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#61
Quote from: GravitySucks on April 16, 2018, 01:29:26 AM
Having suffered temporary traumatic soap blindness as a child and the unique ability to determine if someone has lava, ivory or lifebouy soaps in their bathroom before ever stepping up onto the front step, I ask you to provide a trigger warning before you discuss this subject in the future.

Come to think of it, I do feel a bit triggered...that's how hysteria works. Can I get my triggered participation ribbon now?
#62
Quote from: Jojo on April 16, 2018, 01:18:23 AM
Soap in mouth stat!

how is the diet thing going today?
#63
Quote from: ksm32 on April 16, 2018, 12:05:41 AM
I'd like to put your head on my S-hook and see how it bounces of my board. Then, we can be friends.

ok. enough is enough, i suppose
#64
Quote from: CronkitesGhost on April 15, 2018, 05:00:52 AM
If you've never heard Phil Hendrie's Art Bell Coast 2 Coast parodies you should do so. They were obviously done by somebody with admiration for the show because you'd have to listen to hundreds of hours of Art to create sketches so inside Coast.

https://the-eye.eu/public/Radio/The%20Ultimate%20Art%20Bell%20Collection/Extras/Phil%20Hendrie%27s%20Art%20Bell%20Parodies/

THANK YOU! I used to love listening to Phil
#65
Quote from: Jojo on April 14, 2018, 01:02:21 AM

You people are the weirdest diet buddies.  In a thread about dieting, someone asks why I flush truffles down the toilet?  Wow. 36-24-34 I suspect.  And wants me to give desserts away!  Oh sure let's make the whole neighborhood fatter! Have you seen people??  No one around here needs truffles!  They are 90% saturated fat! I'm considering killing this thread.  I expected more women, not realizing you guys haze women. I expected support, not contrarian know-it-alls.  Maybe tomorrow will be a better diet support day.

Things have been so-so.  Portions are getting more reasonable.  Getting more active again, after the flu knocked me out for two months.  I've been avoiding the kitchen, no longer eating with the family (way too many simple carbs, meat fat, butter and salt).  Getting back to olive oil or no oil.  Remembering to add fiber again.  Sticking with onions and garlic.  Lots of salads lately.  I just need more activity and to keep vegetables coming

You should keep this thread. If you feel you are getting hazed, it just means you are part of the group. Also, you must admit flushing candy down the toilet is strange behavior.  Anyway, if you weigh (get it!) the good vs. perceived bad responses in this thread, you will see you have benefited with some support, even if most of us aren't going to just suck your dick about it

Btw, keep up the hard work with the diet and all
#66
Quote from: ksm32 on April 14, 2018, 01:36:12 AM
Again, you're an illiterate moron.

does this mean we can't make friends?
#67
Quote from: ksm32 on April 12, 2018, 10:43:29 PM
Shut up, stupid. Would it kill ya' to use some proper punctuation? Lifeless cunt :)

sorry. just couldnt resist
#68
Burgeoning leaves are pretty in season...beautiful in the blowing wind

-just now
#69
Quote from: ksm32 on April 12, 2018, 02:50:11 AM
There is just far too much fighting and mudslinging going on within the walls of coastgab.
:'(

shut up stupid
#70
Random Topics / Re: Words/phrases I hate
April 11, 2018, 01:16:40 AM
Quote from: albrecht on April 11, 2018, 01:14:32 AM
FUCK YOU is new Q.E.D, it seems. Wonder why other countries are better on tests in many subjects? And why the IMPORTANT fundamentals aren't taught anymore? Simple logic, civics, and rhetoric and composition used to be middle school, and grammar before. Crazy how standards lowered. I won't write of math and science, and history are lacking. But first teach, allow, kids to THINK, argue, question, believe, etc.

Indeed and agreed!
#71
Random Topics / Re: Words/phrases I hate
April 11, 2018, 12:48:48 AM
Quote from: albrecht on April 11, 2018, 12:00:25 AM
Why politicians, leaders, etc successful are lawyers, actors, etc. Know the methods. Not, necessarily, bad but often are. Because actors are trained to lie. And lawyers are trained, or were, also to act but, more importantly, how to argue. Again, for good or bad. Is rhetoric and argument even taught in school now? Important. I know some will dispute but training in defending positions you don't agree with is powerful. Key is, of course, developing your own or keeping beliefs but ability, so you can fight for those. With logic and other means. Non-violently. Or, if attacked, fend off. Hint: define terms is a good rear-guard action. "Fuck you" or burning down a convenience store should not be an argument.

