I just read a sentence that referred to “the decades since” 2005 and I feel personally attacked.
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@ApostateEnglishman
Paisley printed shirts though, and a cravat, did he have those?I have only known one person who wore wooden clogs outside of the Netherlands, so deep points for that.
@mloxton @ApostateEnglishman @benroyce @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
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@benroyce @MissConstrue @mloxton @TheBreadmonkey @overholt Spare a thought for my ex-fiance, whose eccentric academic father would pick her up from school sporting a "mullet" haircut, wearing fitted floral shirts, flared corduroy trousers (corduroy has made a bit of a comeback in the UK today, but was deeply unfashionable at the time!) and...clogs. Wooden clogs.
She actually became quite tearful one evening after too much wine, remembering the shame and trauma it caused her to see him arrive.
@ApostateEnglishman @benroyce @mloxton @TheBreadmonkey @overholt I deeply feel her pain. After my father became one of Them, he took to wearing paisley golfing pants. And golfed. It was all so embarrassing. A man who once hung outside the windows of the Prankster bus,handing out lsd to passersby...a paisley wearing republican golfer. And they wonder why I cut off contact...
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@ApostateEnglishman
The increase in tats and piercings is noticeable.The only time I ever briefly danced with the thought of a tat, was maybe to get my military ID number engraved on my wrist as a daily reminder never ever to do that again.
@mloxton @ApostateEnglishman @benroyce @TheBreadmonkey @overholt Wait, do you have a green eggs and ham tattoo? Ben! Baby!
(I jest, I’ve always been a perfect lady in New Orleans. As one does.)
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@mloxton @ApostateEnglishman @benroyce @TheBreadmonkey @overholt Wait, do you have a green eggs and ham tattoo? Ben! Baby!
(I jest, I’ve always been a perfect lady in New Orleans. As one does.)
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@MissConstrue @tantramar @mina @Bugspriet @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
yeah luckily lewis and clark could get the ancient alien tech from the grand canyon to george washington just in time to beat the british in the revolutionary war. napoleon almost got it instead. that would have totally screwed with history, and i understand history well and can appreciate the implications (/s)
@benroyce @tantramar @mina @Bugspriet @TheBreadmonkey @overholt It’s how we got Mt Rushmore too! They say it was dynamite and decades, but I’ve seen dynamite, it just makes craters, it doesn’t make faces! And how would dynamite even know what George looked like? Whereas ancient aliens, they were there with him, propelling that boat across the Potomac. They made the artist paint the alien tech out. Because conspiracy. True story!
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@benroyce @tantramar @mina @Bugspriet @TheBreadmonkey @overholt It’s how we got Mt Rushmore too! They say it was dynamite and decades, but I’ve seen dynamite, it just makes craters, it doesn’t make faces! And how would dynamite even know what George looked like? Whereas ancient aliens, they were there with him, propelling that boat across the Potomac. They made the artist paint the alien tech out. Because conspiracy. True story!
@MissConstrue @tantramar @mina @Bugspriet @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
ah
i see you've seen the PBS historical documentary "National Treasure: Book of Secrets"
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@ApostateEnglishman @benroyce @mloxton @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
I didn't have the courage to get a sleeve length tattoo until I was in my 50s. I had a series of incredibly traumatic events happen in sequence, and as I was trying to put all the pieces back together, I looked at the art I'd had on my office wall for years while I doddled and hemmed and hawed about getting a piece that big. It's one of my favorite arts that I've done, and one day I took it off the wall, called my friend who owns a shop and said "I'm getting a tattoo today. Do you want to do it, or am I forced to let amateurs lay hands on me where you can see it?"
It took 6-8 hours, I had to get up and walk around a couple of times, but it's gorgeous. The looks I get sometimes though, standing there looking all senior executive consultant, then I push my sleeves up and it's serpents and moons and torches and keys and spears. Heh.
