I'm just having a rant because I can! I've just agreed to do a difficult 12 and a half hour shift...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Rank hath its privileges. An unpleasant but inevitable truth.

A few years ago I was asked to roast one of my best friends for his 50th b’day.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 12, 2019:

I tried to roast my friend once, he kept falling off the spit.

Fun Fact I bet you didn't know this...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 12, 2019:

It is also intriguing when astronomers describe ours as a small galaxy

I would for sure..

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 12, 2019:

There is a great urban legend about Neil Armstrong. Apparently after the one small step announcement as he set for on the moon, Armstrong can on recording be heard to mutter "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky" as he took his first steps. For years it was debated who "Mr. Gorsky" might be and during the writing of Armstrong's biography it was discovered the Gorsky family lived next door to the Armstrongs during Neil's childhood. Their grandson related to the biographer that his grandfather had been fond of relating the story that Neil must have overheard his wife yelling at Grandpa out of the open bedroom window on various occasions that she would perform oral sex for Mr Gorsky when *" that damn kid next door walks on the moon"* Hence "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky"

Posting this mostly for the verb form that means to ridicule, which I ran across in a novel, but ...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Though all of these are pronounced Guy now after the standardization of movable type many letters and variations on vowels faded form use or were replaced with the 26 letters we have today. Foremost amongst this was the replacement of the the old letter "Thorn" þ prononced "th" it was in printed text replaced with the letter "y" this is why Thee is often mistakenly pronounced Ye and why Thou became You. Guy therefore from the time predating printing could have been pronounced Gee Goo-yu Gie Goye Goeth Goth and of course guy among others Now all are pronounced guy.

? here's a pic of a string bikini gone wild! ? but I'd still wear it!

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Nice bit of macrame

I do, however, have a "No Solicitation" sign...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 12, 2019:

I remember when I was a stake missionary with the LDS going through a training session and being told that if a home had no solicitation sign on the door to ignore it because *"Saving someone's soul is more important than respecting their privacy"*

Aaaaaaaaaack..

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 11, 2019:

Looks more like a 2 year old who has just soiled himself.

We've been using them forever..

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 11, 2019:

The new design for Doctor Who's Turdis

GORDIAN.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 11, 2019:

Alexander's cutting of the Gordian Knot is often used (by political extremists) as a metaphor for the dubious doctrine of "Might makes Right" since the whole point of Gordius' test was to find a wise, problem solving king, Alexanders solution was to declared that wisdom is nothing compared to force of arms and that there is no problem that cannot be solved by a simple act of destruction. It is also the origin of the modern phrase "Cutting through the red tape" a favourite maxim of Trumpty Dumpty that has proven intractably false for him, since the constitution of the USA is made of stronger red tape than his little sword is capable of severing.

Let the sunshine in..

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Does this explain the rising popularity of anal bleaching?

Tickled my funny bone...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Clever ?

Just one reason why children should just be children and free of symbolism like this.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2019:

no link

Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Reminds of the tale of the two beggars in Rome taken in to the Vatican at Christmas for a charity dinner with the pope. After a fine meal, the pope offers the two men a drink. "What do you drink your Holiness?" asks one of the unfortunates. "I enjoy an occasional small glass of Creme De Menthe." says the pope. "We'll join you in one of them then says the other." The three are given a glass each and as they sip it they contemplate the flavour. "It's like drinking humbugs," thinks one. "Like alcoholic tooth paste." thinks the other. The pope bids them good night and goes off to bed, telling them to make themselves at home and for Christmas night to help themselves to what ever they want. The two vagrants decide to indulge in a little more drinking, but since it is the popes hosptiality to stick with his preference for libation. After consuming two bottles of Creme De Menthe between them, they are drunkenly shown to bed. The next morning they wake to the mother of all hangovers. As they come down to breakfast and parcels of new clothes and a few Euros to see them on their way one of the hobo's asks his host "Holy Father, is that minty wine the only thing you drink?" "It is indeed my son" replies the pope. "Good bye and may god go with you." Out side on the steps the one tramp turns to the other and says. "If that is his tipple, it is no wonder they have to carry him about in that damn chair."

