A reasonable precaution. The hawks rely on treachery.

Diogenes comments on Aug 8, 2021:

Good one!

Lookin' at you Dexter and GoT

Diogenes comments on Aug 8, 2021:

Ya, now that I am an antique, the old comedy shows used to be funny. It was hard to keep from laughing. But now the mindless muck! There is a moronic situation followed by 'that' laugh record! Why bother? At least the Limeys, still have fun shows; the supposed "lower classes", there, have always enjoyed trashing the "gentry".

The Young And Secular Are Least Vaccinated, Not Evangelicals

Diogenes comments on Aug 8, 2021:

Thanks for that; sorry I did not read it all. I don't know if "secular" is a just word. When there are people too lazy to care about much of anything, good or bad- and when there are philosophical ideas that might be looked into, that would be a strange trip for them.

THE MYPILLOW GUY REALLY COULD DESTROY DEMOCRACY

Diogenes comments on Aug 7, 2021:

I don't have time to read about "Mike Lindell". Again- Hitler was a corporal in WW1. He was as evil as Dump- but smarter- but isn't anyone smarter than Dump- or any of his disciples, including Lindell?

From a time when gratuitous violence was considered entertainment...

Diogenes comments on Aug 7, 2021:

That is worth a smile

“Words, too, have genuine substance – mass and weight and specific gravity.” — Tim O’Brien

Diogenes comments on Aug 7, 2021:

So true! "Big words" as they have been called, and often misused, are irrelevant. I too often use the word "thing" instead of a specific noun or verb. Decades ago I was watching a doc about the Canadian orator Marshall McCluhan. It ws foolishness; instead of saying something; he was trying hard to be 'McCluhanesque'. At one time he was quoted, "The medium is the message:.

Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, ...

Diogenes comments on Aug 7, 2021:

Nederland used to be one of the most religious countries; now those big cathedrals and churches sit empty. They are not into some great big theist purge,; they are into education and NOT into childish foolishness.In most cases it bores them.

The best part of being retired...

Diogenes comments on Aug 3, 2021:

Yup, an' that looks just about like me on the bench!

So……step up for your bleach injection with a complimentary cup of covfefe!!

Diogenes comments on Aug 2, 2021:

He's got his finger working, but he can't even pick his nose correctly!

I was wrenched out of my sleep by the sound of the fire alarm at 2:30 am, and groggily found ...

Diogenes comments on Aug 1, 2021:

I don't live in "a senior rich" building--- but even the slightest sound wakes me.

Einstein himself, could have been lost in the holocaust.

Diogenes comments on Jul 30, 2021:

That is true- but what is also true; scum rises to the top! Could there ever be a more open example than Dump?

That's me, back row, third from the left, 25 years ago and I haven't changed a bit! :-D

Diogenes comments on Jul 30, 2021:

Except for a photo of Donald John Dump-- could there be a more moronic show?

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Diogenes comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Yes, another great tune!

I love Michael McIntyre…best comedian currently on BBC.

Diogenes comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Yesssss! Passwords! And even when a person writes down their thousand password- they are still not correct when a person goes to use them! And on to something else, but still dealing with stress. When you go to a store and pick up a container of (hypothetical) 'Marvelous Orange' it will have all sorts of information on the label: convenient, easy to use; remains soft, etc and etc. Is it pudding, hair shampoo or car wax? That "pudding" sure as hell tasted bad! Then with a magnifying glass, in a hidden corner, a person finds the words "car wax".

When someone tells me that their church can heal me....

Diogenes comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Isn't it amazing that they can cure a cancer patient that is a bout to die tomorrow, and that patient will run around the room in a state of euphoria---- but they can't cure dandruff. 'Golly' ---maybe there is a bit of ham acting going on.

Missouri paper slams 'false prophet' preachers who claimed Trump's re-election was preordained by ...

Diogenes comments on Jul 28, 2021:

Thanks for putting that on here. I was going to read the original from Raw Story too, but they are asking for a donation. I already support a few sites, including Common Dreams. There have been many, hard-hitting stories, over the years, on that site too.

“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always ...

