Yours too

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

My body is 'marvelous' --- wish to hell I could get the mirror to 'operate' correctly though!

"Facts don't necessarily have the power to change our minds.

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Some just LOVE their misinformation. Dump has 'always', since childhood, told the truest lies that have ever been heard.

Was this guy leaving or just entering the village?

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

It looks like one of the vehicles from the roundabout at the top of the local road where they try to navigate it at 200 mph. Maybe they should slow down to '150'!

“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

A realistic quote from Sagan! Yes, and an insignificant spec in time; forget the 13 billion years, maybe it is trillions of years? Good morning.

A new survey shows that only one in four men are truly happy! :-D

Diogenes comments on Mar 24, 2021:

I've met some decent woman, be assured, but that is almost true, even if I have long been off the hard stuff.

“The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three.

Diogenes comments on Mar 24, 2021:

After I completed my sentence, I never committed the 'crime' again!

Is there a David Attenborough in the house? :-D

Diogenes comments on Mar 22, 2021:

Yup!

Dude's got it all backwards!

Diogenes comments on Mar 22, 2021:

The cows have it right---- the other 'thing' is sitting on its ass and doing the mono-tone, "OOOOOOM"

“All truth passes through three stages.

Diogenes comments on Mar 22, 2021:

McCaine stood alone, ALMOST, in the Republican Party. There is no 'third' option, 'lies are the truth'--- and 'that' is self-evident.

If soccer players played rugby there would be nobody on the pitch after 10 minutes, feckin' woosies!...

Diogenes comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Okay, okay (LOL)!! Is that why Liverpool is doing so terribly this year; their five injuries are fake?

He is young but he will learn that actions like this have consequences! :-D

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2021:

An' ain't that the truth?

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2021:

Dump has just murdered 200,000 to 300,000 people. These people had a right to live! Hang the bastard! And that is bull shit by Wilde!

Too good to save until next year

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2021:

I did my trillion-times being drunk- somewhere along the way it got repetitive and boring! Wish I had grown up a hundred years ago--- when I was young! I go to the Irish club once in a while. It is a family club- good games live from Ireland. No drunks in there--- but if so, drunks are forcefully shown the door-ONCE.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month.

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2021:

I still don't have "good character", but it has changed for the "better"--- after mammoth effort and paying attention to what was going on around me. Still, when I reach 'sainthood', my halo will be made of mud😁.

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

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2021:

I have 'always' found Mr.Chomsky worth hearing or reading about.

I often do projects around the house.

Diogenes comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Sounds like the way I do things!

"A virus is nucleic acid with attitude." Daniel Dennett

Diogenes comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Yes, off topic, sorry! When I see that huge bulge hanging over his belt, he doesn't even understand the basics- that he is "designing" his own immediate death. Food is to be enjoyed, not kill a person!

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily.

Diogenes comments on Mar 18, 2021:

The fault with my some-what education- I have never read anything by Kiekegaard; I have heard that he was a bit 'off'.This brings up a second point- don't rely on conjecture! So did you wear green yesterday? I did- for a laugh. To me it is just another day. In an actual Irish setting they may be readings of James Joyce or W. B. Yeates. Anyone I know become livid with the "drunken Irish" fiction.

People don't need religion, religion needs people.

Diogenes comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Freeman wasn't very specific- religion needs obedient, mindless slaves.

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Diogenes comments on Mar 18, 2021:

If Wilde were alive, I have news for him- when a person is down, they couldn't give a damned if there are stars.

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance “.

Diogenes comments on Mar 18, 2021:

I agree with Shaw. Recently, 80 million morons slavishly LOVED their information after each episode of Trump inventing it.

Anyone looking for all volumes of Britannica?

Diogenes comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Only had one argument with my former 'bride'- but it lasted 10 years. I guess I wasn't a long-distance fighter; wouldn't come out for round 'a trillion'!

Truth in advertising

Diogenes comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Yes!!! Then there are all those miraculous hair restoring adverts! Why is it that the English royal males and other billionaires 'choose' to be bald?

Charlie Hebdo: "Why Meghan left Buckingham Palace?" "Because I could not breathe anymore."

Diogenes comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Why is this non-event such an important event? There has been a recent commentary in the Globe & Mail, a Canadian newspaper, that actually publishes the 'news'; few do. The article writer questioned when Canada will break free of the monarchy. In the meantime, there is news to think about. There are so many brave people including doctors, nurses and health care workers who are HEROES, and not the dramatic, superficial, Hollywood kind. What is the big issue about mindless fluff?

