You level 8 people are quite up there and hard to please but thanks for the posts, It warms my heart...

brentan comments on May 18, 2019:

Surely our higher level just came from starting to post before you did. Is there a pissy attitude to newer people?

I can't decide if everyone knows how to play the harmonica or no one knows how to play the ...

brentan comments on Sep 29, 2018:

I know Larry Adler could play it really well. I'm hopeless.

Nonsense......

brentan comments on Feb 17, 2019:

How dairy!

For The Europeans.

brentan comments on May 25, 2018:

It has been a great opportunity to offload the most intrusive of spammers. The worst offender in my case was Multilotto.

What are YOUR doomsday fears??

brentan comments on Jun 11, 2019:

That was an interesting way of putting it: 'The limbic system of the brain versus the frontal cortex'. Curiously, I've heard several good thinkers claim that the frontal cortex is the problem rather than the solution.

"Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to." -Mark Twain

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

When I think of some of the awful or very stupid things I did in my life, I could wince never mind blush.

Need to find someone who’s a successful adult ?

brentan comments on Mar 29, 2019:

No, not me.

Gotta love it!

brentan comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Fuck that! I'm going to live forever.

My wife has been out for dinner to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary. I tagged along!!! ????

brentan comments on Mar 9, 2019:

It's good to be supportive at times like that.

Watching Spanish language TV is like dating for me.

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2018:

I should check the Spanish TV box on Mobdro.

Always plenty of Trump bullshit

brentan comments on Mar 29, 2019:

All that will be forgiven when he gets the infrastructure plan going.

I just came to a realization I just realized I’m still angry with my ex husband (married 20 ...

brentan comments on Jan 27, 2020:

For what it's worth, it happens to men too. I never knew how fulfilling life could be by following my own star and that star was demeaned by my wife so I could never apply myself to it. Now it's full-steam ahead! I hope you too have things you love and can pursue now that you're free to do so.

Spam Alert, there are subliminal messages being used to get people to buy into things they normally ...

brentan comments on Jan 28, 2019:

I need to buy a jigsaw puzzle.

Sean is now hiding in the luggage rack out the door.

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

I guess you can love nature too much.

You can't help but some times laugh at these people doing these shows, but then you feel so bad for ...

brentan comments on Nov 18, 2019:

That's appalling!

Sometimes the sun can cast unintended shadows

brentan comments on Mar 29, 2019:

The shadow of intent.

Okay, I joined because, well, I'm in my 50s. When did THIS happen?

brentan comments on Nov 14, 2018:

We should contribute to society. after all, Soylent Green is people.

An Ottoman supply train still resting where it was ambushed by Lawrence of Arabia 103 years ago on ...

brentan comments on Nov 20, 2019:

Wow! Where's the railway? Gone like Ozymandias?

AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT REVIEWS UNIONS!

brentan comments on Oct 17, 2018:

Quit yer bitchin' and wait for the wealth to trickle down.

New research suggests that men can actually tell from a woman's voice when she is menstruating.

brentan comments on Oct 17, 2018:

Is it if she says "I'm going to fucking kill you, you bastard".

Apple Butter.

brentan comments on Feb 19, 2019:

Either that or some Chinese guy.

Grammar, Bitches!

brentan comments on Feb 20, 2019:

Time for cocoa, Heather.

$$$$$$$$$$

brentan comments on Apr 15, 2019:

Very good! James Joyce refers to the town motto of Dublin, Georgia, whose immigrants played with the word in a similar way: https://americanidyll.blogspot.com/2007/11/thus-begins-finnegans-wake.html

Why Trump left Walter Reed in such a hurry.

brentan comments on Oct 15, 2020:

That sure would rached up your fear.

“Hang on to your ego.” [tricycle.org]

brentan comments on Jan 27, 2019:

A clear head on a dull day.

“Do not judge, or you will be judged.

brentan comments on Jun 24, 2018:

Judging as assessing V Judging as punishing I think assessing people is absolutely fine.

