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And yet no one I know has ever known a person who was murdered, much less who was shot. What do you make of that? 55 years in this crime ridden city, ...
February 02, 2022 at 22:33
They are essentially the same throughout, some with more stringent rules than others, but all limited by the same Constitution as to how they may be r...
February 02, 2022 at 19:50
Believe it or not, but I live in the US among many gun fanatics, and I have never known a person who was murdered. We can divide cultures and societie...
February 02, 2022 at 17:48
I have to question the extent to which you were embarrassed in your recent purchase of diddling devices based upon your publication of your experience...
February 01, 2022 at 14:12
Let me think about that. Take a look at my mental processes:/uploads/resized/files/1t/157mazuroxedf4tq.jpg
February 01, 2022 at 04:35
I got a new housekeeper, but he smokes, so I think I'm going to have to let him go. Nice guy though. Had a hell of a life story /uploads/resized/files...
February 01, 2022 at 03:29
This wording implicates a dualism even too dualistic for me. "You" and "your will" are identical. And no, I didn't read your article. I chose not to. ...
February 01, 2022 at 03:24
It means you need to be someone's dixie chicken.
February 01, 2022 at 01:05
"Tunnel" in Icelandic is göng. I learned that because it said göng before every tunnel.. They could have been fucking with me though, so I'm not 100% ...
January 31, 2022 at 02:18
Would it not be even more disturbing if the wanker was a chatty Cathy, insisting upon talking about his tomato garden and stamp collection as he rubbe...
January 31, 2022 at 01:18
Not sure where you got those lyrics from. Here's how it goes: "]I'm goin' down to the Greyhound Station, gonna get a ticket to ride Gonna find that la...
January 30, 2022 at 22:37
He's just letting you know the Greyhound station is there waiting for you whenever you're ready.
January 30, 2022 at 21:41
For some reason, I hadn't heard of John Prine until recently. One of Dylan's favorites I'm to learn. https://bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/13786
January 30, 2022 at 21:38
I think she should go down to the Greyhound station and get a ticket to ride, find that lady with two or three kids and sit down by her side... Change...
January 30, 2022 at 21:19
I'm a panpaternalist, accepting everyone (except you) as my father and as my child (including you, but not your brother). The binarianism of the dualp...
January 30, 2022 at 16:10
When I was a kid, we more often than not got 8 to 9 yards of snow on any given winter day. I'd shovel frantically in front of my dad's car as he coast...
January 30, 2022 at 03:23
It seems simple enough to me, but maybe I gloss over some details. Putin wishes to weaken American influence on former Soviet states because he believ...
January 29, 2022 at 03:16
I understand the hyperbole in making your point that he was running fast and hard (as is often the preferred way, (as opposed to fast and furious)), b...
January 28, 2022 at 13:08
Whatever the marketing geniuses have done to get your money and the money of other women has worked, as you have chosen that gym like a moth to a flam...
January 25, 2022 at 22:35
Do you use the term "furiously" to mean energetically or angrily?
January 25, 2022 at 14:47
A vision of world domination obtained by inactivity visualized when sound asleep. That might be the laziest revolution ever.
January 25, 2022 at 11:07
I have found that most towns have werewolves. As you walk back to your room late at night, if you howl, you most often receive a return howl from one ...
January 24, 2022 at 04:25
Who asks questions they know the answers to?
January 23, 2022 at 20:16
The difference between a scarecrow and scareraven is that the latter are more fun and flirty. /uploads/resized/files/49/8nkxnuaoaet3v4ts.jpg
January 23, 2022 at 17:49
You should jam a bunch of squirrels in your bird feeder so you can have a hawk feeder. Or babies, if you prefer an even darker joke.
January 23, 2022 at 16:03
I do think he's on to something in identifying "magic" as a prerogative term, where practioners are seen as deviant, yet practtioners of authentic rel...
January 23, 2022 at 14:34
Data allowance? Is that still a thing?
January 23, 2022 at 12:57
The best time to see Ravens is on a midnight dreary.
January 23, 2022 at 12:17
Here is what I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Egypt#Female_genital_mutilation It seems ancient Egyptian women fared better than current...
January 20, 2022 at 20:14
I'm not committing to the greater validity of an ethical theory based upon paternalism, I'm just saying that there is just one answer to the question ...
January 20, 2022 at 15:01
I'm just saying to be careful. If you're supposed to meet in northwest Virginia, but you go to north West Virginia, you'll be in the wrong place.
January 19, 2022 at 22:30
If you live in the southern part of North Ireland, you'd say "South North Ireland is where I live. " If you live in the northern part of Ireland, you'...
January 19, 2022 at 22:03
I send my brother texts all day long that are even stupider than my posts here. It's a full time job sending stupid shit around around the world.
January 19, 2022 at 19:06
I don't get the reference.
January 18, 2022 at 22:54
You guys use "fanny" to mean vagina, but to us, it's a nice way to refer to the buttocks. In the US, a fanny pack wouldn't be a pack hanging deep bene...
January 18, 2022 at 22:19
Yeah, newsflash, everything to do with dicks.
January 18, 2022 at 21:42
So there are two possibilities here: (1) she is correct and you see her mother as an all consuming entity, like what a second wife of hers might be, a...
January 18, 2022 at 21:06
Why would a female perspective be better at determining which morality ought pertain to women than a man's would? That seems to imply subjectivism, li...
January 18, 2022 at 16:04
There's obviously a double standard, but the question is whether the double standard is itself moral. That is, it's clear that men may be considered m...
January 18, 2022 at 14:40
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I don't drink, smoke, do drugs, or even cuss. My only vice is lying.
January 17, 2022 at 23:14
I'm going to say a cross between a mole, pig, and walrus.
January 17, 2022 at 15:15
https://youtu.be/plrtX555eoA
January 17, 2022 at 14:39
I had a thing for a while, seeing what I could get away with in public. What I learned is that whatever thrill there is at getting away with it is dwa...
January 17, 2022 at 03:15
Next time you look at the moon and note the passage of time, look back upon your life into the unobtainable past, recalling those simple moments with ...
January 16, 2022 at 20:39
Waxing gibbous moon already. Jeez. Seems like it was waning just yesterday.
January 16, 2022 at 16:46
Got our first day of snow this year. It'll be gone tomorrow and we'll be back driving around . But if not, I still have 300 rolls of toilet paper from...
January 16, 2022 at 16:00
I think that's the same lady who taught me how to pronounce banana.
January 16, 2022 at 15:57
Here you go: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computer-science/
January 16, 2022 at 03:05
https://youtu.be/20Rucu7uNwc Love this tune.
January 16, 2022 at 02:53
Coinkidinkily I'm watching a Netflix documentary on Marla Olmstead, a former 4 year old abstract art "prodigy," who might have gotten some help from d...
January 16, 2022 at 02:16