What's on your computer desk right now?

[Svengoolie 3]

A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.

Hey, as long as you don';t try to go in and change everything about those people they're ok.

[ER]

A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.

Hey, as long as you don';t try to go in and change everything about those people they're ok.

Not really. In 1981 they tried to kill the crew of a stranded Dutch ship and about a decade ago murdered two fishermen who'd anchored offshore. None of those people were on the island and none were trying to "change"  them. They sound like xenophobic savages who'd be much improved by hearing the love one another message of Jesus.

[Alex]

A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.

Hey, as long as you don';t try to go in and change everything about those people they're ok.

Not really. In 1981 they tried to kill the crew of a stranded Dutch ship and about a decade ago murdered two fishermen who'd anchored offshore. None of those people were on the island and none were trying to "change"  them. They sound like xenophobic savages who'd be much improved by hearing the love one another message of Jesus.

Chances are, given these people have been isolated from the rest of the world for so long that contacting them would unfortunately quite quickly lead to them being decimated by modern diseases since they will have no resistance to them. Given this and how hostile they are to the rest of the world I think just leaving them alone would be the best thing to do, although I'd love to know just why they are so aggresive towards outsiders. You'd have thought curiosity alone would have led to one non-violent encounter.

[RCMerchant]

Hell, would you want to be a part of all this! 

I saw on the news that a missionary over on some island near India -it was against the law. They warned him-'If you go there, they will kill you." And they did.

[ER]

Hell, would you want to be a part of all this! 

I saw on the news that a missionary over on some island near India -it was against the law. They warned him-'If you go there, they will kill you." And they did.

Yeah, but according to what they told us in school that missionary died as a martyr, which means he's floating around Heaven happy as.... Wait, he was a Protestant, wasn't he? Nope, nope, straight to Hell. Zoom!

[Svengoolie 3]

A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.

Hey, as long as you don';t try to go in and change everything about those people they're ok.

Not really. In 1981 they tried to kill the crew of a stranded Dutch ship and about a decade ago murdered two fishermen who'd anchored offshore. None of those people were on the island and none were trying to "change"  them. They sound like xenophobic savages who'd be much improved by hearing the love one another message of Jesus.

Maybe we could send fine christian Matt shea to preach to them that they must accept Christianity and submit to christian law or all tneir males will be killed and their women and property taken as spoils of just and righteous war under biblical law.

https://thinkprogress.org/washington-state-lawmaker-matt-shea-biblical-basis-for-war-1675753b0bc8/


Things like this are why i'm OK with those "xenophobic savages"  using this guy for a pin cushion.

[ER]

A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.

Hey, as long as you don';t try to go in and change everything about those people they're ok.

Not really. In 1981 they tried to kill the crew of a stranded Dutch ship and about a decade ago murdered two fishermen who'd anchored offshore. None of those people were on the island and none were trying to "change"  them. They sound like xenophobic savages who'd be much improved by hearing the love one another message of Jesus.

Maybe we could send fine christian Matt shea to preach to them that they must accept Christianity and submit to christian law or all tneir males will be killed and their women and property taken as spoils of just and righteous war under biblical law.

https://thinkprogress.org/washington-state-lawmaker-matt-shea-biblical-basis-for-war-1675753b0bc8/


Things like this are why i'm OK with those "xenophobic savages"  using this guy for a pin cushion.

I have this theory, the guano-crazzzy savages actually understand contagious disease theory, and they understand, as the suicidal thumper didn't, that by breathing in their general direction he might've wiped out their weak and pristine immune systems with his superior germ resistance and so that's why the lesser savages kilt 'im with their Geena Davis-like archery skills.

I'm all in favor of border defense, after all.

[ER]

Umm, I read your link between Brit Floyd pledge breaks, Sven, and, yes, we should definitely send that man to the island. With you 100-percent. Maybe we could set up a direct flight there, parachute the right people down....? Just sayin'? Maybe make a reality series, Trevor or Indy might know some people to get it started? I'm sensing my kids' education getting paid for this way Who,-hoo, me likee these unclad savages!

[Svengoolie 3]

Historically yes,  euopreans evolved a stronger than normal immune system as a result of the black plague, and became resistant to many diseases that were  orevelant in europe and other peoples in other lands had little resistance ce too.

Smallpox devastated the indigenous populations of north america and Hawaii.

Maybe Christians think that native populations should be willing to accept plagues,  decimations and the annihilation of their culture and way of life as a fair price to lay to be brought under jesus' dominion,  I understand they may disagree.

[ER]

Historically yes,  euopreans evolved a stronger than normal immune system as a result of the black plague, and became resistant to many diseases that were  orevelant in europe and other peoples in other lands had little resistance ce too.

Smallpox devastated the indigenous populations of north america and Hawaii.

Maybe Christians think that native populations should be willing to accept plagues,  decimations and the annihilation of their culture and way of life as a fair price to lay to be brought under jesus' dominion,  I understand they may disagree.

I know, man, as a European (sort of) I used to resent Asians for sending us the Black Death, but I got over it.

You shore do spend a lotta time talking about a God you say isn't real, man.

Eew, Brit Floyd's back on!

[RCMerchant]

f**k man. We 'civiliized' (and I'm sure I spelt that wrong) folks kill each other on a massive scale. I wouldn't wan't us stupid, crazy f**kers around either!
Dam! Just leave them the f**k alone!

[RCMerchant]

Oh yeah- what's on your computer desk?
Mine- much the same as it was the day I posted this. With the addition of a M'm! M'm! Good! Soup mug.
I have whiskey and tea in it. Otherwise it's exactly the same.

[RCMerchant]

Mothballs. My computer room smells like mothballs. Because there are 3 old coat closets that smelled like old lady clothes when we moved in. The woman who sold it to us had it built in 1940.
But it has a large window right in back of me. 
I got a chair next to the window so the cat can look outside. 

[Allhallowsday]

I don't have a computer desk, exactly, but, well, on my work desk is....virtually nothing. Mostly a bare wood surface, no personal mementos, no Calvin and Hobbes tea mug, no drawings from my children, no mini TARDIS, no slim volume of Chesterton's poems or The Picture of Dorian Gray, no E.A. Poe bobblehead, no letter opener in the form of a Hello Kitty, nothing non-work related at all, just a work-only computer, a college-ruled paper notebook, some pens, some paper files and notes, a few sample flyers for an art show coming up in Krakow, that's about it, all as bland as vanilla in vanilla sauce, with vanilla sprinkles on a white plate under white light. I tend to be a carefully private person in my work environment and I think my desk reflects that.

Heck I tell more about myself in here in a random thought post than I do to those I work with for half a year or those living down the road from me.

Maybe 'cause they run away...

[LilCerberus]

All sorts of 57mm lens filters, but I can't seem to find any of my star filters...
And I still have the engine head to my '75 Honda Cb400f Supersport...