? hi.. I'm a snow bunny.... You got any snowballs I can with?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2019:

We have a saying in the uk about being cold enough to freeze the brass balls off a pawn broker, I hope he is not in that business

Sorry about the back, I just need to put something in my oven!

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Not recommended attire when frying

When is it enough?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2019:

They don't, but the USA does in order to have a non Islamic foothold in the Middle east, it is in fact a retainer payment (allegedly)

Just some horsing around here

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2019:

It always confuses me how you USA folk call a scone a biscuit and a biscuit a cookie where as in the UK a cookie is a particular type of biscuit

Does this qualify as erotic?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Why wouldn't it?

That heinous criminal in Colorado - murdered his wife and their two children to "get them out of the...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Forgiveness maybe therapeutic for those doing the forgiving, stops them from ripping themselves emotionally for life. HOWEVER forgiving is **not pardoning**, it maybe helpful to forgive, but is it the height of dangerous idiocy to forgive AND *forget* They are still accountable and responsible for their past evil. You forget and pardon the proven potential of the psychotic at your peril and the peril of all others.

Proverbs 19:29 (NKJV): Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

the 11th commandment, Thou shalt not think about how the rest of this shit makes no sense at all, lest ye be beaten about the head with a holy frying pan.

Facebook strikes again 😂😂😂

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

That is like something out of the Goon Show.

Another one for the Redheads Fun Club!

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Why do they always spoil themselves with terrible tattoos

Darwin came out with "On the origin of species" 160 years ago.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Because the one thing human society will never run short of is gullible idiots.

DO YOU BEALIVE THIS?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Jebus-ites????

Hey guys this is my first time posting here, I hope i will have my first atheist friend.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Welcome to the outer darkness, now that we have you you can never escape

Please criticize my logic .

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Damn it I come here to get away from this Brexshit

A lad walks in to his parents bedroom to find his dad giving his mom one.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Hope it was his stepdad or else even more disturbing

Mr. Potato Head ?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Truth be told there are probably many wives who wish they could detach it and keep it safe in a secure place when hubby is out alone. And yes I did just realise that can be read two ways

Mind boggling!!

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

or a smile emoji with a wrinkled forehead?

My hero & twin brother. ?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

When I was a child after attending a number of funerals I became convince that the correct words to be recited at an internment were: ***In the name of the Fatherson and in the hole he goes.*** I can only assume the clergymen concerned were either bored or inebriated and were in a hurry to get to the wake afterward.

The South Park story of Joseph Smith.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Love that episode, almost as good as the Scientology one "Tom Cruise won't come out of my closet"

Something worth thinking about: Quote from Bruce Hood -- Psychologist: It seems almost ...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

word salad If you want to be controversial then try reading Jacques Lacan, much more cogent and interesting

I know your god is fake, random Christian who is friends with my Pentecostal aunt.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

hey don't hold back, tell us what you really think

Which is the best? [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Someone really thought this was a good use of their time to seek out, download, edit together and compile this video of people having a perfectly natural reaction to temperature changes?

US business meeting:

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Thank you Lord for keeping the customers dumb as a box of rocks and for keeping the government happy enough with that that we have leaders with those same rocks in their heads.

I know, I deserve a kick in the caboose for this one

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

funny stuff

Who is your favorite Classic Who Doctor?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Pertwee though Troughton is a very close second

I threw up a little in my mouth... Trump signing Bibles in tornado ravaged AL [theweek.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2019:

# " and, in a very normal post-disaster move, signed Bibles" I just love the way the articles uses this phrase as if in an effort assure people, **"he's not mad as a march hare, really he isn't"**

In Defense of Schadenfreude

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

schadenfreude is the basis of a lot of comedy, and is the set up for tragedy when misfortune evolves in to actual pain or death. I can also morph in to pathos and empathy if handled correctly, taking away the guilt and replacing it with shame with the addition of only a little more information. It is a useful tool for the writer and a social learning experience. The current trend of trying to curb and eliminate emotions that "might cause offence" or "trigger" people will rob a whole generation or more of that societal education and lead to unforeseen consequences that are likely to be horrific

Movies that surprised you for better or worse.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

The Judas Ghost Made on a shoe string budget indie film in England, with a literal nothing budget, scared the hell out of me.

