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PONDERABLES
Look at her hours again. Damn! Angie is just exhausted.
Shit like this usually drives me nuts...
But then I realized that I am just as guilty when I noticed the alignment of the holes in my wife's computer support.
One of my favorite sayings from my mural days was "It'll look great from 40 feet". And it did. I further rationalize such things with the understanding that I am not in the perfection business. I drilled those holes with the same goal as a kid poking holes in the lid of a Mason jar to keep his insects alive.
Somehow, my life choices have left me with an extremely low boredom threshold. I am ALWAYS doing AT LEAST two things simultaneously. I can't even drive without someone reading me a book.
I'm always amused when someone says something like, "My kid could have painted that." That person has absolutely no idea what they are talking about but feels smug in saying it anyway. They are the same people who disparage opera as just a bunch of people yelling in a foreign language. These people haven't read a book that moved them in their lives. Poetry is completely alien to them. Symphonies are much too complicated for them to be bothered with.
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"I know there is no glory in war, that it is horrible and destructive. I know that Ukraine is managing the information flow and, and propaganda and all that. But these fuckin old dudes kick some fuckin ass. Glory to the heroes."
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A real warrior told me that there were basically two different kinds of combat soldiers: one believed that he would never die, and the other believed that he was just a dead man walking. He said the latter was by far the most dangerous.
See? Pronouns do matter.
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I think my idea of romance stems from 1957 when men were men and women leaned seductively against jukeboxes.
I was just violently air drumming with the blinds open and I looked outside and my Amazon delivery driver was playing air guitar.
GET LEARNT
This is Louise Joy Brown, the first baby ever born after IVF, or in vitro fertilization. Born in 1978, she was known at the time as the world's first "test-tube baby."
Here's what Louise looks like today:
This is the Willamette meteorite, the largest meteorite that's ever been found in the United States:
This is what the FBI's fingerprint files looked like in 1942:
This is one of only two remaining pirate Jolly Roger flags in existence.
There's a city in Russia located next to a gigantic diamond mine.
This is what a real executioner's mask looked like:
The world's oldest diving suit.
This is what the throne of King Charlemagne looked like:
Over the course of almost 600 years, more than 30 leaders of the Holy Roman Empire were officially coronated on this throne.
This is what the inside of Big Ben looks like behind one of its clock faces.
This is Eugene Cernan, who is, as of 2023, the last man to ever walk on the moon:
This is what the inside of a 1970s spacesuit looked like.
I just saw an ad for panties with pockets and that's what I call overcorrecting.
Ignorant poor people: We need money! Money is so important!
Wise rich man: More important than a delicious orange? More important than a beautiful day at the lake house, or a humble Rolls-Royce Phantom?
WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT
That's a brilliant solution to the stinger problem.
French fries and a fried egg at the same time?
Note sign.
Could one of you explain that to me?
This library lets you know exactly how much you're saving by using them
I knew a guy who knew a guy that paid for his entire education by stealing books out of the library. At the University of South Carolina, the rare book section was in the underlit overcrowded basement.
So, this guy placed a table under one window that he knew was concealed by shrubbery and after placing his loot under the bush would close and latch the window, return the table to its proper place and exit the building. Being nighttime meant he could retrieve the books without detection.
It looks like it's being held up by the chimney...maybe.
Canadian "Paper" Airplane
“Are you ready to name the band?”
Dave Matthews: "You bet I am."
Pizza is a lot like sex. If you do it wrong you burn the roof of your mouth.
QUESTIONABLE HUMAN BEHAVIOR
I don't go looking for them but you can't throw a dead cat on the internet without finding a woman showing off her ass.
And a large portion of those poses has the woman manually creating a crease between her ass and her leg.
I'm not entirely sure why they think that is necessary.
Mugging Deterent 101.
Karma.
Although with further viewing I think the white car was stopped to allow the parked car to exit so they could then park there. The asshole is the guy who went around.
