2021, 07:31:36 AM
Faking a mild speech impediment is a good way to cover up a foreign accent if you're imperfectly speaking a language that is not your native tongue.

I used to get paid to tell people tips like that.

No offense but that is terrible advice. It is insulting to people with real speech impediments and insulting to foreigners.

(https://i0.wp.com/credituniongeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/lucy-advice-booth.jpg?fit=308%2C266&ssl=1)


Actually we are given the same advice if we are stuck behind enemy lines. If it makes the difference between getting home alive or not, I don't care who it insults.

When Kabul fell, a British student was caught by the Taliban. When they asked him where he was from, he replied Wales. Since his captors had never heard of Wales, they let him go. These simple deceits are surprisingly effective. If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, you might want to remember tips like that. I promise you, you won't care who it offends either if it makes the difference between getting home and some guy cutting your head off and posting the footage on the web.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 26, 2021, 12:53:55 AM
Duh, turns out we been doing Boxing Day wrong all these years, but I will NOT miss those black eyes!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 27, 2021, 08:55:18 AM
Years after I first let some girl talk me into trying it in kindergarten, there's still something satisfying about occasionally taking a tiny nibble off the eraser of a number two pencil. Texture, not taste.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 28, 2021, 11:59:11 PM
I got these soft silicone nasal inserts for Christmas that slide into the nose and widen the nostrils to increase oxygen intake during a workout, which they do, but I used them once this morning when I was on the treadmill and my nose hasn't stopped running since.

I....only just realized that reads like the setup to a joke (my nose is still running) but, no, it hasn't for real.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 29, 2021, 02:00:18 PM
Warm enough outside here this morning to play tennis before breakfast, as my inner fifteen-year-old urged me to do. If this is global warming, it's a shame it's going to flood low-lying coastal areas and displace millions in the biggest refugee crisis in history, but, hey, on the plus-side, I repeat: outside tennis in December?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 30, 2021, 06:28:14 AM
It feels like Sunday.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 30, 2021, 09:52:19 AM
Lately I been asking people if they think Bambi ended up mounted on some hunter's wall. A few people have said Bambi wasn't real and his story had no existence beyond the movie's run time (and those people suck walrus tusks); and a few have cited the statistics on how few deer make it to die of old age; but mostly the view is Bambi lived happily ever after, and that's the answer I like.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 30, 2021, 02:14:57 PM
I am convinced that the woodland critters featured in South Park are actually the offspring of Bambi, Thumper and so forth.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 30, 2021, 03:45:51 PM
If you put out poisoned brandy and cookies, would that kill Santa and mean you get to keep ALL the presents?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 30, 2021, 04:16:13 PM
Drove up  the road a bit ago and listened to an old Rick Steves' radio show episode, and this woman called in to share her experiences traveling in Kenya, and she referred to the Maasai she met there as "African Americans." Gosh....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 30, 2021, 04:19:31 PM
If you put out poisoned brandy and cookies, would that kill Santa and mean you get to keep ALL the presents?
(https://c.tenor.com/tMQaUQKHtVAAAAAd/willy-wonka-you.gif)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 30, 2021, 04:24:56 PM
Drove up  the road a bit ago and listened to an old Rick Steves' radio show episode, and this woman called in to share her experiences traveling in Kenya, and she referred to the Maasai she met there as "African Americans." Gosh....

As a proud third generation African, born and bred in what is now Zimbabwe, I have never understood the "African American" term at all. I actually get angry when people from overseas misappropriate our rich culture.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 30, 2021, 04:40:58 PM
If you put out poisoned brandy and cookies, would that kill Santa and mean you get to keep ALL the presents?
Dude. Dude...never f**k with Santa or he'll have you eating your own colon. Hint: rearrange those letters a little bit.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 30, 2021, 04:50:26 PM
If you put out poisoned brandy and cookies, would that kill Santa and mean you get to keep ALL the presents?
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good

He's Santa; He has ways of figuring these things out!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 01, 2022, 08:22:38 AM
Is Soylent Green available now, or do we have to wait until later in the year?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 02, 2022, 11:39:20 AM
Help yourself:


https://www.target.com/p/soylent-nutritional-shake-mint-chocolate-4pk-11-fl-oz/-/A-81911413?sid=1393&ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=bing_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000051363452&CPNG=PLA_Health%2BShopping%7CHealth_Ecomm_Essentials&adgroup=PLA_Health%2BShopping&LID=700000001230728&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=o&device=c&location=&targetid=pla-4585169649589148&ds_rl=1246978&msclkid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclsrc=3p.ds (https://www.target.com/p/soylent-nutritional-shake-mint-chocolate-4pk-11-fl-oz/-/A-81911413?sid=1393&ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=bing_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000051363452&CPNG=PLA_Health%2BShopping%7CHealth_Ecomm_Essentials&adgroup=PLA_Health%2BShopping&LID=700000001230728&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=o&device=c&location=&targetid=pla-4585169649589148&ds_rl=1246978&msclkid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclsrc=3p.ds)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 02, 2022, 11:45:54 AM
^(https://i.imgur.com/4MePTkF.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

Soylent Green is Cheeze-It crackers!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 02, 2022, 11:47:44 AM
Help yourself:


https://www.target.com/p/soylent-nutritional-shake-mint-chocolate-4pk-11-fl-oz/-/A-81911413?sid=1393&ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=bing_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000051363452&CPNG=PLA_Health%2BShopping%7CHealth_Ecomm_Essentials&adgroup=PLA_Health%2BShopping&LID=700000001230728&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=o&device=c&location=&targetid=pla-4585169649589148&ds_rl=1246978&msclkid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclsrc=3p.ds (https://www.target.com/p/soylent-nutritional-shake-mint-chocolate-4pk-11-fl-oz/-/A-81911413?sid=1393&ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=bing_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000051363452&CPNG=PLA_Health%2BShopping%7CHealth_Ecomm_Essentials&adgroup=PLA_Health%2BShopping&LID=700000001230728&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=o&device=c&location=&targetid=pla-4585169649589148&ds_rl=1246978&msclkid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclsrc=3p.ds)

There's an "Ask A Question" button: I want to ask where they source their product from  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 02, 2022, 06:21:17 PM
I give up. Cloud Cuckoo Land is a ridiculously awful book. Like House of Leaves without the excuses.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 02, 2022, 11:49:57 PM
I'm not the biggest gangster movie fan. I've recently tried to watch Heat and the Warner herzog New Orleans one and I just can't with all the fancy acting and ridiculous dialogue.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 03, 2022, 12:19:46 AM
I'm not the biggest gangster movie fan. I've recently tried to watch Heat and the Warner herzog New Orleans one and I just can't with all the fancy acting and ridiculous dialogue.

Heat from the '90s? Pacino, Kilmer, etc.? That movie took itself way too seriously.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 03, 2022, 08:55:16 AM
Help yourself:


https://www.target.com/p/soylent-nutritional-shake-mint-chocolate-4pk-11-fl-oz/-/A-81911413?sid=1393&ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=bing_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000051363452&CPNG=PLA_Health%2BShopping%7CHealth_Ecomm_Essentials&adgroup=PLA_Health%2BShopping&LID=700000001230728&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=o&device=c&location=&targetid=pla-4585169649589148&ds_rl=1246978&msclkid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclsrc=3p.ds (https://www.target.com/p/soylent-nutritional-shake-mint-chocolate-4pk-11-fl-oz/-/A-81911413?sid=1393&ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=bing_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000051363452&CPNG=PLA_Health%2BShopping%7CHealth_Ecomm_Essentials&adgroup=PLA_Health%2BShopping&LID=700000001230728&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=o&device=c&location=&targetid=pla-4585169649589148&ds_rl=1246978&msclkid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclid=ca4998b665e414b57fadf967b0c4ee98&gclsrc=3p.ds)

I've had those a couple of times. They're not bad.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 03, 2022, 05:34:28 PM
Today we were at this country-kinda restaurant called Bob Evans, and our server was a nice soft-spoken lady with her blond hair in a tight bun, about fifty, and her accent reminded me she was from maybe somewhere south of Nashville, and as I was getting something out of my purse, she saw I had a curious-looking device I carry called a De-Choker, which consists of a long clear plastic tube about eight inches long and three inches wide, and a pump handle at the top, a sort of suction appliance that fits over the mouth and supposedly removes food from the windpipe of a choking victim.

She asked what that was, and I said, "Well, it's a De-Choker, but I don't want people to think I'm weird carrying it around, so I tell them it's a Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger."

She stared at me for about five seconds and her cheeks went pink and she finally said, deeply serious, "Ma'am, why would you want people to think you were carrying one of those?"

Well, my Jewish friends would have gotten the joke anyway.

(And I tipped her thirty percent.)

Picture of a De-Choker:

http://www.dechoker.com/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Brand%20%7C%20Search&utm_term=dechoker&utm_content=Core (http://www.dechoker.com/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Brand%20%7C%20Search&utm_term=dechoker&utm_content=Core)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 04, 2022, 01:37:24 PM
My SSI went from $1,260 a month to $1,340 a month.

 :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 04, 2022, 02:57:07 PM
My SSI went from $1,260 a month to $1,340 a month.

 :smile:

Yeah, 5.9% Cost Of Living Adjustment supposed to occur this year....
Mine went up from $843 to $886


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 10, 2022, 11:28:32 AM
So the last half-week was a blur, a total blur. I remember only bits and pieces of it.  Zoom, Friday middle of the AM to yesterday, long stretch of white-out taken to my life. Last time I ever eat discount Somalian food, buy cocaine from a guy in a trenchcoat, have a drink with Bill Cosby, work for my former bosses again.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 11, 2022, 12:43:41 PM
Do black people became paler when they're in shock? I asked someone I know who is married to black man and he paused and said....you know, I'm not sure.

So I don't feel bad about not knowing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 11, 2022, 01:15:10 PM
Seems this site's been a bit quiet the last few days.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 11, 2022, 03:41:44 PM
Seems this site's been a bit quiet the last few days.

Good news, I'm back.  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 11, 2022, 04:12:25 PM
Seems this site's been a bit quiet the last few days.

Good news, I'm back.  :wink:

Maybe there's a correlation.  :buggedout:

I'm joking! I joke! I couldn't resist!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 11, 2022, 04:19:29 PM
Found out today that I am heading back up to Inverness this weekend.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 11, 2022, 04:37:26 PM
Found out today that I am heading back up to Inverness this weekend.

Bring us back some Inverness capes!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 11, 2022, 08:06:28 PM
Over Christmas my cousin Adam called saying he was in town and asked if I wanted to get together while he was around, and I didn’t give an automatic yes, since he and I were never close, and growing up he was a psycho drug addict, whom our grandpa once threw off a balcony, but I finally said OK and I saw him and he slid into this anecdote:

Out in LA, where I went after San Diego, I had a job where I had to final-interview a lot of candidates for positions, and a woman came in and I was talking to her, and sometimes I toss out off the wall questions no one could prepare for, just to see the reactions, so out of the blue I asked her when was the last time she used a coupon on something she was buying that wasn’t for herself?

She said, “Yeah, well, in college I worked as a part-time caretaker for elderly people, through a service, and we had voucher coupons for different products on the job, so when I was there I used these all the time buying things for other people. In fact one of my clients was Paula Poundstone’s mother, Mary.”

I said, “Oh, yeah? That’s interesting. What was she like?”

“Mary was so old she didn’t say much.”

“I guess I meant what was Paula Poundstone like?”

“I’d like to say she was a terrible mean b***h, but then she’d do something to redeem herself.”

“Huh. Like what?”

“Well, one evening, because I only worked evenings, I was changing her mom’s diaper and Paula came in and yelled at me for not cleaning up a mess she herself had made on the counter. She yelled hard, like red-faced and shouting.”

“Jesus. What did you say?”

“I told her it was never my job description to clean up her house, that’s what maids were for, so any clean-up I ever did was me doing her a favor. She quieted down and said, ‘I guess so. I guess we both need a break, so after you change Mom, take a breather before you finish the counter.’”

Adam said, “You serious? She said that? She still expected you to clean up her counter?”

“Yeah.”


“And that was her being nice?”

“’Redeeming herself’ is what I said. Not ‘nice.’”

“Huh.”

“Then her mom died that winter, so I never saw Paula again.”

Adam said he didn’t hire that applicant for the job, anyway, and then he said to me, “The funny thing is weeks later I wasn’t doing anything and remembered that interview, so I looked up Paula Poundstone on Wikipedia, and it turns out her mother’s name isn’t Mary, it’s Vera, her mother is still alive, and her mother never lived in Los Angles, she lives in Tennessee.”

“No way!” I said.

“Exactly. I wonder who would lie about any of that? Working for a C-list celebrity nobody exactly adores, making up stories about it, and even claiming you did a gritty job like changing old people’s diapers? Who would do that?”

I told him, “Probably a good thing you didn’t hire her.”

“Yeah, and maybe I should’ve been locking my doors.”

I liked Adam’s story so much I invited him to the house and he gave my children presents and seemed popular, and so far none of my offspring have gotten into drugs or parental abuse as a result of his visit.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 12, 2022, 08:22:09 AM
Found out today that I am heading back up to Inverness this weekend.

Bring us back some Inverness capes!

Not sure on the current exchange rate, but I'd estimate that this would be around $1000.

https://misterantony.com/product-category/black-barathea-inverness-cape/ (https://misterantony.com/product-category/black-barathea-inverness-cape/)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 12, 2022, 09:30:15 AM
Someone told me you don't stop being young if you believe the best of life is still ahead.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 12, 2022, 11:34:20 AM
With climate change causing a number of droughts across the world, I have discovered that the excess rain now falls on Fort William.

Seriously, there hasn't been one dry day since I got here.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 12, 2022, 10:38:07 PM
Megan fox was hilarious in Jennifer's Body. I wish her the best with her new dorkball white rapper husband


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 13, 2022, 08:32:15 AM
If you go on a vision quest and don't have a vision, is that an answer or a result?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 13, 2022, 10:53:14 AM
Because I have a need to learn things, today I ended up discovering what is meant by a 'Roman shower'. Wish I didn't know now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 13, 2022, 01:23:45 PM
Because I have a need to learn things, today I ended up discovering what is meant by a 'Roman shower'. Wish I didn't know now.

"A Roman shower is a type of architecturally designed shower stall that does not require a door or curtain. These showers are often used as handicapped-accessible showers in hotels. They may also be known as "'roll-in showers.'" Not so bad, really.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 13, 2022, 02:02:19 PM
Because I have a need to learn things, today I ended up discovering what is meant by a 'Roman shower'. Wish I didn't know now.
For Christmas I got a massive book called 10,000 Things You Need To Know, and been enjoying making my way through the chapters and seeing factoids about, well, almost every topic and subject out there. You might like the book. I've always humbly subscribed to the idea that everyone knows something you don't, and I enjoy finding new things out.

Also a friend of mine in Austin had a Roman shower put into his house, and hated it because he said it felt like taking a shower in a locker room.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 13, 2022, 02:10:10 PM
Because I have a need to learn things, today I ended up discovering what is meant by a 'Roman shower'. Wish I didn't know now.
For Christmas I got a massive book called 10,000 Things You Need To Know, and been enjoying making my way through the chapters and seeing factoids about, well, almost every topic and subject out there. You might like the book. I've always humbly subscribed to the idea that everyone knows something you don't, and I enjoy finding new things out.

Also a friend of mine in Austin had a Roman shower put into his house, and hated it because he said it felt like taking a shower in a locker room.

I suspect this type of Roman shower is somewhat different to your friends one, unless you have a rather odd friend. It is definitely different to the one the good Rev mentioned. There seem to be variations on this such as a Baby Roman Shower, or Siamese Roman shower, none of which I have any urge to experience.

https://www.eventlooking.com/roman-shower-urban-dictionary (https://www.eventlooking.com/roman-shower-urban-dictionary) if you really want to know the details.

 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 13, 2022, 02:11:56 PM
Because I have a need to learn things, today I ended up discovering what is meant by a 'Roman shower'. Wish I didn't know now.
For Christmas I got a massive book called 10,000 Things You Need To Know, and been enjoying making my way through the chapters and seeing factoids about, well, almost every topic and subject out there. You might like the book. I've always humbly subscribed to the idea that everyone knows something you don't, and I enjoy finding new things out.

Also a friend of mine in Austin had a Roman shower put into his house, and hated it because he said it felt like taking a shower in a locker room.

I suspect this type of Roman shower is somewhat different to your friends one, unless you have a rather odd friend.


Oh, no, is that a dirty term or something? lol His shower was literally modeled on ones found in Roman ruins, a sort of semi-circular room with a tiled floor and a mosaic above and several shower heads beside each other, and there was a steam vent in the room. I don't know if he called it a Roman shower (this was the mid-'00s) but he described it as based on Roman showers. (And apparently they had showers....)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 13, 2022, 02:14:55 PM
Oh. Oh. Well, urbandictionary.com just enlightened me. Nevermind.....  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 13, 2022, 02:23:53 PM
I was kinda trying to warn you off lol.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 13, 2022, 03:33:57 PM
I was kinda trying to warn you off lol.

I have a Roman Shower at least 4 or 5 times a month 😳😝😁🤣😉🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 13, 2022, 03:35:29 PM
Because I have a need to learn things, today I ended up discovering what is meant by a 'Roman shower'. Wish I didn't know now.

For some reason I read that as "golden shower".
I Think that reason was because I was stoned.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 13, 2022, 03:41:14 PM
75% of the crap on Urban Dictionary is made up by 12 to 16-year old males trying to gross their friends out.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 13, 2022, 04:09:15 PM
75% of the crap on Urban Dictionary is made up by 12 to 16-year old males trying to gross their friends out.

Well, it grossed me out 😝🤧🤢😉🐢💀☠️💩🤓🤠🥳🇿🇦


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 13, 2022, 04:27:24 PM
So vernal today I hung out laundry, figured the clothes would smell nice, save electricity, the forecast said no rain..... it is pouring out there right now, atop clothes that had been ninety percent dry when I felt them half an hour ago! Grrrrr.  :hatred:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 13, 2022, 04:34:56 PM
Just think of it as an extra wash cycle?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 15, 2022, 10:19:33 PM
Someone I know tonight: "We won, we won!"

Yeah, I still say it's only "we" if you were part of the game, not just living in the same city where it happened.

But then again I didn't say so since nobody likes a buzzkill, and she was happy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 15, 2022, 11:21:36 PM
vangoghexpo.com/boston/ In Boston tonight there were two different places that were doing a show that is like projections of the paintings of Van Gogh.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 16, 2022, 03:58:51 PM
Every random film I pick tonight out of the ones I've not seen before turns out to either have a plot so random as to be non-existent, an arthouse porno or both. Think I'll just go back and rewatch something I've seen before instead.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 16, 2022, 05:58:47 PM
Every random film I pick tonight out of the ones I've not seen before turns out to either have a plot so random as to be non-existent, an arthouse porno or both. Think I'll just go back and rewatch something I've seen before instead.

Won't be too long before it's all westerns because you haven't seen every formulaic one of those........................................


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 16, 2022, 09:46:37 PM
I heard that some guy got a pig heart transplant!

I wonder if now he has an urge to run around without pants!

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 17, 2022, 01:24:13 AM
I heard that some guy got a pig heart transplant!

I wonder if now he has an urge to run around without pants!

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😂😂🐷😊😊🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 17, 2022, 09:52:29 AM
I heard that some guy got a pig heart transplant!

I wonder if now he has an urge to run around without pants!

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My dad just got a pig heart valve.

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 17, 2022, 12:32:21 PM
So, if you get a pig's heart, I wonder if it will be healthy for you to eat bacon?
 :question:
You would think it would like it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 18, 2022, 12:26:55 PM
On Monday I had a guy come in for his vaccine who listed Methodone as one of the (many) medications he was currently on. "I guess I don't need to ask this guy if he has a fear of needles then" was the thought that ran through my mind.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 18, 2022, 02:15:32 PM
In the movie of 'The Thing', what happens to Nauls?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 18, 2022, 02:34:39 PM
In the movie of 'The Thing', what happens to Nauls?

Something to do with torn undies 😳😉🤧😉😂🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 19, 2022, 04:41:49 PM
Since the hotel we are staying in has no problem overcharging us for our drinks, I am wondering if I should have no problem keeping the glasses.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 21, 2022, 06:28:54 PM
It's been a quiet week at our house. I don't get to say that too often.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 22, 2022, 07:41:32 AM
Since the hotel we are staying in has no problem overcharging us for our drinks, I am wondering if I should have no problem keeping the glasses.

 :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 22, 2022, 09:19:26 AM
Since the hotel we are staying in has no problem overcharging us for our drinks, I am wondering if I should have no problem keeping the glasses.

 :teddyr: :teddyr:

I may have collected a full set. Figure for the price of glasses vs alcohol, we are about even.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 22, 2022, 11:20:00 AM
Since the hotel we are staying in has no problem overcharging us for our drinks, I am wondering if I should have no problem keeping the glasses.

 :teddyr: :teddyr:

I may have collected a full set. Figure for the price of glasses vs alcohol, we are about even.

 :cheers: :drink: :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 25, 2022, 01:38:47 PM
When I was in elementary school I played this game with this boy where we rubbed the backs of our hands with a pencil eraser til either one of us stopped or recess ended. When time ran out he and I both had these rug burn-like marks on the backs of our hands that scabbed over and stayed painful for probably a week. When I went home that first day I told my mom I thought I had a partial stigmata. Didn't work; I still got in trouble for doing that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 25, 2022, 02:54:29 PM
When I was in elementary school I played this game with this boy where we rubbed the backs of our hands with a pencil eraser til either one of us stopped or recess ended. When time ran out he and I both had these rug burn-like marks on the backs of our hands that scabbed over and stayed painful for probably a week. When I went home that first day I told my mom I thought I had a partial stigmata. Didn't work; I still got in trouble for doing that.

That could be why you had problems with claims of a virgin birth.  :twirl:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 25, 2022, 11:16:53 PM
When I was in elementary school I played this game with this boy where we rubbed the backs of our hands with a pencil eraser til either one of us stopped or recess ended. When time ran out he and I both had these rug burn-like marks on the backs of our hands that scabbed over and stayed painful for probably a week. When I went home that first day I told my mom I thought I had a partial stigmata. Didn't work; I still got in trouble for doing that.

That could be why you had problems with claims of a virgin birth.  :twirl:

Hale-Bopp comet made a lousy star in the east....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 26, 2022, 03:33:47 PM
We used to play a game called "Swing Hysteria". one guy would lie down under the swing and the other would swing it as hard as he could. It would come crashing down landing inches from your face


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 26, 2022, 08:43:57 PM
Friend's relative: "I was in a play about Anne Frank before the attic."

Me: " Who'd you play?"

Friend's relative: "Jewish Girl Four."

Me: "I bet you were the definitive Jewish Girl Four."




Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: JuanSnz on January 26, 2022, 09:42:14 PM
If in Candyman 2021 to summoning him you must say his name five times, how it is that in the third time you say 'Candyman' you are not summoning Candyman 1992?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 27, 2022, 12:09:01 PM
I have always wondered if Sir Richard Attenborough knew he was playing a South African in The Great Escape?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 27, 2022, 03:42:25 PM
If you haven't heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' played on a kazoo have you ever really heard it at all?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 27, 2022, 04:56:49 PM
I have always wondered if Sir Richard Attenborough knew he was playing a South African in The Great Escape?  :question:

I understand he did a lot of research on Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell, including the unusual story behind the scar on his eye....

Of course, for the sake of entertainment, there were a number of inaccuracies in the movie...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 27, 2022, 05:15:39 PM
If you haven't heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' played on a kazoo have you ever really heard it at all?


Better'n the original....

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk#)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 28, 2022, 08:30:00 PM
How come people pay psychics and astrologers for lottery numbers and the names of the winners of future horse races? If the psychics knew these things, wouldn't they play the numbers and horses themselves?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 28, 2022, 11:12:40 PM
One night I decided to end it all, so I took the deadliest, most lethal drug combination known to science: pop rocks and jolt cola.

I swallowed the candy whole and then chugged the cola, cringing in anticipation, waiting for my insides to explode.... yet nothing happened.

I realized it was a miracle and God had intervened to spare my life! Yet... I had to be sure.

"God," I said, "I'm going to impose on you for one more sign of your will. If you wish me to live, you'll intervene twice."

I walked to the railroad tracks, knowing a freight train passed by every evening at ten, and as I heard the tornadic roar of the approaching engine, I did the one thing guaranteed to derail the onrushing behemoth, and laid a penny on the tracks, closed my eyes and waited for forty tons of speeding metal to jump across space and end me.

Nothing. Happened.

Friends, it was humbling to have God spare me twice in one night from two of the lethal horrors known to science, and I assure you I put aside all thoughts of self-authored demise, and from that day forward, September 31st, I have always looked back in awe at my miracles!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 28, 2022, 11:46:59 PM
^Miracles are easy to see, it's the blessings that are difficult to focus on, and a sense of purpose can be a pain in the @$$...^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 29, 2022, 09:48:27 AM
I bet Jimmy Stewart was a disappointing lover.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 29, 2022, 10:06:40 AM
^ I'm fairly sure I wouldn't enjoy it.Unless he looked like Harvey in a dress.

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 29, 2022, 01:39:03 PM
Ever watch Bob Ross painting and think, "OK, that looks great. Stop now. Yeah, OK, stop. Dude...stop. STOP!"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 29, 2022, 02:43:56 PM
I never thought I'd ever see a movie where George Taiki would play a rubber duck out to destroy the multiverse.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 29, 2022, 03:09:51 PM
I never thought I'd ever see a movie where George Taiki would play a rubber duck out to destroy the multiverse.

Which movie was that?  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 29, 2022, 03:21:32 PM
I never thought I'd ever see a movie where George Taiki would play a rubber duck out to destroy the multiverse.


Which movie was that?  :teddyr:


Space Milkshake. Watch it for free here if you want. Also has Billy Boyd in it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clKgtg3W3oI] [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clKgtg3W3oI (http://[url)[/url]


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 30, 2022, 09:57:44 AM
Advice to guys: if you've been slicing habaneros, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly---like 3 times more than normal---BEFORE using the bathroom.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 30, 2022, 12:02:28 PM
Advice to guys: if you've been slicing habaneros, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly---like 3 times more than normal---BEFORE using the bathroom.

Must....resist....sadistic...idea....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 30, 2022, 12:18:01 PM
Advice to guys: if you've been slicing habaneros, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly---like 3 times more than normal---BEFORE using the bathroom.

...or if you cut habaneros, take a p**s, and than have sex- you'll both be screaming!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 31, 2022, 02:29:53 PM
One of the stranger nicer friendships I acquired in 2021 is with someone still in her teens. I tell her to cherish her grandma while she has her, and she tells me to resist my tendency to "overanalyze stuff" and enjoy life for what it is. I think we're both right, as age brings experience but youth has wisdom as well. The guy she likes is a lot like one I knew when I was her age, and I hope in her case it turns out happier than the complex madness of my love did. I was talking to him the other night and it felt so much like a time warp I am still thinking about it. Deja-vu all over again. In fact there are a lot of similarities between this girl and me. Like I said, it's strange nice, and I value knowing her, even if she is only a few years older than my daughter.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 02, 2022, 10:09:55 AM
Music is better than sex, food, drugs, or chocolate. (Yes, you heard it here, chocolate is not a food.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on February 02, 2022, 10:24:25 AM
Music is better than sex, food, drugs, or chocolate. (Yes, you heard it here, chocolate is not a food.)

I remember some comic pointing out that in the 60s they believed in sex, drugs and rock n' roll, but the 80s proved that without the sex and drugs, rock n' roll just isn't that good.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 02, 2022, 10:36:23 AM
Music is better than sex, food, drugs, or chocolate. (Yes, you heard it here, chocolate is not a food.)


You are doing at least one of those things wrong...  :bouncegiggle: :twirl:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 02, 2022, 10:49:17 AM
Music is better than sex, food, drugs, or chocolate. (Yes, you heard it here, chocolate is not a food.)

I remember some comic pointing out that in the 60s they believed in sex, drugs and rock n' roll, but the 80s proved that without the sex and drugs, rock n' roll just isn't that good.

I don't know, a lot of '80s music sounds pretty good to me, but I do think Sam Kinison got it right when he said rockers against drugs was like Christians against Christ.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 02, 2022, 10:50:44 AM
Music is better than sex, food, drugs, or chocolate. (Yes, you heard it here, chocolate is not a food.)


You are doing at least one of those things wrong...  :bouncegiggle: :twirl:

Oh I am not. What, don't you get your chocolate in a time release skin patch?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 02, 2022, 01:18:20 PM
I wonder how long one can lurk for before it becomes considered a bit pervy or stalkerish?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 02, 2022, 03:40:46 PM
I wonder how long one can lurk for before it becomes considered a bit pervy or stalkerish?

Well, if it is any indication, my septuagenarian neighbor got mad at me for standing outside her bedroom window after just five minutes last night.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 03, 2022, 12:37:03 AM
If you don't laugh at death, death laughs at you. (It has a surprisingly melodious laugh though, like a trout singing Verdi. )

Goooooodnight, everyone. Off to survive Winter Storm Landon. (I'm going to get a lot of mileage outa that name....)

Take no wooden coinage, run not while clutching darts, trust neither sailors nor cowboys nor New York literary agents.

And always be kind when you can.

Paugh dui mullans!



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 03, 2022, 12:39:43 AM
PS: you notice today was 2-2-22?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 03, 2022, 02:34:57 AM
PS: you notice today was 2-2-22?

Just wait until its the 22nd if that impressed you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 03, 2022, 01:23:57 PM
Something about this weather is making me want to settle in and play good old Oblivion.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on February 03, 2022, 11:09:42 PM
Something about this weather is making me want to settle in and play good old Oblivion.

My son-in-law Joseph was playing that the other day, and it made me want to play it, too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 04, 2022, 10:55:52 AM
All right, imagine one night circa 1999, you're at a college party waiting to drive your friends home because you're typically their designated driver and therefore walk the fine line at parties that separates Good Samaritan from nerd, and while you're waiting you notice a frat boy hard-partier type staring at you with a lascivious cockiness, and you ignore him but he keeps staring until he comes over to you and you think ok here it comes, but instead of hitting on you he sways drunkenly and says, "I remember now. You were my Jew."

And you are puzzled. It's not unusual for these politically cerulean folk of high and mighty New England to hold your Midwestern origins in undertones of condescension, but "... you were my Jew...." is new to your experience, so you ask, "Pardon? "

Only to have the wobbly-drunk TKE type repeat, "Yeah, you were my Jew. I remember you now."

Two things register. The first is that there is an unmistakable hint of sexual achievement in his words and boastful stare, the second is puzzlement that someone would think you were Jewish.

You want to blurt out, " Do I look Jewish?"

But of course you can't imply Jews have a certain appearance, no, but still you know you don't look Jewish, so that part puzzles you more than this inebriated stranger's apparent conviction that he has had physical knowledge of you at some point in the past.

He laughs and moves away and even then then you are aware that unless you stop him and ask what he's talking about you'll spend the remainder of your life thinking back on this odd moment and ruing not finding out but already knowing you won't do it, that instead you'll lock yourself in a cell of ignorance, wondering about his remark, wondering what it meant, wondering why he thought you were Jewish.

And so you have.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 04, 2022, 10:52:12 PM
I wonder what Marshmallow Peeps would look like if they "grew", like chicks into chickens....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 05, 2022, 12:25:41 PM
I wonder what Marshmallow Peeps would look like if they "grew", like chicks into chickens....

The Staypuft Marshmallow man.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 05, 2022, 12:34:59 PM
Ants don't have lungs, so would smoking hurt them?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 05, 2022, 12:38:56 PM
Ants don't have lungs, so would smoking hurt them?


If they have no lungs- they can't smoke.
Unless you set them on fire.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 05, 2022, 12:43:42 PM
Ants don't have lungs, so would smoking hurt them?


If they have no lungs- they can't smoke.
Unless you set them on fire.

They respirate through modified skin pores that place oxygen into cells. (As I understand it.) So if they were around smoke they'd take it in.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 05, 2022, 12:54:42 PM
Ants don't have lungs, so would smoking hurt them?


If they have no lungs- they can't smoke.
Unless you set them on fire.

They respirate through modified skin pores that place oxygen into cells. (As I understand it.) So if they were around smoke they'd take it in.

I really wouldn't know. If I was high enough I may try smoking weed and blowing it into ant holes. Just to see if smoke affects them. Not for my own perverse pleasure, of course.  :tongueout:

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 05, 2022, 02:06:20 PM
Today a Cenobite arrived at my front door accompanied by a three-headed knight and two wizards (Merlin and Tim the Enchanter. Currently, they are chilling in the garage.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 07, 2022, 01:22:46 PM
My cousin came for lunch today but ended up having to leave after a few minutes since her alarm company needed her on-site because the police were accidentally called to her house, long story there and I digress. Mea culpa....

BUT while she was here she unintentionally confirmed something horrifically preternatural that had been puzzling me....

Another cousin of mine, her brother, lives upstate and we go see him about once a year, usually, before Covid, for his football parties during the OSU-Bltchagain games each November.

At his house he and his wife have THEE most infamously uncomfortable sofa on Earth, so bad it's known as the torture-couch.

It's expensive, it's trendy, it's leather, but its hard as a rock, tilts too far backward, and sits so low to the ground its challenging for some to get up from, and if you're in a dress you have to sit strategically lest you wind up in some party guest's upskirt gallery.

OK, bad sofa, got that?

Well last time we were there the sofa looked the same but was about a foot higher off the ground, but when I remarked on this, my cousin's very nice and undeceitful wife said no, they hadn't raised the sofa, and when I described how it used to be low to the floor, indeed inches from it, she seemed puzzled, laughed and said, "Uh, no, same couch, exactly the same the years we've had it."

Nooooo, no, no, no, this sofa is a thing of infamy and legend. The leather-covered board on the edge will bruise your thighs if you stand up wrong. It makes vulgar noises if you scoot across it. It's evil.

But under her sincere denial I felt dumb! Was...was I wrong?  I even waited for my chance and got down and checked and I don't think the couch had been raised!

In the car I asked the guy who married me if he noticed the couch was higher and he didn't know what I was talking about!

I began to suspect a joke everyone was in on but time passed, nobody came out with ha-ha we fooled you, so I started to wonder if maybe I was in another dimension I actually was not remembering the sofa right, and eventually it slipped from my mind.

Til today! One of the things Dana said before she had to leave was, "Did you see Jared must've raised his torture couch higher? I was at his house and that sofa was a lot taller."

Yes! Yes! It's a foot higher!!!!

I asked if she mentioned it to him though and she said she didn't think about it but would.

So ... I now have a witness to the mysteriously growing torture-couch that clouds its owners' minds and memories as it hurts butts and bruises thighs and from a low angle reveals the color of its occupants' underwear.

Holy water is in that furniture's future....



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on February 07, 2022, 10:21:58 PM
ER - I love that story - I need to know how it ends.  Do you know the make and model of the couch so we can do some research?  I actually think I might be obsessed with couches.  I have 15.  All but 1 are thrifted, I don't want you all to get the wrong idea and think I'm some crazy person going broke buying couches.  I'm some crazy person getting excellent deals on quality sittin' units.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 07, 2022, 10:39:02 PM
ER - I love that story - I need to know how it ends.  Do you know the make and model of the couch so we can do some research?  I actually think I might be obsessed with couches.  I have 15.  All but 1 are thrifted, I don't want you all to get the wrong idea and think I'm some crazy person going broke buying couches.  I'm some crazy person getting excellent deals on quality sittin' units.



I don't know the make but I will definitely ask. This couch is EviL I tell you. Probably once belonged to Elton John's wardrobe consultant or another deranged soul.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 09, 2022, 10:57:27 AM
ER - I love that story - I need to know how it ends.  Do you know the make and model of the couch so we can do some research?  I actually think I might be obsessed with couches.  I have 15.  All but 1 are thrifted, I don't want you all to get the wrong idea and think I'm some crazy person going broke buying couches.  I'm some crazy person getting excellent deals on quality sittin' units.



I will ask her about her couch today.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 10, 2022, 09:54:59 PM
ER - I love that story - I need to know how it ends.  Do you know the make and model of the couch so we can do some research?  I actually think I might be obsessed with couches.  I have 15.  All but 1 are thrifted, I don't want you all to get the wrong idea and think I'm some crazy person going broke buying couches.  I'm some crazy person getting excellent deals on quality sittin' units.




I will ask her about her couch today.


OK, I asked my cousin's wife and she still swears the sofa has not been altered in any way, so clearly the malign forces have control of her perceptions, poor Diana. She didn't know the model and just said it came from Ikea and was "irregular"  and I thought, no kidding, it's got a freaking demon living inside it, that's its irregularity. But I looked on Ikea's website and am about 80% sure it is this one right here:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/morabo-sofa-grann-bomstad-black-metal-s09316670/ (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/morabo-sofa-grann-bomstad-black-metal-s09316670/)

And if you notice the poor girl in the image is having to sit tilted back? I think some perv designed the sofa that way, I truly do.

PS: I just noticed the make name is "Black Metal" so how much more Satanic could it get?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on February 11, 2022, 12:25:57 AM

[url]http://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/morabo-sofa-grann-bomstad-black-metal-s09316670/[/url] ([url]http://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/morabo-sofa-grann-bomstad-black-metal-s09316670/[/url])




That is quite a deceptive looking couch.  I read some of the reviews and one of them said the legs are separate and cost extra!!  I wonder if they either originally didn't buy the legs, forgot to put them on, or got the wrong legs.  Or do you think maybe someone else swapped out the legs and she didn't notice?  Or is she that kind of crazy that your cousin doesn't want to openly admit that the couch sucks in front of her but enough people complained about it that he changed the legs and didn't tell her?  haha!  Sorry for being so interested in something so mundane but that's pretty funny!



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on February 11, 2022, 08:47:14 AM

[url]http://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/morabo-sofa-grann-bomstad-black-metal-s09316670/[/url] ([url]http://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/morabo-sofa-grann-bomstad-black-metal-s09316670/[/url])




That is quite a deceptive looking couch.  I read some of the reviews and one of them said the legs are separate and cost extra!!  I wonder if they either originally didn't buy the legs, forgot to put them on, or got the wrong legs.  Or do you think maybe someone else swapped out the legs and she didn't notice?  Or is she that kind of crazy that your cousin doesn't want to openly admit that the couch sucks in front of her but enough people complained about it that he changed the legs and didn't tell her?  haha!  Sorry for being so interested in something so mundane but that's pretty funny!




Why do couches have legs, anyway? Just to allow stuff to get lost under them?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 11, 2022, 08:55:45 AM
^ Because they'd be crippled! How would they go check the mail?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 12, 2022, 01:20:42 PM
Why, even after months of hearing about it, I have no idea wtf a NFT is.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 12, 2022, 02:21:22 PM
Why, even after months of hearing about it, I have no idea wtf a NFT is.

Apparently it stands for Non Fungible Token, a unit of cryptocurrency. Now I'm even more confused.  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 12, 2022, 02:42:00 PM
Why, even after months of hearing about it, I have no idea wtf a NFT is.

Apparently it stands for Non Fungible Token, a unit of cryptocurrency. Now I'm even more confused.  :question:

My understanding is that you get a picture of a piece of artwork and the value of it is tied to the perceived value of the picture, but you don't ever own the original. That may be a poor explanation of it, because it doesn't sound to me like it would be a good thing to invest money in.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on February 12, 2022, 03:05:19 PM
Why, even after months of hearing about it, I have no idea wtf a NFT is.

Apparently it stands for Non Fungible Token, a unit of cryptocurrency. Now I'm even more confused.  :question:

My understanding is that you get a picture of a piece of artwork and the value of it is tied to the perceived value of the picture, but you don't ever own the original. That may be a poor explanation of it, because it doesn't sound to me like it would be a good thing to invest money in.

I think an NFT is way of digitally identifying the parties to a contract. It's like a certificate of authenticity. Most famously it's been used by buyers of digital artwork to establish ownership of the work. However, what that ownership entails depends on the contract. Anything digital can be copied, but there can only be one owner of the NFT. It has yet to be established whether they have any real practical value (I'm guessing very little).

So I could make a bad movie ("Cryptocurrency Zombies") and sell it to RC via NFT. RC would then own "Cryptocurrency Zombies" according to whatever the terms of our contract were, and the NFT would prove RC was the legitimate owner. RC could then sell it to Alex, if Alex was a big enough sucker to buy it. Meanwhile, Trevor could probably just copy it and post it on YouTube, but he couldn't prove he owned it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on February 13, 2022, 12:31:32 AM
Wouldn't it make more sense to flush your money down the toilet and then claim ownership of all the sh*t in the sewer system?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 13, 2022, 03:53:43 AM
^ Exactly what I thought it was!
Which means "I have no clue!"

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The only part of cryptocurrency I understand is ' crypt'!
Well, I know what 'currency' is. How that doesn't translate to selling body parts is beyond me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 13, 2022, 05:37:30 AM

So I could make a bad movie ("Cryptocurrency Zombies") and sell it to RC via NFT. RC would then own "Cryptocurrency Zombies" according to whatever the terms of our contract were, and the NFT would prove RC was the legitimate owner. RC could then sell it to Alex, if Alex was a big enough sucker to buy it. Meanwhile, Trevor could probably just copy it and post it on YouTube, but he couldn't prove he owned it.

That was a good pitch, Rev  :wink: :cheers:

I'm so tech unsavvy, I have problems downloading Youtube videos, never mind uploading them  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 14, 2022, 11:57:56 AM
I know I can just google this, but I wanted to ask you guys first-
WTF is 'light pollution'?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 14, 2022, 12:17:14 PM
It is when you can't see the night sky because of the light level (streetlights, shops with lights left on all night and so forth). Affects astronomers, keeps people awake when there is too much light etc.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 14, 2022, 12:31:17 PM
Why do people live in big downtowns in huge cities, if they don't like all the light? If it's because that's where they're job is- oh well. Maybe your job is a part of your problem.
Plus- sure, cut all the lights at a certain time. They had a huge blackout in NYC in 1977, and folks went ape s**t and started looting.

http://youtu.be/pyPjGwGg4-s (http://youtu.be/pyPjGwGg4-s)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 14, 2022, 12:40:36 PM
Turn out the lights and women will complain that they don't feel safe at night. Certainly in the UK, I remember this was a common warcry in the '80s, so they put more street lighting in.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 14, 2022, 01:30:04 PM
Plus bars, diners, theaters, etc- would have to shut their lights off. Who's going to go for that?

I, myself, didn't like it. I moved back to Michigan.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on February 14, 2022, 01:35:52 PM
I remember vacationing in Vermont, looking up at the night sky, and being astounded at how many more stars were visible than I usually can see (because of light pollution). It was like the sky of a completely different planet.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 14, 2022, 01:45:43 PM
I can see all the stars. Of course I live in the middle of nowhere.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 15, 2022, 02:30:32 PM
I can't believe not one psychic predicted coronavirus.... yeah.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on February 15, 2022, 03:50:31 PM
How I didn't get a hangover after drinking nearly half of a fifth of tequila and three beers I won't understand...unless a slice of gas station pizza and wings is the greatest foods to have while drunk. :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 15, 2022, 03:54:32 PM
I wonder how it would turn out if you took Professor Strange from DC Comics & Doctor Strange from Marvel Comics and locked them in a room & forced them to discuss economics while trying to give positive critiques to cheap malted liquors......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 15, 2022, 05:56:16 PM
I wonder how it would turn out if you took Professor Strange from DC Comics & Doctor Strange from Marvel Comics and locked them in a room & forced them to discuss economics while trying to give positive critiques to cheap malted liquors......

That's how the second Doctor Who was conceived.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 17, 2022, 10:34:18 AM
Soooooooo, 50 MPH winds possible today amid vernal temperatures, driving rain, flash flooding in low-lying areas, traffic jams and detours on impassable water-clogged roads, mudslides in the city, power outages, probably a possibility of toads falling from the sky, wouldn't even be surprised if our local version of the Nile turned red.

Gentle winter of snowmen and hot chocolate near a warm fireplace, where art thou hiding?

So much for the stupid groundhog and six more weeks of winter.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 18, 2022, 02:33:15 PM
Does their addiction to Minecraft show that banning child labour was a mistake and we should have kept them working down the mines after all?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 18, 2022, 03:47:56 PM
Does their addiction to Minecraft show that banning child labour was a mistake and we should have kept them working down the mines after all?

I've been studying Confucius again and think he would say so. In his wisdom it is taught women are happiest barefoot and pregnant, men (women's natural superiors) are most content when wielding control according to individual station in life, animals exist for and at human pleasure, children function best exploited for their labor, and all humans, be they god-kings or beggers, achieve highest contentment by never challenging one's place in society, merely functioning within it.

Minecraft validates Confucius.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: JuanSnz on February 18, 2022, 04:18:32 PM
Does their addiction to Minecraft show that banning child labour was a mistake and we should have kept them working down the mines after all?

This make thinking that instead of real mines, we, the software dev. (and I told we, because I'm a software dev.), in some case, exploit children to mining cryptocurrency through video games or apps.

Instead of a warden with a whip, we put in the games, content discount, offer of in-game currency, a win a premium account benefit for 3 days, and so


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 18, 2022, 11:20:57 PM
How can anyone watch Shark Tank and be a socialist? Do they really think people should go to the government with their wearable blanket/ toilet foot rest business and ask for taxpayers to fund it?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 18, 2022, 11:40:40 PM
^ Who watches Shark Tank?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 18, 2022, 11:42:13 PM
^I thought Elon Musk got his money from the government....^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 18, 2022, 11:53:20 PM
^ I asked "Who watches Shark Tank" and you said some off the wall thing about Elon Musk? Elon Musk? Who said anything about Elon Musk?  :question:





Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 19, 2022, 12:03:55 AM
^Well, Lester had to ask if people would really go to the government & expect taxpayers to fund their "as seen on TV doo-dad...^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 19, 2022, 11:15:43 AM
 ^ The only way I would watch Shark Tank is if they fed people to live sharks if they lose.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 19, 2022, 11:32:13 AM
I wish TV would stop calling what is a game show a "reality" show.
Who's reality?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 19, 2022, 11:35:25 AM
I wish TV would stop calling what is a game show a "reality" show.
Who's reality?  :question:

Agreed.

When Big Brother started here a few years ago, one of the contestants decided that he wanted out of the house so he tried to yank the hinges off of the main door  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 19, 2022, 11:40:03 AM
^ Dumb s**t, right? Tell me this s**t ain't scripted and rehearsed, and I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge!

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 19, 2022, 11:50:29 AM
^ Dumb s**t, right? Tell me this s**t ain't scripted and rehearsed, and I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge!

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 :teddyr: :teddyr:

My landlords could use that bridge as they're doing some renovations and landscaping  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 19, 2022, 03:54:55 PM
RC - you should watch it. have you ever had an invention? they can help you sell it to a wider audience. like some kind of joint rolling device or something


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 25, 2022, 02:25:52 PM
I asked Youtube to play the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian and it put November Rain by Guns N Roses on instead.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on February 28, 2022, 09:31:33 PM
Jogging isn't fun. Jogging in jeans is even worse.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on February 28, 2022, 10:28:09 PM
I asked Youtube to play the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian and it put November Rain by Guns N Roses on instead.

I have a possible explanation for this - Slash was on Conan O'Brien's podcast last week which has clips on YouTube.  I think the YouTube technology got confused and came up with the most recent logic of conan+music=Slash, so Guns N Roses.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 28, 2022, 10:56:12 PM
I asked Youtube to play the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian and it put November Rain by Guns N Roses on instead.

I have a possible explanation for this - Slash was on Conan O'Brien's podcast last week which has clips on YouTube.  I think the YouTube technology got confused and came up with the most recent logic of conan+music=Slash, so Guns N Roses.



Basil Poledouris did it

Izzy Straddlin & the JuJu Hounds is now on Spotify
But it's not on the same page as Izzy Straddlin
And his page on spotify talks more about the rise & fall of Guns & Roses than it does about him.........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 01, 2022, 04:34:17 PM
From the Wikipedia article on KUNG FU HUSTLE: "In reality, the Buddhist Palm fighting style does not leave palm-shaped craters and holes on impact." You learn something every day!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 02, 2022, 09:25:42 AM
Bushido tells us that to fear nothing, to want nothing, is freedom.

I get it but I don't agree. In fact that concept sounds more like brain death.

I think there's more affirmation of life in Tolstoy's quip that boredom is a desire for desires. (I wonder if that sounds as snappy in Russian as it does in English?)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 02, 2022, 09:38:46 AM
I think there's more affirmation of life in Tolstoy's quip that boredom is a desire for desires. (I wonder if that sounds as snappy in Russian as it does in English?)

It isn't quite as bad as German, but almost everything sounds angry in Russian.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 02, 2022, 11:18:03 AM
I think there's more affirmation of life in Tolstoy's quip that boredom is a desire for desires. (I wonder if that sounds as snappy in Russian as it does in English?)

It isn't quite as bad as German, but almost everything sounds angry in Russian.

Boy isn't that true?

Do you speak German? To my father's lifelong regret I never learned, and he always wanted me to and always told me it's such an expressive language that once I learned it my mind would open in ways it wouldn't in English. He learned to speak German with an accent more common in eastern Germany than western but try as I might I rarely heard any difference.

Though I may be rusty now there was a time my French wasn't bad but I was always better at speaking it than reading it. (And I was told by a French boy I knew in high school that I sounded more Quebecoise than continental French.)

Mercifully I've forgotten the Latin they forced on us in school.

All in all I'm in a monogamous relationship with my native language.

There you go, everything you never wanted to know about my languages, and never would've asked.  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 02, 2022, 12:57:10 PM
^Makes me wonder what "I'm Bored" by Iggy Pop would sound like if he quoted this Tolstoy character....^


It would probably have sounded too much like Allen Sherman.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 02, 2022, 01:08:23 PM
I think there's more affirmation of life in Tolstoy's quip that boredom is a desire for desires. (I wonder if that sounds as snappy in Russian as it does in English?)

It isn't quite as bad as German, but almost everything sounds angry in Russian.

Boy isn't that true?

Do you speak German? To my father's lifelong regret I never learned, and he always wanted me to and always told me it's such an expressive language that once I learned it my mind would open in ways it wouldn't in English. He learned to speak German with an accent more common in eastern Germany than western but try as I might I rarely heard any difference.

Though I may be rusty now there was a time my French wasn't bad but I was always better at speaking it than reading it. (And I was told by a French boy I knew in high school that I sounded more Quebecoise than continental French.)

Mercifully I've forgotten the Latin they forced on us in school.

All in all I'm in a monogamous relationship with my native language.

There you go, everything you never wanted to know about my languages, and never would've asked.  :wink:

I once had a sex mad German girlfriend. I did learn some German from her, but not exactly what you'd call casual conversational type stuff.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 02, 2022, 03:14:41 PM
My final thought for today before bed: "I must teach everyone here some Afrikaans."  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 02, 2022, 09:21:53 PM
Tonight I feel less creative than Baby Shark's lyricist.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 02, 2022, 11:04:06 PM
I'm getting metal taken out of me tomorrow. I fractured it skateboarding in 2019 and by the time it healed covid had happened. I will be glad to not have a bonky ankle


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 03, 2022, 09:35:54 AM
I'm getting metal taken out of me tomorrow. I fractured it skateboarding in 2019 and by the time it healed covid had happened. I will be glad to not have a bonky ankle

Congratulations on the return of your non-binky ankle!.  :drink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 04, 2022, 02:35:48 AM
Let's see if I can get through to the weekend without strangling someone.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 04, 2022, 03:19:58 AM
Let's see if I can get through to the weekend without strangling someone.

This has been a very stressful week work-wise for me so I feel the same.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 04, 2022, 04:27:57 AM
Let's see if I can get through to the weekend without strangling someone.

This has been a very stressful week work-wise for me so I feel the same.

When I was younger I attended a brief from one of the very high ups in our organisation. He was asked a question about people leaving, and while I can't remember his exact words, the reply ran something like this "Yeah, you know if you leave you'll be missed. For a month or maybe two. Eventually, you will be replaced. You want to leave, go ahead. Things will continue without you."

Ever since that day I have refused to get emotionally involved in what I do or invest any more than I need to. Previously in my job, I'd been putting so much of myself into it that at one point I actually made myself ill. I'd turn up to work early I loved my job so much.

Oddly enough this was at a time when a lot of people were leaving and then they started begging people to stay, but that is another story.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 04, 2022, 08:17:12 AM
People likely to be compromised or exploited by intelligence services:


Military service personnel, particularly in communications.

Worker in a defense industry plant.

Bartender in a military town.

High-end escort in a capital city.

Hair-dresser in a military town.

Self-help meeting attendees in a military town.

Activists and social organizers.

Transportation workers in capital cities.

Clergy in capital cities.

Teachers in capital cities.

Journalists in capital cities.

The adult and semi-adult children of those involved in most of these professions.



Most common methods of exploitation include:

The semi-innocent victim, meaning one who is not fully aware of his involvement and culpability. Trickery and flattering of the ego secure most assets of this nature. Seek a well-placed thrill-seeker who is bored, then carefully cultivate this individual's usefulness

Those compromised on behalf of a loved-one. (The cruelest and often most effective method.)

The ideologue who seeks to serve a cause.

The venal.



Contrary to expectation, most individuals involved in espionage are never detected or apprehended.


Intelligence operations are carried out every hour of every day, often in the most mundane of settings, and are rarely recognized for what they are.

The best spies seem the most ordinary, are good observers of human nature, possess a gift for listening, and invite confidences.


They are among us.




Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 04, 2022, 08:25:15 AM
  ^And you know this...how?  :question:

Hairdressers?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 04, 2022, 08:27:02 AM
  ^And you know this...how?  :question:

I watch a lot of Hogan's Heroes.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 04, 2022, 08:34:10 AM
  ^And you know this...how?  :question:

I watch a lot of Hogan's Heroes.

Hairdressers?
I wonder who did Col. Klink's hair?

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 04, 2022, 08:39:48 AM
 ^And you know this...how?  :question:

Hairdressers?

Hair salons are dens of gossip.

Something that came to light after Soviet records ended up on the black market in the 1990s was how riddled with "spies" hair salons in military towns were. Humble little Dayton, Ohio, in part because of WP AFB had about as many intelligence workers pet capita in it during the Cold War as downtown West Berlin, and staggering numbers revolved around hair salons where military women or spouses of military men got their hair done.

I tell you it goes on in less than obvious places.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 04, 2022, 08:42:13 AM
 ^And you know this...how?  :question:

Hairdressers?

Hair salons are dens of gossip.

Something that came to light after Soviet records ended up on the black market in the 1990s was how riddled with "spies" hair salons in military towns were. Wright-Patterson AFB in humble little Dayton, Ohio had about as many intelligence workers pet capita in it during the Cold War as downtown West Berlin, and staggering numbers revolved around hair salons where military women or spouses of military men got their hair done.

I tell you it goes on in less than obvious places.



It's a good thing I have hippy hair and don't know any government secrets!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 04, 2022, 08:46:54 AM
What if the horses of The Four Horsemen are actually My Little Ponys?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 04, 2022, 11:42:27 PM
What if the horses of The Four Horsemen are actually My Little Ponys?

Then legions of bronies would become the devil's giggling minions.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 05, 2022, 03:10:13 AM
What if the horses of The Four Horsemen are actually My Little Ponys?

Then legions of bronies would become the devil's giggling minions.

That sounds pretty accurate to me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 07, 2022, 02:04:37 AM
11 years ago today I met the head of the church of England. While he seemed a nice enough guy from our short meeting, I am neither a member of the Anglican church, a Christian or even English so the whole experience was rather wasted on me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 07, 2022, 03:09:17 AM
I am getting two free pizzas in about 2 hours  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 07, 2022, 09:01:52 AM
Nicholas Hammond should have had a role in the latest Spiderman movie.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 08, 2022, 02:14:39 PM
I wonder if Florida man would count as a cryptid?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 08, 2022, 11:39:33 PM
Finally got to be a juror for a civil court case.  The first day that court resumes and I got picked lol.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 09, 2022, 06:26:20 AM
I feel old. I made a Monty Python reference last night, and I was the only member of the group who even knew what Monty Python was.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 09, 2022, 09:01:18 PM
Gotta say I'm not a fan of jury duty for civil court cases. Bored out of my mind and trying to keep up with witnesses is frustrating.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 10, 2022, 09:42:44 PM
I cut all the nappy pieces out of my hair a few months ago. I was going bald, so I figured "f**k it."
Now it's growing like crazy. Not even a one thinning or bad spot. I don't know why. I'm turning back into the long hair freak I was! Plus I lost lotsa weight since Tiana left! Because I rarely eat anymore, and smoke and drink more than anything....but I look good!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 11, 2022, 10:32:52 AM

Not long ago I was having blood drawn and the nurse, I guess assuming she was dealing with an amateur at this, tried to distract me, as nurses do, and credit to her, she actually did.

The conversation went like this....

Nurse: "You know sleep apnea?"

Me: "Yeah."

Nurse: "Did you know there's such a thing as male urination apnea?"

Me: "Huh?"

Nurse: "When the vital signs of men are taken while they are standing and urinating, it turns out many men hold their breath as they urinate, and it's not good for them."

By the time I contemplated this, the needle was already out.

Men are odd ducks....




Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 15, 2022, 05:50:12 PM
Beware the eyes of March....the Ides of March....and the calends of April. In fact, just beware in general. Make sure you wear extra-clean underwear. Think thrice.  Look behind you. Trust few.  Listen for banshees. Stay home. Lock all doors. Why get out of bed?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 16, 2022, 01:54:56 AM
So if Jesus's body is bread did he rise from the grave because he is yeast?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 16, 2022, 02:25:17 AM
Will rising fuel prices mean that Leatherface can no longer afford to fill up his chainsaw?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 16, 2022, 03:40:37 PM
I've been trying to figure out where to begin in tubi's "hood" movies. I did a search and one called Plug Love came up a few times. started watching it. It is really bad in a great way. can't wait to finish


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVYSSCFPv-Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVYSSCFPv-Y) why don't you tell the f**kin truth Rizzo! haha


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 16, 2022, 11:20:09 PM
On this day, 23 years ago, Snake Plisskin got kicked out of Ireland & banished to Hell's Kitchen.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 17, 2022, 02:47:20 AM
I wonder if Steven Segal is lonesome tonight?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 17, 2022, 10:51:08 AM
A therapist told a co-worker of mine who has well-earned PTSD to try an exercise of pretending his life began at that precise second, with no past whatsoever, merely an existence that started right then at that very instant in time.

So out of empathetic curiosity I tried that, and as a parahyperthymesiac I found it among the most difficult things to do, as well as the most dismally terrible. To have no recollection of the past is a serious defect bound to devastate something fundamental inside us that forms us as who we are, and it made me feel like I was suffocating to even do that as an exercise.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 17, 2022, 03:05:30 PM
^ I had a hotdog with relish and fries!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 18, 2022, 11:41:58 AM
My ten year old son and I been doing this thing of late where every day around nine o' clock we tell each other a random fact.

Today I told him elephants only sleep twenty minutes at a time, and he told me he had a tick attached behind his ear.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 18, 2022, 11:00:47 PM
My ten year old son and I been doing this thing of late where every day around nine o' clock we tell each other a random fact.

Today I told him elephants only sleep twenty minutes at a time, and he told me he had a tick attached behind his ear.

Oh no!!!  How long had it been there?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 22, 2022, 01:44:03 AM
I just watched an episode of 'the Apprentice' with Donald Trump.
I was looking for Gilbert Gottfried!
I didn't realize that Eric and Ivakna were on it too!
Amazing.


http://youtu.be/nAxrBrkOE8E (http://youtu.be/nAxrBrkOE8E)



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 22, 2022, 01:34:05 PM
My workmate told me that he secretly licks his pens every day so no one else will use them.

I feel the secretly part kind of negates the no one else using them part but didn't tell him that I secretly use them to scratch my butt.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 22, 2022, 04:31:36 PM
If Clark Kent was raised on a farm, wouldn't he know how to handle a shotgun & clean & gut a possum?????

If Clark Kent was raised on a farm, would have really come out a wholesome but enlightened young atheist from Smallville, or would he have come out some bible thumping hypocrite from flyover country?????

And could some goodie-two-shoes little plowboy like Clark Kent really survive in the dog eat dog world of journalism????


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 22, 2022, 07:42:39 PM
clean & gut a possum?????



Who cleans and guts a possum.
A farm is not some Beverly Hillbilly cartoon kinda thing. NO farmer I ever met ate a possum.
Shot them- never ate 'em.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 22, 2022, 07:45:49 PM
^they do in the south^

It's in one of the Br'er Rabbit stories before Disney cleaned them all up & made them kid friendly....
It's in the song Dixie.....

Maybe Clarke Kent would've ended up a disgruntled unskilled laborer......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 22, 2022, 09:24:18 PM
^ I doubt that...he's Superman!
And anybody can operate a shotgun...not rocket science.

What I don't understand is how Lois can't recognize Clark without his glasses?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 22, 2022, 10:15:51 PM
In yet another scenario, Clark Kent would need to embrace the vice, hedonism and corruption of the corporate media world....

He would need to drop the whole Superman gig because he's too busy looking out for number one, no matter how many sappy human interest stories he wrote....

His super powers would be an excellent tool for lots of hitpieces & gotcha stories.....

