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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 29, 2022 9:28:28 GMT -5
Um, I didn't even hear about it. What's the jackpot? It's over a billion dollars. Shite!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 24, 2022 10:20:40 GMT -5
Shirley Temple was probably the biggest child star of her era. So big in fact that there was even a drink named after her (the "Shirley Temple"). Did they ever add any ingredients when she later became known as Shirley Temple Black, or make an entirely different drink in her honor?
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Aug 25, 2022 4:51:41 GMT -5
While we're tossing out Shirley Temple trivia, her daughter Lori, a.k.a. Lorax, was one of the earliest in a long line of bass players for noise gods The Melvins.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 2, 2022 12:16:17 GMT -5
Is there any site tracking the Google Earth car? I'd love to be ready for it if/when it ever drives through my area again.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 2, 2022 16:43:20 GMT -5
Is there any site tracking the Google Earth car? I'd love to be ready for it if/when it ever drives through my area again.
www.whereisthegooglecar.com/
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 5, 2022 22:45:42 GMT -5
So, one of the arguments that the pro-gun side always brings up after a mass shooting event is, "Even if you outlaw guns, people will find a way to kill each other", referring presumably to automobiles, knives (like the news out of Saskatchewan), bombs, etc. How come the anti-gun folks never turn that argument around on the pro-gun folks and say, "If there are indeed so many other options for killing, then what's the harm with doing away with guns?".
Keep in mind, like several big ticket political arguments, I see both sides making good points, so I don't really pick a side in this debate. But logically, if the gun folks are going to make that particular argument for ownership, then I don't see why the anti-folks don't use that as a rebuttal.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 6, 2022 8:23:35 GMT -5
So, one of the arguments that the pro-gun side always brings up after a mass shooting event is, "Even if you outlaw guns, people will find a way to kill each other", referring presumably to automobiles, knives (like the news out of Saskatchewan), bombs, etc. How come the anti-gun folks never turn that argument around on the pro-gun folks and say, "If there are indeed so many other options for killing, then what's the harm with doing away with guns?".
Keep in mind, like several big ticket political arguments, I see both sides making good points, so I don't really pick a side in this debate. But logically, if the gun folks are going to make that particular argument for ownership, then I don't see why the anti-folks don't use that as a rebuttal.
I'm in this very conversation at Goodreads right now. Someone said she lives in Texas where it's very dangerous, and she's glad I live in a safe area and all but she doesn't consider it very smart to live in a dangerous area without a gun. I pointed out to her that I grew up in Detroit, generally agreed not to be a safe area, and I used to hear gunfire almost every day by the time I went away to college without ever touching a gun. Noted that my dad was a career military man who would never allow a gun in his home with his children. Said the only thing I had ever personally known a gun used for was suicide and gave several examples of how easy access to guns gave made it super convenient for ppl I know to kill themselves. I asked her how many times she's needed to use her gun. Needless to say she has not answered. Even if she does, I am ready for her. I can describe how the 3 gun homicides I am adjacent to would not have been prevented if any of the victims had been carrying. And if she has any sort of answer to that I can describe the gun homicides in my own family and explain to her dumb ass how the only solution would have been for the shooter NOT to have access to a gun.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 7, 2022 4:52:38 GMT -5
I see both sides making good points
I ask this in no way confrontationally, purely out of interest (I think you know me well enough to know this already, but, to be safe...): what good arguments do you hear coming from anti-control folk? I don't expect you to argue their case; if you could just give me the broad strokes. Because the vast majority of their side of it all is based on a lie so big, it's actually a bunch of lies stitched together.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 7, 2022 10:22:09 GMT -5
I see both sides making good points
I ask this in no way confrontationally, purely out of interest (I think you know me well enough to know this already, but, to be safe...): what good arguments do you hear coming from anti-control folk? I don't expect you to argue their case; if you could just give me the broad strokes. Because the vast majority of their side of it all is based on a lie so big, it's actually a bunch of lies stitched together. Well, you got your hunting folks. You got the fact that the vast majority of gun owners are safe and responsible and never have to use their weapon for self-defense. The whole Second Amendment (which I know has been grossly misconstrued from what the founding fathers originally intended).
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 7, 2022 12:17:59 GMT -5
Another pro-gun argument is: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well sure, but in theory, then they'll be arrested and put in jail for having guns. Like I say, I don't have a pony in this race. Just trying to parse through all the for/against arguments.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 7, 2022 22:55:15 GMT -5
Has there ever been a skinny American biker? I mean in real life, not the movies. I'm distinguishing "bikers" from your casual weekend motorcycle riders or Vespa/scooter crowd here. Why are they all large-to-overweight-to-obese-leaning? Maybe more protection from the elements? I'm genuinely curious because I've never seen a skinny biker outside of fiction.
