The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance. - Albert Einstein

Diogenes comments on Jun 18, 2021:

Most of us are "ignorant", or unaware, of something, but being a pompous clown is an entirely different matter.

Airlines Denying Plans to Force Flyers to Weigh-In Before Boarding After the Federal Aviation ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 18, 2021:

Who gives a damned if morons eat until they are 300 to 400 pounds- or even much more, but health insurance companies and air lines should be able to ban them.

Living in the Southwestern desert!

Diogenes comments on Jun 16, 2021:

I got a note from a friend in Utah this morning and she said it had been over 100 a few times, with many forest fires in the SW. I have read that China is the biggest contributer to global warming- but Dump did as much damage as he could. I think we have already stepped over the threshold to Hell.

A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence.

Diogenes comments on Jun 16, 2021:

Not worth a comment!

Truly, this is.

Diogenes comments on Jun 14, 2021:

Agreed! Those who have nothing better to do with their time than to spout religious bull shit--- hit the road.

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates

Diogenes comments on Jun 14, 2021:

Wisdom begins with curiosity and the need to know.

To clarify

Diogenes comments on Jun 12, 2021:

I took a full time community college certificate, when I was an adult. It was like kindergarten with the student-children all on cocaine. The engineer teaching the class asked for quiet once, then a few minutes later just closed his books and walked off. It just shows that some kids without money can't get into higher education, but with a chance, would work diligently. But the others, "Daddy owns the company, so I will be an executive anyhow."

A car's weakest part

Diogenes comments on Jun 12, 2021:

About 50% of the cars around here with the lose nuts at the wheel should be decommissioned permanently

Consistency is important [youtube.com]

Diogenes comments on Jun 11, 2021:

Water and the local McDonald's! When a person opens the door to the loo, the toilet flushes. When seated on the throne the toilet flushes 3 or 4 times. In France I thought the bidet was a separate unit.

Possibly Edison did steal from him

Diogenes comments on Jun 11, 2021:

'Too much' ----is never too much! There is the story about a reporter asking Einstein about how it feels to be the smartest man in the world. Al's answer: I don't know; you will have to ask Nicola Tesla

After the end of the Corona

Diogenes comments on Jun 11, 2021:

LOL! I know a person is supposed to answer the pre-virus inoculation questions in a positive way, but.... "Do you have nose drip? "Yes, until I take this ^9## ing mask off!"😒

U go girl!!!!

Diogenes comments on Jun 10, 2021:

Junior is out in the yard and has a worm. Gramps ask him what he is doing. "Gonna push the worm down the hole" Gramps, "You will never do that." Junior is insistent. Gramps says,"I'll bet you $5 you can't". Junior whips out a can of spray starch, then shoves the worm down the hole. Gramps is amazed but he pays up the $5. ------- Next morning Gramps hands Junior a $5. Junior:"But you already paid!" Gramps, "That's from Granny."

Ah the good old days, such nostalgia!

Diogenes comments on Jun 10, 2021:

Another good one! I'm geezer age- but I am not dead yet😁!

Prince Charles has denied having a bad reaction to the Covid vaccine adding " It's all fake news" ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 10, 2021:

But Chuck ended up with Bo Jo's ugly hair!

One for those in the Northern hemisphere.

Diogenes comments on Jun 9, 2021:

Too hot- or too cold, don't appeal to me much. I find spring or fall better.

France's Macron given a good slapping! Why isn't this happening more around the world, there are ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 9, 2021:

## Ya, heard about that. Dump murdered about 20,000 to 300, 000 people--- WHY IN HELL WASN'T HE GIVEN A "SLAP"?

This guys is kind of like a Canadian Sagan.

Diogenes comments on Jun 9, 2021:

That is so true. I am an agnostic; I do not know if Nature is cognitive or not, but I do know it is real. Fictitious gods are only worthy of satire.

“Dear future generations: please accept our apologies.

