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Yeah, yeah, I think so. Sunday a 2:10pm Hurray... !!!
You know. The life or death issues like;
How many times an obese person needs to flush a toilet if they overeat on KFC & McDonalds
or
How the new light bulbs make you look off color when you spray your face with spray-on tan products
or
How we can make the middle class and poor pay a greater share of the taxes instead of the rich
or
Which brand of beans we should buy
or
Who stole something that wasn't stolen.
I just don't know how these crucial subjects somehow just disappeared without anyone putting most of their time focused on them.
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Two generations of TV and I realized the shows I avoided all had fake laughter. It was real laughter... but prerecorded from some other (actually funny) source.
To hear 100 people roaring (for a split second) over something I didn't find funny 50 times a show turned me off.
TV shows like:
M.A.S.H. Gomer Pyle USMC, Hogans Heroes, The Beverly Hillbillies, were annoying to say the least. Let's put Seinfeld at the top of my avoidance list.
Cheers only had a few high moments.
If I had to vote, Taxi was pretty good at times.
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I can't believe it was Pancake Tuesday recently. It really CREPE-D up on us...
Pun very much intended
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Last week I saw a blog about a place where people can go to smash-up objects like computer screens and TV's to release their 'pent up energy' as a form of therapy.
Take a baseball bat and head to a warehouse with some discarded objects and 'have at it' and soon after you'll feel better.
My experience in the few years I've been a part of the CS blogging community there has always been a few members who love gossip and often express themselves by making comments to other members... provoking them out of the normal 'I blog, you blog, we all blog' and everyone gets along mentality.
Some people need excitement in their boring lives and fabricate situations that really don't exist or... they have suspicions (without proof) about other members. I've known a few women who came from the South and lived in small towns where gossip and prejudice ran high. Rowdy young men who enjoy getting drunk and picking fights is their way of releasing energy.
Every few months someone will come to a blog of mine and take an unprovoked swipe at me. I got 2 small ones on another bIog I comment on and I thought it would great to start a swipe blog of my own... a place where you can 'let it out' and make yourself feel good for doing so.
Pandemic got you down?
Been grumpy lately... more than usual?
I offer you The Swipe Blog...
Take a swipe at me or any other member, go ahead, say something offensive here and not leave a turd for me on someone else's blog because they don't deserve it.
In response to: from The Borowitz Report
Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant HumansBy
Andy BorowitzMINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.
The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.
“These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. “And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.”
More worryingly, Logsdon said, “As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.”
While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information en route from the auditory nerve to the brain. “The normal functions of human consciousness have been completely nullified,” Logsdon said.
While reaffirming the gloomy assessments of the study, Logsdon held out hope that the threat of fact-resistant humans could be mitigated in the future. “Our research is very preliminary, but it’s possible that they will become more receptive to facts once they are in an environment without food, water, or oxygen,” he said. Be vewwwy vewwwy careful. They write among us.
You can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish.
Jock, the painter, often would thin his paint so it would go further.
So when the Church decided to do some deferred maintenance, Jock was able to put in the low bid, and got the job. As always, he thinned his paint way down with turpentine.
One day while he was up on the scaffolding -- the job almost finished -- he heard a horrendous clap of thunder, and the sky opened.
The downpour washed the thinned paint off the church and knocked Jock off his scaffold and onto the lawn among the gravestones and puddles of thinned and worthless paint.
Jock knew this was a warning from the Almighty, so he got on his knees and cried: “Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I do?”
And from the thunder, a mighty voice: “REPAINT! REPAINT! AND THIN NO MORE!”
It's easier to fool some people than to convince them that THEY have been fooled.