An Amazing Piece by Antoine Dufour on a Gorgeous Guitar: “30 Minutes in London” - «The Tree» Guitar

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Here’s me playing a song called 30 Minutes in London on a Beauregard OM guitar belonging to Jamie who has ordered this wonderful custom guitar with the back and sides made from «The Tree», a very special Mahogany. I recorded this with Ernie Ball Aluminum/Bronze strings, no pickup used and using an MS microphone placement: Royer R10 as M and a Charter Oak E700 as the S.
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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 12:33:23pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 9, 2018 • 12:34:21pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Runaway clown nose!

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KGxvi  Sep 9, 2018 • 12:36:55pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

I want to hear either the 911 call on that or at least the police scanner

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Alephnaught  Sep 9, 2018 • 12:37:18pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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ROVER!

Enter Rover

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2018 • 12:57:27pm

HAPPY & SWEET NEW YEAR

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:03:03pm

HBO has a special they occasionally run about Latin American influence in America. It was mainly focused on music. There were a few things I found interesting in it. The first is that the United States is now the second largest Spanish speaking country in the world.

The second piece was about José Feliciano, he of “Feliz Navidad” fame. He was born blind but became a really good guitarist. His first hit was a cover of the Doors “Light My Fire” with a Latin sound. From what they described, it was a big hit. So big, that eventually, he was asked to perform the National Anthem at a baseball game. When he performed that, though, also with a Latin sound, he was blacklisted. Radio stations stopped playing his music up until “Feliz Navidad”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:07:24pm

re: #6 Belafon

People were speaking Spanish in large parts of America long before anybody spoke English there.

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Citizen K  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:11:14pm

The disingenuousness remains exhausting.

The problem isn’t that we’re not listening. It’s that we’re told we have to listen at the expense of every single other viewpoint, ever, or we’re somehow ‘stifling free speech’ or proving ‘why Trump won’.

Meanwhile, left-wing/Democratic opinion is almost wholly erased from coverage at this point except to erect strawmen. And it continues to fucking happen.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:11:37pm

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

People were speaking Spanish in large parts of America long before anybody spoke English there.

And English people restricted a lot of movement here for a while and English grew much faster than other languages, but there are now a lot of people here who claim Spanish as their first or second language.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:12:33pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:13:45pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

But will anyone be able to make sense of them?

//

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:14:16pm

re: #8 Citizen K

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:14:44pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

But will anyone be able to make sense of them?

//

well, the moron certainly won’t be writing the answers

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:15:46pm

The best way my home town dealt with the KKK was the city saying that they can’t stop it - first amendment - and the citizens protesting enough that the KKK decided it wasn’t a good idea.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:17:55pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, the moron certainly won’t be writing the answers

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, perhaps?

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steve_davis  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:24:11pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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“I am not a number….”

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:30:46pm
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sagehen  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:32:16pm

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

People were speaking Spanish in large parts of America long before anybody spoke English there.

So you’re telling me Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, San Antonio, San Jose, San Bernardino, Santa Rosa, Playa del Rey, Miramar, Santa Clara, Santa Barbara, San Jacinto, Colorado, Nevada, the Sierras, Arizona… it wasn’t just some weird marketing affectation that got them all Spanish names?

Funny, that.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:33:55pm
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b_sharp  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:34:21pm

re: #18 sagehen

I see sarcasm is still strong at LGF.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:35:48pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:36:00pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:37:06pm

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

People were speaking Spanish in large parts of America long before anybody spoke English there.

People were speaking Spanish here before the United States even existed.

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Citizen K  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:37:09pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

The default assumption of good faith extended toward anyone spouting the right-wing line, while simultaneously treating any critique from the left with contempt and suspicion by default has got us where we are today. The constant rewarding of bad faith has empowered the worst of us into a self-feeding system that I’m not sure we’re going to break out of within my lifetime.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:37:43pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Too alarmist?

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:38:47pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

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sagehen  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:47:46pm

re: #23 goddamnedfrank

People were speaking Spanish here before the United States even existed.

en.wikipedia.org
Eva Longoria’s Finding Our Roots results:

According to research done in 2010 by Harvard professor and Faces of America host Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Longoria’s oldest identifiable Spanish immigrant ancestor is her ninth great-grandfather, Lorenzo Suárez de Longoria (b. Oviedo, 1592), who immigrated to the Viceroyalty of New Spain (modern-day Mexico) in 1603. His family was based in a small village called Llongoria, Belmonte de Miranda, Asturias, Spain. Longoria is the Castellanized form of this Asturian-language surname.

In 1767, her seventh great-grandfather received almost 4,000 acres (16 km2) of land along the Rio Grande in a land grant from King Charles III of Spain. The family retained this land for more than a century. After the US-Mexican border was moved southwards in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, the land ended up on the American side of the border. Her family had to deal with the influx of United States settlers following the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.[110]

For comparison purposes… the Mayflower was 1620.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:50:43pm

re: #18 sagehen

So you’re telling me Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, San Antonio, San Jose, San Bernardino, Santa Rosa, Playa del Rey, Miramar, Santa Clara, Santa Barbara, San Jacinto, Colorado, Nevada, the Sierras, Arizona… it wasn’t just some weird marketing affectation that got them all Spanish names?

Funny, that.

Tucson, Casabel, Sonoita, Agua Prieta, Santa Rosa, Mescal, Ajo, Casa Grande…all just placeholders until White People could rename them

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littlehound  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:50:57pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

*stops lurking at lgf for a minute*

I love that this video is making the rounds again. I was there when that giant red ball broke loose back in 2015. Once we were able to corral it and confirmed no one was hurt, we could laugh at the ridiculousness of it. What you can’t see on the video was that it was pouring rain.

redballproject.com

I may not post much but I appreciate this online community so much.

