Oklahoma bill would fine teachers $10k for teaching anything that contradicts religion More ...

Jolanta comments on Feb 19, 2022:

Religion is such a loose word, after all there are so many.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 19, 2022:

These sort of people would argue Christianity is the ONLY religion, everything else is satanic, and that it is church and state NOT church and Mosque, so the concerns of heathens does not count

Oklahoma bill would fine teachers $10k for teaching anything that contradicts religion More ...

nicestuff comments on Feb 19, 2022:

A well-put view on education bills in Oklahoma, including SB1470 and other similar political and religious incursions -- https://www.tulsakids.com/new-bills-to-watch-this-legislative-session/ Quote: HB2988 This one seeks to ban teachers from teaching ... “That one race is the unique ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 19, 2022:

Feelings over facts AGAIN, it is a very dangerous precedent

To be a Christian you must believe that magic is real, supernatural realms exist and that if you ...

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 18, 2022:

The Bible is a veritable pick and mix of bullshit, from which you are invited to partake liberally to fit with your out interpretation of the angry abusive father you must love or else! Seemingly the only universal laws of Christendom are A) PAY YOU TITHING BECAUSE GOD NEEDS CASH B) Hate all ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 18, 2022:

@Sookiesue yup odd that is it not?

KEDGEREE.

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 17, 2022:

I've read this word so often and really never looked into what it really was. It just doesn't sound good to me, and not for breakfast.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 17, 2022:

@Cast1es What, no black pudding, toast and smoked bacon? I'd have sent it back and demanded a "full English"

So you think you DON'T live in a fascist country US Schools Banning Books In Record Numbers! ...

AnonySchmoose comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Hey Len... This is how my computer sees your selected video:

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 16, 2022:

@Apunzelle do you have a vpn, if not you can down load opera browser for free, it has a small inbuilt VPN that will allow you to watch locality bloked content.

So you think you DON'T live in a fascist country US Schools Banning Books In Record Numbers! ...

AnonySchmoose comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Hey Len... This is how my computer sees your selected video:

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 16, 2022:

youtube.com/watch?v=q1kBH7ycikg

Something never to forget

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Wow that is fucked up, if you believe in the concept of "innocent until proven guilty."

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 16, 2022:

@bobwjr I was applying the principle universally, I see now you had a specific case in mind

Pin-ups on a cruise line?

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

Here is the original print from the "Naughty Nauticals" collection

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 15, 2022:

@MerlinZap I did, can it not be seen?

When was God born?

anglophone comments on Feb 13, 2022:

When Akhenaten came to power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 13, 2022:

True, the Amarna heresy is the first historically noteworthy monotheistic religion

And yet another TRUTH about Religion.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

A lot of them aren't even cafeteria Christians. They just figure their 'loyalty' gives them a blank check.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 13, 2022:

That's why Christians have had huge and bloody wars over the competing doctrines of Salvation by grace and salvation through works

How strong is the Faith NOW?

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Amazing to see the photo of the crown and realizing every one of those dots is an irredeemable loony tune.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 13, 2022:

Not irredeemable, the ex-muslim community is growing year-on-year, especially in countries where they don't threaten to stone you to death for admitting you no longer believe

An educated women has the power of educate her entire family...

gigihein comments on Jan 20, 2022:

Which causes a ripple effect . She will never know how many women educated a woman who educated a woman....Action matters

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 13, 2022:

Very true in medieval China women denied education not only among themselves invented and entirely new writing system (called Nüshu ) to communicate privately among themselves but also a form of martial art called De gǒu (Ground dog boxing) designed to be used by women with crippled bound feet for mutual protection.

This could be something those billionaires flying in space could possibly market.

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

The thirty mile high club?

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 13, 2022:

@Triphid A lot apparently, one of the duties of astronauts is scraping off powdered deep-frozen shit of communications satellites left in space by astroturds before they interrupt broadcasts.

IATROPHOBIA.

FrayedBear comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Nothing irrational about it. On average across the medical profession they only achieve about 70% or less accuracy.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 12, 2022:

Still better than the alternate 100% death or continued pain

This could be something those billionaires flying in space could possibly market.

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

The thirty mile high club?

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 12, 2022:

@Triphid As the great sage De-boy Trotter once said "He is about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit"

Oh Bummer, Just heard a news report that "Bonnie Punce Charlie" has gotten Covid-19 after visiting...

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

I'm a republican too, in the true sense of the word, not what the Americans mean by it.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 12, 2022:

@David1955 It is perfectly possible to have a fascist Republic or a fascist Democracy, republicanism is the disavowal of monarchy

Oh Bummer, Just heard a news report that "Bonnie Punce Charlie" has gotten Covid-19 after visiting...

