and despite a very carefully clever moderator whose main instruction appears to be allow threads in this forum to flow whatever. It is an Art forum but they do allow one thread for non-art discussion.
This En Passant is an incognito individual to anyone but the sirte administrators.
and repeatedly attempts to legitimise his/hers New World Order obsession and is still banging on. This is like propaganda overload..

I don’t get out much, as you all know. However, it makes me wonder when I see stuff like this, is it everywhere?

Now that he’s gone, could people please stop using the swear word that starts with “T”.

mollwollfumble said:

Now that he’s gone, could people please stop using the swear word that starts with “T”.

He hasn’t gone. His name will be used whilever it can be perceived there is something to be gained from it.

Dark Orange said:

https://xkcd.com/2425/

party_pants said:

but what about this mask

party_pants said:

LOLOL

Dark Orange said:

LOVE IT!

I sent that to the homework team last last night!

dv said:

^ flog.

Yeah nice. Can confirm would sell.

Rule 303 said:

dv said:

^ flog.

Yeah nice. Can confirm would sell.

But “Beat” is a better option in this case.

Dark Orange said:

Rule 303 said:

dv said:

^ flog.

Yeah nice. Can confirm would sell.

But “Beat” is a better option in this case.

Heh. Yeah OK.

Rule 303 said:

Dark Orange said:

Rule 303 said:

^ flog.

Yeah nice. Can confirm would sell.

But “Beat” is a better option in this case.

Heh. Yeah OK.

Note that “beating a dead horse” is a moderately common variant.

dv said:

Rule 303 said:

Dark Orange said:

But “Beat” is a better option in this case.

Heh. Yeah OK.

Note that “beating a dead horse” is a moderately common variant.

Grok that.

JudgeMental said:

ROFL

I do love the use of old soviet posters.

sibeen said:

JudgeMental said:

ROFL

I do love the use of old soviet posters.

do you need food parcels sending?

JudgeMental said:

sibeen said:

JudgeMental said:

ROFL

I do love the use of old soviet posters.

do you need food parcels sending?

I’m not sure that we’re allowed to accept parcels from interstate.

sarahs mum said:

Lol

sibeen said:

I’m not sure that we’re allowed to accept parcels from interstate.

They have to be irradiated.

You know what happens to gifts of edibles presented to the US President?

Immediate destruction by burning.

Even if it’s a gift from a head of state or similar e.g. a big box of choccies or a basket of fruit or whatever.

Standard operating rule for the Secret Service bodyguards is that it goes into the furnace ASAP.

https://youtu.be/fPVC-WhCoHs
MrTibbles

dv said:

Tough sub

dv said:

https://youtu.be/fPVC-WhCoHs
MrTibbles

hmmm.

dv said:

dv said:

Tough sub

don’t fret. use it as a learning experience to help hone your skills.

JudgeMental said:

dv said:

dv said:

Tough sub

don’t fret. use it as a learning experience to help hone your skills.

It is what it is

JudgeMental said:

dv said:

dv said:

Tough sub

don’t fret. use it as a learning experience to help hone your skills.

Well, depending on how much money he had in it, forgetting the password isn’t that much worse than not buying when it was cheap, or not selling before it returns to its inherent value.

JudgeMental said:

don’t fret. use it as a learning experience to help hone your skills.

Well it got rave reviews over at the “Cynic & Stoic Memes I Found At Alexandria’s Library” FB group.

sarahs mum said:

That’s wonderful!! It gives me a little bit of hope.

sarahs mum said:

\
No whales in the Atlantic in 100 years? I doubt that, a lot.

sibeen said:

sarahs mum said:

\
No whales in the Atlantic in 100 years? I doubt that, a lot.

blue whales specifically i think. and going by the graphic.

JudgeMental said:

sibeen said:

sarahs mum said:

\
No whales in the Atlantic in 100 years? I doubt that, a lot.

blue whales specifically i think. and going by the graphic.

There’s not much blue in the graphic at all. Maybe your monitor need adjusting.

sibeen said:

JudgeMental said:

sibeen said:

\
No whales in the Atlantic in 100 years? I doubt that, a lot.

blue whales specifically i think. and going by the graphic.

There’s not much blue in the graphic at all. Maybe your monitor need adjusting.

I have other means rather than colour to guess the probable type of whale, shape. plus a google. but who really knows.

JudgeMental said:

sibeen said:

JudgeMental said:

blue whales specifically i think. and going by the graphic.

There’s not much blue in the graphic at all. Maybe your monitor need adjusting.

I have other means rather than colour to guess the probable type of whale, shape. plus a google. but who really knows.

Not Sibeen that’s who!

Not entirely sure about the closure of the ozone hole either. I find this a bit hard to interpret, but I don’t think it failed to appear this season.

https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/NH.html

Oh, and here:

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-ozone-layer-is-on-track-to-completely-repair-itself-in-our-lifetime

sibeen said:

sarahs mum said:

\
No whales in the Atlantic in 100 years? I doubt that, a lot.

Impossible for the elephant population to double within 12 months.

Too many science trained people in here. We all want to question everything.

:)

PermeateFree said:

sibeen said:

sarahs mum said:

\
No whales in the Atlantic in 100 years? I doubt that, a lot.

Impossible for the elephant population to double within 12 months.

I suppose. Unless populations of elephants hae moved in kenya. But I have heard that the population is increasing due to no hunters in Covid.

buffy said:

Too many science trained people in here. We all want to question everything.

:)

However, I bet there are a lot of Facebook readers humming a happy tune now, but they are not going to change the would into a genuinely optimistic mode.

I suppose. Unless populations of elephants have moved into kenya. But I have heard that the population is increasing due to no hunters in Covid.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14/902177466/some-good-news-an-elephant-baby-boom-in-one-kenyan-national-park

JudgeMental said:

sibeen said:

JudgeMental said:

blue whales specifically i think. and going by the graphic.