*goes back to lurking*

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:51:22pm

How are these even a thing I don’t get it!

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wrenchwench  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:51:44pm

re: #27 sagehen

Where I’m sitting, it was New Spain before it was New Mexico. It was Mexico for about 20 years in between.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:52:00pm

Lots of people understand that there is a big difference between Freedom of Speech and the right to a media platform but continue to blur that distinction for polemic purposes.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:55:54pm

re: #27 sagehen

I have friend whose family can be traced back to early citizens of San Antonio, before there was a Texas. He didn’t know Spanish until he learned it to communicate with his fiance’s family.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:55:54pm

re: #30 goddamnedfrank

How are these even a thing I don’t get it!

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A British friend visiting in the 90s was shocked by the signs on people’s lawns here about newly arrived family members. She thought it weird to not be private about these things.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 9, 2018 • 1:58:33pm

re: #34 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

A British friend visiting in the 90s was shocked by the signs on people’s lawns here about newly arrived family members. She thought it weird to not be private about these things.

In Germany it is not uncommon to celebrate the birth of a child by hanging baby clothes out on the lawn.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:01:18pm
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:01:20pm

re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In Germany it is common to celebrate the birth of a child by hanging baby clothes out on the lawn.

That seems really weird to me. It’s all about what you’re used to.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:02:04pm

Regarding the French Open final shenanigans, strong evidence that what happened to Serena absolutely was motivated by sexism.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:04:23pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

I do not comprehend at all why the media thinks it’s so vital to give equal voice to both sides. When one side is a bunch of hate-mongering, racist, sexist, misogynist assholes who enable literal Nazis and Klansmen, why should they get equal time with anybody sane and rational?

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:09:17pm

re: #39 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I do not comprehend at all why the media thinks it’s so vital to give equal voice to both sides. When one side is a bunch of hate-mongering, racist, sexis, misogynist assholes who enable literal Nazis and Klansmen, why should they get equal time with anybody sane and rational?

It’s not like anyone needs to see 31 interviews of Steve Bannon in all the major newspapers and political cable shows. He’s not going to say anything we haven’t already heard; he’s a one-note fascist.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:16:10pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:16:34pm

re: #37 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

That seems really weird to me. It’s all about what you’re used to.

we lived in a village of 180 souls, I just went and tacked up a notice on the message board that our we had had a daughter and her name and that mother and child were doing well

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:21:33pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:23:03pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

George Orwell.

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MsJ  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:27:39pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:27:54pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Book Depository

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Alephnaught  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:27:59pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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I’ve been seeing this “Without using numbers, how old are you?” thing on my social media.

My answer is: slightly older than Led Zeppellin 4.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:28:46pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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Sputnik.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:28:55pm

re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

we lived in a village of 180 souls, I just went and tacked up a notice on the message board that our we had had a daughter and her name and that mother and child were doing well

One cool thing about the Internet is that it connects people from very different places that never would have met in the old days.

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MsJ  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:28:57pm

re: #47 Alephnaught

I’ve been seeing this “Without using numbers, how old are you?” thing on my social media.

My answer is: slightly older than Led Zepellin 4.

That’s cheating (‘4’)! 😂

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:29:24pm

re: #47 Alephnaught

I’ve been seeing this “Without using numbers, how old are you?” thing on my social media.

My answer is: slightly older than Led Zeppellin 4.

Ahem….

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Alephnaught  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:30:17pm

re: #50 MsJ

That’s cheating (‘4’)! 😂

So, what is it? “IV”? “Four Symbols”? The thing doesn’t have a title on the cover.

EDIT: Ah, I see…. See my answer below.

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Alephnaught  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:31:59pm

re: #51 Blind Frog Belly White

Ahem….

Oh, good point.. Ahem- “Slightly older than that Led Zeppellin album which has ‘Stairway to Heaven’ on it.”

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:33:04pm
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William Lewis  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:33:06pm

re: #46 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Book Depository

This is me as well.

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MsJ  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:35:12pm

Why yes, yes I would!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:35:33pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Without using numbers, how old are you?

Alaska and Hawaii became states

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:36:42pm

The sinking of the Andrea Doria.

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Alephnaught  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:37:15pm

Actually, I’ve thought of another one:

EDIT: Yes, that is Elton John on the keyboards in this clip.

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jeffreyw  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:39:10pm
Without using numbers, how old are you?

Berlin airlift was in the news.

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Jay C  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:43:10pm
re: #43 Charles Johnson

Without using numbers, how old are you?

Queen Elizabeth II succeeded to the British Throne.

(And we’re both still here!)

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:44:01pm

re: #61 Jay C

Queen Elizabeth II succeeded to the British Throne.

(And we’re both still here!)

Trying to trick us with Roman Numerals?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:46:13pm

re: #61 Jay C

Queen Elizabeth II succeeded to the British Throne.

(And we’re both still here!)

The current Q of E

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:46:49pm

re: #61 Jay C

I thought the expression was ascended not succeeded to the throne.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:48:34pm
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Jay C  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:49:09pm

re: #62 I Would Prefer Not To

Trying to trick us with Roman Numerals?

Sorry: should have known y’all would guess which Queen Liz it was: I know I’m old, but not THAT old…!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:52:18pm

re: #66 Jay C

Sorry: should have known y’all would guess which Queen Liz it was: I know I’m old, but not THAT old…!

That’s good. I’ll tell that ugly guy with the big sword that you’re not what he’s looking for.