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

I'm a republican too, in the true sense of the word, not what the Americans mean by it.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 12, 2022:

@ASTRALMAX Any dog with wrinkles (bulldogs, boxers etc) can develop yeast or fungal growth in the folds of their skin, and that can stink, however if you bathe your dog it washes the stinky stuff away and prevents infection. I had assumed you were talking about responsible dog owners and dogs that are not neglected

Jesus of Nazareth hung out with 12 other men, and the Catholic sect of the God Mob in Australia ...

SeriouslyNobody comments on Feb 10, 2022:

Check out the story of David and Jonathan. And that’s a man “after God’s own heart.”

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 10, 2022:

So true

Once again "I love the poorly educated" defines the GOP

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

Good old MTG, always good for a laugh

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 10, 2022:

@bookofmorons NO you are right, that is insane, but what is more insane is that people wanted to put her there and did.

Oh Bummer, Just heard a news report that "Bonnie Punce Charlie" has gotten Covid-19 after visiting...

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

I'm a republican too, in the true sense of the word, not what the Americans mean by it.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 10, 2022:

@ASTRALMAX Mine is a Horse Coat Shar-Pei, but I know many other owners with Brush Coat and Bear Coats and though like all dogs they can pass very smelly gas, they stink no more than any other breed.

Oh Bummer, Just heard a news report that "Bonnie Punce Charlie" has gotten Covid-19 after visiting...

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

I'm a republican too, in the true sense of the word, not what the Americans mean by it.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 10, 2022:

@ASTRALMAX Mine doesn't

Oh Bummer, Just heard a news report that "Bonnie Punce Charlie" has gotten Covid-19 after visiting...

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

I'm a republican too, in the true sense of the word, not what the Americans mean by it.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 10, 2022:

@Triphid Camilla = Trump in Knickers (and not someone else's) lol

Oh Bummer, Just heard a news report that "Bonnie Punce Charlie" has gotten Covid-19 after visiting...

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

I'm a republican too, in the true sense of the word, not what the Americans mean by it.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 10, 2022:

@Triphid no Sharpeis are cute

Eggcorn a word or phrase that is a seemingly logical alteration of another word or phrase that...

Marionville comments on Feb 9, 2022:

New one to me.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 10, 2022:

@waitingforgodo There is a subtle difference between a mondegreen, a malapropism and eggcorn for example There is a cartoon called "The Sin suns" is a mondegreen There is a carton called "The Simpsons" is an eggcorn There is a baboon called "the Symptoms" are malapropisms

We don’t need God.

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 8, 2022:

The first step in achieving this is the abolition of the concept of ***sin*** Because sin is almost always some business person insisting that a deity, finds something intrinsically good or even essential to be evil and will punish you if you don't give him money to intercede with god on your ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 10, 2022:

@skado The original and ONLY meaning of Sin is the religious one, it is a purely religious word and one designed to make people feel guilty about perfectly natural things. ONE DESIGNED TO MAKE PEOPLE FRIGHTENED AND ASHAMED OF BEING NORMAL. One designed to make people think that they need SALVATION that can only be offered by the church. It is and always has been a tool of the church for the exploitation of the gullible and the hate filled. Sin does not exist because people need to worship god, gods exist because religious clergy *require* an all powerful all seeing and above all threatening authority to terrify people in to believing that sex is evil, sexual behaviour is evil, anger is evil, ambition is evil, freedom is evil and non conformity is evil and WILL BE PUNISHED ***FOREVER*** unless you blindly and unquestioningly submit to the church and show your contrition with cold hard cash and free labour. Religion was never about worshipping god, or about love, or grace. IT was always about money and power for the minority over the majority.

Brad (FOOT IN MOUTH) Wilcox does it again First women and now black people, how much longer is tscc...

RussRAB comments on Feb 9, 2022:

I'm not aware who Brad Wilcox even is (I find a certain satisfaction in this fact). I thought you might have inclluded a link, but I didn't see it if you did. Dare I ask what was said or done by this guy?

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 9, 2022:

Brad is the second counsellor in the Young Men general presidency. A couple of days ago (on Sunday) in an official fireside, in order to draw a parallel with the black Mormons having to wait for the priesthood until 1978, he complained that black people should be grateful that they only had to wait until 1955 to be allowed to sit at the front of the bus when white people had to wait for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight years for the bus to be invented. He had a grovelling apology this morning, basically saying what he said is not what he said and he has been misunderstood. He made a similar public observation last year at the expense of his own daughter, about how women should be grateful for their role in the LDS and not harp on for the priesthood

Significant dates in your evolution.

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 8, 2022:

Some would argue that Neanderthals never became extinct, the were absorbed in to the gene pool of modern man.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 9, 2022:

@FrayedBear My wife is the Celt, I'm part Norman and one eighth Jewish.

Australian culture on TV tonight.

Marionville comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Isn’t using Australian and culture in the same sentence an oxymoron?

