“As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 14, 2021:

I believe that aptitude for employment should be the only factor which governs who will be interviewed. Then that should be carried through to employment. Nepotism and cronyism--- and all the other "isms" should be tossed.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Alfred Whitney Griswold

Diogenes comments on Apr 11, 2021:

Some are quick to denounce any ideas, 'including' bad ones- it's their way of looking at life. They make no effort to come up with what was wrong with the first idea, or to produce a better idea.

"A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Diogenes comments on Apr 11, 2021:

Yes, so true. The Russians have produced some fantastic writers and composers.

With age comes...realism...

Diogenes comments on Apr 11, 2021:

Yep---or when one cries in their beer, there is still a little left in the glass to console them

Oh well if scientists said it

Diogenes comments on Apr 10, 2021:

What a shame, dolphins have dropped to second place.

Alternate ending

Diogenes comments on Apr 10, 2021:

Ah yes, the 'shame' of being a momentary heterosexual!

There are some exceptions to the rule, but I've seen this demonstrated time and again.

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2021:

I don't care what religions do, with the exceptions of teaching children that lies are the truth, and then forcing their lies on populations even by death. I have said this before, some religious people are doing so much humanitarian work that there is not enough time for religious bull-shit.

Homophobia.....

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2021:

No, I shouldn't; but yes, I will. I couldn't give a rat's ass about what Christians think or don't think- if they think at all---- but why are there so many heterophobes in here?

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2021:

That just about says it all for stupidity. Then maybe it was satire!

Deserves? That's still to be seen.

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2021:

Yes

Deserves? That's still to be seen.

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2021:

Yes!

“If all the Atheists and Agnostics left America, they’d lose 93% of the National Academy of ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 7, 2021:

The reality may not be about education, but about which group is too lazy to think. All religions are the same. And all miracles are foolish.

GOD MADE MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE!

Diogenes comments on Apr 4, 2021:

Yep, but only true-believers can see 'thet thar' god-dude! Great PR though, all the tangible gods could be knocked down- try knocking down something you can't even see.

Where’d he go?!

Diogenes comments on Apr 4, 2021:

"Coming back from the dead"! Hey, enjoy the comedy.

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 2, 2021:

And I thought I was forgetful- but my blunders are the 'only' thing that I remember! M, my dark humour again!

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 29, 2021:

Yep--- but you have to be 110-years-old, like I am! M, thanks for that one; I am actively looking for a laugh today!

Ah, right so, this explains it! :-D

Diogenes comments on Mar 28, 2021:

"Make ships bigger; we will make more money." There is no way to explain mammoth greed and stupidity. 'Yep, those hundreds of large containers 'ain't goin' nowhere'.

Hmm, so if you smoke weed today, the devil will eat your ass after you die?

Diogenes comments on Mar 28, 2021:

Fools will do what fools will do! Smoke anything- cancer will eat your lungs. Enjoy your cancer!

R'amen, brothers.

Diogenes comments on Mar 28, 2021:

Too true!

Celebrity Chef David Chang Won $1 Million – And He’s Giving It All to Restaurant Workers ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 27, 2021:

This pandemic has hit the restaurant business the hardest- but even so the people in the kitchen were mostly underpaid. He did a very generous deed- but also a just one.

Riots on Capitol Hill in Washington. That kind of stuff would never happen in Canada right?

Diogenes comments on Mar 27, 2021:

That is something I have never heard of. I knew members of the Orange Lodge headed from Ontario to Manitoba to fight Louis Riel. I have a news photo of my grandfather doing the King Billy-bit on July 12th, about 1940. He never shaved till Sunday mornings- when he went to 'church', Protestant Gawd-dude's business address. He chewed tobacco- I imagine some of it ended up on his shirt front. Probably, if he had a map of Ireland, he wouldn't be able to find the Boyne River. I detest overt stupidity. I wish I could go back and reshape my childhood indoctrination. My former girlfriend was born in the Catholic region of Holland. We were both well past the moronic subject of religion when we met. We never talked about it. There were many things worthy of conversation- religion wasn't one of them.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn. —Arthur Rimbaud

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

I would like 'Art' to give me some of his "soft dreams"- I could use a few of those.

I was having a beer with a mate and his phone rang, rather nice music I thought, when he'd finished ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Gross! What can one expect from a Burnley supporter! Okay, beat me up--- but for gawd-dude, anything other than letting my former-bride nag me- that would be torture!!!

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!