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Elissimpark posted:I don't how closely the nature of the Episcopal church matches to my experiences growing up attending a progressive Anglican church, but I'm imagining someone getting very aggravated about the quality of the tea after the service and the ratio of cream biscuits to plain ones. My old episcopal church had Mavis Staples in concert, hosts weekly bluegrass and community basketball nights, and had a coffee break in the service.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:When I lived in Charlotte, NC, there was a local scandal when a Catholic ladies' quilting society ordered in pizza, and it came with free tracts explaining that Catholics were going to Hell. The delivery person, who was fired, still thought he'd done the right thing. I honestly don't know how anyone can believe that followers of other religions go to hell and then be all "live and let live" about it. It's like seeing a sleepwalker heading for traffic and just going "well, it's rude to wake someone up when they're sleeping."
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What are the odds he's successfully pulling off some kind of rich shithead money alchemy? He's still on the hook for a bunch of money. Not just because of the stuff he promised, but all the trash-talking he did hurt Twitter's stock, and you're not supposed to do that when you're trying to buy them. I've heard it suggested he wanted to sell off a bunch of Tesla stock, and saying it was for this deal would give him cover to do it without causing a crash. I dunno, that kind of made sense to dummy like me. I'm not trying to give him credit by suggesting that he's some cleverly implementing some masterful scheme. He's just doing something he officially shouldn't be able to do, but can because anyone with his level of wealth can do pretty much anything consequence free.
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Dr Christmas posted:What are the odds he's successfully pulling off some kind of rich shithead money alchemy? He's still on the hook for a bunch of money. Not just because of the stuff he promised, but all the trash-talking he did hurt Twitter's stock, and you're not supposed to do that when you're trying to buy them. I've heard it suggested he wanted to sell off a bunch of Tesla stock, and saying it was for this deal would give him cover to do it without causing a crash. I dunno, that kind of made sense to dummy like me. I think at some point we have to apply Occam's Razor and just call a shithead fuckwit a shithead fuckwit. He's not playing 17th dimension anti-reverse-ultrachess, he's just a blowhard, and giving him all these excuses just plays into his smartest person in the room thing.
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I really hope he gets away with it, because he's gonna be a rich fuckwit at the end of the day either way, but if he owns Twitter it's probably a matter of hours before China starts leaning on him to censor anti-CCP tweets using his various Chinese factories as the hostage.
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Neito posted:I think at some point we have to apply Occam's Razor and just call a shithead fuckwit a shithead fuckwit. He's not playing 17th dimension anti-reverse-ultrachess, he's just a blowhard, and giving him all these excuses just plays into his smartest person in the room thing. There's a Brooklyn 99 episode where Jake manages to get someone to confess to a crime by claiming that it was pure luck that made the evidence possible to hide instead of a deliberate meticulous plan, and he ends up confessing because he refuses to be seen as anything but a genius. I kinda see Musk like that, except... you know, actually stupid. It's pretty clear the thing he hates most of all is being seen to be the idiot he is. All if which is to say, yes, keep calling him an idiot, it pisses him off and pissing off Musk is morally right.
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As someone raised Catholic I just have to laugh at Tradcath converts. They join for the aesthetics but I doubt you get to go to the cool Dracula's castle looking churches if you live in like the suburbs of Des Moines or something.
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Neito posted:I think at some point we have to apply Occam's Razor and just call a shithead fuckwit a shithead fuckwit. He's not playing 17th dimension anti-reverse-ultrachess, he's just a blowhard, and giving him all these excuses just plays into his smartest person in the room thing. Eh, I personally think like all 'self made' rich people, he buys into his own hype, but has teams of actual competent experts trying to steer him, sometimes he listens as best he can other times he doesn't. So there's a chance this had some elements of a plan to give Elon some liquidity without tipping over his house of cards, but equal odds the whole thing was just a manic episode, or some combination of the two.
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Elissimpark posted:I don't how closely the nature of the Episcopal church matches to my experiences growing up attending a progressive Anglican church, but I'm imagining someone getting very aggravated about the quality of the tea after the service and the ratio of cream biscuits to plain ones. Mind you, I still consider myself Episcopal, just too lazy to get out of bed on Sundays. Tiggum posted:tbh, if I thought hell was real and some people were going there, I don't think you could convince me that trying to prevent that by any means was a bad thing to do. Arsenic Lupin has a new favorite as of 03:46 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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Coolness Averted posted:Eh, I personally think like all 'self made' rich people, he buys into his own hype, but has teams of actual competent experts trying to steer him, sometimes he listens as best he can other times he doesn't.
