Lawrence: “It’s Not All About You” (Official Music Video)

“Have you ever been spelunking?”
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An entry in the “Best Music Videos Shot in a Diner” competition.

Director: Kevin Conway
Story By: Gracie Lawrence

Starring:
Gracie Lawrence (as “Gracie”)
Clyde Lawrence (as “Clyde”)
Eric Freeman (as “THAT GUY”)

Production Company: Flightless Bird Creative
Editor: Sam Powell
Producer/1st AD: Alec Roskam
Producer/2nd AD: Stephen Kipp

Director of Photography: Ben Enke
Camera/Gimbal Operator: Michael Hoday
1st Assistant Camera: Tedd Piper
2nd Assistant Camera: Brendan McClorey

Sound Recordist: Elan Lafontaine

Gaffer: Nicklas Hendrickson
Key Grip: Ethan VerKuilen

Hair & Makeup Artist: Kasey Surges
Production Assistant: Quinn Williams
Production Assistant: Rory Crouch
BTS Videographer: Alex Oechsel

Sound Designer: Brendan Monte
Colorist: Jay Ness
VFX Artist: Jeremy Wanek

Additional Production: Clyde Lawrence & Gracie Lawrence

Stream “It’s Not All About You” here: https://stem.ffm.to/itsnotallaboutyou

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Website: http://www.lawrencetheband.com

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No Malarkey!  Jul 17, 2021 • 6:34:11pm
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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 6:36:31pm
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Belafon  Jul 17, 2021 • 6:46:03pm

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jaunte  Jul 17, 2021 • 6:48:29pm

re: #3 Belafon

I hope ye are vibrant in the downward-pointed thumb on this proposition y’all.

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Belafon  Jul 17, 2021 • 6:54:19pm

My wife suggested that we either get Christmas Hemsworth or Christopher Lambert to read it.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 17, 2021 • 7:00:35pm

re: #1 No Malarkey!

Crybaby Snowflakes.

See it’s all projection. Like an IMAX. All the damn time.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 17, 2021 • 7:22:42pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 17, 2021 • 7:32:08pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 17, 2021 • 7:32:23pm

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 17, 2021 • 7:38:00pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 17, 2021 • 7:40:27pm

re: #7 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 7:54:34pm

re: #3 Belafon

I just received this can’t refuse offer in my email:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 17, 2021 • 7:56:30pm
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Teukka  Jul 17, 2021 • 7:58:17pm
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No Malarkey!  Jul 17, 2021 • 8:14:38pm

Texas cancels MLK JR.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 17, 2021 • 8:28:20pm

Oh my goodness!

A College Republican would “steal” an election?

College Republicans in disarray after ‘stolen’ election — and the Texas chapter might secede

College Republicans are facing disharmony in their ranks after Courtney Britt was elected chair of the College Republican National Committee, the National Review reports.

(AIN’T LINKING TO NATIONAL RACISTS ONLINE)

“Now, the theater of battle shifts. Britt will take over in 72 hours, but her organization may be significantly smaller by then. Within minutes of her election, both the New York and Texas federations announced that they would be meeting to discuss secession,” the publication reported.

Good let them fight each other!

rawstory.com

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 17, 2021 • 8:29:06pm
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Dave In Austin  Jul 17, 2021 • 8:54:57pm
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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 8:56:10pm

Just because I like this tune:

Peter Gabriel - Blood Of Eden

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 8:58:46pm

And I’ll throw this one in here because Sinead was a remarkable folk singer before the media tore her to pieces:

Sinead O’Connor - He Moved Through The Fair

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 17, 2021 • 8:59:10pm

So more than half the states (both red states and blue states) have stopped reporting coronavirus numbers on Saturday (and probably Sunday too). Monday, they will catch up. But Florida (which now is reporting daily, including on weekends) is leading for both new cases and new deaths. Its position is not likely to change when the final numbers come in.

Results for Saturday, July 17:

The totals at the top will be retroactively adjusted on Monday when weekend figures arrive to update missing/incomplete data

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A Cranky One  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:00:49pm

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plansbandc  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:08:37pm

re: #15 No Malarkey!

We are utterly lost as a country.

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Semper Fi  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:10:10pm

re: #20 austin_blue

And I’ll throw this one in here because Sinead was a remarkable folk singer before the media tore her to pieces:

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Sinead has a lovely voice.

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:11:57pm

re: #22 A Cranky One

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I’ve always wondered how a dude who dies late on a Friday afternoon and gets tossed into a cave soon after and is gone before dawn on Sunday morning, 36 hours later, has risen from the dead after three days. The math seems kinda wonky, even with a tortuous attempt at defending it with Jewish “days”.

A day and a half ain’t three days.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:13:47pm

What could be more American than a baseball game in the NATIONS CAPITAL getting shut down because of an active shooter incident?

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:15:31pm

re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg

What could be more American than a baseball game in the NATIONS CAPITAL getting shut down because of an active shooter incident?

January 6th, 2021.

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:16:56pm

re: #24 Semper Fi

Sinead has a lovely voice.

Damn straight.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:17:13pm

re: #25 austin_blue

I’ve always wondered how a dude who dies late on a Friday afternoon and gets tossed into a cave soon after and is gone before dawn on Sunday morning, 36 hours later, has risen from the dead after three days. The math seems kinda wonky, even with a tortuous attempt at defending it with Jewish “days”.

A day and a half ain’t three days.

TBF the text is “on the third day.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:22:18pm

re: #27 austin_blue

January 6th, 2021.

January 6th, 2021 was not American at all. It was reminiscent of fascist attacks (or communist attacks) in other nations that had no strong history of democracy.

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A Cranky One  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:27:46pm

re: #25 austin_blue

I’ve always wondered how a dude who dies late on a Friday afternoon and gets tossed into a cave soon after and is gone before dawn on Sunday morning, 36 hours later, has risen from the dead after three days. The math seems kinda wonky, even with a tortuous attempt at defending it with Jewish “days”.

A day and a half ain’t three days.

Felt that way during TFG’s administration.

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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:31:13pm

re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg

What could be more American than a baseball game in the NATIONS CAPITAL getting shut down because of an active shooter incident?

We just need Putin to throw out the first pitch.

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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:33:50pm

re: #24 Semper Fi

Sinead has a lovely voice.

I saw an interview with her a week or so ago. She lives in a small village and has established a close circle of female friends with whom she shares recipes and home cooked treats and has her privacy respected and couldn’t be happier. I was glad to see that.

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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:35:32pm

I’m so glad they spent thousands of dollars of other peoples’ money just to fail so miserably in California.

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:36:27pm

re: #29 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

TBF the text is “on the third day.”

*A* text is ‘on the third day”.

If you look at the gospels of MML&J, you get this:

Matthew 16:2

From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

John 2:20

“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”

That’s it. Mark and Luke, supposedly writing the history of Christ, had absolutely nothing to say about it, even though they were at the Last Supper the night before his execution by the Romans.

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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:39:43pm

re: #35 austin_blue

Well, in their defense…Mark had to leave early as he had a meeting with Pilate that he really couldn’t be late for first thing in the morning. And Luke didn’t show up for the last supper until the photo op right before the dessert course because he was banging Magdalena in the wine cellar.

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:40:50pm

re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter

January 6th, 2021 was not American at all. It was reminiscent of fascist attacks (or communist attacks) in other nations that had no strong history of democracy.

In Trump America, Reichstag Fire is YOU, Liberal Flapdoodle.

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:42:21pm

re: #36 darthstar

Well, in their defense…Mark had to leave early as he had a meeting with Pilate that he really couldn’t be late for first thing in the morning. And Luke didn’t show up for the last supper until the photo op right before the dessert course because he was banging Magdalena in the wine cellar.

This is why I love this board.

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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:46:40pm

This is the best:

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JOE 🥓  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:47:20pm

Jay-Zuss forgave her…

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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:48:52pm

re: #38 austin_blue

This is why I love this board.