My two favorite hobbies😂🤣😂🤣

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

that is freaking hilarious, nearly choked on my cola

Is the Catholic Church a force for good?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Does the pope shit golden hamburgers in the woods?

International Women's Day - What better day than on my birthday! In a world of mortals, we are ...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Happy Birthday fellow human

Why are people so quick to judge?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Why are people so quick to judge? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT???? You intrusive, nosey, prying, inquisitive, busybody, republican horror bag!!!!!

remember the buddy system !

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Terry Pratchett warned us of this verminous creature that infests many washing machines and feeds upon right footed hosiery only.

Train yourself to let go of everything you are afraid to lose-I've had to do this with losing my ...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

A very Buddhist outlook. However I would offer this advice an alternate maxim

Me in B&W..

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Did you use a low resolution camera or is the hammered/planished texture photo shopped in later? Either way it is very effective and give a stronger feel to the contrast and breaks up the blending definitively. I really like your work, well done.

How many would do this? ???

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

If you are in a doctors waiting room and a stranger sits down beside you, put a magazine over your lap and start scratching underneath it. Some times they leave skid marks.

She is correct..

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Claiming that the criticism of a person, ideology or business that happens to have originated amongst the Jewish population as anti-Semitic is denying the right to be an arsehole to all Jews and that is discriminative and ant-Semitic.

Dennis the Menace

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 8, 2019:

It is a strange coincidence in the world of comics that in March of 1951 Hank Ketcham created a character called Dennis the Menace in the USA while thousands of miles away in the UK David Law also created a character named Dennis the Menace Completely independently. It was established in court that it was an extraordinary case of simultaneous creation and that both publishers and creators were allowed to continue to use the name.

[agnostic.] [agnostic.] My last two posts... Anyone get alerts for these?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

No

Pettifog verb 1.to bicker or quibble over trifles or unimportant matters.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

My favourite film of all time is Theatre of Blood starring Vincent Price Which during the scene parodying the Merchant of Venice contains this great line as a prelude to a particularly gruesome murder Lionheart: Now we come to the part where Portia, with a mean **pettifogging** little piece of legal trickery, saves your life. But we have revised the script.

Happy Birthday Bryan Cranston! Who is Bryan Cranston to you?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

I know him best as Titanium Rex he aging and adulterous super hero in Super Mansion

Is white a sexy color?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Depends, on a nun or a clansman no, on lingerie yes

Reading Sir Terry Pratchett I came to this gem: Context: This is part of the sacred writings of a ...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

The thief of time is perhaps the most simply satirical of all the Disc world books, brilliant but not really one of my favourites. Even the worst Discworld novels a streets ahead the best most other fantasy writers can come up with.

Texas judge disciplined after claiming God told him defendant was innocent - Houston Chronicle

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Oh for fuck sake, retire this loon and up his medication.

How many of yall believe in a historical Jesus? And why?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Jesus is not a name it is a title, meaning a Joshua, a common epithet for those claiming to be the foretold messiah, Jesus is just the Latin term. At least nine people around the supposed time of the carpenter of Nazareth used the title, and some of their exploits are weaved in to the Biblical Jesus myth. Two of them are mentioned in the scriptures, those being Jesus Barabbas and "John" the baptist for who there is a lot more historical evidence but none of it relating to a Jesus of Nazareth, however several historical non biblical stories attributed to the Baptist are in the gospels attributed to The Nazarene. The church of John still exists in the form of the Iraqi Mandaeans and in the more controversial claims of of the Alpha Galates organisation and several of its many schisms.

Why do people swear that being atheist/agnostic makes you morally bankrupt?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Because they base their reasoning on the false premise that without the threat of Hell and the salvation of Christ, you cannot possibly be responsible for your own moral code. It is of just another veiled threat to back up Religion's unsubstantiated claims of being the guardian of right and wrong.

