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I'm seeing increasing resistance and resentment to the overplayed hand here.

Found this: "They are Ghana's dancing pallbearers, a crew of funeral performers who have long sought to make mourners grin through grief."

Okay, I can dig that.

I don't hate them anymore.

@Mik said in *Trump!* on the window:

@Aqua-Letifer said in *Trump!* on the window:

Trumps don't fly through the window....
Beans don't burn on the grill...

"Took a whole lotta lying..
Just to get up that hill"

Now we're up in the big leagues
Gettin' all tan and fat.
As long as we live, it's all for me, baby
There ain't nothin wrong with that.

@xenon said in Defund the FBI:

@Loki Broaden the aperture a bit. The FBI seems to suck. Intelligence seems to suck. The generals in the military seem to suck.

There’s always the CDC....

@jon-nyc said in Can anyone explain the 19?:

This reminds me Rush Limbaugh once said the coronavirus is the common cold and we get coronaviruses every year, he went on to say this was the 19th coronavirus hence the name.

I think that was about the time the only First Lady who’s tits I’ve seen gave him a medal.

Good thing Michael Michelle didn't give him a medal then because I do t think (s)he had that part of the operation done.

Same with beef. I'd kill for some nice crispy rim fat on a steak. I remember that with great fondness.

Nice sentiment but my guess is the choptards won’t vote.

@Doctor-Phibes said in A Minnesota Neighborhood Testing the “No Police” Policy:

@Jolly said in A Minnesota Neighborhood Testing the “No Police” Policy:

@Doctor-Phibes said in A Minnesota Neighborhood Testing the “No Police” Policy:

I know a couple of people in the UK who are well-lefty and very right-on, and have actually given up on the idea of conventional careers, and run a charity cafe in the middle of town, and basically get nothing at all financially.

Of course, it's arguable whether this was a deliberate sacrifice or not, or whether they just couldn't hack it in the corporate world, but the guy, who used to be a friend of mine (we lost touch ages ago), is very academically gifted, but has always been very progressive - at least, for the last 30 odd years.

There's a tendency to dismiss these people as losers rather than somebody who has self-sacrificed. Hard to know, really.

Get rid of all the social programs that allow them to live their lifestyle at the expense of others, and see how that rock flies...

You could say that about any number of people who do 'good works'. Quite a few who don't, come to that. A priest lives at the expense of others, and is exempt from paying taxes like the rest of us.

No, priests are paid a salary for work performed, and they pay income tax on their earnings just like anyone else.

Funny, I just mentioned her earlier in the Holy Cow thread.

@Improviso said in Travesty:

@xenon said in Travesty:

The fact that the case got dropped doesn't really change my opinion of the public facts about him.

I'm sure that will keep him awake at night.

You take that back. He loves and respects me.

@brenda said in Rabbits to the front, turkeys to the rear!:

Your Jack Russell knows exactly how to fix both of these problems, yet you hold him back from his destiny.

I'm afraid my daughter's heart would break. She's been trying to persuade us to adopt him. I suspect the local coyote may adopt him first, but I'm saying nothing.

@Jolly said in Brenda Bait:

Ship it?

I thought you might drive it home...🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜

Sure! Let me know when you've bought it, and I'll drive it back to Minnesooooooota!

We had a cool, wet Spring.

Now it is hot and wet.

The sun is hot

And in 6 months it will be 3 million miles closer.

@LuFins-Dad said in That Bites:

So the tick wasn't even tested. Apparently it was a type of tick with no known disease associations... It was just a skin infection caused by the bite and me not keeping it covered appropriately. (I really thought that 4 days was good enough)

Yay! I love a happy ending.

Looking forward to pics of your yard project, btw. 🙂

@Doctor-Phibes said in Gibson guitar question:

@Rainman said in Gibson guitar question:

Somewhat off-topic, but related.

If you store a guitar for years, should you loosen the strings so there is not continuous tension on the neck?

We've got an hmmm, not sure but it was expensive when I bought it for my daughter. Stuffed in a closet somewhere around here.

I think you should loosen the strings a little - maybe 1 or 2 half-steps. You don't want to remove all the tension.

Thanks, Phibes. I need to see if I can find it. Decrease tension by a whole step each string. Got it, thanks again.

@Klaus said in How to Make a Thumb Piano:

Well, it does sound better than Jon's piano.

When you play it anyway.

Thanks for the PSA, Larry, though the whole time I was reading it I was sure it was leading to a punny lunch line,

Yes, we need an idiot in the house.