Well, ya know - sometimes I think I've just simply lived too long to care about
common sense anymore.
Watch the entire world pulled out from under is fascinating to me more than scary.
I don't know who or what bumped the "reset" button - but it is happening.
The real crazies: Leaders who are so easily living in a Fantasy Bubble; printing more money than has ever existed, pretending we'll go back to 'normal' and worrying about the Stock Market, etc.
Nothing IMHO is ever going to be the same and we may well find it's ALL up for grabs.
So, I have lapsed into a devil-may-care attitude.
Life is now a kind of madcap TV series I can't stop watching.
The characters and episodes are beyond belief and nobody knows who's writing the damn thing.
But the ending? I predict it will be unpredictable.
Schitt's Creek Pt. 2
Just think: all those wack-a-doo Preppers were right all along.
Makes you go, "Hmmmmmmmm..."
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13Call Me MacGyver!
by Terry ini rode my bicycle to the corner gas station / convenience store.i couldn't find my regular mask - so - i improvised.as i walked up to the young lady clerk, her eyes grewwide wide wider and she said:"that's a um very unique face mask you have there, sir.
"i grinned invisibly.
"yep, i actually made it from an old pair of purple boxer shorts.
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Unbelievable!
by Terry inunbelievable!.
i just finished my evening walk.i wait for the breezy part of the afternoon.
after all - it's texas.. quiet out ...until - until it wasn't!i hear horns honking.
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On the previous day ...
_____I RODE MY BICYCLE to the corner gas station / convenience store.
I couldn't find my regular mask - so - I improvised.
As I walked up to the young lady clerk, her eyes grew
wide Wide WIDER and she said:"That's a um very Unique face mask you have there, Sir."
I grinned invisibly. "Yep, I actually made it from an old pair of purple boxer shorts."
"Yes, I guessed as much." Said she.
"Oh? What gave it away?" I queried innocently.
"Well, the tip of your nose is poking out of the pee flap, Sir."
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I accidentally put it on backwards.Call me MacGyver!
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Unbelievable!
by Terry inunbelievable!.
i just finished my evening walk.i wait for the breezy part of the afternoon.
after all - it's texas.. quiet out ...until - until it wasn't!i hear horns honking.
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I see similarities between Aussies and native Texans.
So many non-Texans have moved in over my lifetime (because Texas has no income tax) the rough and tumble nature of our 'aborigines' his diluted in public view.
But 'real' Texans are are genuine species of their own.
I grew up around them and never was one myself. So, I suppose I have more of a spectator's eye.
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Unbelievable!
by Terry inunbelievable!.
i just finished my evening walk.i wait for the breezy part of the afternoon.
after all - it's texas.. quiet out ...until - until it wasn't!i hear horns honking.
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UNBELIEVABLE!
I just finished my evening walk.
I wait for the breezy part of the afternoon. After all - it's Texas.Quiet out ...until - until it wasn't!
I hear horns honking. A regular riot of horns.
Rounding the corner I see what can only be described as
some kind of procession headed toward me.First thought: it must be a funeral.
But heck no!
Every one of the seven cars displayed blinking lights, emergency lights flashing, colored balloons flapping on the radio antenna...Who'd celebrate a funeral??
At the tail end of the procession was a local police car - it too had every damn one of its lights flashing, its horn honking like all the rest!
WTF is going on??
A long shotgun barrel pokes out of the lead car window and a deafening blast echoes through the neighborhood.
I jumped out of my skin...of course - you would too.But the blast was filled - not with buckshot - Nooooo - a showering cascade of multi-color confetti rained down.
What in hell?
I'm so puzzled my head hurts.
"I've got to figure this out." I said to myself.
___From one of the cars a young man jumped out for a minute or so to speak to a neighbor who had been sitting on a lawn chair in his own driveway. I could see them chatting before the kid returned to the car just as the cavalcade of cacophony made the right turn and shambled toward my street.