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks. – Amit Ray

Diogenes comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Bull shit!

Mental Illness on display for all to see.

Diogenes comments on Mar 14, 2021:

How sick; how fucking sick!!! But the whole point is, if there is a "point", Gawd-dude is fiction, so there is no meaning to this insane missive.

“What drivel it all is!.

Diogenes comments on Mar 14, 2021:

How could anything be more related to reality than that?

St Patrick's day 17th March

Diogenes comments on Mar 13, 2021:

He sent the biped snakes back to England- where they came from!

The Lord giveth...

Diogenes comments on Mar 13, 2021:

Did 'you' then feed the "multitude", the 5,000 too?

So I can keep him then ma'am? :-D

Diogenes comments on Mar 11, 2021:

To get to the point, who in hell cares about the English royals? Apparently their full time job is about being pompous. Of all of them, Princess Ann, is the only one who actually does much- and there is never a word about her.

My groaner for the day.

Diogenes comments on Mar 11, 2021:

Good one. Need a groaner to start the day.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Diogenes comments on Mar 11, 2021:

I have never had 'foresight'--- and there have been too many so-called "experiments" that have gone wrong!

A Scottish concert.

Diogenes comments on Mar 11, 2021:

The Corries- favourites of mine!

“The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 11, 2021:

Yes! Then there is the realization of what is of importance and valuable. A few days back I saw a fat man polishing his Mercedes. He will probably be 'dead' before the car. When he has a premature death he will own nothing.

I was stationed in Bahrain for 6 months. Never got used to being woken up at 5 AM

Diogenes comments on Mar 9, 2021:

It is bad enough that there is a propensity for stupidity--- but then to have the compulsion to blurt it out so the whole world hears it!

Works for me

Diogenes comments on Mar 9, 2021:

Ah, at last, the solution reveilled!

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are...

Diogenes comments on Mar 9, 2021:

Yes.

A vicar has two sons, the elder is also a vicar, a real chip off the old block, the younger is a ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 9, 2021:

Okay, that is truthful--- and funny!

Maybe, but those opposable thumbs sure come in handy

Diogenes comments on Mar 8, 2021:

Too much truth there!

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from...

Diogenes comments on Mar 8, 2021:

In this insane world- anyone going around telling the truth will pay the price.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

Diogenes comments on Mar 8, 2021:

A good one!

Is there a formula?

Diogenes comments on Mar 5, 2021:

Suck it in----he has the biggest cheeks in town! The 'male-it' still is not as ugly as Dump.

Another gem from the curmudgeon's curmudgeon.

Diogenes comments on Mar 5, 2021:

... and another thing "curmudgeon's curmudgeon"- I am the biggest grump on this site; stop trying to take my spot! LOL!

Another gem from the curmudgeon's curmudgeon.

Diogenes comments on Mar 5, 2021:

YES!

“The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 5, 2021:

THAT is an excellent point. Take 80 million morons and Trump has educated them.

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 5, 2021:

Smarts!! I just bought a pig- and I thought it was a car. I do care about other peoples unhappiness. I guess that explains where I am at.

Titanic 2020.

Diogenes comments on Mar 4, 2021:

SOOOO true! And one big fat slob with rediculous us

Great tip!!!!

Diogenes comments on Mar 4, 2021:

I am not a drug user- but it did make ma laugh. Could use a few laughs!

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud”............Coco Chanel.

Diogenes comments on Mar 4, 2021:

Many courageous heroes have died by execution.

“Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand.

Diogenes comments on Mar 3, 2021:

A very valid point! I have often been 'down and out'--- and when it happens, 'just one more time', presented by the plutocrats, the latte-drinking crowd, it is time to change the 'as usual', the state of so-called "normal".

Hey now! Not everyone can afford the fancy Albacore

Diogenes comments on Mar 2, 2021:

Stupidity- and "unashamed" to boot!

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 2, 2021:

Yes, but didn't John (Marian) Wayne and his Hollywood Army win WW2? Sickening! Disgusting!

I often wondered how much extra they had to tip for this seating arrangement.

Diogenes comments on Mar 2, 2021:

I saw one of those 'Jesus at the table pictures'; this picture had a dude with his head on the shoulder of Jeezuz. I had this caption in mind from Jeezuz, "Why do I always have to sit beside Ugly Mary?"

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning. - Gza

Diogenes comments on Mar 2, 2021:

I don't know if my curiosity is very "intellectual"- but I am curious about many things.--- Great quote!