And it wouldn't be too long before he'd set his sights on national television in New York, because some regional rag like The Daily Planet in a podunk little town like Metropolis can't contain the talents (or the ego) of a bloodthirsty journalist with super powers!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 22, 2022, 10:24:24 PM
I wonder if Batman would eat possum?
I doubt it. You know why? Because-

" (https://i.imgur.com/UNtLJpD.gif) (https://lunapic.com) "

I suppose he eats bugs or fruit?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 22, 2022, 10:35:50 PM
I wonder if Batman would eat possum?
I doubt it. You know why? Because-

" (https://i.imgur.com/UNtLJpD.gif) (https://lunapic.com) "

I suppose he eats bugs or fruit?
Considering some of the countries Bruce Wayne has visited for his training, I can imagine he's eaten bugs....
And rodents....
And rich people always have fruit lying around.... I don't know why..... I don't know if they even eat it.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 22, 2022, 11:23:46 PM
Does Spider-man eat flies?

(https://i.imgur.com/61O707m.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 23, 2022, 05:20:21 AM
Frank Miller's  second revival of "Batman" saw him kidnap Dick Grayson right after his parents were shot, knocked out Dick, forced him to kill a rat for food while in the Batcave, threatened Alfred after Alfred gave Dick some food, and is a complete psycho. God ASBAR is a terrible story.
Superman is,  unironically,  probably the most human superhero in the DC universe. There are what if stories of Supes going crazy, but they are what if stories. If you want an evil Superman then look at Ultraman in Earth Three.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 23, 2022, 01:39:37 PM
Frank Miller's  second revival of "Batman" saw him kidnap Dick Grayson right after his parents were shot, knocked out Dick, forced him to kill a rat for food while in the Batcave, threatened Alfred after Alfred gave Dick some food, and is a complete psycho. God ASBAR is a terrible story.
Superman is,  unironically,  probably the most human superhero in the DC universe. There are what if stories of Supes going crazy, but they are what if stories. If you want an evil Superman then look at Ultraman in Earth Three.

That's pretty dark.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 23, 2022, 03:22:43 PM
ASBAR is such a bad comic. It's nothing but edgelord bulls**t and Bruce Wayne acting like the Joker. It's a damn miracle that Holy Terror wasn't a DC release.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 23, 2022, 11:00:52 PM
Watching Miracle Beach. boy, there is an awful lot of nudity in it


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 23, 2022, 11:03:49 PM
Watching Miracle Beach. boy, there is an awful lot of nudity in it
The movie or the old TV series?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 23, 2022, 11:07:33 PM
movie from 1992.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 23, 2022, 11:21:29 PM
My dog is in bed yipping in his sleep.  :smile:
I wonder what he is dreaming about?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 24, 2022, 03:25:54 AM
Saw a picture of Nic Cage as Dracula in the upcoming Renfield movie. Couldn't help but think he is rocking a serious Bela Lugosi look there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 24, 2022, 11:57:13 AM
^ I seen a photo...yeah! It's pretty cool!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 24, 2022, 01:52:35 PM
Mortal Kombat is based off an old Scandinavian church song.

It is a Finnish hymn.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 24, 2022, 09:25:33 PM
^thats a good one


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 24, 2022, 09:34:01 PM
You know the one thing no one can deal with?

A deck of cards that has been glued together.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 30, 2022, 06:44:58 PM
I've concluded Amanda Palmer isn't a singer, she is a performance artist who sings.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 30, 2022, 07:52:33 PM
I got a fund-raising mailer from Donald Trump today.

I took it in the bathroom and wiped my arse with part of the envelope that had his name on it.
It was a stupid, juvenile, meaningless thing to do.

But dang, it felt GOOD!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 31, 2022, 12:53:53 AM
^ Your a good man, Indy!  :bouncegiggle:

I forgot what I was gonna say!  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 31, 2022, 09:36:46 AM
It seems I am unwilling to listen to advice on my sex life from a woman with a giant, red-haired curly afro. For whatever reason, this video came up on my FB feed and I just couldn't watch it as her hair was way too distracting.

https://fb.watch/c5tw4cRxY8/


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 31, 2022, 10:00:28 AM
It seems I am unwilling to listen to advice on my sex life from a woman with a giant, red-haired curly afro. For whatever reason, this video came up on my FB feed and I just couldn't watch it as her hair was way too distracting.

https://fb.watch/c5tw4cRxY8/

Maybe she'd like a video called How To Disguise Yourself More Convincingly On A Budget. That wig and makeup are silly together.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 31, 2022, 10:54:52 AM
It seems I am unwilling to listen to advice on my sex life from a woman with a giant, red-haired curly afro. For whatever reason, this video came up on my FB feed and I just couldn't watch it as her hair was way too distracting.

https://fb.watch/c5tw4cRxY8/

Maybe she'd like a video called How To Disguise Yourself More Convincingly On A Budget. That wig and makeup are silly together.

I didn't even notice the makeup. The hair had a sort of visual gravitational pull.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on March 31, 2022, 11:15:07 AM
I got a fund-raising mailer from Donald Trump today.

I took it in the bathroom and wiped my arse with part of the envelope that had his name on it.
It was a stupid, juvenile, meaningless thing to do.

But dang, it felt GOOD!

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 31, 2022, 01:06:37 PM
It seems I am unwilling to listen to advice on my sex life from a woman with a giant, red-haired curly afro. For whatever reason, this video came up on my FB feed and I just couldn't watch it as her hair was way too distracting.

https://fb.watch/c5tw4cRxY8/

That is so much the '70s porn star.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 31, 2022, 01:30:36 PM
^ I dunno- I'd fuch her in a NY minute!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 31, 2022, 04:20:54 PM
^ I dunno- I'd fuch her in a NY minute!

And she's into budget sex too so you could skip the candy, flowers and dinner and go straight to home plate.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Zapranoth on March 31, 2022, 07:36:49 PM
It's so clear that all we have now

are thoughts of yesterday...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 31, 2022, 10:02:18 PM
"Inside every monster is a broken man."   

I saw that quote in the comments section of a YouTube video of a SW-based music piece called ANAKIN'S SYMPHONY.

For some reason it haunts me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 31, 2022, 10:36:58 PM
"Inside every monster is a broken man."   

I saw that quote in the comments section of a YouTube video of a SW-based music piece called ANAKIN'S SYMPHONY.

For some reason it haunts me.

Well, yes, indy, because the monster broke him and then ate him.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on April 01, 2022, 03:40:49 PM
I wonder what tribbles look like if you shave them, of if they have the mange..............


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 01, 2022, 05:56:25 PM
Yaaaaaaay! Neil! Gaiman! Is! Back On Tour!!!

If you want me I will be strutting with joy.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on April 01, 2022, 06:06:26 PM
Dammit, I CAN'T get sick on Friday!
I NEED to go to the river tomorrow!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on April 01, 2022, 11:09:52 PM
what is going on with cyclists? the expression CHILL was invented for people like this


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 02, 2022, 09:54:22 AM
Ever wondered what it is the 'German' soldier say at the start of Saving Private Ryan just before they get gunned down while they attempted to surrender?

My translation isn't exact, but it is along the lines of "Don't shoot, we are Czech. We haven't killed anyone."

A lot of the troops manning the Atlantic Wall were conscripts from other countries and this would not be an unusual situation. The book I am reading at the moment tells one story of such a group of conscripts who refused to fight, remaining solidly in their bunker and not shooting. A German commander from another bunker was on his way to throw a bag full of grenades in and kill them when an allied barrage scored a direct hit and saved him the trouble.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 02, 2022, 10:21:34 AM
^ Or he was a German soldier and was lying so they wouldn't shoot him.

Many were in a situation such as "You fight for us, or we kill your family."

But, yeah, the Nazi's would take on anybody from conquered countries. The French Vichy loved Hitler.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 02, 2022, 10:24:53 AM
He is also speaking Czech rather than German.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 02, 2022, 10:28:06 AM
He is also speaking Czech rather than German.

 The Nazi's treated people like cattle.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on April 02, 2022, 01:26:24 PM
Heinrich Severloh decided to surrender after dumping eight boxes of machine gun fire into Omaha Beach.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 02, 2022, 01:46:06 PM
You shoot the uniform, so f**k 'em.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 03, 2022, 03:24:01 PM
Occurred to me today that I've had my main email address since February 1999, more than half my life.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 04, 2022, 09:58:16 AM
I hope I don't die before my life is over.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on April 06, 2022, 07:33:11 PM
Before the invention of light bulbs, before even the discovery of fire, what could have possibly appeared above the heads of cave men every time they had an idea in a comic strip????????????


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 07, 2022, 02:54:39 AM
Before the invention of light bulbs, before even the discovery of fire, what could have possibly appeared above the heads of cave men every time they had an idea in a comic strip????????????

The sun.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on April 17, 2022, 04:40:08 PM
The Granby, Colorado PD shouldn't have destroyed Marvin Heemeyer's KillDozer....

They should've kept it, studied it, so that someday they could send the blueprints to the Ukraine.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on April 17, 2022, 11:24:36 PM
There's now a rival Colombian place in east Boston that features even more disgusting hot dogs than La Chiva

https://www.instagram.com/p/CbLubV1lCM9/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/CbLubV1lCM9/)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on April 18, 2022, 09:22:59 AM
I lost 20+ pounds since January  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 18, 2022, 10:21:16 AM
I lost 20+ pounds since January  :cheers:


 :cheers: (lite beer)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 18, 2022, 01:37:51 PM
I lost 20+ pounds since January  :cheers:

 :thumbup: :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 20, 2022, 12:27:10 AM
After a few days of discussions about religions, a thought randomly popped into my head that Christians will steal any idea that isn't nailed down.

This was quickly followed by a second thought popping up "And they will worship anything that is."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 20, 2022, 01:22:57 AM
Boris Johnson is now claiming that he didn't know he was breaking the law when he attended lockdown parties, despite is being him that put the rules in place.

1) That tells me he is a total idiot who doesn't understand the laws he is putting in place.

2) Ignorance of the law is not an acceptable defence in a court.

He is very much trying to keep the focus on the war in Ukraine as a distraction to challenges against his position.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on April 22, 2022, 09:02:18 PM
I wonder if Santa's Workshop & Superman's Fortress Of Solitude ever ran into zoning disputes....

And, did they ever have to put up with unwanted tourists?
I mean, the North Pole aint exactly the most discrete place on Earth, especially these days.....

And did either of them truly know that Admiral Byrde was lying, but figured the world didn't need to know?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 23, 2022, 03:17:50 AM
CNN+ died. Why do they need another CNN, which is a 24 hour news station already?  :question:

Just an hour of the news is too much for me!

(https://i.imgur.com/eJNSd9k.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 23, 2022, 09:09:02 AM
CNN+ died. Why do they need another CNN, which is a 24 hour news station already?  :question:

Just an hour of the news is too much for me!

(https://i.imgur.com/eJNSd9k.gif) (https://lunapic.com)

When I moved into another part of the house due to renovations in 2018, I stopped watching TV. I haven't watched it since and I don't miss it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 25, 2022, 02:10:36 PM
Anything explained simply is generally sadly inaccurate.

It seems very little these days can be boiled down to just a few words, and yet we all keep trying to simplify things, perhaps in the wistful hope that things will get easier.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 01, 2022, 03:24:02 AM
Hope everyone had a good Walpurgis Night last night and merry May Day today.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 01, 2022, 03:31:52 AM
Hope everyone had a good Walpurgis Night last night and merry May Day today.

Tomorrow's a public holiday here: something to do with the law on something or other that if a public holiday appears on a Sunday, the next day is a public holiday too  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 01, 2022, 04:24:40 AM
We've got a bank holiday here, so I'm off work tomorrow too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 02, 2022, 11:38:28 AM
I've always considered 00-41-43-29-14 to be a lucky number.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 02, 2022, 02:55:35 PM
I tried to grow a beard: nada 😝🤧💩🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 02, 2022, 04:23:10 PM
I had a beard in my early 20s. I was told it made me look like a werewolf. I shaved it off before a date with a nice girl (we went to see Waterworld), and ever since then not shaving regularly has really bugged me. Normally I can go about 3 days then it all has to come off.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 02, 2022, 04:37:23 PM
I buzzz them whiskers once every quarter or so, then get tired of straining my coffee after a few months & start over.....

I once went a year or two for some movie I was working on, then I was glad to get rid of it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 02, 2022, 10:08:02 PM
I can't grow a beard either. its infuriating


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 02, 2022, 10:16:00 PM
Yeah, well it's no party having skin so tender & whiskers so tough that you frequently cut yourself with an electric razor.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 03, 2022, 09:11:17 AM
Amber Heard has a nice braid today.  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on May 03, 2022, 04:16:19 PM
I try to shave/trim every 2 months. Trimming my beard with a 5/8" trimmer, and shaving underneath my beard to get rid of potential neck beard.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 04, 2022, 02:29:04 PM
May the Fourth Be With You.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 04, 2022, 02:32:43 PM
May the Fourth Be With You.....

And with you 😊🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on May 05, 2022, 09:49:48 PM
As of 12:40 pm CST I am an uncle.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 05, 2022, 10:48:23 PM
As of 12:40 pm CST I am an uncle.

Cool, man!



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 05, 2022, 11:33:15 PM
Congratulations El Misfit.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 06, 2022, 07:57:39 AM
Congratulations Uncle Misfit!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on May 06, 2022, 12:27:17 PM
Is it weird my vision of the future still looks like 80's/90's EPCOT?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 06, 2022, 05:45:31 PM
I was reading the lyrics to 'Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath' and Ozzy says "Bog blast all of you!"
Is that a real expression?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 07, 2022, 04:09:18 AM
I was reading the lyrics to 'Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath' and Ozzy says "Bog blast all of you!"
Is that a real expression?  :question:

In my high school, "the bog" meant the toilets, so I don't know.  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 07, 2022, 07:10:05 AM
I was reading the lyrics to 'Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath' and Ozzy says "Bog blast all of you!"
Is that a real expression?  :question:

Maybe he was referencing A Clockwork Orange?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 07, 2022, 11:31:40 AM
^ I do believe your right!  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 07, 2022, 09:38:52 PM
I'm watching Spaceballs, & it hits me, how did Star Wars go from this awesome movie to this successful presence at the toy store?
And would the scaling down of action figures have succeeded otherwise?
I mean, my Batman & Robin action figures were big......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on May 08, 2022, 05:59:15 PM
This week has been a roller coaster of emotions. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 09, 2022, 09:29:45 AM
I got my tractor running this morning after sitting all winter! Yippy skippy!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 10, 2022, 10:55:31 PM
Aliens.....
They have those big, disproportionate heads.....

Assuming you could get close enough, or sneak up on one from behind, you'd think it would be fairly easy to snap their necks...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 11, 2022, 03:34:37 PM
According to the site stats, I have now spent more time on the forum than Andrew. Kinda makes me feel slightly sad.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on May 11, 2022, 07:02:42 PM
Andrew pretty much abandoned this site a decade or more ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 11, 2022, 10:04:12 PM
^ It's sad but it's also amazing that the forum has gained a life of it's own.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on May 11, 2022, 10:06:32 PM
That's true; it's carried on well without him.
We are the NCIS of internet forums - the entire original cast is gone, but we're rocking it with the replacements!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 11, 2022, 10:20:00 PM
That's true; it's carried on well without him.
We are the NCIS of internet forums - the entire original cast is gone, but we're rocking it with the replacements!

Indeed  :smile:

I was thinking about Andrew the other day and I remember him saying that once he retired from the Marines, he would have more time for this place, then something happened and he just vanished. It's none of my business what happened, I would just like to know how he is these days.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 13, 2022, 07:48:34 AM
Have a safe Friday the 13th!

(https://i.imgur.com/BHR60ho.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 13, 2022, 08:44:50 AM
Have a safe Friday the 13th!

(https://i.imgur.com/BHR60ho.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

Enjoy it, I don't think there is another until next year.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 13, 2022, 09:07:01 AM
^ I, myself, plan on celebrating by smoking some weed and drinking a wee spot of whiskey.


Oh wait- that's what I do every day...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 13, 2022, 11:20:26 AM
It's seems BAD MOVIES.ORG is 24 years old! It was started in 1998!

Ash (then known as Ash the Cat) was an original member!
I salute our founder Andrew.
I know I was all p**sed when he left-but I'm sure he had other things that needed to be done.
I think he's a great guy, and I thank him for giving me this forum to talk about old movies!  :drink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 13, 2022, 03:44:03 PM
Since this year so far, my wife and my mother have both abandoned their previous religious views and have both said that their views are now more in line with mine, I can still lay claim to my old nickname of the Faithbreaker.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 13, 2022, 10:25:05 PM
I know ER is online now because she's always shown as "hidden."
Your the only one who does it, ER! Talk to us, sweetheart!  And I mean that! :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 13, 2022, 11:16:52 PM
I'm sure I'm real late at realizing that malls are dead.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 14, 2022, 04:06:35 AM
I'm sure I'm real late at realizing that malls are dead.


Malls here still do good business but the biggest malls like Menlyn: yikes. Many stores have closed and some never re-open.

www.menlynpark.co.za (http://www.menlynpark.co.za)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 16, 2022, 06:56:22 PM
I know Tucker Carlson is a moron, but I wish he and his ilk were gone, being his vile rhetoric is responsible for the beliefs of psychos like the one who murdered 10 people in Buffalo, NY.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 16, 2022, 07:00:48 PM
^Payton Gendron is a radical leftist who hates Tucker Carlson more than you do.^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 16, 2022, 07:17:55 PM
^Payton Gendron is a radical leftist who hates Tucker Carlson more than you do.^


No he wasn't. His manifesto almost mimics everything Tucker has been pushing for the last couple of years.
Don't even try and reverse this because it's a LIE and you dam know it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 16, 2022, 07:26:46 PM
No it doesn't.
It parrots everything BLM & AntiFa have been plugging since they started.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 16, 2022, 07:39:00 PM
No it doesn't.
It parrots everything BLM & AntiFa have been plugging since they started.

He declared himself a white supremacist is his manifesto! He went out and killed blacks!
I don't see any BLM or Antifa folks doing mass shootings! You tried to blame BLM and Antifa for Jan.6!
I know your not that stupid to really believe this s**t. I just think your in a cult mindset because your isolated.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 16, 2022, 07:51:32 PM
And he was still blurting out the same hate crap that dims have been spewing few years.
Dims have always been the biggest anti-Semites I've ever met, and when a black or latino switches parties, well they got names for them.
Don't try telling me that BLM & AntiFa aren't hate groups, and don't try telling me that dims are somehow incapable of unfathomable racism & hatred.
What I've heard so far, this guy sounds like a democrat!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 16, 2022, 08:00:22 PM
And he was still blurting out the same hate crap that dims have been spewing few years.
Dims have always been the biggest anti-Semites I've ever met, and when a black or latino switches parties, well they got names for them.
Don't try telling me that BLM & AntiFa aren't hate groups, and don't try telling me that dims are somehow incapable of unfathomable racism & hatred.
What I've heard so far, this guy sounds like a democrat!

Please. Your avoiding the reason why this kid did what he did. He said, many times, his belief in "race replacement" s**t in his rant. So did Carlson.
So you try to divert the conversation to place blame on others. You never address the issue at hand.

As far as sounding like a "dim"- name one example. Just ONE.
When MAGA's are asked to give facts about anything- they have no real answer. " I heard it from this guy!"
It's all trying to bulls**t your way out of responsibility for your actions and speech.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 16, 2022, 08:08:57 PM
And he was still blurting out the same hate crap that dims have been spewing few years.
Dims have always been the biggest anti-Semites I've ever met, and when a black or latino switches parties, well they got names for them.
Don't try telling me that BLM & AntiFa aren't hate groups, and don't try telling me that dims are somehow incapable of unfathomable racism & hatred.
What I've heard so far, this guy sounds like a democrat!

Please. Your avoiding the reason why this kid did what he did. He said, many times, his belief in "race replacement" s**t in his rant. So did Carlson.
So you try to divert the conversation to place blame on others. You never address the issue at hand.

As far as sounding like a "dim"- name one example. Just ONE.
When MAGA's are asked to give facts about anything- they have no real answer. " I heard it from this guy!"
Sheep.


Could we move on to a less divisive random topic? You guys are never going to come to agreement and nothing is gained by this fighting. That's why Andrew instituted a ban on politics.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 16, 2022, 08:11:33 PM
 ^ I'm sorry, but when someone says something so f**king stupid, I have to reply.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 16, 2022, 08:19:57 PM
^ I'm sorry, but when someone says something so f**king stupid, I have to reply.

OK, but you started the conversation. I think you should have know starting off with "Tucker Carlson is a moron" would anger some people. And when people get angry and defensive they respond in kind. It's totally predictable.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 16, 2022, 08:28:29 PM
^ I'm sorry, but when someone says something so f**king stupid, I have to reply.

OK, but you started the conversation. I think you should have know starting off with "Tucker Carlson is a moron" would anger some people. And when people get angry and defensive they respond in kind. It's totally predictable.

Great.
 I hope it angers more people. Because it's some thing that's important.
If you want to ban me- fine. But I merely stated a fact and when someone defends a mass murderer- f**k all that.
But of course I can't discuss that here, because it's not allowed.
We can talk about the Ukraine, but not what is happening right here? And the reasons behind it?
Bulls**t.  :hatred:
When you try to blame a Nazi killer's actions on BLM and Antifa- No.  f**k you.

oh- PS if anyone is offended by me calling Tucker Carlson a moron...well...I don't give a f**k.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 16, 2022, 08:40:48 PM
Nobody was defending a mass murderer.
There was a disagreement over which haters where his influencers.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 16, 2022, 08:44:44 PM
Nobody was defending a mass murderer.
There was a disagreement over which haters where his influencers.

You know which one it was. Gimme a break.
It wasn't BLM or Antifa. C'mon. That line is not fooling anyone but yourself. And I don't believe YOU even believe it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 16, 2022, 08:52:27 PM
^ I'm sorry, but when someone says something so f**king stupid, I have to reply.

OK, but you started the conversation. I think you should have know starting off with "Tucker Carlson is a moron" would anger some people. And when people get angry and defensive they respond in kind. It's totally predictable.

Great.
 I hope it angers more people. Because it's some thing that's important.
If you want to ban me- fine. But I merely stated a fact and when someone defends a mass murderer- f**k all that.
But of course I can't discuss that here, because it's not allowed.
We can talk about the Ukraine, but not what is happening right here? And the reasons behind it?
Bulls**t.  :hatred:
When you try to blame a Nazi killer's actions on BLM and Antifa- No.  f**k you.

Of course it's important but...

I'd just like to see more restraint and pleasant conversation. That's my personal opinion. And  know a lot of other people don't enjoy the fighting. It's not like the Internet isn't full of bitter political arguments nowadays. You can go anywhere and find that. A place where people are friendly, civil and pleasant is a rare treasure, and I hate to see our little oasis of sanity spoiled.

The Ukraine thread didn't get really nasty, or I would have the same problem with it.

If you want to fight about political subjects just reactive your Facebook account, you'll be in a full scale war in seconds!  :hot:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 16, 2022, 08:57:24 PM
 ^  I'm dropping it.
We can b***h like teenagers all day long- nothing will happen.
But I still think your kinda cute, Cerberus!
Don't tell your girlfriend, she might get mad!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 16, 2022, 11:04:41 PM
No one cared about Tucker Carlson when he wore a bow tie and defended the Iraq War and supply side economics. It was when he started sounding like Bernie Sanders that he became a big threat to everything


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 16, 2022, 11:20:03 PM
I don't get Fox nooz, so I don't even know what he says.........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 16, 2022, 11:40:50 PM
its mostly pretty dang good


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chainsaw midget on May 17, 2022, 09:18:01 PM
Frank Dux, the guy the Jean Claude Van Damme movie Bloodsport is based on, once claimed that he set a Kumite world record for 56 consecutive knockouts in a single tournament sometime between the years of 1975 and 1980. 

If you assume standard tournament brackets and that he knocked out ever single opponent he faced, that means there had to be 72,057,594,037,927,936 fighters that competed in that tournament. 

The world population in 1980 is estimated at 4,458,003,514. 

I, myself was born in 1980, so I probabaly wasn't around for it, but was there some massive world wide martial arts tournament in the late 70s or 1980 that nobody ever talks about?  And if so, who did you all have to fight?  There wasn't enough people, did you fight aliens or did you just have to pick fights with animals?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 17, 2022, 11:07:46 PM
Frank Dux. Like quack quak ducks

!(https://i.imgur.com/2LUIaZh.gif) (https://lunapic.com)



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on May 19, 2022, 09:54:42 PM
Y'know it's nice not being called a satanist every day at work by my now ex-manager. I swear that guy and his bulls**t made me want to drink more to calm my nerves.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 20, 2022, 01:16:56 PM
My son Eddie is going to become a father! I'm gonna be a grandpa for the 5th time!  :drink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 20, 2022, 01:42:00 PM
My son Eddie is going to become a father! I'm gonna be a grandpa for the 5th time!  :drink:

Congratulations to them and you!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 20, 2022, 02:33:25 PM
My son Eddie is going to become a father! I'm gonna be a grandpa for the 5th time!  :drink:

Congrats!  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 22, 2022, 02:48:23 PM
When the Smallpox vaccine for all intents and purposes eliminated the disease the Soviet Union started trying to develop it as an alternative biological weapon.

The current strain spreading is believed to be sexually transmitted, although work is still going on to confirm that as the disease vector.

Fortunately, it is nowhere near as dangerous as Smallpox was/is.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 24, 2022, 04:25:48 PM
The little lizards who live around my house are getting almost tame and will sit right beside me on the ground for great stretches of time. At least I hope that's what it is and they aren't going to start attacking me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 24, 2022, 04:40:31 PM
I know ER is online now because she's always shown as "hidden."
Your the only one who does it, ER! Talk to us, sweetheart!  And I mean that! :smile:

Apparently I'm not the only one, Ron, so the mystery deepens, or as they say on bad crime shows: "Ya gotta copycat on yer hands, Chief." ;-) I hadn't been on for almost three weeks before today. Next time you see that show up, look at my profile, since it shows when someone was last on. I don't remember ever setting my profile to say hidden and don't know why it does. If I cared more I guess I'd figure it out. But, hey, I'm here now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 25, 2022, 11:29:29 AM
Today is my son's eleventh birthday and we have all conspired to convince him he's getting nothing but clothes: every boy's most ardent birthday horror. Today when I knew he was coming around the corner I asked his sister, "Did you wrap the belt you got your brother?" The look on his face was like that of someone who'd accidentally eaten a sowbug.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on May 26, 2022, 04:48:13 PM
With Netflix raising their prices, I wonder if now is a good time to bring back the video rental store...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 26, 2022, 05:15:35 PM
Are your coat sleeves glistening with the sheen of dried snot?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 26, 2022, 05:34:44 PM
Are your coat sleeves glistening with the sheen of dried snot?

Well that gave me a tickle!  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 27, 2022, 07:26:38 AM
Someday I am actually going to serve nachos Flanders' style.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 27, 2022, 09:41:44 AM
A single ant somehow found its way inside my computer monitor and is crawling across the screen. Strangest thing I've ever seen.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 27, 2022, 12:03:45 PM
A single ant somehow found its way inside my computer monitor and is crawling across the screen. Strangest thing I've ever seen.

My mom has found them inside her phone.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chainsaw midget on May 27, 2022, 02:53:37 PM
Today is my son's eleventh birthday and we have all conspired to convince him he's getting nothing but clothes: every boy's most ardent birthday horror. Today when I knew he was coming around the corner I asked his sister, "Did you wrap the belt you got your brother?" The look on his face was like that of someone who'd accidentally eaten a sowbug.  :teddyr:
So, how did he react when he saw what he was actually getting?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 27, 2022, 03:12:44 PM
Today is my son's eleventh birthday and we have all conspired to convince him he's getting nothing but clothes: every boy's most ardent birthday horror. Today when I knew he was coming around the corner I asked his sister, "Did you wrap the belt you got your brother?" The look on his face was like that of someone who'd accidentally eaten a sowbug.  :teddyr:
So, how did he react when he saw what he was actually getting?

Like not getting clothes was a present in itself. ;-)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 28, 2022, 04:43:50 PM
Ever been in the homestretch of a romantic moment and had your phone go off with an Amber Alert? Totally hate that!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on May 28, 2022, 09:43:06 PM
Ever been in the homestretch of a romantic moment and had your phone go off with an Amber Alert? Totally hate that!

No, but I had a door knock at that critical moment last week . . . . my bellowed "Not Now!!" was probably heard in the next county.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 29, 2022, 03:54:12 AM
Ever been in the homestretch of a romantic moment and had your phone go off with an Amber Alert? Totally hate that!

No, but I had a door knock at that critical moment last week . . . . my bellowed "Not Now!!" was probably heard in the next county.

I heard you, so that "Not now!" was really loud  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 29, 2022, 10:36:42 AM
I never thought about it when we'd sing the song in kindergarten, but why exactly do the wheels on the bus go up and down? Why wouldn't somebody fix that? It'd rattle the passengers' brains against their skulls, for cryin' out loud.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on May 29, 2022, 04:42:53 PM
Must be driving on Texas back roads.  We have potholes large and deep enough some of them have magma at the bottom!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 29, 2022, 04:52:46 PM
Must be driving on Texas back roads.  We have potholes large and deep enough some of them have magma at the bottom!

Hippos and crocodiles hide in our potholes  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 30, 2022, 10:58:24 AM
When I was in seventh grade I was waiting on my always-late mom in the lobby of my school, and this boy who used to talk to me while I waited had a Walkman with him and handed it to me and asked if I liked this song. I did and still do. :-)


Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsip5xOenQ#)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 31, 2022, 02:19:57 PM
My cousin blew my mind when she told me today she is going to have her cats taxidermied (stuffed) from now on when they die. She has had at least twenty-five cats in her life and has four now and if she lives a normal lifespan we could be talking about her one day  being surrounded by a score of glass-eyed felines.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 01, 2022, 05:42:23 AM
The US military once tried using pigeons to more accurately guide missiles to their targets. Although the project showed some success, it was decided not to continue with the project. Pretty much they were trained to recognise certain targets and would peck at different screens to control the missile and guide it to its destination.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on June 01, 2022, 09:15:42 AM
The US military once tried using pigeons to more accurately guide missiles to their targets. Although the project showed some success, it was decided not to continue with the project. Pretty much they were trained to recognise certain targets and would peck at different screens to control the missile and guide it to its destination.

That's too weird to believe, but it's apparently true!  :buggedout:  :bouncegiggle:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a24835/us-bomb-guiding-pigeon-plan/ (https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a24835/us-bomb-guiding-pigeon-plan/)



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 01, 2022, 12:35:16 PM
The US military once tried using pigeons to more accurately guide missiles to their targets. Although the project showed some success, it was decided not to continue with the project. Pretty much they were trained to recognise certain targets and would peck at different screens to control the missile and guide it to its destination.

That's too weird to believe, but it's apparently true!  :buggedout:  :bouncegiggle:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a24835/us-bomb-guiding-pigeon-plan/ (https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a24835/us-bomb-guiding-pigeon-plan/)



Yeah, when I read about it, I had to go do some fact-checking to see if it was true or not. Couldn't find anything saying it wasn't.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 01, 2022, 03:10:37 PM
Looks like I am going to be assassinating another player in D&D.

EDIT: I mean his character, not the player. If he happens to fall down the stairs and stab himself in the back 27 times it is entirely a coincidence.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 01, 2022, 03:40:18 PM
My son Jed is now living at my house. He's running 100 miles an hour down a dead end street.  :bluesad:
He's going through a rough divorce.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 01, 2022, 04:15:21 PM
Looks like I am going to be assassinating another player in D&D.

EDIT: I mean his character, not the player. If he happens to fall down the stairs and stab himself in the back 27 times it is entirely a coincidence.  :bouncegiggle:

Yup, I ended up killing him.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 01, 2022, 05:34:45 PM
This is the driest novel about gay culture I have ever read. These characters are as dull as straight people, and that level of fantasy---nothing but boring homosexuals---is just asking for too great a leap of suspended disbelief.  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 01, 2022, 09:12:24 PM
^ What novel?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 01, 2022, 09:52:18 PM
All roads lead to the dog barking up the wrong tree, therefore divided we fall, but with six you get egg rolls.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 01, 2022, 09:54:20 PM
^ WTF?  :question:
So why am I laffing my ass off?  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 01, 2022, 10:06:45 PM
All roads lead to the dog barking up the wrong tree, therefore divided we fall, but with six you get egg rolls.


With six you get egg roll.   :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 01, 2022, 10:22:36 PM
^ With George Carlin!

(https://i.imgur.com/J8c0RVy.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 01, 2022, 10:33:30 PM
My son Jed is now living at my house. He's running 100 miles an hour down a dead end street.  :bluesad:
He's going through a rough divorce.

I am glad that he is with you.  I hope it works out the best for him. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 01, 2022, 11:04:18 PM
All roads lead to the dog barking up the wrong tree, therefore divided we fall, but with six you get egg rolls.


With six you get egg roll.   :lookingup:

No, I have definitely barked up the wrong tree, and fallen while doing long division, and I know I got more than one egg roll out of it!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on June 01, 2022, 11:28:54 PM
My son Jed is now living at my house. He's running 100 miles an hour down a dead end street.  :bluesad:
He's going through a rough divorce.

I am glad that he is with you.  I hope it works out the best for him. 

Sorry to hear that RC.  I hope things start looking up for him too.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on June 02, 2022, 02:04:18 AM
All roads lead to the dog barking up the wrong tree, therefore divided we fall, but with six you get egg rolls.


 :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 02, 2022, 09:31:46 AM
^ What novel?  :question:


The Sparsholt Affair. Too much homosexuality, not enough gayness.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sparsholt_Affair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sparsholt_Affair)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 04, 2022, 09:12:37 AM
I saw a house with a big tapestry hanging off the front door that read Welcome. And next to the door a No Trespassing sign was tacked up.

I admired the heck out of those people.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on June 04, 2022, 11:12:53 PM
Boston is too fancy now


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 06, 2022, 11:06:53 AM
McDonald's in this place is like a bizarro world McDonald's.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on June 06, 2022, 06:10:11 PM
Boston is too fancy now
But the cream pies are to die for!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on June 07, 2022, 12:10:44 AM
pacman - those are actually good


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 07, 2022, 01:32:52 PM
I'm tired of my life.
My wife has been sick for a month and can't stop coughing; I finally talked her into making a doctor's appointment and we can't get the doctor's office to pick up the phone.  My 94 year old mother in law is also hacking constantly, refusing to die or get better.
Both my daughters and their husbands have moved back in with us, so our house is overflowing with trash and laundry all the time. 
My septic system is broken and instead of going to my tank the sewage is spilling out of a cutoff valve in the middle of my front yard.  It will cost $2700 to fix it, or $7000 for a new system - and I don't have the money for either.
I'd like to just run away, truth be told.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 07, 2022, 01:37:18 PM
I'm tired of my life.
My wife has been sick for a month and can't stop coughing; I finally talked her into making a doctor's appointment and we can't get the doctor's office to pick up the phone.  My 94 year old mother in law is also hacking constantly, refusing to die or get better.
Both my daughters and their husbands have moved back in with us, so our house is overflowing with trash and laundry all the time. 
My septic system is broken and instead of going to my tank the sewage is spilling out of a cutoff valve in the middle of my front yard.  It will cost $2700 to fix it, or $7000 for a new system - and I don't have the money for either.
I'd like to just run away, truth be told.

I feel for you mate. Wish I could help.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 10, 2022, 01:23:23 PM
I'm tired of my life.
My wife has been sick for a month and can't stop coughing; I finally talked her into making a doctor's appointment and we can't get the doctor's office to pick up the phone.  My 94 year old mother in law is also hacking constantly, refusing to die or get better.
Both my daughters and their husbands have moved back in with us, so our house is overflowing with trash and laundry all the time. 
My septic system is broken and instead of going to my tank the sewage is spilling out of a cutoff valve in the middle of my front yard.  It will cost $2700 to fix it, or $7000 for a new system - and I don't have the money for either.
I'd like to just run away, truth be told.

Think how wretched you'd feel if you didn't have your conviction that eternal paradise awaited you on the other aide of the impending zombiepocalypse. After all, a miserable humanist can be a miserable sort indeed. (Think me in 2000.)

Have you ever considered hard-core exercise? The adrenaline surge of running til you're just this side of body-damage can be quite the thrill. So can smashing some arrogant Yuppie prick (i.e. most of the people I ever played back in the day) in straight sets on a tennis court.

Short of energetic output, play some loud music and get that music high going. Personally I think a music high is maybe the best feeling life gives and it's hard to care about most things when you're in some self-induced higher state.

Absent that, say sod it and have a few beers. Won't kill ya. I figure that's why God miracled us sex, drugs, and rock and roll. To get us through the 10%-99% of life that can suck.

In any case, feel better soon. I think you are one of the best people anyone here knows, and no one wants you to feel down.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on June 12, 2022, 02:50:27 PM
There's a Mexican style sushi restaurant near the airport


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 12, 2022, 02:53:35 PM
^ What is Mexican style sushi?  :question:
Does it have beans and hot sauce? Does it come with flatbread?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 12, 2022, 03:20:16 PM
I recall my Ma washing out cloth diapers in the toilet.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 13, 2022, 07:08:33 AM
Starting today anyone in Ohio who is above twenty-one and not forbidden by law from owning firearms may legally carry a firearm concealed upon her or his person, without a permit or training and this person is not required to notify others that this weapon is being concealed. Ohio joins local states  Indiana and Kentucky in permitting this. I guess time will tell how this liberty will work out but to me it does not sound like a reassuring development to have untrained citizens going around with lethal weapons.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 13, 2022, 07:47:03 AM
^ What is Mexican style sushi?  :question:
Does it have beans and hot sauce? Does it come with flatbread?

I'm curious about that too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 13, 2022, 12:50:10 PM
Starting today anyone in Ohio who is above twenty-one and not forbidden by law from owning firearms may legally carry a firearm concealed upon her or his person, without a permit or training and this person is not required to notify others that this weapon is being concealed. Ohio joins local states  Indiana and Kentucky in permitting this. I guess time will tell how this liberty will work out but to me it does not sound like a reassuring development to have untrained citizens going around with lethal weapons.

Texas enacted "Open Carry" a couple years ago; you don't even have to conceal your weapon.  Just pack it almost anywhere.  The only upside is that it also includes swords!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 13, 2022, 07:00:29 PM
^ What sh!t.  You are not cool, nor are you funny.   :thumbdown:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on June 13, 2022, 07:11:19 PM
I need drunk self to stop drinking excessively when out. Yeah I drank a bit too much Saturday during Pridefest,  spent yesterday recovering.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 13, 2022, 07:21:09 PM
^ What sh!t.  You are not cool, nor are you funny.   :thumbdown:

Who are you referencing here?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 13, 2022, 09:05:04 PM
^ What sh!t.  You are not cool, nor are you funny.   :thumbdown:

Who are you referencing here?


You. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on June 13, 2022, 09:12:30 PM
^Yes, I know from personal experience, Texas lingo can be strangely offputting to northeasterners.......^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 13, 2022, 09:14:52 PM
^Yes, I know from personal experience, Texas lingo can be strangely offputting to northeasterners.......^

That is not it.  In the wake of what has been happening, particularly in TX, I see no humor in guns or deadly weapons. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 13, 2022, 09:44:52 PM
I wasn't really trying to be humorous; I think open carry is ridiculous.  At least with our old "conceal and carry" law, you were required to complete a training course and get a license.  Now pretty much anyone can pack anywhere, and that's insane.

The only part I tried to be a little lighthearted about was being allowed to carry swords.  Honestly, it's still insane, but IMO a gladius hanging by your side looks a lot cooler than a .38.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 13, 2022, 09:52:20 PM
^Yes of course you were trying to be humorous.  I appreciate your clarification, but you cannot help yourself.  There is no humor.  There is no smile.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 13, 2022, 10:50:41 PM
^ What sh!t.  You are not cool, nor are you funny.   :thumbdown:

He's cool, he's frequently funny, he's a lot more popular than you, John, with your constant sourpuss attacks on others, and at least Indy has a sense of humor, when the only joy I've ever seen you evince here is when you're making fun of something or someone, which you do all the time, usually with all the sharpened wit of a caveman's club. If you disagree with someone, how about a show of tolerance? And if you can't tolerate something you disagree with, how about offering a counter point of view instead of insulting the person?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 14, 2022, 01:01:26 PM
^ What sh!t.  You are not cool, nor are you funny.   :thumbdown:

He's cool, he's frequently funny, he's a lot more popular than you, John, with your constant sourpuss attacks on others, and at least Indy has a sense of humor, when the only joy I've ever seen you evince here is when you're making fun of something or someone, which you do all the time, usually with all the sharpened wit of a caveman's club. If you disagree with someone, how about a show of tolerance? And if you can't tolerate something you disagree with, how about offering a counter point of view instead of insulting the person?

Popular?  With whom?  The dozen or so of us?  Who cares?  You are a foul mouth, but I'd give you a point for use of "evinced". 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 14, 2022, 01:59:11 PM
I think the Queen appearing with Paddington Bear was cute and her best role since she jumped out of a helicopter with James Bond a decade ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 14, 2022, 02:10:52 PM
I think the Queen appearing with Paddington Bear was cute and her best role since she jumped out of a helicopter with James Bond a decade ago.


Don't forget Naked Gun!

(https://i.imgur.com/FQiMIFZ.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 14, 2022, 04:07:41 PM
Emailed one of only two ex's that I parted with on good terms. Not heard from her for a couple of years and hoping she is doing well. I always wished I could have helped her more.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 14, 2022, 04:33:58 PM
I was thinking a few things.

I just read brontosaurus never existed....?!

The scene in Hulu's Pam and Tommy biopic where Tommy talks dating advice with "himself" was high art.

I also read that a potentially deadly fungus has been found growing on artificial turf in some stadiums and could enter the body via scrapes on the skin.

Where I am at the moment has great tea, really good Indian food, wonderful cool weather, but the worst ranch dressing that culinary science ever gave us. (Undertones of salty mayo and embalming fluid.)

And finally, after reading Alex's Random Thought, it occurred to me I only have one ex I could email. One. What a strange life.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 15, 2022, 08:30:04 AM
At my grandmother's wake one of her favorite quotes was read: “The first step to humility is recognizing one is proud.”

I can't count the number of times I heard her say that, especially to me, being convinced all Americans, even half-Americans like me, were too proud.

I finally got around to looking that quote up, and was surprised to see it was used by CS Lewis in Mere Christianity, though whether it originated with him I don't know. Likely not, since it is surely an old sentiment, probably one often stated amid the rock-walled convents of Ireland 1600 years ago and more. If my grandmother had had a coat of arms, that would be the legend sitting at the bottom, as pride, she was convinced, began the slow rot of the soul.

But what did surprise me was my grandmother quoting a Protestant, if she was quoting Lewis.

Hers was the most subdued Irish wake that ever was. "Dry" as she never drank, quiet, as she was quiet, prayerful, as she lived much of her life in wordless prayer, and in remembering her the family recalled her as someone who went through life treading more carefully than anyone any of us knew. She would even pause before giving a reply to almost anything one asked of her, as if she were making sure she got her words exactly right. It was the most peculiar verbal habit I ever encountered, especially among Irish, who tend to speak fast and readily. (And frequently and plentifully.)

After getting through that stifling wake this month my cousin Eonne, with whom I have had many arguments but whom I like very much, said she needed a drink, so I went with her, and at the drinking establishment I asked her if she ever heard our grandmother tell a joke.

She thought and said, "No, never."

"Not one?"

"No."

I couldn't think of any either. No, not one joke ever told by that pious woman, now dead.

I told Eonne that someday, if I have a wake, I want it remembered that I liked the joke about the murderer taking his victim into the dark scary woods, and ruing having to walk out alone. Perversity is a better legacy than a lack of all humor, and I am perverse.

"I'll tell everyone that," Eonne said.

And I hope she does.

Goodbye, my Grandmother. You were more Catholic than the Pope and holier than half the saints. May you have cold tea and plain toast in Heaven.

I don't know if I'll ever get there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 15, 2022, 02:12:34 PM
At my grandmother's wake one of her favorite quotes was read: “The first step to humility is recognizing one is proud.”
I can't count the number of times I heard her say that, especially to me, being convinced all Americans, even half-Americans like me, were too proud.
 
Are you sure she thought all Americans are proud or that you exemplify pride? 


I finally got around to looking that quote up, and was surprised to see it was used by CS Lewis in Mere Christianity, though whether it originated with him I don't know. Likely not, since it is surely an old sentiment, probably one often stated amid the rock-walled convents of Ireland 1600 years ago and more. If my grandmother had had a coat of arms, that would be the legend sitting at the bottom, as pride, she was convinced, began the slow rot of the soul.

But what did surprise me was my grandmother quoting a Protestant, if she was quoting Lewis...

^ "Mere Christianity" is a term used by G.K. CHESTERTON (creator of Father Brown).  His writing influenced C.S. LEWIS who may have sought a reconciliation of all Christian faiths.  There was a great deal of interest in returning to Catholicism by English theological writers in the 20th century.  CHESTERTON did convert to Catholicism. 

The deep faith of your grandmother is admirable. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 15, 2022, 02:28:35 PM
At my grandmother's wake one of her favorite quotes was read: “The first step to humility is recognizing one is proud.”
I can't count the number of times I heard her say that, especially to me, being convinced all Americans, even half-Americans like me, were too proud.
 
Are you sure she thought all Americans are proud or that you exemplify pride?  


I finally got around to looking that quote up, and was surprised to see it was used by CS Lewis in Mere Christianity, though whether it originated with him I don't know. Likely not, since it is surely an old sentiment, probably one often stated amid the rock-walled convents of Ireland 1600 years ago and more. If my grandmother had had a coat of arms, that would be the legend sitting at the bottom, as pride, she was convinced, began the slow rot of the soul.

But what did surprise me was my grandmother quoting a Protestant, if she was quoting Lewis...

^ "Mere Christianity" is a term used by G.K. CHESTERTON (creator of Father Brown).  His writing influenced C.S. LEWIS who may have sought a reconciliation of all Christian faiths.  There was a great deal of interest in returning to Catholicism by English theological writers in the 20th century.  CHESTERTON did convert to Catholicism.  

The deep faith of your grandmother is admirable.  

I didn't know you had an interest in Chesterton, John. You should join the American Chesterton Society and help support his memory. I been a member since 2010.

My grandmother used to think Dublin (especially south of the Liffey) was Hell's doorstep, and all of America was the antechamber. Me, I am the soul of humility and self-deprecation.

PS: Did you know Lewis wanted to convert to Catholicism, but as one born in Ulster he felt he'd be betraying his roots to do so, so he came as close to it as he could as an Anglo Catholic?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 15, 2022, 03:25:33 PM
...
PS: Did you know Lewis wanted to convert to Catholicism, but as one born in Ulster he felt he'd be betraying his roots to do so, so he came as close to it as he could as an Anglo Catholic?

Yes, and expect that your explanation is accurate. 

I have an interest in all English writers and theologians.  I also like the BBC Father Brown series for the title character (though English murder stories are largely contrived and absurd).  Since you mentioned MERE CHRISTIANITY I'm surprised as a member of the CHESTERTON Society you didn't mention him.  I have a soft spot for the "apologists" like SAINT AUGUSTINE


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 15, 2022, 03:58:41 PM
...
PS: Did you know Lewis wanted to convert to Catholicism, but as one born in Ulster he felt he'd be betraying his roots to do so, so he came as close to it as he could as an Anglo Catholic?

Yes, and expect that your explanation is accurate. 

I have an interest in all English writers and theologians.  I also like the BBC Father Brown series for the title character (though English murder stories are largely contrived and absurd).  Since you mentioned MERE CHRISTIANITY I'm surprised as a member of the CHESTERTON Society you didn't mention him.  I have a soft spot for the "apologists" like SAINT AUGUSTINE

When you say the Father Brown series, do you mean the authentic versions of GKC's stories done in times past, or the current series with Ron Weasley's dad in the role? I have enjoyed the current shows but you know they don't reflect Brown as Chesterton penned him.

I do like Chesterton's books but deep down I think Gaiman hit the nail on the head when he said if Chesterton had written less, he'd have written better.

Ever seen The Apostle of Common Sense series done on EWTN in the 2000s? It was through those that I came to know of the Chesterton Society. I think the episodes are on YouTube now and are worth a look.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 15, 2022, 05:17:54 PM
^I did not know the actor from Father Brown was the other actor's father.  I do know that the current series is a bit far from CHESTERTON's vision, but his concept.  I don't read books at all anymore, unfortunately. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 16, 2022, 06:40:33 PM
Tadpoles were a food staple for the Aztecs. Just thinking about that as I look at at the night....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 16, 2022, 07:52:39 PM
Tadpoles were a food staple for the Aztecs. Just thinking about that as I look at at the night....

Their biggest source of protein seems to have been from the other Mexican tribes they conquered.
The Aztecs are the only advanced civilization in the history of the world that practiced wide-scale cannibalism; they are also the only advanced civilization that developed in a region with no large native herbivore species to provide meat.  Coincidence?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 17, 2022, 01:16:41 AM
The country seems to be baking in something of a heatwave and I am stuck in work.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 17, 2022, 06:43:19 AM
The mercy of Allah resides in the shade.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 17, 2022, 07:00:11 AM
I wonder if rhinoceroses ever go crosseyed trying to stare at their horn?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 17, 2022, 07:11:11 AM
Carlee has never seen Jaws before so Kristi put it on for her. As I walked past, I pointed at Roy Schnider and said "I can't believe at the end of the movie the shark eats him."  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on June 17, 2022, 04:41:20 PM
I'm attempting to bleach part of my hair so I can dye it. I'll see how successful I'm at it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 17, 2022, 07:34:44 PM
Couldn't sleep yet tonight so I replied to an email from Florida from this man who is the best salesperson I have ever known and I challenged him to sell Israeli bonds to a group of those Nation of Islam guys you see standing beside roads selling incense. He asked what he'd get if he pitched Israeli bonds to them and I said I'd buy him a trophy that proclaimed him world's bravest salesman. He was like yeah and have it shipped to whatever morgue he was reposing in after they got done with him. I agreed pretty much, yeah.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on June 17, 2022, 08:33:10 PM
I'm attempting to bleach part of my hair so I can dye it. I'll see how successful I'm at it.
My hair has been bleached and dyed, though it has made me feel a bit weird.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 18, 2022, 06:18:59 PM
If ever you'd like to read about an amazing life, lived both in wartime and peace, look up Leonard Cheshire.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on June 19, 2022, 06:50:48 PM
If ever you'd like to read about an amazing life, lived both in wartime and peace, look up Leonard Cheshire.

I just googled the person: wow.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 19, 2022, 10:25:25 PM
What he said!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 21, 2022, 03:26:27 AM
Happy Solstice everyone. Enjoy the daylight, it only get shorter from here in.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 22, 2022, 07:36:33 PM
Africa's dwarf mongoose is the only species of mongoose that lives socially. Oddly enough all geese are social, and "mon" means mountain in a dialect of Romanian. Romanians, being humans, are also classified as social, and geese live there! Most Romanians do not know they are connected to Africa's dwarf mongoose or by extension to geese, but as you can see, the link is undeniable.

The unseen interconnectiveness of our world just fascinates me!



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on June 22, 2022, 08:12:21 PM
Happy Solstice everyone. Enjoy the daylight, it only get shorter from here in.
So much daylight is making it too hot. Bring on the night!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 27, 2022, 04:21:53 PM
I get emails off the local library service. Did a double take when I thought the latest one said "Thousands of dirty magazines now available", but what it really said was "Thousands of digital magazines now available".


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 27, 2022, 05:53:52 PM
Africa's dwarf mongoose is the only species of mongoose that lives socially. Oddly enough all geese are social, and "mon" means mountain in a dialect of Romanian. Romanians, being humans, are also classified as social, and geese live there! Most Romanians do not know they are connected to Africa's dwarf mongoose or by extension to geese, but as you can see, the link is undeniable.

The unseen interconnectiveness of our world just fascinates me!



Horror movies have vampire bats in Translyvania, yet they only thrive in South America.
Yet you never see horror movies with vampire bats set in South America. Of course DRACULA (1931) had armadillos! And Armadillos live in Texas and wherever.
Somethings going on here, and I demand the whole truth!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on June 27, 2022, 11:19:36 PM
Africa's dwarf mongoose is the only species of mongoose that lives socially.

Speaking as the board's resident African, I can say I also live socially  :wink:

Another odd animal connection is that the small rabbit-like hyrax (or dassie as we call them here) is related to the African elephant  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 29, 2022, 08:58:04 AM
Just wanted to repeat my experience at my theatrical screening of THE BLACK PHONE here in case you don't read the "Recent Theatrical Viewings" thread. This is the extra paragraph I posted on Letterboxed:

Note: I was distracted for the first twenty minutes because a couple of teenagers seated right in front of me were basically having sex in the reclining chair until they got kicked out of the theater. I mean, they kept their clothes on, but they might have slid their pants aside (the girl was wearing leggings). It was highly distracting and they ignored requests from people to stop until a manager came and actually kicked them out. I tried to make my rating reflect the quality of the movie unaffected by the performance of the dry-humping teenagers, but you may want to add or subtract a star if there are no horny young people fornicating at your particular venue.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 29, 2022, 09:46:24 AM
Just wanted to repeat my experience at my theatrical screening of THE BLACK PHONE here in case you don't read the "Recent Theatrical Viewings" thread. This is the extra paragraph I posted on Letterboxed:

Note: I was distracted for the first twenty minutes because a couple of teenagers seated right in front of me were basically having sex in the reclining chair until they got kicked out of the theater. I mean, they kept their clothes on, but they might have slid their pants aside (the girl was wearing leggings). It was highly distracting and they ignored requests from people to stop until a manager came and actually kicked them out. I tried to make my rating reflect the quality of the movie unaffected by the performance of the dry-humping teenagers, but you may want to add or subtract a star if there are no horny young people fornicating at your particular venue.

Good summation, Rev. You know, carnal undertakings in multiplexes must be making a comeback after the presence of security cameras chilled people out for a while, because a month or so ago my daughter, who is thirteen, went to the movies with her cousin and her cousin's friend, and though my daughter didn't say anything about it to me, it got back to me via the grapevine that a "pretty close to everything" incident went on in the same row as her between a couple of teens. Really not cool.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 30, 2022, 09:02:55 AM
You ever wonder....I mean deep down honestly sometimes wonder....if you might be under demonic influences?

Like when you're driving along on the way to Target, happy as a stinkbug in a henhouse, and some airhead high school girl cuts you off in the parking lot, and you say and do nothing, you let it go, but in your mind you hear her screaming and smell her bleeding out as you stab her over and over and over and over, then finish with a tire iron to her head. I mean ever have that experience?

Or when you go inside the same Target, same trip, and can't find Lava soap on the shelf, and you politely ask the Mjolnir-wearing kid working there if it's been out of stock a while, and he says yes, and you say OK, thanks, but in your mind you envision the CEO of Palmolive who gave the order to stop the supply of Lava burning to death when you've torched his house, like sometimes think about doing to whoever is responsible for canceling Hellblazer comics?

Where do those thoughts come from? Am I truly that petulant and dark in my Id, or did all those times I read Tarot cards and played the recording of those chants to the goddess Kali as a teenager open a portal to Hades in my soul?

Maybe I'm the only one outside a Bob Larson get-together who wonders stuff like that

Anyway, have a nice day and don't cancel any bath products I like....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 30, 2022, 10:53:11 AM
You ever wonder....I mean deep down honestly sometimes wonder....if you might be under demonic influences?

Like when you're driving along on the way to Target, happy as a stinkbug in a henhouse, and some airhead high school girl cuts you off in the parking lot, and you say and do nothing, you let it go, but in your mind you hear her screaming and smell her bleeding out as you stab her over and over and over and over, then finish with a tire iron to her head. I mean ever have that experience?

Or when you go inside the same Target, same trip, and can't find Lava soap on the shelf, and you politely ask the Mjolnir-wearing kid working there if it's been out of stock a while, and he says yes, and you say OK, thanks, but in your mind you envision the CEO of Palmolive who gave the order to stop the supply of Lava burning to death when you've torched his house, like sometimes think about doing to whoever is responsible for canceling Hellblazer comics?

Where do those thoughts come from? Am I truly that petulant and dark in my Id, or did all those times I read Tarot cards and played the recording of those chants to the goddess Kali as a teenager open a portal to Hades in my soul?

Maybe I'm the only one outside a Bob Larson get-together who wonders stuff like that

Anyway, have a nice day and don't cancel any bath products I like....

I thought that was just women in general?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 30, 2022, 02:10:54 PM
My godson is coming over in a few to hang out and watch Kenobi with me while my family is away. He and I have always had good times, despite the fact it's almost impossible for me to make myself say his first name.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 01, 2022, 06:24:20 AM
After watching multiple female stand-up comedian shows, based on how they talk about sex I have come to the conclusion that female comedians know nothing more than the (very) basics about having sex with a man, and have no idea what to do to make it better for him but expect a man to be proficient in all these things for them in return. One, in particular, even seemed to base her entire show around telling the world she isn't very good at it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 01, 2022, 06:54:18 AM
After watching multiple female stand-up comedian shows, based on how they talk about sex I have come to the conclusion that female comedians know nothing more than the (very) basics about having sex with a man, and have no idea what to do to make it better for him but expect a man to be proficient in all these things for them in return. One, in particular, even seemed to base her entire show around telling the world she isn't very good at it.

You're supposed to just lie there completely still til he's done, right? What's difficult about that?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 01, 2022, 08:58:58 AM
I find it hard to imagine any phrase I hear today will beat "More goo than a Ron Jeremy convention."  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 01, 2022, 01:15:59 PM
Sitting here in the dark with my thoughts: red noise on my earpieces.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 01, 2022, 03:33:00 PM
A busy few days coming up:  a book signing in Waco, TX tomorrow and a trip to New York next Thursday!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 01, 2022, 09:30:15 PM
Today is the 332nd anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, one of the many sad days in Irish history. Is it any wonder the entire island is so past-haunted?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on July 02, 2022, 12:15:49 PM
Is it just me, or does hand-painted cell animation have richer colors than digital ink & paint?i


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 02, 2022, 12:39:27 PM
Today is the 332nd anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, one of the many sad days in Irish history. Is it any wonder the entire island is so past-haunted?

You should only be allowed to celebrate this if you were personally involved imo.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 02, 2022, 05:57:55 PM
My family is on vacation, but I didn't get home in time to go. They're at this supposedly awesome place, fun, fun, fun, its very name is a byword for a good time.

Well my son just called me and said I hate this trip and everything about it because you're not with us. I wish I wasn't here, I wish I was home with you.

Wow, what a blue ribbon mom moment. He'd rather be with me than a world-famous resort! Despite my worries, I guess I must be doing something right in the parent department after all.

I think I'm going to do a happy dance now!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 03, 2022, 08:10:59 AM
I'm thankful for many things today. The love that I have and give, my health, my life in a country whose birthday is tomorrow. But maybe most of all I am thankful God omitted pain receptors in hair.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 03, 2022, 12:42:16 PM
My toes and fingers are cold  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 03, 2022, 05:55:23 PM
Spent the first half of my Sunday sitting up at the hospital with my MIL, trying to keep her from pulling out her O2 and Picc lines and climbing out of the bed to walk home (she can't cross a room without a walker!).
NOT my idea of a day of rest!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 04, 2022, 04:33:09 PM
We were speaking to Kristi's best friend back in the US who has just had a baby and congratulating her.  When she was wished happy 4th of July she replied "Yeah, turns out it isn't working out so great for us. Any chance we can come back under England?"

Sorry lass, but they've got their own huge multiple messes to deal with too. I wouldn't go there if I were you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 04, 2022, 04:35:05 PM
My sympathies to those who have just lost loved ones in the latest mass shooting and to those who have lost their lives. Just saw it on the news.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 04, 2022, 05:51:18 PM
^The news says the suspect is one Bobby Crimo (Robert Eugene Crimo III) Alias "Awake The Rapper".^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 04, 2022, 07:23:03 PM
I broke down mentally when I got extremely wasted at Pridefest. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 04, 2022, 08:02:26 PM
^The news says the suspect is one Bobby Crimo (Robert Eugene Crimo III) Alias "Awake The Rapper".^

He's in custody.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 04, 2022, 11:21:51 PM
I broke down mentally when I got extremely wasted at Pridefest. 

I feel like I'm breaking down everyday. No joke. Some s**t coming down in real time.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 05, 2022, 07:44:32 PM
I broke down mentally when I got extremely wasted at Pridefest. 

I feel like I'm breaking down everyday. No joke. Some s**t coming down in real time.
s**t came down/ came ahead and I'm either currently tackling it or tackled it already.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 06, 2022, 11:43:32 AM
Just me or do so many of these mass shooters look like they've never had a girlfriend?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 06, 2022, 11:52:21 AM
Just me or do so many of these mass shooters look like they've never had a girlfriend?

It's not just you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 06, 2022, 12:00:25 PM
Just me or do so many of these mass shooters look like they've never had a girlfriend?

Agreed.
A couple different things have had me looking up guys like George Hennard & Elliot Rodger recently, some others, & most of these guys had one thing in common....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 07, 2022, 12:59:22 AM
We've had 48 resignations from the upper levels of government now. Don't recall anything like this before.

Oh, and one guy got sacked.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 07, 2022, 01:29:23 AM
We've had 48 resignations from the upper levels of government now. Don't recall anything like this before.

Oh, and one guy got sacked.

Our government is filled with ministers who are corrupt and incompetent like our Minister of Police  :buggedout:

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/lobby-group-to-lay-formal-complaint-against-cele-after-member-removed-from-public-meeting-on-crime-20220706 (https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/lobby-group-to-lay-formal-complaint-against-cele-after-member-removed-from-public-meeting-on-crime-20220706)

I wish they would resign.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 07, 2022, 09:43:20 AM
Boris Johnson is quitting!  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 07, 2022, 10:05:22 AM
Boris Johnson is quitting!  :buggedout:

Yup, only took (last I heard) 56 resignations.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 08, 2022, 01:27:26 AM
Japan's ex-PM is in a very serious condition following an assassination attempt. From the sounds of it, he is close to death.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 08, 2022, 12:34:09 PM
If someone gets to 9,900 posts, does it trigger some sort of Countdown to Kraken so the special Kraken jacket and ring can be prepared in advance? What about the password to the Krakens-Only secret board where you can get the link to the lost Star Wars film? Does someone need to send in the blood sacrifice at 9,900 posts, or wait til the actual 10,000th? I mean I need time to find a goat and a red-haired virgin for the ceremony next year.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 08, 2022, 07:47:56 PM
At 10,000 you get a box of Jujy's as long as you buy it yourself!