Diogenes comments on Jun 9, 2021:

* I read Vonnegut's Slaughter House Five many decades ago; I have forgotten it all. The petrolium industry has kidnapped the world population, and very soon the consequences are going to be dire.There could have been a different effort;---the Baker Electric was a car built in about the 1920s. Obviously, there were different other electric cars.

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me”.

Diogenes comments on Jun 8, 2021:

I wish I could wash some of the stress away- I haven't even gotten back to a very funny book about a man in a Dutch nursing home. He rebels against the geezer agenda. And from memory, "It is hard to get a man to believe in something, when his job depends on him not believing in it." C. S. Lewis.

So, that's how it started....

Diogenes comments on Jun 8, 2021:

My former-bride's ggggggggggggggggggggg grandmother!

I guess you get what you asked for

Diogenes comments on Jun 7, 2021:

Yes! Yes! That is funny!

Man it MUST be cold outside today.

Diogenes comments on Jun 7, 2021:

Hmmm! I don't know where you are!

Seriously ”If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed...

Diogenes comments on Jun 6, 2021:

When some people would be asked, "What is your most valuable possession?", their answer could be anything from jewelry to their yacht, or their corporate jet. Yet they would not think of their body. And shoddy philosophies usually go along with the same person.

As if thugs like the militia groups and Proud Boys aren't bad enough, now look who's been in ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 6, 2021:

Well at least there would be more cognitive development than the competition.

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 6, 2021:

* ... and Tonto too😉!

“As a species we’re fundamentally insane.

Diogenes comments on Jun 5, 2021:

"Religion", which one of the millions of versions- and I am only speaking about Christianity?

During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, "How do you determine whether or not an older person ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 4, 2021:

Love that one!

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

Diogenes comments on Jun 4, 2021:

Yep; Ernie said it well!

“A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 4, 2021:

A consideration: "In 1922 Joseph Goebells graduated from Heidelberg University with a doctoral honors in German philosophy." In the closing days of the war, he also poisoned his six children. And yes, I like the Dutch lady's , Hepburn's, view better.

Five minutes

Diogenes comments on Jun 3, 2021:

Hey, gotta have the last pint- that's after the 'other' last pint!

This gives me an idea.

Diogenes comments on Jun 3, 2021:

But they will not stay "invisible"--- the indoctrinated will still be able to see Jeezuz-dude. They already can see him in fire and on walls.

Do you like bicycling?

Diogenes comments on Jun 3, 2021:

Yep, do love the legs!

When can it be considered that someone has posted too many posts.

Diogenes comments on Jun 3, 2021:

There are too many nutbars in the world.

Hi all .

Diogenes comments on Jun 3, 2021:

In a world where reality stands, whether we like it or not, there needs to be a fact check. The big fish eat the little fish- 'so if we kill all the big fish', is not the answer. If there are starving people, eating eggs disturbs no thinking persons ethics or morals. An unattended hen will sit on an unfertilized egg till it rots. I have heard of people who have collected eggs, and then let the hens live a natural, long life. Even though I don't eat meat- I will never lose site of reality and join some weird cult. Ursi, I agree with you. There are some fantastic meals made with just veggies and spices. I do a good job in the kitchen occasionally- but I also have an inverse talent - I can burn water😁.

Interesting way to put it, & actually totally valid...

Diogenes comments on Jun 2, 2021:

A most excellent point. A consideration: one has to be a thinking person first, to be able to see this.

“Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon, not only because it undermines moral and ...

Diogenes comments on May 31, 2021:

After the invasion of Russia by Napoleon and then Kaiser Wilhelm 11, Corporal Hitler had his master plan, Barbarossa....! Some just can't learn from history. Thanks for that Chomsky quote.

People can be so judgmental.

Diogenes comments on May 30, 2021:

I can equate with that- because I am crude and rude too!

A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly,but a good ...

Diogenes comments on May 30, 2021:

Yes! And to make this world a better place, better to leave 'em laughing---- than crying in their beer. See, us drunks are always equating situations with booze!

Gotta make sure to get enough biscuits for that "This is my body" moment...