There can be only one!
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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:52:23pm

To all my fellow Jewish lizards: L’Shanah Tovah Tikatevu!

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:52:59pm

Guys, seriously, the Spider-Man PS4 exclusive from Insomniac is really goddamned good. Like, possibly worth buying a PS4 Pro for it alone good. The web slinging is amazing, the open world Manhattan Island is huge, detailed, immersive and well crafted. The combat is fluid like the Arkham games but massively more frenetic, three dimensional and insane.

My only gripe is that the New York environment is so good that I wish there were were side missions and random ground level interactions with the locals available a la Sega’s Yakuza franchise. Like, I wish you could go into an arcade as Spider-Man and play the 1991 Sega Spider-Man arcade game.

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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:53:40pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Eric Alper ✔
@ThatEricAlper
Without using numbers, how old are you?

6:01 PM - Sep 7, 2018

…will you still need me, will you still feed me,
when I’m __!?

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:54:27pm

re: #65 The Vicious Babushka

Gary Legum
✔
@GaryLegum
L’shana Tovah to all my brethren except Ben Shapiro.

4:43 PM - Sep 9, 2018
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Shouldn’t Stephen Miller also be excluded?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:54:59pm

re: #69 goddamnedfrank

I’ve heard a good review from one of my gamer friends locally, as well.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:55:39pm
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Jay C  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:56:07pm

re: #71 Hecuba’s daughter

Shouldn’t Stephen Miller also be excluded?

Heh. I read this at first as “executed”.
But not at Rosh Hashanah

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:56:17pm

re: #71 Hecuba’s daughter

We know Jared Kushner is not included in those wishes.

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sagehen  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:57:21pm

re: #75 PhillyPretzel

We know Jared Kushner is not included in those wishes.

Or Sheldon Adelson.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:57:55pm
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jeffreyw  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:58:55pm

Update: Three hours after the publication of this story, CNN reported that Moonves will step down from his position at CBS. A person familiar with the discussions said that Moonves will no longer receive any of his exit compensation, pending the results of the independent investigation into the allegations, and that a portion of the amount he would have received will be donated to organizations focussed on sexual harassment and assault.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 9, 2018 • 2:59:42pm

Without using numbers how old am I? Hmm. Cuba embargo was started.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:00:00pm

Jordan B Peterson’s illustrator is exactly the ridiculous fuckwit I would have expected.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:03:29pm

I haven’t seen this many snowflakes in years

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:04:52pm

Trump is such an ignorant ass

“It would not be profitable to build the Focus Active in the U.S. given an expected annual sales volume of fewer than 50,000 units and its competitive segment,” the company said in a statement, according to The New York Times.

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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:06:29pm

re: #81 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I haven’t seen this many snowflakes in years

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I’d be tempted to wear Nike accessories and bring a labor lawyer along with me.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:07:01pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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dangerman  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:07:29pm

re: #8 Citizen K

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The disingenuousness remains exhausting.

The problem isn’t that we’re not listening. It’s that we’re told we have to listen at the expense of every single other viewpoint, ever, or we’re somehow ‘stifling free speech’ or proving ‘why Trump won’.

Meanwhile, left-wing/Democratic opinion is almost wholly erased from coverage at this point except to erect strawmen. And it continues to fucking happen.

listen, follow, track, monitor, yes
legitimize as somehow equally valid, NO

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Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:07:31pm

re: #84 Belafon

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There’s a number in there!

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dangerman  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:08:32pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

President Trump’s lawyers will provide written answers under oath in the defamation lawsuit brought by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, who claims Trump sexually assaulted her in 2007

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:10:20pm

re: #82 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Trump is such an ignorant ass

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It’s almost like he has no clue how trade works! Who’d have thought it?

*raises hand*

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dangerman  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:11:47pm

re: #29 littlehound

*stops lurking at lgf for a minute*

I love that this video is making the rounds again. I was there when that giant red ball broke loose back in 2015. Once we were able to corral it and confirmed no one was hurt, we could laugh at the ridiculousness of it. What you can’t see on the video was that it was pouring rain.

redballproject.com

I may not post much but I appreciate this online community so much.

*goes back to lurking*

next time, bring snacks

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makeitstop  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:12:14pm

Greetz from rainy and windy Atlantic City! You guys…

Click to Reveal

It’s so goddamned weird here. I’m playing tonight in the Hard Rock, but they’re putting us up in the Showboat, which is right next door.

The weird thing is that the Showboat lost its gaming license for some reason, and now it’s no longer a hotel-casino, it’s just a hotel. And the entire ground floor where the casino used to be is completely empty. No machines, no open bars, nothing. Just a huge expanse of carpeted open space.

Getting a definite ‘Shining’ vibe here…

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Mattand  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:13:11pm

re: #90 makeitstop

Greetz from rainy and windy Atlantic City! You guys…

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Talk about timing: I just came back from a week in Ocean City yesterday.

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dangerman  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:14:54pm

re: #39 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I do not comprehend at all why the media thinks it’s so vital to give equal voice to both sides. When one side is a bunch of hate-mongering, racist, sexist, misogynist assholes who enable literal Nazis and Klansmen, why should they get equal time with anybody sane and rational?

i’ll say it again and again and again

Do not legitimize crackpots

it says so right here on lgf —->
it is that simple.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:15:10pm

re: #86 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch

There’s a number in there!

You’re correct, and I’m still not going to change it.

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dangerman  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:16:44pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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dirt

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nowherenorth2  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:16:53pm

Used to love Ethan van sciver. Now…just good god. What a joke. His art when they brought back Green lantern was excellent.

