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  1. 14 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    They won’t ever disarm, and it would certainly be more than Obama ever accomplished. 

    So what good exactly does a halt in testing do?

    When are those American prisoners coming home?

  2. 39 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Paying $1,600,000 to coerce an abortion, soliciting bribes from Russian companies under sanction to try to influence the US government on their behalf, apparently scheming with China and the UAE to get paid blood money for arranging to have a dissident sent back to certain death ... you know, this Elliott Broidy guy is a real jerk.

    Trump's kind of guy. 

  3. 39 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    North Korea says they are suspending future nuclear and long-range missile tests and will close their nuclear test site. 

    Good job, Trump. 

    Not the same as disarmament. He's not giving up his nukes.  

    When are the three American prisoners coming home?

  4. On April 18, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Cheeseweasel said:

    The guy next to me at the Rolling Stones concert was smoking weed! HE WAS SMOKING WEED! AND THE COPS DIDN'T ARREST HIM!!!

     

    OK, I was 15 at the time and this was my first concert. Little did I know that errrrybody was smoking weed at every concert.

    At a Pink Floyd concert in '87 the guy sitting next me asked me to put out the joint my friends and I were smoking. I just laughed at him. "You're at a Pink Floyd show. I defy you to find another seat in the stadium where the person next to you isn't smoking pot." We kept right on toking.

  5. 1 minute ago, FondrenRoad said:

    Hack is slang for taxi driver so it gives him a solid cover.  Its right there with Hunts Point Hooking Corp.

    Yeah, I wasn't actually suggesting that it was a computer hacking company. I just found it ironic. That and the "laugh" homophone. 

  6. Twenty-five years ago tonight I saw my first Phish show. 

    Phish | Tue Apr 20th, 1993 | Newport Music Hall | Columbus, OH 

    Set 1: Runaway Jim > Weigh > Sparkle, Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, It's Ice > Glide, Uncle Pen, Lawn Boy, David Bowie1

    Set 2: Chalk Dust Torture, Fluffhead > Sample in a Jar, Big Ball Jam, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, My Friend, My Friend2, Llama, You Enjoy Myself, Hold Your Head Up > Whipping Post3 > Hold Your Head Up, Golgi Apparatus

    Encore: Funky Bitch, Amazing Grace4

    1. Simpsons and All Fall Down signals in intro.

    2. Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.

    3. Fish on vocals.

    4. Without microphones.

    The Bowie intro contained Lawn Boy teases from Trey as well as Simpsons and All Fall Down signals. The beginning of My Friend featured Trey on acoustic guitar. YEM contained Mission: Impossible theme teases. Whipping Post featured Fish on vocals. Amazing Grace was performed without microphones.

     

    I saw my second Phish show the next night. 

    Phish | Wed Apr 21st, 1993 | Newport Music Hall | Columbus, OH 

    Set 1: Buried Alive > Poor Heart, Foam, Guelah Papyrus, Maze, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Rift, Punch You In the Eye, I Didn't Know1, Run Like an Antelope2

    Set 2: Possum, Mound, Split Open and Melt, The Squirming Coil, The Horse3 > Silent in the Morning, Big Ball Jam > Mike's Song > The Great Gig in the Sky, Weekapaug Groove, Gumbo

    Encore: Sweet Adeline, Cavern

    The jam segment of this Melt is the one that appears at the end of Demand on Hoist. The Mockingbird Narration contained a quote of the Winkie Chant ("O-Ee-Yah! Eoh-Ah!") from The Wizard of Oz. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone and The Horse featured Trey on acoustic guitar. Antelope contained a Divided Sky tease from Trey, an I'm a Man (Spencer Davis Group) tease from Page, and Simpsons, Key Change, Tritone Down, and Random Note signals. Mike's contained a brief Oye Como Va tease.

  7. 29 minutes ago, Pods said:

    When threads blow up in response to a troll on here, it's because people take them at face value and give them serious responses. The worst thing to do with a troll is give them sustained discussion. That's what serious responses do. I'd like for no one to ever respond to them, but I've got years of experience saying people still will. 

    So if you can't make them go away, expose them. A combination of occasionally trolling them back while usually ignoring them is the best response in my opinion. Agree to disagree. 

    Taking them seriously excuses 2 or 3 replies before a sensible person should be able to recognize a troll. After that you're just feeding the troll and making them post more. How many times have you responded to sheeeit? And yet he's still here. I didn't need to reply to him once to see that he's a troll and put him on ignore. You're strategy is not having the outcome you think it is. 