I’m not always disrespectful of theology…okay, mostly I am…but there have been times when I wasn’t.

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Belafon  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:49:41pm

re: #40 JOE 🥓

Mainstream right-winger? Is that like aged mayonnaise?

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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:50:33pm

re: #40 JOE 🥓

Jay-Zuss forgave her…

Conservative porn star? What the fuck is that? Lots of dry humping and the money shot being the dude saying, “This has never happened to me before…”

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DesertDenizen  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:51:21pm

re: #40 JOE 🥓

If they’re good conservative Christians, how do they even know who she is?

/

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JOE 🥓  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:51:30pm

re: #42 Belafon

Mainstream right-winger? Is that like aged mayonnaise?

It’s someone who does Welch’s Grape Juice instead of wine for communion.

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retired cynic  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:51:58pm

re: #45 JOE 🥓

a Methodist?

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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:52:01pm

re: #40 JOE 🥓

Jay-Zuss forgave her…

Note to self…be careful following links like this:

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DesertDenizen  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:52:05pm

re: #43 darthstar

I wonder if their real problem isn’t that she’s a porn star but that she does scenes with black men.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:53:45pm

re: #48 DesertDenizen

I wonder if their real problem isn’t that she’s a porn star but that she does scenes with black men.

That’s a BINGO!

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:53:46pm

I’m going to take my little agnostic self off to bed. Sweet scaly dreams, dear friends.

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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:55:14pm

re: #48 DesertDenizen

I wonder if their real problem isn’t that she’s a porn star but that she does scenes with black men.

Conservative Xians hate admitting they shot their load while staring at a black cock. “It was still inside when I came!”

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:55:51pm

re: #47 darthstar

Note to self…be careful following links like this:

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Oh, no. No no no no no no. I’m dead.

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darthstar  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:56:23pm

I should sleep as well. Good night, fellow heathens.

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Targetpractice  Jul 17, 2021 • 9:58:00pm

re: #15 No Malarkey!

Texas cancels MLK JR.

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They’re banning the one Dr. King speech that they shamelessly rip that single passage from to justify shitting on black folks? How will the white kids ever know what it is they’re supposed to be stealing from?

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 17, 2021 • 10:02:40pm

re: #40 JOE 🥓

Jay-Zuss forgave her…

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I’m pretty sure she’s not been “active” for awhile. She’s a year older than I am and I’m 47.

I’ve seen a couple of former porn stars go all uber-Christian or loudly yammer on about “Back the Blue”, especially during BLM protests, on Twitter. You can make of that what you will.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 17, 2021 • 10:05:36pm

re: #55 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I’m pretty sure she’s not been “active” for awhile. She’s a year older than I am and I’m 47.

I’ve seen a couple of former porn stars go all uber-Christian or loudly yammer on about “Back the Blue”, especially during BLM protests, on Twitter. You can make of that what you will.

I remember seeing Linda Lovelace on the “Praise The Lord” Pulpit Pimping show where she gave her “testimony”. Also those are others like Jenna Jameson who went full QAnon and Tila Tequilla who are full blown Nazis.

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DesertDenizen  Jul 17, 2021 • 10:07:40pm

re: #55 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

The interwebs says she’s still actively filming.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 17, 2021 • 10:08:56pm

re: #56 JOE 🥓

I remember seeing Linda Lovelace on the “Praise The Lord” Pulpit Pimping show where she gave her “testimony”. Also those are others like Jenna Jameson who went full QAnon and Tila Tequilla who are full blown Nazis.

I think in Tila Tequilla’s case it’s mental illness or brain injury or something. It’s not a subject I’m super knowledgeable about (because it’s no different then caring about the Kardashian family or any other pop culture/pop star gossip), but I thought I read something about her having an accident or a stroke and never being quite “all there” afterwards.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 17, 2021 • 10:26:53pm

re: #35 austin_blue

*A* text is ‘on the third day”.

If you look at the gospels of MML&J, you get this:

Matthew 16:2

From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

John 2:20

“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”

That’s it. Mark and Luke, supposedly writing the history of Christ, had absolutely nothing to say about it, even though they were at the Last Supper the night before his execution by the Romans.

But what does any of that have to do with “risen from the dead after three days?”

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teleskiguy  Jul 17, 2021 • 10:53:21pm

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 17, 2021 • 11:00:33pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 17, 2021 • 11:03:25pm

re: #58 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I think in Tila Tequilla’s case it’s mental illness or brain injury or something. It’s not a subject I’m super knowledgeable about (because it’s no different then caring about the Kardashian family or any other pop culture/pop star gossip), but I thought I read something about her having an accident or a stroke and never being quite “all there” afterwards.

She had a brain aneurysm in the wake of an unsuccessful suicide attempt back in 2012.

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teleskiguy  Jul 17, 2021 • 11:09:23pm

re: #61 I Would Prefer Not To

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 17, 2021 • 11:12:13pm

re: #63 teleskiguy

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 17, 2021 • 11:59:15pm

re: #38 austin_blue

This is why I love this board.

re: #41 darthstar

I’m not always disrespectful of theology…okay, mostly I am…but there have been times when I wasn’t.

I’d be (figuratively) crucified here.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:11:21am

re: #71 darthstar

Hmmmm..

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:12:36am

re: #213 Eric The Fruit Bat

Have you checked to see if your motherboard has a BIOS update available that adds support for your new processor? I have a 2700X in my system and I can flash my Asrock Taichi motherboard BIOS to add support for the 3000 and 5000 series AMD processors. Quite a few motherboards have this ability as AMD intended it that way. You may need a 2000 series to flash it to the 3000 or 5000 series though, but I have heard of some businesses that loan out a base processor so people can upgrade their motherboards and return the borrowed processor afterward.

Good luck getting it all done!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:13:25am

re: #58 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I think in Tila Tequilla’s case it’s mental illness or brain injury or something. It’s not a subject I’m super knowledgeable about (because it’s no different then caring about the Kardashian family or any other pop culture/pop star gossip), but I thought I read something about her having an accident or a stroke and never being quite “all there” afterwards.

She had an aneurysm, but she was already a Nazi before that.

Mental illness doesn’t turn you into a Nazi. Aneurysms don’t turn you into a Nazi.

She actually became famous first for her views on Nazis and Jews across social media, not for her singles, her appearances in regular movies and television, or her appearances in adult movies. She started as a model for Playboy.

She became a Nazi during her rebellion against her parents’ strict Buddhist upbringing in a closed community in Texas.

Media outlets and television and movie producers overlooked the Nazi part of Tila Tequila because she was a popular draw in social media, cute, and has an otherwise bubbly personality (when she’s not talking about Holocaust denial or genocide). There was money to be made, after all.

(It was part of my former job to keep up with sort of thing.)

Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen (Tila Tequila) Bullet-point biography at The Famous People

She adopted the stage name Tila Tequila when she was promoting a porn movie with her as bi. She has since admitted she is not bi. Prior to that her stage name was Tornado Thien, the same name under which she is raising her two daughters.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:18:51am

re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Mental illness doesn’t turn you into a Nazi. Aneurysms don’t turn you into a Nazi.

No but it can turn you into a raging asshole, and a troll. (Believe me, I’m not exaggerating. Brain injuries can make someone into an asshole, via Oppositional defiant disorder.)

I never heard anything about her alleged Nazi-ness before then, but like I said, it wasn’t a subject I was paying much attention to.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:23:42am

re: #69 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

No but it can turn you into a raging asshole, and a troll. (Believe me, I’m not exaggerating. Brain injuries can make someone into an asshole, via Oppositional defiant disorder.)

I never heard anything about her alleged Nazi-ness before then, but like I said, it wasn’t a subject I was paying much attention to.

Physical brain damage can do that. But it doesn’t always do that either (my mother’s burst brain aneurysm didn’t turn her into a raging asshole).

In Ms. Tequila’s case the aneurysm was treated before it did any damage.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:31:16am

A longer biography of Tila Tequila is available at Wikipedia, that font of all human ken [citation needed].

en.wikipedia.org

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:42:15am

re: #55 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I’m pretty sure she’s not been “active” for awhile. She’s a year older than I am and I’m 47.