Diogenes comments on May 30, 2021:

Ya, if I ever opened a restaurant I would only want JC in the kitchen. If he can wave his magic wand over the can of sardines and a stale bagel and produce gourmet food for the multitude---- Jezuz-dude is my boy. Would that be candelabra too?

It's all about the Franklins???

Diogenes comments on May 30, 2021:

Yes, it is funny!

A sign of the times

Diogenes comments on May 30, 2021:

What has "future" have to do with it?

Yeah nope

Diogenes comments on May 29, 2021:

My technology knowledge stopped about the time there was a crank on the side of an oak box. A person called "central" and gave the operator the number you were calling.

The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a ...

Diogenes comments on May 29, 2021:

I like that!😜😁

Here I am again, but no one is chatting. Maybe some night I'll meet you here???

Diogenes comments on May 29, 2021:

Your nic is the very opposite to what I would use as a nic about religion. Mine would have something to do with dragging myself out of the swamp. Yes, I love yours if you are satirizing a Christian term. Ya, I have to get a better sense of humour!!! There was snow mixed with rain yesterday; how is it in sunny BC?

Go ahead, tap your heels three times, he is STILL president!

Diogenes comments on May 28, 2021:

After Dump's "21-gun" salute, it is obvious the gun party needed more training- they all missed.

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, it is the parent of all ...

Diogenes comments on May 28, 2021:

Good morning! I agree! Auto rust damage is a big problem around here and yesterday I got the car undercoated- and they took a long time!! When they were done I said, "Thank you for the thorough job, and I got to waddle my fat ass too." I walked for about two hours- and although crude, I gave Mike a laugh too.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for today.

Diogenes comments on May 28, 2021:

A big YES😒! At my age, it is now too little, too late.

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity.

Diogenes comments on May 27, 2021:

And if a person wants to get to their grave earlier, be brave enough to tell the truth--- and there will be someone who is every bit as enthusiastic and ready to murder you. We are now dealing with reality- instead of a platitude.

There are only two types of people 1.

Diogenes comments on May 26, 2021:

Question completed or not, I usually get the wrong answer!😒

Talk about an exaggerated sense of self worth

Diogenes comments on May 25, 2021:

I thought all the Three Stooges" were dead!

When I thought I finally got the hang of lockdown... 😂

Diogenes comments on May 25, 2021:

I haven't had a beer since lockdown- I was 99% crazy while I was drinking beer- but now I have made it to the 100% mark, on no beer. I've lost 10 pounds of beer-gut- so, at least, I should be thankful for that. We are still in lockdown for 14 more days.Will I continue with no beer------ or will my first pub visit be accompanied with an order of "Two large pails of beer?"😒😜

"The most affluent and the most miserable of the human race are to be found in the countries that ...

Diogenes comments on May 25, 2021:

I trust in Paine, as usual. There is the big divide; those that have gout from too much wine and rich food, and those who endure another day of poverty

Self-Described Prophet and Pastor Warns Critics They Risk Leprosy After numerous prophecies of ...

Diogenes comments on May 24, 2021:

What can be funny... or interesting, about something this moronic?

sorry I don't have any energy to cook today.

Diogenes comments on May 23, 2021:

That picture of the veggie, one of 'my veggies'- how did it get in your fridge?

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Diogenes comments on May 23, 2021:

Yes, new insights may show new perspectives, or reveal that some things don't change, both the good and the bad.

I really felt this, when I was young, I lived in Pueblo, Colorado which had a Carnegie endowed ...

Diogenes comments on May 23, 2021:

I have forgotten the names in the Peanuts cartoons. Elmo? I so often wish I had been the kid with the library card when I was young- but also with the disruptive knowledge that hard work will give a person a sore back- or a headache from excessive study. Going to the top, is too often accomplished by an insight of how to manipulate nepotism and the buddy-bit!

Another awesome quote...

Diogenes comments on May 21, 2021:

Excellent point!

how to keep your wallet safe from pickpockets.

Diogenes comments on May 21, 2021:

I advise anyone going to Costa Rica to wear a money belt. The first three industries in Costa Rica, are bananas, tourism- and with the last one, you will find it hard to put your hand into your pocket when someone else's hand is already there.

