I bought a cedar chest at a local thrift store and it is missing some veneer (no, that is not what ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2019:

Why on earth do idiot religious folk always think that if you do not believe in God you must worship the devil? Are they really that thick? It's like saying "I don't drive a car," and the immediate response being "Oh you must drive a van then" and when you say no and that you simply don't drive, they look baffled and say they don't believe you.

It’s been 14 months since my son died and the platitudes still piss me off.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2019:

If it works for you great. My lost love ones live on in my memory and in those memories who his life touched. Personally I find the idea of an eternal after life abhorrent and that is what works for me. Take it easy, take joy in the joy your son gave and the good he did and left behind and you will be happy again.

Has anyone watched the Netflix mini series The Family based on the book by Jeff Sharlet?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2019:

Yes very disturbing series.

BOBBY-DAZZLER.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2019:

Possibly an evolution from the 1950's expression Bobby-Socker for an attractive young woman. Bobby socks being a fashionable decorated ankle sock, marketed to young women who enjoyed up beat music and dance in the 1940's and 1950s to draw attention to ankles and calves.

2020 Trump Pence logo taken from suspended white supremacist group logo.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2019:

The problem with such semiotics is that quite often a group of one delineation or another take symbols and alter or even reverse their meanings, while allowing the original meaning to remain. The swastika for example in German Christianity was know as the Hakenkreuz and was an heraldic symbol and one of the emblems of St.Michael, in Sanskrit and Hinduism it is the sign for the sun. So today the original meanings has been lost and temples and churches have been vandalized and accused of right wing sympathies. Above of course one cans see the Celtic Cross, examples of which are found all over Europe dating back literally thousands of years, with no National socialist allusion at all. Seeing as how Trump who is right wing and a nazi group used a Lion in star spangled circle as their logo in nationalist colours one can conclude Trump is affiliating himself with said group, or one can conclude that both used clip art to create a pseudo patriotic symbol that also smacks of Hollywood glamour by combining elements of MGM and Paramount pictures logo's to spark a subconscious familiarity trigger

Global Rates Of Daily Prayer

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 29, 2019:

How about a similar chart listing the percentage of the population in each country who pretend daily to be a Jedi Knight or a superhero. Such data would be of equal use in evaluating childish behaviour, I am sure

Would you have a wedding in a place of worship, officiated by a religious leader? Why or why not?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 29, 2019:

NO, Hell no, because it is fucking stupid, expensive, fucking stupid, and Unnecessary oh yes and it is fucking stupid.

I tried something new for breakfast today.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 29, 2019:

Sounds delicious

Can't wait to ditch this caliginous state of the union.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 29, 2019:

On famous use The Wizard: Step forward, Tin Man! You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking clanking clattering collection of caliginous junk! The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Report: Ark Encounter Cheating On Property Taxes, Hurting Local Schools [patheos.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 29, 2019:

Well I never who would have thought an evangelical might not be trusted to pay his taxes

Please tell us exactly how this temporary UK government is playing dirty and who is the instigator?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 29, 2019:

This proroguing is a perfectly normal parliamentary procedure during Party conference season, the closing of parliament for 4 to 10 days to allow for the government to take instruction (at least in theory) from the respective party memberships. What is NOT normal is to prorogue the queen to close parliament so early and for so long a period of time as to effectively cripple the government in the run up to a major political event, prevent debate and allow for dictatorial rule by the prime minister.

AUTODIDACTICISM.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 29, 2019:

Wonderful, a marvelous word.

Anyone ever seen Burt Lancaster's first film, "The Killers" was released on this date in 1946.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 28, 2019:

Excellent film, but a bit of a push calling it Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, since the short story by Hemmingway covers only five minute of the film.

