Thank you Captain Kirk, for saying what needed to be said "Gene would be rolling in his grave" ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 24, 2022:

Yeah. I like the special effects well enough, but the scripts and topics ? Feh.

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 24, 2022:

Effects in sci Fi have never been important to me, idea's and story have always been what make for good Sci Fi

Penury suffering great poverty, literally having nothing From Latin penuria, to be in want or ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jul 21, 2022:

My ex claims penury all the damn time. He's one of those trust fund babies. He doesn't have it all, therefore he's got nothing.

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 21, 2022:

When You are Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression Persian Proverb

One might be new and one is self-explanatory Sapphic: an umbrella term that includes lesbian, ...

Charlene comments on Jul 20, 2022:

I think Sapphic is more a literate term to describe writing in the same vein as Sappho of Lesbos..

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 20, 2022:

That is the exact foundation of the word

An interim school superintendent, speaking at a city-wide PTA luncheon, assured members that he was ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2022:

Delegation the art of true management

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 18, 2022:

@Beowulfsfriend But it also floats to the top

Kaomoji noun a Japanese-style emoticon that uses Japanese characters, Latin letters, and ...

FrayedBear comments on Jul 17, 2022:

Illustration?

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 18, 2022:

(* ^ ω ^) (´ ∀ ` *) ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶ (*°▽°*) ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶ (✧ω✧) (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ( ´ ▽ ` ) (￣▽￣) ヽ(>∀<☆)ノ o(≧▽≦)o (☆ω☆) ＼(￣▽￣)／ (*¯︶¯*) ＼(＾▽＾)／

How does belief in the existence of a genocidal maniac in the sky make you a good and moral person?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 17, 2022:

It's not about being good or moral, it's more about being so shit scared of being sent to hell that you obey without question just in case.

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 17, 2022:

@KKGator As the adage has it Having an imaginary friend is childish Having an imaginary enemy is insane.

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Castlepaloma comments on Jul 16, 2022:

Let's super tax the super rich, since they cause most of the pollution.

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 16, 2022:

If you think that in this super capitalist world of today, anyone capable of doing that would ever be allowed to even try and do so, you are incredibly naïve. Given the fact that the world is doomed, the capitalist will sacrifice the entire population in order to guarantee that he personally dies wealthy.

Saturday morning cuteness

Ray13 comments on Jul 16, 2022:

It's Two-Face's cat....better call Batman!

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 16, 2022:

Beat me to it

One tiny bright spot re: the hard-core religious strict-constructionists: it appears to me that they...

Castlepaloma comments on Jul 14, 2022:

Satan went around and buried Dragan bones, just to have a laugh at scientists.

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 14, 2022:

when I was a Mormon Stake Missionary, that was the approved answer we were supposed to give to investigators who asked... Satan, his shovel and his bag of fake bones, spreading lies since 4000 BC

Eric Burdon is the man... [facebook.com]

Marionville comments on Jul 13, 2022:

Alan Price on keyboards isn’t too shabby either!

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 13, 2022:

Former Tax inspector Alan Price was a selfish cheating bastard who robbed the rest of the Animals out of their royalties for house of the rising son, and ultimately caused the Break Up of the group. HOTRS is a public domain song, but price without consultation with the rest of the group copyrighted the arrangement for their version and had himself credited as composer. When Eric Burdon pointed out that Price had never even heard of the traditional folk song until he played it for him, Price basically said like it or lump it, I'm keeping the money. Later Price teamed up with Georgie Fame for a while, but this too ended up with a falling out in 1973 when Price told his wife that she must stop being friend with Fames wife as (quote) "I don't encourage fraternisation between spies" when she refused, Price dissolved the partnership. This was after Price placed a version Fame's Song "Yeh Yeh" on his solo greatest hits album under his own name, having had Fame sign a contract that gave joint ownership to their intellectual property, it was presumed, for the duration of the partnership, however Price sued successfully claiming the contract gave him ownership jointly with Fame even over songs Fame wrote before they met. In 1983 Price tried to re-join the Animals on their reunion tour and met with Eric Burdon and the others to discuss it. The other members said Price would be welcome to re-join if he would sign a contract relinquishing his claim on HOTRS from that point on with no past penalties, but simply as a show of good faith and an admission of wrong doing. Price refused the offer ( but in not so many words.) Mick Gallagher did the show in Price's place though Price did make a guest appearance billed separately.

5th July1946…🇫🇷 The first bikini, designed by French engineer Louis Reard, made its debut in...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2022:

The Bikini atoll which had been the site of the world’s first peacetime atomic-weapons test was literally blown to pieces, and so as a "Joke" the Bikini swim suit was so called because there was almost nothing left. Fucking hilarious for the entire population who were forcibly relocated three ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 5, 2022:

@Marionville True enough, the empire never did actually blow up a province, but we did commit genocide by syphilis on a regular basis.

On this 4th of July remember First they put Washington on the $1 bill Then they put the "The ...

Aaron70 comments on Jul 4, 2022:

The founding fathers made great effort to keep “religion” out of “state”, true story….🤷🏻‍♂️

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 5, 2022:

I know, they would be so ashamed

WHIFFLER.

phxbillcee comments on Jul 4, 2022:

I'm also guessing that is how the whiffle-ball got it's name...

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 4, 2022:

No Whiff as in whiffle-ball comes from the Anglo-Saxon *weffe* meaning a gust of wind and also a fart. As opposed to wifel “battle-ax” which is probably Norse in origin (it is also the origin of the derogatory term Battle Axe for a nagging wife, confusing it with the Norse *vif* pronounced wyf meaning wife )

Egalitarian adjective asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality ...

phxbillcee comments on Jul 4, 2022:

Appropriate day for it...