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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:21:53pm

re: #92 dangerman

i’ll say it again and again and again

Do not legitimize crackpots

it says so right here on lgf —->
it is that simple.

See if’n you can get CNN to say it there on the TeeVee screen and speakers.

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fern01  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:23:33pm

re: #24 Citizen K

The default assumption of good faith extended toward anyone spouting the right-wing line, while simultaneously treating any critique from the left with contempt and suspicion by default has got us where we are today. The constant rewarding of bad faith has empowered the worst of us into a self-feeding system that I’m not sure we’re going to break out of within my lifetime.

I just looked at the WaPo headlines

Under trump the jobs boom has finally reached blue-collar workers. Will it last
Kavanaugh hearings didn’t alter nominee’s Supreme Court trajectory
Pence says he never discussed removing trump from office
trump tweets about the NFL anthem
Republicans running for governor look for success in unlikely places: Blue states
Sen Ben Sasse says he thinks about leaving the GOP every morning

No headlines about what democrats are doing - but wait until they win back congress - the non stop attacks on the dems will start - especially on the economic front as the reality of the tax cuts for the rich start to be seen.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:23:52pm

re: #69 goddamnedfrank

Guys, seriously, the Spider-Man PS4 exclusive from Insomniac is really goddamned good. Like, possibly worth buying a PS4 Pro for it alone good. The web slinging is amazing, the open world Manhattan Island is huge, detailed, immersive and well crafted. The combat is fluid like the Arkham games but massively more frenetic, three dimensional and insane.

My only gripe is that the New York environment is so good that I wish there were were side missions and random ground level interactions with the locals available a la Sega’s Yakuza franchise. Like, I wish you could go into an arcade as Spider-Man and play the 1991 Sega Spider-Man arcade game.

I do not regret buying the Spider Man red PS4 Pro package that came with this game. The game looks amazing in 4K, and the console itself is beautiful.

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dangerman  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:24:30pm

re: #96 ObserverArt

See if’n you can get CNN to say it there on the TeeVee screen and speakers.

i’ll email them the post.

no — better - i’ll email them the link here to LGF.

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Jay C  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:24:56pm

re: #82 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Trump is such an ignorant ass

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Also: The Orange Anus seems not to realize that Ford Focus vehicles are built in China by a company which is owned 50-50 with Ford: so it’s not quite the simpleminded “import” situation he tries to paint it as.
Baffoon.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:27:46pm
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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:31:30pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

Real Americans have bone spurs!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:33:10pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Late Generation X

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:35:04pm

re: #98 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I do not regret buying the Spider Man red PS4 Pro package that came with this game. The game looks amazing in 4K, and the console itself is beautiful.

Yeah that was a good buy. If you haven’t picked up Uncharted 4 already that’s also one of the best looking and well designed 4K games for the PS4 Pro. Also recommend The Last of Us Remastered.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:35:46pm

re: #81 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I haven’t seen this many snowflakes in years

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How far does this go? Will they tear my pants off to see if I am wearing Nike underwear?

Half /

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:37:36pm

America, 2018:

Letter to the Editor: An Appeal for Creationism

Deep within our nation’s venerated “halls of ivy” lurk some ideas that are anything but true. So as school days are upon us there is need for a call to vigilance lest truth becomes lost in the shuffle of feet going from class to class to earn treasured grades needed for a bright future. Ideas have consequences.

The truths in danger are those of hope in the eternal God, who calls us and equips us for a journey of opportunity where we learn to sift good from evil and win eternal rewards through faith in him.

[…]

Meanwhile, from Arizona: Riggs, Hoffman advance in race for superintendent of public instruction

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While much of the primary campaign featured challengers attacking Douglas and her record, the question of teaching evolution versus creationism also came up, particularly after Douglas had proposed making changes in the science curriculum.

Riggs said during the campaign he believes that the scientific theory of evolution belongs in anthropology or biology classes. But he also had a religious spin of sorts in what students should learn.

“They absolutely have to learn that our Founding Fathers believed in a Creator — they put it in the Declaration of Independence,” he said.

Riggs that, as well as the concept of “intelligent design,” should be taught in history and government classes, even if it means having one theory taught in science class and another in civics.

Hoffman, by contrast, called it “appalling” that Douglas sought to remove several references to the word “evolution” from the science standards.

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Citizen K  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:37:46pm

re: #85 dangerman

listen, follow, track, monitor, yes
legitimize as somehow equally valid, NO

The worst thing seems to be that we’ve gone beyond that point, to treating such things as the only point of view it matters to engage, with everything else assumed to be already covered, and told going over them would be ‘shutting out alternative viewpoints’ or ‘living in a bubble’, all the while creating an impenetrable fucking bubble where only Flyover Country matters, and how if you’re not willing to listen and treat the KKK like very serious people, then YOU’RE the one debasing the discourse and demonstrating hate and elitism.

It’s all fucking upside down, and we’re told that the blood rushing to our heads is just god punishing you for arrogance.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:38:25pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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“If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way, take the highway that is best.
Get your kicks on route …”

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:42:22pm

re: #81 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I haven’t seen this many snowflakes in years

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Looks faked to me. Someone put up a sign and took a picture just to try to make up the idea that companies are retaliating. No one can find the actual company, and dress code changes aren’t announced that way.

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:45:20pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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Ike’s reelection.

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MsJ  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:45:54pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:46:16pm

re: #109 Belafon

Looks faked to me. Someone put up a sign and took a picture just to try to make up the idea that companies are retaliating. No one can find the actual company, and dress code changes aren’t announced that way.

Not to mention it violates at least a half a dozen labor laws.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:46:42pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

Not to mention it violates at least a half a dozen labor laws.