There’s not much blue in the graphic at all. Maybe your monitor need adjusting.

I have other means rather than colour to guess the probable type of whale, shape. plus a google. but who really knows.

So there was whales in the Atlantic then?

PermeateFree said:

sibeen said:

sarahs mum said:

\
No whales in the Atlantic in 100 years? I doubt that, a lot.

Impossible for the elephant population to double within 12 months.

Not impossible if there was only one.

I’m not really sure that growing wood in a test tube is a great thing either.

sarahs mum said:

I dont think that is very good news at all…

furious said:

sarahs mum said:

I dont think that is very good news at all…

You landed gentry!

Nearly a century after being extirpated, blue whales are moving back to South Georgia Island

The blue whale—the largest animal to have ever lived—subsists almost entirely on krill, one of the smallest. A blue whale scarfs about 2,500 pounds of krill every single day. It takes a special place to support such a diet, and one such spot is South Georgia island, in the southern Atlantic. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the ocean around South Georgia housed an incredible density of these massive cetaceans, along with humpbacks, fins, seis, southern rights, and sperm whales.
Then came the industrial whalers. In 1904, the first whaling station was established on South Georgia, to help slake the world’s growing thirst for oil. Ships began hunting down humpbacks and chopping them up. When they had decimated that species, they turned to blue whales, sometimes killing 3,000 in a single season. “In the early 1900s, South Georgia waters thronged with blue whales,” write the authors of a recent paper on the population. Scarcely thirty years later, “they were all but gone.”
But now, 80-odd years after that, the blue whales may be returning. After decades of few to zero blue whale sightings around South Georgia, recent surveys have found dozens of them in the area, reports the study, which was published late last year in Endangered Species Research. It’s one of a few recent population upticks that, combined, suggest that the great ecological gash of industrial whaling may finally be beginning to scab over.

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2021/01/nearly-a-century-after-being-extirpated-blue-whales-are-moving-back-to-south-georgia-island/

sibeen said:

I’m not really sure that growing wood in a test tube is a great thing either.

The best thing for the environment would be to grow wood in, you know … a fucken tree and then chop it down and replant it.

sibeen said:

PermeateFree said:

sibeen said:

\
No whales in the Atlantic in 100 years? I doubt that, a lot.

Impossible for the elephant population to double within 12 months.

Not impossible if there was only one.

Or if the only elephants surviving were pregnant females.

I agree with sibeen’s central point which is that a lot of these need to be more carefully worded and that, as stated, they are misleading.

sibeen said:

PermeateFree said:

sibeen said:

\
No whales in the Atlantic in 100 years? I doubt that, a lot.

Impossible for the elephant population to double within 12 months.

Not impossible if there was only one.

You are forgetting about dad, but certainly for one lost heavily pregnant elephant in the bush. She has just got to be on the lookout for lions, hyenas, wild dogs, etc., but not impossible.

dv said:

I agree with sibeen’s central point which is that a lot of these need to be more carefully worded and that, as stated, they are misleading.

quitter.

dv said:

I agree with sibeen’s central point

Steady lad, steady.

PermeateFree said:

sibeen said:

PermeateFree said:

Impossible for the elephant population to double within 12 months.

Not impossible if there was only one.

You are forgetting about dad, but certainly for one lost heavily pregnant elephant in the bush. She has just got to be on the lookout for lions, hyenas, wild dogs, etc., but not impossible.

The elephant exhibits the longest spontaneous estrous cycle of any mammal studied to date: 13–18 weeks in duration, with a 6- to 12-week luteal phase and 4- to 6-week follicular phase (First reports, Asian: Hess et al., 1983; African: Plotka et al., 1988).

Elephants give birth around every four years, and given their pregnancies can last around two years, that is quite a lot! Although elephants can live for 60-70 years, they typically only have about four or five babies during their lives. Even so, that’s still a large chunk of their lifetime spent being pregnant.

F that. Nine months is plenty long enough.

PermeateFree said:

PermeateFree said:

sibeen said:

Not impossible if there was only one.

You are forgetting about dad, but certainly for one lost heavily pregnant elephant in the bush. She has just got to be on the lookout for lions, hyenas, wild dogs, etc., but not impossible.

The elephant exhibits the longest spontaneous estrous cycle of any mammal studied to date: 13–18 weeks in duration, with a 6- to 12-week luteal phase and 4- to 6-week follicular phase (First reports, Asian: Hess et al., 1983; African: Plotka et al., 1988).

Elephants give birth around every four years, and given their pregnancies can last around two years, that is quite a lot! Although elephants can live for 60-70 years, they typically only have about four or five babies during their lives. Even so, that’s still a large chunk of their lifetime spent being pregnant.

The average gestation period of an elephant is about 640 to 660 days, or roughly 95 weeks. By comparison, a human pregnancy lasts an average of 280 days, or 40 weeks. Female elephants live for 60 to 70 years, but only have about four offspring throughout their lifetime.

So the news is that the Kenyan elephant population doubled since 1989

I’m rather keen to find out more about the prostate urine test.
So far my PSA has been stable at around the 2.5 level for a decade or two and an ultrasound showed it to be normal size, but I’d like to know more ….. for just in case.

dv said:

So the news is that the Kenyan elephant population doubled since 1989

The school population not so good.

Spiny Norman said:

I’m rather keen to find out more about the prostate urine test.
So far my PSA has been stable at around the 2.5 level for a decade or two and an ultrasound showed it to be normal size, but I’d like to know more ….. for just in case.

I did a quick search for that and didn’t find any published papers, only YouTube things and newspaper reports. I’ll have another look. now I’m not doing other things at the same time.

buffy said:

Spiny Norman said:

I’m rather keen to find out more about the prostate urine test.
So far my PSA has been stable at around the 2.5 level for a decade or two and an ultrasound showed it to be normal size, but I’d like to know more ….. for just in case.

