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pithy

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  1. Shouldn't go there since she obviously has bigger hake fish to salt-cure 'n' sear right now, but I wonder if Hilaria knows how lucky she is that her thing only required a box of hair dye, a few minutes spent noting the accent of Sofia Vergara, a tanning appointment, and a tattered copy of How to Forget the Names of Produce Products for Dummies. Work it out, mamacita.

  2. 15 minutes ago, karbatal said:

    Oh thank you! 

    If you only knew how much difficulty I have with understanding the spoken English in films :lmao: Sometimes I think they are speaking in Swedish.

    Doesn't come across at all! Avoid anything set in America's Deep South at all costs. Not due to the incomprehensible accents but because the dark side of one too many potato dishes has never been more evident.

  3. 7 hours ago, karbatal said:

    I don't know why I thought the word sleaze had a sexual meaning and meant something like "dirtymind".

    Is it a synonym of sordid then?

    The sexual connotation can be strong! Though I think it would've grown from certain kinds of sex having been seen as sordid rather than through truly old-school etymology.

    Your English diction is soooo strong it's a bit wild the language ain't even your first (true of many members who may be reading this - hi), and your turns of phrase are masterful and hilarious. Like, how big WAS the biggest spud in Asia which was discovered by that Chinese lady? Fact fans wanna know.

  4. Gauche to be sassy at a time like this but Fucker Carlson deserves a punch to that prissy moue he's always sporting, to say nothing of the permanently furrowed brow as though he were deep in thought on his way to the truth while struggling to string together sentences with his two brain cells, the pair rarely on speaking terms. What filth!

  5. 5 hours ago, runa said:

    I can't believe Kyle Rittenhouse is free to go. That's just insane. 
    If the guy was black, he would be sentenced to lifetime jail. If not worse.

    Indeed. Not sure that version of Rittenhouse would've made it to trial. Seems just as likely he could've been gunned down by law enforcement that very evening. And fat chance buddy would've been able to post that $2 million bail crowdsourced by people who see murderers as martyrs.

  6. Even on the original campaign trail, as in back during the days of the primaries, he operated with less gumption and he communicated with less conviction than basically any other major Democratic hopeful. Milquetoast appeal and being the lesser of two evils really shouldn't license someone to become the leader of the free world.

  7. In the more extreme cases (... all of them?!), they honestly think Trump is anointed. It's all become interwoven with the longest-standing tenets of these followers' shared worldview - their faith, essentially - so throwing in the towel, at this point, would take deconstructing entire belief systems. Ignoring the cornerstones of reality seems to be the order of the day.

    It's aggravating because it's a populist movement, I guess, in that a lot of these people are probably hurting due to shortages of money and prospects. Well, tough shit. Maybe they could start by not decrying policymakers who might actually seek to improve their lots in life beyond the micro level.

  8. Eurgh. It's a sad day when you have to hope they're overzealous Wallace and Gromit loons awed by his "interesting" physiognomy rather than informed voters fully aware and indeed supportive of the vile policies at his crux, which is of course much more likely. No upside from me. No ancient wisdom to impart. Just more of the same old wistful, fatigued confusion. Frustrating.

    @Jazzy Jan, remember that programme's title? I've had high opinions of Aussie documentaries before.

  9. 3 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:

    They drive me insane. Sadly too, so many fall for their hypocritical bull dust. It makes my blood boil to see right wing journalists and politicians PRETENDING to be all worried about mental health now when they have actively fought against any funding for it previously. Would rather them be straight up honest and say they are interested only in the economy and not trying to fool people that they have any concern over public health and mental health. 

    Redefining the answer to that age-old question of how low anyone can go. Anecdotal, but the individuals I know who've fallen hook, line, and sinker for the rhetoric are some of the most odious creatures when it comes to these issues, so cue many rolled eyes. As far as the politicians go, either the lack of self-awareness is astonishing or they really think their entire electorates are that dense. Both answers offend me.

  10. 10 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:

    Of course. Similar to how writers for Murdoch papers who were once in the conservative government such as Peta Credlin, now are always using mental health as a reason to want no lockdowns etc. They don’t care about anyone getting sick with COVID or mental health. In reality, they only care about business and economics. When in government, they NEVER wanted any extra funding for mental health and did not give a damn about people’s mental health. The are so transparent and sickening in how they use issues to suit their own agendas when it suits them. 

    Yes, so true. It drives me nuts. They love to use the opioid crisis as well, saying people are also dying from that, pretending to have such bleeding hearts for the very same people they spend all the rest of their time regarding as subhuman junkies. No shame at all.

  11. On 10/1/2021 at 11:27 PM, redhot said:

    It's conceivable that people have had rougher rides on the mental health front because of COVID, but The Epoch Times has private ends to serve and its show of sympathy is the co-opting of people's struggles for little more than purposes of propagation. These issues don't exist to the paper at any other time.

  12. 16 hours ago, jonski43 said:

    There is some evidence that it works and it's currently being looked at which I think it's driving this but yes, still doesn't mean this version is suitable for human consumption.

    It's quite shocking to see how people have behaved over the past couple of years. 

    It's just that vaccine hesitancy hardly justifies itself in dissenters who'll throw themselves headlong into gobbling up alternatives that are even bigger question marks, much more untried. :chuckle: Shocking, yes. It's hard to rebel against the increased pessimism. We try...

  13. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/04/1034217306/ivermectin-overdose-exposure-cases-poison-control-centers

    I was just reading this article about people self-medicating with ivermectin. There have also been a bunch of stories about stores that deal in animal feed and care supplies only selling it to longtime customers known to pasture animals.

    People are insane. Imagine denouncing vaccines but jumping at this.

  14. 8 hours ago, ThomasW said:

    it's only now that these types of people find it annoying, when the AIDS pandemic started it was no issue at all to wear one for them

     

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    Wow. Not to derail, but I found, on his Wikipedia page, a quote about the Falwell referenced on this cover. "The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called 'reverend.'"

    Seems on the money. All this and more, clearly still alive and kicking, in a SECULAR country.

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