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by Sam the Centipede
Sat May 04, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Up Here in Bathysphere (or wherever it is)
Replies: 405
Views: 33189

Up Here in Bathysphere (or wherever it is)

Foggy wrote: Sat May 04, 2024 3:09 pm He's holding his ear so his brains don't leak out. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. I don't know where my brother in Oregon is finding these, but I love them.
These days you can buy an applicator to insert more sawdust into a leaky cranium if you find your IQ dropping.
by Sam the Centipede
Sat May 04, 2024 5:51 am
Forum: Science
Topic: Anthropology
Replies: 21
Views: 2660

Anthropology

How or why the Neanderthals and Denisovans disappeared about 40,000 years ago is the subject of speculation. Sadly, I think we were very, very mean to them, to the point where we wiped them from the face of the planet. :blackeye: Indeed. However, that hypothesis is not proven (yet?) and there are o...
by Sam the Centipede
Sat May 04, 2024 5:40 am
Forum: Religion and Politics
Topic: Religious Threadjacks
Replies: 673
Views: 93398

Religious Threadjacks

With coffee and nothing better to do via ex-mormons I found myself at Baptist News Global. It has a piece by Robert P. Jones Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle . Jones' main point is that political attention is directed mainly at the religious extremes and falls to adequately consid...
by Sam the Centipede
Sat May 04, 2024 5:10 am
Forum: Religion and Politics
Topic: Religious Threadjacks
Replies: 673
Views: 93398

Religious Threadjacks

keith wrote: Sat May 04, 2024 5:01 am One of my long ago roommates grew up next door to one of the LDS Presidents.
So he had discount codes for the magic underwear?
by Sam the Centipede
Sat May 04, 2024 5:08 am
Forum: Current Politics
Topic: George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé
Replies: 1629
Views: 193953

George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé

Interesting views, thanks all. I hadn't considered the English (? I don't know its history) pantomime tradition. Of course dames are cross-dressing and thus (arguably?) drag, but doesn't raise the same doubt in my mind, probably because it is so cartoonish. Probably Barry Humphries too. Anyway, the ...
by Sam the Centipede
Sat May 04, 2024 4:40 am
Forum: Religion and Politics
Topic: Religious Threadjacks
Replies: 673
Views: 93398

Religious Threadjacks

There's a natural tendency to look at the past where the pews were full and think that the expression of doctrine in services back then was the cause of that. One of the biggest traps in logical thinking is mistaking correlation for causality, so it's pretty natural to think that if you resume Lati...
by Sam the Centipede
Sat May 04, 2024 3:55 am
Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
Topic: Bragg Manhattan DA charges tfg? Hush money. tfg “INDICATED!”
Replies: 1624
Views: 65949

Bragg Manhattan DA charges tfg? Hush money. tfg “INDICATED!”

Is that similar to Barbara Billingsley speaking jive in Airplane..... Still one of my favorite scenes in any movie, and that's all I'm going to say. Those of us without a lifetime's knowledge of US tv missed the clever disjunction of using Barbara Billingsley for that scene … and probably similar r...
by Sam the Centipede
Fri May 03, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Law and Lawsuits
Topic: General Law and Lawsuits
Replies: 1066
Views: 168915

General Law and Lawsuits

C'mon, we know that Mike – our kid – is channeling his memories of discussions of Arkell v. Pressdram on the pages of Ye Olde Fogbowe, the debates that took the lad from the squalid alleys of military life and the festering pits of evolutionary biology to the bright lights and sun-soaked beaches of ...
by Sam the Centipede
Fri May 03, 2024 11:44 am
Forum: Religion and Politics
Topic: Religious Threadjacks
Replies: 673
Views: 93398

Religious Threadjacks

It's narthex. And pews. Genuine question, what is not pews? (So to speak.) Benches? Seats? I never attended lectures in hermeneutic eschatology so some major issues escape me. Chairs Ah! I thought it was a terminological question rather than object/function-related. So: stand chairs benches pews = ...
by Sam the Centipede
Fri May 03, 2024 11:37 am
Forum: Current Politics
Topic: Political Toons
Replies: 6196
Views: 860152

Political Toons

My computer has one on its mouse. Stops the mouse getting lost when the computer wipes out.
by Sam the Centipede
Fri May 03, 2024 5:52 am
Forum: COVID-19 and its several variants
Topic: Long Haul Covid
Replies: 92
Views: 8667

Long Haul Covid

There have recently been suggestions that latent herpes viruses might also be a factor in some forms of dementia. I can't remember the details offhand but I think the virus sticks around nerves and the immune system forms proteins to protect the nerves, and those proteins can accumulate in plaques, ...
by Sam the Centipede
Fri May 03, 2024 5:33 am
Forum: Foreign Countries and Culture
Topic: UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
Replies: 1074
Views: 90580

UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland

:rotflmao: Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID :snippity: Johnson has (I think) largely dropped out of current news so he will be happy to get the publicity. He doesn't feel the shame or embarrassment that a non-sociopathic person would in that ironic s...
by Sam the Centipede
Fri May 03, 2024 4:17 am
Forum: Religion and Politics
Topic: Religious Threadjacks
Replies: 673
Views: 93398

Religious Threadjacks

Rolodex wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 11:43 pm It's narthex. And pews.
Genuine question, what is not pews? (So to speak.)