[jta.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 28, 2019:

Some here may recall the famous case of Doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen, executed in 1910 for the murder of his wife in cold blood. His name is still a synonym for murderer, though he insisted to the moment he was dropped and hanged by the neck that he was innocent. The two years ago three pieces of evidence came to light 1) a letter written by Mrs Crippen from the USA to then home secretary Winston Churchill proclaiming she was alive and well and living in Wisconsin. The letter was apparently misplaced by Churchill and was uncovered during research for a new biography in his collected papers. 2) The blood stain found on a mattress found in Cripin's basement was from a man 3) Mrs Crippen's death certificate under her new married name was found in Wisconsin dated many years after the unfortunate doctors execution. decedents of the Crippen family are still fighting for a posthumous pardon for their ancestor, however until such time as one is granted in the eyes of history and the law the interred remains of an innocent man remain in unhallowed ground and the man himself is still a convicted murderer with no right of appeal, because of course he is dead, a life cut short in punishment for a crime he definitely did not commit. This is why no matter how "Obvious" it is that some one is guilty of a crime state sanctioned execution is never a suitable punishment, as it is neither a punishment nor is it Justice, it is a public act revenge.

Aspersion: An attack on the reputation of someone or something.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 28, 2019:

The second meaning is the original meaning, the primary usage is ironic and figurative as aspersio is the Latin verb to sprinkle. even today in high church the device used for the sprinkling of holy water is called an aspergillum

I literally was wrong.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 28, 2019:

The whole point of the word literally, in such a context is to differentiate the sentence from metaphor, and figurative descriptions. It was and is not an emphasis but has been accepted as such through no other reason but ignorance and the attempts of the largely illiterate to sound educated without actually bothering to understand what they are saying. "*I* Know what *I* mean" is a pointless protestation if no one else has a clue, or because of your word choice believe "you" to mean something entirely different.

Little Caesars hangs sign on door after catching homeless people eating scraps from dumpster

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2019:

USA greatest country in the world folks, 'cos President Trump says so were folks are free to feed themselves from dumpsters.

Little Caesars hangs sign on door after catching homeless people eating scraps from dumpster

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2019:

Love the comment about "she is feeding them because your god won't" and the feeble excuse to try and give back credit to imaginary sky daddy

[dailykos.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2019:

Thing is Bedbugs don't just appear spontaneously, they have to be carried in either by staff or guests, they can be got rid of relatively easily but have to be traced to their source.

[jta.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2019:

Kill someone to show just how wrong killing people is The death penalty has a 0% recidivist rate Yet still people kill people, so we have to keep on killing people until people get the message killing is not right. Of course it makes perfect sense,

Coterie Part of speech: noun a tightly knit group of people with a common interest or goal an...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2019:

Similar to a Clique

"Fred Gwynne on lunch break during the filming of the first season of THE MUNSTERS.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2019:

I love Fred Gwynne a criminally under rated actor, the Ron Perlman of his day.

YONDERLY.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2019:

According to the late great Sir Terry Pratchett, such words all originate via race memory from the fear instilled in all the people of Eastern Europe by the spooky and dangerous palace known only as "Yonder Castle", (after the infamous baby eating Barron Yonder) as in such famous phrases as **"I would not visit *Yonder Castle,* were I you!"** Such admonitions usually accompanied by a clap of psycho reactive thunder and the whinny of distant horses. EDIT Unbelievably I just out of fun googled this and found there is a Yonder Castle in Shrewsbury England

One of the causes/problems that I believe in is mentoring young men who have no "father" figure in ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2019:

We must teach our children to be kind and to warn them that if you punch a bully in the face he or she will likely come back with a gang and put you in hospital. Bullies are a social problem that society must take seriously and deal within early life and stop promoting violence in the home as a good thing. Oh and also NOT all bullies are boys or men women have and are bullies too. We must teach our sons and daughters to prefer peace, war is not exciting or easy or something to be glorified or wished for in oder to make armaments profits. Teach this to all people and deal with those deranged enough to think otherwise BEFORE they become a problem. The enemy of violence is not more violence it is education. There is still darkness in this world true but the answer of to darkness is not to cover it in another layer of gun and bomb smoke. offense being the best defense is a dangerous myth. You teach the coming generations to see the value in peace, and mutual cooperation. The responsibility to raise intelligent and compassionate people lays with the parent or parents of all people as members of a justly governed society that values people more than profits.