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 4, 2022:

Yes as a reminder to those in all levels of US society, from the lowest of the low, to the SCOTUS justice and Whitehouse incumbent, who seem to have forgotten that important principle that a person's right to equality is not determined by their colour, creed or what dangles between their legs.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but...

Buddha comments on Jul 3, 2022:

Interesting quote !

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 3, 2022:

Russell was an interesting man, his books and works are well worth reading.

The other day, someone asked: Why has England copied so many names of U.S. towns and cities?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2022:

I can top that, an American on line once complimented me on my almost perfect English and asked what the first language of the UK is.

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 2, 2022:

@Ryo1 My late business partner married a woman from Nebraska, who he met when working in Japan, she was a canny enough lass, but on a visit to the UK we took her to see Billy Connolly in concert. She sat through the whole show with a look of utter confusion on her face, for her we might as well have been in kuala lumpur

The other day, someone asked: Why has England copied so many names of U.S. towns and cities?

thexter comments on Jul 2, 2022:

And why did her majesty build the palace so close to the airport?

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 2, 2022:

So she could chase off Washington when he crossed the Delaware and tried to seize Heathrow?

University Club rejected over fears it could 'summon Satan' to an Australian university ...

nogod4me comments on Jul 1, 2022:

Fear can be another form of belief. Belief is a powerful force and fear can be another form of belief. For example, if you have a fear of snakes then you must believe in the ability of a snake to harm you or you would not fear it. The University may not fear Satan but they seem to fear those ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 1, 2022:

I think you may be giving them too much credit, after all these people think snakes can talk and live in magic apple trees.

University Club rejected over fears it could 'summon Satan' to an Australian university ...

Lorajay comments on Jul 1, 2022:

I am hoping the accusation that the club is engaged in criminal activity is actually the reason for a second look. More than likely it's not but I'm a cockeyed optimist.

LenHazell53 replies on Jul 1, 2022:

The accusation was that ALL Satanists are engaged in criminal acts, because to these people not being a Christian IS a criminal activity😅

ONLY IN UTAH Utah governor Spencer Cox urges residents to pray for rain and end the drought by ...

anglophone comments on Jun 27, 2022:

Spencer Cox is an idiot.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 27, 2022:

can't argue with that ;)

So the Right Wing 'Justices' just voted for Allowing Prayer in public schools.

Petter comments on Jun 27, 2022:

The answer is to adapt "reductio al absurdum." Insist on the right for satanists, pagans and followers of the flying spaghetti monster to lead class prayers.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 27, 2022:

That is the logical reaction, however the way the Gud Ole Yoo-Ezz-Hay is going the SCOTUS will be issuing a list of "REAL" religions and making all the others illegal within a week.

So the Right Wing 'Justices' just voted for Allowing Prayer in public schools.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 27, 2022:

Is it News to you that Christian fascist took control over the United States last week?

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 27, 2022:

sadly true

I think this is a fantastic idea, and could bring much needed revenue to the participating tribes.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2022:

Yeah the KKK would love that, a chance and an excuse to reinstate the Indian wars and the concomitant massacres.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 27, 2022:

@dalefvictor Brilliant :)

Fortuitous adjective happening or produced by chance; accidental.

phxbillcee comments on Jun 24, 2022:

Usually in a lucky or advantageous way...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 25, 2022:

True serendipitous happenstance when the outcome is positive From a Mishap or contretemps all the way through to a catastrophe when it it is negative

You think you're supporting nice people in Ukraine?

AtheistInNC comments on Jun 5, 2022:

RT is to real life as chicken little was to falling skies. Jeez ... get a real source before you start pointing fingers.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 24, 2022:

@AtheistInNC Oh dear

Marjorie Taylor Greene and ‘Freedom Caucus’ Declare War on Gun Bill Republicans With fellow ...

anglophone comments on Jun 23, 2022:

I wonder where she hid her broomstick in that photo.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 23, 2022:

You really don't want to know

OCHE.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 22, 2022:

New one for me, but I don't play darts. I don't throw sharp things.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 23, 2022:

Just your sharp wit

You think you're supporting nice people in Ukraine?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Seemingly as of today RT.com is unavailable in the UK , I am having to use a VPN to reach it.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 23, 2022:

@AtheistInNC No it was the same technology as the fax machine and before that the teletype, and before that the telegraph. You might as well say telephone answering machines were the precursor of the internet.

You think you're supporting nice people in Ukraine?

AtheistInNC comments on Jun 5, 2022:

RT is to real life as chicken little was to falling skies. Jeez ... get a real source before you start pointing fingers.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 23, 2022:

@AtheistInNC I'm sorry but you are quoting from a 1911 interview about Pearce's invention of the "MONOPLANE" not the 1903 flight which Pearce himself considered a failure because, though he did take off and fly a substantial distance it ended when he clipped a wall and had to make a forced landing. This mishap in his own mind made his claim to the first heavier than air power flight invalid since he did not make his planned landing. Where Kites enter in to you answer I cannot imagine. so:- USA for the steal?

You think you're supporting nice people in Ukraine?

