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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 10, 2021 13:09:08 GMT -5
IT WORKED. Two nights later and the water bowl has not been spilled again.
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Post by El Santo on Aug 15, 2021 22:59:10 GMT -5
So I'm reading the news out of Afghanistan, watching George and Dick's Excellent Adventure shamble at last to an even more ignominious end than George and Dick's Bogus Journey, and it hits me how weird it is that the people who got us into these messes were so totally incapable of gaming out the attitudes, reactions, and behavior of ornery back-country coots who are also religious fundamentalists, given that back home, ornery back-country coots who are also religious fundamentalists were their own fucking base of political support.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Aug 16, 2021 0:29:26 GMT -5
So I'm reading the news out of Afghanistan, watching George and Dick's Excellent Adventure shamble at last to an even more ignominious end than George and Dick's Bogus Journey, and it hits me how weird it is that the people who got us into these messes were so totally incapable of gaming out the attitudes, reactions, and behavior of ornery back-country coots who are also religious fundamentalists, given that back home, ornery back-country coots who are also religious fundamentalists were their own fucking base of political support. Hypotheses:
- W. saw a huge opportunity to remain in power by starting a war, claiming we were winning and then, in 2004, announcing he was the only guy who could save us from the hornets' nest he himself had kicked over.
- Dick saw an opportunity to make a huge amount of money really fast, either in oil trades or no-bid military contracts if W could get a couple of wars going.
- The entire boondoggle was run on borrowed money, which allowed the Repuglicans to claim any social program or recession relief introduced by the Obama administration would cost too much (and don't you dare raise taxes).
- Trump, who says anything he thinks will get attention and make him "popular" figured out that the Afghanistan quagmire was UNpopular, and announced the U.S. was gonna pull out. Had his coup attempt succeeded, he would either have pretended he didn't say anything or that "very good people, my generals, have said the situation on the ground in Afghanistan has changed"*
- Biden was elected and called the Republicans' bluff by actually pulling out the troops.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 15, 2021 22:54:16 GMT -5
So many people are wearing day-glo hair coloring these days. You know who I'm NOT seeing wearing bright hair colors? Asian women. I thought they practically invented the trend? Maybe they've moved on from the style?
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Post by El Santo on Oct 5, 2021 11:02:12 GMT -5
We need a word for when someone or something disappoints you in exactly the way you were expecting them to.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Oct 5, 2021 11:30:15 GMT -5
We need a word for when someone or something disappoints you in exactly the way you were expecting them to. "Life"? |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Oct 15, 2021 5:01:53 GMT -5
Not an insight so much as an observation, but whatever else one might want to say about this past summer (including the fact that, going by the weather lately, it isn't actually past yet), it turned out to be a very good season for seeing women with powerful legs wearing very snug shorts.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 30, 2021 13:52:41 GMT -5
Today in team meeting I saw that Miss Fork In The Eye, an unvaccinated Trump voter, was not only wearing her mask below her nose but actually lowered it whenever she spoke. I have a better nickname for her now: PLAGUE RAT.
No offense to the noble rat, the official bird of the city-state of Detroit.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 26, 2022 23:02:44 GMT -5
Today in team meeting I saw that Miss Fork In The Eye, an unvaccinated Trump voter, was not only wearing her mask below her nose but actually lowered it whenever she spoke. I have a better nickname for her now: PLAGUE RAT. No offense to the noble rat, the official bird of the city-state of Detroit.
Okay, I gotta know some background on that old nickname (Miss Fork In The Eye). Did she actually manage to stab herself in the eye while trying to eat or something? Did someone attack her with a fork?
It's almost as scary a picture as the awful scene in the novel The Painted Bird when the farmer plucks out someone's eyeballs with a spoon in one of his rages. I forget who. It's been a while since I read it.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 27, 2022 1:39:57 GMT -5
Today in team meeting I saw that Miss Fork In The Eye, an unvaccinated Trump voter, was not only wearing her mask below her nose but actually lowered it whenever she spoke. I have a better nickname for her now: PLAGUE RAT. No offense to the noble rat, the official bird of the city-state of Detroit.
Okay, I gotta know some background on that old nickname (Miss Fork In The Eye). Did she actually manage to stab herself in the eye while trying to eat or something? Did someone attack her with a fork?
It's almost as scary a picture as the awful scene in the novel The Painted Bird when the farmer plucks out someone's eyeballs with a spoon in one of his rages. I forget who. It's been a while since I read it.
Grapefruit spoon is most efficient. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 28, 2022 6:32:40 GMT -5
Today in team meeting I saw that Miss Fork In The Eye, an unvaccinated Trump voter, was not only wearing her mask below her nose but actually lowered it whenever she spoke. I have a better nickname for her now: PLAGUE RAT. No offense to the noble rat, the official bird of the city-state of Detroit.
Okay, I gotta know some background on that old nickname (Miss Fork In The Eye). Did she actually manage to stab herself in the eye while trying to eat or something? Did someone attack her with a fork?
It's almost as scary a picture as the awful scene in the novel The Painted Bird when the farmer plucks out someone's eyeballs with a spoon in one of his rages. I forget who. It's been a while since I read it.