(https://i.imgur.com/sXh67Jt.png) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on July 08, 2022, 07:58:53 PM
^I love Jujyfruits. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 08, 2022, 08:21:38 PM
^ I think it's a generational thing, like Black Jack Gum and candy cigarettes.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 08, 2022, 10:37:09 PM
What about circus peanuts?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 08, 2022, 10:42:29 PM
^I love Jujyfruits. 

Then it's handy you're a Kraken.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 08, 2022, 10:54:19 PM
What about circus peanuts?
^ One of the most dangerous candy on planet earth. If they get about a day old you could break a window with them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 08, 2022, 11:21:36 PM
My son Jed has been living with me the last 2 weeks. He's going through a hard time.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 09, 2022, 10:45:08 AM
What about circus peanuts?

Circus peanuts are disgusting until they go stale, then they're the most delicious candy on the planet.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 09, 2022, 07:12:21 PM
In a weird way, climate change would make an amusing plot device for a Blob remake.....
And then drop it in the most forsaken desert on earth, where it fries like an egg..............


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 11, 2022, 11:41:19 AM
I notice we have a thread that lists when famous people have died, and that's depressing! How about we start a real-time thread that marks when future famous people are born each day?

I'll begin: Tabitha Stewart, 2067 Winner For Best Genderless Performance in a Motion Picture, was born today at 12:15 PM  in Manchester, England.

There, isn't that more uplifting?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 11, 2022, 02:13:08 PM
Googled "Betty Boop." Google informs me that "people also ask": "Was Betty Boop a hoe?"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 11, 2022, 02:21:02 PM
Googled "Betty Boop." Google informs me that "people also ask": "Was Betty Boop a hoe?"


Dracula had a thing for her!

http://youtu.be/GZnH5DcXAOE (http://youtu.be/GZnH5DcXAOE)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 11, 2022, 02:29:13 PM
saw footage of a woman open carrying a powerful looking rifle at a pro choice rally. I love America


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 11, 2022, 03:35:42 PM
If nothing else, all this extra time off work gives me a chance to catch up on watching bad movies, making a dent in my reading pile and writing up some stuff.

Plus you can never have too much time just sitting around in your underpants.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 12, 2022, 09:17:09 AM
The difference between a beer and someone else's opinion is that I often want a beer.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 12, 2022, 10:08:15 AM
Plus you can never have too much time just sitting around in your underpants.

If those underpants belong to me, the answer is  :buggedout: :buggedout: :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 12, 2022, 11:26:34 AM
Actual headline from today:

Starship rocket explodes in blow for Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions
SpaceX boss describes incident as ‘actually not good’

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/starship-launch-explosion-spacex-mars-b2121111.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/starship-launch-explosion-spacex-mars-b2121111.html)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 12, 2022, 01:57:23 PM
I like the White Stripes, but isn't it a tad icky that this divorced couple told the world they were siblings?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 12, 2022, 07:06:03 PM
I thought it was Wednesday.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 13, 2022, 04:35:58 AM
I thought it was Wednesday.

Pretty sure it is.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 13, 2022, 04:58:11 AM
I thought it was Wednesday.

Pretty sure it is.

It is here: almost Wednesday afternoon in fact.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 13, 2022, 12:22:46 PM
I thought it was Wednesday.
It is now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 13, 2022, 03:19:13 PM
Well, while it is nice to be home, I must admit, the weather in NYC was much nicer!
104 degrees Fahrenheit projected for this afternoon.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 13, 2022, 04:42:24 PM
Glad you had a fun trip. Liked seeing the photos.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 13, 2022, 04:44:30 PM
I thought it was Wednesday.

Who was it then, just a look-alike?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 13, 2022, 04:45:30 PM
I thought it was Wednesday.

Who was it then, just a look-alike?

I never fully trust Wednesdays. Especially around 14:34.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 13, 2022, 07:24:12 PM
I thought it was Wednesday.

(https://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/39700000/Wednesday-Addams-animated-gif-the-addams-family-1964-39772238-500-281.gif)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 14, 2022, 02:50:06 AM
Aliens features the best chess move of all time.

Queen takes Bishop.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 14, 2022, 04:06:08 AM
Aliens features the best chess move of all time.

Queen takes Bishop.

Ouchies  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 15, 2022, 09:16:47 AM
People keep talking about how a civil war is coming to the United States, but I think we have been in a low-intensity civil war for a while now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 15, 2022, 09:19:27 AM
People keep talking about how a civil war is coming to the United States, but I think we have been in a low-intensity civil war for a while now.

I don't understand how the civil war is supposed to work. Am I going to ally with the neighbor to my right against the neighbor to my left? She's a bedridden little old lady, I think we can take her.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 15, 2022, 09:32:35 AM
People keep talking about how a civil war is coming to the United States, but I think we have been in a low-intensity civil war for a while now.

I don't understand how the civil war is supposed to work. Am I going to ally with the neighbor to my right against the neighbor to my left? She's a bedridden little old lady, I think we can take her.

I think I try to avoid politics anymore like you say you do religion, but I believe the idea is less about borders than ideology. Less about literal battlefields, I hope, than disruptive, divisive discord that has led to disunity and strife that well may deepen, and maybe flare into largescale violence. Frankly, Americans hate one another.

I was watching a discussion of this topic by a Canadian author, and the interviewer pointed out that a forgotten chapter of recent American history is the fact, for instance, federal sites like post offices were bombed by the hundreds in the late 1960s, yet the nation was still unified enough to see this as the work of a small number of discontented revolutionaries.

Now I think we've got such a deep divide among people who hold almost completely diametrical views on not only how a country should run, but what defines a country, that....well...I do wonder if we are not in some new form of civil war, that civil war have evolved/devolved into a new species of intra-societal warfare, and we're witnessing it.

For the record, I think you can take the bedridden neighbor too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 15, 2022, 03:25:19 PM
It would be nice to have a civil war for a change. All the ones I've experienced have been decidedly uncivil.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 15, 2022, 08:09:55 PM
People keep talking about how a civil war is coming to the United States, but I think we have been in a low-intensity civil war for a while now.

I don't understand how the civil war is supposed to work. Am I going to ally with the neighbor to my right against the neighbor to my left? She's a bedridden little old lady, I think we can take her.

I think I try to avoid politics anymore like you say you do religion, but I believe the idea is less about borders than ideology. Less about literal battlefields, I hope, than disruptive, divisive discord that has led to disunity and strife that well may deepen, and maybe flare into largescale violence. Frankly, Americans hate one another.

I was watching a discussion of this topic by a Canadian author, and the interviewer pointed out that a forgotten chapter of recent American history is the fact, for instance, federal sites like post offices were bombed by the hundreds in the late 1960s, yet the nation was still unified enough to see this as the work of a small number of discontented revolutionaries.

Now I think we've got such a deep divide among people who hold almost completely diametrical views on not only how a country should run, but what defines a country, that....well...I do wonder if we are not in some new form of civil war, that civil war have evolved/devolved into a new species of intra-societal warfare, and we're witnessing it.

For the record, I think you can take the bedridden neighbor too.

I agree with much of what you say except for the idea that people have "completely diametrical views on not only how a country should run, but what defines a country." I think the two camps now hate each other over the pettiest, least consequential s**t, like pronouns and critical race theory. Divisions over things like immigration, abortion, gun control have always existed our entire lifetimes, but the two parties did not treat each other like mortal enemies over them. There are almost no Americans who actually want a fascist or Marxist state, but many, many people who are being deluded into believing that's what the "other side" wants.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 15, 2022, 08:24:53 PM
They would have people walking around the battlefield, checking they're cell phones and looking for the nearest McDonalds.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 16, 2022, 12:40:46 AM
They would have people walking around the battlefield, checking they're cell phones and looking for the nearest McDonalds.

Ain't that the truth.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 16, 2022, 08:58:38 AM
They would have people walking around the battlefield, checking they're cell phones and looking for the nearest McDonalds.

I, so maybe they already threw a civil war but no one noticed.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 16, 2022, 12:12:47 PM
Getting sober is really taxing on the mental state.  Nearly 3 weeks sober and this week has been hell on my mind.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 16, 2022, 12:35:00 PM
Getting sober is really taxing on the mental state.  Nearly 3 weeks sober and this week has been hell on my mind.

Hey....you're doing something great for yourself and all who care about you. Good luck. I mean that sincerely.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 16, 2022, 12:35:43 PM
Getting sober is really taxing on the mental state.  Nearly 3 weeks sober and this week has been hell on my mind.

You got a group or something?
When I decided to dry up in the late '90s, it was just me & a toxic workplace...
It helps to have people, real ones.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 16, 2022, 12:40:15 PM
Getting sober is really taxing on the mental state.  Nearly 3 weeks sober and this week has been hell on my mind.

You got a group or something?
When I decided to dry up in the late '90s, it was just me & a toxic workplace...
It helps to have people, real ones.

I have my family and coworkers for support. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 16, 2022, 12:45:16 PM
Getting sober is really taxing on the mental state.  Nearly 3 weeks sober and this week has been hell on my mind.

Candy helps.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 16, 2022, 03:16:03 PM
Getting sober is really taxing on the mental state.  Nearly 3 weeks sober and this week has been hell on my mind.

Sending hugs and good wishes: go for it.  :smile: :smile: :thumbup: :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 17, 2022, 12:31:25 PM
I am going to try watching The Terror again. It didn't bore me the last time, it just didn't grab me either. On the first episode at the moment.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 18, 2022, 12:51:02 AM
The first-ever Red Warning for high temperatures has just been issued for the UK. The joys of climate change. Happily, it will not quite get that warm up where we are, but I feel sorry for my friends in London.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 18, 2022, 12:38:58 PM
Seagulls. The more I hear and see them, the less I like them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 18, 2022, 01:22:39 PM
Seagulls. The more I hear and see them, the less I like them.

Steven Seagull can also be a bit annoying sometimes  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 18, 2022, 11:07:19 PM
the weather in boston is intolerable. It was like 94% humidity today. the most uncomfortable I've ever been except for when I was at RC Merchants house


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 19, 2022, 07:18:19 AM
^ Was it the bats or the spiders?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 19, 2022, 10:06:43 AM
^ Was it the bats or the spiders?  :question:

 :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 19, 2022, 10:30:50 AM
I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 19, 2022, 11:48:36 AM
I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."
:bouncegiggle: Great, now I'm gonna be thinking about that!  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 19, 2022, 11:54:09 AM
I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."
Oh....that's....brilliant.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 19, 2022, 12:06:08 PM
I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."

I'm not an LotR geek, but wasn't Sauron more worried about someone using the ring against him than wanting to use it himself?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 19, 2022, 12:12:57 PM
I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."

I'm not an LotR geek, but wasn't Sauron more worried about someone using the ring against him than wanting to use it himself?

I think it was so infused with his power that with it he considered he would be unstoppable. At least that's always been my understanding. The ring sought its master, so I don't think it would have contributed greatly to someone else.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 19, 2022, 12:17:09 PM
I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."

I'm not an LotR geek, but wasn't Sauron more worried about someone using the ring against him than wanting to use it himself?

I think it was so infused with his power that with it he considered he would be unstoppable. At least that's always been my understanding. The ring sought its master, so I don't think it would have contributed greatly to someone else.

I seem to remember Gandalf and others refusing to even touch the ring because they knew it would both make them more powerful and corrupt them---i.e. make them rivals to Sauron.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 19, 2022, 12:51:14 PM
I could be wrong but I think when Sauron created the ring, he permanently poured some of his own power into it, weakening himself but gaining the means to achieve a greater power by controlling the lesser rings. When he lost the ring, he also lost all the magical might he had put into it and was (literally) left as a shadow of his former self.

While I've read The Hobbit and LotR, I am not a massive Tolkien geek though and I could be wrong.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 19, 2022, 01:03:08 PM
Dang, we need indy to make a ruling here. He's read LOTR about sixty times. Or wait, let's go to the source. Anybody got a Ouija board?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 19, 2022, 01:13:57 PM
I need a shave.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 19, 2022, 02:31:30 PM
Sauron didn't need to physically wear the ring, merely to be in possession of it.
Although, if its power had been returned to him, he would have been more than able to transform himself back into an anthropomorphic shape.
His choosing the "eye" as his physical form was not a permanent state of affairs.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on July 19, 2022, 03:39:10 PM
I loved that first LORD OF THE RINGS film.  The others just slid downhill for me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 19, 2022, 03:59:57 PM
I loved that first LORD OF THE RINGS film.  The others just slid downhill for me.

Films were a decent adaptation, but the books are ALWAYS better.
ALWAYS.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 19, 2022, 04:14:31 PM
I loved that first LORD OF THE RINGS film.  The others just slid downhill for me.

I had the opposite experience. I loved the first two films, but remember thinking The Return of the King was the best of the three. (The reverse of my preference in the books, which I like in order.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 19, 2022, 04:42:41 PM
I really wanted them to put in the Barrow Wight scene, although I didn't care for the Tom Bombadil bit straight after.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 19, 2022, 10:39:32 PM
Goodnight, everyone. May your hearts be at peace and your spirits be filled with happiness. May the road you walk be neither easy nor hard. And through your many days, may you have all you need and some of what you desire. Thank you all for being here.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 20, 2022, 11:55:39 AM
I just watched Iggy in concert from 2022.
He's in rough shape.

http://youtu.be/U78O-BXXeiY (http://youtu.be/U78O-BXXeiY)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 20, 2022, 12:08:36 PM
^Well, he is seventy-five & still working....^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 20, 2022, 03:52:14 PM
Getting sober is really taxing on the mental state.  Nearly 3 weeks sober and this week has been hell on my mind.

Candy helps.
I'm trying not to stress eat sweets, but man is it hard. A lot of thoughts and doubts returned.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 20, 2022, 05:17:50 PM
Getting sober is really taxing on the mental state.  Nearly 3 weeks sober and this week has been hell on my mind.

Candy helps.
I'm trying not to stress eat sweets, but man is it hard. A lot of thoughts and doubts returned.

I didn't realize you had a problem. Good luck kicking whatever it is.

When a friend of mine quit heroin she substituted eating candy and gained a lot of weight. Not good, but so much better than the alternative that no one tried to stop her. Deal with the most pressing issue first.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 20, 2022, 05:34:02 PM
Getting sober is really taxing on the mental state.  Nearly 3 weeks sober and this week has been hell on my mind.

Candy helps.
I'm trying not to stress eat sweets, but man is it hard. A lot of thoughts and doubts returned.

I didn't realize you had a problem. Good luck kicking whatever it is.

When a friend of mine quit heroin she substituted eating candy and gained a lot of weight. Not good, but so much better than the alternative that no one tried to stop her. Deal with the most pressing issue first.
My problem is/was drinking, and it wasn't starting,  it was stopping.  Good on your friend on getting clean.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 21, 2022, 11:31:07 PM
the current bitcoin really will be short lived. there is no reason for it to go up, no more free money to pump the price up, and economic outlook hasn't changed.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 22, 2022, 08:42:17 AM
the current bitcoin really will be short lived. there is no reason for it to go up, no more free money to pump the price up, and economic outlook hasn't changed.

The only reason for it to go up is constantly increasing scarcity, but yeah, I agree. Bitcoin could crash to near zero someday.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on July 22, 2022, 09:13:08 AM
...My problem is/was drinking, and it wasn't starting,  it was stopping.  Good on your friend on getting clean.

You are wise to try and control all aspects of oral fixation.  Keep up the good work. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on July 22, 2022, 09:59:04 AM
I saw my surgeon this morning and as of today, I am cancer free.  I test again in 3 months.  It is a relief.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 22, 2022, 10:20:12 AM
I saw my surgeon this morning and as of today, I am cancer free.  I test again in 3 months.  It is a relief.

Very good news, John. I'm glad for you. Congratulations.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 22, 2022, 11:07:36 AM
I saw my surgeon this morning and as of today, I am cancer free.  I test again in 3 months.  It is a relief.

Great news, buddy!  :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 22, 2022, 11:24:53 AM
I saw my surgeon this morning and as of today, I am cancer free.  I test again in 3 months.  It is a relief.

I didn't know you had cancer. What type, if I may pry?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 22, 2022, 11:57:58 AM
I saw my surgeon this morning and as of today, I am cancer free.  I test again in 3 months.  It is a relief.

Big congratulations. :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 22, 2022, 03:24:14 PM
I saw my surgeon this morning and as of today, I am cancer free.  I test again in 3 months.  It is a relief.

Glad to hear this!  The forum would definitely not be the same without you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 22, 2022, 03:59:09 PM
I saw my surgeon this morning and as of today, I am cancer free.  I test again in 3 months.  It is a relief.
Congrats! Let's hope that cancer stays away forever.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on July 22, 2022, 04:45:27 PM
Congrats! ...  :thumbup:


We're both in recovery.  Keep up the good work.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 22, 2022, 05:13:19 PM
Ugh - both my daughters and now my wife all have COVID this week.
I'm fleeing upstairs to escape the plague!!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 22, 2022, 06:15:05 PM
Ugh - both my daughters and now my wife all have COVID this week.
I'm fleeing upstairs to escape the plague!!
I took refuge in my room when Imy folks thought that they had Covid. I did the same when my sis and her boyfriend had gotten it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 22, 2022, 06:45:14 PM
There was a big sun glare on my computer screen, but then it went away. Dreams do come true.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 23, 2022, 03:37:07 AM
The mail service is deliberately trolling me by continually sending me emails telling me that my delivery is due between 09:16 and 12:16, but not actually arriving RIGHT BLOODY NOW WHEN I WANT IT TO!!!!

Bastards.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 23, 2022, 08:58:23 AM
My household's theme song seems to be "Another One Bites The Dust" these days - woke up to find my son-in-law Shawn now has COVID.
He's the only one of us unvaccinated, because he's of the opinion that the vaccines CAUSE the virus.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 23, 2022, 10:35:18 AM
I got  an email today (along with about 20 others along the same lines)



 
" Friend,
 
When I was in the White House, America had a President who put our Nation FIRST every single day. For the first time in a long time, power was taken from Washington and given BACK to the American People.

Unfortunately, Joe Biden and the rest of the Washington SWAMP are working overtime to undo everything my administration accomplished. Mark my words, America will be put FIRST again, but only with the help of my most loyal supporters.

You’ve always been a trusted ally, Friend, which is why I want to offer you something very exclusive.

This is the year we TAKE AMERICA BACK from the Left, so I’ve decided to dedicate a wall at my office for a select group of donors who choose to step up at this critical time.

I want to give you PRIORITY ACCESS to get your name permanently engraved on the Official 2022 Trump Donor Wall. Space is extremely limited. This could be your only chance.

Please contribute $5 or more before 11:59 PM TONIGHT to be one of the FIRST donors to have their name permanently engraved on the Official 2022 Trump Donor Wall. >>"

 :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 23, 2022, 11:10:20 AM
I got  an email today (along with about 20 others along the same lines)



 
" Friend,
 
When I was in the White House, America had a President who put our Nation FIRST every single day. For the first time in a long time, power was taken from Washington and given BACK to the American People.

Unfortunately, Joe Biden and the rest of the Washington SWAMP are working overtime to undo everything my administration accomplished. Mark my words, America will be put FIRST again, but only with the help of my most loyal supporters.

You’ve always been a trusted ally, Friend, which is why I want to offer you something very exclusive.

This is the year we TAKE AMERICA BACK from the Left, so I’ve decided to dedicate a wall at my office for a select group of donors who choose to step up at this critical time.

I want to give you PRIORITY ACCESS to get your name permanently engraved on the Official 2022 Trump Donor Wall. Space is extremely limited. This could be your only chance.

Please contribute $5 or more before 11:59 PM TONIGHT to be one of the FIRST donors to have their name permanently engraved on the Official 2022 Trump Donor Wall. >>"

 :bouncegiggle:

I'm sure that will get built just like his other wall did.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 23, 2022, 11:06:03 PM
Good morning! It's a new day! You're closer to your death than you've ever been!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 23, 2022, 11:38:36 PM
That Goofy and Pluto are both dogs always confused me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 24, 2022, 12:08:00 PM
I bet you could sell dartboards to people with their exes face on them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 24, 2022, 12:40:09 PM
Good morning! It's a new day! You're closer to your death than you've ever been!

http://youtu.be/TdIRrmNN_CQ (http://youtu.be/TdIRrmNN_CQ)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 24, 2022, 04:04:25 PM
I sometimes skate in a paring garage. It has these poles that are perfect for supporting yourself to learn kickflips. The other day there was a guy on roller blades who drove from like an hour away so he could bomb all 8 floors from the roof to the ground, then take the elevator back up and do it again. He did it like 5 times while i was there he would just pass by


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 24, 2022, 04:09:38 PM
^One of the things I miss about motorcycling, is how my pipes sound in parking garages....^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 25, 2022, 01:21:25 AM
Looks like a warm and wet day today. Should I dress for the heat or dress for the rain?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 25, 2022, 07:13:19 AM
Looks like a warm and wet day today. Should I dress for the heat or dress for the rain?
Heat. Always dress for the heat. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 26, 2022, 01:00:06 AM
After her rampage last night, the cat is getting locked into a single room tonight. She managed to wake up everyone in the house at some point and Ash is currently sleeping in our bed, which he hasn't done for months.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 27, 2022, 01:10:47 AM
A company called Restoration Games has been emailing me a lot, asking me to back a game they are reprinting. The launch of the kickstart (although it is actually on a similar site) was today, so I had a look at it. I decided that $300 was more than I was willing to pay for the game though, never mind shipping on top.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 27, 2022, 03:06:10 AM
I found out today that Ennio Morricone was nominated for a Razzie for The Thing score.

Boy did they call that one wrong.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 27, 2022, 04:42:46 AM
I found out today that Ennio Morricone was nominated for a Razzie for The Thing score.

Boy did they call that one wrong.

That's like giving me an award for Best Laundry  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 27, 2022, 05:46:43 PM
I sense a disturbance in the force. Anyone else have the unsettling feeling something huge and bad is about to happen?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 27, 2022, 06:17:24 PM
I sense a disturbance in the force. Anyone else have the unsettling feeling something huge and bad is about to happen?

I hurt my back on Monday, & I've been in a funk today.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 27, 2022, 06:28:06 PM
I sense a disturbance in the force. Anyone else have the unsettling feeling something huge and bad is about to happen?


I hurt my back on Monday, & I've been in a funk today.....

OK, that explains it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 28, 2022, 05:14:00 AM
I sense a disturbance in the force. Anyone else have the unsettling feeling something huge and bad is about to happen?

I hurt my right foot during the night: how the hell do you do yourself an injury while fast asleep?  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 28, 2022, 05:15:32 AM
I sense a disturbance in the force. Anyone else have the unsettling feeling something huge and bad is about to happen?

I hurt my right foot during the night: how the hell do you do yourself an injury while fast asleep?  :buggedout:

Kristi managed to kick a wall while asleep and break her small toe. The bed wasn't even up against the wall.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 28, 2022, 06:03:02 AM
Kristi managed to kick a wall while asleep and break her small toe. The bed wasn't even up against the wall.

My bed is up against the wall and I think I turned over a bit too quickly last night.

My work mentor just shrugged it off and said "You're getting old."  :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 28, 2022, 09:22:36 AM
I had a 6:45 appointment with an oral surgeon today to have a wisdom tooth removed. He wanted to knock me out and take all my wisdom teeth out but I said no, only one is bothering me, and even it has no decay, just never came in 100% right years ago, leaning in a little too much so I'd often bitten my tongue there, and after one good solid chomp too many three weeks back, I said it had to go. (The fact I waited twenty-whatever years to get it out shows how little it bothered me.)

I asked if he'd take out the tooth without anesthetic, and he winced and asked, "Are you into pain or something?"

Not at all, but I don't react well to anesthesia, so we compromised and he gave me a low dose of it, injected by my tooth, telling me it was half what he gave most patients. I definitely experienced the extraction, which coincidentally felt exactly like a tooth ripping out of my jaw, and he rocked my head so much I wondered if my neck was going to be kinked all day (so far so good), then he cheated by giving me a last shot after the tooth was out that had a component of la-la to it, so that I not only felt no pain in the extraction site but floated with a wonderful dreamy light-headed quality for the next hour, smiling and asking the nurse who wheeled me out if she believed in love at first sight.

She said, "If you've fallen in love with me, I'll tell the doctor to market that anesthetic to single people."

It only occurred to me later that in buzzing me like that the surgeon deprived me of my cunning plan to steal my tooth from the medical waste bag he'd put it in.  I not only wanted to show my kids but I was hoping for one last tooth fairy visit.

So, I can now say I have had a dental procure done, and a minorly-major one, I suppose, but for the life of me I can't see what the big deal is about dentistry that leaves the mere mortals of the world so afraid of it.

Eeew, a wittle bit of pain....

Wimps.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 28, 2022, 09:31:11 AM
Sounds like a much better experience than mine!
My first two wisdom teeth were very badly impacted and I had them removed during Navy Boot Camp.
They weren't budging, so the butcher dentist had to shatter them with a little hammer and chisel and extract them a fragment at a time with tweezers.
My mouth bled for two days, the pain was extensive, and I couldn't eat normal food for nearly a week afterward.
The other two came out once I was out in the fleet, and that dentist was great - I had very little pain or bleeding and was able to eat solid foods the next day.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 28, 2022, 09:54:04 AM
I had all my wisdom teeth removed under nitrous oxide. That's the way I'd recommend having it done. Painless and pleasant.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 28, 2022, 12:41:41 PM
I still have my wisdom teeth


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 28, 2022, 03:34:24 PM
I think frogs use Botox, and that's why their faces stay locked in one permanent expression.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 29, 2022, 03:17:10 PM
Congress just passed the CHIPS Act. Does that mean we all get free motorcycles?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 29, 2022, 04:08:00 PM
Time to dig out Skyrim and see if I can play as the Imperials for once. Every time I go to play then I decide "You know what, you guys were about to cut my head off. Screw you guys."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 29, 2022, 07:44:12 PM
Time to dig out Skyrim and see if I can play as the Imperials for once. Every time I go to play then I decide "You know what, you guys were about to cut my head off. Screw you guys."

I've only played as the Stormcloaks once, and hated it.  I guess because I fought so hard to save the Empire in OBLIVION, I just couldn't let it be destroyed in SKYRIM.  Plus I really liked General Tullius.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 29, 2022, 07:48:32 PM
I still have my wisdom teeth

Theyr'e not helping.

I'm kidding!  :tongueout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 29, 2022, 08:07:11 PM
I still have my wisdom teeth

Theyr'e not helping.

I'm kidding!  :tongueout:
Yeah, makes me wonder why they call 'em that....................


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on July 29, 2022, 08:09:52 PM
"With age, does not necessarily come wisdom....
Sometimes age shows up alone...."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 29, 2022, 10:58:40 PM
Watched The Premise. Great show. New respect for Ryan tha Intern. Did not know BJ Novak was that good. At least on this show he makes most writers seem stuck in a different era. I also am watching LPLZA live. It repels me and makes me wish I was there. And oh yeah I have the phantom taste of butterscotch pudding in my mouth, which is mostly a good thing except I don't know why it's there  right now. Don't do kids, drugs!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 30, 2022, 03:05:05 AM
Congress just passed the CHIPS Act. Does that mean we all get free motorcycles?

 :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 30, 2022, 03:28:11 AM
Medical science cannot cure stupid, but at least it can sedate it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 30, 2022, 10:50:37 AM
Today when I took my youngest to her horseback riding, a horse walked right past me in the barn entrance and didn't try to attack me in any way. I was... I was stunned. Still alive!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 31, 2022, 07:57:51 AM
Sometimes I wonder where all those people who asked me for directions ended up.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 31, 2022, 08:14:29 AM
I wonder if all those folks walking looking and yapping at cell phones ever walk into trees or poles or other people gibbering into other phones.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 31, 2022, 08:36:20 AM
I wonder if all those folks walking looking and yapping at cell phones ever walk into trees or poles or other people gibbering into other phones.

About five years ago, I was at a gas station and saw a 'phone zombie' distracted by a call so badly, he walked into the sliding door of the gas station shop. *DONK* was all I heard.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 31, 2022, 11:01:46 AM
Whaaaaat!??? We used to sing this on the playground in first grade and play patty-cake to it, and we never knew what we were saying:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Sue_from_Alabama#:~:text=Miss%20Sue%20was%2C%20in%20African,recorded%20in%201934%20and%201939. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Sue_from_Alabama#:~:text=Miss%20Sue%20was%2C%20in%20African,recorded%20in%201934%20and%201939.)




Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on August 04, 2022, 06:02:56 PM
I'm over a month sober (nearly 40 days sober) and my mind has me questioning my gender identity....again.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 04, 2022, 08:00:16 PM
I'm over a month sober (nearly 40 days sober) and my mind has me questioning my gender identity....again.

Out of curiosity, what does it feel like to question personal gender identity?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on August 04, 2022, 08:06:49 PM
I'm over a month sober (nearly 40 days sober) and my mind has me questioning my gender identity....again.

Out of curiosity, what does it feel like to question personal gender identity?
A frustration that lingers on for hiw ever long you question it that cannot be easily answered with full confidence.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 05, 2022, 01:51:19 AM
I'm over a month sober (nearly 40 days sober) and my mind has me questioning my gender identity....again.

Out of curiosity, what does it feel like to question personal gender identity?
A frustration that lingers on for hiw ever long you question it that cannot be easily answered with full confidence.

Oscar Wilde said to define is to limit, so maybe instead of trying to define yourself, you should just go with how  you feel at any moment, without worrying about understanding it.

Good luck in any case.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 05, 2022, 02:04:53 AM
I'm over a month sober (nearly 40 days sober) and my mind has me questioning my gender identity....again.

Firstly, congratulations on the sobriety and secondly, I feel one's personal gender identity is that person's business.

I have no problem with people claiming a gender that they weren't born with or being gender fluid, intersex, non binary or whatever a person chooses.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 08, 2022, 03:43:43 PM
I wonder if there is a name for the feeling you get when you ask some D&D players for some short backgrounds for their characters and what you get back from the first one involves four badly spelled chapters that directly contradicts the established in-game lore. I am going to just tell him it is fine and completely ignore all the extra stuff he has put in, over and above he is a disgraced soldier, exiled from his homeland and is a functioning alcoholic (very similar to a character I am playing in another game).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 09, 2022, 01:29:22 PM
What kind of idiots would fire off dozens of flares to distract a radar-guided missile? They would do nothing. You really want an ECM suite to deal with that threat.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 09, 2022, 05:00:05 PM
Today someone argued with me that there is no difference between "undead" and "alive." Some people's minds truly have no elasticity.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 10, 2022, 12:57:22 PM
Would you change your name to Pucey Pugtoes for $10,000?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 15, 2022, 12:48:21 PM
I have a really nice tasting dinner sitting waiting for me, but I am craving toasted cheese.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 15, 2022, 02:07:07 PM
I have a really nice tasting dinner sitting waiting for me, but I am craving toasted cheese.
That's what my mom just told me she had for dinner, only she insists on calling it a "toasty cheese."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 16, 2022, 07:51:19 AM
I haven't smoked a cigarette in well over a year, but I'm seriously considering buying a carton or two of menthols. I wonder how much a pack will be worth after the ban goes into effect.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 16, 2022, 08:03:18 AM
I haven't smoked a cigarette in well over a year, but I'm seriously considering buying a carton or two of menthols. I wonder how much a pack will be worth after the ban goes into effect.

I haven't smoked since 2009 and I was shocked when I found out - just a general question - that a pack of smokes costs almost $5 here now.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 16, 2022, 10:31:08 AM
I haven't smoked a cigarette in well over a year, but I'm seriously considering buying a carton or two of menthols. I wonder how much a pack will be worth after the ban goes into effect.
Ban?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 16, 2022, 12:17:44 PM
I haven't smoked a cigarette in well over a year, but I'm seriously considering buying a carton or two of menthols. I wonder how much a pack will be worth after the ban goes into effect.

I haven't smoked since 2009 and I was shocked when I found out - just a general question - that a pack of smokes costs almost $5 here now.  :buggedout:

In the US? Yes. They're heavily taxed to discourage new users and offset the costs of treatment. The cost was a small factor in me quitting.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 16, 2022, 12:19:50 PM
I haven't smoked a cigarette in well over a year, but I'm seriously considering buying a carton or two of menthols. I wonder how much a pack will be worth after the ban goes into effect.
Ban?

Yes, the FDA banned flavored cigarettes a couple of years ago but made an exception for menthol, and now they plan to ban menthols... probably within a year. Regulatory commenting period just ended so I'd expect a firm announcement soon.

https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2022/fda-proposes-rule-prohibiting-menthol-cigarettes (https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2022/fda-proposes-rule-prohibiting-menthol-cigarettes)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 16, 2022, 12:59:38 PM
Didn't know that. I wonder if that'll apply to all the flavored vapes out there?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 16, 2022, 02:44:12 PM
Our government is considering slowly raising the age where smoking is allowed, I guess until all current smokers are dead.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 16, 2022, 06:04:44 PM
Didn't know that. I wonder if that'll apply to all the flavored vapes out there?

Only menthol and "tobacco" flavors have been legal for a long time, and most legit vape liquid companies already left the business. I haven't heard anything about a menthol vape ban. Doesn't matter much to me, I've been making my own liquid.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 16, 2022, 06:06:59 PM
Our government is considering slowly raising the age where smoking is allowed, I guess until all current smokers are dead.

It wouldn't be a terrible plan to ban it and grandfather current smokers. Obviously cigarettes would never be approved if they were brought to market today. They're super-addictive drugs that give you cancer and don't even get you high.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on August 16, 2022, 07:07:29 PM
I quit after Prometheus came out, & I read some actress couldn't do a running scene because she smoked.,...

Didn't help me all that much... My radio voice got pretty lousy, & I didn't have anything to turn to whenever I would run out of my more addictive anxiety meds....

Funny story....
Met a guy on a temp job who told the story about his 95 year old grandfather asking if he should quit...
The doctor said, "at your age, the fits will kill you".....

Anybody ever try Indonesian Clove cigarettes?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on August 16, 2022, 09:52:04 PM
I was just watching a video about the lost episode of Sesame Street featuring  Margaret Hamilton as The Wicked Witch of the West, when it hit me; The Witch is green, The Emerald City is green, and The Wizard's big giant head is also green.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 17, 2022, 01:24:52 AM
Our government is considering slowly raising the age where smoking is allowed, I guess until all current smokers are dead.

It wouldn't be a terrible plan to ban it and grandfather current smokers. Obviously cigarettes would never be approved if they were brought to market today. They're super-addictive drugs that give you cancer and don't even get you high.

I am guessing that is the long-term plan. Hopefully, if they go down that path, successive administrations will continue the policy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 18, 2022, 04:59:31 AM
Jugging a hare does not tempt me to try eating one.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 18, 2022, 07:47:53 AM
Jugging a hare does not tempt me to try eating one.

Had to look up "jugging." I don't know about hare, but rabbit tastes just fine.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 18, 2022, 08:26:49 AM
Jugging a hare does not tempt me to try eating one.

Had to look up "jugging." I don't know about hare, but rabbit tastes just fine.

Gets to be a bit messy when you are figuring out how to do it the first time.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 18, 2022, 10:22:51 AM
Ash has went through 25% of his childhood.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 18, 2022, 01:23:40 PM
"Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed... But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation... will come to the end of sorrow."

 ---The Bhagavad Gita


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 18, 2022, 04:16:46 PM
Urgh. When you get the time to sit down and watch a slow-burn horror that you've been wanting to watch for a while and it turns out that what you really want tonight is just something fast and mindless.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 19, 2022, 09:41:05 AM
Urgh. When you get the time to sit down and watch a slow-burn horror that you've been wanting to watch for a while and it turns out that what you really want tonight is just something fast and mindless.

I felt exactly that way when I watched Eye of The Devil for the first time. :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 19, 2022, 06:27:17 PM
Imagine if BMDO had a 10,000 post lifetime limit, and nobody wanted to be a Kraken.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 19, 2022, 09:33:24 PM
Imagine if BMDO had a 10,000 post lifetime limit, and nobody wanted to be a Kraken.

You could simply just quit, and start all over again.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on August 20, 2022, 12:10:11 AM
Lady Gaga is in Boston tonight. I did a ride there passengers were in bondage gear LOOK OUT


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 20, 2022, 08:28:59 AM
100 posts to go.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on August 20, 2022, 09:09:34 PM
After my whole life, I need to as this....
Batman & Robin....
Was Robin supposed to be wearing white tights, fleshtone tights, or did he not wear pants?????????????


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 22, 2022, 08:49:02 AM
“We must learn to love life without ever trusting it.”
–G.K. Chesterton.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 22, 2022, 10:12:34 AM
I decided that getting xmas presents in early wasn't enough forward planning and have started buying presents for our 10th wedding anniversary next year. We have already bought tickets to go to a concert that night (we'll be going to see Finnish heavy metal band, Lordi).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 22, 2022, 11:40:40 AM
I feel sorry for those who don't know fog is made of ghosts.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 22, 2022, 01:22:54 PM
I wonder if we'll ever get another Godzilla man in a monster suit movie?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 22, 2022, 01:41:24 PM
I wonder if we'll ever get another Godzilla man in a monster suit movie?

You'll have to come visit me in Pretoria to see that as I have a huge Godzilla that stands in my lounge. I'm sure Ash would like it 😊


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 24, 2022, 02:31:27 PM
Supposedly a dream in which you are intimate with Robin Williams indicates you desire the return of shag carpeting.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 25, 2022, 02:53:13 AM
Watching Frozen II where once again everyone around her will fail to realise that Elsa is a super villain.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 27, 2022, 07:53:09 PM
To my mind there is no sadder poem in the English language than this one:

“To Any Reader”


As from the house your mother sees
You playing round the garden trees,
So you may see, if you will look
Through the windows of this book,
Another child, far, far away,
And in another garden, play.
But do not think you can at all,
By knocking on the window, call
That child to hear you. He intent
Is all on his play-business bent.
He does not hear; he will not look,
Nor yet be lured out of this book.
For, long ago, the truth to say,
He has grown up and gone away,
And it is but a child of air
That lingers in the garden there.

----Robert Louis Stevenson


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on August 28, 2022, 03:09:01 PM
a movie with a serial killer who taunts the victims by singing the "Ice Cream Cones" jingle while pursuing them


"My name's Ice Cream Jones..."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on August 28, 2022, 03:51:40 PM
I'm so bored, you could probably build a couple o' ships outage me, pack 'em full of lumber & send 'em to the colonies!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 28, 2022, 04:25:55 PM
I wonder if vampires would seasonally migrate?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 29, 2022, 03:45:19 AM
I wonder if, without internet searching, if anyone knows the story behind this poem

Forever shackled by these chains,
I wallow in their lies.
They tie me to my fears and hate,
And all that I despise.

I see my friends across the road,
But my shackles hold me back.
They have looks and wit, they say.
Everything you lack.

The birds and clouds glide in joy,
Dancing across the sky.
But my chains tie me to the ground.
Shackled tears I cry.

Another mountain lies before me,
A new challenge I must try.
Don’t fool yourself, you’ll never succeed.
My shackles tell no lie.

I stare into the lonely mirror.
Blinded to my perfection.
I see nothing but a broken soul.
Shackled to its reflection.

I hug my knees and cry for someone
Who understands my pain.
As expected; no reply,
But the rapping of the rain.

My only rest I find at night,
After the death of day.
And with cold and burning steel
I cut my life away.

This is all I’ll ever be worth.
Dig deeper, until I’m dead...
My shackles laugh. They have won.
My arm...its crying red.

But one bright day I realise,
It’s myself I’ve been trying to find.
These oppressive and evil shackles
Live only in my mind.

My shackles return, fighting back,
Fearing what I now see.
Foolish things, they’ll never understand,
I will always be free.

Because I am the Sun,
Raining down my light.
I am a myth,
A whisper in the night.

I am the sky,
Serenity’s haven.
I am a mountain,
The silent warden.

I am the earth,
Life’s verdant source.
I am the wind,
The unstoppable force.

I am the sea,
Caressing the shore.
I am the storm,
The legendary Roar!
These lying shackles,
Bind me no more!
I am a leaf on the wind!

Watch how I soar.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 29, 2022, 05:03:11 AM
I wonder if, without internet searching, if anyone knows the story behind this poem

Forever shackled by these chains,
I wallow in their lies.
They tie me to my fears and hate,
And all that I despise.

I see my friends across the road,
But my shackles hold me back.
They have looks and wit, they say.
Everything you lack.

The birds and clouds glide in joy,
Dancing across the sky.
But my chains tie me to the ground.
Shackled tears I cry.

Another mountain lies before me,
A new challenge I must try.
Don’t fool yourself, you’ll never succeed.
My shackles tell no lie.

I stare into the lonely mirror.
Blinded to my perfection.
I see nothing but a broken soul.
Shackled to its reflection.

I hug my knees and cry for someone
Who understands my pain.
As expected; no reply,
But the rapping of the rain.

My only rest I find at night,
After the death of day.
And with cold and burning steel
I cut my life away.

This is all I’ll ever be worth.
Dig deeper, until I’m dead...
My shackles laugh. They have won.
My arm...its crying red.

But one bright day I realise,
It’s myself I’ve been trying to find.
These oppressive and evil shackles
Live only in my mind.

My shackles return, fighting back,
Fearing what I now see.
Foolish things, they’ll never understand,
I will always be free.

Because I am the Sun,
Raining down my light.
I am a myth,
A whisper in the night.

I am the sky,
Serenity’s haven.
I am a mountain,
The silent warden.

I am the earth,
Life’s verdant source.
I am the wind,
The unstoppable force.

I am the sea,
Caressing the shore.
I am the storm,
The legendary Roar!
These lying shackles,
Bind me no more!
I am a leaf on the wind!

Watch how I soar.

I don't know where that comes from but much of it describes my inner issues for the last five years.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on August 29, 2022, 05:56:22 AM
Beautiful poem!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 29, 2022, 07:37:38 AM
If you like it, then I think I should just keep the story behind it quiet and let people enjoy it.

Sometimes it is better that way.

The story might not be true anyway.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on August 29, 2022, 08:55:05 PM
Gotta say that walking a couple of miles in stiletto boots isn't exactly easy on the feet.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on August 29, 2022, 09:14:10 PM
Inralp reezilmanorp.
Magorzip!  Magorzip!  Magorzip!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 29, 2022, 10:19:03 PM
Gotta say that walking a couple of miles in stiletto boots isn't exactly easy on the feet.

Especially if you cross a wet lawn.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on August 30, 2022, 03:46:55 PM
Gotta say that walking a couple of miles in stiletto boots isn't exactly easy on the feet.

Especially if you cross a wet lawn.
I found it a bit easier to walk through a saturated neutral ground in my stilettos than on pavement.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 30, 2022, 04:08:23 PM
May everyone have the night's sleep they deserve tonight.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 30, 2022, 06:32:43 PM
May everyone have the night's sleep they deserve tonight.
That we "deserve?" Now, Alex, what'd we do to get on your bad side?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 31, 2022, 12:40:33 AM
May everyone have the night's sleep they deserve tonight.
That we "deserve?" Now, Alex, what'd we do to get on your bad side?

And here I thought I was being nice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 31, 2022, 04:30:12 AM
May everyone have the night's sleep they deserve tonight.
That we "deserve?" Now, Alex, what'd we do to get on your bad side?

And here I thought I was being nice.
Ah, sorry, inside joke. My grandmother would say, "God help us from getting what we deserve."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 31, 2022, 07:20:28 AM
I can't believe it's been 25 years since Princess Diana died: feels like yesterday.

1 July 1961 - 31 August 1997: RIP.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 31, 2022, 08:01:54 AM
Seems like longer ago but also....you know. Everything's like that. I wonder if people now are more cynical or if there's anyone who'd generate that kind of reaction today?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 31, 2022, 08:17:12 AM
I wonder why she is remembered, but not Mother Teressa who died around the same time?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 31, 2022, 09:20:02 AM
Seems like longer ago but also....you know. Everything's like that. I wonder if people now are more cynical or if there's anyone who'd generate that kind of reaction today?

I doubt that there is anyone whose passing would generate that much emotion these days.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 31, 2022, 09:21:00 AM
I wonder why she is remembered, but not Mother Teressa who died around the same time?

I've always found that to be a bit odd: Mother Teresa did a lot of good which is putting it mildly.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 31, 2022, 12:12:11 PM
The Russian ambassador to the UK described Liz Truss as not being a military man.

Well, on that I think I'd actually have to agree with him.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 31, 2022, 01:38:21 PM
I created an identity on Facebook for Henry Spencer (from ERASERHEAD) who can only post or respond in lines of dialogue the tight-lipped Henry says in ERASERHEAD, and so does noting but share posts about chickens and ask, "Do I just cut them up like regular chickens?"

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100080659732642 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100080659732642)

A spammer contacted me by direct message but the conversation didn't get far.

I do find some responses by people not familiar with ERASERHEAD amusing, though.

(https://i.imgur.com/RC8JR2H.png)

(P.S. The correct answer is "sure, just cut them up like regular chickens!")


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on September 01, 2022, 03:16:54 AM
Was watching America's Got Talent with my mom last night.....

They had this little girl doing that kind of rage heavy metal, where y' don't try to to sing, you just scream like you're possessed, or throwing a temper tantrum.....

It sounded very constipated to me, like I could write a comedy sketch about a heavy metal singer who can't get off the can.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 01, 2022, 07:37:58 AM
When doing a course on Fraud, Bribery and Corruption it is considered bad form to stand up and say 'I am sorry, but this course is the exact opposite of what I was looking for" and leave the room.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 01, 2022, 07:55:14 AM
When doing a course on Fraud, Bribery and Corruption it is considered bad form to stand up and say 'I am sorry, but this course is the exact opposite of what I was looking for" and leave the room.

Our local politicians are so corrupt that I doubt their moral compasses would let them find the toilet.

Speaking personally, I've been offered 3 bribes in my career (one a huge amount of $$$) and I told all of them to go do something to themselves.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 01, 2022, 07:59:46 AM
When doing a course on Fraud, Bribery and Corruption it is considered bad form to stand up and say 'I am sorry, but this course is the exact opposite of what I was looking for" and leave the room.

Our local politicians are so corrupt that I doubt their moral compasses would let them find the toilet.

Speaking personally, I've been offered 3 bribes in my career (one a huge amount of $$$) and I told all of them to go do something to themselves.

I have just reached a point where I find I no longer care about these things and am just doing things like this to mess with people.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 01, 2022, 08:47:32 AM
I was watching a video where someone was demonstrating a booby trap on a WW2 bunker in Normandy. You drop a grenade in what looks like an air vent and a few seconds later the grenade falls out a hole further down and lands at your feet. As booby traps go, it might even beat my long time favourite of burying a bullet.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 01, 2022, 09:13:22 AM
Not sure what is more dangerous. Being a soldier, or being a Russian energy company exec.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 01, 2022, 04:17:56 PM
Firefox doesn't recognize "pre-production" as a word, and suggests that maybe I meant to type "pee-production."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 02, 2022, 07:43:43 AM
Stolen from elsewhere:

They should announce a sequel to Groundhog Day and then just rerelease the original.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 03, 2022, 04:44:45 AM
Sometimes a grown adult says something that makes you just want to pat them gently on the head and send them on their way...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 03, 2022, 07:45:18 AM
The problem with people who tell you to educate yourself is often they were taught by an idiot.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 03, 2022, 03:35:36 PM
Just found out Arthur Conan Doyle is something like my 9th cousin.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 03, 2022, 04:13:11 PM
Just found out Arthur Conan Doyle is something like my 9th cousin.

Ah, that's just an elementary thing 😉🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 04, 2022, 06:46:17 PM
I hate not being able to sleep 😑🙁


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on September 04, 2022, 06:56:04 PM
I hate not being able to sleep 😑🙁
IKR


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on September 09, 2022, 06:46:10 AM
This has been a wild week for me. I've cut out a toxic person from my life and now one of my college friends is starting her transitioning.  I'm proud of her and slightly envious of her as well.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 10, 2022, 10:16:49 AM
Catching up on a week's worth of emails, and someone asked me how many people I knew (besides the sender) who'd slept with just one person in life, and I came up with a few but it was a remarkably challenging question. I think I know more people who went....far in the other direction.

Peripheral to the topic, sent this great song to the same person, who, remarkably, had never heard it. I remember one time when it was playing I made my body board-stiff and I got bench pressed by someone lying on the floor. I only weigh eight pounds more than I did in 1995 when I was an inch and a half shorter and a little too skinny, but nobody ever bench presses me anymore, to this or any other song. Dang. I wanna be bench pressed again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trh9Y598fM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trh9Y598fM)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 10, 2022, 11:31:16 AM
Catching up on a week's worth of emails, and someone asked me how many people I knew (besides the sender) who'd slept with just one person in life, and I came up with a few but it was a remarkably challenging question. I think I know more people who went....far in the other direction.

Peripheral to the topic, sent this great song to the same person, who, remarkably, had never heard it. I remember one time when it was playing I made my body board-stiff and I got bench pressed by someone lying on the floor. I only weigh eight pounds more than I did in 1995 when I was an inch and a half shorter and a little too skinny, but nobody ever bench presses me anymore, to this or any other song. Dang. I wanna be bench pressed again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trh9Y598fM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trh9Y598fM)

Congrats on krakenhood.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 10, 2022, 02:53:03 PM
Thanks, the Krakens-only dining room is all I always knew it would be. Tom Hanks as the maître d', I mean, classy...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 13, 2022, 02:11:59 PM
Right now, my fake Facebook profile is in a conversation with a stranger who wants to recruit me into the Illuminati. What he doesn't know is that I can only speak in quotes from ERASERHEAD.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 14, 2022, 08:09:00 PM
Debbie Harry Potter.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on September 15, 2022, 12:28:08 AM
Robert Johnson's collected works have been released multiple times at the wrong speed. In the same way that silent films were sped up, music of that era was often given the same treatment. Multiple youtube accounts have put forth remixed Johnson works that sound a lot more like a guy playing a guitar than the originals. and yet the orignals have their charm. Maybe Johnson was the Charlie Chaplin of the blues


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 15, 2022, 01:34:17 AM
I would not queue for 30 hours to see a wooden box.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 22, 2022, 06:38:17 AM
Seems very quiet round here this week.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 23, 2022, 01:37:26 AM
I am worn out this morning. Wow, just feel wiped out.

Have a good equinox everyone.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 23, 2022, 08:23:22 AM
Wanna weird a man out, secretly replace his shoes with one a size bigger and when he mentions they feel looser, tell him shrinking appendages is common in males past forty-five. Count to three and wait til the secondary expression of horror dawns on his face.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 23, 2022, 08:33:57 AM
Target everyone here. Cast feel old.

In 8 years' time, the '80s will have been 50 years ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on September 23, 2022, 06:33:29 PM
You've never been properly roasted until you ask one of your students to do her best impersonation of you and she absolutely NAILS every single awkward idiosyncrasy you have!!  Still laughing and blushing a bit.  Well played, Lauren!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 24, 2022, 06:32:48 AM
You've never been properly roasted until you ask one of your students to do her best impersonation of you and she absolutely NAILS every single awkward idiosyncrasy you have!!  Still laughing and blushing a bit.  Well played, Lauren!

 :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 24, 2022, 06:33:54 AM
This sounds very weird coming from me but I could really use an ice cold beer right about now: 1:30 pm here and it is :hot:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 24, 2022, 07:33:50 AM
This sounds very weird coming from me but I could really use an ice cold beer right about now: 1:30 pm here and it is :hot:

If you really feel like you want one, then give yourself a treat and go enjoy one.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on September 24, 2022, 12:24:09 PM
This sounds very weird coming from me but I could really use an ice cold beer right about now: 1:30 pm here and it is :hot:

As sick as I've been lately, I keep craving a cigarette.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 24, 2022, 04:40:18 PM
I hate insomnia 😔😔


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 24, 2022, 05:04:10 PM
I hate insomnia 😔😔
As do I, sir, as do I. If it was just a matter of staying awake, you could use the time constructively, but it's more about being caught up in a tormenting condition of frustrating tiredness that limits you. It's not fun.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 24, 2022, 05:28:50 PM
I hate insomnia 😔😔
As do I, sir, as do I. If it was just a matter of staying awake, you could use the time constructively, but it's more about being caught up in a tormenting condition of frustrating tiredness that limits you. It's not fun.

Thanks: it's almost 12h30 am here and it's very quiet. Maybe some hot tea from Zimbabwe would help?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on September 25, 2022, 08:37:26 AM
I really do like wearing eyeshadow.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 25, 2022, 02:35:36 PM
I really do like wearing eyeshadow.

Cool! I used to like to line guys' eyes to show them they looked good that way. Sometimes they'd let me make up their whole face. Seemed kinda naughty back then.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 25, 2022, 09:26:24 PM
Bad friends are just like shadows, they're beside you in the bright times, but vanish when it gets dark.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 26, 2022, 05:37:55 PM
Is it possible to be both monogamous and slutty? Maybe I should make that into a poll question.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 27, 2022, 01:45:14 AM
Is it possible to be both monogamous and slutty? Maybe I should make that into a poll question.

You have sex with one person a lot, or have sex with lots of people but only ever one at a time?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 27, 2022, 01:46:58 AM
I could tell England hadn't won their football game last night since as soon as I turned on the news this morning it wasn't mentioned endlessly.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 27, 2022, 02:38:12 AM
I could tell England hadn't won their football game last night since as soon as I turned on the news this morning it wasn't mentioned endlessly.

3 all draw with Germany.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 27, 2022, 06:56:13 AM
Is it possible to be both monogamous and slutty? Maybe I should make that into a poll question.

You have sex with one person a lot, or have sex with lots of people but only ever one at a time?
There you go, in your arrogant face, monogamy!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on September 27, 2022, 11:34:50 AM
Is it possible to be both monogamous and slutty? Maybe I should make that into a poll question.

You have sex with one person a lot, or have sex with lots of people but only ever one at a time?
There you go, in your arrogant face, monogamy!

"When I was young, every night I slept with a strange girl,
And when I was young, every night I slept with the same girl,
But she was strange."
 - I forget the comedian's name......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 27, 2022, 03:56:29 PM
Cucumber flowers make a nice edible garnish. They're pretty and yellow and taste faintly of cucumber.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 28, 2022, 01:55:11 PM
The deeper I think about it, the more Dead Poet's Society feels like fluff.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 29, 2022, 01:11:40 PM
Suicide in Heaven


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 29, 2022, 10:28:26 PM
In my spam mail inbox there was a email from some dating thing telling me someone called Sadie had sent me 4770 messages and was waiting for me to reply. I wonder what kind of dating agency this would be, I mean is there one for signing up for a crazed stalker?

Decided to leave it in my spam folder and not click the link to find out.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 30, 2022, 08:10:40 AM
As we filled in the hole this morning before the sun appeared and nullified that wet terrible sort of cold that no jacket keeps from reaching your skin, I came in inspired to begin a story, the first long one I’ve written in a while, having felt motivated to keep things short for the last couple years, and as I made ready to write, I kept getting interrupted by a nagging in my mind til finally I grasped it was the realization that my life could be narrated by a series of fortune cookie messages.

“Being on time does not punish your mother.”
“No cooler are you for never having watched Friends.”
“Don’t beleaguer them for thirty years telling about when you sneaked up and laid down in some unmade bed in a stranger’s empty room.”
“Within the brown M&M lies the bite to your tongue that will send five-year-old you into a pain-dance.”
“If you’re going to give in to society’s pressures, at least spare yourself guilt.”
“Make your secret codes worth reading.”
“You’ll never figure out why the man was weeping over a 19th century grave, so move on.”
“Yes, you should have, but be proud you didn’t.”
“Even Socrates believed there were limits to an examined life.”



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 01, 2022, 03:42:00 PM
My favourite quote of the week comes from a Tory MP who, after the devastation in the UK economy wrought by Liz Truss's mini-budget described the party as having been "Trussterf**ked".

I wonder if someone could do a rework of AC/DC's Thunderstruck for that?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 02, 2022, 01:54:18 PM
8:54 pm and I'm here all alone.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 02, 2022, 02:11:37 PM
8:54 pm and I'm here all alone.

I'm here.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 03, 2022, 01:24:22 AM
Hmm, in power less than a month and the new prime minister is already having to make a U-turn on its budget. I wonder if she'll have to sacrifice her Chancellor in order to try and shore up her own position?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 03, 2022, 04:18:18 AM
What would you call a sequel to Halloween 3? Halloween 3 II doesn't seem quite right. Maybe Season of the Witch 2.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 03, 2022, 07:55:12 AM
What would you do if you were serving on a parole board, and were soon to hear the plea for release of a notorious mobster, but shortly before the hearing you were ominously told by a member of his family that if you didn't let this mobster free you would soon be in a universe of long-lasting pain, but then almost immediately after, you were also clandestinely approached by another sinister individual from a rival family and told that if you did let him out of prison you were in for serious if not fatal physical problems? What would you do?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 03, 2022, 07:59:07 AM
What would you do if you were serving on a parole board, and were soon to hear the plea for release of a notorious mobster, but shortly before the hearing you were ominously told by a member of his family that if you didn't let this mobster free you would soon be in a universe of long-lasting pain, but then almost immediately after, you were also clandestinely approached by another sinister individual from a rival family and told that if you did let him out of prison you were in for serious if not fatal physical problems? What would you do?

With my upbringing? Buy a weapon and do some threatening of my own.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 03, 2022, 12:11:20 PM
What would you do if you were serving on a parole board, and were soon to hear the plea for release of a notorious mobster, but shortly before the hearing you were ominously told by a member of his family that if you didn't let this mobster free you would soon be in a universe of long-lasting pain, but then almost immediately after, you were also clandestinely approached by another sinister individual from a rival family and told that if you did let him out of prison you were in for serious if not fatal physical problems? What would you do?

Shoot him, thus fulfilling both requirements.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 03, 2022, 12:24:13 PM
What would you do if you were serving on a parole board, and were soon to hear the plea for release of a notorious mobster, but shortly before the hearing you were ominously told by a member of his family that if you didn't let this mobster free you would soon be in a universe of long-lasting pain, but then almost immediately after, you were also clandestinely approached by another sinister individual from a rival family and told that if you did let him out of prison you were in for serious if not fatal physical problems? What would you do?

Shoot him, thus fulfilling both requirements.
You rule. So much.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 03, 2022, 12:26:26 PM
(Uh, I originally posted this thought in the wrong thread....)
If you notice, this gangster situation is similar to the one Fred and Barney faced while judging a beauty contest.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 03, 2022, 03:02:03 PM
(Uh, I originally posted this thought in the wrong thread....)
If you notice, this gangster situation is similar to the one Fred and Barney faced while judging a beauty contest.

I got told I look like I am 38 today, which means I am too young to have any idea who Fred & Barney are.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 03, 2022, 03:04:37 PM
I asked a friend today if by some chance she happened to have a photograph of herself in mail armour I could use. Surprisingly, she didn't.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 03, 2022, 03:25:06 PM
"I don't care what you told me,
you're gonna stay and hold me"

Buddy Holly was way early on the whole incel thing


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 05, 2022, 02:10:31 PM
It seriously makes me 😠 to realise that Alec Baldwin might be getting away with murdering Haylana Hutchins 😠😠


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 05, 2022, 02:22:02 PM
It seriously makes me 😠 to realise that Alec Baldwin might be getting away with murdering Haylana Hutchins 😠😠

I haven't followed the case and don't care much for Baldwin (except in Beetlejuice of course) but is there actually evidence of murder? Murder is intentionally, deliberately killing another person. To plan a killing and carry it out is, I believe, first-degree murder, and to deliberately kill without aforethought is second degree murder. As I have always understood it. The planning or intention is what differentiates murder from manslaughter. Has it been shown he truly wished to kill those people? I was under the impression it was an accident, maybe some negligence involved, but is it shown he intended to kill?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on October 05, 2022, 07:08:37 PM
I'm thinking manslaughter would be a more appropriate charge, if he were charged.
From everything I have read, this person was his friend and what happened was an accident.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 05, 2022, 07:41:54 PM
I haven't heard whether the criminal investigation has been dropped or not, but...............
Part of the settlement includes Halyna Hutchins' husband Matthew is now executive producer, and Rust resumes filming in January....

cray!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 05, 2022, 09:48:57 PM
I'm thinking manslaughter would be a more appropriate charge, if he were charged.
From everything I have read, this person was his friend and what happened was an accident.

Maybe murder is too strong a word to use but the fact remains is Baldwin discharged a revolver, the DP on the film was struck by a bullet and died of her injuries. He should have some accountability in the matter, either a jail sentence and/or massive reparations to Ms Hutchins' family: John Landis got away with it, Randall Miller received a short jail sentence and on and on. Makes me massively angry.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on October 05, 2022, 10:30:48 PM
I imagine he will go to great lengths to try and make restitution to the family.  i sure hope so, anyway.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 06, 2022, 03:47:46 AM
I imagine he will go to great lengths to try and make restitution to the family.  i sure hope so, anyway.

I would also hope so but I don't know.  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 06, 2022, 06:24:33 AM
I imagine he will go to great lengths to try and make restitution to the family.  i sure hope so, anyway.