AtheistInNC comments on Jun 5, 2022:

RT is to real life as chicken little was to falling skies. Jeez ... get a real source before you start pointing fingers.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 22, 2022:

@FrayedBear Richard William Pearse was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterward describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers But like like so many other inventions they have no claim to the USA claim they invented everything

You think you're supporting nice people in Ukraine?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Seemingly as of today RT.com is unavailable in the UK , I am having to use a VPN to reach it.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 22, 2022:

@FrayedBear Just as a follow up ALL .ru sites are being blocked in the UK now and are unreachable without a vpn

You think you're supporting nice people in Ukraine?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Seemingly as of today RT.com is unavailable in the UK , I am having to use a VPN to reach it.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 22, 2022:

@AtheistInNC The Interconnected computer system (**intra**net for short) was a joint project by the US, the French and the British. The idea an international net of computer servers exchanging and sharing all information was first posited in the 1966 science fiction novel by British author Dennis Feltham Jones "Colossus" (released in the USA as "The Forbin Project) a story that did not end well for the Human race. (In short over a series of three books, the Net decided that people could not be trusted to keep themselves and the world safe and began treating people as infants that had to protect them from themselves. UK screenwriter and novelist David Ambrose wrote an updated version of the premise in his speculative work 1995 "Mother of God" where the Net becomes a sentient AI and declares itself "the daughter" of the mother creator race humanity, which now needs to be cared for by itself the new goddess.) However the actual **inter**net as we know it, was created in the UK by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 in a system he named **the world wide web** Tim Berners-Lee could have made a fortune from the invention of *hypertext information system* HTMI, but instead placed the invention in the Public domain, enabling the whole internet to grow at an exponential pace and literally change the way the world works within 30 years.

Seen on fbuk & I just had to share it.

MattHardy comments on Jun 17, 2022:

Yeah? Well, why's he got a Mexican name then?

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 17, 2022:

Probably for the same reason you have a Hebrew name @MattHardy ;)

Seen on fbuk & I just had to share it.

MattHardy comments on Jun 17, 2022:

Yeah? Well, why's he got a Mexican name then?

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 17, 2022:

@FrayedBear America is a peace loving country, a piece of Hawaii, a piece of Puerto Ricco, a piece of Mexico, a piece of Alaska and so on and so on

So the world's nuclear weaponed countries spent $82.

FvckY0u comments on Jun 15, 2022:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1mlCPMYtPk

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 16, 2022:

You need to give a credit card details to be able t watch this video????? Fuck no

The "Gun Deal" that's as worthless as the people that came up with it.

AnneWimsey comments on Jun 14, 2022:

I have said this for decades: there are a Ton of gun laws in place, have been for decades. What Congress does is pass them but FAIL to fund them! Then they can say they voted for whatever their audience is demanding. Do you think <10 Federal gun shop records inspectors for the entire Northeast ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 15, 2022:

One does not actually have to do anything so long as you can appear to be doing something, We British built an empire on that principle and then lost it again when the rest of the world twigged on to the trick.

The "Gun Deal" that's as worthless as the people that came up with it.

AnneWimsey comments on Jun 14, 2022:

I have said this for decades: there are a Ton of gun laws in place, have been for decades. What Congress does is pass them but FAIL to fund them! Then they can say they voted for whatever their audience is demanding. Do you think <10 Federal gun shop records inspectors for the entire Northeast ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 15, 2022:

@rainmanjr I hope to the none existent gawd above that the above is satire

“Those who bombed us know that the moral greatness of Serbia is disproportionate to its firepower,...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

Give up trying to reason with such people, you may as well try and nail jelly to a castle. Make your posts, allow those of us who want to read them to read them, those of us who want to have civilized conversations about them to have them and as the quote has it "Unless they are paying your ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 14, 2022:

@FrayedBear Yes that was to be expected but win or lose no PM who has faced a vote of No Confidence from his or her own party, has lasted more that six months. I'm more worried about our gov. paying Rwanda to build slave labour concentration camps for us, so we can ship of anyone the tory cunts don't like one way to Africa. At least we are not sending them to Aus this time round ;)

Religion of peace?

TheMiddleWay comments on Jun 10, 2022:

In using this individual to help answer the question, "is Islam the religion of peace", one need not focus on his words but rather on how many Muslims abide by them. Given that there has not been an uprise in muslim terrorist attacks in England and wales, is it safe to say that his words are not ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 13, 2022:

@Ryo1 true many of us can change and evolve, but many do not. Try and reason with a rattle snake and you will end up poisoned.

It appeared , I listened to it, smiled & just had to share it.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

Classic, two British sitcom greats sadly "aint aint 'alf hot mum" is never repeated these days... too "problematic"

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 13, 2022:

@FrayedBear Ripping Yarn was a collection of wonderfully absurd stories Curse of the claw Tomkinson's school days and of course The Eric Olthwaite gang

I used this word just a few minutes ago.

Marionville comments on Jun 12, 2022:

In the U.K. …we say PERNICKETY….leaving out the letter “S”.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 12, 2022:

You Scots have the original word, the Gallic pernicky, Persnickety is the 20th century Americanism, pernicktie (possibly changed to mock neck tie wearing Methodist) is the 18th century Anglicisation later changed to Pernickety by the 19th century.

Religion of peace?

TheMiddleWay comments on Jun 10, 2022:

In using this individual to help answer the question, "is Islam the religion of peace", one need not focus on his words but rather on how many Muslims abide by them. Given that there has not been an uprise in muslim terrorist attacks in England and wales, is it safe to say that his words are not ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 12, 2022:

@Ryo1 Sadly a majority is not needed to cause trouble, just a significant minority of fanatics following a charismatic dangerous leader who are willing to do harm and kill. We learned this in the 1930s, which is why despite our own 50,000+ fascists and their would be dictator Mosley, fascism was never allowed to get a grip in the UK. Mosely was banished and the party was made illegal in 1940. Many of the BUF were allowed to leave the country and many fought for the Nazis in the so called Britisches Freikorps of the waffen SS. Men like Zakir Naik are a danger and need to be dealt with as potential insurrectionist and the hate mongers they are.

Religion of peace?

