Raithe Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Oh the times they do change... 4 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicMage117 Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 Just what do you think you're doing?! You dare to come between me and my prey? Is it a habit of yours to scurry about, getting in the way and causing bother? What are you still bothering me for? I'm a Knight. I'm not interested in your childish games. I need my rest. Begone! Lest I draw my nail... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 Hero dog saves her family from a gas leak: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2018/11/23/german-shepherd-smells-gas-saves-longneck-familys-life/2081365002/ But there is a twist: one of their other dogs CAUSED the gas leak by being a bad dog! 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Fun fact: Mars is a planet inhabited entirely by robots! "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Veterans "offended" by rap star wearing medals and "dress uniform" https://pagesix.com/2018/11/26/the-diplomats-anger-vets-after-wearing-military-medals-on-stage/ OK, first off that is not a uniform dress or otherwise. It's a jacket with patches sewn on it. Second, f-----g get over yourselves. WTF do you care what he wears? We all REALLY need to mind our own f----g business and not get into a snit over inconsequential BS. Besides, haven't we learned by now how to make something stop? Ignore it. The bigger deal you make the more it will happen. Case in point: "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 MIT Flies Model Airplane Powered by the Blue Glow of Electric Fields and Ionic Winds https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/mit-flies-model-airplane-powered-electric-fields-and-ionic-winds-180970877/ aside: gd and others interested in nonfiction might want to look at the main smithsonian page as their choices for best history books o' 2018 has been posted. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 I'm falling behind I guess. I've never read any of these. Heck I've only heard of a few of them. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/best-history-books-2018-180970864/ "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 So Guard Dog, you seem to read a lot history books. What have been the most revelatory and eye opening reads that you have encountered over the years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Well, I learned something I didn't know from all of them. I have been disabused of notions I've taken for truth and had other ideas I'd always assumed were true confirmed. One thing I'd say has really changed is my understanding (or lack thereof) of the US Civil War. I've always been fascinated by it and I have read extensively about it. But a lot of what i thought I "knew" was wrong. I was like many people in these parts a proponent of the "lost cause" narrative. The whole "slavery was the cause but it wasn't really about slavery" that you still hear a lot. Well, it was. Not everyone holding a rifle was fighting for slaves, neither to free them nor keep them. But none of them would have been there otherwise. It's also common to paint the Union as the "good guys" and the Confederates as the "bad guys". That is also a incorrect reasoning. There was plenty of virtue and brutality to go around. No one had a monopoly on either. Actually the biggest thing that all my reading has impressed upon me (now that I think about it) is how easily one thing or another might have happened that would have completely changed every event after. Sometimes it's as simple as the decision of one man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 seeing as how it were already eclipsed by new stories, we will also link the smithsonian scholars favorite books o' 2018... o' which we have only read one title. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-scholars-pick-their-favorite-books-2018-180970823/ am sad to say we were not a fan of there there. am thinking the one thing we took away from the recent novel by tommy orange is what an amazing achievement were as i lay dying by faulkner. one book is a somewhat chaotic collection o' tales o' woe as told by instantly forgettable narrators. the other is art. wanted to like there there. got a recommendation from a person we respect. were a punishing read, and not simple 'cause it were unapologetic and predictable bleak. skip it. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Oh don't mind the shrieks and squeals coming from the dressing room afterward. 2 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 https://globalnews.ca/news/4703769/cow-knickers-slaughterhouse/ The Cow King is real. 3 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orogun01 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Oh don't mind the shrieks and squeals coming from the dressing room afterward. It saves them a bikini wax. I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 https://globalnews.ca/news/4703769/cow-knickers-slaughterhouse/ The Cow King is real. I know how this story ends https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit. Dirtbags manage to smother yet another innovation. smh. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleArmadillo0 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Today I learned that Kouta Hirano, the creator of Hellsing really likes super smash brothers brawl. So much so he created a manga that parody his own work from Hellsing, specifically the speech I love war into I love brawl. I love brawl. It is a bit long so I made it collapsible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 As we are sliding into the season of hearing all those songs... 6 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 (edited) Didn't that exact same argument come up here on these forums? Spider milk? Edited November 29, 2018 by ShadySands Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Halsbart Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Spider milk? I sense a new origin story for Spider Man... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 https://womenintheworld.com/2018/11/30/dominatrix-specializes-in-turning-white-right-wing-men-into-socialists/ British Dom (who says she is a socialist) uses her sexuality to turn her clients into socialists “From the outside you’d never know what the dynamic was between us – we just look like two ordinary people having a coffee,” she explains. One client claimed “he was a ‘female supremacist’ and a Tory. I found that such a disgusting contradiction, I couldn’t let him get away with it. Submissives often say that all they want to do is make their mistress happy, and what could make me happier than him becoming a socialist?” Maybury has documented these exchanges in a novella, Dining with Humpty Dumpty – “about 75% of the book is real, the rest is fictionalised” – and has since developed her dominatrix work into a unique type of performance art. “I just realised I can use my job as a dominatrix to be a version of a corporate creative, like an art director, where the interns do all the work. The idea is they make the work for me and then I make the money from it when it is sold.” : LOL I think she was absent the day they taught socialism in school! 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Halsbart Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 (edited) https://womenintheworld.com/2018/11/30/dominatrix-specializes-in-turning-white-right-wing-men-into-socialists/ British Dom (who says she is a socialist) uses her sexuality to turn her clients into socialists “I just realised I can use my job as a dominatrix to be a version of a corporate creative, like an art director, where the interns do all the work. The idea is they make the work for me and then I make the money from it when it is sold.” : LOL I think she was absent the day they taught socialism in school! Busy, make-work jobs are everywhere these days. I wish I could get paid for breaking windows. k, here's something I found: Edited December 1, 2018 by Cpl Halsbart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 Arizona man accidentally shoots himself in the groin in Walmart So, a man in the meat section of Walmart.. shot himself in the head of his meat section... I was very tempted to put this in the funny things thread instead. "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Halsbart Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 I couldn't find a quotes topic, so I'll put this here: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orogun01 Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 I couldn't find a quotes topic, so I'll put this here: It is both inspirational and practical as those severed hands will help nourish the survivors until they're found. 5 I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 Cosmic Airburst May Have Wiped Out Part of the Middle East 3,700 Years Ago. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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