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Hurdergaryp
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:43 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Tends to evolve quite well into Social Faux Pas as you grow older.

You speak too much truth.

Years of experience and lacking the motivation to craft elaborate lies like I used to do in my halcyon days of treachery and deceit, that's what makes it happen.


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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:45 pm

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:You speak too much truth.

Years of experience and lacking the motivation to craft elaborate lies like I used to do in my halcyon days of treachery and deceit, that's what makes it happen.


Sounds like you spend a lot of time in the Hollowed Halls of US Congress. Your will has been warped into Kellyanne Conway's night moisturizer.
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The Archregimancy
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Postby The Archregimancy » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:45 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
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Well, you sort of lose track after the first 20,000 years or so.

In those days, in those distant days, in those nights, in those remote nights, in those years, in those distant years; in days of yore, when the necessary things had been brought into manifest existence, in days of yore, when the necessary things had been for the first time properly cared for, when bread had been tasted for the first time in the shrines of the Land, when the ovens of the Land had been made to work, when the heavens had been separated from the earth, when the earth had been delimited from the heavens, when the fame of mankind had been established...

Certainly I was a really wild man for the first few millenia until Shamhat calmed me down.

Sometimes I miss her (she really was luscious); other times I still get angry with her over this whole civilisation nonsense.

Generally speaking a bad idea, agreed.



The ready supply of barley beer was a compensation. mind.

I miss barley beer sometimes, too. Ninkasi made some excellent barley beer


Given birth by the flowing water [.....], tenderly cared for by Ninhursaja! Ninkasi, given birth by the flowing water [.....], tenderly cared for by Ninhursaja!

Having founded your town upon wax, she completed its great walls for you. Ninkasi, having founded your town upon wax, she completed its great walls for you.

Your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu. Ninkasi, your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu.

It is you who handle the [.....] and dough with a big shovel, mixing, in a pit, the beerbread with sweet aromatics. Ninkasi, it is you who handle the [......] and dough with a big shovel, mixing, in a pit, the beerbread with sweet aromatics.

It is you who bake the beerbread in the big oven, and put in order the piles of hulled grain. Ninkasi, it is you who bake the beerbread in the big oven, and put in order the piles of hulled grain.

It is you who water the earth-covered malt; the noble dogs guard it even from the potentates. Ninkasi, it is you who water the earth-covered malt; the noble dogs guard it even from the potentates.

It is you who soak the malt in a jar; the waves rise, the waves fall. Ninkasi, it is you who soak the malt in a jar; the waves rise, the waves fall.

It is you who spread the cooked mash on large reed mats; coolness overcomes [......] Ninkasi, it is you who spread the cooked mash on large reed mats; coolness overcomes [......]

It is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine. Ninkasi, it is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine.

You place the fermenting vat, which makes a pleasant sound, appropriately on top of a large collector vat. Ninkasi, you place the fermenting vat, which makes a pleasant sound, appropriately on top of a large collector vat.

It is you who pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat; it is like the onrush of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Ninkasi, it is you who pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat; it is like the onrush of the Tigris and the Euphrates.

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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:48 pm

Eternal Lotharia wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:In my head, I'm like "go away. I don't like you." I'm a teensy bit antisocial. NS is one of the few places where I feel like it's easy to communicate with people.

I'm social unless they annoy me or gross me out.
Unfortunately my autism limits interests and makes it hard to naturally think of other subjects unless I'm online for some reason.

I should have been a little more clear. I'm social around people I know, or when I want to be. It's easier to comunicate online because people can't judge you as much, and that sort of thing.
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:49 pm

I wonder if the school district is putting something odd in the kids's lunches. This is the second time today I hear kids screaming inside one of the buses. Crank the kid up, have mommy and daddy deal with their lil' angels climbing up the walls.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:50 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:I wonder if the school district is putting something odd in the kids's lunches. This is the second time today I hear kids screaming inside one of the buses. Crank the kid up, have mommy and daddy deal with their lil' angels climbing up the walls.

That'll teach the parents to vote to cut the school budget.
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:51 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:I wonder if the school district is putting something odd in the kids's lunches. This is the second time today I hear kids screaming inside one of the buses. Crank the kid up, have mommy and daddy deal with their lil' angels climbing up the walls.

That'll teach the parents to vote to cut the school budget.


Feed them kids dandelions and pine cones. Make 'em tough, damnit.
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:52 pm

Eternal Lotharia wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:I should have been a little more clear. I'm social around people I know, or when I want to be. It's easier to comunicate online because people can't judge you as much, and that sort of thing.

Similar but I love speeches and discussing politics and doing lectures on history, politics, geopolitics, history, etc.

I love history, especially military history.
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:That'll teach the parents to vote to cut the school budget.

Or how 'bout they just bring their own food?

