Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

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Eddie Teach

#10905
February 18, 2021, 08:39:00 AM
Wags, stop being such a nutter.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Darth Wagtaros

#10906
February 18, 2021, 08:45:16 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on February 18, 2021, 08:39:00 AM
Wags, stop being such a nutter.
Stop being such a Syt!
PDH!

Syt

#10907
February 19, 2021, 08:52:03 AM
This seems a bit out of date ...

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

crazy canuck

#10908
February 19, 2021, 10:10:51 AM
Florida Coronavirus count as of now:
1,849,744
Deaths:
29,476
Recovered:
1,028,503

Not sure when your sister posted that, but you might ask her to look at some actual data.

Darth Wagtaros

#10909
February 19, 2021, 10:17:09 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 19, 2021, 10:10:51 AM
Florida Coronavirus count as of now:
1,849,744
Deaths:
29,476
Recovered:
1,028,503

Not sure when your sister posted that, but you might ask her to look at some actual data.
She'll respond with, "Do your research here is a start: https://newsmax.ru/democratscausecancer"
PDH!

Syt

#10910
February 19, 2021, 10:18:13 AM
 :lol:

EDIT, the picture was posted by:

QuoteVote Donald J. Trump Jr. New York State Governor 2022-2030

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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#10911
February 20, 2021, 04:33:14 PM
Quotehttp://one crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. "What's this?" she asked.
"Pulverized willow bark," replied her fairy godmother.
"What happened to the carpet?" she asked.
"The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum," came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
"Your old toothbrush?" noted her godmother, "Also nylon."
"Where's the water?" asked Greta.
"Down the road in the canal," replied her godmother, 'Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it"
"Why's there no running water?" Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
"Well," said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, "Where do we begin?" There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it's impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that's tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden's energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
"What's for breakfast?" interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
"Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs," replied her godmother. "Raw."
"How so, raw?" inquired Greta.
"Well, . . ." And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can't have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
"But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes," lamented Greta.
"Tilda died this morning," the godmother explained. "Bacterial pneumonia."
"What?!" interjected Greta. "No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin." 
"Not anymore," explained godmother "The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there's not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can't really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing - being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm."
This represents only a fraction of Greta's day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

The Brain

#10912
February 20, 2021, 04:35:24 PM
Come back, zinc! Come back!!
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Habbaku

#10913
February 20, 2021, 04:44:53 PM
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Darth Wagtaros

#10914
February 20, 2021, 08:58:33 PM
The Simpsons or MST3K? I can't tell which handled it better.
PDH!

Syt

#10915
February 21, 2021, 10:44:13 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

crazy canuck

#10916
February 21, 2021, 12:25:20 PM
Explicit affirmations of Christian Nationalism are not very surprising these days.

Razgovory

#10917
February 21, 2021, 12:30:50 PM
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

crazy canuck

#10918
February 21, 2021, 12:45:46 PM
Textiles are often the forgotten cause of the creation of the US

Malthus

#10919
February 21, 2021, 02:12:52 PM
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius
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