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This best describes 2021.

HankSherman comments on Dec 31, 2021:

While true, it was still less stressful than the four years before.

Diogenes replies on Jan 1, 2022:

Maybe true- but the civilized, educated people of Afghanistan probably have a different view of Biden and the evil that they now will be subjected to.

RIP Betty White died 17 days before her 100th birthday.

LucyLoohoo comments on Dec 31, 2021:

It was my pleasure to work with Betty at many L.A. zoo functions and she was the most natural person you can imagine. She was always exactly like you'd think she'd be...funny, sunny and a little bit naughty. I've been thinking just now about how she and the head elephant keeper would walk with ...

Diogenes replies on Jan 1, 2022:

Thanks for that story. And in this life, a person must be "a little naughty"- and straight forward!

RIP Betty White died 17 days before her 100th birthday.

racocn8 comments on Dec 31, 2021:

I saw a note about this young (to me) lady who had been in the New Mouseketeers (Tiffini Talia). I didn't know her, but she passed of a heart attack at the age of 46. That struck me as going far too early, but the usual, ya just never know.

Diogenes replies on Jan 1, 2022:

@Lizard_of_Ahaz Well when their young world is mostly acted-out, and fake...! And the "optimistic", "happy, happy, happy" is all bull shit...!

This time of the year- with dark and gloomy skies in the northern skies; it is time to consider ...

Mooolah comments on Dec 31, 2021:

Why are they on the street. Because the single room occupancy apartments & the mental facilities were replaced by million dollar condos. So much for socialism which we are definately not.

Diogenes replies on Jan 1, 2022:

I've had a view of those hostels- they ain't 'purdy'! A person down on their luck could certainly expect to be beaten- or robbed of their last nickel. And the whole system is warped. I volunteered at a food bank for a few years. When one sees the village idiot drive up in the biggest, gas-guzzling Dummer- "Hey, just what is going on here?" Then there are the are the people who are neat and clean, even if their clothing is threadbare; due to pride they will not ask for help. If they had decent rooms they would not use all their energy to destroy them.

It sure is accurate

Beowulfsfriend comments on Dec 30, 2021:

An ass on an ass usually.

Diogenes replies on Dec 31, 2021:

An "ass" on a donkey!

This time of the year- with dark and gloomy skies in the northern skies; it is time to consider ...

Marionville comments on Dec 31, 2021:

There are many kind and generous people around, I know this to be true.

Diogenes replies on Dec 31, 2021:

Okay!

And Maury says," God.

MyTVC15 comments on Dec 28, 2021:

I get the impression that most people on this site don't believe that Jesus was a historical figure. I actually believe he was. I believe that he was one of many "preachers" in his day who traveled far and wide gathering "disciples" in an attempt to reform the existing church. My belief is rather ...

Diogenes replies on Dec 31, 2021:

"Reform the existing church? What? The Jesus-bit, was a Jewish cult- that really got out of control, when Constantine got into it; that was 300 years after the mythical event. And the other nonsense, like 'walking on water', was added along the way!

Health nut Santa 🎅🏼

Cast1es comments on Dec 23, 2021:

Definite improvement !

Diogenes replies on Dec 30, 2021:

Yep

Ditto!!!!!

Diogenes comments on Dec 29, 2021:

I have no interest in reading that so-called "holly book" from one end to the other- but isn't the first commandment, something like, "Thou shalt have no other god before me?" For such a big boy, it would seem that he has such a small, infantile ego. He needs to grow up!

Diogenes replies on Dec 30, 2021:

@Killtheskyfairy My comment wasn't directed to Steve Allen- for sure! It was directed to the human-made "god/gods". Even one of Thomas Pain's quotes was that when men created their gods, they created them with the human psyche. 'I' also say, "With the inflated ego"

My kind of woman.

Diogenes comments on Dec 29, 2021:

She "ain't" a bad looking girl.

Diogenes replies on Dec 30, 2021:

@Killtheskyfairy FIRST, I agree with you 100%. Next she is old in that picture- but she is no big, fat slob, which just proves that a person does not have to look like some vulgar glutton. RBG, for example, also had control of her life.

“There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the...

Diogenes comments on Dec 28, 2021:

Didn't she also write, The Silent Spring? Like everything else I should do- I never read a word from that book. A bit of negative reality: after the dark of the imbicile Donald John Trump, will there be more darkness that follows?