I once wrote that when I get to hell the devil will hand me a drywall trowel.
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I watched a guy sheetrock the ceiling in my den all by himself and he made two long T-shaped braces out of 2x4s.
Smile for the camera...
That is another case of the guy running in the only place where the bird is sure to catch him - straight down the middle of the road.
I think we may have found the reason so many cranes fall over.
There are two types of kids...
Make sure you watch the kid exiting the shopping cart.
He died doing what he loved most - shitting himself to death.
Because he could, that's why.
Remember these Ukrainians kicking landmines?
Now we have Ukrainians Land Mine Storage.
I do not have that much faith in people doing their jobs correctly to trust that those mines were properly disarmed.
Every religion has these huge plot holes because the people who thought it up weren't very good writers.
Ladies, if you aren't practicing that every day are you even trying?
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A2: but those posts have a perfectly valid use. Did you notice the easement on each side of the cars parked on the right hand side?
Those posts are placed there exactly as designed, at those exact locations to keep something from happening. What is it?
A5-UKRAINE-There is another side, but, as always you accept the Deocrat/govt narrative without question, viz.,
It is regrettable but true that most of our media and political class are unaware of one of the biggest events in modern European history – that this crisis began with the lawless overthrow of Ukraine's legitimately elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, in 2014. There is little doubt that this coup had Western backing.
Peaceful protests in Kiev had been infiltrated by ultra-Right thugs.
As the Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko wrote in The Guardian soon before the putsch: 'Before the start of full-fledged street violence on 19 January, Western media were naively celebrating the 'European values' of the movement – despite the fact that the xenophobic, homophobic, nationalist Svoboda party had, with even more extreme groups, been involved in Euromaidan – as the protests are known – almost from the beginning.
They were using far-Right slogans, fighting with the police, leading occupations of administrative buildings and dismantling monuments.
Yet neither the incidents of torture, lynching and public humiliation of alleged thieves in the protest camp, nor the beatings of homeless and drunk people nearby, have made it into the international media.'
David Roman, then a correspondent in Kiev for the Wall Street Journal, has since described the events: 'I must correct the impression… that a courageous popular response to armed repression led to victory for the protesters.
On the contrary, on the last days of February 2014, armed thugs – many, if not most, heavily armed far-Right and neo-Nazi activists from western Ukraine – stormed Maidan square, killing and capturing police officers and forcing the hand of a government that, as well as being unpopular, was bankrupt and diplomatically isolated.
Some people… may think this good and proper, so that Ukraine has a pro-EU, pro-American government.
Personally, I was struck by the image of a democratically elected president escaping his country in the middle of the night, chased by hooligans holding Waffen-SS banners.'
In fact the last act of this putsch took place when several EU foreign ministers brokered a deal for early elections and major reforms between Yanukovych and the protest leaders. But the mob rejected it, preferring a violent overthrow to democracy.
It all ended on February 22, with what was left of Ukraine's parliament endorsing the coup You might have thought that Western countries, committed to democracy and the rule of law, would have been shocked and disapproving. Not a bit of it.
Perhaps this was because of the open support for the protesters expressed by several Western political figures.
B9 Big Ben is the name of the bell. The tower is called The Elizabeth II Tower. Its name was changed in 2017 to mark the late Queen’s Jubilee. Prior to that it was called St Stephen’s tower. It’s OK not to know this, 90% of the UK’s population think the tower is called Big Ben.
C8 - I overheard ...... This is in central Hokkaido, one of the coldest areas In Japan. I've been slowly renovating with my buddy since covid and he turned up to this after no one had been since last spring. From what we gather, it froze quicker than it could drain through the cracks of the floor. We had a low water pressure issue that was due to be fixed this trip but looks like the combo of low pressure (it was at a trickle in summer) and and consistent low temps caused the floor to constantly be pooling and freezing to make the world's coldest shitter! Definitely a rare set of events to set this in motion.
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