I’ve seen a couple of former porn stars go all uber-Christian or loudly yammer on about “Back the Blue”, especially during BLM protests, on Twitter. You can make of that what you will.

She is attempting to get back into music again, along with marketing a line of E-vapourisers (the company in question, Blaze Vapors, apparently has no problem with working with an open Nazi, because profit).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:49:38am

re: #60 teleskiguy

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:51:19am

YouTube

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ericblair  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:51:39am

I hate when scientists use technical jargon.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:52:01am

re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She is attempting to get back into music again, along with marketing a line of E-vapourisers (the company in question, Blaze Vapors, apparently has no problem with working with an open Nazi, because profit).

You’re talking about Tila Tequila. Jack in #55 is talking about Brandi Love. Tila Nguyen is not 48, a year older than Jack.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:55:13am

re: #57 DesertDenizen

The interwebs says she’s still actively filming.

She has not made an adult film in quite some time. Katrin Tequila (no relation) is an active adult film star. Perhaps the two were confused in a search engine?

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:57:24am

re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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No, he was posting long past the point you joined in 2015. One of his recurring schticks was to post the face of figures he couldn’t stand - often Bernie Sanders - onto the Children of the Damned.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:58:48am

re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She has not made an adult film in quite some time. Katrin Tequila (no relation) is an active adult film star. Perhaps the two were confused in a search engine?

Again, they’re not talking about any Tequila. They are talking about Brandi Love.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 12:58:56am

re: #76 A Three Hour Tour

You’re talking about Tila Tequila. Jack in #55 is talking about Brandi Love. Tila Nguyen is not 48, a year older than Jack.

We got talking about so many adult film stars here I got confused. /s Sorry about that.

Brandi Love is a current writer for The Federalist. She is an active actress, with a number of AVN awards (most recently in 2018).

She also appeared on an episode of Penn & Teller’s “Bullshit!” about the War on Porn.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:01:19am

re: #78 A Three Hour Tour

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:05:38am

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We got talking about so many adult film stars here I got confused. /s Sorry about that.

Brandi Love is a current writer for The Federalist. She is an active actress, with a number of AVN awards (most recently in 2018).

She also appeared on an episode of Penn & Teller’s “Bullshit!” about the War on Porn.

I’m afraid that my porn knowledge doesn’t go much past 2010.
The last War on Porn stuff I remember is the John “Buttman” Stagliano obscenity trial.

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Cheechako  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:14:01am

I’m impressed by the knowledge about porn stars many of our posters have.

I guess it’s true, porn viewing is a huge portion of internet activity.

(P.S. - Don’t forget to clear your browser history in case you kick the bucket tonight.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:19:14am

re: #82 A Three Hour Tour

I’m afraid that my porn knowledge doesn’t go much past 2010.

Mine was vastly expanded after I got the job as a bodice-ripper Romance editor in 2007.

An interesting sidebar to the War on Porn: It primarily died out after the Comstock Acts were struck down … and stayed that way until a Supreme Court decision named Stanley v Georgia decided in 1969 establishing a right to privacy, and adults had the right to view whatever they wished in their homes, striking down Georgia’s anti-porn laws as unconstitutional.

Anti-porn movements in the past were not partisan; there were people in both parties and liberals and conservatives who were either concerned about “Teh Childrens” or free speech.

Lyndon B. Johnson then set up a commission (The Commission on Obscenity and Pornography) to study the deleterious effects of porn on adults or children, particularly as how porn might drive crime.

That commission was given large amounts of funding from both parties in Congress to fund original research into the subject.

They returned their report in 1970, finding no link whatsoever between porn and either child abuse or other crimes. The commission chair, originally opposed to the idea of access to porn, actually changed his mind about it when the studies were completed, noting that in a public speech.

That led the Catholic Church to lead a rebuttal to the Commission’s findings. The Church claimed the committee was stacked with pro-First Amendment proponents so their result would be biased. Their committee’s report, submitted as a formal rebuttal to the Commission’s report, was rejected by both President Richard Nixon and both houses of Congress.

At that point, the Catholic Church (followed by Protestant churches) took up the anti-porn cause on behalf of Republicans, throwing their support behind Ronald Reagan for President, and later pushing for the Attorney General Edwin Meese’s commission on pornography.

The anti-porn movement since 1970 has been almost exclusively been linked with Christians and Republicans ever since (minus a few feminists such as Andrea Dworkin).

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:19:46am

re: #83 Cheechako

I’m impressed by the knowledge about porn stars many of our posters have.

I guess it’s true, porn viewing is a huge portion of internet activity.

(P.S. - Don’t forget to clear your browser history in case you kick the bucket tonight.)

Not wanting to leave digital tracks, I used to do it the old fashioned way: sneaking into the city and buying physical media with cash.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:20:01am

re: #83 Cheechako

I’m impressed by the knowledge about porn stars many of our posters have.

I guess it’s true, porn viewing is a huge portion of internet activity.

(P.S. - Don’t forget to clear your browser history in case you kick the bucket tonight.)

Ha. My wife watches more porn than I do. (I only do it for research. /s)

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:24:22am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Mine was vastly expanded after I got the job as a bodice-ripper Romance editor in 2007.

An interesting sidebar to the War on Porn: It primarily died out after the Comstock Acts were struck down … and stayed that way until a Supreme Court decision named Stanley v Georgia decided in 1969 established a right to privacy, and adults had the right to view whatever they wished in their homes, striking down Georgia’s anti-porn laws as unconstitutional.

Anti-porn movements in the past were not partisan; there were people in both parties and liberals and conservatives who were either concerned about “Teh Childrens” or free speech.

Lyndon B. Johnson then set up a commission (The Commission on Obscenity and Pornography) to study the deleterious effects of porn on adults or children, particularly as how porn might drive crime.

That commission was given large amounts of funding from both parties in Congress to fund original research into the subject.

They returned their report in 1970, finding no link whatsoever between porn and either child abuse or other crimes. The commission chair, originally opposed to the idea of access to porn, actually changed his mind about it when the studies were completed, noting that in a public speech.

That led the Catholic Church to lead a rebuttal to the Commission’s findings. The Church claimed the committee was stacked with pro-First Amendment proponents so their result would be biased. Their committee’s report, submitted as a formal rebuttal to the Commissions report, was rejected by both President Richard Nixon and both houses of Congress.

At that point, the Catholic Church (followed by Protestant churches) took up the anti-porn cause on behalf of Republicans, throwing their support behind Ronald Reagan for President, and later pushing for the Attorney General Edwin Meese’s commission on pornography.

The anti-porn movement since 1970 has been almost exclusively been linked with Christians and Republicans ever since (minus a few feminists such as Andrea Dworkin).

Yes, I spent my childhood and adolescence following various free speech and obscenity debates.

Were you stationed in Norfolk when the vice squad raided a midnight showing of “Taxi zum Klo” at the Naro Theater?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:34:09am

re: #87 A Three Hour Tour

Yes, I spent my childhood and adolescence following various free speech and obscenity debates.

Were you stationed in Norfolk when the vice squad raided a midnight showing of “Taxi zum Klo” at the Naro Theater?

Okay, so I had to look that up. That raid was in 1980, so yes, I was in Virginia Beach. That said, I’ve never heard of the film. There is a blurb about it in the Virginian Pilot, along with the history of the theatre.

75 years - The Naro Expanded Cinema (December 23, 2011)

Nor has every film met the standards of society’s definition of vice.

A 1980 German work, “Taxi zum Klo,” was the most controversial film, Vourlas recalls.

The film was about a homosexual teacher who cruised restroom toilets at night for partners.

“It was named the best film of the year by the Boston Film Society,” Vourlas said.

The film showed for one night and the house was packed with 500 men.

But it was a night to remember.

The vice squad and a magistrate from the city showed up.