Diogenes replies on Dec 29, 2021:

@Marionville When I am up to the challenge- I try to help out and work for the better. I agree 100% with your quote from the Andrews Sisters, "accentuate the positive"--- sure as hell beats trying to find something that spoils the day! Now that I am 110 years old, I even know who the Andrews Sisters are!

“There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the...

Diogenes comments on Dec 28, 2021:

Didn't she also write, The Silent Spring? Like everything else I should do- I never read a word from that book. A bit of negative reality: after the dark of the imbicile Donald John Trump, will there be more darkness that follows?

Diogenes replies on Dec 28, 2021:

@Marionville Well who will be the hero "that eliminates 'the negative' "?

Poor piglet!

Canndue comments on Dec 27, 2021:

Bacon is. Life

Diogenes replies on Dec 28, 2021:

@JackPedigo Totally agree.

Is my understanding of the 'marvelous' Christmas Story correct?

St-Sinner comments on Dec 26, 2021:

Based on the circumstantial evidence, I present to the jury this most likely scenario of what actually happened in this sinister lie that caused severe mental and bodily harm to millions of good people for 2,000 years.

Diogenes replies on Dec 26, 2021:

I don't know---- I 'wuzen't' there that day!

Is my understanding of the 'marvelous' Christmas Story correct?

anglophone comments on Dec 26, 2021:

You missed the bit about God existed before He existed and He had to fuck His own mother before He existed so that He could come into existence. And He gave poor old Joseph a massive inferiority complex: after Mary had had a God-almighty fuck Joseph's performance in bed could never come anywhere ...

Diogenes replies on Dec 26, 2021:

Yup

Is my understanding of the 'marvelous' Christmas Story correct?

bobwjr comments on Dec 26, 2021:

Were mushrooms or hash involved ?

Diogenes replies on Dec 26, 2021:

There had to be something to kink the brain that much. And the three dumbies following a star. Now just how would that be done?

My sentiment exactly, merry Christmas, I'm sick of hearing it! :-)

jeshuey comments on Dec 24, 2021:

And yet Xmas is only 366 days away.

Diogenes replies on Dec 25, 2021:

Where did you get the 366 number--- they howl and quack for about 2 months--- all the 'good' old tunes like, I Saw Santa fucking Rudolph.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 21, 2021:

Well the days of easy travel seem to be over, so I guess it is going to become a far more prejudiced, bigoted and narrow-minded world. Travel especially flying may not have been good for our carbon footprint, but it did broaden the mind.

Diogenes replies on Dec 22, 2021:

I went to Costa Rica. They have 3 'industries': tourism, theft and bananas. And in that order.

Next time I'll read the fine print.

Canndue comments on Dec 21, 2021:

Would have thought those trashy things would have disintegrated by now…

Diogenes replies on Dec 22, 2021:

I had a Plymouth Horizon. It used no gas- it was the tow truck that used the gas. I will never own another Chrysler pile of junk.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it ...

DenoPenno comments on Dec 21, 2021:

This is very true. It brings to mind people claiming when I went to Kenya and had a layover in Egypt that I was wrong because "Egypt is not in Africa." Later as my wife got to America she was asked at work "how long does it take to drive to your country?" True story, true remarks here. All by ...

Diogenes replies on Dec 22, 2021:

"True story"! I worked construction at Ontario Hydro- after a day at the looney bin, I usually went home with a head ache.

A priest collapses and is rushed to hospital.

zeuser comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Honest mistake. Creepy, but honest.

Diogenes replies on Dec 19, 2021:

Well priests get thrown out of the "sick sex club" if they fuck women!

“Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if ...

Diogenes comments on Dec 16, 2021:

Yes, Moam Chomsky is always aware! But what he is saying applies only to the gullible, and that also includes the clever, but not wise! At least 'that' is my opinion.

Diogenes replies on Dec 16, 2021:

@Marionville Yes.

Living in an Amish paradise…

Diogenes comments on Dec 12, 2021:

Okay, but a little horse shit on the road---- beats the fucking, insane, frantic rush to nowhere.

