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I've seen John Oliver live recently and get the sense that he's more leftist than he lets on during his show. He started off with a rant about billionaires. He mentioned he was offered to be knighted by the queen but turned it down because of how much he hates the monarchy, then did a short explanation of how the Windsors became the royal family and was basically like "there's no reason we should worship these assholes when they skipped 15 people to find a monarch just because of how scared of catholicism they were." His stand up was extremely good. His show's jokes sometimes don't land well, especially considering he's talking about an extremely serious topic, and brevity isn't what's needed. But overall, I love that he often takes what isn't a well-known topic and does a deep dive (as much as you can in a 30-minute window). Anyway, yaall need to treat Blindsite's posting a little bit like General Dog's posting lol
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Tulalip Tulips posted:Shogun status: it's good. Saving it for tomorrow for our alone time (Every Wednesday night we split up and do our own thing, the wife crochets watching anime and I go upstairs to LEGO and watch cheesy action flicks) a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 08:47 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Feb 28, 2024 08:41
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a sexual elk posted:Saving it for tomorrow for our alone time Shogun seems like a show your wife could crochet to while you do lego at the same time.
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Feb 28, 2024 08:56
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Air Skwirl posted:Shogun seems like a show your wife could crochet to while you do lego at the same time. Gonna end up with some Tie Defender Samurai Mech builds, although I’d love some samurai beanies from her
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Feb 28, 2024 09:00
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She’s been making bank off Ninja Turtle beanies, last 2 commissions brought in around $300 bucks, a fool and his nostalgia are easily seperated Er monetized
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Feb 28, 2024 09:07
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seiferguy posted:I've seen John Oliver live recently and get the sense that he's more leftist than he lets on during his show. He started off with a rant about billionaires. He mentioned he was offered to be knighted by the queen but turned it down because of how much he hates the monarchy, then did a short explanation of how the Windsors became the royal family and was basically like "there's no reason we should worship these assholes when they skipped 15 people to find a monarch just because of how scared of catholicism they were." His stand up was extremely good. I don't really care, watch whatever trash you want but I was asked so I'll answer: the guy continuously spouts misinterpretations or even outright lies about both his nation's and European history so he can get seal claps from midwit champagne socialists. Its pretty typical of most of those light entertainment masquerading as news shows. You make just enough of an effort to appear to be factual and investigative to gain legitimacy, write enough average material to be able to hide behind the shield of "its only a joke". Sure he does some good with the occasional little light shining on some charity or someone who did something cool but he's still bought and paid for by the machine and he bends the knee any time they tug his leash. This formula isn't unique to the US, there's plenty of clowns on the TV out here that do the same schtick. I don't really have any hate for the dude I just don't care to listen to anything he has to say at this point. But then again I'm just tired and bitter lately so try not to put too much stock, I don't really engage with a lot of politics anymore. I just read my books and watch my sports.
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Feb 28, 2024 09:17
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Good ole Blind haha
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Feb 28, 2024 09:21
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I’m not trying to sound lovely but you ever thought about getting a pet? You seem the type with money and free time to get a good pup. Even I’m warming up to the cat the wife picked up I hate having pets cause I was raised with a few that died super early so I’ve just been weary of getting attached( the wife’s new cat is glued to my hip as I type this) a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Feb 28, 2024 09:28
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I love dogs, but I'm out of the house for 12 hours a day at a minimum and I try to fill my weekend with a bunch of poo poo so I don't become a shut in. I know dogs have no concept of time but I couldn't leave my mate alone all day every day like that. I've thought about a cat, but I've never had one and they kinda seem like dicks.
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Feb 28, 2024 09:50
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BlindSite posted:I love dogs, but I'm out of the house for 12 hours a day at a minimum and I try to fill my weekend with a bunch of poo poo so I don't become a shut in. I know dogs have no concept of time but I couldn't leave my mate alone all day every day like that. Ahhh sorry man, I get it tho. We picked up the dog a month after our son was born, that was rough but I was always home, the cats new (3rd week now) and she’s a sweetheart a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Feb 28, 2024 09:55
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BlindSite posted:I love dogs, but I'm out of the house for 12 hours a day at a minimum and I try to fill my weekend with a bunch of poo poo so I don't become a shut in. I know dogs have no concept of time but I couldn't leave my mate alone all day every day like that. Get two cats, then they are just dicks to each other and leave you alone except for affection
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Feb 28, 2024 10:02
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One of my mates had a fish once that used to spit water at you and then swim back and forth like he'd got one over on ya.
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I’d probably enjoy having fish a lot more if they did that. At least they’d be doing something.
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Feb 28, 2024 12:23
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3 DONG HORSE posted:IIRC the paper I did in college many eons ago, the pendulum will get more extreme over time. So crazy rain and flooding followed by intense droughts will be pretty normal by then. There's actual scientists studying this but yeah Shout out to my boss at Jimmy John's in the mid 00s, of all people, for being the first person to tell me that "global warming" was a misleading term and that it was more about weather becoming more extreme. Pron on VHS posted:yes, but I want to reread the giant novel first. So maybe a year from now I will check it out. The giant novel is also real good, if we knew each other IRL I'd lend you my copy. And yes, the show (through the one episode that I watched) kicks rear end.
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Feb 28, 2024 12:34
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The first time I visited America, I flew in from Chicago to Kansas City and stayed in Wichita. It snowed on the Sunday, had what I guess was a typical, many hour midwestern thunderstorm on Monday morning into the afternoon and was bright, sunny and in the mid to low seventies fahrenheit from Wednesday on, all in the middle of March
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Feb 28, 2024 12:58
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Cats are awesome, they're discerning and independent and only hang out with you if YOU'RE not a dick.
