Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

he who says the word
is the one whose posts absurd.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

I applaud anyone making the effort to read my mind. It's not exactly an easy thing, even for me.

But you assume incorrectly. I am actually a huge fan of the word "shrill." While I might've used it without thinking terribly deeply (I don't recall), it never fails.

If it were such a vacant word, it would have fallen flat. It could be and would be dismissed, overlooked. But it wasn't. At least not by you. You've moved from being irritated by its use to suggesting you only desired that I be enlightened as to the poor reflection it casts on its users. I'll read your mind a bit and suggest that's post hoc.

But I'm game for a drum circle. I'd much rather discuss Ernest Borgnine's masturbation habits than jockey with you for smartest guy in the room. We all know it's you. It's always you.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

UD? I concede.

(Sincerely, I never heard that word before.)

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

I should have gone with Marty Feldman. I feared he was too obscure.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Shouldn’t you be posting this in Sanskrit?

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Will Urdu work? My Sanskrit is rusty.

آپ کو بھاڑ میں جاؤ

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Ha ha ha!!! Yes! Brilliant!! The fact that Adder was, in seconds and with the most rudimentary internet search, able to find dozens of articles about the tendency to label Hillary as shrill IN NO WAY refutes your assertion that "Hillary wasn't branded as shrill." Ha ha!!! In fact, I think it actually proves you were correct, right! TOTALLY!! You are perfect in every way!

[Serious confidential inquiry: are you dabbing the shatter? I would love to be able to just become completely untethered from reality like that, but dabbing seems like it requires a whole lot of capital expenditure to get into. Like, you need a blowtorch or something? Anyhoo, kudos to you for breaking out the heavy firepower like that so early in the day. Respect.]

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

When people complain to me that your posts aren't particularly erudite, I always tell them that you bring the stoner cred that the board otherwise lacks. Be strong!

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Hilarious! A fellow poster on the 420-4EVAH forum just posted to say that I brought an intellectual bent to the discussion that had been sorely missing.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Damn, man, you give Sebby no credit at all. That is cold.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

He's shrill. No stoner cred.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

This is the most inaccurate post about sebby ever. Congrats!

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

I hear it's effective, so it's all good.

Take a moment.
 

Thanks again to leagleaze for saving these posts from Infirm from 17 years ago today. Every year I try to read them and every year I fail to get very far.

Re: Take a moment.
 

All the loss, the global unity in its wake... That possibility we could have channeled all the energy in a direction many times more positive than the horror of that day... Instead, we attacked Iraq.

Seventeen years, hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, and thousands of dead Americans down the road, to what end? A few trillion pissed away, a balkanized Middle East, an avoidable Great Recession, a new Cold War, a trade war, and a polarized, incurious, and largely ignorant population. All the goodwill we accrued from that scarring event, domestically and globally, has been flushed, erased.

Reminds me of that line from Peter Fonda to Dennis Hopper near the end of Easy Rider, just before they're murdered by mutant rednecks: "We blew it..."

I'd like to recall the emotional pull of that moment, the feeling we were all in something together. But what's come since has rendered consideration of the fear and pain of that morning near impossible. The following interregnum leaves you with nothing but regret at the seemingly endless lost possibilities. We seriously, irredeemably, fucked up the response.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Technically, he's right. One cannot be shrill and chill.

I don't think I veer into shrill, however. I bloviate. It's lamentable, but different.

Re: Take a moment.
 

That's just weird (and somewhat disturbing) to re-read.

TM

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

i think you have stoner cred (being high is not required), and are not shrill- to me shrill requires spaced peak amplitudes, and you are more direct current.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Again, nasally. Grown up Urkel voice, without the Urkel charm.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

You're learning. But you know that doesn't stick, Richard. It's too much.

Now get back to sweating with the oldies.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Did I ever tell anyone I auditioned (via tape) as a vocalist for this guy's band?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pritzker

Made it past the 1st cut but dinged by Bob Ezrin for sounding "too boyish."

I never forget, he said, "I am giving this music thing one shot, then going to law school."

The song "Heroes never Cry" is actually decent.

https://melodicrock.com/artist/idle-tears

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Steve, call me Dick.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Which one am I supposed to think is cool?

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

One of them is supposed to be cool?

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Neither. The difference is one cares, one doesn't.

Though Hamm's character does own the coolest closing of any series. "I'd like to teach the world to sing..." Just when I'd thought Weiner was totally blowing the ending, he landed that Hail Mary.

https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_..._330/image.jpg

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

And what's so great about not caring?

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

You don't recognize that this is how Sebby lives his life? He's a mix of an aging frat bro and a guy who just doesn't care and laughs at all the suckers who have chosen sides who do. This makes him better.

TM

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

You're beginning to sound a little shrill. Settle down.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

At some level we need to be able to attack each with some reference to pop culture images. Don Draper and the dweeb guy are fair reference points. That said, I'm not sure i wouldn't rather be seen as the dweeb guy instead of Don (when he had sex with Sally's kindergarten teacher I really had to distance myself), but we each might ask ourselves which we would rather be; and, not to tie back to the original point of this board, we must all remember there are GP/GA aspects to that question.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Not not caring in general. Not caring about what anyone thinks.

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

If you don't care what anyone thinks, why did you reply to RT?

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

Re: Squeeeeeeeze
 

I always reply to RT. It's a respect thing.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Hell hath no fury like mediating a wrongful-termination case with bad facts.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

I spend two weeks taking classes at Pepperdine to learn to mediate. I have not had the half thought of ever doing it.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

A Mexican immigrant, Ilario, came to America 30 years ago. He busted his ass, worked every job he could find- ate shit from bosses, but he did it- and he saved what he could.

Ilario loved books, and he read every night. Taught himself English, and eventually took classes in literature at the local college. When he was 50 he realized he had saved enough to start a business- there was never a question what- he opened a book store.

And what a bad decision. A book store in 2018? He stood at his counter every day that first week reading the newspaper and waiting for his first customer. The lack of buyers for books made him mad, at himself, and the political news just made him mad.

Then a customer came in! A big fat white guy, MAGA hat, stars and bars T-shirt. Ilario knew this man was not his friend, but he also knew he had to treat ALL customers right.

The customer said, "Do you have the new Donald Trump book?"

Ilario couldn't believe it, his first customer was looking for a book he would never carry. He just said, 'no."

The customer, "Hey, don't you speak English? The President's new book? You must have it."

"I do speak English sir, and I do not know of his books."

"Listen Mexican, you're in our country and this is our President's book. How could you not have heard of it? Can you read?"

Well that was it. All the decades of being quiet broke out of Ilario. "Get the Fuck Out of Here and Don't come back! Don't want and don't need your kind here!"

"Yeah, that's the one. You got it then?"

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Very nice, Hank.

I've got to admit, I did not see this coming.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Indeed, Paulie might have already been singing this morning, before the plea was entered.

So far it looks like the administration's response is "it's not about Russia" but sure looks like it's about to be.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Among other things, the $45 million of assets that Manafort forfeits (in a way that appears to prevent him getting them back with a pardon) pays for Mueller's investigation. So much that waste-of-money talking point.