Quran: Chapter 9 verse 14: “Make war on them so that Allah may punish them by your hands and ...

Triphid comments on Apr 3, 2019:

To my way of seeing it the Islamic Fundies are doing a kind of 'catch-up' to what the Christians have done for almost 2,000 years. No, I am NOT condoning any of it in any way, shape nor form because at least 90% of religions, especially the 3 main Abrahamic based ones, preach, expound and strive for Dominance of and over ALL of Humankind with ABSOLUTE and Unwavering Obedience, discrimination against those who choose NOT to be dominated, etc, etc.

interestingly succint article for 1912.

Triphid comments on Apr 3, 2019:

We've been sowing the seeds of not only our own destruction but that of almost every living thing on this planet ever since the Industrial Age, when , Oh when are we going listen and learn?

Get ready for the second coming...

Triphid comments on Apr 3, 2019:

I'd lay even money that it's all total bullshit what they are preaching in that poster.

Why it pays to do your research, be persistent, and speak up.

Triphid comments on Apr 3, 2019:

It is great to have a support network when battling cancers, great for the person battling it and just as great for the partner or the parent as I was when it was my daughter fighting it. We were lucky here in Australia because from diagnosis right through we had the Childhood Cancer Association and the Canteen Association (Teenage Cancer Support Association) among heaps of others as well.

AC/DC - T.N.T. (from Live at River Plate) [youtube.com]

Triphid comments on Apr 3, 2019:

One of the few of their songs I've ever liked.

HERB ALPERT "Tijuana Taxi"...

Triphid comments on Apr 2, 2019:

Great toe-tapper tune, liked their version of ' El Solo Toro ' as well.

Well I thought it was pretty punny. :)

Triphid comments on Apr 2, 2019:

That's like the girl who asked her boyfriend, " Are we going dutch tonight?" And he replied, " Come on Babe, we haven't tried French yet."

The granddaughter I'm now raising got an award for most improved GPA and, for the first time ever, ...

Triphid comments on Apr 2, 2019:

Well done Grandma, well done Granddaughter as well.

You are not too old and its not too late. Agree/Disagree??

Triphid comments on Apr 2, 2019:

It is for me, I hate climbing up ladders ( unless they're in a pair of stockings attached to a woman's legs that its....LOL)

[alternet.

Triphid comments on Apr 2, 2019:

Well it looks very much like those idiotic Climate Change Deniers are going to eating humble pie soon and almost ever coast in the world map will need to be resurveyed and re-charted, coastal cities will be inundated, low islands as well, millions of people displaced or drowned and ALL because of Human obsession with Fossil Fuels, etc.

I have never seen a swarm of hawks before this was a surprise to me.

Triphid comments on Apr 2, 2019:

I've seen a few hawks fly around in a kind of flock out here as well, BUT I'm 300+ miles from the nearest beach/ocean/sea-shore and we get flocks of screeching sea-gulls around here regularly.

Trying to think up a new April Fool's joke to play on my family.

Triphid comments on Apr 1, 2019:

Tried this one a few years ago and got fgreat results, Ring your local radio station and tell them that a truck load of beer and spirits has rolled over about 20 miles out of town then sit back and watch as everyone races out to 'help' re-load' the truck. I think 90% of my hometown took the day off for that one, the streets and road out were clogged with cars and trailers....LOL.

"But her nose..."

Triphid comments on Apr 1, 2019:

Jeez Louise, that bloke needs a set of Bra.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Triphid comments on Apr 1, 2019:

Like it, ( bloody emojis are still cactus fuctus extinctus).

Before the Crash - Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Richie Valens & Dion & the Belmonts Poster

Triphid comments on Apr 1, 2019:

I noticed the admissions price, $1.50, probably expensive in those days but compared with prices these days it was relatively cheap. The world of music lost some truly great ones that day and eventually we ended up being stuck listening to the greatest Pretender of all time, Elvis.

🤡.