Diogenes comments on Jul 28, 2021:

Beauty is only skin deep. If youthful, internal ugliness stays into old age, there is nothing left of any consideration. On the other hand, RBG at 86 had a few wrinkles, maybe caused by laughter, but was beautiful inside and out.

the person who came up with this deserves a bonus.

Diogenes comments on Jul 28, 2021:

But it's bent on the end!

Let's beat Covid together.

Diogenes comments on Jul 27, 2021:

Being the dirty old bastard, that I am---where can I get my next 100 shots?

Tracey Ullman. - British PM Theresa May skypes with Donald Trump… [youtu.be]

Diogenes comments on Jul 27, 2021:

Good 'stuff'--- but too close to Dump's mind set!

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

Diogenes comments on Jul 26, 2021:

Al is a hundred percent right--- but the an added point, a person can collect too many mistakes.

Have faith

Diogenes comments on Jul 26, 2021:

Love that!

"Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position." -- Boris Spassky

Diogenes comments on Jul 26, 2021:

The 'complete' thinker has a sense of humour- apparently Spassky was in that group.

Joking about the inevitable.

Diogenes comments on Jul 25, 2021:

Good for Shaw- at least he had a sense of humour!

Here's a thought...

Diogenes comments on Jul 25, 2021:

* When I was young, a hundred years ago, I had the shit beat out of me everyday by my old moronic mother. It took me 30 or 40 years to unlearn that lesson.

I'll pass next time.

Diogenes comments on Jul 25, 2021:

Excuse my expletives!!! Not a fucking cockroach or anything as big as a dinosaur has ever come back from the dead. I do not understand the fucking absolute hate of science---- and reality!

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Diogenes comments on Jul 25, 2021:

I would obviously consider you a 'mate'. It's a hard life; but at least a few, that deserve a decent life, should get through with a smile- and a pint in hand.

Marjorie Taylor Greene won’t say if she’s been vaccinated.

Diogenes comments on Jul 25, 2021:

She heard that the vaccine might cause a brain to form.

Blackadder. - How Did World War 1 Begin ? [youtu.be]

Diogenes comments on Jul 22, 2021:

Yes, funny! I believe I worked with the other two! Na, in real life--- not funny!😜

Paint faster, Leo, I can't hold this much longer!

Diogenes comments on Jul 21, 2021:

I have seen it- think it is an overdone promo- even Vermeer's woman is better looking.

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent upon its vulnerable reserves of air...

Diogenes comments on Jul 21, 2021:

Certainly something to think about!

We need to exercise more

Diogenes comments on Jul 21, 2021:

You exercise too much; try a flip-top beer!

Christianity is collapsing | Freedom From Religion Foundation

Diogenes comments on Jul 21, 2021:

Who cares about religion? It is a non-topic. I had a Political Science prof from Australia who called 'this' place', Canader. Religion is being replaced with other mindless mush. Only in "Canader" can a Sikh wear 'his hat' in parliament---- because it is necessary to respect his "rights". Gotta be a joke!

(Cartoonist Serge Chapeleau, La Presse, Montreal)

Diogenes comments on Jul 21, 2021:

Who cares?

“Know what is important and what isn’t.

Diogenes comments on Jul 21, 2021:

It takes courage to stand up- it ceases to be a game. I doubt that I would have enough. All heroes are dead--most times with little to show for it. I am going to give an obvious example- the judge and/or jury that finds D.J. Trump guilty of his plethora of monstrous crimes, going back decades, wants to take out lots of life insurance.

Not to mention how much of the Old Testament was cribbed from earlier religions...

Diogenes comments on Jul 20, 2021:

But another point, they had to find someone evil, so they came up with a historic person who was evil, Herod. He murdered members of his immediate family---- but it has never been recorded that he murdered babies.

Nuku nuku nurmilintu performed by Sanni Halla (a traditional Finnish Folk Lullaby) This is a ...

Diogenes comments on Jul 20, 2021:

Beautiful girl, wonderful voice! It was worth seeming!

“Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority...

Diogenes comments on Jul 20, 2021:

The "invisible-dude". The world's best con job. Only "true believers" can see him---- and there are billions that see their one true god, which ever their one happens to be.

