Keating wrote: ↑
Canberra is just as bad at the moment, although we're still WuFlu free. I was living in Poland from '93, just 4 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This reminds me of shopping there. Some weeks you just couldn't find stuff, so when you did see it, you bought all of it.
My neighborhood in Boston in the eighties had a lot of Russian emigres. When toilet paper was on sale, they'd buy hundreds of rolls at a time.
I've wiped my ass with East German TP, so I understood the sentiment.
Wonder how that compares with the infamous 'Izal' paper - this had the same characteristics as tracing paper, except it wasn't as soft, and smelled of Dettol (? something medicated, in any case). Our roll* lived in the airing cupboard for absolute emergencies, like the complete absence of anything else (newspaper, cardboard, sandpaper... ) for wiping your arse on.
I grew up a couple of miles from the Izal factory....
Pseudomonas
*Note the singular. Once you had one, it would last you for life, as no one would want to use it. Think Pratchett's Dwarf Bread...
Jeez, Pseudo, I was just scrolling down to point out that the wimpy East Germans had it cushy as they didn't have to use Izal. Shiny on one side (so shit didn't stick to it), and sandpaper on the other, all the while reeking of Zalpine disinfectant.
Police call Tommy Robinson after the recent incident.
Tommy presses the cop on why the accused pedophile was not arrested, why his phone was not checked (to see if he was taking pictures of children), why the police are not accepting the daughter's claim without corroborating witnesses, why the cops refuse to 'speculate' about three 3 grown men without families were at the family resort, etc.
I listened 4m14s. My dog has been shitting large & small puddles of bloody diarrhea, every few hours-- including all last night. Girlfriend has been a champ about helping with cleanup & dog-nursing... but our tempers get short when we bark orders at each other to 'get the dog of the bed NOW!' 'hold him, I'll grab the paper towel!' 'you made me step in the puddle'. Tommy's problems won't help extend my patience. Nor will Kamala Harris's endorsement of Biden. Or Stephanopolous interviewing Bernie.
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On the other hand, I found some delightfully insipid distraction this morning-- In a podcast called Superhero Ethics, Episode #83.
The co-hosts are sophomoric ethics-major dweebs, who watch Spider-man movies & marvel at "with great power comes great responsibility" & such. I've never listened to them before. I tried their Watchmen episode. Their opinions are delightfully ill-informed. One of these experts on the Watchmen-- has never read the comic. "The print was too small" for him to read.
The other one says he doesn't think he "should" like Watchmen, "but I do". Which causes him to sincerely worry "there must be something wrong with me". (HIs concern is that it's not politically correct.)
They declare Watchmen to be 'problematic', because the superheroes are depicted-as deeply-flawed mortals, rather than idealized bastions of heroic good. Occasionally, they notice that the story or characters seem to ~critique~ the genre. Each time, they wonder if that was was INTENTIONAL! They have no idea who Alan Moore is. They can't fathom that Alan Moore meant-to deconstruct a genre. They speculate-- that he's some rightwing 1980's Rambo guy-- because he shows Nixon winning Vietnam by sending Dr. Manhattan to lay waste on the Vietcong. Dr. Manhattan "embodies toxic masculinity" because he's out of touch with his feminine side: too analytical/ not in touch with feelings. Rorschach 'sees things in black & white' too much to 'be heroic'.
They aren't raging SJWs. They're hapless dorks who nodded & thought 'sounds legit', when SJWs indoctrinated them. They're sooo majestically certain that they're quite smart.
John D wrote: ↑
I am in love with Claire Lehmann... but I think she would find me too old and too short.
I consider myself to be a liberal conservative or conservative liberal centre-lefty (depending on whether my grumpy old man syndrome is playing up) and hold a lot of the views that she espouses. She is a little bit quintessential arts student to my science student, but hey, etc.
I'm not so fond of John Anderson and his religious political conservatism. I remember listening to a speech by him at the Brisbane Conservative Club (my ex brother in law invited me) and it was so obvious that he was playing to the crowd and wasn't a true believer in the rhetoric that many in the audience were lapping up.
Keating wrote: ↑
Canberra is just as bad at the moment, although we're still WuFlu free. I was living in Poland from '93, just 4 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This reminds me of shopping there. Some weeks you just couldn't find stuff, so when you did see it, you bought all of it.
My neighborhood in Boston in the eighties had a lot of Russian emigres. When toilet paper was on sale, they'd buy hundreds of rolls at a time.
I've wiped my ass with East German TP, so I understood the sentiment.
Wonder how that compares with the infamous 'Izal' paper - this had the same characteristics as tracing paper, except it wasn't as soft, and smelled of Dettol (? something medicated, in any case). Our roll* lived in the airing cupboard for absolute emergencies, like the complete absence of anything else (newspaper, cardboard, sandpaper... ) for wiping your arse on.
I grew up a couple of miles from the Izal factory....