Triphid comments on Mar 31, 2019:

To my way of seeing it We, Atheists, etc, used our reasoning minds to fathom out truth from fiction, fact from fallacy and have become wiser for it. Whereas there ARE intelligent peoples among the 'believers' they seem more than happy to merely close off their reasoning minds and accept without question or doubt what they have been told as being 'truth.' As once was said, " The wise person NEVER ceases to question, research and learn, that is what makes him/her wise and intelligent."- Author Unknown at present.

Agnostic.

Triphid comments on Mar 31, 2019:

Hear, Hear, in total agreement with you on this one. Come on Admin, ante up on your debt for your blunder.

After a conversation with a Christian, I've had some continuing thoughts.

Triphid comments on Mar 31, 2019:

Imaginary Gods/Goddesses/Deities, etc, which they all are Imaginary btw, are like Celebrities, Politicians, Sports Stars, etc, they NEED and THRIVE on the Accolades, Adorations, etc, of their most worshipful followers and without they simply either die away or become just mere ordinary humans/things.

[agnostic.

Triphid comments on Mar 31, 2019:

Thanx for the warning, but how come the like, etc, options aren't working at present.

How to make your wife submit to your authority [churchandstate.org.uk]

Triphid comments on Mar 31, 2019:

A friend of mine tried that ONCE with his Missus, it got results, 2 weeks in hospital after getting his jaw wired back together, 3 broken ribs, 4 missing teeth, a broken arm AND a letter from her Solicitor re-Divorce Proceedings.

With credentials like these you have to ask how are they fit to run the country? [watoday.com.au]

Triphid comments on Mar 31, 2019:

The Contractor screws the Government then the Government screws the people, the economy and the country. And we ALL end up paying for a building that is only ever used so the Political Fat Cats can have luxuries, etc, that we only ever get to dream about.

I’ve looked into the origins of Hell before.

Triphid comments on Mar 31, 2019:

Heaven, Hell, After-life, ALL inventions of religious Ideologies going back thousands of years and plagiarized by the Abrahamic based ones to keep the faithfools under their controlling thumbs.

The river, returned by its strength by the rains, is joyful.

Triphid comments on Mar 31, 2019:

So earnestly wish and hope that would happen to our Mighty and now dying Darling River here. It's dying because successive Governments have turned blind eyes to the Cotton and Rice Growers up north of here sucking the tributaries dry of every drop of water they can. In recent months we've seen millions of native fish kills from stinking, fetid, stagnant water in pools where once there was ALWAYS a strongly flowing river.

What's the fucture of humanist atheist and secular classes???

Triphid comments on Mar 30, 2019:

What the blazes is 'fucture?'

How can someone be agnostic and a believer both?

Triphid comments on Mar 30, 2019:

To my mind an Agnostic, well perhaps a percentage of them at least, are merely 'hedging their bets.' I.e. they don't want to jump either way just in case they may be wrong.

Living the illuminated life

Triphid comments on Mar 30, 2019:

One attitude I'll never change is "I'll not suffer fools gladly,"especially the truly annoying pestilent types of Faithfools. And speaking of Faithfools, one can easily note that the Xrstian season is nigh because yesterday, here in my town, the Jehos were traveling around 2x2 inviting everyone to join them in celebrating and remembering the anniversary of the death, etc, of their mythological hero. I think Ive offended them in some way in the past because they didn't invite me, a cause for yet another celebration in my house I'd say.

Very early dick pic

Triphid comments on Mar 30, 2019:

and the woman is saying, "But my husband's dick is much longer and bigger than that." LOL.

Scientists Find Fossilized Fish That May Have Been Blasted by Debris From Asteroid That Ended the ...