Spoons & Banjo Anyone?

Diogenes comments on Jul 18, 2021:

Abby and Dusty are so spectacular. I will have to watch it a few times to get all the words. But what I did get satirized the the greedy rich. I have seen Abby a few times. Thanks for putting that on!

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt...

Diogenes comments on Jul 17, 2021:

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world"- or in other words, "Go with the flow." Millions have done that before- until the "flow" runs out. Even Shaw, with his huge ego, got it wrong at times. I have only a limited idea of what he was trying to say.

“Life - the way it really is today - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and ...

Diogenes comments on Jul 17, 2021:

That is just about where I am right now; between a bad legal situation and one that is unbelievable. No I am not the criminal; I am the victim. Ontario's legal system is like a weird walk through some mysterious wonderland. When I look south of the border it is even worse. Donald John Trump is still walking around as a free criminal. That is commentary, by a large portion of their public, on what they think of criminal activity. Conversely, they also have crusaders who hit back with very hard fists. To them, "congrats"!

Imagine all the....

Diogenes comments on Jul 16, 2021:

Don't pick on the sheep. There are few beasties that are as stupid as the human-thing!

The youngsters of today have it so easy….

Diogenes comments on Jul 12, 2021:

Ya, funny!

The nerve of some people!!!

Diogenes comments on Jul 12, 2021:

My former "bride" and I only had one fight. Guess I am not a "long distance" fighter! After 10 years,I refused to come out for round 9 million.

"I do declare to you 'pon my oath as a gentleman, three score and 10% of all facts upon the ...

Diogenes comments on Jul 12, 2021:

An' pon my self as a grouchy, old realist, what is printed in the Toronto Star, is 100 %, contrived bull shit.

So realistic

Diogenes comments on Jul 12, 2021:

Excuse me for getting to the point. Those are just decals. It's when a person can hear the altered exhaust system 2 miles away; the "black" pickup (must be "sinister black") has been destabilized by being jacked up a foot or more, and the wheels have been put outside the fenders.

Have you seen my....

Diogenes comments on Jul 12, 2021:

Now don't you know, starting in about the 11th century- that it became wrong for priests to fuck women--- but it was okay to do the boys. Hey, can't get more sick!!!

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein

Diogenes comments on Jul 9, 2021:

I am not the equivalent of Al; got lotsa curiosity; wish I had the memory and understanding to go with it.

“When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead …or any other ...

Diogenes comments on Jul 8, 2021:

You are up early. I just don't sleep

Do the math

Diogenes comments on Jul 8, 2021:

Should that be "1 out of 3 Trump supporters is just as stupid as the other 4." Gotta use Dump arithmetic!

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous ...

Diogenes comments on Jul 8, 2021:

* Thomas Paine wrote these truths about religion at a time when insulting 'gawd-dude' was a dangerous thing to do.

The original chewables

Diogenes comments on Jul 8, 2021:

How did those dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period leap forward a 'few' millions of years to get their "Flintstones"?

I know, I know, this is a cheesy joke. Sorry. 😜

Diogenes comments on Jul 7, 2021:

Yes, LOL also!

I know, I know, this is a cheesy joke. Sorry. 😜

Diogenes comments on Jul 7, 2021:

"MOAN!"

Sounds suss to me.

Diogenes comments on Jul 6, 2021:

Inventive ideas! Around here they have constructed traffic circles, supposedly to speed up traffic flow. Then they fill them with little 'hills' with bushes and flowers---- a person can't see what is coming. These inventive thinkers have just invented better car crashes.

Michael McIntyre and his hilarious talk of Hanky-Panky and other double-barrelled words have Chris ...

Diogenes comments on Jul 5, 2021:

YES, great one!

Someone has a sense of humor

Diogenes comments on Jul 5, 2021:

Hey-- like that!

C'mon. Get back in the game, Jebus.

Diogenes comments on Jul 5, 2021:

Well Jeezuz is "in the game." After he came back from the dead, didn't I see him selling invisible shoes--- for walking on water?

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the...