    You're free to disagree. Just think about it and consider the possibility that you're just feeding the trolls and cluttering up threads. Some people aren't worth responding to. You're not going to embarrass them. You're not going to change their mind. You're not "exposing" them. You're just getting trolled and are falling for it. 

  8. 35 minutes ago, Lurch said:

    At this time, a wave of staged auto accidents, involving immigrants from the former Soviet Union who claimed to have been hurt, had led prosecutors to open a massive investigation. They dubbed it Operation Boris, an acronym for Big Organized Russian Insurance Scam. The prosecutorial push resulted in hundreds of convictions.

    "Boris. Why always Boris?"

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  9. 19 minutes ago, Pods said:

    Just fine. How're things going for you?

    Still just scrolling past every post that's responding to a troll, annoyed that people who think that they're trolling a troll don't realize they're the ones being suckered. You're not trolling the troll. You're helping him derail the discussion. It makes you part of the problem.

    Let me know if you ever get a troll to slink away in shame because he's been out-trolled. That's never happened in the history of the Internet. Replying to them only gives them validation. It's why every time you see a thread has suddenly expanded by 3 or 4 pages you know a troll has been at work and a whole bunch of people are getting trolled who think they're being clever and out-trolling the troll. The troll wins. He's achieved his goal. 

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  10. 19 hours ago, Pods said:

    PM read. I honestly don't intend any offense with this, but I don't know you or who you were on the previous board and you vouching for it in a PM with details of how you might know isn't really any better than you just posting about it as you have here. 

    You could well be telling the truth, I just have no way of ascertaining that. 

    It certainly seems like a plausible story and there ought to be some sources that have been published if so. 

    If you can't trust an anonymous poster on the Internet, who can you trust?

  11. 19 hours ago, sidis said:

    man, i have read things posted by dumbshit trumpkins on the politics board that i agree with more than this.  good lord.

    great series.

     

      Reveal hidden contents

     

     

     

    Did you think they were actually speaking to Nathaniel Sr's ghost the whole time? And the ghosts of whatever cadaver they were working on each week?

  12. 16 hours ago, Pods said:

    I agreed with that for a long time, but trolling has become such a big problem on the internet that ignoring it doesn't really work anymore. We need to return to the social norms of ridiculing and shaming jackasses like sheeeit and keeping him chasing his own tail in a circle. 

    How's that working out for ya? 

  13. 5 hours ago, Bat Guano said:

    That's exactly what they did, from my watching of the longer video. Hard to hear what people are saying on it, but I'm pretty sure when gray vest guy shows up while cops are getting ready to arrest the black guys, gray vest guy says, OK, let them go and we'll just go somewhere else. Cop says, no, they already had their chance to do that and they didn't do it. Or something like that. Then the crowd of cops slaps the cuffs on them. Respect my authoritah!

    I think you misunderstood what I was saying. What you say they did is not at all exactly what I said they should have done. The story should have ended with the cops leaving and the three guys staying to order their coffee as planned. 

  14. 53 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

    He had to enter the EU somewhere.  Even if he used a fake passport, that entry is recorded.  Once you establish he's in Europe, he has to get from his point of entry to Prague.  

    According to the McClatchy report he entered through Germany. 

  15. 29 minutes ago, Texas_Rocks said:

    This is just nuts. Those officers could have easily avoided this by sensibly informing Starbucks that these men were just waiting for a ride and that forcibly removing them WILL NOT LOOK GOOD. But Cops!

    How hard would that have been for anyone not focused on the fact that these men were black?

    What they should have done when the rest of their party showed up and they were ready to place their order was to talk to the manager and tell him they're ready to order so we're outta here. 

  16. 8 hours ago, softlynow said:

    It's really pretty simple for most. It was 8 years since someone of their party was in office, and, given how shitty the Trump admin. was likely to be, it very well could be 8 more years until the next Pub admin. If you're looking to advance an otherwise stalled/about to stall political career, you needed to make that jump.

    And a few, like Tillerson, actually felt duty bound.

    To the interests of Exxon and that half trillion dollar Russian oil deal. 

  17. How many of the three Americans still held captive in N. Korea did Pompeo get released? Remember when Trump took credit for getting a dying prisoner released? Surely he hasn't forgotten the three that N. Korea still wants to hold onto and isn't voluntarily releasing of their own volition. 

  18. On March 29, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Homercles said:

    I envy you for getting to see the ending for the first time.

    Yeah, when they depart from the format of the entire series where talking to dead people is actually a representation of a character's inner thoughts and it turns into actually communing with the dead in the afterlife. Blecch. 

    The first season was great, the second season was pretty great too. Each season got progressively worse from there. I thought the ending sucked. When Nathaniel Sr. stops showing up it's safe to stop watching. 

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