I did a quick search for that and didn’t find any published papers, only YouTube things and newspaper reports. I’ll have another look. now I’m not doing other things at the same time.

It might be referring to this:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c06946

But people have been working on a urine based test for a loooong time without success. It could just be the usual run of things that start out looking good and never come to anything.

JudgeMental said:

SCIENCE said:

JudgeMental said:

I remember when you’d get shot in the airport if you wore a mask. Those were the days, hey?

furious said:

SCIENCE said:

JudgeMental said:

I remember when you’d get shot in the airport if you wore a mask. Those were the days, hey?

Once upon a time there was a tavern.

dv said:

Just like that.

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

Just like that.

Ah, legend

dv said:

:)

I’m not the pheasant-plucker,
I’m the pheasant-plucker’s son.
I’m only plucking pheasants,
‘Til the pheasant-plucker comes.

Michael V said:

dv said:

:)

I’m not the pheasant-plucker,
I’m the pheasant-plucker’s son.
I’m only plucking pheasants,
‘Til the pheasant-plucker comes.

Noice

dv said:

:)

dv said:

Heh

but what is a tarbooshn’t

Shirly this is a piss-take.

Dark Orange said:

Shirly this is a piss-take.

Simply swank salon and spa.

Michael V said:

Dark Orange said:

Shirly this is a piss-take.

Simply swank salon and spa.

Yes, but is it a deliberate attempt at publicity, like “Master Bait and Tackle”

SCIENCE said:

but what is a tarbooshn’t

A Lebanese restaurant in NSW ?

Dark Orange said:

Michael V said:

Dark Orange said:

Shirly this is a piss-take.

Simply swank salon and spa.

Yes, but is it a deliberate attempt at publicity, like “Master Bait and Tackle”

Who knows? The owners, I suppose.

dv said:

Boris, give deevs his handle back.

sarahs mum said:

don’t worry he’ll get another 3 years soon

Is this the most recent meme thread? Anyhoo…

Divine Angel said:

Is this the most recent meme thread? Anyhoo…

LOL

dv said:

The rest wash their hands while using the restroom?

Have some more non-memes.

dv said:

I actually find myself able to pick zero these days.

mollwollfumble said:

Have some more non-memes.

dv said:

I actually find myself able to pick zero these days.

Spot on.

It’s a depressing thought that these days, modelling a problem is far too often taken to be be a substitute for solving it.

mollwollfumble said:

It’s a depressing thought that these days, modelling a problem is far too often taken to be be a substitute for solving it.

an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are staying in a hotel when a fire breaks out

SCIENCE said:

mollwollfumble said:

It’s a depressing thought that these days, modelling a problem is far too often taken to be be a substitute for solving it.

an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are staying in a hotel when a fire breaks out

LOL, hadn’t heard that one. But I suspect that the physicist and engineer wouldn’t fare that well.

“A physicist, an engineer and a mathematician were all in a hotel sleeping when a fire broke out in their respective rooms.
The physicist woke up, saw the fire, ran over to his desk, pulled out his CRC, and began working out all sorts of fluid dynamics equations. After a couple minutes, he threw down his pencil, got a graduated cylinder out of his suitcase, and measured out a precise amount of water. He threw it on the fire, extinguishing it, with not a drop wasted, and went back to sleep.
The engineer woke up, saw the fire, ran into the bathroom, turned on the faucets full-blast, flooding out the entire apartment, which put out the fire, and went back to sleep.
The mathematician woke up, saw the fire, ran over to his desk, began working through theorems, lemmas, hypotheses , you-name-it, and after a few minutes, put down his pencil triumphantly and exclaimed, “I have proven that I can put the fire out!” He then went back to sleep.”

“Ah, a solution exists ¡” is rather more elegant as a punch line though

goes back to sleep

dv said:

Flambé

dv said:

Don’t see much of Margaret these days.

Has she retired?

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Don’t see much of Margaret these days.

Has she retired?

Just binged her.

I had no idea she was that old (76).

The Rev Dodgson said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Don’t see much of Margaret these days.

Has she retired?

Just binged her.

I had no idea she was that old (76).

She looked and sounded about a hundred in 1990 so it doesn’t surprise me at all.

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Don’t see much of Margaret these days.

Has she retired?

Just binged her.

I had no idea she was that old (76).

She looked and sounded about a hundred in 1990 so it doesn’t surprise me at all.

She just didn’t ‘get’ Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’. David did.

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Just binged her.

I had no idea she was that old (76).

She looked and sounded about a hundred in 1990 so it doesn’t surprise me at all.

She just didn’t ‘get’ Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’. David did.

I didn’t get it either. I understood it, but I didn’t see what the fuss was about.

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Don’t see much of Margaret these days.

Has she retired?

Just binged her.

I had no idea she was that old (76).

She looked and sounded about a hundred in 1990 so it doesn’t surprise me at all.

Saw her on The Weekly a couple of weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzE5AXG3n8M

Divine Angel said:

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

She looked and sounded about a hundred in 1990 so it doesn’t surprise me at all.

She just didn’t ‘get’ Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’. David did.

I didn’t get it either. I understood it, but I didn’t see what the fuss was about.

It’s a classic tale of redemption and sacrifice.
Also I liked the little touches. The confession he gave in church was bullshit, but when he locked Thao in the basement and looks through the grill to talk to him, it resembles the grill in a confessional booth. Eastwood is a good director.

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

captain_spalding said:

She just didn’t ‘get’ Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’. David did.

I didn’t get it either. I understood it, but I didn’t see what the fuss was about.

It’s a classic tale of redemption and sacrifice.
Also I liked the little touches. The confession he gave in church was bullshit, but when he locked Thao in the basement and looks through the grill to talk to him, it resembles the grill in a confessional booth. Eastwood is a good director.

I think that Margaret wrote it off as a ‘boys’ flick’ in the first five or ten minutes and then snoozed through the rest of it.