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 9, 2022:

@BookDeath What she said. Please don't shake your head too hard, you may give yourself a headache. By the way I too am a published poet, playwright and author, so understand the satirising of bigotry when I read it, I am very surprised that as a fellow writer and academic you don't :)

Faith is useless without proof.

Triphid comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Faith can be described as being akin to "A Blind man searching in a pitch black room for a black cat that is NOT there and shouting out " I have found it."

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 9, 2022:

Dave Allen did a great stand-up routine based around that quote.

You might want to read this interesting article I brang you ... or is it I have broughten?

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 8, 2022:

The most interesting one of these, to mean is Hung and Hanged, same meaning but used for different purposes, depending on the animate status of the subject.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 8, 2022:

@FrayedBear yes, the way it was explained to me is that a man is hanged, until he dies, and then his body is hung from the gallows as a deterrent.

Faith is useless without proof.

Jolanta comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Ubermencsh?

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 8, 2022:

@Triphid Ja, ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch, ich habe es in der Schule gelernt Auch Oben ist above und über ist over

Faith is useless without proof.

Jolanta comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Ubermencsh?

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 8, 2022:

"Ubermensch," German literally over man, usually translated in to English as Super man. Though the most accurate depiction of the Ubermensch in literature is Kenneth Robeson's character "Doc" Savage, a human being who has reached his optimum potential. Popularised by Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra the Over Man is the ideal all people should aspire to. The Philosophy was corrupted by the German Nazi's during the Hitler era, thanks mainly to the sister of Friedrich Nietzsche who presented all of Friedrich's unpublished and the self rejected and edited out works to the German Nazi party for use in propaganda as @Triphid has pointed out above.

Well damn that’s fine

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 8, 2022:

A clingy Bri-Nylon thrush and yeast infection factory, meant to look erotic because it is reminiscent of that other device of female fashion torture the corset. Consider how is anyone supposed to use the toilet wearing this thing? Your only option is to strip completely naked in order to do so....

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 8, 2022:

@Canndue Style over substance, one of the most successful and metaphorically diabolical ideas upon which modern ultra capitalism was built.

We don’t need God.

FvckY0u comments on Feb 8, 2022:

right and wrong are not fiction. It's well established through morality and laws. Not all laws or morals people hold are right though that is the exception to the rule. We don't need a God or to look at ourselves like a God. We need to get rid of God in our lives and especially in our ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 8, 2022:

I have no objection if someone for comfort wants to embrace the idea of a creator deity who started the universe and used science to do so, but takes no part in the day to day running of it. I do object to the idea of god(s) for the simple reason that god(s) are almost always tyrannical, authoritarian, cruel, confusing and greedy. They also for some reason invariably need priests who share all of these negative qualities and exercise them on people with gleeful abandon in the name of their respective gods, causing wars, starvation, misery, prejudice and the proliferation of lies.

We don’t need God.

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 8, 2022:

The first step in achieving this is the abolition of the concept of ***sin*** Because sin is almost always some business person insisting that a deity, finds something intrinsically good or even essential to be evil and will punish you if you don't give him money to intercede with god on your ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 8, 2022:

@skado You either did not understand my comment or are being deliberately obtuse, I feel intuitively the latter is more likely.

Well damn that’s fine

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 8, 2022:

A clingy Bri-Nylon thrush and yeast infection factory, meant to look erotic because it is reminiscent of that other device of female fashion torture the corset. Consider how is anyone supposed to use the toilet wearing this thing? Your only option is to strip completely naked in order to do so....

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 8, 2022:

@mischl ouch, even worse.

FASH.

Julie808 comments on Feb 8, 2022:

Definitely uncommon and a new word for me! If I were to have guessed the meaning of the word, with out the definition you furnished, I would have guessed it had something to do with fashion, like to make oneself fashionable! Oh well, I won't "fash" myself about being totally wrong with my guess!

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 8, 2022:

Fashion comes from the Latin factionem which means to group together to make, do, or achieve something. Which incidentally is related to fasces a bound together bundle of sticks from which we derive the word fascist. That perhaps goes some way to explaining why Hugo Boss designed Military uniforms for Hitler

It’s another early teatime this Monday…I think I’d better leave the cup firmly on the table as...

Ray13 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

I thought I recognized some of the dancers - Mamie Van Doren is one, so I looked it up: it's from ( the video anyway ) the 1957 movie Untamed Youth.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 8, 2022:

@Ray13 Years of being a Hospital radio DJ

It’s another early teatime this Monday…I think I’d better leave the cup firmly on the table as...

Ray13 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

I thought I recognized some of the dancers - Mamie Van Doren is one, so I looked it up: it's from ( the video anyway ) the 1957 movie Untamed Youth.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

Yes I noticed that too, I thought I must be wrong as Let's Dance was not released until 1959 two years after Untamed Youth Here is the original version without the over dub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSpWJss5Gjc

Who knew?????? 🤔🤔🤔 Hitler's Nephew Who Fought In The USA Navy Against Him [sofrep.com]

Organist1 comments on Feb 6, 2022:

That's like Trump's niece.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

@SeaGreenEyez perhaps reincarnated if you believe in that sort of thing.

