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by stanky
Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:44 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: is rock and roll really dead this time?
Replies: 122
Views: 88885

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

What's popular in Bolivia? Like, what music have you taken in by osmosis there; overheard on the bus?
(I kinda hope it's not our pop music, but probably is.)
by stanky
Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:29 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Headlines that signal that the story will be misleading and/or stupid
Replies: 320
Views: 93150

Re: Headlines that signal that the story will be misleading and/or stupid

Isn't it the sponsors whom influence the dumbnitude of the media? If the product they're selling is crappy or, overpriced; unnecessary and toxic, they need you to be dumb enough to buy it anyway. The show must not critique it's sponsorship negatively. There's the stranglehold. Big pharma disproporti...
by stanky
Fri Aug 30, 2024 2:41 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: morality's half twists
Replies: 48
Views: 47747

Re: morality's half twists

The large picture tends to demonstrate the equality of good and evil and their co-dependence. For believers in 'afterlife' or many lives, incarnation and such, morality has a special role. It can fall apart upon consideration of eternal life, or a Bhuddist like series of life and death and life. Dea...
by stanky
Thu Aug 29, 2024 7:36 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: trump off the CO ballot
Replies: 565
Views: 129770

Re: trump off the CO ballot

I've heard that they might care a little. They put up with his cringey aspects because of his other, good stuff. Can't imagine, but it's the policies, i think, and his being free of the usual constraints. It's a fantasy, mostly...of safety and security and more money and less illegal brown people. T...
by stanky
Thu Aug 29, 2024 7:27 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Headlines that signal that the story will be misleading and/or stupid
Replies: 320
Views: 93150

Re: Headlines that signal that the story will be misleading and/or stupid

I read a brief news clip regarding the Taylor Swift concert being cancelled due to terrorist threat. The CIA was mentioned as intercepting an ISIS plan to bomb the concert and kill 10,000 people. My first reaction: Pretty scary stuff. My second thought, shamefully, was "How hard would it be to ...
by stanky
Thu Aug 29, 2024 4:22 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: South American way
Replies: 174
Views: 28096

Re: South American way

the foley catheter brings back memories of shoving them up guy's dicks. when you pull out the syringe to inflate the balloon, they get nervous. i recall cathing guys that only spoke spanish and i was really struggling to explain (in spanish) what i was doing to them. he was migrant farm worker, pick...
by stanky
Thu Aug 29, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: trump off the CO ballot
Replies: 565
Views: 129770

Re: trump off the CO ballot

agree...but who was it Hitch was originally referring to? I forget. Some religious nazi like fuck.
by stanky
Thu Aug 29, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 1239
Views: 440688

Re: Planet America

that's nice to hear. these various arguments online are a poor representation of who someone is. and some of the debates are on subject matters that shouldn't be significant enough that family members write you off. I'm a busted-up, eccentric old stonemason with a philosophical bent who fusses aroun...
by stanky
Thu Aug 29, 2024 4:34 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 1239
Views: 440688

Re: Planet America

Clearly can't debate with you to any good effect. You're worse than Doc_X over at SC. Both so bloody sure you're correct and everyone else is wrong. OK then. I give up trying to talk to you. There's simply no point to it. that's silly. everyone is pretty sure their right, aren't they? but we change...
by stanky
Wed Aug 28, 2024 11:26 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 1239
Views: 440688

Re: Planet Americaahe's

sparky, even the first line of your post above is b.s. and i'm unconcerned about my lack of intelligence or the public view of it. also, i'm not a journalist. what i type here isn't at all equivalent to npr. what i've read and known about Harris goes back to her CA A.G. gig. she'd keep prisoners loc...