Diogenes replies on Dec 13, 2021:

@Killtheskyfairy We have the old order Mennonites in areas around here, which is almost the same religion. There was a "traffic murder" around here last night. It had nothing to do with Mennonites- it had to do with ass holes that should have never been allowed on the road for ANY REASON. They are rapidly going nowhere. But yes, it is certain that any religious cult that isn't wise enough to take advantage of education and BENEFICIAL, technical advancement have a big problem. I fully agree with you.

On the 25th, after all these centuries of blithering horse shit, I think it is time for some insight...

zeuser comments on Dec 12, 2021:

Since he has carpentry skills, I see him more as taking over the toy making operation, organizing the elves, calling a general strike, and single-handedly ruining his own birthday. Because I guarantee you he's fed up with all this shit too.

Diogenes replies on Dec 13, 2021:

Well another thought about Jeezuz-dude- if he can walk on water, he would have no trouble flying through the air with Santa's sleigh! Let's add a little more comedy to this moronic farce?

The first step to critical thinking (or simply if you have common sense or not). 😆

JackPedigo comments on Dec 12, 2021:

Problem is, many of those who don't have time go over to the 'have time' side. Sometimes this is how I feel while on the freeways. Everybody's in a friggen rush. It's hard to even drive the posted speed limit. Everybody give you dirty looks or ride your tail.

Diogenes replies on Dec 12, 2021:

I try VERY hard to be up in the morning-- before the Hoovered morons are on the road. I look back: no morons on the road; I drive slightly over the speed limit-----but out of nowhere- at rocket speed, there is a vegetable, with a low IQ within inches off my back bumper. Okay, not "Hoovered"---- "vacuous".

“Prayers never bring you anything….

waitingforgodo comments on Dec 11, 2021:

I prefer my WC Fields the way he liked his children; ineffably, ineluctably and irredeemably baked.

Diogenes replies on Dec 12, 2021:

Shaw said he loved flowers and children, so that's why he didn't cut either of their 'tops' off.

I think it is little confusing

Lizard_of_Ahaz comments on Dec 9, 2021:

Which is why real historians now call these dates B.C.E. and C.E.

Diogenes replies on Dec 11, 2021:

@Lizard_of_Ahaz Blame it all on Constantine; this minor Jewish cult would have long been forgotten if not for him.

The war goes on....

glennlab comments on Dec 9, 2021:

War is over, Walmart won.

Diogenes replies on Dec 10, 2021:

and with their never-ending Chinese junk

I think it is little confusing

Lizard_of_Ahaz comments on Dec 9, 2021:

Which is why real historians now call these dates B.C.E. and C.E.

Diogenes replies on Dec 10, 2021:

I don't know how close I am to being a "real historian", but yes, the "common era". It does take some of the foolish comedy out of history,

The internet has proved this to be true

Willow_Wisp comments on Dec 8, 2021:

I can think of 10,000 men this applies to.

Diogenes replies on Dec 8, 2021:

@Moravian YES, true also.

The internet has proved this to be true

Willow_Wisp comments on Dec 8, 2021:

I can think of 10,000 men this applies to.

Diogenes replies on Dec 8, 2021:

Willow hello. Yes!

“To be kind to all, to like many and to love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, ...

Diogenes comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Excuse the satire- and look what happened to her!

Diogenes replies on Dec 5, 2021:

@Marionville YES, agreed 100%. Have read a brief of her history, a while back, and yes a lot of her time and education was in France.. I think 'Al's disease' is 'getting me'. Ain't much to get!

"Success is not FINAL, Failure is not FATAL, It is the courage to continue that COUNTS" ...

Diogenes comments on Dec 2, 2021:

Even a fool should know when it is time to quit.

Diogenes replies on Dec 3, 2021:

@MsKathleen An imposed start has nothing to do with the victim!

"Success is not FINAL, Failure is not FATAL, It is the courage to continue that COUNTS" ...

Diogenes comments on Dec 2, 2021:

Even a fool should know when it is time to quit.

Diogenes replies on Dec 3, 2021:

@FrayedBear Good ol' Winney! Thank you! He set Ireland free!! He send the "Black and Tans" to Ireland, which caused so much anger. That was the final straw!

Essentially, yeppers.

St-Sinner comments on Dec 1, 2021:

Will you give me any hope in this dog eat dog world?

Diogenes replies on Dec 2, 2021:

I don't think too many dogs eat other dogs- not like the human-thing, that wars and murders just for the fun of it.

Season ridiculous reason?