Faith is useless without proof.

BufftonBeotch comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Faith is the exact opposite of proof.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

Exactly *"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that something so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of god"* *"The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'But, says Man, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and vanishes in a puff of logic. 'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next Zebra crossing"* **Douglas Adams**

Australian culture on TV tonight.

Marionville comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Isn’t using Australian and culture in the same sentence an oxymoron?

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

As Paul Hogan once said In England, you say "Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves" In the USA you say "America, America, God shed his grace on thee" In Scotland they say " Land of the shining rivers, Land of my heart for ever, Scotland the brave." But in Australia we say "Jeez mate, only poofs write poetry"

EFFICACIOUS.

FrayedBear comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Lily the Pink https://youtu.be/u7pHDoJrrzA

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

CoWritten by Mike McGear the brother of Paul McCartney

EFFICACIOUS.

FrayedBear comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Lily the Pink https://youtu.be/u7pHDoJrrzA

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

First thing I thought of too

Is this guy single?

Larimar comments on Feb 6, 2022:

a friend of mine has a pet tarantula

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

Sure, you don't mean you know a tarantula who has a friend of yours as a pet?

Is this guy single?

Sticks48 comments on Feb 6, 2022:

I had a pet orange for over 20 years. It was so low maintenance. There were no vet bills, no feeding it, and no waste to deal with. Alas, it started falling apart and crumbled to dust. A very sad day. Granted, it was not a giant spider and maybe not weird enough for you, but it is all l could come ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

I honestly once worked with a guy who had a pet paper clip, great big thing (about 6") he took everywhere and wore on his jacket lapel to and from work.

Is this guy single?

silverotter11 comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Well why not?!? I knew it had to be Australia - land of things wonderful, large, small and many that can seriously fuck you up. No to spiders living in my car. WTF will he do if she has babies?

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

Well since she is locked in his car and there are no signs of a male, if she does have off spring, either she is the virgin spider Mary, or he and she are a lot closer than man and pet should be.

Is this guy single?

Mark013 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

I name all my spiders Bob. In the summer there are certain spots in the corners of the windows spiders will live, build webs, and grow to some pretty large sizes. They are great fun to watch. I leave them alone and let nature takes its course. It's not weird, it's nature.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

I've always called all of mine Boris, starting long before anyone had ever even hears of our "Fearless leader"

She found this cute Gravy Boat at a Yard Sale and can't understand why no-one wants gravy at meal ...

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Why it looks like a dinner time convenience to me

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 7, 2022:

@Triphid Yes that was the joke "a convenience" being a UK polite euphemism for any kind of lavatorial receptacle.

DINKY.

AnonySchmoose comments on Feb 6, 2022:

UK and US definitions of dinky are different. IMO, the American definition is arrogant. (informal, UK) Tiny and cute; small and attractive. adjective (informal, US) Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable. My Dad had die-cast toy cars that resembled Dinky toys, maybe bought in ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 6, 2022:

@AnonySchmoose If they came from France they were probably Norev die-cast model cars, they were the major manufacturer on the continent for most of the latter half of the 20th century along with Majorette and Desormeaux, all three of which have now been assimilated in to the Simba-Dickie Toy Group a Thai company operating out of china.

DINKY.

AnonySchmoose comments on Feb 6, 2022:

UK and US definitions of dinky are different. IMO, the American definition is arrogant. (informal, UK) Tiny and cute; small and attractive. adjective (informal, US) Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable. My Dad had die-cast toy cars that resembled Dinky toys, maybe bought in ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 6, 2022:

@Marionville The playwright George Bernard Shaw once noted that Britain and the US are "two nations separated by a common language".

DINKY.

Charlene comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Dinky for sure isn't a nice word here..Dink is also disparaging, as in The Orange Dink with the Dinky Hands and Mushroom Dink is incapable of empathy or rational thought. His spawn are examples of how a family of Dinks act and appear. I had a collection of miniature cars as a kid, they were ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 6, 2022:

@Marionville @Charlene There were Matchbox cars which were facsimiles of actual vehicles at 1:64 scale and are still very collectable today, their main rival was Hot wheels cars also made by Matel under a bogus brand which were scale models of race cars, Raleigh cars 1:64 and TV and film spin off model vehicles (bat mobiles, man from UNCLE cars, chitty chitty bang bang etc at 1:24 with the added bonus that these models did something like fire guns or sprout wings). They also did 1:18th scale models of new release cars you could buy when you bought the actual vehicle Dinky toys AKA Tonka toys (a subsidiary of Meccano) were larger 1:43 and tougher and were sold on the idea that they were unbreakable and could not be smashed by kids dropping them or throwing them at each other. These were mostly replicas of commercial vehicles and emergency services vehicles. Lastly there was Triang a company that made original working metal model cranes, building equipment, bulldozers and truck, on a larger scale even than Dinky My Father still has a huge collection of all these models, valued at thousands of pounds on the collectors market.

