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With all of the leaks that kept happening, you’d think that everything that could be leaked about this administration would have already been leaked by now, but this week’d prove you wrong.
Saturday, 28-Sep-19 01:52:08 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation That is absolutely right, though we would no doubt get into a Dexter vs Mandark slapfight situation over the real definition of 'leak' ( and even less doubt regarding 'what is and what is not a whistle-blower' ). I know for a fact that I am not going to run out of popcorn any time soon.
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I woke up today by the lovely sound of someone lockpicking my front door. Called the police and jammed the doors to my living room. It took the police 21 minutes to get here.
Afterwards I found out that
1. my upstairs neighbour lost his keys and asked one of his family members to pick his front door.
2. The police to have tazed a non-compliant civvie.
3. That my upstairs neighbour hates me now for calling the police.
You can probably imagine how kiwied I am RN.Friday, 27-Sep-19 10:39:16 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Oh and yes, I absolutely agree that actually using a piece of machinery/tool ( it being a gun, tazer, WE, ) should be the last ditch effort to resolve something.
Then again I did not see what happened, so I do not think I should reserve any 'buts' or 'what if' regarding to what happened in what is essentially my hallway.
Hmm, kinda glad I said yes to the councelling now, though I am probably going to end up being the most philosofistic person that councellor faces this year.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony I get having one's guard up, but considering how many people are shot in the back while running, or tazed while already handcuffed on the ground, I do believe the system as a whole qualifies as triggerhappy. And, yeah, it is an environmental thing, and one of our own cultural creation. And everyone's trapped in it, and the whole country is in a constant, secret Mexican standoff, where the first person to try to escape (put down the gun) is liable to get shot. But someone's gotta go first, and I wouldn't ask the party who had been whipped by the system for 250+ years to be the first to yield.
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@scribus "considering how many people are shot in the back while running, or tazed while already handcuffed on the ground, I do believe the system as a whole qualifies as triggerhappy." - Scribus
Yeah, and that is something that should not happen. Maybe I am too simple in thinking like this, but you would think that body cams and stuff like that would before-long filter out all the bad cops from the good cops.
"I wouldn't ask the party who had been whipped by the system for 250+ years to be the first to yield." - Scribus
I understand that, then again with one side of the 'non-debate' getting irrationally angry when someone utters 'Pizza Lives Matter' or 'No Lives Matter' ( actual words obscured for the sake of my sanity lest we actually fall down that hole ). I think that you are WAAAAAAY too far ahead of reality if you think anyone in their right mind would even put down a gun.
A is too afraid that it is a trick, B is too afraid of losing leverage.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Besides which that wasn’t even the point. Again.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 20:49:24 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Nope, I have no idea what an intentionally topical joke is, considdering I do not know the topic RN.
However I was not talking about your "Couch Gag" things. I was talking about, oh Idunno, Swole Foods, and the Twin Souls, and pretty much all the conversations we, well, some of them did not end well. Still, you slowly but surely get to feel what sort of person you are dealing with.
As such I feel like I kinda know what kinda humor you would like, and the kind you would not like. As such a conversation of what is 'acceptable humor' between the two of us would be quite hard, if not completely abstract.
So who is to say what is and is not deserving of a good old round of Twitter/SocialMedia hatredstorm ? The mob ?
And if it is the mob, do you think that the mob will change when Trump has vacated the White House ? I could make a terrible pun regarding those who shall not be erased RN. But that could be in poor taste, and we both know they will still be around after TrumpJonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Trump comes up literally once in the entirety of The Twin Souls and he isn’t even mentioned by name, what the hell are you on about
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@mrmattimation I was not saying that Trump was in a thing you made. Not at all.
I was saying that I can make a pretty damn well estimate as to what you'll like or what you will not like.
Hence why, and I will quote myself : "I dare to bet on a day of soberness that where I set the bar for what is and is not funny might as well be on a different pane of existence compared to where you put the bar. That is if we were to estimate the distance between the 2 proverbial bars."Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Hey, after Trump’s gone, can we please get comedy back to the way it used to be where an offensive joke wasn’t immediately followed with an unironic bout of legitimate hatred
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 19:57:44 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Do I think you are able to get the Trump out of the White House ? yes. There are ways and means to get that done.