“They confiscated the film and we got charged, but the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor,” Vourlas said. “It made national news.”

and

The Naro opened as The Colley Theater on Feb. 24, 1936. It was built for $75,000, a small fortune for that era.

The opening night picture was a Shakespearian adaptation, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Dick Powell.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:36:45am

Speaking of Olivia de Havilland, July 26 will be the first anniversary of her passing away.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:37:12am

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ha. My wife watches more porn than I do. (I only do it for research. /s)

In the days of porn with plots - before gonzo and wall-to-wall geared toward raincoaters came to dominate the marketplace - I used to find myself mentally rewriting the scenarios and scripts as I was watching, and even wanting to re-edit scenes, to give them a bit more polish.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:42:36am

re: #90 A Three Hour Tour

In the days of porn with plots - before gonzo and wall-to-wall geared toward raincoaters came to dominate the marketplace - I used to find myself mentally rewriting the scenarios and scripts as I was watching, and even wanting to re-edit scenes, to give them a bit more polish.

There’s still porn with plots, but the democratisation of porn (the Internet and cheap cameras) means anyone can produce stuff.

Back before the Internet, there was plenty of porn which had little or no plot either (along with lots of boom-chicka-wow-wow music).

For those who are into nostalgia and the Golden Age of Porn, there is a certain Website heavily used in Utah which has many of those films for free viewing.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:42:47am

re: #90 A Three Hour Tour

In the days of porn with plots - before gonzo and wall-to-wall geared toward raincoaters came to dominate the marketplace - I used to find myself mentally rewriting the scenarios and scripts as I was watching, and even wanting to re-edit scenes, to give them a bit more polish.

There was one film from the Golden Age of Porn that got generally favorable reviews from mainstream film critics. IIRC, it was either The Devil in Miss Jones or Behind the Green Door.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:43:42am

re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Okay, so I had to look that up. That raid was in 1980, so yes, I was in Virginia Beach. That said, I’ve never heard of the film. There is a blurb about it in the Virginian Pilot, along with the history of the theatre.

75 years - The Naro Expanded Cinema (December 23, 2011)

and

(more)

I was a freshman in high school at the time. My Western Civ teacher brought up the raid in first period. IIRC, she was scandalized by the concept of the picture as related in the papers, but troubled by the First Amendment implications of the raid, itself. At the time, I think she lived in Ghent.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:44:48am

re: #92 Dr Lizardo

There was one film from the Golden Age of Porn that got generally favorable reviews from mainstream film critics. IIRC, it was either The Devil in Miss Jones or Behind the Green Door.

Both those films got favourable reviews.

The first films from the Golden Age of Port were “Blue Movie” and “Mona,” both films getting wide theatrical release.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:47:35am

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Both those films got favourable reviews.

The first films from the Golden Age of Port were “Blue Movie” and “Mona,” both films getting wide theatrical release.

Wasn’t 1973 the year of Porno Chic, with various celebs openly going to see films like “Deep Throat” and “Devil in Miss Jones,” etc. ?

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:48:56am

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Both those films got favourable reviews.

The first films from the Golden Age of Port were “Blue Movie” and “Mona,” both films getting wide theatrical release.

I remember reading about I Am Curious (Blue and Yellow) but I think those were considered more art-house films.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:54:09am

“Deep Throat” was discussed by Johnny Carson and Bob Hope on “The Tonight Show” favourably, and “The Devil in Mrs. Jones” got a favourable review by Roger Ebert (even though that was a low-budget film).

It is generally thought what killed off the Golden Age of Porn was the invention and sale of the videocassette player, allowing people to view porn in their own homes (leading to that Georgia case at the Supreme Court above).

Back in the early days of photography and film, porn viewing was often concealed as “photography clubs.” Trying to outlaw such clubs, legislatures packed with busybody Christians and conservatives struggled to write laws that explicitly banned such things, because that would use precise language they wouldn’t dare use in public.

For example, a law repeated across the nation from Michigan prohibited the showing of “pubic hair” (that included armpits).

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You even see it recently, such as a Michigan Democratic legislator censured for using the word “vagina” on the floor of the legislature, because that word was deemed “obscene” by Republican Christian censors in the legislature.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:58:44am

re: #96 Dr Lizardo

I remember reading about I Am Curious (Blue and Yellow) but I think those were considered more art-house films.

I remember reading about those two films in the Year in Movies section of the old Year Book supplements to the World Book Encyclopedia my grandparents used to get. They had a whole essay on “The New Permissiveness” in film post-1968 that I devoured at a young age.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:00:47am

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It is generally thought what killed off the Golden Age of Porn was the invention and sale of the videocassette player, allowing people to view porn in their own homes (leading to that Georgia case at the Supreme Court above).

That was a major theme in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (one of the best films of the 1990s, I should add).

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:02:44am

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Dude Meets With Maude

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:12:09am

re: #99 Dr Lizardo

That was a major theme in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (one of the best films of the 1990s, I should add).

An interesting film to watch is “A History of the Blue Movie” (1970). It is a documentary (NSFW) compiling so-called “stag films” from 1915 to 1970, with several classic films in their entirety.

Roger Ebert rated it two stars out of four in 1971.

History of the Blue Movie (goes to Roger Ebert’s Reviews, August 25, 1971)

Alex de Renzy presents a film produced, directed and written by him. Rated X.

It is a melancholy landmark in the disintegration of our age that genuine hard-core pornographic stag movies are now assembled into documentaries for young couples to see on Saturday night dates.

Somehow, a stag film should mean more than that; it should be surrounded by the heady excitement of a forbidden thrill, and screened in the basement rooms of veteran’s organizations, the aroma of the Friday night fish fry still hanging greasily in the air.

(more)

Mr. Ebert spends most of the review lamenting the downfall of porn. (safe for work)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:15:37am

re: #100 Dr Lizardo

Okay, that’s a little weird. What film is that from? (I’m not much of a film buff.)

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:16:06am

re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Okay, that’s a little weird. What film is that from? (I’m not much of a film buff.)

The Big Lebowski.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:19:50am

re: #103 A Three Hour Tour

The Big Lebowski.

I never saw that film. Her short speech on “vagina” is pretty much right on the mark for a lot of men though, and the film really isn’t porn.

Porn does seem to be a safer subject than religion though. /s

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:20:16am

re: #103 A Three Hour Tour

The Big Lebowski.

Which is loosely a homage/rip-off of The Big Sleep.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:20:25am

re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Okay, that’s a little weird. What film is that from? (I’m not much of a film buff.)

It’s from The Big Lebowski.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:22:21am

re: #105 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Which is loosely a homage/rip-off of The Big Sleep.

Yeah - it’s Raymond Chandler played for laughs.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:25:50am

re: #99 Dr Lizardo

That was a major theme in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (one of the best films of the 1990s, I should add).

That’s Paul Thomas Anderson, son of Ernie “Ghoulardi” Anderson (the long time voice of ABC Prime Time), who is not to be confused with porn actor/director Paul Anderson, who played Peter in the Norman Jewison film version of “Jesus Christ, Superstar.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:26:38am

re: #105 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Which is loosely a homage/rip-off of The Big Sleep.

Apropos of nothing, I love The Big Sleep.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:28:18am

re: #109 A Three Hour Tour

Apropos of nothing, I love The Big Sleep.

So do I.

Both The Big Sleep and The Big Lebowski are included in my Top 20 favorite movies.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:29:39am

Speaking of Big Sleeps, I should probably take one.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 2:38:04am

re: #111 A Three Hour Tour

Speaking of Big Sleeps, I should probably take one.

On an entirely different subject and extremely local news, my wife asked tonight why I was insistent on getting a scale which measures in stone (our last scale also did).

I pointed out a whole lot of people (including her) seem to worry about ups or downs of a few pounds on a bathroom scale, when variations by a few pounds is perfectly normal.

If you step on a scale that measures weight in stone and pounds, just ignore the pounds part (think of them like a fraction).

The only time then the weight will change is if you are at the margins of a stone (0 or 13 pounds for example).