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

I didn’t get it either. I understood it, but I didn’t see what the fuss was about.

It’s a classic tale of redemption and sacrifice.
Also I liked the little touches. The confession he gave in church was bullshit, but when he locked Thao in the basement and looks through the grill to talk to him, it resembles the grill in a confessional booth. Eastwood is a good director.

I think that Margaret wrote it off as a ‘boys’ flick’ in the first five or ten minutes and then snoozed through the rest of it.

It does seem that movies based around honour and sacrifice do appeal more to men than to women. We aspire to be noble, to humbly do something significant.

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Don’t see much of Margaret these days.

Has she retired?

Just binged her.

I had no idea she was that old (76).

She looked and sounded about a hundred in 1990 so it doesn’t surprise me at all.

She may have looked 100 to the young boy you were back then, but she looked OK to me.

dv said:

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

It’s a classic tale of redemption and sacrifice.
Also I liked the little touches. The confession he gave in church was bullshit, but when he locked Thao in the basement and looks through the grill to talk to him, it resembles the grill in a confessional booth. Eastwood is a good director.

I think that Margaret wrote it off as a ‘boys’ flick’ in the first five or ten minutes and then snoozed through the rest of it.

It does seem that movies based around honour and sacrifice do appeal more to men than to women. We aspire to be noble, to humbly do something significant.

“One convict, William Langham, was tattooed with the words fuck me; another, Robert Dudlow, had a tattoo of cunt on his right hand. Authorities recorded the t was scratched out with ‘indecent word’ written next to it.”

Rooted: An Australian history of bad language, by Amanda Laugesen, p 33

Divine Angel said:

dv said:

captain_spalding said:

I think that Margaret wrote it off as a ‘boys’ flick’ in the first five or ten minutes and then snoozed through the rest of it.

It does seem that movies based around honour and sacrifice do appeal more to men than to women. We aspire to be noble, to humbly do something significant.

“One convict, William Langham, was tattooed with the words fuck me; another, Robert Dudlow, had a tattoo of cunt on his right hand. Authorities recorded the t was scratched out with ‘indecent word’ written next to it.”

Rooted: An Australian history of bad language, by Amanda Laugesen, p 33

Legend

dv said:

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

It’s a classic tale of redemption and sacrifice.
Also I liked the little touches. The confession he gave in church was bullshit, but when he locked Thao in the basement and looks through the grill to talk to him, it resembles the grill in a confessional booth. Eastwood is a good director.

I think that Margaret wrote it off as a ‘boys’ flick’ in the first five or ten minutes and then snoozed through the rest of it.

It does seem that movies based around honour and sacrifice do appeal more to men than to women. We aspire to be noble, to humbly do something significant.

and fail miserably most of the time.

dv said:

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

It’s a classic tale of redemption and sacrifice.
Also I liked the little touches. The confession he gave in church was bullshit, but when he locked Thao in the basement and looks through the grill to talk to him, it resembles the grill in a confessional booth. Eastwood is a good director.

I think that Margaret wrote it off as a ‘boys’ flick’ in the first five or ten minutes and then snoozed through the rest of it.

It does seem that movies based around honour and sacrifice do appeal more to men than to women. We aspire to be noble, to humbly do something significant.

….. and boldly go where no man has gone before.

dv said:

must fight CANCEL CULTURE !!

dv said:

I dont care

Megan and Harry didn’t want to be around Pedo Andrew

They probably said to each other lets get the fuck out of here and they did.

Tau.Neutrino said:

dv said:

I dont care

Megan and Harry didn’t want to be around Pedo Andrew

They probably said to each other lets get the fuck out of here and they did.

The royals seem to have a poor record when they marry A-murry-kans.

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

dv said:

I dont care

Megan and Harry didn’t want to be around Pedo Andrew

They probably said to each other lets get the fuck out of here and they did.

The royals seem to have a poor record when they marry A-murry-kans.

They have a poor record when they marry anyone who is not British, or not the right sort of British. The class system is far more deeply entrenched in their society than they care to admit. The Royal Family are the pinnacle of the class system, so any outsider marrying into the Royal Family is never going to be accepted because it undermines the whole structure,

It’s not like Harry was an upstanding member of the royal family. Remember the Nazi controversy? His heavy drinking? Nude party in Las Vegas?

Divine Angel said:

It’s not like Harry was an upstanding member of the royal family. Remember the Nazi controversy? His heavy drinking? Nude party in Las Vegas?

True but he is not Pedo Andy.

Can they lock him up in Tower Bridge?

Tau.Neutrino said:

Divine Angel said:

It’s not like Harry was an upstanding member of the royal family. Remember the Nazi controversy? His heavy drinking? Nude party in Las Vegas?

True but he is not Pedo Andy.

Can they lock him up in Tower Bridge?

The British press are relentless and vindictive. Seems Harry and Megan have upset them and that will never do.

Yeah but if Kate wears the same dress twice, the media are upset so it’s not like it’s hard.

PermeateFree said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Divine Angel said:

It’s not like Harry was an upstanding member of the royal family. Remember the Nazi controversy? His heavy drinking? Nude party in Las Vegas?

True but he is not Pedo Andy.

Can they lock him up in Tower Bridge?

The British press are relentless and vindictive. Seems Harry and Megan have upset them and that will never do.

Good on Harry and Megan I say, I would leave too.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Divine Angel said:

It’s not like Harry was an upstanding member of the royal family. Remember the Nazi controversy? His heavy drinking? Nude party in Las Vegas?

True but he is not Pedo Andy.

Can they lock him up in Tower Bridge?

I can’t stand any royals, they are all ludicrously pampered wastes of space.

Divine Angel said:

Yeah but if Kate wears the same dress twice, the media are upset so it’s not like it’s hard.

She could improvise make the dress look like its a different one, its easy to do, she could change it back too.