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Curb is a great show, but one thing it does is stir a deep desire in me to enjoy a meal at a country club. Also blindsite is a great poster, so is General Dog. you guys are weird.
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Feb 28, 2024 14:50
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The nice thing about being a pet uncle is that it's all of the joy of owning a pet but none of the responsibilities. My housemate is back from Montana and their dog was nice enough to wake me up at 5am by barking at a raccoon that was outside my window.
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West coast drought chat: Yeah, Oregon needs snow in the mountains every year. That’s what provides the freshwater in the Willamette Valley annually. Not sure about central Oregon and (shudder) eastern. Fridge chat: My first apartment in Japan was fully furnished because it was the English teacher in town’s place for at least a decade before I moved in, and is likely still housing whoever is teaching there for the town. When I came to Tokyo I got into a lovely place that had some furnishings, including a fridge…that was basically a college mini-fridge. It’s all there was space for. Moved into my first “proper” apartment and it needed everything, including a stove setup, fridge, washing machine, even some light fixtures. That’s pretty standard here. Second real place, similar, and for that one my now-wife and I bought a good new Toshiba refrigerator that we still have in our home 6+ years later. I hope it lasts a while.
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I read and enjoyed Shogun in high school but I don’t remember if there is any problematic stuff in it. Given when it was written it feels like there absolutely has to be, but all of his books kind of blur together so I can’t remember if Shogun specifically had issues.
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Just had to call to make an appointment for in home euthanasia for my parent's dog. Poor Ellie 
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a sexual elk posted:She’s been making bank off Ninja Turtle beanies, last 2 commissions brought in around $300 bucks, a fool and his nostalgia are easily seperated That rules, can you post some pics of the ninja turtle beanies?
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Feb 28, 2024 16:08
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I dunno that whole post about John Oliver just seems like a generic bullshit response but 🤷♂️ all gotta fight the power our own way I suppose
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Feb 28, 2024 16:10
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Oh boy for real jury duty, sat in a courtroom and everything. Think I'm probably getting dumped from the pool though.
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Feb 28, 2024 16:11
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Kalli posted:Oh boy for real jury duty, sat in a courtroom and everything. Think I'm probably getting dumped from the pool though. I've been on the interview panel twice. Got dismissed once. The other settled right before we were supposed to start which was weird.
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Kalli posted:Oh boy for real jury duty, sat in a courtroom and everything. Think I'm probably getting dumped from the pool though. I’m doing the same thing right now. They’re still doing the one on one questions and there are about 35 jurors ahead of me before I get called in.
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swickles posted:Just had to call to make an appointment for in home euthanasia for my parent's dog. Poor Ellie Ah, sorry to hear that. In-home is definitely worth the extra money though.
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trevorreznik posted:That rules, can you post some pics of the ninja turtle beanies? The headbands pull down and are more comfortable than they look. Her Opossum bags are really popular too https://imgur.com/a/y0tEcVR
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I got called to jury duty once. I brought a Howard Zinn book and told them I was an ACLU member and they sent me home early.
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Russian Guyovitch posted:I’m doing the same thing right now. They’re still doing the one on one questions and there are about 35 jurors ahead of me before I get called in. Yeah I've got 15 before me. I'm supposed to pick my mom up from om chemo and take her out on Friday, so I presume they're gonna kick me off
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Tulalip Tulips posted:Shogun status: it's Air Skwirl posted:Shogun seems like a show your wife could crochet to while you do lego at the same time. no, you need to read. Unless you watch it dubbed, in which case so sorry, please commit seppuku by dawn
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Kalli posted:Yeah I've got 15 before me. I'm supposed to pick my mom up from om chemo and take her out on Friday, so I presume they're gonna kick me off Yeah, they’d have to be absolute monsters to take you with that on your schedule. I’m just hoping that they fill the jury up before they get to me. They already picked for from the first 10 people interviewed.
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wandler20 posted:I've been on the interview panel twice. Got dismissed once. The other settled right before we were supposed to start which was weird. I think that's typical for civil suits. Even the ones that go far enough to get to court are almost always settled before trial.
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swickles posted:Just had to call to make an appointment for in home euthanasia for my parent's dog. Poor Ellie We had this scheduled for one of the cats the weekend before this past one, but she deteriorated so fast we ended up cancelling and taking her in mid-week which we felt really bad about, but the vet we took her to made it a bit more pleasant than the one I put my dog down at a few years ago so we were happy with that. It was still a lovely situation that kind of happened out of the blue though which really sucked and I miss her lots. The in-home thing is the way to go though. I feel so bad dragging animals to a place they desperately don’t want to be during their last hours on Earth 
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Every other time I've done this, everyone settled. Today we got in, 140 or so people and they announced 2 trials, one civil, one criminal then immediately split us in half and put us in court, asked a few questions and have been doing individual interviews for 2 hours now and aren't at my number yet I'm at most 25th
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Kalli posted:Every other time I've done this, everyone settled. Today we got in, 140 or so people and they announced 2 trials, one civil, one criminal then immediately split us in half and put us in court, asked a few questions and have been doing individual interviews for 2 hours now and aren't at my number yet I'm at most 25th Wait, I think we might be in the same court. I’m in the same situation and was sent to the criminal trial. They’re still on the second batch of ten jurors to be interviewed.
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Android Apocalypse posted:
Someone didn’t watch John Oliver this week!
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Android Apocalypse posted:
Someone claiming to be from the DOJ called my wife the other day on her work number and after finding out they were calling the VA immediately hung up in a panic.
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Wow Mitch McConnell stepping down. Thought for sure he’d die in office. Wonder what psycho is gonna replace him
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