Well,,, you have to admit, Elton requires a MUCH bigger stage, and a back stage, taking away a lot ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2019:

Yes but people will pay to see Elton, Trump has to threaten his audience with losing a days pay if they don't turn up

There are a lot of products in supermarkets that I would never buy.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2019:

Beetroot, who wants to eat a vegetable that bleeds?

"Stand By Me" was released on this date in 1986.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2019:

Voice over artist, insane dead and Wesley Crusher

2 Kings 17:24-25 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV): The king of Assyria brought people from ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2019:

Another of the tenants of the OT gawd Worship me or I'll sick my lions on you

"Morons" is more appropriate!

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2019:

Those alien know what they meant

Exploring Scottish Expletives.... 😂😂 By all means chime in as to possible meanings!

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2019:

Cockwomble is one of the best words invented in the last few decades

Boiling five pounds of bullshit down to one sentence

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2019:

Brevity is the soul of wit.

WHATABOUTERY.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2019:

In Philosophy and Rhetoric this known as a the Tu Quoque (You Too) logical fallacy and falls broadly under the umbrella of Ad hominem, since it attacks the interlocutor and not the argument, indicating a potential hypocrisy and mocking it. My guess is that Tu Quoque (2 Cock) mixed with the word fallacy (Phallus-ee) was two open to double entendre and was replaced by infantile term in the OP

You really can not make some shit up.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

Just goes to prove that Trump has made that which was unacceptable three years ago legitimate again, when your president calls you a fine person the racist ignorant pigs are going to believe him.

I saw something last night, and I need some help understanding. Can anyone help me?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

So much evil, especially toward animals is condoned by that catch all excuse "It's traditional" Chopping bits off your kids because god says so is traditional too, and we're only just beginning to stop doing that, well get round to stopping these barbarous sports eventually I suppose.

Trump Says He Was Joking When He Called Himself ‘The Chosen One’

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

No he meant to say he was a member of the master race.

Cardinal Pell Loses Appeal Against Conviction For Sexually Abusing Children | Michael Stone

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

Good, Pell is an evil ponce and deserves everything he has got coming to him.

Pompeo says God may have sent Trump to save Israel from Iran - BBC News

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

Oh for fuck sake. When all else fails claim it is god's will.

50 Things Only People Who Lived in the 1970s Will Remember

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

Some good memories there, but several of them are America exclusive.

Court delivers brutal ruling against Kim Davis — the Kentucky clerk who blocked same-sex marriages...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

This woman is evil and yet she is treated by some as a hero. Sickening.

Sorry guys, I have not been posting much in the past several months.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

No just human, I can empathize, I have struggled with depression my whole life, All we can do is accept it is a part of who we are, that it contributes to what makes us a whole and complete person. It is not being defective it is being unique and an individual, which of course is never easy but ultimately worthwhile.

I'm aware that this meme is designed to upset me.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

This meme is a reworking of a moral panic campaign run by the British "News" Paper the Daily Express in 2015, the give away is the mention of free medical care, free school meals and education is almost verbatim. The kick back ultimately lead to the Express changing hands from notorious Porn Barron Richard Desmond two year later and becoming a part of the Trinity Group. The Express is a notoriously bigoted and ultra right wing rag that sells mainly on four variations of panic stirring headlines they are in order of popularity Princess Dianna would have saved the country if she had not been murdered, falling house prices will bankrupt everyone, immigration is out of control and A.I.D. S. is going to kill us all. British comedian Russell Howard once stated the ideal Express headline is "foreigners carry an new form of AIDS that lowers house prices and murdered Princess Dianna."

