Fat is a type of crazy

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

You actually remember a post like that for 6 months

Do remember stuff. Don't you? Remember topics and the personality of posters a bit I suppose. Not hard really - there are certain posters whose personality comes through strongly and this is such a poster.  I remember he lives in Sydney in a job he's sick of, is close to retirement, and has holidays in Pattaya and such and gets annoyed at giving tips. 

If you don't I suppose it's like Groundhog Day - seems like that on some topics, where the same posters have the same responses or complaints, weekly if not daily. Still get 30 likes and laughs for the same comment as before. 

4 hours ago, KhunLA said:

TBH, don't know who to believe.  USA's fueled regime change of UA seemed to cause the problems.  Crimea first wanted out, or so I read, then Donbass, with their coal industry (huge % of UA GDP) had enough of the 'corrupt' installed govt, and were getting regularly bombed, women & children, for wanting out.  Or so I read.

 

It always seems to be about money, and what corrupt govt/regime controls it.  Cower & comply or die.

 

Was Putin right to go in, and stop that, I don't know, as MSM is anti RU & Putin.  But go to alternative news, and plenty of confirmation of UA being quite brutal to those, Donbas, that don't accept the new regime, since 2014.

 

Actually don't know, don't care one way or the other, as doesn't affect me at all.   That it caters to the western elites' grab for power & money, does confirm Putin's stance.  US & NATO countries have been trying to de-stabilize RU forever.   RU has asked NATO to stop expanding to their border, and ignored.  

 

Putin/RU going into UA is a no win for RU, so why, except to protect Russian that want out of UA control.  There's no profit for RU with war with UA.  UA's arms supply has been depleted, a while ago, and what little they had left, was used on Donbas and now against RU.  No longer a world supplier of arms as they were before the regime changes.  

 

What if RU put nukes in Canada & Mexico ?  Oh wait, they tried that in Cuba, and seems that wasn't allowed, and yet, RU whole western front if a launching point of nukes.

 

The news & politicians can't be trusted, so unless I see it with my own eyes, I don't believe any of it.

 

I remember when we were told the arms race was to keep peace.  Now wars seem to be started, to fuel the arms race for profits.  Screw the women & children caught in the middle.

 

Remember when UN was established to keep peace in the world.  Yet the 5 permanent members of the Security Council, are 5 of the top arms supplier of the world.

 

Want to stop wars, stop making arms.  

Simple solutions to simple problems.

Why is the mainstream media an anathema to some. The way they became mainstream is by gaining trust and building an audience so they didn't have to be some guy on a  c r a p p y   website.

There is a lot of distortion, influences and noise, but surely you can get something out of government websites -BBC, ABC Australia, Al Jazeera Qatar, or left leaning sites that are clearly bound by high standards - New York Times, Washington Post or the Guardian, or right leaning sites such as Washington Examiner, a range of Murdoch press - some in my opinion dodgy as hell but a point of view - and a range of non political media in the middle or either side. Take you pick. Have a look around. Better than some guy pulling a point of view out of nowhere or a government spokesperson clearly just mimmicking the words of the leader.  

1 hour ago, seedy said:

If you think that is the answer, it is not just your post that is simple.

 

If it's not love then it's the bomb that will keep us together The Smiths 1987

I can recall reading this graphic novel in the 80’s. Became a movie. Old retired English couple Jim and Hilda Bloggs deal with post apocalyptic life in the UK. 

Article in LA times. Shows news is getting around.    https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-10-06/forget-california-amsterdam-this-country-wants-to-become-king-of-weed

I don't post in the marijuana pages as not my business. I had a bad experience with hash cookies in Thailand as it happens in 1985 on Koh Samui. My subsequent marijuana experiences not much better. So strong. 

Happy to accept it's just me and have no desire to impose my experience on others. It's a bit hard to fathom that something so strong, and I believe it has got significantly stronger, can be all a good thing. But legalisation in America hasn't lead to too many issues that I have seen so let people do their thing I suppose. 

These Final Hours is a good 2013 Australian take on the final days. Some go for the big final party, some just freak out, some look to do some good as pointless as it may be. Netflix. 

28 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

I thought he was Chance, the gardener (no surname), who became known as Chauncey Gardiner. So he was never Chance Gardener.

Sellers best work was in The Goon Show. There can be no argument about that.

 

There's comedy I liked as a kid that new generations would find funny and others that were of their time only. Monty Python has something about it that as a whole is still funny to new generations whereas I think the Goons were of their time.

Probably new and exciting at the time, and an influence on others such as Monty Python, their stuff has always just sounded chaotic and silly and a bit childish to me with the odd funny bit. But individually Sellers and Milligan were so funny so I am not sure why that is the case.

don't think too much

good not to have things to worry about 

but don't want to be so simple as to be imbecilic

Not understanding what is going on is not a sign of transcendence 

46 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

You walk around with cash in your pocket because you don't want to leave any trace of your purchase ?

   Only secret agents like James Bond need to do that .

