@Rainman said in Tonight's Dinner - It's springtime, right?:

Klaus, sorry, that was insensitive.
My! That looks good!!

More courses upcoming. So nice to eat decent dinner without having to cook.

It's POC and/or URM now, man, get with it.

@taiwan_girl I'm not a sociologist, but I play one on TNCR, so I agree with your assessment and think both the analogy and the reason for it are accurate.

@89th said in FFS:

This reminds me, @George-K if you watch The Shield (TV series), expect a little police brutality.

Thanks for the trigger warning! I'll cuddle up with my blankie before I dive into it!

Ole asked Lena if she would try the Wheelbarrow position. She said "yes, but you've got to promise me two things: if I tell you it hurts you've got to stop, and you've got to promise not to drive me passed my momma's house..."

@Aqua-Letifer said in Northwestern transplants a woman who’s lungs were destroyed by Covid:

@Horace said in Northwestern transplants a woman who’s lungs were destroyed by Covid:

Which, by the way, does not speak to world class intellectual honesty and integrity. Just so you know.

Not to get involved but I read that and thought that that would be a rather weird metric to use for internet boards generally, and definitely so for TNCR.

Yes, it is a weird bar.

I remember her back in the day. She had a globe as her avatar.

Sad news indeed. 😞 I hope she's holding up okay.

I don't think she has mental health issues. She's really a very nice lady, and she relies very much on her church for emotional and other support. We try and help with her gardening and what-not, but the church is giving her a lot of help. TBH, I don't know whether it was a preacher who told her this, or just somebody at the church. The church seems a little 'out there' by British standards, at least, but I think they're good people.

I see her reaction in much the same way as I saw my dad's reaction to people coming to the door asking for donations. As he got older, he became less able to distinguish between genuine charities and the less genuine variety. I'd go as far as to say that genuine charities knocking on doors asking the very elderly for money gets pretty questionable, but that's another issue.

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@George-K said in They Knew Each Other:

This is not the Floyd you're looking for:

A man who worked at the same club with George Floyd and Derek Chauvin – and previously told CBS News the two had "bumped heads" – changed his story Wednesday, saying he had mistaken Floyd for another unnamed African-American employee.

David Pinney told CBS News he worked at the same club where Chauvin and Floyd were employed to provide part-time security. Chauvin is the former police officer who is charged in Floyd's death.

In an interview with CBS News, parts of which aired Tuesday, Pinney had described a tense relationship between Chauvin and a man who he said was Floyd, and said that the two knew each other "pretty well."

On Wednesday, Pinney told CBS News in an email he had confused Floyd with someone else: "There has been a mix up between George and another fellow co-worker," he wrote.

Huh!

What people need to realize is that the past was filled with normal people just like the present. If any of our virtuous folk of today would like to know how they would have thought and acted in any given historical culture, they only need to learn how an average person thought and felt, in that culture at that time.

Tomb of the unknown sjw

@Copper said in How about that market?:

@Mik said in How about that market?:

How are your investments looking? I’m only down 3.6% from my high.

How is that looking today?

Lots of stocks on sale today. Might be further discounted in the coming weeks, too.

Those look fantastic. I assume it's an intentional foodie thing to not make them round?

@Mik said in Bunker Boy:

@jon-nyc said in Bunker Boy:

Yeah, Mik, that would be the normal view.

I think if Trump hadn’t responded to the story with ‘no no no I was just inspecting it’ there would have been no comment.

It’s Trump’s blaring insecurities that are being mocked, not the fact that he was in the bunker.

Can you honestly blame the man with the treatment he has received?

Yes. When you say that Floyd, while dead, would be happy because employment numbers are good, you're trolling about half of the American public. So yeah it's his fault he's hated so much.

@Improviso said in Gone is "Gone With The Wind.":

The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings."***

These days, anybody committed enough to counter-culture causes that they'd drop everything to devote their lives to fight the system, have convenient mobs they can join instead. They don't have to risk anything, and they even gain social credibility among their friends and coworkers! This is a wonderful efficiency our modern society has built into itself. Now anybody can be a courageous superhero, worthy of having books written about them, just by joining a mob!

@89th yeah that’s what I remembered

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