Pseudomonas
*Note the singular. Once you had one, it would last you for life, as no one would want to use it. Think Pratchett's Dwarf Bread...
East German toilet paper would've made effective roofing material.
Service Dog wrote: ↑
Can the Queen simply knight Sir Tommy Robinson, hand him a sword & a License to Kill? Is that an actual option?
Yeah but they have to be careful. No one needs to know the Queen wants a demented Tommy Robinson to attack Meghan Markle and then throw him to the dogs.
Jeez, Pseudo, I was just scrolling down to point out that the wimpy East Germans had it cushy as they didn't have to use Izal. Shiny on one side (so shit didn't stick to it), and sandpaper on the other, all the while reeking of Zalpine disinfectant.
Izal.jpg
It's still available for the real men amongst you. The thing that worries me is the claim it 'lasts longer' - are they suggesting multiple uses?
Zalpine, that's the stuff.
It could certainly stand multiple uses (opinion, not experience!), but I suspect it 'lasts longer' because no-one in their right mind would use it for wiping their arse. Roofing, like Matt claims for the East German TP, maybe....
I consider myself to be a liberal conservative or conservative liberal centre-lefty (depending on whether my grumpy old man syndrome is playing up) and hold a lot of the views that she espouses. She is a little bit quintessential arts student to my science student, but hey, etc.
I'm not so fond of John Anderson and his religious political conservatism. I remember listening to a speech by him at the Brisbane Conservative Club (my ex brother in law invited me) and it was so obvious that he was playing to the crowd and wasn't a true believer in the rhetoric that many in the audience were lapping up.
I consider myself socially-conservative or conservatively solid right-of-centre when I’m pissed off. I also detect the scent of taint on this one.
BTW there are legitimate old-fashioned trad arts students. Then there’s the nasty politically turned arts students. But there are only engineer-grade science under-grads; those who dwell on the wrong side of City Road.
The guy in the white shirt is a communist. Stephen Molyneux is supposed to be genius IQ/ and a theatre-trained orator/ and a magnificent podcaster. The communist is spectacularly dumb. But... then... why can't Molyneux run circles around the guy?
Instead...51 minutes in... the commie has been stumped by the following concept:
In an economy of 10 dollars and 10 oranges... with a going-rate of $1 per orange... printing 10 more fiat dollars would cut the value of each dollar in half.
BUT! Molyneux has ALSO been stumped... to explain inflation & win the point.
I'm not complaining. I feel like I've experienced a mild stroke: euphoria. zen blank mind. subgenius bob-grin. Satisfied customer.
La la la. la la. maybe I'll listen to the next bit with my thumb in my butt.
Primary election in my home state of Michigan tomorrow.
I will vote for Tulsi just for grins. My wife and daughter don't know what to do. They are so disappointed by Biden and Bernie. Haha. We laughed and laughed at Joe blowing it on his "We hold these truths to be self evident" gaff... oh man. He is losing his mind.
Service Dog wrote: ↑
La la la. la la. maybe I'll listen to the next bit with my thumb in my butt
I get the feeling that sticking a finger up your butt is a known figure of speech, and not simply your fetish. If so, what does it mean, or imply?
I was trying to evoke a mindless state. Like someone staring into the void while picking their nose. Or drooling while watching the laundry tumble in the little porthole.
Nup. I support the calls to quarantine Sydney, and I’ve been advocating nuking Melbourne for decades now.
It’s probably too late for us now, though. WuFlu suspected at the very non-Australian Unilodge at the ANU. Plus, two ADF personal known to be carriers flew in to visit Russell.
I listened to another hour of the Communist vs. Molyneux debate.
I'm learning that Dunning-Kruger is tiered. The Commie is functioning as if a sliver of Lead has been embeded in his brain for decades. Molyneux is at the level of the mad scientist who inserted the Lead sliver. But when the patient questions the wisdom of the implant, Molyneux can only bellow, 'It's perfectly obvious, you dunderhead!'
Early in the debate, Molyneux asks the other guy how he reconciles his Marxism-- with enormous 20th century bodycount of communist regimes. The guy responds by saying Communism doesn't exist in a vaccuum... it's a response to capitalism. And so he doesn't differentiate or separate the communist carnage from the larger system it opposes.
Later in the debate, Molyneux reads damning quotes from Marx & Engels-- explicitly advocating for maximum terror, to be intentionally prolonged beyond what may seem resonable, exterminating whole groups of "reactionary people's", in a future 'world war'. At that point, the communist excuses the calls for massive violence-- as a sensible form of opposition to 1800's monarchy.
A little later, when Molyneux cites the violent revolution of Lenin and the Bolsheviks and Trotsky's faction and so-on... the communist DOES renounce that path, saying that ~he~ doesn't advocate violent revolution-- he hopes to obtain communism via mere peaceful persuasion. I don't think he has any awareness that he's contradicting his prior claim-- that he can't even "see" communist violence as a separate thing, which can be renounced, apart from the historical context.