Triphid comments on Mar 29, 2019:

When that asteroid/meteor hit almost everything within a few thousand miles radius of the impact would have either been blasted to shit or had the shit blasted out of them. Kind of like quite few years ago when I had been helping a good friend to muster his 3,000+ sheep over 2 days and we all decided to have a big campfire in the clay pan about 50 yards from the homestead. We were sitting and discussing how and when we'd finally demolish the very old wood and corrugated iron long-drop toilet that was no longer used or needed WHEN, suddenly out of the night sky came a flash of something burning and heading earthwards in bloody huge rush, then a massive crashing noise, a cloud of dust and long dried out excrement, etc, pieces of burning wood and shredded corrugated iron flying in all directions from about 500 yards away. After we'd all hit the dirt asap, then gotten up and dusted ourselves off, we went over to find a nice crater about 10 feet in diameter, complete with a nasty smelling smoke cloud hanging and at least 25 feet deep where the toilet had once been. A week later, after things had settled down, a team from a University came along an excavated out the hole and raised a meteorite from it that weighed in at a tidy 4.5 kilograms and was about the size of a soccer ball, tests showed that is mostly iron in composition mixed with rock. The grazier friend of mine got a nice cheque for $1,700 and very neat hole for his troubles, the rest of us, all 3, got a carton of beer and some very interesting memories.

58 Ford X-2000 concept car

Triphid comments on Mar 29, 2019:

LOL, FORD = Fix and Repair Daily or Full of Rust and Dents.

Hello, it’s been over 2 full days of being divorced and I’m happy to report that I’m happy.

Triphid comments on Mar 29, 2019:

Well done and more kudos to you.

Why do people respond so negatively to beautiful memes?

Triphid comments on Mar 29, 2019:

Hear,Hear, memes often help to get a point across, often far better than typed words, etc.

I know there are lots of variables, but what should it cost for a single person to eat for a month ...

Triphid comments on Mar 28, 2019:

I live alone in Australia, some would say " Way out in the back blocks," my pension after bills, etc, are taken out comes to around $500 in hand, out of which I spend between $180 and $250 per fortnight at the Supermarket for groceries that will last me for the fortnight, not including bread, etc, which I need to buy at least twice per week. I buy meat in bulk when I can as do I with vegetable, I grow my own vegetables as often as possible, I cook at least ONE good and nourishing, satisfying meal per day, make my own salads in the warmer weather and soups in the colder weather, the soups I make in bulk and freeze so I always have them available. I have a few free ranging chickens for eggs, though in the hotter weather they cease laying. My only major vice is that I am a smoker of roll your own cigarettes ( tobacco of course). So, I think I'm doing fairly well in regards to cooking, etc, for myself.

I don't get this either

Triphid comments on Mar 28, 2019:

2) Assistance, i.e. Welfare/Unemployment Payments are a burden to the economy BUT the exorbitant 'salaries,' etc, etc, claimed and paid to politicians are NOT, please explain, Mr. Government Economist how that works?

The Secret Jehovah’s Witness Database of Child Molesters - The Atlantic

Triphid comments on Mar 28, 2019:

I will state, proclaim, etc, most firmly and ardently that the exposure of Catholic Church and it's inherent Abuse of Children, etc, in recent times is MERELY the TIP of an iceberg far, far bigger than anyone can ever hope to imagine. Most sadly and regretfully, abuse takes on many, innumerable forms and guises from Physical through to Sexual, Emotional, Mental and combinations of them all included, it IS NOT solely inherent to Catholicism, it is rife through ALL religions, particularly the 3 main Abrahamic based religions as well innumerable other Government and Non-Government Institutions and Agencies. A full and complete probe and examination, public of course, SHOULD be conducted into each and every one of them with NO exceptions/exemptions granted what-so-ever and SHOULD be delving back, not a few decades BUT centuries instead. This foul, inhuman PLAGUE MUST be exposed and eradicated immediately, permanently once and for ALL time.

Does the fact that you are agnostic with regard to religion make its way into effecting your ...

