11:45 AM Mr. Silver
Every time I see individually wrapped American cheese slices, I think of Richard Jeni: "It took the French people to invent the croissant, but it took the American people to stuff it full of crappy ham and shitty shiny cheese."
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uahCxf-dVLo You're welcome! - Mr. Silver)
11:45 AM Mr. Green
LOL
10:07 AM Mr. Silver
10:10 AM Mr. Silver
"In addition to the strength-to-weight ratio, bamboo has the advantage of bursting into long sharp shards that can impale and lodge in human flesh like a porcupine exploded."
"That's an advantage?"
"Oh, the military loves that feature."
"I see..."
10:31 AM Mr. Blue
Considering how disposable cars are these days, it makes sense.
Cars aren't built to last more than like, 20 years anyway, at the most.
10:33 AM Mr. Silver
Tell a person their car is made of grass and they'll balk for a variety of reasons
10:37 AM Mr. Silver
The irrational fear of the "accident bullseye" magically drawn on "a fragile box" for one, coupled with the cultural bias not only towards metal, but heavy metal.
10:38 AM Mr. Blue
Those Lotus' are made out of practically nothing, I think.
10:39 AM Mr. Silver
Offer a guy a choice of a combat tank plated in steel versus some modern ceramics, and most would see a flowerpot and pick steel, even though that'd be stupid.
10:42 AM Mr. Silver
Tell them to pick "bronze" and they'd hear "age" and think you were crazy, even though one of the alloys comes up just short of diamond for hardness.
It'll happen though. I remember years ago when people were flipping out about all the plastic in their cars!
"It's crazy! Plastic?!?! What if there's an accident?"
11:14 AM Mr. Silver
Now nobody even considers it.
11:15 AM Mr. Blue
I sure don't.
11:56 AM Mr. Blue
Lots of people just died:
Gadhafi, Gaddafi, Gaddaffi, Qadhafi...all dead.
11:58 AM Mr. Silver
Kadaffi kicked it too.
I sense a pattern.
Perhaps a conspiracy is in motion.
12:13 PM Mr. Silver
She really liked Mrs. Pig-iron's poems. "She's really talented!" I couldn't get through them.
12:17 PM Mr. Silver
She used to have some style...but limericks and simple stacks of couplets with no sense of metre is just bleh.
12:19 PM Mr. Blue
I don't know poetry at all.
12:21 PM Mr. Silver
The real stuff can be rather good.
12:23 PM Mr. Silver
Somewhere along the way there was a movement towards free verse (Read “prose”), abstract nonsense, and other claptrap. Then there's just lack of effort/talent.
12:33 PM Mr. Silver
That is considered a poem.
I call it an autistic typing exercise.
12:34 PM Mr. Blue
Yeah, that's just stupid.
12:34 PM Mr. Blue
Rush Limbaugh accidentally defended this group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord's_Resistance_Army
Going solely on their name, he assumed they were simply Christian resistance fighters
but, in a nutshell, they kill innocents, disfigure people and rape girls (by the hundreds of thousands).
12:41 PM Mr. Silver
Nice club.
12:47 PM Mr. Silver
Rush and they should hang out together.
12:47 PM Mr. Blue
They played the soundbite on the Colbert Report.
He was, at first, criticizing Obama for sending in troops that are helping the locals to go after this organization.
Then later discovered and acknowledged that they were committing atrocities, and stated that he will do his "due diligence" and get back to (the listeners).
12:49 PM Mr. Silver
Perhaps he'll claim the story was a Marxist plot to discredit him from the inside.
1:04 PM Mr. Silver
It started with this business: “Mary's Second Hand”
"My God! What happened to her first hand?"
1:05 PM Mr. Blue
"The second hand chopped it off!"
1:06 PM Mr. Silver
Mary's Second Alien Hand
1:06 PM Mr. Blue
Mary's hand is the Devil's plaything!
1:54 PM Mr. Blue
I wonder what a whole peppercorn tastes like.
2:04 PM Mr. Silver
Pepper, mostly.
I've eaten them; granted it was when I was a kid.