She thought that idea was suitably nuts, but she’s trying to work out stone/pounds in her head.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 3:36:09am

Back on porn, one of the oldest Romance genres is called “whore dialogues.”

These date back to the XVII Century and continue to this day (they are quite popular amongst men).

The basic premise of a “whore dialogue” is two protagonists (sometimes more), one an experienced woman “trains up” an inexperienced woman (you also sometimes see this theme in manga).

Such dialogues originally were written to advance Renaissance and Enlightenment philosophy to the masses, including overt attacks on Christianity as oppressive, and the use of Christianity by the State to control the lives of individuals.

The idea is the “experienced woman” (frequently a matron of a church or connected to a powerful political family or aristocracy) teaches liberal philosophies to the inexperienced younger woman, leading to explicit descriptions of sex acts.

Prior to the appearance of whore dialogue Romance novels, pornography was not illegal at all in England. There had never been any law against it.

When a Fleet Street publisher reprinted a French novel involving an older and younger nun as a damning condemnation of the Catholic Church (“Venus in the Cloister or the Nun in a Smock”, 1683 in France, reprinted in London in 1727), a prosecutor in London vowed to have him jailed for undermining Church and State.

In two very public trials, he was acquitted both times. Unfortunately for him, he was set up later by a friend of the prosecutor to publish a libelous account of the prosecutor’s career, giving the prosecutor the ammunition he needed to put him in jail.

That case is considered to be the first obscenity charge in England. From that single case, a vast array of censorial laws were created to prohibit virtually anything which might undermine Christianity (also argued as treason since the Monarch is the head of the Anglican Church).

Some of those restrictions were loosened in the late XX Century (though it is noteworthy that whore dialogues are still illegal). Other sorts of restrictions have been imposed in the XXI Century (usually leading to mockery of the United Kingdom from other countries, as the UK tries to regulate what sort of sex depicted is “acceptable”).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 3:47:33am

re: #43 darthstar

Conservative porn star? What the fuck is that? Lots of dry humping and the money shot being the dude saying, “This has never happened to me before…”

man getting spanked with a magazine and then paying 180K in hush money

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 3:51:45am

re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s still porn with plots, but the democratisation of porn (the Internet and cheap cameras) means anyone can produce stuff.

Back before the Internet, there was plenty of porn which had little or no plot either (along with lots of boom-chicka-wow-wow music).

For those who are into nostalgia and the Golden Age of Porn, there is a certain Website heavily used in Utah which has many of those films for free viewing.

there is also porn produced by women for women that leans more on plot, story and interaction than on the biomechanics of sex. Check out Erika Lust

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 18, 2021 • 3:56:46am

.

Scholarship Wind Quintet performs Sea Shanties



..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 3:57:00am

re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Because of the United Kingdom’s vast array of laws against pornography, religious organisations will sometimes go “court shopping” to the United Kingdom to this day to prosecute blasphemy from other countries. Because the United Kingdom has very restrictive laws on what constitutes “hate speech” against religious views, that makes it very easy for churches, mosques, temples, &c to claim that a particular book is “hate speech” against their religion. Coupled with Britain’s libel laws (the kind Trump wants, where you have to prove you weren’t libelous) which are also used against scientists and researchers to claim they are promoting hate speech against religions (by publishing things contrary to holy books), Britain’s laws are a mess.

Britain’s anti-pornography laws are viewed by the country’s Secular Society and civil libertarians as protecting only the rich, most notably in the trial against Penguin Books for publishing “Lady Chatterly’s Lover.” In that case, very high powered lawyers for Penguin were able to show the courts that the book has literary merit.

On the other hand, bloggers are frequently charged and convicted for the things they write. After a blogger was tried (but acquitted) for writing an admittedly disturbing story about the pop group Girls Aloud, the government passed a law prohibiting all “extremist porn” (including possession, called the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008—hint, the law is not about immigration, the law also applies whether a person consents or not).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:00:04am

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

yes, I recall a campaign against misogynist “Lad Mags” in the 90’s.

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steve_davis  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:02:03am

re: #3 Belafon

I just received this can’t refuse offer in my email:

“We exposed thine contact channel”? Well, thou hast shivered me timbers, Captain Standish!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:03:19am

re: #3 Belafon

I just received this can’t refuse offer in my email:

Amish E-mail scammers? That’s new. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:13:51am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

yes, I recall a campaign against misogynist “Lad Mags” in the 90’s.

That campaign was mostly successful in the 2010s, mostly by a combination of “feminist” organisations (that is, astroturfed conservative organisations), conservatives, and churches. In the 2010’s the campaign was run under the umbrella “Lose the Lads.”

Brief overview shows the principal organisations involved were Feminista UK, Object (a TERF organisation who thinks psychologists are in a cabal to corrupt your children into porn or transgenderism, which they equate as equal), and conservative-leaning newspapers promoting them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:22:38am

One of the victims of the “Lose the Lads” campaign was the oldest so-called lad’s magazine, Loaded.

The creator of that magazine writes about how he launched it in 1994 and what it contained.

Loaded came about after I was interviewed for the NME editor’s job, during which they asked if I would like to start my own magazine.

As word leaked that IPC was attempting to launch a British men’s lifestyle magazine, the media industry queued up to laugh and trot out the historic misconception that men wouldn’t read magazines like women did. I thought they would.

I was intent on creating a very different magazine from the upmarket fashion-advertiser-orientated American titles, which existed in the UK but had no connection to my life. I wanted a title that featured comedy, clubs, football and drugs.

The first pitch doc I wrote said “Arena edited by Hunter S Thompson” and “cover stars that are dangerous and up-and-coming or knackered and past it with great stories to tell”. I wanted to create “generational tension”.

(more)

My campaign: The birth of Loaded, the first lads’ mag, in 1994 (My Campaign UK, October 17, 2018)

A fair number of magazines simply aimed at a market of men were lumped in as “lad’s magazines” to be purged in a conservative culture war.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:23:04am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Granted, those publications were crude, misogynist, and actively encouraged young men to treat women like shit, they were as much as anything a reflection of UK culture and social norms of the time.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:31:10am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Granted, those publication were crude, misogynist, and actively encouraged young men to treat women like shit, they were as much as anything a reflection of UK culture and social norms of the time.

In the case of print magazines or porn, I have difficulty defining what misogynist is, when those who participate are willing and paid.

In the United States, one of the very few jobs women are paid better than men is porn. Porn regularly gets attacked as misogynist, with moral panics regularly surfacing over women forced to do porn, by conservatives and churches (that undoubtedly has happened, but there are actually very few documented cases of it).

The same goes for laws ostensibly designed to protect women from pimps by prohibiting Internet or print publications which allow women to offer services and screen potential clients safely.

During Edwin Meese’s day as AG, he noted that in his quest to pretty much ban all porn, he would force liberals into the argument that they must be for porn (the same argument foetus-worshippers use about those who wish to protect abortion rights).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:38:39am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Granted, those publication were crude, misogynist, and actively encouraged young men to treat women like shit, they were as much as anything a reflection of UK culture and social norms of the time.

Plus we’re back to endless studies from multiple countries that show pretty much all kinds of porn do not lead to mistreatment of women or violence against them. That has always been part of the religio-industrial complex of conservatives’ talking points.

And of course when conservatives and religious people don’t get their way, they get violent, as experienced by Larry Flynt and his lawyer (the man who shot them was a serial killer and white supremacist who targeted Blacks and Jews in his murders—he shot Larry Flynt and his lawyer because Hustler printed an interracial couple having sex).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:48:32am

There is the question of whether the women participate in pornography/prostitution are doing so “willingly” to earn more than they could otherwise or whether they are being forced into it due to economic duress and social pressure.

Which is why women should be in charge of prostitution and pornography.