But do I think you can get the Trump out of the Comedians ? I have NO idea how you can get that done, especially for those who have done nothing but make non-stop Trump jokes for the past 4+ years.
Tell you what though, after such a long amount of time there is NO doubt on my mind that these people legitimately hate Trump. The bigger the hateboner the bigger the chance that they will never be funny again. Steven Colbert, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel & Seth Meyers would be my top list of such 'far gone' 'comedians' that should Trump be removed will in all likelyhood never fully recover. Be it through weakness or through fan-expectations and them caving to 'give the fans what they want'.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony those same comedians made nothing but Bush jokes for eight years, they managed just fine after Bush left office
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@mrmattimation That's not really true, all of the Bush jokes I remember were mostly about him being slow or dumb, so like 95%+ of that repertoire was already written before he appeared on a ballot, and 95%+ of the near same jokes after he left office simply went to Mitch McConnel.
I do not know any Mitch McConnel jokes of before or during the Bush era though. Probably because he was still a whip back then.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Probably maybe Trevor Noah is the only one on that list who wasn’t famous before Trump.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 20:50:21 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation He really wasn't. Before Obama's first term he was in Africa. Before Obama's second term he was somewhat active in the stand up community in the States. Aparently that is where Jon Steward actually first met him and propped him up to take over his show.
Sadly, if you look at Trevor's very first stand up routine you can still see all of the elements that make him such a bad comedian today. Most mentionworthy, always laughing at his own jokes before the audience starts to.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Well, I finally deleted my Facebook. Turns out, as part of their fight against fake news, they refuse to fact-check politicians. Absolute garbage.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 16:18:34 UTC from web-
@scribus to be fair, the ones that need to be fact checked contribute like 80% of Facebook’s revenue.
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@scribus The divine powers or yet another GNU Social thing ?
... Yeah I know but I could hope...
But seriously, once you figure how to get more people to use a GNU Social instead of facebook, I would be all ears.
There are SO many people in my immediate surroundings who go "Wait, you did not know what, I posted it on Facebook like a month ago". I would call them stupid boomers but some of them are not even 20 yet.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Hey, whichever comes first, lol. As for getting people to leave the evil empire? No real ideas on that yet.
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"If this phonecall is so damning then why did he even release the transcript, only an idiot would do that"
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"Like he is the only person that does something so bad, right out there in the open that it makes YOU question, on whether it is actually bad"
"Right ?"
Au-contraire, Trevor Noah, I absolutely know it is bad. I mean. I remember the shill words you did for Battlefield V, Tre-Five-Or. ( watch these 25 seconds right here if you want context : http://rainbowdash.net/url/875219 ... Watch the whole thing if you can stand a ranting New Yorker for about 40 minutes. Is it worth it ? I'd say yes )
Tre5or goes on : "it has become somewhat of a political Rorschach test, where Democrats and republicans see what they want to see, it be either a smoking gun, or something to prove innosence. Yet they voted 100-0 on it. ... I think that a guy in a fish costume is WAY better suited as explanation than Tre5or.
I miss Jon Steward so much T_T
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Well I'm grounding meat, preparing for tonight... Thinking about the cow, thinking about the cow, thinking about the cow!
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 07:07:30 UTC from web-
@scribus I am sorry, I can only seem to think about this now .
Warning : Pretty sure my strict aunt would classify that as either NSFW or "weirdo internet batcave" ( which is by her definition NSFW ) http://rainbowdash.net/url/875218
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Well, Dumbledore is dead.
And all I am left wondering is, how are they going to bury a giant spider ?Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 21:32:26 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Well the legs curl up so they don't take up as sprawling of a space
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Left a game running by accident when I went to run an errand.
EVERYONE has Hypothermia now how the heck did that even happen ? I mean it is like all my toons were idling and then decidedly together decided to go swim in the Onsen that currently has 230 Kelvin warm Crude Oil in it.
