Bring Out Your Memes

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  3. Actually, over 70,000 Americans did just that, moving to the Soviet Union during the early 1900s.

    They never returned.

    They never found utopia.

    Most of them lived in poverty and misery.

    And a whole lot of them were imprisoned in gulags or executed.

    Communism kills. Socialism kills. Parallel roads to the same dead end.

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      1. By birthright citizenship they were, but certainly not by reason or disposition. They pissed it all away. Now if we could only encourage the current crop to disembark for foreign night soils more to their liking.

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        2. Hear!! Hear!!

          I have a cunning plan. We should offer them plane tickets and $10,000 to go to a country of their choosing, on these conditions

          • If they are US citizens they must irrevocably renounce their citizenship in writing (standard form worked out buy top drawer lawyers).
          • The must forever renounce in writing all rights explicit or implied in the US constitution particularly habeas corpus and right to trial by jury (again standard detailed contract written by excellent lawyers).
          • They must provide fingerprints and DNA samples etc. as identification
          • If they are ever found in the US or any of its possessions again the first offense shall be immediate confiscation of any all possessions and holdings followed by deportation within 48 hours to a country of our choosing. On a second offense they shall be subject to immediate execution preferably by ejection(sans parachute) from a Helicopter flying above 1500′ over waters outside US territory (lest they sully our country any further). In either case NO notice shall be be provided to anyone as to their fate. See section 2

          A 10K bonus night not be sufficient it might take $50K or more, but it would be cheap at the price, the damage they do to the system is such that 100k might not be too much.

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            1. Mount a diving board from the side of the helicopter, or the rear exit ramp if you’re using one of the big ones. That gives them the option of either just dropping off, or seeing if they can get enough altitude on the board to hit the rotors.

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              1. No, simply tie their hands behind their backs with nice hemp cord (I’d use zip ties, but they might end up in turtles or other sea creatures), A quick boot to the butt and voila they get to practice flying for at least 10 seconds (likely longer, the calculation I did didn’t involve terminal velocity though they only reach 213 mph so it will be close).

                Otherwise they’re a risk to the aircraft and crew. Unless we use some kind of large drone to drop them? No still a risk to the vehicle.

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            2. I said SANS parachute, sans being French for without :-) . I suppose one could just set them adrift at sea, but that way they MIGHT escape. In either case they are likely fish food. I suppose the environmental types will complain that we’re making the sharks fat.

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          2. My mother’s good friend has a daughter. Daughter married a US Army Lt Col. He transferred to The Hague thereafter resigned his commission.

            They strongly hate America. Grandma, being an American, is persona non grata and will never seem her daughter again nor ever see her grandchildren.

            I ask, as a true test of faith, why don’t they relinquish US citizenship? Orherwise, they are contemptible frauds who keep that ace card in waiting for when they shall be very glad to have it.

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            1. I have only one sentiment here stolen from Samuel Adams

              “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

              Perhaps their children may return here some day, but I fear if they come they will go to a US college or university, and that will do nothing to convince them of their parents foolishness and cowardice.

              Some days I feel like the Ghost of Christmas Present in Dickens A Christmas Carol when asked about Tiny Tim when I think of Europe. If things do not change and soon the Western Europe that gave us much of our culture will cease to exist, at present the UK is no better off and likely far worse as it leans hard into becoming Airstrip One.

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  4. Why is coffee like whiskey?

    Because people think that they can’t drink too much. ☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕

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      1. Which is True?

        IMO People imagine that it is safe to drink large amounts of coffee and whiskey.

        Now is it true that people can safely drink large amounts of coffee and whiskey. Of course, IMO people have gotten themselves in trouble when they drink over their limit of either whiskey or coffee.

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  5. I want that coffee too….

    That escape room. Whoof. Tough one!

    Experience required. *SNRK*

    “I can explain, officer… see, there was this bank and the chickens decided to go for it….”

    Back in ten minutes – oh, someone got the time machine working, cool.

    I too have questions. Yikes.

    Laundry – word. We just got our 25-year-old washer fixed. Three knobs! No wi-fi! All it does is wash clothes, as sane humans intended!

    PlayStation. Figures. Bring back physical media!

    Hmm. Always good to have a repair kit or two….

    Remember Innsmouth is a horror story.

    If you’re human, your ancestors did shady stuff. Hands down. Likewise cats. Dogs may be okay… wait, chihuahuas, nevermind.

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      1. It’s only a store, not a reading room.

        It is underspecified, though. Do you have a budget, and what is it? Can you bring out only as many books as you can carry, or do you get a cart or something?

        And worst of all, do you have to pay before the hour is up, and how long does that take?

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          1. I would quickly survey the bookstore for genre locations, If I could get only what I could carry or pay for, I would check my favorite locations for possibilities. Then I would do a sweep get the books I wanted.

            With a cart or something, I would go most likely genre down, keeping an eye on the time, and then make a break for it. The important part comes after.

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    2. In fairness to chihuahuas, they were bred to be food animals. If that was your intended purpose in life you would probably be kinda pissed at the world, too.