I have never engaged the services of a prostitute. Not out of any moral issues with the practice, but first of all because I am too cheap, secondly I am not that interested in having sex with a woman who really only cares about material benefits, and finally because I know that the greater share of the money I would give a woman goes to her pimp or the brothel operator.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:53:23am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In the shooting of Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordon [the lawyer], the murderer was identified but never brought to trial (being Georgia). Their attempted assassin some time later explicitly stated the reason he set out to kill Larry Flynt was his own opposition to miscegenation.

He was arrested years later in Missouri after eight more murders of Jews and Blacks there, and sentenced to execution.

Larry Flynt gave a statement to the Missouri court that he did not want the murderer executed, as he was opposed to the death penalty. Missouri carried out the execution in 2013.

Larry Flynt himself was what conservatives should consider a success story: He was born to sharecropper parents in the poorest county in Kentucky during the Great Depression, and through hard work and good investments, coupled with seeing opportunities when they arose, made a fortune. The moral crusade negates all that though.

He started by buying a bar which was failing, and turned it around and opened a series of high-class clubs, supported by publishing a two-page newsletter about the clubs and specials they were doing, called Hustler Newsletter.

When the 1973 Oil Crisis hit and traffic to his clubs was sharply affected, he turned Hustler Newsletter into the porn magazine it is known as today.

From sharecropper roots, he became very rich, but was a passionate defender of the I Amendment (the same Amendment the Catholic Church argued against during the Johnson Administration).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 4:58:40am

re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is the question of whether the women participate in pornography/prostitution are doing so “willingly” to earn more than they could otherwise or whether they are being forced into it due to economic duress and social pressure.

Which is why women should be in charge of prostitution and pornography.

I have never engaged the services of a prostitute. Not out of any moral issues with the practice, but first of all because I am too cheap, secondly I am not that interested in having sex with a woman who really only cares about material benefits, and finally because I know that the greater share of the money I would give a woman goes to her pimp or the brothel operator.

Sex: The only act that conservatives want to criminalise if you sell it, but it’s fine if you give it away for free. /s

One might question “forced due to economic duress.” No one uses that phrase about other work. Are you “forced due to economic duress” to work for Wendy’s? Both prostitution and porn pay a hell of a lot better.

In legal brothels, there is a contract between the brothel and the sex worker. Some part of the money goes to the brothel; in exchange, the brothel provides physical security, a physical workplace, &c. I don’t believe I ever heard of a sex worker being mugged and robbed at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch for example.

Because the work is legal, a crime can be reported to the police without fear of arrest herself.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 18, 2021 • 5:11:41am

re: #60 teleskiguy

MRwH4u4kZNqTwWs8+oBUct0RGlMH84p4wP0+IxH1uqJeNI1jpT3AZCinrILXrYXu1xNtUHG36Y0habBW6Hm8Xwag3fwQF2qZXwVYmp/P23eDgtxYh/Y2nQkiJfPj9N121mg1eozG86qQRqK1e7H7VRVpmI/lDeiqbGiPfZPNyj4uUkjYrMFJJVNQFs4/fiyBK96YIfaEjhbZeDRU6dS4wkpNlGVNn6+SntAR/tRGDNmhvAA+cXpTWqI4i+kqDwLqSNPRoegQY/I=

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 5:13:57am

Well, this has been one heck of a discussion topic tonight. It would appear porn is very popular. Who’d’ve thunk it? /s

I’m going to see what’s in my liquor cabinet (I already know: Sailor Jerry’s Rum, Military Special Rum, Military Special Whiskey, Jameson’s Whiskey, and Sapphire Gin.)

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Nojay UK  Jul 18, 2021 • 5:16:57am

re: #35 austin_blue

Virtually no-one ever quotes from John, he’s like the seventh Beatle or that guy who played bass with Hawkwind for a month on their Elbonian tour.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 5:24:46am

re: #131 Nojay UK

Virtually no-one ever quotes from John, he’s like the seventh Beatle or that guy who played bass with Hawkwind for a month on their Elbonian tour.

Doesn’t he have a whole book in the New Testament? Or are we talking about a different John “we’re bigger than Jesus” Lennon?

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 18, 2021 • 5:25:42am

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Doesn’t he have a whole book in the New Testament? Or are we talking about a different John “we’re bigger than Jesus” Lennon?

Actually, he has five.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 18, 2021 • 5:28:48am
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Nojay UK  Jul 18, 2021 • 5:34:31am

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Doesn’t he have a whole book in the New Testament? Or are we talking about a different John “we’re bigger than Jesus” Lennon?

The Testament of John is not quoted or referenced much these days even though it’s supposedly one of the Big Four. Matthew is the front-man, Mark gets a solo every now and then, Luke is the quiet one who gets two softball questions in the Rolling Stone interview and John is nowhere to be seen except on the liner notes.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 18, 2021 • 5:40:55am

Music for a Sunday morning:

Fireflies - Piano Solo (Luca Morelli)

..

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 18, 2021 • 5:49:02am

re: #135 Nojay UK

FYI, recent Biblical scholarship has cast doubt on the traditional Matthew, Mark, Luke and John authorship. A few more likely theories including this “Q” source describe Biblical evolution being invented and filtered through various lost texts and authors.

en.wikipedia.org

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 18, 2021 • 5:59:45am

re: #137 Florida Panhandler

It’s been a couple of centuries now since the claimed authorships (a claim that arose rather nebulously in the 2nd-4th centuries) have been rejected by critical scholars. Only the fundamentalists hold to the old claims.

The synoptic gospels are a chain of copying+invention: Mark -> Matthew -> Luke . The author of the latter probably also had access to other writings such as the works of Josephus.

There are no extant works from before Irenaeus that even reference a canon. And the one reference to a gospel by a “Matthew” is clearly referring to a different book than the book we call by that name.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 18, 2021 • 6:01:46am

Who doesn’t enjoy the sound of a babbling brook, or of a falls?

I’d label this one “A River Runs Through Meradalir”:

Iceland Volcano, Lava River sound

..

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 18, 2021 • 6:01:52am

The Bible is pretty much an assemblage from a much wider bunch of writings. Cherry-picked (and modified) to support the setting up and maintenance of a patriarchal hierarchy.

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Nojay UK  Jul 18, 2021 • 6:07:19am

re: #137 Florida Panhandler

FYI, recent Biblical scholarship has cast doubt on the traditional Matthew, Mark, Luke and John authorship.

Oh, that’s a given. There’s nothing definitively written down about the life and times of the wandering Palestinian rebbe and troublemaker Jeshau bin Yussef until a century and more after his supposed execution by the Romans, so the reports of his deeds supposedly created by his commune partners at the time should be taken with a pinch of salt, never mind the outright self-serving fabrications layered upon fabrications of the following fifteen hundred years. Me, I’d give good money to read the Gospel of Judas.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2021 • 6:09:29am

re: #141 Nojay UK

IIRC, the Pauline letters are the oldest known works in the New Testament canon.

And he never met Jesus (aside from - perhaps - a hallucination).

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 18, 2021 • 6:11:13am

Morning Lizards.

Minnie out for her morning stroll.

And there’s just a “little” smoke in the air this morning. :-)

Here’s hoping you all have a wonderful day today.

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jeffreyw  Jul 18, 2021 • 6:31:39am

Good morning!

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2021 • 6:54:02am

In entertainment news (with a legal angle), Britney Spears has effectively gone on strike.

Britney Spears has said she will not perform again while her father retains control over her career as part of a conservatorship set up in 2008.

The singer’s message is the latest in a series of emotional public comments about the arrangement that controls her personal and financial affairs.

“This conservatorship killed my dreams,” she said in a lengthy post on Instagram. “So all I have is hope.”

Britney wants to bring an end to the arrangement, calling it abusive.

bbc.com

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:05:31am

And as somewhat hinted at last night. MY version of Huevo Rancheros.

Flour tortilla
Refried Beans
Adobada
2 eggs, sunny side up.
Salsa (medium)
Mexican Cheese
Sour Cream

With a side of
refried beans and
Fresh sliced Roma Tomato.