Triphid comments on Mar 28, 2019:

I, for one, am NOT Agnostic but 100% Atheist and always have been and always will be. Therefore, to find a solution to any problem/difficulty that has arisen I rely upon logic and reasoning combined with the knowledge, skills and abilities gained and experienced from events, etc, in my past. Plus, If I cannot afford to purchase something I need to complete a task at hand, then I will also apply those skills, etc, and set about making my own version of what I need.

I would substitute psyche for the soul.

Triphid comments on Mar 28, 2019:

What IS a soul; A) in religio-speak, an invisible, imaginary entity constructed by religious ideology and constrained within a living being that only finds release with corporeal death, b) something that neither science nor medicine has ever detected, c) a way/method of Authorities to AVOID saying the numbers of ACTUAL lives lost in any disaster, i.e. a cop-out, Personally speaking, I prefer to think that we all have an individual, internal 'persona' that begins to develop from short after birth that is driven by minute electrical impulses with in our brain and governed by the surrounding, etc, that we grow among and, like our frail, corporeal bodies, it too dissipates after death. Ergo, there is NO soul.

Hello Gerrymonger ! Fact of the Day The word Gerrymander comes from a combination of the name of...

Triphid comments on Mar 28, 2019:

And politicians and Political Parties have embraced and utilised every since.

What did the weird kid at your high school do?

Triphid comments on Mar 28, 2019:

My school friends and I got up to innumerable things that may be classed as weird or simply crazy. I like to think that perhaps our best ones were; a) replacing the flag by hoisting up the largest pair of bra and knickers we could ' borrow' from a clothes line nearby, b) 'borrowing' the Colonel Sanders effigy from the KFC store and firmly fixing to the roof of the Home Economics Department, c) putting a small amount of PVA glue mixed with water in condoms and leaving them around the school, and last but not least our best of all, d) during a science experiment, making rudimentary Nitro-glycerine, about 15 millilitres and blowing apart the rubbish bin in the Lab.

If there's a hell, I'm going...

Triphid comments on Mar 28, 2019:

Satan has a Restraining Order out on me because he doesn't like competition, so Hell is out. God is scared shitless that I'll expose him for the myth he really is, so Heaven is a No-Go as well. Looks very much like I'll be around this world with all the other Heathens and Heretics for a very long time then.

Age is irrelevant.

Triphid comments on Mar 28, 2019:

" Those who choose to travel the road of life merely counting the days are oft the ones who miss the joy and beauty that the journey has to offer." -William Anthony.

What do you say about near death experiences where the person claims they've seen heaven or hell?

Triphid comments on Mar 27, 2019:

One simple word, BULLSHIT.

What Are Your Thoughts About Spiritualism ?

Triphid comments on Mar 27, 2019:

How about someone ACTUALLY gives a DEFINITIVE meaning, etc, to exactly what 'Spiritualism' is truly is?

Damn Catholics.

Triphid comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Hey, I've always been an Atheist so I'll eat red meat ANY time I choose and it has gotten me some very fierce and disapproving looks from the Faithfools especially on the times, rare times I might say, that I've dined out on a Friday and deliberately ordered a red meat dish instead of fish. Piss and blood I say to the Faithfools, eating fish on Fridays is NOT a commandment in the Goat-Herders Guide to the Galaxy, it IS an edict passed down from one the Popes, i.e. Protectors of Paedophile Employees.

On this day, H&O got their first 1. [youtu.be]

Triphid comments on Mar 27, 2019:

H&O, two of the best songwriters of the era in my opinion.

I immediately thought of this group:

Triphid comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Ugh, Cotton Harvesters and Cotton Growers, the bane of Far Western New South Wales and the killers of the Darling River.

Port used by Egyptian temple builders found. [msn.com]

Triphid comments on Mar 27, 2019:

I recently had the chance to watch a Documentary where a similar excavation and research expedition was done and discovered the precise location and course of the channel dug by Ancient Egyptians from the Nile to the Pyramids of Giza was used to transports blocks of stone often weighing at 10 tons and more by water craft built especially for that purpose. The expedition even built a craft to the exact measurements, using the exact same methods and materials as the Egyptians, loaded a block of stone weighing 10 tons onto it and sailed it across the Nile from one side to the other proving conclusively that it could be done.