I am not the sharpest bulb in the shed, but I do admire someone with an ability for honest debate. A person who can develop and understand a well-reasoned argument understands why they believe what they believe. Whether they believe in, or are even truthful in their argument is another matter, but I suspect a lot of frustration that occurs when people don't really understand why they believe what they believe results in the scenarios you give. Of course pride and not wanting to admit when one has been wrong plays it's part too lol.

Defined and universally understood terms are indeed important if getting at some truth is the goal. Unfortunately, obfuscation of both facts and terms is effective for getting someone to believe and do things they otherwise would not. Who was it that said something to the effect, "it doesn't matter why you do what we want you to do, only that you do it"?

I can't say if rhetoric and logic are usually taught outside of college level electives but I doubt it
#72
Random Topics / Re: Words/phrases I hate
April 10, 2018, 11:42:39 PM
Quote from: albrecht on April 10, 2018, 11:26:21 PM
If I were working for Oxford, etc dictionary my citation would be (on phone so NOT to ise proper citation framework)
"boiling it down" alternative expression for "explaining simply" "getting to key facts" "ignoring complexity or ambiquity"
Expression: from boiling stews and crawfish (see ref: 'crayfish')
Often used by Infowars. Variant (in MSM, disputed see citation "fake news") "here's what you need to know."
"Take" would reference. Term used by sports talk for brief, ill-informed opinion that was adopted by other people, like Norry, opinion/view on some issue.

Too often when people "break things down" for an audience,  what they really mean is "here is what you should think"
#73
Random Topics / Re: Words/phrases I hate
April 10, 2018, 11:07:25 PM
Quote from: albrecht on April 10, 2018, 11:02:13 PM
So, at the end of the day, we must go forward, and keep pushing the envelope. Remember, paradigms aren't shifted unless we think out of the box and leverage unrecognized talent so often marginalized....

IKR?
#74
Random Topics / Re: Words/phrases I hate
April 10, 2018, 10:57:30 PM
Quote from: whoozit on April 10, 2018, 06:08:58 PM
Going forward or on a go forward basis.  At least it rules out time travel.

Going forward gets me too!

When people begin an answer to a question or statement with "so"

Having said that
#75
Quote from: sumthinz going on on April 05, 2018, 02:21:30 AM
i tuned in to Commercial To Commercial to here how jack with the freedom checks is getting along...noticed george dumped his second guest without explanation, as he is want to do. geez!

I guess some of us can't be bothered to proofread our comments before posting
#76
i tuned in to Commercial To Commercial to here how jack with the freedom checks is getting along...noticed george dumped his second guest without explanation, as he is want to do. geez!
#77
Thunder and lightning. Beautiful.
#78
Quote from: CronkitesGhost on March 23, 2018, 11:45:13 PM
Just put Steven Quayle on every week, that guy delivers. And bring back Richard Hoagland. The wackier the better I say, just no more of the new age spiritual types unless they are crazy as loons.

and Andrew Basiago, Project Pegasus tales never get old.

I get some of the guests mixed up but I remember Hoagland always ranting about how there was going to be "disclosure" back in '08. How'd that ever work out?
#79
Quote from: Jojo on March 23, 2018, 10:06:11 PM
Well, around 2005, we were sitting outside visiting a closer neighbor when this psychic neighbor read my "vibes".  I can't remember if we touched hands or something.  She was skillful and accurate, but wanted to argue about it.  She said I shouldn't feel the way my vibes said I felt.  Some audacity! 

I said, "What are you talking about!  I feel the way I feel.  It's not directed at you!  I barely even know you.  Feelings just are what they are.  Its what you do with them that matters."

She disagreed and said the vibes were unacceptable.

I called her on her b.s. and told her to be more specific.  So, she told me to look at her while she mirrored back to me psychically, the feelings she was picking up on.  I think she put her hands up, palms facing me.