For a conservative-owned business, this is not a problem.

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MsJ  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:47:13pm

re: #59 Alephnaught

Actually, I’ve thought of another one:

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EDIT: Yes, that is Elton John on the keyboards in this clip.

Still had a number in there. Shudda said “topped the charts”. 😂😁😭

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:47:24pm

It pays to dig:

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sagehen  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:47:52pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If Marines had better haircuts, maybe I’d have had sex with some of them.

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:49:25pm

re: #81 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I haven’t seen this many snowflakes in years

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I’s a fucking blizzard out there!

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:51:02pm

More evidence that Brexiters are just Trumpers… with better grammar:

Boris Johnson sparks furious Tory backlash after saying Theresa May had wrapped a ‘suicide vest’ around the UK

Boris Johnson has sparked a furious Tory backlash after saying Theresa May had wrapped a ‘suicide vest’ around the UK with her handling of Brexit .

[…]

The Mirror handily throws in a picture of the young female aide with whom Boris Johnson had/has a fling which led to his divorce.

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William Lewis  Sep 9, 2018 • 3:53:04pm

re: #104 goddamnedfrank

Yeah that was a good buy. If you haven’t picked up Uncharted 4 already that’s also one of the best looking and well designed 4K games for the PS4 Pro. Also recommend The Last of Us Remastered.

I know nothing about the PS4 but have been constantly amazed by our Nintendo Switch. The newest Zelda game is beautiful both in graphics and gameplay and the add-ons were the first time I didn’t think the DLC was a rip-off. I’m going to get Skyrim next - I have not played it before so it a new game as far as I am concerned ;)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:01:03pm

re: #119 William Lewis

The Switch is fantastic. Super Mario Odyssey is terrific and I am eagerly awaiting Smash Bros.

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stpaulbear  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:01:14pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Eric Alper
✔
@ThatEricAlper
Without using numbers, how old are you?

Elvis’ version of That’s All Right.

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:01:36pm

From Trump country:

Missouri college volleyball team replaces its Nike uniforms

A women’s college volleyball team in Missouri played in gray T-shirts after the college dropped Nike uniforms over the company’s decision to select Colin Kaepernick as the face of its new advertising campaign.

The College of the Ozarks volleyball team wore t-shirts during Friday’s match instead of the maroon long-sleeved jerseys that contained the Nike swoosh, The Springfield News-Leader reported.

The new attire came days after the College of the Ozarks President Jerry Davis said in a statement that the school would “choose its country over company” and remove Nike’s logo from its athletic uniforms.

[…]

“If Nike is ashamed of America, we are ashamed of them,” Davis said in a statement. “We also believe that those who know what sacrifice is all about are more likely to be wearing a military uniform than an athletic uniform.”

[…]

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:02:00pm

I’m as old as the seizure of the Grand Mosque by a false Mahdi.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:02:51pm

re: #122 freetoken

Again with the constant military worship.

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:03:32pm

Volleyball team baked from bleached flour:

Instagram

Lady Cats pick up their 7th win of the season / sweeping Williams Baptist. .
Thanks to all of the staff & faculty that came tonight - we appreciate you!
.
Bobcats go on the road for a few weeks! See you soon 7th man!

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Citizen K  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:04:15pm

re: #119 William Lewis

re: #120 Eclectic Cyborg

Splatoon 2 is great, not to mention a good list of downloadables. I’m still aiming to get Wolfenstein, mostly because it has the motion aiming, which I prefer significantly to aiming with sticks.

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:04:57pm

re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg

Again with the constant military worship.

I wonder if there are any political leaders in the US with the courage to take on the emerging cult that, to me anyway, harkens back to the imperial military cults of empires long ago?

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Citizen K  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:05:37pm

re: #122 freetoken

re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg

Again with the constant military worship.

Not just that, but the consistent misinterpreting of the entire fucking thing.

Thanks to slavish press repeating shit unchallenged, so many truly believe that the protests are against the flag and the anthem itself.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:06:57pm

Is bombing hospitals not a line red enough?

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:09:14pm

re: #122 freetoken

From Trump country:

Missouri college volleyball team replaces its Nike uniforms

All you need to know about that …

College of the Ozarks is a Christian liberal-arts college, with its campus at Point Lookout near Branson and Hollister, Missouri, United States.

They are also only accredited by religious organisations.

en.wikipedia.org

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KGxvi  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:10:47pm

re: #122 freetoken

A private Christian liberal arts school near Branson… my shocked face

My cousin lived in that part of Missouri for a little while, I went to visit and spent a month there one week.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:11:54pm

re: #123 The Ghost of a Flea

I’m as old as the seizure of the Grand Mosque by a false Mahdi.

I had already been arrested by a NYPD SWAT team by then, and charged as an adult

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:13:48pm

re: #122 freetoken

From Trump country:

Missouri college volleyball team replaces its Nike uniforms

Awesome for getting it backwards. Nike chose the very ideals of the country we supposedly hold up. You, school, are choosing the opposite.

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TedStriker  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:14:36pm

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹

All you need to know about that …

College of the Ozarks is a Christian liberal-arts college, with its campus at Point Lookout near Branson and Hollister, Missouri, United States.

They are also only accredited by religious organisations.

en.wikipedia.org

This will also tell you exactly what their core philosophy is:

In the 2003-2004 semesters a professor revealed that one of the college’s deans, Larry Cockrum, had received his Ph.D. from Crescent City Christian College, a fraudulent college (“diploma mill”) run out of a coach’s basement.[17] The professor who brought this information to light was suspended for the 2004 semester, and his contract was not to be renewed for the fall semester.[18] The college’s president, Jerry C. Davis, defended the dean with the fraudulent degree, while terminating the professor.[19] Cockrum has been appointed to a new position as president of The University of the Cumberlands.[20]

Seems like they have no issues with credential inflation/fake credentials.

