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Post by groo on Aug 21, 2023 20:26:33 GMT -5
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Post by groo on Aug 22, 2023 3:33:49 GMT -5
I'm bored and lack mobility. Forgive me.
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Post by sprite on Aug 23, 2023 12:36:29 GMT -5
ouch.
the head of Wagner was reportedly on a plane that crashed in Russia. I'm not laughing that people died, but that anyone thought they'd be safe hanging out with a guy who humiliated putin.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 23, 2023 13:38:49 GMT -5
ouch. the head of Wagner was reportedly on a plane that crashed in Russia. I'm not laughing that people died, but that anyone thought they'd be safe hanging out with a guy who humiliated putin. positively lin biaoesque plane shot down while fleeing to russia after attempted coup en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Biao
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 23, 2023 16:43:59 GMT -5
My initial reaction on hearing the news is, will it be good for Africa? Since Wagner has been actively recruiting for that area. My personal view is that they’re causing trouble in a part of the world they have no business interfering in.
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Post by groo on Aug 23, 2023 17:57:18 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Aug 23, 2023 18:44:11 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Aug 24, 2023 16:06:40 GMT -5
meanwhile this Introducing the future of flexible learning with CGA Flex! Empowering students to master US Diploma and AP courses on their own schedule. Students will gain access to a wealth of resources, including homework assignments, reading materials, recorded class content after the live class takes place each week, and 1:1 check-ins with a personalised education coach. With a time commitment of around 5 hours per week, students will earn a full credit course upon successful completio…
note how they are called Crimson Global Academy as in harvard crimson
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Post by kneazle on Aug 24, 2023 17:36:57 GMT -5
A lot of people at work are away in Fiji at conference - this is an out of office I got from one of them:
Thanks for your email.
Dont contact me while im out of the office or ill report you to HR
Regards
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Post by psw on Aug 24, 2023 17:41:29 GMT -5
Pale green sign advertising LIME PAINTERS - mental vision of women with tiny brushes painting limes like Ukranian Easter eggs.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 25, 2023 18:50:17 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on Aug 26, 2023 9:09:25 GMT -5
Oh Randy!
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Post by tzarine on Aug 27, 2023 18:56:33 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on Aug 29, 2023 6:03:01 GMT -5
Barbie, as in the movie, has officially beaten Harry Potter as the highest grossing movie for Warner Bros. And the men do not like it... which I already find funny. But the funniest of all the comments from grumpy old men was this I mean, she's been around for more than sixty years already
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Post by sprite on Aug 29, 2023 12:50:15 GMT -5
I would not have pegged Potter fans as sexist.
I spent hours tying little bags around my hazelnuts so the animals wouldn't get them. Turns out the squirrels are able to untie knots.
Now I'm wondering where those 30 pieces of frost fleece have gone...
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Post by tzarine on Aug 29, 2023 13:16:39 GMT -5
terence hill in they call me trinity tzar knows how i love spaghetti westerns
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 31, 2023 7:53:36 GMT -5
I’m watching RFDS on the tv. One of the crew just doused a racist cop having a panic attack after an emergency landing with an esky full of ice water.
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Post by sprite on Aug 31, 2023 8:31:56 GMT -5
Did that actually help?? (it does sound satisfying to watch)
partner is watching the draft of a training video for work. An edit of some sort has happened since he last watched it, and the male actor now appears to be wearing orange lipstick. my comment was, "it's fine if he wants to wear lipstick, but not with that shirt."
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 31, 2023 18:21:35 GMT -5
Yes. The ice water was on medical advice, but not what the cop expected.
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Post by Queen on Sept 1, 2023 1:52:59 GMT -5
I would not have pegged Potter fans as sexist. I would put it that some sexists are also Potter fans.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Sept 1, 2023 1:56:37 GMT -5
Plus a lot of Potter fans walked away with Rowling's TERF stance. So it might have left more of the sexist ones there? Or they are now happy to 'claim' Potter?
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Post by Queen on Sept 1, 2023 2:09:24 GMT -5
She came up in a book group discussion, for exactly that reason.
We were talking about banned books and then the question came up "which books do you self-ban?" which I thought was really interesting!
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 1, 2023 6:25:24 GMT -5
Oh, self-banning is an interesting topic; do you avoid books (and bands!) when you find out their authors/singers/whatever are terrible people, or have a political stance that you disagree with (which doesn't bleed over into their art).
I think if something is good, I'll still read it, but I might acknowledge the fact that Author is an Asshole when I post stuff about reading it. But if something is just so-so, knowing the author/etc is problematic would probably prompt me to avoid it.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 1, 2023 6:34:37 GMT -5
I’m definitely avoiding Ayn Rand. I wouldn’t read anything by Trump or Putin, and I don’t plan to read Prince Harry’s book either, but that’s not because I don’t like him.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 1, 2023 6:49:15 GMT -5
OMG I would never read Ayn Rand - I know enough about her work to be able to say that
a) I disagree violently with them, and reading them isn't going to make me a better person by helping me understand people with different opinions because I am already exposed to enough performative libertarian nonsense out there thank you I don't need to go out LOOKING for more of it, and
b) her books are actually not very well written anyway, so they're both poisonous and deadly dull
Ugh
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Post by sprite on Sept 1, 2023 13:10:23 GMT -5
I have recently learned that Roald Dahl was all levels of asshole, but he's not making any money off his books anymore, so I'll still read them.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 1, 2023 13:34:07 GMT -5
There is a glamping business in Brooklyn that, ok, is on the riverside but looks like it's in the middle of a sketchy abandoned parking lot? You can stay in a container (ok, renovated, with a/c and an ensuite bathroom) for $300 or in a tent for $85. I was like - ok if you sleep in a tent in an abandoned parking lot in Brooklyn and pay someone $85 then you're "glamping," but if you do that without paying someone $85 then you're "homeless." liisa that is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo williamsburg im laughing @ the collagen supplement thats supposed to "support sleep" & the vegan "theanine snacks" they are sampling @ my market. it used to be like a discount gourmet market, now it's fad central & yes, they sell coldbrew! just like how when tzarevich was little, the village moms had their kids eating these puffs w this green powder on them bc allegedly the green powder made you smarter, was supernutritious & organic. he had goldfish crackers
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 1, 2023 14:36:28 GMT -5
None of those things existed when we were kids and yet we turned out just fine. (OK a little weird on my part but fine)
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Post by Queen on Sept 1, 2023 15:54:45 GMT -5
I won't read Prince Harry's book because the extracts I've seen - which should be the best bits - seem dire. There's no moral objection for me. As for the Orange one... perhaps the court transcripts?
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Post by psw on Sept 1, 2023 18:47:53 GMT -5
The transcripts are likely to be endless repetitions of "fifth amendment" and "I don't remember" with burts of indecipherable gibberish. My sympathy to the stenographers/
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