Do the world a favor❤✌?

Triphid comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Have sex with more Hippies and Atheists, the world needs more of us.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets??

Triphid comments on Mar 27, 2019:

And as you get older; Never delay using a toilet and never trust a fart.

Stand up for something???

Triphid comments on Mar 27, 2019:

If that be true then by my standing alone and for things I saw as being right or needed to be changed then somewhere I must have the wings of an Albatross at least.

Hello to the group. My name is Elaine. I am 61 going on 35. Wow, where did the years go?

Triphid comments on Mar 27, 2019:

G'day and welcome from Down Under, enjoy the company, the chat and the freedom from sanity since we are all just a wee bit crazy at times.

I don't have to be fast just faster than you ???

Triphid comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Either way that is 'unbearable' ( excuse the pun) shooting a friend in the knee to escape becoming bear turds later on.

Is there really a God to discuss ?

Triphid comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Well, the Faithfools INSIST that there MUST be a God, we Atheists are pretty darned certain that there is NOT a God, the Agnostics are merely, imo, just hedging their bets, but either way it is a subject, be it somewhat moot, can and does create a lively debate which is far more enjoyable than politics for example.

My take on Xian mythology.

Triphid comments on Mar 26, 2019:

So this Omnipotent God Being who can create life, HUMAN or animal, etc, from mere dust ACTUALLY needs to have an ANGEL impregnate a human woman to re-create himself when he already created life from dust, so he can sacrifice himself, which is NOT really a sacrifice anyway because he cannot die, to himself to gain forgiveness for his creations that he already knew that they would sin in the first place because he is Omniscient ( All Knowing). Yeah that makes a lot of sense, NOT.

Cop out: "Spiritual But Not Religious" [google.com] Agree or disagree?

Triphid comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Agree, and imho it is as big a cop out as saying you're an Agnostic, i.e, you aren't certain so you've decided to hedge your bets and sit on the fence.

To all the people that used to be Christian, how did you lose your faith?

Triphid comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Never really had one, so it was easy to lose to say the least.

Is there anybody here, like me, who was never religious?

Triphid comments on Mar 26, 2019:

I'd guess I'd fit the bill here, brought up by an atheist father who was married to a Theistic woman who PHYSICALLY forced me to attend EVER available Sunday School from which, by the time I was 10 years old I had been EXPELLED from for merely asking questions because I wanted answers and also EXPELLED from Primary School Scripture Classes for exactly the same reason. Praised by my father for my curiosity, cursed by my 'mother' for being a Heretic, Heathen, etc, etc, I have remained a staunch Atheists all of my life and shall remain so even on my death-bed.

Which came first: society or a fear of god? | PBS NewsHour

Triphid comments on Mar 26, 2019:

As humans evolved more of a clan structure rather than merely nomadic family type groups I'd lean towards the idea that society arose long before any religious based belief system/s. Most mammals congregate in groups/herds for protection, etc, i.e. they are socially based groups, for example, our closest primate 'relatives', the apes all congregate in what maybe deemed as clans/groups with an obvious social order but NONE exhibit a religious, or seemingly religious base to those groups/clans. Ergo, and psychologically speaking here, religion/s must have been invented well after societies evolved and with the probability that one or more of the more members of each society, possibly through either sheer laziness or self-interest, discovered that by portraying him/herself as a 'conduit' to the spirits/god/gods then he/she could live a far better and easier life by catering to gullibilities of his/her fellow group members and accepting their adorations and offerings as such a 'condiut.'

Start investing agnostics!!! "What should we do with all those abandoned churches?