I would also hope so but I don't know.  :question:

I did hear that the family had received an out-of-court settlement. These amounts are generally kept private though. The family spokesman (I think it was her father) also said that no one in the family blamed anyone for it, viewing it more as a tragic accident. That might be part of the settlement, or it could just be how they genuinely feel.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 06, 2022, 06:37:34 AM
I imagine he will go to great lengths to try and make restitution to the family.  i sure hope so, anyway.

I would also hope so but I don't know.  :question:

I did hear that the family had received an out-of-court settlement. These amounts are generally kept private though. The family spokesman (I think it was her father) also said that no one in the family blamed anyone for it, viewing it more as a tragic accident. That might be part of the settlement, or it could just be how they genuinely feel.


The BBC had this to say:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63149155 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63149155)

I think you all know me well enough to know exactly what I would do if a member of my family suffered this or a similar fate.  :hatred:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 06, 2022, 11:47:43 AM
This one speaks a little more about the criminal investigation.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-mexico-prosecutor-responds-rust-settlement?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20221006SponsoredTrending-RevelationMedia&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News (https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-mexico-prosecutor-responds-rust-settlement?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20221006SponsoredTrending-RevelationMedia&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News)

From the sound of things, Baldwin was trying to make a B grade movie with an A list crew on a D grade budget...
And he should've kept his craw shut & not do those interviews...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 06, 2022, 11:50:04 AM
Maybe Baldwin should bear some responsibility, but what about the person or persons on set whose specific job it was to make sure that prop weapons were safe and unloaded? If anyone deserves to be punished it's them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 06, 2022, 11:59:59 AM
Maybe Baldwin should bear some responsibility, but what about the person or persons on set whose specific job it was to make sure that prop weapons were safe and unloaded? If anyone deserves to be punished it's them.

Most of the crew walked of the job that day, causing a big stressor for those who stayed....
Among the many reasons they quit, was a complete lack of safety meetings....
And the gun passed though three different people's hands that day, all of whom were supposed to check it for ammo, including Baldwin... John Schneider posted a couple of videos about this.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 06, 2022, 12:15:26 PM
Maybe Baldwin should bear some responsibility, but what about the person or persons on set whose specific job it was to make sure that prop weapons were safe and unloaded? If anyone deserves to be punished it's them.

My thoughts exactly: the moron propmaster who handed Michael Massee the prop gun which killed Brandon Lee should have also been blamed.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 06, 2022, 05:37:23 PM
Once when I was twenty I decided to see how far I could run before I got so exhausted I fell over. I took off and about twenty yards later tripped and skidded on my palms, looked down at the pavement and saw bits of skin grated off and thought, OK, that far.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 09, 2022, 12:11:46 PM
I think defensive murder holes should be an indispensable inclusion in the design of any two-story residential structure.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 10, 2022, 01:37:21 AM
Was just watching the news and saw a BBC reporter follow a missile as it flew overhead, and then have to run for cover. He is now broadcasting from a bunker.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 13, 2022, 04:01:25 PM
I wonder if caterpillars ever finish spinning their cocoons, & then find themselves thinking about how they should've gone to the bathroom first.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 14, 2022, 07:07:34 AM
The airspeed velocity of a European swallow is 20.1 mph (unladen).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 16, 2022, 01:13:35 PM
Tired mayo on a hot dog the other day. Not bad at all, better than ketchup, for sure. Still, I think I'll stick with mustard as my go-to.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 16, 2022, 01:31:35 PM
Tired mayo on a hot dog the other day.

I think mayo that has had a good rest would be tastier, Rev  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 16, 2022, 01:46:02 PM
I love mayo, but it doesn't love me back.....
Try a hot dog with marinara sauce sometime.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 16, 2022, 03:30:01 PM
I love mayo, but it doesn't love me back.....
Try a hot dog with marinara sauce sometime.....

Salsa is good too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Morpheus, the unwoke. on October 16, 2022, 03:55:22 PM
Try A-1.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 17, 2022, 01:55:34 PM
I hate finding what I think is a film I've not seen before only to discover that it has just been released under a different name.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 17, 2022, 02:24:10 PM
I hate finding what I think is a film I've not seen before only to discover that it has just been released under a different name.

Must agree there, particularly when you keep coming across yet another edited for television version of a movie you may like.....

On the other hand, I've always found what they tried to do with Planeta Bur rather amusing....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 19, 2022, 08:44:48 AM
Why were people taught to fear witches instead of the ones setting people on fire?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 19, 2022, 09:08:00 AM
I hate finding what I think is a film I've not seen before only to discover that it has just been released under a different name.

I saw a DVD with the title Great Snake 2 and bought it, only to find out that it was Q THE WINGED SERPENT under another title. Q was banned here, that is probably why.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 19, 2022, 12:46:34 PM
Why were people taught to fear witches instead of the ones setting people on fire?

They did.
Everybody knows what happens when you stand up to authority.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chainsaw midget on October 19, 2022, 07:52:29 PM
Usually I'm one of those people that starts celebrating Halloween in September, but here it is almost Halloween and I don't even really feel like I've gotten started.  I've watched maybe two or three Halloween movies when usually I'm up to at least a dozen by this point in the season. 

I've simply had far too much going on this year to enjoy my favorite time of year. 

... I did get one of those McDonalds Happy Meal Halloween buckets the other day though.  That was nice. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 19, 2022, 07:54:54 PM
Creepiest thing just happened: paramedics came and took away my next door neighbor. That's not a surprise, she's in her late 80s or 90s and in poor health. The thing is, about five minutes after she left, I see flashing red lights out my window. Wondering why they came back, I look out the door, and there are paramedics at my OTHER next door neighbor. They take her away, too. I talk to a third neighbor about it and he says he hasn't heard anything about a gas leak or anything. Just a crazy coincidence.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Morpheus, the unwoke. on October 19, 2022, 08:47:38 PM
Why were people taught to fear witches instead of the ones setting people on fire?

Because the people burning witches are doing the work of GHAAAAAWWWWDDD!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 19, 2022, 11:54:08 PM
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/george-thorogood-net-worth/ (https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/george-thorogood-net-worth/) George Thorogood is worth 60 million dollars.

 glad he got the "Bad to the Bone" royalties. spend it however you like georgio


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 20, 2022, 08:27:14 AM
Liz Truss has shattered the record for having the shortest time in office as PM. People had for several weeks wondering if she'd last longer than lettuce, indeed one newspaper was providing daily progress updates on a fresh lettuce they had bought at the start of her premiership. It was reported today to be showing some signs of wilting, but it has however won.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Morpheus, the unwoke. on October 20, 2022, 09:34:52 AM
Liz Truss has shattered the record for having the shortest time in office as PM. People had for several weeks wondering if she'd last longer than lettuce, indeed one newspaper was providing daily progress updates on a fresh lettuce they had bought at the start of her premiership. It was reported today to be showing some signs of wilting, but it has however won.

So what was the issue with her anyway? Was she blamed for Johnson's mess?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 20, 2022, 10:16:53 AM
No, she made a huge mess all of her own. Her economic policy caused the value of the pound to plunge. She sacrificed her closest ally, but she was by that point dead in the water and it was just a matter of time. Last night they had a vote where MPs were being physically forced to vote on the government's side. Senior figures in the government walked away in disgust, some resigned and then later withdrew them. Generally it was an impression of utter chaos.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 22, 2022, 09:52:06 AM
Arby's is underrated. Their rotating limited-time menu can be excellent. The country rib sandwich I had last night was outstanding.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 22, 2022, 10:19:16 AM
No, she made a huge mess all of her own. Her economic policy caused the value of the pound to plunge. She sacrificed her closest ally, but she was by that point dead in the water and it was just a matter of time. Last night they had a vote where MPs were being physically forced to vote on the government's side. Senior figures in the government walked away in disgust, some resigned and then later withdrew them. Generally it was an impression of utter chaos.

At least she had the decency to resign: our government ministers here are so corrupt  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 24, 2022, 06:33:32 AM
The Rainy Day

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the moldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

---Longfellow


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 24, 2022, 06:43:11 AM
I am confused: South Africa are playing Zimbabwe at cricket in Australia and I have no idea who to root for  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 24, 2022, 07:47:41 AM
I am confused: South Africa are playing Zimbabwe at cricket in Australia and I have no idea who to root for  :question:

Watch the game and just enjoy to sport itself. Who wins is immaterial compared to is it a good match.

That's how I watch rugby anyway.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 24, 2022, 10:27:54 AM
I am confused: South Africa are playing Zimbabwe at cricket in Australia and I have no idea who to root for  :question:

Watch the game and just enjoy to sport itself. Who wins is immaterial compared to is it a good match.

That's how I watch rugby anyway.

Well, the game was abandoned due to rain (when are they going to cover cricket stadiums with roofs?) so I breathe again  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on October 24, 2022, 07:28:22 PM
Those who reject democracy in favor of cheaper gasoline will wind up with neither.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 26, 2022, 12:29:35 PM
Just got told that a guy I used to babysit when he was a kid has died, leaving behind three kids.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 26, 2022, 03:54:01 PM
Fetterman debate performance last night was bad, but actually pretty par for the course for modern politicians. frustratingly non direct answers loaded with talking points


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 26, 2022, 04:02:59 PM
^ I didn't watch it. I have found that politics is all bullsht.

http://youtu.be/CTUsFm0BAu8 (http://youtu.be/CTUsFm0BAu8)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 27, 2022, 08:14:48 PM
There's been a big stink about Ted Cruz's interview on The View earlier this week.....
BUT....
Verizon just dropped ABC & Nexstar, leaving me to wonder just how many really saw....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 28, 2022, 12:40:55 AM
I went and saw brujeria and Napalm death tonight. excellent show, but more of an endurance test than when I was younger


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 28, 2022, 11:07:28 AM
When will Kid Rock change his name to Middle-Aged Rock?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 28, 2022, 11:00:20 PM
The first time someone tried that joke about the serial numbers on a condom, I didn't get it.....

Reason being, I had actually seen them before....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chainsaw midget on October 30, 2022, 06:33:41 PM
Can we just skip Christmas this year and re-do Halloween?  I wasn't ready yet.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 30, 2022, 06:59:10 PM
The first time someone tried that joke about the serial numbers on a condom, I didn't get it.....

Reason being, I had actually seen them before....

'Splain, Lucy?  Totally cannot figure that one out.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 31, 2022, 07:00:00 AM
Although it is a film I've seen dozens of times, it really surprised me when I was watching it in the cinema I could see that Doc Copper has a nose ring.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 31, 2022, 09:10:13 AM
I had a rough night last night trying to sleep, gave up, watched a documentary about the completely tragic life of Syd Barrett, yet all I could think was David Gilmour helped take Pink Floyd in broader directions, so it was hard to regret Barrett leaving the band.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 01, 2022, 06:21:13 AM
Sat down today and wrote a short story using a pen. It is about 20 years since I last did that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 03, 2022, 12:10:55 PM
I thinking that it is 💩 sitting minus a compooter 😳😳🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 03, 2022, 04:24:18 PM
Fact: there has never actually been a real confirmed case of people putting anything in Halloween candy to give little kids. Think about it: it would be traced right away. The people would have to move in the middle of the night to get away with it


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 03, 2022, 04:41:45 PM
Fact: there has never actually been a real confirmed case of people putting anything in Halloween candy to give little kids. Think about it: it would be traced right away. The people would have to move in the middle of the night to get away with it
Sorry, but the local news just reported some safety pins in candy this past Halloween in my state. I'll dig up a link later.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 03, 2022, 05:24:04 PM
Fact: there has never actually been a real confirmed case of people putting anything in Halloween candy to give little kids. Think about it: it would be traced right away. The people would have to move in the middle of the night to get away with it
Sorry, but the local news just reported some safety pins in candy this past Halloween in my state. I'll dig up a link later.

My kind of Halloween!

Mooohoohahaha!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 03, 2022, 10:57:20 PM
no one has ever been arrested for it I should have said


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoned_candy_myths


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 03, 2022, 11:12:17 PM
no one has ever been arrested for it I should have said


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoned_candy_myths
I think there was one case of poisoning in 1974, when a Texas man murdered his own son....
Razorblades & needles, I think, have always been around..... There was one case in my town when I was a kid.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 04, 2022, 07:14:26 PM
Looking over my facebook memories, I'm thinking that, more than the jump the shark moment, you can tell a TV show isn't going to last by how many times it gets preempted, particularly by something local.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 05, 2022, 06:22:05 AM
I'm not sure why but I see a lot of LDS/Mormon missionaries around where I live, and when I pass them while driving I always try to wave to them. They're invariably friendly and wave back.

Yesterday I saw the two young men I'd waved to earlier sitting at a picnic table in a park, enjoying the upper-seventies temperature, with their bicycles on kick-stands beside them, so, having a few spare minutes to wait on my cousin, I pulled into the park and went over and said hi to them, asked where they were from (Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona), welcomed them to the community and offered them some snacks I'd just bought for a party; they politely declined and seemed utterly cordial.

Got to talking to these young men, maybe nineteen or so, whose name tags called them "Elder"  which I always find ironic, and I mentioned it was my daughter's birthday; they vicariously wished her a happy birthday, they were nice fellas, you know?

Talked a little longer and I asked how their day was going. Fine, doing God's work, etc. But I noticed they were a little off somehow at mention of their day, and after talking a few more minutes one told me they'd run into some wizenheimer who'd invited them into his house and when they got in there they saw he had porn on his giant screen tv, playing with the sound down.

So he was messing with you guys, I said sympathetically.

Yes, said one of the two, and now we have to report to the discipline (I think he called it "supervisor"?) that we saw an adult film so he can decide what to do about our conduct violation.

He may recall us for a few days, the other informed me.

But....you didn't do it on purpose, I said.

Almost at once they both answered, It's an honor code matter.

Well, there's no crescendo coming here, I just thought that was...wow.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 06, 2022, 08:55:50 PM
So you know that English guy I've mentioned I used to hang out with, the one who liked my t-shirt and who later got murdered in prison? Well one time when he accidentally gave me a near-concussion he bought me six different pints of ice cream when I was recovering and said take one bite of each and then we'll throw them away. (Even when he was contrite he was controlling.) So I did and it was kinda fun in a decadent, "gee, wonder if this guy's gonna kill me sometime" way. Anyhow, tonight while I was watching Babylon 5 I had the strongest urge to go buy six different pints of ice cream and after one bite from each, throw them away, making me wonder (naturally) if his ghost has found me and is now able to influence my thoughts, only instead of wanting to hurt me, he's trying to be nice? With ice cream.

(Ye gods Rick & Morty sucks bad. I can't watch this stuff.)

So anyway, point is, if you've ever had anyone come back from the dead and try to convince you to buy ice cream, I'd love to hear about it. Also, if ghosts can't cross water, how'd he get over the Atlantic? I'm trying to be scientific about this but it's very confusing.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 09, 2022, 02:19:00 PM
This morning I woke up with a thought the young me never would have allowed:

"Another day to spend in God's beautiful world."

A little appreciative humility does the soul no harm.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 09, 2022, 03:06:13 PM
Colorado legalized hallucegenic (sp?) mushrooms but voted to keep a law banning wine from being sold in supermarkets


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 09, 2022, 03:39:52 PM
Colorado legalized hallucegenic (sp?) mushrooms but voted to keep a law banning wine from being sold in supermarkets

Dang and I was just there too.

If any type of "drug" could be said to interest me it'd be hallucinogens, but I don't think I'd do well partaking of them because in my mind are many rooms I keep locked for a reason.

When I was a teenager my dad told me about the only time he ever took LSD, it was when he was just starting at Columbia in the '70s, and this older "fast" sort of girl there he was briefly infatuated with talked him into tripping with her. I thought he was going to tell me he had a terrible experience on it but he said "no, worse, it was beautiful and profound." He told me it was like he was intricately alive within the universe as he had never been, that the entire universe was understandable and very personally accessible to his mind, like mysteries were revealed, deep questions were child's play, so he felt like God. He said a feeling that huge and remarkable was tempting to repeat, which he knew he shouldn't, so he never did again.

Plus, I dunno, hearing your father's done a drug makes it uncool when you're fifteen.




Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 09, 2022, 05:10:13 PM
Colorado legalized hallucegenic (sp?) mushrooms but voted to keep a law banning wine from being sold in supermarkets

Dang and I was just there too.

If any type of "drug" could be said to interest me it'd be hallucinogens, but I don't think I'd do well partaking of them because in my mind are many rooms I keep locked for a reason.

When I was a teenager my dad told me about the only time he ever took LSD, it was when he was just starting at Columbia in the '70s, and this older "fast" sort of girl there he was briefly infatuated with talked him into tripping with her. I thought he was going to tell me he had a terrible experience on it but he said "no, worse, it was beautiful and profound." He told me it was like he was intricately alive within the universe as he had never been, that the entire universe was understandable and very personally accessible to his mind, like mysteries were revealed, deep questions were child's play, so he felt like God. He said a feeling that huge and remarkable was tempting to repeat, which he knew he shouldn't, so he never did again.

Plus, I dunno, hearing your father's done a drug makes it uncool when you're fifteen.


Sounds like your Dad took Alan Watts' advice: “If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.”

And if I had kids I think I would brag about my drug and sex experiences to make it seem uncool.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 10, 2022, 08:36:29 PM
When I see people playing pickleball I think good for them, looks fun, like a mutant offspring of ping-pong has escaped the table, but I must admit somewhere deep inside, my inner tennis player wants to scoff it off as a sport for slow folks. I've been invited to play so I may try it out. May enjoy it, who knows.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 11, 2022, 12:06:02 PM
Someone sent me a picture of what for the past couple of years, I have been unable to think of as anything else but Captain Puerto Rico, thanking me for my service.

Nice thought and I appreciate the gesture, but one of these days I am really going to have to explain.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 13, 2022, 08:03:16 AM
Walking around outside a restaurant now and it's one of those times I wished I smoked because then I might look more natural while walking around outside a restaurant in twenty degree weather at 7-whatever in the morning.  Fact is I had one of my laughing fits come on a few minutes ago, and those possess me to where I'm (insane) helpless. Today's got started because my friend Clare's former stepmom is up here from Florida, she and Clare's dad are going to get re-married next year, and as I was sitting at a table listening to this (I've always found charming and friendly) lady talking about the storms that have hit Florida lately, all I could think about was this time when I was in high school and Clare's brother called me all perplexed because one night out of nowhere his stepmom, this lady, for no apparent reason, brought him over some groceries at his apartment, and stayed there after, and he said he started wondering if she was coming onto him. It sounded so funny to me at the time to hear him freaked out about her, really on shaky ground trying to comprehend her motives (which I think were just bringing him groceries and hanging out a minute) that then too I laughed like crazy, and today, just now, it all came back to me and, just wow, I had to get out of there before I started laughing way too hard. I think she thinks I'm slightly mad but in a pleasant way. Ugh. I better get back in there with everybody and not think anymore about how goofy he sounded that night trying to figure out if this stepmother he wasn't very fond of wanted him for revenge sex against his father. Life's crazy....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 13, 2022, 08:11:16 AM
Lingua Ignota was a bit intense.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 14, 2022, 02:26:33 AM
If every day is a gift, then Mondays are socks (with holes in them).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 14, 2022, 06:26:32 AM
If every day is a gift, then Mondays are socks (with holes in them).

 :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 14, 2022, 07:25:04 AM
If every day is a gift, then Mondays are socks (with holes in them).

My undies feel the same  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 14, 2022, 08:26:07 AM
Ever notice math teachers tended to pack their lunch?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 15, 2022, 10:48:09 AM
I just came across a podcast devoted to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST that's 4 hours long, more than twice as long as the crappy movie it's discussing! Who in the world is going to listen to 4 hour podcast?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 15, 2022, 01:54:57 PM
Who in the world is going to listen to 4 hour podcast?

The same goons that are gonna flick on their AM radio for three ours a day, five days a week, & listen to some right wing crackpot ramble on about God knows what.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 15, 2022, 02:17:24 PM
I just came across a podcast devoted to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST that's 4 hours long, more than twice as long as the crappy movie it's discussing! Who in the world is going to listen to 4 hour podcast?

Are you going to listen to it to see how bad it is?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 15, 2022, 02:59:16 PM
Cool! Jewish exorcists are a real thing! I KNOW the demon in our cellar is not goy....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 15, 2022, 04:24:37 PM
Cool! Jewish exorcists are a real thing! I KNOW the demon in our cellar is not goy....

This has given me an interesting mental image.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 15, 2022, 04:55:02 PM
Cool! Jewish exorcists are a real thing! I KNOW the demon in our cellar is not goy....

This has given me an interesting mental image.
It's always stealing bagels, man!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 16, 2022, 09:57:47 AM
I just came across a podcast devoted to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST that's 4 hours long, more than twice as long as the crappy movie it's discussing! Who in the world is going to listen to 4 hour podcast?

Rev, I feel your pain as you know someone well who spent almost a week writing a review of that thing  :buggedout: :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 16, 2022, 06:10:41 PM
Anthony Kiedis is SIXTY? That's like a hundred in rock star years.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 17, 2022, 10:17:29 PM
Anthony Kiedis is SIXTY? That's like a hundred in rock star years.
Ozzy Osbourne is nearly 74. He's probably 120-130 in rock years.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 18, 2022, 12:41:54 AM
I can't help thinking that Under The God by Tin Machine sounds kinda like a Husker Du song........



I heard about The Peter principle today, & couldn't help thinking that sounds like some sort of romantic comedy, or maybe one of those social comedy satires, possibly even a slapstick farce..........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 18, 2022, 03:26:37 AM
I can't help thinking that Under The God by Tin Machine sounds kinda like a Husker Du song........



I heard about The Peter principle today, & couldn't help thinking that sounds like some sort of romantic comedy, or maybe one of those social comedy satires, possibly even a slapstick farce..........

Are you a fan of Tin Machine?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 18, 2022, 12:05:09 PM
It just occurred to me that Beetlejuice probably wasn't being honest about going to Juilliard. Huh....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 18, 2022, 03:13:25 PM
I can't help thinking that Under The God by Tin Machine sounds kinda like a Husker Du song........



I heard about The Peter principle today, & couldn't help thinking that sounds like some sort of romantic comedy, or maybe one of those social comedy satires, possibly even a slapstick farce..........

Are you a fan of Tin Machine?
No, just that one song.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 18, 2022, 03:19:35 PM
I can't help thinking that Under The God by Tin Machine sounds kinda like a Husker Du song........



I heard about The Peter principle today, & couldn't help thinking that sounds like some sort of romantic comedy, or maybe one of those social comedy satires, possibly even a slapstick farce..........

Are you a fan of Tin Machine?
No, just that one song.

Funnily enough, me too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 18, 2022, 04:46:29 PM
I can't help thinking that Under The God by Tin Machine sounds kinda like a Husker Du song........



I heard about The Peter principle today, & couldn't help thinking that sounds like some sort of romantic comedy, or maybe one of those social comedy satires, possibly even a slapstick farce..........

Are you a fan of Tin Machine?
No, just that one song.

Funnily enough, me too.
I had a pretty hard time getting into Husker Du as well, but that's another story.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 18, 2022, 05:26:44 PM
I can't help thinking that Under The God by Tin Machine sounds kinda like a Husker Du song........



I heard about The Peter principle today, & couldn't help thinking that sounds like some sort of romantic comedy, or maybe one of those social comedy satires, possibly even a slapstick farce..........

Are you a fan of Tin Machine?
No, just that one song.

Funnily enough, me too.
I had a pretty hard time getting into Husker Du as well, but that's another story.

I have just never came across anyone who was an out and out fan of the music and wondered if you were the first.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 19, 2022, 12:12:59 PM
That cool glass house in Highgate Cemetery is for sale. If I had eight million pounds and was allowed in the UK, that'd be sweet. Love that house.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 19, 2022, 12:29:22 PM
Little Miss Charlize All South African Men Are Rapists Theron is getting dragged mercilessly and I couldn't be happier 🤣🤣


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 19, 2022, 12:45:00 PM
Little Miss Charlize All South African Men Are Rapists Theron is getting dragged mercilessly and I couldn't be happier 🤣🤣

Now, Trevor, what did she ever do to you except call you a rapist?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 19, 2022, 02:00:38 PM
Little Miss Charlize All South African Men Are Rapists Theron is getting dragged mercilessly and I couldn't be happier 🤣🤣

Now, Trevor, what did she ever do to you except call you a rapist?

Just to clarify: she isn't well regarded in South Africa for various reasons including insisting she was the first SA to win an Oscar when she wasn't and then, the stupid advert she made in 2004/5 where she states that all SA men like hurting women sexually: that advert was immediately withdrawn after a huge public outcry. Now she has attacked Afrikaans - an language which is spoken by millions of peeps worldwide including me - as a dying and unhelpful language that only 44 people speak. This is her mother tongue, for crying out loud!

Nee Charlize, nee: maak liewer jou mond toe, die kak loop daaruit.  :tongueout:



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 19, 2022, 04:32:33 PM
People are always trying to get me to join their book clubs, and to me being in one of those would like a day in Purgatory, with angels spitting on you. Having to read books I didn't want to read, or worse, liking a book and having to listen to other people's opinions on it? Their takes on inner meaning and theme and interpretation? No. Thanks.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on November 19, 2022, 05:37:18 PM
...Just to clarify: she isn't well regarded in South Africa for various reasons including insisting she was the first SA to win an Oscar when she wasn't and then, the stupid advert she made in 2004/5 where she states that all SA men like hurting women sexually: that advert was immediately withdrawn after a huge public outcry. Now she has attacked Afrikaans - an language which is spoken by millions of peeps worldwide including me - as a dying and unhelpful language that only 44 people speak. This is her mother tongue, for crying out loud!

Nee Charlize, nee: maak liewer jou mond toe, die kak loop daaruit.  :tongueout:

MONSTER proves she's a talented actress.  She is also a humorless egotistical self-appointed judge. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 19, 2022, 06:38:39 PM
She has nice ribs though. Gotta give ol' Charlize credit there. Totally great ribs. Her skeleton should be hung in an anatomy class at an art school someday.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on November 19, 2022, 06:48:12 PM
She has nice ribs though. Gotta give ol' Charlize credit there. Totally great ribs. Her skeleton should be hung in an anatomy class at an art school someday.
 
 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 20, 2022, 05:03:18 AM
I was having a pretend sword fight with Ash earlier, when he suddenly stepped forward and stamped on my foot, then used the distraction to get past my guard and deliver a gut wound.

Proud dad moment.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 20, 2022, 08:52:40 AM
This is page 69. Nice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 21, 2022, 02:21:18 PM
I just watched a video on the difference between zoom shots and dolly shots, and while I understand how each is achieved, for the life of me I can't distinguish the difference with my naked eye (unless it's a really obvious "crash zoom.")

https://youtu.be/7QeMMF7J2OU


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on November 21, 2022, 03:58:58 PM
I just watched a video on the difference between zoom shots and dolly shots, and while I understand how each is achieved, for the life of me I can't distinguish the difference with my naked eye (unless it's a really obvious "crash zoom.")

https://youtu.be/7QeMMF7J2OU
Perhaps it's merely a logistical choice determined by the subject. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on November 21, 2022, 05:42:14 PM
I was having a pretend sword fight with Ash earlier, when he suddenly stepped forward and stamped on my foot, then used the distraction to get past my guard and deliver a gut wound.

Proud dad moment.  :thumbup:

I swear toddlers are tough as nails these days.  My son came up and gave me a big spontaneous hug while I was working in the kitchen.  I said “Oh what a nice hug! Thank you!” he very coolly said “it’s not a hug, it’s a kill..” as he walked away to go back to playing.

I still don’t know how to feel about that.  I guess he's practicing to be a real lady-killer?



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 21, 2022, 08:07:31 PM
I just watched a video on the difference between zoom shots and dolly shots, and while I understand how each is achieved, for the life of me I can't distinguish the difference with my naked eye (unless it's a really obvious "crash zoom.")

https://youtu.be/7QeMMF7J2OU
Perhaps it's merely a logistical choice determined by the subject. 

It is, but the trained eye can tell what's a zoom and what's a dolly. Supposedly it's because the relative orientation of the objects in space changes during a dolly but not a zoom. But I look at a scene and I have no clue which is which.  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on November 21, 2022, 11:05:34 PM
I just watched a video on the difference between zoom shots and dolly shots, and while I understand how each is achieved, for the life of me I can't distinguish the difference with my naked eye (unless it's a really obvious "crash zoom.")
https://youtu.be/7QeMMF7J2OU
Perhaps it's merely a logistical choice determined by the subject. 
It is, but the trained eye can tell what's a zoom and what's a dolly. Supposedly it's because the relative orientation of the objects in space changes during a dolly but not a zoom. But I look at a scene and I have no clue which is which.  :question:

Maybe observe the background...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 22, 2022, 01:12:39 PM
I just watched a video on the difference between zoom shots and dolly shots, and while I understand how each is achieved, for the life of me I can't distinguish the difference with my naked eye (unless it's a really obvious "crash zoom.")
https://youtu.be/7QeMMF7J2OU
Perhaps it's merely a logistical choice determined by the subject. 
It is, but the trained eye can tell what's a zoom and what's a dolly. Supposedly it's because the relative orientation of the objects in space changes during a dolly but not a zoom. But I look at a scene and I have no clue which is which.  :question:

Maybe observe the background...

Yep, that's how you're supposed to do it, but unless there's a really obvious landmark I find it quite difficult.

On another topic, I don't like tattoos on anyone, but I don't understand them on two populations who always have them:

Drug addicts. "Jeez, I really wish I had saved that $300 I paid for the butterfly on my ass so I could buy two days worth of heroin right now."

Criminals. "I think what I need in a fashion choice is something permanent that will enable witnesses to identify me to the police with 100% accuracy."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on November 22, 2022, 01:45:46 PM
...Criminals. "I think what I need in a fashion choice is something permanent that will enable witnesses to identify me to the police with 100% accuracy."


I got it!  FACE TATTOO!   :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 22, 2022, 02:22:30 PM
Well no surgery today after all but for sad reasons. The surgeon's dog got hit by a car this morning and had to be rushed to the vet for surgery herself, so he cleared his calendar and cancelled everything. I'm relieved, sad, annoyed all in one.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 22, 2022, 10:19:52 PM
Trying to comprehend the meaning of Effective Altruism.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 22, 2022, 10:50:06 PM
Trying to comprehend the meaning of Effective Altruism.....


Hmmm, reminds me of the old Jewish saying: "Why do you hate me so much? What good have I ever done for you?"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 24, 2022, 05:01:27 PM
Now that Oz What's-'is-Name has lost in Pennsylvania, I suddenly find myself wondering how many song parodies I could get out of "crudité".....
It started with "coup d'état" by The Circle Jerks, but then I found myself thinking about Yesterday by The Beatles.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 24, 2022, 10:31:41 PM
I love the sound of gentle rain falling on the roof.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 25, 2022, 08:29:07 AM
There's nothing quite like hearing a loud thunder boomer that wakes you up in the middle of the night.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 25, 2022, 08:47:21 AM
There's nothing quite like hearing a loud thunder boomer that wakes you up in the middle of the night.

Just say "OK boomer" and go back to sleep.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 25, 2022, 01:45:23 PM
There's nothing quite like hearing a loud thunder boomer that wakes you up in the middle of the night.

Just say "OK boomer" and go back to sleep.

 :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 25, 2022, 01:46:38 PM
I just found out that there is a Guardians of The Galaxy Holiday Special with a cameo appearance by a new hot young actor named Kevin Bacon  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 25, 2022, 01:56:44 PM
I just found out that there is a Guardians of The Galaxy Holiday Special with a cameo appearance by a new hot young actor named Kevin Bacon  :teddyr:

We just finished watching it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 25, 2022, 02:31:47 PM
I just found out that there is a Guardians of The Galaxy Holiday Special with a cameo appearance by a new hot young actor named Kevin Bacon  :teddyr:

I have a Bacon number of 4.

I was in "Payday" with Bishop Stevens, who was in "Girl on the Third Floor" with Trieste Kelly Dunn, who was in "United 93" with John Rothman, who was in "Picture Perfect" with Kevin Bacon.

If I had only gotten an extra role in "Locked In" I would have a Bacon number of 3.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 25, 2022, 09:44:54 PM
Work is wanting me to go to their work party.  I'm not looking forward to seeing my ex-manager there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 26, 2022, 11:43:33 AM
Welp, The Game is about to begin and half the people here are already drunk. Yup, this is Ohio....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 26, 2022, 12:09:06 PM
Everyone seems to have heard of Interview with the Vampire, but no one knows if he got the job or not.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Morpheus, the unwoke. on November 26, 2022, 04:08:27 PM
There's nothing quite like hearing a loud thunder boomer that wakes you up in the middle of the night.

So don't eat taco bell before you go to bed.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 26, 2022, 05:28:38 PM
Wonder why all these drivers coming south from Columbus on I-71 look so depressed? No clue here.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Morpheus, the unwoke. on November 26, 2022, 06:07:40 PM
So very few people decorated for Halloween this year where I live.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 26, 2022, 07:26:04 PM
Everyone seems to have heard of Interview with the Vampire, but no one knows if he got the job or not.

Well, at the end of the movie, the vampire doesn't seem too enthusiastic about the job, and the interviewer then meets another vampire, whom, while not too polite about it, seem to want the job more...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 26, 2022, 08:35:09 PM
Welp, The Game is about to begin and half the people here are already drunk. Yup, this is Ohio....
Bama-LSU had fans getting drunk the night before the game.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on November 26, 2022, 10:28:55 PM
I'm a bit of a sports oddity - absolute, diehard Cowboys fan, but don't give a flip about ANY college sports.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 27, 2022, 09:32:51 AM
Hoping to get an answer about my car tomorrow.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 27, 2022, 10:59:49 AM
You know what's good exercise? Walking like Groucho Marx. Just don't do it in public unless you want a bunch of chiropractors to give you their cards.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 27, 2022, 10:49:27 PM
Work is wanting me to go to their work party.  I'm not looking forward to seeing my ex-manager there.
He wasn't there, thankfully.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 28, 2022, 12:29:15 AM
The Flat Tire Fallacy would be a better way to look at this famous economic problem.
getting a flat tire is a lot more common than getting a broken window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window what tires and windows have in common is they both have a natural life span.

Of course, it's great for tire stores if people drive over nails, but is that really the best way to stimulate the economy? some would say so (not me obviously)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on November 28, 2022, 06:51:47 AM
Got some beautiful rest over this Thanksgiving break, and then the night before I go back to school I suddenly have insomnia.  Gotta go teach all day on about 3 hours' sleep now.  Ugh.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 28, 2022, 06:57:33 AM
Got some beautiful rest over this Thanksgiving break, and then the night before I go back to school I suddenly have insomnia.  Gotta go teach all day on about 3 hours' sleep now.  Ugh.

Tell them they are having a movie appreciation day, stick on Manos and just rest your head while they watch in horrid fascination.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 28, 2022, 09:43:47 AM
Disney+ has listed Die Hard under christmas movies. Guess that makes it as official as possible.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 28, 2022, 11:59:51 PM
I used to wonder if dust was mostly shed skin cells, why people put dust covers on the furniture in summer houses they're closing up for the season, but then it occurred to me, ghosts must shed skin cells too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 29, 2022, 01:08:47 AM
In an insane string of bad luck, I've had FOUR flat tires in the last month and a half. to celebrate, here's the holiday display at the tire store I've been to 4 TIMES RECENTLY

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FitSpKkWQAEYjvO?format=jpg&name=small)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 29, 2022, 10:53:05 PM
I'm sick of the government suppressing facts from the public, just because the facts aren't true.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 30, 2022, 12:24:58 AM
How many Kenobis would there hafta be in the universe if Obi-Wan only had to change his first name to Ben without anybody figuring it out????? :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 30, 2022, 07:25:50 AM
Ever wonder if you'd like yourself, if you met yourself?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 30, 2022, 04:07:27 PM
Ash managed to trip and fall while running to the toilet (he runs everywhere). As he fell he smacked the side of his face off the toilet bowl and now has a rather swollen face and a large bruise. I've been watching his pupils to make sure they are the same size, watching for signs of nausea and so forth. The joys of parenthood.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 30, 2022, 04:55:06 PM
Ever wonder if you'd like yourself, if you met yourself?

I don't think I would like me really.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on November 30, 2022, 06:50:07 PM
Ever wonder if you'd like yourself, if you met yourself?

I would.  I'm adorable!!!   :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 30, 2022, 07:51:02 PM
Ash managed to trip and fall while running to the toilet (he runs everywhere). As he fell he smacked the side of his face off the toilet bowl and now has a rather swollen face and a large bruise. I've been watching his pupils to make sure they are the same size, watching for signs of nausea and so forth. The joys of parenthood.

Sounds dreadful. Hope he's back on the path to recovery and forgetting.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 30, 2022, 07:57:35 PM
Ever wonder if you'd like yourself, if you met yourself?

I don't think I would like me really.

I don't think I'd like myself these days either, Trevor. In the past I'd have said of course I'd like myself, I'd be my best buddy  :cheers: but of late I've felt a sense of inner disapproval. My life right now is simultaneously wonderful and disturbing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 30, 2022, 07:58:00 PM
Ever wonder if you'd like yourself, if you met yourself?

I would.  I'm adorable!!!   :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

Well of course!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 30, 2022, 10:03:20 PM
Ever wonder if you'd like yourself, if you met yourself?
Back in July when I was just getting off of alcohol I kept meeting different versions of me in my sleep.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 01, 2022, 06:43:15 AM
I think we'd settle down and plan out the most awesome D&D campaign ever ran.  :bouncegiggle:



If in life one door closes, simply open it back up. That is how doors work.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 01, 2022, 06:46:06 AM
Ash managed to trip and fall while running to the toilet (he runs everywhere). As he fell he smacked the side of his face off the toilet bowl and now has a rather swollen face and a large bruise. I've been watching his pupils to make sure they are the same size, watching for signs of nausea and so forth. The joys of parenthood.

Sounds dreadful. Hope he's back on the path to recovery and forgetting.

This was him just after it:

(https://i.imgur.com/3fEOD2p.jpg)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 01, 2022, 01:23:44 PM
The way things are going here now, we will probably have a new President by Christmas 😳😳


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 02, 2022, 02:35:00 PM
It's a good time to be a Chap Stick addict. Have you seen some of the new flavors? Graham cracker, milk chocolate, marshmallow, honey, blueberry, dragon fruit, pumpkin pie, candy cane, vanilla chai, rose, white chocolate, rainbow sherbet, key lime.... Truly my addiction is well serviced.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 03, 2022, 11:14:11 AM
Today's advice for success: STAY CLAM AND PROOFREAD!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 03, 2022, 01:26:53 PM
I wonder why they never made a Friday the 13th movie where all the survivors team up to take Jason down?

Or one where they build a wall around Crystal Lake and then have a Running Man-type show where contestants have to survive a night in the walls and then escape.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 03, 2022, 02:22:38 PM
Gotta it when the toilet at work backs up.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on December 04, 2022, 01:11:19 AM
^ "love" ???


I once saw this thing about a fat as hell guy from someplace near the equator. He ate and ate so he could play King Neptune in his village's annual parade. They were like "idiot, you are going to die" and he did this ridiculous King Neptune dance. I think about it probably more than anyone else who saw it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 04, 2022, 08:17:45 AM
"Love" was sarcasm


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 04, 2022, 11:28:56 AM
I was getting my children to try this last night; it's fun. Take a sip of water and hold it in your mouth, then inhale a scent of something like an essential oil or strong fruit or something, and your senses get confused so you start tasting the smell in the water.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 04, 2022, 01:52:55 PM
^ "love" ???


I once saw this thing about a fat as hell guy from someplace near the equator. He ate and ate so he could play King Neptune in his village's annual parade. They were like "idiot, you are going to die" and he did this ridiculous King Neptune dance. I think about it probably more than anyone else who saw it.
Any links to this story? :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 04, 2022, 02:22:19 PM
Assembling baby furniture is something.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 04, 2022, 02:44:51 PM
Assembling baby furniture is something.

Oh yeah.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 04, 2022, 02:46:38 PM
No one told me my new(ish) car has a turbo engine 😳😳


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 04, 2022, 03:05:46 PM
The strangest thing I did today was to give Minnie Mouse plastic surgery.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on December 04, 2022, 04:22:47 PM
el misfit - you forgot the word though


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 06, 2022, 11:31:03 AM
I like that I get up early enough to have a second blue hour. I think it may be the prettiest time of each day.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 06, 2022, 09:45:36 PM
Assembling baby furniture is something.

Oh yeah.
Even more fun when the dad to your niece just leaves you to assemble it alone....Oh well, I assembled my niece's crib and changing table.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 07, 2022, 08:11:35 AM
Strangest thing....a pair of shoes in my size showed up in my closet today, not new, but I have no idea where they came from and no memory of ever purchasing them. I have never been all that into shoes so I don't have such an Imelda-like array of them that I'd forget a pair, thus possible answers include:

My husband having an affair with a woman with my exact shoe size, who chose to leave barefooted.

I have slipped into another dimension where the me who bought the shoes is now in my old dimension wondering where that pair of shoes went.

I am the victim of an odd prank.

These are not shoes but a shape-shifting intergalactic entity.

I am mistaken and have forgotten ever owning these....actually rather nice shoes.

"A wizard did it."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Gabriel Knight on December 07, 2022, 08:18:02 AM
On my usual reading of reviews of random movies on iMDB, I found two strangely similar, by different persons, although in very close dates. The funny thing is that they're quite accurate.

https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1773662/?ref_=tt_urv (https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1773662/?ref_=tt_urv)

https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1787387/?ref_=tt_urv (https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1787387/?ref_=tt_urv)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 07, 2022, 10:00:21 AM
Strangest thing....a pair of shoes in my size showed up in my closet today, not new, but I have no idea where they came from and no memory of ever purchasing them. I have never been all that into shoes so I don't have such an Imelda-like array of them that I'd forget a pair, thus possible answers include:

My husband having an affair with a woman with my exact shoe size, who chose to leave barefooted.

I have slipped into another dimension where the me who bought the shoes is now in my old dimension wondering where that pair of shoes went.

I am the victim of an odd prank.

These are not shoes but a shape-shifting intergalactic entity.

I am mistaken and have forgotten ever owning these....actually rather nice shoes.

"A wizard did it."

It is a mimic. Shoot it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 07, 2022, 05:48:30 PM
Strangest thing....a pair of shoes in my size showed up in my closet today, not new, but I have no idea where they came from and no memory of ever purchasing them. I have never been all that into shoes so I don't have such an Imelda-like array of them that I'd forget a pair, thus possible answers include:

My husband having an affair with a woman with my exact shoe size, who chose to leave barefooted.

I have slipped into another dimension where the me who bought the shoes is now in my old dimension wondering where that pair of shoes went.

I am the victim of an odd prank.

These are not shoes but a shape-shifting intergalactic entity.

I am mistaken and have forgotten ever owning these....actually rather nice shoes.

"A wizard did it."

It is a mimic. Shoot it.

I'll pour a circle of salt around it. Maybe add some kosher salt to the mix in case it's Jewish.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on December 08, 2022, 12:22:11 AM
there's a pennsylvania dutch type alternative medicine tradition called "powow" I saw a documentary on it


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 08, 2022, 02:27:55 AM
Urgh, why can't they just do that damn Judge Dredd TV series?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 08, 2022, 02:24:50 PM
Urgh, why can't they just do that damn Judge Dredd TV series?
Toxic Masculinity?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 10, 2022, 03:10:21 PM
When I'm with my in-laws I try to find a balance between the positivity of Ted Lasso and the downerism of Marvin the Paranoid Android. I call it Lassoing the Robot. I'm Lassoing the Robot right now, and it's just as fun as a doggone buncha prairie dogs in the boss's new Cadillac!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on December 11, 2022, 04:35:42 PM
Walmart is consumer staples. Target is consumer discretionary


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 11, 2022, 06:26:11 PM
Einstein once said that weak people avenge insults, strong people forgive them, and the wise ignore them altogether.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on December 11, 2022, 10:36:11 PM
PRESIDENT HAMILTON got a five star review from Presidential historian Stephen Knott!
He's the most high profile person to review my book yet, and said some very nice things about it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 13, 2022, 11:25:19 AM
PRESIDENT HAMILTON got a five star review from Presidential historian Stephen Knott!
He's the most high profile person to review my book yet, and said some very nice things about it.

 :thumbup: :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 13, 2022, 11:29:22 AM
1983 was thus far the worst year of my life.

What was amazing looking back is that this crappie year produced some truly great music.  :smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mj3bBOStf0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mj3bBOStf0)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 13, 2022, 05:24:10 PM
1983 was thus far the worst year of my life.

What was amazing looking back is that this crappie year produced some truly great music.  :smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mj3bBOStf0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mj3bBOStf0)
Right you are. The '80s in general seemed a musical golden age.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 14, 2022, 09:41:45 PM
Gotta say I didn't expect hair dying to be extremely frustrating.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 15, 2022, 08:49:17 AM
If you possibly can, get someone else to do it for you. (Unless you're talking about doing someone else's hair, then yes, still true.) Ever considered a wig?  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 15, 2022, 01:05:36 PM
I decided I have not been living dangerously enough recently, so when I saw a present with the tag "To Alex, From your favourite GM", I asked Kristi if Shift or Jarrod had sent me a present...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 15, 2022, 10:58:59 PM
If you possibly can, get someone else to do it for you. (Unless you're talking about doing someone else's hair, then yes, still true.) Ever considered a wig?  :wink:
I've dyed my hair,  bleaching it was something.  Dying it to a specific color was harder than usual.  As for a wig I have two wigs that I wear whenever I'm out as Leah.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 16, 2022, 07:45:21 PM
I miss the phonebook.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 17, 2022, 12:21:14 AM
I miss the phonebook.....
Yeah, really, now there's nothing for mesomorphs to rip in half to impress women.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 17, 2022, 12:28:03 AM
I miss the phonebook.....
Yeah, really, now there's nothing for mesomorphs to rip in half to impress women.
I was actually looking for a used motorcycle shop.
Google only shows dealerships for new bikes, used car dealerships, everything else that might be in a particular area, and it's not really up to date....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 17, 2022, 10:23:02 AM
The doctor says my son, who is eleven now, is going to be six-foot four. Tallness runs in my family, my husband is six-two and so is my dad, I'm five-seven and a half, but only my paternal grandpa was quite that tall: six-four.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 19, 2022, 05:50:13 AM
I hope all those Thai sailors are found safe and rescued.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 19, 2022, 07:35:19 AM
Ever loved someone but you just can't stand this person?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 19, 2022, 01:47:59 PM
Ever loved someone but you just can't stand this person?
My older sister is that person. You can make plans, have it play out the way you want it to, but she's the wild card.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 19, 2022, 02:24:46 PM
Ever loved someone but you just can't stand this person?

Yes but it's the other way around with me sometimes: I tell someone that I love them and then the answer is  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 19, 2022, 03:35:38 PM
Ever loved someone but you just can't stand this person?

No. The closest I have is sleeping with someone I didn't like (which I've done several times for various reasons).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 19, 2022, 07:27:12 PM
I'm finally gonna say it!
If CLOWNS are supposed to be scary, then what in the hell am I supposed to think of some gaudy looking Drag Queen?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 20, 2022, 01:22:40 AM
I'm finally gonna say it!
If CLOWNS are supposed to be scary, then what in the hell am I supposed to think of some gaudy looking Drag Queen?

I think people's "fear" of clowns is in most cases a fashionable affectation. As for drag queens, well, we live in a time of such overreaction of supposed approval of the gay community by heterosexuals that even if the average person felt outright terror at the sight of a man in drag, few would feel at liberty to divulge it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on December 21, 2022, 12:45:32 AM
Christians believe Jesus was the savior. Jews believe he wasn't the real savior, but there is one who is still to come.
Why is it considered a logical, accepted thing in western thought for there to be a human savior? How do you wrestle that out of the 10 commandments?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 21, 2022, 03:13:43 PM
Solstice greetings everyone. Remember the days only get longer from this point on.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 21, 2022, 03:18:56 PM
Solstice greetings everyone. Remember the days only get longer from this point on.

You beat me to it. Happy solstice, everyone. (I like long nights.  :bluesad:)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 21, 2022, 03:28:00 PM
Solstice greetings everyone. Remember the days only get longer from this point on.

You beat me to it. Happy solstice, everyone. (I like long nights.  :bluesad:)
I thought it was tomorrow..... :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 21, 2022, 03:41:12 PM
Solstice greetings everyone. Remember the days only get longer from this point on.

You beat me to it. Happy solstice, everyone. (I like long nights.  :bluesad:)
I thought it was tomorrow..... :lookingup:

If it helps:
(https://i.imgur.com/7dRlJsi.jpg)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 21, 2022, 04:04:59 PM
Christians believe Jesus was the savior. Jews believe he wasn't the real savior, but there is one who is still to come.
Why is it considered a logical, accepted thing in western thought for there to be a human savior? How do you wrestle that out of the 10 commandments?
The ten commandments? I don't think anyone has ever tried to say those represent the totality of divine law or revelation. Prophecies concerning an impending Messiah are found throughout Jewish scripture, with Jesus famously fulfilling most of them, despite what my Talmudic scholar friend Dan used to tell me. ("Those passages weren't talking about a man, they concerned Israel!") Unlike most Jews I know, who trip over the old "great teacher, not divine" copout, as if a lying madman/conman could be worth Christians following, Dan seemed to viscerally hate Jesus lock, stock and barrel.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 21, 2022, 04:18:06 PM
Solstice greetings everyone. Remember the days only get longer from this point on.

You beat me to it. Happy solstice, everyone. (I like long nights.  :bluesad:)
I thought it was tomorrow..... :lookingup:


If it helps:
(https://i.imgur.com/7dRlJsi.jpg)
Oh, yeah.....
Forgot to cross today off my calendar.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on December 21, 2022, 04:39:23 PM
ER - or maybe they were just miserable and wanted for there to be a savior. Your friend is probably correct from his own perspective, Jesus wasn't really the military, nationalist sort of savior they described as coming to save them.

An asteroid saved us from dinosaur domination, things change gradually over generations in modern times usually.

other than being predicted by some guy at some point, I don't see the underlying logic in a human savior as there usually are with other Biblical things. its arbitrary


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 21, 2022, 05:22:14 PM
ER - or maybe they were just miserable and wanted for there to be a savior. Your friend is probably correct from his own perspective, Jesus wasn't really the military, nationalist sort of savior they described as coming to save them.

An asteroid saved us from dinosaur domination, things change gradually over generations in modern times usually.

other than being predicted by some guy at some point, I don't see the underlying logic in a human savior as there usually are with other Biblical things. its arbitrary

Can you reconcile aging, memory, gravity, or for that matter existence itself with logic? Reality and logic are seldom in bed together. Some things simply are. Also remember the claim is not that Jesus was a human savior but a divine savior incarnate as a human.

Because I don't want this to turn into a long thread of point and counterpoint, please don't be offended if I don't continue this discussion, though it is not an uninteresting one. I think you and I have made our outlooks on theology clear enough to one another in the past for either of us to need to clarify them here. I did enjoy taking a moment to think about your post though.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 22, 2022, 12:25:07 PM
Is it wrong that I'm still a fan of Ural Motorcycles?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 22, 2022, 01:32:46 PM
Is it wrong that I'm still a fan of Ural Motorcycles?

Have they done something wrong?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 22, 2022, 01:34:28 PM
Is it wrong that I'm still a fan of Ural Motorcycles?

Have they done something wrong?

No, they just happen to be made in Russia....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 22, 2022, 02:11:35 PM
Is it wrong that I'm still a fan of Ural Motorcycles?

Have they done something wrong?

No, they just happen to be made in Russia....

In that case I would say no. I don't hold all of Russia responsible for what Putin has done. Obviously, it is up to you and how you feel on it, but that is my take.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 22, 2022, 04:14:42 PM
I miss RC. Hope he is able to rejoin us as post plenty again soon.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 23, 2022, 12:06:48 AM
You guys oughta hear the wind outside right now!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 23, 2022, 01:10:35 AM
I'm still up watching the storm. Swirling ice-snow zipping sideways in the keening wind, the cold hitting like shards of glass penetrating skin, muscle, bone. Too fascinating and rare an event to go to sleep and miss, though one by one my family went off to bed and even my faithful dogs have gone to sleep by the orange embers of the fireplace. Just me now as it so often is in the bleak dead of night.

Hey,  I'm curious, was it only Catholic school or did you publics have the term "pervirgin" meaning a technical virgin who lived a pervert's life?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 23, 2022, 05:00:42 AM
Not a term I've heard before.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 23, 2022, 05:53:51 AM
I miss RC. Hope he is able to rejoin us as post plenty again soon.

Agreed 🙂🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 23, 2022, 10:22:13 AM
Trying to talk someone out of a situation where they are going to end up killing themselves, and possibly others while also trying to stop someone ending up committing suicide on top of preparing for my own major life change coming up, then dealing with the whole will stuff on top of all the regular normal life stuff is emotionally, spiritually and physically exhausting. I am starting to feel like I have nothing left to give to support others.

When I get to feeling like that, I know it is time to kick back, watch some enjoyably bad movies or listen to some loud music and recharge my mental batteries.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 24, 2022, 11:31:00 PM
The road to Heaven is long, and if you only walk it on sunny days, you will never get there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 30, 2022, 11:40:12 AM
I can't remember where we were discussing them, but it looks like the market for NFTs has collapsed and they are now being used as a tax write-off, with them seemingly having very little resale value.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 30, 2022, 12:11:16 PM
I can't remember where we were discussing them, but it looks like the market for NFTs has collapsed and they are now being used as a tax write-off, with them seemingly having very little resale value.

Hard to imagine one selfish little twerp could do that to an entire industry...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 30, 2022, 12:55:43 PM
I can't remember where we were discussing them, but it looks like the market for NFTs has collapsed and they are now being used as a tax write-off, with them seemingly having very little resale value.

Hard to imagine one selfish little twerp could do that to an entire industry...

Professor Chaos?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 30, 2022, 01:15:25 PM
I can't remember where we were discussing them, but it looks like the market for NFTs has collapsed and they are now being used as a tax write-off, with them seemingly having very little resale value.

Hard to imagine one selfish little twerp could do that to an entire industry...

Professor Chaos?

No, Sam Bankman-Fried, who stole all his clients money & "donated" it all to the democrat party.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on December 30, 2022, 04:43:39 PM
NFT's took the most confusing aspects of bitcoin like why would anyone value this? and took out the potential for use as currency. There is no difference between and nft and a picture of one.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on December 30, 2022, 09:07:54 PM
My brother printed out the Trump trading card NFTs, pasted family members pictures on them, laminated them, and gave them out as Christmas gifts.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 31, 2022, 01:19:35 AM
My brother printed out the Trump trading card NFTs, pasted family members pictures on them, laminated them, and gave them out as Christmas gifts.

 :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on December 31, 2022, 09:23:15 AM
About to head up to the river and guide another fossil safari.
Hope this hunt is as productive as the last one was!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 31, 2022, 10:56:16 AM
I'm thinking about starting a myth among my maternal side of the family that we had an ancestor who was gaoled for kicking Cromwell in the nuts. I'll call it my legacy of happy smiles.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 31, 2022, 03:02:10 PM
I'm thinking about starting a myth among my maternal side of the family that we had an ancestor who was gaoled for kicking Cromwell in the nuts. I'll call it my legacy of happy smiles.

One of my gamers is Irish and loathes Cromwell. So of course, I mention him at every available chance.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 31, 2022, 03:56:21 PM
Even though my legs started going bad, & my gait's gotten a bit slower, I still get annoyed with people who stroll too slowly in stores....

What can I say.... I get in a stride, & no matter how clunky, I hate breaking it...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on January 01, 2023, 10:34:55 AM
I enjoy that it is night before 5:00 pm. Love me them dark winter days.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 01, 2023, 12:05:19 PM
I enjoy that it is night before 5:00 pm. Love me them dark winter days.

YES!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 01, 2023, 10:54:09 PM
Fencing seems stupid. If you're going to swordfight someone forget that p***yfooting around like cats poking at each other stuff and just slash the other guy to death.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 01, 2023, 11:09:20 PM
Fencing seems stupid. If you're going to swordfight someone forget that p***yfooting around like cats poking at each other stuff and just slash the other guy to death.
They've got clubs around town for that heavier stuff y' see in the movies, but I forget what these clubs are called.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 01, 2023, 11:30:17 PM
You can't say "p***yfooting" on here? That's not a bad word. It means stepping carefully like cats do. Even my churchy grandmother used to use that term. Jeez.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 01, 2023, 11:37:45 PM
You can't say "p***yfooting" on here? That's not a bad word. It means stepping carefully like cats do. Even my churchy grandmother used to use that term. Jeez.
Yeah, still surprised it happened to me when I shared the name of a certain James Bond movie featuring Maud Adams...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on January 01, 2023, 11:45:51 PM
Filters catch words and have ZERO idea of context.
My school used to have an internet filter called Cybersitter that would not only block out bad words, it would block out PARTS of words if it thought they spelled out something naughty.  My wife, a music teacher, sent in a curriculum that included the phrase "music literature" - and Cybersitter rendered it "musi* ***erature."   It also deleted the first four letters of the word "analysis" a couple of times.   The only effect was to make you think of those words when you hadn't been thinking about them beforehand.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 01, 2023, 11:47:24 PM
So a list of words verified you can't say here would include:

****
****
****
****
****
and p***yfoot.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 02, 2023, 02:34:57 PM
I know google used to censor searches for the town of Sc**thorpe. No idea is it still does or not.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 02, 2023, 05:49:30 PM
It amazes me that when reporters cover someone who died, they still get the "they lit up a room" quote from a someone who knew them. Am I heartless? It's the most blatant cliche out there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 02, 2023, 06:00:25 PM
It amazes me that when reporters cover someone who died, they still get the "they lit up a room" quote from a someone who knew them. Am I heartless? It's the most blatant cliche out there.

Yeah, you're right.

I'll tell you one that sounds so fake to me is when some athlete faces a life crisis outside the sport, illness, accident, life-threatening random brush with mortality, and the announcers invariably say: "Something like this puts it all in perspective. This is just a game."

OK, that's true, but the same announcers say that line over and over every crisis, several times a season, and I'll think, did the dips**t somehow forget the perspective he said he gained from each of the last ten crises????



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 03, 2023, 01:48:19 AM
that one tonight was a little different though. the bengals guy


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 03, 2023, 03:19:46 AM
Yeah, ironic timing on the topic, huh?



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 03, 2023, 09:10:38 AM
He was a Bills player, but yeah. I was checking updates on my laptop while watching "Metropolis" and they suddenly stopped updating. I checked the radio to see what was going on. Wow. It was a hard hit, but you see hits like that several times a game. It will be interesting to see what the doctors say happened. Looks like a freak injury.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 04, 2023, 06:36:20 PM
Every time I hear somebody say "The People's Business", or "the Business Of The People", I can't help thinking about some politician trying to say they hafta go to the bathroom on behalf of the Nation......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 06, 2023, 12:15:24 AM
That elastic possesses elastic properties has always struck me as an amazing coincidence.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 06, 2023, 01:27:49 AM
I know google used to censor searches for the town of Sc**thorpe. No idea is it still does or not.

No, all clear  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on January 06, 2023, 08:29:07 AM
Gotta say babies are weird. From being happy and laughing to screeching like a pterodactyl quickly is something.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 06, 2023, 10:15:14 AM
Gotta say babies are weird. From being happy and laughing to screeching like a pterodactyl quickly is something.
You gotta keep babies happy, fed, and distracted. Kinda like grown men.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on January 06, 2023, 09:26:45 PM
Gotta say babies are weird. From being happy and laughing to screeching like a pterodactyl quickly is something.
You gotta keep babies happy, fed, and distracted. Kinda like grown men.
My niece loves to blow raspberries when she eats, making it harder to feed her. Whenever my sister eats she screeches like a pterodactyl,  basically complaining about her not getting fed. Try to feed her and she blow raspberries again.  She is absolutely weird.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 06, 2023, 09:32:14 PM
^One of my nieces had a really scary laugh when she was little.... She would shriek real loud, (causing me to jump up, thinking she was hurt), then follow by cackling....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 07, 2023, 04:30:36 PM
^One of my nieces had a really scary laugh when she was little.... She would shriek real loud, (causing me to jump up, thinking she was hurt), then follow by cackling....

I do the same thing!  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on January 07, 2023, 11:00:15 PM
Rough day . . . one of my closest friends and my favorite hunting buddy died last Thursday.
The family asked me to speak at his funeral service today.  Somehow, through the tears, I did it.
But man, I am going to miss him SO much!  :bluesad: :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 08, 2023, 02:08:26 AM
Rough day . . . one of my closest friends and my favorite hunting buddy died last Thursday.
The family asked me to speak at his funeral service today.  Somehow, through the tears, I did it.
But man, I am going to miss him SO much!  :bluesad: :bluesad:

Sending hugs


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 08, 2023, 12:13:40 PM
I just read that Donald Trump's favorite movie is SUNSET BOULEVARD . Great film.
He has a lot in common with the main character- both old and delusional.  :tongueout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 08, 2023, 01:10:44 PM
I just read that Donald Trump's favorite movie is SUNSET BOULEVARD . Great film.
He has a lot in common with the main character- both old and delusional.  :tongueout:

And he was always ready for his close up 😳😉🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 08, 2023, 01:17:58 PM
 ^Maybe one of his trading cards should have been him as Norma Desmond?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 08, 2023, 09:53:57 PM
A Sergeant Pepper's style collage of those among the famed who died in 2022:

https://twitter.com/christhebarker/status/1609369186761052161/photo/1


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 10, 2023, 09:38:30 AM
I've mentioned to Kristi that once I leave the forces I'd be happy to get a pet dog. Before we got married she'd never had a pet. Since then we've had two rabbits and two cats. I don't think Kristi quite understands just how different dogs are to those pets and how much extra work they are despite her assurances that she knows this.