Feed them kids dandelions and pine cones. Make 'em tough, damnit.
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"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
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"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:55 pm

Pax Nerdvana wrote:Or how 'bout they just bring their own food?


Nope, can't do. We need to form strong tykes.
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:57 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:Or how 'bout they just bring their own food?


Nope, can't do. We need to form strong tykes.

I always brought my own lunch. How about we feed 'em MREs?
The Internet killed gun control.
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We Will Not Comply
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"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
-Robert Heinlein

"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
-Hurtful Thoughts on stuff you want in a gun

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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:58 pm

Eternal Lotharia wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:I love history, especially military history.

do you rp?
If so, go to telegrams.

I RP in P2TM, if that's what you're asking about.
The Internet killed gun control.
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We Will Not Comply
They can’t stop the Signal
"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
-Robert Heinlein

"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
-Hurtful Thoughts on stuff you want in a gun

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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:58 pm

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Nope, can't do. We need to form strong tykes.

I always brought my own lunch. How about we feed 'em MREs?


Too easy. We'll feed them squirrels.
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:00 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:I always brought my own lunch. How about we feed 'em MREs?


Too easy. We'll feed them squirrels.

That'd work, from what I hear, squirrel is pretty good.
The Internet killed gun control.
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We Will Not Comply
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"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
-Robert Heinlein

"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
-Hurtful Thoughts on stuff you want in a gun

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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:02 pm

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Flop on the floor and pretend you cant breath...... that is 9ne way to get mouth to mouth

Or the unexpected start of a breakdance career, depending on how gloriously you manage to fuck it up.

With me, the sky is the limit.
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:03 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Or the unexpected start of a breakdance career, depending on how gloriously you manage to fuck it up.

With me, the sky is the limit.


You have the gams, they have the money.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:04 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Or the unexpected start of a breakdance career, depending on how gloriously you manage to fuck it up.

With me, the sky is the limit.

Just be careful with the head-spins. There's not a lot between you and the pavement there.
Make Earth Great Again: Stop Continental Drift!
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water ...
"Make yourself at home, Frank. Hit somebody." RIP Don Rickles
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. ~ Carl Schurz
<Sigh> NSG...where even the atheists are Augustinians. ~ The Archregimancy
Now the foot is on the other hand ~ Kannap
RIP Dyakovo ... Ashmoria (Freedom ... or cake)
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:04 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Or the unexpected start of a breakdance career, depending on how gloriously you manage to fuck it up.

With me, the sky is the limit.

Technically, space is the limit.
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"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
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"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:05 pm

The Archregimancy wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Generally speaking a bad idea, agreed.



The ready supply of barley beer was a compensation. mind.

I miss barley beer sometimes, too. Ninkasi made some excellent barley beer


Given birth by the flowing water [.....], tenderly cared for by Ninhursaja! Ninkasi, given birth by the flowing water [.....], tenderly cared for by Ninhursaja!

Having founded your town upon wax, she completed its great walls for you. Ninkasi, having founded your town upon wax, she completed its great walls for you.

Your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu. Ninkasi, your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu.

It is you who handle the [.....] and dough with a big shovel, mixing, in a pit, the beerbread with sweet aromatics. Ninkasi, it is you who handle the [......] and dough with a big shovel, mixing, in a pit, the beerbread with sweet aromatics.

It is you who bake the beerbread in the big oven, and put in order the piles of hulled grain. Ninkasi, it is you who bake the beerbread in the big oven, and put in order the piles of hulled grain.

It is you who water the earth-covered malt; the noble dogs guard it even from the potentates. Ninkasi, it is you who water the earth-covered malt; the noble dogs guard it even from the potentates.

It is you who soak the malt in a jar; the waves rise, the waves fall. Ninkasi, it is you who soak the malt in a jar; the waves rise, the waves fall.

It is you who spread the cooked mash on large reed mats; coolness overcomes [......] Ninkasi, it is you who spread the cooked mash on large reed mats; coolness overcomes [......]

It is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine. Ninkasi, it is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine.

You place the fermenting vat, which makes a pleasant sound, appropriately on top of a large collector vat. Ninkasi, you place the fermenting vat, which makes a pleasant sound, appropriately on top of a large collector vat.

It is you who pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat; it is like the onrush of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Ninkasi, it is you who pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat; it is like the onrush of the Tigris and the Euphrates.


I guess child labor laws were very different back then.
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 



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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:07 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
The Archregimancy wrote:

The ready supply of barley beer was a compensation. mind.

I miss barley beer sometimes, too. Ninkasi made some excellent barley beer


Given birth by the flowing water [.....], tenderly cared for by Ninhursaja! Ninkasi, given birth by the flowing water [.....], tenderly cared for by Ninhursaja!

Having founded your town upon wax, she completed its great walls for you. Ninkasi, having founded your town upon wax, she completed its great walls for you.