TheMiddleWay comments on Jun 10, 2022:

In using this individual to help answer the question, "is Islam the religion of peace", one need not focus on his words but rather on how many Muslims abide by them. Given that there has not been an uprise in muslim terrorist attacks in England and wales, is it safe to say that his words are not ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 11, 2022:

@TheMiddleWay @TheMiddleWay Your quite right, I was mistaken, I should have said if 0.01 (1 in 100) and 0.001(1 in 1000) of 1.8 billion Muslims are jihadists instead of 0.01% and 0.001% , the point however still stands, a small fraction of a very large number is still a disturbing number of fundamentalists

Religion of peace?

twill comments on Jun 10, 2022:

They are all peaceful once their imagined foes have been vanquished or slaughtered

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 11, 2022:

No then they fight against one another as Catholics persecute protestants and vice versa

Religion of peace?

TheMiddleWay comments on Jun 10, 2022:

In using this individual to help answer the question, "is Islam the religion of peace", one need not focus on his words but rather on how many Muslims abide by them. Given that there has not been an uprise in muslim terrorist attacks in England and wales, is it safe to say that his words are not ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 10, 2022:

@TheMiddleWay I said no such thing, I said that whole fundamental basis of Islam is based on a doctrine of peace through unending war and that when you have a membership of over 1 billion even a small percentage of that number being fundamentalist and rallying around an evil man like Zakir Naik is a serious threat After all if only 0.01% of 1.8 billion Muslims are fundamentalist jihadist that is an army of 18,000,000 fanatical lunatics. If 0.01% is being overly pessimistic 0.001% is an army of 1,800,000 Does any nation on earth boast a fighting force of that size?

Religion of peace?

creative51 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Gee, he sounds like some of our christian fundamentalists here in the states.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 10, 2022:

exactly

Religion of peace?

jlynn37 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

I imagine he is implying that if every person on the planet converts to Islam then there would be peace because everyone would be in agreement on everything. Until everyone converts to Islam there there will be Jihad and terrorism.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 10, 2022:

Yup they should be more sensible and believe in a Jewish zombie carpenter who will burn you forever in Hell if you do not love him

Religion of peace?

TheMiddleWay comments on Jun 10, 2022:

In using this individual to help answer the question, "is Islam the religion of peace", one need not focus on his words but rather on how many Muslims abide by them. Given that there has not been an uprise in muslim terrorist attacks in England and wales, is it safe to say that his words are not ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 10, 2022:

Zakir Naik is internationally famous, his talks and lectures are sell out successes all over the world, he is not an outlier, especially in the UK and the US He is a known radicaliser of the young and a fundamentalist jihadist As for terrorist attacks in the UK have you not heard of the 7/7 attacks, the despicable Abu Hamza who was the imam of Finsbury Park Mosque, that had to be raid and shut down as a public danger and terrorist hub. Not to mention Caucasus Emirate, Al-Shabaab, the jihadist Boko Haram UK, Ansar Dine, Ansar al-Sharia, all of which have UK cells and have been involved in terrorist attacks in the UK, and or in supporting and supplying terrorist cells. And before you start calling me Islamophobic, I grew up with Muslim neighbours, I had my first job given to me by my best friends father (Mr. Al-Bharhani) when I was 14 in his corner shop and I could pull a list of Christian organisations with similar horrific agendas. No, not all Muslims are terrorists, but like Christianity Islam is fundamentally flawed and based on outdated belief that they alone are right, infidels are not people, and that if the book fails the sword will succeed.

Harvey Weinstein to face indecent assault charges in London | Fox News

JackPedigo comments on Jun 9, 2022:

At least Faux Noise admits they're about entertainment (and not real news).

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 10, 2022:

@JackPedigo Thanks I did not know that, the only time I come across Faux news is when some one else is taking the piss out of it. Do they have the same disclaimer on the TV channel?

Listening is an art

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 9, 2022:

Shit and This are spelled with the same letters, let's think about that ;)

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 10, 2022:

@dalefvictor Near enough

Harvey Weinstein to face indecent assault charges in London | Fox News

JackPedigo comments on Jun 9, 2022:

At least Faux Noise admits they're about entertainment (and not real news).

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 9, 2022:

But only when they are taken to court.

Armed Man Arrested Near Brett Kavanaugh's House | Time

Beowulfsfriend comments on Jun 8, 2022:

I was wondering about the attempted murder charge since he never got near the punk ass bitch, unless they aren't telling the whole story.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 9, 2022:

They are not, he was caught because he called 911 on HIMSELF and told the police to come and get him

How to be straight lessons are now on the school curriculum, a least in church sponsored schools it ...

Charlene comments on Jun 9, 2022:

I wonder if they teach them about pedophilia or is that a learned experience at the hands of church elders?

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 9, 2022:

There is a great line in the comedy show Father Ted where the eponymous Ted tries to excuse paedophilia in the RC by saying, "Look only a very small percentage of Catholic Priests are paedophiles, 10% at most," to which his curate father Dougal says "Ted are there not about 40 million Catholic Priests world wide?" "Anyway" says Ted. "were getting off topic!"

How to be straight lessons are now on the school curriculum, a least in church sponsored schools it ...

Druvius comments on Jun 9, 2022:

There is no way to lovingly and compassionately tell someone "My invisible superfriend is going to torture you forever for being the way he made them." It's sick sheet no matter how expressed, not to mention the opposite of Christ's teachings.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 9, 2022:

One of the many things I detest about religions is their tendency to redefine perfectly obvious words to mean exactly the opposite of in church parlance, "Loving Christian God" being a prime example

How to be straight lessons are now on the school curriculum, a least in church sponsored schools it ...