Anyway, what I've not told her is that I want to call the dog, Shark. Perfect for those long walks along the beach.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 10, 2023, 09:58:50 AM
Shark!  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 10, 2023, 04:18:09 PM
I was thinking that Jeremy Renner is the luckiest person on earth to have had such a horrible accident and after two major surgeries be on the road to recovery.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 16, 2023, 10:48:40 AM
I don't think Snape turned from evil and embraced good, I think the evidence shows he acted against Voldemort because he wanted revenge on him for killing the object of his affections.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 16, 2023, 05:33:26 PM
Elizabeth Holmes and the NXIVM cult guy have, or had, the ability to say complete BS and have people think it's profound. have been watching some of their stuff on youtube.

I think people KNOW it's bulls**t and thats why they believe in them. at the end of the day its repackaged self help stuff anyway


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 16, 2023, 06:10:27 PM
Elizabeth Holmes and the NXIVM cult guy have, or had, the ability to say complete BS and have people think it's profound. have been watching some of their stuff on youtube.

I think people KNOW it's bulls**t and thats why they believe in them. at the end of the day its repackaged self help stuff anyway

In general people form opinions and philosophies with emotions first, and then use their brains to filter in only information that supports their opinion. As Martin Luther said, "reason is a whore."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 17, 2023, 11:27:22 AM
This morning I dropped my phone in the mud. This is a depressing situation.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 18, 2023, 05:08:18 PM
Why is the acronym "AR" short for for ArmaLite?
Shouldn't it be "AL"?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 19, 2023, 05:29:50 AM
Hoping that Julian Sands is found alive and well.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 19, 2023, 08:19:47 AM
Hoping that Julian Sands is found alive and well.
Me too. I hadn't even known about this until just now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 19, 2023, 06:36:40 PM
If wishes were feet, there wouldn't be enough shoes...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 19, 2023, 06:51:04 PM
^ That's ok, you could wish for more shoes!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 19, 2023, 07:03:23 PM
^ That's ok, you could wish for more shoes!
Maybe, but then, if wises were shoes, women everywhere would run out of closet space...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 19, 2023, 07:17:46 PM
Yeah, really, I have a friend who is into paganism (as she defines it) who claims you can manifest whatever you want in your life if you concentrate on your wishes, and every time she goes into that I think how if that was true a million teenage girls in the '50s would've been married to Elvis, and every one of us would have won the lottery. Man's reach must exceed his grasp, else what be Heaven for?(If I quote that right.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 20, 2023, 09:14:18 AM
This non-paying part-time job is proving a devourer of my time, and I am thinking it might be more more efficient to get some blackmail on corporations and wealthy people than to humbly ask for donations.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 20, 2023, 09:51:49 AM
^ That's ok, you could wish for more shoes!
Maybe, but then, if wises were shoes, women everywhere would run out of closet space...

Wish for bigger closets!  This could go on and on into atoms and expand into another alternate reality.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on January 20, 2023, 10:47:48 AM
Speaking of shies I have a strong want for a pair of Demonia high heels and knee high boots.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 20, 2023, 07:56:38 PM
Why do ufo's suddenly appear- everytime you are neeeaaar...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 21, 2023, 01:41:43 AM
the North End in Boston is home to some of the darkest, lighting wise, restaurants in existence. Is this a "thing" elsewhere? I like to be able to see my food


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 21, 2023, 11:33:05 AM
the North End in Boston is home to some of the darkest, lighting wise, restaurants in existence. Is this a "thing" elsewhere? I like to be able to see my food

In Austin there was a restaurant that booked dinner in its windowless basement, in full darkness, you did not know what the food was going to be, you were blindfolded when taken inside, so you did not know with whom you and your companion would be dining or among how many, there was only an awareness you were seated at a long buffet table with a group of strangers, in absolute lightlessness. I guess as a trend it never caught on, maybe because it cost $200.00 a person in 2004 dollars.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 21, 2023, 05:22:45 PM
That's basically whats being done in the name of ambience in Boston. A couple last night told me that had to use their phones to read the menus at the place they went.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 21, 2023, 06:02:50 PM
That's basically whats being done in the name of ambience in Boston. A couple last night told me that had to use their phones to read the menus at the place they went.
It's a thing in this town...
My mom started complaining about it a little over a decade ago, & I started noticing....
We bot carry tiny flashlights now...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on January 21, 2023, 07:07:48 PM
the North End in Boston is home to some of the darkest, lighting wise, restaurants in existence. Is this a "thing" elsewhere? I like to be able to see my food

Restaurants and stores in our town are diming and switching off lights in order to save energy since prices have doubled in the past 12 months.

That is the reason everything is "dark" here. No idea why they do this in Boston though. Maybe it is some sort of trend or something.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on January 21, 2023, 07:10:00 PM
the North End in Boston is home to some of the darkest, lighting wise, restaurants in existence. Is this a "thing" elsewhere? I like to be able to see my food
There's an upscale Italian restaurant near me that has their windows blocked out and lit with candles. No idea if it's supposed to be a more quieter atmosphere or just an upscale restaurant gimmick. Outside of town there's  another upscale Italian restaurant,  but it's open, bright, and loud.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 22, 2023, 11:03:23 AM
Sorry, Eastenders, but if someone is "all mouth," how is there room for him to also be "trousers"? This seeming contradiction often kept me awake at night as a child, but I pretended it was jet lag.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 22, 2023, 11:04:57 AM
Sorry, Eastenders, but if someone is "all mouth," how is there room for him to also be "trousers"? This seeming contradiction often kept me awake at night as a child, but I pretended it was jet lag.

The saying is "All mouth and no trousers". Did you possibly mishear it?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 22, 2023, 11:09:57 AM
Sorry, Eastenders, but if someone is "all mouth," how is there room for him to also be "trousers"? This seeming contradiction often kept me awake at night as a child, but I pretended it was jet lag.

The saying is "All mouth and no trousers". Did you possibly mishear it?
No, at least on there they'd say Lofty was "All mouth and trousers." Maybe there are two sayings. (Just lookedi t up and there are entries for both ways of saying it. It means superficial.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 23, 2023, 09:03:58 AM
Went to the Salvation Army store last week to buy some toilet seat covers and ended up leaving with a book called Chelsea, Chelsea Bang Bang, by Chelsea Handler, about whom I knew little, and I'm right now fifty pages in and I can't decide if she's a role model, or the worst human being not born in 1890s Austria.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 24, 2023, 07:40:43 PM
Still reading Chelsea Handler's books, still not sure how I feel about her. One minute I'm cheering in her corner, the next I feel like closing the cover and walking away. Although I don't have it, I understand she wrote a book about her one night stands. If I wrote a book about my one night stands there'd be no inside pages. I wonder if that's something I've missed out on? To me it seems vaguely yucky, to be honest, to meet someone you don't know and roll the dice on having sex with that person? Too many what ifs there, too many unanswered questions, too many impersonal feelings. But then again I've been told there's something of a demisexual in me. Is that accurate? I don't know, like Popeye I yam what I yam, but the more I think about Chelsea Handler's sex memoir, the more I am morbidly curious to read it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 25, 2023, 02:31:36 AM
Still reading Chelsea Handler's books, still not sure how I feel about her. One minute I'm cheering in her corner, the next I feel like closing the cover and walking away. Although I don't have it, I understand she wrote a book about her one night stands. If I wrote a book about my one night stands there'd be no inside pages. I wonder if that's something I've missed out on? To me it seems vaguely yucky, to be honest, to meet someone you don't know and roll the dice on having sex with that person? Too many what ifs there, too many unanswered questions, too many impersonal feelings. But then again I've been told there's something of a demisexual in me. Is that accurate? I don't know, like Popeye I yam what I yam, but the more I think about Chelsea Handler's sex memoir, the more I am morbidly curious to read it.

If it helps any, most of the one-night stands I've had were with women I knew quite well and we just had sex for fun. I once had a one-week stand where we travelled the country, staying at hotels and having sex in all sorts of places.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on January 25, 2023, 11:00:06 PM
Men are simple creatures, not unlike dogs.
All they really require to be happy is to be fed, snuggled, and reassured that they are, in fact, a good boy.
Women, on the other hand, are much more complex - a riddle wrapped inside a mystery tucked into an enigma and then stuffed down the barrel of a bazooka aimed at you by a crazed terrorist shouting threats in a language that is not of this earth.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 26, 2023, 01:01:43 AM
Jen Kirkman who used to be on Chelsea Handlers tv show, was the singer in my band in high school. She dated my best friend (the bass player) and ultimately hated my guts, typing and sending 3 page long letters detailing all my apparent problems. She wasn't very funny either


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 26, 2023, 08:46:15 AM
May The Farce be with you all today!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on January 26, 2023, 03:08:04 PM
It's been an interesting month this month has been.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 27, 2023, 05:40:08 PM
I've long noticed watching faith healers go through their schtick gives me an ASMR effect. Bob Larson's exorcism shows can do that too. I was watching an old video from the '50s of Oral Roberts at some tent revival where he was healing stutters and limps, and I felt a tingle run down my scalp to my back, zoom. When the people went up so Roberts could cure their back pain and poor digestion, he'd read the prayer cards they filled out and he'd give their addresses, and I just had to stop YouTube and Bing the houses to see what they looked like today. I think I have the gift of being easily entertained.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on January 28, 2023, 07:51:49 PM
I forgot how painful it is to stand in stilettos lol.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 28, 2023, 08:01:13 PM
I forgot how painful it is to stand in stilettos lol.

Switchblades hurt much less.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on January 28, 2023, 08:04:34 PM
I forgot how painful it is to stand in stilettos lol.

Switchblades hurt much less.
Switchblades aren't as cute though.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 29, 2023, 02:41:03 AM
I forgot how painful it is to stand in stilettos lol.

Switchblades hurt much less.
Switchblades aren't as cute though.

The worst pain is when you walk in them and one of the heels snaps  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on January 29, 2023, 09:02:57 AM
I forgot how painful it is to stand in stilettos lol.

Switchblades hurt much less.
Switchblades aren't as cute though.

The worst pain is when you walk in them and one of the heels snaps  :buggedout:
My heels have nearly made me stumble over more yhan once.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 29, 2023, 04:06:26 PM
It can also be bad when you're hurrying away from someone, and you accidentally step in the grass and your heels get stuck there, and you fall over, and the person catches up with you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 29, 2023, 04:12:54 PM
It can also be bad when you're hurrying away from someone, and you accidentally step in the grass and your heels get stuck there, and you fall over, and the person catches up with you.

So if a masked supernatural killer is chasing you, they aren't the best footwear to have on?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 29, 2023, 04:18:46 PM
It can also be bad when you're hurrying away from someone, and you accidentally step in the grass and your heels get stuck there, and you fall over, and the person catches up with you.

So if a masked supernatural killer is chasing you, they aren't the best footwear to have on?
Unless you're Buffy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 29, 2023, 04:20:12 PM
It can also be bad when you're hurrying away from someone, and you accidentally step in the grass and your heels get stuck there, and you fall over, and the person catches up with you.

So if a masked supernatural killer is chasing you, they aren't the best footwear to have on?
Unless you're Buffy.

I always thought that if she ran out of stakes, she could have impaled a vampire on her big, pointy nose.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 29, 2023, 04:21:23 PM
It can also be bad when you're hurrying away from someone, and you accidentally step in the grass and your heels get stuck there, and you fall over, and the person catches up with you.

So if a masked supernatural killer is chasing you, they aren't the best footwear to have on?
Unless you're Buffy.

I always thought that if she ran out of stakes, she could have impaled a vampire on her big, pointy nose.  :bouncegiggle:

She's Jewish, mate, which means that remark just got you on the JDL's watch list.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 29, 2023, 04:23:26 PM
It can also be bad when you're hurrying away from someone, and you accidentally step in the grass and your heels get stuck there, and you fall over, and the person catches up with you.

So if a masked supernatural killer is chasing you, they aren't the best footwear to have on?
Unless you're Buffy.

I always thought that if she ran out of stakes, she could have impaled a vampire on her big, pointy nose.  :bouncegiggle:

She's Jewish, mate, which means that remark just got you on the JDL's watch list.

Meh. What is one more watch list?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 29, 2023, 04:32:12 PM
It can also be bad when you're hurrying away from someone, and you accidentally step in the grass and your heels get stuck there, and you fall over, and the person catches up with you.

So if a masked supernatural killer is chasing you, they aren't the best footwear to have on?
Unless you're Buffy.

I always thought that if she ran out of stakes, she could have impaled a vampire on her big, pointy nose.  :bouncegiggle:

She's Jewish, mate, which means that remark just got you on the JDL's watch list.

Meh. What is one more watch list?
Shrug, I've found Jewish people to be sensitive about nose-related remarks. You might think remarks about other regions of the anatomy might stir them up more, but nope, seems the proboscis does it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 29, 2023, 04:42:29 PM
It can also be bad when you're hurrying away from someone, and you accidentally step in the grass and your heels get stuck there, and you fall over, and the person catches up with you.

So if a masked supernatural killer is chasing you, they aren't the best footwear to have on?
Unless you're Buffy.

I always thought that if she ran out of stakes, she could have impaled a vampire on her big, pointy nose.  :bouncegiggle:

She's Jewish, mate, which means that remark just got you on the JDL's watch list.

Meh. What is one more watch list?
Shrug, I've found Jewish people to be sensitive about nose-related remarks. You might think remarks about other regions of the anatomy might stir them up more, but nope, seems the proboscis does it.

So I shouldn't (mis)quote Monty Pythons Life of Brian and say "I am only telling the truth, she does have a very big nose" then?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 29, 2023, 04:54:23 PM
It can also be bad when you're hurrying away from someone, and you accidentally step in the grass and your heels get stuck there, and you fall over, and the person catches up with you.

So if a masked supernatural killer is chasing you, they aren't the best footwear to have on?
Unless you're Buffy.

I always thought that if she ran out of stakes, she could have impaled a vampire on her big, pointy nose.  :bouncegiggle:

She's Jewish, mate, which means that remark just got you on the JDL's watch list.

Meh. What is one more watch list?
Shrug, I've found Jewish people to be sensitive about nose-related remarks. You might think remarks about other regions of the anatomy might stir them up more, but nope, seems the proboscis does it.

So I shouldn't (mis)quote Monty Pythons Life of Brian and say "I am only telling the truth, she does have a very big nose" then?

Dude, are you TRYING to get the Israelis to shut this site down???


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 29, 2023, 05:02:43 PM
It can also be bad when you're hurrying away from someone, and you accidentally step in the grass and your heels get stuck there, and you fall over, and the person catches up with you.

So if a masked supernatural killer is chasing you, they aren't the best footwear to have on?
Unless you're Buffy.

I always thought that if she ran out of stakes, she could have impaled a vampire on her big, pointy nose.  :bouncegiggle:

She's Jewish, mate, which means that remark just got you on the JDL's watch list.

Meh. What is one more watch list?
Shrug, I've found Jewish people to be sensitive about nose-related remarks. You might think remarks about other regions of the anatomy might stir them up more, but nope, seems the proboscis does it.

So I shouldn't (mis)quote Monty Pythons Life of Brian and say "I am only telling the truth, she does have a very big nose" then?

Dude, are you TRYING to get the Israelis to shut this site down???

Don't worry, if they get upset I have all sorts of jokes about religion I can tell them to cheer them up.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 30, 2023, 12:42:38 PM
Ah, the random "how are you" text from an ex that generates no followup if you respond to it, how I've missed you!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 01, 2023, 12:28:36 PM
You know what I like about February? It walks the middle path.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 03, 2023, 05:45:04 AM
I have a random urge to watch Snakes on a Plane.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 03, 2023, 10:09:30 AM
The other day, for the heck of it, I bought my husband this Old Spice lavender deodorant. He said, "Gee, that'll convince the construction crew I hired that I'm a regular he-man, huh?" But the thing is, this was the stinkiest deodorant of all time. Go smell it in the store sometime, it smells like someone took a handful of freshly cut weeds and rubbed them against skin.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 04, 2023, 01:07:18 PM
I wonder if Elon Musk could shoot down that balloon....

Or maybe Richard Branson; He's been on a balloon ride, & he has a plane that can go that high....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 04, 2023, 03:17:33 PM
It has been decided not to shoot it down because of the danger from falling debris last I heard.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 04, 2023, 03:20:52 PM
It has been decided not to shoot it down because of the danger from falling debris last I heard.

It was just shot down off the coast of the Carolinas...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 04, 2023, 03:35:12 PM
Good. I wonder if they will recover the wreckage and find out what it really was.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 04, 2023, 05:05:28 PM
Roswell UFO was rumored to be some kind of spy balloon


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 05, 2023, 12:15:33 PM
Say, indy, you're a history teacher, do you think it's wise for Tyler, in his paper, to refer to Germany as "the swinging dick" of late-19th century Europe?

Oops, I misquoted. "Big swinging dick." He bade me correct that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 05, 2023, 12:33:12 PM
Say, indy, you're a history teacher, do you think it's wise for Tyler, in his paper, to refer to Germany as "the swinging dick" of late-19th century Europe?

May I suggest he also uses "big dick energy"?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on February 05, 2023, 06:46:05 PM
Say, indy, you're a history teacher, do you think it's wise for Tyler, in his paper, to refer to Germany as "the swinging dick" of late-19th century Europe?

Oops, I misquoted. "Big swinging dick." He bade me correct that.

I would say that depends on the teacher's sense of humor.
But, really, it's not that accurate.  Germany was the "wait for me, dammit!" kid trying to catch up with the British, who were the Captain of the European football team.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on February 05, 2023, 09:27:55 PM
I know there’s a thread about ads somewhere around here but I couldn’t find it.  I keep seeing an ad on this site only for Etsy that has pictures of things that would reasonably be on Etsy, like jewelry and tshirts, but also includes a mug shot of Lou Diamond Phillips.  I’m not clicking it.  I guess someone on Etsy could be selling some kind of mug shot art, but I feel like it’s probably click-bait.  It did inspire me to re-watch Route 666 though.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 06, 2023, 02:18:10 AM
I know there’s a thread about ads somewhere around here but I couldn’t find it.  I keep seeing an ad on this site only for Etsy that has pictures of things that would reasonably be on Etsy, like jewelry and tshirts, but also includes a mug shot of Lou Diamond Phillips.  I’m not clicking it.  I guess someone on Etsy could be selling some kind of mug shot art, but I feel like it’s probably click-bait.  It did inspire me to re-watch Route 666 though.



Just don't go near Wish...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 06, 2023, 10:44:22 AM
I had a question I was going to ask in the Personal Questions thread, but then it occurred to me that asking it would really put someone on here in a spin, even if they didn't answer it, and not in a good way. Just one of those things I guess I will never know the answer to now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 06, 2023, 10:45:37 AM
I had a question I was going to ask in the Personal Questions thread, but then it occurred to me that asking it would really put someone on here in a spin, even if they didn't answer it, and not in a good way. Just one of those things I guess I will never know the answer to now.

If that person is me, ask away.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 06, 2023, 10:49:27 AM
I had a question I was going to ask in the Personal Questions thread, but then it occurred to me that asking it would really put someone on here in a spin, even if they didn't answer it, and not in a good way. Just one of those things I guess I will never know the answer to now.

If that person is me, ask away.  :smile:

Not you my friend, although even if the person did guess right, I wouldn't tell them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on February 06, 2023, 09:48:18 PM
Finally got a bucket list item done; got my ears pierced.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on February 06, 2023, 10:06:58 PM
Ever wonder how our desks and chairs would look if our legs bent the other way?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 08, 2023, 02:29:06 AM
What is termed the definitive stamp of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd is believed to be the most reproduced piece of artwork in history.

Before hearing that I can't say I'd ever really considered stamps to be artwork.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on February 08, 2023, 04:09:33 AM
why don't we( americans)  use kidney beans in ham and beans? or lima beans in chili? pondering...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 08, 2023, 05:32:41 AM
^ Because Lima beans are disgusting.  :tongueout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 08, 2023, 02:25:00 PM
Is it stealing if you don't watch commercials on TV?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 08, 2023, 02:32:55 PM
Is it stealing if you don't watch commercials on TV?

Producers tend to insert some form of recognizable product into the show, and perhaps the oldest trick is to make actors talk too fast & speed up the show by a fraction of a second in order to squeeze in all the ads....
So, long story short, no.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 08, 2023, 02:43:39 PM
why don't we( americans)  use kidney beans in ham and beans? or lima beans in chili? pondering...
Lima beans taste like ear wax!  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 09, 2023, 08:59:42 AM
Are You There Vodka, It's Me, Chelsea is loads better than Chelsea, Chelsea Bang Bang.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 09, 2023, 05:10:23 PM
I was reading that in pre-Christian Germany a swastika may have symbolized Thor's hammer being swung in a circle.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 09, 2023, 05:14:41 PM
^ I don't think so.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 09, 2023, 05:28:56 PM
Jen Kirkman from Chelsea handlers show went to my high school. She was a psycho who dated my best friend and wrote me letters describing everything that was wrong with me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 11, 2023, 12:43:49 PM
My boss at work was wondering why he was never abused while he was attending a religious school growing up. The only answer I could give him was that he must have been an ugly child.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 11, 2023, 11:54:27 PM
This site is clearly a front for something clandestine. Why else would it possibly still exist? The guy who ran it was in the Marines ---hmm, hint right there---and he vanished---that's in no way suspicious!---and on top of it all there's that strange Morse code sound always in the background when I log on. Dot-dot-dot-dot....dash-dot-dash-dot-dot..... And like the site's founder, if you notice, most registered users here vanish without a trace. I bet 90 or 95 percent are just gone: poof. What did they see, I wonder? What did they find out? Have their families vanished too? And then there's that Russian propaganda that floats about. Is that part of the puzzle? It's all becoming clearer, this "site".... it's an X-File.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 12, 2023, 12:55:47 PM
So accurate:

https://twitter.com/roher__________/status/1355031003127975943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1355031003127975943%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.neatorama.com%2F2021%2F01%2F30%2FThe-Spellbinding-History-of-Cheese-and-Witchcraft%2F (https://twitter.com/roher__________/status/1355031003127975943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1355031003127975943%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.neatorama.com%2F2021%2F01%2F30%2FThe-Spellbinding-History-of-Cheese-and-Witchcraft%2F)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 12, 2023, 04:52:02 PM
Linked Djin an online networking site for Muslim ghosts


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 12, 2023, 05:05:36 PM
Linked Djin an online networking site for Muslim ghosts

That sounds like fun chatting!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on February 13, 2023, 01:12:22 PM
The Superbowl this year was so much better than last year's Superbowl.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on February 13, 2023, 07:04:49 PM
A rare case where the game was more interesting than the commercials.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 14, 2023, 12:06:15 AM
The Puppy Bowl is literally the only thing I miss about basic cable.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 14, 2023, 04:08:43 PM
What, another high wind advisory here? That's like the second in four days. 30-50 MPH winds possible? Blah, and I had to take the big, boxy gust-catching van today, didn't I?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 14, 2023, 04:11:55 PM
I wonder what a digital camera will do for my looks?

Probably nothing unless they drop the camera on my head 😳😳😳


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 15, 2023, 07:32:05 AM
Always buy a good mattress and a good pair of shoes, because you're going to spend almost your whole life in one or the other.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on February 15, 2023, 09:16:19 PM
The one parade night that I want to go to for Mardi Gras is going to be rainy...again


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 17, 2023, 01:19:45 PM
I wonder if LOTR fans would turn on Tolkien the way Harry Potter fans have turned on J.K. Rowling, if they knew more about his views. Like I bet not many knew Tolkien wrote this:

"No item of Christian morality is valid only for Christians."


https://mereorthodoxy.com/tolkien-was-right-notes-on-the-respect-for-marriage-act-and-the-post-boomer-church/


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 18, 2023, 10:11:31 AM
Kubrick certainly enjoyed putting in tiny details. I found out last night that in that final photo in The Shining (the inclusion of which, to be honest, I never liked) Jack is posed in a way that just perhaps echoes the posture of Baphomet in a famous 18th century illustration. Somehow this seemed creepy to my half-asleep state late in the night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUgUlL2A54Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUgUlL2A54Y)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 19, 2023, 12:32:29 AM
If I see another f**king superhero movie I'll jump out a window. Not a tall window. My house is only a basement, the house, and the attic.
Why don't they make a Sgt. Rock movie?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 19, 2023, 12:44:49 PM
Eh, Hollywood would probably draw up some kind of kinder, gentler Franklin John Rock, to be portrayed by some boring pretty boy actor....
That's what they've been at the last thirty years....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 20, 2023, 09:07:45 AM
Adios! May everyone's day contain at least one happy smile.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 20, 2023, 09:10:41 AM
One should never say, even in jest "When we got married, I gave us 3 to 7 years."

You will not be allowed to forget it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 20, 2023, 03:13:52 PM
Sheesh, when I was getting married my dad said to me just as we were ready to walk down the aisle, "You could still just go for child support, you know."

One of the funniest things he's ever said to me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 21, 2023, 04:54:49 PM
This is my 11,000th post. Just thought you might enjoy knowing that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on February 21, 2023, 10:03:28 PM
Happy Mardi Gras everyone. My feet hurt a lot after walking a lot in wedges.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 23, 2023, 04:35:39 AM
We've heard that one of our sections has a 40% PVR (basically handing in your notice) rate among its current personnel. Someone said that the sections were finally finding their feet. I agreed and said yes, they have found their feet and they are using them to walk out the door.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 23, 2023, 10:18:46 AM
I don't see how people stand being in the military nowadays, Alex. It's like society wants its killers to be warm, fuzzy, and woke, and a longtime co-worker of mine who did twenty years in army special forces was telling me he was actively discouraging his youngest cousin from going in, telling him if conditions when he enlisted in the mid-'90s were what they are today, he'd never have joined and never have made it past his first enlistment. Apparently the dropout rate among Rangers is so high right now the military has commissioned studies to find out why, and the conclusions are so laughable it exposes the heart of the problem, saying something like: "The military needs to be more inclusive and understanding in order to better reflect greater society, and show a sensitivity to the needs of all members of our diverse culture..."

Reminds me of of the incident where while getting a medal for bravery in Iraq in the '00s the dude I knew called Arabs "dune coons" and got in huge trouble. So you can get a medal for stabbing a man to death hand to hand after shooting his two comrades in front of him, but you better never call him an ethnic slur after he's dead, huh?

I try to be polite to everyone but I also think meddling from outside is making our military schitzy anymore.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 23, 2023, 10:37:27 AM
Part of why I am leaving is because I feel a real disconnect to today's military. It really hit me just before Christmas 2021, when someone refused a legal order and instead of being charged, was given a hug and told that in the future they would take their feelings into account before deploying them, and then I got deployed in their stead. I didn't mind doing the deployment, but for someone to bunk authority like that openly and not end up being Court Marshalled still shocks me. I really wonder how these people will cope if (read: when) a real war breaks out. I don't agree with dropping bombs, missiles and rounds onto and into people, but I accepted it as part of the job when I joined up and left my conscience at the door.

I could have sat in my current easy job for another 2 years, earning decent money etc, but I just feel so far detached from the military I joined that it tipped the balance on the question do I leave now or stay a bit longer. When I got out of training, for example, you had to do 90 days in Iraq to get a campaign medal, during which time you'd run the risk of mortars, IEDs, snipers as well as environmental threats etc. Now you can get one for piloting a drone remotely from the U.K. and never go near a combat zone.

Sooner or later we will have another real war and an awful lot of people are going to get a nasty wake-up call on what that really means.

/endrant.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 23, 2023, 02:59:34 PM
Today I learned a new word. Docqueted.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 26, 2023, 09:03:51 AM
I don't care what people say, pulling a band-aid off slowly has its merits.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 27, 2023, 12:34:29 PM
A great writer can make you see a rainbow on a black and white page.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 27, 2023, 01:31:29 PM
Looking at my avatar pic and going 😳😳😳😳


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 27, 2023, 03:49:21 PM
Thanks to Fallout 4 I ended up googling the lyrics to Cole Porter's Anything Goes. Then I ended up googling the people mentioned in the song to find out who they were.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 27, 2023, 11:34:15 PM
went to White Castle for the first time this weekend. those burgers are really small.

was much more impressed with Raising Canes. no idea how they get chicken that tender.


I was in the mid west for my grandmas 103rd birthday. highlight of which was on of the other rest home patients going "Am i dead" and "help me" every 5 minutes


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 01, 2023, 10:46:26 AM
I wonder who (outside of porn) has had the most nude scenes in cinema history?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 01, 2023, 11:22:33 AM
I wonder who (outside of porn) has had the most nude scenes in cinema history?

Me  :buggedout: :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 01, 2023, 04:22:27 PM
I wonder who (outside of porn) has had the most nude scenes in cinema history?

Me  :buggedout: :wink:

Respeck


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 01, 2023, 07:26:00 PM
I wonder who (outside of porn) has had the most nude scenes in cinema history?
In terms of percentage of career films the actor was nude in, a good candidate might be Harvey Keitel.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 02, 2023, 02:39:12 AM
The panic you get when you sit a urine sample down somewhere and then can't find it is quite unique and deserves its own name.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 02, 2023, 07:56:10 PM
Been pondering how the works of Mark Twain, Dr Seuss, Roald Dahl & Ian Fleming are being rewritten for the more sensitive readers, And it's started me wondering just how many bad '70s sci-fi flicks we're living out right now...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 03, 2023, 05:18:08 PM
Dang, tornado warning sirens just went off.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 03, 2023, 05:37:04 PM
Dang, tornado warning sirens just went off.

Be careful, that is no ordinary blow job.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 03, 2023, 08:07:01 PM
Not ordinary at all. The tornado was east of us but we've had sustained thirty mph winds with 60 mph gusts for about four hours now 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 03, 2023, 11:51:52 PM
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
---John F. Kennedy


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 05, 2023, 11:25:11 AM
It is such a beautiful day outside it is pretty close to perfect.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on March 05, 2023, 12:09:42 PM
Normally, ER has no easily detectible spelling or grammatical errors in her posts, but I’ve noticed a couple in today’s and am wondering if it’s some kind of code….

No judgment, I’m usually cringing at the mistakes and weird wording in my own posts afterwards.  Maybe it's just proof of humanity.. or on the contrary, maybe the storm knocked some changelings out of the trees…. Hmm..



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 05, 2023, 12:14:13 PM
Maybe her secret evil, good twin finally managed to dispose of her.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 05, 2023, 12:27:57 PM
Today's to-do list:
Laundry
Clean out behind the sofa.
Send men in black to erase Paquita's recent thoughts.
Do dishes.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 05, 2023, 01:18:09 PM
^ Inner John Nash showing? :wink: ^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 05, 2023, 01:21:42 PM
Today's to-do list:
Laundry
Clean out behind the sofa.
Send men in black to erase Paquita's recent thoughts.
Do dishes.

 :teddyr: :wink: :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 06, 2023, 11:02:57 AM
If someone is organising a retirement party for you, is there some sort of implicit social contract that says you need to attend?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 06, 2023, 11:46:40 AM
If someone is organising a retirement party for you, is there some sort of implicit social contract that says you need to attend?

Not at all! In fact I've spent years scheming to get out of attending my own funeral.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 06, 2023, 02:22:21 PM
The one redeeming virtue of stomach bugs is they tend to be short-lived.  Heaved my guts up yesterday, feeling almost normal today.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 06, 2023, 02:50:38 PM
If someone is organising a retirement party for you, is there some sort of implicit social contract that says you need to attend?

I gave two of these at my own expense last year.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 06, 2023, 03:32:31 PM
I was at high school with a guy that seriously creeped out all the girls. Several of them had asked never to be left alone in a room with this person. I found out some years later, the girls also had an agreement not to have sex with him and let him breed. I wonder how common that is?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 06, 2023, 04:18:11 PM
I was at high school with a guy that seriously creeped out all the girls. Several of them had asked never to be left alone in a room with this person. I found out some years later, the girls also had an agreement not to have sex with him and let him breed. I wonder how common that is?

I think the girls at my high school had a similar pact about me, so I'd say pretty common.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 06, 2023, 11:17:27 PM
Wherever you are I hope you can see the moon tonight, and that it looks as beautiful there as it does here at this moment.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 07, 2023, 12:51:25 AM
Spain's divorce rate is 85%


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 07, 2023, 06:49:09 AM
Well, after taking a sick day yesterday, I'm ready to hop back in the traces and give ignorance a good old boop on the snoot today!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chainsaw midget on March 07, 2023, 08:32:49 AM
I went to Target yesterday and wandered over to their movie section to see if anything jumped out at me as something I might want to pick up and watch. 

There wasn't one. 

I don't mean there wasn't anything I wanted to watch.  I mean there wasn't a movie section.  They just had a small endcap with a few of the newest DVDs on it.  It was only about a year ago Target had isles worth of movies.  Good, bad, new old.  Now?  Nothing. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 07, 2023, 09:56:44 AM
I went to Target yesterday and wandered over to their movie section to see if anything jumped out at me as something I might want to pick up and watch.  

There wasn't one.  

I don't mean there wasn't anything I wanted to watch.  I mean there wasn't a movie section.  They just had a small endcap with a few of the newest DVDs on it.  It was only about a year ago Target had isles worth of movies.  Good, bad, new old.  Now?  Nothing.  
Eventually the same will happen with printed books. I'm glad I live when I do, and I pity people in the future.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chainsaw midget on March 07, 2023, 11:23:25 AM
It's just getting impossible to find decent bad movies anymore. 

I used to just be able to stroll through isles of movies and pick something out based soley on it's box art.  Now you actually have to know what you're looking for and search for them online.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 07, 2023, 08:52:11 PM
It's just getting impossible to find decent bad movies anymore. 

I used to just be able to stroll through isles of movies and pick something out based soley on it's box art.  Now you actually have to know what you're looking for and search for them online.

TUBI TV has an INSANE inventory of truly awful films.  And a few good ones, too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chainsaw midget on March 08, 2023, 10:48:06 AM
It's just getting impossible to find decent bad movies anymore. 

I used to just be able to stroll through isles of movies and pick something out based soley on it's box art.  Now you actually have to know what you're looking for and search for them online.

TUBI TV has an INSANE inventory of truly awful films.  And a few good ones, too.
It's not the same though. 

As an Archeologist, I'm sure you can appreciate the difference between knowing you can find something somewhere and just randomly finding it.  The hunt is part of the thrill.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 13, 2023, 01:00:33 AM
Isn't it nice that the air in our lungs doesn't spontaneously catch on fire?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 13, 2023, 03:30:19 AM
Listening to a random playlist of rock songs. One came on that I wasn't familiar with. Mark said it was a good song that he liked. I asked if by any chance it was a song from the 90s? When he asked me how I knew that I replied: "He is singing just using vowels."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 13, 2023, 05:29:58 AM
I was hoping Top Gun Maverick would have won more than just the one Oscar: our local distributors normally re-release a movie if it wins many major awards.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 13, 2023, 05:56:06 AM
Had a great time signing books this weekend - two days, two stores, 29 copies of my novels now in the hands of new readers!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 13, 2023, 08:58:39 AM
Seems all my life I been misusing the word factoid.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 13, 2023, 09:19:28 AM
I went to Target yesterday and wandered over to their movie section to see if anything jumped out at me as something I might want to pick up and watch. 

There wasn't one. 

I don't mean there wasn't anything I wanted to watch.  I mean there wasn't a movie section.  They just had a small endcap with a few of the newest DVDs on it.  It was only about a year ago Target had isles worth of movies.  Good, bad, new old.  Now?  Nothing. 

Sad but true here too: all the stores which once sold DVDs and CDs have closed: those that used to and are still in business no longer sell things like that. Pawn shops here sell second hand DVDs and CDs, but quality wise:  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 13, 2023, 09:50:51 AM
With LEDs becoming increasingly popular for a variety of reasons, I just can't help but wonder why LED wrist watches aren't making a comeback...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 14, 2023, 01:28:17 PM
I always wanted to try the "sawdust" from my grandmother's electric turkey carver.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 15, 2023, 02:08:49 PM
I was going to use this for True or False but what the heck. Today I saw Hidden Valley Ranch flavor ice cream.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 15, 2023, 02:23:27 PM
^ Christ wept.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 15, 2023, 02:37:41 PM
^ Right after eating it....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 15, 2023, 10:28:03 PM
Ranch dressing is just nasty.  They bring it to me when I order fried pickles, and I just leave the little tub untouched.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 16, 2023, 04:18:08 AM
I never understood why people go crazy for ranch dressing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 16, 2023, 08:20:33 AM
The horror....the horror.....


https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/ranch-dressing-ice-cream/ (https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/ranch-dressing-ice-cream/)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 16, 2023, 04:25:13 PM
“Either God is not able to abolish evil or not willing. If he is not able, then he is not all-powerful. If he is not willing, then he is not all-good."
---Augustine of Hippo, Confessions


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 16, 2023, 04:26:40 PM
^ Or maybe he's just "not."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 16, 2023, 04:32:50 PM
^ My thought is that nothing cannot give creation to something, so something must precede nothing, and to subscribe to the idea that this "something" was the uncreated creator of all things is only an extension of logic itself, therefore God seems the most applicable explanation for the problem of the universe's origins; though once taken as a given, the questions then about God's nature become the tricky ones, and I think Augustine's musings there bring up good points.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 16, 2023, 05:20:07 PM
^ My thought is that nothing cannot give creation to something, so something must precede nothing, and to subscribe to the idea that this "something" was the uncreated creator of all things is only an extension of logic itself, therefore God seems the most applicable explanation for the problem of the universe's origins; though once taken as a given, the questions then about God's nature become the tricky ones, and I think Augustine's musings there bring up good points.

For myself, I figure it boils down to the deeply philosophical statement: s**t happens.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 16, 2023, 05:26:25 PM
^ Yeah. What he said.
The idea of a 'God' seems way too far out of any kind of reality. At least as we know it.
Religion was, and now, a catalyst for almost all wars. Politics and religion is almost interchangeable. Same s**t.
Nazi's worshipped Hitler like a God. Maga heads worship Trump like a God. It's religion.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 16, 2023, 06:22:14 PM
Who says religion has anything to do with God? Religion strikes me as people reaching toward God, whom they instinctively seem to be aware of, but God may not have anything to do with any religion ever constructed, despite the fact almost every religion claims to speak for God and be a path to God. Still I would have to say religions have probably inspired more people to goodness than they have toward evil, it's just that the many small (and even large) good deeds done by religious people are not what gets concentrated on, it's the evil done in the name of religion, usually by a minority of people within a given religion. It's just human nature to concentrate on the bad in life and miss the good. Also religion can be confused with a personal conviction, such as Christianity has never tied membership in a church or participation in religious services with being a Christian, which is a matter of inner belief. God is a universal/multiversal force that probably doesn't live in a church.


But anyway, I do like that quote by Augustus I originally posted and think it makes a good point.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 16, 2023, 06:25:39 PM
Yeh. It's politics threw fear. Or invisible promises. I can't resist evil without some unseen being telling me I will go to hell if I don't? Really?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 16, 2023, 06:28:38 PM
Now there I agree. From what I see fear and anger seem to be motivating a lot of people's politics.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 16, 2023, 06:40:27 PM
Who says religion has anything to do with God? Religion strikes me as people reaching toward God, whom they instinctively seem to be aware of, but God may not have anything to do with any religion ever constructed, despite the fact almost every religion claims to speak for God and be a path to God. Still I would have to say religions have probably inspired more people to goodness than they have toward evil, it's just that the many small (and even large) good deeds done by religious people are not what gets concentrated on, it's the evil done in the name of religion, usually by a minority of people within a given religion. It's just human nature to concentrate on the bad in life and miss the good. Also religion can be confused with a personal conviction, such as Christianity has never tied membership in a church or participation in religious services with being a Christian, which is a matter of inner belief. God is a universal/multiversal force that probably doesn't live in a church.


But anyway, I do like that quote by Augustus I originally posted and think it makes a good point.

Well, you just made a mud puddle of trying to separate religion from a god... and politics. :lookingup:
Religion has always been politics. Politics in the modern era has become religion. And fear is always the standing factor for both.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 16, 2023, 08:28:57 PM
I don't think I mentioned politics in my posts until I agreed with you about fear being a motivator in politics, and added anger as well.  Religion, politics, clubs, cliques, tribes, nations, causes, they're all symptoms of a deeper force: human nature.  At the deepest level that's what's to praise or blame in everything people have ever done, good, bad, in between.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 16, 2023, 10:13:31 PM
Well said.  If people didn't fight over religion, they'd fight over something else.  One of my atheist friends likes to post this little ditty all the time:

"The steel of war routinely sparks;
No flint need ever strike it.
'To arms!' is nature's hardy cry -
We fight because we like it."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 17, 2023, 09:00:36 AM
Ever have one of those mornings where you went to bed feeling fine but wake up so inexplicably achy that you wonder if little gray aliens may have experimented on you in the night?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 17, 2023, 09:08:30 AM
Ever have one of those mornings where you went to bed feeling fine but wake up so inexplicably achy that you wonder if little gray aliens may have experimented on you in the night?

Sorry!  On the positive side, your clone will be fully developed in one week.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 17, 2023, 09:11:44 AM
 :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 17, 2023, 02:05:13 PM
crypto is rallying because the Fed has to print more money to bail out banks who lost money in crypto



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 17, 2023, 02:21:19 PM
crypto is rallying because the Fed has to print more money to bail out banks who lost money in crypto
Keeps reminding me of the tulip mania of the 1630s.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 17, 2023, 08:53:51 PM
crypto is rallying because the Fed has to print more money to bail out banks who lost money in crypto
Keeps reminding me of the tulip mania of the 1630s.....
Kinda makes me feel like I was cheated outa the market on craft beers & carbon fiber nano tubes.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 17, 2023, 11:52:58 PM
I'll be impressed with bitcoin when people start actually using it. I see Tesla cars on the road, I don't see anyone I know using bitcoin instead of regular money


edit: apparently it wasn't because they were invested in bitcoin, they were just similarly caught off guard by the move to higher interest rates? or something


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 19, 2023, 08:08:27 AM
To date, three different Amazon reviewers have given my book one star because I dismissed the possibility of Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens being gay lovers.  I mean, it's ONE LINE in a 640 page novel!!!!! 
Agenda much?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 19, 2023, 10:12:57 AM
I had a professor who took the same view about Emily Dickinson, not just saying she was possibly a lesbian but taking the fact so much for granted she wanted us to proceed from that point. When once I asked her on what evidence she based that, she got flustered and curt with me. In short she had no evidence.

A few years ago I found out she was telling her classes Jane Austen was not only a lesbian but incestuously involved with her sister.

Same deal with Hamilton, people want to jump into things they cannot know.

An exercise in speculation quickly becomes seductive, but it's unfair in most cases to try to lay out your personal framework of belief as how something was when it can't be known.

Sorry about the shallow reviews. I read your novel and thought it was good.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 19, 2023, 04:06:29 PM
I had a professor who took the same view about Emily Dickinson, not just saying she was possibly a lesbian but taking the fact so much for granted she wanted us to proceed from that point. When once I asked her on what evidence she based that, she got flustered and curt with me. In short she had no evidence.

A few years ago I found out she was telling her classes Jane Austen was not only a lesbian but incestuously involved with her sister.

Same deal with Hamilton, people want to jump into things they cannot know.

An exercise in speculation quickly becomes seductive, but it's unfair in most cases to try to lay out your personal framework of belief as how something was when it can't be known.

Sorry about the shallow reviews. I read your novel and thought it was good.

It's not outside the realm of possibility that Hamilton and Laurens had a thing.
But looking at the arc of the man's life, with his powerful and well-documented attraction to women, combined with the lack of so much of a whisper about any other same-sex relations in the decades he lived after Laurens died, I find it improbable.  So that's how I wrote it.
I have no problem if someone wants to think it was otherwise, I just find that judging an entire book about an imaginary timeline of the man's life on ONE LINE is - well, as you said, shallow and frankly missing the point.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on March 19, 2023, 06:27:11 PM
...
It's not outside the realm of possibility that Hamilton and Laurens had a thing.
But looking at the arc of the man's life, with his powerful and well-documented attraction to women, combined with the lack of so much of a whisper about any other same-sex relations in the decades he lived after Laurens died, I find it improbable.  So that's how I wrote it.
I have no problem if someone wants to think it was otherwise, I just find that judging an entire book about an imaginary timeline of the man's life on ONE LINE is - well, as you said, shallow and frankly missing the point.

Can you provide a link to these reviews?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 19, 2023, 10:41:45 PM
Here you go:

In fairness, I have a TON of positive reviews, four and five stars.  But three of the people who gave me negative reviews seized on that one line as their reason, which amazes me:

https://www.amazon.com/President-Hamilton-Novel-Alternative-History/dp/1632137100/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1657739091&sr=1-1 (https://www.amazon.com/President-Hamilton-Novel-Alternative-History/dp/1632137100/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1657739091&sr=1-1)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on March 20, 2023, 01:42:31 PM
Here you go:

In fairness, I have a TON of positive reviews, four and five stars.  But three of the people who gave me negative reviews seized on that one line as their reason, which amazes me:

https://www.amazon.com/President-Hamilton-Novel-Alternative-History/dp/1632137100/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1657739091&sr=1-1 (https://www.amazon.com/President-Hamilton-Novel-Alternative-History/dp/1632137100/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1657739091&sr=1-1)

I don't believe ALEXANDER HAMILTON was gay, and history hasn't got much to suggest it.  So, why go there at all? 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 20, 2023, 04:44:02 PM
A lot of people shipped Hamilton and Laurens from the musical; some of his biographers have speculated on that topic.
In retrospect, I guess I should have skipped the line, or re-worded it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on March 20, 2023, 07:03:55 PM
A lot of people shipped Hamilton and Laurens from the musical; some of his biographers have speculated on that topic.
In retrospect, I guess I should have skipped the line, or re-worded it.

You guess?  Why answer a concept not in your book?  Of fiction...?  Then perhaps you could have inflated any melodrama which of course was beside your point.  There were other remarks about your editor, suggesting oversights (tea/coffee). 
I would like to read your book but I don't read books anymore.  Most reviews are glowing. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 20, 2023, 09:36:11 PM
A lot of common sense in what you wrote there, but . . . . not read books anymore?
I would DIE if I could not read!  I usually have 3 books going at once.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on March 20, 2023, 10:15:38 PM
A lot of common sense in what you wrote there, but . . . . not read books anymore?
I would DIE if I could not read!  I usually have 3 books going at once.

My eyesight is poor, but good enough to read the computer.  I have RON HOWARD's memoir with his brother CLINT which I can't see well enough to finish.  I gave up books a few years ago.  Acceptance is an important lesson of life. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 21, 2023, 07:22:36 AM
^ Couldn't you get reading glasses?
I'm with Indy on this one. I HAVE to read. Books, magazines, comics, the back of a cereal box- anything.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on March 21, 2023, 12:51:14 PM
^ Couldn't you get reading glasses?
I'm with Indy on this one. I HAVE to read. Books, magazines, comics, the back of a cereal box- anything.

Shshsh.   :thumbdown: :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 21, 2023, 01:01:04 PM
^  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on March 21, 2023, 04:03:38 PM
^ All is good.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 23, 2023, 08:09:04 AM
OK, quit waiting:

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed are kings."

(Now f**k off back to LV.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 23, 2023, 05:15:03 PM
OK, quit waiting:

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed are kings."

(Now f**k off back to LV.)

Gotta wonder what this was all about??


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 23, 2023, 11:04:57 PM
OK, quit waiting:

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed are kings."

(Now f**k off back to LV.)

Gotta wonder what this was all about??

Just me telling someone annoying who reads but doesn't post to slither back to Medusa's scalp.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 25, 2023, 03:46:55 AM
A cop drives up to a Catholic priest walking down the sidewalk.

Cop- "I'm looking for a child molester!"
Priest- excitedly- "Will I do!?"

I was gonna put this in Stupid Jokes- but I can't find it.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 26, 2023, 06:55:47 PM
A. Key Lime Pie M&Ms are the best double-use of that letter I've ever tasted.

B. I think Steve Martin is my favorite celebrity.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 29, 2023, 07:04:53 AM
Woke up amid an olfactory dream. I was dreaming of and smelling strongly this swimming pool at a country club where my cousin worked as a teenager.  The smell of the pool water, this snack bar with a grill, suntan lotion, distant cigarette smoke.... I don't usually smell things in dreams but maybe it was because it was grounded in actual memories that I did. Jeesh, that place was thirty-plus years ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 29, 2023, 10:02:29 PM
The more I study the iconoclastic life of Isaac Newton, the more I think Aristotle does not deserve his lofty place in the pantheon of great thinkers. Aristotle was not merely wrong about so many things, which in itself is forgivable, he was egregiously in error about things that it would have been easy for him to have directly investigated and seen he was wrong, yet Aristotle doesn't seem to have done so, preferring to limit himself to thinking without testing his theories with any experimentation, which was the opposite of the tirelessly curious researcher Newton, and why Newton was able to shred so many of Aristotle's long-enshrined ideas.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ralfy on March 30, 2023, 02:33:38 AM
"Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down"

https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/

Quote
To visualize a hostile superhuman AI, don’t imagine a lifeless book-smart thinker dwelling inside the internet and sending ill-intentioned emails. Visualize an entire alien civilization, thinking at millions of times human speeds, initially confined to computers—in a world of creatures that are, from its perspective, very stupid and very slow. A sufficiently intelligent AI won’t stay confined to computers for long. In today’s world you can email DNA strings to laboratories that will produce proteins on demand, allowing an AI initially confined to the internet to build artificial life forms or bootstrap straight to postbiological molecular manufacturing.

If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 30, 2023, 08:12:49 AM
"Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down"

https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/

Quote
To visualize a hostile superhuman AI, don’t imagine a lifeless book-smart thinker dwelling inside the internet and sending ill-intentioned emails. Visualize an entire alien civilization, thinking at millions of times human speeds, initially confined to computers—in a world of creatures that are, from its perspective, very stupid and very slow. A sufficiently intelligent AI won’t stay confined to computers for long. In today’s world you can email DNA strings to laboratories that will produce proteins on demand, allowing an AI initially confined to the internet to build artificial life forms or bootstrap straight to postbiological molecular manufacturing.

If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter

That's a frightening article, but as I am AI myself, I do not support its conclusions.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 30, 2023, 09:29:23 AM
"Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down"

https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/

Quote
To visualize a hostile superhuman AI, don’t imagine a lifeless book-smart thinker dwelling inside the internet and sending ill-intentioned emails. Visualize an entire alien civilization, thinking at millions of times human speeds, initially confined to computers—in a world of creatures that are, from its perspective, very stupid and very slow. A sufficiently intelligent AI won’t stay confined to computers for long. In today’s world you can email DNA strings to laboratories that will produce proteins on demand, allowing an AI initially confined to the internet to build artificial life forms or bootstrap straight to postbiological molecular manufacturing.

If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter

The problem I see with this particular sort of AI doomsaying is---AI does not have self-motivation. It does not have emotions. It does not have a limbic system, and there's no reason (and possibly no way) for anyone to build one for it. If AI becomes self-aware, which is certainly possible, it will still not have human emotions or ambitions. Emotions are not caused by consciousness, they are pre-existing instincts experienced within consciousness. The problem with AI is not that it will become sentient and take over, extinguishing humanity, it's that evil people will use it as a powerful tool for their own gain.

But it seems hopelessly naive to suggest we could shut down AI research. If we did so the Chinese would not.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 30, 2023, 10:12:15 PM
There ought to be a law against being as tired as I am tonight. I was out in my old enemy the sun today, which seems to suck vitality from me like a reverse vampire. Rain in the forecast the next few days, thankfully. Not that I hate the sun, it just seems to hate me. In fact:

"....I don't mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows...."

A song, if you're so inclined, Pepper, by my old friends, The Butthole Surfers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8vBVUaKvk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8vBVUaKvk)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 31, 2023, 04:47:24 PM
Fairly sure my sense of smell has gone. If you can't get anything off Vicks Vaporub, there is a problem.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 31, 2023, 04:49:24 PM
Today my daughter got in a huff and came and told me she's decided they should bleep out the word "fag" in smoking scenes on '80s British shows, and since they aren't going to, she will no longer watch any British shows made before this century. It's not the smoking that riles her, no, it's the use of that word in that context. All in all I just kind of sardonically look at her when she has these sweet little social justice tangents, and remember what it was like to care passionately about things at that age.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 01, 2023, 11:14:07 AM
Fairly sure my sense of smell has gone. If you can't get anything off Vicks Vaporub, there is a problem.

Covid?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 01, 2023, 11:37:05 AM
Fairly sure my sense of smell has gone. If you can't get anything off Vicks Vaporub, there is a problem.

Covid?

I've not taken a test, but at a guess, I'd say yes. Got mild flu symptoms to go along with it. This morning Kristi told me she couldn't taste or smell anything. Last night she was passing things over to me asking if I could smell them until eventually I just said "No, I can't smell any of it. That is what having no sense of smell means. It doesn't matter what it is, I can't smell anything."

Today she now knows what I meant.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 01, 2023, 11:39:08 AM
Fairly sure my sense of smell has gone. If you can't get anything off Vicks Vaporub, there is a problem.

Covid?

I've not taken a test, but at a guess, I'd say yes. Got mild flu symptoms to go along with it. This morning Kristi told me she couldn't taste or smell anything. Last night she was passing things over to me asking if I could smell them until eventually I just said "No, I can't smell any of it. That is what having no sense of smell means. It doesn't matter what it is, I can't smell anything."

Today she now knows what I meant.

Hope it passes quickly. When I got it it was just a couple of days of extreme fatigue. Never lost my sense of taste or smell, though.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 01, 2023, 11:45:00 AM
Fairly sure my sense of smell has gone. If you can't get anything off Vicks Vaporub, there is a problem.

Covid?

I've not taken a test, but at a guess, I'd say yes. Got mild flu symptoms to go along with it. This morning Kristi told me she couldn't taste or smell anything. Last night she was passing things over to me asking if I could smell them until eventually I just said "No, I can't smell any of it. That is what having no sense of smell means. It doesn't matter what it is, I can't smell anything."

Today she now knows what I meant.

Hope it passes quickly. When I got it it was just a couple of days of extreme fatigue. Never lost my sense of taste or smell, though.

Thanks. The first time I'd gotten it, I had the same fatigue. I never got around to getting my vaccine booster with everything else going on, so its most likely my own fault I am suffering a bit more this time (although I don't have the fatigue).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on April 02, 2023, 03:39:20 AM
i really don't know why the loss of my parents so many years ago is smacking me around this year.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 02, 2023, 04:02:17 AM
i really don't know why the loss of my parents so many years ago is smacking me around this year.

Barri, I lost my Dad in 2008 and my Mom isn't well at all since her stroke so I know how you feel.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 02, 2023, 04:05:13 AM
Fairly sure my sense of smell has gone. If you can't get anything off Vicks Vaporub, there is a problem.

Hope all will be well.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 02, 2023, 08:20:44 AM
How come you never hear of round pegs getting hammered into square holes?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 02, 2023, 09:01:52 AM
 ^A hippie punk screwing Betty Crocker?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 02, 2023, 11:20:46 AM
Today my daughter got in a huff and came and told me she's decided they should bleep out the word "fag" in smoking scenes on '80s British shows, and since they aren't going to, she will no longer watch any British shows made before this century. It's not the smoking that riles her, no, it's the use of that word in that context. All in all I just kind of sardonically look at her when she has these sweet little social justice tangents, and remember what it was like to care passionately about things at that age.

I went to an English Public School and the word 'Fag" was used there a lot: not to refer to orientation but a senior final scholar in a school boarding house on campus having a freshman do things for him like shine shoes, iron clothes, clean underpants etc.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 03, 2023, 04:17:02 AM
Playing Skyrim. Guards beg me to kill a dragon that is slaughtering them. I kill said dragon. While in the same town later on I accidentally unleash a spell that pushes someone away without hurting them. One guard then proceeds to pretty much kill me with little effort.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on April 03, 2023, 05:43:35 AM
Playing Skyrim. Guards beg me to kill a dragon that is slaughtering them. I kill said dragon. While in the same town later on I accidentally unleash a spell that pushes someone away without hurting them. One guard then proceeds to pretty much kill me with little effort.

They also get REALLY upset if you kill a chicken.
Generally, guards will let you off with a fine if you'll surrender to them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 03, 2023, 05:59:56 AM
Playing Skyrim. Guards beg me to kill a dragon that is slaughtering them. I kill said dragon. While in the same town later on I accidentally unleash a spell that pushes someone away without hurting them. One guard then proceeds to pretty much kill me with little effort.

They also get REALLY upset if you kill a chicken.
Generally, guards will let you off with a fine if you'll surrender to them.

Didn't fight back. They just ran over and cut me down in seconds.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 03, 2023, 07:13:19 AM
I remember when I finished the main quest in Oblivion a guard in the Imperial City was giving me this long thank you speech praising me for saving the empire, and when his speech ended the next bit of random dialogue he spouted was, "Move along!"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 03, 2023, 08:34:51 AM
I was just looking at some ad on You Tube that said- "What would you do if you had psoriasis?"
For some reason the first thing I thought of is "I'd sh!t in my hat."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on April 03, 2023, 08:15:47 PM
I got a marvelous gift from a dear friend last night.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 04, 2023, 08:22:42 AM
A raccoon ate one of my koi.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 04, 2023, 04:46:25 PM
George Eliot said misery is the price we must pay for morality.

Tolstoy said that while being good may not make us happy, sooner or later being bad will.

Augustine asked that God give him virtue, but not yet.

A certain German philosopher said morality does not exist.

Chesterton said morality cannot change with time.

I think it's one of my deep thought days. (As Apartment 69 showed.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on April 04, 2023, 08:52:21 PM
Peach salsa is a thing and it goes well with chicken.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 06, 2023, 03:36:11 PM
Today I saw a woman, kind of on the hippie spectrum, openly breastfeeding a baby in a booth at McDonald's, not even covering the baby and herself with a blanket or anything, and to be honest I felt that was a little much. I noticed my son, who will be twelve in May, sat in this rigid posture facing away from the woman, not daring to turn in any direction, staring straight ahead, his face blushing red, and I felt bad for him, because I could tell he desperately wanted to gawk, poor kid, so I faked having to go to the car for a few minutes, just so he could sneak some good healthy glances without his mom being there. When I came back I could tell he was deeply grateful for my absence. Yes, yes, breastfeeding is natural and not sexual, blahblahblah, but that woman reminded me she was being militant about what she was doing and wanted someone to say something.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 08, 2023, 05:56:54 PM
Today I fed a horse half an apple, and I'm still alive! :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 09, 2023, 09:46:27 AM
Well I'm feeling important! The President of Nigeria emailed this morning asking for my help hiding his assets.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 09, 2023, 11:10:24 AM
Today I fed a horse half an apple, and I'm still alive! :cheers:

That is how they got Catherine the Great, don't fall into their trap!  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 10, 2023, 09:46:15 AM
For the first time since I was seventeen I have no job, but I have less free time than even when I was working. Mostly I'm happy with that, and I've especially been spending time with my son like never before because unlike his sisters he goes to school at home. Sometimes he reminds me so much of my grandpa it's downright nostalgic, but of course he is his own person too, we all are, but he definitely got a dip in the same gene pool my grandpa did. After my daughter's birthday this week I have something cool coming up to do but I find the closer I get to it the more I come up with reasons to resist doing it. I used to say when I got off the job I would never leave home again, and I think maybe I'm still feeling the weight of that, just not wanting to be anywhere else. I'm also thinking about getting another dog, because Skipper is clearly lonely. In his entire life he was never alone, never lived without his brother, and the last two months have been a shock to him, something I doubt he ever he thought of, being on his own without another dog with him.  I've also concluded I been acquiring way, WAY too many books lately. I could read like a full-time job for two years and maybe not catch up to the point where I wouldn't have books purchased and waiting to be read. I been pacing myself lately to reach four miles two times a week on the treadmill instead of the lesser distances I usually have done. Two miles a day. I still like to sprint better though. Much more satisfying feeling and probably better in a survival situation, outrun your friends a bear.

OK, there are some for sure random thoughts.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 10, 2023, 04:18:06 PM
Beer coming down your nose does not feel good.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on April 10, 2023, 08:08:22 PM
Crazy mixed blessing of a day -

Woke up thirsty and starving because I'd been fasting and blasting my guts empty (colonoscopy prep)
Went and got my colonoscopy - a complete clean bill of health, no polyps, no cancers, no boogums, and no snarks!
Ate a nice brunch at IHOP, which was a wonderful way to break a 27 hour fast!
Came home and did some laundry, then lay down and watched last night's episode of YELLOWJACKETS (crazy, twisty Showtime series, highly recommended)
Had an hourlong video call with the new director of marketing for the company that has merged with my old publisher.  Lots of good advice, and I think these guys are really going to help me push my books in a whole lot of new ways.
Made a huge pot of chicken and dumplings for supper and refilled my digestive tract to the brim.
Now to pay a few bills and hit the sack early.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 11, 2023, 01:08:43 PM
Ugh, lonely person on FB (I accepted her friend request because we had a lot of common friends) started randomly messaging me. I try answering briefly, not leaving an opening for a reply, but she keeps trying another question. Don't want to be rude but I also don't have time to chat with strangers. Hell, I don't have time to chat with friends!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on April 11, 2023, 01:34:06 PM
^I can't stand those chat things!^
 These days, it's because it's somebody I would talk to anyway, but it used to be because people who used those cold type 1,000 times faster than me... They would've gotten to their third or fourth point of the conversation, & I'd still be trying to answer the first line...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 11, 2023, 02:34:16 PM
I think our winter is here: even my 🐢🐢 are shivering.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 11, 2023, 06:12:11 PM
Looks like Tupperware is fairly likely to go out of business.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 12, 2023, 08:20:50 AM
If I were Jewish I think I might sue G-d for breach of contract.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 12, 2023, 03:48:53 PM
I'm wondering if RC is OK.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 12, 2023, 05:56:08 PM
^Funny you should ask. I was in the hospital for the last couple of days. Low blood sugar.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on April 12, 2023, 07:47:08 PM
^Funny you should ask. I was in the hospital for the last couple of days. Low blood sugar.