What do you think?

JacarC comments on Feb 6, 2022:

"""""" Police however, murdered 1,234 citizens. """" WRONG! KILLED!,,,,, NOT MURDERED!....All, during the commission of crimes, 100 percent dangerous......!!!! Last year:::::BLACK PEOPLE KILLED 9,000 BLACK PEOPLE.... Not a word on CNN! And yes, serial assholes are the worst.... ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 6, 2022:

BLACK PEOPLE KILLED 9,000 BLACK PEOPLE Citation required please

“Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee”…………Milan Kundera.

LenHazell53 comments on Feb 5, 2022:

An out of context quotation, from an overrated book, by a deeply scared and overly self important author, who had he not been an anti-establishment soviet dissident would never have been published outside of the Czech republic. There is more joy in American over one repentant soviet than there is ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 5, 2022:

@Marionville Well said, However, even within those parameters, I would still disagree with the meaning and sentiment of the quote and have simply indicated why I hold such an opinion. It is nonetheless perhaps worth baring in mind, this is a quote by an antagonist within the text of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being "meant to paint them as a raging misogynist.

Masked Singer judges walk off after Rudy Giuliani reveal

Beowulfsfriend comments on Feb 3, 2022:

My first notice of the story, I thought it had to be an Onion piece.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 3, 2022:

You would have thought so would you not, but no, it is in all the UK papers too

POPE Benedict admits making false claim to child sexual abuse inquiry GOTCHAA! ...

Buttercup comments on Feb 3, 2022:

Hilarious, a sick, black way. A story appeared alleging that there was a retirement home for pedophile priests in Washington state, they denied it and promised to open their records. Three days later, they changed their mind and refused further comment. ...

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 3, 2022:

Sick bastards, if they were any other form of institution they would have been shut down by interpol, but oh no, they are church sooooooo, best no rock the boat.

I have to say, it eclipses all the stupid shit I've done, too!

Mooolah comments on Feb 2, 2022:

.....or the government & Constitution for which we stand. One nation. With liberty & justice for all.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 2, 2022:

Oh that's a good one, tell me another

Repug Denial topic: Racism in Florida On Sunday, a neo-Nazi demonstration took place on a bridge ...

Redneckliberal comments on Jan 31, 2022:

ANY ASSWIPE SPORTING A NAZI FLAG IN PUBLIC SHOULD BE SHOT ON SIGHT

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 2, 2022:

@Redneckliberal Because the war ended 77 years ago, we won and decided killing people for disagreeing was their fucked up idea and we wanted a world that was better than that. At least the civilised ones among us did.

VAGARY/VAGARIES - Noun…an unexpected and inexplicable change in a situation or in someone’s ...

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 1, 2022:

Which is where we get the term Vagrant, which is one who wanders, and has less pleasant connotations.

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 1, 2022:

Vagrant is from "vagus" a transient, a hobo or tramp ***Vagus vagatur *** Vagrants gotta wander

I was trying to do a search in the "Groups" section of the site.

FrayedBear comments on Feb 1, 2022:

Nothing like learning by trial & error

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 1, 2022:

@Robecology Yup and some fuckers do Stoopid really well, the 45th president of the USA immediately comes to mind

Why can't you just try 'mind over matter'? This remark also ticks me off exceedingly.

LenHazell53 comments on Jan 31, 2022:

Still better than my father's patented cure for my bi-polar condition when I was first diagnosed at 11 years. "Bloody well cheer up or I'm gonna hit you!"

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 1, 2022:

@AnonySchmoose Well almost, I converted to Mormonism for a number of years and Married two Mormon girls (not at the same time) that was enough to start my late mum gibbering in tongues lol

Repug Denial topic: Racism in Florida On Sunday, a neo-Nazi demonstration took place on a bridge ...

Redneckliberal comments on Jan 31, 2022:

ANY ASSWIPE SPORTING A NAZI FLAG IN PUBLIC SHOULD BE SHOT ON SIGHT

LenHazell53 replies on Feb 1, 2022:

NO, let them carry the flags, that way we know who they are and can warn everyone else who might otherwise mistake them for a human being.

Why can't you just try 'mind over matter'? This remark also ticks me off exceedingly.

LenHazell53 comments on Jan 31, 2022:

Still better than my father's patented cure for my bi-polar condition when I was first diagnosed at 11 years. "Bloody well cheer up or I'm gonna hit you!"

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 31, 2022:

@AnonySchmoose No, I'm afraid that was still in the days of "Snap out of it, we haven't got time for all this shit from you" from him and "I'll pray for your release for Satan" from my mother Mental illness was never considered real because it didn't show, and "being tarred with the mad brush" brought shame on the whole family, so it was "behave normal or else."