My bank card isn't connected to any outside agencies and I do not receive any correspondence or offers or mail or any  dialogue at all with anyone , no letters , no phone calls, no E-mails , nothing at all 

I do but that's because I use the loyalty card too. The supermarket computers send me emails giving me offers relating to past purchases, telling me what's on special and targeting it to things I use, the odd free product. It is possible they sell my information so the powers that be know I prefer Shredded Wheat to Weet Bix but I can live with that. 

31 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Brilliantly told in 'On the Beach' by Nevil Shute, a book I read as a teenager, of life there as the nuclear cloud came ever closer. There was a 1959 film of it too with an all-star cast.

Filmed in my city Melbourne Australia deemed to be one of the safest big cities in the event of the Northern hemisphere apocalypse as long as the clouds of radiation aren't big enough to kill life everywhere. 

3 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

You need to get a little gang together and go out in numbers , mark your turf out and defend your area

add some jazz ballet West Side Story style

You posted a similar topic 6 months ago and there were similar responses from some similar posters . My response was get fit and do some boxing if it feels good if only do build your confidence in yourself to know that it is best not to fight but you don't have to feel like a pussy by not fighting if you know you are able to handle yourself a bit if no choice. 

I went to a TM session a couple of times. It used to be big in the 90's. Seemed like stock standard meditation with a bit of hype. Hard to say after two sessions to be fair.  No levitation just bouncing around. Tried a few new agey things in the early 90's but then decided it's not for me. 

40 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Some or most people  I know or knew, liked to work, who had work they cared for, was interested in, or was passionate about, and I feel sorry for those who never experienced strong feeling of joy, passion or loyalty to their work in their life and I would agree. 
 

 

One thing good about working for the government sector is you can do some good which makes work more fun. Worked for a bank and an oil company and not the same feeling. Not everyone concurs that government workers do good but the country would be in a mess without us. 

This wasn't your standard annual hurricane. So bad. Who knows if this particular storm is related to climate change but when you see what the future may hold, devastation and life lost, a beachside dream life in places like Fort Myers not practical anymore, so many lives thrown into chaos, it must give even Maga heads pause as they see have a look at the potential future. No more scientific theoreticals but how life could be. 

10 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Wasn't he about 70 years old ?

Sex twice a  week is 100 per year , 1000  per ten years .

5000 sex in 50 years . 

Sex twice a week isn't out of the ordinary for married couples * 

So 5000 sexes is about normal 

(*BM2 really doesnt need to tell everyone that his UK Wife wouldn't have sex with him and that she cheated blah blah blah again )

He is saying 5000 partners though not times. If you take out at least the first few years of a marriage where one might hope dalliances are at a minimum, married more than once, illness, periods of normal work where you are not in such an environment, start at 18 years old, 5000 is a big call.

He doesn't seem prone to embellishment or to magnify or inflate himself so maybe he is in fact king of the monger people. 

29 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

100 isnt that many. Only 2 a week for a year. 

I know. You've had 500. Though the way you procrastinate it's a bit hard to believe. But why would you make it up. Ozimoron had 5000 he said. King of the mongers. Where is Ozimoron? He's been gone for a while.  Better we care about now and keep an open heart rather than counting sheep or counting prostitutes.  

If you are healthy and happy now who cares whether you had 100 women or 5 or if you climbed Everest or if you travelled through Africa in a dusty bus or if you did this and that. You care about that stuff maybe when you can't do it no more. Till then do your thing that you feel like exciting or not. 

Big bands played big and small venues. A quick search will see Nirvana played at small places too such as the Coogee Bay Hotel. I saw Prince at a relatively small venue in the early nineties the night after he played a huge concert hall.

Australia or Melbourne in my case had a fun party in pub culture in my teen days of the 80's. So many good local bands playing in so many pubs with sticky carpet. International bands like New Order and Echo and the Bunnymen in their early days playing smaller gigs. I missed Souixsie and the Banshees but friend said it was the best. See Violent Femmes then they come back to my girlfriends house probably trying to <deleted> her friends.  

So many parties in old ungentrified mansions, rented by students, and in old factories. Property prices took off and the houses got renovated, pubs became pokie venues, then knocked down to become huge ugly apartment blocks. Live music and that easy inner city life had its day. Hard for new bands. 

19 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Anyone who follows Jon Stewart closely well understands that he will NEVER run for any office.

 

Nor will Bill Maher.

 

We did have a wonderful  comedian who was unfairly hounded out of office who was otherwise destined to run for president. 

 

Al Franken.

 

Own goal losing him but he does have a good podcast.

 

(Jewish?) comedians can make great leaders. Zelinsky has proven that.

 

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I have been watching Jon's podcast thing on youtube from time to time. To be serious he could be an excellent president - so effective at representing the 9 11 first responders and such a good communicator. He might be the real shake up needed as against the fake Drain the Swamp shake up. But as you say he seems to be disinterested - almost a bit of a recluse.

Bill seems to like his fun life too much to go down that track. Al Franken gave in too soon, even Trump said so, probably regretted it.

There's hopefully some Democrat who can appear and appeal to enough by 2024.