She could really trick them.

Bubblecar said:

I can’t stand any royals, they are all ludicrously pampered wastes of space.

True.

A relic of history, like the hierarchy hegemony relic.

Somehow still with us.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Divine Angel said:

Yeah but if Kate wears the same dress twice, the media are upset so it’s not like it’s hard.

She could improvise make the dress look like its a different one, its easy to do, she could change it back too.

She could really trick them.

To avoid paparazzi taking pics at the gym, Diana used to wear the same outfit. No one pays for photos that look the same week after week. Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe employed the same technique. (He also devalued nude pics by appearing nude on stage in Equus.)

Michael V said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Divine Angel said:

It’s not like Harry was an upstanding member of the royal family. Remember the Nazi controversy? His heavy drinking? Nude party in Las Vegas?

True but he is not Pedo Andy.

Can they lock him up in Tower Bridge?

Or did you mean the Tower of London?

Bubblecar said:

I can’t stand any royals, they are all ludicrously pampered wastes of space.

Same can be said for any celebrity, really.

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

I can’t stand any royals, they are all ludicrously pampered wastes of space.

Same can be said for any celebrity, really.

Not really. You could argue that actors, musicians, sports stars and even writers serve a social and economic purpose in their particular trade.

party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

I can’t stand any royals, they are all ludicrously pampered wastes of space.

Same can be said for any celebrity, really.

Not really. You could argue that actors, musicians, sports stars and even writers serve a social and economic purpose in their particular trade.

as do the royals.

ChrispenEvan said:

party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

Same can be said for any celebrity, really.

Not really. You could argue that actors, musicians, sports stars and even writers serve a social and economic purpose in their particular trade.

as do the royals.

Probably just the monarch only.

Michael V said:

Michael V said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

True but he is not Pedo Andy.

Can they lock him up in Tower Bridge?

Or did you mean the Tower of London?

Tower of London

Change its status from Royal Palace to Royal Prison, it take change its status back again later.

The zenith of the castle’s use as a prison was in the 16th and 17th centuries, maybe again in the 21 century?

Bubblecar said:

I can’t stand any royals, they are all ludicrously pampered wastes of space.

Just where you were born. The main Royals work very hard and I certainly would not want their job. Always on view, doing and saying the right thing with your critics always ready to find the smallest error.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Michael V said:

Michael V said:

Or did you mean the Tower of London?

Tower of London

Change its status from Royal Palace to Royal Prison, it take change its status back again later.

The zenith of the castle’s use as a prison was in the 16th and 17th centuries, maybe again in the 21 century?

dv said:

Love it, cans in Ming Dynasty Ceramics, Ive seen similar works, not in Ming though.

dv said:

Delft.

I swore in public the other day, I’m not very pleased with my behaviour, all of people heard my outburst.

So this is how I feel, something between these two pictures.

dv said:

Nice.

:)

Bubblecar said:

I can’t stand any royals, they are all ludicrously pampered wastes of space.

I used to think so. But then I stopped reading womens magazines.

How about other royals around the world?
https://www.infoplease.com/world/social-statistics/kingdoms-and-monarchs-world

• Sultan Qabus ibn Sa’id
• King Salman
• King Mswati III

Tau.Neutrino said:

I swore in public the other day, I’m not very pleased with my behaviour, all of people heard my outburst.

So this is how I feel, something between these two pictures.

If it makes you feel better, Australians are less offended at public swearing than other countries.

Ref: Rooted by Amanda Laugsen

Divine Angel said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I swore in public the other day, I’m not very pleased with my behaviour, all of people heard my outburst.

So this is how I feel, something between these two pictures.

If it makes you feel better, Australians are less offended at public swearing than other countries.

Ref: Rooted by Amanda Laugsen

Thanks. I will get that book.

Tau.Neutrino said:

I swore in public the other day, I’m not very pleased with my behaviour, all of people heard my outburst.

So this is how I feel, something between these two pictures.

So somewhere between “gone off the rails”, “taken a nose dive”, and “train wreck”.

> I swore in public the other day, I’m not very pleased with my behaviour, all of people heard my outburst.

The standard punishment for swearing in public is three hail Marys. Three Hail Marys is a traditional Roman Catholic devotional practice of reciting three Hail Marys as a petition for purity.

ie. repeat this three times and be completely cleansed of impurity:

“O Mary, by thy pure and Immaculate Conception, make my body pure and my soul holy.

“Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

“O my Mother, preserve me this day from mortal sin.”

So, go to it.

Dark Orange said:

I’d have a plan to tire out the bear.

Or make some trap, might have to be a crude trap.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Dark Orange said:

I’d have a plan to tire out the bear.

Or make some trap, might have to be a crude trap.

Plan 3 Throwing large rocks at it.

Plan 4 Running away.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Dark Orange said:

I’d have a plan to tire out the bear.

Or make some trap, might have to be a crude trap.

Plan 3 Throwing large rocks at it.

Plan 4 Running away.

In between plan 1 and 2 could be making yourself appear larger and yelling at it.

this might be partly achieved by jumping out with legs extended and arms fully extended

making yourself an x and then an I

but Ive never tried it so cannot guarantee it.

I would go straight to plan 4

I like how the bear steadies the door straight after busting it open.

Airbnbear! Bear caught on surveillance breaking into home

Dark Orange said:

Hmm. This deserves to go in the thread https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/14781/

There used to be staged fights between lion and tiger, people and lions, people and bears, wolf and dog, dog and bear, wolf and lynx for example, bull and dog, bull and bear, bull and human. Both in the gladatorial arena of ancient Rome and much more recently.

How such fights turned out can be considered lost knowledge. I don’t even know for certain when the last staged fight between a human and a bear took place. It could have been circa 400 AD, or 18th century, or 19th century, or the 1970s, or circa 2005. It would be illegal, therefore not publicised.

ChrispenEvan said:

Don’t worry.