What's the right word? Scrumpdellicious!

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Scrumdiddlyumptious I think you mean.

COLLYWOBBLES.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

One of my mother's favourite words.

New Test : If you spot the orange juice first...you lose!

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Sorry but she looks stoned out of her skull.

I’d like to find some information on the Canaanites and Philistines and all those people ?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 7, 2019:

And you know what, there is hardly any actual historical evidence for these genocidal crusades at all, except for when the the Israelites fought the Hitites, for which there is an historical record from the Hitites basically laughing at the attempted attack by the Israelites and mockingly explaining how they kicked their ass and sent one third of them back to Jerusalem with their tail between their legs, under orders to never come back, with the house of Jacob still claiming a great victory to their own uniformed masses.

As a nonbeliever, do you fear death?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2019:

I may fear the method and or the pain of my death, but actual death itself is nothing to be feared because it is simply the ceasing of my body functioning.

Old but relevant article on drone civilian casualties, relevant because Trump just cancelled ...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2019:

And so it begins, it is a very short step from not requiring reports to suppressing reports.

I have read too many profiles that states "agnostic and atheist".

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2019:

Rubbish, all atheists are agnostic. A-Theist without gods A- Gnosis with out knowledge (of gods in this context) Since to be without gods you must necessarily be without evidence or proof of gods ie. knowledge of said gods. Agnosticism is therefore a composite part of atheism. All atheists are agnostics and all agnostics are to a degree atheistic

Here's a couple new photos of me in B &W.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2019:

Interesting use of shadow, on the second you might have been better to use a selfie stick for a little more distance and depth. Very nice though.

Priests and other religious leaders who are pedophiles choose the job for the access it provides.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2019:

Parasites go where the food is and they deserve the same fate.

I don't think that smell will ever come out.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2019:

I much prefer the old word Stench, much easier to load with sputum and vitriol

She thought it was just a passport photo!

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2019:

Looks a lot like Nagao Mariya

A bull with wonderful aim must be celebrated.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2019:

I remember these cartoons appearing in the Mayfair magazine every month, There were various characters, Carrie, Connie, Jane and Wicked Wanda all come to mind, with the basic plot of somehow contriving to get the heroine stripped naked in public by "accident" I could not swear to it but I think the above is a Connie strip from Don Lawrence circa 1976

BENIGHTED.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2019:

“HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.” Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary

Very familiar with gullible of course, not so with gull.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2019:

Shares a root etymology with Guile and to beguile

African witchdoctors arrested for killing/sacrificing children. [msn.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

African witchdoctors arrested for killing/sacrificing children. The world condemns the superstitious barbarism The Vatican offers condemnation for the appalling waste.

Hello!!! I am Jamie from Oklahoma.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Welcome, can we assume that since you express such regard for the UK, we can rely on you to spell colour correctly? ?

At 62 yoa I find myself less comfortable disclosing my understanding of reality! The far right ...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

It belies the claim that Christianity is a religion of peace. The moment the Christians feel they have any sort of power or authority they begin hurting and bullying anyone they perceive to be lesser than them.

Why are people so opposed to the LGBT community?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Because the lord Jesus Christ hates a great many people but none more so than the homosexual... Family Guy

Clive James is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Clive James is also a fantastic lyricist, who throughout the 70's and 80s had a successful song writing career with Pete Atkin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UubqJAer1UI=37=PL4riNbuVClplLZY2eYwxo1d_-Z9MQ0zHb

25 years ago today?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Funny guy, it is a little known bit of film trivia that his movie debut was in Arnold Schwarzenegger's first fiction movie Hercules in New York (1970) Candy was uncredited and Arnie was billed as Arnold Strong

There's that pretty smile....

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Half of one anyway

Today, science tells us that the essence of nature is will.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

What the actual F is that blithering supposed to mean?