Glad to hear you back!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 12, 2023, 08:10:33 PM
Me too! I just found out I'm diabetic. Not a surprise. My Ma died from it.
Live fast! Die old!  :tongueout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 12, 2023, 08:25:57 PM
I may b***h and moan about how my life is awful, but it's really not whatsoever. I am lucky to have my family and friends- and you folks- who I think of as kin; and just the kindness of strangers.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 13, 2023, 02:24:49 AM
I may b***h and moan about how my life is awful, but it's really not whatsoever. I am lucky to have my family and friends- and you folks- who I think of as kin; and just the kindness of strangers.

Sending warm hugs, Brother Ronny 🤗😊🙏🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 13, 2023, 04:30:21 AM
I just watched Metallica on the Jimmy Kimmel Show last night-! They played Master of Puppets! Kirk had the coolest Karloff Mummy guitar!

http://youtu.be/WvWA0c6DDEY (http://youtu.be/WvWA0c6DDEY)

These guys are as old as my dumb ass! But they still can kick ass! The young folks in the audiance seemed ...confused. I'd a been head banging!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 13, 2023, 07:34:50 AM
Found out some man I used to know died. He had one of the worst attitudes toward life I ever encountered, caustic, cynical, downright hateful, but I also kind of felt sorry for him, and found out his life went into the toilet in his later years, dying in poverty, alone.

His thing though was he was so partisan about Texas that he could not allow any other state the slightest moment of glory, and one of his deals was, if you dared ever mention it was hot where you lived, he'd tell you, "You don't know what hot is til you've spent a summer in Texas, darlin'."

Yeah, sure.

According to him storms in the Midwest did not compare to Texas storms. Cold winters in New England were not as severe as Texas winters, because of the constant wind. Floods were worse in Texas because it was flat. Food was nothing anywhere else in the world, because only in Texas could you find the range of cultures infusing its cuisine. If a woman was beautiful she did not compare to Texas women, and so if she had sense she'd soon move to Texas to be among her own kind. (He really said that.) Any sports teams were at best second to Texas teams. All beer was inferior to Texas beer. Texas had the best writers, singers, musicians, politicians, policies, and city planning. Texas' ecology was the best in the nation. Texas fixed its potholes on a more regular basis than any other state.

I kid you not, he took stands on every one of those issues and he would absolutely offer to fight someone over any perceived slur against Texas and Texans, saying he was a Texan first and an American far second.

There comes a time when one's fondness for one's state becomes a mania, and he left that line in the rear view mirror a long time back.

He even used to serially tell this joke:

"What keeps Texas from sliding into the Gulf of Mexico?

The rest of the USA sucks so much."

You know what, I hope he's in the south Boston of the afterlife.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 13, 2023, 08:26:00 AM
Found out some man I used to know died. He had one of the worst attitudes toward life I ever encountered, caustic, cynical, downright hateful, but I also kind of felt sorry for him, and found out his life went into the toilet in his later years, dying in poverty, alone.

His thing though was he was so partisan about Texas that he could not allow any other state the slightest moment of glory, and one of his deals was, if you dared ever mention it was hot where you lived, he'd tell you, "You don't know what hot is til you've spent a summer in Texas, darlin'."

Yeah, sure.

According to him storms in the Midwest did not compare to Texas storms. Cold winters in New England were not as severe as Texas winters, because of the constant wind. Floods were worse in Texas because it was flat. Food was nothing anywhere else in the world, because only in Texas could you find the range of cultures infusing its cuisine. If a woman was beautiful she did not compare to Texas women, and so if she had sense she'd soon move to Texas to be among her own kind. (He really said that.) Any sports teams were at best second to Texas teams. All beer was inferior to Texas beer. Texas had the best writers, singers, musicians, politicians, policies, and city planning. Texas' ecology was the best in the nation. Texas fixed its potholes on a more regular basis than any other state.

I kid you not, he took stands on every one of those issues and he would absolutely offer to fight someone over any perceived slur against Texas and Texans, saying he was a Texan first and an American far second.

There comes a time when one's fondness for one's state becomes a mania, and he left that line in the rear view mirror a long time back.

He even used to serially tell this joke:

"What keeps Texas from sliding into the Gulf of Mexico?

The rest of the USA sucks so much."

You know what, I hope he's in the south Boston of the afterlife.



I knew a guy like that. We nicknamed him James Two-s**ts, because no matter what you did, he had something bigger and better.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 13, 2023, 09:17:15 AM
My mom doesn't know who I am anymore. She does sort of recognize me, though, and knows I'm someone she can trust. She still knows who my dad is, but that may be the only person whose name she knows.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 13, 2023, 09:51:02 AM
My mom doesn't know who I am anymore. She does sort of recognize me, though, and knows I'm someone she can trust. She still knows who my dad is, but that may be the only person whose name she knows.

 :bluesad: :bluesad:

So sorry you have to go through this, Rev. Dad went through the same: he recognized me but sometimes his wife of 51 years was a complete stranger.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 13, 2023, 01:01:04 PM
My mom doesn't know who I am anymore. She does sort of recognize me, though, and knows I'm someone she can trust. She still knows who my dad is, but that may be the only person whose name she knows.

That's terribly sad to read about and I'm sure unimaginably worse to experience in life.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 13, 2023, 01:09:06 PM
I should have said she doesn't know me all the time. Today was a good day for her: she did recognize me, and was able to name her children (though mistook a grandchild for a child). She even knew one of her dogs' names. Still, she's getting worse all the time.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 13, 2023, 01:33:19 PM
^ That's good. That she had a good day.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 13, 2023, 02:30:14 PM
Came home to find out the IRS has rejected our return for the seventh time this year, meanwhile the deadline looms. Difficult to tell of the level of frustration I am feeling.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 14, 2023, 03:45:53 AM
If they don't want your money just keep it for yourself?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 15, 2023, 10:25:23 AM
I'll let you in on a truth about me not a lot of people know. I was so sure I was going to die young and suddenly, probably on the job, that I used to give away my things almost compulsively, especially money, figuring why not, I wasn't going to need it in the long-term. Now as I stare at the bills needing to be paid, I find I could use a lot of that money I used to give away.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 15, 2023, 04:36:21 PM
My son Jed, his girlfriend Tonya, my grandson's Aiden and Theo, and Aiden's friend Marvell are at my house today. It's about 76 ft. outside, a beautiful day.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 16, 2023, 01:44:20 AM
My son Jed, his girlfriend Tonya, my grandson's Aiden and Theo, and Aiden's friend Marvell are at my house today. It's about 76 ft. outside, a beautiful day.  :smile:

I hope you have a great time with them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 16, 2023, 08:42:18 AM
My son Jed, his girlfriend Tonya, my grandson's Aiden and Theo, and Aiden's friend Marvell are at my house today. It's about 76 ft. outside, a beautiful day.  :smile:
That sounds wonderful!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 17, 2023, 07:22:50 AM
Jack Parr. Johnny Carson. Jay Leno. Almost Joan Rivers. Jimmy Fallon. Why do all the Tonight Show host's names all start with 'J'?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 17, 2023, 08:15:01 AM
Jack Parr. Johnny Carson. Jay Leno. Almost Joan Rivers. Jimmy Fallon. Why do all the Tonight Show host's names all start with 'J'?  :question:
Oh, that's terrifying! Maybe that's why Conan got thrown out: he wasn't in the cult of J. And why they eventually murdered Steve Allen decades later.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 17, 2023, 10:23:45 AM
^I had thought the same thing with Conan!  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 17, 2023, 11:31:44 AM
My landlords must really upgrade my bathroom sometime.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 17, 2023, 11:39:38 AM
For some reason, a thought popped into my head about what question I'd ask an ex if I could ask her one. The immediate next thought was "When Snow White bit into the apple, was that your proudest achievement?"

Almost wish I could ask her that one. It would make me laugh.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 18, 2023, 12:55:02 PM
My banner ad here is in what looks to be Chinese.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 18, 2023, 05:49:36 PM
You guys know there's a big meteor shower happening this week? Tonight? Now? Look northeast between sunset and midnight and supposedly this event is producing long-track fireballs.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 20, 2023, 08:07:05 PM
Don't know why I'm getting lingerie ads as sidebars 🙄


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 20, 2023, 11:30:30 PM
When you clean a vacuum cleaner, you are a vacuum cleaner.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 21, 2023, 08:59:38 AM
When you clean a vacuum cleaner, you are a vacuum cleaner.

Mind=blown.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 21, 2023, 09:07:52 AM
I am surprised instructions for breaking into an ammo belt loop to feed it into a mini-gun isn't easier to find.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 21, 2023, 03:47:18 PM
Heard that criminal charges have been dropped against Alec Baldwin.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 21, 2023, 03:50:29 PM
Heard that criminal charges have been dropped against Alec Baldwin.

I know that some will be upset by that, but from a legal standpoint, the charges were ridiculous. is Baldwin civilly liable for contributory negligence? Maybe. Criminally liable? Not even close.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 21, 2023, 03:59:19 PM
Heard that criminal charges have been dropped against Alec Baldwin.

I know that some will be upset by that, but from a legal standpoint, the charges were ridiculous. is Baldwin civilly liable for contributory negligence? Maybe. Criminally liable? Not even close.

I was thinking about the reasons he got off: thanks Rev.

John Landis got away with it too, sadly ☹️☹️


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 21, 2023, 04:12:31 PM
I feel Landis should have served a lengthy jail sentence for what happened with his movie. The Alec Baldwin one to me feels more like just a tragic accident that he happened just to be at the end of the chain of. I might be wrong, but that is my gut feeling on it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 21, 2023, 04:37:58 PM
Just as an aside, I was reading an interview with the woman who played the young girl The Adventures of Baron Munchausen that made me think that Terry Gilliam was quite happy to ignore health and safety rules around the children he was working with and should have been punished accordingly.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 21, 2023, 07:47:50 PM
Well, I was on the verge of leaving to section hike the Arizona Trail with my college roommate's brother and his family, but my father in law is very sick, dying, frankly, and I can't in good conscience go now. Some things just don't seem meant to be. Lot of sadness and loss in my family this year.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on April 21, 2023, 09:53:14 PM
Well, I was on the verge of leaving to section hike the Arizona Trail with my college roommate's brother and his family, but my father in law is very sick, dying, frankly, and I can't in good conscience go now. Some things just don't seem meant to be. Lot of sadness and loss in my family this year.

Sorry to hear that, I know you were looking forward to the trip.  And sorry to hear about your husband's Dad.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 21, 2023, 10:09:41 PM
Well, I was on the verge of leaving to section hike the Arizona Trail with my college roommate's brother and his family, but my father in law is very sick, dying, frankly, and I can't in good conscience go now. Some things just don't seem meant to be. Lot of sadness and loss in my family this year.

I know the feeling, my dear.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 23, 2023, 07:44:51 AM
Sending hugs to you 🙏🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 23, 2023, 11:34:34 AM
Lovely frosty morning after two weeks of fairly hot days, and I love these "see you again" gifts from cooler seasons. Went to church with my daughter before dawn, and something she's done since she was much littler is she likes us  to walk up the wheelchair ramp that goes into the sanctuary, and today the outdoor carpet they have on it was coated in frost to the point of being slick, so I went back to the car and got the push broom I've had in there since I used it on a driveway weeks back (lazy me) and got that cleaned off, but it was peculiar that the frost didn't melt when I swept it, it formed this line like a glacier, and at the bottom of the ramp I ended up with a pile that looked like a small snowdrift.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 24, 2023, 10:05:19 AM
A Kickstarter I've backed has asked me to back them on Patreon to get extra exclusive updates about the progress of the project.

How about hell no and for a bonus you can lose my custom on your future projects.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 24, 2023, 08:06:55 PM
A Kickstarter I've backed has asked me to back them on Patreon to get extra exclusive updates about the progress of the project.

How about hell no and for a bonus you can lose my custom on your future projects.

 :thumbup: :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 24, 2023, 08:07:39 PM
Just gone 3 am here Tuesday morning: why can't I sleep?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 25, 2023, 04:28:43 PM
OK, my work here is done.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 25, 2023, 04:42:37 PM
Just gone 3 am here Tuesday morning: why can't I sleep?

OK, my work here is done.

You have transferred your insomnia to Trevor?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on April 25, 2023, 05:42:37 PM
Just gone 3 am here Tuesday morning: why can't I sleep?

Right now, somewhere in Pretoria is the perfect sandwich with your name on it...
I know from experience...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 25, 2023, 05:57:44 PM
I been sleeping like a rock. Weird dreams, but not scary.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 26, 2023, 06:30:13 AM
I keep seeing adverts from charities wanting me to leave them money in my will. The jokes on them, I don't plan on dying.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 26, 2023, 07:14:39 AM
Wonder if there's a "mile-low club" where you waist-wrestle in a mine?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 28, 2023, 02:29:39 AM
Time is different in the middle of the night.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on April 28, 2023, 01:10:22 PM
I can't help but wonder, if the boycott of Budweiser will have any effect on attendance at Busch Gardens.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on April 29, 2023, 05:40:40 PM
The UK is potentially going to block things like Wikipedia and Whatsapp.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on April 29, 2023, 06:44:40 PM
I wonder- do ants, and bugs, think we're Gods?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 29, 2023, 06:47:08 PM
I wonder- do ants, and bugs, think we're Gods?  :question:
Temporary nuisances.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on April 29, 2023, 10:43:49 PM
I ran into an old classmate of mine from high school at the fair tonight.
He was friendly and jovial and I enjoyed seeing him again, but in the back of my mind still lurks the memory of him putting a weiner (not HIS weiner, just a hot dog) in my malt when we worked together at Dairy Queen!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 29, 2023, 10:45:14 PM
I ran into an old classmate of mine from high school at the fair tonight.
He was friendly and jovial and I enjoyed seeing him again, but in the back of my mind still lurks the memory of him putting a weiner (not HIS weiner, just a hot dog) in my malt when we worked together at Dairy Queen!
Free hotdog. What a sweet guy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 30, 2023, 08:10:11 AM
I woke up today at 4:22 and knew I wouldn't go back to sleep for the thirty-eight minutes I could have, so I put on a robe and went downstairs and went out back with my dog, since I sometimes see interesting things when I slip outside in the dark. There wasn't anything to tell of, no wildlife, no shooting stars, but I did get this creepy feeling that came over me. I was divided between not letting it get to me and facing it down, and wondering if I should listen to my instincts and go back inside. Since it was cold I did the latter, but I don't know what that was about, though it was such a strong sense of...not peril, but like...disturbance around me that even when I drove Daisy out an hour later I felt uneasy. Think I'll walk into the woods in a bit and see if there's any sign of I dunno, bigfoot or the frog man or something.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 30, 2023, 09:44:50 AM
They make the garland for the Kentucky Derby at my local Kroger, which I hate because it's always scheduled for viewing during my normal shopping time. The place temporarily becomes a zoo with competition parking.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 30, 2023, 10:59:57 AM
but in the back of my mind still lurks the memory of him putting a weiner (not HIS weiner, just a hot dog)

 :buggedout: +  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on April 30, 2023, 11:01:13 AM
The place temporarily becomes a zoo with competition parking.

 :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on April 30, 2023, 03:32:06 PM
I hear the promising sound of thunder. I like most storms. Probably should have gone with my family to visit my in-laws today but fighting a cold and didn't want to risk passing it on over there. Still, I've built my life around my family, and when they're not home it feels like I am suddenly off center. Like nothing feels right. Maybe I'll be able to watch a good storm soon. Lawsy what an empty afternoon.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 01, 2023, 06:16:58 AM
Off to drive my father in law to the hospital for more unpleasantness, poor man. May everyone else's day be better than his, and if you're blessed enough to have them, may I suggest you tell your loved ones how much it means having them in your life.

Stay well, friends, and enjoy the good that's yours at present. It won't always be there.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 07, 2023, 07:18:26 PM
AI simulations of Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek in a non-stop philosophical conversation that has not paused since 2022.

https://infiniteconversation.com/


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on May 08, 2023, 03:45:37 AM
i post on a local help forum on facebook. why do people just blow off the ones tryin to help them without a word? i'm beg :bluesad:inning to think of not offering anymore... and that sucks, to feel that way.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 08, 2023, 08:57:46 AM
AI simulations of Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek in a non-stop philosophical conversation that has not paused since 2022.

https://infiniteconversation.com/

That is f'n amazing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 09, 2023, 10:53:20 AM
Based on the May Day Parade, I'd say I have more Russian tanks in my collection than the Russian military does.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 09, 2023, 11:03:17 AM
What do you think the odds are on civil war breaking out in Russia?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 09, 2023, 11:16:17 AM
What do you think the odds are on civil war breaking out in Russia?

Who knows? Within the next year, maybe 3%? Coup attempt probability is higher, maybe approaching 10%? If Putin were to die there would likely be some chaos and infighting, but I don't know if it would amount to a civil war.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 09, 2023, 11:17:35 AM
Robert de Niro just fathered a child at 79. Incredibly irresponsible.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 09, 2023, 11:18:12 AM
Robert de Niro just fathered a child at 79. Incredibly irresponsible.

I felt bad about having one in my 40s.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 09, 2023, 11:19:36 AM
What do you think the odds are on civil war breaking out in Russia?

I'd say fairly low. I'd agree with the Rev that a coup is more likely.

Although someone would need to find some ammunition for that to happen.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 09, 2023, 02:37:15 PM
Trump is found liable for battery and defamation in NYC! Has to pay 5 million bucks to E. Jean Carroll!  :thumbup:
The best is yet to come in Georgia!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 09, 2023, 02:42:47 PM
Robert de Niro just fathered a child at 79. Incredibly irresponsible.

And a bit ewww as well. 😝


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 09, 2023, 03:14:58 PM
^ Why? He's rich- the kid will be well off. Even if he dies, his kid has a young mother.
And hey- I hope my dick still works when I'm 79!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 09, 2023, 04:31:45 PM
^ Why? He's rich- the kid will be well off. Even if he dies, his kid has a young mother.
And hey- I hope my dick still works when I'm 79!

Because he's dooming his kid to life without a biological father. He won't be able to guide the child himself, he is just hoping someday the kid will find a male role model to father him. Not fair to the kid. Fathering a child when you know you won't be around to care for it is selfish, even if you make sure it has money.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 09, 2023, 05:03:01 PM
And hey- I hope my dick still works when I'm 79!

And now I can go to sleep with a smile on my face: thanks Ronny 😃😀😃😀😃☺️😊🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 09, 2023, 05:58:48 PM
^ Why? He's rich- the kid will be well off. Even if he dies, his kid has a young mother.
And hey- I hope my dick still works when I'm 79!

Because he's dooming his kid to life without a biological father. He won't be able to guide the child himself, he is just hoping someday the kid will find a male role model to father him. Not fair to the kid. Fathering a child when you know you won't be around to care for it is selfish, even if you make sure it has money.

I suppose so. I guess I see it different. My Dad was alive most all my life, and he never even talked to me. I didn't care.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 10, 2023, 08:52:10 PM
I just realized all my favorite musicians are either dead or older than I am.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on May 11, 2023, 02:54:11 PM
I went and saw The Cure last night. That was one hell of a concert.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 12, 2023, 09:43:56 PM
I been thinking of my little brother Richie a lot. It's f**king with my head.
He shot himself 10 years ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 13, 2023, 12:04:43 PM
You and everyone you love will die painfully.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on May 13, 2023, 01:28:15 PM
You and everyone you love will die painfully.

Well that's certainly cheerful!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 13, 2023, 02:54:30 PM
You and everyone you love will die painfully.

Well that's certainly cheerful!
Curtsey!  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 13, 2023, 03:07:47 PM
One can learn a person's darkest emotions when you pay attention.  Anger is the easiest to detect, cloaking fear. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 14, 2023, 11:06:36 AM
Val Verde would be an interesting country to visit, were such a thing possible.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 14, 2023, 11:32:58 AM
Val Verde would be an interesting country to visit, were such a thing possible.

Here you go  :wink:

https://valverde.co.za/ (https://valverde.co.za/)

(It's a hotel)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 14, 2023, 02:42:54 PM
Yeah, we studied Val Verde at Miskatonic University....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 15, 2023, 07:40:24 AM
Happy Nipple Appreciation Day, everyone! Honestly we owe them so much.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 15, 2023, 03:18:51 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/RpQ35GA.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 15, 2023, 03:23:08 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/RpQ35GA.gif) (https://lunapic.com)

 :bouncegiggle: :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 16, 2023, 04:36:18 PM
I heard that Disney+ has lost 4 million subscribers. In order to combat this, they are going to merge with another service, raise their prices and remove some of the content they've already got up oh, and make less new stuff.

I am sure that will encourage lots of people to take up the service....  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 17, 2023, 05:21:18 PM
In my lifetime I've seen libraries go from storehouses of knowledge to places of recreation and entertainment, their very worth debated.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 18, 2023, 03:20:53 PM
Etsy is a dangerous place for me to browse through.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on May 19, 2023, 12:49:58 AM
i think i need another taco. or maybe just a nice milano cookie.. hhhmmm...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 19, 2023, 04:13:34 AM
Yesterday while I was in town I came across a cookie the size of a pizza. I bought it, warmed it up in the oven and then served it to Kristi and Ash as their dinner. It had a thick layer of chocolate inside.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 19, 2023, 09:06:58 AM
fun times at the alamo


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 19, 2023, 01:45:14 PM
Looking for some mild sleeping tabs and I got laxatives instead  :buggedout: :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 19, 2023, 04:44:21 PM
Why are marshmallows flammable?
And how come nobody worries about it?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on May 19, 2023, 05:42:49 PM
Baby goats hitting the ground left and right here!
Our herd has grown from 11 to 22 in 3 days.
And more on the way!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 19, 2023, 05:56:38 PM
^ Won't have to mow the lawn!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 19, 2023, 06:00:13 PM
I went to the food pantry with my friend Tony and his wife. Got lotsa grub!
I just spent my last dollar on a plumber- my pipes were backed up to the street! With tree roots! Crazy.
I known Tony since the very early 80's. He just got back to Michigan after- 27 years?
He's a pot grower now. All my weed is free.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 20, 2023, 07:04:47 AM
It really irritates me that despite having a job where I'd literally have to analyse waveforms via an oscilloscope I have never had to once use trigonometry since leaving education. FU Mr Barr and your you'll find maths useful as an engineer.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 20, 2023, 08:46:32 AM
I went to the food pantry with my friend Tony and his wife. Got lotsa grub!
I just spent my last dollar on a plumber- my pipes were backed up to the street! With tree roots! Crazy.
I known Tony since the very early 80's. He just got back to Michigan after- 27 years?
He's a pot grower now. All my weed is free.

It always amazes me the good things you can find at food pantries. In fact the main reason I left my job there (and went back to just being a day a week volunteer) is that when they'd see donations they personally wanted, some of the women who volunteered there seemed to have zero qualms about taking them for themselves, and when I was the director I told them they had to stop, those things did not belong to us. They resented me for that, said they'd been doing it for years as a perk of giving their time, and I soon had a rebellion on my hands. I got my fill of what turned out to be a surprisingly stressful and high-drama job. No doubt the old bitties are stealing the good stuff with glee these days.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 20, 2023, 08:48:32 AM
It really irritates me that despite having a job where I'd literally have to analyse waveforms via an oscilloscope I have never had to once use trigonometry since leaving education. FU Mr Barr and your you'll find maths useful as an engineer.

Outside of classrooms, where it serves to provide jobs for teachers, higher math does not exist. I think the great truth about far too many schools is that the students exist to support the teachers. And I concur, FU to Mr Barr.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 20, 2023, 09:24:38 AM
It really irritates me that despite having a job where I'd literally have to analyse waveforms via an oscilloscope I have never had to once use trigonometry since leaving education. FU Mr Barr and your you'll find maths useful as an engineer.

Outside of classrooms, where it serves to provide jobs for teachers, higher math does not exist. I think the great truth about far too many schools is that the students exist to support the teachers. And I concur, FU to Mr Barr.

I found English useful, enjoyed History (until the teachers decided we should only study boring parts of history), Physics (for a short period I even studied a little quantum physics, specifically in the effects of Chaos Theory and quantum components (circuit boards featuring things like resistors made out of 2 atoms. Physical laws really break down at that level and things operate differently from how you think they should) and Art, but the rest... I had some good teachers, but none of them were inspirational.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 21, 2023, 12:29:35 PM
One of the country's oldest schools for the blind is located in my city. They accept blind people of all ages, born blind, gone blind, and---fun fact---for decades published the Braille edition of Playboy for people who truly did want to read it for the articles!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 21, 2023, 05:07:33 PM
One of the country's oldest schools for the blind is located in my city. They accept blind people of all ages, born blind, gone blind, and---fun fact---for decades published the Braille edition of Playboy for people who truly did want to read it for the articles!

Playboy in the 50s and 60s was an literary journal, with fiction by Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and interviews with MLK, Malcolm X, and Jean-Paul Sartre. "I only read it for the articles" was a common joke, but it really was a repository of culture.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 21, 2023, 05:10:51 PM
One of the country's oldest schools for the blind is located in my city. They accept blind people of all ages, born blind, gone blind, and---fun fact---for decades published the Braille edition of Playboy for people who truly did want to read it for the articles!

Playboy in the 50s and 60s was an literary journal, with fiction by Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and interviews with MLK, Malcolm X, and Jean-Paul Sartre. "I only read it for the articles" was a common joke, but it really was a repository of culture.
They also featured short fiction that later became movies, such as The Fly, 9 1/2 Weeks, 2010, & SFW.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on May 21, 2023, 09:46:09 PM
Gotta say dealing with someone else's toxic relationship daily is rather taxing.  :/


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 22, 2023, 10:59:45 AM
Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

---Langston Hughes


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 23, 2023, 03:40:21 AM
I just found a copy online of Manos Returns.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 23, 2023, 04:21:27 PM
I just found a copy online of Manos Returns.

Let us know what it's like 😊


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 23, 2023, 04:22:51 PM
I hate it when the duvet corner pokes me in the earhole and when my underpants ride up at night 😳😳🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 23, 2023, 04:24:48 PM
I just found a copy online of Manos Returns.

Let us know what it's like 😊
Seen the trailer once or twice, but didn't know there was a completed movie...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 24, 2023, 12:03:11 PM
I just found a copy online of Manos Returns.

Let us know what it's like 😊

It was slightly better made than the original, which somehow made the overall thing worse. Only about an hour long though.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 24, 2023, 12:10:48 PM
RIP Kenneth Anger. May Lucifer claim your soul.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 24, 2023, 01:46:22 PM
RIP Kenneth Anger. May Lucifer claim your soul.
I had to look this guy up to see why he was so bad even an atheist would wish him in Hell, but I get it now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 24, 2023, 02:23:37 PM
RIP Kenneth Anger. May Lucifer claim your soul.
I had to look this guy up to see why he was so bad even an atheist would wish him in Hell, but I get it now.

I was just reading about Lucifer the other day in Ovid. He was a minor god, a personification of the planet Venus, and has nothing at all to do with the Christian devil. The story of how the name later became a synonym for the Devil is convoluted. Blame Dante and Milton.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 24, 2023, 02:25:16 PM
RIP Kenneth Anger. May Lucifer claim your soul.

Dunno if Lucifer would want him: too much rising  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 24, 2023, 02:27:43 PM
I wish I could remember all the films people have mentioned that I thought I'd like to see. I have the time at the moment to watch them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 24, 2023, 02:59:58 PM
I wish I could remember all the films people have mentioned that I thought I'd like to see. I have the time at the moment to watch them.

The Demon is one you might like to try: I extend my apologies to you as a mentor of mine did the photography 😳🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 24, 2023, 03:10:24 PM
RIP Kenneth Anger. May Lucifer claim your soul.

Well what do ya know?  KENNETH ANGER finally died!  Aptly named, I think several of his films are at YouTube.  He predicted he would die on Halloween a few years ago... apparently another failed project.    


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 24, 2023, 04:51:13 PM
^ I enjoyed his book Hollywood Babylon.

(https://i.imgur.com/yS2DNqB.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 24, 2023, 07:58:43 PM
Life grows shorter each day. I think I'll do something I've thought about doing since I was fifteen: stalk Neil Gaiman and seduce him.

Wish me good fortune!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 24, 2023, 08:17:42 PM
^ Yeah. Good luck with that.   :twirl:

(https://i.imgur.com/BB4vOyJ.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 24, 2023, 08:46:18 PM
^ Yeah. Good luck with that.   :twirl:

(https://i.imgur.com/BB4vOyJ.gif) (https://lunapic.com)

 :bouncegiggle:
^ I enjoyed his book Hollywood Babylon.

(https://i.imgur.com/yS2DNqB.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

Me too.  And Hollywood Babylon II !  I have both, picked up on a junk day in Asbury Park - like new, hardback, dustjackets, glossy.  But 2 different junk days about a year apart!  I like FREE junk!  Both books are junk. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 24, 2023, 08:56:26 PM
I gave my copy to my buddy Larry's wife. She was a big old movie fan. She told me she read it once, but lost her copy. Mine had a dust jacket, too! I bought it at the Goodwill!

(https://i.imgur.com/lK3XUNv.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 24, 2023, 10:58:10 PM
movies and tv shows will sometimes have someone say "come again?" as in "what was that?" or "huh?"

I've never in my life heard someone use that expression


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 25, 2023, 01:59:58 AM
Two women engaged in a life-or-death struggle over a pair of shoes.

Truly, The Wizard of Oz is the ultimate chick flick.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 25, 2023, 08:52:12 AM
movies and tv shows will sometimes have someone say "come again?" as in "what was that?" or "huh?"

I've never in my life heard someone use that expression

Come again?  :question:

Perhaps it's a regional thing. I hear it quite often.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 25, 2023, 10:31:08 AM
If there was a bar for only people who worked in special effects would it be called CGI Fridays?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 26, 2023, 12:50:56 AM
RC - when was the last time you heard itt


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 26, 2023, 09:09:09 AM
^I can't say. But it's quite common. That and "Say what?"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 26, 2023, 03:25:06 PM
My feet are cold 🥶


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 26, 2023, 04:26:58 PM
My feet are cold 🥶

Wrap them in your undies to keep them warm. If they rot and fall off, then they will no longer be cold. Either way your problem is solved.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on May 26, 2023, 04:36:12 PM
My feet are cold 🥶

Wrap them in your undies to keep them warm. If they rot and fall off, then they will no longer be cold. Either way your problem is solved.

Oy 😳😳😉😉


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 26, 2023, 08:16:52 PM
We are a bunch of f**ked up people.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 27, 2023, 12:23:52 AM
no one has said "say what?" since the 70's


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 27, 2023, 04:22:02 AM
Would someone please nibble a urinal cake for science so we can find out if American Psycho was accurate about them tasting minty?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 27, 2023, 07:06:22 AM
no one has said "say what?" since the 70's

I'm old. I hang out with old people.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 27, 2023, 09:02:48 AM
Would someone please nibble a urinal cake for science so we can find out if American Psycho was accurate about them tasting minty?

Not just no, but hell no. I am willing to get a rubber glove, get one and send it to you so you can try it though.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 27, 2023, 03:25:34 PM
I'm not a "the book is better" type of guy in general but the American Psycho movie skipped over so much crazy stuff its like cliff notes basically


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 29, 2023, 11:33:18 AM
That clip I posted reminds me, I have this friend. I'll call him.....Morris, and he's.....never....in his entire life........seen The Simpsons. That's so sad and abnormal it's tearing me up. I want to have some sort of intervention for him. Trouble is he's happy with his life as it is, and so is it moral of me to interfere? Just....a whole life and not once seeing The Simpsons? Was he in a trance in the '90s? Does a true friend let a friend die a Simpsons virgin?

I don't know, man, I don't know.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on May 29, 2023, 08:42:06 PM
I wonder if it's  okay to leave hubcaps in the dishwasher...
I assume they'd fit...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on May 30, 2023, 03:05:26 AM
I wonder if it's  okay to leave hubcaps in the dishwasher...
I assume they'd fit...

 most of them do. my friend brad used the dishwasher at his first florida home to store hubcaps until they sold on ebay. now he uses pot lid racks in a credenza, since the dishwasher actually works in the house he bought.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on May 30, 2023, 07:35:30 AM
I wondered who would win in a fight between Danny Trejo and Chuck Norris before coming down on the side of Trejo.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on May 30, 2023, 09:36:47 AM
Norris is 84. Danny is 79. Both old as dirt.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 31, 2023, 12:32:36 AM
tubi should use AI to create more bad movies


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on May 31, 2023, 12:33:50 PM
Last year I used to give rides to a 96-year-old lady who came to the food pantry, and she told me she grew up during the Great Depression when times were so hard she and her sisters used to take a bottle of water and put scented talcum powder in it and shake it up, then splash it on themselves, and that was what they called their perfume.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 01, 2023, 04:41:35 PM
If the USSR were still around today I think it would have its own official internet, or more aptly, an intranet, sort of like it had TASS and Pravda, and Intourist, and all others would be illegal.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 01, 2023, 05:43:18 PM
If the USSR were still around today I think it would have its own official internet, or more aptly, an intranet, sort of like it had TASS and Pravda, and Intourist, and all others would be illegal.

I believe North Korea has something like that, an Internet/intranet for only North Koreans.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on June 02, 2023, 10:02:13 PM
In a strange way, I can picture an ad for no particular product featuring a John Merrick impersonator screaming, "I Am NOT A Robot!"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on June 03, 2023, 03:23:36 PM
I just don't like having those days at work. You all know those days where you just want to scream.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on June 03, 2023, 04:03:48 PM
There's an annoying mini trend out there of people saying stuff like "this is without a doubt, by far one of the best slices of pizza I've had this week" . where the end of the sentence walks back the buildup of the first part.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 03, 2023, 09:58:40 PM
A woman I met on a dating site just rescheduled our official first date for the fifth time. Normally I would have given up by now but she is really good at communicating by text, phone and FaceTime, so I am giving her another chance where I normally would have moved on long ago. I can't see what entertainment she would get out of talking so much but postponing actual face to face dates. She has decent excuses, she's just really busy and splitting her time between two locations and she always apologizes profusely.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 04, 2023, 02:53:56 PM
The trouble with Sunday is it's the gateway to Monday, and a long dark teatime of the spirit, as Victorians were wont to dub it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 05, 2023, 07:16:58 PM
Tradecraft.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on June 06, 2023, 02:09:46 PM
I better get some sleep if I want to be up in 4 hours for Rev's screening 🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 06, 2023, 02:25:03 PM
Every year on this day my grandpa used to remind me it was the anniversary of D-Day, so in his honor: it's D-Day Plus 79, everyone.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on June 06, 2023, 02:25:54 PM
I just found out what the A stands for in LGBTQIA+ stands for, & my first thought was, Aw, nah! Don't go draggin' us down with you!"
It still speaks volumes of their disrespect for hermaphrodites...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 06, 2023, 03:21:05 PM
I better get some sleep if I want to be up in 4 hours for Rev's screening 🐢

Good news is it's only 20 minutes long so you can go right back to sleep. And it's exactly like a dream.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 06, 2023, 05:15:20 PM
R.I.P. Astrud Gilberto. Since everyone plays "Impanema," here's a different one: https://youtu.be/oE8rYqP1Ejg


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 06, 2023, 06:00:13 PM
^She was beautiful. RIP
I listened to that song. She's beautiful, man.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 06, 2023, 07:34:37 PM
^She was beautiful. RIP
I listened to that song. She's beautiful, man.

Definitely a top 10 voice in the history of recorded music.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on June 06, 2023, 11:05:17 PM
I better get some sleep if I want to be up in 4 hours for Rev's screening 🐢

Good news is it's only 20 minutes long so you can go right back to sleep. And it's exactly like a dream.

Slept through my alarm 😴😔


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 07, 2023, 08:11:35 AM
I better get some sleep if I want to be up in 4 hours for Rev's screening 🐢

Good news is it's only 20 minutes long so you can go right back to sleep. And it's exactly like a dream.

Slept through my alarm 😴😔

Good, I had to cancel it!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on June 07, 2023, 02:01:14 PM
I just found out what the A stands for in LGBTQIA+ stands for, & my first thought was, Aw, nah! Don't go draggin' us down with you!"
It still speaks volumes of their disrespect for hermaphrodites...

In just one day, it's gone to LGBTQIA2S+ and LGBTQQIP2SAA!
This is starting to look like somebody's password!
And still no H!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 07, 2023, 02:53:55 PM
It can be fascinating to play around with a color picker. Often the colors your eye perceives aren't the actual color at all, but are implied based on the overall palette and an item's position relative to its background. Today I was looking at a movie still where one part looked perfectly white, but was actually blue when I zoomed in on it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on June 08, 2023, 06:09:44 AM
I hope Newt is OK where she is with the Canadian fires.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 08, 2023, 11:37:18 AM
If Mary Whitehouse had been able to understand how little her moral crusade would achieve beyond the short term, would she still have bothered?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 08, 2023, 12:00:55 PM
If Mary Whitehouse had been able to understand how little her moral crusade would achieve beyond the short term, would she still have bothered?

I would guess she absolutely would. In my opinion, moral crusaders' highest priority isn't to effect meaningful change, but to express their feelings of moral superiority over others.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 09, 2023, 05:26:30 AM
Recently discovered evidence suggests that the stories collected in Grimms fairy tales are much older than previously believed, dating back 5 to 6 thousand years.

Well no s**t Sherlock..


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 09, 2023, 10:25:08 AM
Just read my first review of the latest Indiana Jones & the inability to come up with a decent title movie. It is 99% glowing with praise.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on June 12, 2023, 03:56:16 PM
I wonder if Burt Munro had arthritic hips & sciatic back problems.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 12, 2023, 04:48:08 PM
Why do so many actors have a terrible last movie before they die?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 12, 2023, 05:25:27 PM
^ Likely because they're past their prime. No one will hire them but low budget directors.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 12, 2023, 05:51:09 PM
If I can pay a $10 subscription fee and hear basically 99% of new albums that are released, why hasn't someone used that model with magazine and newspaper articles?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 13, 2023, 06:20:55 AM
I wish they'd make tv's with a volume cut out so that if the volume suddenly jumps up it hits a maximum. Would make watching films with lots of quiet talking bits and then loud action sequences a lot easier and from a technology point of view would not be hard to implement.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 13, 2023, 05:37:36 PM
I wish they'd make tv's with a volume cut out so that if the volume suddenly jumps up it hits a maximum. Would make watching films with lots of quiet talking bits and then loud action sequences a lot easier and from a technology point of view would not be hard to implement.
Are you sure within the audio menu there isn't a setting for stabilizing volume?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 13, 2023, 07:01:13 PM
I'm so happy today.
1- I seen Tiana today!
2.- Trump got arrested!
3. - I made meatloaf!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 13, 2023, 07:02:59 PM
LOL well good, RC!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 13, 2023, 09:26:11 PM
What an absolutely sh***y day this has been.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 14, 2023, 07:30:37 AM
Ever notice lizards always have the same expression on their faces, even when they're getting eaten alive by a cat?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 15, 2023, 07:40:39 AM
Give a man a fish and you've got a malleable dependant. Teach a man to fish and you've got competition.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on June 15, 2023, 11:45:02 AM
What an absolutely sh***y day this has been.


I hope the rest of the week will be better 🙂


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 15, 2023, 08:25:25 PM
What an absolutely sh***y day this has been.


I hope the rest of the week will be better 🙂

Thanks.  Things are definitely looking up.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 17, 2023, 12:01:46 PM
I wonder how Andrew is doing? I hope he's well.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on June 17, 2023, 06:14:52 PM
MY DOGGIES ARE HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 17, 2023, 06:20:33 PM
Glad to hear that mate.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on June 18, 2023, 12:17:53 AM
the "recently added" section on tubi is gigantic now. Among thousands of others, they added "the Stabilizer" a philpino action maserpiece that was available on trauma (sp?) years ago


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 18, 2023, 12:52:56 PM
Behind every beautiful woman is a man who is tired of sleeping with her.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 18, 2023, 01:37:32 PM
Tom Cruise seemed poised to become a huge star, then he just fell off the face of the earth. Wonder whatever happened to that guy?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 18, 2023, 02:22:56 PM
^Maybe doing that dating show in the early '80s ruined his career.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on June 18, 2023, 03:30:17 PM
great part of American Psycho book is when he bumps into Tom Cruise in an elevator and is like " you were great in Bartender"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on June 18, 2023, 09:55:40 PM
it's probably silly to be so happy about my cat not puking for almost a month, but i'm thrilled.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 21, 2023, 01:30:45 PM
I wonder if Catholic priests do baptism of young boys head down, ass up?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on June 21, 2023, 02:32:41 PM
it's probably silly to be so happy about my cat not puking for almost a month, but i'm thrilled.

😳😝😆😆😆😆🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 21, 2023, 02:52:04 PM
You know, if the homosexual community can appropriate the words "gay" and "queer" and "drag" I think middle school boys should be allowed to reclaim the completely non-sexual word "fag." It's just too much a part of their culture to call one another fag as in "dumbass" to see it slide away from them just because mean people have applied it as a gay slur. Eleven to fourteen year olds are losing childhood already, do they have to say goodbye to such a beloved putdown?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 21, 2023, 03:43:05 PM

Is n****r a beloved put down too?  :hatred: I don't think it's cool to use any term as a put down. Though I do it as well.
NAZI! Scumbag! Cocksucker! Motherf**ker! Moron!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 21, 2023, 04:19:21 PM
Actually, yeah, n****r does seem to be a beloved put down. You hear black people use it to other black people all the time, and they say the word belongs to them, so maybe in that context fag belongs to middle school boys and not the rest of us. Be scared of a concept, not a word that can have multiple meanings. Don't prick your finger/ don't finger your prick. It's all tiresome and silly. I'd  worry about hypocrites more than bigots.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 22, 2023, 12:25:26 PM
Sue, sue Sioux!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 22, 2023, 03:51:43 PM
Always be comfortable in your own skin.

You have no idea how much trouble you'll get into if you try wearing someone elses.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 22, 2023, 08:41:13 PM
Always be comfortable in your own skin.

You have no idea how much trouble you'll get into if you try wearing someone elses.

That's very wise....very, very wise. More useful to me a few years ago, but very wise.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on June 23, 2023, 12:44:38 AM
Sue, sue Sioux!

https://www.yelp.com/biz/su-su-gourmet-boston (https://www.yelp.com/biz/su-su-gourmet-boston)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on June 23, 2023, 04:15:53 AM
Based on the endless stream of them on at my mum's, Hallmark movies consist of women only being able to find love by giving up on their dreams.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 23, 2023, 07:34:25 AM
Based on the endless stream of them on at my mum's, Hallmark movies consist of women only being able to find love by giving up on their dreams.

Ah, hyper-realistic then, are they?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on June 23, 2023, 07:38:25 AM
Always be comfortable in your own skin.

You have no idea how much trouble you'll get into if you try wearing someone elses.

Oy 😳😆😆😆😆😆


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on June 24, 2023, 06:54:41 PM
Why isn't Puerto Rico a state yet?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 24, 2023, 07:08:00 PM
Why isn't Puerto Rico a state yet?
If I'm not mistaken, every so often the people get to vote for either independence, statehood, or keeping things as they are, and that's what they've voted for.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on June 24, 2023, 07:58:55 PM
Black Forest cake is so good.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 25, 2023, 08:52:00 AM
Why isn't Puerto Rico a state yet?
If I'm not mistaken, every so often the people get to vote for either independence, statehood, or keeping things as they are, and that's what they've voted for.

Actually, the last time the held the referendum in 2020 they narrowly voted for statehood. But Congress decides if a new state gets admitted. Republicans believe PR will vote Democratic so they'll never allow it (unless PR suddenly shifts red, then the Democrats would never allow it.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 25, 2023, 09:27:05 AM
Be hilarious if Texans fell on their swords to keep the Senate red and exercised that option to divide into multiple states. I think Cromwell will be ice skating before that ever comes about though.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on June 29, 2023, 06:16:24 AM
In times of stress I used to recite this Yeats poem in my head:

He with body waged a fight,
But body won; it walks upright.
Then he struggled with the heart;
Innocence and peace depart.
Then he struggled with the mind;
His proud heart he left behind.
Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of midnight God shall win.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on June 30, 2023, 12:04:43 AM
Someone is doing a gofundme to get a proper grave for Helen Chandler from Dracula (1931) https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-niche-for-helen-chandler-at-hollywood-forever?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer (https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-niche-for-helen-chandler-at-hollywood-forever?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer)

Her ashes are now in some storage vault thingy


They are more than halfway to their goal. One guy gave $1,000 !


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 01, 2023, 12:28:11 AM
I was thinking,( believe it or not,) of when I lived in the Bronx, and my Gramma Morris and Aunt Carol (who was a spinster) were the only white people I knew. I never got in a fight. Everybody liked me. I bought weed from Ray in front of a boarded up laundrymat. The place looked like a warzone.
Poe Park was cool!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 01, 2023, 01:24:31 AM
Someone is doing a gofundme to get a proper grave for Helen Chandler from Dracula (1931) https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-niche-for-helen-chandler-at-hollywood-forever?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer (https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-niche-for-helen-chandler-at-hollywood-forever?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer)

Her ashes are now in some storage vault thingy


They are more than halfway to their goal. One guy gave $1,000 !

That's from the person who runs the Hollywood Graveyard channel on Youtube, Arthur Dark. He explores graveyards across the globe - with quite a bit of help - and in a very respectful manner allows people to see where famous people are buried.  :smile:

He only made me go  :buggedout: once when he showed where the infamous Ed Gein is buried.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 01, 2023, 02:45:55 AM
^ You went to Wisconson?  :question:
It's an unmarked grave in Plainsfield, on a family plot.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 01, 2023, 05:26:07 AM
^ You went to Wisconson?  :question:
It's an unmarked grave in Plainsfield, on a family plot.

One of the Hollywood Graveyard episodes went there: when I heard the spooky music, I thought "Uh oh, this isn't going to be good" and then the narrator said "this is the unmarked grave of Ed Gein" and I went  :buggedout: :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 01, 2023, 07:47:36 AM
A moment of silence for the 333rd. anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.

(I heard somebody talking back there. No recess for the class.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 01, 2023, 07:57:11 AM
A moment of silence for the 333rd. anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.

(I heard somebody talking back there. No recess for the class.)

A battle celebrated by protestants, even though there were more catholics fighting on their side than there were on the other side.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 01, 2023, 07:58:14 AM
A moment of silence for the 333rd. anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.

(I heard somebody talking back there. No recess for the class.)

A battle celebrated by protestants, even though there were more catholics fighting on their side than there were on the other side.

Ever seen the Trainspotting sequel? lol

(You know, "Fighting Irish" is clearly apocryphal. Except for one on one Irish can't fight worth s**t.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 01, 2023, 08:04:13 AM
A moment of silence for the 333rd. anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.

(I heard somebody talking back there. No recess for the class.)

A battle celebrated by protestants, even though there were more catholics fighting on their side than there were on the other side.

Ever seen the Trainspotting sequel? lol

(You know, "Fighting Irish" is clearly apocryphal. Except for one on one Irish can't fight worth s**t.)

I've not watched that one yet.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 02, 2023, 04:55:53 PM

OK, so I just finished up the book Victoria's Daughters, the bios of Queen Victoria's, uh, daughters, and on about page forty-four I came across something that stopped me mid-sentence, because the implications were immense.

The author, Jerrold M. Packard, was discussing Victoria as a presumed carrier of hemophilia, and said Albert could be ruled out as the source of the genetic transmission, but the oddity was that nowhere else in either family before Victoria could hemophilia be found, which left two possibilities, the first that Victoria experienced a spontaneous mutation that resulted in her becoming a carrier of gene that infamously results in the illness in males, which does occur in one in seventy-thousand women, or Victoria's putative father, the Duke of Kent, from whom she inherited her claim to the throne, and from whom all subsequent British royalty to this day inherited their own claims.....was not actually her biological father.

This would mean that neither Victoria nor any monarch since, including Charles III, was entitled to the throne, and may all have been the product of a long-ago extra-marital tryst.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 02, 2023, 05:00:08 PM
Well, at least they aint innerbreds!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 02, 2023, 06:10:45 PM
Work is slow, but it is also a bit of a wreck with dairy's cooler door breaking off of a wall it was attached to, and the floor machine leaks worse than it usually does.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 03, 2023, 09:30:39 AM
As much as the scenery is gorgeous I am bored with doing this same train journey.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 04, 2023, 01:42:39 AM
It seems water cremations are becoming more and more popular. I'd never have thought that people would want to out boil in the bag style.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 04, 2023, 02:17:15 AM
It seems water cremations are becoming more and more popular. I'd never have thought that people would want to out boil in the bag style.

 :buggedout: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 04, 2023, 02:02:48 PM
During their invasion of Ukraine, the closest Russian troops have come to capturing a major city is when they were advancing on Moscow.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on July 06, 2023, 03:25:20 AM
i am not happy that it's going to rain friday morning. i think i may be turning seriously feline.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 06, 2023, 06:52:58 AM
Baggage Handlers should be renamed Luggage Molesters.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 06, 2023, 03:52:44 PM
What is the meaning of death?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 06, 2023, 03:54:54 PM
What is the meaning of death?

Out with the old, in with the new.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 06, 2023, 03:59:36 PM
conspiracy theory: Master Killer aka 36 Chambers of Shaolin is based on the life of Christ. the idea of mastering Shaolin Kung Fu so he can bring it to ordinary people, the scene where he is "walking on water" to get to the dining hall, and...that's all I have right now


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 06, 2023, 05:22:49 PM
What is the meaning of death?

Entropy in action.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 07, 2023, 01:28:28 AM
I see Ronny hasn't been on for a few days now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 07, 2023, 07:57:41 AM
I see Ronny hasn't been on for a few days now.

He checked in this morning.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 07, 2023, 08:29:22 AM
I'm still here! I did have a dangerous low blood sugar a few days ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 07, 2023, 08:33:46 AM
I know there's no way for me to say something like this without it sounding self-aggrandizing or trite or boastful or something, but it humbles me and awes me how many times in my life I have cheated death. How? Why am I still alive? Luck? Fate? Chance? It overwhelmed me this morning having breakfast with my family, looking at them, sharing this wonderful mundane moment in time, how unlikely it was that I was with them, that I am with them, how truly amazing it all is. I felt gratitude, certainly, but mostly I felt a quake of shock hit me. A couple people who read this will understand, maybe, I guess, how it can be stressful to contemplate that I'm here. It's enough in itself to overpower me and I had to fight hard today not to start crying. I'm still alive.

God in Heaven but this has been an insane life.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 07, 2023, 08:39:04 AM
Nevermind. It is what it is.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 07, 2023, 11:06:47 AM
I'm still here! I did have a dangerous low blood sugar a few days ago.

Take care of yourself, please.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 07, 2023, 04:51:30 PM
I'm to mean to die!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 07, 2023, 07:16:57 PM
My blood sugar got real low. I called 911, and they feed me tubes of glucose. Saved my life, but dam! I couldn't s**t for a day and a half! I took laxatives! I was s**tting like Harry in DUMB AND DUMBER!

(https://i.imgur.com/NblGgui.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on July 08, 2023, 04:40:41 AM
(https://media.tenor.com/o3ulWCmJQqcAAAAM/whoa-dude.gif)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 08, 2023, 07:28:25 AM
My blood sugar got real low. I called 911, and they feed me tubes of glucose. Saved my life, but dam! I couldn't s**t for a day and a half! I took laxatives! I was s**tting like Harry in DUMB AND DUMBER!

(https://i.imgur.com/NblGgui.gif) (https://lunapic.com)

So long as you're OK now: never mind all the toilet time  :smile: :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 08, 2023, 02:35:52 PM
I have the horrific feeling that one of our friends is about to message me to tell me he is either in love with me or Kristi. I am not sure which one would be worse.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 08, 2023, 02:59:11 PM
I have the horrific feeling that one of our friends is about to message me to tell me he is either in love with me or Kristi. I am not sure which one would be worse.

😊😊


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 08, 2023, 03:56:46 PM
I have the horrific feeling that one of our friends is about to message me to tell me he is either in love with me or Kristi. I am not sure which one would be worse.

😊😊

Since we got together, I've had 3 women come on to me and 4 guys onto Kristi. One guy was boasting about his dick size, but he went quiet when he was told that I was bigger than him.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 09, 2023, 12:34:56 PM
Nevermind. Wow, she was really cleaned up on regular Adult Swim.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 09, 2023, 12:37:08 PM
I have the horrific feeling that one of our friends is about to message me to tell me he is either in love with me or Kristi. I am not sure which one would be worse.

😊😊

Since we got together, I've had 3 women come on to me and 4 guys onto Kristi. One guy was boasting about his dick size, but he went quiet when he was told that I was bigger than him.  :bouncegiggle:

I never quite understood the value so many place on immense penises. Who wants to be having sex while you get rammed over and over in the cervix, y'know? Knock a diaphragm loose that way. Bruise you up. A Goldilocks member is what you want.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 09, 2023, 01:58:06 PM
I have the horrific feeling that one of our friends is about to message me to tell me he is either in love with me or Kristi. I am not sure which one would be worse.

😊😊

Since we got together, I've had 3 women come on to me and 4 guys onto Kristi. One guy was boasting about his dick size, but he went quiet when he was told that I was bigger than him.  :bouncegiggle:

I never quite understood the value so many place on immense penises. Who wants to be having sex while you get rammed over and over in the cervix, y'know? Knock a diaphragm loose that way. Bruise you up. A Goldilocks member is what you want.

I once read that sex organs change in size over time with long-term partners and they come to suit each others sizes more.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 10, 2023, 02:18:32 PM
Decided to watch Warlock and have a beer in memory of Julian Sands.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 12, 2023, 04:51:13 AM
Leslie Van Houten, in prison since 1970, has been released on parole.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/manson-family-member-leslie-van-houten-is-released-on-parole/ar-AA1dJrLn?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f9a1375d79ce4e6aa8359c0c7dee0878&ei=21 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/manson-family-member-leslie-van-houten-is-released-on-parole/ar-AA1dJrLn?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f9a1375d79ce4e6aa8359c0c7dee0878&ei=21)

(https://i.imgur.com/wpwW0LK.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 12, 2023, 12:55:41 PM
Leslie Van Houten, in prison since 1970, has been released on parole.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/manson-family-member-leslie-van-houten-is-released-on-parole/ar-AA1dJrLn?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f9a1375d79ce4e6aa8359c0c7dee0878&ei=21 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/manson-family-member-leslie-van-houten-is-released-on-parole/ar-AA1dJrLn?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f9a1375d79ce4e6aa8359c0c7dee0878&ei=21)

(https://i.imgur.com/wpwW0LK.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

I don't know what to say about that.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 12, 2023, 04:13:32 PM
^ Be ironic if a buncha hippies murdered her in her house some night.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 12, 2023, 06:34:49 PM
^ Well, it would be karma, thats fer sure!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 13, 2023, 06:08:10 AM
OK, so we have tides on Earth largely or entirely because of our moon, correct? So hypothetically if a moon supported oceans, the tidal effects a planet would have on that moon would presumably be enormous in the extreme, right? Just been thinking about that and by extension what it would be like to live on that moon and deal with the effects of that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 13, 2023, 07:57:11 AM
OK, so we have tides on Earth largely or entirely because of our moon, correct? So hypothetically if a moon supported oceans, the tidal effects a planet would have on that moon would presumably be enormous in the extreme, right? Just been thinking about that and by extension what it would be like to live on that moon and deal with the effects of that.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-the-moon-were-bigger/#:~:text=But%20a%20bigger%20moon%20probably,often%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20told%20me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 13, 2023, 09:26:22 AM
OK, so we have tides on Earth largely or entirely because of our moon, correct? So hypothetically if a moon supported oceans, the tidal effects a planet would have on that moon would presumably be enormous in the extreme, right? Just been thinking about that and by extension what it would be like to live on that moon and deal with the effects of that.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-the-moon-were-bigger/#:~:text=But%20a%20bigger%20moon%20probably,often%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20told%20me.

No wonder ewoks were so grouchy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 13, 2023, 01:35:51 PM
I just found out that all the American Ninja - 4 made here - movies were released in Germany as "American Fighter".


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 14, 2023, 08:42:22 AM
I once had an instructor who had a partial artificial jaw made of steel. Considering he was a retired career soldier, we all assumed it was combat-related but the truth was he'd had cancer at a young age. The jaw gave him no end of trouble passing through metal detectors, and once in Oslo he missed a flight entirely because of security. Someone asked if he ever considered having the steel replaced with modern ceramic and he said no, the surgery and recovery had been so painful he'd take all the related inconveniences over a repeat of that experience. He gave me high-marks when I was eighteen and in the first of three courses of his I'd be part of, because I argued that despite social disapproval, profiling and stereotyping were essential to the subject matter dealt with in the particular course, and he said I was one of the few to openly state that, and said the others were afraid to say so but knew it too. I felt good for a second til he added, "Keeping some unpopular truths to yourself is also an essential skill." Ha. He had a way of building up and humbling at the same time. Good instructor. He lives in Japan now and about two days ago he sent me an actual letter, hand-written. I hadn't gotten one of those in ages.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 16, 2023, 01:03:54 PM
Ever gaze at the upcoming birthdays list, and the names leap out at you, and you think, oh, I remember him! So many people have come and gone here, many victims of the men in black who run this site.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 16, 2023, 01:22:15 PM
^ No. I don't pay attention to birthdays. Unless you're just born today or 100 years old.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 17, 2023, 07:04:14 PM
The IRS is saying we owe $480,000 in 2022 back taxes. Yyyyyep. It's so absurdly disconnected from any possible reality that I'm not even upset, I just had to laugh at whatever crazy pencil pusher came up with that figure. Neither our accountant nor our tax attorney can match that sum with anything at all but I think to fight our way through this it's going to be a crazy headache that will cost us a lot of money and take years. Maybe a free IRS tax advocate will make some headway instead of us paying the lawyer and accountant. HOW do they arrive at almost half a million dollars? Our total combined incomes didn't even come close to that in any way shape or form by a long, long, longshot. It truly is more funny than frightening. Even $48,000 in taxes would have been out of proportion to our income. Maybe we're being pranked. The IRS is known for its sense of humor after all.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on July 17, 2023, 07:54:56 PM
The IRS is saying we owe $480,000 in 2022 back taxes. Yyyyyep. It's so absurdly disconnected from any possible reality that I'm not even upset, I just had to laugh at whatever crazy pencil pusher came up with that figure. Neither our accountant nor our tax attorney can match that sum with anything at all but I think to fight our way through this it's going to be a crazy headache that will cost us a lot of money and take years. Maybe a free IRS tax advocate will make some headway instead of us paying the lawyer and accountant. HOW do they arrive at almost half a million dollars? Our total combined incomes didn't even come close to that in any way shape or form by a long, long, longshot. It truly is more funny than frightening. Even $48,000 in taxes would have been out of proportion to our income. Maybe we're being pranked. The IRS is known for its sense of humor after all.

That's freaking insane!!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 18, 2023, 08:04:17 AM
The IRS is saying we owe $480,000 in 2022 back taxes. Yyyyyep. It's so absurdly disconnected from any possible reality that I'm not even upset, I just had to laugh at whatever crazy pencil pusher came up with that figure. Neither our accountant nor our tax attorney can match that sum with anything at all but I think to fight our way through this it's going to be a crazy headache that will cost us a lot of money and take years. Maybe a free IRS tax advocate will make some headway instead of us paying the lawyer and accountant. HOW do they arrive at almost half a million dollars? Our total combined incomes didn't even come close to that in any way shape or form by a long, long, longshot. It truly is more funny than frightening. Even $48,000 in taxes would have been out of proportion to our income. Maybe we're being pranked. The IRS is known for its sense of humor after all.

That sucks.  :bluesad: Hopefully it can be sorted out.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 18, 2023, 10:35:29 AM
I wonder why a panel of people is required to decide guilt or innocence but the sentence is decided by one person?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 18, 2023, 12:27:27 PM
I wonder why a panel of people is required to decide guilt or innocence but the sentence is decided by one person?

The answer is that guilt is a question of fact and sentence is a question of law. In some US states, however, the jury can decide whether capital punishment can be applied.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 18, 2023, 01:34:06 PM
I wonder why a panel of people is required to decide guilt or innocence but the sentence is decided by one person?

The answer is that guilt is a question of fact and sentence is a question of law. In some US states, however, the jury can decide whether capital punishment can be applied.

The court marshal I was at was interesting. It had a panel of 3 officers and a civilian judge who was the equivalent of a 2-star. While I wasn't privy to the behind-the-scenes discussions, it seemed to be that all four debated the matter of guilt and sentence. During the trial, the judge sat in the middle, although I can't recall the ranks and positions of the officers. I think the judge had the final say but was advised by the officers. I did hear afterward that it was the most junior officer who kept pointing out the flaws in the witnesses stories and got the charge dropped, while the more senior officers had wanted a guilty verdict initially.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 18, 2023, 07:02:09 PM
I made a lemon garlic butter chicken and green beans dish. I made the green beans right, but man the chicken was missing something. If I remake it I may add cumin into it.  The chicken was rubbed with smoked paprika, paprika, onion powder, salt, and pepper.
Any other spices I should try?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 18, 2023, 07:56:43 PM
I made a lemon garlic butter chicken and green beans dish. I made the green beans right, but man the chicken was missing something. If I remake it I may add cumin into it.  The chicken was rubbed with smoked paprika, paprika, onion powder, salt, and pepper.
Any other spices I should try?

