Random thoughts

[willy]

At this point, I'm convinced the Big Kahuna wanted him back simply to troll the libs

[JimmyTheCrab]

Ron DeSantis has pissed off some MAGAs by saying the Tates aren't welcome here (in Florida).

It is clearly ridiculous to say sex criminals and people traffickers aren't welcome in Florida.

[Unicorn Peptide Cake]

Does anybody else think that the new post icons on the forum look like a crab?

[JimmyTheCrab]

I'm not seeing it....

[Jura]

I think, having followed a man through the village the other day (on foot, and by chance, not weirdly just walking, ok), that deportment is important.

Context, he was a stoutish fellow and I became mesmerized by the way he walked.
Arms slightly away from the body as if contact with his own torso was forbidden, not swinging naturally but jerkily like a robot starved of lubrication and stamping his feet down. I surmised that there may have been perhaps a dash of military or maybe he was trying to convey that in a batesian mimicry kind of way, as a warning to predators that he wasn't to be fucked with, it was certainly a belligerent promenade.

So after about half a mile he turned off, and I became worried about whether my walk was the subject of other people's debate. As it happened it was one of those rare English spring days where the sun was not only out but at my back, having convinced myself that I was shambling along like a puppet with half its strings cut I was pleasantly surprised to observe a shadow that moved easily and conveyed a comfortable and relaxed gait, not menacing or cowed just chillin, this plus the clemency of the day certainly raised my spirit.

[Jura]

Update on this.
I told my wife this story, and whilst she agreed that I walk okay and she isn't embarrassed walking next to me, she did say that I run like one of the walking dead with a slashed Achilles, which is a bit harsh considering years of cycling in all weathers has left my knees a wreck, but she laughed at my pain and gave me her "suck it up snowflake," look.