So many questions.Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 16:41:21 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Guide to modern movie criticism
1 : Say movie is great
2 : Invalidate everyone's opinion who does not like the movie and mention that "Your opinion is all subjective anyway"
3 : "You probably have not seen the movie anyway, but if you actually have, then do not go see the next one"
There, just saved you about an hour, now you do not need to go see http://rainbowdash.net/url/875215 ( Network 1901, DaleKnows, MenAreRuiningStarWars ). Oh I also cut out all the sexist pingas.Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 09:19:35 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I just saw the 5th Harry Potter movie on a the big screen with a couple other people who never saw it before either. We are getting Harry Potter off of our backlogs together.
Easily the worst film if you were to ask me. Most positive thing were easily the undead flying horse-moorhens. Also I am pretty sure I would have liked the book version of Luna Lovegood a lot more.
Well, not really much a spoiler after 12 years but does Lucius Malfoy actually get in trouble for being seen by pretty much all surviving members of the Order of the Phoenix ? or what ? I mean as far as plot holes are concerned my brain is simply overflowing at this point.Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 21:40:10 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Having 3 hours of sleep and a 11 hour work day is not good for my everything.
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@adiwan I'll trade with you.
Well that is impossible sadly, best of luck to you :o . May your near future hold cake or other cool baked goods.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Baked goods like pizza.
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@adiwan Programmer : Noun
1. An organism that turns caffeine and pizza into software
Surely you have read the T-shirts. I would suspect you wanted to get away from your job after 11 hours.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Taking a bicycle through the wet RAIN is NOT good for my MOOD
Achoo !Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 12:10:33 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I just woke up, had a good sleep, I feel good.
I have the feeling I should somehow apologize for over-using the send button somewhere yesterday. Buttons were pressed, and I am not just talking about the Send button. I hope most of you will just silently accept my apology.Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 10:36:57 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Also tbh if you somehow got “Trump is an illegitimate president and Clinton should never have conceded” from a purely numbers-based analysis of what polling looks like right now and how, Actually, they weren’t even wrong last time, then you probably have the total brain development of a baby anyway.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 23:44:55 UTC from web-
@drinkingpony you insisted I said both of those things when I said neither, please learn to read above a kindergarten level
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@mrmattimation Alright, I will bite. I insisted you said what things ?
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@mrmattimation Hold on a minute. Do you believe that I said that you must think that HRC should have never conceded. But where I actually said that HRC did not have her concession speech ready when Trump won because all the polls told her that her win was pretty much a done deal and actual voting would actually just be a formality at that point.
Because if that is the sore spot then I find it extremely hilarious that you think I need to learn how to read.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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i sincerely apologize to anyone who had to talk to me when I was 15, this is just terrible
Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 01:06:49 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Yes it is. I am left thinking about http://rainbowdash.net/url/875214
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Oh my. I guess we DID agree on something. Ahwell. Show is over. I do not feel like I have to say to someone who thinks that the 2016 polls were right next to a big hotchpotch of other stuff (*) because it would not register at all. In fact I do not think I could say anything to someone suffering so severely from ( my best guess ) TDS and have, in any way, a worthwile conversation. To make matters worse, the [reply] button is not even used, making it more like a war of passive agressive post it notes by someone who has two mom's ( Believe me, I know ) which is infuriating by itself.
(*) : Just look at the phletora of topics discarded and left unanswered, not to mention that I am kinda forced to assume some things I do not want to assume. Such as is this person in favour of HRC never having written a consession speech ?
TL;DR : Show is over, I will not be playing the politics game anymore, at least for a while, most certainly not with a certain personMonday, 23-Sep-19 18:04:09 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony my goodness you're a baby
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@mrmattimation When you are having a conversation in the open like this, calling your perceived opponent a name or derogatory like that is probably going to end up great for the total tally for those at home keeping score.
Not that I care all that much about being called anything but surely even you have to admit that it does not look good. Heck, any highschooler that has even heard of a debate team knows this. Not that I would know, according to you it would take at least 10 years before I probably even get close to a highschool.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony you're even being a huge baby about me calling you a big baby, man up you big baby
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For what this is worth to somebody who only accepts numbers that confirm his biases, polling was pretty much dead-on in 2018.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 17:01:22 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Wait, so we agree on something ?