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  6. “bunch-back’d toad”? Methinks thou hast a tpyo in thine meme.

    If that ‘Escape Bookstore’ has a bathroom and a source of snacks and hydration, a month might not be enough time.

    That electrician got experience, it just wasn’t the good kind.

    OMG! It’s the Cat Bus from My Neighbor Totoro!

    OK, good, it’s an armored backpack, but how do you open it?

    You think that’s crazy, how about the Braille on the drive-through ATM?

    Termites release far more CO2 and methane than all the cows in the world.

    What do you mean, deliver nothing? Socialism delivers poverty, misery, squalor, starvation and death. Every f*king time. They’ve got 100 million emaciated corpses in mass graves to prove it.

    If you’re human, your ancestors were slaves, and slave owners. There is no branch, twig or leaf of the human family tree untainted by slavery. Any ‘reparations’ are owed by everybody, to everybody, and figuring out the accounting would be impossible.

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    1. Ah. But was the electrician current on safety practices? He was he highly resistant? Maybe he rage quit due to a short fuse? Could be he was getting too much static from management. Or he was an introvert who went back to his insular life. Maybe he wasn’t really a he, but was rather a transsister.

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      2. Mr. Houst I am not certain whether I should praise your humor or give it a carpapult load of electric eels. Being short on electric eels, carpapults, and appropriate insulation to load said eels, Bravo.

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        1. The aardvark points out that all of those things are behind the nineth door on the third floor.

          Knock first. The blue mice and pink elephants don’t.

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    2. You think that’s crazy, how about the Braille on the drive-through ATM?

      This is easy, really. You don’t know where a keypad might be installed or a blind person might have a chauffeur or such, and why make two of a thing when one design will cover every circumstance – and not give you ADA problems. So you only make the the kaypads with Braille as it’s simpler (and cheaper) all around.

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    3. The Reader is not an electrician, but he survived replacing a breaker in the breaker box yesterday. We had a nearby lightning strike and the whole house surge protectors didn’t quite protect everything. Given that it also tripped 4 different GFI outlets in the house the Reader considers that $7.50 for a replacement breaker and about 30 minutes to do the swap and restart everything that powered down when the Reader turned power off as a bargain.

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      1. Which whole-house did you have (and will that need to be reset or replaced)?

        When we had our house built, I had the electrician install a Siemens FS140; he looked at me as if I had 2 heads, but put it in. Apparently has not been much challenged, still pretty green lights!

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      2. I went through 8 to 10 garage door openers all fried by lightning strikes before I gave up and turned them into manual doors. The real PITA was each strike burned out a different area of the motor controllers or door stop sensors. Spike/surge protectors didn’t even save them. But the strokes never caused any problems with any other lines or appliances in the house.

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        1. Have someone pro trained check grounding on that circuit.

          Found a nasty wiring “oops” that way at work, long ago.

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  7. I used to have a copy of the Ten Commandments for electrical workers (obtained when the Army put us interns tnrough Basic Electronics with the greensuiters). Lost it long ago, but I can paraphrase a couple of them:

    Have no contact with those who deal in intentional shocks, for they are unbelievers and not long for this world.

    And, Never work on the hot high-power line alone, lest thou sizzle in thine own fat for hours until thy Maker sees fit to drag thee into his fold.

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    2. Once upon a time, I stopped someone from taking bolt cutters to a lockout/tagout rig.

      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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      1. Most places I’ve worked, that is an instant firing offense. Some would follow up with parking lot reprimands of varying severity.

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        1. Same at one timber company I worked for. Monthly safety meeting, for everyone, whether you worked in the field or not. Everyone. I joined the foresters as they were mostly the ones I programmed for.

          Mentioned this before. Safety meetings paid off. Annual safety dinner for the division (all three area employees). Speaking section was delayed by hours. Turns out a logging tower dropped. I never learned why. But, not a scratch, not a bruise. When (always a matter of when, not if, even when everything is done properly) a tower fails, everyone feels lucky if no one is killed. Everyone was in the correct spots, for the correct procedures being done, in case of tower failure. Just because logging is inherently dangerous doesn’t mean safety is taken casually.

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      2. The instructors at Basic Electronics would allegedly make sure you got shocked during training if you didn’t manage to do it to yourself.

        I did not need help.

        To this day I don’t know why I walked in, sat down at my test rig, put my left hand on the vacuum tube and switched the power on with my right. But it’s something you only do once.

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      3. TINS: The boss had tagged out a piece of equipment on a plane because it wasn’t working. That meant the plane was only good for daytime, good weather flying until said part was replaced. I came in that evening and discovered that a different flight instructor, who I will call Dully, had checked out the plane. After dark. By the time I finished my lesson with a student, Dully had returned, put the plane away, and left a scathing note on my desk about failing to remove an instrument mask* from the [thing].

        The next day, Dully was whining about how he had to cut the cover off the [thing] in order to take passengers up, and did we know that [thing] wasn’t working right? I tried to help Dully come up with a better story, but no, he was still mad when the boss came in. Dully marched in to grouse at the boss. The other instructors and I found places to be until we could see that the mushroom cloud had dissipated from over the boss’ office. Dully emerged, lightly singed, and still not understanding why he’d gotten in trouble.

