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garbon

#57555
August 12, 2016, 03:38:03 AM
Quote from: Tyr on August 12, 2016, 02:18:57 AM
I just saw a guy who I assume was an American tourist.  Middle aged, fat, with a hefty moustache.
He was wearing a t shirt with a picture of a cartoon witch on it and the text "Salem - massachusesttes - a wicked good time".
Where he is from I guess.
Though it made me think.
The witch trials were a pretty nasty part of history. Ignorant proto yanks decided to murder a few women because they wanted to wipe out witchcraft in the world. They couldn't abide it in their town.
....
Yet because of their action their town is forever famous for witchcraft.
Quite a delicious irony really.

Not so ironic.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Savonarola

#57556
August 12, 2016, 01:37:40 PM Last Edit: August 12, 2016, 02:22:14 PM by Savonarola
Actual news story:  Obama's Summer Playlist

While I've complained many times in the election thread about the how silly and trivial the news concerning the presidential race has been; it's helpful to remember that their coverage of the current president is every bit as silly and trivial.

Edit:  Not only his summer play list they also have a story on His Summer Reading List:



I had no idea there was an illustrated edition of The Art of the Deal.

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Admiral Yi

#57557
August 12, 2016, 02:52:25 PM
That picture made me realize: I don't think I've ever seen a black person with really snaggly teeth.  :hmm:

CountDeMoney

#57558
August 12, 2016, 03:26:56 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 12, 2016, 02:52:25 PM
That picture made me realize: I don't think I've ever seen a black person with really snaggly teeth.  :hmm:

Well, you have.

11B4V

#57559
August 12, 2016, 03:47:22 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 12, 2016, 03:26:56 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 12, 2016, 02:52:25 PM
That picture made me realize: I don't think I've ever seen a black person with really snaggly teeth.  :hmm:

Well, you have.

"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Josquius

#57560
August 13, 2016, 02:07:11 PM
Today I kicked It old school. ... I slept till 2pm :w00t:

Quote from: garbon on August 12, 2016, 03:38:03 AM
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Not so ironic.
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HowSo?
Text book irony I reckon
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Sheilbh

#57561
August 13, 2016, 02:10:36 PM
Summer reading list is normally pretty common over here you normally get a story on most of the party leaders' ones. Though sometimes you'll also get politicians - like Ed Miliband who sort of sets a suggested reading list of interesting current political/social science/economics/history books for his MPs.
Let's bomb Russia!

Savonarola

#57562
August 13, 2016, 02:33:55 PM
For those of you who simply cannot get enough light and fluffy news CNN expanded the story I posted above to include Biden's Summer Playlist.  Wow, what a phenomenal story.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

The Brain

#57563
August 13, 2016, 02:36:57 PM
Thanks. :)
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Eddie Teach

#57564
August 13, 2016, 05:19:50 PM
Matthew McConaughey's dogs have better taste then he does. BBQs always better than sushi.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

#57565
August 14, 2016, 10:16:50 AM
Quote from: Tyr on August 13, 2016, 02:07:11 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 12, 2016, 03:38:03 AM
Not so ironic.
HowSo?
Text book irony I reckon

That a place where something horrible occurred when trying to stomp something out because of ignorance became famous for that / makes money because of the thing people had wanted to stomp out? I'd call that typical.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Sheilbh

#57566
August 14, 2016, 06:32:44 PM
Spent a peaceful evening browsing properties for sale, now suffering from either acid reflux or a sadness-induced heart attack :)
Let's bomb Russia!

Admiral Yi

#57567
August 14, 2016, 09:26:46 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 14, 2016, 06:32:44 PM
Spent a peaceful evening browsing properties for sale, now suffering from either acid reflux or a sadness-induced heart attack :)

Pop a Prilosec, and if that doesn't work jab a syringe filled with lithium into your heart.

The Minsky Moment

#57568
August 15, 2016, 11:24:59 AM
Venezuela has a cabinet level minister for Ecosocialism.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Valmy

#57569
August 15, 2016, 11:29:16 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on August 15, 2016, 11:24:59 AM
Venezuela has a cabinet level minister for Ecosocialism.

This minister has overachieved a bit at achieving a zero growth economy.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."
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