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What people don't get about polls, and what they especially seemed to not get after Trump was elected, is that capturing 51% in a poll is just that - a 51% chance that you win. Clinton's lead in key states was always narrow and the fact that she underperformed some of them (and the fact that she overperformed a lot of others, like in Texas, Georgia, and Arizona, which were a lot closer than most pollsters predicted they would be) doesn't make the poll "wrong". It just means the less-likely thing happened, and as it turns out, unlikely things happen pretty frequently. Statistics!
That's why you don't want to have a two-point lead in a statewide poll, as Clinton did in several, and as Trump currently has in some SUPER red states. You want to have a ten-point lead, as Biden does in several - and even that doesn't create a guaranteed win, it just creates a more likely win.Monday, 23-Sep-19 03:38:24 UTC from web-
@scribus When I vote the booth has no curtain but the free standing booth is orientated in such a way that no one can look. It's literally 3 walls with an integrated table and foldable for easy storage and deployment. Also the amount of people in the voting room is limited to the amount of booths (usually two or three max) and there are voting helpers to ensure there is no cheating.
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@scribus Of course there is supposed to be. How else do you think something like this can happen ? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875213 ( picture says it all, really )
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@drinkingpony Oh lordy! XD
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And I'm usually against the death penalty!
Sunday, 22-Sep-19 15:44:36 UTC from web-
@scribus So what ? You wanna call this art or something ? How do you even want to report on this.
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@drinkingpony Well... No. Clearly, no one will believe this was an accident, but if we spin the Wheel O' Scapegoats and point hard enough at invisible "bad actors" on the outside, we just might be able to spin this long enough to transfer into another department.
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@scribus Well, I guess it is time to say farewell to the department of "making FrankerZ up as I go" ... Wait a minute, You are just trying to sell me a Wheel O'Scapegoats arn't you ? Hell I dare to bet that this entire room is made out of chocolate or something
Oh and yeh I probably watch way too much weird Potato Knishes on the net http://rainbowdash.net/url/875212
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Unsurprisingly, the map I just posted, which was calculated based on the 538 PVI and the 538 Congressional Generic Ballot, also correlates with Trump's net approval in each of those states. In a vacuum these things mean absolutely nothing, but adding them to a pile and analysing and cross-referencing them tells you a lot. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875209
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:01:42 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Yes and there are still 10 people running for democratic presidential candidate, and last time I checked the Republicans are going to run with the current president. Meaning there is one flavour of red and various flavours of blue. Of course one side is going to be a lot more outspoken about thier choice. Same thing happened in, lets see, 2012, 2004, 1996, 1984, for some reason in 1980 that was not a 2nd term runnin prez, 1972, and 1956.
As for those two maps, Well we already know the bias of "270 to win"Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I’m torn between “I really don’t think Biden should be President” and “But Biden probably has a lot of Republican support, and therefore could siphon enough votes that would otherwise be Trump votes in the swing states”
Sunday, 22-Sep-19 00:29:49 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation the "non sequitur"-level seems high I am not sure whether to call it a day or to point out that I have NO idea how actual vote totals (from when? 2016? from whom? MSM ?) can be used to establish anything on the level as big as a whole state.
But hey, if you are willing to still believe that so called 'professionals' are better at predicting at what whole states will probably end up voting when there is also Matt Groening, I am not gonna stop you.
As for that Trump did worse than Romney and McCain in some area's. Yeah I am willing to believe that, there are things like home states, there are things like actively or passively pandering to special/specific intrest groups.
Lets not forget the Bernie Bro's ( name ? ) which voted for trump in 2016.
Oh, or the people from the Rust Belt who vowed to vote democrat in the local elections but Trump for 2020 http://rainbowdash.net/url/875206
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@drinkingpony According to exit polls from 2016, more than three quarters of Bernie Sanders primary voters voted for Clinton in the general (the remaining 25% is split three ways: people who voted Trump, people who voted for a third party candidate, or people who didn't vote at all). Official vote tabulations, as certified by each state's government (Republicans had already controlled quite a few of these on Election Day 2016 - this is no longer true for most of them as of January 2019), showed that while Trump did much better than Romney and McCain in states like Ohio and Iowa, he also did worse than them in states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan... all of which were won by him and not Clinton. He didn't get normally Democratic votes in those states. The Democrat just got less than is normal. These are two different situations, and although they eventually lead to the same outcome, it's important to make the distinction because it reveals a lot about the climate of 2016.