Ungulate noun a hoofed mammal.

Cast1es comments on Jan 31, 2022:

And here I thought ungulate meant to go up and down and in waves ungulateing against the shore .

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 31, 2022:

undulating

You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.

LenHazell53 comments on Jan 27, 2022:

Who is Richard A. Weatherwax? All that I can find out about him is that he apparently said this and possibly lives in Florida, other than that he does not seem to exist.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 28, 2022:

@Lorajay Thanks but that does not seem to be the same person, there are several Richard Weatherwax, the most famous of whom is the trainer of "Lassie" but the only reference to a Richard A. Weatherwax is this quote

Please take note and remember.

Triphid comments on Jan 26, 2022:

I see the members here are MUCH, MUCH smarter than those that surf through Fuckerbook. Posted that a fortnight ago and there were message coming out the wood-work actually and GENUINELY thanking me for telling them. Some even stated that they INTENDED to contact Fuckerbook and lodge some very ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 26, 2022:

Albert Einstein said, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity.”

Hope you all have a braw Burns Night tonight….

Marionville comments on Jan 25, 2022:

@LenHazell53….I added the address to the haggis!

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 25, 2022:

My wife has had to go meat free for health reason, luckily I found this for supper

NOSH.

LenHazell53 comments on Jan 24, 2022:

My favorite word like this is Scoff which for centuries meant to mock or to belittle but from the early 20th century also came to mean to eat with gusto after the rise in popularity of Georges Auguste E***scoff***ier, the French chef and cookery writer.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

@MsKathleen A scarf is an item of clothing, a strip of material, worn around the neck, the word is of Scandinavian origin meaning an off cut or piece. There is no other definition, certainly not as a verb in the Oxford or Cambridge dictionaries, the use of it as a verb meaning to to eat must be uniquely American resulting from an inability to pronounce Scoff properly ;) You are probably lucky your antecedents did not choose to pronounce it scurf, an unpleasant term for sloughed off dead skin.

Alyssa Milano...Still charmed

LenHazell53 comments on Jan 24, 2022:

For once this one is genuine, she did have a short lived career as a glamour model when she was 18, and living in France.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

@Canndue Yes and?

Make reason your supreme commander. - Solon

yvilletom comments on Jan 23, 2022:

I would make reason and empathy co-commanders, and have a Bill of Rights that protects minorities from the majority.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

@yvilletom Which perhaps goes far in explaining why so many people are so unreasonable

What words do you habitually misspell?

Fernapple comments on Jan 24, 2022:

Muslim, Muslem, why can't they decide if there should be an 'i' or an 'e' and Buddhist, whats it all about with the double 'd' ? Why do I have to remember to press the shift key when spelling Christian. Even the spell check on this site makes me do that. Oh and Mohammad, why the two 'm' and why ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

The Christian thing is because A) Christian can be a proper name and B) a proper noun Spelling christian with a lowercase c is only permissible when christian is being used as an adjective and even then only in American, Austrailian and sometimes South African English but never in British English.

What words do you habitually misspell?

Fernapple comments on Jan 24, 2022:

Muslim, Muslem, why can't they decide if there should be an 'i' or an 'e' and Buddhist, whats it all about with the double 'd' ? Why do I have to remember to press the shift key when spelling Christian. Even the spell check on this site makes me do that. Oh and Mohammad, why the two 'm' and why ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

@anglophone Victorian books tend to favour "Mohammedan"

What words do you habitually misspell?

Julie808 comments on Jan 24, 2022:

The "i" before "e" except after "c" rule gets me in trouble a lot, since it's so often wrong. Some exceptions are easy to remember such as "atheist" but others I really have to check myself, such as my favorite star cluster the "Pleiades" which is easier for me to spell in Hawaiian language ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

-ier or -er comparative is a terribly misused suffix which in slightly more so than -est for superlatives, for me the ONLY time they should be used is in the words Better and Best (where its use originates from). In all other cases it should be More Fancy, less fancy or most fancy the worst of the worst is when people use redundancies, such as saying that is the "most fanciest" or "yeah that is the more betterer one" *cringe*

What words do you habitually misspell?

Fernapple comments on Jan 24, 2022:

Tion or sion, as in motion and regression, what fool decided that there should be too different ways of spelling that ending, and then went round scattering them about at random, just to create confution/confusion. Bet he was a real pitfall trap for donkeys.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

@Fernapple Well said

This message showed up when I edited my post. What is going on?

LenHazell53 comments on Jan 24, 2022:

What message?

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

@Spinliesel You may have copied in the programme data instead of the hyper link or the image is deep in the code for the page. Go back to the image you want to use, right click the image click open image in a new tab and then copy the URL address from the new tab and paste it in to your post, see if that works.