Antifa is so well organised (according to Q-anon etc), and so devious, they’ll extract payment from you without you even noticing.

ChrispenEvan said:

I believe it’s the 1st of April.

Spiny Norman said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I believe it’s the 1st of April.

LOL

Nice quip.

:)

ChrispenEvan said:

seems fair, that’s the reward for doing what your men tell you to do, rape becomes improbable

dv said:

That’s all I know as well but if I hear any more I’ll let you know provided it’s within bounds of procedural protocol and doesn’t infringe the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

That’s all I know as well but if I hear any more I’ll let you know provided it’s within bounds of procedural protocol and doesn’t infringe the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

imagine writing that memememe in similarly grouped east Asian languages, for example those used in CHINA

dv said:

what?

SCIENCE said:

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

That’s all I know as well but if I hear any more I’ll let you know provided it’s within bounds of procedural protocol and doesn’t infringe the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

imagine writing that memememe in similarly grouped east Asian languages, for example those used in CHINA

No, I can’t imagine that.

SCIENCE said:

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

That’s all I know as well but if I hear any more I’ll let you know provided it’s within bounds of procedural protocol and doesn’t infringe the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

imagine writing that memememe in similarly grouped east Asian languages, for example those used in CHINA

Sounds character building.

ChrispenEvan said:

SCIENCE said:

Peak Warming Man said:

That’s all I know as well but if I hear any more I’ll let you know provided it’s within bounds of procedural protocol and doesn’t infringe the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

imagine writing that memememe in similarly grouped east Asian languages, for example those used in CHINA

No, I can’t imagine that.

It’s easy if you try

dv said:

LOLOLOLOL

dv said:

Do you make these up yourself dv?

PermeateFree said:

dv said:

Do you make these up yourself dv?

Some of them, but not this one.

we won’t speak for the others but the memes we make often reflect that we’re up ourselves

dv said:

PermeateFree said:

dv said:

Do you make these up yourself dv?

Some of them, but not this one.

Maybe I should develop a personal watermark so that you and other fans can tell when it is my work.
Here are some of mine:

I

too esoteric

dv said:

slaps knee
ROFLMFAO
slaps knee again

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

slaps knee
ROFLMFAO
slaps knee again

Now did you sleep each knee once or the same knee twice?

SCIENCE said:

too esoteric

Maybe I’m ahead of my time

dv said:

LOLOL

ChrispenEvan said:

LOL

“Research” these days seems to involve reading bits of the internet supplied via Google searches.

People, read this: Reading about stuff is not research. Its the background you do before you do research.

ChrispenEvan said:

It is??

Political correctness gone mad

Dark Orange said:

Interestingly, if you added significant chook manure to the stones, the bugs in the chook manure would eat the oil.

dv said:

ChrispenEvan said:

It is??

Political correctness gone mad

yeah, I think Arts has looked into it.

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

LOL

“Research” these days seems to involve reading bits of the internet supplied via Google searches.

People, read this: Reading about stuff is not research. Its the background you do before you do research.

well, arguable, but you know how in high school primary school kindergarten/prep preschool/kindergarten kids are essentially taught that “research” is reading about stuff, it’s hardly a surprise we’ve reached this point where supposedly intelligent adults are doing preschool level research

we would contend the correct word for it is “review” but what would we know

SCIENCE said:

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

LOL

“Research” these days seems to involve reading bits of the internet supplied via Google searches.

People, read this: Reading about stuff is not research. Its the background you do before you do research.

well, arguable, but you know how in high school primary school kindergarten/prep preschool/kindergarten kids are essentially taught that “research” is reading about stuff, it’s hardly a surprise we’ve reached this point where supposedly intelligent adults are doing preschool level research

we would contend the correct word for it is “review” but what would we know

Seems a reasonable proposition to me, “review” that i.

dv said:

No wonder they can’t do metric.

dv said:

gross.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

gross.

:)

dv said:

He is trying to score a free half-dozen.

party_pants said:

dv said:

He is trying to score a free half-dozen

and a couple more to boot.

… I’ll workshop it and come back later

party_pants said:

party_pants said:

dv said:

He is trying to score a free half-dozen

and a couple more to boot.

… I’ll workshop it and come back later

and here is I just about to comment…oh well.

party_pants said:

dv said:

He is trying to score a free half-dozen.

Did you and he go to the same school?

dv said:

party_pants said:

dv said:

He is trying to score a free half-dozen.

Did you and he go to the same school?

I’m searching for polling places on the other screen. Can’t multitask etc.

Tamb said:

dv said:

No wonder they can’t do metric.

The reason they can’t do metric is because gran’pappy couldn’t do metric, and what was good enough for gran’pappy is good enough for them.

Gran’pappy couldn’t do it because his gran’pappy couldn’t do it, and neither could gran’pappy’s gran’pappy’s gran’pappy. Because metric hadn’t been invented yet.

So there.

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

dv said:

No wonder they can’t do metric.

The reason they can’t do metric is because gran’pappy couldn’t do metric, and what was good enough for gran’pappy is good enough for them.

Gran’pappy couldn’t do it because his gran’pappy couldn’t do it, and neither could gran’pappy’s gran’pappy’s gran’pappy. Because metric hadn’t been invented yet.

So there.

And it was furrin muck anyway.

Tamb said:

And it was furrin muck anyway.

Can you imagine what it would be like trying to teach the old pounds/shillings/pence currency to Americans?

octet was the wrd I was looking for.

He’s trying to score an octet of freebies.

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

And it was furrin muck anyway.

Can you imagine what it would be like trying to teach the old pounds/shillings/pence currency to Americans?

Their nickname for a one cent is penny. Don’t know if that makes it easier or harder.

party_pants said:

octet was the wrd I was looking for.

He’s trying to score an octet of freebies.

Except he found they were octagone.

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

And it was furrin muck anyway.

