Random thoughts

[willy]

Some dude named John can't read the private messages sent here. I don't think there's a lot of places where that kind of a statement might be relevant, but sometimes the words just spring forth, as if from a muse, and it seems wrong to hide that sort of inspiration from the world.

[Jura]

Personally, I find that my private thoughts when given unbidden to others, can be a source of trouble, and is likely the reason I can no longer shop at Marks & Spencer's or approach within 50 metres of the Baptist church, and although a life of social disapprobation may suit me and in rare cases expand my social circle, (albeit just the Baptist ministers wife, smiling when we meet in the Co-op), I would countenance restraint. However, I do welcome the deliberations of others.

[Space Cowgirl]

How can dogs shed so much hair and not go bald? Why does dust collect on the blades of a fan, shouldn't they blow away? Is the instant anxiety I felt when I heard a tree limb crash to the ground a leftover primal instinct? *Legend of Zelda song stuck in my head* I need to clean out the chicken coop. Lunch.

[JimmyTheCrab]

likely the reason I can no longer shop at Marks & Spencer's

SCG thinks our belief in free speech is insufficiently robust and she might have a point.  But goddammit, we will die on a battlefield to defend our right to shop at M&S. 

I genuinely think my dad would join some kind of terror cell if they stopped him (especially if he still had unspent tokens for the cafe).  He's 81.

[Jura]

He handled the meat then picked up the cheese, perhaps choking him wasn't the accepted method of chastisement, either way I prefer Waitrose.

[Jura]

And don't get me on dog hair, we have a cross Husky, we are sweeping three times a day at the moment.

[Space Cowgirl]

I believe Beebee was born to shed.

[Space Cowgirl]

Also, your dog looks very sweet.

[Unicorn Peptide Cake]

Should I buy olive loaf or pickle loaf next time I go to the market?

[Jura]

From a short but intense bout of delving into both of these hitherto unknown foodstuffs and correct me if I'm wrong.

All the bits of a carcass that are considered waste, are pureed and forced through a mechanical sieve to make a slurry, mixed with something to give it some taste (the olive or pickle conundrum), the ubiquitous corn syrup and a lot of things from a chemistry set that contain sodium and formed into something pinkish then vac-packed?

Olive, definitely the olive.

[Unicorn Peptide Cake]

I like olive loaf better anyway.

[JimmyTheCrab]

Should I buy olive loaf or pickle loaf next time I go to the market?

Olive.

[Jura]

I'm confused about this Andrew Tate and brother thing, I don't have a Xitter account and never come in to contact with the manosphere thing apart from the odd spat with D1, but from what I can gather, a man who used to get kicked in the head for a living somehow became an internet guru to incels, and is awaiting charges in Romania and the UK for rape, human trafficking, sex with a minor and money laundering, but the US put pressure on the Romanian government to get him released.

I suppose my question is why does the US want him back?

[Space Cowgirl]

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

[Jura]

Well, I don't often agree with De-Satan, but I have his back on this one.