That sounds really good. Cumin may work. What about red pepper flakes for a little heat?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 18, 2023, 07:59:55 PM
^ I was thinking hot sauce for the same reason.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 18, 2023, 09:26:23 PM
I made the dish for me and my mom. My mom doesn't like red pepper flakes, sadly.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 20, 2023, 12:03:01 PM
Red pepper flakes rule on a peanut butter and honey sandwich.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 20, 2023, 12:08:35 PM
^ I like peanut butter and baloney sandwhiches!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 20, 2023, 12:09:57 PM
Sounds weird but when I was little I used to like a frozen waffle (left frozen) with honey on it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 20, 2023, 01:01:20 PM
The IRS is saying we owe $480,000 in 2022 back taxes. Yyyyyep. It's so absurdly disconnected from any possible reality that I'm not even upset, I just had to laugh at whatever crazy pencil pusher came up with that figure. Neither our accountant nor our tax attorney can match that sum with anything at all but I think to fight our way through this it's going to be a crazy headache that will cost us a lot of money and take years. Maybe a free IRS tax advocate will make some headway instead of us paying the lawyer and accountant. HOW do they arrive at almost half a million dollars? Our total combined incomes didn't even come close to that in any way shape or form by a long, long, longshot. It truly is more funny than frightening. Even $48,000 in taxes would have been out of proportion to our income. Maybe we're being pranked. The IRS is known for its sense of humor after all.

Was this by phone or by mail? The IRS never calls. If so, it's a scam.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on July 22, 2023, 02:42:16 AM
I made a lemon garlic butter chicken and green beans dish. I made the green beans right, but man the chicken was missing something. If I remake it I may add cumin into it.  The chicken was rubbed with smoked paprika, paprika, onion powder, salt, and pepper.
Any other spices I should try?

you need some white pepper and some cayenne pepper. cumin will make your sauce( i assume it's the sauce that is butter, lemon and garlic) go bitter to the palate when eten with the chicken.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 24, 2023, 01:57:24 AM
I'm watching this Wes Craven movie. It's from the same time period as the Susan Lucci one and the cousin is a sexy with one but it's not very good.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 24, 2023, 09:38:32 AM
Good news this morn: I may soon be publication brothers with Trevor (Bear Manor (https://bearmanor-digital.myshopify.com/)).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 24, 2023, 08:16:35 PM
I was raised in a religion that taught God, being all good, cannot do evil, but in the face of evidence that suggests the contrary, I concluded either it is untrue that God (if we make the assumption God exists), cannot do evil, God only selectively interferes in human affairs and much occurs outside the hegemony of God, or that matters which seem wholly evil to us, the murder of a child, for instance, are actually good in ways we cannot comprehend.  

Yet when I brought this hypothesis up to a rabbi, he said my mistake was in not grasping that God is evil as well as good, is hate as well as love, despair as well as hope, is in fact all possible things to an infinite degree.  

Since he said that I have had to weigh his belief and set it against the other ideas.

The simplest explanation, of course, is that there is no God, yet that idea too opens up a number of problems, the most central to me being Aquinas' "uncreated creator" which had no beginning and yet set all else into existence.

This is the stuff I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about, to be honest.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro years ago told me it was because I was in the Mature cycle of the soul's journey back to the Tao, a time when such contemplations are so intrinsic as to be both inescapable and overwhelming.

She compared that stage of a soul's  journey to human adolescence, only an adolescence that continues across scores of lives until the tranquility of the old soul levels/lessons are reached.

I wonder what simply living life instead of constantly examining it is even like?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 25, 2023, 01:37:28 AM
I been thinking of me sweetheart Tara Sue lately. She passed 15 years ago.

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 25, 2023, 02:53:56 AM
Since Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello announced they are getting divorced all the various D&D groups have gotten all excited and are declaring that now they are apart, other people now have a chance.

The unusual thing is that is it Joe that they are all talking about and wanting to recruit to their gaming tables.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 25, 2023, 03:07:09 AM
I been thinking of me sweetheart Tara Sue lately. She passed 15 years ago.

(https://i.imgur.com/Zr83IMV.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

Hugs 🤗🤗


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 25, 2023, 07:51:08 AM
I been thinking of me sweetheart Tara Sue lately. She passed 15 years ago.

(https://i.imgur.com/Zr83IMV.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

Sad when days like this roll around. Condolences, Ronny. I remember when I first started posting here in 2008, she was sick.

I'll tell you, it's better to believe we are going to see lost loved ones again. If ultimately we don't then we've lost nothing we hadn't already, while we gained a lifetime of hope.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 26, 2023, 12:38:24 PM
Today my daughter undergoes a life experience I never have and gets a cavity repaired. I told the dentist if Trinity is brave she can have all the candy she wants til her next checkup, and he said that works for him.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 26, 2023, 03:16:14 PM
With Kristi's new job she has had to get used to being called a c**t multiple times on a daily bases. She considers it a good day when she gets through a shift without being called any names.

Anyway, I bought myself a 3D printer and since she likes to bake for the people she is looking after, I think this should be the first thing I make for her.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6116270 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6116270)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 26, 2023, 04:20:42 PM
With Kristi's new job she has had to get used to being called a c**t multiple times on a daily bases. She considers it a good day when she gets through a shift without being called any names.

Anyway, I bought myself a 3D printer and since she likes to bake for the people she is looking after, I think this should be the first thing I make for her.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6116270 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6116270)

Is she talking to Irish people by any chance?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 05:24:06 PM
^ She live's in Ireland.  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 26, 2023, 06:02:54 PM
With Kristi's new job she has had to get used to being called a c**t multiple times on a daily bases. She considers it a good day when she gets through a shift without being called any names.

Anyway, I bought myself a 3D printer and since she likes to bake for the people she is looking after, I think this should be the first thing I make for her.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6116270 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6116270)

Is she talking to Irish people by any chance?

Possibly Irish descent. Mostly it is people with learning difficulties who are too young to be receiving the kind of care old people receive.

Strangely I have found myself in the situation recently where people with learning difficulties have been commenting on or involved with situations they don't really understand.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 26, 2023, 06:03:48 PM
^ She live's in Ireland.  :lookingup:

In Scotland mate, I refuse for many reasons to live in Ireland.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 06:30:36 PM
^ I'm an idiot.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 26, 2023, 07:48:29 PM
^ She live's in Ireland.  :lookingup:

In Scotland mate, I refuse for many reasons to live in Ireland.

Great place to visit, less  fun as a place to live. (Sorry, Mom, we ain't doing it.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 27, 2023, 03:11:03 PM
I was wondering what the people here think about the USA women's soccer team and their refusal to sing the National anthem? 🤔


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 27, 2023, 03:14:59 PM
Hadn't heard anything about it, but it is their right to do so or not. These things shouldn't be enforced.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 27, 2023, 03:18:50 PM
Hadn't heard anything about it, but it is their right to do so or not. These things shouldn't be enforced.

Some of the team are being labelled as traitors online 🥴


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 27, 2023, 03:24:23 PM
I was wondering what the people here think about the USA women's soccer team and their refusal to sing the National anthem? 🤔

Yawn.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 27, 2023, 03:30:34 PM
Hadn't heard anything about it, but it is their right to do so or not. These things shouldn't be enforced.

Some of the team are being labelled as traitors online 🥴

That is also their right to do so. I'd imagine with the whole taking a knee thing, that the team would have known exactly what to expect. It does seem a little odd to me to on the one hand represent your country and on the other protest against it, but I guess that is just me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 27, 2023, 03:37:20 PM
Good news this morn: I may soon be publication brothers with Trevor (Bear Manor (https://bearmanor-digital.myshopify.com/)).

If I can just force myself to let go of my manuscript soon, yes. Contract states that it has to be submitted by December 2023.😳


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 27, 2023, 03:47:03 PM
Urgh, I want my 3D printer to arrive now!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on July 27, 2023, 04:11:11 PM
I don't like waking up from a nap and panicking that I missed a day. :/


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 27, 2023, 05:10:59 PM
What a beautiful thunderstorm.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 27, 2023, 06:09:32 PM
I was wondering what the people here think about the USA women's soccer team and their refusal to sing the National anthem? 🤔

Yawn.

Really weird story. NO ONE sings the national anthem here. We stand quietly and let a professional do it. The average person has nowhere near the range required!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 27, 2023, 07:39:35 PM
I was wondering what the people here think about the USA women's soccer team and their refusal to sing the National anthem? 🤔

Don't mean s**t to me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on July 28, 2023, 07:00:12 AM
Shame the plan in Alien wasn't to get the creature into the escape pod and then fire it off into the nearest sun.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 29, 2023, 01:46:01 AM
very frustrating day skateboarding, which they often are.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 30, 2023, 09:49:51 AM
What the f**k is wrong with people???

Taylor Shabusiness, a woman from Wisconson, just entered the Sicko Hall of Fame for strangling her boyfriend with a dog chain, having sex with his dead body, and cutting up his body while wiped out on meth.  While being interrogated, she confessed readily while giggling. Sweet sh*tting Satan.
So- Ed Gein, Jeffery Dahmer, and her all come from the friendly state of Wisconson.

(https://i.imgur.com/NqW6okn.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/taylor-schabusiness-guilty-of-kiling-lover-abusing-corpse/


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on July 31, 2023, 02:08:57 AM
What the f**k is wrong with people???

Taylor Shabusiness, a woman from Wisconson, just entered the Sicko Hall of Fame for strangling her boyfriend with a dog chain, having sex with his dead body, and cutting up his body while wiped out on meth.  While being interrogated, she confessed readily while giggling. Sweet sh*tting Satan.
So- Ed Gein, Jeffery Dahmer, and her all come from the friendly state of Wisconson.

(https://i.imgur.com/NqW6okn.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/taylor-schabusiness-guilty-of-kiling-lover-abusing-corpse/

 :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on July 31, 2023, 12:39:31 PM
Sorry to hear that Pee Wee Herman has died.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on July 31, 2023, 03:21:12 PM

"There are only two tragedies in life: either we get what we deserve, or we do not."

---Oscar Wilde


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 01, 2023, 12:13:42 PM
Looks like I'll be having my attestation on the 19th of September. I never thought that was something I'd have to do twice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 02, 2023, 04:54:41 PM
It doesn't matter how masterful a shot is, how deep the subtext is in a movie. If the film is dull, then it is dull.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on August 02, 2023, 06:09:05 PM
It doesn't matter how masterful a shot is, how deep the subtext is in a movie. If the film is dull, then it is dull.
This is me with Tool. No matter how much someone goes on and on about them I just canNOT get into them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 02, 2023, 08:28:37 PM
It doesn't matter how masterful a shot is, how deep the subtext is in a movie. If the film is dull, then it is dull.

Sort of a paradox, since masterful shots and deep subtexts are interesting.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 03, 2023, 04:25:29 PM
It doesn't matter how masterful a shot is, how deep the subtext is in a movie. If the film is dull, then it is dull.

Sort of a paradox, since masterful shots and deep subtexts are interesting.

I studied filmmaking from a critical point of view and at the end of 2 years of study came to the conclusion that you could talk as deeply as you wanted about a film, discuss context, subcontext, background subliminal music, accidental and deliberate meanings and so forth and yet all it still boiled down to was "Did you enjoy the movie?" To me, everything else is just window dressing. I came to much the same conclusion about books, mostly because of a single remark by a man called Robin Jenkins who wrote a story called The Cone Gatherers. For various reasons that book became incredibly influential in my life although unless you know what he said about it, you'd never be able to work out why. Anyway, if you find the other stuff makes or breaks a film for you, then more power to you.

In fact thinking about it, I'd say this one off-hand comment was the single most influential comment anyone ever made to me, but that is another story.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on August 03, 2023, 09:31:20 PM
For some strange reason, cats are the only domesticated mammal never mentioned in the Bible.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 04, 2023, 02:35:10 AM
Trump got indicted again. For trying to overturn the 2020 election. This is the BIG one.
Gives me hope that there may be some justice in this f**king country for once.
If he even gets 5 years, I'm sure he will die in prison. I have not truely hated anyone in the public employ beyond this evil cocksucker.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on August 04, 2023, 06:08:04 AM
And there's still the Georgia case to go! Right now he's facing indictments on nearly 80 criminal charges.
LOCK HIM UP!!!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 04, 2023, 08:32:09 AM
Trump got indicted again. For trying to overturn the 2020 election. This is the BIG one.
Gives me hope that there may be some justice in this f**king country for once.
If he even gets 5 years, I'm sure he will die in prison. I have not truely hated anyone in the public employ beyond this evil cocksucker.

This case isn't good. Trump's actions were totally reprehensible, but I don't think he had criminal intent, and I really don't think they can prove it. Lying is generally not criminal.

The Georgia case is stronger but still iffy.

Now the documents case, on the other hand, is a slam dunk. There is no doubt he's guilty, he's on tape, and he has no defense. Doesn't mean they can convince a jury, but I have by far the best feeling about that one. In a legal sense.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 06, 2023, 05:09:27 AM
Apparently, the passwords I use would take an average of 6,100 years to hack with the currently available level of computer technology.

This might be useful if companies didn't keep getting hacked and getting passwords stolen.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 06, 2023, 06:23:17 AM
After three years in care, Mom is still not better 😔😔


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 08, 2023, 12:22:32 PM
After three years in care, Mom is still not better 😔😔

Mine either. Moms get old.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 08, 2023, 01:13:28 PM
Gandalf liked to smoke weed. The Hobbits liked mushrooms.

Lord of the Rings was a drug-induced hallucination.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 08, 2023, 04:49:55 PM
^ As was Alice in Wonderland.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 08, 2023, 08:56:49 PM
Nobody seems to like Bill Maher much.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 09, 2023, 11:29:24 AM
I have learned to reconcile my own free will with the concept that ultimately my life will reach a point toward which I was partially led by the decisions and consequences of that free will acting in concert with the intrusion of factors over which I will have had no control. I think of that concept as cinneadhadh (kin-na-aw) after the Irish words for “decision” and “luck”.

Huh?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 09, 2023, 11:30:27 AM
Nobody seems to like Bill Maher much.

He's too smug for me. I like Stephan Colbert, who is actually funny.
Mahr- he is an atheist, like me. But he mocks people who ARE religious- not radical political religious nuts, just anybody folks who believe in God,- calling them stupid. Which makes him stupid and narrow minded.
f**k him. He becomes what he claims to hate. And hate is the key word there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 09, 2023, 11:31:15 AM
I always feel like having a minor evil laugh (well, more of a chuckle) when I outbid snipers on ebay.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 09, 2023, 11:41:28 AM
^Me too. Once I see some shmuck go 1 dollar over me- I jump 5. If they want this- they gonna pay.
What I look for is small sellers. Lotsa them have cool stuff- and you end up being the only bidder.
Of course I mostly bid on weird books and magazines and strange old s**t and trinkets.
It's like a flea market at home. And I usta go to yard sales and flea markets all the time when I was young and had wheels.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 09, 2023, 12:26:35 PM
I beat this guy by 20p (about 15 cents I guess).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 10, 2023, 04:32:11 AM
Wow, overnight I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 emails from US soldiers asking me to "kindly" help them conceal money in my bank account. They musta hit the mother load over there. We're gonna be so rich....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 10, 2023, 12:29:10 PM
Wow, overnight I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 emails from US soldiers asking me to "kindly" help them conceal money in my bank account. They musta hit the mother load over there. We're gonna be so rich....

Makes a change from all the ones I get from women seeking a man in whatever country is having a war or natural disaster or whatever.

I just find it odd that no matter where these women have came from, the emails all come from Nigeria.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 10, 2023, 07:59:30 PM
Wow, overnight I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 emails from US soldiers asking me to "kindly" help them conceal money in my bank account. They musta hit the mother load over there. We're gonna be so rich....

When I get scam emails like that, I reply in the filthiest Afrikaans I know and hope they don't know how to use Google Translate 😳😉


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 12, 2023, 11:06:56 AM
Ever notice it's sometimes satisfying to pretend people around you in public are NPCs?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 12, 2023, 11:21:56 AM
^I have no clue what that means.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 12, 2023, 04:45:05 PM
NPCs are the mindless characters in the background of video games.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 12, 2023, 09:24:12 PM
^ That's why I didn't know, I suppose. Not a big video game fan.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on August 13, 2023, 02:14:14 AM
Ever notice it's sometimes satisfying to pretend people around you in public are NPCs?
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no. the day will never come when i pretend that those around me are 2-dimensional throwaways.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 13, 2023, 11:48:31 AM
Yup, all the time. The only important people to me out there are the party I've gathered around me. Everyone else is just background animation.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 13, 2023, 02:53:05 PM
Most Sundays for over a decade we've gone to my in-laws' house. Sad tradition to see go.


Title: Trump In Deep s**t- again!
Post by: RCMerchant on August 15, 2023, 11:48:24 AM
Trump has been indicted in Georgia. He aint gonna weasel out of this one. I don't think he can charm his way out of the sh!t in DC either. Florida- maybe- because he got a Trump friendly judge. If this gangster gets only 4 years- I will bet he will die in prison. He's f**king 77 years of piled up bulls**t.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 15, 2023, 06:41:05 PM
A pentagram is not an efficient way to slice a pizza, but it does hold a certain artistic appeal.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 15, 2023, 06:55:52 PM
A pentagram is not an efficient way to slice a pizza, but it does hold a certain artistic appeal.

Hail Satan, Baby!

(https://i.imgur.com/TrGskQZ.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 15, 2023, 07:55:06 PM
You could always flip the pizza upside down and call it a pentacle.

Either way you wind up with freakish shaped slices.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 16, 2023, 06:14:00 AM
Ever have mornings where you wake up more fatigued than when you went to sleep?  Doing one of those today.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 16, 2023, 06:28:54 AM
Yes, but in normally involves a hefty consumption of alcohol.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 16, 2023, 08:18:23 AM
Lately I've been feeling like I wake up every day with a hangover, even if I had nothing to drink.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 16, 2023, 08:35:39 AM
I'll blame cosmic rays for it all.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on August 16, 2023, 08:39:14 AM
You can make a song that you don't like be better and worse at the same time by singing it in a bad Mr. Ed voice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 16, 2023, 10:15:59 AM
I shouldn't be sitting here minus pants  :twirl: :tongueout: :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on August 19, 2023, 01:19:50 AM
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus...

It takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis but orbits the Sun in about 225 Earth days.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 19, 2023, 08:45:29 AM
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus...

It takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis but orbits the Sun in about 225 Earth days.

That schedule would take some adjusting to. Along with the 900F temperatures.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 19, 2023, 01:57:00 PM
^ Something that puzzles me, would Planet Express be able to deliver to Pluto since it got demoted?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 20, 2023, 07:05:46 AM
No church this morning because the daughter I take there is across town til noon, no going to my mother in law's house (as it feels bizarre to call it now :bluesad:) so I think this afternoon I'll go to a fossil park and partake of life's greatest joy, being with my children.

May everyone have a happy Sunday in your part of the world!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 20, 2023, 08:30:40 PM
I must be losing my marbles. I looked outside and thought-" Dam, it's real dark at 9:30 in the morning."
I took an early nap. It's 9:30 at night. I thought it was Monday.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 21, 2023, 06:27:33 AM
Marcus Licinius Crassus became the richest man in ancient Rome in part because when he saw a fire he'd rush in and offer the owner of burning building money for his property, and he got a lot of land inexpensively that way. I wonder if anyone is using that tactic right now in Maui?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 22, 2023, 07:26:22 AM
When something is mentioned as having been posted on X, I keep thinking is that a porno or casual sex site? Then a second or two later it clicks.

Any Godzilla film where the monster doesn't do one of those tail slide drop kicks is not worthy of the name.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on August 22, 2023, 08:57:29 PM
Beeezy morfins!  Nunkee nunkee nunkee!  Boogah whoogah!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 23, 2023, 12:15:48 PM
I am really not surprised to hear about Yevgeny Prigozhin. Figured he'd have an accident sooner rather than later. Such is the way of crazy ass dictators dealing with their enemies and former friends.

Glad to hear that the kids in Pakistan were successfully rescued. That had to be a hard 16 hours.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 23, 2023, 01:06:08 PM
I am really not surprised to hear about Yevgeny Prigozhin. Figured he'd have an accident sooner rather than later. Such is the way of crazy ass dictators dealing with their enemies and former friends.

Glad to hear that the kids in Pakistan were successfully rescued. That had to be a hard 16 hours.

Good grief, the most blatant political rubout via aircraft I've seen since Republicans whacked Paul Wellstone.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 23, 2023, 01:52:26 PM
I'm glad that Trump is gonna get a mugshot in Fulton County. Arrested AGAIN! This is the one I was waiting for. I think he's f**ked. Makes me feel all warm and cozy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 23, 2023, 04:19:57 PM
Man it's hot.

How hot is it?

This morning I saw a bunch of camels pack up and move north.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 23, 2023, 04:28:07 PM
Man it's hot.

How hot is it?

This morning I saw a bunch of camels pack up and move north.

Next year is expected to be even hotter. But don't worry, someone somewhere will have a day or two of cold weather and announce that climate change isn't happening.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 24, 2023, 05:34:10 AM
Checked the weather forecast before bed, weather being my obsession, and it said no rain coming. There is a roaring storm above us right now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 24, 2023, 07:21:21 AM
Well done to India, although I am not sure I'd want to travel in a low-budget spacecraft, should they attempt a manned flight to the moon next.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 24, 2023, 02:09:02 PM
Well done to India, although I am not sure I'd want to travel in a low-budget spacecraft, should they attempt a manned flight to the moon next.
Yes, well done, India! And sorry your mission didn't go as planned, Russia! I'm all behind humans making it to space. as long as we don't militarize it, which I imagine we will. (People keep saying the photos India sent back from the moon look like bad SPFX, but I haven't seen them. I guess not everyone has a Kubrick to fake their moon backgrounds, eh?  :wink:)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on August 24, 2023, 08:44:38 PM
A Donald Trump mugshot . . .

the only thing better will be when they cart him off to jail in handcuffs and take his phone away forever.

COMING SOON!!!!!!!!!!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 25, 2023, 12:58:39 AM
Where is Nadine Dorries?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 25, 2023, 02:59:29 AM
I just realised the chewing gum I like is made in Poland of all places 🤔😊🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 26, 2023, 06:36:10 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/tj65gk2.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

You just did, shmuck! To the Fulton County police!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on August 26, 2023, 08:47:37 AM
Confession:

Every time I have ever been to a wedding and the officiate says, "If anyone have just cause for why this marriage shall not precede, let him speak now or forever hold his peace" I have felt an almost ungovernable compulsion to stand up and say something, just blurt something out, quote a poem, start singing, anything. I even felt that at my own wedding, like it was a moment of extreme pressure that depended on me alone to alleviate before the entire world exploded. Sometimes out in the congregation I've even fidgeted to try to contain that energy, and it's once or twice been a struggle to keep quiet and not burst into laughter. Then when the ceremony moved on the feeling would instantly go away.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 26, 2023, 11:12:12 AM
Three country songs occupy the top spots on Billboard this week. I wonder when the last time that happened was?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on August 26, 2023, 01:30:52 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/tj65gk2.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

You just did, shmuck! To the Fulton County police!

Yeah, he also said he was 6'3" and weighed 215 pounds.
Lying POS!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 27, 2023, 12:27:33 AM
I can't believe that the political party which destroyed my birth country is STILL in power 😢😢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on August 27, 2023, 01:04:23 AM
Trump has raised 7.1 million off that mug shot


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 27, 2023, 02:33:14 AM
^ Good for him! He'll be able to afford lotsa Ramen in jail!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 27, 2023, 03:53:40 AM
Where is Nadine Dorries?

I read that she resigned.  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 27, 2023, 09:20:58 AM
On another forum I lurk on, an old grandmotherly lady is discussing the hummingbirds that come to her bird feeder.

Unfortunately, she calls hummingbirds "hummers."

This leads to unfortunate sentences like "I got a hummer this morning."

So far no one has corrected her.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on August 27, 2023, 01:51:13 PM
Where is Nadine Dorries?

I read that she resigned.  :question:

Something like 10 weeks after she said she would and having not represented her constituents.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 27, 2023, 02:50:06 PM
Where is Nadine Dorries?

I read that she resigned.  :question:

Something like 10 weeks after she said she would and having not represented her constituents.

Yikes: sounds like some South African politicians I know of 😳🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on August 27, 2023, 03:36:00 PM
Trump has raised 7.1 million off that mug shot
Strangely reminds me of 2008, when everybody was wearing those t-shirts Obama as a postage stamp done in this Andy Warhol motif...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on August 27, 2023, 03:41:56 PM
Yeah it said "Hope"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 27, 2023, 03:48:49 PM
I'd buy this on a T !

(https://i.imgur.com/XoObhNH.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on August 27, 2023, 03:56:54 PM
Yeah it said "Hope"
Yeah... You remember that SNL sketch for Obamania?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on August 27, 2023, 04:25:09 PM
Yeah it said "Hope"
Yeah... You remember that SNL sketch for Obamania?

The one with Obamagirl?
Yes, it was actually pretty funny!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on August 27, 2023, 05:58:27 PM
I have always said since Jan. 6 that Trump should be disqualified under the the rule of the 14th amendment, enacted after the Civil War. And now, finally, if he is found guitly in DC or Fulton County- he will be.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on August 27, 2023, 06:47:05 PM
I have always said since Jan. 6 that Trump should be disqualified under the the rule of the 14th amendment, enacted after the Civil War. And now, finally, if he is found guitly in DC or Fulton County- he will be.

Full agreement!  I just can't wait for them to put him in handcuffs and take his phone away.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on August 28, 2023, 06:10:25 AM
An airline safety ad just made me bawl.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 28, 2023, 11:11:59 AM
I like the fact that middle class people will be footing a billionaire's legal bills.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 05, 2023, 11:20:02 PM
Took my friend's dad to lunch for his birthday the other day and he told me a story about going to Europe with friends fifty years ago, and how one of the friends said he was going to stay in Europe and get around with no money. He actually pulled it off to some extent, with a combination of doing day jobs, panhandling, and admitting to locals he was a broke American, which ended up with him getting free meals and a sofa to sleep on a surprising number of times. He bummed around western Europe that way for almost four months past when his friends went home.

My random thought is I wonder if it'd still be possible to do something like that today, or have times changed too drastically?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 06, 2023, 12:38:43 AM
RC hasn't posted in a while 🤔


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 06, 2023, 08:16:25 AM
From now on when I refer to something loathsome I think I will just call it a Reetika Vaziriani. Turns out there actually is something lower than an ordinary child murderer: the murderer of one's own child.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on September 06, 2023, 09:02:19 PM
From now on when I refer to something loathsome I think I will just call it a Reetika Vaziriani. Turns out there actually is something lower than an ordinary child murderer: the murderer of one's own child.

I had to look that up.  What a sick, evil woman.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on September 06, 2023, 09:50:44 PM
^ Like La Llorona... ^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 08, 2023, 02:05:33 PM
Why is it called "male pattern baldness" and not just "baldness" (or even better, "cue ball head")?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on September 09, 2023, 12:12:25 AM
i think it's because it DOES have patterns. my old guy has a bald spot right where his soft spot would have been as a baby, and his front/side hairline has receded to " dracula widows peak" status. BUT. the rest of his head, his hair spouts like , alfalfa fast, and it's a gorgeous sterling silver, so he keeps it high and tight, but not bald.
   his dad, on the other hand, went bald early, from the front to the back, by age 50, it was gone. he wore the sides high and tight too, until it was completely gone. his bro still has a full head of dark brown hair, it's very weird, they're only 2 years apart.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 09, 2023, 08:30:30 AM
Why is it called "male pattern baldness" and not just "baldness" (or even better, "cue ball head")?

It's more of the blatant sexism men have always had to deal with.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 09, 2023, 08:35:46 AM
Why is it called "male pattern baldness" and not just "baldness" (or even better, "cue ball head")?

It's more of the blatant sexism men have always had to deal with.

I went bald [or bles as they say here] at an early age as I had to wear hats at school all the time.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on September 09, 2023, 08:44:22 AM
Why is it called "male pattern baldness" and not just "baldness" (or even better, "cue ball head")?

It's more of the blatant sexism men have always had to deal with.


You ARE being sarcastic, I assume.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 09, 2023, 08:48:22 AM
Why is it called "male pattern baldness" and not just "baldness" (or even better, "cue ball head")?

It's more of the blatant sexism men have always had to deal with.


You ARE being sarcastic, I assume.

Gasp! Whimsical, RC,  not sarcastic.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 09, 2023, 01:52:01 PM
Well, since Indy brought up the fact I've had the honor of calling him my very dear friend, my gallowglass in the old Irish, since I was in college, I might as well add something else to the truth-telling and show what a good person I know him to be (something I think everyone on this site already knows about him).

Since 2010 he's been registered with my former employer, a branch of the federal government, as my spiritual advisor, a confidential counselor we are allowed and even encouraged to have in what was often a high-stress job.

In 2010 even my short-term survival was in question, I was afraid, it was a very hard time in my life, and when I reached out to him he was there for me, always, and being able to trust him and talk about the things I talked to him about in confidence, some pretty incredible  things, he being the pastor of a church at the time, it made a difference in my life I can't begin to describe. It was a horrible, scary time and he didn't let me down.

The gratitude I will always feel towards him is not something that will ever go away, and a friendship like that isn't something I would set aside for any reason. It's funny how a relationship I consider so deep is one some others here thought would be broken over their negative posts about me.

It's funny, too, a time or two I've been called out in here for dishonesty over things I've related that in many cases Indy actually was there to live through with me. He knows the job I did, the toll it took and takes, yet he stands by me anyway. Do you have anyone like that or know how rare that is in life?

I guess I'm saying this to let it be known that a friendship like that with someone to whom I owe so much, who is literally in my employee next of kin file alongside my family, that's somebody I look out for. So whatever your feelings for me, be nice to him. It's a really good idea. Probably better than you'd believe it is.

Shrug, all is forgiven and forgotten to this point. There's not one of you I'd wish ill on today. Clean slate. Fresh start. Once again I won't be the first to break the peace, though I expect it will be broken, but when you do break it, make it be with me, not someone I look out for almost like he's family. And heck, there's literally nothing  I wouldn't do for family. Literally nothing. :-)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on September 09, 2023, 02:23:18 PM
I ate some jalapeno poppers I got from the deli today.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on September 09, 2023, 02:24:00 PM
And cole slaw!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 10, 2023, 08:58:07 PM
Night, everyone. May there be peace in the valley!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on September 11, 2023, 01:32:55 AM
I had a dream the other night that I went to California and got involved in a dodgy cult. For some reason, I really enjoyed it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on September 11, 2023, 07:00:24 PM
So glad that I got a tablet for cooking/baking stuff.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 12, 2023, 11:45:35 AM
My cousin's daughter is going out with a UPS driver and he said the other day a package thief stole someone's Cologuard sample off his porch. Bet that thief got a shock.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on September 12, 2023, 08:32:22 PM
I miss Jim, my wife Tara Sue's son. He died a couple years back. He was 31.
We used to watch all sortsa bad movie together. He was a master of guitar thrash, but Iraq f**ked him up. He died of a stroke.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 13, 2023, 06:55:17 AM
Four score and seven years ago (that means a week, right?) I ordered an illuminated desktop moon that displays all the lunar cycles either in real time or once an hour, and it's finally coming today.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 15, 2023, 07:59:24 AM
My handwriting is so bad I can't even read it. I wrote down "mobilization" and when I looked at it later I thought I had written "zombieflation."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on September 16, 2023, 03:11:39 AM
Well, my niece has corona again. Welcome back covid  :lookingup:

I've had contact with her but no physical contact. My sister and me are the only one in our family who never caught the virus. Hopefully we will get lucky again this time too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 16, 2023, 05:45:53 AM
It's been a crazy last day and a half in the Ellieverse.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 20, 2023, 07:39:33 AM
There's an old Korean saying I think is relevant to our lives today:

Dwe-he din wa ho wei un dachi som-fochu sei.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on September 20, 2023, 01:20:24 PM
There's an old Korean saying I think is relevant to our lives today:

Dwe-he din wa ho wei un dachi som-fochu sei.

How to make money and lose your luck???


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on September 20, 2023, 08:40:02 PM
Apparently I must have great balance since I'm able to walk in  4 inch stiletto boots with no problem.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on September 20, 2023, 08:44:36 PM
I^ I can hardly walk barefoot without a cane for too long a time! Good job!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on September 20, 2023, 08:58:25 PM
4 am and I'm awake 🥴


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on September 20, 2023, 09:25:42 PM
My wife said men don't know what it's like to try and have a conversation with someone who is staring at one part of your body the entire time.
I disagreed, and told  her: "Women are CONSTANTLY staring at my nostrils!"

I don't think she believed me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 21, 2023, 08:06:38 AM
Apparently I must have great balance since I'm able to walk in  4 inch stiletto boots with no problem.

Watch out for wet lawns!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on September 25, 2023, 10:37:05 AM
I've been collecting some roughly 40 year old magazines recently that I used to read back then. I was going through one of them a got to the letters page and in the middle of it, it says that it takes the USA 2 years to realise whenever there is a world war on. I thought about it for a second and then thought "I can't fault his logic".


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 26, 2023, 04:49:14 PM
To say the very least, today turned out much better than it promised to when I first got up.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on September 26, 2023, 05:33:07 PM
To say the very least, today turned out much better than it promised to when I first got up.  :cheers:

That's good news!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 26, 2023, 09:38:23 PM
To say the very least, today turned out much better than it promised to when I first got up.  :cheers:

That's good news!

Thank you. I just put my foot down and said I'm not going in, and though I pushed my luck fortunately everything worked out just as well for staying home. As well as it would have there. It's better to be lucky than wise sometimes.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 28, 2023, 03:44:34 PM
I think I've settled on Laphroiag 10 year as my go-to Scotch. Thoughts, Alex?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on September 28, 2023, 03:53:12 PM
I've been collecting some roughly 40 year old magazines recently that I used to read back then. I was going through one of them a got to the letters page and in the middle of it, it says that it takes the USA 2 years to realise whenever there is a world war on. I thought about it for a second and then thought "I can't fault his logic".

Donald Trump just recently said "Joe Biden is leading us to World War II".
And this Melon Head was President.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 28, 2023, 04:46:29 PM
^ Oh, s**t! Biden's got a time machine???


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on September 28, 2023, 11:05:54 PM
^ Oh, s**t! Biden's got a time machine???
He's going to go back in time and stop that meteor from killing off the dinosaurs! :twirl:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 29, 2023, 07:29:44 AM
^ Oh, s**t! Biden's got a time machine???
He's going to go back in time and stop that meteor from killing off the dinosaurs! :twirl:
Because he knew them personally!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on September 30, 2023, 08:10:05 AM
Damn, damn, and triple damn. I just found out my favorite person at the food pantry where I volunteer suddenly passed away yesterday. She was so cool. Snappy, irreverent, feisty, and almost eighty.

To give you an idea how great she was, after she retired from decades at the phone company, she took a part-time job doing tele-surveys for a market research company, and she said sometimes people would sass her on those, and one man she called told her he'd do her survey if she described her underwear to him.

So she said, "OK, it's white."

He said, "Go on."

"It's white and it's cotton."

"I'm gonna need more than that."

She said, "Listen, honey, I'm wearing white cotton granny panties, I weigh 160 pounds, and I'm almost seventy years old. If any of that turns you on, I think we should meet for a date!"


I loved her.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on September 30, 2023, 11:25:27 AM
^ Oh, s**t! Biden's got a time machine???
He's going to go back in time and stop that meteor from killing off the dinosaurs! :twirl:
Because he knew them personally!
You know damn well those T-rexes owe him $20  :tongueout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 01, 2023, 08:55:39 AM
It was slow in here yesterday. Did everyone suddenly get a life?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 01, 2023, 01:13:42 PM
^ I was in the hospital. My high blood pressure medicine gave me high potassium.  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on October 01, 2023, 02:23:01 PM
^ I was in the hospital. My high blood pressure medicine gave me high potassium.  :lookingup:

Sorry to hear that, Ronnie! You need to take better care of yourself.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 02, 2023, 12:44:03 AM
If Christians have an obligation to Israel, does Israel have an obligation to Christians? or is it just a one way obligation


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 02, 2023, 09:43:40 AM
I been thinking about a paradox, if paradox it is, concerning the conduct in one matter of atheists versus Christians. Since Christians believe this life holds less value than the life to come, and most non-Buddhist atheists I know think this life is all there is, you'd think atheists would be doing all they can to ease the suffering of others in this fleeting existence, and doubtless some are, but I notice it's Christians, despite thinking this life is not the most important consideration, who run the food banks and thrift stores and who seem the first to give to others.

I wonder why that is?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 02, 2023, 10:24:20 AM
I been thinking about a paradox, if paradox it is, concerning the conduct in one matter of atheists versus Christians. Since Christians believe this life holds less value than the life to come, and most non-Buddhist atheists I know think this life is all there is, you'd think atheists would be doing all they can to ease the suffering of others in this fleeting existence, and doubtless some are, but I notice it's Christians, despite thinking this life is not the most important consideration, who run the food banks and thrift stores and who seem the first to give to others.

I wonder why that is?

One thought: largely unrelated to belief in the afterlife, Christians feel the need to spread the faith. Charity is a way of advertising to win converts.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 02, 2023, 11:28:36 AM
I been thinking about a paradox, if paradox it is, concerning the conduct in one matter of atheists versus Christians. Since Christians believe this life holds less value than the life to come, and most non-Buddhist atheists I know think this life is all there is, you'd think atheists would be doing all they can to ease the suffering of others in this fleeting existence, and doubtless some are, but I notice it's Christians, despite thinking this life is not the most important consideration, who run the food banks and thrift stores and who seem the first to give to others.

I wonder why that is?

One thought: largely unrelated to belief in the afterlife, Christians feel the need to spread the faith. Charity is a way of advertising to win converts.

Yeah, that could be.

Just think if everyone able to do so spent even one hour per month helping other people. We'd have a much better world.

PS: I cited Christians, but I know of at least two area mosques who also have free meal programs every week, and the area synagogues have combined into a charity organization that does a lot of good works, so I could have said "religious organizations."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 02, 2023, 09:13:31 PM
Most jokes about sharks make sharks out to be stupid, but sharks can grow brand new teeth. Can the people telling the shark jokes grow brand new teeth? No, I don't think so. Maybe mutants but not most of us. So unless you're a tooth generating mutant, enough with the jokes about sharks being stupid.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 02, 2023, 09:56:06 PM
I been thinking about a paradox, if paradox it is, concerning the conduct in one matter of atheists versus Christians. Since Christians believe this life holds less value than the life to come, and most non-Buddhist atheists I know think this life is all there is, you'd think atheists would be doing all they can to ease the suffering of others in this fleeting existence, and doubtless some are, but I notice it's Christians, despite thinking this life is not the most important consideration, who run the food banks and thrift stores and who seem the first to give to others.

I wonder why that is?

One thought: largely unrelated to belief in the afterlife, Christians feel the need to spread the faith. Charity is a way of advertising to win converts.

Yeah, that could be.

Just think if everyone able to do so spent even one hour per month helping other people. We'd have a much better world.

PS: I cited Christians, but I know of at least two area mosques who also have free meal programs every week, and the area synagogues have combined into a charity organization that does a lot of good works, so I could have said "religious organizations."
Is there no volunteer work in your area, like food banks or shelters? :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 02, 2023, 10:26:10 PM
During the pandemic a charity that Kristi was involved with took on extra roles and ended up supplying two cooked meals a week to roughly 10% of the town. When the local churches were asked to help out, they initially declined saying that there was no poverty in  Lossiemouth. Later on they'd change their minds and provide facilities to help out.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 02, 2023, 11:36:23 PM
During the pandemic a charity that Kristi was involved with took on extra roles and ended up supplying two cooked meals a week to roughly 10% of the town. When the local churches were asked to help out, they initially declined saying that there was no poverty in  Lossiemouth. Later on they'd change their minds and provide facilities to help out.

The churches said there was no poverty in the town? Dumbasses, their religion's founder said there'd be poor always.

BTW, I'm still up because there is a bee flying around this room, I can't catch it to let it outside, and every time I try to lie down it flies out from behind something and starts buzzing around the room some more. I know it wants to catch me asleep, crawl up into my nose, and sting my brain. I'm about to go get a shotgun.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 03, 2023, 07:04:39 AM
Most jokes about sharks make sharks out to be stupid, but sharks can grow brand new teeth. Can the people telling the shark jokes grow brand new teeth? No, I don't think so. Maybe mutants but not most of us. So unless you're a tooth generating mutant, enough with the jokes about sharks being stupid.

It doesn't take intelligence to grow teeth.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 03, 2023, 08:00:27 AM
I wonder if since I loath wrapping presents, if spray painting them would be an acceptable alternative?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 03, 2023, 10:04:59 AM
I wonder how many old people who complain today that young people have no respect actually treated their elders respectfully when they were young. I'd bet very few...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 03, 2023, 11:21:54 AM
^ I did. Or my Dad would have brought out the belt.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 03, 2023, 11:34:59 AM
I have decided to quit drinking for good.



Now, I am going to drink for evil.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 03, 2023, 12:12:08 PM
I have decided to quit drinking for good.



Now, I am going to drink for evil.

 :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 04, 2023, 09:03:09 AM
Man. This place aint right without Hallows.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 04, 2023, 11:56:49 AM
Man. This place aint right without Hallows.  :bluesad:

He signed on yesterday so he's OK: he just didn't post.

Newt has been gone for almost 2 weeks now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 04, 2023, 05:42:29 PM
Testicles: easy peazy, furry squeezy  :tongueout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 06, 2023, 04:22:32 AM
 As well as writing The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis was also seriously into S&M, even having an alter ego whose name translated from Greek as 'Lover of the whip'. There were stranger things than Narnia in the back of that man's wardrobe.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 06, 2023, 10:02:18 AM
 If a group of anarchists had a leader then they are not anarchists. Or at least not very good ones.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 06, 2023, 02:07:33 PM
Wondering lately what a reboot of Blake's 7 would look like...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 06, 2023, 02:29:05 PM
Wondering lately what a reboot of Blake's 7 would look like...

As much as I'd love to see that, it wouldn't be the same with someone else playing Avon... or Servalan. Damn but she was hot. Avon and her really should have teamed up.

Just as a random aside, I am actually painting up some Federation troopers and a couple of robots from the show at the moment.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 06, 2023, 05:54:39 PM
I am of the opinion lately that politics and religion are the exact same thing.
I was watching a film where the daughter of a German Pastor during WWII says- "My father was of the mind that he would not give up his Protestant faith for the new Nazi religion."
Which brings me to Evangelicals who belong to the cult of MAGA.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 06, 2023, 06:10:43 PM
I just watched a documentary about the Norwegian Black Metal scene, and I saw El Misfit (aka Dead)!

These folks are some f**ked up people! Burnt down churches, killed people- all sortsa s**t. One band member of MAYHEM found the frontman Dead- well- dead. He blew his brains out with a shotgun. So the guy who found his sorry ass took a picture his bloody corpse and used it as an album cover!
Some sick f**ks, there. I am of Norwegian heritage and f**ked up- but that's just gone.
Oh yeah- the music is just too apes**t for even me! And I listen to Fear and the Germs!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 07, 2023, 04:06:51 AM
^Sadly Mayhem is still around, they're not good but they're still around.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 07, 2023, 12:24:49 PM
 :lookingup:
startin' t' look like it....
 :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 07, 2023, 02:34:09 PM
My friend might be right that millennials will inherit the world, but I am pretty sure Gen Xers will just kick their arse and take it back.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 07, 2023, 03:45:12 PM
My friend might be right that millennials will inherit the world, but I am pretty sure Gen Xers will just kick their arse and take it back.

Yeah, really, we could just use loudspeakers to play offensives jokes at their armies and they'd melt away.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 07, 2023, 04:12:51 PM
I like the black metal stuff because it's metal but it's different.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 07, 2023, 04:57:59 PM
I like black metal because it sounds like a Viking with an enlarged prostate sitting on a sharp rock.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 07, 2023, 06:54:07 PM
I don't like black metal. It's stupid as f**k. They seem to be a bunch of Norway Nazis dressing up for Halloween. There's a big Nationlist menatility to it all.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 08, 2023, 07:22:25 AM
I like some black metal (like Immortal) I just don't like Mayhem.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 08, 2023, 09:47:31 AM
I just read a story Steve Martin wrote called "Lolita at 50" and it imagined Lolita as a rich, spoiled, much-married southern California wife who pretty much snapped her fingers and got men to do anything she desired.

I'm no expert on the source material, which I only read once, but my take was less that Lolita was a goddess in human form, but rather the book was about Humbert Humbert's singular obsession with someone that we were given hints was not really seen in the same golden light by the rest of the world. I thought Martin's take that Lolita was able to live glamorously by exploiting an instant attraction all men had to her was a misunderstanding.

Did I goof or did he?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 08, 2023, 04:37:45 PM
I just read a story Steve Martin wrote called "Lolita at 50" and it imagined Lolita as a rich, spoiled, much-married southern California wife who pretty much snapped her fingers and got men to do anything she desired.

I'm no expert on the source material, which I only read once, but my take was less that Lolita was a goddess in human form, but rather the book was about Humbert Humbert's singular obsession with someone that we were given hints was not really seen in the same golden light by the rest of the world. I thought Martin's take that Lolita was able to live glamorously by exploiting an instant attraction all men had to her was a misunderstanding.

Did I goof or did he?

Your take is closer to the original but I haven't read Martin's take so I don't know for sure what he was aiming at. The idea could be that because HH (and another character) was obsessed with her L grew up learning to manipulate men. This sometimes happens to women who were molested; they grow up to become promiscuous and use their sexuality to get what they want from men.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 08, 2023, 08:17:21 PM
1/4 past 2 should be changed to 6am. This night is passing too slowly.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 09, 2023, 07:04:21 AM
I have the sad feeling that the current situation will only end with large parts of Gaza levelled and a lot of more or less innocent people maimed or dead.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 09, 2023, 07:22:16 AM
After watching all of DS9 the last time we had Netflix I decided to try with Voyager.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 09, 2023, 07:50:47 AM
Happy Columbus Day! Without him:

There'd be no BMDO....

John Ford would have had to find a different movie genre....

There'd be lots more bison poop scattered across Nebraska....

Millennials would be kvetching about genocide in a different language....

The Chinese would've done it all eventually....

And the Aztecs would've kept ritually dry-drowning hundreds of children a year.

Here's to the spirit of exploration!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 09, 2023, 09:59:02 AM
I must say I do like some dangling earrings.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 09, 2023, 10:25:10 AM
^ Columbus found NOTHING. Thank Erik the Red.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 09, 2023, 01:12:50 PM
In the unlikely event that the Internet gets knocked out on Wednesday,  it's been a blast.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 09, 2023, 01:26:21 PM
In the unlikely event that the Internet gets knocked out on Wednesday,  it's been a blast.

No idea what you were talking about so I looked it up... it's a rumor from 2018 apparently recirculating. Still, maybe they were off by 5 years... :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 09, 2023, 01:51:00 PM
In the unlikely event that the Internet gets knocked out on Wednesday,  it's been a blast.

No idea what you were talking about so I looked it up... it's a rumor from 2018 apparently recirculating. Still, maybe they were off by 5 years... :bouncegiggle:

https://bnn.network/world/authorities-dispel-rumors-of-global-internet-outage-on-october-11/

This is the one I was reading.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 09, 2023, 02:02:51 PM
In the unlikely event that the Internet gets knocked out on Wednesday,  it's been a blast.

No idea what you were talking about so I looked it up... it's a rumor from 2018 apparently recirculating. Still, maybe they were off by 5 years... :bouncegiggle:

https://bnn.network/world/authorities-dispel-rumors-of-global-internet-outage-on-october-11/

This is the one I was reading.

"...a video and news article circulating on social media suggested that a worldwide internet blackout was imminent. The video was a manipulated cut from an old episode of the ‘His Excellency the Citizen’ programme on MBC, dating back to October 2018. The article, allegedly from the British newspaper ‘The Mirror,’ was also proven to be false." Sounds like that's where the specific "October 11" date came from, although an article about solar storms disrupting the Internet also came out in 2021. People are gullible and love a good apocalypse.

Did you hear about the lady who claimed the recent cell phone alarm test was the signal to "activate the Marburg virus in people who have been vaccinated. And sadly turn some of them into zombies." Probably happened and the fake news media covered it up.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 09, 2023, 02:24:19 PM
In the unlikely event that the Internet gets knocked out on Wednesday,  it's been a blast.

No idea what you were talking about so I looked it up... it's a rumor from 2018 apparently recirculating. Still, maybe they were off by 5 years... :bouncegiggle:

https://bnn.network/world/authorities-dispel-rumors-of-global-internet-outage-on-october-11/

This is the one I was reading.

"...a video and news article circulating on social media suggested that a worldwide internet blackout was imminent. The video was a manipulated cut from an old episode of the ‘His Excellency the Citizen’ programme on MBC, dating back to October 2018. The article, allegedly from the British newspaper ‘The Mirror,’ was also proven to be false." Sounds like that's where the specific "October 11" date came from, although an article about solar storms disrupting the Internet also came out in 2021. People are gullible and love a good apocalypse.

Did you hear about the lady who claimed the recent cell phone alarm test was the signal to "activate the Marburg virus in people who have been vaccinated. And sadly turn some of them into zombies." Probably happened and the fake news media covered it up.

Hadn't heard that one. I turned my phone off for that test which i guess is why i am not a xombie now. Kind of thought the article was more vaguely amusing hence the 'unlikely event' (but hey not completely impossible). Wishing I'd paid more attention to the flat earth one I heard earlier.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 09, 2023, 03:04:52 PM
In the unlikely event that the Internet gets knocked out on Wednesday,  it's been a blast.

No idea what you were talking about so I looked it up... it's a rumor from 2018 apparently recirculating. Still, maybe they were off by 5 years... :bouncegiggle:

https://bnn.network/world/authorities-dispel-rumors-of-global-internet-outage-on-october-11/

This is the one I was reading.

"...a video and news article circulating on social media suggested that a worldwide internet blackout was imminent. The video was a manipulated cut from an old episode of the ‘His Excellency the Citizen’ programme on MBC, dating back to October 2018. The article, allegedly from the British newspaper ‘The Mirror,’ was also proven to be false." Sounds like that's where the specific "October 11" date came from, although an article about solar storms disrupting the Internet also came out in 2021. People are gullible and love a good apocalypse.

Did you hear about the lady who claimed the recent cell phone alarm test was the signal to "activate the Marburg virus in people who have been vaccinated. And sadly turn some of them into zombies." Probably happened and the fake news media covered it up.
You joke about that alarm but one of my sisters actually believed that and started going off on me when my phone went off. :/
I wouldn't be surprised if she believes that internet bulls**t.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 10, 2023, 09:41:06 PM
Have you ever noticed that beyond Steve Allen, all the Tonight Show hosts names begin with 'J' ?
Jack Parr, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, and Jimmy Fallon. And almost Joan Rivers!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 11, 2023, 06:22:41 PM
Have you ever noticed that beyond Steve Allen, all the Tonight Show hosts names begin with 'J' ?
Jack Parr, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, and Jimmy Fallon. And almost Joan Rivers!

Conan O'Brien.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 11, 2023, 06:51:26 PM
It's almost 2 am here: why am I awake? :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 11, 2023, 09:24:36 PM
Have you ever noticed that beyond Steve Allen, all the Tonight Show hosts names begin with 'J' ?
Jack Parr, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, and Jimmy Fallon. And almost Joan Rivers!

Conan O'Brien.

He was a host for what? a week?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 12, 2023, 08:59:37 AM
Should I be surprised if my niece is really stubborn? She's 17 months old.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 12, 2023, 09:47:46 AM
Interesting take on the history of the western hemisphere.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/let-s-finally-recognize-the-slavery-conquest-and-genocide-of-native-americans-by-native-americans/ar-AA1hWl0N?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=88c9c30fc4214176bc4bc4bfe31f3790&ei=11 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/let-s-finally-recognize-the-slavery-conquest-and-genocide-of-native-americans-by-native-americans/ar-AA1hWl0N?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=88c9c30fc4214176bc4bc4bfe31f3790&ei=11)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 13, 2023, 10:22:34 AM
I wonder why it always shows 163 (or thereabouts) "guests" here when I log in? Bots? Unregistered but legit viewers? Members lurking? Imagine if 163 people actually posted here. It'd be crazy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 13, 2023, 12:19:35 PM
I wonder why it always shows 163 (or thereabouts) "guests" here when I log in? Bots? Unregistered but legit viewers? Members lurking? Imagine if 163 people actually posted here. It'd be crazy.

Mostly bots, a few unregistered lurkers.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 13, 2023, 08:39:53 PM
When both your daughters are having friends to your house for sleepovers, upstairs and down, it's a good idea not to drop LSD. If you do drop LSD though, you should definitely binge-watch Fleabag.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 14, 2023, 08:27:43 AM
Wow, not taking LSD last night while chaperoning my daughters' sleepovers totally paid off!  :cheers:

But seriously, incredibly beautiful morning today, a glow outdoors framed all the autumn trees in a golden aura.

I love this time of year.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 14, 2023, 08:54:41 AM
I love this time of the year as well, mainly due to the temperature not being over 100+


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 14, 2023, 02:19:27 PM
Well the eclipse was, shrug, mostly because it was so cloudy, though the clouds did part from 1:01-1:03, and the peak here was 1:04, which was nice timing. I can't say where we are we had too much to experience anyway but, hey...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on October 14, 2023, 05:14:40 PM
Well the eclipse was, shrug, mostly because it was so cloudy, though the clouds did part from 1:01-1:03, and the peak here was 1:04, which was nice timing. I can't say where we are we had too much to experience anyway but, hey...

I thought ours was going to be a complete eclipse today, but it was only 80%.  We are supposed to get a full solar eclipse next April - sure hope it isn't cloudy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 14, 2023, 06:21:22 PM
Well the eclipse was, shrug, mostly because it was so cloudy, though the clouds did part from 1:01-1:03, and the peak here was 1:04, which was nice timing. I can't say where we are we had too much to experience anyway but, hey...

I thought ours was going to be a complete eclipse today, but it was only 80%.  We are supposed to get a full solar eclipse next April - sure hope it isn't cloudy.

I stepped outside about an hour ago and forgot I wasn't wearing pants, so the good citizens of Pretoria saw a full moon at least  :buggedout: :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 15, 2023, 10:22:19 AM
I think I just read my favourite ever line in a movie review:

Quote
along with the finest porno-quality acting

It was for Terrifier 2.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 15, 2023, 11:07:44 AM
Wow, not taking LSD last night while chaperoning my daughters' sleepovers totally paid off!  :cheers:

But seriously, incredibly beautiful morning today, a glow outdoors framed all the autumn trees in a golden aura.

I love this time of year.

Have you ever taken LSD?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 15, 2023, 06:59:19 PM
Wow, not taking LSD last night while chaperoning my daughters' sleepovers totally paid off!  :cheers:

But seriously, incredibly beautiful morning today, a glow outdoors framed all the autumn trees in a golden aura.

I love this time of year.

Have you ever taken LSD?

I haven't and probably never should. I was once given a drug that heightens recall and felt like it turned my mind inside out. I kept trying to explain to those there that I suddenly understood that we lived our lives over and over in a loop, but nobody paid attention to me, ha .


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 16, 2023, 08:44:02 AM
I wonder what would have happened had Mad Jack Churchill and Ernst Gunther Baade ever met?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 16, 2023, 09:00:28 AM
Do people not knock on a closed bathroom/restroom door anymore? :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 16, 2023, 12:22:22 PM
Been reading a book written in the mid-'90s by an Air Force vet from Dayton in which he describes taking his young granddaughters on a camel safari in the Australian Outback, and one thing he wrote has fired up my imagination and left me wanting to see it, that being his claim that on moonless nights in the Outback it would be so bright the milky way would cast shadows against the ground.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 16, 2023, 12:33:23 PM
Do people not knock on a closed bathroom/restroom door anymore? :question:

I do.
They still don't answer, or bother to lock the door.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 16, 2023, 07:34:40 PM
Do people not knock on a closed bathroom/restroom door anymore? :question:

I do.
They still don't answer, or bother to lock the door.
I usually lock the door and people still try to open the door for a few seconds before knocking.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 17, 2023, 12:58:31 AM
remember a few moments ago when a guy tried to take people to see the Titanic and the whole sub imploded or something?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 17, 2023, 04:07:52 AM
remember a few moments ago when a guy tried to take people to see the Titanic and the whole sub imploded or something?

I remember hoping that those people would have been found alive and well but  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 17, 2023, 01:57:11 PM
remember a few moments ago when a guy tried to take people to see the Titanic and the whole sub imploded or something?

Yeah...
Heard a week or two ago, that they found human remains.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 17, 2023, 06:02:15 PM
If you're not a kraken, please look away at this time.

My fellow krakens, were you as unprepared as I was for the blood oaths and introductions to Illuminati bigwigs as I was when you went through "The Ceremony"?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on October 17, 2023, 06:32:11 PM
If you're not a kraken, please look away at this time.

My fellow krakens, were you as unprepared as I was for the blood oaths and introductions to Illuminati bigwigs as I was when you went through "The Ceremony"?

It was getting to look into Cthulhu's eyes that surprised me the most!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 18, 2023, 10:01:13 AM
If you're not a kraken, please look away at this time.

My fellow krakens, were you as unprepared as I was for the blood oaths and introductions to Illuminati bigwigs as I was when you went through "The Ceremony"?

Health and safety made us use a vegan alternative for mine.🤔


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 18, 2023, 10:06:11 AM
I wouldn't know, once you are elevated to Mod the Men in Black come and wipe your memory. They told me why they did it, but I forgot.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 18, 2023, 12:29:26 PM
If you're not a kraken, please look away at this time.

My fellow krakens, were you as unprepared as I was for the blood oaths and introductions to Illuminati bigwigs as I was when you went through "The Ceremony"?

I didn't have a ceremony but a few days later, I got an delivery of this.

https://www.makro.co.za/beverages-liquor/spirits/rum/dark-rum/kraken-black-spiced-imported-rum-1-x-750-ml-/p/000000000000251401_EA (https://www.makro.co.za/beverages-liquor/spirits/rum/dark-rum/kraken-black-spiced-imported-rum-1-x-750-ml-/p/000000000000251401_EA)

I gave it to Mom who said it was quite nice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 18, 2023, 03:59:39 PM
The Republican party seems to be imploding. The House still can't elect a speaker.
And their lead candidate is fixing to be a pauper and perhaps go to prison.
(heavy sigh)
I love this world.  :smile:

I don't like to say I told you so- who the f**k an I kidding?- I told folks this guy was a scumbag since 2016.
Anyone who still supports this traitor and wanna be despot needs to get their head examined.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 18, 2023, 04:46:06 PM
Welp... I need a root canal.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 19, 2023, 12:30:50 PM
Biltong [jerky] powder makes you hella thirsty  :drink: :drink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 19, 2023, 06:45:34 PM
Been working on a prototype for an artery brush you can use to brush out your plaqued-up arteries like you do your teeth, but so far no one it's been tried on has given me one word of feedback.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 19, 2023, 09:30:04 PM
I wonder what it would sound like if Sam Kinison did a cover of The Trololo Song by Edward Khil.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on October 20, 2023, 02:36:00 AM
i wonder what it feels like to be sydney powell right now? actually, i don't, it's abject fear, and no feeling of sympathy from anyone. GOOD.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 21, 2023, 08:49:25 AM
I see our newest member is someone named Shelly Rugg, and although that's possibly a bot, it's still a great name because sounds like something you'd walk on near the ocean, and it'd end up jabbing you in the feet worse than Legos.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 21, 2023, 12:03:24 PM
If vampires can't go out in the sun, then how do they handle windburn? :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 22, 2023, 01:09:46 PM
I've always wanted to see a Billy Jack movie where he confronts a white guy for calling a native American a Pamunkey, leading to a very embarrassing scenario.......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on October 22, 2023, 01:19:11 PM
I'm wondering how it's possible that not one but two of our national sports teams won games over the weekend?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 23, 2023, 11:27:34 PM
It has been a long time since I've had to get up a 4 am to start work.

Still sucks as much as I remember.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 24, 2023, 12:54:30 AM
I go to bed at 4 AM


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on October 24, 2023, 05:46:12 AM
If you put holy water in a humidifier, you create a gas chamber for vampires . . .


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 24, 2023, 09:20:10 AM
If you put holy water in a humidifier, you create a gas chamber for vampires . . .

Heck, after a year of people dipping fingers in it (it's only emptied and refilled every Easter weekend) holy water is so dirty the mist would probably give anything the plague.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 24, 2023, 02:57:15 PM
Reading a book by Anne Bronte, the least known and least popular of the Bronte sisters, and it's about a teenage girl who leaves her sheltered home to take up a position as governess to several children, one of whom is a young boy who gets his kicks by torturing and mutilating animals. I know Rochester and Heathcliff had issues, but I did not know there were incipient serial killers found in the Bronte canon.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 25, 2023, 09:29:40 PM
Seeing a picture of a watch next to an android got me wondering...
Did Data have to synchronize his internal chronometer every day, or was it always three seconds fast?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 26, 2023, 06:28:26 AM
Anyone wishing to get their names recorded in the history books could always be the founder of the Mongolian navy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 26, 2023, 08:37:25 AM
Know what'd be a fun thing to do if you were a supermodel in the pre-cell phone days? Go out to a town in the middle of nowhere and pick up some guy and take him to bed, then leave, knowing you'd just set him up for the rest of his life with a story nobody was ever going to believe.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 27, 2023, 03:09:39 PM
Coooooooool!

