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  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TheCigarChick said:

    @peter4jc said:
    Thanks, Lindsay, for this insight and for your willingness to help our forum family. Anyone with half a brain can see that in today's world Ccom's actions were inevitable and understandable... maybe not appreciated, but understood.

    I remember smoking with you and a couple of others in Hangouts a while back. Maybe before it gets too cold there in PA, you can join our Zoom call - the vHerf thingie - it'd be great to see you again.

    Count me in @peter4jc - I miss the vHerf! I was thinking about those over the weekend, so we'll have to agree on a time and enjoy a cigar online.

    The regulars are on basically every night starting around 8-8:30 EST

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • TheCigarChick
    TheCigarChick Moderator Posts: 359 admin

    @Rdp77 - Unless it's unseasonably warm, that might be difficult here in PA since the sun sets before 5pm now. I also might look like I'm in Witness Protection bundled up in the dark, :D .

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TheCigarChick in that case you’ll fit right in lol

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • TheCigarChick
    TheCigarChick Moderator Posts: 359 admin

    @Rdp77 said:
    @TheCigarChick in that case you’ll fit right in lol

    Hahahaha, duly noted!

  • Hobbes86
    Hobbes86 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Be ready, @TheCigarChick, you might have to endure my bland and uninteresting company.

    "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

  • TheKraken
    TheKraken Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You go out for coffee? Shame shame I know your name

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,638 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Could be worse, I was eating lunch in LA and the restaurant was promoting the Church of Scientology. I just happened to be working on a radio at their headquarters nearby.

    Join us on Zoom vHerf (Meeting # 2619860114 Password vHerf2020 )
  • EgoBoundary
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    @Vision said:

    Promoting witch craft at my favorite coffee spot! Not today Devil! I'm not going back there!!!

    I love how this magazine has an article about understanding viruses

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @EgoBoundary said:

    @Vision said:

    Promoting witch craft at my favorite coffee spot! Not today Devil! I'm not going back there!!!

    I love how this magazine has an article about understanding viruses

    This magazine is definitely not up Ian's alley. It was pet, mediums, séances, and potions/spells. Definitely not a book of God.

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What? No baby recipes? How to lure children into your oven?

    I guess that's for advanced practitioners only.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Itsfine
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    @webmost said:
    Last weekend, Barack Obama invited five rap stars to the White House to help with his "Brother's Keeper" initiative, to encourage young black men to avoid incarceration for undocumented acts of wealth redistribution.
    The president had barely finished speaking when rapper Rick Ross's court-ordered ankle bracelet went off. Yes, a man selected by Mr. Obama to serve as an exemplary racial role model has to wear an ankle bracelet until his trial for aggravated assault and battery, pistol-whipping, and kidnapping (second arrest this month, by the way). Tragically, Ross is not also facing charges for rapping in public.
    Call me old fashioned (liberals will surely call me a cross-burning racist) but I have to think the best way to discourage misogynistic, criminally anti-social behavior among black youths may not be honoring rappers who make their millions celebrating misogynistic, criminally anti-social behavior.

    Ben Carson, by odd contrast, was not invited.

    I would like to discuss this further

    @ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    🤔

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • peter4jc
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    @VegasFrank said:

    @webmost said:
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    I would like to discuss this further

    It's a TRAP!!!

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    as if I needed another reason to never want to go on a cruise ship:

    https://www.businessinsider.com/majestic-cruise-ship-800-covid-positive-cases-docks-in-sydney-2022-11

  • ShawnOL
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    Oh, jeez. 800 more people carted off to the covid concentration camps.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermouse
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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/12/uae-meddled-us-politics-intel-report/

    One of the more brazen exploits involved the hiring of three former U.S. intelligence and military officials to help the UAE surveil dissidents, politicians, journalists and U.S. companies. In public legal filings, U.S. prosecutors said the men helped the UAE break into computers in the United States and other countries. Last year, all three admitted in court to providing sophisticated hacking technology to the UAE, agreeing to surrender their security clearances and pay about $1.7 million to resolve criminal charges. The Justice Department touted the settlement as a “first-of-its-kind resolution.”

    It did not involve prison time, however, and critics viewed the financial penalty as paltry given the substantial payments received by the former U.S. officials for their work, raising concerns it did little to dissuade similar future behavior.

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VegasFrank said:

    @webmost said:
    Last weekend, Barack Obama invited five rap stars to the White House to help with his "Brother's Keeper" initiative, to encourage young black men to avoid incarceration for undocumented acts of wealth redistribution.
    The president had barely finished speaking when rapper Rick Ross's court-ordered ankle bracelet went off. Yes, a man selected by Mr. Obama to serve as an exemplary racial role model has to wear an ankle bracelet until his trial for aggravated assault and battery, pistol-whipping, and kidnapping (second arrest this month, by the way). Tragically, Ross is not also facing charges for rapping in public.
    Call me old fashioned (liberals will surely call me a cross-burning racist) but I have to think the best way to discourage misogynistic, criminally anti-social behavior among black youths may not be honoring rappers who make their millions celebrating misogynistic, criminally anti-social behavior.

    Ben Carson, by odd contrast, was not invited.

    I would like to discuss this further

    Go for it!

    We're all ears.

    Who knows? Someone else may join in!

    Or, not.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The future looks grim

    https://youtu.be/4McPHBQ9pNw

  • Hobbes86
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    ^ Ever see the movie Toys with Robin Williams? Those kids were playing games designed to train them for this sort of warfare.

    "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This isn’t the future…drones have had military applications in several countries for awhile now.

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2022

    Only in California, or communist China, or North Korea...the end is near

    No one in a country that values freedom would ever even consider that.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • d_blades
    d_blades Posts: 4,576 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You know the first time one of them goes haywire, they are gonna blame Trump... Didnt they learn anything from The Terminator.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.