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@mrmattimation You still believe in polls ? More importantly you think 8.3 % of Bernie Bro's did not vote ? Yeah I call bull on that. Unless if you want to proclaim that you can expect 30% margin of error out of every and all polls coming out of "the establishment" on a good day ( not even gonna touch the bad days )
But hey, I will just leave you with this http://rainbowdash.net/url/875210
and this
http://rainbowdash.net/url/875211
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Sure could stand to get the hell out of SoCal.
Sunday, 22-Sep-19 22:42:40 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser Homeowner's associations are all chodes!
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@scribus What is a chode? Is that like a chav?
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@thismightbeauser Well, the textbook definitions don't really match up, but common use is a bit more in agreement. Definitely not a nice thing for me to have called a person, but hey - homeowner's associations, right? lol
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Against pretty much anyone besides Trump, it'd be very easy to see a scenario in which Biden loses the popular vote but wins the electoral vote, if he closed margins in safe blue states while also barely winning ordinarily red states.
Sunday, 22-Sep-19 17:11:00 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Wait, you mean like the 1976 election between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford ? You KNOW why Texas was blue, right ?
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By The Way, I do NOT condone Borderlands in any way, they have VEHEMENTLY screwed up in my eyes, both in sending goons and Randy Pitchford's total shamelessness deflections, and I might still be salty about the whole season 2 to BL2 thing which my first season pass did not cover because cherry you... And then I bought the game later for little less than 3 cans of pringles, so there is my gameplan for BL3. Also I need like a GTX 5099 or something and even then I am still going to pirate it ( after buying it ? maybe ? ) since that denuvo is pretty much an agressive form of always-online-"VirtualMachineLike"-DRM
Aight, #rant over.Saturday, 21-Sep-19 17:32:58 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Point of clarification : I was being facetious when I said I would need a GTX 5099 ( obviously ) but the main thing I was jabbing at is that the whole game is unoptimized, as in, SHAMEFULLY unoptimized for what even an AA title, but it is an AAA title now and it should really, you know, not set an example that bad.
I mean, it is not like you guys want me #rant - ing on Mass Effect Andromeda ( again ) right ?Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Insert immature joke http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875201
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@adiwan Nice.
While on that subject http://rainbowdash.net/url/875203
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God, is it 2009 all over again? Why is Nancy Pelosi the radio scapegoat again?
Friday, 20-Sep-19 19:57:19 UTC from web-
@drinkingpony I... I just said what happened.
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@mrmattimation No you didn't. You just said "Oh hey something that happened in 2009 is now again happening in 2019, that involves using Nanci Peloci as a skapegoat of one form or another" Just what am I supposed to do with that ? What is ANYONE supposed to do with that ?
Also are we just going to ignore 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014... Heck I am sure that I can find SOMETHING to complete the 6 in a row in the very least. I mean, I just need to find something regarding her being blamed for something by someone else right ? Question now is who is saying anything. Would you believe everything that John Boehner or Kevin McCarthy say ? Heck, lets disqualify those people from the 'game'. Now it is suddenly a lot harder to even get 4 in a row.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Best headline ever was "Boehner Hard on Weiner" (which maybe was just a gag?) from the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal.
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I mean, either that or it was a stunt by KPN trying to prove to everyone that their stores are an ideal gift-shop.
http://rainbowdash.net/url/875199
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@adiwan Yes that is real, but it is lacking ALL context.
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To translate all that from coloquial to English. There is a special man coming each year from spain to bring presents to the good kids and... also the bad kids, but they probably would not like what they would find. Usually a bundle of sticks or a bag of salt for the baddies. This man is known as Sinterklaas.
Those who know more about either Santa Claus or Krampus ( no really ) can probably see a lot of similarities right there.
Also he rides on a horse as primary method of transportation, a wingless horse that can fly.(tall showoff if you asked me)
That signpost reads "Parking spot for horses, maximum of 1 hour ( starting 14-11 untill 06-12-2015 ) which roughly falls in line with the dates when it is celebrated. Its probably mostly for his understudies, since the actual one would just fly away before any cop could ticket him.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