My husband recently bought a worse for wear 180-year-old house (at least 180 years old) in a nearby state so he can restore it and sell it, and my daughter and I and a few others are going there Halloween evening into the early night to see if we encounter ghosts.

We have EMF readers (well, ok digital recorders), some fairly effective heat detectors, digital cameras, and of course, our own fine-tuned senses.  :smile:  

Oh, and at least six people have died in the house, maybe more, it has an old well with a stone lip around it, there's no electricity on-site (because of copper thieves likely to be none for a while), and there are the foundations of several outbuildings on the property, one of which was almost certainly an Antebellum slave cabin.

Also, since it is above the river on a bluff and when the garden gets plowed stone artifacts such as spear points have turned up there, it might even be said to be on the grounds of---wait for it---"an aNciEnT INdIanN buUiaL grOuNd." I mean who knows?

And in la piece de resistance, in the natural stone basement/cellar, there is a bunch of old '80s looking heavy metal stuff with upside down crosses and pentagrams painted on the walls along with 666 and some lurid sentiments about....well, "stuff."

Man, this place. Should be fun!

I'll let you guys know on All Saints' Day how it went.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 27, 2023, 04:56:22 PM
Watching a nooz story about a drop in catalytic converter thefts.....

Makes me wonder what car part thieves will target if we go all electric.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on October 28, 2023, 03:12:30 AM
Does Facebook's "Stories" feature make their "Memories" feature pointless?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 28, 2023, 08:02:52 AM
Remember back when a TV wasn't getting a channel right and you'd have to give it a hit to get it working?

I wonder if that would work with people?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on October 28, 2023, 09:18:33 AM
^ I recall running speaker wire from the back of an old B+W to get uhf channels, or a coat hanger.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 28, 2023, 07:25:52 PM
I do believe that I enjoy cooking more than baking. Baking seems more like a hassle to do than with cooking.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on October 28, 2023, 07:33:08 PM
I do believe that I enjoy cooking more than baking. Baking seems more like a hassle to do than with cooking.

I gave up both years ago, & now I just eat raw hot dogs...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on October 29, 2023, 07:01:57 PM
Coooooooool!

My husband recently bought a worse for wear 180-year-old house (at least 180 years old) in a nearby state so he can restore it and sell it, and my daughter and I and a few others are going there Halloween evening into the early night to see if we encounter ghosts.

We have EMF readers (well, ok digital recorders), some fairly effective heat detectors, digital cameras, and of course, our own fine-tuned senses.  :smile:  

Oh, and at least six people have died in the house, maybe more, it has an old well with a stone lip around it, there's no electricity on-site (because of copper thieves likely to be none for a while), and there are the foundations of several outbuildings on the property, one of which was almost certainly an Antebellum slave cabin.

Also, since it is above the river on a bluff and when the garden gets plowed stone artifacts such as spear points have turned up there, it might even be said to be on the grounds of---wait for it---"an aNciEnT INdIanN buUiaL grOuNd." I mean who knows?

And in la piece de resistance, in the natural stone basement/cellar, there is a bunch of old '80s looking heavy metal stuff with upside down crosses and pentagrams painted on the walls along with 666 and some lurid sentiments about....well, "stuff."

Man, this place. Should be fun!

I'll let you guys know on All Saints' Day how it went.

That sounds so fun! If you don't find anything, I think it's only fair that you summon something so the future owners aren't disappointed.

BTW tell me when it's for sale :).



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chefzombie on October 29, 2023, 09:27:52 PM
I do believe that I enjoy cooking more than baking. Baking seems more like a hassle to do than with cooking.

  i'm with you all the way, but then, i'm a terrible baker.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 30, 2023, 09:45:48 AM
I do believe that I enjoy cooking more than baking. Baking seems more like a hassle to do than with cooking.

As a chef of my acquaintance told me years ago, "Cooking is art; baking is rocket science."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 30, 2023, 11:35:53 AM
It was only about 5 years ago that I discovered that people made a distinction between cooking and baking. I never did, and I guess I still don't. Is making a meatloaf in the oven cooking or baking?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on October 30, 2023, 06:18:03 PM
It was only about 5 years ago that I discovered that people made a distinction between cooking and baking. I never did, and I guess I still don't. Is making a meatloaf in the oven cooking or baking?
I'd say it's cooking. Baking, to me, is more akin to pastry/sweets than meat/dinner. Quiche is I would say is both baking and cooking.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on October 30, 2023, 06:36:04 PM
It was only about 5 years ago that I discovered that people made a distinction between cooking and baking. I never did, and I guess I still don't. Is making a meatloaf in the oven cooking or baking?
I'd say it's cooking. Baking, to me, is more akin to pastry/sweets than meat/dinner. Quiche is I would say is both baking and cooking.

I thought baking was oven work and cooking was stovetop/grill work? I'm a better baker if baking is considered preparing raw ingredients from a recipe and throwing it in the oven until its done. It seems way easier to me than cooking.  Plus there's time to clean up while it's baking.

Cooking to me is that thing you do with food that requires close contact with heat while constantly watching, stirring, adjusting and hovering over it until its done. Then no one cleans anything for hours because it's all too hot.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on October 30, 2023, 10:32:02 PM
My freaking knee really hurt today.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on October 30, 2023, 11:22:04 PM
My freaking knee really hurt today.

Stub your toe REAL HARD, and you'll barely notice. That's one to grow on!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on October 31, 2023, 02:48:13 PM
If my rough estimation is correct, Michael Myers would be a pensioner by now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 31, 2023, 04:00:42 PM
I am getting a free upgrade to an IPhone 15 for a strange reason. My nephew sells phones, and if he sells one more this month he gets a huge bonus--more than the cost of a new phone. So he offered to buy me one so he could qualify for the bonus and reimburse me for the entire cost of the phone himself. Pretty cool.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 03, 2023, 09:14:34 AM
I am thinking about getting some black and white tattoos done on my upper back.

When someone is upset I can let them colour them in.

Everyone needs a shoulder to crayon now and again.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on November 03, 2023, 09:23:49 AM
I am thinking about getting some black and white tattoos done on my upper back.

When someone is upset I can let them colour them in.

Everyone needs a shoulder to crayon now and again.


Wrong thread: http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,129011.0.html (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,129011.0.html)  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 03, 2023, 11:08:36 AM
Hey, did somebody run all the bots out of town?  (One of them I kept seeing as being "online" almost had my son's name.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 03, 2023, 12:09:02 PM
I am thinking about getting some black and white tattoos done on my upper back.

When someone is upset I can let them colour them in.

Everyone needs a shoulder to crayon now and again.


Wrong thread: [url]http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,129011.0.html[/url] ([url]http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,129011.0.html[/url])  :bouncegiggle:


I didn't feel it was a terrible joke. :😜


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 04, 2023, 02:25:14 PM
In addition to banning their first three album Germany has also banned Cannibal Corpses colouring in book.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on November 05, 2023, 07:44:14 PM
Coooooooool!

My husband recently bought a worse for wear 180-year-old house (at least 180 years old) in a nearby state so he can restore it and sell it, and my daughter and I and a few others are going there Halloween evening into the early night to see if we encounter ghosts.

I'll let you guys know on All Saints' Day how it went.

OMG What happened I've been waiting days! Did I miss the update? Did you go? Was it too horrifying to talk about?




Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 05, 2023, 10:37:28 PM
Coooooooool!

My husband recently bought a worse for wear 180-year-old house (at least 180 years old) in a nearby state so he can restore it and sell it, and my daughter and I and a few others are going there Halloween evening into the early night to see if we encounter ghosts.

I'll let you guys know on All Saints' Day how it went.

OMG What happened I've been waiting days! Did I miss the update? Did you go? Was it too horrifying to talk about?




Sigh. Paq, it kinda fell apart.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on November 06, 2023, 10:42:08 AM
Coooooooool!

My husband recently bought a worse for wear 180-year-old house (at least 180 years old) in a nearby state so he can restore it and sell it, and my daughter and I and a few others are going there Halloween evening into the early night to see if we encounter ghosts.

I'll let you guys know on All Saints' Day how it went.

OMG What happened I've been waiting days! Did I miss the update? Did you go? Was it too horrifying to talk about?




Sigh. Paq, it kinda fell apart.

Well shoot!  I hope you get another opportunity!



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 06, 2023, 02:02:26 PM
It occurs to me, that the Guy Fawkes mask looks kinda like the Stanly Laurel mask from New Years Evil.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on November 07, 2023, 07:10:43 PM
I forgot how much I like prosciutto.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 08, 2023, 01:16:11 AM
^ my sister buys a prosciutto pig leg thing for like hundreds of dollars all the time


also... I had a dream I was reading a review of a movie on here. It featured the Marx brothers and whoever wrote it said " this bucky was a s**t parrot from start to finish"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on November 09, 2023, 04:34:51 AM
I wonder if Elliot Page can request to change all awards he won as Ellen Page for best female performance to best male performance?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 09, 2023, 07:16:37 AM
I wonder if Elliot Page can request to change all awards he won as Ellen Page for best female performance to best male performance?

Good question! I wonder if I identify as a minor I can get in using a child's ticket at the movies?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 09, 2023, 09:09:37 AM
I wonder if Elliot Page can request to change all awards he won as Ellen Page for best female performance to best male performance?

Good question! I wonder if I identify as a minor I can get in using a child's ticket at the movies?

Someone (a Scandinavian I think), did lose a case where he wanted to identify as someone 20 years younger or something along those lines.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 09, 2023, 09:30:12 AM
I wonder if Elliot Page can request to change all awards he won as Ellen Page for best female performance to best male performance?

Good question! I wonder if I identify as a minor I can get in using a child's ticket at the movies?

Someone (a Scandinavian I think), did lose a case where he wanted to identify as someone 20 years younger or something along those lines.

Oh well, I guess that would've made my husband a statutory rapist, and I've already been there/done to someone, so onward and upward.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 09, 2023, 10:21:30 AM
One of the guys said "Happy wife, happy life" to me today. I replied "No wife, no strife." One thing seemed to make about as much sense as the other really.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on November 09, 2023, 12:50:54 PM
At this point I have no sympathy for Israel. What they are doing is wrong.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 10, 2023, 03:08:44 PM
Happy birthday, USMC.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 11, 2023, 10:46:50 AM
"...so Reid's parents were coming up from Ohio, due in twenty minutes, I'd never met them, wanted to make a good first impression, so I said to Reid, hey, let's not go out and eat, have them here, I'll make dinner. It'll be nice. He said sure, okay, see you then. I was cooking, the kitchen was hot, I was about to make Hollandaise and didn't want it to splatter on my blouse, so I took it off, laid it on the chair, went back to making the sauce, which I wanted to get just right, and was so intent I guess I didn't hear noises from the outer room, because next thing I knew I looked up while standing there in my bra, and there was Reid with his parents, Sol and Rosemarie, in the kitchen doorway all kind of staring at me..."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 11, 2023, 11:43:08 AM
Anyone who had their first dance after getting married to the song "You're Gorgeous" by Babybird should get a divorce. Immediately. Or at least carefully listen to the lyrics.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 11, 2023, 12:06:50 PM
Out of the 150 people who joined the airforce on the same day I did, I only know of one person who is still in.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 13, 2023, 01:00:26 AM
I can check another item off my list of things I always swore I'd never do.

I punched my fifteen year old in the arm this morning, oh, not hard enough to hurt her, I wasn't mad so much as fed up and out of carrots and sticks regarding one matter, but I made a point.

We were driving along and every Sunday for the past few weeks she's gotten a kick out of deviling me by saying something that's completely none of her business to say, inappropriate for a daughter to say at all to her mom, deliberately emotionally provocative, a little mean, and something I have time and again expressed my displeasure at her saying about me, have told her it's not true,  have asked her to quit saying no matter how juicy and amusing she finds the topic, have told her repeatedly to stop, but she wouldn't, and so today she got her kick by annoying me about it once too often, so I spontaneously said, "Daisy, if you say that again, I'm going to punch you."

She thought I was kidding and immediately said it again, so I hit her on the arm. No bruise, tiniest red mark, just made a point. Bam, quick little jab.

Her mouth fell open though and then she closed it and looked straight ahead, shocked, mad, looking like for a second she was going to cry but she got a handle on herself and full of outrage said, "You've never in your life ever hit me in any way before or hit any of if us. You said parents should never hit kids."

I said, "That wasn't me hitting you as a parent, that was one person hitting another when the other person had it coming."

She said, "Oh. Well. Fine. I guess you can justify yourself that way."

Then she laughed and called me a jerk and said I hit like a baby, ha.

I said, "Well I wasn't TRYING to hurt you, jeez, some credit on my punching skills, please."

So, yeah, basically at worst I embarrassed her but I somehow don't think she's going to bring up that insultingly accusatory subject she thought it was so funny to torment me with after I so often told her to stop, stop, stop, and stop.

And I think she got huge pleasure out of telling her dad I'd thunked her one in the arm and basking in his outraged sympathy, lol.

"You smacked her in the arm, El? My God, you're worse than the b***h who wanted to skin the 101Dalmations...."

She didn't stay upset with me anyway and we went and did Thanksgiving boxes for the poor folks before going over to her grandma's.

Never thought I'd ever hit one of my kids though, even halfassedly and out of desperation to make a point that she was habitually way out of line saying this one thing she kept entertaining herself by accusing her mother of though.

Parenthood is like one long journey of casting off your idealistic self-illusions.

And turning evil, too, apparently.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 13, 2023, 06:57:12 AM
I just found out that four of the film titles in my list have the letters POO in them  :buggedout: :wink:

Hippo Pool
Die Spook Van Donkergat
Pens & Pootjies
Spoor / Guns Across The Veld

 :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 13, 2023, 01:30:37 PM
Gary Numan and Gary Oldman are more or less the same age.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 13, 2023, 10:11:44 PM
"Rough afternoon today. Stopped being able to feel my fingertips for a while but didn't tell anyone this time because I'm sick of doctors and am increasingly like ...shagata ganai. Lasted a couple hours and gradually faded back to normal so I got lucky and it worked out this time (THIS time) keeping it to myself, but it it's still disconcerting no matter how many times it's happened. After it was over I ran three miles on the treadmill, stopped and walked a distance outside and thought, sure, that I can do, yet I live under the gun of these recurring neurological episodes that take a little more of my spirit every time. I don't look my age, feel my age, act my age, I can play back to back three set matches on court but I know there's this time bomb counting away in me at random. Maybe nothing will happen today, or this week, or for most of a month, maybe the next episode won't be a bad one, but eventually another spell will come. Maybe I'll outlive this and die at ninety, maybe the next time will be the one that short circuits my brain. It's such a nerve pinging downer, honestly. Wrong place, wrong time, easy to feel anger about that, the job just keeps on giving."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on November 13, 2023, 10:43:51 PM
"Rough afternoon today. Stopped being able to feel my fingertips for a while but didn't tell anyone this time because I'm sick of doctors and am increasingly like ...shagata ganai. Lasted a couple hours and gradually faded back to normal so I got lucky and it worked out this time (THIS time) keeping it to myself, but it it's still disconcerting no matter how many times it's happened. After it was over I ran three miles on the treadmill, stopped and walked a distance outside and thought, sure, that I can do, yet I live under the gun of these recurring neurological episodes that take a little more of my spirit every time. I don't look my age, feel my age, act my age, I can play back to back three set matches on court but I know there's this time bomb counting away in me at random. Maybe nothing will happen today, or this week, or for most of a month, maybe the next episode won't be a bad one, but eventually another spell will come. Maybe I'll outlive this and die at ninety, maybe the next time will be the one that short circuits my brain. It's such a nerve pinging downer, honestly. Wrong place, wrong time, easy to feel anger about that, the job just keeps on giving."
[/quotD]

Damn, I'm sorry.  I know how stressful these episodes are.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 14, 2023, 02:18:48 PM
Kathryn Bigelow is a way better director than her ex-husband.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on November 15, 2023, 05:57:51 PM
I wonder how one walks off a cramp in zero gravity.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: javakoala on November 16, 2023, 09:42:32 AM
Never go from consuming no added sugar in your diet to drinking a 24 oz energy drink with 81g of sugar. Unless you really like headaches and feeling nearly drunk.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 16, 2023, 10:22:20 AM
I actually did some laundry today.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: javakoala on November 18, 2023, 11:39:20 AM
I actually did some laundry today.  :cheers:

If you put your underpants in there, does that mean all your white items are now brown?  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 18, 2023, 11:34:02 PM
Clearly Joey is Michelle's real dad. It's been staring us in the face for thirty years.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 19, 2023, 10:29:11 AM
It's said there are three general stages in the life of a marriage---the sexual era, the child-raising era, and the era of companionship---and that if the needs of any stage are not met, often a person will move into another relationship to try to attain what had been missing. Well, I'm happy being married, but the more I consider what we have, it's like despite having children and getting along fine for the most part, he and I have never evolved beyond the first chapter, and I can't decide if that makes us lucky, or stunted.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 19, 2023, 03:27:24 PM
I just got a sidebar advert that was relevant to my interests. That has never happened before on here for me.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 19, 2023, 08:42:23 PM
If I had any money invested in China I'd be pulling it out right now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 22, 2023, 11:32:24 AM
I see the book that caused (well, not the book it was meeting the author), me to get a low score for my Higher English exam has been reprinted. I spotted it in a bookshop today and was half tempted to pick it up. I didn't in the end, but if I see it again I think I will.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 23, 2023, 12:01:52 AM
RC hasn't been on in a while.  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 23, 2023, 01:45:22 AM
Looks like more supermarkets are going to ditch the self-checkout terminals. Turns out losses from what is termed "shrinkage" (mistakes in pricing, theft and a few other factors) are double what they are compared to using people.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on November 23, 2023, 02:36:22 AM
RC hasn't been on in a while.  :question:


He said he is going to leave this place for good.

http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,159046.0.html (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,159046.0.html)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on November 23, 2023, 02:43:55 AM
Looks like more supermarkets are going to ditch the self-checkout terminals. Turns out losses from what is termed "shrinkage" (mistakes in pricing, theft and a few other factors) are double what they are compared to using people.

It's the opposite here. More supermarkets are offering self-checkout terminals, at least in our town. It's my preferred way of shopping.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 23, 2023, 03:31:30 AM
RC hasn't been on in a while.  :question:


He said he is going to leave this place for good.

[url]http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,159046.0.html[/url] ([url]http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,159046.0.html[/url])


 :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on November 23, 2023, 10:02:59 AM
I thought his attack on ER in her Veteran's Day thread was cheap and totally unjustified, and told him so.
So he may have left because he was mad at me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 24, 2023, 10:17:00 AM
One of the many things I loathe about spy movies is how there is invariably an effort to depict one side as being the good guys, when in reality anyone involved in espionage is at least to some degree a bad person.

I say this in part because one of the primary tools of espionage is the use of a threat of collateral damage, based on the principle that nearly everyone has someone in his life he values beyond himself, and the threat that his actions or inactions could result in harm being done to this person is a highly effective means of securing the cooperation of an individual who might otherwise resist on his own behalf, but who finds the idea of his own behavior bringing harm onto a loved one unconscionable. So many good people have been used and compromised this way.

Anyone involved in a field that makes frequent use of this tactic is not, by definition, a good person, whomever he or she represents.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 24, 2023, 11:51:31 AM
Ever find yourself wondering,
And then asking why,
You're out chasing rainbows,
'Neath a midnight sky...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 24, 2023, 04:07:32 PM
It's just gone 11 pm and it is too hot to sleep. Even the mosquitos are flying around with their tongues hanging out.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 25, 2023, 01:55:50 AM
I'm the least "man's man" there is, but one thing I know how to do with tools and grease is clean and re lube my skateboard bearings. I have to do this tomorrow and then go to skate at this park that is like a raquetball (sp?) court. My life is epic



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on November 27, 2023, 12:41:47 AM
Enjoying The Lovecraft Investigations. Shame season 1 is disappearing soon.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on November 30, 2023, 09:36:34 AM
This is my 13,000th post.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on November 30, 2023, 10:05:39 AM
This is my 13,000th post.

Nice  :smile: I would have had almost double my posts now if I hadn't stupidly self deleted a few years ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 02, 2023, 02:42:55 PM
Guess what the top name for newborn boys is this year in Galway, Ireland.

Liam?
Seamus?
Patrick?
Sean?
Eamon?
Florrie?

Nope.

I'm told it's Muhammad.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on December 04, 2023, 05:44:34 PM
I'm writing a book about the Friday the 13th franchise called "Voorhees: a Jolly Good Fellow".


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 08, 2023, 12:56:42 AM
A few nights ago I dreamed I couldn't sleep, so I got up and took a walk in our woods, heading alone to the overlook to throw pebbles into "the dark vast" as Samuel Beckett said, and in my dream I started smelling a strange burned plastic chemical smell, sickening and strong, and then there was an awareness in the dream that my body was found in the morning at the bottom of the overlook.

Thinking about that now because I can't sleep and I feel pulled to go alone to the overlook and throw pebbles out into space.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 08, 2023, 02:22:39 AM
I'm writing a book about the Friday the 13th franchise called "Voorhees: a Jolly Good Fellow".

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: I'd buy it  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 08, 2023, 09:59:51 AM
Never, including the year I was away in Turkey for the holidays, has it seemed less like the Christmas season. The feeling is just not there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 08, 2023, 11:41:59 AM
This whole year has been absolutely weird


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on December 08, 2023, 12:28:34 PM
I haven't celebrated Christmas since 2014. f**k Christmas.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 08, 2023, 01:23:36 PM
I haven't celebrated Christmas since 2014. f**k Christmas.

One in four shot your next life will be in China, so maybe the celebration of Mao's birthday will make you happier.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on December 08, 2023, 04:11:47 PM
^ No thanx. Not into Mao. Halloween and Thanksgiving are about the only holidays I celebrate.
Also - I'm an atheist!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 09, 2023, 05:53:00 AM
I can't believe that the movie Rolling Thunder wasn't banned here.  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 09, 2023, 01:32:06 PM
Also - I'm an atheist!

Or at least an anti-theist.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Allhallowsday on December 09, 2023, 10:42:37 PM
Never, including the year I was away in Turkey for the holidays, has it seemed less like the Christmas season. The feeling is just not there.

Forgive, forget.  Merry Christmas.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 09, 2023, 10:42:45 PM
I wonder if Mr Potato Head is a fan of Devo, or if he's offended by their references to spuds...,.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on December 10, 2023, 11:16:51 AM
Never, including the year I was away in Turkey for the holidays, has it seemed less like the Christmas season. The feeling is just not there.

Forgive, forget.  Merry Christmas.
Words of wisdom.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 11, 2023, 09:29:20 PM
I thought a 12 year old air cadet had just came into the guard room at 2 am. Turned out he was actually an officer.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 11, 2023, 10:38:24 PM
Came across some movie that's only available in Australia.....
Got me wondering how this whole NWO thing would affect international copyright laws.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 12, 2023, 04:29:44 PM
Root canals are not great.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 13, 2023, 11:13:32 AM
Just heard that Jon Venables has been denied parole. I don't normally think that someone who committed a crime as a child should spend their entire life in prison, but for what he did I'll make an exception.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 13, 2023, 11:15:23 AM
Just heard that Jon Venables has been denied parole. I don't normally think that someone who committed a crime as a child should spend their entire life in prison, but for what he did I'll make an exception.

For what he and his friend did to that child, I would recommend slow crushing by a steamroller.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 13, 2023, 11:16:42 AM
Just heard that Jon Venables has been denied parole. I don't normally think that someone who committed a crime as a child should spend their entire life in prison, but for what he did I'll make an exception.

For what he and his friend did to that child, I would recommend slow crushing by a steamroller.

I know the other boy hasn't been rearrested for more crimes the same way that Venables has, but I think he should still be in prison for life as well.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 17, 2023, 10:27:31 PM
Bad Movies.....
I'm always caught between, "Hey, seen that!" and "Meh, seen that."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on December 18, 2023, 02:24:11 AM
I watched this show called "The Worst Thing I Ever Did". The first episode was a woman who was dating a crack dealer who cheated on her numerous times. He didn't show up to the funeral of their child, so she called the feds and turned him in. That was the worst thing she ever did!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on December 18, 2023, 09:50:25 AM
I watched this show called "The Worst Thing I Ever Did". The first episode was a woman who was dating a crack dealer who cheated on her numerous times. He didn't show up to the funeral of their child, so she called the feds and turned him in. That was the worst thing she ever did!

That she admitted to.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 18, 2023, 10:09:59 AM
Hard for me to believe that one of my oldest friends got married and had a wedding.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 21, 2023, 09:04:01 AM
Is the Stay Puft marshmallow man a kaiju? Will we see a movie of it vs Kong?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on December 21, 2023, 02:24:51 PM
Happy solstice, as the days will get longer & colder.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on December 22, 2023, 05:24:07 PM
Santa Claus is coming to town. This is not a drill, you have been warned. Be prepared.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on December 22, 2023, 09:01:43 PM
Tara Sue died on Dec.24, 2008.

(https://i.imgur.com/8LfiAle.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


f**k Christmas.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on December 23, 2023, 01:21:36 AM
Tara Sue died on Dec.24, 2008.

(https://i.imgur.com/8LfiAle.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


f**k Christmas.



🥺😢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on December 30, 2023, 05:19:57 AM
I want to get a pet dog and name him Shark. Then I will take him on long walks along the beach...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 13, 2024, 12:43:25 AM
I find it a little sad that with the decline of physical media, that if a streaming company pulls a movie or show off its service, that could be it gone for ever.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 13, 2024, 02:44:25 AM
I watched a possum die tonight. I was driving and saw a thing on the road so I pulled over. It was a possum in extremely rough shape. I didn't know what to do. I called animal control and tried to get someone to come down because it was still alive. I threw it some slices of orange, I have no idea what they eat but probably not orange. Eventually, it mounted an attempt to move somewhere but ultimately expired by the curb. RIP buddy


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 13, 2024, 09:58:51 AM
I watched a possum die tonight. I was driving and saw a thing on the road so I pulled over. It was a possum in extremely rough shape. I didn't know what to do. I called animal control and tried to get someone to come down because it was still alive. I threw it some slices of orange, I have no idea what they eat but probably not orange. Eventually, it mounted an attempt to move somewhere but ultimately expired by the curb. RIP buddy

Tough one. I'd be tempted to euthanize it but not sure if I would or not.

https://youtu.be/hbwwZBQKKn4?si=irmK5s2E9zpZRFSb


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 13, 2024, 01:47:15 PM
I watched a possum die tonight. I was driving and saw a thing on the road so I pulled over. It was a possum in extremely rough shape. I didn't know what to do. I called animal control and tried to get someone to come down because it was still alive. I threw it some slices of orange, I have no idea what they eat but probably not orange. Eventually, it mounted an attempt to move somewhere but ultimately expired by the curb. RIP buddy
They eat bugs.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 13, 2024, 01:52:43 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWoYdzIXQAISPfL.jpg)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 13, 2024, 03:38:37 PM
Ultimately movies like Saw or Terrifier are little more than an edgy live-action Tom & Jerry.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on January 15, 2024, 07:56:41 AM
As much as it is fun to point and laugh at the Dallas Cowboys losing in the playoffs I find it better that the Detroit Lions finally won a playoff game in 32 years. Literally the first time someone can send a text message saying that and it being true.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on January 15, 2024, 09:28:35 AM
Snow in Texas today . . . something we rarely get.  School was already out for MLK day, and the pantry is fully stocked, so it's a good day to sit inside and do as little as possible.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 15, 2024, 10:08:40 AM
Snow in Texas today . . . something we rarely get.  School was already out for MLK day, and the pantry is fully stocked, so it's a good day to sit inside and do as little as possible.

The way things seem to be going, you might need to get used to it regularly. Didn't you have quite bad snow fall last year?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 15, 2024, 10:39:05 AM
Snow in Texas today . . . something we rarely get.  School was already out for MLK day, and the pantry is fully stocked, so it's a good day to sit inside and do as little as possible.

Nice: be safe and toasty 😊😊🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 18, 2024, 10:22:08 PM
Nevermind, it didn't look right and I just couldn't get used to it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 19, 2024, 08:38:59 AM
Wonder why Arsenal can't get its act together and stay on top? Last season was maddening and this season is following the same patterns.

Wait, where am I? Did I just post about Star Wars over on the Premier League message board?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 19, 2024, 04:59:35 PM
Life is like a penis. It is simple and fun until a woman comes along and makes it hard.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 20, 2024, 04:17:17 PM
Been a nice quiet day.

Too snowy and cold to drive my youngest to the country so she could ride the long-faced demons she's so fond of around the barn, so just kept in today, and took her up to the attic where we opened an ancient sealed-up portal to another dimension a container of old dresses of mine from back in the day, which was fun. (Maybe it's just me but I don't see fashion has changed as radically in this century as it did in, say, the final twenty-four years of the last century.) Going to have a roaring fire tonight and tell stories, maybe try out this 1800s popcorn popper we have that you actually hold over the fire itself. I'll keep the extinguisher handy, if we do.

Life is good.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 24, 2024, 06:25:24 PM
Occurred to me today when it came on the radio that whoever his father was, Billie Jean's son would be in his forties now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 25, 2024, 12:25:34 AM
Within an hour I should be on my way home, or possibly even home already and not back at work until Monday. I love 4 day weekends.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 25, 2024, 04:36:52 PM
I heard something I'd never heard before in my life, that in the early days of the Soviet Union it was proposed that every worker would receive two days off per week, the first weekend ever enshrined in law, yet the same proposal would have added two days to the week, create a nine-day week, meaning in effect people would  have worked seven straight days to get two off, instead of working five days. The idea was ultimately rejected as too unpatriotic since it suggested workers who required time off did not relish their jobs in the Socialist utopia.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 25, 2024, 05:16:16 PM
Those twerps who like to block roads as if it changes any minds; I wonder how they would react if they found out the hard way, that they'd just blocked a fleet one their way to a lowrider convention...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 26, 2024, 02:33:14 AM
ugh...no more vodka


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on January 26, 2024, 12:27:05 PM
Whenever I read the Karma log, I misread Poignant as Pregnant  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 26, 2024, 12:28:27 PM
^ :buggedout: ^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 26, 2024, 10:05:08 PM
Tonight, even as I was telling my tearful youngest, "Aw, honey, it's OK, you didn't know, really, it's all right..." a part of my brain was screaming: "SHE BLEACHED MY $200.00 BLACK SILK BLOUSE???!!!"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 27, 2024, 05:11:33 AM
I see the US wants to station nuclear weapons in the UK again. I remember the protests against them and the US in general back in the 80s and the whole Greenam  Common protest camp. I wonder if all those things will return?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on January 27, 2024, 11:42:42 AM
Tonight, even as I was telling my tearful youngest, "Aw, honey, it's OK, you didn't know, really, it's all right..." a part of my brain was screaming: "SHE BLEACHED MY $200.00 BLACK SILK BLOUSE???!!!"

So now it's a $500 high-fashion top?



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 27, 2024, 01:43:26 PM
Tonight, even as I was telling my tearful youngest, "Aw, honey, it's OK, you didn't know, really, it's all right..." a part of my brain was screaming: "SHE BLEACHED MY $200.00 BLACK SILK BLOUSE???!!!"

So now it's a $500 high-fashion top?


Yes! It is now a one of a kind creation!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on January 27, 2024, 06:12:49 PM
^Did the same thing to my official Badmovies.org t-shirt, but I was only using it for a nightshirt.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chainsaw midget on January 27, 2024, 08:47:51 PM
I had a hunk of tooth fall out of my mouth today. 

... that's ... that's not good. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on January 28, 2024, 12:11:28 PM
Trying a pineapple & raspberry cider. The initial taste is fine, but the aftertaste not so much.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 28, 2024, 12:39:06 PM
I entered an NFL playoff select-a-lineup contest with over 170,000 entrants. The first week I was average (about 60,000th place), but last week I finished in 65th place.

My prize? $1. Hoping to double that this week!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 28, 2024, 12:41:12 PM
My daughter is off visiting my mom, and will be til summer, doing school over there, everything, and with her gone I find I have no interest in going to church, something I did with her for the past few years, because she wanted to. The people we'd go there with, go there and see, go out and have breakfast with afterward, people I've known since I was my daughter's age, are sad I haven't been there the last two weeks, and each told me separately today how upset they were that our ritual of getting together is unraveling, and how I am missed, but I can't seem to summon the desire in me to go. Honestly, church services leave me feeling very far from God. Sometimes I think God is to be experienced, not thought about, and I think about God far more often than I feel God's presence, which I maintain I have at times in my life.

I truly am very bad at this.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 29, 2024, 01:37:58 AM
My daughter is off visiting my mom, and will be til summer, doing school over there, everything, and with her gone I find I have no interest in going to church, something I did with her for the past few years, because she wanted to. The people we'd go there with, go there and see, go out and have breakfast with afterward, people I've known since I was my daughter's age, are sad I haven't been there the last two weeks, and each told me separately today how upset they were that our ritual of getting together is unraveling, and how I am missed, but I can't seem to summon the desire in me to go. Honestly, church services leave me feeling very far from God. Sometimes I think God is to be experienced, not thought about, and I think about God far more often than I feel God's presence, which I maintain I have at times in my life.

I truly am very bad at this.

I haven't been to church since Dad passed in 2008.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 29, 2024, 01:30:28 PM
It seems like every time I've turned on the radio today there's been a song playing that was used in The Virgin Suicides.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 29, 2024, 07:15:43 PM
Insomnia sucks 😑😔


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on January 30, 2024, 10:07:59 AM
According to my Every Day's A Holiday calendar, this is Wear A Godzilla Suit Day, so let's not be slackers....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on January 30, 2024, 11:37:33 AM
^ heres the original man in a Godzilla suit- Haruo Nakijima-

(https://i.imgur.com/Fl3tnQo.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on January 30, 2024, 11:57:08 AM
^ heres the original man in a Godzilla suit- Haruo Nakijima-

(https://i.imgur.com/Fl3tnQo.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

Godzilla looks like he's seen some bad crap go down 😳😉😉


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 02, 2024, 02:03:19 AM
John Fetterman has been as tall as he is for all of his adult life I assume? but he acts like it's something that happened recently and is like struggling to get on top of


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 02, 2024, 11:22:08 AM
Lately I been making an effort to see the best in things, so I created this list:

Nazis: Great fashion sense.
KKK: Supported bed sheet manufacturers.
Japanese Imperialists: Zero Godzilla attacks on their watch.
Nation of Islam: Keeps Pee-wee Herman's clothing in our memories.
Judas Iscariot: Makes us feel better about ourselves.
Al Qaeda: Held ISIS to number the two spot.
Mark David Chapman: Kept the Beatles out of the contemporary music category. (You're welcome, classic rock!)
Scrappy-Doo: Helps us miss Saturday morning cartoons a little less.
Covid: Finally gave us a rhyme for the color pattern "mauved."




Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on February 02, 2024, 10:14:59 PM
"The goose that laid the golden egg
Died looking up its crotch
To find out how its sphincter worked.
Did you lay well?  Don't watch!"

   - Ogden Nash


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on February 04, 2024, 08:20:23 PM
Gotta say Mardi Gras has ramped up since last year.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: HappyGilmore on February 05, 2024, 09:51:50 AM
As I'm pushing 40 in 3 weeks, I've grown to accept it more and move on in life.

I once said I'd never make it past 21. Then 25. You could say I had a death wish of some kind. I lived recklessly. Booze, drugs, thoughts of self harm, 4 day benders. I lost many friends and relatives to death.

But I wanna be here now. Yeah this car accident knocked me out, but seeing other patients in the ward who've been missing legs, and couldn't walk at all, I'm grateful. It's a blessing in disguise.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 05, 2024, 10:44:16 AM
^ I know the feeling. I'm 61 and should have died decades ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: HappyGilmore on February 05, 2024, 11:14:47 AM
^ I know the feeling. I'm 61 and should have died decades ago.
I'm glad you're here, RC


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chainsaw midget on February 05, 2024, 12:20:44 PM
^ I know the feeling. I'm 61 and should have died decades ago.
Would it make you feel better or worse if I said that I thought you were older than that?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 05, 2024, 12:50:51 PM
^ I know the feeling. I'm 61 and should have died decades ago.
I'm glad you're here, RC

Me too 😊☺️🐢😊😊🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 05, 2024, 01:05:40 PM
"it's all got me thinking about the couple of times in my youth when I was hit by cars, or all the times I fell off my motorcycle, only to shrug it off, & then have arthritis & sciatica hit me out of the blue.... I had to quit rehab, 'cause that only made it worse...
Hope you get better, HG!^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 05, 2024, 06:02:30 PM
I must admit, I think often about these verses from Matthew 25:


42 "For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’"



I think that our species does a miserable job of looking out for one another.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 05, 2024, 07:21:33 PM
^ I know the feeling. I'm 61 and should have died decades ago.
Would it make you feel better or worse if I said that I thought you were older than that?

Neither. I could care less.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: HappyGilmore on February 07, 2024, 07:37:01 AM
Not so 'random' but randomly I found out that the Hershey family from Pennsylvania known for their chocolate confectioneries and theme park are in no way and boldly proclaim to not be related to the Hershey family from Pennsylvania known for their ice cream treats and deserts.

Despite the fact that Hershey's chocolate out of the can/bottle goes perfectly well with the ice cream.

Just me, but you'd think they'd team up.  :lookingup: :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 07, 2024, 07:53:38 AM
I remember back in the 90's buying this magazine every month-

(https://i.imgur.com/qUJSk89.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: HappyGilmore on February 07, 2024, 09:06:09 AM
That magazine looks cool.  I wasn't much into metal then, but did buy some Fangoria. I was into Horror and MAD magazine.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on February 07, 2024, 09:59:11 AM
 ^I still got 100's of monster mags and lotsa MADS! Most from the 60's and 70's.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 07, 2024, 11:29:06 AM
I remember buying Fangoria monthly in the late 80s: I proposed that the library I did my training in purchase it for the makeup students to get ideas from but the chief librarian said the mag was "satanic" 😒😑


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 08, 2024, 01:51:07 PM
There's nothing sure except death, taxes, and exiting through the gift shop.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 08, 2024, 02:03:46 PM
There's nothing sure except death, taxes, and exiting through the gift shop.

You can escape taxes. I avoided them until I was 25, and could have kept doing so by working cash-in-hand jobs. If you can get out of that one I feel getting past death must be easy by comparison.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 08, 2024, 02:05:50 PM
There's nothing sure except death, taxes, and exiting through the gift shop.

You can escape taxes. I avoided them until I was 25, and could have kept doing so by working cash-in-hand jobs. If you can get out of that one I feel getting past death must be easy by comparison.

Yeah, but all roads still lead through those gift shops....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 09, 2024, 01:19:14 AM
Remember how Pope John Paul hung on way too long?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 13, 2024, 12:49:26 PM
I was thinking today there just don't seem to be as many characters around as there used to be.

By that I mean those wonderfully colorful sorts of about sixty-five you'd see in plaid flannel shirts sitting on the bench at a bus stop, though they weren't actually planning on getting on a bus, and there they'd tell a single hours-long story to whoever was willing to stay near them, relating their war experiences, or bending ears about how the price of hamburger was so high they'd switched to grilling out on Labor Day with ground pork, or how Pete Rose belonged in the gawddam Hall of Fame no matter what the big shots said.

Or there used to be the fellow who would come out of the corner bar and walk up to you without any preamble and tell you he once saw Marilyn Monroe riding by in a limousine with Bobby Kennedy when he was a busboy at an oyster bar on Cape Cod, and Marilyn looked right at him, those beautiful eyes of hers lingering on his own for a pair of heartbeats, just a few months before they found her dead, and when he heard she was gone, he had to struggle not to weep as he remembered that night, knowing in his heart the Kennedy family did her in. And then after telling you this, as if it boiled in his soul to get his claim to fame out of him so it could live on in someone else, he'd walk off into the pregnant darkness of the night.

Seems like when I was little in the '80s those types were all around, then it occurred to me they have been supplanted by their successors, who have traded park benches and personal memories for keyboards and conspiracy theories, posting ratiocinations about how the King of England is a lizard, or how 9-11 was done by time travelers, or a politician they didn't like was kept alive by daily transfusions of bigfoot blood.

Who'd ever have thought one day cyberspace would make the characters of the world an endangered species?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 14, 2024, 03:13:13 PM
"After you've shot eleven people to death, I guess you have to consider the dice rolled on the question of your fate."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on February 14, 2024, 09:38:42 PM
"After you've shot eleven people to death, I guess you have to consider the dice rolled on the question of your fate."

Who said that?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 15, 2024, 01:36:26 AM
"After you've shot eleven people to death, I guess you have to consider the dice rolled on the question of your fate."

Who said that?

ER just did 😉


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on February 18, 2024, 03:53:10 PM
My daughter forgot the word for funeral and called it a "tombstone party".  I think I like it.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 19, 2024, 02:13:24 PM
I just found out Jewel's mom stole all her money and has left the '90s singer $3,000,000.00 in debt. We all oughta go  buy one of her songs to help her out.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: zombie no.one on February 19, 2024, 03:34:08 PM
blue + red = purple... fine

yellow + red = orange... no problem

yellow + blue = green.... wat?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 19, 2024, 03:47:25 PM
blue + red = purple... fine

yellow + red = orange... no problem

yellow + blue = green.... wat?

The concept of RGB imho, is way more confusing...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 19, 2024, 04:01:01 PM
blue + red = purple... fine

yellow + red = orange... no problem

yellow + blue = green.... wat?

The concept of RGB imho, is way more confusing...

Funny, I was just reading CS Lewis today who pointed out that it makes sense that Christianity, well, makes no sense, since all else created by God likewise makes no sense, from the hues that colors produce, to the chaotic nature of the solar system, with the seemingly random size order of planets and the disarrayed quantity of their moons. I read the original post about color blending and was reminded of that: God's chaotic rather than entirely orderly nature.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: zombie no.one on February 20, 2024, 01:46:27 PM

The concept of RGB imho, is way more confusing...

do you mean Red + Green = Brown there? that's another weird one I guess.

those are the 3 colours that colourblind people have difficulty distinguishing apparently...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 20, 2024, 06:14:47 PM

The concept of RGB imho, is way more confusing...

do you mean Red + Green = Brown there? that's another weird one I guess.

those are the 3 colours that colourblind people have difficulty distinguishing apparently...
No, I'm just wondering why none of my photo editors let my adjust the yell, the orange or the purple.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 21, 2024, 02:50:27 AM
via twitter

"It's kind of crazy that the year is 2024 and Paramount Global's two most valuable franchises -- Star Trek and Mission: Impossible -- were both originally greenlighted by Lucille Ball 60 years ago."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: zombie no.one on February 21, 2024, 05:35:30 AM
If your father’s father is your grandfather, why is your grandfather’s father your great grandfather? Shouldn’t he just be your grand grandfather?

(other tongue twisters are available)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 21, 2024, 02:22:09 PM
Radios are cool, 'cause like, y' don't hafta look for a network every time you turn them on, & you can have several around the house without having to sync 'em......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 22, 2024, 11:14:13 PM
It is 04:13 and I still have 2 more hours of work to go, then Ash to get ready for school and drop him off afterwards.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 23, 2024, 02:23:13 PM
Just got offered a threesome.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 23, 2024, 07:15:04 PM
I been thinking about writing a book with the intended target audience being the terminally ill. I am going to call it:

Pranks You Can Play From Your Deathbed

Prank one: Time it just right so that with your last breath you gasp out to your loved-ones that you've hidden a s**t-ton of money  in your house, then just as they lean in to hear where, you die.

Prank two: While on your deathbed, you give your gathered loved-ones a spooky look and utter ominously: "I just had a vision of the future, and know how you're all going to die!" Then you stare real sorrowfully at the one you like least. Then you die.

So far that's all I've written.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: claws on February 24, 2024, 04:46:45 AM
Just got offered a threesome.  :buggedout:

That's hilarious. How desperate are people? I guess the local swingers club was fully booked  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 24, 2024, 09:39:30 AM
Just got offered a threesome.  :buggedout:

Oy 😳😄😄😄


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 24, 2024, 02:09:26 PM
Just got offered a threesome.  :buggedout:

That's hilarious. How desperate are people? I guess the local swingers club was fully booked  :bouncegiggle:

I am told that there is an active dogging community at a nearby(ish) battlesite (Culloden). I should have sent them up that way.  I was told that the owner of one of the local chip shops was very active in the local swinging scene. I also noticed that this same fish and chip shop was often closed due to staff having ill health. It has new owners now, but I still don't go there lol. No idea how busy the scene is. Never quite understood the whole turn up and bang some other guys wife while he watches mentality.  :question: Someone did try and get Kristi and me involved in that scene many years ago, but she wasn't any more interested in that idea than I was.

Hearing gossip like that is one of the reasons I don't get involved in community stuff much. The other reason is me just not liking people.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 24, 2024, 02:43:30 PM
Warlords of Atlantis just came on the TV. First I thought, oh cool, love that movie. Then I thought I remember seeing that in the cinema. Then I remembered that was in the 70s and now I just feel old.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on February 24, 2024, 08:35:45 PM
My niece will turn 22 months in 10 days. She's also 3ft tall.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 24, 2024, 09:56:06 PM
Had a guy come in with his girlfriend for a pass. He was being a bit ignorant and I bluntly told him I could just refuse to give him a pass. His partner told him to shut up and stop acting like a c**t. I'm wishing I'd said to him "Do you know how much trouble I'll get into if I refuse you access? Absolutely none."

I'd imagine his lady friend would have been well impressed with him if she'd to walk the 5 or 6 miles back to Elgin on a freezing cold night.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 24, 2024, 10:18:38 PM
Went to a funeral today because I couldn't get out of it short of faking a seizure. I guess I wanted to go and be with my friends during this time, but I loathe funerals. Dead people are there, you know, but I never look at the dead person.  I always feel like burning my clothes afterwards, but taking them off first. Funerals make no sense. And they're too expensive. And dead people are there. I don't look at them, but I know they're still there. I used to give this woman high fives and everything. You humans creep my hybrid self out.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 25, 2024, 02:07:44 AM
I watched some of an Aussie show called "Sea Patrol" on tubi. It's a non ironic show about the Sea Patrol there and the stuff they encounter. In the right sort of environment it could be pretty good? I have a real soft spot for shows like Flipper and Sea hunt


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 25, 2024, 02:27:13 PM
I wonder if environmentalists ever get angry with Superman for stopping a flood with a giant boulder, or punching a hole in a mountain to create a runoff....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on February 25, 2024, 02:50:58 PM
Wondering how Happy Gilmore is doing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 25, 2024, 03:35:54 PM
Decided it was about time that I got around to watching Children of the Corn.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on February 25, 2024, 09:57:15 PM
Can time move slower when I close at work? It's been dragging on for the last hour.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on February 25, 2024, 11:09:25 PM
Been a lazy day.  Sometimes we need one of those.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: chainsaw midget on February 25, 2024, 11:25:34 PM
I have a friend on discord that I've been talking to and working on projects with for about five years now.  The whole time I've known him, he's been sick and slowly dying.  Tonight, he logged off for the final time and said he was going to spend his last few weeks with family. 

It's really weird saying goodbye to somebody when you know that their time is almost up and you'll never talk to them again.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 26, 2024, 07:10:13 AM
I was watching a baby nurse from a bottle, and every time he'd suckle a drink his forehead would wrinkle up and stretch smooth again, reminding me of an accordion.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on February 26, 2024, 09:02:06 AM
I have a friend on discord that I've been talking to and working on projects with for about five years now.  The whole time I've known him, he's been sick and slowly dying.  Tonight, he logged off for the final time and said he was going to spend his last few weeks with family. 

It's really weird saying goodbye to somebody when you know that their time is almost up and you'll never talk to them again.



Sorry to hear that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 27, 2024, 10:12:47 AM
In Blinded By the Light, there is no way he's saying "deuce."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on February 27, 2024, 10:16:40 AM
In Blinded By the Light, there is no way he's saying "deuce."

What is it you think he is singing? It sounds like "Revved up like a deuce" to me.

Although for a long time I thought the word was "douche" myself.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 27, 2024, 10:22:58 AM
I just cannot hear anything but douche. To be blunt, I think he slid the word anus in there too. Like Third-Eye Blind in the '90s, I believe he got by with slipping a dirty song off onto Top-40 radio.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 29, 2024, 07:24:10 PM
A place where I used to work got hit by a tornado this week.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Paquita on February 29, 2024, 08:53:07 PM
I just cannot hear anything but douche. To be blunt, I think he slid the word anus in there too. Like Third-Eye Blind in the '90s, I believe he got by with slipping a dirty song off onto Top-40 radio.

The lyrics "and little early birdie gave my anus curly whirly" is definitely in that song and you cannot convince me otherwise. It's the best part of the song.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on February 29, 2024, 10:45:53 PM
^ Yes!!!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on February 29, 2024, 11:19:52 PM
What if Davros from Doctor Who killed everybody's favorite late night horror host, and had to spend the rest of eternity introducing awful movies at gunpoint???

Or what if those crabs from Attack Of The Crab Monsters ate a bunch of clown heads, and had to walk around shouting "Hi Kids!"???


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 02, 2024, 12:09:37 PM
Ever notice there's talkers and doers and braggarts tend to be the ones who do the least of all?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 02, 2024, 12:27:34 PM
Yup.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 04, 2024, 10:04:01 PM
Shame Sheryl Crow's not around anymore.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 04, 2024, 10:28:42 PM
Shame Sheryl Crow's not around anymore.

If that's a joke I don't get it, but she's around. She's releasing a new album soon.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 05, 2024, 02:06:30 AM
I just cannot hear anything but douche. To be blunt, I think he slid the word anus in there too. Like Third-Eye Blind in the '90s, I believe he got by with slipping a dirty song off onto Top-40 radio.

The lyrics "and little early birdie gave my anus curly whirly" is definitely in that song and you cannot convince me otherwise. It's the best part of the song.



😳😆😆😆😆

With a South African playing the keyboards you know what to expect 😉


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 05, 2024, 01:53:56 PM
Indy wanted me to tell everyone he isn't dead, he's just been having some computer issues. He's still reachable by phone though.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 05, 2024, 02:55:52 PM
Indy wanted me to tell everyone he isn't dead, he's just been having some computer issues. He's still reachable by phone though.

Good: I always think I should give everyone my phone number.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 08, 2024, 05:06:58 PM
Tried Lay's strawberry pancake with syrup and bacon potato chips, and they are amazing!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 08, 2024, 05:40:54 PM
^
^

(https://i.imgur.com/hhW73sJ.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 08, 2024, 05:44:30 PM
^ And that from the man who used to stomach a pint of whisky a day.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 08, 2024, 09:41:52 PM
Tried Lay's strawberry pancake with syrup and bacon potato chips, and they are amazing!  :thumbup:
I'm.... intrigued by that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 09, 2024, 01:31:29 AM
^ And that from the man who used to stomach a pint of whisky a day.

Pint? Try a fith a day or more in my youth! But I liked the taste of whiskey!
Haven't had a drop since Thangsgiving!  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 09, 2024, 08:04:09 AM
As a young man, I used to enjoy the occasional peanut butter, ham, and cheese sandwich.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 09, 2024, 08:54:28 AM
^
^

(https://i.imgur.com/hhW73sJ.gif) (https://lunapic.com)

That is something I have done in my life: July 2008 to be exact.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 09, 2024, 09:30:08 AM
As a young man, I used to enjoy the occasional peanut butter, ham, and cheese sandwich.
Sweet and savory goes hand and hand together.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 09, 2024, 10:25:59 AM
As a young man, I used to enjoy the occasional peanut butter, ham, and cheese sandwich.
Now, I love bologna and peanut butter!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 12, 2024, 12:28:54 PM
Harvey Danger said it best....

I had visions, I was in them,
I was looking into the mirror
To see a little bit clearer
The rottenness and evil in me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 12, 2024, 03:28:33 PM
Harvey Danger said it best....

I had visions, I was in them,
I was looking into the mirror
To see a little bit clearer
The rottenness and evil in me.
Well he's not sick, but he's not well.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 12, 2024, 10:07:05 PM
I bought a shirt that shows Hanson on top, and says Nirvana across the bottom. I think I'll wear it til it falls to rags.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 12, 2024, 10:36:11 PM
^ Who's Hanson?

Speaking of shirts- I have this one-
Not Hanson- but-

(https://i.imgur.com/d2tqzQr.png) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 13, 2024, 04:35:04 PM
^ Who's Hanson?

Speaking of shirts- I have this one-
Not Hanson- but-

(https://i.imgur.com/d2tqzQr.png) (https://lunapic.com)

Frivolous '90s bubblegum boy's band. The humor came from their image misidentified with Nirvana?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 15, 2024, 12:35:09 AM
I just got done watching 7 DAYS IN MAY (1964), and for some reason I thought "I hope to whatever God there may be, that Trump doesn't get elected, or democracy in this country is doomed." I don't think some people realize how much danger this country is really in.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: indianasmith on March 15, 2024, 08:49:06 AM
I try to engage some Trump supporters on my FB page, but they seem to believe that every single negative thing about him is made up.
Even though I never watch cable news, the response is inevitably:  "You been watching too much CNN and MSNBC!"

Of course, if you converse a little further, you find out that COVID was a hoax, Obama's birth certificate was fake, Hillary Clinton is a child sex trafficker, and on and on and on . . .
A never-ending string of conspiracy theories these people believe.
We're living in idiocracy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 15, 2024, 09:16:30 AM
I try to engage some Trump supporters on my FB page, but they seem to believe that every single negative thing about him is made up.
Even though I never watch cable news, the response is inevitably:  "You been watching too much CNN and MSNBC!"

Of course, if you converse a little further, you find out that COVID was a hoax, Obama's birth certificate was fake, Hillary Clinton is a child sex trafficker, and on and on and on . . .
A never-ending string of conspiracy theories these people believe.
We're living in idiocracy.

Unfortunately, the more you challenge them, the deeper their faith becomes. The only way to change minds is one at a time, by legitimately befriending them and gently guiding them in positive directions. It takes forever and you only help one person at a time.

The one negative thing I think you can say about Trump that is somewhat effective is to point out that he's a loser. A lot of his followers (not all, of course) are losers themselves who think that Trump is a winner and that associating themselves with him makes them stronger. If he's not seen as a strong man, he loses his appeal.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 15, 2024, 02:29:32 PM
My dad was on the school board when I was a kid.... Thought it was his political future...

One day, the board decided to show the parents a new expanded facility they were working on in order to solve the problem of aging, overcrowded classrooms...
But, the new classrooms were behind schedule, so some of the kiddies would need to use the older, overcrowded classrooms, while others were being transferred to a different campus....

And that's when parents of children at this one school stopped sending their kids to school, because they somehow got it into their heads that the school board was putting the kiddies in these unfinished rooms with no desks, concrete floors with no carpet or tile. wires hanging from the ceiling, & so on & so forth.....

My dad & the rest of the schoolboard went nuts trying to call & explain to these parents that they weren't sending the kiddies to these unfinished classrooms, but were repurposing existing facilities, but they just couldn't convince anybody of that....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 15, 2024, 03:36:52 PM
Say, anybody remember the Millennium Bug???


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 15, 2024, 03:44:09 PM
^ Yeah. Nothing happened.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 15, 2024, 10:04:06 PM
The girlfriends come out at night.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 19, 2024, 10:54:02 AM
I might be getting myself in an interracial relationship.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 19, 2024, 06:40:39 PM
^Really? Is the girl Human? (being your some kind of vampire)  :twirl:

 Just Kidding!

Seriously- I was with me sweetie Tiana for 10 years, and the only thing that p**sed me off is when  I was invited over to neighbors home, I brought Tiana, and this neandrathal whispered to me " Man- your girlfriends BLACK. That's messed up." And I said out load "Let's get outta here."
 I HATE racism.


Tiana!

(https://i.imgur.com/h7uI1B0.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 22, 2024, 11:06:56 AM
Going out to see the new Ghostbusters movie tonight. Just as long as it is better than the Answer the Call one I'll be happy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Trevor on March 22, 2024, 12:58:27 PM
I might be getting myself in an interracial relationship.

Cool. 😊😊🐢


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 22, 2024, 02:57:04 PM
My friend Rob thinks it's funny to send me memes that praise Satan, and after ignoring it for a long time, I asked him why he wanted to glorify the symbol of all evil, and he said, "Because it's fun to offend Christians."

I told him I couldn't imagine anyone would actually be offended so much as think he needs to grow up past seventh grade, but he said, "No, it p**ses Christians off."

Well, this morning he sent me another meme with Satan in a heroic light, so I sent him back one him that glorifies someone almost as bad, Hitler.

Rob instantly wrote me back in a froth and asked why I sent him that, Hitler was the worst person who ever lived, blahblahblah, and I said, "Because it's fun to offend Satanists."

Reminded me of the kid's reaction to Ralphie and the bully in A Christmas Story. "You can't do that!"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 22, 2024, 05:48:26 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/6mTtm0M.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 22, 2024, 06:33:05 PM
Well I got another piercing; I got a lip piercing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 23, 2024, 06:39:02 PM
My dad  just had a mink9r stroke and needs to be kept in the hospital overnight. I need to watch Mom.  Everything will probably be back to normal tomorrow. But just in case anyone wonders if I disappear for a bit...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 23, 2024, 08:12:57 PM
^ I hope your Dad gets better.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 24, 2024, 02:05:10 PM
^ I hope your Dad gets better.  :bluesad:

He's getting out soon, has to go back tomorrow for another MRI.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 24, 2024, 02:17:23 PM
Good deal.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 25, 2024, 10:01:48 AM
I don't think Fonzie jumped the shark when he jumped the shark, I think he jumped the shark here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQkntcq0jBI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQkntcq0jBI)


Unless of course he's a wizard, then according to the First Law of Xena*, that would explain everything.


* "A wizard did it."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 26, 2024, 08:16:18 AM
Synchronicity: two unrelated conversations yesterday saw a TV show called Hee Haw brought up, so I Googled it. Is it suddenly nostalgically fashionable, I wonder, or is that as strange as it seemed?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 26, 2024, 08:18:01 AM
^My Dad watched that stupid show every night before the news way back in the early 70's.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 26, 2024, 09:33:43 AM
Synchronicity: two unrelated conversations yesterday saw a TV show called Hee Haw brought up, so I Googled it. Is it suddenly nostalgically fashionable, I wonder, or is that as strange as it seemed?
My family used to watch it every saturday as a kid.
My dad was a country music fan...
Can't remember a thing about it, exept for those ads for Doxidan.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 26, 2024, 09:40:28 AM
Synchronicity: two unrelated conversations yesterday saw a TV show called Hee Haw brought up, so I Googled it. Is it suddenly nostalgically fashionable, I wonder, or is that as strange as it seemed?

For some reason beyond my comprehension, my little sister and wife love watching that show together.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 26, 2024, 09:41:00 AM
Synchronicity: two unrelated conversations yesterday saw a TV show called Hee Haw brought up, so I Googled it. Is it suddenly nostalgically fashionable, I wonder, or is that as strange as it seemed?
My family used to watch it every saturday as a kid.
My dad was a country music fan...
Can't remember a thing about it, exept for those ads for Doxidan.....

Synchronistically, I saw a movie last night that I thought could have been the pilot for "Hee-Haw": Forty Acre Feud (1965), with Minnie Pearl.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 26, 2024, 12:33:37 PM
Hmm, clearly this "Hee Haw" has some import in the grand scheme of the universe. I must think on this a while....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 27, 2024, 12:39:23 AM
reading something about how The Matrix changed cinema and for once I have to kind of agree.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 27, 2024, 05:52:39 AM
^ I never seen it. Don't think I ever will.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 27, 2024, 09:35:31 AM
A dancer must be ready to dance.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: pacman000 on March 27, 2024, 09:42:29 AM
Hmm, clearly this "Hee Haw" has some import in the grand scheme of the universe. I must think on this a while....

"Where, oh where, are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over & thought I found true love-
But you met another &-
PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPTTTTTTTTT!
You was gone!"

^The above poem is 90% of what I know about Hee-Haw.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 27, 2024, 03:56:11 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/76/fe/d076fee653f869338e9b0e281d4ff3ac.jpg)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: ER on March 27, 2024, 03:59:58 PM
^ See, it's....still happening, Hee Haw everywhere I turn. What does this omen signify? Must climb mountain to fast and meditate.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 27, 2024, 09:35:00 PM
Trump is now selling Bibles-yes-BIBLES- to help pay his court costs. One is to PAY A PORN STAR. Bible-pornstar. An ex-president of the US.
What the f**k is going on???


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 27, 2024, 09:43:19 PM
The porn star had to pay the money back.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 28, 2024, 12:02:06 AM
I've seen a few people lately try to normalize the British expression "gobsmacked" and sorry it's not gonna happen.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 28, 2024, 02:25:05 AM
The porn star had to pay the money back.

What does that have to do with him selling Bibles? I'm surprised that hypocrite hasn't burst sponatnesly into flame!
Cuz if there's a hell below-he's gonna go!

(https://i.imgur.com/JG27ZGu.png) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 28, 2024, 01:48:36 PM
you're the one who brought it up


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 28, 2024, 03:07:46 PM
you're the one who brought it up

Yes, I am. And your the one who responded in a non-sensical way. If you don't like the statement-don't comment.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: LilCerberus on March 28, 2024, 03:16:42 PM
there he goes again!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 28, 2024, 03:56:32 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/BHPQreh.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: El Misfit on March 28, 2024, 06:48:44 PM
Gotta say trying to eat with my lip piercing in the way is a bit strange.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: Alex on March 29, 2024, 12:33:43 AM
How many people would you need to kill to get a 25 year prison sentence?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking
Post by: RCMerchant on March 29, 2024, 01:33:56 AM
^ One. My brother in law Leroy shot one guy and was in prison for 25 years. He got out last year.