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CleverToad  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:17:51pm

How old am I?
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khruschev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:21:09pm

re: #104 goddamnedfrank

Yeah that was a good buy. If you haven’t picked up Uncharted 4 already that’s also one of the best looking and well designed 4K games for the PS4 Pro. Also recommend The Last of Us Remastered.

I had a regular PS4, and have both games. I’ll be sure to replay them in 4K.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:22:42pm

Logging off now for 2 days. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:23:29pm
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wrenchwench  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:24:23pm

re: #135 CleverToad

How old am I?
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khruschev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

But you didn’t start the fire? Or do I have the wrong song?

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:24:28pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:30:59pm

re: #73 The Vicious Babushka

The flag had one less star when I was born. (They put it on for me, not Hawai’i, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.)

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wheat-dogg  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:32:15pm

I wonder if he praised his kids as effusively as this

though to me it still sounds condescending.

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:32:22pm

re: #140 Ace-o-aces

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Can we hope that Obama puts Beto over the top against Cruz?

Yes We Can!

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:34:38pm

re: #142 wheat-dogg

I wonder if he praised his kids as effusively as this

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though to me it still sounds condescending.

Well, they represent two thirds of his black supporters.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:35:13pm

re: #143 austin_blue

Can we hope that Obama puts Beto over the top against Cruz?

Yes We Can!

Because no one is ever “political” when campaigning.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:38:04pm
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Dave In Austin  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:41:17pm

Facebook Post

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Sea Mexican!  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:44:58pm

re: #6 Belafon

HBO has a special they occasionally run about Latin American influence in America. It was mainly focused on music. There were a few things I found interesting in it. The first is that the United States is now the second largest Spanish speaking country in the world.

The second piece was about José Feliciano, he of “Feliz Navidad” fame. He was born blind but became a really good guitarist. His first hit was a cover of the Doors “Light My Fire” with a Latin sound. From what they described, it was a big hit. So big, that eventually, he was asked to perform the National Anthem at a baseball game. When he performed that, though, also with a Latin sound, he was blacklisted. Radio stations stopped playing his music up until “Feliz Navidad”.

Interesting. That didn’t slow down José Feliciano’s career in PR and Latin America. He kept making album after album. Nowadays he’s basically retired.

Here’s a tribute special that Banco Popular did to him: Jose Feliciano—Guitarra Mia—BPPR (varios artistas)

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b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:47:16pm

Howdy Lizards:

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TedStriker  Sep 9, 2018 • 4:57:40pm

This is what happened from the week before through the week after I was born:

Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell, former presidential Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were found guilty by a jury or 9 women and 3 men, on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal. Robert C. Mardian, a fourth defendant, was found guilty on one count of conspiracy.[1][2]

The Wiz, a musical adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with an African-American cast, opened on Broadway. It would go on to win two Tony Awards and run for 1,672 performances.[21]

The game show Wheel of Fortune, created by Merv Griffin and inspired by the children’s game “Hangman”, premiered on NBC at 10:30 am Eastern time. The original hosts were Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford, who would be replaced in 1982 by Pat Sajak and Vanna White, respectively.[25]

The Boston Globe broke an exclusive story that Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was going to arrive in Boston’s Sidney Farber Cancer Center to receive treatment for leukemia.[32] The hospital, the Kremlin and the White House quickly denied the story [33] and the Globe soon admitted that it had been the victim of a hoax.[34] Brezhnev, who did not have leukemia and who was not coming to the United States, would live on until 1982.

The Queen Elizabeth 2 began its first round-the-world cruise, departing New York City under tight security with 1,200 passengers.[41]

Caryn Campbell vanished while walking from the lobby to her room at the Wildwood Inn at Snowmass, Colorado. She was the 15th victim of serial killer Ted Bundy, but the first for whose murder he ever stood trial.[46]

The House Un-American Activities Committee, most notable for its investigations and accusations of Communist infiltration of Hollywood, was disbanded by the U.S. House of Representatives after 37 years. In 1969, it had been renamed the “Committee on Internal Security”.[52]

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:04:01pm

re: #150 TedStriker

This is what happened the week before and the week after I was born:

That’s an impressive amount of research!

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:06:20pm

I’m as old as the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus.

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mmmirele  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:07:00pm

re: #122 freetoken

From Trump country:

Missouri college volleyball team replaces its Nike uniforms

Christian nationalism at work here, these people are horrible.

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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:08:59pm

re: #149 b.d.(secret op-ed writer)

Howdy Lizards:

GSElevator
@GSElevator
“Only the Cleveland Browns can end a losing streak without actually winning.”

- Reddit

6:19 PM - Sep 9, 2018

A tweet from some ass that is obviously not a Cleveland Browns fan.

15 games to play one step at a time.

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plansbandc  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:09:59pm

re: #55 William Lewis

Me too.

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plansbandc  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:11:48pm

re: #56 MsJ

Our zoo’s otters are named Mayhem and Chaos. :D

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:15:05pm

re: #135 CleverToad

How old am I?
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khruschev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

I never believed Billy Joel when he sang “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” He and his pals did start the fire, and everybody knows it.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:20:12pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:21:12pm

Possibly the first table flip on video.

Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire (Official Video)

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meteor  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:23:48pm

Used to be my hometown train.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:23:51pm

re: #158 goddamnedfrank

A law was possibly broken. Unless he has a concealed carry permit, he broke the law. There is no “open carry” in Florida

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KGxvi  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:24:00pm

On the age game:

I was born halfway through the Carter Administration

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:25:54pm

Bernie is an empty vessel

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:26:14pm

That song has a pretty great production, by the way. Holds up well for the era.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:29:00pm

re: #162 KGxvi

On the age game:

I was born halfway through the Carter Administration

Me: Beatles on Ed Sullivan and British Invasion.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:30:11pm
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KGxvi  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:32:18pm

re: #163 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

The fundamental problem isn’t that money is loaned at “favorable” terms to both sides. The fundamental problem is that the cost of higher education has far outstripped inflation. And it’s done so in a time period where a college degree went from “desirable but not necessary” to “necessary for non-menial entry level positions” in many industries

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KGxvi  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:34:41pm

re: #167 KGxvi

I should add: Sanders’ comparison is foolish because there’s a huge difference between a one time disaster recovery program and an ongoing expense

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:37:29pm
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freetoken  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:37:35pm

re: #167 KGxvi

The fundamental problem is that the cost of higher education has far outstripped inflation. And it’s done so I’m a time period where a college degree went from “desirable but not necessary” to “necessary for non-menial entry level positions” in many industries

Concur.

Academia is all too self-serving, and this has caused a serious blindness in the politics of the likes of Sanders.

Stodgy old me - more can be done in the tax-supported 12 years of education than now happens in many schools.

I’ll even go out on a limb and claim that in America we under-educate our children, compared to the best education in other countries in the developing world.

And I’m not going to blame school teachers. Rather, it’s the American cultural practice of using school as babysitters.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:38:17pm

re: #169 Charles Johnson

What? WHAT?!

[Flips table, lights on fire.]

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Targetpractice  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:39:42pm

I’m as old as Ghostbusters and Gremlins.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:40:23pm

re: #172 Targetpractice

I’m as old as Ghostbusters and Gremlins.

Ha! Same year as me!

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:42:05pm

Cinematic Table Flips

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danarchy  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:44:17pm

re: #164 Charles Johnson

That song has a pretty great production, by the way. Holds up well for the era.

I did lighting back in college for a Billy Joel show on campus. It wasn’t really a concert, he played a few songs but mostly he was telling stories and taking questions. One of the things I remember is he wasn’t real crazy about that song. He says he almost always writes music first and then lyrics to match, but for We didn’t start the fire he wrote the lyrics first and was never real crazy about the music he wrote for it.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:46:40pm

re: #170 freetoken

Not quite sure where you’re going with that. At one level, schools are obviously babysitters. They’re looking after our kids for most of the hours we’re at work. But, they’re also professional educators. While I could teach my kids, it would take up most of my time, and I’m a better contributor as a software developer.

As for what the kids are learning, there are basics they need to learn, some of which we’ve cut in the need to get them ready for being an employee. We need to offer the basics, and then offer them the ability to go to trade school - yes, trade school - or college after that. We don’t really need them to jump into the major workforce until they are ready. And we should pay for all education. I even think we should offer taxpayer paid continuing education classes for every level (evenings or weekends at high schools). We’re going to pay for it one way or another, so we might as well do it when it’s cheap.

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danarchy  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:46:53pm

re: #174 jaunte

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Video

There was one at the end of episode 3 of Iron Fist season 2 that I expect to see in meme form shortly.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:47:18pm

re: #172 Targetpractice

I’m as old as Ghostbusters and Gremlins.

Most popular movie the year I was born: “Psycho.”

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Single-handed sailor  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:50:59pm

Scott Walker Blew His Dog

^this caught me off guard, then I saw there was a second line.^

Whistle On The Wrong Person

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wrenchwench  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:51:36pm

re: #174 jaunte

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Video

Proof: Anything can be overdone.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:53:54pm
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jaunte  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:55:19pm

re: #180 wrenchwench

I forgot Frankenstein’s monster flipped a table.

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2018 • 5:57:43pm

re: #176 Belafon

I doubt I was going anywhere specific with my rant… but if I were to expound more:

Large classroom sizes are just ways to warehouse children for 7 or 8 hours per day.

Learning, on the other hand, comes from interacting with another who is older/smarter/wiser than oneself.

Instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars on “free” college education, as a society I propose we’ll be better off if we put that money into primary schools where children can be taught in small groups with a well-trained teacher.

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:02:35pm

Education is a hot-button topic, which is why politicians usually run on platforms that include “education”, but I propose that as a society we really do poorly with understanding how humans learn.

Here is a misleading headline (from the NY Post, of course it’s misleading): Genes mostly determine how successful your kids will be

The headline is a take on the following paper, itself problematic: The stability of educational achievement across school years is largely explained by genetic factors

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teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:04:49pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:07:02pm
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stpaulbear  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:09:15pm

re: #174 jaunte

I kept waiting for the scene at the end of Giant where an inebriated James Dean takes out a whole row of tables. I looked for a YouTube clip but I couldn’t find one.

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:11:35pm

James Dean, Taylor-flipping.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:16:56pm

Age without numbers?

Call me the Elder Boomer.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:17:13pm

.

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TedStriker  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:17:29pm

re: #151 austin_blue

That’s an impressive amount of research!

I cheated and used Wikipedia…I just Googled “things that happened in MONTH YEAR” and clicked in the Wiki link in the search.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:21:00pm

re: #191 TedStriker

I cheated and used Wikipedia…I just Googled “things that happened in MONTH YEAR”.

