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Isn't this the whole trinity problem, as in how can one thing be three things at the same time? If you have truly seperate things, you have polytheism...
January 22, 2025 at 15:31
Has anyone ever said no to this question?
January 22, 2025 at 04:29
I was hoping your story ended with Tiny Tim falling down some steps and being dragged around his house by his dog. Instead we were provided a heartwar...
January 21, 2025 at 20:58
Since the majority of people who rely upon the Bible have never read the Bible, it must be assumed it is not what the Bible says that people follow, b...
January 21, 2025 at 20:44
Speaking of finding phones and phones finding us: My son (who I'll call Son) came to visit from Denver with a GPS tag on his backpack. Son walked in u...
January 21, 2025 at 18:12
When you hear "who are you" are you hearing those words from you own mouth or the phone. It can be hard to tell. Like my knee makes this screaming sou...
January 20, 2025 at 16:50
If your fingerprint and face recognition biosecurity feature didn't recognize you on your phone, would you assume: (1) your software failed, (2) you h...
January 20, 2025 at 13:43
To add to whatever it is we might be talking about, absurdism must be fiction to save it from sociopathy. There was this guy who taped a banana to the...
January 19, 2025 at 04:21
I always wondered if I were a musician whether I could work with others within a group because I've never come close to doing something like that. I d...
January 19, 2025 at 03:22
I think of Pink Floyd (and I'm a fan) as self indulgent with long experimental complex sound, but i don't think that of the Grateful Dead, which can g...
January 18, 2025 at 20:53
Words that I think might describe my stories are absurd, silly, farcical, with clueless characters and narrators, and maybe irreverent if taken as ser...
January 18, 2025 at 14:17
I saw Eraserhead a while back, and it just seemed gratuitously odd and grotesque. It's supposedly some sort of masterpiece, but I wasn't a fan.
January 18, 2025 at 03:35
Doesn't 1.1 come after 1 but before 2?
January 16, 2025 at 21:17
If you had to have a third leg coming off your lower back like a tail that could be used to run super fast or a third arm that came off your forehead ...
January 15, 2025 at 02:13
My favorite judge is Judge Learned Hand, for having had such a fitting name. He was also bushy browed, and for that, I loved him dearly, not romantica...
January 15, 2025 at 01:48
Where I'm from, collards grow in cans./uploads/resized/files/1t/h3bygloq2mc7qykd.jpg
January 15, 2025 at 00:36
Collards are the correct greens to eat, not turnip greens, which are soft and unacceptable. When I grew up in Scotland, we would carve turnips instead...
January 14, 2025 at 18:11
The pickle color lets me know it's the sweet soft variety, a terrible substitute for the crispy garlicy sort, the type I call a kosher pickle, which i...
January 14, 2025 at 18:07
I'm reading "How the Bible Became Holy." As in how did it find itself as a book that dictates our social norms and moral beliefs. Spoiler alert: It's ...
January 14, 2025 at 16:56
My son sent me a picture of poutine, a Canadian food consisting of cheese curds, fries, and gravy. His had peas in it. It looks messy and pretty disgu...
January 14, 2025 at 16:48
I had that moment when I first had sweet and sour chicken. Candied chicken. Who'd have thunk? Back then Chinese food was exotic cuisine, authentic or ...
January 14, 2025 at 15:58
Sounds like you've enjoyed some southern pecan pie.
January 14, 2025 at 13:45
Someone somewhere is still frying pig intestines, which i understand require a few hours of soaking and scrubbing with bleach to disinfect before tryi...
January 14, 2025 at 11:10
Ever feel like your post should've ended at the first paragraph? Sometimes more is less.
January 14, 2025 at 04:28
What's everyone's thoughts on the air fryer? I've heard they make good chicken wings. I was thinking I could find one about the size of my belly and I...
January 14, 2025 at 04:27
/uploads/resized/files/kg/d4c0yl842jbd4acj.jpg I give you thin cut NY strip breakfast steaks in a wortestershire glaze, a salad with Italian dressing,...
January 14, 2025 at 01:05
You think that he eats the way he says he eats because it's too difficult to do otherwise?
January 13, 2025 at 22:52
Thank you for your comments. You liked this story better than my last, which was aimed more at the Beavis and Butthead crowd. I really do appreciate b...
January 13, 2025 at 21:26
But how do you know that the emotional disconnectedness is not an accurate portrayal of Dylan?
January 13, 2025 at 10:52
Prior to microwaves, we would defrost our chicken breasts on our chests secured by brassieres.
January 12, 2025 at 21:00
Are those just chicken breasts in a broiler pan with some season salt? It just looks really dry and uninspired. Some tomato sauce, Italian seasoning, ...
January 12, 2025 at 16:20
Even as I try to explain the basis for my affinity for animals over people, I find myself wishing I were instead petting my cat.
January 12, 2025 at 03:51
Fred ripped the femur out of basketball player's leg and twisted the ends neatly. As he ran the floor and dunked basketballs, you saw a fine athlete. ...
January 11, 2025 at 21:49
Is this a Sokal Affair reference?
January 11, 2025 at 19:56
I would ask why you have a hall of mirrors, but it feels judgey. Nor can my cat. To her, the fast moving red dot remains a relentless intruder, incapa...
January 11, 2025 at 14:33
My power went out. I have to use a flashlight to watch my TV.
January 10, 2025 at 23:50
https://youtu.be/yx-k6Qr_CK4?si=6RtpJlR4fhu7D021 Chaotic organ, off the wall lyrics. Psychedelic absurdity at its finest. "The mansion is warm, at the...
January 10, 2025 at 21:38
The old guy still has a few zingers left in him: https://youtu.be/3OzxeME0tsQ?si=ks8uu-E2xM3Esisq
January 10, 2025 at 21:10
Wonder if there is a correlation with that creation myth and John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...
January 10, 2025 at 20:51
"Chewy" is a defining word in your essay, pointing out one of the three things the Jews gave the world: the two tablets and the bagel. But it was not ...
January 10, 2025 at 20:41
Hunter can run for Governor of Canada.
January 09, 2025 at 23:51
I was shocked to learn Carter died. After 100 years of being alive, it seemed the trend was that he'd live. I just didn't see this dip coming on his l...
January 09, 2025 at 21:58
I might have shared this in Shoutboxia before, but if you don't believe someone, you say to them "you think?" Then they say "I know." And then you say...
January 09, 2025 at 21:56
Do you think Trump's son would make a better President than Biden's? Initially my comment was going to contain the words "(the live one, not the dead ...
January 09, 2025 at 21:44
My interpretation of your dream is that your wife's constant correction of your errors is so pervasive that it follows you into your sleep. You only w...
January 09, 2025 at 16:25
I was thinking about this, and this is what I came up with: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are end...
January 08, 2025 at 23:30
I think there were trees in the forest before anyone saw them.
January 07, 2025 at 15:03
Then it's oxymoronic because it can't be dysphoric and be good. The opposite of dysphoria is euphoria, but I don't know that we can consider those who...
January 06, 2025 at 14:13
I thank you for the sentiment, but I wasn't so sure there was a bright light shining up in there when I watched her eating shit.
January 05, 2025 at 23:47
Pigs likes to eat. So if you find yourself over eating, you might be called a pig. While you may not like that characterization, take comfort in the f...
January 05, 2025 at 23:43