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Post by sprite on Jan 20, 2024 16:03:32 GMT -5
Visiting an exhibit about Buddhism with partner and my friend, and all of us making lots of silly jokes about various aspects of religion in general and Buddha poses.
(small exhibit, but some truly lovely artifacts)
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 23, 2024 7:26:28 GMT -5
Remembering the most bizarre plane trip I ever made. Friends are celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary, and posted on Facebook. At the time, I was staying in Auki, Malaita, with the groom’s aunt, who needed to get to Honiara for the wedding, along with several family members and a mountain of pineapples. I was on my way back to school for the start of the school year, and several students from the village where I’d been staying were with me. We all expected to find several ships at the wharf heading to Honiara, but for some reason, they hadn’t come. As a last resort, we chartered a plane from the Seventh Day Adventists! Because our group filled the plane, it cost about the same as booking individual flight tickets would have, if we could have got them. Most of the group were teenagers who had never flown before.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 23, 2024 13:45:04 GMT -5
how people get upset over movies, the oscars it's ok
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Post by sprite on Jan 23, 2024 16:01:19 GMT -5
Second wind storm this week. On Sunday night, our bbq was pushed out from the shelter and fell over, so I had to put it back, and pack it in really tightly--partner damaged his back.
tonight he says, 'oh, it may go for a walk again, and you'll have to rescue it!' Me: if it goes for a walk tonight, I'm not going back out to it without a priest.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 23, 2024 18:15:45 GMT -5
Song with a woman singing "Violence! Violence!" and I thought she was saying "Varmints!"
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Post by sprite on Jan 24, 2024 14:59:16 GMT -5
There's one popular on RAdio 6, with the phrase "jealous lovers" and it took me far to long to work out that it wasn't "Chinese lovers". I was very confused.
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Post by kneazle on Jan 24, 2024 15:16:51 GMT -5
I got a linkedin request from someone whose first name is Macgyver.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 25, 2024 19:21:35 GMT -5
its january & ya want my money for a writers conference alread7 & these are prices after the "fellowship" if i get it & its in kansas!
"Conference Fees (After Assistance) Contributors - $2,000 ($1,100 for tuition and $900 for room and board) Scholars - $900 (Conference covers tuition)"
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Post by sprite on Jan 26, 2024 12:35:55 GMT -5
Today's end of course party, I brought haggis and Nanaimo bars (choc/coconut/nut base, creamy middle, chocolate topping). I need to work on the base of those bars; one of the students picked one up, looked at it, and asked, "are these made with haggis too?"
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 26, 2024 16:46:15 GMT -5
Eeeewwww lol haggis-Nanaimo bars. Sounds like something some very adventuresome restaurant would come up with just to get notoriety.
I laughed remembering a conversation with my trainer at the gym yesterday that started about shoes for dogs and then devolved into trying to remember if Pomerania was a real place or not, so she's looking up Pomerania on her phone while I'm lifting weights. I thought dogs ought to have shoes because their poor bare feet will get cold! but she says what about huskies, they don't wear shoes and they're fine! but then I was like "but what about a teacup Pomeranian? with those very tiny feets? They MUST have shoes!" etc. I don't even have a dog, but I have this strong opinion about dogs' shoes.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 26, 2024 18:18:45 GMT -5
Eeeewwww lol haggis-Nanaimo bars. Sounds like something some very adventuresome restaurant would come up with just to get notoriety. Especially in Scotland, where they deep fry Mars Bars.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 26, 2024 20:50:24 GMT -5
I was waiting for a delivery of shoes that were supposed to arrive by 7:00 pm, and at one point around 7:15 I went outside to see if the noise was the delivery, but it was actually our neighbors - and I told them the sad tale of how my shoes were late.
When I saw the truck with the shoes arrive I went outside and called out "my shoes!" happily. The neighbors had their window open so they heard me, and I heard them yelling "yay, your shoes!" out the window, which made me and the UPS guy laugh.
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Post by psw on Jan 27, 2024 0:57:58 GMT -5
Headline on an editorial page:
The Panama Canal Is In Dire Straits
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Post by sprite on Jan 27, 2024 10:26:50 GMT -5
Bonus points if the the writer worked in the phrase 'money for nothing.'