What words do you habitually misspell?

Fernapple comments on Jan 24, 2022:

Tion or sion, as in motion and regression, what fool decided that there should be too different ways of spelling that ending, and then went round scattering them about at random, just to create confution/confusion. Bet he was a real pitfall trap for donkeys.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

@Fernapple Unfortunately the English language curriculum has never been about why words are the way they are, at one time it was about how to use them properly, but for the past hundred years it has been solely about how to read them, write them down, and sometimes how to spell them.

palingenesis noun rebirth; regeneration.

FrayedBear comments on Jan 22, 2022:

Much as I love Michael, I'll stick to rebirth or regeneration!

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

@FrayedBear Probably something along the lines of the world being farted out of god's pet giant sky python

What words do you habitually misspell?

Fernapple comments on Jan 24, 2022:

Tion or sion, as in motion and regression, what fool decided that there should be too different ways of spelling that ending, and then went round scattering them about at random, just to create confution/confusion. Bet he was a real pitfall trap for donkeys.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 24, 2022:

It is -ion that is the suffix (from the Latin suffix -io meaning relating to the action of) the T or the S are dependent on the word to which they are being added Act-ion Suspic-ion Confution and confusion are two different words the Confution or more often confutation is the proving wrong of an assertion or ideal confusion is the inability to think clearly

Make reason your supreme commander. - Solon

yvilletom comments on Jan 23, 2022:

I would make reason and empathy co-commanders, and have a Bill of Rights that protects minorities from the majority.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 23, 2022:

Empathy is but a tool of reason Reason demands understanding, understanding requires empathy

Why visit America & be shot when you can stay in England & put a plastic bag over your head?

thexter comments on Jan 23, 2022:

I don't believe that there ever were weapons of mass destruction. But Yes Bin Laden was involved the destruction of the Wold Trade Center.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 23, 2022:

@FrayedBear Come, come now, to be fair, they were all caught red-handed in possession of a highly offensive beards, sandals and turbans, they must have been guilty of something

Why visit America & be shot when you can stay in England & put a plastic bag over your head?

Fernapple comments on Jan 23, 2022:

The vast majority of gun deaths are accidental.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 23, 2022:

Yeah, the accidentally acquired a gun, accidentally loaded it. Accidentally had it on their person in a place where other people were, accidentally put it in their hand and accidentally pulled the fucking trigger! YES COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE Except that it doesn't in almost every other country in the world, except for the God OLED firkin Useless of A

palingenesis noun rebirth; regeneration.

FrayedBear comments on Jan 22, 2022:

Much as I love Michael, I'll stick to rebirth or regeneration!

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 23, 2022:

Beat me to the python joke

Azrahara (couldn't find her real name)

ToakReon comments on Jan 22, 2022:

Cute girl. A bit hefty in the hips, but seriously cute.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 23, 2022:

@Rossy92 I'm British and I would not use those words in this context either, perhaps just a matter of personal taste?

A new resource available to all interested in English Protest song 1600 - 2020.

LenHazell53 comments on Jan 19, 2022:

The Great Damh the Bard at the fracking protest at Balcombe West Sussex on 8th August 2013 The sons and daughters of Robin Hood (sing along) Lyrics We all watched you on a TV Quite honourable gentleman apparantly Different voices with only one name To win my vote and to win the game Now ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 19, 2022:

@rogerbenham Maybe someone told them there was a black or brown guy sighted in the area? Edit no seriously, you can read an account of the protest here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcombe_drilling_protest The main problem was caused by the government telling the police the protest constituted a violation of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 claiming that the additional protesters from outside of Bascombe village were in effect illegal industrial Pickets and therefore liable to arrest. Utter bullshit that did not stand up in court

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says Trump 'is done'

Organist1 comments on Jan 18, 2022:

I wonder what her angle is.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 19, 2022:

What ever it is, you can wager safely it will be obtuse and will never be acute one

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says Trump 'is done'

Beowulfsfriend comments on Jan 18, 2022:

Who is her audience anymore? Is she still showing up on Bill Maher?

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 19, 2022:

Coulter is like a bad small, you're never quite sure were she is coming from, but she never quite goes away, and now and then assails you with a nasty unexpected whiff.

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says Trump 'is done'

Druvius comments on Jan 18, 2022:

I hope she's right, I think she's utterly wrong. Trump is the savior to tens of millions of Americans, this transcends politics.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 19, 2022:

@Druvius True, however the followers of Jesus still do a good enough job fucking things up Remember the only real difference between a cult and a religion is that the charismatic individual who founded the movement, in a religion is dead. We can only hope Trump lives long enough to disgrace himself EVEN in the eyes of his most ardent devotees

Firth noun a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast.

KateOahu comments on Jan 18, 2022:

Or…❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 19, 2022:

@Marionville They apparently share the same great great grandparents, but never met until they were both adults

Firth noun a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast.

