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@LuFins-Dad said in Will we have a fee election in 28? Or even 26?:

Poll taxes can make a comeback!

For the immediate future, will he accept the results of the Canadian election? He's said that the Canadians really want to be part of the US, however this seems a tad controversial, so it's just conceivable that he could be mistaken. Hard to countenance such a thing, I know.

@Mik said in India Pakistan heating up.:

Some friends.

I wonder how much cultural blindness had to do with many of the partitions of de-colonization. Seems like a great idea to the admittedly ethnocentric Brits, never considering whether it would be accepted by the partionees.

Well, they tried the same thing with Ireland in 1921, and that worked a treat, so what could possibly go wrong?

I think it's fair to say the Brits made a bit of a mess of things. If you look at the map in the 60's, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and West Pakistan look absolutely ridiculous. I had some friends who were Kashmiri Pakistanis, and they would regularly harangue me about this as though I was personally responsible.

It's Friday. I have some of this. I'm going to get some more on the way home.

Kasper the unfriendly Ghost?

@taiwan_girl said in The Never-ending Grift:

The price of Donald Trump's cryptocurrency has soared after the US president promised to host two special events for its top investors.

It's the Canadian fentanyl that puzzles me. I'm pretty sure that more drugs come into Canada from the US than vice versa. Or maybe he's concerned about the balance of the drug trade?

Or maybe he's just full of shit. Paging William of Ockham?

I think it's fair to say we can expect a right old pantomime.

This time around I have consistently underestimated what an utter cock he was going to be, based on the first time it wasn't actually as bad as I was expecting.

So, I imagine it will be bloody awful.

@jon-nyc said in These are the most chaotic airports in the U.S.:

JFK and Newark aren’t exactly a joy to get to.

Right, but there's the bonus that at the end of the drive that you get to leave New York or NJ. Is that second place a real state or is it like a colony of NY? I'm never sure.

I think Logan would score much higher if they considered the drive to and from the airport as being part of the overall experience.

Finally.....

Do you get a free copy of Brave New World with every kid?

@Klaus said in Let’s do Pope odds:

Who would Trump nominate to be pope? Mike Lindell, maybe?

Paula White. Pope Karen I.

@jon-nyc said in Funny Pics:

Come again?

Presumably he wears all that product to ensure that he looks really masculine.

He seriously said that as a kid he'd never heard of rheumatoid arthritis?

As a kid he was taking and dealing cocaine and heroin. And he's worried about fluoride in the water.

It wouldn't make any difference what they find, conspiracy theories are a modern day religion to some people. I was reading a Twitter thread about Pope Francis, and there was a bunch of idiots convinced of foul play due to bruising on his face. FFS, the guy was 88 years old and had double pneumonia.

Political pandering to morons. What a world.