@jon-nyc said in Fired for being white: Right, but the explicit racial element here makes it different. That's true. They explicitly said that his race is an issue. I wonder what his lawyers think. [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FuHMWRDYFXkauA%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=e99c9ae1e2f9ea37e62be4196aac9366f716004a4b44ef35f7462856306133c5&ipo=images]

@Mik said in On the road again…: To Winston Salem for T-Day at The Princess’s place. I used to be a machine packing. Literally 3 minutes. That muscle has atrophied. As you get older, lots of things atrophy. Have a good trip!

@Aqua-Letifer The fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese in 1941 is, along with the Dieppe raid in 1943, painfully etched into the Canadian national consciousness.

That was fun. Got the first 16 (which I guess is easier since there are larger gaps early on). Some dates I'm surprised I still remembered so clearly, while other events I was WAY off on, such as the founding of the NSA or NATO.

@Horace said in Hollywood Legs Trivia: I'm not aware of ever having heard of her. That makes two of us.

Always eye roll worthy when people who identify with an "oppressed" group get self righteous about tragic stuff that happens to other people who identify with that same group, and they start yelling and screaming, confident and secure that nobody will tell them to shut up while they are having their victim-by-association tantrum. Meanwhile, Pete's life is a privilege-fest, and it always has been but for some sads as a teenager, as he came to terms with his attraction to men. As crosses to bear go, that's barely one of them anymore, except maybe for cowards who make it a much bigger deal than it ever needed to be.

Blasphemy, pure and simple. That'll get a ticket straight to Hell.

@jon-nyc said in Popcorn time - Tax edition: It’s not up to them. Treasury hands them over. Trump was trying to delay until Jan 3. Ah, I was not aware.

@jon-nyc said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...: @Jolly said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...: @taiwan_girl said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...: 700 police injured. At least 11 people killed. $1.2B damage Vs. 140 police injured (I think that's inflated, but let's go with it). 1 person killed (unarmed, violently breaking through a door towards where the congressmen were) $1.5M damage Yes, I can certainly see how those figures are equal.. NNTTM. But keep in mind the macro picture doesn't really matter for any one individual's criminal proceeding, it's about what they themselves did. And the fact that they did this at the Capitol threatening elected officials actually does matter to individual criminal proceedings. English Common Law vs. Napoleonic Code. If we were under NC, that argument would work. English Common Law, not so much.

Spoken like a true partisan hack...

THat's a hell of a dovetail!

Half of Canada's population lives south of the red line. [image: 1669139520619-image.png]

I confess that was me. I call it the blowfish.

@LuFins-Dad said in My stupid middle-aged man project for the week.: If you really wanted to test your skill you would work with stone… Or the Speaker's husband

If they had fathers, those fathers would have told them to look both ways before fleeing from the cops.

@89th said in Minnesoooooooota credit: You're going to make me cry, and I'd rather not have ice on my face today I might be on to something! If you look at the map, there's definitely a correlation between warm weather and fiscal irresponsibility.