Diogenes comments on Jul 5, 2021:

M thanks for that.Mr. Chomsky was/is a credit to MIT. With all my other vices- at least "consumerism" isn't one of them. I have no idea why anyone would be compelled to have the latest junk.

It is a very important evening

Diogenes comments on Jul 5, 2021:

Now that I am 110 years old, is that trumpet-player for hire?

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

Diogenes comments on Jul 5, 2021:

Every time I learn something new, it surprises me about what I don't know---- and should have known already. Still, the new lessons are most welcome. In Canada I knew all religions were a joke--- I did not know how profoundly and "symptomatically" they were murdering the first nations children. THAT IS WHAT EVIL IS ALL ABOUT!

Anybody ever run into these wackadoos?

Diogenes comments on Jul 5, 2021:

On the census in Canada there was a question, "What was your gender at birth?" I was a three-eared toad- but I morphed into a giraffe! That isn't an answer about "gender"- but neither is the question. It has to be some kind of weird, politically-correct joke.------ and don't you dare cross that politically- correct line!! Hell, the world can't get much crazier!

Well, it works with the help of your American cousins!

Diogenes comments on Jul 2, 2021:

Never forget--- Corporal Hitler made marshals and generals tremble in fear! One more episode of Trumf and the same thing will happen.

Self drive

Diogenes comments on Jul 2, 2021:

Ya--- and I really like the joke!

Self drive

Diogenes comments on Jul 2, 2021:

Jeopardy was on a few night ago, and the question was about which 20th Century novel had fetuses 'hatched' outside the womb. They were incubated like eggs. "Brave New World". It's all crazier and crazier---- and it's all cummin'! It has been at least 40 years since I read it. I think sex, was sitting in a vibrating chair.

Strange days indeed.

Diogenes comments on Jul 2, 2021:

I actually saw the news article where New Zealand was accepting the man-thing as a female athlete. With the "Me Too" crowd and the perverts, things are going to get as bad as people with supposed 'intelligence' allow it.

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter”……………Henry ...

Diogenes comments on Jul 2, 2021:

If I have the 'correct Thoreau' and his settlement at Waldon's Pond, coutesy of Emerson, he went there to get away from unsettling civilization. What would he do in the current insane world?

On the lighter side...

Diogenes comments on Jul 2, 2021:

That lump atop his neck isn't soft mud; it is pure iron; it is not easily bent.

“Of course I talk to myself.

Diogenes comments on Jul 1, 2021:

Yes!

He sure does lol

Diogenes comments on Jun 30, 2021:

Wonder what he looks like without his 'hair hat'. Maybe he is trying to figure out which way is best.

Hello again.

Diogenes comments on Jun 30, 2021:

When a person has nothing in their head, there is no problem sleeping. When there is endless negative thoughts, there can be no sleep, at least not for me! Right now the heat is causing discomfort- but people are also dying. And when it gets so hot that food will not grow- that will be the next issue. Of course the perpetual optimist will have a platitude about some mysterious "bright side"- which is 100% bull shit. The reality is that it is going to take more than a small group to fight back- and CHANGE the causes. I did enjoy the English German football game yesterday. All the pundits had it wrong too. It was a distraction.

Isn't that just the way it happens

Diogenes comments on Jun 27, 2021:

In the obituaries they all "Passed peacefully." None screamed, "I don't wanna go!"

Life imitating...a road sign

Diogenes comments on Jun 27, 2021:

Maybe! But then he is smart enough to see the wall will keep the umbrella from blowing away.

What a great deal!

Diogenes comments on Jun 27, 2021:

W'at's in the pies?

The Times They Are A-Changin'...

Diogenes comments on Jun 27, 2021:

Gotta be bad, when a person is so desperate to write something when they are out of paper!

A Bulgarian-Macedonian folk music concert for your pleasure.

Diogenes comments on Jun 27, 2021:

Different! Thanks for that!

Horrible addiction , should be off the air

Diogenes comments on Jun 25, 2021:

I have said this before: wonder how he gets his fur hat on, over those horns growing out of his head.

“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 25, 2021:

I did take Hume so long ago. This is no distraction, one way or another, wasn't Hume quasi religious?