Triphid comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Accommodations for the Homeless, cheap housing for less fortunate, meeting places for Atheists and Agnostics, Discos and Nightclubs, Childcare Centres for LOw Paid Families, the list is almost endless as to what could be done with the edifices of Gullibility.

Both funny, one for each side.?

Triphid comments on Mar 26, 2019:

I'm in total agreement with the lady in the wheelchair.

Religion. The root of evil?

Triphid comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Evil, imho, in that it suppresses human sociological advancement and scientific research ,etc, it also purveys ideologies of divisiveness, ethnic vilification, misogyny, hatred towards those who either follow a different system of belief or have no belief what-so-ever, etc,etc. It also seeks to restrict personal development, personal rights ( the right of a woman to choose what happens to HER body for example), it not only seeks to have influence/control in Legitimate Governments but actually EXERTS control as we are ALL aware. It has, historically, been the causative factor in more Deaths than the last 2 World Wars put together and still continues to do so unabated.

Once again.

Triphid comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Charge, Try and Convict the Parents with Child Abuse and the Wanton Death of a Child. Remove ALL other children from their care and sentence them to Life without Parole.

Bad news for meat eaters.

Triphid comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Hey JackPedigo, you do realise, I hope, that most humans are NOT solely Carnivorous BUT are actually Omnivorous in nature, don't you? We eat both meat and vegetables, not just the flesh of other animals only.

A 3 hour round trip along one of the highways to and from town helping a friend to remove newly ...

Triphid comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Just so you know the 'roos out this way aren't all Skippy's of the television show variety, they are BIG buggers.

Oh Ethel, you should have gone for the face lift...

Triphid comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Well the fake boob implants will still be around when she's nothing more than bones and dust in a coffin.

Honestly, this would be the best! Doesn't happen nearly enough.

Triphid comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Just simply offering up a thought here BUT has anyone ever truly sat down and thought that reason(?) you feel you cannot survive without your mobile ( cell) phone is, a) because that is what has been indoctrinated into your mind by the hype of advertising, etc, surrounding them, and, b) you must have one simply because without one you DO NOT fit in with the rest of the crowd, and, c) ownership and usage of one is so important, presumably that is, that it has become, virtually, as necessary as religion is to a believer? d) could it not be also implied that your dependence upon that little electronic device has become an ADDICTION of sorts just like a religion?

I had a female co-worker offer to help me with a makeover.

Triphid comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Why be a slave to fashion trends, etc, when others are, don't be one of the sheep, stand alone, be true to yourself.

Honestly, this would be the best! Doesn't happen nearly enough.

Triphid comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Don't have a Mobile (Cell) Phone, don't want one either so it's easy for me not to look at it.

Atheists, what was the hardest thing to accept when you became atheist?

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

No problem for me, exactly the opposite, I became and felt free.

Bad news for meat eaters.

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

We don't get those kinds of ticks out here in Australia, we do get odd outbreaks of Cattle Ticks but mostly here in my area it's usually dog ticks and kangaroo ticks and they aren't harmful to humans or detrimental in any way to the quality of the animals or humans.

I don't know how to act my age.

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

As I was once told, " You are only as young as you feel," some days I feel like a teenager BUT my arthritis tells me different sadly.

My divorce will be final in less than 48 hours.

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

So, it looks like you've gotten the better deal, he gets NO Warranty one his new partner, sucked in for him I say. Do you have the Decree Nisi then the Decree Absolute or just Decree Absolute over your way?

They go together.

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

If one remains silent and listens one can learn a whole lot more than they can by doing the opposite.

If I leave this group for a while am I able to return?

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

I, for on will missing reading your comments etc, whilst you are gone BUT will be ever so glad when you come back as well.

So this is why we are in such dire straits in Australia: [kangaroocourtofaustralia.