Redheadedgammy comments on Jun 9, 2022:

These ignorant adults are so horrible. They get a hold of these children very young so they can start putting this shit in their heads. It is so true that children learn what they live, and if they live with bigots who teach them bigotry what do we expect the kids to grow up to be?? In my opinion ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 9, 2022:

were it anything else but church teaching such things they would be arrested, for exactly as you say emotional abuse

How to be straight lessons are now on the school curriculum, a least in church sponsored schools it ...

BufftonBeotch comments on Jun 9, 2022:

And if your friend does not comply and agree to a life with an approved partner they have zero attraction to? The shunning lessons are next. Followed by beating them and leaving them tied to a fence to die in freezing temperatures.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 9, 2022:

Sadly true

Kyle Rittenhouse Lauded as Husband Material at Women's Leadership Summit

silverotter11 comments on Jun 7, 2022:

It is still not easy for me to accept that this level of ignorance still exists.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 8, 2022:

@SeaGreenEyez When people would choose to vote for Trump and for Brexit, none of their other decisions are going to ever surprise me ever again. 2016 The Rise of the Planet of the Oafs

Kyle Rittenhouse Lauded as Husband Material at Women's Leadership Summit

Lauren comments on Jun 7, 2022:

When I was doing physical therapy earlier this year, there was a cop there one day who was telling his PT about how he'd just worked the detail to protect Rittenhouse while he was here for a rally (apparently the city pays for that). He was practically orgasmic about this, and after about five ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 8, 2022:

@Redheadedgammy Is it called a Brains Trust, because there being no evidence of such, we only have trust they do actually have a brain?

On May 17, also known as International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOTB), ...

BufftonBeotch comments on Jun 6, 2022:

I think they would have given up the hijab long before expanding their freedom to sexual expression. Would they depict two nuns in traditional habits this way? Does seem to be provocative, exploitive and poking a sleeping bear just a smidge.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 7, 2022:

@TheMiddleWay Are you serious? You might as well say there was not a massive outpouring of Hasidic Jews in Poland and the Ukraine in 1919 demanding that there not be a program against them Hence putting them front and centre could not be about shining a light on an underserved population who wants more light. You are an idiot

On May 17, also known as International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOTB), ...

BufftonBeotch comments on Jun 6, 2022:

I think they would have given up the hijab long before expanding their freedom to sexual expression. Would they depict two nuns in traditional habits this way? Does seem to be provocative, exploitive and poking a sleeping bear just a smidge.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 6, 2022:

Are you saying someone cannot be religious and homosexual? Because I know plenty of ecumenical gay people. AS for homosexual nuns and monks it is a cliché dating back to the middle ages The whole point of IDAHOTB is about encouraging freedom and inclusion, surely giving in to bigots is and was the height of fear based hypocrisy.

Arizona GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Proposes Different Tiers for US Citizenship Kari Lake, the ...

anglophone comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Hitler's Jewish badge comes to mind.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 4, 2022:

Hitler stole the idea from the catholic inquisition So called "Badge of Shame" Yellow Stars for Jews Pink Triangles for homosexuals the blue stripe for the unworthy poor The red A for prostitutes and sexual deviants The double cross for the heretics etc

So yesterday a man, Michael Louis, bought two guns, took them across Tulsa, walked in to his ...

anglophone comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Welcome to the United $tates of Absurdity where corporate profits matter much more than the mental health of its citizens.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 4, 2022:

@JackPedigo Democracy was invented for the governance of small city states with populations numbered in hundreds, or 1000+ The idea that the same system can be applied universally in the same way to populations numbered in 100s of Millions is absurd.

So yesterday a man, Michael Louis, bought two guns, took them across Tulsa, walked in to his ...

Redheadedgammy comments on Jun 3, 2022:

People are going to extremes with their anger and it seems that their only solution to their problems/issues is using a gun to get rid of their problems. I don’t know what is causing this type of thinking or how to stop it. 😢

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 4, 2022:

“Death solves all the problems. No man, no problem” attributed to Joseph Stalin as reported by Anatoly Rybakov

WATCH: Marjorie Taylor Greene's Promises For Christian Nationalism Are Truly Chilling

Sticks48 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

This is what happens when the really, really stupid vote for the really, really, really, really stupid.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 4, 2022:

This is why western democracy is a bad idea, the right to vote should be earned not a given because people never value a right which is given for free

Born on June 2, 1904 in Freidorf, Romania, actor and Olympic Gold Medal winner Johnny Weissmuller.

Marionville comments on Jun 2, 2022:

I remember watching him as Tarzan at the Saturday matinees!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 2, 2022:

@Ray13 Been there done that

Visited an Alpaca Farm yesterday evening

Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Is it an alpaca farm or is it a ranch? I think of farms for plants and ranches for animals unless it's fish. Perhaps I think of this wrong, and I have been wrong before.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 2, 2022:

Originally it was an Arable farm for plants and an Agricultural farm for animals a Ranch or Ranchero is the Spanish word for a farm house, these days it is all pretty much interchangeable.

And that's part of the plan folks.

AnneWimsey comments on May 31, 2022:

Oh, I dunno, French peasants did okay.....

LenHazell53 replies on May 31, 2022:

Not really, the first revolution of 1789 was lead by a cartel of statesmen and lawyers who caused a flourishing of poverty and mal treatment which they blamed on the monarchy in order to manipulate the people in to rebelling. After six years of the so called Reign of Terror came to an end with the second revolution, after Robespierre himself was executed by his own confederates. The monarchy was restored and ruled as a puppet figurehead until the third revolution of 1848 ousted them again and an oligarchy mascaraing as a republic seized power, that in one form or another lasted until 1958 and the establishment of the 5th republic.

PEJORATIVE.