Is it true?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

Unfortunately when someone like this dies, it is only like blowing out the match that started the Forrest fire. The damage is done and the effects are out of control.

effrontery noun ef·​fron·​tery | \ i-ˈfrən-tə-rē : shameless boldness : INSOLENCE

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

Reminds me of another of my favorite words "Temerity"

It: chapter two.. Anyone heard about it?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2019:

I'm waiting to be able to sit and watch the whole story in a sitting. Though to be honest I don't think anyone is going to displace Tim Curry in my mind as the definitive Pennywise.

How to stop men from picking up a precious wood sculpture?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

Sorry but if you leave something that looks like an ash tray on a table in a room people are going to think it is a bowl or an ash tray simple as that. I have a display cabinet in my front room and anything precious to me (mainly presents or achievements by my kids and grand kids, but some art and antiques) are kept behind glass, safe and clean.

Makes sense.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

***plus ça change*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqkT4B-9MGk

if you're like me, you've seen alot of the sci-fi & horror on cable & netflix.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

Timothy Spall is usually a guarantee of quality, an excellent actor.

Fred and Ginger movies on TCM all evening.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

We don't get TCM in the UK anymore, a real shame I used to watch all the time.

Stupid, stupid, stupid! Appeals Court: It’s Legal for PA House to Block Atheists from Giving ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

That is a travesty and in effect acknowledges that because it is traditional the USA is in effect a theocracy. For fuck sake Christians and Muslims killing one another is traditional in this same sense especially when invoking a higher power to assist in doing so. Well another instance of donkeys being lead by asses.

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

The American dream in action, just think of that the next time someone tells you liberals are trying to destroy your way of life.... THESE ARSEHOLES **ARE** your way of life taken to logical conclusion.

‪I just saw a video of a woman in the hospital having to be fed intravenously her food.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

She needs to sue, it is still a health necessity and the method of administration is therapy. Your insurance companies are (pardon my French) a shower of bastards.

We need to prepare for this

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

Oh they is..

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

Should be arrest for incitement.

For the most part, I agree with these ... what say you ?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

This is not monogamy, this obsessiveness, this treating a partner as a slave, a chattel, a drudge and "whipping boy" for want of a better term.

I feel like a turkey in the summer run-up to Thanksgiving.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

Uuuuhh I'm hungry now

Christopher Hitchens had slight variations on this over the years but this is a composite of my ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

Let the Lord Jesus in to your heart! *why?* So he can save you *Save me from what?* For the fucking up He and his followers will give you if you don't let him in!

[disclose.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

I think the first minute of this clips sums it up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b811-wtthOQ

Russian jet soars to stratosphere, shows Earth’s curvature

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2019:

FLAT... it's flat I say, all this stuff is fake, has been faked for centuries all a part of the ominous plan of THEM!!!!

Countries with universal healthcare: 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 🇫🇮 ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

The USA because bullets are cheaper than antibiotics so who need health care?

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

There cannot be many names left in that hat for Trump to pick while blindfolded

I've been an atheist since I was 15 years old, my mom says she's a Christian.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

"She also says she's a theosophist." I'd bet money she has no idea what that means lol. Ask her if she follows the teachings Madame Helena Blavatsky or the ravings of Roslyn D'Onston

Pastor warns of ‘demonic sacrifice’ to make Trump ‘bloodiest president in American history’ ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

*"Francis Myles, leader of the Lovefest Church in Tempe, Arizona..."* Is that not a sentence you expect to see underneath a headline reading **120 Tragically Found Dead in Ritual Suicide**

Nasty fucking assholes

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

Right wing compassion folks, feed the homeless and it will make them lazy and lose motivation to find work. There is a word for that sort of thinking... oh yes thats it BOLLOCKS!!!

Hitch.... [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

Oh how I miss Christopher.