We were at some sort of conference and I was sitting next to her at dinner. Everyone else was wrung out and exhausted but she was drinking and wanted to rouse us to party, and she kept whooping and waving her fork so those of us on either side of her had to shield our eyes more than once. She also sings off-key in the cubicle next to me when I'm trying to work. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 28, 2022 10:31:27 GMT -5
Okay, I gotta know some background on that old nickname (Miss Fork In The Eye). Did she actually manage to stab herself in the eye while trying to eat or something? Did someone attack her with a fork?
It's almost as scary a picture as the awful scene in the novel The Painted Bird when the farmer plucks out someone's eyeballs with a spoon in one of his rages. I forget who. It's been a while since I read it.
We were at some sort of conference and I was sitting next to her at dinner. Everyone else was wrung out and exhausted but she was drinking and wanted to rouse us to party, and she kept whooping and waving her fork so those of us on either side of her had to shield our eyes more than once. She also sings off-key in the cubicle next to me when I'm trying to work. Yeesh. Is her idea of being a therapist causing people to need therapy?
In related news: There is a story in my family of "Grandma Myers Spoon Trick". Apparently the old gal had a fresh cup of coffee with a spoon sitting on the saucer below. She was talking to someone and her hand came down on the spoon, causing it to flip up and into the coffee cup, which she proceeded to stir as if she'd planned it all along. We're thrilling people.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 28, 2022 13:48:46 GMT -5
We were at some sort of conference and I was sitting next to her at dinner. Everyone else was wrung out and exhausted but she was drinking and wanted to rouse us to party, and she kept whooping and waving her fork so those of us on either side of her had to shield our eyes more than once. She also sings off-key in the cubicle next to me when I'm trying to work. Yeesh. Is her idea of being a therapist causing people to need therapy?
In related news: There is a story in my family of "Grandma Myers Spoon Trick". Apparently the old gal had a fresh cup of coffee with a spoon sitting on the saucer below. She was talking to someone and her hand came down on the spoon, causing it to flip up and into the coffee cup, which she proceeded to stir as if she'd planned it all along. We're thrilling people.
1) If I could turn someone else's madness into a source of income... Alas and alack, I only have my own to work with here. And as I become a grizzled old lizard, it diminishes. 2) Emotional trauma involving coffee cups and saucers in my late youth/early adolescence has caused me to drink the Elixir of the Bean of Consciousness only out of mugs and disposable cups for the last 39 years. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 29, 2022 16:16:19 GMT -5
Yeesh. Is her idea of being a therapist causing people to need therapy?
In related news: There is a story in my family of "Grandma Myers Spoon Trick". Apparently the old gal had a fresh cup of coffee with a spoon sitting on the saucer below. She was talking to someone and her hand came down on the spoon, causing it to flip up and into the coffee cup, which she proceeded to stir as if she'd planned it all along. We're thrilling people.
1) If I could turn someone else's madness into a source of income... Alas and alack, I only have my own to work with here. And as I become a grizzled old lizard, it diminishes. 2) Emotional trauma involving coffee cups and saucers in my late youth/early adolescence has caused me to drink the Elixir of the Bean of Consciousness only out of mugs and disposable cups for the last 39 years. Saucer trauma? Do tell. |
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Post by Deeky on Apr 13, 2022 21:44:42 GMT -5
I've been eating a lot of cereal lately, mostly buying those little single-serving cups of childhood classics.
After revisiting once-beloved breakfasts, I've concluded Rice Krispies are fucking awful. As are Froot Loops and Apple Jacks.
Cap'n Crunch and Lucky Charms, however, are still aces.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 13, 2022 23:02:01 GMT -5
I've been eating a lot of cereal lately, mostly buying those little single-serving cups of childhood classics. After revisiting once-beloved breakfasts, I've concluded Rice Krispies are fucking awful. As are Froot Loops and Apple Jacks. Cap'n Crunch and Lucky Charms, however, are still aces. Heck yes. Even now at the ripe old age of fifty nine, I occasionally pony up for some Cap'n Crunch or Booberry.*
*Well honestly only about once a year.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Apr 14, 2022 4:57:40 GMT -5
I like Apple Jacks (although I've pretty much given up eating any of that hyper-sugary stuff), but you have to eat them quickly because they get soggy really fast.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 14, 2022 11:05:04 GMT -5
I like Apple Jacks (although I've pretty much given up eating any of that hyper-sugary stuff), but you have to eat them quickly because they get soggy really fast. I haven't seen Apple Jacks down here in ages. Are they commies or something? Not like Russian commies, but like Democrat commies? It's like they're banned in Florida. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 14, 2022 12:32:25 GMT -5
I like Apple Jacks (although I've pretty much given up eating any of that hyper-sugary stuff), but you have to eat them quickly because they get soggy really fast. I was never much of a cereal fan -- I was the sort to empty the box on the floor to get at the toy inside -- but even when I did eat the stuff I would never pour a liquid into it. God, I hate milk. |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 14, 2022 14:50:39 GMT -5
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