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Post by El Santo on Sept 8, 2022 9:24:09 GMT -5
Has there ever been a skinny American biker? I mean in real life, not the movies. I'm distinguishing "bikers" from your casual weekend motorcycle riders or Vespa/scooter crowd here. Why are they all large-to-overweight-to-obese-leaning? Maybe more protection from the elements? I'm genuinely curious because I've never seen a skinny biker outside of fiction. I think there are several interlocking phenomena here: 1. Bikers are the oldest currently extant American counterculture, having gotten their start in the late 1940's. Even granting reasonable levels of replacement from each rising generation (which we probably shouldn't grant), that means the median age of bikers is going to be higher than the median age of beatniks, mods, hippies, skinheads, punks, rudeboys, headbangers, goths, and so forth. Higher median age almost always translates to greater median girth. 2. The kinds of big, powerful motorcycles that bikers favor are expensive nowadays. The cheapest 2023 bike I could find on the Harley-Davidson website starts at $11,000, and you can go up to 30 grand pretty easily if you start piling on optional extras. The customer base for a machine like that might be culturally working class, but realistically speaking, almost anyone making the bread to buy one does it sitting at a desk. My own ever-expanding ass testifies amply to what that gets you if you do it for long enough. 3. Beer. SO MUCH FUCKING BEER, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Between the raw caloric content and the alcohol's interference with the body's ability to metabolize its own fat reserves, anybody who drinks like that is going to pork up sooner or later.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 30, 2022 20:09:22 GMT -5
What-in-the-serious-heck was going on with this monument to tackiness on Epstein's private island? Talk about ruining a beautiful view. It honestly looks like something Donald Trump would build on a private island, so I guess it should come as no surprise they were pals. I'm no arbiter of taste, but even my broke ass knows when something just looks overblown and under-thought.
And why does it have a golden dome in one shot and a flat white rooftop in the other?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 1, 2022 14:18:46 GMT -5
What-in-the-serious-heck was going on with this monument to tackiness on Epstein's private island? Talk about ruining a beautiful view. It honestly looks like something Donald Trump would build on a private island, so I guess it should come as no surprise they were pals. I'm no arbiter of taste, but even my broke ass knows when something just looks overblown and under-thought.
And why does it have a golden dome in one shot and a flat white rooftop in the other?
Well the golden dome was inflatable, and probably a stiletto heel punctured it on an incautious moment. That's my theory, anyway. I do agree it looks terrible. A big inflatable rat would have made a better statement.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Oct 1, 2022 14:33:17 GMT -5
What-in-the-serious-heck was going on with this monument to tackiness on Epstein's private island? Talk about ruining a beautiful view. It honestly looks like something Donald Trump would build on a private island, so I guess it should come as no surprise they were pals. I'm no arbiter of taste, but even my broke ass knows when something just looks overblown and under-thought.
And why does it have a golden dome in one shot and a flat white rooftop in the other?
I'd guess two different buildings. He probably asked Donald for the name of his architect.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 1, 2022 20:15:57 GMT -5
Has there ever been a skinny American biker? I mean in real life, not the movies. I'm distinguishing "bikers" from your casual weekend motorcycle riders or Vespa/scooter crowd here. Why are they all large-to-overweight-to-obese-leaning? Maybe more protection from the elements? I'm genuinely curious because I've never seen a skinny biker outside of fiction. I've known quite a few rail-thin, even scrawny bikers. But yeah, once they pass 35 or so that changes in a hurry.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 1, 2022 20:19:55 GMT -5
Just how creeped out should I be that I get a monthly folder of coupons from Meijer's Thrifty Acres that offers deals on EXACTLY the items I always buy there? It used to be totally random things I had no use for, like diapers and cheddar, but in a few months after they started arriving it was more like half wanted items and half unwanted. Now it's 100% Eileen's grocery staples.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Oct 1, 2022 20:52:58 GMT -5
Just how creeped out should I be that I get a monthly folder of coupons from Meijer's Thrifty Acres that offers deals on EXACTLY the items I always buy there? It used to be totally random things I had no use for, like diapers and cheddar, but in a few months after they started arriving it was more like half wanted items and half unwanted. Now it's 100% Eileen's grocery staples. Do you use the same method of payment every time you shop there? It's pretty simple to tie a payment card number to a name/address and then plug that data into whatever system they're using to produce the coupons.
I'm assuming you aren't using something like a member's/frequent shopper's card that would permit explicit tracking. That makes the whole process too damn easy...
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 1, 2022 20:56:02 GMT -5
Wait, OK, I'm confused. Again, I know. I just had to emergency-buy myself a car when Li'l Ishiro was given the last rites by my dealership, and while I was waiting for them to scurry around doing my paperwork I did an instant online check of my credit score. Experian said it was 720. Then the dealership told me it was 862. I just asked Google what the highest possible credit score is and it said 850. This was the second time I asked because I wasn't sure I remembered what they said the first time. The first time it was a 3-digit number that started with 7.
Not all of this can be true, is all I'm saying.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 1, 2022 20:58:52 GMT -5
Just how creeped out should I be that I get a monthly folder of coupons from Meijer's Thrifty Acres that offers deals on EXACTLY the items I always buy there? It used to be totally random things I had no use for, like diapers and cheddar, but in a few months after they started arriving it was more like half wanted items and half unwanted. Now it's 100% Eileen's grocery staples. Do you use the same method of payment every time you shop there? It's pretty simple to tie a payment card number to a name/address and then plug that data into whatever system they're using to produce the coupons.
I'm assuming you aren't using something like a member's/frequent shopper's card that would permit explicit tracking. That makes the whole process too damn easy...
I normally use my UMCU debit card, sometimes the Capital One Visa, sometimes cash. Checks there have become so fricking annoying I don't use those anymore. If there is such a thing as a Meijer's member card, I am not aware of it.
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