Cruising the Internet today and came across a perfectly luscious word for this group.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

Naval gazing actually can induce a trance like state, prolonged bending of the neck limits bends and partially closes the veins and arteries in the neck, lowering the blood flow to the brain, starving it of oxygen and inducing sleepiness, trance like feelings and or hallucination.

Source: [literarydevices.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

This is a word to describe probably my favourite joke of all time "I was not close to my father when he died Which was probably for the best He stood on a land mine"

[sciencenews.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2019:

Fascinating this would suggest that the photons are able move beyond the 3 dimensions that we experience while using quantum entanglement to remain anchored to them. The possibilities for exploitation of such a discovery are extraordinary and exciting.

Atrocious use of power religion is nasty to allow this

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2019:

Says more about the Judge than the pervy perp. Either Hizzoner was scared of going to Hell for locking up a pastor, or someone had the goods on him too?

Rare first glimpse at restored creatures created by stop motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen | Creative ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2019:

Harryhausen was wonderful, so glad to see Gwangi among the restored models, his T Rex from Valley of the Gwangi can still give CGI a run for it's money even today.

[dailykos.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2019:

Logic republican NRA style Trumpite NRA: Mentally ill people who commit mass shootings should not be allowed to have a gun Mental health professionals: Agreed, but since the only way of diagnosing a mass shooter is that they have already killed a fuck ton of people... Trumpite NRA: You cannot suspend the right to bear arms just because some one "might" kill a fuck ton of people, that is unconstitutional Mental health professional: So? Trumpite NRA: So we will no longer sell guns to diagnosed mass shooters Mental health professional: But most of them die in the committing of the crime Trumpite NRA: Well there you go then problem solved.

"Do you feel that it's unethical or racist for a white person to compliment a black person on a ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

There is no one tone of black skin, just as there is no single skin tone for any ethnicity and thus yes a black person can get a tan and might well enjoy being complimented if the intent is complimentary rather than mockery. My school friend Courtney came from St. Vincent and was very dark skinned but his older sister who was his guardian had a different father who was white and thus had far less melanin but was still obviously west Indian, during the summer she would sun bathe and her skin would darken just like anyone else, and never took it as an insult to be complimented on her noticeable suntan (she was a very attractive woman and was admired by most of Courtney's friends so got plenty of compliments anyway, well it was the seventies).

I need your opinion!!! When I saw the photo on the right I immediately thought that it was Gregor...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

It seems like pictures of Barsanti are often mistakenly used for Mendel and vice versa they are very alike but this is Mendel

[jta.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

This is odd, the "incident" apparently happened November 2018, came to the school authorities notice in March of this year and is being reported today. Every report I can find quotes it's source as The Daily Beast, it appears to have been reported nowhere else independently. The song is not named but is said to be by "Herms Niel" which is not a real name it is the nick name of Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann Nielebock who wrote military music in both wars and in all fairness Neileblock was after 1934 a card carrying Nazi, but most of his music was instrumental with one exception "Das Engellandlied" (song of the Angels) written and published in 1939 with lyrics by Hermann Löns a poet killed in WW one so most definitely not a Nazi. However since the music in the video cuts off after three notes it is impossible to say what they were singing. If this was a school awards ceremony why was it not dealt with at the time, the video does not appear to be taking place in a school, it is a smallish social room somewhere. I just have a feeling that though highly distasteful, this behaviour maybe a part of a larger story, or a much lesser one, designed to garner attention and it is not really covert filming it is all very staged. It will be interesting to see how it develops

Since there always seems to be an upcoming election for something and a non-stop parade of political...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

It is a very old maxim that people who *want* to become politicians should be immediately barred from doing so.