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Belafon  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:11:10am
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Belafon  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:13:55am

An interesting history:

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Belafon  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:18:13am

Over 10% of the population has been diagnosed as infected.

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Belafon  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:22:58am
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lawhawk  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:26:49am

re: #149 Belafon

A significant percentage of all new infections are occurring in Florida. Cases are rising nationally, but especially in low vaccination rate states.

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jeffreyw  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:30:10am

I ordered a trick extension ladder from Amazon, they gave today, Sunday, as the expected delivery day. I’ve never seen that before. It just came in a small box truck, two people aboard.

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lawhawk  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:31:09am

re: #150 Belafon

Arkansas is in deep trouble thanks to the antivaxxer sentiment and GOP reluctance to vaccinate, coupled with persons of color distrust of vaccination campaigns and access to vaccines.

Arkansas has done an awful job of outreach, awful job on public health, and awful job on health care delivery for decades. It helps explain why it has among the lowest standards of living, among the lowest life expectancy in the nation, and it drags down the state in every way imaginable.

Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, and the rest of the South are lumped in the same mess.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:32:20am

From my buddy’s facebook feed after he climbed Mt. Whitney on Thursday. That would have been something to witness and hear.

This HUGE boulder rolled down a steep hill, through a large creek bed, then rolled back 🆙 the other bank (taking out huge trees as it rolled) another (I’d say) 300 feet before coming to a stop on this unlucky (albeit tough) tree!

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:34:46am

re: #152 jeffreyw

It has been happening in Philadelphia for a little while. I have Saturday as my delivery day.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:35:42am

re: #137 Florida Panhandler

FYI, recent Biblical scholarship has cast doubt on the traditional Matthew, Mark, Luke and John authorship. A few more likely theories including this “Q” source describe Biblical evolution being invented and filtered through various lost texts and authors.

en.wikipedia.org

Is this “Q” Anonymous?

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Teukka  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:37:08am

re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Is this “Q” Anonymous?

Nope. It’s Q as in “Quelle”…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:37:20am

re: #152 jeffreyw

I ordered a trick extension ladder from Amazon, they gave today, Sunday, as the expected delivery day. I’ve never seen that before. It just came in a small box truck, two people aboard.

It makes sense, as people are often more likely to be home on a Sunday.

And Amazon is godless

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:37:51am

re: #157 Teukka

Nope. It’s Q as in “Quelle”…

As in “Quelle surprise”?

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Teukka  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:42:55am

re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As in “Quelle surprise”?

Mhmm. Or German for source. Or a combo? “Surprise Source”? 🤔

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:49:51am

re: #160 Teukka

Mhmm. Or German for source. Or a combo? “Surprise Source”? 🤔

Perhals to quell any suspicion…

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 18, 2021 • 7:50:38am

NRA Honeypot:

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lawhawk  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:04:04am

re: #162 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Target rich environment.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:04:51am

re: #162 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Aka shooting either my ass or my feet in the name of sexxxxy…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:05:28am

Glockin’ on Heaven’s Door!

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:09:14am

re: #144 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

Local air conditioner

Yes, there’s a bridge in there.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:11:16am

They have a point, but this article in what used to be a respectable news magazine is built around Tweets that got one or two likes. They started with a premise and went hunting for Tweets to support their assertion that people are protesting this, and they had to dig this deep.

I think probably most people don’t care about this movie at all.

Space Jam 2 Backlash Over Decision to Include Droogs but Cut Pepe Le Pew (Newsweek)

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Dangerman  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:17:35am
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:21:21am

re: #168 Dangerman

She is right. That is why they are still following him even though he lost to Joe.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:21:24am

re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A longer biography of Tila Tequila is available at Wikipedia, that font of all human ken [citation needed].

en.wikipedia.org

It does appear from the Tila Tequila wiki article that her pro-Nazi statements occurred after her aneurysm. She claimed that this all occurred while she was suffering from a deep depression and drug addiction, and does not reflect her actual views:

Click to Reveal

Back in 2013 I made a statement about Hitler not being a bad person, and immediately realized soon after that I had made a terrible mistake that would ultimately come back to haunt me. During that time I had been suffering from severe depression, and drug addiction for many years prior to that. I also attempted to commit suicide in 2012, and overdosed on prescription pills. I wanted to die. I felt worthless, and unloved as that pain continued to grow causing me to further spiral out of control. Losing touch of myself, and reality. It was absolutely the lowest point I had ever reached in my life, and today I am truly sorry to everyone that I may have hurt along my self-destructive path. I have made many mistakes that I am definitely not proud about, but I am only a flawed human who is trying my best to be a better person than I was in the past. I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible, wreckless, and selfish actions and I hope that everyone can forgive me for the pain that I may have caused.

I want to be a good role model for my daughter because I don’t want her to go through what I have had to endure. I hope that I will be given a second chance at life to make things right again. We all make mistakes in life, and I have unfortunately made many in the public eye. Although I cannot do much to change my past mistakes now, I can however, try to make things right from this moment forward, and be the best person that I can be. I am in no way, shape or form a racist nor anti-Semitic, and absolutely 100% not a Nazi supporter. It was a careless mistake I made in 2013 while suffering severe depression, drug addiction, and suicidal. That is not the woman have grown up to be today, and the loving mother that I have become.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:22:47am

re: #168 Dangerman

actually, it does not even go that deep: their motto is and remains “Don’t retreat, reload!”

They just shake off any criticism or refutation and double-down on the crazy

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Belafon  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:26:17am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

actually, it does not even go that deep: there motto is and remains “Don’t retreat, reload!”

They just shake off any criticism or refutation and double-down on the crazy

Which just sounds like a summary of what Hannah wrote.

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mmmirele  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:29:17am

re: #83 Cheechako

I’m impressed by the knowledge about porn stars many of our posters have.

I guess it’s true, porn viewing is a huge portion of internet activity.

(P.S. - Don’t forget to clear your browser history in case you kick the bucket tonight.)

Back before my dad had retired about 2000, he told me how porn, more than anything else, was driving the growth of the Internet. And why yes, he was willing to sell cabling and bandwidth to companies who just couldn’t understand why their Internet had slowed to a crawl.

Now, of course, it’s not just porn. I remember, quite a few years ago, how a Tiger Woods golf playoff round on a Monday nearly brought my employer to its knees as SO MANY PEOPLE tried to watch on their office boxes. Oh, and then having to block March Madness, otherwise it was a month of Thursdays and Fridays where Internet access for the legitimate business as usual took a serious hit.

Which reminds me…I hope all the blocks are in place for the Olympics. Thankfully the digital and security spaces are not mine…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:29:42am

re: #172 Belafon

Which just sounds like a summary of what Hannah wrote.

we are dealing with people who believe themselves to be in possession of a Higher Truth, one which is immune to facts, logic or consistency

and that Higher Truth is that Trump is God’s Chosen Leader for God’s Chosen Country and any means necessary are justified to return him to his Seat of Power so that His Divine Will may be done.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:32:12am

re: #169 PhillyPretzel

She is right. That is why they are still following him even though he lost to Joe.

But they don’t believe that he lost to Joe. And they certainly don’t credit any source that contradicts him. They retain their absolute loyalty to Trump. If a celebrity on the right exposes his lies, their reaction is to designate this debunker as a RINO, and flock to someone more extreme who still parrots the Trump lies. Hannah Arendt might be right in general, and there are a few situations where the Trump cult will claim he was joking (e.g. his bleach remarks), but it is more typical that no matter how many times there is a report refuting his position, they still adhere to it.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:33:49am

OT: For Jane Austen fans: Tonight on WHYY at 6 PM the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice. And with the live tv button you can watch it online.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:37:52am

re: #175 Hecuba’s daughter

Tell me about it. PA still has some folks who want an audit like AZ had one. If PA did that it would cost over $40 million to replace the machines.
whyy.org

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Sufficient unto the day...  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:38:16am

re: #47 darthstar

PUT THAT SHIT BEHIND A SPOILER WARNING…I mean literally a spoiler warning…like, as soon as that image popped up, my milk curdled.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 18, 2021 • 8:41:19am

re: #152 jeffreyw

I ordered a trick extension ladder from Amazon, they gave today, Sunday, as the expected delivery day. I’ve never seen that before. It just came in a small box truck, two people aboard.