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kazil posted:they are pretty poo poo at making crackers too
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Oh, people go on for years about "I want a sung liturgy Also if going to heaven means hanging out with the kind of insufferable tools that put religious tracts in pizza, I'd probably rather go to hell where the cool people are.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Do you tell strangers that they are surely going to die of heart failure and they need to eat lettuce RIGHT drat NOW? What's the difference? I'm absolutely, 100% certain, though, that I don't want to be tortured for eternity and I don't believe anyone else wants that for themself either, because it is, by definition, bad. That's the major difference.
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I hope its hot and terrible otherwise ill feel ive been scammed
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Cleretic posted:All if which is to say, yes, keep calling him an idiot, it pisses him off and pissing off Musk is morally right. To mildly tie together the two bits of the thread going at the moment, Cast the Mighty down from their Thrones, send the Rich away empty.
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It's insane, this baby's taint!
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Push El Burrito posted:It's insane, this baby's taint! HEY, lady! Let me see that baby's taint!!!!
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Dr Christmas posted:What are the odds he's successfully pulling off some kind of rich shithead money alchemy? He's still on the hook for a bunch of money. Not just because of the stuff he promised, but all the trash-talking he did hurt Twitter's stock, and you're not supposed to do that when you're trying to buy them. I've heard it suggested he wanted to sell off a bunch of Tesla stock, and saying it was for this deal would give him cover to do it without causing a crash. I dunno, that kind of made sense to dummy like me. He’s tweaked. He decided to buy Twitter when he was high, then when he came down he realized it’s a bad idea
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Baron von Eevl posted:It looks like it's just a slang term for cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, which is something that's been seen rarely in the past but seemingly is more frequent now. It's basically a GI disorder with extreme cramping. Here's a mildly hand-wringy article from 2019 about it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6690288/ Holy poo poo quoting this from too long ago in the thread but I get the cramping/other GI stuff from weed and so opt out. I was told it was ancient stoner knowledge that it happens to some people. Glad I never went too strong with the mg
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i scromit continuously but the weed stops it. like being knurd
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Do you tell strangers that they are surely going to die of heart failure and they need to eat lettuce RIGHT drat NOW? What's the difference? Consider the importance of the afterlife to these psychos who ACTUALLY believe. ALL things, ALL THINGS are secondary to the idea of being able to be in heaven. Heaven is eternal, life is not. If there is a chance that you can increase your likelihood of being heaven, regardless as to the suffering you experience on Earth, you would take it. It's simple logic - with emphasis on simple. As for converts being psychos, that's been the case for a long time - consider G. K. Chesterton. (hah, autocorrect wanted to make that G. I. - how appropriate) when he converted to Catholicism.
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Yeah, "There's no zealot like a convert" is a cliche for a reason.
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My experience is the born agains are even worse
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Cleretic posted:There's a Brooklyn 99 episode where Jake manages to get someone to confess to a crime by claiming that it was pure luck that made the evidence possible to hide instead of a deliberate meticulous plan, and he ends up confessing because he refuses to be seen as anything but a genius. This is also how they beat Sideshow Bob in that one episode by claiming the Rush Limbaugh riff was the real mastermind.
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re: baby taints; Presumably the baby is already born by the time they are being fed the baby food. Does the plastic and spinach go back in time and affect in utero development of the genitals?
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Please, Dr. Stab, stop talking about baby taints.
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Dr. Stab posted:re: baby taints; Presumably the baby is already born by the time they are being fed the baby food. Does the plastic and spinach go back in time and affect in utero development of the genitals? Uh, everyone knows that when you hit puberty your taint increases in size in direct reverse proportion to the amount of spinach you've eaten so far. Not knowing says more about your deficient taint than anything else, really.
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So baby taints aside (wtf) that guy thinks babies aren't supposed to eat vegetables? Or something?
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Popeye famously doesn't have a taint. Look it up.
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kazil posted:Popeye famously doesn't have a taint. Look it up. Popeye is canon genderless so this checks out.
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My social media pro tip is that if you don't want to appear crazy, the first step is to avoid crazy eyes. Especially when doing a deranged rant.
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OK not on topic but "Also, in the 1940s shorts, Popeye gained four nephews named Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye and Pupeye,"
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Peepeye is currently serving 40-life
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Peepeye is currently serving 40-life Poopeye died of a bacterial infection shortly after the movie finished filming.
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Tiggum posted:I honestly don't know how anyone can believe that followers of other religions go to hell and then be all "live and let live" about it. It's like seeing a sleepwalker heading for traffic and just going "well, it's rude to wake someone up when they're sleeping." Because most of the appeal is that you are better than everyone else. If everyone was going to heaven then there is no point being in the heaven goers club and you wouldn't get to yell fire and brimstone on everybody you don't like.
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Low testosterone babies.
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I was watching Clerks the other day and forgot that Gatorade used to come in glass bottles. Clearly, the switch to plastic is to shrink our sportists' precious taints.
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