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2022:

It is amazing how many people use pejorative when they mean prerogative

LenHazell53 replies on May 31, 2022:

@Marionville Terrific malapropism

Mass Shootings in the USA

LenHazell53 comments on May 30, 2022:

Here is a solution that might curb the gun freaks enthusiasm abolish all gun control, BUT impose a tax of $500 each on bullets, $1000 per annum licensing fee on each fire arm and force all gun owners to have third party and theft insurance on every weapon at $10,000 per annum just in case of ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 31, 2022:

@OldGoat43 I hope you realise that is the country that is ruled by rich old white men who own weapons factories is the country you already live in

AH_HA John Oliver reveals the truth at last [youtube.com]

Charlene comments on May 30, 2022:

Damn, and I just got my Furry outfit from Amazon..😪😪😂😂

LenHazell53 replies on May 30, 2022:

Bunny Girl?

MOGGIE.

LenHazell53 comments on May 28, 2022:

Moggy or Moggie is a northern term for a cat in the same way that a "Tom" is a slang term for a cat. In Victorian England a Tommy Atkins was a common or garden man (later a soldier, like Jack Tar for a Sailor), like wise a Maggie May was a common woman or a prostitute. Like wise among pedigree ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 28, 2022:

Incidentally this should not be confused with a ***Smoggie***, who is a person from industrial Teesside in the north of England, much as a Geordie is a person from Newcastle upon Tyne or a Scouse is from Liverpool. I am a born and bred Smoggie and sort of proud of it.

Wise words from China. Stupid¹ Americans unlikely to heed them?

Betty comments on May 27, 2022:

Greed is the underlying cause of stupidity. Greed for power, control, wealth, and recognition will bring out the stupidity in the most educated of people.

LenHazell53 replies on May 28, 2022:

@Castlepaloma Yeah sure, whatever you say🙄

Wise words from China. Stupid¹ Americans unlikely to heed them?

Betty comments on May 27, 2022:

Greed is the underlying cause of stupidity. Greed for power, control, wealth, and recognition will bring out the stupidity in the most educated of people.

LenHazell53 replies on May 27, 2022:

@Castlepaloma Greed is NOT a virtue at all, in point of fact it is the exact opposite it is one of the seven cardinal vices. The virtues are (1) humility, (2) charity, (3) chastity, (4) gratitude, (5) temperance, (6) patience, and (7) diligence. The Vices are (1) pride, (2) envy, (3) anger, (4) acedia, (5) Greed, (6) gluttony, and (7) lust.

Two birthdays today, May 26: Peter Cushing (1913-1994) and James Arness (1923-2011) [youtu.

bobwjr comments on May 26, 2022:

Great actors

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2022:

Cushing's version of 1984 made in the 1950s still stands as the best version ever in my opinion.

This won't work any better than outlawing abortions but it's fun to think about.

FearlessFly comments on May 25, 2022:

. . . I support Roe v Wade abortion rights. . . . in terms of Critical Thinking, this post falls into the false equivalence category : https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/False-Equivalence

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2022:

@FearlessFly ***SATIRE*** /ˈsatʌɪə/ *the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.*

As absurd as the whole concept of the "Trinity" appears, I thought one way to maybe make it somewhat...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 23, 2022:

I'm sure that Tyson and Nye are honored to be in company with Sagan, but I doubt that any of them would approve of their deification, even in jest.

LenHazell53 replies on May 23, 2022:

Why not the suspended mural on the inside of the dome of the capitol building in Washington is called "The Apotheosis of George Washington" and depicts the 1st president being raised up to be a god.

HONORIFIC.

LenHazell53 comments on May 23, 2022:

HonoUrific is the correct spelling the UK. I know a lot of people say Americanisms don't matter this day and age, but as a wise man once said "There is no such thing as American English, there is English and there are spelling mistakes" The Latin root honōrifica is spelled with a Macron ō to...

LenHazell53 replies on May 23, 2022:

@Marionville I did check my own Oxford dictionary, which I have owned since it was gifted to me as a child and in there Honour, honourable and Honourific are all spelled with a U, however checking the OED on line, I am disgusted to see the venerable old book today accepts the US spelling as the correct one (though does still admit honourific as an alternate spelling) for this one variation on the original while still crediting the same root word. I have amended my original post to explain my reasoning why, I thought (or should that be thort) I was right.

Today's Gun Violence Archive The overall picture is beyond bleak. 😔😖

LiterateHiker comments on May 22, 2022:

I was asked to be the regional coordinator for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Sadly, I declined. I felt afraid of being shot and killed by a crazy gun zealot. Jerks with assault weapons crowd into Moms Demand Action meetings to intimidate staff and volunteers. **Our opponents ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 22, 2022:

@LiterateHiker I am pointing out the irony of exactly what you say, I am 100% in agreement with you

Today's Gun Violence Archive The overall picture is beyond bleak. 😔😖

LiterateHiker comments on May 22, 2022:

I was asked to be the regional coordinator for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Sadly, I declined. I felt afraid of being shot and killed by a crazy gun zealot. Jerks with assault weapons crowd into Moms Demand Action meetings to intimidate staff and volunteers. **Our opponents ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 22, 2022:

If that was not so tragic it would be comical

"All that spin and narrative management they’ve been pouring into the U.

Garban comments on May 20, 2022:

Caitlin Johnstone The Complete Book Of Astrology: Your personal guide to learning, understanding and using Astrology Excellent source!🤣 She’s the Alex Jones of astrology!

LenHazell53 replies on May 22, 2022:

@Garban 🤷‍♂️ mea culpa

Why Are We Not Talking About Menopause? - YouTube

KateOahu comments on May 21, 2022:

To whom do you refer when you say “we”? In my experience, generally, males aren’t interested in being empathetic toward women, so women don’t bother talking to them about it; generally, women do discuss it with each other.