I’m guessing that some of these people working delivery for Amazon and others used to work in fast food/restaurants and this is better for them.

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Belafon  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:05:07am
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Teukka  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:08:24am

re: #178 Sufficient unto the day…

PUT THAT SHIT BEHIND A SPOILER WARNING…I mean literally a spoiler warning…like, as soon as that image popped up, my milk curdled.

Mine is sobbing in the corner of the fridge… 👀

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Belafon  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:12:04am

Anne Laurie collected a whole bunch of reactions to the NRO “be nice to anti-vaxxers” story, and rather than copying a bunch of them, I’m just going to give this: balloon-juice.com. Except for this one:

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:12:05am

re: #181 Teukka

I used the brain bleach after seeing that photo.

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Teukka  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:12:39am

re: #183 PhillyPretzel

I used the brain bleach after seeing that photo.

I hear ya…

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Belafon  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:13:39am
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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:16:29am

Some images ruin ones appetite for dinner. Some make celibacy an obvious choice. Yikes.

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Belafon  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:17:01am
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Belafon  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:18:11am

And now I will stop scanning twitter.

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mmmirele  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:25:10am

re: #145 Dr Lizardo

In entertainment news (with a legal angle), Britney Spears has effectively gone on strike.

bbc.com

I saw that on her Insta yesterday. I have been hoping for this because Ms. Spears is either too incompetent to manage her affairs and shouldn’t be working, or she is competent, can control her life and can decide if she wants to work. She shouldn’t be forced to work while under the conservatorship. I was going to say it was akin to slavery, but no, it’s FUCKING SLAVERY.

Also, Kanye West is certifiably nuts, but you don’t hear anyone talk about putting him under a conservatorship. Why is that? Because he’s a *guy*, I’d hazard to say.

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mmmirele  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:27:43am

re: #147 Belafon

She’s being appropriately dragged. Look at that ratio!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:38:03am

re: #67 Odie Hugh Manatee

I’m running the latest BIOS from HP, and their doc says the highest processor replacement is the Ryzen 7 2700, with no visible way to update it to handle later processor gen’s, so i’m stuck. I could by a new Ryzen 7 2700x off of ebay, but I doubt it’ll make things noticeably different - but for now, things appear to be a little more zippier.

Once I get done zero-ing out extra 5TB hard drives that I use on my NAS box I’ll put the top cover back on and put it back in my left Ikea stand. I have to give HP credit - for their own line of computers, their boxes are easy to disassemble for upgraders.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:43:59am

re: #189 mmmirele

Also, Kanye West is certifiably nuts, but you don’t hear anyone talk about putting him under a conservatorship. Why is that? Because he’s a *guy*, I’d hazard to say.

Oh yeah, Kanye’s….out there. But I’ve never heard suggestions that he should be under conservatorship. Probably because he’s a guy, as you said, and probably because he doesn’t have Britney’s family.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:47:28am

re: #191 Eric The Fruit Bat

I’m running the latest BIOS from HP, and their doc says the highest processor replacement is the Ryzen 7 2700, with no visible way to update it to handle later processor gen’s, so i’m stuck.

But for now, things appear to be a little more zippier.

That is probably a motherboard limitation in hardware, rather than a limitation of the BIOS. The chipset may not be able to handle the frequencies or other hardware-specific changes in the latest generation.

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mmmirele  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:51:47am

re: #192 Dr Lizardo

Oh yeah, Kanye’s….out there. But I’ve never heard suggestions that he should be under conservatorship. Probably because he’s a guy, as you said, and probably because he doesn’t have Britney’s family.

I think what shocked a lot of people in the last couple of weeks was finding out that Britney has an IUD against her will. Now, I’ve never had an IUD inserted, but I have heard that for a LOT of women, getting it inserted is PAINFUL. And there seems to be a conspiracy among OB/GYNs to tell women to gut it up, grin and bear it and not offer any painkillers. Also there are some women for whom the IUD even after insertion is just painful and has to be removed. Not saying Britney is in the latter class, but she should have the choice to decide whether she should have an IUD or not. Not her father.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2021 • 9:58:54am
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 18, 2021 • 10:01:14am

re: #195 darthstar

I have to ask: What kind of international spectacle? The usual Trump family mess that passes for an event.

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jaunte  Jul 18, 2021 • 10:01:19am
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 18, 2021 • 10:01:40am

re: #193 Dopamine Fish

That is probably a motherboard limitation in hardware, rather than a limitation of the BIOS. The chipset may not be able to handle the frequencies or other hardware-specific changes in the latest generation.

That could be the case - but since I am able to use a PCIx4 NvME SSD I think the issue is with the BIOS - when I had the 3700 installed, the system wouldn’t throw anything on the screen to get into the BIOS - but it would consistently run through a powerdown/powerup process, which leads me to believe that the BOIS no like the 3700.

I’m still pissed as hell that Microsoft gave up on the Home Server concept as well as the Media Center - I used it for years with a Hauppague 2-channel CableCard tuner, and it was rock solid.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 18, 2021 • 10:04:54am

re: #190 mmmirele

She’s being appropriately dragged. Look at that ratio!

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She doesn’t care because she sold her soul to Charles Koch just like Manchin did. Mike no mistake about it Sinema and Manchin want the Republicans to get the Senate back.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 18, 2021 • 10:08:02am

‘God has to be involved!’ Lauren Boebert says she’s fighting communism because she’s like Moses

Assholes like her are the reason people are fleeing churches and will never go back.

Lauren Boebert says she’s fighting communism because she’s like Moses

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DesertDenizen  Jul 18, 2021 • 10:09:04am

re: #199 JOE 🥓

They’re nothing if that happens. They, especially Sinema, like the current state of affairs. It gives them the power and, in Sinema’s case, the attention, they desperately crave. They’ll have neither if the Senate flips.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 18, 2021 • 10:12:16am

re: #201 DesertDenizen

They’re nothing if that happens. They, especially Sinema, like the current state of affairs. It gives them the power and, in Sinema’s case, the attention, they desperately crave. They’ll have neither if the Senate flips.

It’s all about the bribes Koch put in their Swiss bank accounts. Neither one of them care that the US will cease being a democracy.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 18, 2021 • 10:20:56am

re: #201 DesertDenizen

They’re nothing if that happens. They, especially Sinema, like the current state of affairs. It gives them the power and, in Sinema’s case, the attention, they desperately crave. They’ll have neither if the Senate flips.

Both Sinema and Manchin have voted to approve all Biden’s appointments (except for Manchin’s vote against Tanden motivated solely by personal animus — which had nothing to do with the GOP efforts against her); Sinema is a co-sponsor of the John Lewis VRA. Everything I’ve read suggests that Manchin is taking the fall for other Democrats who are also opposed to abolishing the filibuster but don’t want to catch any flak for their position and so have remained silent. Let’s see if Schumer can craft another exception to the filibuster that will gather full support from his caucus and allow the legislation to proceed.

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sagehen  Jul 18, 2021 • 11:17:58am

re: #189 mmmirele

Also, Kanye West is certifiably nuts, but you don’t hear anyone talk about putting him under a conservatorship. Why is that? Because he’s a *guy*, I’d hazard to say.

See also, Charlie Sheen.

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jeffreyw  Jul 18, 2021 • 1:28:47pm

re: #179 I Would Prefer Not To

I’m guessing that some of these people working delivery for Amazon and others used to work in fast food/restaurants and this is better for them.

Good chance you’re right. I didn’t do more than greet them and assure them they were at the right place. It was an odd sized package, and pretty heavy so it wasn’t going to go out USPS. The truck wasn’t marked as an Amazon vehicle though I don’t remember the logo, not a rental. I imagine they contract deliveries of this sort.


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