@The Old Man posted:Another violent day in America. Is there any chance with Democrats controlling all three branches there can be some small attempt at gun control? I know the answer, no.
Actually, the House passed some laws earlier this month. See, https://news.yahoo.com/u-house...ntrol-003050022.html
Of course, the Senate has to agree. Whether the new laws have any effect on a hate-filled and gun-toting psycho is another issue.
@irwin posted:Whether the new laws have any effect on a hate-filled and gun-toting psycho is another issue.
I doubt if America has any more or less hate-filled psychos than any other country. Certainly mental health has to be addressed, but doing anything is better than "thoughts and prayers."
@The Old Man posted:I doubt if America has any more or less hate-filled psychos than any other country. Certainly mental health has to be addressed, but doing anything is better than "thoughts and prayers."
We have a long history of the use of firearms to solve issues. Many other countries do not.
We have very little illiteracy because we teach people to read. We have violence because we don't teach people to be calm.
@irwin posted:We have a long history of the use of firearms to solve issues. Many other countries do not.
Common knowledge
We have violence because we don't teach people to be calm.
I don't know what this means. Other countries have less violence because they teach people to be calm? How do they teach this skill? Deep breathing classes?
@The Old Man posted:I don't know what this means. Other countries have less violence because they teach people to be calm? How do they teach this skill? Deep breathing classes?
Namaste
No way to prevent this:
Likely won't lower prices until they work through the higher tariff product... new orders should be lower. By the end of 4 months lower tariffs should be permanent I'd wager.
Literally half my coworkers could royally fuck up pouring a glass of water.
@billhike posted:Literally half my coworkers could royally fuck up pouring a glass of water.
I often wonder how most of mine find their way to their desks on a daily basis. Including and in particular for the last year when we've all been working from home.
What a wonderful thing to see, an adult in the White House giving a news conference using intelligent, complete sentences and empathy. Normality, what a great thing.
talk of random.... I joined when I posted that almost 3 weeks in the ether....
hello everyone
I love these Costco senior hours and hope they will continue indefinitely.
@lrousseau posted:talk of random.... I joined when I posted that almost 3 weeks in the ether....
hello everyone
Welcome to the forums!
Your posts will be delayed until the WS tech staff conclude that you are not Serge Birbrair....
"Scientists discovery X-rays coming from Uranus":
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/01...-scn-intl/index.html
Let the jokes begin!
@Rothko posted:"Scientists discovery X-rays coming from Uranus":
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/01...-scn-intl/index.html
Let the jokes begin!
I always thought Uranus was a brown star and not a planet...
@chard posted:I always thought Uranus was a brown star and not a planet...
Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
@The Old Man posted:Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
@chard posted:
"On the eve of the Masters, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has released the cause of the February wreck where Tiger Woods suffered extensive injury: excessive speed of 82-87 mph in a 45-mph zone."
That'll do it.
Someone is lurking.
Saw this on IG and thought it too good not to share:
“I just got kicked out of a Facebook flat earth group for asking if the six-foot social distancing requirements had pushed anyone over the edge.”
lolol that's rpetty good
Well, the problem isn’t solved.
But that’s a huge relief.
I recently bought a wine that is 100 years old. Now I need to somehow move it to another city where my collection is located. This is a very hard and responsible job that not everyone can do, so I turned to https://rslmanandvan.co.uk/ser.../dismantle-assembly/ to help me. I've heard a lot of positive reviews about them.
@vinoevelo posted:into necrophilia?
Or fortified vinos!
When people tell me to stop living in the past, I say, "But the music was so much better then."
Boy, that didn't work out too well for Facebook.
@mneeley490 posted:When people tell me to stop living in the past, I say, "But the music was so much better then."
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
I had no idea Talking Heads' Take Me to the River was a cover.
@bman posted:Later covered by Bog Mouth Billy Bass....
So I learned. Al Green apparently earned more royalties from Billy than any other source. 
According to a Financial Times article:
In the late 1990s, Gemmy Industries, a Dallas-based manufacturer of novelty toys, began work on an animatronic singing fish. The company rejected the initial model as “hideous”. A more lifelike version, designed with the help of a taxidermist, was approved and went into production. The original Big Mouth Billy Bass delivered two songs, Bobby McFerrin’s ‟Don’t Worry, Be Happy”, and the apposite “Take Me to the River”. The identity of the session singer who crooned it over a plinky keyboard backing is unknown.
Simultaneously irritating and funny, Big Mouth Billy Bass was a massive success and “Take Me to the River” was heard in high places. The Queen kept one on the grand piano at Balmoral and was most amused; Tony Blair was also a fan at No 10. Mob boss Tony Soprano battered another thug with the fish in The Sopranos, and Motörhead singer Lemmy kept one in damp conditions: the bathroom of his Los Angeles home. Gemmy shipped an estimated $100m-worth of the $25 toy in 2000 and it is still being made (a version enabled with Amazon’s Alexa device recently went on the market, just in time for Christmas), with nostalgia apparently now a factor in driving sales after a long period when the fish was considered utterly passé, even by novelty toy standards.
Green, now a celebrated preacher, and Hodges, who died in 2014, both said they made more money from the toy version of “Take Me to the River” than any other.
@haggis posted:Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
Oh God, from the LA Times:
What happened to Van Morrison? The fall from eccentric genius to conspiracy theorist
@The Old Man posted:Oh God, from the LA Times:
What happened to Van Morrison? The fall from eccentric genius to conspiracy theorist
Sucked then, and sucks now.
This whole "acting like an adult" thing is way overrated.
I just realized my last post was deleted. How about that.