KateOahu comments on Jan 18, 2022:

Or…❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 19, 2022:

@Marionville I mostly recall him as being the lead in the 1960's "The Double Deckers" TV series when he was 12, but he was great as the lead in Tobe Hooper's sci fi horror "Lifeforce" 1985

A new resource available to all interested in English Protest song 1600 - 2020.

LenHazell53 comments on Jan 18, 2022:

Glad to See Tom Robinson's sing if your glad to be gay, but a few I would have included are missing. But maybe they are not using the same definition of protest as me.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 19, 2022:

@FrayedBear I just followed the link

A new resource available to all interested in English Protest song 1600 - 2020.

gigihein comments on Jan 18, 2022:

I will have to check that out. Nothing better than a protest song.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 19, 2022:

How about a protest song protesting the proliferation of protests and protest songs ;)

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says Trump 'is done'

Druvius comments on Jan 18, 2022:

I hope she's right, I think she's utterly wrong. Trump is the savior to tens of millions of Americans, this transcends politics.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 18, 2022:

No Trump is, against all evidence to the contrary, is believed by tens of millions to be their saviour. However, Tens of millions also think a zombie Jewish carpenter fed 5000 scroungers on fish in bread crumbs too, and he didn't even exist. People will believe anything that gives them a modicum of false hope.

Do you think the human race is generally good or bad?

Sticks48 comments on Jan 18, 2022:

I believe humanity is a failed experiment.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 18, 2022:

@Lorajay That started when the first group of nomadic apes realised that when faced with a tiger one human is doomed, but when the tiger is faced with ten humans and some rocks he is dinner.

Firth noun a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast.

KateOahu comments on Jan 18, 2022:

Or…❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 18, 2022:

Or his distant cousin Peter who was a big name in the 70's and 80's

Ending religion lessons in schools leads to overall decline in belief but not morals | Religion | ...

FvckY0u comments on Jan 18, 2022:

So the German constitution after WWII mandated religion be taught and in that time it's been changed to not mandate it and teach something different than religion. that's good progress from where they were post war. I'd like to see that kind of progress in the states.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 18, 2022:

@TheMiddleWay I think the vast majority of Brits feel churches are for getting married in, and for christening children in, and even then that's just to shut up older relatives. Apart for RCs most funerals are now carried out at crematorium chapels and most of them are secular services.

Ending religion lessons in schools leads to overall decline in belief but not morals | Religion | ...

FvckY0u comments on Jan 18, 2022:

So the German constitution after WWII mandated religion be taught and in that time it's been changed to not mandate it and teach something different than religion. that's good progress from where they were post war. I'd like to see that kind of progress in the states.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 18, 2022:

@TheMiddleWay When I was at school we were at the age of fourteen allowed to choose which subjects, or group of subjects we wished to study to O'level. There were however three exceptions that were legally mandated to be studied Physical education P.E. Maths and Religious Education This was still the case when my children went through secondary education, I do not know if it is still the case. Edit just checked as of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 religious education is no longer mandatory, however it is legally required for all state schools to offer it as an option.

Atheists don’t have morals” My morals are the only thing stopping me from becoming a pastor and...

LenHazell53 comments on Jan 17, 2022:

During one of my periods of unemployment the job centre sent me for psychometric testing to determine what career path would suit me best. The result came back informing me that I was 100% suited to being a clergyman. I pointed out that was stupid since I was an atheist, to which by career coach ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 18, 2022:

@altschmerz To be fair at around the same time we did in this country have an arch Bishop of York "David Jenkins" who made the news every other week because of his pronouncements that he was neither a Biblical literalist, nor a believer in Heaven and Hell, or even that he did not believe the resurrection happened. Bishop Jenkins claimed most of the "magic tricks" performed by Christ were added in later to make the bible stories more entertaining. BY the time of his retirement, he had stopped short of declaring himself an atheist, but only just. He did however retain his position in the church and in the House of Lords, this in spite of the people of Tewkesbury blaming a catastrophic flood on his appointment and a fire at York Minster being the wrath of God because of his heresy.

Another far right anti Vaxer dead of Covid. [youtu.be]

puff comments on Jan 16, 2022:

As long as she was American, all fucking good.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 17, 2022:

@puff It turns out that it is Tonga, they have had zero deaths, zero infections and are completely covid free. But now they are all likely to be killed by a volcano. C'est la Vie or C'est la Mort as the case may be

Another far right anti Vaxer dead of Covid. [youtu.be]

puff comments on Jan 16, 2022:

As long as she was American, all fucking good.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 17, 2022:

@puff New Zealand I believe

Another far right anti Vaxer dead of Covid. [youtu.be]

puff comments on Jan 16, 2022:

As long as she was American, all fucking good.

LenHazell53 replies on Jan 16, 2022:

Anti-vaxxers are not limited by nationality, they are all citizens of the idiocracy