Once and awhile the shotgun blast and confetti banged aloud and the riot of honking horns magnetically extracted the neighbors out their interior quarantines in stupefied curiosity.
"Yeah - join the club", I mutter to myself.
I suddenly had an idea.
I turned on my heel and headed toward the old fella in his drive-way, stopping short by about twenty feet as I asked him aloud:
"DID THAT GUY you were talking to explain what's happening?"He snuffled and nodded.
"Yeah, Billy Joe used to be my paper boy - he recognized me and stopped to say hello."
I waited ... "A-n-d ?????"
He sat back down in his chair.
"His brother Stevie Ray just got released from County Jail on account of the shut-down and pandemic. The whole family is celebrating", he said.I thanked him and walked away.
None of what he said made a bit of sense. I wasn't satisfied.
Five minutes later I turned my corner and - straightaway- beheld a most unexpected sight!All the cars were jammed together and several police vehicles had them wedged in - hands up - apparently under arrest.
I walked within hearing distance of a police woman. I thought I would hazard a dumb question... more of a statement, really.
"One of the neighbors way back down the street said some guy named Billy Joe had been released from lockup and the family was just celebrating."
Oh the look this policewoman gave me!
A hard expression with radioactive beams piercing my skeletal structure caused me to stiffen with sudden fear.Then, she just sort of laughed spontaneously.
"Released? He broke out and called his daddy to come and get him. The dad rounded everybody else up. It was his mamma's birthday they were celebrating when they got the call."
(I just stood with my jaw open)"That officer with the red face and the handcuffs over there followed them all the way from County Jail. I'm surprised he didn't shoot em' all."
She laughed again and then - just as suddenly - went back to being dead serious.I skedaddled, as we say in Texas.
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The damnedest sight I ever beheld in my life ...
that is, if you don't count the really ugly naked lady who insisted on sunbathing in her backyard as my friend Doug and I mowed her grass for money back in high school.____
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Call Me MacGyver!
by Terry ini rode my bicycle to the corner gas station / convenience store.i couldn't find my regular mask - so - i improvised.as i walked up to the young lady clerk, her eyes grewwide wide wider and she said:"that's a um very unique face mask you have there, sir.
"i grinned invisibly.
"yep, i actually made it from an old pair of purple boxer shorts.
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I RODE MY BICYCLE to the corner gas station / convenience store.
I couldn't find my regular mask - so - I improvised.
As I walked up to the young lady clerk, her eyes grew
wide Wide WIDER and she said:
"That's a um very Unique face mask you have there, Sir."
I grinned invisibly. "Yep, I actually made it from an old pair of purple boxer shorts."
"Yes, I guessed as much." Said she.
"Oh? What gave it away?" I queried innocently.
"Well, the tip of your nose is poking out of the pee flap, Sir."
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Do You Believe Joe Biden Sexually Assaulted A Woman In The 90’s?
by minimus inthere is an allegation floating around saying he assaulted one of his female staffers .
most mainstream media do not report on this claim.
they either don’t believe it or don’t want to believe it.. funny how if it were brett kavanaugh or donald trump, they would be all over it.
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I shall never forget the day my employer marched all of us into a store meeting and compelled the group to sit for a PSA video (prepared by attorneys) about the looming spectre of sexual assault claims sweeping the world of business like a grass fire.
At the end I asked the question: "You mean to tell me that any person is free to interpret any action as a sexual assault and it is now legally exactly that?"
Perception = presumed evidence
That is world apart from any I had previously known.
A failure of rational thought, due process, and common sense - it seemed to me.
However - largely, women didn't agree with my POV. And that, my friends, is where the rubber meets the road. Half the population are women and what they perceive, how they feel, react, and interpret is not-at-all the same as men's.
If you are going to take every woman's word as true - then - by God, do exactly that because if you cherry pick the #MeToo movement all you really have is a Star Chamber.
A court of kangaroos V men.
