Phi for All

I heard two versions of this joke recently, and didn't really care for either, so I took the best from both to punch it up. I agree about Dangerfield. He was another master of misdirection. "The doctor said I had cancer, and when I told him I'd like a second opinion, he said, 'You're ugly, too!'"

Misdirection is probably my favorite joke formula. Selling it well is an art form, imo. Bo Burnham is a master at it. I love his bit about believing in the Zodiac, and how morbidly ironic it is that his grandmother was a Cancer, and she was actually killed by a giant crab. I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs. Like customs officers.... I had a few too many at a bar the other day, so I decided to take a cab home. That's the first time I've ever driven a cab, to be honest with you.

Since it's already been established that the whole Ukraine/Nazi connection is a complete gaslight, I assume everything said after this point is equally untrue and aimed at perverting the truth. Red herrings for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

When I make someone breakfast in bed, is it too much to expect a little appreciation, or even just a "thank you"? Lately all I get is a bunch of questions, like "Who are you?" and "What are you doing in my house?"

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American politics in general is a cult of personality, imo. The Republicans want to bomb more brown people than the Democrats do, and Liz Cheney and her dad were the old epitome of that tradition. The new Republicans are mostly split between the Reaganites like Liz who don't care for TFG, the Christian Nationalists who back him, and the Anti-Democracy Extremists who adore him, and none of them want to listen to anything progressive or liberal from anybody, or any kind of compromise even if it's the best thing for everybody. I don't see how she has a chance to bring the party back together, but she could be effective as a spoiler for TFG's chances (if he's eligible to run again). I'm hoping this is what keeps TFG from running again. You always know he's lying when he uses his trademarked brand of kettle logic. "There are no classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Documents are automatically declassified by my order. I don't need permission to declassify documents I want to keep." Remember Omarosa and the N-word? "I never called her the N-word. I've been told there's no tape of me calling her the N-word. You can't trust what she says because she's wacky and deranged. The media shouldn't listen to her because they didn't listen when she praised me." It really burns me that so many people are duped by this.

Drain the Boil! Make America Non-infectious Again! Lance him up! Give him four more years and he'll take the 5th again!

I've had these dreams before as well, exactly as you and KyleLeClair have described. For me though, it didn't seem to have anything to do with becoming lighter. I felt it was definitely more of a Peter Pan, believe-you-can kind of power that kept me aloft rather than any kind of aerodynamic adaptation or weightlessness. I never needed to run or jump, but rather just knew it was possible to ascend into the air for as high as I cared to go. I've had auditory hallucinations along those lines before, but never at that scale. It's absolutely bizarre what our ears can convince our brains of, isn't it? I think most things people throughout history thought were miracles were simply misunderstood marching band waterfalls.

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Is this the same event? That's hilarious! Come to think of it, I've seen some DG with the name Somerdale Cooper Hill. Yes. I stopped buying cheap food and started buying less food overall, but all top quality. Start another cheese thread in Physics or Biology! Hard cheeses are what the cardiologists all recommend, and I agree with you on that Costco parm. You're talking about the big wedge, right, not the pre-shredded? I suppose I could cut it down to Jarlsberg only, as long as I get some sort of official medical exemption in writing. Maybe a bracelet with a big J in the middle of a red cross or something. And I definitely want a senior discount at the store when I buy my dairy medications.

It may be cheaper here, but all gourmet items have gone up so much lately that it's tough to figure accurately. Many imported cheese prices have pegged somewhere around $17.99/pound, which seems to be the point where Americans question their love. A couple of years ago, Jarlsberg was about $11/pound when other Swiss cheese is about $7-8/pound. One of my favorite cheeses they promote in my local stores is called Cotswold, a double Gloucester with chives and onion they claim is from the UK. Is this a real English cheese, or is this like English muffins over here?

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This company sounds interesting: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/666725

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My point about all white males being suspect was lost on more than just you. Stop thinking from your own perspective and put yourself in somebody (almost anybody) else's shoes. Black people don't know which white males to trust. Neither do Latinx or Asian folks. Women especially have to watch out for resentful, hateful, ignorant white men who think women are the cause of all their problems. How could they possibly tell the difference between me and you just by looking? If I'm not with my wife, you and I might look the same in that regard. I might be the one who holds hostility towards women because they won't have sex with me. I know you hate facts and statistics, but I don't know another way to actually show you how white men are the main suspects in all sorts of crimes against women. I know you wanted to come here to explain an idea you had about science but instead started talking about how oppressed you are by women and intellectuals. It's obviously a big hangup for you, but this is a discussion forum. We'd like to think you might actually LISTEN to some of the points being made, but you haven't yet, so I don't think your ideas are best for conversation with adults. This isn't the echo chamber you've been spending time in, listening to other men disparage women to make themselves feel better. In this type of discussion, we use reason to help others see our points of view, to persuade them that there are other ways to look at a problem. I haven't seen much that's reasonable from you. It's great that you've taken the time to respond to so many replies, but your responses make it seem like women and intellectuals are printing up "Keep kicking Greg A!" t-shirts just because you're so perceptive about the True Nature of the World. Regardless, it's easy to see you misinterpret most of what's being said to you, so in that regard a science discussion forum will probably do you more harm than good. You just don't understand what we're talking about when it comes to supportive evidence and critical thinking skills. I love discussing topics with the members here, mostly because the rest of them know what reason (and irony) looks like.

I wish you could hear what we hear when you post things like this.

The thread began 18 years ago? I'm going to go with that. ... to the response you so wanted to give yet didn't? I so wanted to listen to it but you didn't respond.

Interesting read. I was hoping the Times article about medical sexism could shed some light on why 19th century American women conspired to foment war between the North and South in order to wipe out all the men and create a single-sex society. Alas, no.

So, by that same reasoning, WWII was more about killing animals than anything else? The fatalities were mostly horses and dogs. In modern times, the US lost less than 3000 troops in Afghanistan, but but wiped out half the total livestock population. Was the underlying influence of that war to kill goats?