@ChippedStones Based child

the boomer bloomer

One of the things I am most pissed off about here is that NO ONE had asked my about my avatar. Please don't feel like you need to do so you assholes.

What can I say? I’ve learned a lot from fortnite. @Wood-Ape - OK/MN

What is your avi @OMGDwayne

I just assumed that's what you looked like

@OMGDwayne It totally looks familiar but I can't put my finger on it

like how I assume some of you are actually dogs, living statues, or in a couple cases artwork/dead people

how good of ian to keep us updated to his actual irl appearance

@Deleted User Thank you for asking. Finally. My avatar is a powerful and disturbing portrait of Reid Flemming; the world's toughest milkman. He was a brilliant comic book character in the early 90s. I own the entire Oeuvre. It's brilliant stuff and it reminds me of my own misspent youth. Goggle it.

was your youth spent being a milkman?

Cool

Goggle

Tbh the thought of having milk delivered every day sounds pretty nice

new avi actually me

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cookie cutters out

miss me with that conformity fam

Oh, and, I used to have a great-uncle from Philly. I used to visit him every now and then because he was one of the most entertaining people I've ever met. He once picked me up at the downtown train station in 1988. He was driving a 1972 Pontiac Gran Prix. I'll never forget when we entered the freeway at a ridiculous speed. He blandly said, "Brace yourself. We are now entering the Sure-ta-klll-ya freeway. he floored and swerved into the lane he wanted regardless of the feelings of other drivers. He then said to me, "I aiin't no good at this so you better buckle up." He also accompanied me to the Marcel Duchamp exhibit at the Art Museum. He looked at that arch con man's work and he gently said to me, "Do you have any friends you share your interest in this disgusting bullshit." We had a big laugh over that later in a local bar that he had first frequented in 1936. God rest his free and outspken sourl.

that reminds me: I gotta find time to start finding ways to make a good philly cheesesteak.

but your great-uncle sounds like a gretty gud kind of guy

Anyone else being kept awake by bantus and their percussion-centric auditory entertainment? Why must it be played at such an excruciating volume??

I _had_ that problem but the guy moved out

and now it's been huwite people for two years in a row now

@Deleted User Actual tri al drumming or tje modern "rap" equivalent?

Idk about Bantus

But there be redguards about

New sseth review out. On Arcanum

https://youtu.be/QXAPdwOza9U

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN that guy is great

Listening to stupid game reviews is my guilty pleasure.

Puts me to sleep.

hi

@Nemets I've read that book about Portugal too. How did the Iberians become so dominant and the become such a pathetic backwater? After 1643 they seemed to just collapse. From then on they were a second class power. By the time we fought them they were almost third-world tier.

@american_frankenstein Hi back at you Frankie. What's your story. I see you're in California. I lived there from 1989 to 2016. I saw the self-destruction first hand.

@Nemets Have you ever read "The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road?" Amazing stuff. All the nuts and bolts of Spanish dominance. Another good one is Fernand Braudel's "he Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II." It's another very good nuts and bolts explanation of how things worked in the 16th century. Ferdinand and Isabella created the Spanish Empire by defeating the French time and time again. They were so powerful after that that the rest of Europe used to accuse them of trying to establish a "Universal Monarchy." My wife's Okie father used to talk all the time about the "blood thirsty Spaniards." He had a Spanish wife, so he was always ribbing her about that. It might have been because she tried to stab him with a butcher-knife shortly after they were married. (He took it away from her after minimum bloodshed) When I knew them, they were nice people. She was from Andalusia, and he was from Oklahoma. They met in San Francisco during "the war." The mother liked me because i worked for the newspapers, and according to her that meant that I knew all the inside stories about what really goes on. She was a real pistol. The Dad was like Clint Eastwood.

@OMGDwayne well, *do* you know the inside stories about what really goes on??

Maybe she was on to something

having talked to people who edit the news... it doesn't seem so exciting

@Nemets Oh yeah, the Spanish at the height of their power were totally divorced from reality. Just like our ver own (((neoCons))). They were living in a fever dream. The Count-Duke of Olivares almost out-dueled Cardinal Richelieu, but Spain just couldn't match the resources and population of France. The Grand Conde ended Spanish dominance at the Battle of Rocroi in 1643. After that, Spanish power collapsed like a burst balloon. That's where the U.S. is heading. The Old World will rise again. We might not.

@Salo Saloson actually I have a story. I used to work for my high school newspaper and they spent over a million dollars building this weird computer lab where the computers were literally built into the desk and for some reason this was the future. So one of the other members of the student paper just went around the lunch room and polled kids on whether they thought the computer lab helped them learn. 50% said it helped and 50% said it didn't. She wrote up a nice article about it for the school newspaper and just before it printed the principle came in the room and pulled the student and our teacher-advisor aside. Turns out the administration didn't want this article published because they had spent so much money on this computer lab on the promise it would help students and to see 50% of kids saw no difference in their learning would look really bad for them. So we shelved her article and poll and no one outside the newspaper club knew the results.