Especially with all the tombs that supposedly opened in Jerusalem during the crucifixion...

Diogenes comments on May 21, 2021:

"Coming back from the dead" is too moronic to even be funny!

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education ...

Diogenes comments on May 21, 2021:

Knowing facts and statistics is not a complete education; that would leave many disciplines omitted.

“What is freedom of expression?

Diogenes comments on May 20, 2021:

Certainly!

Somethings should remain a secret

Diogenes comments on May 19, 2021:

You mean 'it' might be a gender bender?

"We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier.

Diogenes comments on May 19, 2021:

That point is very well taken; so incisive. "Our god gave us the right to steal your land". Time is overdue for them to find another god!

If everything was different nothing much would have changed! :-D

Diogenes comments on May 19, 2021:

Too much truth!

Shitty cruise but great buffet

Diogenes comments on May 19, 2021:

--- and the water covered the whole world, in only 40 days and nights; how did they know? Did they send a 747 over to the Western Hemisphere? Ya, they didn't have aircraft, a couple of centuries ago, "when the world began" - but let's embelish the foolishness just a bit more for the fun of it.

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to understanding, and ends with reason.

Diogenes comments on May 19, 2021:

Yes!

And my quiz for the day is:- Who could form the best government, a simple orange and some Mr.

Diogenes comments on May 19, 2021:

In this morning's net news it says the NY Attorney General has brought forth criminal charges; the charges are no longer civil. One of Dump's criminals, I believe it was his lawyer, got a three-year sentence---- to be "served at home". Jeezuz-dude, that would be hard pounding rocks on the kitchen floor- but I jest!

Jebus is a perv

Diogenes comments on May 18, 2021:

Well at least he is not looking at little boys! And she is putting up the blind to torment the bastard. "Bastard", it says so in the bible-book; he is not the son of ol' Joe.

"Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that ...

Diogenes comments on May 18, 2021:

But be ultra introspective. Ninety-nine percent of the bible-book is bull shit, but find the 1%--- and use it. Yes, Mencken was right.

Another one from E. Fitzgerald.

Diogenes comments on May 17, 2021:

A point is made. At least the sky is real; it is not some invented 'sky-daddy'.

Jesus doesn't love you because he doesn't exist but his priests will given half a chance!

Diogenes comments on May 16, 2021:

I tried to get a post off to you. So today who won, your team---- or the best team, Liverpool? LOL

"My parents came to Britain as refugees from Poland.

Diogenes comments on May 16, 2021:

That truth just about covers the whole issue!

“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously...

Diogenes comments on May 16, 2021:

Bertie should have changed a bit of that, in my opinion, to: "... deliberately changes it into what he wants to hear." Donald John Dump had his site crash on Saturday, apparently for only an hour, because he won't stop lying.

No godless heathens here. Nope, no siree.

Diogenes comments on May 16, 2021:

I saw a faith healer on TV last night--- the whole show should have gotten an award for bad acting. It had to be a joke. The 'healer' was tapping the actors on the head- and they were falling back. And there were actors who had 'terminal dandruff'--- and they recovered, and ran across the stage! Okay, so the dandruff was on their ankles.

When logic fails. 🤣

Diogenes comments on May 16, 2021:

Ya, a guy went to a casino in a $40,000 car- and came home in a $400,000 bus.

He knows when you've been bad or good...

Diogenes comments on May 15, 2021:

No, he does not; I've only been "bad"- so he ain't going to find anything "good" about me.

It's far too easy to get mesmerized...

Diogenes comments on May 15, 2021:

Being the dirty old man that I am, love that! And I believe "rapist" and child molesters should be hung! "Rape" is no longer any kind of humour.

"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." - H. L. Mencken

Diogenes comments on May 15, 2021:

Yes!

“It’s now very common to hear people say, ‘I’m rather offended by that’.