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Post by tzarine on Jan 28, 2024 15:13:25 GMT -5
a pretentious person recommending a the crap w plastic stepford face nkidman series cause it's set in hong kong this is the one who insisted i watch tarantino bc it was an homage to hk cinema i told i didn't have time bc i was dying
if i needed a new asian film, id check a blog of 2 colleagues, one is a film prof & columnist & the other sits on committees of filmfests
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 28, 2024 20:27:40 GMT -5
Driving into town, I spotted an old Subaru Ute with a “Figjam” sticker on the back windscreen. Now I’m wondering which of you is lurking in downtown Lismore.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 28, 2024 20:44:29 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on Jan 29, 2024 5:53:47 GMT -5
I belong to a book swap group on facebook and someone has just posted an offer to deliver "The Book of Mormon" in any language for free.
I'm waiting for the snark fest to begin.
I did consider posting a request for 20 books in different languages and adding the address of the rubbish dump... but realised I'd have to create a new anonymous fb account and lost interest in the idea.
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Post by sprite on Jan 29, 2024 6:32:15 GMT -5
I briefly thought you meant the comedy musical, and wondered why someone was so generous.
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Post by psw on Jan 29, 2024 9:18:25 GMT -5
Are the Mormons in league with the Gideons?
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Post by sprite on Jan 29, 2024 10:49:48 GMT -5
Or in a turf war for hotel nightstands?
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Post by Queen on Jan 29, 2024 11:19:04 GMT -5
Are the Mormons in league with the Gideons? I'd say in competition And no - NOT the musical. Although that thought also amuses me.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 29, 2024 17:04:10 GMT -5
Yes, definitely in competition. Their beliefs are not compatible, the Gideons don’t accept the Book of Mormon.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 29, 2024 17:37:43 GMT -5
I hope no one here is a Mormon believer because I don't want to offend anyone, but I just have to say: that stuff is nuts
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Post by psw on Jan 29, 2024 19:30:45 GMT -5
About a dozen years ago they built a huge Mormon temple in the town next to mine. It wasn't nearly as big as what they had proposed, but still enormous and atop a very high hill. When the town denied the original request for a building permit the Mormons filed suit for religious discrimination, which got lossed out of court so they had to negotiate.
Before the temple was consecrated they gave tours to non-Mormons who would not be admitted after the consecration. My friend S and I went on an anthropological expedition. It really was bizarre! We had to park off-site and ride their bus for the tour. On our return to the parking lot there was a group of people, mostly women, handing out literature about why they left the church. S and I had our hands full the whole time trying to keep each other from bursting out laughing until we finally got back to her car.
The most hilarious was the whole tour being punctuated by tales of how honest and trustworthy, etc., all Mormons were, but when we walked through the locker room where people leave their street clothes and don their holy garments all the lockers were indeed LOCKers with keys and all sorts of security measures in place...
I had fun being a gentile for a day.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 29, 2024 21:17:25 GMT -5
My favourite way of interacting with Mormon missionaries is to ask them whether a woman who has never married will go to heaven. I have enough knowledge of the Christian bible to explain why I prefer the Anglican Church.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 29, 2024 21:30:31 GMT -5
Watching a review video for a backpack called the Techonaut with sound off and captions on, and the captions kept misspelling the name as "the Taco Nut"
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Post by kneazle on Jan 29, 2024 21:34:56 GMT -5
I once saw a thing about the various religions and texts as movies.
In Judaism, they only liked the original movie. Christianity liked the original and the sequel Islam acknowledge the original two movies exist but prefer the third movie The Mormons just read fanfiction.
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Post by kneazle on Jan 29, 2024 21:35:59 GMT -5
We got the new music list for the choirs I'm in (main and extension choir). We're singing All Star by Smashmouth as an English Madrigal apparently.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 29, 2024 21:37:40 GMT -5
the number of self help books available from buynothing
the rise of the nerd memoir. it was a times bestseller. looked @ a few pages, all cliches.
the number of hotel shampoos from buynothing. when i take them, it's actually a scent i use & would never pay for.
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