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Until Australia adopts a completely NEW Constitution that; A) ALL Companies, etc, MUST have a 51% ownership by the People, including Public Assets, etc, B) NO Government may sell off ANY Public Assets without first having an agreement of 99% of the Population, C) ALL resources, natural or man-made BELONG to the People and ONLY to the people at large, D) ALL Political Parties SHALL NOT enter into coalitions with other parties and doing so will result in those parties being de-registered for a term no less than 10 years and with fines not less than $1 Million Dollars imposed upon EACH party involved, and last but by no means least, E) removes ANY opportunity/opportunities of Tax Dodging and makes the dodgers fully liable for Legal Prosecution and lengthy prison sentences and actually rewards the 'Whistle-blowers' rather than persecuting them. Until such occurs we will always be in the shit we find ourselves in now.

Everyone’s drunk on something. What are your addictions?

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

My glass of ice cold Iced Coffee for my breakfast is my heart starter, it's my own version of the Aussie Swagmans' breakfast, i.e. a drink, a fart and a quick look around....LOL.

11:11 am on Sunday morning and so far I have managed to maintain self control, the day is but young.

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Definition of an Idiot- a person whose brain wishes it was in another body.

I'd also add that male-on-male mutilation is about a lot more than just the psychic.

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

As a male it is good to get in touch with the 'feminine side' of yourself, I've been there for many many years and have been described as a S.N.A.G. (an Aussie terminology meaning Sensitive New Age Guy) and I like it.

Hahahahahaha! Reality strikes again!

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Now I could wear such a shirt though I don't take Ibuprofen for my arthritis, just Celebrex, I've got plenty of aches, creaks and grinding joints to spare.

Have been making molding to hide the tile crack to where it bumps up against the tub.

Triphid comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Good job, great method of bending timber to shape as well.

Even more true now than it was then.

Triphid comments on Mar 23, 2019:

True, 100% TRUE.

Can Crows recognize faces?

Triphid comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Crows are smart but I tend to think that Aussie Magpies, the birds that is, are even smarter. I have a pair of Magpies that always arrive just when I'm about to feed my chickens and leave some aside for the other native birds as well. If I'm running a bit late, the Magpies will sit on my roof and warble until I come out with the food, they do this with great regularity.

Good food . . .

Triphid comments on Mar 23, 2019:

When my first ex-missus did ANY cooking it was necessary to have the following; 2 Antacid tablets, a warning phone call to the Fire Department, an ambulance on stand-by, 2 ready to use fire extinguishers and a VERY strong stomach. She once ATTEMPTED to make a casserole of beef and vegetables, the dog wouldn't even touch it and when put in the garbage bin the flies left the area post-haste.

Alphabet Soup

Triphid comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Especially if you swallow your whing the whong whay....LOL.

Aside from the obvious similarities between organized crime and organized religion, and the churches...

Triphid comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Organised Religions ARE the repressors and suppressors of the advancement of Human kind, their reaches extend even into the highest levels of Power and Government and with a far, far greater influence than anyone can imagine or even think.

Greetings! ???

Triphid comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Welcome aboard the Ship of Reality, Reason, Logic and Knowledge, powered by Free-Thinking, Decent Human Kindness, a driving need to Learn and a Desire to be Free from Religion/s.

Anyone else ever wonder what percentage of "religious" people are simply faking it to fit in?

Triphid comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Oh I'm certain there are those ' stray sheep' out there who, being afraid to stand alone, etc, are simply following along with the 'flock' and hoping desperately for acceptance.

Never regret anything?

Triphid comments on Mar 23, 2019:

" The past is a repository for mistakes made, today is for remembering those mistakes, tomorrow is for moving forward and TRYING not to repeat ANY of the mistakes made in the past." William Anthony.

What the hell happened in the NSW vote?