        As you said, human stupidity …

        *For simulating instrument failure when teaching instrument flying.

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  10. Not polypropylene rope. Too stretchy. Go traditional, use good Manila hemp.

    And for Shakesperean insults, you can’t beat King Lear, Act II Scene 2.

    KENT Fellow, I know thee.

    OSWALD What dost thou know me for?

    KENT A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

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  11. Per the last one, “Too much fun:”. is that the new spelling for ‘eadgear? We call ’em Ets, now, as in “I rather want a new et, but my ‘ead’s too big for most of ’em I find,” like?

    Or as in “Send in the ass-ets!”

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  12. Per the last one, “Too much fun:”. is that the new spelling for ‘eadgear? We call ’em Ets, now, as in “I rather want a new et, but my ‘ead’s too big for most of ’em I find,” like?

    Or as in “Send in the ass-ets!”

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  14. Which coffee provider has “Jesus Clears the Temple” ?

    Plenty of Infantry prefer the brew “Caffeine and Hate”.

    Back in my “starving student” era, I brewed Sun Tea. Stuff was strong. Roommates called it “the preferred brew of Very Angry Klingon Stormtroopers”.

    “Do you buy this stuff from a biker gang? Perhaps a Kzinti biker gang?”

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  15. I got something bass-akwards one morning during an early class. The students stared. I lifted my mug. “Too much blood in the caffeine stream.” They laughed and I made the correction.

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  16. The person who did the catbus costume doesn’t appreciate Ghibli’s “My Neighbor Totoro”.

    ANd I did finally donate to “The Cause”. Where’s my carp? LOL!!

    Soon I’ll have to go to my local B&N and buy a few Hoyt books. But for now……I need to get new glasses.

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    2. Don’t count on the B&N. I just visited one in New Jersey and it was all the latest and greatest traditionaly published stuff. Not a big dept., either. Lots more Manga.

      That they had Zinn and the 1629 Project on the display table tells you all you need to know.

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        1. We lived in NJ for over a decade. Don’t miss it at all, but I was surprised by the number of genuinely nice people we met this time around. Although the nice ones have always been there, they just get drowned out by the jerks.

          Also, the farther you get from the NYC metro area, the nicer it gets.

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    2. There was an episode of NCIS where McGee disables a security camera with a well placed paintball round. The payload resembled bird poop.

      Gotta find a source. No specific reason. Just amusement value.

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  19. A karya is a Greek walnut tree. There were karya hamadryads; and there were priestesses of Artemis who lived in a sacred walnut grove, who were also called karyatides.

    It seems likely to me that the architectural caryatids were originally tough walnut pillars, and then got done in stone.

    But they are supposed to be walnut trees, basically, which nobody ever mentions.

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    1. Wikipedia also notes that the walnut grove priestesses were from a village named Karyai, and that the local priestesses/maidens did a special dance with baskets on their heads. The baskets were full of live reeds and dirt, so the ladies would look like trees; but they also had to stand up very straight and dance gracefully.

      So the pillar capitals on the Porch of the Caryatids are actually figurative baskets.

      It just gets more different from our modern perceptions the farther you get into it.

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      1. The Wikipedia article has a sweet photo of the back of an Athenian caryatid, showing the nifty Spartan lady hairstyle.

        Oh, and Karyai/Caryae was in Sparta, so that is Athens giving a salute to their rival neighbor. We probably can assume that the caryatid ladies look like Spartan ladies of the day.

        (And that Helen was supposed to look like that, as well.)

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        1. “…Helen was supposed to look like that…”

          And once again ancient historical deep ‘tism intercepts modern Hollywood media culture.

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          1. Peripherally related, I saw a funny if absolutely politically incorrect and thoroughly profane clanker vid of “Samuel L. Jackson as Helen of Troy”.

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  21. Lindsay Graham has left us unexpectedly, “after a brief and sudden illness,” apparently freshly back from Ukraine.

    I’d like an autopsy and a toxicology report. Yes, I think D.C. is that much of a snake pit.

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    1. More suspects than simply DC.

      Would be a surprise if foreign actors had no interest in such a thing.

      Not that they understand the US senate.

      Democrats and UK left are saying Graham was a Trump ally.

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      1. He played golf with Trump, fwiw.

        I had forgotten he pretty much salvaged Kavenaugh’s confirmation by telling his fellow (Democratic) senators exactly what he thought of them.

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    4. preliminary results say heart

      given the meme associations with ‘unexpectedly’, it is may need to be said that it seems to be an entirely different sort of heart condition. At least, sounds that way to me.

      This preliminary result was before the tox and other tests came back, so those will probably go into the final version of documetnation.

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    1. I don’t know what he was like as a person; but as an actor, Sam Neill always put his whole body and craft into all his roles (or at least, the ones I saw him in).

      I had no idea where he was from, because he always was just playing his latest character like he was born in that guy.

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