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I hope to occasionally recall this debate, at random times. I'll be standing on the train platform, or waiting in line to pay for groceries. And I'll remember the communist's Bright Idea of reading a list of logical fallacies, to start the debate. And how he struggled with reeeeeeal simple ones, like Ad Hominem. How his "gotchas" against Molyneux were so feeble. And I'll chuckle aloud, 'Hurr dee durr durr', and people around me will wonder what's wrong with that guy?
Service Dog wrote: ↑
I hope to occasionally recall this debate, at random times. I'll be standing on the train platform, or waiting in line to pay for groceries. And I'll remember the communist's Bright Idea of reading a list of logical fallacies, to start the debate. And how he struggled with reeeeeeal simple ones, like Ad Hominem. How his "gotchas" against Molyneux were so feeble. And I'll chuckle aloud, 'Hurr dee durr durr', and people around me will wonder what's wrong with that guy?
When I used to take the bus home from the office in Oakland, the local marxists -- and there are a lot of marxists in Oakland -- would proselytize at the bus stop, then try to sell you a copy of Socialist Worker. I'd always tell them I didn't have any cash on me, but they should give me a free copy because 'from each according to his ability; to each according to his need.' And they always would.
1. Biden gets nomination.
2. Biden forgets his name.
3. DNC rules examined, found to allow them to substitute someone.
4. HRC is selected.
5. She gets fuck seven ways to Sunday.
6. Four more Trumpy years.
1. Biden gets nomination.
2. Biden forgets his name.
3. DNC rules examined, found to allow them to substitute someone.
4. HRC is selected.
5. She gets fuck seven ways to Sunday.
6. Four more Trumpy years.
1. Biden gets nomination.
2. Trump and Pence both die of COVID-19 that they got from Matt Gaetz .
3. Biden chooses Tulsi Gabbard as VP
4. He is elected, but mysteriously falls out of a hotel window and Tulsi assumes power.
5. Many people that have pointed out that Tulsi has a terrible complexion are hunted down and killed by a crack team of Polynesian Seals
6. Tulsi pulls a Putin and declares herself President for Life.
1. Biden gets nomination.
2. Biden forgets his name.
3. DNC rules examined, found to allow them to substitute someone.
4. HRC is selected.
5. She gets fuck seven ways to Sunday.
6. Four more Trumpy years.
1. Biden gets nomination.
2. Trump and Pence both die of COVID-19 that they got from Matt Gaetz .
3. Biden chooses Tulsi Gabbard as VP
4. He is elected, but mysteriously falls out of a hotel window and Tulsi assumes power.
5. Many people that have pointed out that Tulsi has a terrible complexion are hunted down and killed by a crack team of Polynesian Seals
6. Tulsi pulls a Putin and declares herself President for Life.
Keating wrote: ↑
Hey the pit is fixed. Couldn't log in for days.
I've just tried logging in and it tells me that I'm being redirected to somewhere insecure - KiwInOz
But I am bloody glad to stop seeing all that crap about php things.
Same insecure redirect after logging in here, Firefox latest. Seems fine apart from that.
Insecure redirect error after hitting submit, so probably going toi double up.
Keating wrote: ↑
Hey the pit is fixed. Couldn't log in for days.
I've just tried logging in and it tells me that I'm being redirected to somewhere insecure - KiwInOz
But I am bloody glad to stop seeing all that crap about php things.
Same insecure redirect after logging in here, Firefox latest. Seems fine apart from that.
Insecure redirect error after hitting submit, so probably going toi double up.
If coronavirus proves anything it’s that a society based on individuals will fall at first pressure,
Fucking toilet paper.
Only collective discipline has a chance.
Collective's are made of individuals who will fight over TP until the boss bashes heads, so you are essentially talking about authoritarianism. When it comes to civic responsibility I think you'll find the individuals in the mainland Chinese collective somewhat lacking compared to their Western counterparts. Perhaps you were thinking of Singapore? Very orderly, but wouldn't want to live there.
The real messages of the coronavirus are , never trust the CCP and we are all racists. The lefty media goldfish of the Ministry of Truth are rather exercised over use of the terribly racist words "Chinese coronavirus", having memory-holed their own splashing of the term all over the media just yesterday, starkly demonstrating that truth is whatever helps bash the non-left. The CCP should be blamed for the pandemic. They took steps to protect their military long before they let the public know, waiting until the virus had already taken root, something that probably wouldn't have been possible in a less authoritarian individualistic society.
Went to the small town grocery store this morning. Only a few other shoppers there. Everything seems to be in stock except the toilet paper shelf was empty. Upped the beer supply so I'm good for a while now.
Driftless wrote: ↑
Went to the small town grocery store this morning. Only a few other shoppers there. Everything seems to be in stock except the toilet paper shelf was empty. Upped the beer supply so I'm good for a while now.
If I was still a drinker, my basement would be looking like a French chateau wine cave right now.