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  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2019
    "I’ve decided I am changing my pronouns to THEY/THEM after a lifetime of being at war with my gender I’ve decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out. I’m so excited and privileged to be surrounded by people that support me in this decision but I’ve been very nervous about announcing this because I care too much about what people think but f**k it! I understand there will be many mistakes and mis gendering but all I ask is you please please try. I hope you can see me like I see myself now." --- pop "artist" Sam Smith

    “I am changing my pronouns to ‘we/us/our.’ You see, I — or rather we — identify not just as myself but as all selves. We identify as me, but also you and everyone else. You might protest that you are not me, to which we would agree. You are not me because there is no me. You are us, we are you, yours is ours. This isn’t difficult to understand.” —Matt Walsh

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Big dreams don't cost anymore then small dreams".
    Amanda Higgins
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,832 ✭✭✭✭✭
    webmost said:
    "I’ve decided I am changing my pronouns to THEY/THEM after a lifetime of being at war with my gender I’ve decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out. I’m so excited and privileged to be surrounded by people that support me in this decision but I’ve been very nervous about announcing this because I care too much about what people think but f**k it! I understand there will be many mistakes and mis gendering but all I ask is you please please try. I hope you can see me like I see myself now." --- pop "artist" Sam Smith

    “I am changing my pronouns to ‘we/us/our.’ You see, I — or rather we — identify not just as myself but as all selves. We identify as me, but also you and everyone else. You might protest that you are not me, to which we would agree. You are not me because there is no me. You are us, we are you, yours is ours. This isn’t difficult to understand.” —Matt Walsh

    We she him they it are so glad that you her his our fido have made this so clear Mr Ms Muffey Sam Beau and Matt you me we ours. 

    Gosh, it just gets easier all the time!  How could I help but not be offended?
    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Being positive won't guarantee you'll succeed, but being negative will guarantee you won't." ~Jon Gordon
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Trykflyr_1
    Trykflyr_1 Posts: 2,514 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sex is like pizza.  When it's good, it's very good and when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
    I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,539 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A sign of great pizza is that you enjoy it cold the next morning for breakfast.
    Join us on Zoom vHerf (Meeting # 2619860114 Password vHerf2020 )
  • Trykflyr_1
    Trykflyr_1 Posts: 2,514 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great or not.... leftover cold piizza is the breakfast of choice for barracks dwelling enlisted guys and broke azz college students everywhere
    I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    A sign of great pizza is that you enjoy it cold the next morning for breakfast.
    And so, how is that different from sex?
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,537 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,537 ✭✭✭✭✭
    and its corollary:
    Some people make the same mistake for years and call it experience.
  • Sleddog46
    Sleddog46 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We are drowning in wisdom while starving for information.
    Unknown.
    You can't dispel Ignorance if you retain Arrogance!
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,537 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Law is mind without reason.
    --Aristotle
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom.

    Unknown Me
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Sleddog46
    Sleddog46 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Peter@4c I saw this on a billboard on FB and of course I got it bass akwards. LOL
    You can't dispel Ignorance if you retain Arrogance!
  • Martel
    Martel Posts: 3,306 ✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    A sign of great pizza is that you enjoy it cold the next morning for breakfast.
    No. I hold to the view that every pizza is a personal pizza if you're dedicated enough...
    Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

    I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot.  I will smoke anything, though.
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Burnham's Laws


    1. Everybody knows everything.
    2. Who says A must say B.
    3. Just as good, isn't.
    4. You cannot invest in retrospect.
    5. Wherever there is prohibition there's a bootlegger.
    6. In every project there's a scam.
    7. You can't divorce yourself.
    8. Every member must pay his dues.
    9. No excuse, sir.
    10. If there's no alternative, there's no problem.
    Burnham was a senior editor at National Review. He was a Trotskyite who turned conservative.
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "I hate to see you go, but I love to watch you leave."

    Ricky The Hammer Hamlin
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Sleddog46
    Sleddog46 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't go away mad little buddy, just go away. Foghorn Leghorn.
    You can't dispel Ignorance if you retain Arrogance!
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Socialism is a gold-plated ****.


    -me

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Rhamlin
    Rhamlin Posts: 9,137 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. 

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.” ~UNKNOWN
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
     “An armed society is a polite society,”. ~ Robert Heinlein

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • OldGnome
    OldGnome Posts: 58 ✭✭✭
    ShawnOL said:
     “An armed society is a polite society,”. ~ Robert Heinlein
    Absolutely. 
    =-=-=-=
    Just an Old Gnome
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OldGnome said:
    ShawnOL said:
     “An armed society is a polite society,”. ~ Robert Heinlein
    Absolutely. 
    Several old time explorers commented on how scrupulously polite and utterly ethical cannibal societies were among themselves. You don't look sidelong at a man's wife nor abuse his trust if he is armed and apt to eat you.
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,537 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

    ~ John Milton ~


  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,537 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cicero said: ‘Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.’
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "You are allowed to outgrow people. This includes past versions of yourself." ~Mandy Hale
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    peter4jc said:
    "You are allowed to outgrow people. This includes past versions of yourself." ~Mandy Hale
    That's a relief.
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)