Diogenes comments on Dec 2, 2021:

And when a person has to shut the radio and TV off for 6 weeks so they won't have to listen to this brainless shit!!

Diogenes replies on Dec 2, 2021:

@Killtheskyfairy VERY!

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Diogenes comments on Nov 29, 2021:

The Yanks have some VERY funny comedians; don't get me wrong---- but so often I wonder why that profoundly moronic laugh tape comes on. Did I miss something? As far as Mr. Hill- there will never be something that is more funny!

Diogenes replies on Nov 30, 2021:

@glennlab I haven't seen England or BBC in decades. I am in Canada. I have been having coffee at McDonald's in the morning- and the coffee is okay. For the last few weeks there has been MARVELOUS QUIET AND TRANQUILITY to start the day. They got their boom-box "fixed", whatever that means, and the loud, vulgar, fucking shit has returned. Unbelievable! It has nothing to do with music.

How nauseating! Lol

Zster comments on Nov 23, 2021:

Oh my goodness! Is that my neighbors? Or my relatives?

Diogenes replies on Nov 28, 2021:

@Zster I have marched to my own drum- and a few times got it right- but most times I got it wrong- 'I would guess, that is better than the thing with the long red tie', for example, who doesn't have the ability to get anything right.

How nauseating! Lol

Zster comments on Nov 23, 2021:

Oh my goodness! Is that my neighbors? Or my relatives?

Diogenes replies on Nov 26, 2021:

@Zster Hi, I wish I had not used that name; it is rather pretentious. Supposedly the gent lived in all sorts of barelly habital surroundings--- at least we have that in common.

I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple. - Marie Curie

Fernapple comments on Nov 25, 2021:

M. Curie, had to gain her qualifications, initially, from an illegal underground university, run at great personal danger and in secret by the Polish resistance, following the Russian invasion. Because the Russians closed down all Polish universities and forbade the Polish from taking part in higher...

Diogenes replies on Nov 25, 2021:

Yes, she overcame huge obstacles- a true hero. I have fought some very hard battles- but I think I have given up when they became "insurmountable"

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure:...

Diogenes comments on Nov 24, 2021:

I can give you a sure-fire formula for failure: study, get good marks, be ethical in your work habits---- and live in a corrupt country. Swope is full of shit.

Diogenes replies on Nov 24, 2021:

@Marionville Marje PLEASE excuse the vulgar expletive. Ya, you hit the nail on the head- another bad night; hell, every night I go through the trillion mistakes I've made in life.

How nauseating! Lol

Zster comments on Nov 23, 2021:

Oh my goodness! Is that my neighbors? Or my relatives?

Diogenes replies on Nov 24, 2021:

He looks like a Hydro One employee and and his gob o' fat wife.

“I spent a lot of money on birds, booze and fast cars.

ChurchLess comments on Nov 23, 2021:

And I'd do it all again.

Diogenes replies on Nov 23, 2021:

So he said!

Be yourself, not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.

Marionville comments on Nov 21, 2021:

I’ve always been my own person….too much so, for some people - I may add!

Diogenes replies on Nov 22, 2021:

I still haven't learned, "An astute person, telling the truth, should know that they are not going to go very far in this life."

“I’m well down the pecking order in my own home.

Diogenes comments on Nov 21, 2021:

Marje, I new who he was, but now that I am ancient, I had forgotten the rest. Thanks for that. Who is the top football scorer in the world- and still playing? You may be surprised.

Diogenes replies on Nov 21, 2021:

@Marionville There is a point to be made here---- the hidden news IS the news. How are egoistic males going to rule the world if facts start coming out? Can't ever let that happen! (SIC). Yesterday I took my fat maximus down to fitness. The English woman's team was on the TV; that was because the club had to "pay" for the men's Premier League. "Christine Sinclair is a professinal soccer player... her 186 goals in 296 matches ranks her first in most career international goals scored by a female or male player world wide."

Now what did I forget??

Canndue comments on Nov 20, 2021:

I’m certain that it…..wait….what were we talking about…

Diogenes replies on Nov 21, 2021:

"Oh crap ya!"

“I’m well down the pecking order in my own home.

Diogenes comments on Nov 21, 2021:

Marje, I new who he was, but now that I am ancient, I had forgotten the rest. Thanks for that. Who is the top football scorer in the world- and still playing? You may be surprised.

