The Trump Sex Trial. I know of nobody who's interested in this trial and that includes even the hardcore Dems at work. Truthfully nobody wants to think about Trump having sex. The perceived martyring of Trump can only work in reverse. Uncle Joe - Russell Brand showed clips of Biden on Howard Stern's satellite show. It was strange. Biden was sitting there rather silent looking mildly bewildered and nervously holding onto the mike stand like he was on a ship. Stern who has made a career out of making fun of everyone and everything respectfully extolled the President and his accomplishments (?) thus far. Now there is serious talk of a great debate between Trump and Biden. Isn't this past Biden's bedtime? I thought he goes to bed after Wheel Of Fortune. I honestly thought he would put in one term to show what an oldster can do and that's all. Cultivate a hobby. Take hornworms off tomato plants or something. Cartoon universe.
Hey! those of us older than Joe resemble that remark!
ReplyDeleteWhat if he has to go to the bathroom during the debate?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure both those guys will be wearing diapers, ala the Swifties, or be on a no liquid diet for 5 hours before the debate so their bladders are empty. Honestly, the "Biden is too old" crowd seems to forget Trump is past his prime too...
DeleteThat's the Jon Stewart position Dave wtf are we doing?
DeleteBiden is claiming he has seniority?
DeleteAll the movers and shakers are old now. Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, George Soros, Bill Gates...They should all be playing checkers in the park.
DeleteHigh lecturn with plumbing?
ReplyDeleteGliding and sliding.
ReplyDeleteI've never won a debate. I'm married.
ReplyDeleteBB... you tried?
DeleteKnew a bush pilot. Long flights over the mountains to some remote
ReplyDeleteclearing etc. Carried a Mason jar - in nautical terms it[s called a 'flight
extender'.
Or a big Snapple bottle.
ReplyDeleteWho watches debates. We already know everything there is to know.
ReplyDeleteNephew is a debate coach in HS. The kids are trained to argue either side of a case with equal enthusiasm. Where is AI on this?
Political junkies watch debates. I'd sooner watch an Omega XL commercial.
ReplyDeleteOr a re-run of The Last Tango in Paris?
ReplyDeleteNo reboots of Last Tango in the works as far as I can tell. Endless reboots of Batman and Planet of the Apes. Go figure.
DeleteLast Tango - 2 hours and 9 minutes. A good filler.
DeleteFormer Mayor Bloomberg when there was a power outage in NYC would recommend drinking plenty of water but then you have to find the bathroom.
ReplyDeleteI live in Yonkers but once in a while I would go to the Danbury Mall in CT. On my way back on 684 I'd stop at the Bedford rest area. State Trooper came up to me while I was sitting at the table and asked me what I was doing here. Told him and asked if there was a problem. He said there were numerous reports and complaints about people drinking beer, smoking pot and having intercourse in the woods.
ReplyDelete"Which path do I take?"
Skp the place, have a mason jar in the car. On the other hand a state trooper might get you for unattentive driving.
ReplyDeleteIf you literalize humor you lose the effect. Most of standup is an exaggeration.
ReplyDeleteRead an article on why interest in blogging is fading. Many people got
ReplyDeleteinto i-net arguments and got frustrated with insulting and being insulted. (not to say that there are not those that love that sort of
profane bickering). It happens on the other social e-media as well.
On woman confines herself to commenting on flower blogs. What does one say? Wow, nice sepals, I can practically smell the rhododendrons? Humor - hard to analyze. Read how to have it and step 4 was to memorize a joke until you could say it over and over and not forget the punchline. Dunno, that would seem to make Jack a dull guy....here comes Johnny One Joke.
Conflict addiction. Some people go out of their way to find forums they disagree with. Don't believe in Bigfoot? Subscribe to a Bigfoot sub and argue with the Bigfooters. More and more blogs have comment moderation turned on 'cept when you leave a comment they don't check their blog and you're like any day now. Goes against the natural rhythm and flow of having a conversation.