Today's lesson is...

Diogenes comments on Jun 25, 2021:

LOL

“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter”…………….Billy Connolly.

Diogenes comments on Jun 24, 2021:

In Ontario, three seasons: too hot, too cold and in-between. The "in-between" is the shortest.

Mrs. Betty Bowers [youtube.com]

Diogenes comments on Jun 24, 2021:

Fabulous!

A mother and father take their 6 year old son to a nude family beach.

Diogenes comments on Jun 24, 2021:

Ya, funny!

As well as a long hair wig.

Diogenes comments on Jun 24, 2021:

... and with that gut he would look like he was having twins.

You might call this a joint decision? :-D

Diogenes comments on Jun 23, 2021:

That is the best!

I just love how reliable green energy has proven to be. It’s beautiful really

Diogenes comments on Jun 22, 2021:

In Costa Rica I saw an old-fashioned, farm windmill in a yard. The whole point is not about, one example, but of the use of solar panels and windmills. This is 2021, not 1990s--- that is over 30 years ago. Even geothermic heating and cooling has advanced since then.

McConnell Blasts Dems for Expanding Supreme Court Instead of 'Stealing Seats Like Patriots'

Diogenes comments on Jun 21, 2021:

Anyone who thinks that they are going to win in a world that is corrupt, haven't got their hat on straight. When the criminals punch below the belt, do the same- only harder!

Winston Churchill loved paraprosdokians, figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or...

Diogenes comments on Jun 21, 2021:

PEfect- LOL!

Your only chance

Diogenes comments on Jun 21, 2021:

Well no; you would have to take time out to put flotation and paddles on the bicycle.

“There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man”…………..Aristotle.

Diogenes comments on Jun 21, 2021:

Some more of my dark humour: "There is a tiny corner of wisdom in my foolish, rambling brain." Good morning.

I'll get to it...

Diogenes comments on Jun 20, 2021:

Hmmmm! LOL!

Fall over now!!!!

Diogenes comments on Jun 20, 2021:

There was a Carol Barnett rerun about the faith healers- it was funny. Almost the same as this picture! Then there was a faith healer that was actually doing his act. "If you just say the name, 'Jeezuz' you will be so healthy you will be able to run the Boston Marathon, running backwards, and win it." "You will be so rich that when you put all your gold bricks in your Rolls Royce, the weight will flatten the tires." It wasn't quite like that--- but it was a great laugh too.

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”………………Benjamin ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 20, 2021:

Or know some of the answers but don't have time left to apply them.

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time”………..Bertrand Russell.

Diogenes comments on Jun 19, 2021:

The time I do repetitious exercise like walking, is when answers to problems I have reveal themselves. Down-time is valuable time. Russell has made the point well.

Gonna steal this

Diogenes comments on Jun 19, 2021:

There "were guys in the elevator"----- sounds more like moronic vegetables!

It's 3:55 A.

Diogenes comments on Jun 19, 2021:

03:45 was about the time I woke this morning. Then I will be tired in the afternoon. Old age has its disadvantages.

I am 99.

Diogenes comments on Jun 18, 2021:

I have a relative that died of hypochondria, at the ripe old age of 86. No one dies of "hypochondria"; wrong, not if you do it correctly! She loved going to the doctor; that was her favourite pastime. What finally killed her was gluttony and a total lack of exercise.

“ Since I have called myself a rationalist I regard it as my duty to point out that the terrorism ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 18, 2021:

Other than knowing Robespierrre, and his pals, were executed, I don't know enough about him other than he was one of the originators of The Reign of Terror. Apparently he was evil personified.

Sounds like a plan

Diogenes comments on Jun 18, 2021:

It looks like 'it' died, before that became fatal.

She said it not me , But it's her

Diogenes comments on Jun 18, 2021:

"A contoversial congresswoman from Georgia"!!! NO! She evolved into a 'what'; what in hell is it? Pond scum has more cognitive activity.

“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and...

Diogenes comments on Jun 18, 2021:

It would seem, to some, that the rest of the residents of this rock are, 'just things, or meat'. Some are more blind than the people who have lost their eye sight.