Sounds like fun

brentan comments on Apr 14, 2019:

The dirty Jezebel!

AG William Barr: “Men Are Far Likelier to Obey Rules That Come from God” | Hemant Mehta | ...

brentan comments on Feb 29, 2020:

Women are more religious but they're pragmatic enough to only do it when it doesn't matter.

This says it all

brentan comments on Jun 3, 2019:

That sounds fair enough and a big help in a challenging world.

Over the years I have found that whatever subject you choose to study, the result is similar ...

brentan comments on Jun 8, 2020:

For me, I'm driven by curiosity. I'm interested in pretty much everything. Nowadays, it has become like an obsession to vacuum up every scrap of knowledge I can find before I take my leave of this world. I'm not put off by the fact that, looked at from another perspective, it seems a dreadful waste of time if you can't take it with you. The quest for knowledge is a pleasure in itself.

Irony at its best

brentan comments on Jun 22, 2019:

You have to be more understanding where teenagers are involved. They would try the patience of a saint.

Is it against site rules to have two accounts?

brentan comments on Nov 24, 2018:

To be sure, to be sure!

Stolen Milk Duds

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

People can be such judgmental fuckers.

That's gonna be a problem.

brentan comments on Aug 6, 2019:

Play dead!

Hahahahaha! What a dufus! 🤣 Megachurch Pastor Claims Teaching Children Evolution Causes Mass ...

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

He's not connecting the dots at all.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

brentan comments on Nov 20, 2019:

Yes indeed. 'By their fruits you'll know them'.

Got home to find a note from the missus on the fridge...

brentan comments on Nov 20, 2018:

Gosh, I completely relate to that. Goodbye and good luck!

Too many facts this morning

brentan comments on Feb 19, 2019:

Oh gosh, that was funny!

My own opinion, as an academic biblical scholar, is that there is not enough evidence to settle the ...

brentan comments on Sep 20, 2020:

I would expect something more from an academic.

Denouement - noun: From the French - Day-noo-mong; 1 The end of a story in which everything is...

brentan comments on Aug 27, 2018:

I'm excited already! The thought of a woman in denoued!

Before the germ theory of disease became popularly understood, it was common to believe that sick ...

brentan comments on Jul 8, 2020:

Well, I'm fine with live and let live. There is a theory - Owen Barfield and Julian Jaynes are two writers behind it - that not very long ago the nature of human consciousness was very different and people credited much more to the supernatural than we do now. I think religious observance is a hangover from that. My attitude these days is that the word God works as a placemat for 'the things we don't know'.

Dat glue tho.....

brentan comments on Apr 25, 2019:

When sticky fingers was an innocent term.

"What could possibly go wrong?" Timmy Turner

brentan comments on Apr 25, 2019:

Stay alive, Bernie!

POIGNANT: poign-ant.

brentan comments on Oct 9, 2018:

It was a poignant moment when the actor forgot his lines, perhaps more for the audience than the actor himself.

I laughed. Poor kid.

brentan comments on Oct 14, 2019:

Oh, that is so cold!

We will we will rock you! 🎵

brentan comments on May 14, 2020:

If only he knew at the time.

Not an Uncommon word, but an oddity of English.

brentan comments on Mar 15, 2019:

That's really curious. I wonder if there is a name for this word order.

Best advice! ❤

brentan comments on Oct 23, 2019:

I was lucky that my father was like that.

In the Midnight Hour.....

brentan comments on Jun 20, 2019:

I guess it's the haircut.

Hello group! My intro post will be an original joke, so fair warning how funny could it possibly ...

brentan comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Terrible. Just terrible. Welcome to the forum!

Is This Really The United States?- Redneck Area?

brentan comments on Jun 7, 2018:

I'm sure they're just misunderstood.

More proof that the system is rigged:

brentan comments on Mar 19, 2019:

That's because the profit is going to trickle down sometime. I'm not sure when.

That's one ugly chicken!

brentan comments on Jul 27, 2019:

Ok. That explains 'choke the chicken'.