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Fantastic Interview - Three Hours of wide-ranging topics and incredible insights
by Terry innote: the drawback in posting something like this comes when the folks who follow upand respond did not bother to watch.this is to be expected, of course.
i stuck with the interview because of the fascinating ride it took me on and the out-of-the-box insights i would have missed otherwise.if you make it to the end - it takes a whole nuther level of wildness and explores some pretty rarefied topics.buckle up!joe rogan interviews eric weinsteinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf0_nmaq6ta&t=6165s.
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NOTE: The drawback in posting something like this comes when the folks who follow up
and respond DID NOT BOTHER TO WATCH.
This is to be expected, of course.
I stuck with the interview because of the fascinating ride it took me on and the out-of-the-box insights I would have missed otherwise.
If you make it to the end - it takes a whole nuther level of wildness and explores some pretty rarefied topics.
Buckle Up!
Joe Rogan interviews Eric Weinstein
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Happy 20th Birthday to JWD / JWN
by Simon inas sgt pepper sang, "it was 20 years ago today" ... that i made my first post on my first forum.. i obviously didn't put too much thought into what it should say although i must have burned 45 posts testing things and was too lazy to reset the counter before going live (?):.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/46/welcome.
but somehow, it worked and grew and here we all are, 20 years on.
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Who is still here from the old days?
I remember fondly a host of original members who were bravura posters whose
names I no longer see.
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What's the difference? Million? Billion? Trillion? For the curious among us ...
by Terry inwhat's the difference?
a millionaire, a billionaire, and a trillionaire recognize each other outside an attorney’s office.
chat reveals each of them just signed off on their last will and testament.millionaire: “i feel really good about what i did here today.
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- 1 second is 1 second
- 1 million seconds is 12 days (a vacation)
- 1 billion seconds is 30 years (a career)
- 1 trillion seconds is 30,000 years (longer than human civilization)
“One part per million” is often used by chemists to measure concentrations of substances.
One ppm is like having a presence of 1 second in 12 days.
And a part per trillion?
You got it: 1 second every 30,000 years.
That’s tiny.
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What's the difference? Million? Billion? Trillion? For the curious among us ...
by Terry inwhat's the difference?
a millionaire, a billionaire, and a trillionaire recognize each other outside an attorney’s office.
chat reveals each of them just signed off on their last will and testament.millionaire: “i feel really good about what i did here today.
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WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
A Millionaire, a Billionaire, and a Trillionaire recognize each other outside an attorney’s office. Chat reveals each of them just signed off on their Last Will and Testament.
Millionaire: “I feel really good about what I did here today. I’m having the executor of my estate divide my wealth evenly among the entire population of the United States.”
Billionaire: “Wow - great minds think alike. I just did the same thing.”
Trillionaire: “Unbelievable - me too!”
Nearby, the Receptionist is listening. She can’t help herself - curiosity is killing her.
She interrupts.
“I couldn’t help overhearing. I want to thank each of you for what you’ve done.
I can’t help being curious.
How much will I receive from each of you - if you don’t mind me asking?”Millionaire: “Hmm. There are 330 million people. A million divided by 330 million is …
Well, it looks like you won’t get anything!
3 cents! Not worth the effort of paying.”Billionaire: “Let me see … one billion divided by 330 million is…
Three dollars and three cents.”
Trillionaire: “I’ve just looked at my calculator here and it looks like you’ll get from me …
$3030.30 - Three Thousand and thirty dollars and thirty cents.”
Receptionist is stunned, but she puts on a brave face.
“(Sigh.) I don’t want to sound ungrateful but - you haven’t really done much for my family.”
The three wealthy men look at each other and nod their heads.
“Let’s go back in there and tear up those wills and just spend it on our own families!”
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Note: In the American system, one trillion is one thousand times one billion.
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At $15 an hour, it takes a working stiff 32 years to earn 1 MILLION dollars.At $15 an hour, it takes a working stiff 32,051 years to earn 1 BILLION dollars.
At $15 an hour, it takes a working stiff 32,051,000 to earn 1 TRILLION dollars.
(Wages alone)
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