Cancer Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 I note that this topic is on page 659 in this manifestation of these forums. Looking at posting history and projecting forward, it looks like page 666 is about 9 months away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 Is post padding immoral? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 That's kind of the same as asking if many whole threads here are immoral. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 Is thread hijacking immoral? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 Depends on what you intend to do with it, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaon Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 A lot of people seem to be crazy. Like anti-vaxxers, young earth creationists, and those who think you can cure cancer with crystals. But none of the crazy people think that they are crazy. Their views, in their minds, are perfectly justified. And this worries me. I don’t think I’m crazy either. But if I hold some belief that is objectively crazy, I won’t know it. So sometimes I lie awake at night wondering “What’s my crazy?” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 Black is white and white is black so to be crazy is to be sane and being sane is the “new crazy”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 Band name idea: Pandemic Prayer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaon Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 Pandemic Prayer is an anagram for "Arcane Dyer Pimp" Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 The key is to assume you are crazy, and revel in the aspects in which you are the most extreme in your crazy. For there is no greater joy than getting others to wonder if they are crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaon Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 That's the problem. I don't know where/how I'm crazy. Can't revel in the aspects if I don't know what they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 Pick one and go for it. Remember, we are in a society in which being depressed is normal and being happy is called "manic" and is considered deviant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 On 5/21/2007 at 1:57 PM, Cancer said: Re: A Thread for Random Musings There is no Starbucks in Starbuck, Washington. Of course, it pretty safe to say that for just about all X, there is no X in Starbuck, Washington. Cosmopolis it isn't. Of course it isn't. Cosmopolis is in Grays Harbor County. Starbuck is in Columbia County. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 On 10/8/2007 at 10:09 AM, Cancer said: Re: A Thread for Random Musings THINGS I HAVE LEARNED FROM 20+ YEARS OF TEACHING: When going to the restroom immediately after lecture, wash your hands first to get the chalk dust off of them before going to the head itself. This is critically important when you are wearing navy blue slacks. File under "Things obsoleted by COVID-19". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 "I'm only saying this to help" is the troll's excuse when being called on his/her BS. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 I never find posting in this thread all that satisfying, but it looks like we're not going to get to p. 666 any time soon if I don't pitch in. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 That’s the spirit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 At times I have wondered if the word for "6" in some ancient arcane language was "hastur", and so pronouncing "666" made for bad stuff to happen to the one reciting the number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Look, I'm not saying that we need to kill the stupid people. I'm simply suggesting that if we remove all the warning labels, some of our problems might start to solve themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 The problem is, you may not like the answer/solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 Finally got Quackhell to win the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 My daughter took a video of a small white flower spider drinking from small puddle of pickle juice that had spilled on a kitchen counter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 I've been doing too much stuff about Middle-earth: LOTRO, rpgs, videos. The following anecdote is proof. I was doing some sword practice in the backyard this afternoon. At one point, my wooden sword damaged the top of one of the lawn chairs (Hey, that was my blind spot, okay?). Anyway, my first thought was "Elladan and Elrohir will laugh at me." L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 Easily amused, those two. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 For years now, we have been feeding the local crows. We have a rickety old lawn furniture table standing in the north yard (we refer to it as the "crow offering table"). Stuff which is edible, but no one in the house is willing to eat it (this includes the cats), will get put out on the offering table. Old cat food the cats refuse; the boiled bones/skin/carcass when my wife makes chicken stock; cheese rinds and old lunchmeat we don't trust any more; the quarter-bag of corn chips the ants got into; this sort of stuff. Usually we call them when we set things out. The crows usually come promptly and generally approve of what we set out, though there's seasonal adjustments. My wife saw something on the IntArWebz that bacon grease can be made into manageable bird food by adding raw oatmeal to it, and letting it stand overnight so the grease soaks into the oats. (We keep some bacon grease in the freezer for cooking use, but we tend to generate it faster than we use it, so there's surplus.) Last Friday we had BLTs for dinner (and I prepared the bacon in a pan in the broiler) so we tried the oatmeal thing on the resultant grease. Summer is an interval where the crows generally aren't responsive. Food is generally more available. The young'uns have fledged so the nests are no longer in use, and territories (and I think pair bonds) become fluid. Consequently, it wasn't that big a surprise when they didn't come when I put out the old heavy-foil store-bought pie pan with the bacon/oats stuff in it during that afternoon. Because it was breezy when I put it out, I put a rock in the pan as well so it wouldn't blow away. I left the pan out overnight. Come morning, that pan was clean. There was some grease remaining under the rock in the pan, but otherwise it was as if I'd set a clean pan out there with a rock in it. Obviously ... and no surprise at all ... we have night critters that come and peruse the stuff on the offering table. My guess is raccoons, but rats, cats, possums, even coyotes are possible. I think coyotes would have made off with the pan so I doubt the coyote hypothesis. Makes me want to set up a nighttime camera and leave another pan out to see who comes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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