A Thought for the Day

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:26 am

Hotarubi wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:18 pm Just to split hairs, the Queen does not "hold" the CE.

I will send a groveling apology to Her Majesty!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:32 am

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did.”
– Mark Twain

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:21 am

Ever read "Letters from the Earth"?

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:15 am

Hotarubi wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 4:06 pm
Doctor X wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:35 pm I blame Megan.
She's a what? What?

Could be worse, she could be Chinese:

– J. "God Bless Ireland!" D.

Jimmy the Gent · Post by **Jimmy the Gent** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 2:32 pm

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sun Apr 18, 2021 2:13 am

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

~ Gautama Buddha

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:44 am

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
– Isaac Asimov, The Roving Mind

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 12:52 pm

Dan Berry
@thingsbydan
Learned that one of my nieces (9 years old) thought that the word ‘shucks’ was a compound of the words ‘shit’ and ‘fucks’ and this is now the only acceptable use of the word. Please update your dictionaries.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:52 pm

That is exactly what shucks means

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:56 pm

The official meaning is "a person or thing regarded as worthless or contemptible.", but that is only because they can't say the real meaning

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:57 pm

"William didn't dig the idea at all and said it was a bunch of shucks"

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:57 pm

"Shuck you man"

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:59 pm

Not to be confused with shucking in regards to computer drives

"Dude, you won't believe this, I bought this external HDD yesterday, shucked it and the drive inside is like twice the price of this whole thing. I saved like a 100 dollars!"

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:11 pm

“The bastard form of mass culture is shameful repetition [...]: always new books, new programs, new films, minor news items, but always the same meaning.”
– Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of text, 1973

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:37 pm

I love his phrase, “why are they trying to gas me?

(Gaslighting)

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:37 pm

Which is a very good thought for the day.

“Why are they trying to gas me?”

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 12:28 pm

Let's have a moments silence for all those dying for attention.

~ Anon

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 11:56 pm

shuize · Post by **shuize** » Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:38 am

Older Japanese folks: "Why don't kids go outside anymore?"

Same older Japanese folks: "Don't play any kind of ball sports, ride bikes, ride skateboards, swing on swingsets, or make any noise in the park."

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:37 am

Older British folks: "Why don't kids go outside anymore?"

Same older British folks: "There's a serial pedophile living at number 28. Let out for good behavior. But He's on a list!"

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun May 02, 2021 2:42 am

Isaac Asimov, A cult of ignorance (PDF)

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon May 03, 2021 7:35 am

To know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defenses come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

– Tokugawa Ieyasu

– J.D.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed May 05, 2021 2:01 am

“It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.”
– Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

xouper · Post by **xouper** » Wed May 05, 2021 6:42 pm

Cal Thomas wrote:Are there individuals who are racist? Of course, but that doesn’t make the nation racist any more than having criminals among us makes us a criminal nation.

I presume one could imagine a plethora of similar analogies:

"Are there individuals who are racist? Of course, but that doesn’t make the nation racist any more than having communists among us makes us a communist nation."

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sun May 09, 2021 4:44 am

"If in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is King - why would he wear an eyepatch?"

~ Moi

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue May 11, 2021 10:50 pm

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
– Albert Einstein

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Fri May 14, 2021 12:50 am

Good news we now know: It's being fought with cryptocurrency, cyberattacks, pandemics, and ransomware.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Fri May 14, 2021 2:12 pm

And mass media

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Fri May 14, 2021 7:58 pm

And people lying on twatter, apparently.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri May 14, 2021 10:47 pm

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
– George Bernard Shaw

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue May 18, 2021 3:39 am

Link: https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/1394357472652107787

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue May 18, 2021 3:44 am

"Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations, it is the rule."
– Nietzche

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sun May 23, 2021 7:43 pm

Does the TARDIS contain a toilet or does the Doctor just travel back in time to when he didn't need a shit?

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Sun May 23, 2021 8:28 pm

Time Lords do not ... shit.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon May 24, 2021 8:26 am

I do not feel good. I do not feel better. I am dead. I do not feel - anything. Ever.
The dead cannot be seduced.
The dead do not get frustrated.
The dead do not have wants. The dead are simply dead.

I killed mothers with their babies.

I've killed great philosophers, proud young warriors, and revolutionaries.

I've killed the evil, the good, the intelligent, the weak, and the beautiful.

I have done this in the service of His Divine Shadow and his predecessors, and I have never once shown any mercy.

– Kai, Divine Assassin

"Dr. Who was a fag!"

– McManus

– J. "We'll Add Them to the Cost of Mr. Fenster!" D.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon May 24, 2021 5:50 pm

In a Thor comic in the seventies Hela (goddess of death Norse mythology “Hel”) was stopped in her tracks. Death was ended, and she smiled as nothing died.

It took almost no time at all for the conquerors of Hela to change their minds, mostly due to what happened with bacteria

With out death a single bacterium growing and dividing would reach the mass of the Universe in a day

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon May 24, 2021 5:52 pm

Also pesky insects rapidly reached a huge mass of biting hell on earth

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Tue May 25, 2021 10:51 am

In fire safety regulations, it says "in emergency break glass", then, for your own safety in smoke filled environments, keep as low to the ground as possible.

I don't think they've given much thought to this.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Tue May 25, 2021 1:57 pm

Doctor X wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:56 am Various bon mottachi-thingies to help you through that Inevitably Consistent Disappointment that is your existence.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Wed May 26, 2021 10:33 am

Why aren't selfish pensioners helping to reduce the crime rate by carrying more money around with them? That way fewer of them will have to be mugged in order to take my kids to Disneyland.