“We’re all born princes, and the civilizing process turns us into frogs.” Eric Berne

Diogenes comments on Mar 1, 2021:

That's a western view of the world, about being "princes"- in some parts of the world there are 'sick frogs' that early turned into dead frogs. Fucking nasty, isn't it?

Logic or illogic?

Diogenes comments on Feb 28, 2021:

Do NOT consider me a racist- I have friends of all colours- even so-called "white". The term "people of colour": what is the alternative? What do people of 'no-colour' look like? Can they even be seen?

“In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence ...

Diogenes comments on Feb 28, 2021:

Never heard of Tacitus; obviously where the noun "tactics" came from. Yes, in periods of quietness some great ideas are found- but evil men are dislodged only by forceful means. Civilized ideas in the last four years produced nothing.

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong; and nothing is more helpful ...

Diogenes comments on Feb 25, 2021:

This is not word-play- I like to be right, so how can I be right about an idea when I am wrong? I do not mind having facts, that are unknown to me, being pointed out.

Donald Trump getting ready for a night out

Diogenes comments on Feb 24, 2021:

Better get anothe gallon of paint---- that is a lot of lard to cover.

I'd worship me.

Diogenes comments on Feb 24, 2021:

I have mentioned this before, when I was in Costa Rica there was a dude dressed in the total clabre. He had "returned". Wearing no shoes in San Jose just tells the whole story of how delusional he was.

Just read this and thought it noteworthy.

Diogenes comments on Feb 24, 2021:

I am missing parts of this, but RBG makes a point. Do they allow old geezers back in basic school?

“I tried to believe that there is a god, who created us in his own image and likeness, loves us ...

Diogenes comments on Feb 24, 2021:

I believe that Paine had it correct; man created god in man's image. Ya, Mr. Carlin has it right too.

There may have been a translation error in Exodus.

Diogenes comments on Feb 23, 2021:

Should loan his comb to Bo Jo!

Looks as though we are not quite the advanced civilisation we think we are

Diogenes comments on Feb 23, 2021:

Thanks for the laugh--- but I think the difference is well-formed human configurations and undesigned human configurations.

I don't want to believe.

Diogenes comments on Feb 23, 2021:

Yes, to see and "know"- even if we have to be taken out of our comfort zone to do it.

Finally the quote I intended to post when I joined this group, perhaps my favorite political quote ...

Diogenes comments on Feb 23, 2021:

I have forgotten the quote and will probably not express the intent well enough. "The common man will one day have a leader that has been drawn down to his level." Of course, then there was Dump, and no "drawing down" was needed.

Just saw the new MyPillow ad: stuff that was $89 plus shipping Is now $29 with free shipping.

Diogenes comments on Feb 21, 2021:

I didn't know what he was up to- but I had seen his advert often enough. I haven't seen him once since the guy took the pictures of the crap under his arm.

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Diogenes comments on Feb 20, 2021:

Great stuff; I love comedy!

Ted Cruz in Mexico

Diogenes comments on Feb 20, 2021:

Teddy is a true Dumpster ideologue- people can die by the hundreds of thousands but the only person of any importance is lard-guts Cruz.

“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

Diogenes comments on Feb 20, 2021:

Religion is just a big joke. Hitchens has just evaluated the obvious. He has forgotten to appraise the religious people who have died doing humanist work. Yes, they probably would do the same work if they were secular- and I have never met anyone yet, that didn't have some kink in their personallity. An example of that, although not involved with religion, Bo Jo is not bright enough to find a comb and comb his hair. He always wants to look like the village moron.

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing ...

Diogenes comments on Feb 18, 2021:

Yes, living in reality, means that a person must also get out of their comfort zone at times.

Anne Feeney, folk singer and political activist, dies at 69. Born July 1, 1951- Death Feb. 3, 2021

Diogenes comments on Feb 18, 2021:

I have never heard of Anne Feeney. Big thanks for putting that on. There is something to think about. When all the people in the western world from the lowly factory worker to the top engineers are replaced by cheaper labour from China- where is China going to find buyers amongst the unemployed? Corporate greed solves no problems- even the problem of their own greed.

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”.

Diogenes comments on Feb 6, 2021:

So-called being "fearless", may have little to with courage- but more to stupidity. Mr. Clement had it right again.

Beware, beware, there are sharks out there! :-D

Diogenes comments on Feb 3, 2021:

A groaner---- but okay!

One sorely needed for a certain group of people “It often requires more courage to dare to do ...

Diogenes comments on Feb 2, 2021:

Yes

What a wonderful contrast to the crappy Trump sessions!

