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Bat Guano

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  1. OK, the only one I'm really serious about is the Beatles. They have maybe 2 or 3 good songs. Most of their early stuff is ear-wormy, inane bourgeois pop, which morphed into pretentious self-indulgent sludge after they started doing more drugs. Maybe this should go in the Unpopular Opinions thread....
  2. The Beatles Frank Gehry Abraham Lincoln James Joyce Beef tenderloin Canada
  3. My grandfather had a pump with a B&S engine, bought in the early 60s. We ran that thing for over 50 years, about a month or two every year (pumping water at a summer house). Changed the oil at the end of every season, cleaned/replaced the plug as necessary, the whole nine yards. The damn thing was always a bitch to start; I still remember my grandfather cursing as he tried to start it at the beginning of each season - the only time I've ever heard him curse. He broke the starter rope at least a couple of times by repeatedly pulling on it. It ran great once it finally started, but damn that thing was a PITA to get going. Finally replaced it about 5 years ago with a Honda pump. It literally starts on the first gentle tug on the rope, even after a full winter of sitting idle. So my anecdote contradicts yours.
  4. No. He has no leverage. Comprehensive immigration reform and NO FUCKING WALL. Rub his nose in the pile of shit he deposited on the carpet.
  5. Any generalizations made about an entire generation are necessarily overgeneralizations - this country is way too large and complex for it to be any other way. Nevertheless, the boomers caught capitalism's sweet spot, when a relatively large amount of wealth went to the middle class. Many of them did well enough to have financial security and a shot at the dream for their family by working ONE job that in eras before and after that sweet spot would be enough to barely scrape by, if the spouse was working as well, and if you were lucky. As people do, they thought they deserved this historically unprecedented level of reward and had earned it, when they were really just lucky. Sure, they tried to hold onto it; who wouldn't? And when they felt it slipping away anyway, lots of them became bitter and vindictive. Not all of them, though; it's a lot of people, and some of them turned out just fine. It was just a large generation that had a good thing going for a while, that's all.
  6. She's gotten a taste of power, and she likes it. She was able to tweet in Trump's ear and get him to reverse course; now it's gone to her head. He's created a monster. Well, she already looked like a monster, but now she really is one.
  7. No. You're missing the bigger principle. You can't let the president usurp that kind of power from Congress. Constitution out front shoulda told you.
  8. Nope. Nancy owns him now. She has his tiny balls hanging on a hook in her office. He's backed down to her publicly for the second time in just over 24 hours. He's done.
  9. Nancy owns Trump now. She has his tiny balls hanging on a hook in her office. He's done; she's calling the shots now.
  10. Who said I'm tired of winning? I heard some people were tired of winning, not me, I'm never tired of winning, believe me. But some people are just tired, so I don't want them to be exhausted from all the winning, you know, so I'm just taking a break from winning. Just a three week break, then it's back to winning. Look, everybody needs a break now and then, I get it. But we'll be back to winning again, believe me. And nobody does winning like me, nobody. It'll be so much winning you'll get tired of winning again. But I won't take a break next time. It's going to be nothing but winning from now on, so get ready.
  11. Immanuel Can't in the house!
  12. I've been thinking about this question for 2 years now. I don't think there is anything that would make the diehard Trumpkins - and that's the only kind that are left now - turn on him.
  13. Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr. Futureman?
  14. Either you're naive or you're being intentionally obtuse. Dark skin is all it would take.
  15. Perhaps. Let's make it more parallel: Suppose there was a minute or two of footage of a black kid standing directly in front of a white priest who was praying or reading from the bible, and the black kid was smirking arrogantly while a large crowd of black teenagers carried on behind him?
  16. Since we're doing hypotheticals, how about if the kids jumping around and shouting chants were black? I can guarantee that the word 'thug' would be thick in the air around Fox News and other right-wing media outlets, to start with. Agree or disagree?
  17. New shit has come to light?
  18. No paper plates to serve all that delicious food.
  19. Almost.... This gets closer. White people of a certain class have always been able to have a second chance after doing something stupid. At the same time they know (dimly) how the system treats people who step out of line and are not of the same class; darker-complected and less-resourced people get expelled from schools, beaten up or worse by the cops, sent to prison, fired from jobs, etc. But now the privileged white people see that their privilege is at risk; the Me Too movement, minorities asserting their rights, the general loss of status - they sense that they could soon be in the position of the lower classes, and lose their insulation from the consequences of their actions. They don't like that. All that aside, the only lesson to be gleaned from this whole stupid incident is that nobody should pay attention to anything on Twitter. Ever.
  20. Nah. That would be like beating up someone with ALS or Parkinson's; it's too easy, and they're suffering enough already.
  21. You've got a lot of work to do on your humblebrags.
  22. Except if it's just egg and cheese. Then it's ... egg and cheese. Covered in the second rule, except cheese is not a fucking 'extra,' got dammit.
  23. Stayed at an Aloft one time. No ice machine; you could go down to the front desk and ask for ice, and they'd bring you a paper cup full of ice. I mean, you even tell them the guy in the bathtub is going to bleed out before he wakes up unless you have more ice. Do they care? No, one paper cup of ice is all you get.
  24. My understanding of the keto flu, having gone through it once, is that it's a carb-withdrawal thing, and it happens before the ketosis kicks in. That is, you're not in ketosis yet, and you're not getting any energy from carbs, so you crash. If you're in ketosis, you should feel fine. Maybe you just got into ketosis fast, without any problems and skipped the flu - so congrats. Or I could be wrong about the whole thing. Some of y'all have obviously had a lot more experience with it than I have; am I full of shit? I do consume a lot of fiber.
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