ReplyDeleteI did that a bit with some guy at the creratinism site. He was a jewish-chrstian and I played on that some, but try to budge a pyramid, ya know? The goal isn't to piss folks off, just make them thing a little.
DeleteHumor. Work with a guy who takes mild sarcasm and light humor literally. We had a chef who always took long breaks. It was a running joke. The previous head chef used to play let's bet how long his break will be. It was all in good fun. The head chef now doesn't vibe with this. I said to him once Carlos is taking a long break. Carlos comes back and chef goes I complained about his long break. I was joking about it not complaining. Some people don't fit in with the spirit of a workplace. They don't pick up on humor or whimsy.
ReplyDeleteIt's the old 'politically correct' concept. One of my foremen was full blood Nez Perce Indian. I drew pictures of various tribal heros. Apache rifleman, Shawnee scout, Objibway spearing fish....and a Nex Perce with a tiny frilly umbrella wearing fishnet stockings. He retorted with a comment that descendants of the Vikings were modern wimps because the Vikings all died conguering Europe.
ReplyDeleteVP Industrial Relations said 'What the Hell?" Same foreman caught a rattlesnake, put him in a pail and everyone was a gaga . He snuck up and grabbed my ankle, delighting a crowd. Same guy- one of the women workers came screaming out of an explosives building that she saw rattle snake crawl under fiber drum. I says "Sam, check that out". He went in, tipped the barrel and both of them came out of the
door likd Clydesdales with diarrhea. Says 'Sam, I thought your people were brave and fearless" He drew himself up to a a dignified
pose and retored : "Not afraid of rattlesnakes...I though it was a mose". Back then, it was fun to go to work. What happened?
Now everybody's so anal. You're scared to go to work.
ReplyDeleteIt seems you have to make a living. Why can't it be fun instead of miserable?
ReplyDeleteAgreed. I'd even settle for tolerable. Just wanna pay my ConEd bill is all.
ReplyDeleteOdd ecomomics here - 2 big restaurants closed, but there are still a lot of pawn shops and mattress stores. Running a mattress store is an ideal job. Hardly ever any customers and a whole lot of sack time.
ReplyDeleteLike a curtain and blinds store.
DeleteBed, Bath and Snooze?
ReplyDeleteLots of them have closed down. Pricey store but I liked walking around. Made me feel relaxed.
ReplyDeleteProblems with the 'big box' stores. You can never find where you left your car.
ReplyDeleteI thought that was just me. You feel like an idiot walking around the lot with a couple of bags in your hands. Ever gone to the wrong car that looks just like yours? Then you realize something's a little off. Air freshener, book in the front seat. Kinda makes me hate shopping.
ReplyDeleteOf course all this would go down on Nurse Nancy's pre-Alzheimer's checklist.
ReplyDeleteLost car in big lot. Major cause of Alzheimer's. That and Google.
ReplyDeleteI try to remember landmarks. It's good to know your license plate. You say to yourself this will never happen again but it does happen again like going to the wrong car.
ReplyDeleteI actually have nightmares about not finding my car in the lot. End up hitch hiking and homeless. Then wake up.
ReplyDeleteI've had recurring dreams about trying to find a decent bathroom in a building. Dunno the Freudian implications.
ReplyDeleteWife was a farm girl. Give directions like "keep going up county K until you come to a cross roads. Turn to where Duncan's house used to be pass the cornfield, which may be in oats this year. About a mile before you get to the old rusty John Deere tractor, you want to veer left, stop and see if the blueberries are ripe. Schmidt's place is the last house on the road. Make sure the wooden bridge still has all the planks in." And I thought GPS was confusing.
ReplyDeleteSimilar. Back in the day Mom and Dad would take vacations and go on road trips. "Where's the Post Office?" Yokel: "Downaways." They'd drive for another hundred miles.