Triphid comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Sadly, very,very sadly it looks like the bloody Liberal Scum have gotten back in but they lost Barwon to the Fishers,Farmers and Shooters Party (one good bit of news) and the seat of Murray as well to F.F.S. Party. The Liberal Scum did their usual scam jobs on everything EAST of Dubbo by promising better roads and infrastructure, etc, etc,,throwing mulloch at every other party and person in the election and those selfish, self-centred idiots east of Dubbo swallowed the lot, hook, line and sinker. So very little good came out if for use poor bastards living way out west of Dubbo except we've given the Libs a small sign that we are sick to death of them. The Cotton and Rice water thieves will still have free reign over the Upper Reaches of the Darling River and will continue to suck it dry. A small bit of good news is that, for once the BoM got it right, we are getting a bit of steady, light rain here in Broken Hill for the fist time in quite a long time.

I’m sure there’s a story here. Homossassa River in central Florida.

Triphid comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Be aware, be VERY aware, the Head-Hunters are rising yet again....LOL.

OM NOM NOM!

Triphid comments on Mar 22, 2019:

You should have seen my nephew, Henry, when I confront him with a nice, ripe 8.5 kilo home-grown watermelon just over a year ago. It was like watching a pack of lions devouring a group of poachers in an African Nature Reserve, teeth slashing away left and right, juice streaming down his chin and jaws going like scythes in a field of wheat. The watermelon didn't stand a chance....LOL.

A little something for the Brits..

Triphid comments on Mar 22, 2019:

It would seem that Poms ( Brits) still cling vainly to the idea that the "Sun never sets on the British Empire" and " Britannia Rules the Waves." Wake up Poms, you jumped, with great gusto, feet first into the E.U., you ARE a peoples living on a small island surrounded by a BIG, WIDE, World, a world in which you no longer have the final say, get a frigging life, build a bloody bridge and get over it.

We as humans trying to figure out where we came from is a little absurd, the cockroaches been ...

Triphid comments on Mar 22, 2019:

A cockroach simply exists to eat, breed and die, it scurries away from light, it lives in fear because it knows no better nor cares about anything except itself. When confronted with a 'starve and die' situation cockroaches WILL turn on the weakest/youngest/ slowest of their own kind and devour them. Humans, for the most part, on the other hand strive to learn, don't fear light, overcame darkness, etc, etc, have invented a social order of sorts, care for their young ( well the majority of us do) and those around us and seek to advance ourselves through knowledge rather than fear, etc. Personally, I'd rather be a human whose residence on this planet has been relatively short in Geological terms than a cringing, fear-filled, uncaring, selfish cockroach with a Million years of existence any day.

Sounds right to me.

Triphid comments on Mar 22, 2019:

In my honest opinion, WITHOUT the harmful influences of Religions, especially the 3 main Abrahamic Cults, the advancement and development of Human Society, Knowledge, etc, etc, would be at least 2,000+ years ahead of where it stands today.

Well girls and boys, I decided that I am going to do it.

Triphid comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Best of Luck to you, my friend.

The only French pastry I have ever made was French bread.

Triphid comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Maybe you might like to try making good old Aussie damper, it's easy to make and bake, kids love it too.

Directing Cheesus

Triphid comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Mel , the Dipshit, Gibson explaining ANYTHING has to a great source for wonder and amusement IMHO.

Jesus work out...

Triphid comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Didn't he get 3 quick and big doses of iron from the Romans.....LOL.

2500 year old ship found, 70% complete! [atlasobscura.com]

Triphid comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Hey, wait a minute, that can't be correct since the Faithfools will tell you that the earth is only 6,500 years old according to their great book the Goat-herders Guide to the Galaxy ( aka the bible).

Awesome moment at work.

Triphid comments on Mar 21, 2019:

I have a very old retort that I enjoy using when someone mentions Jesus, I simply respond with, " I'm sorry but my son is busy at the moment, can I take him a message for you?"

Sugar Sugar - The Archies [youtube.com]

Triphid comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Jeez Louise, this one takes me me way, way back in time. I was in a band way back in my High School days, we called ourselves 'The Miners,' we got quite a few gigs at School Dances and parties and ' Sugar, Sugar' was a kind of signature tune for us.