LenHazell53 replies on May 21, 2022:

Then you have had some bad experiences with some shitty men, I can only ask that you do not judge us all by their example.

"All that spin and narrative management they’ve been pouring into the U.

Garban comments on May 20, 2022:

Caitlin Johnstone The Complete Book Of Astrology: Your personal guide to learning, understanding and using Astrology Excellent source!🤣 She’s the Alex Jones of astrology!

LenHazell53 replies on May 21, 2022:

@Garban Sorry but I believe you might be confusing Kentucky House of Representatives (2018) member Caitlin A Johnstone and Caitlin Johnson the Australian Astrologer and freelance journalist (as many people tend to)

Christian Love ❤

LenHazell53 comments on May 19, 2022:

I once had the following exchange with a Christian evangelidiot who accosted me at work **Christy: ** Don't you understand that god loves you **Me: ** Yes but it is a very conditional love **Christy: ** No it isn't, what do you mean? **Me: ** I mean that your god supposedly loves me, but if I ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 19, 2022:

@OldMetalHead Yes he was a bit of a weirdo I believe he honestly could see nothing wrong in submitting to the idea of tyrant god

NO, NO...Just NO! [youtube.com]

LiterateHiker comments on May 18, 2022:

I refuse to watch violent or horror movies.

LenHazell53 replies on May 19, 2022:

This is neither it is cultural vandalism

Remembering one of my favorite British actors on his birthday, today May 15: James Mason.

LenHazell53 comments on May 15, 2022:

Amazing actor, though only 34 his big break out role was as Mr Smethurst in "A place of ones own" playing an 75 year old retiree, who finds the house he has saved all his life for is haunted and the malevolent spirit is killing his adopted daughter. Later teh same year he shot to stardom as dashing...

LenHazell53 replies on May 16, 2022:

@Ray13 Yes, there is an unofficial remake called "The House of the Long Shadows" featuring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and John Carradine, that follows more or less the original plot (most of the official remakes follow the plot of "The Ghoul" instead) it's worth a look

kIND OF HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD

Garban comments on May 15, 2022:

I think he’s spoiled child. I haven’t determined the species yet; leaning toward reptilian of some sort.

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

A Yuthinkysaurus Tex?

Who says that America & its sycophant Britain do not interfere in other country's citizens ...

p-nullifidian comments on May 15, 2022:

You raise an important point here, one that must not be ignored. American post-WW2 anti-communist fear and loathing fueled McCarthyism at home and the sinister plotting of the Dulles brothers in US foreign policy. Allen Dulles was made director of the CIA by Harry Truman and continued in that ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

Thank you for the recommendation

What Christian album made you come back to good ol' rock n ' Roll?

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2022:

While working in the garage of a business, one day I heard the sound of plastic stuff being smashed. I went outside and a guy from the carpet business next door was smashing CD's and cassettes with a hammer. I asked him what he was doing and he said that this was demonic music and needed to be ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

It's like when Lennon said the Beatles were greater than god, in the USA their sales soared, turned out Christians were buying them to burn them.

Remembering one of my favorite British actors on his birthday, today May 15: James Mason.

LenHazell53 comments on May 15, 2022:

Amazing actor, though only 34 his big break out role was as Mr Smethurst in "A place of ones own" playing an 75 year old retiree, who finds the house he has saved all his life for is haunted and the malevolent spirit is killing his adopted daughter. Later teh same year he shot to stardom as dashing...

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

@Ray13 Ernest Thesiger was something of a genius, he rarely made films, (averaging one per year through his career to finance his theatre company) but when he did, he always stole them out from under everyone else. A Prime example is "The man in the white suit"

Ukraine: Where the West got it wrong?

Beowulfsfriend comments on May 13, 2022:

You respond to a comment to @OldMetalHead that Pravda, your source, is pro Russian and anti Putin. I just did a quick search, suggest people do that all the time, and found Vadim Goshenin a "professed Putin supportor" runs Pravda.

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

@Beowulfsfriend There is no such Person as Vadim Goshenin, Vadim Gorshenin founded but does not run the pro Putin Pravda.ru it is run by Konstantin Kostin and his wife Olga Kostina Deputy head of the internal politics of the presidential administration of Russia, Putin's right hand man. However, since 1999 there have been two publications legally named Pravda, one owned and by former members of the communist Party of Russia and one by the Kostins. If I have confused the two I apologise.

In the "greatest democracy", USA, it is reported that genocide occurred between 1819 &1969 against ...

Garban comments on May 12, 2022:

This isn’t news. This has been acknowledged for generations. Where did you get “ tens of thousands” from? Made that up did you?

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

@Garban I do not know when you were labelled a racist, I have no knowledge of your stance on racial issues but, for what it is worth, you have never struck me as such, I suspect very few people here are and those I have blocked. Regardless of all that, your writings and opinions on most subjects here have struck me as those of an educated and sensible person, which is why such bile and a willingness to ignore facts in order to participate in the knee-jerk reaction silencing of an individual, surprises me. By the way I don't believe in lecturing on morality, or objective morality as a whole, simply in, hopefully, productive personal ethics.

Who says that America & its sycophant Britain do not interfere in other country's citizens ...

Fernapple comments on May 15, 2022:

Yes, but the world moves on and what was bad in the sixties, is truly horrible now.

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

Buuuuuuuttttttttt, is still being done anyway?

Who says that America & its sycophant Britain do not interfere in other country's citizens ...