Your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu. Ninkasi, your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu.

It is you who handle the [.....] and dough with a big shovel, mixing, in a pit, the beerbread with sweet aromatics. Ninkasi, it is you who handle the [......] and dough with a big shovel, mixing, in a pit, the beerbread with sweet aromatics.

It is you who bake the beerbread in the big oven, and put in order the piles of hulled grain. Ninkasi, it is you who bake the beerbread in the big oven, and put in order the piles of hulled grain.

It is you who water the earth-covered malt; the noble dogs guard it even from the potentates. Ninkasi, it is you who water the earth-covered malt; the noble dogs guard it even from the potentates.

It is you who soak the malt in a jar; the waves rise, the waves fall. Ninkasi, it is you who soak the malt in a jar; the waves rise, the waves fall.

It is you who spread the cooked mash on large reed mats; coolness overcomes [......] Ninkasi, it is you who spread the cooked mash on large reed mats; coolness overcomes [......]

It is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine. Ninkasi, it is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine.

You place the fermenting vat, which makes a pleasant sound, appropriately on top of a large collector vat. Ninkasi, you place the fermenting vat, which makes a pleasant sound, appropriately on top of a large collector vat.

It is you who pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat; it is like the onrush of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Ninkasi, it is you who pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat; it is like the onrush of the Tigris and the Euphrates.


I guess child labor laws were very different back then.

They were nonexistent, I'm pretty sure.
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"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
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"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
-Hurtful Thoughts on stuff you want in a gun

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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:08 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:With me, the sky is the limit.

Just be careful with the head-spins. There's not a lot between you and the pavement there.


That impending baldness...
Slava Ukraini
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:08 pm

The Archregimancy wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Only Arch. None of the others are, though not everyone with the Gift reveals themself. Anyway, it goes back to this thread, viewtopic.php?f=20&t=77046, and kind of developed from there. The generally accepted Long-Lifes here are me, Arch, Gallo, Nana, Ifreann, and Riso. Monitor is a special case, being the reincarnated spirit of a warship. Not all of us are equally old. I'm older that all but Arch, who is a little cagey about his age. I've seen him claim 40,000 but no one is that old that I know of.


Well, you sort of lose track after the first 20,000 years or so.

In those days, in those distant days, in those nights, in those remote nights, in those years, in those distant years; in days of yore, when the necessary things had been brought into manifest existence, in days of yore, when the necessary things had been for the first time properly cared for, when bread had been tasted for the first time in the shrines of the Land, when the ovens of the Land had been made to work, when the heavens had been separated from the earth, when the earth had been delimited from the heavens, when the fame of mankind had been established...

Certainly I was a really wild man for the first few millenia until Shamhat calmed me down.

Sometimes I miss her (she really was luscious); other times I still get angry with her over this whole civilisation nonsense.

Agriculture, I blame those people who said, "Hey, look, all we have to do is poke holes in the ground, drop in a seed and presto! free food!" Yeah, right, free, except for bending over and weeding and watering and harvesting ... idiots.
Make Earth Great Again: Stop Continental Drift!
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water ...
"Make yourself at home, Frank. Hit somebody." RIP Don Rickles
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. ~ Carl Schurz
<Sigh> NSG...where even the atheists are Augustinians. ~ The Archregimancy
Now the foot is on the other hand ~ Kannap
RIP Dyakovo ... Ashmoria (Freedom ... or cake)
This is the eighth line. If your signature is longer, it's too long.

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Postby Hurdergaryp » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:11 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Years of experience and lacking the motivation to craft elaborate lies like I used to do in my halcyon days of treachery and deceit, that's what makes it happen.

Sounds like you spend a lot of time in the Hollowed Halls of US Congress. Your will has been warped into Kellyanne Conway's night moisturizer.

US Congress, you say? No, I have never been there. Do I look like a geriatric whore of corporate America to you? Does this face look like it wantonly celebrates shameless corruption named differently?


“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
Mao Zedong

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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:12 pm

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Sounds like you spend a lot of time in the Hollowed Halls of US Congress. Your will has been warped into Kellyanne Conway's night moisturizer.

US Congress, you say? No, I have never been there. Do I look like a geriatric whore of corporate America to you? Does this face look like it wantonly celebrates shameless corruption named differently?


Lemme talk to my lawyer first before answering this one.

...

Yes.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:12 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:With me, the sky is the limit.


You have the gams, they have the money.

Reminds me of the pet shop boys tune

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=di60NYGu03Y
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 



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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:12 pm

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Sounds like you spend a lot of time in the Hollowed Halls of US Congress. Your will has been warped into Kellyanne Conway's night moisturizer.

US Congress, you say? No, I have never been there. Do I look like a geriatric whore of corporate America to you? Does this face look like it wantonly celebrates shameless corruption named differently?

I don't think so.
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