2:04 PM Mr. Blue
Bad/good?
2:05 PM Mr. Silver
I suppose it depends how much you like pepper.
2:06 PM Mr. Blue
Indifferent.
2:09 PM Mr. Silver
It tastes indifferent.
2:12 PM Mr. Blue
It doesn't taste strong?
2:13 PM Mr. Silver
Yes! It's pepper!
2:48 PM Mr. Silver
So Cain is both strict anti-abortion and totally pro-choice.
Can we please get rid of that boob?
2:48 PM Mr. Blue
Like Romney?
Romney is a pro-choice, pro-tax, pro-universal health care "conservative".
He's a white Obama.
2:49 PM Mr. Silver
2:49 PM Mr. Blue
Let's see Mr. Cain's spin...
bleh
Wonder when he decided to become a heterosexual.*
(* Mr. Blue has a theory that most loudmouthed right-wingers in authority with strong opinions on sexual issues are gay/perverts/guilty of their issue. Watch the headlines; he might win a Nobel some day. - Mr. Silver)
2:55 PM Mr. Silver
Well, with personal convictions as strong as "it should be 100% banned but completely one's personal choice", I'm sure he's hetero...as well as LGBTQ.
3:01 PM Mr. Blue
Jon Huntsman is the most rational in the field, and he's a Mormon.**
(**Me again. Big black mark, but not on dogmatic grounds. I'm spiritual and admire their devotion, but I also know Mormonism is as fake as Scientology, just older. Mr. Blue is Agnostic/Atheistic and has little room for any religion, but respects history and evidence and also knows Mormonism is completely fabricated. Neither of us want a president that wasn't curious or capable enough to figure this out by adulthood, or that knew the truth but chose to stay in the church anyway. - Mr. Silver)
3:03 PM Mr. Silver
I'll spin the upcoming election to you this way - I can't vote in the Republican primary so I won't care who wins the nomination until its over.
At present, there appears to be a solid Idiocratic movement on the Red side...again...
3:08 PM Mr. Silver
That said, I have every confidence they will eliminate the top-merited end of the candidate list due to (sadly) over-evident intelligence and qualifications.
They will also weed out the crazies as they know they'll end under a landslide.
The final popular choice have an experienced character/history and be very amiable...so much so that his handlers will fear he will lose, and turn him into a slander spouting jerk.
They will then saddle him with a complete fool who is only selected to pander to a large segment of the voters they are "losing".
This is completely aside from any other illegal and unethical campaigning/voting/anti-voting behavior that always ends with the lion's share a very bloody Red.
3:12 PM Mr. Silver
Some history - I always liked McCain and was leaning towards him every time he ran, up until the last presidential race when the standard strategy was applied.
3:13 PM Mr. Blue
Right, he became too pliable.
3:15 PM Mr. Silver
They crafted an a-hole out of someone who seemed to be a nice level-headed guy.
Left undamaged and without a sideshow VP for a running mate, McCain might have won.
3:22 PM Mr. Silver
Here...from this morning:
7:49 AM Mr. Green
The average American is a MORON. I don’t blame politicians for the country falling apart anymore... I blame the idiots who elected them.
7:50 AM Mr. Silver
Yes, but they elected idiots.
We've needed a few rounds of meritocracy for decades.
This country was founded and run by qualified people to get it started.
No state sent their most outspoken pandering fool to write the US Constitution.
We need a new set of “founding fathers” to fix everything the current culturally-inbred imbeciles wrecked...complete with the power to tell the loud ones to shut up for about 8 years.
8:14 AM Mr. Silver
But...that isn't going to happen.
3:24 PM Mr. Blue
No.
3:34 PM Mr. Silver
Anyway, the point is: If I'm pleasantly surprised by the Republican choice...an event in which I have no confidence...I will follow the election with enthusiasm and would not ban myself from
voting for a Republican for president merely based on what team he's on, because I've followed Republicans before.
3:37 PM Mr. Silver
Sadly, my real world experience versus my philosophical open-mindedness is making their task of winning that vote an uphill battle.
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