ReplyDeleteIn their travels they went to some kind of yarn store once. Sign in the front window read "Hookers Needed."
ReplyDeleteThey were in Las Vegas ?
DeleteHahaha no. New England and Pennsylvania.
DeleteI suppose your Dad went fishing on vacation and your Mom visited the
ReplyDeleteflowershops and bookstores?
Not much of an angler or golfer. Just tagged along like a proper husband. You see them in the malls sometimes sitting in the chairs waiting. There's a vibe of existential pain about it all. That's not to say they didn't have a good time.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, we rented a cabin on a lake for a couple of weeks, usually with friends who had kids. Had a row boat and little swimming beach. Kids now days do that on their i-pads.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day......
ReplyDeleteWay back in the day. My little sister and I would sit and watch something on the wooden radio. No remote, you had to get up and trun the dial.
DeleteUsed to do a lot of fishing, row boat stuff, shore stuff, canoe stuff.
ReplyDeleteNever once saw a domestic cat hunting for tuna.
I always preferred the john boat. Flat bottom you feel safer in the waves but you can't row as fast. Can Sasquatch swim?
ReplyDeleteJohn boats - which end is the front? Back in the day, they built real big ones to come down the Salmon River (the River of No Return). Worked pretty good and never returned.
ReplyDeleteOld Gary Larson cartoon. Guy's on an inflatable raft in the ocean listening to his radio. Important message comes on. His particular model inflatable raft has been recalled.
ReplyDeleteA guy I worked with had an enlarged Far Side cartoon above his desk
ReplyDeleteA couple of spiders building a web across the bottom and a little kid
sitting atop the slide. Spider says "If we pull this off, we'll eat like kings"
Had a couple of Far Side books to balance out the deep reading.
ReplyDeleteBass fishing contests on the Telly - guy stands on a platform in his
ReplyDelete$20,00 turbocharged cruiser. Fires out a cast. Bass bites. Gets yanked in the air 30 ft, poses for the camera, gets weighed and thrown right back in. Bass says "What the heck just happened? After a few dozen bass get caught, ya change the channel and get
the Cowboy Channel. Every day , every hour, two guys on horses
chase and rope calves.. Desperate, ya change the channel and there is the pillow guy. The viewing public is happy. Dunno Z-Man.
'Bout a week ago nothing on so I watched my blog on my smart TV. Either that or watch gators get shot all night.
ReplyDeleteDriving solo across Montana some years back. Only 2 or three channels with cowboy music. Then all I could get was Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh always made me mad. Kept searching and found a station from a little prairie town off to the south. They said "Be sure and stay tuned for the Hospital Report. Definite improvement over Rush. So I listened while I saw an occasional car
ReplyDeleteor truck and finally the big moment came. "Now here's Ellie Mae with the Hospital Report. Turned up the volume - There were no admission and no releases today: Be sure and stay tuned for the
wrap up". Turned off the radio and kept an eye out for Sasquatches.
Half of Rush's audience seemed to be liberals who hated him. Never understood that. Like a weird form of masturbation. It's like I don't listen to Rachel Maddow.
ReplyDeletethe business of talking heads.
ReplyDeleteMorning Joe seems off his rocker.
ReplyDeleteHe's on MSNBC, the Fox News of the Left. Although, according to my ex-friend Geeeze, All other networks from PBS to BBC, CBS, ABC, TNT should be illegal. Who knows - they might be shut down. By the new entertainment federal commissioner -My Pillow Guy. BTW Willie Geist is the son of old Bill Geist who used to do humorous stuff for CBS and Chris Wallace (Fox-CNN) is the son of Mike Wallace, the
Deletemuckraker of CBS. Entertainment kids all over TV and the Movies - some sort of inheritance.
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Surprising number of them are former Republicans who fled.
ReplyDeleteIMO Hannity is a Limbaugh clone. We are pretty sure of whatever stripe they are millionaires.
