Wow!!!

@george-k Love watching the videos of in process. Sometimes I get to the point after the underpainting (toned canvas, thinned brown oil paint) and just want to call them done because I like them like that.

@aqua-letifer said in Jordan Peterson - Season 4 Episode 1: Matthew McConaughey: @jolly said in Jordan Peterson - Season 4 Episode 1: Matthew McConaughey: MM was filming a movie around Baton Rouge several years ago. He likes boiled crawfish and seafood, and used to frequent a hole-in-the-wall place my SIL and her husband ate at pretty frequently. He kept things very low key, driving around town in an old, beat up pickup, wearing boots, jeans, a t-shirt and a trucker's cap. It was kind of a point of pride in the place, that pretty much everybody knew who he was, but didn't bother him other than to say hello if they walked by his table in the back. I'm guessing that was when he was doing True Detective? Got me. He finally had to quit dropping by, when The Baton Rouge Advocate did a story on him. One more tidbit to the story...When he did Free State of Jones, which was filmed at Clinton, my nephew got a single line bit part, because McConaughey remembered him (my nephew has a pretty impressive red beard). His part was edited out in the final cut and the only appearance my nephew makes is as the body of a dead Union soldier.

@jolly

And Stalin smiled.

Sounds like something right out of Hollywood. ON NOES! SEX! Murder is so much better? People are dumb.

Plus tax & tip

Hyperbole and word salad words have gotten so bad that the new resume rules call for expungement of this kind of crap.

Copper, I'm sorry to hear this. You are such an active guy, I hope that works in your favor. Yes, please keep us posted on how you are doing. Prayers for you, buddy.

I’ll be on season 2 tomorrow night

My teacher used to make us ride heels down without stirrups as part of the warm up and until such time that we all doing it correctly. Since we had earn our stirrups we quickly learned the importance of our upper leg and leaning back.

I would love to see this go to SCOTUS. I understand both sides of the argument - though watching heads explode (on both sides) regardless of how SCOTUS rules.

@jolly said in NYT opinion writer calls for lynching Pence: Basically, y'all are mostly full of crap. But, we knew that, anyway. Not at all - I'd commented a few days ago that Pence has done himself a lot of good over the last couple of months. Anybody that actually thinks that he betrayed America is an idiot, IMHO.

@aqua-letifer said in Twice As Nice: T cell immunity? Got me. I know how to count the things, but I can't give you a dissertation on T-cell memory...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/13/ocasio-cortez-climate-protestors-push-pelosi-962915

An amazing man with an amazing life. I used to enjoy watching him, such a great interviewer. Made it to 87 after smoking 3 packs a day for 30 years. Survives a stroke and then has lung surgery and lymph nodes removed at age 84 and lives another 3 years. Sounds like he definitely died of Covid after defying so many odds.

@taiwan_girl I cannot begin to guess what the US' goal was or has been. I know this much from this country which is a confederation, that the goal varied from province to province. Some like the Atlantic provinces and the northern territories sought to minimize the spread of the virus and eradicate it altogether. In the first wave the Atlantic provinces were quite successful by building a bubble and closing off the provinces to all but essential business traffic into and out of the region. Although the Atlantic bubble was abandoned during the second wave, the Atlantic region has managed to keep cases low by maintaining clear rules for retail businesses, closing schools and enforcing rules limiting public gatherings. The Northwest Territories up north, has thus far been successful at keeping the virus pretty much out of its jurisdiction altogether through strict travel requirements and quarantine measures. Life there is pretty much normal. Elsewhere in the country the goals have been pretty much limited to minimizing the spread through voluntary compliance and short term closures of various retail outlets and schools. Some areas have more stringent measures in place than others and it can even vary among local areas within each province. Here in Alberta for example, you can be fined if you entertain guests in your house unless you live alone and then you are allowed one guest. This rule has been in place since before Xmas. Is it working? Possibly, although the I believe the numbers are coming down more because bars, restaurants and the fact that middle and high schools were closed from December 15 until January 11. Now that the schools have be reopened, I suspect we will see numbers start creeping back up again next week. However if there is one general request across the board, the overall recommendation is avoid all non essential personal travel within the country and abroad. That means have a staycation at home and don't leave the country unless it is absolutely necessary or your job is such that you must travel out your city or abroad for work.

@copper said in I Dunno About This.: Watch the video and make your own decision It is possible that they kept the staff out of the frame while the president posed for pictures. The door opened as soon as they walked to it. https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-were-reportedly-left-waiting-105244319.html LOL . I watched the video. They stood out front celebrating the music and taking it all in and then when the music ended they turned and walked in. The funniest contradiction to an argument I saw all week.

It wasn’t actually aimed at you per se, I just made this one into a pun thread.