FrayedBear comments on May 15, 2022:

Isn't Russia undertaking an "essential cleanout" of fascists from Russian speaking Donbass where they have been perpetrating genocide on the Russian speakers by edict of the government installed in Kiev by America in 2014?

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

The old, old cry, "we must protect OUR way of life" "Sounds good, but doesn't actually tie you down to meaning anything" Douglas Adams

In the "greatest democracy", USA, it is reported that genocide occurred between 1819 &1969 against ...

Garban comments on May 12, 2022:

This isn’t news. This has been acknowledged for generations. Where did you get “ tens of thousands” from? Made that up did you?

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

@Garban You obviously don't, you called him a liar, what he posted was true, but because it comes from a source you dislike you still call it lies, even when I provide evidence that it is not. You do know how this behaviour makes you appear, don't you? I have backed up the bear in equal amounts to the times I have pointed out his mistakes, when stories cannot be verified else where, and he has kindly thanked me in both instances. This true even when he has drawn attention to RT articles about his home Australia and his birth place my home the UK. You on the other hand seem to have a fanatical form of patriotism that will allow you to see no one point out US wrong doings or draw attention to US political mistakes without becoming ultra defensive. We all three live in ostensibly and supposedly free counties, with freedom of speech and expression, something to which you yourself have drawn attention to and are rightly proud of, other than with this sole exception. Why do you think that is?

In the "greatest democracy", USA, it is reported that genocide occurred between 1819 &1969 against ...

Garban comments on May 12, 2022:

This isn’t news. This has been acknowledged for generations. Where did you get “ tens of thousands” from? Made that up did you?

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

@Garban It's biased yes, but since when is quoting facts propaganda? The CBS article I linked to and the RT article Bear quoted from said exactly the same thing, is CBS Russian propaganda too? It is reported that genocide occurred between 1819 against First Nations People, resulting in the deaths of more than 500 children, probably tens of thousands. RT Over 500 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children's deaths occurred at 19 of the federal Indian boarding schools, according to the report The investigation is ongoing, and the department said it expects "the approximate number of Indian children who died at Federal Indian boarding schools to be in the thousands or tens of thousands." CBS Come on admit you owe @FrayedBear an apology for calling him a liar and be the bigger person

In the "greatest democracy", USA, it is reported that genocide occurred between 1819 &1969 against ...

Garban comments on May 12, 2022:

This isn’t news. This has been acknowledged for generations. Where did you get “ tens of thousands” from? Made that up did you?

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

@Garban So no alternate link equals a case of "posting out right lies" You never think to fact-check for yourself as I do? Fact checking RT usually has one of two results, A) they have copied another report from elsewhere, sometimes verbatim, or B) They took a dubious story and retold it with their own bias. I have rarely discovered RT telling or making up "out right lies" after all they are not Faux News who when called upon to correct lies claim they are an entertainment channel not a news channel. Personally I do not find them entertaining in the least, but no one bans them from broadcasting their "news" entertainment.

Having just received notification that @Alienbeing has tagged me I went to read his comment.

Garban comments on May 12, 2022:

AlienBeing tagged you in a post originated by DarmaBum. DarmaBum probably has you blocked? Guessing?

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2022:

@Alienbeing This is the community senate NO ONE can block ANYONE in this group. Surely you know that. You did block me so I reci[procated months ago, you may have unblocked me but frankly I could not care less

In the "greatest democracy", USA, it is reported that genocide occurred between 1819 &1969 against ...

Fernapple comments on May 13, 2022:

Almost all countries in the past have committed genocide and other atrocities, and that is nothing to be proud of. But yes you may have a limited and very reasonable pride in your country, if its culture has grown up enough to admit and acknowledge it past fully, since that is a real achievement and...

LenHazell53 replies on May 13, 2022:

@Fernapple the Palawa people of Tasmania were treated appallingly, but were on the whole deported rather than massacred. The 35 indigenous peoples of Argentina also were treated badly and made second class citizens in their own land, but there was no systematic extermination of them as there was in the US But I take your point

In the "greatest democracy", USA, it is reported that genocide occurred between 1819 &1969 against ...

Fernapple comments on May 13, 2022:

Almost all countries in the past have committed genocide and other atrocities, and that is nothing to be proud of. But yes you may have a limited and very reasonable pride in your country, if its culture has grown up enough to admit and acknowledge it past fully, since that is a real achievement and...

LenHazell53 replies on May 13, 2022:

"Almost all countries in the past have committed genocide and other atrocities, and that is nothing to be proud of. " Yes, this is true, But most genocides are carried out when members of two or more religious, political or social groups inhabit the same land and are struggling for superiority. However, Americans are almost unique in having colonised another county and almost succeeded in systematically and on an industrial scale completely exterminating the people and wildlife who were already there in order to steal the land for themselves and then to go on and fill it up with another race to use as slaves and yet more people to use as cheap labour.

In the "greatest democracy", USA, it is reported that genocide occurred between 1819 &1969 against ...

Garban comments on May 12, 2022:

This isn’t news. This has been acknowledged for generations. Where did you get “ tens of thousands” from? Made that up did you?

LenHazell53 replies on May 13, 2022:

@FrayedBear @Garban NOT made up from CBS NEWS: The U.S. is acknowledging the large-scale and violent treatment of Indigenous students at more than 400 Indian boarding schools run by the federal government between 1819 and 1969, according to a report released by the Department of Interior on Wednesday. Over 500 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children's deaths occurred at 19 of the federal Indian boarding schools, according to the report. In total, 53 marked and unmarked burial sites were identified at these school facilities nationwide. The investigation is ongoing, and the department said it expects "the approximate number of Indian children who died at Federal Indian boarding schools to be in the thousands or tens of thousands." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indian-boarding-indigenous-school-children-treatment/