Rush would occasionally surprise me though. He said murder was committed in the George Floyd case and when Trump and Rudy were making waves about the election being stolen he said when you keep saying you have something big and you don't produce it that's not good. Maybe I'm a little partial 'cause he liked cigars.
ReplyDeleteMrs. is more liberal than me. I'm all for the death penalty. Eliminates
ReplyDeleterepeat offenders. You don't see Ted Bundy lurking around. What do you think of Alex Jones being bankrupted by the court for accusing the Sandy Hook parents of making it up?
Am I allowed to have a nuanced complex position on AJ and Sandy Hook? First off I never understood this conspiracy theory and don't of course agree with it. Having said that conspiracy theories in general are normally given a wide berth in terms of freedom of speech much wider than defamation. You can call King Charles a Reptilian and nobody's gonna sue. Moon landing fake? Nobody in the government has sued to date. Yada Yada but he seems to have crossed a line...yada...Even if the verdict was true and just I think the judgment was absurd. What was it like a gazillion dollars? Never understood that. At any rate AJ seems to be making some sort of comeback. Tucker Carlson and Russell Brand feature him. He should never have gone down the Sandy Hook road. Stick to the NWO.
ReplyDeleteIt's like you did wrong so you have to pay off the federal debt. Tbh I don't follow every case that religiously. Did he call out an undertaker by name for faking a service? Conspiracy theorists as I said are normally allowed to be as absurd as they wanna be and I think the concern among some conspiracy theorists is that you can now be taken to court for conspiracy theories. It's also a first principle of good conspiracy theorizing that the theory has to be plausible on some level and the more people that would have to be in on something the less likely it is to be true. That's AJ's basic weakness everything is a conspiracy to him.
ReplyDeleteSince no one sued, we can conclude the Moon Landing was in the
ReplyDeleteArizona desert where Neil Armstrong was played by Robert Wagner?
First the theory was Steven Spielberg filmed the whole thing then later on it changed to Stanley Kubrick shot it.
ReplyDeleteThe conspiracy theory the CIA had JFK killed. Serious charge no? To date nobody taken to court.
Another one 9/11 was an inside job. This one is very specific as Bush and Cheney are alleged to have been involved. Where is the court case and astronomical judgement against these conspiracy theorists?
ReplyDeleteMost conspiracy theories are not associated with the originator's name. A. Jones harped on his year after year after Adam Lanza took his AR-15 Bushmaster, killed his mother, then went to school and killed 20 children (the rest of their class graduated HS this year) and 6 teachers. Doesn't take too much empathy to side with parents instead of ol Alex. As for the Bushmaster - Remington went out of business (free market, right?) Remember the guy in the window in
ReplyDeleteLos Vegas - killed 50, wounded 413? Used bump stocks to turn single shot into a machine gun. Trump admin banned that weird
item in 2018 - last week SCOTUS overturned that - so you can get a couple. Another shooting conspiracy - Cryptid it?
As I said I don't follow every case religiously. How specific was Alex Jones? Was he extremely specific in singling out the parents? Or was he talking in more general terms? Empathy with the parents is fine but you have to deal with the law. Sandy Hook should never have become a conspiracy theory but in his mind who were the conspirators? Conspiracy theories are strange in the history of free speech as it has always been traditional to allow people to freely speculate without the threat of being taken to court.
ReplyDeleteI would agree with you about assault weapons as I've already said. Gun control is complicated but I'm a middle-of-the-roader.
ReplyDeleteThought Experiment - You should start a ludicrous conspiracy theory
ReplyDeleteunder the name of Shaw Kenawee. See if they get her.
I wonder what her BP is.
ReplyDeleteI see she has a link to 'Far Side' on her side bar.
ReplyDeleteSmiling is half of life.
Haven't checked her out in a long time. Probably mostly a Trump hatefest.
ReplyDeleteHe is an enigma - half love him, half hate him.
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