You dirty rat

brentan comments on Oct 17, 2019:

Well, it's the thought that counts.

Yesterday, while cooling my heels in the ER.

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

There is no avoiding the man when we are ill.

Conspirators Claim Burger King's Impossible Whopper Giving Men Breasts Burger King’s ...

brentan comments on Dec 29, 2019:

I've been successfully growing breasts on copious pints of Guinness for years. It's great to hear I can now do it on a balanced diet.

These would all be really good band names.

brentan comments on May 11, 2019:

I'll bet God never conceived the shit people get up to these days.

The bible god/Yahweh/Jesus is the greatest abortionist.

brentan comments on Mar 8, 2020:

Yahweh/Jesus aren't the problem. They don't exist. The problem is the believers - no, not believers in general - just those who are fundies and adopt the psychology of the Bible as virtuous.

In my long pursuit for a relationship I must share some wisdom.

brentan comments on May 26, 2020:

Fair dues. It's witty.

Who needs 50 Shades...

brentan comments on Oct 27, 2018:

I hate a lot of these new phrases. I think most of them come (no, don't) from porn. One that came from a recent rape trial in Ireland was 'spit roast'. It's really offensive to refer to a human being that way.

Just so you know...

brentan comments on Apr 15, 2020:

You're a better man than I am.

Canada.

brentan comments on Jun 23, 2019:

I like the idea in principle, not being sure what all the ramifications will be.

From the heart ❤️

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

I think that word 'special' has the two meanings there.

Are they happier because they live in a goddamn dream world where fluffy happy clouds and rainbows ...

brentan comments on Feb 6, 2019:

They are happier because they have the benefits of a kind of tribal living. It is a huge support group that many secular people do not enjoy. Loneliness is a huge problem nowadays. The cost of such a life is total commitment to the beliefs and modus operandi of the faith.

I knew the feeling once

brentan comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Not even a van to live in!

In follow up to the recent “loss of temper” post. Keep it in? Let it out?

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2020:

A Poison Tree BY WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I waterd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears: And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night. Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine. And into my garden stole, When the night had veild the pole; In the morning glad I see; My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

Can't catch a break.

brentan comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Yeah, porn is very repetitive and boring. I wish they would make erotic films with good story lines.

Upgrading to level 2

brentan comments on Feb 18, 2019:

Try to agree with people, especially people who have clout on the forum. This knowledge will come with time. If you are particularly open to instruction, you will get messages from the ones with clout to avoid people who have been designated as 'other'. Grow the strong relationships and avoid the fuckers they hate like the plague. You'll find it's very like real life. Before you know where you are, you'll be Level 8 and hosting groups to beat the band!

Eureka! Bacon!!

brentan comments on May 11, 2019:

No doubt.

For those who have trouble sleeping researchers say that 1 week of camping, without electronics, ...

brentan comments on Mar 20, 2019:

There's one week of civilised living lost forever.

Doctors: Then and Now

brentan comments on Jun 16, 2019:

How can we rely on these guys? I guess we don't anyway, now that we know how many mistakes they make.

False prophets for self-profit..

brentan comments on Mar 28, 2019:

Ya gotta have faith! Darn atheistic hospital patients! Benny can't help them.

Just in case you might possibly have forgotten; we are god damn lucky to be here.

brentan comments on Dec 18, 2019:

And a very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it! Enjoy!

Points aren't totalling-Been at same total all day today.

brentan comments on Dec 5, 2018:

It's time for the talking to stop and a move to action. We need a class action suit. But how can we be compensated for such a serious loss? We would have to try it in a state that still used capital punishment and that might not be allowed..

116th Diversified Congress!

brentan comments on Nov 23, 2018:

The future is so bright we'll have to wear shades!

Believing without evidence is always morally wrong | Aeon Ideas

brentan comments on Nov 7, 2018:

I love that expression about the spreading of religion as 'polluting the well of collective knowledge'.

I think most of us can relate once in a while! :D

brentan comments on Apr 28, 2019:

My mistake.... four coffins. OK, not good.