Perv who snapped pics of woman in dressing room turns out to be high-ranking Mormon church official...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

A High councilor is not actually a "Top" Mormon position, it is a low ranking stake calling mostly designated to preparing 8 year old boys to take the Aaronic priesthood (the lower of the 2 LDS priesthoods) after baptism. It sounds important but really is not. The Mormons have a habit of giving important sounding names to piddling little jobs so every pathetic little guy can give his wife something to boast about to the other wives. NOT that this is like to be relevant to this perv for much longer. EDIT dedicated not designated sorry

I've often wished believers would understand what's going to happen in Heaven.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

I know, the Christian heaven is basically an eternal sentence to be a groveling sycophant in perpetuity

Priest Bans Black Housekeeper And Blames His Racist Dog

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2019:

It is a very rare breed known to the kennel club as Nazium canis illegitimus identifiable by the black garb and twisted cross worn by it's owner.

QUIDNUNC.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2019:

Though literally Quid Nunc means What now? It can also be translated contextually as "something of the moment" or colloquially "the latest titbit "

Can anyone tell me where the original lyrics for Scotland The Brave come from.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2019:

I can't recall off hand where it came from bu there is a movie quote I love where after quoting Burns an American tourist tell a highlander "He was a wise old Scottish Jew that Rabbi Burns!" EDIT It was from "The Battle of the Sexes" (1960)

[aol.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2019:

Because Mr Garner was clearly guilty of being Black in the presence of of a police officer, which of course is tantamount to suicide. The officer concerned was probably fired for allowing his uniform to get dirty while handling an unpleasant suspect. It all makes perfect sense when you think about it. Before any of the hard of thinking calls me a racist bastard I was being sarcastic, dismissal is the least he should be suffering.

I almost named the art gallery the Glorious Gallimaufry ga-lə-ˈmȯ-frē Part of speech: noun...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2019:

I have often wondered if the home planet of the Time Lords Gallifrey is a contraction of this word.

What's the biggest red flag when meeting new people?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2019:

they look like this

Quiz: Only 1 in 50 People Know The Meaning Of These 16 Old-Fashioned Words - Women.com

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2019:

100% even though some of them are actually wrong and don't include the actual meaning in their multiple choice options, but instead give secondary colloquial meanings as the right answers.

Man finds $100 dollar bill on the ground.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 18, 2019:

Luck is either good or bad depending on the perspective from which it is viewed.

I’m confused (again)! What is this business about Ken Clarke being a caretaker PM and why is ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 18, 2019:

Damn for a minute there I thought that said Clark Kent for PM and thought I had slipped in to an alternate reality.

What's the biggest red flag when meeting new people?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 18, 2019:

Human animals are naturally predatory, self serving and territorial. They can be altruistic and compassionate, but only when it serves an end that will benefit them too. Your casual friends should be those who are friendly to you, not those to whom you are friendly as that will inevitably open you up to being exploited. Your only **true friends** should be those with whom a cautious mutually none reliant, with no expectations on either side, relationship has developed over an extended period of time and where the only benefit derived on either side is the pleasure of one another's company. Human emotional bonds are easy to make, easier to exploit and broken for passion and gain easier than a gluten free pie crust. Socially make sure the new people were introduced to you by some one you already trust and if they start asking questions about you or appear to be pumping you for even innocuous information, change the subject. If this means they make an excuse and leave they were after something and have discounted you as a mark. At work keep things purely professional when meeting some one, don't make friends out of workmates, work environments are not meant to be conducive to equality but to competition over familiar work mates are sizing you up and they will step on you and over you or find away to stop you advancing past them. At work you should be admired by those below you, relied upon by those above you and an open ear to both, while being an open mouth to neither. Experience has taught me that it is okay to like some one, be civil with anyone, but never ever trust anyone until you have known them, experienced their highs and lows and have never been betrayed by them for at least five years. a good rule of thumb is Are their lips moving? Yes? Then they are probably lying to you. **He who is not one up on everyone else is invariably one down, it is the purpose of the art of lifemanship to *always* be oneup on everyone else.** ***Stephen Potter 1950***

Everyone loves the Beatles

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 18, 2019:

George was massively under rated, a wonderful talent.

