A Thought for the Day

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 3:43 am

Sometimes you wish you had a throwaway account, for real life.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:18 pm

Kids, come down! It's time for dinner!........

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Kids!!!

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KIDS!!!!!!

.......

You should try telling louder. I find that as your volume increases, the rate at which you get what you want also increases. Also, the overall quality of life for each family member also improves.

.....What did you say, old man? Are you being sarcastic?

Absolutely not. I love you more with every decibel.

KIDS!!!!!!

........

We're not kids anymore. We're young adults.

(I'm half dead in one ear. Can't wait to be full deaf in both.)

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 6:35 pm

Hotarubi wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:38 pm Cats don't have nine lives. I've tested this using the scientific method (I.e. a 4 iron) and keep getting results that do not support this assumption.

One might have had two, but further research suggested I didn't apply the method of experiment correctly.

We can only hope that you get the same treatment when your time comes...

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:32 pm

The experiment overlooked an important point

The cats were on their 9th life when you did your experiments

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:33 pm

Wait, that was a hot rub post?

Fuck

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:34 pm

You can see why I have that troll in ignore

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:46 pm

I don’t feel a thing

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:37 am

I'm much more concerned about the number of people infected with willful stupidity, which includes educated government officials, than the number of people who have been infected with COVID-19.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronaviru ... r-covid-19

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Jul 22, 2020 1:57 am

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
– J. G. Ballard

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:54 pm

"...commercial and nasty..."

Duh! Like soup and sammiches dumbfuck!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:16 pm

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
– Mae West

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:34 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:45 pm
robinson wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:34 pm You can see why I have that troll in ignore
Ignored by robinson. That must hurt.

Robinson boasting about having someone on ignore is much like a eunuch taking pride in it's chastity.

ed · Post by ed » Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:38 pm

Hotarubi wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:34 pm
Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:45 pm
robinson wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:34 pm You can see why I have that troll in ignore
Ignored by robinson. That must hurt.
Robinson boasting about having someone on ignore is much like a eunuch taking pride in it's chastity.

Are you mocking the trans neuter community?

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:48 pm

Elon Musk said people who don't think AI could be smarter than them are 'way dumber than they think they are'

The article, if you care: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-mu ... ink-2020-7

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:45 pm

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
— Joe Ancis

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:59 pm

"Antisemitism isn't a tricky issue. It isn't political. It isn't a centrist concern. It is deeply embedded millennia old racism that needs to be combatted wherever it is seen. With conspiracy theories rife it is no surprise the oldest and deadliest one has risen too."
--Matt Haig

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:55 am

Guys become, if you pardon my expression, sexual intellectuals. You know what the phrase is for that? "Sexual intellectuals." They're fucking know-it-alls, that's what.

– Gen. Chuck Yaeger

– J.D.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:08 am

Religion Prey on Weak.jpg

– J.D.

P.S. And this was my 72,666th Post!

P.P.S. Which is mildly significant.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:13 pm

“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.”
– G. K. Chesterton

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:53 pm

"The real problem of Humanity is that we have Paleolithic emotions, Medieval institutions, and God-like technology."
– E.O. Wilson, American sociobiologist

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:21 pm

They asked a wise man, 'Is he who gives you a wild tiger in a jade box being truly generous?'

The Great Sage replied, 'How should I know?'"

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:44 pm

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

--Abraham Lincoln

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 10:29 pm

"Buying books would be a good thing, if one could also buy the time to read them."
– Arthur Schopenhauer

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:59 am

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:29 pm

Depends on whether or not it is the Lady or the Tiger.

– J.D.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:17 pm

Doctor X wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:29 pm Depends on whether or not it is the Lady or the Tiger.

– J.D.

Pussy.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:36 pm

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
– Winston Churchill

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:07 pm

A nice sentiment, but debatable.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:45 pm

sparks wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:07 pm A nice sentiment, but debatable.

Only quality booze, sparks, only quality!

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
– Thomas Paine

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:47 pm

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:31 pm

"Please pass the ketchup"
– Albert Einstein.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sun Aug 23, 2020 10:49 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:06 pm

"PDF is where (good) data goes to die."

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:38 am

Young, inquisitive Bruce: Why do we scan all of our reports as pdfs before sending them to our clients?

Old boss (tired of Bruce's questions): Because it can't be altered. Keeps our clients from changing something and claiming we did it.

Young, inquisitive Bruce: But pdfs absolutely can be altered. In fact, Adobe itself makes a pdf to text converter. There are better digital technologies that has been around for years that are way more secure than pdf.

Old, world-weary Bruce training new recruits: Why scan pdfs? Because fuck our clients and modern technology. Just be grateful that you have a job and you're not making copies of these reports with a quill in the basement of a church. Maintaining the status quo in the corporate world is more important than common sense. If you want innovation, go join a start-up and see how long it can stand up to big pharma before it buys it out, swallows its assets and shits you out on the curb.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:40 pm

“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
– Aristophanes

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:29 pm

I dunno what stigmata sufferers are whining about. A little bit of blood from the hands is not much to write home about.

They should think themselves lucky that Jesus didn't live in a more modern environment, such as the French Revolution when their heads would just fall off, or modern day Texas where they would shake violently from side to side with their hair standing on end while their eyeballs boiled.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 10:04 pm

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
– L.P. Hartley

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 5:47 am

My Bibles have a lot of small print.

Sometimes levels of them.

What?

– J.D.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 6:03 am

The story goes that he was out riding with two of his junior staff officers on day. They see a landscape, and one of the officers says, "Isn't that beautiful?!"

But [Field Marshal Alfred von – Ed.] Schlieffen looks and says, "A minor tactical obstacle!"

– Prof. Denis Showalter, Colorado State College, "Best Laid Plans," Great Military Blunders: Timeline

– J.D.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:03 am