vxbush 12/22/2020 5:19:12 AM

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Rats. My chance to control the universe by controlling the petty breakfast picture has been snatched away. I shall now petition that all blogs everywhere make me their superuser. 

/channeling certain protesters

Kosh's Shadow 12/22/2020 5:48:11 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

I  can give you editor role which allows you to post threads. 

doppelganglander 12/22/2020 5:57:45 AM

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vxbush 12/22/2020 6:09:42 AM

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In #2 Kosh's Shadow said: I  can give you editor role which allows you to post threads. 

Oh,  no, not unless you need another admin user. I'm trying to channel my inner BLM protester, demanding irrational rights. 

lucius septimius 12/22/2020 7:42:00 AM

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vxbush 12/22/2020 7:49:23 AM

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In #5 lucius septimius said: Octopi punch fish just to be assholes peacefully protesting.

Fixed. 

Kosh's Shadow 12/22/2020 7:58:46 AM

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In #6 vxbush said: In #5 lucius septimius said: Octopi punch fish just to be assholes peacefully protesting. Fixed. 

Tentacled Lives Matter!

JCM 12/22/2020 8:02:49 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 5:

That is just Octopus version of ... GET OFF MY LAWN!

vxbush 12/22/2020 8:22:22 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 12/22/2020 8:26:48 AM

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The Unknown Citizen
---WH Auden

(To JS/07 M 378
This Marble Monument
Is Erected by the State)

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports of his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of the old-fashioned word, he was a saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.
Except for the war till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.
Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his views,
For his union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report of his union shows it was sound)
And our Social Psychology workers found
That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day,
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.
Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,
And his Health-card shows that he was once in hospital but left it cured.
Both Producers Research and High–Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Installment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A gramophone, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of the year;
When there was peace he was for peace; when there was war he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation,
And our teachers report he never interfered with their education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

doppelganglander 12/22/2020 9:02:41 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 10:

I haven't read that poem in ages. It's more true now than ever.

JCM 12/22/2020 9:18:25 AM

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$900 B for Covid, don't believe a word of it.

What it really is....

Pork, pork and more pork.

JCM 12/22/2020 9:26:08 AM

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Reply to JCM in 12:

Omnibus spending bill.

Which means above and beyond the "normal" budget or continuing resolutions.

JCM 12/22/2020 9:33:18 AM

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And the $900 B isn't Covid relief... it has pork pork pork.

Everything is a scam.

buzzsawmonkey 12/22/2020 9:34:12 AM

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Reply to JCM in 14:

The question is, when will Congress adjourn?

If it adjourns during the 10-day period that the president has for signing the bill, Trump's simply failing to sign the bill will cause it to be pocket-vetoed.

Thus, if Congress adjourns over Christmas/New Year's, and Trump simply does not sign it, it's dead.

lucius septimius 12/22/2020 9:34:22 AM

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JCM 12/22/2020 10:59:13 AM

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Saw this meme floating around and just had to comment on the ignorance.

Why don't billionaires invest their billions in their companies.

Um, those billions are the company......

No wonder we can't have rational discussions.

Occasional Reader 12/22/2020 11:33:13 AM

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In #17 JCM said: No wonder we can't have rational discussions.

See, also, AOC, secure in her belief that having helped keep Amazon HQ out of New York, that meant the tax breaks NY had been offering could now be "spent" on social justice goodies.  

lucius septimius 12/22/2020 11:42:59 AM

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Occasional Reader 12/22/2020 11:51:00 AM

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In #19 lucius septimius said: They immediately sat down to play chess.

Trivia: “Chess” is slang in Lima, Peru for saying (more or less) “motherf**ker”.

lucius septimius 12/22/2020 11:56:26 AM

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In #20 Occasional Reader said: “Chess” is slang in Lima, Peru for saying (more or less) “motherf**ker”.

I'll probably withhold that information from the boys for the time being.

Occasional Reader 12/22/2020 12:28:31 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 21:

Seems wise.

lucius septimius 12/22/2020 2:05:27 PM

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PaladinPhil 12/22/2020 3:56:02 PM

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One more day of work than I am almost off for an entire week. Think the store manager likes what I have been doing on the front door. Province goes into lockdown on Boxing day, and everything unimportant (range for example *sob*), is shutting down. School for the Squire starts up on the 11th. His mother will be looking after him for an extra week thank god.

The idiocy out there is starting to anger me and cause me no minor grief. Been sleeping a lot more than I usually do.