@Axtremus said in Church attendance in the United States: Maybe 3 out of 4 charge goers put their phones in "airplane mode" when attending church out of respect and consideration for fellow congregants? Nope, but don’t think that doesn’t happen as well. Plus, a not insubstantial number of churchgoers are older and more rural. While @George-K and our other Geezers are pretty hip to technology, they are the exception and not the rule. I had a 2 hour lecture on the pros and cons of geolocation for tracking attendance when I was on the marketing committee for Workhouse Arts. It was very helpful in determining things like where our event attendees were coming from and going to before and after the various events to help us target our outreach, it wasn’t reliable in determining attendance at all.

Thank you, Donald J Trump, for saving my life.

@Mik said in Nature is Metal: https://mossandfog.com/unbelievable-photos-show-snake-fighting-against-blue-heron/?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472 ...after a prolonged 20 minute struggle, the snake finally relents, LOL

I'm sure it was down the road in his plan.

Nobody ever fell out of John Elway’s golf cart and died when Biden was president. Just sayin’

I like that idea. It will work until the scam will pay them more than the prize.

That's cute you used the plural

I left on Monday the 21st and it was cold and rainy. The following Monday when the power went out it was 81/27

that is crazy!!!

@Mik said in A wasted joke: Going to the pod next week to get a mass taken off my right foot. Make sure they mark the correct limb!!! Would not want you "walking" out of there missing an arm!

Kicked off of Global Entry. https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/chris-krebs-cbp-global-entry-revoked?cid=ios_app

@LuFins-Dad Philip IV of France moved the papacy to Avignon in 1309 where it remained until pope Gregory XI moved his Curia back to Rome in the 1377. Then followed the Great Schism which lasted forty years during which there were as many as three popes/antipopes at a time between Rome and Avignon. The mess was never really sorted out until 1417 when Martin V was elected pope and accepted by all parties at the Council of Constance. Perhaps the time has come to repeat The Papal Babylonian Captivity all over again?

Duck eggs. Yum.

Love also how he was asked if they'll get a hearing as the law requires, and Trump said "I'll have to ask the lawyers about that".... maybe a question you should've asked BEFORE deporting folks?

It cost his dad $100K…

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/30/monty-python-holy-grail-50th-phillips-tribunehat-comedy-needs-and-doesnt/ Also, that oh what the hell ending, when the police officers interrupt the action finale. It’s one of the few things in “Holy Grail” that works conceptually, but maybe not beyond that. I remember the groans and confusion in the theater 50 years ago, once that non-ending ending ended the evening. And yet it was a mere scratch. A flesh wound, in a brazen triumph of wordplay, swordplay and what Americans used to call “college humor.” The movie didn’t behave. It barely hung together. But it offered many lessons, beginning with: You don’t need much money to make a weirdly good-looking cheapo costume picture. The “Holy Grail” production budget, around $300,000 U.S. dollars in the year of production in 1974, equates to $2 million today. (Members of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull put up most of the funding, by the way.) Came across this article. I watched the movie for the first time a little bit ago. I thought it was okay, but I like "Life of Brian" better. Maybe because a lot of the cultural references I did not understand. LOL

One of the reasons I stopped partaking over 40 years ago was it just got too strong. Plus, how many times can you ride this ride until it’s no longer fun.

@Doctor-Phibes said in El Salvador declines to return Garcia: Trump's inability to even fake humility is pretty funny. He talks to people as though they're imbeciles and yet he's clearly wrong and uninformed about so many things. And yet here I post on TNCR... [image: giphy.gif]