Walther Funk, Nazi politician and economist, died on my birthday. Guess he saw me coming. /s

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Sufficient unto the day...  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:22:29pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

The first Viking probe was launched to Mars.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:31:50pm

About damn time.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:35:36pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Without using numbers, how old are you?

American hostages taken in Iran.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:36:02pm

Rudy makes as much sense as the moron-in-chief

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:37:54pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Gary Powers shot down. World population just over 3 billion.

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gwangung  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:38:41pm

re: #194 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

About damn time.

Depending on the local laws, that still might be a bit too lenient. The circumstances are still kinda muddy….Hard for me to conceive of circumstances where the shooting was not intentional.

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teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:41:03pm

re: #194 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

At the very least she should be charged with second degree murder.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:41:14pm

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rudy makes as much sense as the moron-in-chief

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:44:53pm

re: #194 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Good. I was afraid she’d get off without even being charged.

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teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:48:22pm

re: #201 Patricia Kayden

The whole thing is infuriating and sad. If Botham Shem Jean was white, he’d still be alive.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:50:28pm

re: #199 teleskiguy

At the very least she should be charged with second degree murder.

Any ‘murder’ charge requires evidence of intent. That’s basically why Zimmerman wasn’t convicted for killing Trayvon Martin.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:52:01pm
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jaunte  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:53:13pm

re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s an integral part of the classic hillbilly package.

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teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:54:55pm

re: #205 jaunte

It’s an integral part of the classic hillbilly package.

Giphy

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:55:53pm

...

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:59:14pm

re: #122 freetoken

Nike sales are up. Screw the idiots.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Sep 9, 2018 • 6:59:35pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:02:51pm
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sagehen  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:04:39pm

re: #159 Charles Johnson

Possibly the first table flip on video.

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My preferred video version of this song (Stargate fans will understand all the jokes and puns, everyone else will be mystified):

We Didn’t Start The Fire! Stargate

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:06:41pm

Last full day:

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teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:09:28pm

re: #212 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I was just thinking about that day. Kids graduating from high school this year were but infants or not even yet born when that happened.

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unproven innocence  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:09:34pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

The Berlin Blockade.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:10:33pm

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:10:49pm

re: #212 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

That reminds me; I’m “boarded an international flight without a security check” old.

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SteelPH  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:10:52pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:12:58pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

First Soviet atomic bomb. Communists win Chinese civil war, Nationalists flee to Taiwan.

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:16:55pm

re: #209 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Cannot stand people like this:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:19:04pm

good grief

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:19:07pm

re: #218 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

First Soviet atomic bomb. Communists win Chinese civil war, Nationalists flee to Taiwan.

But I trust we are both young enough to urinate on Trumps grave one day.

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Anymouse 🌹  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:19:49pm

re: #216 jaunte

That reminds me; I’m “boarded an international flight without a security check” old.

Crossing the Canadian/US border with a driver’s license.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:19:57pm

heh

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danarchy  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:21:59pm

re: #222 Anymouse 🌹

Crossing the Canadian/US border with a driver’s license.

Well hell, I did that for a buddy’s bachelor party in the late 90’s.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:25:23pm

but we don’t need those cumbersome regulations…

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:28:48pm

re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth

Here’s where you can customize: nike.com

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Cheechako  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:33:22pm

As far as the age game goes, for me the top song was “White Christmas”.
(Is this song too PC now?

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b_sharp  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:34:51pm

Seems a lot of lizards were born in the ’50s.

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gwangung  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:36:35pm

re: #228 b_sharp

Seems a lot of lizards were born in the ’50s.

Yes, we’re old farts.

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teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:36:42pm

re: #228 b_sharp

Seems a lot of lizards were born in the ’50s.

And 60s. And 70s. And 80s.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:36:52pm

Dory and Rango are really starting to play with each other. Rango will start it by taking a toy to his bed, but Dory will zoom over and get there first, then she’ll roll over on her back and paw at his face with all 4 paws. Rango ‘Howrowrowr’s at her the whole time. Today, she waited till he looked away then ZOOMED behind the chair and emerged from the side. She was on her hind legs, dancing toward him with her front paws up, and when he’d get his face in range she’d start pawing at it.

Rango got his revenge, when she dropped a toy she was dragging past his bed. He reached over and snagged it without even getting up, then curled around it.

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Unshaken Defiance  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:40:07pm

re: #231 Blind Frog Belly White

Dory and Rango are really starting to play with each other. Rango will start it by taking a toy to his bed, but Dory will zoom over and get there first, then she’ll roll over on her back and paw at his face with all 4 paws. Rango ‘Howrowrowr’s at her the whole time. Today, she waited till he looked away then ZOOMED behind the chair and emerged from the side. She was on her hind legs, dancing toward him with her front paws up, and when he’d get his face in range she’d start pawing at it.

[Embedded content]

This story has been a real joy to see

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:42:57pm
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Targetpractice  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:44:51pm

re: #228 b_sharp

Seems a lot of lizards were born in the ’50s.

This isn’t a web community, it’s an old folk’s home.

/

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b_sharp  Sep 9, 2018 • 7:53:17pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

And 60s. And 70s. And 80s.

True, but most people born in the ’50s’ aren’t usually computers nerds or gamers.

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teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2018 • 8:23:10pm

re: #235 b_sharp

True, but most people born in the ’50s’ aren’t usually computers nerds or gamers.

I used to be a gamer. I wouldn’t call myself a computer nerd. I do call myself a child of the Internet, though.

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austin_blue  Sep 9, 2018 • 11:13:11pm

re: #234 Targetpractice

This isn’t a web community, it’s an old folk’s home.

/

Yes, and get the fuck off of my lawn.


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