Random Thoughts 9: Attack of the Vapid Posts

[Timsup2nothin]

England had already been united for 500 years at this point. We'd even gone through two messy civil wars in the meantime!

Unity is easier to accomplish on an island. Central Europe was definitely disadvantaged just by being centrally located, but adopting and stagnating in the loose confederation of the HRE certainly did nobody involved any favors.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Unity is easier to accomplish on an island. Central Europe was definitely disadvantaged just by being centrally located, but adopting and stagnating in the loose confederation of the HRE certainly did nobody involved any favors.

Yeah, it took Napoleon to clean up that mess and start Germany on the road to proper unification.

 

[Zkribbler]

...as I'm building this castle underwater I can listen to the soothing sounds of softly hooting owls.

Owlfish?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

As I walked out of the supermarket into the rain that started while I was inside...knowing that my gf had been suggesting I should get going for like an hour before I finally did because I was busy with a Mafia game...I wrote these lyrics in anticipation that I would be asked what took me so long when I got home.

The line was loo-ong, with many a shopping cart,
Loaded up to there...or there...some even there.
But I knoooo-oooh
You will not encumber me.
You ain't heavy;
You're my groc'ries.

For some reason she was not impressed, and just said "You're so weird. Please tell me you didn't sing that to the cashier."

 

[Takhisis]

Was the cashier pretty?

Unity is easier to accomplish on an island.

And yet, these days…

Yeah, it took Napoleon to clean up that mess and start Germany on the road to proper unification.

Prussia as an expanding Germanocentric state had already been founded. Napoleon helped, yes, but Illustration and nationalism existed before him and would have resulted in a similar nationalist amalgamation process at some point or another.

I.e. Napoleon was a catalyst, the conditions were already there.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Was the cashier pretty?

Yeah, but I didn't really have it all worked out until I was out the doors. I was singing it in the parking lot though and this couple asked me if the lines were really long, as if a guy singing in the parking lot was just an everyday information source and nothing out of the ordinary at all.

 

[Takhisis]

I was singing it in the parking lot though and this couple asked me if the lines were really long, as if a guy singing in the parking lot was just an everyday information source and nothing out of the ordinary at all.

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news...rorised-london-by-saying-hello-20151001102473

 

[Timsup2nothin]

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news...rorised-london-by-saying-hello-20151001102473

So, maybe they were just getting close to see if I was wearing a bomb vest under my tee-shirt? <yes, in southern California in February a tee shirt is considered appropriate attire for being out in the rain>

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Yeah, but I didn't really have it all worked out until I was out the doors. I was singing it in the parking lot though and this couple asked me if the lines were really long, as if a guy singing in the parking lot was just an everyday information source and nothing out of the ordinary at all.

What was the tune?

This reminds me of one of the songs in the Westerfilk Collection. The title is "Batteries" and it's set to the melody of "Yesterday." Unfortunately I don't remember the words, but it was a song about the frustrations of batteries that don't last as long as they used to.


And not to worry about singing in public. Several decades ago I had a job delivering papers and Sears catelogues, and to entertain myself I'd sing filksongs. So if any people happened to be near an open window, they'd have heard me singing "You Bash the Balrog and I'll Climb a Tree" (D&D parody, to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda").

 

[Timsup2nothin]

What was the tune?

That one. Though I'm a full octave lower.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

It's illegal to ride a moose.

Unless you're another moose presumably.

 

[Birdjaguar]

That one. Though I'm a full octave lower.

That must be after Graham Nash left and they were a nothing band.


Link to video.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Unless you're another moose presumably.

That reminds me of a news article i read about (verbatim) a moose sex corridor. I think on CBC.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

That must be after Graham Nash left and they were a nothing band.

The song or that particular video? I think he was with them when the song came out, but that might well be a later performance.

 

[Takhisis]

That reminds me of a news article i read about (verbatim) a moose sex corridor. I think on CBC.

The government in the US is trying to allow a couple thousand new oil wells to be opened in Wyoming which would block the moose's yearly migration route. Without that the moose will simply not reproduce, apparently, which is raising all types of concern, to put it mildly.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

How does the forum software decide who you are following and who is following you?

 

[Synobun]

How does the forum software decide who you are following and who is following you?

Err...

It doesn't decide. You decide who you're following, and the people who follow you decided to do so.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I have never followed anyone.

In the old forum I had friended a bunch of people but I don't think it's the same group now.

 

[Takhisis]

People whom you used to have as ‘friends’ before the downgrade to Xenforo were transformed into both following and followers while people whom you had as contacts you still follow. People whom you had unfriended remained as contacts, apparently, because I remain the very much unwilling followee of some highly disagreeable personages.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The government in the US is trying to allow a couple thousand new oil wells to be opened in Wyoming which would block the moose's yearly migration route. Without that the moose will simply not reproduce, apparently, which is raising all types of concern, to put it mildly.

This is one reason why, decades ago, the city planners included a wildlife migration corridor through the city (via the parks; we have a lot of forested areas in Red Deer) for the deer, moose, bears, and other wildlife. It cuts down considerably on potentially hazardous human/animal meetings.

That said, moose and deer still have their favorite parts of town where they'll go right into someone's yard and help themselves to the crabapples and other goodies. When that happens, people are supposed to stay indoors and not bother them.

The provincial government is talking again of putting a highway through Howse Pass (between Alberta and British Columbia) to cut down on travel time. This idea was first proposed over 30 years ago and was shot down then for environmental concerns. The time saved would amount to maybe an hour, so it really isn't worth wrecking one of the areas of the Rockies that's been left to the animals.

How does the forum software decide who you are following and who is following you?

It wants you to have friends.

Seriously, people decide to follow you, or you could decide to follow them. It's not like vBulletin when we had more control and people had to send friend requests (which you could accept or reject).