December 15, 20169 yr Christmas will no longer be celebrated because it's offensive to someone. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
December 15, 20169 yr Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
December 16, 20169 yr Cognac “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
December 16, 20169 yr The Box of Delights, first a readthrough of the novel then a watch of the old television adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BxxdE9GvZc Edited December 16, 20169 yr by Nonek Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot!
December 16, 20169 yr It ain't Christmas until I see Hans Gruber fall off of Nakatomi Plaza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYQ8bcDaMaI Edited December 16, 20169 yr by Raithe "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
December 17, 20169 yr Nothing, I guess the time off work is nice but it is only two days 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
December 17, 20169 yr I'd say one of the most evocative Christmas mood songs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
December 17, 20169 yr https://americanliterature.com/author/hans-christian-andersen/short-story/the-little-match-girl cont. "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)
December 17, 20169 yr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgP0aUKlmNw oh, and the ref, kiss kiss bang bang and edward scissorhands is all movies we will stop and watch if am seeing 'em on tv. 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)
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