"An elder is wise, not because they are always right, because they have more experiences of being ...

brentan comments on Jun 6, 2019:

I blame old people for the disrespect they get from the young. So many people older have not learned a darn thing from their mistakes, often not even accepting they made mistakes.

Former 25 year president of the National Secular Society gives scathing critique on competence of ...

brentan comments on Jul 29, 2018:

The 'best' excuse I ever heard for God doing nothing for so long is that he has to prove Satan wrong about how humans should live. We're the collateral damage along the way.

“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

brentan comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I think we all do that.

At Magical Gardens, Philadelphia

brentan comments on Oct 15, 2018:

Nice!

And on the 8th day, god created the remmington bolt-action rifle.

brentan comments on Jun 1, 2019:

A lot of people think Sodom was destroyed over homosexuality. It happened, according to the prophet Ezekiel, because of pride, greed and general immorality (Ezekiel chapter 16). I think society is destroying itself these days for the same reasons.

And to think these fuckers breed.

brentan comments on Mar 12, 2019:

There was a song I haven't heard in a long time called 'Blame It On The Kellys' where the chorus went 'if the sun refuse to shine blame it on the Kellys It was about Ned Kelly and his brothers. These guys and their obsession with blaming Jews for everything remind me of it.

This! A thousand times this.

brentan comments on Jan 14, 2019:

I blame Protestanism for preaching the idea that spirituality and success in life are proportional. I think the epitome of this thinking can be seen in Joel Osteen's ministry.

I am going to vote for the cantidate who vows never to attend a "prayer breakfast".....

brentan comments on Aug 2, 2018:

You'll end up voting as often as a Jehovah's Witness.

ATAVISTIC.

brentan comments on Jan 1, 2019:

I must have always mixed it up with avatar.

I feel this is true for most people who finally open their eyes to reality.

brentan comments on May 29, 2018:

It is liberating to feel you know the hard truth about life. It's hard because it takes away the foggy notion of everlasting life. This life is it. For very religious people and people who were steeped in what seemed like scriptural certainties about the next life, it is a very palpable loss.

Further evidence that you have to be more specific when you advertise..

brentan comments on Mar 20, 2019:

The family jewels - Took my diamond to the pawnshop But that don't make it junk. - L. Cohen

Man, spring is finally here! I can finally let my dawgs breath 😂

brentan comments on May 18, 2019:

It's a new lease on life. I've been deliberately walking on grass.

Even the UK Statue of the Man Who Founded the Boy Scouts Is Coming Down | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

brentan comments on Jun 16, 2020:

That might be justified. I think he did a lot of good.

Gratitude?

brentan comments on Nov 30, 2019:

Appreciation might be a similar experience.

Ouch, right for the jugular!

brentan comments on Nov 10, 2019:

Miss Piggy is a terrible bitch.

Richard Dawkins. Too much or bang on?

brentan comments on Aug 19, 2018:

He was all fired up. How could he have bashed his way through the world of religious stupidity if he was not 'too much'? Newer atheists have an easier time than he did, because he did it first. I think he should never have lowered himself to engage with Twitter but overall (having read two of his books as well as the usual), I think he has contributed a huge body of knowledge to the world of genetics and helped cut the feet out from under an arrogant and often criminal clergy.

Only in Mississippi

brentan comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Could it possibly mean there are less votes in child health after they are born? Nah, couldn't be.

Now I understand...

brentan comments on May 26, 2020:

But, but, but.....what's the problem?

Love your.....

brentan comments on Jun 22, 2019:

I'm on it. Better late than never.

Just chattin'...

brentan comments on Apr 6, 2019:

Oh gosh. Were the last two letters that troublesome?

Is this money well spent?🤔😁

brentan comments on Nov 12, 2019:

I've been questioning the purpose of my own stiff willy for some time now.

This gave me a good laugh this morning.

brentan comments on May 13, 2019:

.... or not.

This is really funny🤣😂🤣😂

brentan comments on Apr 19, 2019:

If I was him, I'd keep it to myself.