Diogenes comments on May 15, 2021:

Yes, if it is just from someone who is easily offended- and LOVES to whine, who would take the time to care? If someone has a valid reason, and is willing to put forth points to improve a situation that may be a different matter and may be beneficial. ----- Good morning and I want you to have a great day.

"Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from ...

Diogenes comments on May 14, 2021:

It is open theft; there is not even the slightest attempt to moderate it to a thinking person. Zionist are thieves. A person does not have to be a Rhodes scholar to figure it out.

Yummy special

Diogenes comments on May 14, 2021:

Only if they are vegetarian!

"I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do.

Diogenes comments on May 14, 2021:

A valid quote from Roberts; that puts religion into perspective. One must give inventive credit to the Hebrews and the Christians when they invented the invisible god-dude that only the 'righteous' can visualize. The other gods, made of such material as stone and wood could be dismantled. I have wondered if Hans Christian Anderson ever had a dislike for his middle name. In his writing in the 1850s of the Emperor's New Cloths he trashed religious belief. Only the so-called 'enlightened' could see the cloth that wasn't there. It took a kid to say, "Hey, the dude is sitting there bare assed." ( yes, I am crude) When the Pope talks to god-dude, he is putting on a clown show- for all the world to see.

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." - Herbert Spencer

Diogenes comments on May 14, 2021:

Why is it that something as simplistic and obvious is overlooked; in a discussion about climate change, one must have some education about physics and chemistry, before 'positive' action can take place?

Good morning all

Diogenes comments on May 13, 2021:

WHERE can I get one?

Always tell the truth........as you see it! :-D

Diogenes comments on May 13, 2021:

I 'always' tell the truth too. I am only going to have one beer ( in a small pail).

“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do”.

Diogenes comments on May 13, 2021:

The Dutchman, whoever he is, is full of it. There is no pleasure in poverty- and anyone who thinks there is needs to try it for 10 or 20 years. None of this half hour trauma! A laugh! I was in Rotterdam and I said, "Ik neem een hemden uit de kerkoff." There is a department store named De Bijenkorf, which means bee hive; I got it mixed. She looked at me like I was crazy- for wanting to buy a shirt from the cemetery.

More from Edward Fitzgerald, and Omar Khayyam.

Diogenes comments on May 13, 2021:

Yes, I would like to turn the clock back and have a bit of hard work and education, while missing some of the frills of my youth- it would be so much be worth it.

“We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees.

Diogenes comments on May 13, 2021:

It takes a hero like that to save the reputation of any nation or race where 'some' decent people live. The Zionist are at it again though: "We have the right to steal as much Palestinian land and homes as we like. We are all a bunch of filthy rats." And that is not true of every Jew!

"The worst government is often the most moral.

Diogenes comments on May 13, 2021:

The best government is the one where members are dedicated, competent and moral. This would draw the ire of the capitalists who would call it the "worst"- but it would have nothing to do with it being the "worst".

Covid restrictions are about to be eased but we still have to be careful

Diogenes comments on May 12, 2021:

Good idea, covid or not!

Imagine that

Diogenes comments on May 12, 2021:

Yep!

Now you know

Diogenes comments on May 12, 2021:

Don't pick on Max.

A local person must have pinned this quote, from the Agnostic poet E.

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

Who is this poet? It isn't F. Scott Fitzgerald, but I could be wrong!

And I thought that no news was good news!! :-D

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

Damn, at last someone came up with a wise idea!

Is that a holy fuck ?

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

To make it a "Holly Fuck", you have to advertise it, and brag about it, to the whole world---- like Gawd-dude and the so-called Virgin!

A dad joke alert! 😆

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

Yep, I ain't Charlie, but on most days I am challenged by the hard ones like that!

It's Monday. So far so good. 😂

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

Well it's now Tuesday--- same as Monday! Wish I had hair- even her hair!

Proud to do my part!!!

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

Thanks for that. I can use a few laughs right now.

Pandemic starter kit!!!

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

I haven't had a beer since the last shut down; I was going to quit; what an insane idea? If that is beer, I will buy a few pails of it.

The good Lord made them all.

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

Some people can't deal with reality.