"Quand je me regarde, je me désole.
Quand je me compare, je me console."
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
I'll try a translation: Looking at myself, I'm appalled.
Comparing to others, I'm comforted.
Interesting, albeit unsavory, dude:
His career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and Louis-Philippe. Those Talleyrand served often distrusted him but, like Napoleon, found him extremely useful. The name "Talleyrand" has become a byword for crafty, cynical diplomacy.
Nobody can get the truth out of me, because even I don't know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion.
– Col. Samuel Flagg, USA
– J.D.
Mob of the Mean: Free beanie, cattle-prod and Charley Fan Club! "Doctor X is just treating you the way he treats everyone--as subhuman crap too dumb to breathe in after you breathe out." – Don DocX: FTW. – sparks
"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
"Indeed you are a river to your people.
Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
"Try a twelve step program and accept Doctor X as your High Power." – asthmatic camel
"just like Doc X said." – gnome WS CHAMPIONS X4!!!!NBA CHAMPIONS!!Stanley Cup!SB CHAMPIONS X6!!!!!!
May 1944 After evading Nazis, back in UK, the brass got 1 of my squadron to London to id me. Tiede told the Colonels, never seen him b4 in my life. Cols could hear him afterwards outside the door laughing. Cols (& I) none too pleased at his joke. --Chuck Yeager
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
Why is it, that cat food manufacturers come up with flavours like shrimp, duck, chicken etc. When all cats want to do is lick their own arses. So why hasn't anyone come up with cat-arse flavoured cat food?
Hotarubi wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 2:14 pm
Why is it, that cat food manufacturers come up with flavours like shrimp, duck, chicken etc. When all cats want to do is lick their own arses. So why hasn't anyone come up with cat-arse flavoured cat food?
Hotarubi wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 2:14 pm
Why is it, that cat food manufacturers come up with flavours like shrimp, duck, chicken etc. When all cats want to do is lick their own arses. So why hasn't anyone come up with cat-arse flavoured cat food?
"Quand je me regarde, je me désole.
Quand je me compare, je me console."
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
I'll try a translation: Looking at myself, I'm appalled.
Comparing to others, I'm comforted.
Interesting, albeit unsavory, dude:
His career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and Louis-Philippe. Those Talleyrand served often distrusted him but, like Napoleon, found him extremely useful. The name "Talleyrand" has become a byword for crafty, cynical diplomacy.
Napoléon thought of him as "shit in a silk stocking".
I thought that <desole> was more bereft, elementally saddened, more an absence of feeling with an overtone of sadness. I always liked that word.
Also look what I found
(after ) a period of reversion to the mesures usuelles due to unpopularity of the metric system
Seems to me that there is hope.
Vive la mesures usuelles !!!!
Perhaps I can latch onto the Minnesota riots and bend them to a new objective.
European slave traders used metric ergo metric is racist.
eta after reading this post I feel compelled to say "no, I have not been drinking"
ed wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 10:31 am
Gillette, back in the day, created ads to appeal to women since it was women that bought their men's grooming supplies.
Hotarubi: <smacks head> "ohhhhhhh ... so thats why they have those cute pictures of cats on the cans, to appeal to the chicks"
The only thing sillier than imperial is measuring an LED bulb's brightness in 'equivalent' incandescent watts. It's okay for now but even now there are kids that never met an incandescent bulb. We've pretty much fucked them for life!
Has anyone thought about how identical twins can cheat in exams?
Scientific facts tells us that identical twins can "feel" what the other twin can. So what about a twin sitting an exam that stabs the question in Morse code into her arm with a compass. Surely then, the other twin in a remote location can "feel" the question, do the necessary research and "stab the answer back" thus fulfilling the necessary criteria to get into Oxford or Harvard.
Think about it. We should stop these cheating bitches. And deport them.
Rob Lister wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 2:16 pm
The only thing sillier than imperial is measuring an LED bulb's brightness in 'equivalent' incandescent watts. It's okay for now but even now there are kids that never met an incandescent bulb. We've pretty much fucked them for life!
Why were incandescent light bulbs measured in watts in the first place instead of lumens?
I think the only answer is that people prefer to use smaller numbers. With lumens you need to add an extra zero on the end.
The other thing is when you use "incandescent watt equivalencies" it's easier to see how much energy you're saving. Because LEDs cost so much more, you expect a return on investment by saving electricity.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
"If I turn in a sicko, will I get a reward?"