So how do you maintain a level of respect for those who believe in these fairytales?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

I used to believe that a person had to be either gullible or self deluded to believe in religion, in time I have modified m opinion. I know good, talented and intelligent people who have a blind spot when it comes to godbothering and like to think of themselves as (insert religion here) but actually follow only a few select doctrines and don't even know what their holy books advocated. There is a big difference between these ordinary decent people who happen to identify one way or another and the fundamentalist shit heads who let religion and doctrine rule their lives and actions, commit atrocities in the name of a god or gods and are in fact deranged. The casual believer thinks no less of me for my atheism and respects my choices, hates almost no one and has no slavish devotion to a church or whatever. Though my respect for that sort of person is lessened by their attributing their possitivity so some sky daddy I can still hold them in esteem for the good they do, unlike the fanatic for who I have no respect or trust at all.

Your faith is determined by where you were born or where you were brainwashed. Do you agree?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

It is a known psychological fact that children accept the reality they are born in to, it is only later and by informed contemplation that they make changes to their minds, though a majority do not, because thinking takes too much effort and it is easier to simply conform.

Bernie Sanders is officially running for two different federal offices under two different party ...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Independent is not a party, by definition it is independent. I can be a member of a golf club, that does not mean I can't play tennis in a municipal park.

More on the former Australian Prime Minister and Pell. [m.betootaadvocate.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Wickedly satirical, loved it

I watched "Heaven can wait" (with Beatty) again today - what a great movie!

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

James Mason is great in that film

Warning! This is not classy...but the original photo had movement.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Wedgey

Without looking it up.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 5, 2019:

It's Lost boys

Be humble in all that you do and be kind to everyone you meet.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Yup, when you see a homeless child huddled against a brick wall, wrapped up against the cold and and potential attackers, obviously starving and ill don't rail against the system that puts people and even children in such situations, buy them a coffee and spend the rest of the day congratulating yourself on being a saint. Oh of course go on demonising the socialist principles that say this should never happen to anyone and instead call the infantile victim a lazy sponger and scream at them to get a job. The capitalist, Christian success story people.

Nuns in India tell AP of enduring abuse in Catholic church

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 4, 2019:

The most disgusting and hypocritical organisation on the face the earth, the RC need to be disbanded, financially liquidated and the ground on which it stood seeded with salt.

God created humankind. Hmm... Who created God?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 4, 2019:

God made man in his own image, and man being a gentleman returned the compliment.

Bettie Page: The Queen of Pinup - Biographics [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 4, 2019:

One on her own and unique in every sense, there'll never be another

Third Most Powerful Vatican Official Found Guilty of Child Rape

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 4, 2019:

I hope the cowardly shit plea bargains and shops the lot of Vatican mafia sex trafficking child abuse cabal and then gets sent down anyway, or has his knackers blown off by his own catholic cosa nostra. I fucking hate the whole stinking sewer of an organisation, it is time the shits bubbled to the surface and are shown up for what they are, filthy scum.

Janis Joplin ✌❤?? [facebook.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 4, 2019:

wonderful Janice, such passion, power and talent ? ? ?

Well, this was a weird glitch.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 4, 2019:

for the time being try using penchant or custom instead?

Do you call it soda or pop?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 3, 2019:

In the UK soda is what the Americans call seltzer water, basically carbonated water with a little bicarbonate in it, usually used as a mixer for whiskey or brandy. In the north east some people call fizzy drinks pop, but mostly just call soft drinks by their brand names or flavours

Retroactive Blocking... seriously?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 3, 2019:

Blocks on forums and message boards have to the best of my knowledge always worked that way. They have barred you from seeing and being seen by the blocker, this of course means you as blockee lose access to their the blockers posts past present and future and vice versa. I don't see the problem.

This weeks scavenger hunt : leather and lace... Nuff said...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 3, 2019:

Leather over laceys

Did you ever watch this TV show? I remember seeing it a couple times.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 3, 2019:

Yes. I remember reading years later that the only way they could control the bear was to keep it permenantly sloshed of gallons of beer.

Welcome new member Datacom1.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 3, 2019:

welcome