PRESTIDIGITATION.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 18, 2019:

Hence "hey Presto"

[dailykos.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2019:

Yes there is an ongoing investigation after NRA CEO tried to get the NRA to buy him a $6million house because he had received on line death threats, which lead to them discovering he had since his promotion spent a quarter of a million $ on clothes and filed it as expenses, even though he is only ever seen in one black suit.

Wow. Mormons banning something. That's amazing. So iced lattes are okay then?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2019:

anything is possible

Ditch the mitch

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2019:

British users might get this don't panic, don't panic!!!

Mother and daughter arrested after ‘insane’ racist rampage leaves several people injured at ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2019:

What you mean all this happened and NO ONE got shot? Are you sure this happened in the USA?

I have an entire database that tracks how long mainstream media covers mass shootings.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2019:

Familiarity breeds contempt, or in he case of news boredom. 😢

Retrial Of Rape Victim's Murder Charges After Delivering Stillborn

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2019:

Unbelievably ignorant and cruel

Heil Honey I'm Home: The Nazi-Themed Sitcom Canceled After One Episode | Mental Floss

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2019:

"Heil Honey I'm Home" constantly dragged out and paraded as the worst sitcom ever made. The reality is even more odd, eight episodes were commissioned and two were made (The pilot, and Hitler in the closet) only one was ever broadcast, by the short lived satellite channel "British satellite Broadcasting" helmed by media mogul and crook Robert Maxwell. The communion was for a pilot for the most bad taste American sitcom ever set in Nazi Germany. In that it succeeded BSB had a number of dubious practices and one was to measure complaints. During a doctor who marathon they screen two episodes of the first doctor story "The Edge of Destruction" in the wrong order and measured the complaints. Like wise Heil Honey was broadcast under a wave of publicity as the lost episodes of a 1960s forgotten classic by a forgotten genius with warnings of political incorrectness. For myself the obvious give away was having "Guest star" Patrick Cargill as Chamberlain (who had the sense to retire and then die shorty after filming this) for though he was popular in the late 60's and 70's (Father Dear Father etc) he was obviously very old by the 1990 broadcast date. The huge furor that ensued even though BSB was a small channel that was very new proved to BSB that the launch and the push to have people buy "Squariels" the receiver system needed to get BSB had essentially been a flop as their actual "viewer" complaints had been very few and most of the anger was coming days later from people who watched the show on bootleg VHS copies. Even today most people like "Brad, the cinema snob Jones" can only get their hands on such copies as can be seen from the quality. BSB merged with Sky only a few weeks later and some believe the losses incurred were what contributed to the disappearance and death of Maxwell less than a year later. In short "Heil Honey I'm Home" was a joke and a publicity stunt meant to illicit complaints that backfired spectacularly by people unable to recognize it for what it was

Has anybody watched "the Family" on Netflix?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2019:

yes, very disturbing and frightening

Pete Best Reveals He Also Fired From The Who, Queen, Pink Floyd, And The Kinks Before They Took Off...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 16, 2019:

Funny, but in truth Keith Moon of The Who did one night in a famous club, drunkenly once try to get Paul McCartney to fire Ringo and hire him instead, McCartney mistakenly thought Moon's demand to join him was an attempted to wrangle an invitation to dinner until Roger Daltry came across the club and demanded to know why he was trying to poach their drummer.

obfuscate - to make obscure or unintelligible

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 16, 2019:

One of my favourite words

Here we go again! 😖 Labor Dept.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 16, 2019:

That being the case, surely the separation of church and state should demand that Faith-Based Federal Contractors be discriminated against?

Platitude - a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 16, 2019:

That is the Oxford dictionary definition, however it is a little outdated, as today Platitude is more a derogatory term for a meaningless cliche or phrase used to placated or draw an stop to an argument or discussion without actually achieving anything. A great example being that revolting perennial favorite **"Sending thoughts and prayers"**