Benches? Seats? I never attended lectures in hermeneutic eschatology so some major issues escape me.
by Sam the Centipede
Fri May 03, 2024 4:11 am
Forum: Current Politics
Topic: Sharon Rondeau's The Post & Email - Sharon Bess Hanjian Wirth Rondeau Rated F "Questionable Source"
Replies: 464
Views: 71017

Sharon Rondeau's The Post & Email - Sharon Bess Hanjian Wirth Rondeau Rated F "Questionable Source"

bob wrote: Fri May 03, 2024 1:03 am :snippity:
Like fiddles. :violin:
… with one string, playing one long note, always flat, to a dying audience.

So sad.
by Sam the Centipede
Fri May 03, 2024 3:16 am
Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
Topic: #Brunson v. Adams - MAGAts Version of Birthers Hopium / ReVote2017 SCOTUS Case
Replies: 528
Views: 31229

#Brunson v. Adams - MAGAts Version of Birthers Hopium / ReVote2017 SCOTUS Case

I was thinking "I don't remember what this case claims to be about." On the basis that others might be thinking the same, here's a extracts from a reality-based Salt Lake Tribune piece quoted in an earlier post by Luke : The suit, which leans on baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 electio...
by Sam the Centipede
Thu May 02, 2024 11:21 pm
Forum: Religion and Politics
Topic: Religious Threadjacks
Replies: 673
Views: 93398

Religious Threadjacks

zekeb wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 10:49 pm Narthex vs entrance.
Vomitory versus egress versus exit versus way out.

I'm not sure I understand this game.
by Sam the Centipede
Thu May 02, 2024 11:16 pm
Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
Topic: Crazy Trumpers
Replies: 860
Views: 231052

Crazy Trumpers

Estiveo wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 7:30 pm Mike Lindell appears to be a reanimated corpse these days, so the MyDiapers launch may be delayed.
Coming soon! Use code CORPSEMIKE for 50% discount on MyShroud!
by Sam the Centipede
Thu May 02, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: Science
Topic: Anthropology
Replies: 21
Views: 2660

Anthropology

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/neanderthal-woman-face-reconstructed-iraq-scientists-cave-rcna150344 LONDON — She looks pretty good for 75,000 years old. :snippity: Given the similarities with humans, “it’s perhaps easier to see how interbreeding occurred between our species,” she added, “to the...
by Sam the Centipede
Thu May 02, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
Topic: Bragg Manhattan DA charges tfg? Hush money. tfg “INDICATED!”
Replies: 1624
Views: 65949

Bragg Manhattan DA charges tfg? Hush money. tfg “INDICATED!”

Dr. Ken wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 12:30 pm :snippity:
waiting for trump to blow a gasket
You'll be disappointed. He's wearing the heavy duty diaper today.
by Sam the Centipede
Thu May 02, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: Religion and Politics
Topic: Religious Threadjacks
Replies: 673
Views: 93398

Religious Threadjacks

Yeah, but they all say that. :confuzzled: No. Not all have that amalgam of tolerance but complete denial. Plenty of sects have condemned other sects as unchristian or heretical over the centuries and now. Plenty. Getting excited and arguing bitterly about whether the wafer transubstantiates or cons...
by Sam the Centipede
Thu May 02, 2024 12:07 pm
Forum: Religion and Politics
Topic: Religious Threadjacks
Replies: 673
Views: 93398

Religious Threadjacks

My Russian Orthodox cleric smiled through his big white beard and agreed when I told him my understanding of the Orthodox sects' view of other sects is "We respect other denominations' interpretations and practices. But they are all wrong."
by Sam the Centipede
Wed May 01, 2024 5:12 pm
Forum: Current Politics
Topic: Political Toons
Replies: 6196
Views: 860152

Political Toons

raison de arizona wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 3:20 pm Well, and some frogs can change genders. So there's that.
They're not changing my gender!
by Sam the Centipede
Wed May 01, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: Religion and Politics
Topic: Religious Threadjacks
Replies: 673
Views: 93398

Religious Threadjacks

zekeb wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 4:24 pm Welsh rarebit is pizza.
Na, nid caws ar dost yw pizza.
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by Sam the Centipede
Wed May 01, 2024 2:59 pm
Forum: Current Politics
Topic: Political Toons
Replies: 6196
Views: 860152

Political Toons

RTH10260 wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 2:06 pm :confuzzled: BUT... But.... but... when the prince kisses the frog .... :pray:
:fingerwag: Princesses can kiss frogs too!
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