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SimonBolivar

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  1. You guys think about some weird shit (which obviously works with a fairly decent chunk of the electorate, btw). I can honestly say that "masculinity" isn't something I ever think about*, probably because I can make my wife cum without blue pills or testosterone shots. The word conjures up images of Ricky Gervais on a tinpot radio station in 2002 telling Karl Pilkington, "Ohhh you’re hard" in his best early 2000's style gay impersonation. *Well excluding grad school where the term was often used as a way to understand gender identity as we moved from a farming-based culture to a clerk-based culture and men had to find a new identity outside of their work with new, larger, amounts of free time. Hence the rise of sports and outdoors in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
  2. This doesn't seem good for the long-term health of the nation
  3. I thought he didnt have time to post here anymore because he was on his quest to meet his first gay person? Instead, he's here watching all this time.
  4. Somehow feels right for the US Open Ugly night with a shit ton of chances. On the playoffs next
  5. . I dont believe in a "oh no they'll give the right-wing media a talking point" problem, because no matter what happens there will be a right-wing media talking point that sticks. That's partially due to the long term planning you mentioned and also quite a bit of luck that right-wingers happened to be strong in non-traditional media places when that scene blew up over the last 20 years. Yes, you need a plan and yes, Dems are really bad at having a coherent, long-term plan but this particular moment is small potatoes on next November.
  6. It will be 2026, nobody in this country has the attention span to watch a 2hr movie, so they aren't going to be thinking about a shutdown a year ago when they're at the ballot box. They're going to be thinking about whatever FoxNews or the, new and improved, right-wing TikTok told them earlier that morning as they talked to that nice young soldier who is at the polling place to protect them from any rabid trans person trying to use the bathroom.
  7. Reading Hatch's classic, The Democratization of American Christianity and damn if it doesn't hit hard from the start.
  8. Annual trip the week before Thanksgiving will be more of the usual with a stay in Tribeca and a couple of shows/Jazz club visits with the necessary stops at Los Taco No. 1 and Pomme Frites. One thing we haven't done is visit the NYPL (42nd Street). I understand they always have the Polonsky Exhibition, but haven't heard much on whether it considered a worthwhile visit or not. Anyone seen it? We do the Bryant Park Winter Village every year anyway, so it wouldn't be out of the way at all.
  9. I don't feel like I've ever been to a sub place and left feeling like, "Wow that was really good!" Feels more like, "Yup, that was a sandwich for lunch."
  10. Oh god, I didn't have Trump funding Northern Irish paramilitary groups on my Nobel Peace Prize Bingo card.
  11. You people ought to be locked up
  12. Who is this old dude pretending to be LaVar Arrington? God damn time
  13. Gonna get a Teams message from Ken in IT asking if you want to go out to dinner on Thursday. And you won't be able to say no....because of the implication.
  14. 3 years until we're all the way in
  15. Got me a Lee-Enfield 303 NO.4 MK I from Australia in WW2 that grandpa said was sold outside department stores after the war for like $5 (no idea on the veracity of that). Some asshole carved a deer in the butt though which ruins the appearance.
  16. Nice of the district to throw all the complaints to principals.
  17. Yeah I have a ton in a 2055 and I don't plan on working until even 2045.
  18. My CEO's "Well how are you going to get it here" followed by silence was great.
  19. Pretty much and the worst part is that when we do save someone, we never even get a thank you. Like the dude trying to wire $50k to Puerto Rico for a tractor he hadn't seen. All age groups fall for it now, but it's especially sad with old ladies and romance scams. They are so certain they're talking to a real guy living on an oil platform off the Scottish Highlands who just need $500 to get their bags through customs at the Edinburgh airport so they can get to the US and buy that $1M in house Williamson Co. The scammers on this one faked a boarding pass that literally said DEPART: Edinburgh ARRIVAL: Texas Oh yes, the great Texas airport. She still refused to believe it when we showed the real flight number was from London to Madrid.
  20. Why on a Tuesday?
  21. There is no law specifically for domestic terror groups, so his executive order just directed the government to continue doing things they could already do. It was all for show.
  22. You've been around these parts long enough to know this bit.
  23. Replace "the announcement on autism" with "SurlyHorns" and you got yourself a permanent motto.
  24. Dont worry, you weren't anywhere near the biggest fool yesterday. I work at a CU and we had a guy come in to get all of his $$$ (76 years old, about $6k) because these investors were "gonna turn it into $30k". We tell him, in person, its a scam. We sit him down with compliance, nope no good. OK sit him down with CFO, nope no good. CEO? Nada. Last chance was the off-duty police officer who gets paid $50/hr to watch YouTube. Nothing. We did get him to lower his withdrawal to $1,500 but he still took it and left, undoubtedly to a crypto atm, never to be seen again. It's an everyday thing in FI's.
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