Ha. Yes we’ve been home a week. Looks like we timed our trip well. Finally.

@doctor-phibes said in Better: What a clueless twat. Even though I'm reading, rather than hearing this, somehow, D'Oh Phibes saying this is just so much better than anyone else on this forum.

@lufins-dad said in Build your own..: @xenon said in Build your own..: I think we're seeing a few of these "echo chambers" forming. My worry is that they're superseding national identity in terms of how meaningful they are to people + gaining enough engaged adherents to truly be a nation. As I've harped on before - the internet is potentially a printing-press level disruption to politics. I think we're all in agreement about what the internet has meant in terms of not just political but social upheaval as well... As far as the whole right-wing social media thing, here's the primary issue... Right-wingers suck at entertainment. I mean, the Tim Allen show was pretty decent but I don't want EVERY FRIGGING VIDEO/MEME/COMMENTARY to have a fvcking political or social bent. Sometimes I just want to watch a squirrel be catapaulted hundreds of yards on a home-made squirrel flinger. I don't need somebody commenting about how it can also be used on illegal immigrants at the same time... Yes, mainstream media puts all kind of social and political stuff in their movies and shows, but at least they don't star Kirk Cameron and Kevin Sorbo... You mean like the Dixie Chicks and George Clooney and Robert DeNiro and all the others?

Won't make much of a coat.

@lufins-dad said in The Vegan Argument: I eat a lot of vegetarian meals (I won't go so far as to call them vegan). If needed, I could go vegan. I might grumble about missing this item or that item, but I would generally get by okay. The one thing that I would never do, however, is eat a plant-based item pretending to be meat... I don't mind a grilled vegetable patty in place of a burger. Portabella burger? Delicious! Miracle Meat? Don't shit on my shoes and tell me it's Shinola... I don't care how it tastes...Tofurkey? Get out of my face... Me too. Portabella burgers rock. My favorite pizza is Margarita. Generally, just let it be what it is - don't try to combine it with all sorts of other crap. For instance, I like tofu. If cooked correctly and of good quality it can be delicious.

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@klaus said in Zemmour's speech: I guess it also resonates with what many conservatives in the US are feeling. Yes I think that is exactly the message needed to get elected here.

Not the job I'd want. Hell, I get tired of brushing and flossing myself.

There's a great pun in there somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can find it.

Does that guy have a radio talk show?

Vaccine mandates. Forcing dock workers et al to work 24-7. And the funniest one of all, Biden's crackdown on global corruption. Really. You can't make this up. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/12/06/joe-biden-anti-corruption-strategy/5551638795405/

@89th said in Time for some time perspective: We are closer to Tyrannosaurus Rex than T-Rex was to the Brontosaurus. Speak for yourself, fatso.

@aqua-letifer said in The folding electric bike: @doctor-phibes said in The folding electric bike: What we really need to cycle to work is either genuine bike paths, or a lot less cars. I'd say only sometimes! D.C. is one of the greatest and safest cities to ride a bike in precisely because of the congestion. There's a critical point at which the traffic starts to work in a cyclists' favor. Yeah, fair point. The worst kind of cycling is in busy, fast-moving, traffic (i.e. 30mph and above), which is what I'd have to face.

If you want to get a ton of responses on YouTube, one of the best way to do it is to find 10 things that really geeky people like, and say you don't like them.

lolz

They should've named the article "Video of Kavanaugh's assault has been found!" which would improve the chance of it being read. Anyway... call me a simpleton but if they need a "line in the sand", one could argue when the heartbeat is detected instead of the pain/viability line in the sand.

Saw a reindeer up close the other day, forgot they have webbed feet.

Projectile coffee.

I used to play in the street from time to time. Nobody ever accused me of miming to a really good player