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Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:42 pm I saw the UK applied for a no fly zone over the palace. I wonder if the Queen is ill? She is very old and her consort died recently too. I dont recall seeing her over the holidays doing her speech stuff.

It's probably something to do with her platinum jubilee. 2022 marks the 70th year of her reign.

I'm surprised there wasn't already a no-fly over the palace. The UK is basically a security state with cameras everywhere at this point.

Heathrow and Gatwick airports are both pretty far from Buckingham Palace, so routing wouldn't be a problem.

This article is the most bizarre example of filler content I've seen. It's entirely cogent. It just comes off as a bizarre hit piece by Citizens Against Raw Eggs. The 10 reasons you need to start avoiding tiramisu: https://moneyinc.com/10-reasons-you-sho ... -tiramisu/.

I get that it's not a legitimate site, but... It's like... heartfelt. It was the answer to the top question when googling tiramisu.

Goddamnit it! I know I should avoid opening Yahoo.com news on the day after ANY season finale of a show I’m watching ends. Every time I do, some friggin’ idiot puts up a headline with a major spoiler. This time it was the season finale for Dexter. Why the frig do they do it!? Aaargh!

We don't talk about Bruno

I'm not going to name names but one OOer among us is very stinky today and the stinky is lingering in the air like it's Omicron and the few people in the office with him should be very glad no one else is in his corner of the building or they would come to realize how just long particles can stay floating even in an environment with lots of open space with heavy circulating air.

Hamsters will drink you under the table

“You just put a bottle of unsweetened Everclear on the cage and they love it,” says Gwen Lupfer, a psychologist at the University of Alaska Anchorage who has studied alcohol consumption in hamsters. They regularly down 18 grams per kilogram of body weight a day, the alcoholic equivalent of a human drinking a liter and a half of 190-proof Everclear. In the wild, hamsters hoard ryegrass seeds and fruit in their burrows, and they eat this fermenting store as it becomes more and more alcoholic over the winter. In the lab, well, they’re pretty happy with Everclear. Given the choice between water and alcohol, they go for the booze.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:38 pm Hamsters will drink you under the table

“You just put a bottle of unsweetened Everclear on the cage and they love it,” says Gwen Lupfer, a psychologist at the University of Alaska Anchorage who has studied alcohol consumption in hamsters. They regularly down 18 grams per kilogram of body weight a day, the alcoholic equivalent of a human drinking a liter and a half of 190-proof Everclear. In the wild, hamsters hoard ryegrass seeds and fruit in their burrows, and they eat this fermenting store as it becomes more and more alcoholic over the winter. In the lab, well, they’re pretty happy with Everclear. Given the choice between water and alcohol, they go for the booze.

Indeed, space hamsters are no joke.

I'm just fascinated by the fact that someone will give you a research grant to study alcohol consumption in hamsters...

So I was online and saw my ISP says if I made less than $100,000 last year and if my salary was reduced by COVID (it was) I can apply to get my broadband cut to $0 per month until the federal government says otherwise. I have no idea how long this has been going on but I'm very much tempted to apply.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:47 pm So I was online and saw my ISP says if I made less than $100,000 last year and if my salary was reduced by COVID (it was) I can apply to get my broadband cut to $0 per month until the federal government says otherwise. I have no idea how long this has been going on but I'm very much tempted to apply.

Thats a funny one I take it but I did get mine down to $25 until Dec when it went up $4.

I love the idea of transplanting Massachusetts to western PA and eastern OH.

I don't want to live in Georgia!

I sure don’t want to be In Tennessee.

What am I looking at?

Gridlock.

The Uniform States of America. From sea to sea.

No shining permitted.

Modern life is basically a nightmare but this made me feel good.

I sometimes feel like modern life is a nightmare.

Then I remember being young, living without heat, being homeless, eating once a day,and without a friend in the world. And I realize that modern life, for me, isn't so bad.

And then I see stories like that (including pictures from the discussion of the kid's old home) and realize that even life when I was young wasn't that bad. And that life really is a far shot from being a nightmare.

As the song that google can't find right now says,

Someone's always got more than you
Someone's always got less
So don't worry about it
Be true to yourself
And try...your fucking best.

You got clothes in your mouth
You got food on your back
You should be fucking happy.