Diogenes comments on Feb 1, 2021:

Ya, the 'blue' girl is better looking-- and Dump's blather was repetative, worn out, tired and boring even when blondie trys to stick her finger up your nose.

Well really, what would you spend a windfall on? :-D

Diogenes comments on Jan 31, 2021:

I wonder if her ankles get sore from the pounding, every time she takes her bra off!

A little too honest

Diogenes comments on Jan 31, 2021:

He must have married my 'ex-bride".

It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith.

Diogenes comments on Jan 31, 2021:

"I like religious faith!" I can always use a few laughs during the day!

“I’m an atheist, and that’s it.

Diogenes comments on Jan 31, 2021:

Well Kathy had the last part right, in my opinion,if that matters, but to add to that thought, respect for Nature- and also the other residents of this rock, whether biped or quadruped. I am agnostic. I don't know and I will not claim any unsustainable answers. I do not know if there was a functioning brain that started all this. The last "Big Bang" was 14 billion years ago. How many have there been? Do they go back "trillions" of years?

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove; O, ...

Diogenes comments on Jan 29, 2021:

Looking at the same face every day is boring- that is the truth! It takes work to acheive positive results. All of Donald John's conquests did not meet his 'perfectionist' tastes. He should look in the mirror.

My nomination for best print ad ever.

Diogenes comments on Jan 28, 2021:

Adverts for adults! Oh, I forgot, sex is supposed to be "sinfull".

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Diogenes comments on Jan 28, 2021:

Looks fantastic! Tastes great going down. Looks like hell around the gut!

Everything is cool here, how are you doing? :-D

Diogenes comments on Jan 28, 2021:

Jeezuz-dude, I think I look worse than that. Just a wee break from this would be nice.

Paddy and Sean have been unemployed for years.

Diogenes comments on Jan 28, 2021:

Some things are funny; rape is not. And as far as their supposed stupidity, they drove the English out and they have world class writers and their music is loved world-wide.

"Giving money and power to government is like giving liquor and car keys to teenage boys.

Diogenes comments on Jan 26, 2021:

He covers Dump's total character.

I’m not sure if Einstein said this - I just like the quote.

Diogenes comments on Jan 25, 2021:

Einstein's humility! When asked what it feels like to be the smartest person in the world, his reply was, "I don't know; you will have to ask Nicoli Tesla."

“Man’s inhumanity to man, makes countless thousands mourn!”.

Diogenes comments on Jan 25, 2021:

But it also makes sadists, like Trump, very happy. I have lost touch; St Andrew's Day is also soon?

That is an euphemism I've honestly never heard.

Diogenes comments on Jan 24, 2021:

Okay, I had to laugh at that one.

‘We cannot adjust the wind, but we can adjust the sails.’ Author unknown

Diogenes comments on Jan 24, 2021:

I had a fat little boat, wind on the beam or stern and the 'thing' would fly---- close hauled, forget it! Lesson learned: don't buy a "fat" saiboat, don't make mistakes- adusting sails will make no difference.

Now he finds out

Diogenes comments on Jan 24, 2021:

Should a person laugh------- or not eat for a month?

“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point...

Diogenes comments on Jan 24, 2021:

Maybe Mijnheer De Kooning should take another realistic look at life.

Call me crazy, but...

Diogenes comments on Jan 23, 2021:

Another version: show a coffin with a great big greasy burger on topto show what the resident ate.

That would be me......

Diogenes comments on Jan 23, 2021:

> And for some married coupes- that is the whole story.

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”.

Diogenes comments on Jan 23, 2021:

True- if the student has curiosity!

Which is why he was totally disinterested in actually doing the job

Diogenes comments on Jan 22, 2021:

Anything he has done has been a loss- but finally the stupid sucker crowd is getting very small. I would like to see him, 'very slim---- and starving', as he empties garbage cans for a living.

I'm kind of suspicious of the new White House housekeeper.

Diogenes comments on Jan 22, 2021:

Obviously it is not him/her; the "house keeper" has a tool of manual labour in its hands.

[newsthump.com] Still keeping up his normal routine as much as possible

Diogenes comments on Jan 22, 2021:

Yep!

Meditation or just luring in choir boys with the popping sounds?

Diogenes comments on Jan 22, 2021:

Look at his face- he knows that no invisible-spook answers him- but yet he keeps the bull shit rolling!

Anyone ready to start a McConnell Pinata group? [alternet.org]

Diogenes comments on Jan 22, 2021:

It seems he thinks it is still the party of the Dumpster- and will never again be the party of Lincoln. I am just waiting for the millions of lawsuits to be filed against DUMP for corona illness.