Can you imagine what it would be like trying to teach the old pounds/shillings/pence currency to Americans?

Their nickname for a one cent is penny. Don’t know if that makes it easier or harder.

Except their one cent could be confused for a farthing.

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

And it was furrin muck anyway.

Can you imagine what it would be like trying to teach the old pounds/shillings/pence currency to Americans?

Their nickname for a one cent is penny. Don’t know if that makes it easier or harder.

‘OK, lemme see, i think i got it straight. 12 pennies make a shilling, and there’s threepence and sixpence pieces and twenty shillings make a pound, right?’

‘That’s right. Do you want to hear about crowns, half-crowns, and guineas?’

Pupil bursts into tears

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Can you imagine what it would be like trying to teach the old pounds/shillings/pence currency to Americans?

Their nickname for a one cent is penny. Don’t know if that makes it easier or harder.

Except their one cent could be confused for a farthing.

I forgot all about ha’pennies!

That’d push them right over the edge.

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

octet was the wrd I was looking for.

He’s trying to score an octet of freebies.

Except he found they were octagone.

I’ll pay the “score” pun

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

gross.

That’d be 124 too many.

dv said:

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

octet was the wrd I was looking for.

He’s trying to score an octet of freebies.

Except he found they were octagone.

I’ll pay the “score” pun

Thank you. I feel validated.

There was an American on an internet forum recently who claimed that it just wasn’t reasonable to expect people who grew with and were educated in the ‘Imperial’ system to cope with learning the metric system.

I told him that I’d done exactly that.

Yeah, he said, but did you have to learn Spanish as well, bet you would have found it a lot tougher.

No, didn’t have to learn Spanish, but I did learn Russian, as a matter of choice because it interested me. And French later in life.

He seemed to lose interest after that

captain_spalding said:

There was an American on an internet forum recently who claimed that it just wasn’t reasonable to expect people who grew with and were educated in the ‘Imperial’ system to cope with learning the metric system.

I told him that I’d done exactly that.

Yeah, he said, but did you have to learn Spanish as well, bet you would have found it a lot tougher.

No, didn’t have to learn Spanish, but I did learn Russian, as a matter of choice because it interested me. And French later in life.

He seemed to lose interest after that

It does seem that American exceptionalism is becoming the same as pessimism. Yes, all these things worked elsewhere but we can’t do it here.

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

gross.

That’d be 124 too many.

true.
For some reason I still thought it was funny.

dv said:

captain_spalding said:

There was an American on an internet forum recently who claimed that it just wasn’t reasonable to expect people who grew with and were educated in the ‘Imperial’ system to cope with learning the metric system.

I told him that I’d done exactly that.

Yeah, he said, but did you have to learn Spanish as well, bet you would have found it a lot tougher.

No, didn’t have to learn Spanish, but I did learn Russian, as a matter of choice because it interested me. And French later in life.

He seemed to lose interest after that

It does seem that American exceptionalism is becoming the same as pessimism. Yes, all these things worked elsewhere but we can’t do it here.

But that is why it must happen in Australia.

dv said:

captain_spalding said:

There was an American on an internet forum recently who claimed that it just wasn’t reasonable to expect people who grew with and were educated in the ‘Imperial’ system to cope with learning the metric system.

I told him that I’d done exactly that.

Yeah, he said, but did you have to learn Spanish as well, bet you would have found it a lot tougher.

No, didn’t have to learn Spanish, but I did learn Russian, as a matter of choice because it interested me. And French later in life.

He seemed to lose interest after that

It does seem that American exceptionalism is becoming the same as pessimism. Yes, all these things worked elsewhere but we can’t do it here.

They’re probably right, being stupid.

dv said:

captain_spalding said:

There was an American on an internet forum recently who claimed that it just wasn’t reasonable to expect people who grew with and were educated in the ‘Imperial’ system to cope with learning the metric system.

I told him that I’d done exactly that.

Yeah, he said, but did you have to learn Spanish as well, bet you would have found it a lot tougher.

No, didn’t have to learn Spanish, but I did learn Russian, as a matter of choice because it interested me. And French later in life.

He seemed to lose interest after that

It does seem that American exceptionalism is becoming the same as pessimism. Yes, all these things worked elsewhere but we can’t do it here.

How long would it take to learn the metric system, not long it’s set up to not be complicated and is much more sensible as well

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

gross.

That’d be 124 too many.

true.
For some reason I still thought it was funny.

It was

Surely metric could be learnt in a few hours (if that) and a simple card printed out with what you need to know until you have memorised it

I mean what have you got

millimetres
centimetres
kilometres

millilitres
litres

0c is freezing point of pure water

100C boiling point of water at sea level

dv said:

There’s more than that.

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

There’s more than that.

The forum wouldn’t accept the complete version

dv said:

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

There’s more than that.

The forum wouldn’t accept the complete version

Yeah, too many names to look up. I know fewer than half of them as it is.

party_pants said:

dv said:

Peak Warming Man said:

There’s more than that.

The forum wouldn’t accept the complete version

Yeah, too many names to look up. I know fewer than half of them as it is.

Pitbull is probably before your time.

dv said:

party_pants said:

dv said:

The forum wouldn’t accept the complete version

Yeah, too many names to look up. I know fewer than half of them as it is.

Pitbull is probably before your time.

I know of Kim Jong-Un, Placido Domingo and Cameron Diaz. I have heard the name Donny Osmond but I am not familiar with his work. The rest are as strangers on a bus.

party_pants said:

dv said:

party_pants said:

Yeah, too many names to look up. I know fewer than half of them as it is.

Pitbull is probably before your time.

I know of Kim Jong-Un, Placido Domingo and Cameron Diaz. I have heard the name Donny Osmond but I am not familiar with his work. The rest are as strangers on a bus.

Donny Osmond has lots of teeth I know that much about him

dv said:

That’s a very strange not meme.

dv said:

Cassandra!

dv said:

Strange also, but in a very different way.

Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, brand ambassador, businessman and philanthropist… began his career in the early 2000s, recording reggaeton, Latin hip hop, and crunk music..

Information I’m sure I’ll never need.

Ian said:

Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, brand ambassador, businessman and philanthropist… began his career in the early 2000s, recording reggaeton, Latin hip hop, and crunk music..

Information I’m sure I’ll never need.

Sure you will.

If only to tell us all what crunk music is.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, brand ambassador, businessman and philanthropist… began his career in the early 2000s, recording reggaeton, Latin hip hop, and crunk music..

Information I’m sure I’ll never need.

Sure you will.

If only to tell us all what crunk music is.

I think crunk is an alternative rap word for a yoni or parts there of.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, brand ambassador, businessman and philanthropist… began his career in the early 2000s, recording reggaeton, Latin hip hop, and crunk music..

Information I’m sure I’ll never need.

Sure you will.

If only to tell us all what crunk music is.

You’ve heard of crank.. it’s more u

dv said:

R/G colourblind people find cammo hilarious. That arm sticks out like the proverbial.

Rule 303 said:

dv said:

R/G colourblind people find cammo hilarious. That arm sticks out like the proverbial.

Lucky freaks

Rule 303 said:

dv said:

R/G colourblind people find cammo hilarious. That arm sticks out like the proverbial.

Once you see it, it’s difficult to unsee. I went back from the blue gloved fingers. But I suspect I am a carrier of deuteranomaly. Probably got mosaic retinas. My brothers are deuteranomals. I’m just a poor colour matcher. Mum did a good job passing on the dud genes though. If I am a carrier (no kids, will never know for sure), then my brothers got it (unsurprisingly) and my sister carries – she’s got a colourblind offspring. That’s all of us with the dud one.

dv said:

The hollow earth theory?

dv said:

So where is the fourth person?

roughbarked said:

dv said:

So where is the fourth person?

Camols Are People Too

Apparently.

roughbarked said:

dv said:

So where is the fourth person?

Left of photo, holding another bottle.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

So where is the fourth person?

Left of photo, holding another bottle.

If you say so. However that’s the weirdest glove.

roughbarked said:

dv said:

So where is the fourth person?

Look at the four bottle tops. You can easily see three hands, the fourth, as MV said, is on the left. You can see the (blue gloved) thumb and the pointing finger, holding the bottle. After that the sleeve heading out to the left of the photo is camouflaged.

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

So where is the fourth person?

Look at the four bottle tops. You can easily see three hands, the fourth, as MV said, is on the left. You can see the (blue gloved) thumb and the pointing finger, holding the bottle. After that the sleeve heading out to the left of the photo is camouflaged.

As I said, it is a weird glove as it stops short at the thumb.

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

So where is the fourth person?

Look at the four bottle tops. You can easily see three hands, the fourth, as MV said, is on the left. You can see the (blue gloved) thumb and the pointing finger, holding the bottle. After that the sleeve heading out to the left of the photo is camouflaged.

Ah, I see it now. At first glance you think it is a rock on the ground, but it is a sleeve holding the 4th bottle.

Strange hiking group, contains a member in cammo and one in bright orange. I guess the one in orange will get shot first, but on the other hand if he gets lost he’ll be easily spotted from the rescue helicopter.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

So where is the fourth person?

Look at the four bottle tops. You can easily see three hands, the fourth, as MV said, is on the left. You can see the (blue gloved) thumb and the pointing finger, holding the bottle. After that the sleeve heading out to the left of the photo is camouflaged.

As I said, it is a weird glove as it stops short at the thumb.

No, the camo sleeve comes down across the base of the thumb.

buffy said:

Rule 303 said:

dv said:

R/G colourblind people find cammo hilarious. That arm sticks out like the proverbial.

Once you see it, it’s difficult to unsee. I went back from the blue gloved fingers. But I suspect I am a carrier of deuteranomaly. Probably got mosaic retinas. My brothers are deuteranomals. I’m just a poor colour matcher. Mum did a good job passing on the dud genes though. If I am a carrier (no kids, will never know for sure), then my brothers got it (unsurprisingly) and my sister carries – she’s got a colourblind offspring. That’s all of us with the dud one.

OK, got it now.

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Look at the four bottle tops. You can easily see three hands, the fourth, as MV said, is on the left. You can see the (blue gloved) thumb and the pointing finger, holding the bottle. After that the sleeve heading out to the left of the photo is camouflaged.

As I said, it is a weird glove as it stops short at the thumb.

No, the camo sleeve comes down across the base of the thumb.

OK, that was the illusion. I thought the end of the sleeve was the toop of the glove. What do they call that, reverse perspective?

The Rev Dodgson said:

buffy said:

Rule 303 said:

R/G colourblind people find cammo hilarious. That arm sticks out like the proverbial.

Once you see it, it’s difficult to unsee. I went back from the blue gloved fingers. But I suspect I am a carrier of deuteranomaly. Probably got mosaic retinas. My brothers are deuteranomals. I’m just a poor colour matcher. Mum did a good job passing on the dud genes though. If I am a carrier (no kids, will never know for sure), then my brothers got it (unsurprisingly) and my sister carries – she’s got a colourblind offspring. That’s all of us with the dud one.

OK, got it now.

No worries

roughbarked said:

dv said:

The hollow earth theory?

My uncle used to believe that… he’s moved on to Qanon now. Hard core racist cnut.

dv said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

The hollow earth theory?

My uncle used to believe that… he’s moved on to Qanon now. Hard core racist cnut.

Some people just beggar belief.

dv said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

The hollow earth theory?

My uncle used to believe that… he’s moved on to Qanon now. Hard core racist cnut.

He could end up in the Dero Caves.

dv said:

LOLOL

buffy said:

dv said:

Cassandra!

Heh