@MissConstrue @ApostateEnglishman @benroyce @mloxton @overholt
I absolutely love this
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@ApostateEnglishman @benroyce @mloxton @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
I didn't have the courage to get a sleeve length tattoo until I was in my 50s. I had a series of incredibly traumatic events happen in sequence, and as I was trying to put all the pieces back together, I looked at the art I'd had on my office wall for years while I doddled and hemmed and hawed about getting a piece that big. It's one of my favorite arts that I've done, and one day I took it off the wall, called my friend who owns a shop and said "I'm getting a tattoo today. Do you want to do it, or am I forced to let amateurs lay hands on me where you can see it?"
It took 6-8 hours, I had to get up and walk around a couple of times, but it's gorgeous. The looks I get sometimes though, standing there looking all senior executive consultant, then I push my sleeves up and it's serpents and moons and torches and keys and spears. Heh.
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@ApostateEnglishman @benroyce @mloxton @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
I didn't have the courage to get a sleeve length tattoo until I was in my 50s. I had a series of incredibly traumatic events happen in sequence, and as I was trying to put all the pieces back together, I looked at the art I'd had on my office wall for years while I doddled and hemmed and hawed about getting a piece that big. It's one of my favorite arts that I've done, and one day I took it off the wall, called my friend who owns a shop and said "I'm getting a tattoo today. Do you want to do it, or am I forced to let amateurs lay hands on me where you can see it?"
It took 6-8 hours, I had to get up and walk around a couple of times, but it's gorgeous. The looks I get sometimes though, standing there looking all senior executive consultant, then I push my sleeves up and it's serpents and moons and torches and keys and spears. Heh.
@MissConstrue @ApostateEnglishman @benroyce @mloxton @TheBreadmonkey @overholt I got my first tattoo at age 45 after wanting one for decades.
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@MissConstrue @ApostateEnglishman @benroyce @mloxton @TheBreadmonkey @overholt I got my first tattoo at age 45 after wanting one for decades.
️️@courtcan @MissConstrue @benroyce @mloxton @TheBreadmonkey @overholt A fleck of something on my phone screen made that look like "4.5" which made me think (for a split second), "That's very young. Is that even legal anywhere?! But also oddly precise...".
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@tantramar @mina @Bugspriet @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
i've always been confused as to if the ancient aliens that helped the maya are the same ancient aliens that helped the egyptians
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@benroyce @tantramar @mina @Bugspriet @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt I think positing *two* alien space faring civilizations with a pyramid fetish is going to fall afoul of Occam's razor.
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@benroyce @tantramar @mina @Bugspriet @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt I think positing *two* alien space faring civilizations with a pyramid fetish is going to fall afoul of Occam's razor.
@rupert @tantramar @mina @Bugspriet @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
yeah but William of Ockham who came up with Occam's Razor was an alien themselves. they implanted the idea of Occam's Razor in your head to cover it all up
{taps forehead and smiles}
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@courtcan @MissConstrue @benroyce @mloxton @TheBreadmonkey @overholt A fleck of something on my phone screen made that look like "4.5" which made me think (for a split second), "That's very young. Is that even legal anywhere?! But also oddly precise...".
@ApostateEnglishman @MissConstrue @benroyce @mloxton @TheBreadmonkey @overholt LOL my parents would have to have been VERY different people than who they are!
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@benroyce Even before mobiles - the C net was just invented then and required a suitcase size installation and cost some tenthousand Euros @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
@Bugspriet @benroyce @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt Or DM, back then
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you're not alone john, you're not alone
we are old
"born in the 1900s" is apparently ancient now. this poor dad just driving his kids to school gets absolutely roasted for it:
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@Bugspriet @benroyce @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt Or DM, back then
@brad @benroyce @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
I can type T9 on a number keyboard faster than on a smartphone.
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@brad @benroyce @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt
I can type T9 on a number keyboard faster than on a smartphone.
@Bugspriet @benroyce @MissConstrue @TheBreadmonkey @overholt With your phone in your pocket as well, right? Try that on a fancy "smartphone"