Diogenes replies on Nov 21, 2021:

@Marionville I am willing to check my own information again; but it has been consistant. Canadian woman, Christne Sinclair. It is okay if you say, "I have never heard of this person"

LMAO!!!! So true! 😇🙄🤣🤣🤣

Diogenes comments on Nov 19, 2021:

* A person would have to consume a truck load of drugs- to get a washed-out facial expression like that.

Diogenes replies on Nov 21, 2021:

@FrayedBear Sure- I have ONE pint every day!

“If being an egomaniac means believing in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 19, 2021:

Good morning. As usual, I can not sleep. Yes, Lennon has a point.

Diogenes replies on Nov 19, 2021:

@Marionville Marje, I volunteerd at the food bank for a few years- every week!

“If being an egomaniac means believing in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 19, 2021:

Good morning. As usual, I can not sleep. Yes, Lennon has a point.

Diogenes replies on Nov 19, 2021:

@Marionville Dropping some good booz; that is a sin! LOL. I am ashamed; I do not have one excuse for not doing some volunteer work. Okay, I may go into Toronto and see Frida at Covenet House and throw in a few bucks. And think about it--- some Irish get mean and nasty when confronted with perverts. YES, priests that assault children should be hung!

“If being an egomaniac means believing in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 19, 2021:

Good morning. As usual, I can not sleep. Yes, Lennon has a point.

Diogenes replies on Nov 19, 2021:

@Marionville That is an excellent idea. I have had both shots, but not the third. I eat an excellent diet; to me that is medicine. I thought you were going to tell me that you had just come back from your 5 mile run. Am I doing that? Well I am starting back. Yes, I will get to fitness again this morning. Yesterday, I asked about Kay. She is 96 or 97- and she usually is studying a large book as she uses the treadmill.

I am a member of a group known as the Brights (noun) a group advocating a naturalistic worldview as ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 16, 2021:

I would not assert that I was "Bright"- because I ain't- but my ego is not so small that it needs polishing with falsehoods either. Mr. Clement's idea could be correct.

Diogenes replies on Nov 16, 2021:

@JackPedigo I don't care what perverts do. They can stick it up each others nose if they want.

Higher Prices May Force Americans To Eat Reasonable Portions On Thanksgiving WASHINGTON—Noting ...

JackPedigo comments on Nov 16, 2021:

Funny, deja vu circumstance after WWII the British were put on rations. Britain is an island and gets a lot of imported foodstuffs and the war cut into their supplies. They went on rations for years but it has been shown it was during this period that the British were at their highest health.

Diogenes replies on Nov 16, 2021:

I always have an excuse-- I was depressed today and ate junk food to no end. My gut feels terrible! That ain't pleasant. One redeaming thing- I got down to fitness. Those last two years, without fitness sure decreased my strength.

In the news last week a San Francisco cop quit rather than be vaccinated.

Shaggy2018 comments on Nov 15, 2021:

Any first responder refusing to vaccinate themselves should be fired in my opinion. You can’t serve nor protect if you bring disease to every encounter with the public.

Diogenes replies on Nov 15, 2021:

Yes, if the subject's biggest job is to bring death, like any other murderer, give him the max.

A consideration: when the comfortable, soft chair makes one's bottom more pliable--- and the ...

Robecology comments on Nov 15, 2021:

I used to think that a soft bed was a good one...now I'm not so sure!

Diogenes replies on Nov 15, 2021:

LOL! It was figurative, a metaphore.😊 Ya, a person has to get some sleep. I know someone that has a "diet coach"- whatever that is. It takes a bit of concentration to 'enjoy one's food' and eat a normal amount. Why would anyone want to be 500 pounds with some deadly, unnecssary disease?🤢 "500 pounds!" Well, I have actually seen a few quarter-tonners around here.

All too true

CourtJester comments on Nov 14, 2021:

Trump is why you have your vaccine but every democrat was against it until Biden took office. The vaccine didn’t change in any way. Just your allegiance.

Diogenes replies on Nov 15, 2021:

@phxbillcee Those Rethuglicans are all 'novelists', or they should be; they can certainly invent reality.

Just do it.

Killtheskyfairy comments on Nov 14, 2021:

It’s one of my favorite weapons. I have one in the car and I lift weights to practice so I can use it if needed.