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RomaVicta

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  1. Ol' number 2. Damn shame we didn't get him.
  2. I walked out of my first viewing of Alien. I was taken off guard by how intense it would be for a movie set in space. I left when Harry Dean Stanton was by himself looking for the cat. After that, I went to see it weekly. I was living in a place where I didn't know anybody. At one screening, the sound went out and persisted for more than a minute. The theater was dead quiet watching Ripley trying to escape. I finally got the nerve to announce: In space no one can hear you scream. Brought the house down. I should have done the comedian thing, "Thanks everyone! You've been great!" and strided out as the proper end of my career as a stand up comedian. Just got to this: Sorry.
  3. Ahm proud t'say- ya listenin' boy? I say, boy ahr ya hearin' me? Ahm proud t'say we ah purged of Blaggies. Ahll ahr puhsons of niggra puhsuasion ahr proud Aggies. An' we ahr proud a them, too! We treat them as equals!
  4. If you plan to attempt high-minded, you must deliver same. I'm neither a grammarian nor an English teacher. Writing has been my job or part of my job for 35 years. A&M's most esteemed man of letters presents himself with a raised nose and raised sense of himself. From a college man: Dear Mister Farkquar Fuckstain, Your writing improves with every new effort. This represents your best work to date. Sadly, you undermine your premise with name-calling and a logical argument that stabs itself in the testicles. You state that you observe two "tu" students who speak poorly. You conclude that all "tu" (if only this institution of higher learning could dispense with that silly slur!), students must be uneducated and poor speakers. This reasoning is equivalent to suggesting that you've observed three left-handed mechanics, therefore all mechanics must be left-handed. [Farkquar reads this and thinks, Yes, and?] Perhaps you, yourself, should consider becoming a mechanic. They make excellent money and are not called upon for much, as you describe, professional communication. The good news, Mr. Fuckstain, is that you are well on your way to passing Remedial English this time around! Well done!
  5. How was I supposed to know she was 13? She looked 15!* *Basketball Jones
  6. You don't have a War Hymn for rivals. A War Hymn, well, that's for something ebil. 1 Quote marks. This is a serious man. Subtle of thought. 2 No, you do not aside from your "buddy" close to the tu football program. 3 Not "rivals," that's too "soft" a characterization. Adversaries, "enemies" for whom "you" have war "hymns" to rouse your "fake" army. 4 Cover the ears of the children and women folk. Ebil. 5 Perfectly normal way to express this. Am I the only one around here who feels totally found out? I surely am whatever the hell he wrote there.
  7. Do you have your own radio show? It's not good sophistry, but it's good enough for the right audience.
  8. Barely intelligible idiotic babble that amounts to a shit river of lies flows from the face sphincter of a malign moron who....well...
  9. Just trying to have a discussion instead of a shit war with Ana. Whenever he posts, there are only repeated, tiresome diatribes against him. I think he does troll now, but I suspect it's something of self-fulfilling prophecy. He's not one of the MagaGops who come here so they can run back to their safe space and lament how mean everybody here is. I think there is plenty of room for Anastasis' voice here. He shows up. He writes well. I'll quote whoever the fuck I want to.
  10. Just dropping by. You suggest that "Austin," however you envision that entity, voted for what looks like an abuse of power by a traffic ticket judge? Do you think she ran on that policy?
  11. It's a fucking yokel/hillbilly sounding song. I was surprised when I finally heard it.
  12. I don't understand your point.
  13. I'm the choir on that one, Brother Biff. A confluence of factors led to this place where we are. Advertising. Slack education. Grad students. The press becoming overrun with college boys and girls who learned templates in school rather than learning how to find news and how not to treat every story the same. It's a shit show.
  14. Don't take away my mental masturbation! It's all I have left!
  15. That's the president of the EU having to sit there and listen to this crazy rant from an American President. I wish Trump would tour all of Europe with his power-drunk buffoonery on full display. The West needs to fully realize just how far the US has fallen. We should never be called the leader of the free world. The free world needs to prepare to get along without us. They also have to prepare to deal with an adversarial US. Europe is on its own from here on out. I wish I were a European. On the continent, there still seems to be a great concern for the common good. On a trip there two years ago, I couldn't avoid noticing how much they've reduced their use of plastic. We can't be bothered to give up hamburgers (nobody proposed that, of course) to make a less horrific world for generations that are alive today. We need to be hated and reviled by the better countries. It's their best chance. And we earned it in a period of less than ten years. Stunning.
  16. The whole generational thing comes up too much. I know I'm a boomer. I know how the times affected us. We share memories. I generally don't give a rat's ass. If the others all became serial killers doing something unheard of like shooting up a school or church or Walmart, I wouldn't feel an ounce of responsibility or shame.
  17. To quote one of @Brisketexan early statements that I took as hyperbole (well used) but now see as concrete truth: Cruelty is our brand. I google this and got a thousand references to non cruelty to animal products. I tried other things and got the below from an NY Times book review of Cruelty Is The Point. Ouch. Compliments to BrisketTexan for maybe coining the phrase.
  18. Looks like Kate had some work done. I'd be too intimidated to chat with her and make her laugh. I do think we should round up a posse to find the masher who did this. If they're pustules, for this one and only time, WNB.
  19. I guess I'm not getting what you conclude from this. You seem to be saying that since we know about the letter and know Trump is a liar which negates his denial is all there is to it. I want to see the evidence. I want it confirmed that the WSJ was accurate and Trump lied about it. This is the first harpoon that has stuck in his blubber. It's something that is actually affecting his followers. They need to see it. That will also lend credence to the suspicion that there is more in Epstein's papers. You're not saying it's a nothing booger, but your disposition seems to treat it as a nothing booger. It's quite possible that I'm not following you. It happens.
  20. Are you familiar with the content of the letter including the drawing? Are you aware it would become part of a collection of Trump statements and images about Epstein including:
  21. I keep repeating something I read a long while back, the country changed when people started thinking of themselves as taxpayers rather than citizens. I finally got off my lazy ass and ran it down. I think the place I read it must have been quoting this piece in Harpers 2016. The article is: Save Our Public Universities In defense of America’s best idea by Marilynne Robinson
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