She proceeded to transmit feelings to me, many that I had been feeling daily for a couple years.  She did a real good job, as i noticed the waves of feelings roll over me.  She stopped, and asked if I felt it.  I said, "Yes, those are feelings I have all the time."

I guess she wanted me to be shocked or ashamed, but I knew those feelings well and I had every reason to feel them.  She expounded on how she disapproved of them highly.

All I could do was just gape and say, "I'm sorry my feelings offend you so much.  Imagine how it feels to be their original owner!  But you know, they aren't directed at you!"

She must not have been a psychic, or she would have known I had  every right to those feelings.  Like the situations involved.  Maybe she was just an empath.

It was kind of funny, that she felt my feelings, but instead of being supportive or helpful, she really didn't care how I felt.

She had been in prison.  Her son died in prison.  She led two lives.  I think she didn't respect right from wrong.  My feelings were strong hate for a crime committed against me, anger at the inconvenient court visits, and other fallout.  Maybe she was uncomfortable with righteous anger.  I never spoke to her again.

Thanks for sharing. I guess I don't know what to say except that life is a subjective experience. I hope you are coping better with your anger these days! Anger can indeed be useful but also become a millstone around one's neck over time. Anyway, Georgie's on with them open lines and demons tonight, so beware and take care.

The house/case in St. Louis that inspired The Exorcist will come up...easy money
#80
Quote from: Jojo on March 23, 2018, 01:16:30 PM
A neighbor read my aura.  She didn't know me very well.  It went well.

Interesting. Care to elaborate?
#81
Quote from: CronkitesGhost on March 23, 2018, 02:58:09 AM
gullibility of the new age variety is heavily female, when's the last time you met a guy who went for a tarot reading or to have their aura read or whatever they do?

gullible men exist too but we're talking really dumb men or mentally unbalanced.  i know very intelligent women, some in my family, who have done new agey type stuff and gobble up books like The Secret.
I must admit I've never known anyone who went to a tarot card reading or have had their aura read

"...really dumb men or mentally unbalanced" LOL

#82
Quote from: CronkitesGhost on March 23, 2018, 01:52:09 AM
i can't take it, more than half the guests are new age simpletons, most are female. i love when people try this 'women are more intuitive, women are more open and more in touch' bullshit, women are just more gullible that's the truth.
It seems gullibility is a human trait...plenty of men want to buy into and peddle this and all manner of crazy stuff. have you seen some of our peers on this site in action? whatever is rewarding I suppose, whether it's touchy-feely dream interpretation or paranoia about anyone who thinks differently
#83
Random Topics / Re: Things That Annoy You
March 22, 2018, 10:56:15 PM
Quote from: Jojo on March 22, 2018, 08:13:13 PM
I'm glad to hear life is valued more than things!!
Let's not get carried away now!
#84
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Haiku for Noory-san
March 18, 2018, 01:47:08 PM
Wwwell, they surely do!
Aaand, that's true too
...interesting take
#85
Ive been known to misinterpret...but did this guy just intimate that the Aztecs were peaceful?
#86
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Haiku for Noory-san
March 13, 2018, 01:58:11 AM
people are whacked out
in times gone by and future
there is nothing new
#88
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Haiku for Noory-san
March 09, 2018, 11:33:36 PM
time before big bang
thought surrenders to hunger
let's get a sandwich
#89
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Haiku for Noory-san
March 05, 2018, 06:01:17 AM
the sun rises high
bare is the george noory thread
we must have all slept?

last night was the first sunday
I was callin' ALL the hawgs
who will fill me in?





#90
Quote from: Jojo on March 03, 2018, 07:08:16 PM
Is that a joke?  Because by liberal standards, the above paragraph is Haiku!

Hardly anyone follows the three rules, but here they are:
1.  Line one has 5 syllables
2.  Line two has 7 syllables
3.  Line three has 5 syllables

I think, and according to the Haiku thread, that's all there is to it!  It's short and sweet, like you and Mouse often are.


Poem:. Obviously

It seems to me you
Are the one good at Haiku
I don't get the rules

I didn't know the actual rules, so I was just mimicking. Now that I do know them I can't guarantee I have a talent for it... but maybe I'll give it a shot sometime if the mood strikes. Thanks, Jojo
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