What has become increasingly obvious to me is how quickly things can collapse in life and how unrecoverable it can seem (or truly be) for people who were struggling in the first place. Mental illness, homelessness, addiction etc. are a one-way path for many people. But they often don't need be be. I don't have many of the answers; I'm struggling with mental health myself. But when I see someone in need, I no longer wonder, "How did it get this bad? How can you be so alone? How can you not want to fight anymore?" The answers to those questions are all too clear to me now.

My life's condition isn't so bad it's my body's condition that is so bad.

Sudy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:23 am What has become increasingly obvious to me is how quickly things can collapse in life and how unrecoverable it can seem (or truly be) for people who were struggling in the first place. Mental illness, homelessness, addiction etc. are a one-way path for many people. But they often don't need be be. I don't have many of the answers; I'm struggling with mental health myself. But when I see someone in need, I no longer wonder, "How did it get this bad? How can you be so alone? How can you not want to fight anymore?" The answers to those questions are all too clear to me now.

I came to that same conclusion a long time ago. Probably in high school when I had my first real brush with suicide. Suicide before then was before I really had feelings about death and so it didn't register fully with me. So many people got so angry at someone so desperate to find peace, a way out of torment. Now, I get the anger and I get the desperate drive. I don't know how to ask people to be at least understanding of someone who finally found a means to relief from pain we don't understand. At the same time as someone who couldn't find their way out of their misery, they have loved ones who can't find their way to empathy for the one they have lost. Emotion and drive kinda suck.

I try not to dwell on it too much and I when I do dwell I try to move in to outlet, like listening to Frightened Rabbit or Pink Floyd. FR is a little more challenging, though, since Scott Hutchinson took his own life.

Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:08 am As the song that google can't find right now says,

Someone's always got more than you
Someone's always got less
So don't worry about it
Be true to yourself
And try...your fucking best.

You got clothes in your mouth
You got food on your back
You should be fucking happy.

According to my therapist from years ago, I have empathy issues. Not a lack of, but too much. I can easily get gutted if I see someone suffering (in most cases).

gilraen wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:25 pm I'm just fascinated by the fact that someone will give you a research grant to study alcohol consumption in hamsters...

A short hairy creature, fond of drink and industry

Those plastic grocery bags are easy to grab and carry until you toss them in your trunk and get home and are in a hurry.

Come'er..no no.....handle....fingers ....no ....wheres the damn handle...why isn't this working. You had handles not 10 minutes ago at the store!!!

I don't know what the happy end of a pony is. I can't process this without context.

AWS260 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:29 pm Modern life is basically a nightmare but this made me feel good.

It's a happy ending, but (and I'm sorry to shit on the good news) it's one in a million.

The story triggers my socialism.

That a few people have unimaginable wealth while much of humanity is barely scraping by... that's immoral.

Holman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 10:20 pm

AWS260 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:29 pm Modern life is basically a nightmare but this made me feel good.

It's a happy ending, but (and I'm sorry to shit on the good news) it's one in a million.

The story triggers my socialism.

That a few people have unimaginable wealth while much of humanity is barely scraping by... that's immoral.

Because the only alternatives are all, or nothing.

Oddly enough Churchill had a motto, if we are to care at all what he would prescribe for a good existence:

'fiel pero desdichado'

faithful but miserable

I'm not scholarly but I fell in to the Rand trap when I was young. I'm not so eager to fall again.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:40 am Oddly enough Churchill had a motto, if we are to care at all what he would prescribe for a good existence:

'fiel pero desdichado'

faithful but miserable

I'm not scholarly but I fell in to the Rand trap when I was young. I'm not so eager to fall again.

You fell into of these?

More like one of these



(I still think Ayn Rand is valuable read, just not something to be accepted at face value)

I'm sure a starving child finds Churchill's platitude very comforting.

Maybe they should have gotten a second job.

When did Walmart start charging you a $6 fee on online orders of less than $25? What crap.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 5:25 pm When did Walmart start charging you a $6 fee on online orders of less than $25? What crap.

Corporate meeting at Walmart:

Big Boss: "Smithers, we need to add $10 billion to our bottom line immediately."

Smithers: We've been working on a project to feed the homeless and apply for funds from the government, but we will need to increase our labor force by 10%.

Big Boss: "Screw that, employees are messy."

Smithers: "Uh, we could charge $6.00 for every online order less than $25.00..."

Big Boss: "Get on it!"